50 Fun and Fabulous Facts!
April 1, 2018
I have always been fascinated with odd and interesting facts, so I decided to tell you some of my favorites! Here are 50 fun and fabulous facts!
- Lasagna is going extinct, it will probably disappear by 2025.
- The EMS Sound is getting removed next week.
- Scientists just found out the world is actually flat.
- 1 in 5 people don’t believe in the moon.
- Goldfish are starting to turn purple. By 2020 they will all be purple.
- You can get eyebrow laser surgery.
- If you pour hot sauce in your eyes, they will turn a beautiful red color.
- Isaac Newton invented hopscotch.
- By law all globes in Australia are displayed upside-down.
- Everything made in China is produced by the green fish there.
- You are more likely to get stung by a bee in windy weather.
- Donkey Kong was based on a true story.
- Alvin and the Chipmunks recently retired and have children.
- 85% of Americans say that if it were legal they would try cannibalism.
- Buffalo live in Kansas.
- Penguins are plotting to overthrow humans.
- Scientists have successfully made a human clone.
- The longest human pregnancy on record was 27 months.
- The word apple comes from the latin word meaning “apple”.
- Taller people attract 47% less mosquitoes.
- George Washington was born albino, but was cured when elected.
- The last dinosaur roamed the Earth in 1946.
- In Norway pickled herring is an individual food group.
- French fries are made from pork in Mongolia.
- Moths are unable to fly when it is above 86℉.
- Skunks have recently started mauling black bears in Indonesia.
- Thomas Edison (among his many other inventions) invented breakdancing.
- It is illegal to have a beard longer than 7 inches long.
- By 2019 Pizza Hut hopes to focus less on pizza sales, and more on hut business.
- 4 out of 5 men have gotten their arm stuck in vending machine.
- Teddy Roosevelt was most freckled president.
- 30% of women who apply makeup while driving have accidentally ate a tube of lipstick.
- In the early 60’s McDonalds asked their customers if they wanted french fries or soup.
- Butterflies only eat buttered potatoes.
- If you don’t eat or drink anything for one day you will shrivel up and die.
- You will eat 7 spiders in your lifetime (they sneak them in your food at Taco Bell).
- The Titanic sank because of a whale, not an iceberg.
- The original typewriter had 26 different fonts and 10 different ink colors.
- M&M’s were chocolate covered peas in the chocolate shortage of 1987.
- The Earth spins a different direction every week.
- The orange fruit was named after a monkey, not the color.
- Teeth are naturally blue, but through breeding they are now white.
- Napoleon Bonaparte was only 3’ 14’ tall.
- Pineapples grow on trees in South America.
- Octopus are 4 times more likely to kill you on land than in the water.
- Cat saliva is cleaner than most tap water.
- You can use the strings from your socks as floss. It is better for your teeth.
- Only 90% of water is wet, dry water is a genetic mutation.
- You can tell someone’s mood by their hands, if they have a gun they’re angry.
- The world’s peanut supply will run out by 2065.
I hope you enjoyed these 50 fun facts. I always thought there were interesting, and hope you did too. For more reading, you can check out the Weird But True series in the library!
***Disclaimer: all of these facts are not true. Please do not harm yourself or others. Happy April Fool’s!***