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When mice live in the wild, they typically only live for about six months. This is mostly due to the fact that they’re a good source of food for other animals. However, in a controlled environment, like being kept as a pet, they can live up to two years.

The game received multiple year-end awards, including the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Games Award in 1998 and four awards from the inaugural AIAS Interactive Achievement Awards.

People with many friends live 3.7 years more than those who are isolated.

I is the most spoken word in the English language

Larry the Cable Guy’s real name is Daniel Lawrence Whitney. His notable Southern accent is fake – he was born and raised in the midwest, not the South.

The wealthiest company in the world in 2020 was Saudi Aramco.

“Opposites attract” is a common myth. People are actually attracted to people who look like family members or those with a similar personality type.

And at the time you were born, you were briefly the youngest person in the entire world.

The average person spends 3 months of its lifetime sitting on the toilet.

We actually produce enough food to feed everyone on the planet; the problem is distribution.

When written down, the word “almost” is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.

Agatha Christie has sold over 2 billion books.

I Will Always Love You was originally written and recorded in 1973 by Dolly Parton. It was written as a farewell to her mentor of seven years.

Johnny Cash took only three voice lessons before his teacher advised him to stop taking lessons and to never deviate from his natural voice.

One of the World Trade Centers was built to be 1,776 feet tall on purpose to reference the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.

'Salvator Mundi' by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting in the world, valued at $450.3M.

The directors of the film Despicable Me actually wrote their own language for the Minions called Minionise.

Back when dinosaurs existed, there used to be volcanoes that were erupting on the moon.

The toy Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Elvis was originally blonde. He started coloring his hair black for an edgier look. Sometimes, he would touch it up himself using shoe polish.

Did you know where the world’s quietest room is located? It’s in Redmond, Washington inside the headquarters of Microsoft. If you moved your head inside this room, you would hear it.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

Every year, life expectancy increases by 3 months.

The average person walks 75,000 miles (120,000 KM) in a lifetime or five times round the world.

The name for a collective group of rhinoceroses is called a crash.

In an average lifetime human skin completely replaces itself 900 times.

The Incredible Hulk was originally grey, not green.

The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.”

Only official members of federally accepted Native American tribes may legally possess or collect eagle feathers. If a normal citizen has one, it is illegal.

Movie trailers used to screen after the feature film.

Researchers have found that flossing your teeth can help your memory. Flossing prevents gum disease, which prevents stiff blood vessels, which cause memory issues.

Every single letter in the alphabet appears in a least one US state...except for the letter Q:

Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman. The country was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse by the French.

Almost is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

The hand and footprints in front of the Chinese Theater tradition started accidentally when silent film actress Norma Talmadge stepped on wet cement.

In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola.

The year 2016 saw the world leaders agreeing unanimously over one thing: climate change. The Earth Day of 2016 saw the highest signatures of countries in a single day, when 174 country leaders came together and signed the Paris Agreement. Climate change continues to remain the greatest threat to human life and civilization even today.

Its better you know everything about everything if you are planning to have a child. An average growing kid of about four years is said to speak sentences ending in questions over 400 times a day.

Llamas can be used as guards against coyote attacks on sheep herds. Studies have proven that just one guard llama is an effective protector and can even kill the attacking coyotes.

When Space Invaders was created, Tomohiro Nishikado left in the lag caused by more invaders on the screen in order to create greater difficulty in the games.

Ed Sheeran bought a ticket to LA with no contacts. He was spotted by Jamie Foxx, who offered him the use of his recording studio and a bed in his Hollywood home for six weeks.

Popularized by Shakespeare’s play, many people think Julius Caesar’s last words were, “And you, Brutus?” In reality, he said, “You too, my child?”

Drug lord Pablo Escobar spent $2,500 a month on rubber bands to hold all his cash.

90% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.,

Every two minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity did in the 19th century.

Armadillos almost always give birth to identical quadruplets.

The largest bone in the human body is the femur, also known as the thigh bone.

In a deck of cards, every king except for the king of hearts has a mustache:

The number of twins is currently highest the world has ever seen. This is because the odds of having twins keep on increasing as the mother is older in age. Given today when most marriages happen at a later age in life, and pregnancies are even later, this is no surprise.

Walt Disney World would fit inside Canada 81,975 times.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper position of the hands on the keyboard; Hunting and pecking doesn't count!).

The world's most expensive hot dog costs $169.

Even though Irish is the official language of Ireland, Polish is more widely spoken.

Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons.

An average person spends 6 years of his life dreaming.

Japan is facing a ninja shortage. There is a high demand for “ninja shows,” but it is a dying tradition, and companies have trouble time finding properly trained ninjas.

Nintendo trademarked the phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong” in 2010.

Apple paid a couple $1.7 million dollars for their plot of land, which was only worth $181,700. While Apple was building a huge data center in the middle of North Carolina, they wanted to occupy the area of a couple that had lived there for 34 years. When the couple refused to leave, Apple paid them $1.7 million dollars for their land.

Scientists discovered sharks living in an active underwater volcano. Divers cannot investigate because they would get burns from the acidity and heat.

Female kangaroos have three vaginas.

Present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

There were only 9 developers on the team for GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64.

A man with severe OCD and a phobia of germs attempted to commit suicide with a gun to his head. Instead of killing him, the bullet eliminated his mental illness without any other damage.

Alaska is the only state in America that can be typed on one row of a traditional English QWERTY keyboard.

Hershey’s Kisses are named after the kissing sound the deposited chocolate makes as it falls from the machine on the conveyor belt.

Many people believe that early mermaid sightings can be attributed to dehydration + manatees.

Costa Coffee employs Gennaro Pelliccia as a coffee taster, who has had his tongue insured for £10 million since 2009.

Those cute furry bits inside a cat’s ear are called “ear furnishings.” They ensure that dirt doesn’t go inside and also helps them to hear well.

To leave a party without telling anyone is called in English a “French Exit.” In French, it’s called a “partir à l’anglaise,” to leave like the English.

There is a statue of Tesla in Silicon Valley that radiates free Wi-Fi. It was done as an homage to his vision for wireless communication.

The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.

There is a town in Nebraska called Monowi with a population of one. The only resident is a woman who is the Mayor, Bartender, and Librarian.

A wildlife technician, Richard Thomas, took the famous tongue twister, “how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood” and calculated a rough estimate of what the answer would actually be. It came out to be around 700 pounds.

Red Solo cups are a common souvenir to bring back from the United States. The novelty comes from the cups being used in many party scenes in movies.

Today 86% of the adults over the world are capable of reading.

There is a world record for the largest collection of miniature books.

The Lego Group is the world’s most powerful brand. There are more Lego Minifigures than there are people on Earth.

The Hobbit has been published in two editions. In the first edition, Gollum willingly bet on his ring in the riddle game.

Men spend almost a year of their lives staring at women, a survey found.

Tom and Jerry were originally named Jasper and Jinx

Only 2% of the world’s population has green eyes.

The word "oxymoron" is an oxymoron itself.

An average woman in the UK will own 111 handbags in her lifetime.

Women spend nearly one year of their lives deciding what to wear.

As per a 2017 survey, there is more number of short people in Indonesia than anywhere else in the world. Whereas the home to the tallest people in the world is the Netherlands, where the average height of a person is over 6 feet!

It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.

“Lassie” was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.

Every 'c' in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.

"Will Will Smith smith?" and "Will Smith will smith" are sentences that make complete sense.

Japanese golfers have hole-in-one insurance.

The Marshal Mathers foundation for at-risk and disadvantaged youth was founded by Eminem.

Sitting for more than three hours a day can cut two years off a person's life expectancy.

On average a woman will menstruate until she is fifty years old, for an average total of 37.5 years. During which time she will menstruate around 500 times.

An Italian banker, Gilberto Baschiera, is considered a modern-day Robin Hood. Over the course of 7 years, he secretly diverted 1 million euros to poorer clients from the wealthy ones so they could qualify for loans. He made no profit and avoided jail in 2018 due to a plea bargain.

Beer in Russia was considered a soft drink up until 2011.

As per the National Geographic channel, the world’s humungous population could all fit within the 500 square miles of the city of Los Angeles. That is if everyone stood next to each other, shoulder to shoulder.

The author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, is most responsible for the creation of Thanksgiving being a national holiday.

The oldest unopened bottle of wine was found in a Roman tomb that is over 1,650 years old.

Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

You can drink Coke (Coca Cola) in every corner of the earth (officially) except in Cuba or North Korea. This is because of the trade restrictions these countries have with the US.

The longest word in the English language without a vowel is 'rhythms.'

The largest known prime number has 24,862,048 digits. The new prime number is 2 multiplied by itself 82,589,933 times, minus 1.

Cruise ships have morgues that can store up to 10 bodies at once. The average amount of people that die on cruise ships per year is 200.

If you cut down a saguaro cactus in Arizona, you can be charged with a class-4 felony and penalized with jail time.

9310 Tweets are sent out every second.

There are more public libraries than McDonald's in the US.

The biggest spring of gushing lava in the planetary group is on Mars.

At the time the current oldest person on Earth was born, there was a completely different set of human beings on the planet.

There is a village in Russia called Tsovkra where every resident can tightrope walk. It is a tradition that dates back over 100 years, but no one knows how it started.

It's impossible to hum while holding your nose.

The tongue is the only muscle in one’s body that is attached from one end.

Birds are the closest living relatives of crocodilians, as well as the descendants of extinct dinosaurs with feathers. This makes them the only surviving dinosaurs.

Owners of personalized license plates in Uganda are facing a tax increase of over 300%, which will raise the tax from $1,498 to $5,992.

The group of spikes at the end of stegosaurid tails is called the “thagomizer.” They had no distinct name until the term was coined in 1982 by a cartoonist.

The longest word you can type with just your left hand is “Sweaterdresses.”

May 29 is "Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day."

The voice actor of SpongeBob and the voice actor of Karen, Plankton’s computer wife, have been married since 1995.

A prank once convinced people in Germany that Hansel and Gretel were real.

Princess Peach didn’t move until 1988 because it was too complicated for the designers to make her a movable character.

Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made from something called castoreum, a scented oil which is naturally secreted by beavers’ butts.

An average person in the U.S. eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.

The United States Department of Agriculture says the official definition of a sandwich is: “at least 35 percent cooked meat and no more than 50 percent bread”.

If you heat up a magnet, it will lose its magnetism.

A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto.”

The commonly known phrase “to a T” means something that fits just right. Interestingly enough, this expression derives from a similar phrase “to a tittle,” which is a small mark that is used in spelling norms, like the dots of i’s or j’s, or an accent mark.

A group of horses will not go to sleep at the same time – at least one of them will stay awake to look out for the others.

After a waitress at a pizzeria helped a customer choose the numbers for a winning lottery ticket in 1984, he “tipped” her $3,000,000 – half of his $6,000,000 prize money.

In World War II, Germany tried to collapse the British economy by dropping millions of counterfeit bills over London.

The largest Japanese population outside of Japan stands at 1.6 million people who live in Brazil.

A million seconds is about 12 days while a billion seconds is about 32 years.

Dogs can smell cancer.

People who read books live an average of almost 2 years longer than those who do not read at all, a Yale research found.

There are 4.2 billion active social media users worldwide.

If you point your car keys to your head, it increases the remote’s signal range.

Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.

Homer Simpson’s hair is shaped like two letters that are the initials of creator Matt Groening.

Yoda and Miss Piggy were voiced by the same person – Frank Oz.

Incredible Hulk was originally supposed to be gray.

In the film Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith, every single one of the clone troopers was produced using CGI effects.

The town of Monowi has just one resident. That is 87-year-old Elsie Eiler.

The "H" and "M" in H&M stem from its hunting and fishing roots.

The Ethiopian calendar is seven years behind the rest of the world.

The Ethiopian calendar is 7.5 years behind the Gregorian calendar due to the fact that it has 13 months.

In many advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland all remained neutral during World War II.

There is a company that sells mirrors that make people look 10 pounds thinner. Overall, the mirrors have contributed to 54% of total sales for retailers that use them.

Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.

The “word of the year” in 2015 was a picture. It was the emoji of a smile with tears of joy.

Radioactive particles from the Cold War were found in the deepest parts of the ocean.

The average human will yawn around 250,000 times over the course of his life.

Until 2016, the “Happy Birthday” song was not for public use. Meaning that prior to 2016, the song was copyrighted, and you had to pay a license to use it.

The ten highest mountain summits in the United States are all located in Alaska.

Cows moo in regional accents.

An average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

In a lifetime, your brain's long-term memory can hold as many as 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) separate bits of information.

The human nose can detect more than 1 trillion smells.

A queen termite can live up to 50 years.

Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains worth over 1 million dollars. It was found approximately a decade later, in 2020.

The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I Ran the Zoo' in 1950.

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.

Humans spend a third of their life sleeping. That's about 25 years.

When tea started being sold in bags, originally, it was intended to be removed from the bags by customers, but they found it easier to brew the tea still in the bag.

A barista set a world record for making 420 cappuccinos in an hour.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

"Shemomechama" is a Georgian word meaning "I accidentally ate the whole thing."

There's a year-round ice hotel.

Humans are the only animals whose brains shrink as they age.

Every two minutes people take more photos than were taken in the entire 19th century.

Try to breathe and swallow at the same time. You can't.

During WWII, a U.S. naval destroyer won a battle against a Japanese submarine by throwing potatoes at them. The Japanese thought they were grenades.

In 2007, Scotland spent £125,000 devising a new national slogan. The winning entry was: “Welcome to Scotland.”

The littlest planet in our nearby planet group is Mercury.

To properly write adjectives in order, you would list them by amount, value, size, temperature, age, shape, color, origin, and material.

The longest tiramisu ever measured was 897 feet and 3 inches.

It’s totally legal to escape from prison in Mexico

Did you know where the longest traffic jam ever took place? It was in Beijing in the year 2010 and was a 100 kilometers long. It lasted for 10 days.

The most expensive virtual object is “Club NEVERDIE” in the Entropia Universe, which is worth $635,000. It was originally bought at $10,000.

More than 800 languages are spoken in New York City. That makes it the most diverse city in the world when it comes to languages spoken.

Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.

Since 1497, the United Kingdom has printed their laws on vellum, made from calf or goat skin. They continue to do this in order to uphold the tradition.

The popular LMFAO group that created the viral hit, Party Rock Anthem, is made up of an uncle-nephew duo.

People who post their fitness routine on Facebook are more likely to have psychological problems.

The Young America Township in Minnesota has a population of less than 1,000 but more than 20 zip codes.

The human nose can detect more than 1 trillion smells.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match stick.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Pyscho was the first film to show a toilet being flushed on screen.

The total population of insects is estimated to be a billion times greater than that of the human population.

One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.

A cluster of bananas is called a “hand.” Along that theme, a single banana is called a “finger.”

Go. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

A parking spot in Hong Kong once sold for almost $1 million.

There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backward question mark ⸮

You’re not allowed to swear if playing in Wimbledon. Because of this, line judges have to learn curse words in every language.

The original Star Wars premiered on just 32 screens across the U.S. in 1977. This was to produce buzz as the release widened to more theaters.

There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

In 1994, the company that had a patent on GIFs tried to charge a fee for using GIFS. The PNG was invented as an alternative, and the company backed down.

The word “kimono” literally means a “thing to wear.” Ki is “wear,” and mono is “thing.”

The average person takes 183,755,600 steps in a lifetime.

The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.

The average British woman spends US$160,000 on make-up in a lifetime.

The youngest Pope in history was Pope Benedict IX, who was 11 years old at the time of the election. He is also the only person to have been the Pope more than once.

Scotland was one of the few countries able to hold off being conquered by the Romans in the first century A.D.

Small as they may be, ladybugs have a unique smell that humans are incredibly sensitive to.

Until 2007, slavery was legal in Mauritania. Even still, 1-4% of the population is still living as slaves.

82% of Americans believe in some kind of afterlife.

Most people can survive for up to 2 months without eating, but people can only live up to 11 days without sleeping.

If everyone in the world washed their hands properly, a million lives could be saved a year.

The average human will spend 6.8% of their lives socializing with someone they love, or the equivalent of around 1,769 days.

Horses cannot physically vomit due to having stronger lower esophageal sphincters than other animals.

A group of parrots is known as a pandemonium of parrots.

The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.

In Germany, Mr. Clean is known as "Mr. Proper":

The average meat-eating person eats about 7,000 animals in their lifetime.

The modern keyboard was designed to make people type slower

You have a deeper sleep in a hammock than in a bed.

3 inches of ice can support one person on foot. 4 inches can support a group of people, single file. 36 inches can support up to 110 tons of weight.

'Avengers: Endgame' is the top-grossing film of all time, making over $2.7B!

The amount of Nutella manufactured every year is enough to complete 1.8 round trips of the earth!

There is such a thing as male PMS

IKEA is an acronym that stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, which is the founder’s name, the farm where he grew up, and his hometown.

The Bagheera kiplingi spider was discovered in the 1800s and is the only species of spider that has been classified as vegetarian.

Around 15% of active Twitter accounts are social bots. This means there are nearly 48 million accounts that are not controlled by humans.

The shortest commercial flight available is only 57 seconds long.

The name 'sandwich' comes from an 18th-century aristocrat called the 4th Earl of Sandwich.

Queen Elizabeth II had a personal net worth of 425 million dollars. That includes the $65 million Sandringham House and $140 million Balmoral Castle.

Iceland does not have a railway system.

The Buddha commonly depicted in statues and pictures is a different person entirely. The real Buddha was actually incredibly skinny because of self-deprivation.

Betty White is older than ballpoint pens, trampolines, and sliced bread.

There are less than 30 ships in the Royal Canadian Navy which are less than most third-world countries.

There is only one number that is spelt in as many letters as its figure. Not a clue? It is number four!

The full Bible has been translated into over 3,000 languages. Among those include fictional languages like Elvish, Klingon, and Na’vi.

Two out of every three emails sent is spam

There are times when Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune – one of these timelines was from 1979 to 1999.

Chewing gum after a meal reduces heartburn.

Oxford University is older than the Aztecs.

There is an island called “Just Enough Room,” where there’s just enough room for a tree and a house.

Women spend over 4 years (in total) of their lives menstruating.

The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J.

Bananas are Walmart's best-selling item.

Jim Morrison, of the 60's rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.

The longest tiramisu ever measured was 897 feet and 3 inches.

Pirates wore eye patches to increase night vision, not cover a missing eye

92% of the worlds currency is digital.

Malta’s official language is Maltese; however, the majority of the population also speaks English.

Tic Tacs got their name from the sound they make when they are tossed around in their container.

A chicken survived for 18 months without a head.

It’s an Australian tradition to eat sausages at polling places on election day called Democracy Sausages. For many communities, this is the biggest fundraising event of the year.

Sour Patch Kids are from the same manufacturer as Swedish Fish. The red Sour Patch Kids are the same candy as Swedish Fish, but with sour sugar.

When written down, the word “almost” is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.

Daniel Radcliffe was allergic to his Harry Potter glasses.

Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.

It would take 12,00,000 mosquitoes sucking at once to completely drain a human of blood.

Prince Charles has a car fueled by wine. It’s a vintage Aston Martin.

The flashes of colored light you see when you rub your eyes are called “phosphenes.”

There is a parking spot in Hong Kong sold for almost $1 million.

There are about a million ants per person. Ants are very social animals and will live in colonies that can contain almost 500,000 ants.

The last murder in Lichtenstein occurred in 1997.

The lint that collects in the bottom of your pockets has a name — gnurr.

You get access to a phone network at the base camp of Mt. Everest.

The nonsense phrase "umop apisdn" is "upside down" spelled upside down.

Newborn babies don't cry tears.

Average menstrual flow is around 85g per cycle.

1 in 5 Americans believes that the world will end in their lifetime.

Fruit stickers are edible, though the same as any fruit; washing prior to eating is recommended. The glue used for them is regulated by the FDA.

The collective group of lemurs is called a conspiracy.

More tornadoes occur in the United Kingdom per square mile than in any other country in the world.

The scientific name for Giant Anteater is Myrmecophaga Tridactyla. This means “ant eating with three fingers.”

German chocolate cake is not from Germany. German is actually the last name of the man who invented a kind of baking chocolate (Sam German).

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film, even beating The Nightmare Before Christmas.

The unique smell of rain actually comes from plant oils, bacteria, and ozone.

The entire world population could fit in Texas, allotting 330 square feet per person. The area of Texas is about 262,000 square miles.

The most-highlighted book on Amazon is a self-help book

The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse. It’s known as Conplan 8888.

A couple once tried to name their child Brfxxccxxmnpccccll-lmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, pronounced "Albin."

Parents of new babies miss out on 6 months worth of sleep in the first 2 years of their child's life.

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

The raptor sounds in Jurassic Park are actually mating tortoises.

Every planet in our solar system spins counterclockwise. Can you guess which one does not? It is Venus!

German Chocolate Cake is named after an American baker by the name of Samuel German. It has no affiliation with the country of Germany.

An amateur beekeeper and a group of scientists found that wax worms are capable of eating and breaking down plastic bags. The settings of a wax worm’s stomach can be recreated to safely dispose of plastic bags and bottles.

Two-thirds of all the people in the world who have ever lived to be 65 years old are still alive today.

Prince Charles has a car fueled by wine

There is a company in Japan that has schools that teach you how to be funny. The first one opened in 1982. About 1,000 students take the course each year.

It snows metal on planet Venus! There are two types that have been found, galena and bismuthinite.

80% of humanity lives on less than US$10 per day.

The average woman in the UK has 150 different hairstyles in her lifetime.

Your mouth produces about one liter of saliva a day.

The lifespan of a rock star is 25 years shorter than average.

Times Square was originally called Longacre Square until it was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly built Times Building.

The famous line in Titanic from Leonardo DiCaprio, “I’m king of the world!” was improvised.

Human life expectancy has increased more in the last 50 years than in the previous 200,000 years of human existence.

The owner of Segway was killed by a Segway

The worlds longest French fry is 34 inches long.

Since 1955, 50% of the population of Niger is consistently under 16 years old. The total current population is 21,600,000.

Working past age 65 is linked to longer life, a study found.

There's a top-secret Starbucks for CIA agents.

The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.

The six official languages of the U.N. are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

It is virtually not possible for the human brain to experience the sensation of pain.

Nobody knows how the Academy Awards came to be referred to as the Oscars. The earliest mention was in 1932 and was made official in 1939.

The color red doesn’t really make bulls angry; they are color-blind.

Swedish meatballs originated from a recipe King Charles XII brought back from Turkey in the early 1800s.

In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. This is because guinea pigs are social animals, and they are considered victims of abuse if they are alone.

The first movie ever to put out a motion-picture soundtrack was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Human teeth are as strong as shark teeth.

For nearly 60 years, Texas didn’t have an official state flag between 1879 & 1933. During that time, the Lone Star flag was active, but the unofficial flag.

In Colorado, USA, there is still an active volcano. It last erupted about the same time as the pyramids were being built in Egypt.

Astronaut is a compound word derived from the two Ancient Greek words “Astro,” meaning “star,” and “naut” meaning “sailor.” So astronaut literally means “star sailor.”

The hashtag (#) symbol isn't actually called a hashtag.

China is spending $3 billion dollars to build panda-shaped solar farms in order to get more young people interested in renewable energy.

In his lifetime, a man spends almost six months shaving.

Nowadays, millionaires with just $1 million aren’t considered wealthy anymore by most Americans. Now, the typical American sees at least $2.4 million as wealthy.

Dartmouth’s unofficial mascot is a beer keg called “Keggy the Keg.” Created in 2003, it was initially controversial but is now part of the Dartmouth culture.

Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck bones.

The human eye is so sensitive that if the Earth were flat and it was a dark night, a candle’s flame could be seen from 30 miles away.

If a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear mate, their offspring is called a “Pizzy Bear.”

65% of autistic kids are left-handed, and only 10% of people, in general, are left-handed.

The world population has more than doubled since John F. Kennedy was president.

The lead singer of The Offspring started attending school to achieve a doctorate in molecular biology while still in the band. He graduated in May 2017.

Daniel Craig was an anonymous Storm Trooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Originally, he denied his cameo and claimed he wouldn’t bother being an extra in a movie.

Barns weren't always intentionally red

The world’s largest grand piano was built by a 15-year-old in New Zealand.

The average American child is given $3.70 per tooth that falls out.

The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse

20% of coffee mugs contain fecal matter.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

If you add up the total amount of hours that World of Warcraft players have played the game it comes out to 6.8 million years

Although there is currently no drug proven to make someone tell the truth, some countries like Russia, Canada, and India use truth serums.

The longest book title is 4,558 words. The main header begins, with Stock Price Prediction, a referential approach on how to predict the stock price using…

The average person spends two weeks of his life Kissing.

Nokia was originally founded in 1865 as a paper printing company.

The most cappuccinos made in one hour is 420. The world record was set by Australian Liza Thomas.

Hawaii’s state flag is the only United States state flag to feature the Union Jack upon it.

Humans are the only animals that enjoy eating spicy foods. Nobody quite knows why.

Hanna-Barbera pitched The Flintstones to networks for 8 weeks before it was finally picked up. It became the first-ever animated show to air during primetime.

50% is the lifetime risk of developing Cancer for a man in the U.S.

At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.

The world’s first motel is in San Luis Obispo, which was built in 1925. When opened, it cost $1.25 for a two-room bungalow with a kitchen and a private adjoining garage.

The Las Vegas Strip isn’t really in Las Vegas. It’s actually part of the city of Paradise.

Women live longer than men partly because their immune systems age more slowly.

High-heeled shoes were originally designed for rich men

Polar bears often hunt walruses by simply charging at a group of them and eating the ones that were crushed or wounded in the mass panic to escape. Direct attacks are rare.

Only primates, humans, and opossums have opposable thumbs. Out of these, the opossum is the only one with no thumbnail.

The chances of us eating even one spider in our sleep throughout our lifetime is close to 0%.

Standing around burns calories. On average, a 150-pound person burns 114 calories per hour while standing and doing nothing.

There are six official languages of the UN. These are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

There is a boss in Metal Gear Solid 3 that can be defeated by not playing the game for a week; or by changing the date.

The Star Trek theme song has lyrics.

The average American spends over 5 months of his life on the phone.

The longest word in the English language without a vowel is 'rhythms.'