r>1. “Keyboard” is the longest word that can be typed using only one row on a QWERTY keyboard.
2. The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
3. A sneeze can travel up to 100 miles per hour.
4. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasting only 38 minutes.
5. The Great Wall of China is not visible from space, contrary to popular belief.
6. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the universe.
7. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
8. The longest known word in any language is the chemical name for titin, a protein, which has 189,819 letters.
9. Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and came in third.
10 Penguins’ feathers are waterproof and offer them insulation in freezing water. 1
1. Koalas sleep for up to 22 hours a day. 1
2. The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am.” 1
3. The shortest distance between two points on Earth is the surface of the Earth. 1
4. The human nose can detect over 1 trillion distinct scents. 1
5. The only letter that does not appear in any state name in the U.S. is the letter “Q”. 1
6. Caterpillars have the ability to completely liquefy themselves and then reform into a butterfly. 1
7. The longest palindrome in English is “a man, a plan, a canal, Panama!” 1
8. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old. 1
9. The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap. 20. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days. 2
1. The term “hot dog” was coined by a sports cartoonist in 190
1. 2
2. Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other animal on the planet. 2
3. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. 2
4. The average person will spend three years of their life on the toilet. 2
5. If you shuffle a deck of cards, the chances are high that you are holding a combination of cards that has never existed before. 2
6. The shortest war fought by the United States was against the island nation of Grenada in 1983, lasting only four days. 2
7. The human brain can store up to
2.5 petabytes of information, which is equivalent to
2.5 million gigabytes. 2
8. The longest known word in literature is found in Aristophanes’ comedy Assemblywomen: “Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiop arao limniokipikossyphilillobadioperisexiphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.” 2
9. A group of frogs is called an army. 30. The tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, has over 160 floors and stands at 828 meters tall. 3
1. The human body contains enough carbon to make approximately 900 pencils. 3
2. The first computer mouse was made of wood. 3
3. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old. 3
4. The word “set” has the most definitions of any word in the English language. 3
5. The world’s largest snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, and fell in Montana in 188
7. 3
6. A group of rhinoceroses is called a crash. 3
7. A cluster of bananas is called a hand, while a single banana is called a finger. 3
8. Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats. 3
9. The oldest known piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old. 40. The largest snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. 4
1. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasting only 38 minutes. 4
2. A “butt” was a medieval measurement for a cask of wine. 4
3. The longest suspension bridge in the world, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan, is over two miles long. 4
4. The word “boondocks” comes from a Tagalog word meaning “mountain”. 4
5. The world’s largest swimming pool is over 1,000 meters long and holds over 250 million liters of water. As we have seen, the world is full of fascinating facts and statistics, many of which are surprising and unexpected. From the incredibly complex to the surprisingly mundane, there is always something new and interesting to discover about the world around us. Whether it’s the shortest war in history or the number of atoms in the universe, there is always something fascinating to learn. So why not take some time to explore the world, and discover all the incredible things it has to offer!