100 littleknown facts you might not know


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1. No piece of paper can be folded more than 9 times.

2. According to statistics, more people are killed by donkeys each year than by plane crashes.

3. Sleeping burns more calories than sitting and watching TV.

4. The first type of object with a barcode is chewing gum.

5. The Wright Brothers' first test flight after inventing the airplane covered a distance shorter than the wing of a Boeing 747.

6. In 1987, an American airline saved approximately $100,000 by removing one olive from the in-flight meal for each first-class passenger.

7. Many people drink a cup of coffee every morning to perk themselves up, but actually an apple is more effective than a cup of coffee.

8. Most of the dust in your home is your dead skin.

9. Barbie, the doll, is actually named Barabra Millicent Roberts.

10. Hitler's mother seriously considered abortion while pregnant with him, but was persuaded by doctors to give birth to him.


11. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

12. In the movie, E.T.'s footsteps were made by a staff member squeezing ochre by hand.

13. Pearls will dissolve in vinegar.

14. 35% of people who advertise to find a partner are already married.

15. You might be able to pull a cow up the stairs, but a cow doesn't know how to go down stairs.

16. Pigs cannot look up at the sky.
17. "Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" can use all 26 letters of the alphabet.

18. The sound of a duck's quack does not echo, and no one knows why for the time being.

19. Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

20. Famous actor Tommy Lee Jones and the Vice President of the United States were classmates at Harvard University.


21. If the first day of a month is Sunday, then that month will have a Black Friday.

22. Heating a stone in a microwave oven will cause it to explode.

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24. The only English word with 15 letters that are not repeated is the English word "uncopyrightable".

25. Cats can produce more than 100 sounds, while dogs can only produce 10 sounds.

26. Cats urinate more frequently in darker environments.

27. If you toss a coin 1000 times, it will land heads up 495 times, not 500 times. This is because the side with the national emblem is actually heavier, which affects the probability of it landing heads up.

28. According to Newton's Dictionary, the longest English word in the world is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsili-'
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29. The human stomach renews its secretions every two weeks; otherwise, it will digest itself.

30. Cola was originally green.


31. Hawaiian has only 12 letters.

32. The province with the highest percentage of people walking to work is Alaska.

33. If Barbie were human, her measurements would be 39-23-33.

34. On average, there are 61,000 people in the air every hour in the United States.

35. There is only one food that will never spoil: honey.

36. There is a type of oyster near the Caribbean Sea that can climb trees.

37. The world's youngest parents appeared in 1910, but there is no record to prove it. An 8-year-old and a 9-year-old Chinese couple.

38. A person's nose and ears continue to grow throughout their life.

39. In Japan, there is a type of watermelon that is square, designed for easy storage.

40. Starfish have 8 eyes, one on each leg.


41. Some insects have hairy eyes.

42. A giraffe's tongue is 2 feet long.

43. Elephants can stand upright on their heads.

44. Ants scratch themselves when they wake up in the morning.

45. Inventor Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
46. ​​The oldest goldfish in the world is 41 years old and his name is Fred.

47. When Einstein was 9 years old, he could not speak fluently, and his mother once thought he was mentally challenged.

48. Arab women can file for divorce because their husbands don't make them coffee.

49. Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a celestial body.

50. Most lipsticks have fish scales on them.


51. Giraffes cannot cough.

52. Owls are the only birds that can distinguish blue.

53. A whale's heart beats only nine times per minute.

54. The water we drink is 300 million years old.

55. Only 30 percent of people can enlarge or shrink their nostrils.

56. An oyster can change its sex from male to female, and it will change its sex several more times during its lifetime.

57. According to a law passed by Britain in 1845, suicide is a very serious crime, punishable by hanging.

58. Astronauts cannot cry in space because there is no gravity, so tears cannot flow.

59. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

60. Americans are the most frequent users of toothpicks.

61. A normal person's eye muscles move an average of 10,000 to 15,000 times a day.

62. Even after an elephant dies, it will remain standing.

63. Some insects can live for another year even without a head.

64. Leonardo da Vinci spent twelve years just painting the lips of the Mona Lisa.

65. When glass breaks, the glass shards can travel at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

66. Cows can produce more milk when they listen to music.

67. Roses picked in the afternoon last longer than those picked in the morning.

68. Tiger shark embryos must fight fiercely in their mother's uterus, and the victor is the baby tiger shark that can be born alive.

69. A 70-pound octopus can squeeze through a hole the size of a silver coin because they have no spine.

70. Indonesian stick insects are the largest insects in the world, with some reaching a foot in length.


71. Actually, hippos run faster than humans.

72. The inventor of the parachute gave the opportunity to be the first to ride a parachute to a dog.

73. A Japanese giant crab can be up to 12 feet long.

74. Newborn turkeys need their parents to teach them how to eat, otherwise they will starve to death.

75. A shark can detect blood in water as little as one part per million.

76. The original meaning of "samba" in Samba dance is "Let's rub our belly buttons together."

77. Children grow faster in spring.

78. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.

79. A caterpillar has more than two thousand muscles.

80. The human heart can generate enough pressure to eject blood thirty feet high.


81. Male praying mantises cannot mate while their heads are still attached to their bodies. Therefore, female praying mantises must cut off the male's head before mating.

82. The shrimp's heart is in its head.

83. You can never lick your elbow with your tongue.

84. 50% of the world's population has never answered a telephone.

85. Rats and horses cannot vomit.

86. 'Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick' is one of the most difficult sentences to pronounce in English.

87. A sneeze that is too strong can cause a ruptured chest cavity, but if you try to force yourself to hold back a sneeze, it can cause a blood vessel in your head or neck to rupture.

88. If you talk on the phone for more than an hour, the amount of earwax in your ears will increase by about 700 times.

89. Lighters were invented before matches.

90. It is said that while you are sleeping, you will unknowingly ingest more than seventy kinds of insects and more than ten spiders.


91. The tongue is the strongest and most powerful muscle in the human body.

92. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

93. It is impossible to commit suicide by holding one's breath.

94. Every time you lick the adhesive back of a stamp, you absorb one-tenth of a calorie.

95. Right-handed people live an average of nine years longer than left-handed people.

96. Fish cannot stick out their tongues.

97. Polar bears are all left-handed.

98. An ostrich's eyes are bigger than its head.

99. Starfish have not evolved a brain to date.

100. Fleas can jump a distance 350 times their own body length, equivalent to a person jumping across an American football field.
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