Animals
The annual number of worldwide shark bites is 10 times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York.
Dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures.
In Switzerland, it’s illegal to own only one guinea pig.
Armadillo shells are bulletproof.
Pigeon poop is the property of the British Crown.
Mice actually do not like cheese! They prefer sweets if given the choice — they like to eat fruit, seeds, and grains!
A camel can drink up to 40 gallons of water in one go.
A flock of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
A flock of peacocks is called a party.
Our Planet
The Philippines consists of 7,641 islands.
There’s enough gold inside Earth to coat the planet.
At Any Given Moment, There Are approximately 2,000 thunderstorms happening on Earth.
Ninety percent of the world’s population lives above the equator.
Sixty percent of the World’s lakes (three million total) are located in Canada.
New York’s Central Park is bigger than Monaco.
There are over 9,000 benches in Central Park.
A brewery in Canada makes beer using water from 20,000-year-old icebergs.
More than two percent of the American population was killed during the Civil War.
Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world.
The United States makes 25 percent of the world’s cheese.
Ninety percent of Libya is desert.
Music
None of The Beatles could actually read music.
George Harrison could reportedly play 26 instruments.
Freddie Mercury allegedly snuck Princess Diana into a gay club back in the ’80s by dressing her up in an army jacket and sunglasses.
Dolly Parton wrote the legendary songs “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” in the same day.
Mariah Carey insured her legs and vocal cords for $35 million each, totaling $70 million altogether.
Adele and Jessie J went to the same performing arts high school and used to sing together during lunch.
Elvis Presley was actually a natural blonde and his stylist dyed his hair dark in the ’50s by mixing shampoo, vitamin capsules, aloe vera, and herbs together.
Bruce Springsteen invited an unknown Courteney Cox to dance onstage with him in his “Dancing in the Dark” music video in 1984.
After Barbra Streisand appeared on The Judy Garland Show in 1963, Garland would visit Streisand’s apartment in New York City to give her career advice, saying things like: “Don’t let them do to you what they did to me.”
The Human Body
Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare side effect of brain trauma.
Dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust.
The human circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long.
A sneeze shoots through the air at 100 miles per hour, sending 10,000 germs flying.
Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve metal.
The longest hiccuping spell lasted a whopping 68 years.
The human hand has 54 bones. That’s more than a quarter of the bones in the whole body.
U.S. Presidents
John Adams was the first president to live in the White House.
Abraham Lincoln was 6’4″ inches (190cm), making him the tallest president.
The only president who studied to become a medical doctor was William Henry Harrison, the 9th president.
The 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant, was given a $20 speeding ticket for riding his horse and buggy too fast down a street in Washington, D.C.
James Madison (1809-1817) was the shortest president at 5’4″ and weighed barely over 100 pounds.
Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president, taking office at age 42.
Business
The first item on the McDonalds menu was a hotdog.
Domino’s Pizza was founded by two brothers – James and Tom Monaghan. After 8 months of pizza selling James decided to trade his half of the business to his brother in exchange for a used Volkswagen Beetle.
Until 1996 Marvel owned the rights to the word “Zombie”.
The average mobile user checks their mobile phone 150 times a day.
The creator and designer of the famous Nike swoosh tick was paid $35.
If the 100 richest people in the world, in the year of 2012 put all of their yearly earnings together, they would have had enough to end world poverty four times over.
Walmart (ASDA is a subsidiary of the retailer) averages $1.8 million of profit every hour.
In addition to ‘Coke’, the brand Coca-Cola has around 3500 beverages under its catalog.
In 2015, Apple became the first ever $700 billion company.
Pepsi got its name from pepsin, the digestive enzyme. The name Pepsi was chosen because Caleb Bradham, the inventor of the famous drink, believed that his drink was a “healthy” cola that helped with digestion.
The name Volkswagen means “Peoples Car” in German.
300 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute. No wonder you never run out of new content to watch on YouTube.
The trademark red colour wasn’t Ferrari’s first preference.
Carlsberg beer used the Swastika symbol in its logo till 1940 to demonstrate ancient culture and heritage.
The CIA reads 5 million tweets daily.
To date, five IBM employees have won the Nobel prize for their excellent performance in the field of technology.
The original name of the famous toy Barbie is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
McDonald’s feed more than 68 million people every day. This figure almost outnumbers the United Kingdom’s population.
Starbucks has added an average of two stores daily since 1987.
Miscellanious
Most Disney characters wear gloves to keep animation simple.
The Eiffel Tower can grow more than six inches during the summer.
Medical errors are one of the top causes of death.
Doctors who play video games more than three hours a week make fewer operating room errors.
Women couldn’t apply for credit at a bank until 1974.
Before the invention of modern false teeth, dentures were commonly made from the teeth of dead soldiers.
Since 1945, all British tanks have been equipped with the necessary items for making tea.
Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and the Challenger explosion have all been attributed to a lack of sleep.
In Egypt, it’s considered incredibly rude to put salt on food that’s been served to you.
The height of the Eiffel Tour can vary up to six inches, depending on the temperature.
Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don’t both end up with food poisoning.
China didn’t win its first Olympic medal until 1984.
The technical term for a fear of long words is “hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.”
To make one pound of honey, a bee has to fly 90,000 miles! One bee typically only makes one-twelfth of a teaspoon in its lifetime.
In their lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the Earth.
The founder of sportswear companies Puma and Adidas were brothers
A teacher wrote of a young Roald Dahl on his school report card: “I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended.”
After leaving office, Ronald Reagan was offered the role of Hill Valley’s mayor in Back to the Future 3.
Movie trailers originally played after the movie.