Get ready to boost your brainpower and impress your friends with these 19 Fun Facts of the Day! From astonishing scientific secrets to fascinating historical tidbits, we have daily trivia to make you feel instantly smarter.
Whether you’re a curious learner, a trivia buff, or just looking for some interesting conversation starters, these bite-sized bits of knowledge will delight and surprise you. So, let’s dive in and discover some amazing facts that will make you go ‘wow’!
Fun Facts of the Day To Make You Feel Instantly Smarter
- A human body weighing 155 pounds, contains 0.2 milligrams of gold.
- Astronauts can vote from space. They get their ballot by e-mail and send it back the same way after declaring their preferences.
- Squirrels will sometimes take care of baby squirrels if their parents fail to return to the nest.
Mother squirrels will generally have a second nesting location available to them if she need to relocate their babies. If her nest was destroyed or the tree was cut down, there is still a good chance that the mother will return to retrieve her babies and take them to her secondary location.
- By the age of 50-60, half of our taste buds become dull.
- Africa is the only continent in land in all four hemispheres.
The four hemispheres consist of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The hemispheres are created by two imaginary lines that run perpendicular to each other, the equator and the prime meridian.
The equator separates the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere. Continents of the Northern Hemisphere include all of North America, the northern part of South America, all of Europe, most of Asia, and the northern two-thirds of Africa.
The continents of the Southern Hemisphere include most of South America, the southern one-third of Africa, all of Australia and Antarctica, and the majority of Oceania, which is the vast collection of islands in the South Pacific.
Interesting fact about space
The prime meridian is the imaginary line of longitude that divides the earth into its Western and Eastern Hemispheres. Continents in the Western Hemisphere include all of North and South America, as well as parts of Africa, Europe, Asia, and Antarctica.
The Eastern Hemisphere contains most of Europe, Africa, Asia, the entire continent of Australia, and a large part of Antarctica. The majority of Oceania is also found in the Eastern Hemisphere. The only continent that is part of all four hemispheres is Africa.
- Those holes in airplane windows are called “breather” holes. And they help alleviate pressure so that neither the outside nor inside panes crack.
- In space, no one can hear you scream. This is because, in space, molecules are spread so far apart that a sound’s vibration is unable to reach them in order to vibrate and be heard.
While space is a good enough vacuum that normal sound can’t travel through it, it’s actually not a perfect vacuum, and it does have some particles floating through it.
The natural sound is far too low a frequency for the human ear to hear, 57 octaves below middle C, which is the middle note on a piano and in the middle of the range of sound people can hear. But after raising the frequency to the audible range, the result is chilling – it’s the sound of a black hole growling in deep space.
More Exciting Facts
- A single piece of spaghetti is called “spaghetto” in the Italian language.
- Men process other men’s voices with the part of the brain that processes simple sounds such as car engines and machinery.
- In Barbados, a small eastern Caribbean island, when you turn 100, you get a stamp made in your honor.
There are more than 7,500 types of apples in the world. Which means you’ll need more than 20 years to try each of them, providing that you eat one type a day.
- Sea otters hold each other’s hands while they sleep so that they don’t float apart.
- The Japanese language has a word “kuchisabishii” – When you eat not because you’re hungry, but because your mouth is lonely.
- For anyone dreaming of a simple life, you may want to consider moving to Giethoorn, Netherlands.
- Men’s tongues are usually longer than women’s tongues.
An older study at the orthodontic department of the University of Edinburgh’s dental school found that the mean average tongue length for adults is 3.3 inches (8.5 centimeters) for men and 3.1 inches (7.9 cm) for women.
Facts you didn’t know until now
The measurement was made from the epiglottis, a flap of cartilage behind the tongue and in front of the larynx, to the tip of the tongue.
- Four seconds is the perfect length of time to dunk your Oreos in milk
- The man who invited the Rubik’s cube couldn’t solve it at first. He eventually learned to master the cube and could solve the puzzle in under a minute.
- Polar bears can run at 25 miles per hour, whereas the fastest NFl player these days, Nick Chubb, can run just over 22mph.
- Sound travels four times faster in water than in air. Water is about 800 times denser than air, so there are way more particles for waves to bounce off. Thus, sound is faster in water.
In water, sounds travel faster than in the air. The reason is that the particles are much closer in water and so they can quickly transmit vibration energy from one particle to next particle. Generally, Sound travels four times faster in water than in air.
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