Get ready to get your mind blown by the weird and wonderful facts! From bizarre natural phenomena to strange historical events, our world is full of fascinating facts that will leave you amazed, perplexed, and eager for more.
In this treasure trove of trivial, we’ll uncover 20 random weird facts that will challenge your assumptions, spark your curiosity, and make you wonder at our universe’s incredible complexity and oddity. So, buckle up and join us on the wild ride of discovery, where the strange and surprising become the norm!
Amazing Facts
1. Mosquitoes can actually smell the blood type you are. Studies show that they’re twice as likely to bite someone who is Type O as opposed to Type A.
2. Most Rubik’s cube combinations can be solved in under 20 moves. It’s estimated that there are over 43 quintillion ways to jumble a Rubik’s cube. However, most combinations can be solved in less than 20 moves.
3. TV commercials emit a tone inaudible to the human ear, which your smartphone can pick up, allowing advertisers to know that both devices belong to you. This is just one of the many sneaky ways advertisers figure out the best ads to show to you.
4. Stars eat planets. If a planet’s orbit comes too close to a star…it is game over.
5. Sharks predate trees. It is estimated that for about 50 million years, the world had sharks but no trees.
6. Restaurants don’t use dollar signs on their menus because they don’t want to remind you that you’re spending money. If a menu has a dollar sign, you automatically become budget-conscious. Removing dollar signs is one of the many tricks used on customers to open their wallets.
7. The first streaming music service was patented in 1896. It was called the Telharmonium, and it played music for subscribers over the telephone.
Before the internet and other music services, the Telharmonium generated live music, 24 hours a day. The machine was so big that it took up the entire floor of a building in Manhattan.
More so, musicians worked in shifts to create music day and night for those who wanted to enjoy some tunes. Some of the earliest customers included businesses like restaurants who wanted ambient music for their customers.
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8. Humans cannot swallow and breathe at the same time, except for newborns.
When you were about 9 months old, you would have been able to swallow and breathe at the same time. Try it now though, and you won’t be able to do it. It’s also impossible to hum while holding your nose.
9. You are born with roughly 300 bones. Once you become an adult, you’re down to 206 bones. It’s true. As you grow, there are fewer bones in your body not because you lose them but because they fuse together over time.
10. An 18-inch pizza has more pizza than 12-inch pizzas. If you’re splitting one 18-inch pizza instead of ordering two 12-inch pizzas. This is because an 18-inch pizza has 254 inches of “pizza”, while two 12-inch pizzas only have about 226 square inches.
11. When you eat a pineapple, it’s essentially eating you back! This is because pineapples contain a group of digestive enzymes called bromelain, which is why your mouth stings when you eat it.
12. Dressing rooms have curtains or half doors so that customers are extra aware of people passing by, which puts pressure on them to choose an item. The rooms are also made that way to make it easier to identify which rooms are in use.
Facts including titles
13. The dot over the lowercase letters ‘I’ and ‘j’ is called a title. It seems to be a mixture of the words ‘tiny’ and ‘little’.
14. Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way. Dung beetles can travel in a straight line when they can see the night sky, but not when it’s overcast-leading scientists to conclude that they are using the stars, and the Milky Way, to navigate.
15. The word ‘SWIMS’ looks exactly the same upside-down.
16. The word for “the day after tomorrow” is “overmorrow”.
17. If you play music to a cheese wheel, the tunes will have an effect on its flavor.
Cheese wheels have the strongest flavor when they’ve listened to hip-hop. A 2019 study found that when classical, rock, electronic, and hip-hop songs were played to cheese wheels, the hip-hop wheel had a stronger flavor and aroma.
18. The white lines that divide the road on highways are about 10 feet long. Also the space between each line is 30 feet.
19. American Olympians get taxed on their medals if they win a silver or gold in the games.
However, they don’t get taxed on a bronze medal since gold and silver medals are made mostly of silver, whereas bronze medals are composed of mostly copper.
20. Bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as wallpaper.
Could you imagine if that was successful? We would never get anything done!
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