#1. The quietest room in the world is located at Microsoft headquarters in the state of Washington.
#2. France is the country in the world with the most time zones.
#3. The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long, which is a hill on the North Island of New Zealand named Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
#4. It takes Uranus 84 years to revolve around the Sun once.
#5. Canada has 9 percent of the forests in the world.
#6. On this planet, the most spoken language is Mandarin Chinese.
#7. On Earth, all the ants weigh about as much as all human beings.
#8. The Longest TV Commercial of All Time is 14 Hours Long. The television commercial was broadcast on the Brazilian television channel Woohoo from 6 am to 8 pm on 8 December 2018.
#9. Mice Can Sing Almost 100 Notes in Central America.
#10. We breathe about 22,000 times a day.
#11. The milky galaxy Weighs roughly 1.5 trillion solar masses.
#13. When you snap your fingers, your Thumb doesn't make a sound.
#14. In a lifetime, the Average Human Grows 550-600 Miles of Hair.
#15. Driving into space will only take 1 hour.
#16. To taste Food you need saliva.
#17. You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away, While the heart weighs about 400 pounds (181.5 kg's).
#18. The speed of a computer mouse is measured in "Mickeys".
#19. The longest word in English is 189,819 Letters Long. Click Here to see it.
#20. Neil Armstrong's hair sold for $3,000 in 2004.
#21. In their lifetime, humans shed 40 pounds (18.2 kgs) of skin, completely replacing their outer skin every month.
#22. The founders of Google were willing to sell Google to Excite in 1999 for less than $1 million but Excite turned them down.
#23. Seahorses are monogamous mates of life, and travel in pairs, holding the tails of each other.
#24. Traveling from the center of the Sun to the surface takes a photon 200,000 years, then just a little over 8 minutes from the surface of the Sun into your eyeball.
#25. A mosquito has 47 teeth.
#26. The average heart rate of the Hummingbird is over 1,200 beats per minute.
#27. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
#28. Airplane food isn't very tasty because of our sense of smell and taste decrease by 20 to 50 percent during flights.
#29. Goats have rectangular pupils.
#30. Around 1,600 people are bitten annually by other humans in New York City.
#31. In Los Angeles, there are more cars than people.
#32. Only Floating Post Office in the World. The post office is located in Dal Lake, Srinagar, India.
This place is located in Meghalaya, India. This town in Meghalaya gets around 11,873 mm of rain. This place also holds a Guinness record for the highest annual average rainfall.
#34. There's no word in the Spanish National Anthem.
#35. It is said that the 100 folds in a chef's toque represent 100 ways to cook an egg.
#36. Bubbles keep water in your bath warmer for longer.
#37. A banana is a berry.
#39. The Mona Lisa does not have any eyebrows.
#41. In the English language, there are only two words that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
#42. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they begin with. Example: AsiA, EuropE, etc.
#43. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be written using the letters in one keyboard row only.
#44. Minus 40 degrees Celsius and minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit are exactly the same.
#45. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record as the most commonly stolen book from Public Libraries.
#46. The blood of mammals is red, the insect blood is yellow in color, and the lobster blood is blue.
#47. The Peregrine falcon is the fastest bird, clocked with speeds of up to 240 miles per hour.
#48. J is the only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table.
#49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was the first movie ever to have a motion picture soundtrack.
#50. Iceland does not have a railway system.
#51. IKEA is an acronym for "Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd."
#52. The "Happy Birthday" song wasn't intended for public use until 2016. In other words, Happy Birthday song was copyrighted and you have to pay a license to use it.
#53. On planet Venus, it snows metal. There are two types of metals, bismuthinite, and galena, that were found.
#54. Since 1922, more than 290 people have died in climbing Mount Everest.
#56. In 1927, Santa Claus was issued a pilot’s license from the U.S. government. They gave him airway maps and promised to keep runway lights on.
#57. Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in our solar system, is 3 times taller than Mount Everest.
#58. All the paint weights the same as 10 elephants on the Eiffel Tower. It gets repainted every seven years without having to close to the public.
#59. The manager of Guinness started the Guinness Book of World Records when he got annoyed that he couldn’t find out what is the fastest bird was ever recorded.
#60. Snakes can help in predicting earthquakes. They can sense a coming earthquake from a distance of 75 miles, up to five days before it happens.
#61. Only 2 percent of the population in the world have green eyes.
#62. On 18 February 1979, it snowed for 30 minutes in the Sahara desert.
#63. Antimatter is The Earth's most expensive substance. It costs around $62.5 trillion per gram, or $1.75 quadrillion per ounce.
#64. A broken screen iPhone is used by 15 percent of iPhone users.
#66. Spacesuits take 5,000 hours to make, cost $1 million weighs around 110 pounds (50 kg's), and have 11 layers of materials.
#67. The only mammal which is able to see UV light is the reindeer.
#68. Women buy 85 percent of Valentine's Day Cards.
#69. Lake Superior contains 10 percent of the freshwater in the world. It is the size of South Carolina, with 2,900 cubic miles of water in it.
#70. Carrots contain zero fat content.
#71. King Kong was the first movie ever to produce a sequel.
#73. Some tumors can grow hair, bones, teeth, and even fingernails.
#74. Glass balls will bounce higher than those made of rubber.
#75. The milk of Hippopotamus is pink.
#76. The average person spends 2 weeks waiting at traffic lights in their lifetime.
#77. Fish can cough.
#78. A typical cough is 60 mph, and a sneeze is always faster than 100 mph.
#79. In one year, there are 31,556,926 seconds.
#80. If a Donkey and a Zebra have a baby, it is called a Zonkey.
#81. There is a 50 percent chance in a room with 23 other people, that two of the people in the room will share a birthday.
#82. Tiger shark embryos start attacking each other in their mother's womb before they are even born.
#84. Mike, the chicken has lived without his head for 18 months.
#85. Iran arrested 14 squirrels on suspicion of espionage.
#86. The Most Tosses of a Pancake in one Minute Is 140.
#87. The catalog of Ikea is as popular as the Koran and the Bible. The company distributed more than 203 million copies across the globe.
#88. McDonald's is the world's largest toy distributor. Approximately 20 percent of McDonald's sales contain Happy Meals, which include a toy.
#89. Owls keep small snakes as their pets.
#90. The trunk of an elephant comprises over 40,000 muscles. There are less than 850 muscles in the whole human body.
#91. Turtles are able to breathe through their butts and pee through their mouths.
#93. Searching in google images for '241543903' gives you numerous pictures of people sticking their heads inside freezers.
#94. If you folded 42 times a piece of paper it will reach the moon.
(Paper is about 0.1016mm thick. Every time you fold paper you double the number of sheets that are stacked up. First fold=2 sheets, second fold= 4 sheets, etc. After 42 folds # sheets=2^42. So total height of stack=0.1016mm*2^42= 446,841 km. The distance to the moon is 384,400 km).
#95. Monday is the most popular day to commit suicide.
#96. There are about 40 million kangaroos in Australia. Twice more than people.
#97. The Elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
#98. If her husband doesn't give her coffee a Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce.
#99. The only countries you can't find Coca-Cola are North Korea, and Cuba.
#101. The resolution of the Human Eye is estimated to be 576 megapixels.
#102. Platypuses do not have the Stomach.
#103. Cheetahs Meow like House Cats.
#104. Dogs Can Sense Disease.
#105. One out of every eight residents of the United States lives in California.
#106. In captivity, ravens can learn to talk better than parrots.
#107. For good reason, the manchineel tree is nicknamed the "Tree of Death": Touching it can leave chemical burns on your skin, its fruit is toxic, and its bark can cause blindness when burned.
#108. Russian cosmonauts used to carry a shotgun to space in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears.
#109. The dogs can understand up to 250 words and gestures. The typical dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old.
#110. Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln was a wrestling champion of his county. He fought in almost 300 matches and lost only one.
#111. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
#112. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
#113. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
#114. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
#115. Butterflies taste with their feet.
#116. In less than 15 minutes, carbon monoxide can kill a person.
#117. Except Antarctica, corn is grown in every continent.
#118. Canadians say "sorry" so much that in 2009 a law was passed stating that an apology can not be used as evidence of admission of guilt.
#119. Facebook created two AI chatbots to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they began talking in a language they had created for themselves.
#120. Sunflowers can help in cleaning radioactive soil. Japan is trying to rehabilitate Fukashima using this method. Nearly 10,000 sunflower seed packets were sold to the people of the city.
#122. Violin bows are usually made out of horsehair.
#123. People who share their workout routine on Facebook are more likely to have psychological problems.
#124. The color red doesn’t really make bulls angry because they are color-blind.
#125. In Nebraska, there is a town called Monowi with one resident. The only resident is a woman who is the Mayor, Librarian, and Bartender.
#126. If you heat a magnet it is going to lose its magnetism.
#127. A lightning bolt can reach 53,540 degrees Fahrenheit (29726.6 celsius). That is 5 times hotter than the sun's surface, which is 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit.
#128. Nepal boasts the world's most mathematical flag. This also includes an article in its constitution detailing the steps to draw the flag.
#129. Dinosaurs lived on every continent including Antarctica.
#130. Garlic has been known to attract leeches.
#131. Only two countries, which are Nicaragua and Dominica, use purple color in their national flags.
#132. There are more than 6,000 known species of grass.
#133. Eight of the world's ten largest statues are of Buddha's.
#135. Between England and South Africa, the longest Cricket Test match lasted for 12 days. This only ended because their boat home would have been missed by the English team.
#136. The magpie is one of the smartest bird species. They can even recognize themselves in mirrors.
#137. Cold showers have more health benefits than hot or warm showers. These include improving circulation, stimulating weight loss, and easing depression.
#138. Zebras only have one toe on each foot.
#139. In 1906, The first-ever documented feature film was made in Australia.
#140. Dogs are born blind, and cannot hear anything. The first sense which they develop is the sense of touch.
#141. Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world with 255. They outnumber Egyptian pyramids by twice the amount.
#143. Around 1 in every 2,000 newborn babies already have a tooth when they are firstborn.
#144. The original name for Xbox was DirectXbox which was intended to demonstrate how Direct X graphics from Microsoft could improve the console market.
#145. San Marino is the world's fifth smallest country (and the third smallest country in Europe).
#146. The shiny glove of Michael Jackson was actually just a modified golf glove.
#148. The human skeleton repairs and renews itself every 10 years. Essentially, today you have different bones than you did 10 years ago.
#149. It would take up 9 percent more volume as water freezes into ice cubes.
#150. If you have the feeling you have experienced an event before in real life then it Deja vu.
If you previously experienced an event in a dream, there's a different term called Deja reve.
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