- There is always time for random fun facts1
What really is better than random fun facts? Nothing, that’s the answer.
- “Prunes!” Doesn’t really have the same ring to it, does it? In the case of
pictures that is, saying ‘prunes’ instead of ‘cheese’ was common in the 1840s. - You can sit, lie, stand or dance on the Four Corners monument while being in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico at the same time.
- Bird feathers were the first thing shoved into golf balls.
- The Earth’s surface is about 70% water.
- As of 2010, Google said there were 129,000,000 books in the world.
- If you want to get into an interesting competitive sport, there’s always toe wrestling.
- To finish one scoop of ice cream, it takes about 50 licks. Would you be willing to test this off the list of random fun facts?
- The United Nations says there are 195 recognized countries in the world.
- The only continent without human residents is Antarctica.
- Apples are a part of the rose family.
- Abraham Lincoln lost five prior elections before becoming president.
- The most expensive book was bought for $30.8 million.
- Insects have been in the world for 350 million years.
- The state of Rhode Island and Yosemite National Park are about the same size.
- The ice pop was accidentally invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old when he left soda powder and water outside overnight and it froze.
- There were $100,00.00 in bills printed between 1934 and 1935 and they were never released for public use.
- The average male wears around a 10.5 in shoes.
- The first menu dates back to the mid-1700’s.
- The state of California has more people than the entire country of Canada.
- The closest state to Africa is Maine.
- The world’s largest island is Greenland. This is one of the largest of the random fun facts!
- Robocup is an annual soccer game with robots (from around the world) as players and not people.
- We watch more than 1 billion hours of YouTube videos daily or more than Facebook and Netflix combined!
- Do you remember when the tug-of-war was an Olympic sport?
- Alaska and Russia are only two miles away from each other.
- Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb.
- Hawaiian pizza actually came out of Canada.
- Alaska is the most western and most eastern state in the United States.
- The English language is spoken in 100+ countries around the world.
- The largest desert in the world is Antarctica. (The definition of desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs.)
- The Pacific Ocean is less salty than the Atlantic Ocean. Did you know this as one of the random fun facts?
- Back in the day, umpires sat in rocking chairs behind home plate.
- Genetically, peaches and nectarines are almost identical.
- Iron makes about 5% of the Earth’s crust.
- You cannot buy Coca Cola in North Korea or Cuba.
- The lowest place on the planet is the Dead Sea.
- The smallest country in the world is Vatican City.
- The first of the hockey pucks were made out of frozen cow poop.
- Detroit Michigan is actually to the north of Canada.
- The only city in the world that’s located on two continents is Istanbul, located on Europe and Asia.
Did you know all the random fun facts on this list? Let me know in the comments!