- Summer is still here and some of these facts are pretty wild.
These wild facts about the summer may surprise you like did you know there is an underwater hotel and only one rather interesting way to get there? Do you know the rest of these facts about summer?
- There’s a midnight baseball game tradition in Alaska and it’s 100 years old.
- The world’s longest lazy river is about a mile long. It’s a 3/4-mile loop at Waco Surf in Waco, Texas.
- Up until COVID, movie goers were breaking box office records every summer.
The summer before in 2019, the total summer box office total was at $4.8 billion, about an 11% increase from 2018. - To attend the largest international ukulele festival, you’ll have to visit Hawaii. It’s been going on since 1971 and has attracted about 20,000 people each year. They even have a band there composed of more than 800 musicians.
- There is a special type of firefly and when it lights up, its butt glows blue and not white. You’ll see this “ghost fireflies” if you happen to be in the area of the Southern Appalachians that will look more of a blue-green color and less white than the ones you’re used to. Is this one of the most wild facts about summer?
- There’s only one way to get to the world’s only underwater hotel and that is by scuba diving.
- Americans love their iced tea so much, they drink billions of glasses of it every year for a total of 3.9 billion gallons of tea drank in 2021 alone, about 75-80% of that being iced tea.
- Tug of war was once an Olympic sport. “Appearing for the first time at the Paris Games in 1900, the tug-of-war survived on the program up to and including the Antwerp Games of 1920,” according to Time. “Official rules stipulated that an eight-man team had to pull their opponents six feet to win.”
- Missing sleepaway camp as an adult? You can still visit if you want to and it’ll only cost you a few hundred dollars.
- You could visit all 30 major league baseball stadiums in 30 days, if you wanted to that is. Without schedules considered, the fastest possible trip begins with the Los Angeles Dodgers, moves south through Texas, then up the East Coast and back west toward Los Angeles to see the Los Angeles Angels. This is one of the most wild facts and also, how fun would that be?
- The planet didn’t have a summer in 1918 due to a massive volcanic eruption that produced enough dust, ash, and sulfur dioxide to partially cloud the Earth’s atmosphere. There were winter link conditions across the world including snowy weather in June and frost in August.
- The record for people all making sand angels at the same time is 1,387. It happened on June 10, 2017, on Stearns public beach on Lake Michigan.
- Spend time in nature for a scientifically proven way to boost your mood. Taking a 50-minute walk in the wilderness as opposed to the city is shown to make people feel happier and decrease levels of anxiety.
- The hottest days of the year happen between July 15th and July 31st in the United States.
- The largest inflatable pool toy in the world was a 70-foot tall swan. The toy, created by AT&T and iHeartRadio was the largest inflatable pool toy of all time.
It measured 70.52 by 50.31 by 54.41 feet, according to Guinness World Records. - An Olympic-sized swimming pool holds enough water in it for 9,400 baths.
- The world’s largest surfboard collection is about 650 surf boards. Did you know this as one of the wild facts about summer?
- Frank Epperson of San Francisco accidently made the first popsicle back in 1905. He mixed some sugary soda powder with water and after leaving it outside overnight and it freezing, he knew he had something delicious. He started selling Epsicles before going out and getting a patent in 1924 for the treat as we know it today, popsicles.
So what do you think is the most wild of all the wild facts on this list? Let me know in the comments!