- Because fun facts are great and fun.
Do you know these fantastic fun facts? There are a lot of unknowns on this list, so you could learn some new ones, too!
- German chocolate cake doesn’t come from Germany but was named after
Sam German. He created the baking chocolate for Baker’s in 1852. - Before it was called Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, it was called First Impressions.
- American Robert Wadlow was the tallest man every recorded and stood at 8 feet 11 inches. (He grew so tall as the result of an overactive pituitary gland
- Your fingers don’t have any muscles and actually function from the muscles in your palms and arms.
- A lightning bolt is almost five times hotter than the sun, with a temperature of almost 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Did you know this as one of the fantastic fun facts?
- Shaking hands is used as a way to show you’re unarmed.
- A giraffe’s tongue is one of the longest in the animal world, at 18-20 inches long. (Their tongues are the strongest of all the animals.)
- A blue whale’s heart is five feet long and weighs 400 pounds.
- The French have a word for French kiss and it’s galocher, meaning to kiss with tongues.
- Flamingoes are pink because of the algae and fish they eat, but in reality, when they are baby flamingoes, they are gray-ish white in color.
- The White House (in Washington D.C.) has a total of 132 rooms, along with 36
bathrooms. - There is no solid surface on the planets Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus or Neptune as they are made of gas.
- The word sinister shows a historical bias against people who are left-w. It’s a Latin word for left, but something that’s been seen as unlucky or evil.
- Hippos are water animals but they cannot swim. (They also have a special reflex that allows them to sleep underwater.) Did you know this as one of the fantastic fun facts about hippos?
- Do you know the longest word in English with only one vowel? (It’s strengths.)
- There’s enough of the deadly chemical tetrodotoxin in a pufferfish to kill 30 people, and to antidote. Regardless, in Japan the fish is called fugu, and is considered a highly-prized delicacy when prepared by well-trained chefs.
- If you had to guess how many gallons of paint it took to paint the White House, how many would you guess? (It’s 570 gallons.)
- The oldest authenticated French woman is Jeanne Louise Calment, who died at 122 years old in 1997. This is one of the best of the fantastic fun facts?
- Japan has the highest number of vending machines in the world, per person. There is about one vending machine per 23 people in the country.
- And adult has enough blood vessels to span over 60,000 miles, meaning if laid
out end to end, they would encircle the Earth twice. - Polar bears are really black-skinned with clear fur. Their fur looks white because it reflects the light.
- No U.S. state has the letter “q” in it. And “j” and “z” are only represented once, in New Jersey and Arizona.
- The pizza with the ham and pineapple on it, it all began in Ontario, Canada. It happened in the year of 1962 and the Greek immigrant who invented it was Sam Panopoulos.
- Cows have one stomach but four compartments.
- Jam is made with mashed fruit while jam is made with fruit juice.
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