These fun facts for kids are really fun facts for everyone. Did you know that there were square watermelons in the world? You will spend an average of 25 years sleeping in your lifetime. There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. Farts are fast and travel about 10 feet per second or almost seven miles …
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It’s all over! The world is coming to an end, any minute now! Any minute now… Well, we’re all still here, despite the probably thousands of predictions of the imminent end times. While you might think anyone prophesizing about doomsday is a looney, some predictions are decidedly more bizarre than others. Well, we at Oddee …
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Do you know all these koi fish fun facts? National Koi Day was earlier this month on July 7th and here are all the facts you don’t already know. The Largest The world’s largest koi is over 90 pounds! Many of these fish grow up to three feet long and weigh dozens of pounds. The …
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These fun facts about tears won’t make you cry and may even surprise you. Like you make gallons and gallons of tears every year, for instance? Tears are similar to your saliva in that they’re mostly made of water. They also have salt, fatty oils, and more than 1,500 different proteins. Tears have electrolytes like …
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We all misspell a word or make a typo every now and then. Yet, some words are just begging to be butchered in creative ways over and over and over again. And although thinking so might make us feel smart, it’s not (always) because people are stupid. At its core, English is a weird mishmash …
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These monkey fun facts may surprise you! What do you already know about monkeys? The Golden Snub-nosed Monkeys are the furriest and they live in the cold snowy mountains of China. The loudest monkeys are Howler monkeys, they are also the loudest land animal with howls so loud they are heard up to three miles …
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Do you know these slang kitchen phrases? If you’ve ever worked in the kitchen, they’re probably words you will never forget. In the Weeds If a chef exclaims that they’re “in the weeds” they’re saying that the kitchen is struggling to keep up with orders and it’s snowballing into a stressful and chaos-filled service. No …
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Our planet is filled with wondrous sights, created by nature and humanity. Unfortunately, shockingly many of them are at risk of disappearing forever. Whether it’s due to changing climate, rising sea levels, negligent tourists, or simply the never-ending march of time, many of the world’s greatest are not long for this world. If you’ve been …
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We recently took a look at some things that people think are very common but are, in fact, exceedingly rare. The list ranges from eating wasabi to being hit with a tax audit. But what about the flip side of the coin? Are there any things people think are next to nonexistent but actually, happen …
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Did you read July 4th Fun Facts For The Upcoming Holiday? Because this is more of that. As of 1776, there were only about 2.5 million people living in the United States, which is crazy considered there are about 332 million people that live in this country today. The Liberty Bell hasn’t rang since 1846, …
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