Curses are a staple of stories worldwide. From the curse of King Tut’s tomb to the 27 Club, many of these legends are famous all over the globe. That said, local stories always tend to hit harder than those from exotic and strange places. That’s probably because we can easily imagine ourselves being on the …
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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 …
It’s not April anymore, the month that has a national circus holiday, but there’s no bad time for circus fun facts. “Circus” comes from the Latin word circle or ring. Rome’s Circus Maximus could fit an audience of over 150,000 Romans. A typical circus is a traveling company of acrobats, performers, trained animals and clowns. …
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Tear fun facts are things we all need to know about ourselves. Do you know these fun facts about tears? Crying is seen by some researchers as a social signal for others that you need help whether because you’re in pain or sad, in distress or dealing with extreme emotion. The support from others is …
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Did you know the most common eye color is brown? Here are more fun facts for kids, that really anyone will enjoy. Skin is the largest organ on the body. It takes your body about 12 hours to digest food. Your nose won’t grow when you lie, but it does get warmer. Almost half of …
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What do you think of the ride known as the merry-go-round? The national day for them is today, July 25th and here’s a bunch of fun facts, too. Some German carousels were made with two stories or decks. Because of transportation, they weren’t common in other places. Golden age carousels had manes carved so that …
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We all like to think that we know how to speak English perfectly well. Yet, the fact is that we often don’t. Everybody makes mistakes when they speak, using a word that doesn’t mean what they think it does. We all do it and it’s usually no big deal in everyday conversations. That said, it’s …
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The craziest of the fun facts about monkeys is that monkey babies are considered adults at four or five years old! Can you imagine that in human society? Groups of monkeys work together to take care of the young monkeys and to play and cuddle with them. Monkey babies are considered adults once they hit …
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Today is National Amelia Earhart Day and her birthday. Did you know how many records this girl holds? She took her first flying lesson on January 3rd, 1921. She set the speed record for east-to-west flight from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii. She was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross from the …
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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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