Here Is A List Of 22 “Did You Know” Facts You Didn’t Know
By Getrude Mathayo / Published March 6, 2023 | 2:56 pm
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- A snail can sleep for three years
- All polar bears are left-handed
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- Hydra, an aquatic creature is the only living creature that never dies. It regenerates, replacing its cells with fresh ones
One of the best things about learning something new is being able to share that knowledge with others. One of the best things about did you know facts is that they’re so easy to share with others.
Random fun facts catch us off guard in the best possible way. They’re unexpected or unusual bits of knowledge from the worlds of science, history, and pop culture that delight and entertain us and anyone we share them with.
But these interesting facts aren’t just amusing pieces of information that will make you a whiz at answering trivia questions. They’re legitimately fascinating, and once you get started, you’ll want to keep reading until your curiosity is satisfied.
- A snail can sleep for three years
- All polar bears are left-handed
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- Hydra, an aquatic creature is the only living creature that never dies. It regenerates, replacing its cells with fresh ones
- Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump
- Coca-Cola was originally green because of fresh cocoa leaves
- Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil
- Strawberry is the only fruit with seeds on the outside
- All other vegetables must be replanted every year except two perennial vegetables; Asparagus and rhubarb that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons.
- There are 366 dimples on a golf ball
- There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves, per side, in chess.
- The bulletproof vest was invented by a pizza delivery guy from Detroit USA after he was shot twice on the job.
- Boxing is the only sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the winner until the contest ends
- Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades – King David, Clubs, Alexander the Great, Hearts, Charlemagne, Diamonds, Julius Caesar
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed
- The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with
- If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle
- If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle
- If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes
- Mao Zedong of China never brush his teeth in his lifetime
- When Elizabeth I of Russia died in 1762, there were 15,000 dresses in her closets
- It is impossible to lick your elbow. This is true, the entire joint of the elbow is between the upper and lower arm and most people seem to think that the elbow is the pointy part on the outside of their arm when they bend it.
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