Most mornings, I eat breakfast out with a group of buddies. Our conversations generally range from who’s in the dog house with their wife to what happened on the latest episode of Vikings to why one of our iPhones isn’t working. We also cover current events and obscure trivia or useless facts.
I thought I’d share some of those lesser-known interesting facts for your enlightenment:
If our sun was the size of a beach ball, Jupiter would be as small as a golf ball and Earth would be as tiny as a pea.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than by plane crashes.
In Atlanta, it is forbidden to dress a mannequin without first pulling down the window blinds. It is also illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or a street lamp.
The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information per second but is only aware of about 40.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
Splenda was discovered when a scientist misheard his coworker saying, “Test this chemical.” He thought he said, “Taste this chemical.”
“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
An average sized cumulus cloud is approximately the same weight as 80 elephants.
A dog’s sense of smell is a whopping 1,000 times more sensitive than a human’s.
The “nearest” large galaxy to ours is Andromeda. If you were traveling at the speed of light, it would take 2 million years to reach it.
Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours per day. That’s 2 more hours than sloths!
After Charles Lindbergh’s baby was kidnapped in 1932, many worried parents had their children tattooed for identification.
The Earth spins at 1,000 mph and travels through space at 67,00 mph.
And my favorite: Astronauts in space cannot belch, because there’s no gravity to separate liquid from gas in the stomach.
Hopefully, you’ll find the information on the pages that follow more useful, but equally entertaining.
