50 Random Facts That Will Make You The Star Of Any Conversation

Publish date: 2024-08-31

From Abraham Lincoln's wrestling career to the killer habits of cats, these random facts are guaranteed to boggle your mind.

Interesting Random Facts Abraham Lincoln Wrestling Abraham Lincoln is in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, having lost only once in more than 300 matches.Public Domain Random Facts Costs Of Making Pennies It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost more than $100 million in 2013 just because of the cost it took to make the coins.Public Domain Christopher Columbus Never Landed In America Christopher Columbus never set foot in mainland North America.Getty Images Planet Earth The Earth is actually farthest from the Sun during summer (in the Northern Hemisphere).Wikimedia Commons Incestous Marriages Of Einstein And Darwin Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their cousins.Wikimedia Commons Tongue Print Tongue prints are as unique as fingerprints. Public Domain Genghis Khan Descendants Interesting Random Facts About eight percent of men in 16 populations spanning Asia are related to Genghis Khan.Wikimedia Commons Napoleon's Height Napoleon was actually slightly taller than average.Wikimedia Commons Buzz Aldrin Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, but Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on it.NASA Humans Evolving From Chimpanzees Humans did not evolve from chimps or any other extant primates, but instead, chimps and humans evolved from the same, now extinct, common ancestor. Wikimedia Commons Random Facts About Twins The longest time between two twins being born was 87 days.Wikimedia Commons How Many Birds Do Cats Kill Domestic cats kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and between 6.9 and 20.7 billion mammals every year.Wikimedia Commons Highway Lights Light doesn't always travel at the speed of light. In fact, it's been clocked at speeds as low as 38 miles per hour.Public Domain Betty White Older Than Sliced Bread Interesting Random Facts Betty White is actually older than sliced bread. Public Domain Largest Ant Colony On Earth There is a single mega-colony of ants that spans three continents, covering much of Europe, the west coast of the U.S., and the west coast of Japan. Public Domain Dancing Plague The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg (in present-day France), in which hundreds of residents danced continually for no apparent reason. Several danced themselves to death.Wikimedia Commons World Record For Being Struck By Lightning A United States park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and survived it — seven times between 1942 and 1977. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1983.Wikimedia Commons No Words That Rhyme With Wolf There are no words in the English language that rhyme with "wolf."Wikimedia Commons Human Senses Random Facts Humans have far more than five senses, with some scientists putting the number above 20.Wikimedia Commons Frank Hayes Won A Horse Race After He Was Dead In 1923, a man named Frank Hayes won a steeplechase at Belmont Park in New York. Before crossing the finish line, he suffered a fatal heart attack, making him the first – and only – dead man to win a horse race. Wikimedia Commons Yasuke The Samurai The first foreign-born samurai was named Yasuke and was of black African origin.Wikimedia Commons Dropping A Penny From The Empire State Building A penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building could not actually kill anyone.Wikimedia Commons Ketchup On Cottage Cheese Amazon River There are no bridges over the Amazon river.Wikimedia Commons Nazi's Anti-Smoking Campaign German doctors were the first ones to link smoking and lung cancer. As a result, the Nazis initiated the first government anti-smoking campaign in modern times.Wikimedia Commons William Higinbotham Physicist William Higinbotham worked on the first nuclear bomb and what is thought to be the first video game ever, "Tennis for Two."Wikimedia Commons Real Cowboys Cowboys mostly didn't wear cowboy hats, but instead bowlers, derbies, and the like.Getty Images Interesting Random Facts Dummy In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer named Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist's dummy named Brendan O'Smarty. He was.YouTube Isaac Newton's Apple Tree The apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton is still growing at his family home. Getty Images Vatican Wine Interesting Random Facts Vatican City consumes the most wine per capita at 74 liters per citizen per year.Wikimedia Commons Bulls And The Color Red Bulls aren't enraged by the color red and, in fact, can hardly perceive it at all.Public Domain Duck Eye Ducks can keep their eyes open underwater due to a third, sideways eyelid.Wikimedia Commons The Largest Living Organism On Earth The largest living organism on Earth is a giant fungus. Wikimedia Commons Waking Up A Sleepwalker There is no added danger in waking a sleepwalker.Wikimedia Commons Sunset On Mars Sunsets on Mars are blue. NASA Sammy Davis Jr. The head of Columbia Studios once threatened Sammy Davis Jr. with the Mob to prevent him from marrying a white woman.Wikimedia Commons Saddam Hussein Key To Detroit Detroit once gave Saddam Hussein a key to the city.Wikimedia Commons Gorilla Birth Control Human birth control pills work on gorillas.Public Domain Stewardesses "Stewardesses" is the longest word able to be typed using only the left hand.Wikimedia Commons Kangaroo Interesting Random Facts Female kangaroos have three vaginas.Wikimedia Commons Grover Cleveland Non-Consecutive Terms Although Donald Trump is the 45th president, he is only the 44th person to be president. That's because Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms as the 22nd and the 24th president.Wikimedia Commons Bats Aren't Actually Blind Bats are not actually blind.Wikimedia Commons Random Facts The First Breast Implant Surgery The first "breast implant" surgery occurred in 1895 and was perfumed by Dr. Vincenz Czerny.Getty Images Pearl Harbor The film Pearl Harbor cost as much as the actual rebuilding of Pearl Harbor and lasted an hour longer than the attack.Wikimedia Commons Inventor Of Game Boy Gunpei Yokoi, the inventor of the Game Boy was originally the janitor at Nintendo.Wikimedia Commons Napoleon After Death After his death, Napoléon Bonaparte’s penis was removed from his body during autopsy, displayed at a museum, and eventually sold for $2,700 in the 1970s.Public Domain Chicken Head You can tell what color a chicken’s egg will be by looking at its earlobes.Public Domain Lego Tires The world's largest tire manufacturer is LEGO.Public Domain Longest-Serving Prisoner The longest-serving prisoner is American history was Paul Geidel, who served 68 years and 245 days between 1911 and 1980 for second degree murder. He was released at age 86.Public Domain Largest Organ Interesting Random Facts Your largest organ is actually outside of your body — it’s your skin.Public Domain

If you're looking for a fact or two to impress all of your friends, look no further. These interesting random facts will teach you everything you never knew about animal eyeballs, incestuous historical figures, Betty White, Abraham Lincoln's wrestling career, and maybe even your own body.

And you may also find that you've been wrong about plenty of things you only thought you knew. Like that old saying "blind as a bat"? Is it actually true or not? And has anyone ever told you that if you drop a penny from the top of the Empire State Building, it could kill whoever it lands on? Well, let's find out the truth.

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