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❓ The Canadian Navy only has 40 fleet units.
❓ Octopuses and squids have beaks.
❓ Mercury is the only planet in the solar system without a moon
❓ "Phantom Vibration Syndrome" is the name for when someone thinks their phone is vibrating, but it isn’t.
❓ Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 3.5 per cent.
❓ Your brain is constantly eating itself.
❓ Earth's rotation has been steady for the last 10k years.
❓ Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people.
❓ In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola.
❓ If a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear mate, their offspring is called a “Pizzly Bear.”
❓ Back when dinosaurs existed, there used to be volcanoes that were erupting on the moon.
❓ Canadians say “thank you” so much that a law was passed in 2009 limiting each person to no more than 12 uses per day.
❓ The earliest archaeological finds show that wine was invented in Georgia.
❓ 21% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
❓ Cherophobia is the irrational fear of fun or happiness.
❓ You get Goosebumps when you’re scared to make yourself look bigger.
❓ Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight.
❓ Sharks are the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
❓ Apples originate in China.
❓ The Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland that connects the Edinburgh Castle with the Palace of Holyroodhouse measures exactly one mile (~1.6km).
❓ The country with the most pyramids in the world is Sudan.
❓ The most populated city in Europe is Paris.
❓ A dentist invented candy floss.
❓ Dolphins sleep with both their eyes open.
❓ An octopus has 7 hearts
❓ Spaghetto is the singular form of spaghetti.
❓ Your sense of taste is heightened on airplanes.
❓ You can smell whilst you are in a deep sleep.
❓ The first Disney Princess to have a full-length movie was Cinderella.
❓ In 2025, the world population has surpassed 9 billion people.
❓ Mario was originally a carpenter, not a plumber.
❓ Pac-Man’s original name was “Puck Man,” but it was changed for Western release.
❓ The President of Nintendo of America is called Doug Mario.
❓ The longest rainfall in modern times latest for more than 5 years.
❓ Trees can die of old age.
❓ The inventor of cruise control was blind.
❓ The name “IKEA” is an acronym.
❓ The Colosseum could be flooded for mock sea battles.
❓ The first Coca-Cola recipe contained Cocaine
❓ The first chocolate bar was made in Britain.
❓ Europe is the most visited destination for honeymooners.
❓ Water conducts electricity very well.
❓ Drinking through a straw makes you get drunk quicker.
❓ The most watched tv broadcast of all time in the UK is the 1966 World Cup Final.
❓ The highest grossing movie of all time is Avengers: End Game
❓ Bat out of Hell, by Meat Loaf, is the biggest selling album of all time.
❓ It is illegal to eat chicken with utensils in Kentucky.
❓ Pickles can not be sold in Connecticut unless they bounce.
❓ In Alaska, it is illegal to be drunk in a bar.
❓ It is possible to walk from Alaska to Russia.
❓ The machine that gives Pringles crisps their distinct shape was invented by a science fiction author.
❓ Komodo dragons can give birth asexually.
❓ Continents can move at the same rate that finger nails grow.
❓ Vincent van Gogh have only sold one piece of his art during his lifetime.
❓ Birds do not urinate.
❓ Seahorses do not have stomachs.
❓ Camels store water in their humps.
❓ Mercury is the hottest planet in our solar system.
❓ Peanuts are a type of nut.
❓ The human body has more bacterial cells than human cells.
❓ A duck's quack doesn't echo
❓ The moon reportedly smells like cheese
❓ The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
❓ There is a town in Sweden where everyone is required to own a cat.
❓ The shortest war in history was between the U.S. and Canada.
❓ You can’t burp in space.
❓ A day on Mercury is twice as long as its year.
❓ The coldest place in the universe is on Earth.
❓ There’s a pink lake in Australia.
❓ The human brain is the fattiest organ in the body.
❓ The first recorded selfie was taken in the 2000s.
❓ The world’s largest desert is the Sahara.
❓ Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.
❓ It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
❓ A single teaspoon of honey represents the life’s work of 12 bees.
❓ There is a species of lizard that can shoot blood from its eyes.
❓ A day on Jupiter is shorter than a day on Earth.
❓ A group of flamingos is called a "parliment.”
❓ If you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach the Moon.
❓ The human body glows in the dark.
❓ The inventor of Coca-Cola originally intended it to be a medicine.
❓ There was a war fought over a bucket.
❓ The moon is slowly moving closer to Earth.
❓ It is widely believed that slaves built the Pyramids of Giza.
❓ The average cloud weighs over a million pounds.
❓ Sharks are the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
❓ You can hear a blue whale’s heartbeat from over two miles away.
❓ The Great Fire of London ended because it rained.
❓ The inventor of the guillotine was executed by his own device.
❓ There has only ever been 6 checkmates in the history of the Chess World Championships, going back to 1886.
❓ Neptune is the only planet that spins clockwise
❓ It is illegal to own just one Guinea Pig in Switzerland
❓ Of the original 49, the #13 is the least drawn number in the UK Lotto
❓ The record for surviving a fall from a plane without a parachute is over 30,000 feet.
❓ The inventor of the Rubik’s Cube took over a month to solve his own puzzle.
❓ There was once a medieval law that banned people from dying inside the Houses of Parliament in London.
❓ If you touch a baby bird, its mother will reject it.
❓ The human body completely replaces all its cells every seven years.
❓ Some turtles can breathe through their butts.
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