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A wise man once said, “Learn something new every day.” We might not know a lot about the world yet compared to how much is out there, but we always discover new things about it. This huge selection of fun facts will definitely make you the most interesting person in the room – but #300 is pretty gross. Typing keyboards used to be arranged alphabetically. Have you ever wondered why keyboards aren’t arranged by the ABC’s compared to the QWERTY keys we know now? You’d be surprised to know the uniform QWERTY keys we use were chosen at random. Before PC’s and laptops, the typewriter was man’s first typing experience. The earliest typewriters had alphabetic keys, but people typed so fast that the mechanical arms got jammed and tangled up. To solve this, the keys were randomly positioned to slow down typing and prevent key jamming. Read also: Unique Ways to Market Your Business Antarctica is the only continent without any reptiles or snakes. Not only does the elusive continent of Antarctica lack McDonald’s joints – but it also doesn’t have any of our lizard friends. Why? Well – we all know that reptiles are cold-blooded – so they can’t produce their own heat . Meaning, they’d get turned into popsicles in the frosty Arctic. Tomato ketchup was used as medicine for 16 years. Whether you love it or hate it, this condiment once had a place in the world beyond hotdogs. However, you’d be surprised to know that ketchup only had tomatoes in it starting 1834. Before, ketchup was made with ...

Want to dominate your weekly trivia contest? Just looking to expand your knowledge with a variety of random facts? We’ve got you covered! This article contains 113 interesting facts about topics ranging from outer space to history to pop culture. By reading these facts, you’ll learn what camels actually store in their humps, why sunsets on Mars are blue, what crazy use ancient Romans had for human urine, and more. We’ve organized these facts into eight categories. Read all of them or just focus on the specific areas you want to learn more weird facts about! Fun Facts About Space • The sun makes up more than 99% of the mass in our solar system. • Lined up, all of the planets in the solar system could fit between the Earth and the moon. • The Great Wall of China is not actually visible from space. • One million Earths could fit inside the sun. • It rains diamonds on both Jupiter and Saturn. On these planets, lightning turns methane in the atmosphere into carbon, which hardens into bits of graphite and diamond as it falls to the ground. • Outer space is completely silent. • It takes about ten minutes for light to travel from the sun to the Earth. • The largest known volcano in the solar system is Olympus Mons, located on Mars. It’s roughly triple the height of Mt. Everest. • On Mars, sunsets appear blue due to the way light is captured in the atmosphere. • Because there is no atmosphere, wind, or water to erode them, astronaut footprints on the moon will likely remain there f...

Public Domain Check out these interesting human body facts. Ever wondered how many times a minute a baby blinks? Or why babies have more bones than adults? Or how big your brain is without all those wrinkles? Or how long your intestines would be if you stretched them out? Well, now you can find all of these things out from the comfort of your own home, while keeping all of your internal organs safely internal. Check out these weird human body facts, and impress all your friends with how much you know! 1. The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood

Let’s face it: we could all use a little more fun in our lives. It’s easy to get bogged down in the boring, the banal, the overly-familiar. Fun facts are like an instant antidote for the day-to-day doldrums. Nothing stokes your fire like curiosity! And that’s not all: research shows that learning new things provides a positive So if fun facts are what you’re looking for, you came to the right place. We’ve gone ahead and collected some of the most outrageous, most mind-blowing, and most fun facts we’ve ever learned, all in one handy-dandy list. Here they are… Random Facts That Almost Nobody Knows 1. The Tallest Mountain On Earth? The Nepalese mountain might get all the attention, but Mauna Kea in Hawaii is actually technically the tallest mountain in the world…if you measure from base to summit (rather than from the sea level. The only thing holding Mauna Kea back is that it’s mostly under water. 7. The Case Of The Curious Mummy Found in 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, “the Iceman”is the earliest natural human mummy ever found in Europe. Ötzi was alive from sometime between 3400 and 3100 BCE. The most surprising thing about him? He had tattoos! And not just a couple…researchers have identified a total of 61 different tattoos covering his body. That means he’s not only the oldest tattooed person ever found, but also (probably) one of the oldest ancestors to today’s Brooklyn hipsters. The tattoo ink itself was produced from ash or soot and is believed to have been used as a form of ...

More human twins are being born now than ever before. beeboys/Shutterstock Do you get the feeling that there are more twins around these days than there used to be? No? Well, you should, because according to Human Reproduction, the "twinning rate" has increased by one-third since the '80s—up from 9 to 12 twins per 1,000 deliveries. Currently that adds up to about 1.6 million twins born each year across the world—meaning one out of every 42 babies is a twin. Helping drive this is the increasing use of medically assisted reproduction, and the delay in childbearing (twinning has been found to increase with a mother's age). For more pieces of trivia to impress your friends, here are The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph. GreenCam1/Shutterstock According to Guinness World Records, the Walter Arnold of the English village of Paddock Wood, Kent. On Jan. 28, 1896, Arnold was spotted going four times the speed limit in his 19th-century Benz—but since the speed limit at the time was just two miles per hour, that meant he was not going too fast by today's standards. The constable had to chase him down on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s and earning Arnold the speedy distinction. For more trivia to impress, here are The severed head of a sea slug can grow a whole new body. Francesco_Ricciardi/Shutterstock It sounds like something out of a horror film, but it's all too real: The Elysia cf. marginata, a type of sea slug, has been found to not only survive dec...