26 Facts You Probably Didn't Know...No. 7 and 21 Are So Cool!
By
Samantha in
Facts
On 5th December 2015
The information that's about to follow really needs no introduction, because all I have to say is "random facts" and you're hooked. Everybody loves random facts because they can be fascinating, flooring, funny, frightening, etcetera, etcetera.
So after that unnecessary intro, take a look at these 26 random facts that will have you sounding like the smartest person at the party.
#1 The act of snapping your fingers has a term and it's a "fillip."
#2 Fully stretching your arms and torso plus yawning also has a term, "pandiculation."
#3 In Finland, when someone achieves their PhD, they're given a top hat and sword.
#4 In her lifetime, a cow will give nearly 200,000 glasses of milk.
#5 Stephen Hillenburg, who created the the cartoon "SpongeBob SquarePants," is a marine biologist.
#6 A "nibling" is the the gender-neutral word for niece or nephew.
#7 Only 11% of the world is left-handed.
#8 Betty White was born six years before sliced bread.
#9 "J" is the only letter of the alphabet not used in the Periodic Table of the Elements.
#10 Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
#11 Disney World is the size of San Francisco or two Manhattans.
#12 Every year, there are about 850 million visits to American museums.
#13 State Farm Insurance's jingle, "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there," was written by Barry Manilow.
#14 And so was "I am stuck on Band-Aids, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me."
#15 Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau once dated Kim Cattrall a.k.a. Samantha from Sex and the City.
#16 Seven Yankee Stadiums could fit inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN.
#17 The King James Bible has inspired the lyrics to more pop songs than any other book.
#18 Google Earth's database is over 20 petabytes, which is about 20 million gigabytes.
#19 In Siena, Italy, it's illegal to be a prostitute if your name is Mary.
#20 Canned food was invented 48 years before the can opener.
#21 Some scientists believe that shaking the head to mean "no" is derived from newborns turning their heads away from food when they are full.
#22 After Leonardo da Vinci's death, King Francis I of France hung the Mona Lisa in his bathroom.
#23 There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
#24 Regardless of that fact that there's a population over 1 billion, China only has about 200 different family names.
#25 It was all the way back in the 1860s that "Conversation Hearts" were created.
#26 Quentin Tarantino once played an Elvis impersonator on the TV show Golden Girls.
