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49 Weird Facts You Don’t Really Need To Know, But You’ll Be Glad You Do

Since it caught your attention, you might want to take a closer look.

There are facts in life we mustn’t know. The following are one of those.

However, there are many interesting facts that it might get your attention and even Google search some of them like: “Peanuts are an ingredient for dynamite”, what the hell?

The following 49 weird facts you don’t really need to know are going to waste your time, but you you’ll be glad they did!

49 Facts You Don’t Really Need To Know, But You’ll Be Glad You Do

1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
4. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing
5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
6. There are more chickens than people in the world
7. The longest one syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
8. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the parliament building is an American flag
9. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20
10. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple
11. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends with the letters “MT”
12. Almonds are a member of the peach family
13. There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous”: Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
14. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
15. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
16. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
17. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
18. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer
19. The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a wonderful life.”
20. A dragonfly has a life span of 1-6 months
21. A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds
22. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
23. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
24. In England, the speaker of the house is not allowed to speak
25. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
26. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
27. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
28. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
29. A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death
30. A polar bear skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear
31. Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; In honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
32. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants
33. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes
34. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only left hand
35. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
36. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
37. Women blink nearly twice as much as men
38. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do
39. The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language
40. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
41. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
42. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
43. A snail can sleep for 3 years
44. American airlines saved $40.000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
45. The electric chair was invented by a dentist
46. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and size of 108.7 acres
47. “I am.” Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
48. No president of the United States was an only child
49. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it

If you weren’t impressed by these facts, these confusions will leave you open-mouthed!

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