1. The moon is
very hot (224 degrees Fahrenheit, average) during the day but very cold (-243degrees average) at night.
2. Venus spins clockwise. It’s
the only planet that does!
3. One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh six billion tons.
4. Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly in space, on June 18, 1983.
5. One million Earths could fit inside the sun!
6. Even in an airplane, a trip to Pluto would take about 800
years.
7. Ham the Astrochemp was the first hominid in space, launched
on Jan. 31, 1961.
8. Neptune’s days are 16 hours
long.
9. It takes eight minutes
and 19 seconds for light to travel from the sun to Earth.
10. The footprints on the moon will be there for 100 million
years.
11. A neutron star can spin 600 times in one second.
12. Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in the solar system
(it only takes about 10 hours to complete a full rotation on its axis).
13. Sound does not carry in space.
14. The Earth's core is as hot as the surface of the sun.
15. The very first animals in space were fruit flies...they were
sent up in 1947 and recovered alive.
16. In 2011, ten-year-old Kathryn Aurora Gray discovered a
supernova (a star that has run out of energy, explodes, and then collapses
before it dies) that no one else had seen before.
17. Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, has saltwater geysers that
are 20x taller than Mt. Everest.
18. Saturn's rings are made from trillions of chunks of orbiting
ice.
19. Alpha Centauri isn't a star, but a star system. It is 4.22
light-years away.
20. One day on Venus is almost 8 months on Earth.
21. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm that has been raging for
over 200 years.
22. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sands on
Earth.
1. Many
people believe that early mermaid sightings can
be attributed to dehydration + manatees.
2. Sloths cannot shiver to stay warm, and so have difficulty
maintaining their body temperature on rainy days.
3. In the wild, some reindeer travel more than 3000 miles in a single year.
4. Only half of the dolphin’s brain goes to sleep when asleep and the other half stays
awake.
5. Other than humans, emperor penguins are the only warm-blooded
animal to stay in Antarctica for the winter.
6. The biggest fossil of a spider was found in China. It is
one-inch long and 165 million years old.
7. The largest living animal is the blue whale, which can
measure as much as 100 feet.
8. Nearly 10% of all of a cat's bones are in its tail.
9. In the wintertime reindeer grow their facial hair long
enough to cover their mouths, which protects their muzzles when grazing in the
snow. Beard-os!
10. Dolphins have been seen wrapping sea sponges around their
long snouts to protect them from cuts while foraging for food.
11. Shrimp's hearts are in their heads.
12. While pandas sometimes eat fish or small animals, 99% of
their diet is bamboo.
13. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
14. A fox uses its tail to communicate with other foxes.
15. Dogs have wet noses because they secrete a thin layer of
mucus, which actually helps dogs smell!
16. The female hummingbird builds the world's smallest bird's
nest (approximately 1.5 inches in diameter, around the size of a walnut!). She
weaves it from spiderwebs which allows it to expand as the chicks grow.
17. The largest land animal in Antarctica is an insect: the
Columbia (which looks like an earwig). Penguins are considered marine
animals.
18. There are 222 owl species in the world. Most are nocturnal,
but a few are active during the daytime, such as the Barred Owl.
19. Sloths are strong swimmers, especially good at the
backstroke.
20. Sharks do not hunt humans or consider humans food. Sharks
incidents occur when sharks are hunting for seals, dolphins, or other
"human-sized" prey. It's a case of mistaken identity!
21. Koala's fingerprints are so similar to human fingerprints
that they could taint a crime scene.
1. The nose can detect a trillion smells!
2. One-quarter of your bones are in your feet.
3. Human teeth are as strong as shark teeth!
4. Your blood is as salty as the ocean.
5. Not only does everyone have unique fingerprints, but humans
also have unique tongue-prints!
6. The average brain weighs about three pounds. A newborn brain
weighs about 3/4 of a pound.
7. Your nose and ears never stop growing.
8. A human body contains almost 100 trillion cells.
9. Fingernails can grow 4x faster than toenails.
10. Eyelashes live for about 150 days before falling out.
11. Humans are the only animals with chins.
12. You can't breathe and swallow at the same time.
1. Coca-Cola actually sells soup in a
can. The bistro is a nourishing meal on the go, available in two flavors in
Japan.
2. The biggest pizza ever created was 13,580 square feet, made
in Rome, Italy, in 2012. The pizza was gluten-free
and named “Ottavia” after a roman emperor.
3. The tallest building in the world is the Burg Khalifa in
Dubai, standing at over 2,700 feet.
4. The tallest building in the US is One World Trade Center in
New York, which comes in at number six on the worldwide list. It stands at
exactly 1,776 feet as a nod to the date of the Declaration of Independence.
5. It takes 570 gallons to paint the exterior of the
White House.
6. The teddy bear is named after President Theodore Roosevelt.
After he refused to shoot a captured black bear on a hunt, a stuffed animal maker decided to create a beer and name it after the president.
7. Lincoln Logs were created by John Lloyd Wright, son of
famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in the 1920s. They were named after
Abraham Lincoln, who grew up in a log cabin.
8. Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head
of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modeling clay for children and rebranded it.
9. In the 1940s, a retired schoolteacher came up with Candyland
to entertain children who were hospitalized from polio. Because its color
system required no reading, young kids could easily play.
10. Although
no longer connected to the beer company, Guinness World Records was founded by
the managing director of Guinness Brewery in the 1950s.
11. Michelin
stars are highly coveted by elite and upscale restaurants the world over—but they'retthey'rethey’sthey’sthey’sthey’smodeling play they're they'rethey’re actually given out by the Michelin tire company, the same one whose
mascot is the marshmallow-like Michelin Man. If you want to get fancy,
pronounce it in the original French, “mich-LEH.”
12. More
people visit France than any other country (Spain is second; the US is third).
13. You
can still stay at the world’s oldest hotel, Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan,
which was founded in 705 AD.
14. The
longest place name in the world, at 85 letters, is
“Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu,”
New Zealand. Locals just call it Taumata Hill.
15. The
coldest temperature ever recorded occurred in Antarctica, -144 Fahrenheit, as
reported by researchers in a scientific
journal in 2018.
16. The
hottest temperature ever recorded occurred in Furnace Creek, Death Valley,
California, at 134 degrees Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.
17. Japan
records the most earthquakes of any country in the world, but the most
earthquakes actually occur in Indonesia.
18. Each
year 16 million thunderstorms happen around the world, and at any given moment,
there are about 2,000 thunderstorms in progress.
1.
The
fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
2. Recent droughts in Europe
were the worst in 2,100 years.
3. The best place in the
world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.
4. There are fossilized
plants in Greenland under 1.4 km of ice.
5. New creatures have been
found in deep-sea volcanoes.
6. Mount Everest is bigger
now than the last time it was measured.
7. Climate change is causing flowers to change color.
8. Dentistry is the oldest
profession in the world.
9. The entire world's
population could fit inside Los Angeles.
10. There are more twins now
than ever before.
11. The hottest chili pepper in the world is so hot it could kill you.
12. More people visit France
than any other country.
13. The world's most densely
populated island is the size of two soccer field
T 14. here's only one country in
the world that doesn't use the metric system.
15. The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long.
16. Four babies are born every
second
17. The coldest temperature
ever recorded was -144 degrees Fahrenheit.
18. The Earth's ozone layer
will make a full recovery in 50 years.
19. Japan is the world's most earthquake-prone country.
20. Muhammad is thought to be
the most popular name in the world.
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