Being on top of your general knowledge game can never hurt, who knows when these random yet interesting facts may come in handy. Increasing your general knowledge also affects your intelligence and may just help you win that next trivia game. These facts may be random, they may be useful, but even we didn’t know some of them so her they are. A few general knowledge facts that may help you in life, or may just make you sound really smart for knowing them.
Fun General Knowledge Facts
- The only animals that cannot jump are elephants
- You all have a unique tongue print, just as we all have individual fingerprints
- Honey is the only food that never goes off
- You can’t die from holding your own breath
- The longest word you can make by using only one line on the keyboard is: TYPEWRITER
- When you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond
- Mohammed is the most common name across the globe
- The longest muscle in the whole of your body is your tongue
- The blood of a lobster is blue, insects have yellow blood and mammals is red
- Antarctica is the only continent that does not grow corn
- The only birds that do not have the ability to walk are the hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the greb
- The fastest human sense is the ability to hear, humans can sense sound in just 0.095 seconds
- Earth is the only planet that is not named after a god
- The thigh bones of humans are stronger than concrete
- Geckoes have millions of small hairs on their feet which is how they stick to surfaces, these hairs let them hang with just one toe
- The word “Astronaut” is rooted in the Greek words that mean “sailor” and “star”
- Nile crocodiles can hold their breath for two hours as they simply wait to hunt
- Jellyfish have no brain, no heart, and no bones
- Scientists believe the best nap time is between 1 pm and 2:30 pm this is due to a lowering in our body temperature which makes us tired
- In the dinosaur age, a day was 23 hours and not 24, this is due to earth’s rotation speed changing over time
- Seahorses move their eyes in opposite directions, allows them to thoroughly scan the water
- The largest wave ever surfed stood at the length of a 10 story building
- Humans lose between 50 to 100 hairs every day
- The smallest fruit is called a utricle and is the same size as an ant
- It takes Komodo Dragons less than a minute to eat 5 pounds of meat, and they keep any extra fat in their tails
- Clouds always cover roughly 60% of Earth
- Apes always laugh when being tickled
- Human hair has traces of gold
- They have found opal on Mars
- One gallon of ice cream requires a gallon and a half of milk
- The most unhygienic and germ-found item in any home, hospital or hotel room is the TV remote
- North Korea and Cuba are the only places were Coca-Cola is not sold