100 Interesting Facts: Part 1

A mix between a Chihuahua and a dachshund is called a “chiweenie.”

There are no seagulls in Hawaii.

Even though dragonflies have six legs, they cannot walk.

Gummy bears were originally called “dancing bears.”

Sea otters have the thickest fur of any mammal, at 1 million hairs per square inch.

The bird on the Twitter logo is named “Larry.” He was named after the basketball player Larry Bird, who played for the Boston Celtics.

The term “coccyx” (also known as your tailbone) is derived from the Greek word “cuckoo” (“kokkux”) because the curved shape of the tailbone resembles the bird’s beak.

A baby has around 30,000 taste buds. They are not just on the tongue but also on the sides, back, and roof of the mouth. Adults have about 10,000.

In one survey, three out of four people admitted to sharing an ice cream cone with their pet.

When humans take a breath, they replace only 15% of the air in their lungs with fresh air. When dolphins take a breath, they replace 90% of the air in their lungs with fresh air.

Feral pigs ate and completely destroyed $22,000 worth of cocaine that had been hidden in an Italian forest.

Pablo Picaso would often carry around a pistol loaded with blanks. He would fire it at people he found boring or anyone who insulted the painter, Paul Cézanne.

Monarch caterpillars breathe through holes in the sides of their bodies.

Male lobster’s bladders are in their heads, and when they fight, they squirt each other in the face with urine.

The word “oysterhood” means “reclusiveness” or “an overwhelming desire to stay at home.

Ancient pagan cultures, such as the Celts, believed that benevolent and helpful spirits lived in trees. Knocking on tree trunks roused a spirit for protection, which led to the saying “knock on wood.

Laughter synchronizes the brains of both speaker and listener so that they become emotionally attuned.

Isaac Newton believed he was potentially part of a line of great men to receive great and ancient wisdom. He even created a special name for himself “Jehovah Sanctus Unus,” or “to Jehovah, the Holy One.”

Hugging your cat has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, especially for people who are dealing with illness, depression, PTSD, and other ailments.

A group of monkeys in Delhi, India reportedly attacked a laboratory assistant and escaped with several coronavirus blood samples. The monkeys were later spotted in a tree chewing one of the sample collection kits.

Bart Simpson’s name is an anagram of BRAT. His full name is Bartholomew Jojo Simpson.

An oak tree produces about 10 million acorns during its lifetime.

There’s enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York City.

The Muppet vampire, Count von Count from Sesame Street, is based on actual vampire myth. One way to supposedly deter a vampire is to throw seeds outside a door. Vampires are compelled to count the seeds, delaying them until morning.

The “O” before an Irish name, such as “O’Reilly,” means “descendant of.”

Gossip and complaining make up approximately 80% of most people’s conversations.

Developing a larger vocabulary may help protect you against depression. It allows you to precisely label–and confront–subtle emotions.

Riding or sitting on a sea turtle in the United States is a 3rd degree felony.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. By age 70, humans lose an average of 105 pounds of skin.

Listening to your favorite music for just 15 minutes a day lowers stress levels, anxiety, sadness, and a depressed mood.

To make one pound of honey, honey bees must gather nectar from nearly 2 million flowers.

Bluetooth” technology is named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. Bluetooth united the tribes of Denmark, just like the wireless technology united cell phones and computers.

A duel between three people is called a “truel.”

There is a Statue of Liberty in Paris that faces the Statue of Liberty in America, showing friendship between the two countries.

Research shows that people who laugh at dark jokes have higher IQs and report less aggressive tendencies.

Termite queens live longer than any other insect. Some scientists estimate that they can live as long as 100 years.

Ancient Romans left graffiti on Egyptian pyramids that says, “I didn’t like anything but the sarcophagus,” and “I can’t read the hieroglyphs.”

The kererū (New Zealand Wood Pigeon) is well-known for getting drunk off fermented fruit and falling out of trees.  Consequently, it has earned the reputation for being “clumsy, drunk, gluttonous, and glamorous.”

Sweden has a rabbit show jumping competition called Kaninhoppning. The world record for the highest rabbit jump is 42 inches (106 cm).

A female chicken will mate with many different males. If she decides later that she doesn’t want a particular rooster’s offspring, she can eject his sperm. This happens most often when the male is lower in the pecking order.

Scientists believe that early human ancestors used to have three eyelids. One of the eyelids eventually became the small fold in the corner of human eyes today.

The space between the eyebrows is called the “glabella,” which is derived from the Latin word “glabellus,” meaning “smooth.”

The seagulls in the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds” (1963) were fed a mixture of wheat and whisky so they would stand around and not fly too much.

A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter in the language. For example, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Isaac Newton was a member of the British parliament for one year. He spoke only once, and that was to tell someone to please close the window.

The word “porcupine” means “spiny pig” in French.

In the 2004 movie “Mean Girls,” the “nice girl,” Cady, is named after Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a 19th-century pioneer in the American women’s rights movement.

In 1962, a laughter epidemic broke out in Tanzania. The outbreak began in a girls’ school and spread to other communities, ultimately affecting 1,000 people and causing the temporary closure of 14 schools.

Gelotophobia is the fear of laughter. Those who suffer from gelotophobia respond to all laughter as if it is at their expense. Up to 13% of the population could be afraid of laughter.

The Wizard of Oz’s Full Name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. In the book, he explains that he called “myself O.Z., because the other initials were P-I-N-H-E-A-D.”

Source: Factretriever.com