33 Interesting Facts you Probably Didn’t know

  • The entire world population could live in Los Angeles.

 

  • The Canary Islands are named after dogs. “Islas Canarias” means island of dogs.

 

  • Four babies are born every second in the world.

 

  • The lowest temperature ever measured in the world is -97.7 ° C in Antarctica during the survey between 2004 and 2016.

 

  • Your toilet is seven times cleaner than your phone

 

  • The human heart produces so much energy in one day that it could power a truck to travel more than 30 kilometers.

 

  • “OK” comes from the misspelling of the phrase “all correct”

 

  • To distinguish a real from a fake diamond, it is enough to blow on it. The fake will blur, and the real will remain shiny.

 

  • Cockroaches can live for several weeks without a head. Then they starve to death.

 

  • Sea cucumbers breathe through the buttocks.

 

  • Snails have thousands of microscopic teeth.

 

  • Human skin during its 70-year lifespan sheds so many dead cells that it could make a whole 47-pound [47 kg] human.

 

  • The brain is most active when we sleep. People with higher IQs dream more, and it has also been proven that people who sleep less during the day have more energy and function better at work.

 

  • Human during his life produces a quantity of saliva that could fill two whole pools.

 

  • All the pandas in the world come from China.

 

  • The Bombay phenotype is a phenomenon where certain elements of the blood are missing. The result is a person with several blood types. Only 0.0004% of the population has such blood. There is even a special storage for this blood so that members of the group can receive a transfusion immediately if they need it. Interestingly, this unique blood type can be used by any person with any of the other blood types.

 

  • Facebook has more users than the United States, China and Brazil have.

 

  • Tokyo is the largest city in the world, with 37 million inhabitants.

 

  • If the human eye were a camera, its resolution would be 576 megapixels. By comparison, the Mamiya DSLR currently has 80 megapixels and costs $ 34,000.

 

  • On average, two people die every second in the world.

 

  • If during pregnancy the mother injures any of the internal organs, the baby sends stem cells from the womb for “regeneration”.

 

  • Taste receptors are found not only on the tongue but also in the stomach, intestines, pancreas, lungs, anus, testicles, and brain.

 

  • In addition to the five commonly known senses, man has an additional sense called proprioception. It is a combination of the brain’s awareness of muscle movements with a sense of location, shape and size of body parts. Thanks to this sense we can touch every part of our body without seeing.

 

  • The blue bird in the Twitter logo has a name – Larry. The creators of the social network named the bird after basketball player Larry Byrd.

 

  • A paper cut hurts much more than a regular one because it does not bleed, so the nerve endings remain exposed to the air. The air irritates them and causes pain.

 

  • The human brain is able to perform tasks even during the REM phase of sleep, for example listening to and learning a new song.

 

  • When you have a headache, your brain does not hurt. This organ has no pain receptors and therefore does not feel it.

 

  • There are 4 quadrillion bacteria on planet Earth.

 

  • People with blue eyes see better in the dark.

 

  • Every year more money is printed in the world for the game Monopoly, than real banknotes.

 

  • It is impossible to find out how your dreams start.

 

  • If all the ants in the world are collected, they will be as heavy as all the people in the world.

 

  • If Bill Gates starts spending $ 1 million a day, it will take him 218 years to spend all the money.