The average speed of Heinz Ketchup squirt is .028 MPH.

The most overdue library book was returned 288 years late.

Wombats stack their cube-shaped poops as a form of communication.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/wombats https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/29/australia/wombat-poop-cubes-intl-scli-scn/index.html

The first couple to be shown on a sitcom sleeping in the same bed was "Mary Kay and Johnny.".

The last words of Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, were actually: "I wish I'd spent more time in the office.".

The Incas' measurement of time was based on how long it took to boil a potato.

When Queen Elizabeth I of England died she owned over 3,000 gowns.

People who study laughter are called "gelotologists.".

In 1994, 7-Eleven coined the term "brain freeze." The word was developed to explain the feeling people get when drinking a Slurpee.

The human heart pumps about 7,500 liters of blood per day, which is about the same as 2 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

There is a French company that you can hire to kidnap you. They charge US$1600.

The American secret service tried to spike Hitler's food with female hormones to feminize him.

The "Chinese Spy Balloon" was a weather balloon the whole time.

The timeline is like this.

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.

You don't have to pay any taxes, if you declare yourself as being a honeybadger.

Bitcoin has been used to fund some unusual projects. For example, one group of Bitcoiners used their funds to buy a decommissioned nuclear missile silo in Kansas. They converted the silo into a data center for mining Bitcoin.

In 2010, a bug led to the accidental creation of 184 billion BTC, known as the value overflow incident. This happened at block height 74638. However, Satoshi or another developer fixed the error within 5 hours of its occurrence by releasing a patched Bitcoin client (version 0.3.10) which ignored the excess coins. As a majority of miners and nodes accepted this new client, the error was "forked out" and erased from the blockchain.

Your nipples are older than your teeth.

The United States celebrates the National Metric Week (October 8 to 14, 2023) every day. Ironically, it is one of the rare countries which do not use the metric system

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

It depends on your definition of 'sound'. "Yes" if sound is physical waves of molecules vibrating. "No" if sound is the conscious perception of those waves.

Objects only have color because there is light and we can see 😂

The Bitcoiners know that the shitcoiners don't know that the Bitcoiners know what they are doing.

The 8 billion humans on earth are collectively experiencing ~254 years of reality every single second.

Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels.

Time zones were created because there were problems with the railways in Great Britain. In 1884, the International Conference on the Prime Meridian was held in Washington, D.C., United States. Fleming's theory was eventually accepted. The 0° longitude would pass through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. In the past, travelers had to adjust their watches every time they arrived in a new city. Time was set by the sun: noon represented the highest point the star reached.

In Greek mythology, it was believed that redheads turn into vampires when they die.

Fun fact: there are many SN users posting to this fun fact contest, that never post anything else on SN... grifters.

On 22nd November 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made a transaction of 10,000 BTC for 2 pizzas. That still remains a historical dinner. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0

The more features your phone has, the longer you spend in the toilet.

1 In 4 Americans thinks the Sun goes around the Earth.

In Texas, it is legal to kill BigFoot if you ever find it.

There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second (7 mph).

Cloudflare uses a wall of 100 lava lamps and a camera that takes a picture of them at specific time intervals to generate the seed that goes into the random number generator.

Elephants are the only animals with four knees

The word "Yo" was first used in the 15th century.

The word "Gaga" in Filipino refers to a stupid and idiotic girl.

Nikola Tesla once "shaked the poop out" of a constipated Mark Twain with an experiment.

Mariah Carey's legs are insured for US$1 billion.

The average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7.

The American secret service tried to spike Hitler's food with female hormones to feminize him.

The American secret service tried to spike Hitler's food with female hormones to feminize him.

People who have eaten beetles say that it tastes like apples.

Wal-Mart has a lower acceptance rate (2.6%) than Harvard University (8.9%).

Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.

A man wore 70 pieces of clothing to avoid Baggage Charges at the airport.

The more features your phone has, the longer you spend in the toilet.

The CIA reads up to 5 million tweets a day.

The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.

The band Blink-182 incorporated under the name "Poo Poo Butt, LLC." because of how funny it would be to have their accountants, managers and attorneys having to say that over the phone every day.

Shakira was rejected from the school choir because the teacher thought she sounded like a goat.

A physicist made his cat the co-author of his scientific paper to avoid replacing "we" with "I" throughout his paper.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Animals, including pigs, horses, and even insects, could be tried and convicted of crimes for several centuries across many parts of Europe.

A group of owls is called a Parliament.

The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered "fool's gold" because it looks very similar to gold.

Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas.

In the dark you see in black and white.

The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent 100 ways to cook an egg.

No one is getting out of this world alive.

I met real flat earther in real life. I thought they live only in the internet

In the 18th and the 19th centuries the competitive chess style was called Romantic Chess. Winning was not the only thing that mattered: the goal was not just to win, but to win in a dramatic style- with fast attacks, sacrifices, such that watching the game would have an emotional impact.

Vibes is short for vibrations ✌️

Couples who lived together before engagement have higher Divorce rates.

Russia and the US are less than 3 miles apart :-)

After the USSR successfully launched Sputnik 1 the USA tried to launch Vanguard 1A, it failed and recieved many names like Flopnik, Kaputnik, Oopsnik, Dudnick and Stayputnik

Bitcoin is a digital money and is held on thousands of computers around the world, but it is still possible to lose it.