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❓ Steam is invisible.
❓ A golf course is traditionally 18 holes as there are 18 shots in a fifth of whisky - meaning each player (in a group of five) would take 18 shots to finish a bottle.
❓ Scrappy-Doo hasn't appeared in a new Scooby-Doo episode since 1988.
❓ The 10 biggest statues in the world are all of Buddha.
❓ The World's oldest unbroken alliance is between Britain and Portugal.
❓ When we’re born, the only innate fears we have are the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds.
❓ The Great Pyramid of Giza has 8 sides
❓ The British Pound is the world's oldest currency that is still in circulation.
❓ Batman and Predator appear in the same fictional universe.
❓ Olympus Mons, the solar systems biggest mountain, is 5x the size of Mount Evert.
❓ Craps is known as ‘the devil's game’
❓ Eating ice cream makes you cooler.
❓ Webster's dictionary had a word in it for 5 years that didn't exist.
❓ As of July 2025, electric cars now outsell petrol cars in the UK.
❓ Volvo sold their patent for the 3-point seatbelt to competitors for just £10k.
❓ Velociraptor means ‘speedy robber’ in Latin.
❓ Russian athletes showed up 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics as they were using the wrong calendar
❓ The motto on the UK's coat of arms is written in Latin.
❓ Domino's tried to set up a reindeer delivery service in Japan.
❓ The inventor of the modern suncream created it after getting sunburnt.
❓ Mcbroken .com is a website that tells you if a McDonald's store's ice cream machine is working or not.
❓ The origin of ice cream can be traced back to China.
❓ 2024's most streamed Spotify Artist was The Weekend.
❓ Three Presidents have died on Idependence Day.
❓ The highest voice range is mezzo-soprano.
❓ The wettest place on Earth is in Bangladesh.
❓ A baby octopus is about the size of a pea when it is born.
❓ Footprints left on the Moon won’t disappear as there is no wind.
❓ Mercury is the solar system's hottest planet.
❓ Nile crocodiles have been found in Florida.
❓ Bottled water has a ‘used by’ date.
❓ Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
❓ Peppers can cause first-degree burns in your mouth.
❓ England has more tornados per square mile than any other country in the world.
❓ Cricket chirp frequency can help you know the temperature.
❓ Temperature doesn't have an impact on a magnets strength and pull.
❓ St. Lucia is the only country in the world named after a women.
❓ In 2007, Scotland spent £125,000 devising a new national slogan. The winning entry was: “Welcome to Scotland.”
❓ Germany dropped counterfeit notes in London during WW2.
❓ Cupid is the Greek God of love.
❓ A cow-bison hybrid is called a “beefalo”
❓ A duel between three people is called a truel.
❓ Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen.
❓ The inventor of the lightbulb, Thomas Edison, was afraid of the dark.
❓ Dolphins have names for each other.
❓ Horse vomit is acidic.
❓ A Jiffy is a real measurement of time.
❓ Chastity belts were used as a form of punishment in medieval times.
❓ There is an island called “Just Enough Room,” where there’s just enough room for a tree and a house.
❓ Stephen Hawking threw a party for time travellers, nobody showed up.
❓ The entire human population of 2022 was as big as 7% of all humans that ever lived on Earth.
❓ Italian wedding soup gets its name because it is traditionally only eaten at weddings.
❓ The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball.
❓ Sharks are mammals.
❓ Broccoli contains more vitamin C than lemons.
❓ The US and Canada celebrate Thanksgiving on different days.
❓ Caesar salad comes from Italy.
❓ The animated version of Disney’s Aladdin was based on Tom Cruise for his looks.
❓ Alaska has over 100 active volcanoes.
❓ The animal that represents the Cancer zodiac sign is a Crab.
❓ Elvis's natural hair colour was blonde
❓ There are more legs mini figures in the world than there are people
❓ You lose most of your body heat through your head.
❓ Einstein failed 4th grade maths.
❓ The word napkin has origins that means it translates to ‘little tablecloth’
❓ Pterodactyls are not actually dinosaurs.
❓ Manchester United have won the most English FA cups.
❓ Movie trailers were originally shown after the movie, which is why they’re called “trailers.”
❓ The Canadian Navy only has 40 fleet units.
❓ Octopuses and squids have beaks.
❓ Mercury is the only planet in the solar system without a moon
❓ "Phantom Vibration Syndrome" is the name for when someone thinks their phone is vibrating, but it isn’t.
❓ Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 3.5 per cent.
❓ Your brain is constantly eating itself.
❓ Earth's rotation has been steady for the last 10k years.
❓ Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people.
❓ In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola.
❓ If a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear mate, their offspring is called a “Pizzly Bear.”
❓ Back when dinosaurs existed, there used to be volcanoes that were erupting on the moon.
❓ Canadians say “thank you” so much that a law was passed in 2009 limiting each person to no more than 12 uses per day.
❓ The earliest archaeological finds show that wine was invented in Georgia.
❓ 21% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
❓ Cherophobia is the irrational fear of fun or happiness.
❓ You get Goosebumps when you’re scared to make yourself look bigger.
❓ Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight.
❓ Sharks are the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
❓ Apples originate in China.
❓ The Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland that connects the Edinburgh Castle with the Palace of Holyroodhouse measures exactly one mile (~1.6km).
❓ The country with the most pyramids in the world is Sudan.
❓ The most populated city in Europe is Paris.
❓ A dentist invented candy floss.
❓ Dolphins sleep with both their eyes open.
❓ An octopus has 7 hearts
❓ Spaghetto is the singular form of spaghetti.
❓ Your sense of taste is heightened on airplanes.
❓ You can smell whilst you are in a deep sleep.
❓ The first Disney Princess to have a full-length movie was Cinderella.
❓ In 2025, the world population has surpassed 9 billion people.
❓ Mario was originally a carpenter, not a plumber.
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