- A flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. That is the equivalent of a human jumping the Empire State Building.
- There are 5 temples in Kyoto, Japan that have blood stained ceilings. The ceilings are made from the floorboards of a castle where warriors killed themselves after a long hold-off against an army. To this day, you can still see the outlines and footprints.
- There is a snake, called the boomslang, whose venom causes you to bleed out from every orifice on your body. You may even turn blue from internal bleeding, and it can take up to 5 days to die from the bleeding.
- A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
- Saturn’s density is low enough that the planet would float in water.
- 68% of the universe is dark energy, and 27% is dark matter; both are invisible, even with our powerful telescopes. This means we have only seen 5% of the universe from earth.
- The founders of Google were willing to sell Google for $1 million to Excite in 1999, but Excite turned them down. Google is now worth $527 Billion.
- In the past 20 years, scientists have found over 1,000 planets outside of our solar system.
- There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
- If a pregnant woman has organ damage, the baby in her womb sends stem cells to help repair the organ.
Pigs executed for murder? The speed of a sneeze? Certainly, there were facts in this list that made you laugh, and there were probably more than a few that you didn't already know. The world is a weird place, after all! Do you have any weird facts you'd like to share with us – if so, please comment below. And, be sure to check out our other posts for more information to enrich your daily life, or simply for an entertaining distraction from your busy workday.
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