Excerpt from Blades of Eternity

At times, I find it unsatisfying that I will die leaving no mark on this world. If only for a brief period, I wish to know that I was part of something bigger than Mitsuki Takase.

Fun Facts

This page is devoted to providing you with random, but interesting, facts ranging from a variety of topics. Use the navigation below to skip to a certain category.

Animals & Plants

  • There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.
  • Slugs have four noses.
  • Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as any other colour.
  • Tigers have striped skin AND striped fur.
  • Starfish have multiple eyes; one at the end of each leg.
  • An octopus has 3 hearts.
  • Polar bear hair is not white. It's transparent and hollow.
  • Gorillas stick out their tongues when they're angry.
  • The average caterpillar has approximately 2000 muscles in its body. The average human has less than 700.
  • Besides humans and other primates, koalas are the only animals that have fingerprints.
  • Humans are the only animals that cry tears.
  • The gorilla's scientific name is "Gorilla gorilla gorilla".
  • The camel's backbone is as straight as the backbone of a horse.

Astronomy & Weather

  • A day on Venus is equal to 243 Earth days.
  • Only 48% of the Sun's energy actually reaches the earth.
  • Most raindrops are round or doughnut shaped and not "raindrop shaped".

Food

  • Approximately 75 acres of pizza are consumed daily in the US.
  • Peanuts are one of the ingredients used to make dynamite.
  • Grapes explode in the microwave.
  • Honey never goes bad.

Health Science

  • A person who lives to age 75 will have slept about 220 000 hours or about 23 years.
  • It's supposedly impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  • The calories it takes to eat a piece of celery is more than the inital amount of calories in the celery.
  • The thigh bones of a healthy full grown adult are stronger than concrete.

History

  • The house where Thomas Jefferson wrote most of the Declaration of Independence was torn down and replaced with a hamburger stand.
  • Only one person survived the battle of the Alamo.
  • Louis XIV bathed once a year.
  • The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years.

Literature & Language

  • The phrase "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses all 26 letters of the alphabet.
  • The word "set" has the highest number of separate definitions in the English language: 192.
  • Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book, If I Ran the Zoo.
  • Charles Dickens always slept facing north because he thought it improved his writing.
  • The word "noon" orignally meant 3 PM.
  • The nine most used words in the English language are: and, be, it, have, I, of, the, will, you.

Miscellaneous

  • A piece of paper can only be folded in half up to 7 times.
  • It takes seven standard shuffles to thoroughly mix a 52-card deck.
  • There are 364 gifts in "The Twelve Days of Christmas".

Sports

  • "Tug of war" was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
  • The average lifespan of a MLB baseball is 5 pitches.

Technology

  • The longest word that can be typed on the keyboard, using only the left hand, is "stewardess".

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