79 Short And Sweet Facts That Might Get You Questioning Everything You Know

Dumpsters are called that because they were invented by the Dempster brothers, and “dumpster” is a genericized trademark like Kleenex or Aspirin.

The verb “escalate” was only coined after the invention of the escalator.

The longest recorded flight of a domestic chicken is 13 seconds.

The moon is farther away than you think.

You could take every single planet in our solar system, yes including Jupiter and Saturn, line them up end to end, and they would all fit in between earth and the moon in a big conga line with about 1000 miles of space left over.

There exists a planet named Gliese 436 b that is covered in burning ice. (Intense heat and atmospheric pressure leads to high temperatures but strong gravity does not let water change from its solid form.).

Uncopyrightables. The longest word in the English language with no repeating letters.

Jumping spiders are extremely intelligent and some scientists say they have roughly the equivalent intellect of a cat.

A huge part of the reason the American movie industry is centered on the west coast is because Thomas Edison was on the east coast. He owned most of the film technology patents and was quite litigious about it, so studios moved physically as far away from him as they could.

Coal power plants produce more radiation and toxic elements than nuclear power plants.

Australia is wider than the diameter of the Moon.

Birds practice their songs in private beforehand.

The time span between Stegosarus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex is approximately 80 million years.

The asteroid that wiped out the bulk of the dinosaurs was approximately 64 million years ago. Which means the T. Rex is closer to our timeline than that of the Stegosarus.

Figs are terminally pollinated by wasps. The wasps crawl inside the fig fruit, in the process losing their wings and maybe a limb or two, and take the pollen in. The wasp does not leave and is digested into the fig fruit that we eat.

Australia does in fact have active volcanoes. Granted they aren't on the mainland and are part of our Sub Antarctic islands. Heard and McDonald islands to be specific. I learnt it from a beer bottle cap.

The first-ever NBA game was in Canada.

Lake Baikal is so deep that it has a greater volume than all the Great Lakes combined while having about 20% the surface area.

Lego are the largest tyre manufacturers in the world.

The only word in the english langauge with. three sets of consecutive double letters is “bookkeeper”

the longest single syllable word in English is “Strenghts”
And Oppenheimer is now the highest grossing movie of all time that was never at the box office . before that it was Sing 2.

About 8% of All humans to ever exist ever are alive right now.

If one was to look at the chart of the most populated countries on earth, the two top players would obviously be China and India. The crazy thing is that if you take a billion people off each of the two country's population they will remain at the very same spots, 1 & 2. USA is 300 million, while both India and China are over 1,4 billion.