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

The first thing Mickey Mouse ever said was "hot dogs!".

Ants know the length of their legs and use it to calculate the number of steps they need to take to get to what they see in the distance. We know because people put little stilts on their legs and they would overshoot where they were trying to go.

Grape Nuts cereal contains neither grapes nor nuts.

A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.

There is enough iron in the body to make a 4cm nail.

The first and last photos of the Beatles together - John, Paul, George and Ringo - were taken seven years apart, *to the day.* All of that in exactly seven years.

Aibohphobia is the fear of palindromes.

And we all know what a palindrome is, right?

The Siberians that crossed the Bering Strait land bridge that would go on to colonise north and south America was a group of only about ~50 people.

Actress Catherine Hickland divorced her husband David Hasselhoff (then best known for his role of Michael Knight in Knight Rider) for a soap opera actor named Michael Knight.

While we have extensive records of the origins of thousands and thousands of words from the everyday to the extremely obscure, no one knows where the word "dog" comes from. It just appeared in the written record in Middle English and eventually replaced "hound" as the common term. Weirdly, this is nearly identical to what happened with the Spanish word for dog, "perro", which replaced the Latin-derived "can" in a similarly mysterious fashion.

The color Orange is named after the fruit.

And the color Pink is named after a flower.

70% of Norway is uninhabitable.

Because of the difference in gravity and the speed that GPS satellites travel at, time runs slower for them than on earth. We use time that signals travel from the satelite to you, to calculate where you are on earth, so you have to take the different speed of time into account.

So your phone does math to compensate for time travel.

The stem of wine glasses are meant to keep the wine away from your hands, so as to avoid your body heat warming up the wine.

- All our gas/ice giant planets have rings.

- Pluto is a binary planet system with Charon. The systems center of gravity (barycenter) is between them.

- Our closest star Proxima Centauri is actually three stars orbiting each other.

- platypus are mammals that lay eggs and have venom.

Edit: guys I’m clearly talking about the solar system of which we are a part of - talking about the giants and Pluto. Our closest star (to our solar system which I’m calling “our” as we belong to it) is Proxima Centauri.

All of Los Angeles will be subducted deep under Anchorage in just 50 million years.

Originally the past tense of "go" was "goed", and the past tense of "wend" was "went". Somehow, "goed" was replaced by "went", and the past tense of "wend" is now "wended".

That both the westernmost and easternmost points in the United States are in Alaska.

Any fact about corn snakes. If anyone asks about my pet snake they get a lot of facts for funzies.

I esp. love to tell people snakes indeed do have inner ears and while they dont hear the same as humans they hear muffled sounds and feel the voice and sound if strong enough. They mostly feel the shaking of the ground, but many people believe snakes are completely deaf so you can yell and blast music near them.

According to Billboard: Creedence Clearwater Revival has the most top 20 hits without ever reaching #1.

The word hello is less than 200 years old.