Interesting Random Facts

Psychology

1. If you look into a stranger’s eyes, you can actually fall in love.
2. The happier you are, the less sleep you require in everyday life. Because sadness increases the urge to sleep more.
3. When crying from happiness the first tear will come from the right eye but if you are crying from sadness it will fall from the left.
4. The very last person on your mind before you fall asleep is either the reason for your happiness or your pain.

Zoology

1. The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
2. A snail can sleep for three years.
3. Around 50% of the orangutans have fractured bones, due to falling out of trees on a regular basis.

Botany

1. Strawberry is the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside.
2. The largest flower in the world is titan arums, even bigger than an elephant.
3. Apple, onion and potatoes have same taste, if you taste them without smelling.

Language

1. A cluster of bananas is called hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas which are known as fingers.
2. Earth is the only planet not named after a god. While other seven planets in our solar system are all named after Roman gods or goddesses.
3. Around 50% of the English words come from French.
4. Only 5% of the Portuguese speakers live in Portugal, the majority live in Brazil.

History

1. Official, the longest war in history was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Silly, which lasted from 1651 to 1986.
2. The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record lasting an exhausting 38 minutes.
3. John F. Kennedy, Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis all died on the same day.

Cosmology

1. The Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System.
2. The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System.
3. The moon is drifting away from the Earth approximately 3.8 cm every year.
4. It takes eight minutes for light reach Earth from the sun.

Oneirology

1. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are man while a woman’s dream contain almost an equal number of men and women.
2. Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
3. In your dreams you only see faces that you already know.

Geography

1. Antarctica is the only continent without native species of ants.
2. Continents shift at about the same rate as your fingernails grow.
3. 90% of the Earth’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
4. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.

Anthropology

1. The tips of human fingers have enough strength to support the weight of your whole body.
2. Human bones are 4 times stronger than concrete.
3. When in love, the brain releases the same cocktail of neurotransmitters and hormones that are released by amphetamines, leading to increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep and intense feelings of excitement.
4. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles.