The average human processes 100,000 pounds of food in a lifetime. That is approximately 35 tons of food in a lifetime. Apart from food, the average person will also ingest about 100 milligrams of dirt every day.
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A child can ask over a hundred questions a day. Certain studies have found that the average 4-year-old will ask more than 400 questions a day. Meanwhile, a child will ask an average of 40,000 questions between the ages of 2-5.
Earthquakes can permanently shorten the length of the Earth’s day. If a strong enough Earthquake occurs, it can move the spin of the Earth’s axis. The 2011 Earthquake in Japan knocked 1.8 microseconds off our days according to researchers.
Your brain is active even if you are asleep. As an adult passes into deeper stages of sleep, brain waves begin to slow down and become bigger. As your sleep deepens, the brain activity moves into REM sleep. The muscles then relax and breathing is regulated to help the body recover from the long day.
A baby will laugh over 300 times a day. Babies typically start laughing between the age of 3-4 months. Laughing is a good way to lower blood pressure and boost the number of T-cells in your body.
An encrypted monument stands outside of the CIA headquarters in Virginia. This monument was created by artist Jim Sanborn and features four inscriptions. 3 of 4 of the inscriptions have been cracked already. However, no one seems to be able to crack the final code to this day.
Rabbits eat their faeces. After eating them, they will digest them again like normal food. Rabbits have two kinds of droppings, little black round ones and softer black ones known as cecotropes. The cecotrope droppings are the ones that they eat and they do this so they can re-absorb any undigested nutrients from their food. This process is normally done once a day.
A cat spends most of its life sleeping. A cat will spend an average of 15 hours a day sleeping. Some cats can sleep longer to a total of 20 hours a day. These felines do most of their sleeping during the day as they are generally active during the night.
Koalas sleep 18 hours a day. Koalas normally sleep for 18-22 hours a day. The reason for this is so that they have enough energy to digest the food that they eat properly.
You share your birthday with 19 million people. On average, a person will share a birthday with 19 million other people from a population of over 7 billion. If you were born on the least common day of the year, you would still share the same birthday as 18 million people.
Until it blows against something, the wind makes no sound. Ready for more did you know the facts? The sounds you hear during a windy day are due to the speed of the wind coming into contact with various objects at the same time. The process of friction can also cause sounds at higher pitches depending on the speed of the wind.
People laugh an average of 10 times a day. Laughter has many benefits such as being able to lower blood pressure and reduces stress hormones. It also triggers the release of endorphins and produces a general sense of well-being.
The banana contains 75% water. Bananas are rich in nutrients and are a good source of electrolytes. Ideally, a person should eat at least one banana a day.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th”. Friday the 13th may just be another day for you, but some cultures are very wary of this number for its supposed bad luck.
Disneyland serves 2.8 million churros a year. The churro was introduced to South America in the 1500s during the Spanish Inquisition. Around the same time, the Spanish brought cocoa to Europe, which they thickened with cane sugar to make hot chocolate. That probably explains why churros and hot chocolate are still a go-to pairing to this day.
8 million tons of garbage are added to the ocean per year. The average person makes about 2 kg of waste each day.
The Fender Guitar company makes 90,000 guitar strings a day. Fender may be one of the biggest music companies, but its founder, Leo Fender, did not know how to play any instruments.
6.5 trillion cigarettes are sold worldwide per year. With this number, that means 18 billion cigarettes are sold per day.
Almost 1.25 million people die in road accidents every year. That makes an average of 3,287 road crash deaths per day.
The Saturday before Christmas is the busiest shopping day of the year. Coincidentally (or not), this is also the day with the worst traffic of the whole year. Last-minute shoppers all rush in the spirit of capitalism. Turns out, it’s not the most wonderful time of the year.
Babies cry for 1 to 3 hours each day. Babies cry so much because they can’t talk yet. Hunger is usually the main reason why babies cry.
Carrots can turn you orange. If you eat three large carrots a day for several weeks, the increased beta-carotene in your blood could turn your skin orange.
Big Brother U.S. only showed news from the outside world for one day. One of the main gimmicks of Big Brother is that the contestants are not allowed to be a part of the outside world. Communication was barred from their loved ones and they weren’t allowed to keep up with current events. However, the producers of Big Brother delivered the news to housemates just once during the 9/11 attacks.
An Australian engineer once sued his ex-boss for farting on him. In March 2017, David Hingst sued his ex-boss for repeatedly farting on him in his former job. He sought 1.8 million Australian dollars ($1.28 million) worth of damages. His boss would fart on him 5 to 6 times a day, but his former supervisor insists he only ever did it once or twice.
Since the beginning of newscasting, there has only been one day with no news. April 18, 1930, was such an uneventful day, that the BBC’s radio announcer said, “There is no news,” by 6:30 PM.
The average person laughs 13 times a day. One of the more literal funny facts: A four-year-old laughs about 300 times a day, while a 40-year-old would only laugh an average of 4 times.
You sweat an average of 26 gallons on your bed per year. This means that an average person sweats 1 cup of perspiration on his bed per day. How’s that for WTF facts?
You can see two sunsets from the Burj Khalifa in one day. Standing at 2,731 feet tall, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world. It is so tall that you can see two sunsets from it: one at the bottom, and one at the peak.
It would take over 20 years to eat at every NYC restaurant. To eat at all restaurants in NYC, it would take 22.7 years of going to one restaurant a day.
Dancing mania killed 15 people a day in 1518. Dancing mania isn’t an arcade game, but a mass psychogenic illness in the Middle Ages characterised by non-stop dancing. It may sound like a cartoon plot, but these people would dance until their feet bled and collapsed from exhaustion. Until now, the phenomenon has no confirmed explanation.
Blue Whale calves grow 200 pounds per day. This takes “They grow up so fast!” to a whole other level.
Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on Independence Day. These titular figures for American independence both died exactly 50 years after the Declaration on July 4, 1826. WTF facts, or coincidence?
LEGO is the world’s largest tyre manufacturer. Pretty ironic considering how small LEGO tyres are, but LEGO is the biggest tyre manufacturer in the world. Lego manufactures over 318 million toy tyres per year, with 870,000 tyres per day.
Humans have farted 17 quadrillion times since the beginning of time. If you want a picture of how far the human race has come, you can measure it in farts. The average person farts 14 times a day. The next time you’re questioning your contributions to society hold on to these kinds of WTF facts.
The U.S. pizza industry serves 100 acres of pizza each day. That’s as big as Winnie The Pooh’s hometown – if the name is mathematically accurate.
You are 13.8 per cent more likely to die on your birthday. According to studies, a person is 13.8% more likely to pass on their birthday than on any other day.
Reindeer love grass. If you want to meet Santa on Christmas Day, you might want to consider keeping your lawn fresh instead of leaving cookies. Rudolph and his kind love greens such as willows, birches, and sedges. However, they would occasionally eat their old antlers for calcium.
Barbie and Ken broke up in 2004. However, Mattel announced that they were getting back together on Valentine’s Day 2011.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. When lions are in heat, they mate every 20–30 minutes, mating almost 50 times per day.
‘Grace’ is the most popular boat name. Other choices? Feelin’ Nauti, Aquaholic, Therapy, and Seas The Day.
Pencils are yellow because of Chinese royalty. In the 1800s, the best graphite in the world came from China. The Americans wanted to pay tribute to the Chinese for the graphite used in their pencils. Yellow means royalty and respect in China, which is why the Americans manufactured their pencils in yellow. To this day, the default colour for pencils is still yellow.
The case inspired several books, documentaries, and movies, including the 1993 film “Judgment Day: The John List Story.”
Peyton List was born on April 6, 1998, in Florida. Hailing from the Sunshine State, Peyton List entered the world on a breezy April day.
A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favoured day for self-destruction.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
World Tourist Day is observed on September 27.
Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.
Kings and Queens have two birthdays (one that is the day they’re born and the other is the Trooping the Colour).
August 13th is International Left-Handers Day.
Big Ben’s clock stopped at 10:07 p.m. on May 27, 2005. It was particularly hot in London that day—31.8 degrees Celsius (89 degrees Fahrenheit)—so it’s possible that the clock stopped due to the heat.
Hawaii gets 3 feet closer to Alaska every year. The Aloha State sits on a tectonic plate, called the Pacific Plate, that shifts closer to the mainland every day.
Earth’s rotation is changing speed. The Earth is slowing down, which means that, on average, the length of a day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century. If you do the math, a day lasted just 21 hours if you lived on Earth 600 million years ago!
Bees may fly up to 60 miles in one day. What a hustle!
You travel 2.5 million km (about 1.5 million miles) a day around the sun. No wonder we’re so tired!
Back in the day, ketchup used to be sold as medicine.
On May 27, 2005, at 10:07 p.m. Big Ben’s clock stopped. It was a hot summer day in London, and the heat is presumed to be what caused the famous clock to stop.
Our brains burn up to 400-500 calories a day.
The rotation of the Earth is changing speed. The Earth’s rotation is slowing down. On average, every century the length of a day increases by 1.8 seconds.
The average nose produces about a cupful of NASAl mucus every day!
You are about 1cm taller in the morning when you first get up than when you go to bed. This is because during the day the soft cartilage between your bones gets squashed and compressed.
If you walked for 12 hours a day, it would take the average person 690 days to walk around the world.
On average you fart enough in one day to fill a party balloon.
A day on Mars lasts 24 hours and 37 minutes.
94% of pet owners say their animal pal makes them smile more than once a day.
In Peru, it’s considered good luck to wear yellow underwear on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
The human heart beats 115,000 times a day.
Humans lose about 50-100 hairs a day.
The Milky Way smells of rum, raspberries and booze. In 2009, astronomers exploring a giant cloud of gas and dust at the centre of the Milky Way made a surprise discovery – the cloud was packed full of a chemical known as ethyl formate, which has a couple of intriguing properties: it is responsible for giving raspberries their flavour, and has the smell of rum. Another nearby region is also notable as it’s full of ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, the type we use to make alcoholic beverages. It contains enough alcohol to supply every person on the planet with 300,000 pints of beer per day for the next billion years! If bottled at the source, the proof for this beer would be very low, with an alcohol content of less than 1%, but as the cloud also contains plenty of other nasty chemicals, among them carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, it would still leave you with quite a headache the next morning.
On Mercury, a day is twice as long as a year. Technically, one Mercurian day lasts 59 Earth days, while a year lasts 88. However, due to Mercury’s very eccentric orbit and alignment with the Sun, the length of time from sunrise to sunrise, known as a ‘solar day’, is equal to 176 Earth days — twice as long as a Mercurian year.
Our days are getting longer. Earth’s spin speed is slowing: every year, it takes our planet a little longer to complete one full revolution on its axis. The change is miniscule, however. Every century, Earth slows by 1/500th of a second; 1,000 years from now, one day will be two-hundredths of a second longer than today.
Venus spins backwards. Venus spins in the opposite direction to the rest of the planets in our Solar System. This is a puzzle that requires solving if we are to understand more about the formation and evolution of our Solar System. Could it be that, in the early days of the Solar System, Venus was hit by another object, sending it spinning in the opposite direction? The truth is, there is no confirmed theory as to why Venus spins backwards relative to the other planets. But that’s not the only strange thing about Venus’s orbit. The planet also rotates slowly, with the Venusian day equivalent to 243 Earth days, and longer than the Venusian year of 225 Earth days.
The moon is very hot (224 degrees Fahrenheit, average) during the day but very cold (-243 degrees average) at night.
One day on Venus is almost 8 months on Earth.
Hedy Lamar was a famous Hollywood film actress who also invented what became modern-day Wi-Fi.
Elephants eat for about 16 hours every day!
An adult manatee can eat 1/10 of its weight in a day.
Sloths see better at night than in the day and they have very poor hearing. They rely on their sense of smell to locate food and other sloths.
They change trees up to four times a day.
They are diurnal, meaning they are awake either day or night. Two-toed sloths are nocturnal.
Your heart beats about 115,000 times a day.
Your heart beats about 115,000 every day.
We watch over 1 billion hours of YouTube videos every day. That’s more than the amount of Netflix and Facebook videos we watch combined!
The New Year celebration enjoyed by the ancient Egyptians was known as “Wepet Renpet.”Instead of celebrating the same day every year, they waited until the annual flooding of the Nile River, which usually happened in July.
The Moon is drifting away from Earth. You read that correctly! The Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth at a rate of approximately 4 cm per year. This phenomenon is caused by the Moon pulling on Earth’s oceans creating tidal forces that produce a bulge of water on the side of Earth facing the Moon. This bulge in turn creates a gravitational pull on the Moon, causing it to accelerate slightly and move further away from Earth. Over time, this process has caused the Moon to move farther away from Earth each year. This gradual drift is not noticeable on a day-to-day basis, but over millions of years, it can have significant effects on Earth’s rotation. Today, most scientists believe the Moon is ‘Earth’s child’ – a large body collided with Earth, destroying our planet’s mantle and sending material into orbit from which the Moon formed. This ‘big splash’ theory would explain why the Moon’s rocks are similar to those on Earth. Bonus fun fact: Australia is wider than the Moon. The Moon sits at 3400 km in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4000 km. The Moon, as a sphere, has more surface area, but it’s still pretty impressive.
Most parents feel like their babies grow fast, and those with teenagers often feel they cannot keep enough food for their growing kids. Yet, human children have nothing on Blue Whales. The offspring of these mammals can grow up to 200 pounds in a single day. This rapid growth rate can last an entire year.
One Japanese man, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, was in Hiroshima for a business trip on August 6, 1945. This just happens to be the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He somehow survived with burn injuries and went back home to Nagasaki. Then, on August 9, 1945, another atomic bomb hit that city. Yamaguchi and his family survived this attack, as well.
Working from home often involves balancing official duties with kids. Studies have found that kids can ask 300 questions a day on average. That is one question every 2.5 minutes!
THE ANTARCTIC BLUE WHALE IS THE LARGEST ANIMAL ON THE PLANET. The Antarctic blue whale is the biggest of all blue whales. It is also the largest animal on the planet, weighing up to 180 tons (approximately 36 elephants) and reaching up to 30 metres in length. They can consume about 4 tonnes of krill a day!
Listening to your favourite music for just 15 minutes a day lowers stress levels, anxiety, sadness, and a depressed mood.
A group of 400 trees in Poland’s Krzywy Las, or “Crooked Forest,” are mysteriously and identically bent. The J-shaped trunks remain a mystery to this day.
Though not commonly used, the day after tomorrow is called “overmorrow.”
The name “daisy” is thought to come from the Old English “daes eag.” “Daes eag” means “day’s eye,” after how the delicate flower opens at dawn.
In central Italy, there is a fountain that flows red wine 24 hours a day. It is free to everyone, except for “drunkards and louts.”
A traffic jam lasted for more than 10 days, with cars only moving 0.6 miles a day.
The words written on Twitter every day would fill a book of 10 million pages.
If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of Earthworms every day.
A company in Japan awards non-smokers an extra six days of paid leave each year. It was brought to the marketing firm’s attention that employees who went for smoke breaks had more than 15 minutes of extra time away from their desks each day. Instead of penalising smokers, they came up with a creative incentive to quit smoking while keeping their non-smoking employees happy in the process!
Visitors to one of Hawaii’s islands can take a shelter dog out on adventures for a day. That’s right; if you head on over to Kauai in Hawaii, you can pick up a shelter dog and take it for walks on the beach, hikes, or just wander around the island! Each dog is geared up with a cute vest that advertises that the dog is for adoption. The dogs also get some much-needed exercise, which, combined with their vest, helps locals adopt them!