The Lego Group is the world’s most powerful brand. There are more Lego Minifigures than there are people on Earth.
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There are less than 30 ships in the Royal Canadian Navy which are less than most third-world countries.
Nowadays, millionaires with just $1 million aren’t considered wealthy anymore by most Americans. Now, the typical American sees at least $2.4 million as wealthy.
The most expensive virtual object is “Club NEVERDIE” in the Entropia Universe, which is worth $635,000. It was originally bought at $10,000.
The author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, is most responsible for the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
It’s not just humans who are right or left-handed. Most female cats prefer using their right paw, and males are more likely to be left-pawed.
Over 290 people have died climbing Mount Everest since 1922. Most deaths occur because of avalanches, and not all bodies have been recovered.
Nepal has the most mathematical flag in the world. It even has an article in its constitution that details the steps of drawing the flag.
One of the most widely used symbols for medical assistance is the Swiss flag, not a medical symbol.
Scrappy-Doo, widely considered to be one of the most hated characters in fiction, has not appeared in an animated Scooby-Doo production since 1988 due to audience backlash.
The first X-rated animated movie was Fritz the Cat. It is still the most successful independent animated feature to date.
MIT, often cited as one of the world’s most prestigious universities, puts almost all of its course materials online for anyone to access for free.
Though most think it’s Italian, pepperoni is an American invention. The first use of the word dates back to 1919.
Houston is the most diverse city in the United States. As of 2010, 43.8% are Latino, 25.6% are White, 23.1% are Black, and 6% are Asian.
Marvel’s Deadpool issue #27 holds the Guinness World Record for the most comic book characters on one cover.
The world’s most remote ATM is run by Wells Fargo in the Antarctic. The ATMs serve around 1,200 residents at the U.S. scientific facility.
30 of the first 31 popes were murdered. Most of them were martyred, but not all causes of their deaths are known.
Sweden has the most islands in the world, with 221,800 islands.
Russia has the most man-made satellites in orbit, with 1,324. There is a total of 2,271, and the U.S. is in second place at 658.
The most difficult Chinese character requires 62 total strokes to write. The word itself, “biang” holds no meaning.
Acetaminophen, one of the most popular painkillers, restrains masculinity and dulls emotions. It was rejected in 1887 for its side effects, then approved in 1955.
“Rap God” by Eminem packs 1,560 words into a 6-minute 4-second song. It holds the world record for most words in a hit single.
Pitbulls rank high among the most affectionate and least aggressive dogs. Pitbulls are only aggressive when forcibly trained as such, usually for illegal dogfighting.
Iceland was chosen as the training ground for Apollo astronauts because it was the most “moonlike” surface.
While most people think of Neil Patrick Harris as an actor, he is also a writer, producer, comedian, singer, and even amateur magician!
Of the top 20 most-watched TV broadcasts in the United States, 19 were Super Bowls, and the other was the 1983 finale of M*A*S*H.
English accounts for 50% of visited web pages, even though the amount of English users is only 26%. Russian accounts for the 2nd most visited pages at only 6%.
Antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth. It costs roughly $62.5 trillion per gram or $1.75 quadrillion per ounce.
Logan was the most complained about movie in the U.K. in 2017 as viewers felt that the movie was too violent for its 15 rating.
Frederick Douglass was the most photographed man of the 19th Century. He wanted to ensure an accurate depiction of Black Americans during the Civil War.
By using big data, Wal-Mart determined that people stock up the most on strawberry Pop-Tarts and beer before a hurricane.
The most used hashtags on Instagram are #love, #instagood, #me, #cute and #follow.
Alaska is the state which produces the most serial killers.
In 1937, a major fire broke out at the Fox Film Studios in New Jersey. The fire destroyed 75% of their movies, including most of their silent films.
The average person in France sleeps 8.83 hours per day, the most in the developed world.
Most catfish are normally active at night; however, the Peppered Cory Catfish is active more often during the day.
The most leaves ever found on a single clover is 56.
Liège, Belgium, tried to use 37 cats to deliver mail in the 1870s. Most of the cats took up to a day to deliver the mail, and the service was short-lived.
Peaches are the third most popular fruit grown in America.
Jupiter has 69 moons. A few are 12-37 miles in diameter, but most are barely 1 mile in size. Jupiter itself is 317 times the mass of the Earth.
Losing Weight is the most common New Year’s resolution.
The social media website, MySpace, was founded in 2003 and sold for $580 million in 2005. At this time, it was the most visited social networking site in the world and even surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States!
The most expensive domain name ever sold was cars.com for an astonishing $872.3 million.
The logo for the Monster energy drink cans is not an M, as most believe, but are claw marks from a monster ripping through the can. In 2014 a YouTube video gained an international audience when they claimed that each segment of the claw mark looks like the Hebrew symbol for the number six, making the logo 666, the number of the Beast.
Water might not be wet. This is because most scientists define wetness as a liquid’s ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other objects wet.
A chicken once lived for 18 months without a head. Mike the Chicken’s incredible feat was recorded back in the 1940s in the USA. He survived as his jugular vein and most of his brainstem were left mostly intact, ensuring just enough brain function remained for survival. In the majority of cases, a headless chicken dies in a matter of minutes.
Octopuses don’t have tentacles. They have eight limbs, but they’re arms (for most species). Technically, when talking about cephalopods (octopuses, squids etc), scientists define tentacles as limbs with suckers at their end. Octopus arms have suckers down most of their length.
Most maps of the world are wrong. On most maps, the Mercator projection – first developed in 1569 – is still used. This method is wildly inaccurate and makes Alaska appear as large as Brazil and Greenland 14 times larger than it is. For a map to be completely accurate, it would need to be life-size and round, not flat.
Most ginger cats are male. There are roughly three ginger male cats to one ginger female. This is because the ginger gene is found on the X chromosome, meaning female cats would require two copies of the gene to become ginger whilst males only need one.
You can see stars as they were 4,000 years ago with the naked eye. Without a telescope, all the stars we can see lie within about 4,000 light-years of us. That means at most you’re seeing stars as they were 4,000 years ago, around when the pyramids were being built in Egypt.
Your brain burns 400-500 calories a day. That’s about a fifth of your total energy requirements. Most of this is concerned with the largely automatic process of controlling your muscles and processing sensory input, although some studies show solving tricky problems increases your brain’s metabolic requirements too.
The national flag with the most colours in it is Belize (1981), with 12.
“Salvator Mundi” by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting in the world, valued at $450.3M.
The most-visited country on the planet is France, with 90M visitors, according to figures from the UNWTO in 2018. Who’s at number two? Spain.
Brazil boasts the most biodiversity of any country on the planet, with more than 50,000 species of plants and trees.
Russia is the most forested country in the world, with 815 million hectares.
China is the world’s most populous country, with around 1.4 billion people living there.
The most remote place in the world is the Tristan da Cunha islands in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. They’re 2,434km from Saint Helena, the nearest inhabited place. Imagine Mum sends you out for groceries but the local supermarket is closed. That’s a long trip.
Walt Disney currently holds the most Academy Awards at a lifetime total of 26.
Besides water, tea is the most popular beverage worldwide.
According to Chess Journal, the world’s most expensive chess set, which includes diamonds and emeralds and was commissioned by Great Britain’s Royale Jewel Company, is valued at more than $9.8 million.
As of December 2023, the most popular boy baby name of the year is Noah and the most popular girl baby name of the year is Olivia, based on names registered with BabyCentre.com.
Cleveland was once the country’s fifth-largest city. Data from the 1920 U.S. census indicates that Cleveland, Ohio, was one of the most heavily populated cities in the country, behind only Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York City.
Human beings can use only a small fraction of Earth’s water. In school, we were taught that most (specifically, 71 per cent) of the planet’s surface is covered in water. While that’s true, humans can use only 0.007 per cent of that water, according to National Geographic. That’s because only about 2.5 per cent of Earth’s water is freshwater, and only 1 per cent of that is accessible. The rest is made up of glaciers and snowfields.
People once ate arsenic to improve their skin. You’ve probably heard about how a lot of the Victorians’ favourite cosmetics were riddled with arsenic, but it gets worse. There were also products on the market in the late 19th century, like Dr. James P. Campbell’s Safe Arsenic Complexion Wafers, that were meant to be eaten. They claimed to get rid of freckles, blackheads, and other “facial disfigurements.” Admit it: That’s one of the most interesting facts you’ve learned in a while.
Japan has one vending machine for every 40 people. Japan is thought to have one of the highest densities of vending machines in the world, with one for every 40 people in the country. While most sell various types of beverages, others feature ice cream, noodles, and disposable cameras.
The Windy City nickname has nothing to do with Chicago’s weather. If you live in Chicago, you might already know this random fact, but we’re betting most other people don’t. Chicago’s nickname was coined by 19th-century journalists who were referring to the fact that its residents were “windbags” and “full of hot air.”
Cats have fewer toes on their back paws. Like most four-legged mammals, cats have five toes on the front, but their back paws only have four toes. Scientists think the four-toed back paws might help them run faster.
Most Disney characters wear gloves to keep animation simple. Walt Disney might have been the first to put gloves on his characters, as seen in 1929’s The Opry House, starring Mickey Mouse. In addition to being easier to animate, there’s another reason for the gloves: “We didn’t want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human,” Disney told his biographer in 1957.
Only a quarter of the Sahara Desert is sandy. Most of it is covered in gravel, though it also contains mountains and oases. And here’s another geography fact that everyone gets wrong: It isn’t the world’s largest desert. Antarctica is.
There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive. Most of the volcanoes probably stopped erupting about a billion years ago, but NASA findings have suggested there might still have been active lava flow 100 million years ago when dinosaurs were still roaming.
Humans aren’t the only animals that dream. Studies have indicated rats dream about getting to food or running through mazes. Most mammals go through REM sleep, the cycle in which dreams occur, so scientists think there’s a good chance they all dream.
Sloths have more neck bones than giraffes. Despite the difference in neck length, there are more bones in the neck of a sloth than a giraffe. There are seven vertebrae in the neck of a giraffe, and in most mammals, but there are 10 in a sloth.
The British Empire was the largest in world history. The British Empire was most powerful in the 1920s, when it controlled 23 per cent of the world’s population and approximately 13.7 million square miles of territory—or nearly a quarter of the Earth’s land area, according to a report from Statista.
Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin. In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson hated that Americans were tempted by hedonistic places like saloons and brothels. So he set out to straighten up one of the most immoral places he could think of: Coney Island in New York. There, he built America’s first roller coaster to give New Yorkers some good, clean fun—away from seedier pastimes.
Most wasabi paste isn’t real wasabi. Wasabi is expensive, so most companies use horseradish instead. Real wasabi is milder than what you’ve been getting with your sushi.
The world’s smallest wasp is smaller than an amoeba. The Megaphragma mymaripenne wasp has the same body parts as any other bug (brain, wings, eyes, and more) but is a fifth of a millimetre long, making it smaller than most amoebas, which are made of just one cell.
“OK” most likely stands for fake words. In the 1830s, people jokingly spelt abbreviations incorrectly. One of the most famous: “All correct” turned into “orl korrekt,” and then of course into OK. Historians think it stuck because Martin Van Buren—known as Old Kinderhook, after his hometown in New York—supporters called themselves the OK Club when he was campaigning for reelection.
Researchers once turned a live cat into a telephone. Princeton researchers Ernest Wever and Charles Bray took out a cat’s skull and most of its brain to connect the animal to electricity. When they spoke into the cat’s ear, the sound could be heard through a phone receiver in another room. The twisted experiment paved the way for cochlear implant developments.
There’s a reason why passports come in four colours. Here’s a weird fact that might surprise you. Have you ever wondered why there isn’t a hot pink passport? The reasoning is that most countries prefer dark shades of red, green, and blue since these dark colours look more official and if they’re dirty, it’s not as noticeable.
The Eiffel Tower took exactly 2 years, 2 months, and 5 days to create. There are many stunning places in France. The Eiffel Tower, one of the most recognizable structures in the world, took a long time to make. Over two years!
A 73-year-old bottle of French Burgundy became the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold at auction in 2018, going for $558,000 (approx £439,300). The bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti sold at Sotheby for more than 17 times its original estimate of $32,000.
In 2014, there was a Tinder match in Antarctica. Two research scientists matched on the global dating app in the most remote part of the world – a man working at the United States Antarctic McMurdo Station and a woman camping a 45-minute helicopter ride away. What are the chances?!
Big Ben’s clock stopped at 10:07 p.m. on 27 May 2005, most likely due to an extremely hot temperature of 31.8 degrees Celsius.
Walt Disney currently holds the most Academy Awards. Disney won 26 Oscars throughout his career and was nominated a total of 59 times.
The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona. The Spanish city thought it was too ugly, so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead. French critics weren’t too thrilled either, but it’s one of the most famous landmarks in the world today.
The letter ‘E’ is the most popular letter in the alphabet. ‘Z’ is the least popular.
Vietnam is the world’s second-biggest coffee producer. Brazil creates the most, with Colombia coming in third.
Mariah Carey holds the record for the most number-one singles by a solo artist on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She surpasses Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson with singles including ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Always Be My Baby’.
Beyoncé is the most awarded artist at the Grammys. She’s been nominated for 88 awards and won a whopping 32.
After water, tea is the drink most consumed around the world. Well, a cuppa always goes down a treat.
Nepal has the most public holidays. The nation has 39 each year.
Sir Keir Starmer has the most diverse Parliament the UK has ever seen, in terms of race and gender. The BBC say that for the first time in parliamentary history, the proportion of women elected is more than 40%. Meanwhile, the proportion of MPs from ethnic-minority backgrounds is now a record 14%.
Raphael Nadal holds the title for the most Grand Slams ever won on Clay. He won the French Open 14 times.
The ‘Baby Shark Dance’ is one of the most-watched videos on YouTube, with over 14.66 billion views.
Billie Eilish’s ‘No Time to Die’ is the most awarded song in history. It won 36 awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Song, and the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Bangkok is the world’s most visited city. With 22.78 million international visitors, Bangkok has been named the most visited city in the world for the fourth year in a row – beating Paris, London, Dubai, and Singapore.
We are born with only 2 natural fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds. One of the most surprising fun facts about life: All other fears and phobias are learned or acquired later in life.
Australia has the most number of venomous snakes worldwide. Australia is home to almost a hundred species of venomous snakes. However, only one fatal snake bite incident is recorded per year.
Digging a hole into China is possible if you start in Argentina. One of the most intriguing fun facts about Argentina is that you could dig a hole in China from there. As a feat usually done by cartoon or comic book characters, travelling to China underground is possible in theory, but not so much in practice. Underground conditions such as heat, pressure, and lack of oxygen are just one of the few realities that keep this cartoonish concept just that – a concept for cartoons.