40 Lesser-Known Facts About The World

Earth is no stranger to crazy things. I mean, it’s inhabited by humans, the most bizarre creatures ever, despite how normal we may look! Humans remain mysterious, even though we’ve been studying ourselves and the world for thousands of years.

And it’s not like we haven’t made any progress or found out tons of interesting facts about our planet, of course. It’s just that there are too many things to dive into and explore! Like, did you know that vending machines [end] more people than sharks? Or that men have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan? Or again, that the longest interval between the birth of twins is 87 days?

Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff going on around the globe, and here at Bored Panda we have a weird obsession for learning about insane coincidences and random events happening in this cool, cool world. If you’re like us, you’ll be mesmerized by the amazing facts we’ve collected on this list! Go on, read them and let your brain get tickled for good.

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#1

A large percentage of the budget for Monty Python and the Holy Grail was donated by members of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

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#2

Boring, Oregon, and Dull, Scotland, have been sister cities since 2012.

© Photo: oregonlive.com

#3

In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person, while 23% thought Winston Churchill was not.

© Photo: UKTV Gold

#4

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

© Photo: top-online-bookmakers.com

#5

Just before the Nazis invaded Paris, H.A. and Margret Rey fled on bicycles. They were carrying the manuscript for Curious George.

#6

Along with the five traditional senses of sound, sight, touch, smell and taste, humans have 15 “other senses.” These include balance, temperature, pain and time as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness.

© Photo: miraclelearningcentre.com

#7

The Canary Islands are named after dogs, not birds.

© Photo: worldatlas.com

#8

The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

© Photo: visitscotland.com

#9

The “most typical human” is right-handed, makes less than $12,000 per year, has a mobile phone, and doesn’t have a bank account.

#10

A TI-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.

#11

Vending machines [end] 4 times as many people as sharks per year.

© Photo: CPSC

#12

In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown’s sister Sally.

#13

Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.

© Photo: nobelprize.org

#14

Machine-spun Cotton Candy was invented by a dentist.

© Photo: Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

#15

More people in the world currently suffer from obesity than from hunger.

© Photo: thelancet.com

#16

You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.

#17

All the ants on Earth weigh about as much as all the humans.

© Photo: bbc.com

#18

The average four year-old child asks over three hundred questions a day.

© Photo: Littlewoods

#19

The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.

© Photo: journals.ametsoc.org

#20

Airplane food isn’t very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease by around 30 percent during flights.

© Photo: bbc.com

#21

The delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention spent much of their time getting drunk. One surviving document is a bill for a party on September 15th, 1787, two days before the signing of the Constitution. Items on the bill were: 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 8 bottles of cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch. All of this for 55 people.

#22

Japan is the world’s most earthquake-prone country.

© Photo: usgs.gov

#23

Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.

© Photo: John Edward Gray

#24

Multiple “Marlboro Men” have died from lung cancer.

#25

Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.

© Photo: MarshalGrover

#26

Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.

© Photo: northamericannature.com

#27

Goats have rectangular pupils.

© Photo: Science Advances

#28

Humans are just one of the estimated 8.7 million species on Earth.

© Photo: journals.plos.org

#29

If “The Simpsons” aged normally, Bart would now be older than Marge was in the first season.

#30

Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.

© Photo: Science and Technology Studies

#31

The world wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year.

© Photo: unep.org

#32

While working on Pac-Man, video game designer Toru Iwatani was allegedly inspired by the shape of a pizza with one slice removed.

© Photo: time.com

#33

There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.

© Photo: Volume of Earth’s Oceans

#34

The English word with the most definitions is “set.”

#35

Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor.

© Photo: science.org

#36

Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.

© Photo: nationalgeographic.com

#37

New creatures have been found in deep-sea volcanoes.

#38

The average adult human has one to three kilograms of bacteria in their body.

© Photo: Human Microbiome Project

#39

You’re more likely to become the President than you are to win the lottery.

© Photo: reviewjournal.com/

#40

The longest music piece in the world is being performed in the city of Halberstadt in Germany: John Cage’s composition for organ ORGAN2/ASLSP.

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