Factourism

Adult humans contain up to 60% water

November 24, 2021

Before the eraser, bread was used to remove pencil marks

October 27, 2021

Finns have a term that means ‘drinking at home, alone, in your underwear’

October 13, 2021

Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore

October 6, 2021

A French dog created legal history by appearing as a witness in a murder case

September 29, 2021

In Russia, beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage until 2013

September 22, 2021

George W. Bush was the head cheerleader at his high school

September 15, 2021

1% of the static on the empty channel of an analog television is a remnant of the Big Bang

September 1, 2021

Abraham Lincoln was a wrestling champion

August 18, 2021

There is a beer brewed out of fossils

August 11, 2021

Karl Lagerfeld owned hundreds of iPods

August 4, 2021

You can make diamonds out of tequila

July 28, 2021

Coca-Cola was the first soft drink in space

July 21, 2021

Cheese is the most shoplifted food

July 14, 2021

1 hour of running could add 7 hours to your life

July 7, 2021

Goldfish can distinguish the music of one composer from another

June 30, 2021

Deceased human bodies can be turned into electricity

June 23, 2021

Dynamite can be made from peanuts

June 16, 2021

Until the early 19th century, Australia was best known as New Holland

June 9, 2021

20% of mugs at work contain faecal bacteria

June 2, 2021

The odds of a coin flip are actually not 50-50 but 51-49

May 26, 2021

One of the big life threats for baby pandas is getting crushed by their mothers

May 19, 2021

The first animals sent into space were fruit flies

May 12, 2021

The office chair with wheels was invented by Charles Darwin

May 5, 2021

Coco Chanel was a Nazi secret agent

April 28, 2021

In the 17th century Ottoman Empire, drinking coffee was punished by death

April 21, 2021

50% of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, reviewers and editors

April 14, 2021

Some towns in Scandinavia use the heat from their crematorium for heating houses

April 7, 2021

During photosynthesis, plants emit light that humans can’t see

March 31, 2021

In medieval Europe, black pepper was an expensive luxury item that was used to pay rent and taxes

March 24, 2021

Eating garlic actually makes your body smell better

March 17, 2021

Cleopatra lived closer to the launch of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramids

March 10, 2021

Cologne was once used as a protection against the plague

March 3, 2021

Greece’s national anthem has 158 verses

February 24, 2021

Salmon helps your hair grow

February 17, 2021

Cacao plants are slated to disappear by as early as 2050 due to climate change

February 10, 2021

Ancient Egyptians were the first to make a sweet treat from the marshmallow plant

February 3, 2021

There are about 29,000 human-made objects orbiting around Earth

January 27, 2021

A single human being’s DNA contains as much information as 50 novels

January 20, 2021

For The Wizard of Oz, 16-year-old actress Judy Garland was forced to take on a diet of chicken soup, coffee, and 80 cigarettes a day

January 13, 2021

Llama droppings has been used to purify water in Bolivia

January 6, 2021

Honey doesn’t spoil

December 30, 2020

Christmas used to be illegal in the US

December 23, 2020

Jellyfish evaporate

December 16, 2020

Bananas are radioactive

December 9, 2020

A cigar half-smoked by Winston Churchill sold for $12,000

December 2, 2020

Until 1948, 7-Up contained a mood stabiliser used to treat bipolar disorder

November 25, 2020

Scientists are working on fungi-based computers

November 18, 2020

You are one or two centimetres taller when you get out of bed in the morning

November 11, 2020

Pandas can fake pregnancies

November 4, 2020

Crows can hold grudges

October 28, 2020

Trained pigeons can identify breast cancer in mammograms as accurately as human experts

October 21, 2020

For 20 years, the mayor of Talkeetna in Alaska was a cat called Stubbs

October 14, 2020

A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers on a hot air balloon

October 8, 2020

There is a polar bear jail in Canada

October 6, 2020

Queen Elizabeth was a mechanic during WWII

October 1, 2020

Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve

September 24, 2020

There is a Scottish tartan designed for Mars exploration

September 22, 2020

A lemon will float in water, but a lime will sink

September 18, 2020

Eggplants contain nicotine

September 17, 2020

Fish are getting dumped from aeroplanes in order to repopulate lakes

September 15, 2020

Some cities in the US used to have ‘ugly laws’, fining people $1 to $50 for their bad looks

September 10, 2020

About once a week, sloths make a trip to the bottom of their tree in order to poop

September 8, 2020

Scientists can grow teeth out of the stem cells found in urine

September 3, 2020

Pineapples were status symbols in 18th century Europe

September 1, 2020

The IKEA catalogue is as widespread as the Bible

August 27, 2020

In 1930s London, babies were dangled out of windows in “baby cages”

August 25, 2020

A Japanese toilet brand has built a motorcycle that runs on excrement

August 20, 2020

Tiny mites are living and having sex on your face

August 18, 2020

We sigh every 5 minutes on average, without which our lungs would collapse

August 13, 2020

Greenland is farther east, west, north, and south than Iceland

August 11, 2020

Play-Doh was originally sold and used as a wallpaper cleaner

August 6, 2020

Pen-tailed treeshrews spend every night drinking fermented nectar

August 4, 2020

The Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dalí

July 30, 2020

A cow and bison hybrid is called a ‘beefalo’

July 28, 2020

The spot where Hitler shot himself is now a kids’ playground

July 23, 2020

One testicle usually hangs lower than the other

July 21, 2020

There are over 1,000 varieties of bananas

July 16, 2020

The world’s oldest toy might be the stick

July 14, 2020

Cheerleading started as an all-male activity

July 9, 2020

29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from Asia

July 7, 2020

Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because ‘Tintin’ would read as the slang for ‘penis’

July 2, 2020

In Latin, a watering place for cattle was called an ‘aquarium’

June 30, 2020

By peeing in the shower, you can save 2,200 litres of water a year

June 25, 2020

McDonald’s once made bubblegum flavoured broccoli

June 23, 2020

The sound of a black hole is a B-flat note

June 18, 2020

Tennis players produce up to 3 litres of sweat an hour

June 16, 2020

Baby giraffes are born falling 1.5 metres to the ground

June 11, 2020

The world’s largest pizza was about 3 times as big as a basketball court

June 9, 2020

There is an island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island

June 4, 2020

The first shopping cart was made of a folding chair with a basket on the seat and wheels on the legs

June 2, 2020

Blood makes a loop around your body 1,500 times a day

May 28, 2020

The word ‘avocado’ comes from a Nahuatl word meaning both avocado and testicle

May 26, 2020

The Scots language has 421 words for snow

May 21, 2020

There are no stop signs in Paris

May 19, 2020

Some penguins engage in prostitution, providing sex for pebbles to build their nest

May 14, 2020

A diamond can grow inside another diamond

May 12, 2020

There is a strip club in Canada that doubles as a church on Sundays

May 7, 2020

Hamsters on a wheel can run 9 km a night

May 5, 2020

Iguanas have three eyes: the third one only perceives brightness

April 30, 2020

Kids perform better at boring tasks when dressed as Batman

April 28, 2020

Mary Kenneth Keller was a Roman catholic sister and one of the first two persons to get a PhD in computer science in the US

April 23, 2020

The inventor of the Frisbee was cremated and his ashes made into Frisbees

April 21, 2020

Elephants can’t jump

April 16, 2020

On average, we touch our faces 15.7 times an hour

April 14, 2020

The world’s deepest postbox is in Susami Bay, Japan

April 9, 2020

To find out how dinosaurs walked, scientists have been sticking fake tails on chickens

April 7, 2020

From 1913 to 1915, parents in the US could mail their kids through the postal service

April 2, 2020

Boanthropy is the psychological disorder of someone who believes they are a cow

March 31, 2020

Your smartphone is more powerful than the space shuttle’s computers

March 26, 2020

A group of ferrets is called a business

March 24, 2020

The startup music for Windows 95 was composed on a Mac

March 19, 2020

Giraffes with dark spots are more dominant than those with light spots

March 17, 2020

Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939

March 12, 2020

Slugs like beer

March 10, 2020

In some parts of China, police replaced guard dogs with geese

March 5, 2020

One of Samsung’s first product was dried fish

March 3, 2020

Some dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park were made from recordings of mating tortoises

February 27, 2020

Australian drivers in Queensland can get an emoji on their car plate

February 25, 2020

Men whose age ends in 9 are most prone to cheat

February 20, 2020

Grapes catch fire in the microwave

February 18, 2020

Alligators have permanently erect penises

February 13, 2020

Cows tell each other how they feel

February 11, 2020

It used to be common for men to wear high heels

February 6, 2020

In California, the word people most often google how to spell is “beautiful”

February 4, 2020

Russian soldiers were not always wearing socks until 2013

January 30, 2020

Nintendo existed at the same time as the Ottoman Empire

January 28, 2020

3.8 million trees are cut down every year in China to make disposable chopsticks

January 23, 2020

The Beatles use the word “love” a total of 613 times in their songs

January 21, 2020

The Olympic Games’ torch relay is originally a Nazi idea

January 16, 2020

Before 1977, tourists were allowed to climb the stones at Stonehenge

January 14, 2020

Men are more likely than women to die when attempting suicide

January 9, 2020

There are hundreds of dead bodies on Mount Everest. Some of them are used by climbers as indicators for directions.

January 7, 2020

China owns nearly all of the pandas in the world. They rent them out for about $1 million a year.

January 2, 2020

A building in Japan has a highway passing through its 5th, 6th and 7th floors

December 31, 2019

The greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69

December 26, 2019

Women are more productive at warmer temperatures. The opposite is true for men.

December 24, 2019

The toothbrush was invented in 1498 in China

December 19, 2019

The weeks leading up to Christmas are the most common time for couples to break up according to their Facebook status

December 17, 2019

Walruses can sleep while floating in water

December 12, 2019

There was no clear word for the colour orange until the 16th century

December 10, 2019

People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles a year

December 5, 2019

There are creatures on Earth with red, blue, green, and yellow blood

December 3, 2019

Snails have thousands of teeth

November 28, 2019

Koalas hug trees to keep cool

November 26, 2019

Jeff Bezos is so rich that spending $1.1 million to him is like spending $1 to an average American

November 21, 2019

28 percent of delivery drivers have taken food from a customer’s order

November 19, 2019

You’d have to click the mouse 10 million times to burn one calorie

November 14, 2019

People literally sitting outside a box come up with more ideas than those sitting inside it

November 12, 2019

Neil Armstrong’s poop is still on the Moon

November 7, 2019

Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds

November 5, 2019

Novice drivers do more errors when listening to a favourite song while driving than they do with unfamiliar music

October 31, 2019

The longest nipple hair ever recorded was 17 cm long and belonged to a man in Italy

October 29, 2019

More than 97% of clothing sold in the US is not made in the US

October 24, 2019

Parts of Canada have lower gravity

October 22, 2019

Cheese triggers the same part of the brain as addictive drugs

October 17, 2019

Phones are dirtier than toilet seats

October 15, 2019

In Singapore, connecting to someone else’s Wi-Fi is illegal and can be punished with up to 3 years of imprisonment

October 10, 2019

Female kangaroos have 3 vaginas

October 8, 2019

Pepsi was at one point the owner of 17 Russian military submarines

October 3, 2019

Only 5 modern countries were never colonised by Europe

October 1, 2019

The average American spends about 90% of their time indoors

September 26, 2019

Global wind speeds have been declining since 1960

September 24, 2019

Nike’s swoosh logo was purchased in 1971 for $35

September 19, 2019

50% of people admit writing down tasks they have already done on their to-do list before satisfyingly crossing them off

September 17, 2019

Romans used tickling as torture, with goats licking feet dipped in saltwater

September 12, 2019

In 2014, Tinder got its first match in Antarctica

September 9, 2019

The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of it every day

September 6, 2019

As a kid, Adolf Hitler wanted to be a priest

September 4, 2019

Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the faeces of predators

September 2, 2019

Scientists have found evidence of take-out restaurants in the remains of Pompeii

August 30, 2019

Self-driving cars play Grand Theft Auto to learn how to drive better

August 28, 2019

William Bullock, inventor of the web rotary press, was killed by his own invention

August 26, 2019

86% of women in the US are turned off if their date has a cracked phone screen

August 23, 2019

McDonald’s has a ski-through restaurant in Sweden

August 21, 2019

There is a town in Michigan called “Hell”

August 19, 2019

The Dutch village of Giethoorn has canals and footbridges instead of streets and roads

August 16, 2019

Kellogg’s All-Bran is only 87% bran

August 14, 2019

There is a giant statue of Jesus in Poland that serves as a Wi-Fi antenna

August 12, 2019

Coconut water can be used as an intravenous drip instead of saline

August 9, 2019

Left-handed people tend to live shorter lives because almost everything is designed for right-handed people

August 7, 2019

Kiwi birds are losing their sight

August 5, 2019

People eat 10 million cats every year

August 2, 2019

Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were originally thought as a product to prevent masturbation

July 31, 2019

Trees can send secret warning signals to other trees about incoming insect attacks

July 29, 2019

A space suit costs 12 million US dollars

July 26, 2019

During World War II, British soldiers were given a ration of 3 sheets of toilet paper a day, while American soldiers received 22

July 24, 2019

In the age of the dinosaurs, a day lasted no more than 23 hours

July 22, 2019

Neil Armstrong’s boots are still in space

July 19, 2019

The sight of meat calms men down

July 17, 2019

Some ant species developed agriculture millions of years before we did, and live on mushrooms that they cultivate themselves

July 15, 2019

Drinking too much grape soda will make your poop turn blue

July 12, 2019

Steve Jobs chose the name Apple because it would be placed before Atari in the phone book

July 10, 2019

Sea otters have pockets in their skin where they keep food and rocks for crushing seashells

July 8, 2019

Pablo Escobar cheated at Monopoly with his kids, hiding extra money ahead of time where he planned to sit

July 5, 2019

In the 18th century, you could pay your ticket to the London zoo by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions

July 3, 2019

There are so many varieties of apples that it would take over 20 years to taste them all if you ate one every day

July 1, 2019

There are 71 streets in Atlanta that have “peachtree” in their name

June 28, 2019

From 1945 to 1947, a rooster named Mike lived 18 months without a head

June 26, 2019

Money shaped like knives was used in China 2500 years ago

June 24, 2019

Nearly all phones in Japan are waterproof, because Japanese women like to use them in the shower

June 21, 2019

There is a city called “Batman” in Turkey

June 19, 2019

There is a basketball court above the courtroom of the US Supreme Court

June 17, 2019

There are almost 10,000 benches in Central Park

June 15, 2019

Colgate used to sell candles

June 14, 2019

Airplanes fly slower today than they did in the past

June 12, 2019

France didn’t stop executing people by guillotine until 1977

June 10, 2019

Some species of starfish can regenerate a whole body from a single arm

June 7, 2019

Each day 6,000,000 US dollars are shredded and turned into compost

June 5, 2019

Cities with a higher number of Walmart stores tend to have higher crime rates

June 3, 2019

Many lipsticks contain fish scales

May 31, 2019

Grey whales often mate in threesomes

May 29, 2019

UPS trucks save 38 million litres of gas every year by avoiding left turns

May 27, 2019

The world’s shortest escalator is located in Kawasaki, Japan

May 24, 2019

The housefly hums in the key of F

May 22, 2019

There are kosher sex toys made just for Jews

May 20, 2019

In Wisconsin, it’s legal for children of any age to drink alcohol in a bar

May 17, 2019

The very first game of basketball was played with a football

May 15, 2019

The oldest known customer complaint was written on a clay tablet 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia

May 13, 2019

A donut-shaped planet is technically possible

May 10, 2019

Prisoners are more likely to be granted parole after a lunch break

May 8, 2019

Thanks to high-resolution flat-screen TVs, dogs are able to see TV screens as well as humans

May 6, 2019

A banana is actually a berry

May 3, 2019

The average person will spend a year of their life looking for misplaced items

May 1, 2019

How much boobs weigh in animals

April 29, 2019

We hold 0.2 mg of gold inside us

April 26, 2019

A spa house in Japan is offering ramen noodle baths

April 24, 2019

It snows metals on planet Venus

April 22, 2019

One football pitch of forest was lost every second in 2017

April 19, 2019

There are 300,000 items in the average American home

April 17, 2019

Our eyes are closed for roughly 10% of our waking hours

April 15, 2019

You are more likely to remember something you’ve written in blue ink than something you’ve written in black ink

April 12, 2019

The most frequently used password is 123456

April 10, 2019

3:44 AM is the most common time to wake up at night

April 8, 2019

Wine glasses are seven times larger than they used to be

April 5, 2019

Cows that are called by name produce 258 litres more milk per year than those who aren’t

April 3, 2019

In some countries, people sneakily stick fish to each other’s backs on April 1

April 1, 2019

The penis needs 130 ml of blood to stiffen

March 29, 2019

Before the can opener was invented, people used chisels and hammers

March 27, 2019

“Hello” didn’t become a greeting until the telephone arrived

March 25, 2019

If everyone on the planet consumed as much as the average US citizen, four Earths would be needed to sustain them

March 22, 2019

Gold is edible

March 20, 2019

Cleaning the house is as harmful for the health as smoking one pack of cigarettes

March 17, 2019

All of the Nutella sold in a year could be spread over more than 1,000 football fields

March 15, 2019

Apple had its own clothing line in 1986

March 13, 2019

Astronauts can vote from space

March 11, 2019

The world’s longest pedal-powered tandem bicycle has 52 seats

March 10, 2019

A pencil has the potential to draw a line 56 km long

March 8, 2019

Whales can get a tan too

March 6, 2019

We fart ½ litres gas of fart every day

March 4, 2019

Photographer Kevin Abosch sold a photograph of a potato for over $1,000,000

March 3, 2019

The facial expressions of Lego characters are getting angrier over the years

March 1, 2019

Prehistoric Britons used human skulls as cups

February 27, 2019

Happy pizza is a pizza sold in Cambodia topped with marijuana

February 25, 2019

Flamingos can drink near-boiling water

February 24, 2019

A can of diet coke will float in water, while a can of regular coke will sink

February 22, 2019

The space suits for the Moon landing were made by a lingerie brand

February 20, 2019

Women cry 3-6 times more than men

February 18, 2019

One hamburger may contain meat from 100 different cows

February 15, 2019

On a timeline, the T-Rex is closer to humans than it is to the Stegosaurus

February 13, 2019

Vatican City has a population of 2 popes per 1 square kilometre

February 11, 2019

Being a bad driver is partially a genetic trait

February 8, 2019

Ancient Egyptians played bowling 5,000 years ago

February 6, 2019

The man who invented pop-up ads has officially apologised to the world

February 4, 2019

Babies have 95 more bones than adults

February 1, 2019

There is more alcohol in mouthwash than in wine

January 30, 2019

There is a town in Wales called Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch

January 28, 2019

Fanta was created in Nazi Germany due to difficulties importing Coca-Cola syrup during World War 2

January 25, 2019

People may fart a lot after they’re dead

January 23, 2019

Machine-spun cotton candy was invented by a dentist

January 21, 2019

If you lose your thumb, surgeons can replace it with your big toe

January 18, 2019

400 million years ago, the Earth was covered with giant mushrooms that were 8 metres tall

January 16, 2019

IKEA sells a Billy bookcase every 5th second

January 14, 2019

The current US flag was designed by a high school student for a class project

January 11, 2019

If the Earth were the size of a grain of sand, the Sun would be the size of a tennis ball

January 9, 2019

An octopus actually has 6 arms and 2 legs, not 8 legs

January 7, 2019

The Harvard University Library has several books bound in human skin

January 4, 2019

A teaspoon of honey is the life work of 12 bees

January 2, 2019

There are only 14 possible calendar configurations. You can reuse your 2013 calendar in 2019.

January 1, 2019

Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like with fingerprints

December 28, 2018

Eating chocolate could improve your math skills

December 26, 2018

Santa Claus received 670 votes in the 2012 US presidential election

December 24, 2018

Russia and America are less than 4 km apart at the nearest point

December 21, 2018

You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than on any other day of the year

December 19, 2018

Ketchup was sold as medicine for digestive disorders in the 1830s

December 17, 2018

An average person produces 25,000 litres of saliva in a lifetime, the equivalent of 2 swimming pools

December 13, 2018

Women’s voices have deepened 23 Hz over the past five decades

December 13, 2018

Coca-Cola is used as a pesticide by farmers in India, since it’s cheaper and gets the job done

December 13, 2018

A woman’s left boob is usually bigger than the right

December 12, 2018

On Jupiter it sometimes rains diamonds

December 11, 2018

McDonalds used to sell pizza in the 70s

December 10, 2018

If a car could drive up, it would take an hour to get to space

December 9, 2018

The first computer mouse was made of wood

December 8, 2018

Most people can hear the difference between hot and cold water when poured, just by the sound it makes

December 7, 2018

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other hand at the same time

December 6, 2018

Rabbit vision is almost 360º

December 5, 2018

Humans put a man on The Moon before they put wheels on luggage

December 4, 2018

“Ciao!” means “I’m your slave”

December 3, 2018

Six 2×4 Lego bricks can be combined in 915,103,765 different ways

December 2, 2018

Selfies kill more people than sharks

December 1, 2018