diff --git a/randfacts/__version__.py b/randfacts/__version__.py index 96f4b89..22b256b 100644 --- a/randfacts/__version__.py +++ b/randfacts/__version__.py @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ __title__ = "randfacts" __description__ = "Package to generate random facts" __url__ = "https://github.com/TabulateJarl8/randfacts" -__version__ = "0.12.0" +__version__ = "0.13.0" __author__ = "Tabulate" __author_email__ = "tabulatejarl8@gmail.com" __license__ = "MIT" diff --git a/randfacts/randfacts.py b/randfacts/randfacts.py index 02bfc2c..5596bad 100644 --- a/randfacts/randfacts.py +++ b/randfacts/randfacts.py @@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ def get_fact(filter_enabled: bool = True, only_unsafe: bool = False) -> str: def _cli_entrypoint(): - """Entrypoint for execution via command-line. - """ + """Entrypoint for execution via command-line.""" parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description='Generate random facts from the command-line' diff --git a/randfacts/safe.txt b/randfacts/safe.txt index 2038622..02026fb 100644 --- a/randfacts/safe.txt +++ b/randfacts/safe.txt @@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ The Titanic's chief baker "fortified" himself with alcohol and thus survived the Hawaii's largest-ever earthquake occurred in 1868 and the aftershocks are still being observed. In 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Most homes in Bolivia have a dried llama fetus thrown under its foundations for luck -Horses can sleep standing An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards. William Shakespeare's six surviving signatures have different spellings, including "Shakspere Shaksper" and "Shakspeare.". The right spelling has been in dispute for centuries. @@ -929,7 +928,6 @@ The "I'm feeling lucky" button costs Google US$110 million per year, as it bypas Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius was the first to claim that fossil fuel combustion may eventually result in enhanced global warming already in 1896. In 2004, Gates predicted that the problem of spam email would be gone within two years. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles -A day on Venus is longer than its year There is a "Gospel of Judas" not found in the Bible that speaks of Judas as the only one of Jesus' disciples who fully understood his teachings. He turned Jesus over to the Romans because Jesus asked him to. Newton was secretly an Alchemist. The Netherlands is the world's largest per capita consumer of coffee, averaging 2.4 cups of coffee per person per day @@ -1479,8 +1477,6 @@ While you sleep you can't smell anything – even really, really bad or potent s Some tumors can grow hair, teeth, bones, even fingernails. Your brain uses 10 watts of energy to think and does not feel pain. Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones. -The smallest country in the world takes up .2 square miles: Vatican City. -Hippopotamus milk is pink. Your fingernails grow faster when you are cold. Applesauce was the first food eaten in space by astronauts. Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years. @@ -1493,7 +1489,6 @@ Are you terrified that a duck is watching you? Some people are. That is anati American Black bears are not just black but include bears of varying colors including blonde, cinnamon, brown, white and even silver-blue. Because of the 4 stages of the Water Cycle – Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation and Collection – water falling as rain today may have previously fallen as rain days, weeks, months or years before. Goats have rectangular pupils in their eyes. -There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year. Cans of diet soda will float in water but regular soda cans will sink. Birds can not live in space – they need gravity to be able to swallow. Some perfumes actually have whale poo in them. @@ -1507,7 +1502,6 @@ If a Donkey and a Zebra have a baby, it is called a Zonkey. The most difficult-to-pronounce town is in Wales: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch. A tsunami can travel as fast as a jet plane. There is a 50% chance that in a group of 23 people, two will share the same birthday. In a group of 367 people, it is a 100% chance. But only 70 people are required for a 99.9% chance. -All babies are born with blue eyes. When you look at a bright sky and see white dots, you are looking at your blood. Those are white blood cells. Your small intestine is the largest internal organ in your body. Love carrots? Don't eat too many or you will turn orange. @@ -2639,7 +2633,6 @@ The first Valentine candy box was invented by Richard Cadbury in the 1800's. An olive tree can live up to 1500 years 96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches -The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved The biggest hamburger that was served was 8,266 pounds. It was made at the Burger Fest in Seymour, Wisconsin Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous @@ -3340,7 +3333,6 @@ In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty One out of 20 people have an extra rib 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money -Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67. Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining @@ -3383,7 +3375,6 @@ Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen Throughout the South, peanuts were known as "Monkey Nuts," and "Goober peas," before the civil war Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell In 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can for preserving food -The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week Colour is not an indicator for the taste or ripeness in cranberries Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide @@ -3558,7 +3549,6 @@ Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, are responsible for making the Super Skippy Peanut Butter is sold more in the world than any other peanut butter The highest bridge in the world is located in the Himalyan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army, in 1982, and is about 5,600 metres above sea level In 1893, the first mosque in the United States was built -Apples are part of the rose family Actress Meryl Streep holds the record for the most Oscar nominated actress, with a record of 13 nominations In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper Enamel is hardest substance in the human body @@ -3917,7 +3907,6 @@ Men are able to read fine print better than women can On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day Spiders usually have eight eyes, but still they cannot see that well One ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one day -Women hearts beat faster than men The Central African raffia palm is known to have the longest leaves. The leaves can measure up to 82.5 feet long. Due to the shortages of lead and metals during World War II, toothpaste was packaged in plastic tubes and have been ever since It is estimated that 93% of American children will go out trick or treating for Halloween @@ -4373,7 +4362,6 @@ If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top an If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive. -Every person has a unique tongue print. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. In the TV series I Love Lucy, Ricki Ricardo never actually said "Lucy you have some 'splaining to do" The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. @@ -4381,7 +4369,6 @@ Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of 11: £4000 A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee. -It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out. @@ -4858,7 +4845,6 @@ There is a company in the U.K. that offers "being hungover" as a valid reason fo The majority of blind people in the U.S. and the U.K. cannot read braille. Statistically, less than 1% of blind in the U.K., and under 10% in the U.S. 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. -There are only two countries in the world that have the color purple in their flags: Nicaragua and Dominica. A bolt of lightning can reach 53,540 degrees Fahrenheit. That's 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun, which is 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit. There is a village in Russia called Tsovkra where every resident can tightrope walk. It is a tradition that dates back over 100 years but no one knows how it started. When Shakira was in second grade, she was rejected by the school choir because her vibrato was too strong. The music teacher told her that she sounded like a goat. @@ -4925,7 +4911,6 @@ To keep from drifting apart, sea otters hold hands while they sleep. Dolphins give names to each other. Gorillas can catch human colds The turkey was once almost named the national bird. -A group of owls is called a parliament. There are 32 muscles in a cat's ear. Snails can regenerate their eyes. Female turtles hiss and male turtles grunt. @@ -5004,7 +4989,6 @@ A tomato is actually a fruit. The cashew nuts we eat are actually attached to a large cashew apple that is used to make soft drinks in Brazil. Mice do not like cheese. They prefer sweets if given the choice - they like to eat fruit, seeds, and grains. Turkey was probably not eaten at the first Thanksgiving - instead, wildfowl, goose, and possibly passenger pigeons and swans were consumed. -Caterpillars have 12 eyes. Mice have pretty funny names: A female mouse is a doe and a male mouse is a buck. Baby mice are sometimes called pinkies because of their color and sometimes called pups. Gorillas, monkeys, bonobos, and other primates make a new nest to sleep in every night. Chickens don't just eat seeds, they like to eat insects and also mice and lizards. @@ -5059,7 +5043,6 @@ While SPAM is most popular in Hawaii, it was actually invented in Minnesota. The world's longest French fry is 34-inches long. Garlic bulbs are full of Vitamin C, iron, potassium, magnesium, zinc and more. They also has 17 amino acids. On the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, potatoes were once used as currency. -The strawberry is the only fruit that bears seeds on the outside. According to Tori Avey, coffee became a popular drink in America after the Boston Tea Party of 1773: making the switch from tea to coffee was considered a patriotic duty. The double coconut palm produced the biggest seed in the world: 45 pounds. Ice cream was once called "cream ice." @@ -5094,18 +5077,15 @@ The US gets over 1200 tornadoes a year. Clouds look white because they are reflecting sunlight from above them. Yuma, Arizona gets over 4000 hours of sunshine a year, making it the sunniest place on earth. The least sunny place is the South Pole, where the sun only shines on 182 days a year. (Which would you rather live in?) Rain contains vitamin B12. -A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the sun. A hurricane releases enough energy in one second to equal that of 10 atomic bombs. It can be too warm to snow, but never too cold. Tropical storms and hurricanes started getting "named" in 1953. You can tell the weather by counting a cricket's chirps! Worms wiggle up from the ground when a flood is coming. The moon is very hot (224 degrees Fahrenheit, average) during the day but very cold (-243 degrees average) at night. -One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly in space, on June 18, 1983. Even in an airplane, a trip to Pluto would take about 800 years. Ham the Astrochimp was the first hominid in space, launched on Jan. 31, 1961. -Neptune's days are 16 hours long. It takes eight minutes and 19 seconds for light to travel from the sun to Earth. The footprints on the moon will be there for 100 million years. A neutron star can spin 600 times in one second. @@ -5119,7 +5099,6 @@ Saturn's rings are made from trillions of chunks of orbiting ice. Alpha Centauri isn't a star, but a star system. It is 4.22 light years away. One day on Venus is almost 8 months on Earth. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm that has been raging for over 200 years. -There are more stars in the universe than grains of sands on Earth. Many people believe that early mermaid sightings can be attributed to dehydration + manatees. Sloths cannot shiver to stay warm, and so have difficulty maintaining their body temperature on rainy days. In the wild, some reindeer travel more than 3000 miles in a single year. @@ -5157,7 +5136,6 @@ Human teeth are as strong as shark teeth! Your blood is as salty as the ocean. Not only does everyone have unique fingerprints, but humans also have unique tongue-prints! The average brain weighs about three pounds. A newborn brain weighs about 3/4 of a pound. -Your nose and ears never stop growing. A human body contains almost 100 trillion cells. Eyelashes live for about 150 days before falling out. Humans are the only animals with chins. @@ -5180,7 +5158,6 @@ The smallest bone in your body is in your ear. Tennis players can be fined up to $20,000 for swearing while playing at Wimbledon. Only 5% of the ocean has been explored. Most people fart around 14 to 23 times a day! -The national animal of Scotland is a unicorn. The following can be read forward and backward: Do geese see God? A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born. A sheep, a duck, and a rooster were the first passengers to take a trip in a hot air balloon. @@ -5195,7 +5172,6 @@ Human blood cells have different lifespans. A swarm of 20,000 bees followed a car for two days because their queen was stuck inside. Eating carrots can turn your skin orange. Bob Dylan's birth name was Robert Zimmerman. -Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift away from each other. A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale. The word "y'all" dates back to at least 1631. J.K. Rowling chose the unusual name "Hermione" so young girls wouldn't be teased for being nerdy. @@ -5257,7 +5233,6 @@ Termites outweigh humans by almost ten to one. A spider's web is not a home, but rather a trap for its food. They are as individual as snowflakes, with no two ever being the same. Some tropical spiders have built webs over eighteen feet across. More people are afraid of spiders than death. Amazingly, few people are afraid of Champagne corks even though you are more likely to be killed by one than by a spider. Your brain consumes 25 watts of power while you're awake. This amount of energy is enough to illuminate a lightbulb. -It is impossible to lick your elbow. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. Possums have one of the shortest pregnancies at 16 days. The shortest human pregnancy to produce a healthy baby was 22 weeks, 6 days -- the baby was the length of a ballpoint pen. The most poisonous spider is the black widow. Its venom is more potent than a rattlesnake's. @@ -5327,7 +5302,6 @@ Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce". -Slugs have four noses. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. India has a Bill of Rights for cows. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads. @@ -5389,7 +5363,6 @@ The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full mo There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. -A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. @@ -5408,7 +5381,6 @@ Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure. Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies. -A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. All polar bears are left-handed. The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal) @@ -5418,7 +5390,6 @@ There are over a million described species of insects. Some people estimate ther Most insects are beneficial to people because they eat other insects, pollinate crops, are food for other animals, make products we use (like honey and silk) or have medical uses. Butterflies and insects have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, called the exoskeleton. This protects the insect and keeps water inside their bodies so they don't dry out. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump. -Starfish have no brains. 11% of the world is left-handed. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. @@ -5566,7 +5537,6 @@ Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. -A snail can sleep for three years. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH". Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. @@ -5699,7 +5669,6 @@ Australian soldiers used the song "We're Off to See the Wizard" as a marching so The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic. The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree. Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world. -Greenland is the largest island in the world. The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen. In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters. The Simpsons is the longest running animated series on TV. @@ -5770,7 +5739,6 @@ A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. The penguin is the only bird that can swim but can't fly. The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claws. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away. -Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet (91 m) long in just one night. Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to one. @@ -6012,7 +5980,6 @@ Rubber bands will last much longer when they are refrigerated. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The Grand Theft Auto franchise has lawsuits that total over $1 billion. All clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20. -The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain. A dime has 118 ridges on its edge. On average, a secretary will use its left hand for 56% of what they type on a keyboard. The largest pair of eyes in the world belongs to the giant squid. @@ -6085,7 +6052,6 @@ Only owning one guinea pig is illegal in Switzerland. A man in Florida once threw a live alligator through a drive-thru window. Great Britain once had a number where you can report rogue traffic cones. The largest recorded snowflake is 15 inches wide. -McDonald's once had bubblegum flavored broccoli. American Airlines saved money by getting rid of olives from their meals. 'OMG' was first used in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917. Sailors consider black cats good luck. @@ -6306,4 +6272,264 @@ People once believed that chewing on tree bark will keep your gums healthy. Kangaroos never stop growing. Red blood cells circulate your body at an amazing speed. The flashes of light when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes. -Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. is Snoop Dog's real name. \ No newline at end of file +Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. is Snoop Dog's real name. +Lemurs use millipedes as an insect repellent and to get high. +The phrase "hands down" comes from horseracing. It refers to a jockey who's so far ahead that he can afford to drop his hands and loosen the reins (usually kept tight to encourage a horse to run) and still easily win. +There are some spiders that keep tiny frogs as pets to stop pests that try to eat the spider's eggs. +In a room with just 23 people, there's a 50-50 chance that at least two people have the same birthday. +Hot water freezes faster than cold water. +The couple in the painting "American Gothic" are actually father and daughter and not husband and wife. +The chainsaw was originally created to aid in childbirth. +Sharks have no bones. +Orcas are a natural predator to moose. +A chicken named Mike lived for 18 months after its head was chopped off. +The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn. +The Brontosaurus never existed. +Wombat poop is square. +Soft-shelled turtles urinate through their mouth. +On average, the closest planet to Earth is Mercury. On average, the closest planet to Pluto is also Mercury. +Square watermelons are grown in Japan. +German Chocolate Cake has nothing to do with Germany. It was named after English-American Samuel German who developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe. +The US has lost 6 nuclear weapons. +Whale sharks have teeth on their eyeballs. +It's legal for anyone over 5 years old to drink alcohol in the UK. +Bubbles are the number one cause of damage to ship propellers. +A woodpecker's tongue wraps around its brain. +Red, green, yellow, and orange bell peppers are all the same type of pepper with their color difference being caused by being at different stages of ripeness. +You could fit all the planets between the Earth and the moon. +Australia exports camels to the Middle East. +Australia exports sand to Saudi Arabia. +Camels originated in North America. +It took Erno Rubik, the creator of the Rubik's Cube, about one month to solve the cube after he created it. +If a Lone Star Tick bites you, you may become allergic to red meat. +A dog named Duke was the mayor of Cormorant, Minnesota for four consecutive terms before retiring at 91 in dog years. +The Canary Islands were named after dogs, not canaries. +The Dingo Fence in Australia is longer than the distance between New York City to London. +Tommy Fitzpatrick stole a small plane in 1956 from New Jersey on a bet and then landed it on the narrow street in front of the bar where he had been drinking in Manhattan. Two years later, he did it again after someone didn't believe he had done it the first time. +Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collard greens, gai lan, kale, kohlrabi, and savoy are all the same species of plant called "Brassica oleracea" +Mark Twain was born on the same day Halley's Comet flew by the earth. He said "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it." Halley's Comet appeared on April 21, 1910, which is the day Mark Twain died. +There are more public libraries in the US than Starbucks or McDonalds. +Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's grandson, overthrew Iran for the US government. +The longest boxing match went 110 rounds and over 7 hours. +More than eighty percent of the Earth's ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored. +There are more trees on earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy. +Australia once lost a war to emus (the birds). +A giraffe and a human have the same number of bones in their necks. +It's suspected that on Neptune and Uranus, it rains diamonds. +If sound could travel through space, the noise that the sun would be the equivalent to a train horn from 1 meter away. +There are different sizes of infinity. +Smallpox is the only infectious disease that affects humans to have been eradicated. +Drinking too much water can be fatal. +There are at least 200 dead bodies on Mt Everest, some of which are used as climbing markers. +When a person gets a kidney transplant, they usually just leave the original kidneys in their body and put the 3rd kidney in the lower abdomen. +The founder of Match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to another man she met on Match.com +If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would reach the moon. +The first can opener wasn't invented until almost 50 years after the invention of the can. +During World War 2 the US created a bomb that used live bats. +Most people have an above-average number of arms. +In 1919, a wave a molasses rushed through the streets of Boston killing 21 people and injuring 150. +Twinkies only have a shelf life of 45 days. +The fortune cookie was likely invented in the US by people of Japanese descent. +You don't need to wait 24 hours to file a missing person report. +"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence. +The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses Waffle House Restaurants being open or closed as one way to determine the effect of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery. +There's a real music piece name 4′33″ that involves all the musicians just silently holding their instruments. +The US Supreme Court ruled in 1893 that a tomato is a vegetable and not a fruit. +The smallest park in the world is a circle in a street 2 feet across. +15% of all public corporations in the United States use a drab two-story office space in Delaware as their tax haven including half of all Fortune 500 companies. +A town in Pennsylvania has had an uncontrolled fire burning since 1962. +A jail for polar bears exists. +There is a part of Yellowstone National Park where a person could theoretically get away with murder due to a loophole. +The eighth power of a number is a zenzizenzizenzic. +Cosmic Latte is the average color of the universe. +McDonald's once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli +Scotland has over 400 words for "snow" +Firefighters sometimes use wetting agents to make water wetter. +There was a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution in 1916 that would put all acts of war to a national vote, and anyone voting yes would have to register as a volunteer for service in the United States Army. +A Japanese company gives its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for smoking breaks. +"Military Grade" is a marketing ploy. In the actual military, "military grade" is defined as "meeting the bare-minimum requirements of durability, while also costing the least." +A Georgia teacher who bought a $400 travel insurance policy was rewarded $10,000 because she read the fine print of the contract. +Babies have 300 bones when born while an adult only has 206 bones. +One teaspoon of neutron star material weighs six billion tons. +Due to their fur, the polar bear is relatively "invisible" to an infrared camera +Venus spins the wrong way compared to other planets. +Nintendo has existed as a company since 1889 +In 1961 two hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over North Carolina. A glitch prevented them from detonating. +Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire +NASA mistakenly erased the original tape of the first steps on the moon. +Camels store water their bloodstream, not their hump which is fatty tissue. +While Mount Everest is the highest altitude mountain, the tallest mountain on earth is Mauna Kea. +Earth used to be purple. +There are only two countries in the world that use the color purple in their flag. +Canada's forests make up nearly 9% of the world's total forest area. +1 out of every 200 men is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. +There are only two countries in the world that have "The" as part of their country's name. +People living in the southern hemisphere see the moon upside down compared to people living in the northern hemisphere. +More photos were taken in the past seven years than in all of the previous history. +You have no major muscles in your fingers. All muscles that control finger movement are in your forearm and palm. +Sharks lived on earth before trees. +Because there are more molecules of air in one breath than there are breaths in the atmosphere, every breath you take likely contains at least one molecule of Newton's last breath. +George Washington never knew dinosaurs existed. +90% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere. +Most of the visible stars you see in the night sky are binary stars - two stars orbiting each other. +In space, you don't need welding materials to get two metals to fuse. They will do it on their own if you place them close enough together. +A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus. +Jupiter has over 70 moons. +If the sun dies, it'll take about 8 minutes before we realize it has. +The festive tradition of the Christmas tree dates back thousands of years to the Romans and Ancient Egyptians. +There are more than 1,000 kinds of bats in the world. +Bees are found everywhere in the world apart from Antarctica. +The average star is between 1 and 10 billion years old +It is illegal to stand within 90 meters of the Queen without socks on. +Australia has the most amount of reptiles in the world +You might think that stars are all the same, but each star is a different color depending on their temperature. +As well as having unique finger prints, we all have unique tongue prints. +Caterpillars have 12 eyes! +There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on a beach. +It would take only one hour to drive to space. +Slugs have four noses. +It is impossible to lick your own elbow. +A hippopotamus can run faster than a man. +A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. +Water covers 70% of Earth. +Most insects hatch from eggs. +The sun looks super close but it would take 70,000 years in our fastest spaceship to reach it. +Pigs can't look up into the sky – it's physically impossible. +The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. +About 70% of an adult's body is water. +Your nose and ears continue growing for your entire life. +Dogs' hearing is 10 times better than a human's. +A dog's nose is like a human finger print – unique to its owner. +Apples float on water! +Number four is the only one with the same amount of letters. +You can not talk and inhale or exhale at the same time... try it! +More than 480million people have played Monopoly. +Your heart is about the same size as your fist. +A Tiger's skin is striped, like it's fur. +Frogs drink water through their skin. +A pet hamster can run up to 8 miles a night on a wheel. +Monkeys can go bald in old age, just like humans. +No word in the dictionary rhyme with the word orange. +The opposite sides of the dice always add up to seven. +An average yawn lasts six seconds. +Dogs can smell 100,000 times better than humans. +Most fish don't have eyelids. +Only male toads croak. +Owls can't move their eyeballs +There is a tree called the Idiot Fruit, it grows in Australia's Daintree rainforest +When you grow up you'll have 32 teeth +Every step you take uses 200 different muscles in the body. +There may have been four different Ice Ages, where the world was completely covered in ice, not just one. +It won't be possible to walk on planets like Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn or Uranus as they don't have a solid surface and are made of gases mostly. +A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the sun. +A prawn or shrimp's heart is in their heads. +Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. +The world's tallest man was Robert Wadlow from Michigan, America. He measured 8 feet and 2 inches (or 272cm). +'Arachibutyrophobia' is the fear of getting peanut bar stuck to the roof of your mouth. +All babies are born with blue eyes. +The world's heaviest carrot grown by Christopher Qualley in the USA weighed 10.7kg (or 22.44 lb). +French fries originated in Belgium, not France. +Emperor penguins can last 27 minutes underwater and can dive as deep as 500m. +Octopuses have blue blood and nine brains. +There are about 100,000 muscles in an elephant's trunk, but not a single bone. +You can hear a lion's roar from a distance of 3 miles. +Prairie dogs "kiss" each other as a way to identify each other. +Female lions do about 90% of the hunting. +Cows get stressed when they are separated from their best friends. +There are over 400 million dogs in the entire world. +Orcas are not whales at all, they are actually a type of dolphin. +Cats only meow to talk to humans. They do not meow to communicate with other cats. +Baby elephants use their trunks the same way that baby humans use a pacifier. Baby elephants find sucking on their trunks very calming. +Octopuses have nine brains. +Cows have 4 stomachs. +Rats are ticklish! And they laugh when they are tickled. +Male seahorses are the ones who give birth. +Snails can sleep for three years at a time. +Bats can eat up to 1,000 insects in an hour. +Polar bears are not white-their fur is actually transparent. +Flamingos eat with their head upside down. +Bats are the only mammals that can fly, but their leg bones are so thin that it is almost impossible for them to walk. +A group of owls is called a parliament. +Ants don't have lungs. +Grizzly bears can run up to 30 miles per hour. +Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart. +Next to humans, mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on Earth. +Ostrich's eyes are bigger than its brain. +A group of frogs is called an army. +Hummingbirds can fly backward. +Kangaroos cannot walk backward. +Horses and cows can sleep standing up. +Cats cannot taste anything that is sweet. +Hippopotamus milk is pink. +Starfish have no brains. +Alaska is both the most western and most eastern state in the United States. +Greenland is the world's largest island. +The English language is spoken in more than 100 countries around the world. +Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. +Antarctica is the only continent with no permanent human residents. +Dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa can travel great distances-even as far as Texas. +Maine is the closest state to Africa. +The state of California has more people than the entire country of Canada. +The Dead Sea is the lowest place on the planet. +Istanbul is the only city in the world located on two continents-Europe and Asia. +Water covers about 70% of the Earth's surface. +Russia is just two miles from Alaska. +The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean. +People can fart after they die. +Clouds aren't weightless-they can actually be way over a million pounds. +Because bananas contain potassium, they are radioactive. +Human babies have more bones than adults. +Chalk is made up of fossils. +The acid in your stomach can dissolve steel. +All planets spin counterclockwise except for Venus. +Because of gravity, you would weigh less on the moon than on Earth. +The human brain cannot feel pain. +On average, the human body is made up of 60% water. +Plankton, seaweed, and other ocean organisms create over half the world's oxygen. +White is not actually a color, but the absence of all colors. +Strawberries are the only fruits with their seeds on the outside. +When cranberries are ripe, they can bounce like a ball. +Wind is actually silent. What we hear is the wind blowing against an object. +Contrary to popular belief, lightning can strike twice. +The human nose can detect a trillion different scents. +Human noses and ears never stop growing. +The human heart beats 115,000 times a day. +Women's hearts beat faster than men's. +Apples are actually a part of the rose family. +The planet Neptune's days are 16 hours long. +Humans lose about 50-100 hairs a day. +Boys have fewer taste buds than girls. +You can still see traces of Neil Armstrong's footprints on the moon. +It takes your body about 12 hours to fully digest food. +About half of the bones in your body are in your hands and feet. +Alexander the Great was buried alive. +Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian-she was Greek. +The Statue of Liberty was originally supposed to be located in the Suez Canal. +Tug of war used to be an Olympic sport. +Abraham Lincoln was a champion wrestler. +During the Victorian era it was popular for people to take photographs of their loved ones after they had died. +Thomas Edison and John Adams died hours apart on July 4, 1826. +The war between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly lasted 335 years, and not a single person was killed. +Romans used urine as mouthwash. +Before becoming president, Lincoln lost 5 different elections. +Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb. +Most people cannot lick their elbows. +You cannot sneeze with your eyes open. +The Olympics used to give medals for art, not just sports. +A jar of Nutella is sold every 2.5 seconds. +French fries are Belgian, not French. +Before alarm clocks, people would pay someone to knock on their window and wake them up. They were called knocker-uppers. +Make tea not war! All British armored vehicles have the equipment needed to make tea. +There are 31,557,600  seconds in a year. +Arithmophobia is the fear of numbers. +Your nose may not grow like Pinocchio's, but it does get warmer when you tell a lie. +Tomatoes and avocados are actually fruits, not vegetables +The Queen of England has two birthdays. +The number four is the only number to have the same amount of letters as its value. +Every human has a unique tongue print. +In your lifetime, you will spend 25 years sleeping. +You cannot smell while you sleep. +Brown is the most common eye color. +You will get cell phone service on the top of Mount Everest. +You can buy a square watermelon in Japan. +Newborn babies are colorblind. \ No newline at end of file