Fun Fact

Trivial facts that are somewhat nice to know. They can be interesting, funny, weird, or actually fun. Fun Facts are typically short and are simple. If you want some Fun Facts to enjoy, a categorized list of them is below. Note that not all of these facts are guaranteed to be true, so do your own research for facts that you're unsure about and correct any that are wrong.

Animals
Fun Fact: A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away. Damn.

Fun Fact: A group of frogs is called an army or colony.

Fun Fact: Some jellyfish are technically immortal.

Fun Fact: Some cats don't like water because it makes them lose body heat when they are totally wet, making the cat uncomfortable.

Fun Fact: A real-life chicken actually does make the "cock-a-doodle-doo" sound that it's portrayed to in fiction.

Fun Fact: Rabbits cannot eat carrots because there is too much sugar in them. The carrots, not the rabbits. Sorry, Bugs...

Fun Fact: Elephants cannot jump.

Fun Fact: Bugs can climb walls because their legs use electricity to attach to surfaces.

Fun Fact: Dogs aren't entirely colorblind — they can see some colors, but not as many as humans or other primates.

Fun Fact: Dogs are called "man's best friend" because of how they were the first animal man tamed and for their unparalleled loyalty.

Fun Fact: An octopus can fit through any opening its beak allows it to as it is completely boneless everywhere else in its body.

Fun Fact: Plants make of most of bears' diets.

Fun Fact: Blue whales are the largest known animals to ever exist on Earth.

Fun Fact: Dolphins have no sense of smell.

Fun Fact: Bears, the animals best known to hibernate, do not truly hibernate. They do not have the proper bodily characteristics such as blood pressure and heart rate to do so.

Fun Fact: The greyhound is the fastest dog breed in the world, clocking in at about 45 mph.

Fun Fact: Pigs aren't as filthy as their reputation makes them out to be. They're actually hygienic animals who roll around in mud to cool off.

Companies and Fiction
Fun Fact: Nintendo started out as a producer of Japanese playing cards in 1889.

Fun Fact: Mark Zuckerburg is red-green colorblind, which is why Facebook's logo has blue as its main color.

Fun Fact: 20th Century Fox, one of the major media companies in America, was founded on January 1, 1986. This means it's younger than NBC (November 15, 1926), CBS (September 18, 1927), and ABC (October 12, 1943).

Fun Fact: Arthur predates Garfield. Arthur's Nose, the first Arthur book, was published on May 15, 1976, while the first Garfield strip was written on June 19, 1978.

Earth
Fun Fact: All life on Earth is technically related like family.

Fun Fact: The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

Fun Fact: The second-tallest mountain in the world is named K2, found on the China-Pakistan border. It also has the shortest mountain name in the world.

Fun Fact: The water, rock, air, and metal on Earth are billions of years old. And as it is made of metal, whatever device you're using right now technically is also billions of years old.

Food
Fun Fact: Jelly beans aren't actually made of jelly but sugar.

Fun Fact: Honey never expires. Instead, it crystalizes.

Fun Fact: Bananas are botanically considered berries.

Fun Fact: Chinese food in America isn't really all that Chinese. Chinese food in China is.

Fun Fact: There are very minute traces of bug parts in chocolate because the cocoa beans from which the chocolate is made attract bugs in the places they grow. Since it's too expensive to remove 100% of the bug pieces that are in the cocoa, chocolate manufacturers are forced to leave them in and whatever the chocolate is made of is now also made of bugs. ''Now after hearing all that, you still wanna eat that Kit Kat? Yeah, that's what I thought. Hand it over. Through the Internet.''

History
Fun Fact: The concept of currency is over 1,500 years ago.

Fun Fact: Wheat is the first crop that man began to cultivate. We began farming it around 8000 BCE.

Fun Fact: The name "computer bug" originated from an actual bug (a dead moth) being found in a computer in 1947. ''We found the problem with your computer. It's a fucking moth.''

Fun Fact: It isn't sure where humans began to exist. Some researchers say Africa, others say Asia, some also say Europe.

Fun Fact: You were once the youngest person on Earth. But your time's long gone, old man.

Fun Fact: The US Army is the oldest branch of the American military.

Humans
Fun Fact: The Republican party, or GOP (Grand Old Party), is older than the Democratic party. Get it? Grand OLD Party?

Fun Fact: There are around 195 countries on Earth. This total will differ depending on what defines as a country.

Fun Fact: Your stomach will digest itself if it doesn't produce a new layer of mucus to protect its inside every two weeks. This is because of your powerful stomach acids.

Fun Fact: A sneeze can travel over 100 mph. Goddamn.

Fun Fact: Brain size and intelligence have no correlation.

Fun Fact: The average IQ is around 85 for Americans. Not bloody likely.

Fun Fact: It's impossible for a human heart to explode on its own.

Fun Fact: Bones don't really melt. Instead, they just fall apart due to how solid they are.

Fun Fact: u die if u stop breathing lol

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Fun Fact: The kings and queens on playing cards are styled after real kings and queens.

Fun Fact: There aren't that many animals that can eat bread without messing their insides up badly due to certain ingredients of bread. We should consider ourselves lucky.

Fun Fact: Clouds are very heavy for their puffy, light-weight appearance. Some clouds can weigh as many as several tons.

Fun Fact: Traffic cones and safety vests are orange because of how it's easy to see the color during both day and night.

Fun Fact: California has the most churches in America with over 22,000 built in the stateundefined.

Fun Fact: The Statue of Liberty originally had a copper-colored coat of paint, but as the copper reacted with the oxygen in the air, it changed to a green color.

Fun Fact: "The" is the most common word in the English lexicon.

Fun Fact: "E" is the most common letter in the alphabet. It probably had some help from "the".

Plants
Fun Fact: The dwarf willow is one of the world's shortest tree species. It doesn't grow any more than one foot.

Fun Fact: On the opposite side of the scale, the redwood is the tallest tree species in the world. It can live for thousands of years, also making it one of the longest-living organisms on the planet.

Fun Fact: Grouped trees, like those in forests, grow tall together to catch the sun's light while lone trees grow wide to catch sunlight.

Fun Fact: Any plant product that has its seeds on the inside is botanically considered a fruit. That means you get jank options like pumpkins and zucchinis along with apples and bananas.

Fun Fact: Coconuts do not come prepackaged with the three holes fiction portrays them with. Some do have a few divots, but they do not bore through the coconut.

Science
Fun Fact: There is no Roman numeral for 0.

Fun Fact: On the topic of 0, bees can understand its concept.

Fun Fact: Time Travel in real life is possible, although this, as to be expected, pales in comparison to the power of fiction's idea of Time Travel.

Fun Fact: Googolplex is the largest number. It has a googol (or 1 then 100 zeroes) zeros after it.

Fun Fact: Hydrogen is the lightest, most common, and simplest of all the elements.

Space
Fun Fact: You can't hear anything in space because there aren't enough molecules for it to travel through.

Fun Fact: The Moon formed from a planet that collided into Earth called Theia around 4.5 billion years ago.

Fun Fact: Fire on the wick of a candle will form a sphere-like shape in space.

Fun Fact: Neutron stars are the strongest magnets in the universe. They're also the second most extreme objects in the universe, next to black holes themselves.

Fun Fact: The Sun is ~4.6 billions years old, the Earth ~4.5 byo, and the Solar System as a whole ~4.5 byo.

Fun Fact: The Sun is loud, but it doesn't actually make noise since, again, space is very empty.

Technology
Fun Fact: The first keyboards (early typewriters) had their keys in alphabetical order. This was later changed to the QWERTY layout due to how quickly typing with alphabetical keys would cause the typewriter's keys to jam.

Fun Fact: More on typewriters, their version of a space bar was an actual bar, which is where the longest key in the known Universe got its name.

Fun Fact: There are 389,112 potential combinations for an Android pattern lock.

Fun Fact: Cannons and mortars are guns.

UnTrash Wiki
Fun Fact: The first version of UnTrash Wiki was started on November 10, 2018 and was discontinued a month and day later.

Fun Fact: The main admin of UnTrash, TheMajorCrunch, started the original wiki. He also wrote every page on both the original and Version 5 to date, including this one.

Fun Fact: This version of UnTrash Wiki, UnTrash Wiki Version 5, is called that since the initials of the wiki, UT, appear to be a sideways number 5.

Fun Fact: The V in UnTrash Wiki Version 5 is bolded because V is 5 in Roman numerals.

Fun Fact: The name "UnTrash" came to be as its creator couldn't come up with another name for a fiction wiki that wasn't obviously about fiction. He also figured that the wiki would be "trashy" since he believed it was too much like TV Tropes, the website that inspired UnTrash Wiki.

Fun Fact: UnTrash exists to make learning about fiction simple with easy-to-understand articles as opposed to TV Tropes's demand of its reader to understand the many Pop Culture References it makes with its articles.

Fun Fact: UnTrash originally had a longer tagline: "UnTrash Wiki: Home of Just More Trash. Watch Your Head.". However, the second half of this tagline was dropped as it made the phrase too long and didn't fit with the context of the wiki.