130 Weird but True Facts To Amaze and Surprise Everyone

Here are 130 weird but true facts that will amaze and surprise everyone:

1. Octopuses have three hearts.
2. Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't.
3. A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."
4. Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still edible.
5. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
6. A cow-bison hybrid is called a “beefalo.”
7. The total weight of ants on earth once equaled the total weight of people.
8. Crows can hold grudges against specific individual people.
9. Turritopsis dohrnii, a type of jellyfish, can cycle from a mature adult stage back to an immature polyp stage, effectively making it biologically immortal.
10. A single strand of spaghetti is called a “spaghetto.”
11. The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion of the metal.
12. The inventor of the Frisbee was turned into a Frisbee after he died.
13. In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
14. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
15. A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
16. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.
17. The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that is attached from one end.
18. The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.
19. A shrimp's heart is located in its head.
20. Rats laugh when tickled.
21. The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
22. A rhinoceros' horn is made of hair.
23. It is impossible to hum while holding your nose.
24. Butterflies taste with their feet.
25. The longest English word without a vowel is "rhythms."
26. A snail can sleep for three years.
27. The Twitter bird actually has a name – it's Larry.
28. Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time.
29. Cats have fewer toes on their back paws.
30. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
31. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
32. Birds don’t urinate.
33. It’s illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland because they get lonely.
34. A group of frogs is called an army.
35. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old.
36. A group of hedgehogs is known as a "prickle."
37. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
38. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
39. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift away from each other.
40. A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
41. The inventor of the microwave appliance only received $2 for his discovery.
42. A group of pugs is called a "grumble."
43. In South Korea, there is an emergency number (113) to report spies.
44. Snails have 14,000 teeth and some can even kill.
45. Slugs have four noses.
46. Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.
47. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
48. The person who invented the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
49. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
50. The world’s largest grand piano was built by a 15-year-old in New Zealand.
51. The shortest poem ever written is just two lines.
52. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
53. "Bookkeeper" is the only unhyphenated English word with three consecutive double letters.
54. You can’t sneeze in your sleep because the brain shuts down the reflex.
55. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
56. The first oranges weren’t orange.
57. In France, it’s legal to marry a dead person.
58. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
59. There is an opera house on the U.S.–Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.
60. The banana tree is the world's largest herb.
61. A traffic jam lasted for more than 10 days, with cars only moving 0.6 miles a day.
62. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the universe was produced in a laboratory in Massachusetts.
63. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.
64. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
65. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
66. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
67. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
68. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.
69. Bananas are naturally radioactive.
70. Heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday.
71. If you consistently fart for 6 years & 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
72. An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
73. The top six foods that make your fart are beans, corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage, and milk.
74. There is a species of spider called the Hobo Spider.
75. A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
76. A baby spider is called a spiderling.
77. You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
78. The following can be read forward and backwards: Do geese see God?
79. A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
80. A sheep, a duck, and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
81. In Uganda, 50% of the population is under 15 years of age.
82. Hitler’s mother considered abortion but the doctor persuaded her to keep the baby.
83. Arab women can initiate a divorce if their husbands don’t pour coffee for them.
84. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
85. Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
86. Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an odd number of whiskers.
87. Facebook, Skype and Twitter are all banned in China.
88. 95% of people text things they could never say in person.
89. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
90. About 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year.
91. The French language has seventeen different words for ‘surrender’.
92. Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
93. Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
94. A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out.
95. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart.
96. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
97. A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
98. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.
99. For every human on Earth, there are 1.6 million ants.
100. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans.
101. On Jupiter and Saturn, it rains diamonds.
102. Sharks kill fewer people each year than New Yorkers do.
103. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
104. The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
105. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
106. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colorant wasn’t added.
107. You cannot cry in space because of the lack of gravity.
108. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
109. A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.
110. Earth is the only planet that is not named after a god.
111. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.
112. You are more likely to get a computer virus from visiting religious sites than porn sites.
113. The word "gorilla" is derived from a Greek word meaning, “a tribe of hairy women.”
114. People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.
115. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
116. Pigs’ orgasms last for 30 minutes.
117. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
118. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
119. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
120. More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
121. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
122. A broken clock is right twice a day.
123. The elements that we are composed of were formed in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are all made of star dust.
124. Honey is the only natural food which never spoils.
125. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
126. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
127. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
128. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
129. A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.
130. Butterflies taste with their feet.

These facts range from the whimsical to the bizarre, offering a glimpse into the wonderfully strange world we live in!