What Are Some Fun Facts?

What is the oldest animal in the world?

The oldest-known living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who is 187 years old. He was born in 1832 and has lived on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean since 1882. ( guinnessworldrecords.com) 16. Bats are the only mammal that can actually fly.

The oldest person ever to have lived (whose age could be authenticated), a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment, was 122 years old when she died in 1997. ( guinnessworldrecord.com) 8. Sliced bread was first manufactured by machine and sold in the 1920s by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri.

The most common wild bird in the world isn’t the sparrow or blue jay —it’s the red-billed quelea, which live in Africa and have an estimated population of 1.5 billion. ( audubon.org) 19. The heart of the blue whale, the largest animal on earth, is five feet long and weighs 400 pounds.

The hardest working muscle in your body is your heart: It pumps more than 2,000 gallons of blood a day and beats more than 2.5 billion times in a 70-year life span. ( heart.org) 38. It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose (just try it!). 39. Skin is the body’s largest organ.

How many breaths do we take in a lifetime?

At an average of 15 breaths per minute, we take about 400 million breaths during a lifetime. This is equivalent to about 53 million gallons of air. [29] The shiniest living thing on earth is the Pollia Condensata, an African fruit. [29] The bee hummingbird drinks from up to 1,500 flowers a day.

The sun weighs 2,000 million million million million tons. [29] Shoes that were specific to left and right were not made until the Civil War. [29] The Turks call the turkey an “American bird.”. [30] Lightning kills about 10,000 people a year worldwide, more people than tornadoes or flooding.

Lightning kills about 10,000 people a year worldwide, more people than tornadoes or flooding. [29] Lightning doesn’t just happen during a thunderstorm. It can happen during volcanic eruptions, intense forest fires, surface nuclear explosions, heavy snowstorms, and large hurricanes.

[10] Alexander the Great was the first person to be pictured on a coin. [29] FDR’s portrait was on the dime because of his association with the March of Dimes charity.

How much saliva does a human produce in a day?

That’s 24.3 ounces (720 ml) or one full wine bottle’s worth of saliva a day, which is an average of 69 gallons (263 liters) per year.

The ocean covers around 70% of the Earth’s surface, and it is much harder to explore than land. As much as 20% of the ocean floor has now been mapped, thanks to advancements in sonar technologies. The reason we’ve explored so little of the ocean is that the technology needed has only developed over the last 100 years.

Saturn is the only planet in our solar system that could float in water. Although Saturn is the second-largest planet in our solar system, it is also the lightest planet. Saturn could float in water because it is mostly made of gas. However, the true fact here is that you would need a giant bathtub!