Daily Fact or Fiction

❓ The Earth's core is as hot as the surface of the sun.

❓ Water is the only substance that exists naturally in all three states—solid, liquid, and gas.

❓ Humans only use 10% of their brain.

❓ Musicians have better brain connectivity than non-musicians.

❓ Listening to classical music can make babies smarter.

❓ The Godfather (1972) was directed by Martin Scorsese.

❓ "Friends" was mainly filmed in New York City.

❓ "The Simpsons" is the longest-running animated scripted TV series in history.

❓ The Nile River carries more water than any other river in the world.

❓ The fax machine was invented before the telephone.

❓ Bubble gum was originally gray.

❓ The "Q" in Q-tips stands for "quality.”

❓ The Great Wall of China is the longest man-made structure in the world.

❓ The hashtag symbol (#) is also called an octothorpe.

❓ Coca-Cola was originally green.

❓ Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.

❓ A 29th of February occurred in 1900.

❓ The inventor of the matchstick died after accidentally ingesting one of his own matches

❓ The Great Fire of London killed over 10,000 people

❓ The first person convicted of speeding was going 8 mph.

❓ The original London Bridge is now located in the United States.

❓ The United States has no official language.

❓ The Statue of Liberty was originally intended for England.

❓ Sharks are older than trees.

❓ There is enough gold in Earth’s core to coat the planet in a 1.5-foot-thick layer.

❓ Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

❓ You can only fold a piece of paper seven times, no matter the size.

❓ There is a species of jellyfish that is biologically immortal.

❓ Bats are blind.

❓ The human nose can detect more than 1 trillion different scents.

❓ The inventor of the frisbee was turned into a frisbee after he died.

❓ Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth from base to summit.

❓ A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance.”

❓ The Great Pyramid of Giza was originally covered in smooth white limestone.

❓ Bees can recognize human faces

❓ Napoleon Bonaparte was extremely short

❓ The Pacific Ocean is wider than the moon.

❓ Humans share approximately 50% of their DNA with bananas

❓ The Eiffel Tower can grow taller in summer.

❓ Chameleons change color to blend in with their surroundings.

❓ A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

❓ The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes.

❓ Ablutophobia is the fear of bathing.

❓ The female blanket octopus is 10,000 times heavier than the male

❓ Taylor Swift's first job was on a Christmas Tree farm

❓ A group of crocodiles is known as a shrewdness

❓ Kelly Clarkson came 4th on the first series of American Idol

❓ The Downton Abbey series starts the day after the sinking of the Titanic

❓ Ketchup used to be sold as a medicine

❓ Three strikes in a row in bowling is called a chicken

❓ Butterflies taste through their wings

❓ In 2023, the most spoken language in the world was English

❓ Lightening is hotter than the surface of the sun

❓ The hardest substance in the human body is tooth enamel

❓ Frozen II is the highest grossing animated movie of all time

❓ Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII

❓ Antibiotics are effective against viruses

❓ Crocodiles sweat through their tails

❓ The titanic sank on its maiden voyage

❓ Sound travels faster in water than ait

❓ The average human body is about 60% water

❓ Astronauts shrink in space

❓ The biggest tyre producer in the world is Michelin

❓ The oldest city in the UK is Chester

❓ Toy Story was Pixar's first movie

❓ Disney's biggest grossing movie is Avengers: End Game

❓ Deleware is the smallest US State

❓ Hannukah lasts for 7 days

❓ The ‘Edinburgh Fringe Festival’ is the biggest arts festival in the world

❓ A group of giraffes is known as a tower

❓ The mammal with the slowest digestion rate is a Sloth

❓ Rihanna was born in the Bahamas

❓ Opposite numbers on a dice always add up to 7

❓ The letter K in Scrable is worth 5points

❓ Harley-Davidson tried to trademark the sound of their engine revving

❓ The word news is an acronym for North, East, South, West because news is from around the globe

❓ Football was invented it China

❓ Eating too many carrots turns your skin orange

❓ Peru shares a boarder with Venezuela

❓ Meghan Markle's first name is actually Rachel

❓ A cross between a Horse and Zebra is a Hobra?

❓ In a deck of card, only the king of diamonds doesn't have a mustache

❓ The ‘District Line' in London has the most stops of any Tube line

❓ Playing Tetris after a traumatic event can help reduce PTSD symptoms.

❓ The first music video played on MTV was ‘Betty Davis Eyes’

❓ Pablo Picasso and The Rock were alive at the same time

❓ Lisa Kudrow originally played Roz in Frasier but was sacked after 3 days.

❓ The highest grossing movie of all time is Avengers: End Game

❓ Crocodiles sweat through their tail

❓ Brazil is home to the biggest population of Japanese people outside of Japan.

❓ France consumes the most wine in the world.

❓ The United Kingdom consumes the most chocolate per capita in the world.

❓ The great wall of China is long enough to span entirely around the equator.

❓ Kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

❓ The oldest tree in the world is less than 5000 years old.

❓ The longest river in the world is the Amazon river.

❓ The first commercial vacuum cleaner was powered by a bicycle.

❓ McDonald’s made broccoli that tasted like bubblegum.

❓ The length of the Great Wall of China is longer than the distance between London and Beijing.