Daily Fact or Fiction

❓ The character “Mario” first appeared in the game Super Mario Bros.

❓ The first video game ever created was Pong.

❓ There are more pubs in Ireland per capita than in any other country.

❓ Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.

❓ A snail can sleep for up to three years at a time.

❓ The heaviest naturally occurring element on Earth is uranium.

❓ Jaguars have the strongest bite of the animal kingdom.

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

❓ Cristiano Ronaldo has never won a UEFA Champions League title.

❓ Britney Spears was the youngest artist to ever have a number-one album on the Billboard 200.

❓ The song "Happy Birthday" is the most sung song in the world.

❓ Madonna holds the record for the most number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.

❓ Liverpool has more Grade II listed buildings than any other UK city outside of London.

❓ The Royal Mile in Edinburgh is exactly one mile long.

❓ The Toyota Corolla is the best-selling car model of all time.

❓ Some Sharks need to keep swimming to stay alive.

❓ Lightning never strikes the same place twice.

❓ White chocolate is technically not chocolate.

❓ Tomatoes were once considered poisonous in Europe.

❓ The Suez Canal was completed in the 20th century.

❓ The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, marking the end of the Cold War.

❓ Tiger Woods has won more golf majors than any other player in history.

❓ Basketball was invented in Canada.

❓ Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world.

❓ Switzerland is a member of the European Union.

❓ Russia spans 11 time zones.

❓ Brazil is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world.

❓ Cats can’t taste sweet flavors.

❓ “Game of Thrones” holds the record for the most Emmy Awards won by a TV series.

❓ The term "binge-watching" originated with Netflix.

❓ The first television broadcast was in color.

❓ The first computer virus was created in the 1980s.

❓ Bluetooth technology was named after a Viking king.

❓ Frozen fruits and vegetables are less nutritious than fresh ones.

❓ Drinking eight glasses of water a day is essential for good health.

❓ Eating late at night causes weight gain.

❓ A penny dropped from the Empire State Building can kill someone.

❓ You swallow eight spiders a year in your sleep.

❓ Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis.

❓ The color red makes bulls angry.

❓ An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

❓ 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.

❓ Africa is the continent with the most countries.

❓ 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