Daily Fact or Fiction

❓ The first band to play on all 7 continents was Metallica.

❓ Jay-Z shot his brother when he was 12.

❓ Cats can hear ultrasound.

❓ A Pink Floyd album accidentally forced Heathrow Airport to a standstill.

❓ The Netherlands has the oldest flag still in use.

❓ Less than half of the London Underground is actually underground.

❓ The Moon is growing.

❓ The world record for a human to hold their breath underwater is over 20minutes.

❓ The First Lady is the highest ranking Officer in the US Army.

❓ It is impossible for adults to swallow and breathe at the same time but babies can.

❓ Thinking burns calories.

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

❓ Meghan Markle's first name is actually Rachel

❓ Astronauts shrink in space

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

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

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

❓ 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.

❓ The biggest Mountain on Earth, from base to tip, is Mount Everest.

❓ The word used to describe the phobia of long words has 36 characters.

❓ Guinness is actually ruby-red, not black.

❓ The word that has been said the loudest, by area human, is ‘quiet’.

❓ The name for a group of Pandas is a Joy.

❓ The longest word, when written in English, is over 100k characters long.

❓ YouTube is the most visited website in the world.

❓ USA have won more Ryder Cups than Europe.

❓ The elephant has the longest gestation period of any animal with 22months.

❓ The first speeding ticket ever given was to someone going 8mph.

❓ More households in the US have a cat than a dog.

❓ Whilst millions of different variations over an entire game, there are only a possible 10 opening moves in Chess.

❓ Octopuses eat their own legs when hungry as they grow back.

❓ A jockey, Frank Hayes, won a horse race despite dying during the race.

❓ Both KitKat and Rolo are produced globally by Nestlé, except in the U.S., where it’s made by their competitor, Hershey’s.

❓ Eminem holds the record for most words in a hit single.

❓ Leonard Cohen wrote 80 verses for Hallelujah.

❓ It is illegal to flush the toilet after 10pm in Switzerland.

❓ The Nintendo Switch is the highest selling games console of all time.

❓ No British Prime Minister has ever been assassinated.

❓ Tom Hank's brother, Jim, is paid to voice Woody in the Toy Story games.

❓ Water flows down the toilet clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern.

❓ When double rainbows occur, the colours of the second arc are always reversed.

❓ It takes longer to drown in freshwater than in saltwater.

❓ With 10, West Side Story has won the most Oscars of any movie.

❓ The human eye can distinguish up to 10 million different colours.

❓ Steven Spielberg was an Executive Producer for Pinky and the Brain.

❓ Hippos can't swim.

❓ The sound of a Star Wars lightsaber was created by pairing together the sound of an idle film projector and the buzz from an old TV set.

❓ The biggest island in the Mediterranean, by area, is Sicily.

❓ When written in English, the country with the longest name is the Independent and Sovereign Republic of Kiribati

❓ When written in English, the longest word with its letters in alphabetical order is ‘almost’.

❓ Thomas Edison created the precursor to the modern tattoo gun.

❓ Monopoly is the most played board game in the world

❓ The creature that has killed more humans in history than any other is the mosquito.

❓ Pigs are the sweatiest animal.

❓ The most expensive painting ever sold is by Leonardo da Vinci.

❓ When a lightning hits a tree, the surrounding plants thrive.

❓ Saudi Arabia’s weekend is Friday and Saturday.

❓ The longest continuous land border in the world is between Canada and the United States.

❓ The biggest church in the world is in Brazil.

❓ Airport runway numbers are in sequential order corresponding to the time when they were built. Runway number 1 was built first, etc.

❓ A chicken once lived over a year after having its head cut off.

❓ Swans mate for life; so if their partner dies, they die too.

❓ More than 90% of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere.

❓ Mice were the first living creatures sent into space (intentionally).

❓ The polar bear family tree can be traced back to Ireland.

❓ Jim Carrey's chipped tooth in Dumb and Dumber is real, not a prosthetic.

❓ Mount Everest is Earth's closest point to the moon.

❓ The tongue has different taste zones

❓ Duck's quacks don't echo.

❓ You need to wait 24hrs before filing a missing person's report

❓ There’s a town in Norway where it’s illegal to die.

❓ Venice has more canals than Amsterdam.

❓ The human body contains more bacterial cells than human cells.

❓ Michael Jackson's famous white club was just a modified goalkeeper glove.

❓ Animals yawn based on how large their brain is. The bigger the brain, the longer they will yawn.

❓ Margherita Pizza uses tomato, mozzarella, and basil toppings to represent the Italian national flag.

❓ Any prime number higher than three, when squared and subtracted by one, will always turn out to be a multiple of 24.

❓ Zebras dont have any toes.

❓ Someone called Ronald McDonald robbed a Wendy's in 2025.

❓ Steam is invisible.

❓ A golf course is traditionally 18 holes as there are 18 shots in a fifth of whisky - meaning each player (in a group of five) would take 18 shots to finish a bottle.

❓ Scrappy-Doo hasn't appeared in a new Scooby-Doo episode since 1988.

❓ The 10 biggest statues in the world are all of Buddha.

❓ The World's oldest unbroken alliance is between Britain and Portugal.

❓ When we’re born, the only innate fears we have are the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds.

❓ The Great Pyramid of Giza has 8 sides

❓ The British Pound is the world's oldest currency that is still in circulation.

❓ Batman and Predator appear in the same fictional universe.

❓ Olympus Mons, the solar systems biggest mountain, is 5x the size of Mount Evert.

❓ Craps is known as ‘the devil's game’

❓ Eating ice cream makes you cooler.

❓ Webster's dictionary had a word in it for 5 years that didn't exist.

❓ As of July 2025, electric cars now outsell petrol cars in the UK.

❓ Volvo sold their patent for the 3-point seatbelt to competitors for just £10k.

❓ Velociraptor means ‘speedy robber’ in Latin.

❓ Russian athletes showed up 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics as they were using the wrong calendar

❓ The motto on the UK's coat of arms is written in Latin.

❓ Domino's tried to set up a reindeer delivery service in Japan.

❓ The inventor of the modern suncream created it after getting sunburnt.