27 Lesser-Known Facts About The World

Article created by: Neilas Šurkus

Earth is no stranger to crazy things. I mean, it’s inhabited by humans, the most bizarre creatures ever, despite how normal we may look! Humans remain mysterious, even though we’ve been studying ourselves and the world for thousands of years.

And it’s not like we haven’t made any progress or found out tons of interesting facts about our planet, of course. It’s just that there are too many things to dive into and explore! Like, did you know that vending machines kill more people than sharks? Or that men have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan? Or again, that the longest interval between the birth of twins is 87 days?

Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff going on around the globe, and here at Bored Panda we have a weird obsession for learning about insane coincidences and random events happening in this cool, cool world. If you’re like us, you’ll be mesmerized by the amazing facts we’ve collected on this list! Go on, read them and let your brain get tickled for good.

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You're more likely to become the President than you are to win the lottery.

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Boring, Oregon, and Dull, Scotland, have been sister cities since 2012. In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person, while 23% thought Winston Churchill was not. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. Along with the five traditional senses of sound, sight, touch, smell and taste, humans have 15 “other senses.” These include balance, temperature, pain and time as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness. The Canary Islands are named after dogs, not birds. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences. Machine-spun Cotton Candy was invented by a dentist. All the ants on Earth weigh about as much as all the humans. The average four year-old child asks over three hundred questions a day. The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii. Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease by around 30 percent during flights. Japan is the world's most earthquake-prone country. Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body. Cookie Monster's real name is Sid. Prairie dogs say hello with kisses. Goats have rectangular pupils. Humans are just one of the estimated 8.7 million species on Earth. If "The Simpsons" aged normally, Bart would now be older than Marge was in the first season. Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope. The world wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year. While working on Pac-Man, video game designer Toru Iwatani was allegedly inspired by the shape of a pizza with one slice removed. There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth. Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor. Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured. The average adult human has one to three kilograms of bacteria in their body.