There’s nothing like strange facts to enliven a conversation and invite debate. Try dropping one of these fun facts into your next dinner party or chat with friends and see if they can come up with their own.
Fun Facts – People
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Fun geographical facts
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
US State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Fun historical facts
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades – King David
Clubs – Alexander the Great,
Hearts – Charlemagne, and
Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Fun transport facts
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Fun animal facts
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: USD$6,400
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Fun facts with numbers
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Fun general facts
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.