Fun Facts You Never Knew, Guaranteed to Totally Blow Your Mind

 1. Three presidents, all Founding Fathers—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe—died on July four Presidents Adams and Jefferson additionally died the equal year, 1826; President Monroe died in 1831. Coincidence? You decide. (constitutioncenter.org)

2. The Barbie doll’s full title is Barbara Millicent Roberts, from Willows, Wisconsin. Her birthday is March 9, 1959, when she used to be first displayed at the New York Toy Fair. (barbiemedia.com)

3. There sincerely aren’t “57 varieties” of Heinz ketchup, and in no way were. Company founder H.J. Heinz notion his product ought to have a number, and he preferred fifty seven Hint: Hit the glass bottle on the “57,” no longer the bottom, to get the ketchup to flow. (heinz.com)

4. One of President John Tyler’s grandsons is nevertheless alive today—and he was once born in 1790. How is this possible? President Tyler, the tenth US president, was once sixty three when his son Lyon Tyler used to be born in 1853; Lyon’s son used to be born when he used to be seventy five President Tyler’s residing grandson, Harrison Tyler is ninety two Lyon’s different son Lyon Jr. exceeded away in 2020 at the age of 95 The Tyler household nonetheless keeps the President’s home, Sherwood Forest Plantation in Virginia. (sherwoodforest.org)

5. The tallest man ever recorded was once American massive Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), who stood eight toes eleven inches. Wadlow’s dimension used to be the end result of abnormally enlarged pituitary gland. (guinnessworldrecords.com)

6. The tallest dwelling man is 37-year-old Sultan Kosen, from Turkey, who is eight feet, 2.8 inches, who set the document in 2009. His boom is additionally due to a pituitary issue. (guinnessworldrecords.com)

7. The oldest man or woman ever to have lived (whose age ought to be authenticated), a French female named Jeanne Louise Calment, used to be 122 years historical when she died in 1997. (guinnessworldrecord.com)

8. Sliced bread was once first manufactured by using computing device and bought in the Twenties through the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was once the biggest aspect since…unsliced bread? (chllicothenews.com)

9. The Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, who lived in the 1700s, reportedly invented the sandwich so he wouldn’t have to go away his playing desk to eat. (pbs.org)

10. The first university soccer sport used to be performed on November 6, 1869, between Rutgers and Princeton (then recognized as the College of New Jersey) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers won. (ncaa.com)

11. Experiments in universities have virtually been carried out to discern out how many licks it takes to get to the middle of a Tootsie Pop, each with computer and human lickers (because this is necessary scientific knowledge!). The effects ranged from 252 to 411. (tootsie.com)

12. The Four Corners is the solely spot in the US the place you can stand in 4 states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

13. Canada is south of Detroit (just appear at a map).

14. The unique identify for the search engine Google was once Backrub. It was once renamed Google after the googol, which is the variety one observed through a hundred zeros. (about.google)

15. The oldest-known dwelling land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who is 187 years old. He was once born in 1832 and has lived on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean for the reason that 1882. (guinnessworldrecords.com)

16. Bats are the solely mammal that can definitely fly.

17. Wombats are the solely animal whose poop is cube-shaped. This is due to how its intestines structure the feces. The animals then stack the cubes to mark their territory. (bbc.com)

18. The most frequent wild hen in the world isn’t the sparrow or blue jay—it’s the red-billed quelea, which stay in Africa and have an estimated populace of 1.5 billion. (audubon.org)

19. The coronary heart of the blue whale, the biggest animal on earth, is 5 ft lengthy and weighs four hundred pounds. The whale in complete weighs 40,000 pounds. (nationalgeographic.com)

20. For comparison, an elephant’s coronary heart weighs round 30 pounds. And a human heart? A mere 10 ounces.

21. Elephants can’t jump. (smithsonianmag.com)