40 Incredibly Random Facts That Sound Like Big, Huge Lies But Are Actually 100%, Totally, And Completely True

1.

Every country’s flag is rectangular except for Nepal’s. It looks like this:

2.

In a deck of cards, every king except for the king of hearts has a mustache:

3.

If you count from 1 to 1,000,000 your lips won’t touch until you reach 1,000,000.

4.

Try to breathe and swallow at the same time. You can’t.

5.

It’s also impossible to hum while holding your nose.

6.

Every US state shares a letter with the word “mackerel” except for Ohio.

7.

The longest word you can type on the top row of your keyboard is “typewriter“.

9.

No other animals have chins besides humans:

10.

Every single letter in the alphabet appears in a least one US state…except for the letter Q

11.

Coconuts kill more people than sharks every year. Same with cows.

12.

If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.

13.

The letter ‘A’ is not in any number from 1 to 999.

14.

And every odd number has an “E”:

15.

There’s only one word in the English language that ends in “mt”. That word is “dreamt”.

16.

The “ueue” in “queue” is silent.

17.

And so is the “ea” in “tea.”

18.

If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would reach to the moon.

19.

The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

20.

Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it’s Woody Pride.

21.

And while we’re at it, Mr. Clean’s full name is Veritably Clean.

22.

Oh, and Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.

23.

Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg.

24.

The number “69” comes up a lot over the course of the first million digits of Pi. 9,885 times, to be exact.

25.

Octopus blood is blue because it’s copper-based in contrast to a human’s iron-based blood.

26.

Your nose is always, ALWAYS visible in your field of vision:

27.

These two basically mean the same thing:

28.

If you say “Jesus” backwards it sounds like “sausage.”

29.

“umop apisdn” is “upside down” spelled upside down with different letters of the alphabet.

30.

There have been studies that show that goats, like us, have accents.

31.

Wombat poop is shaped like a cube.

32.

There’s only one number that has the same amount of letters as its numeric value, the number four:

33.

Orange, the color, was named after orange, the fruit.

34.

“Will Will Smith smith?” and “Will Smith will smith” are sentences that make complete sense.

35.

The difference between a nook and a cranny is that a nook is a small, cozy space, while a cranny is a tiny gap or crack:

36.

When you add up the opposite sides of a die (2 and 5, 1 and 6) you’ll always get seven.

37.

The lint that collects in the bottom of your pockets has a name — gnurr.

38.

“Eleven Plus Two” is an anagram of “Twelve Plus One”. Both phrases also add up to 13.

39.

Beethoven and George Washington were alive at the same time — in fact, George Washington was in his forties when Beethoven was born.

40.

And, finally, Mount Everest is 29,032 feet long, or, if you prefer, about 46452 #2 pencils long.