Awesome Facts to Know, if You’re Bored

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If you want to know how many times your child asks (or tries to ask) you questions, the answer is: an average 4 year-old child asks over 400 questions a day.

So relax and read interestingly fun facts to let those questions fly away! (Even you might be asking a lot of questions after this…)

Facts about everything:

1. Typewriter, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only 1 row of the keyboard.
2. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
3. The titanic is about as long as the empire state building is tall.
4. Left handed people might have an advantage of playing video games.
5. Banging your head against a wall for one hour burn 150 calories
6. Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers
7. A flock of crows in known as a murder.
8. 29th of may is officially “put a pillow on your fridge day”, it is celebrated in Europe and the USA.
9. 7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, that 7% is 16.4 million American adults.
10. If you lift a kangaroos tail off the ground, it can’t hop.
11. During your lifetime, you produce enough saliva to fill 2 swimming pools
12. Heart attacks are more likely to happen on Mondays.
13. Tennis players are not allowed to swear when they are playing in the Wimbledon.
14. In 2017 more people were killed from injuries caused by taking a selfie than by shark attacks.
15. A lions roar can be heard from 5 miles away.
16. The average male gets bored on a shopping trip after 26 minutes.
17. Approximately 10–20% of U.S power outages are caused by squirrels.
18. A swarm of 20,000 bees followed a car for 2 days because their queen was stuck inside.
19. There is a total of 1,710 steps in the Eiffel Tower
20. The twitter bird actually has a name — Larry

Alienlicious facts about aliens:

1. Oceans make up 71% of Earth’s surface, so if aliens ever visited, they would probably land in the sea.
2. Scientists are certain that life on other planets could exist, because there are around 2–3 trillion planets in our galaxy.
3. Russian scientists have predicted that humanity will encounter aliens by 2031.

Facts about the internet

1. 3.6 Billion people are connected to the internet.
2. South Korea has the best connection speed in the world, These are the top ten.

Internet speed comparison

3. Some of the weirdest things connected to the internet are: Walking sticks, umbrellas, shirts, water bottles, tails and cutlery.

4. 5 Billion Google searches are performed on the internet every day! What’re all these people searching for?

5. 30,000 websites are hacked every day.

6. 250 Emails are sent every day, 82% are spam.

7. There are over 637 million websites on the internet.

8. 72 hours of video are uploaded onto YouTube every minute.

9. The internet is about 30.5 years old or: 16,047,360 minutes or 267456 hours or 3 decades. Well, it was this in September 2019.

10. The country Congo has the lowest internet speed ever ( 13 Kbit/s)

Thank you for reading this!

Wait, one last fact…

Medium has about 17 million users a month! 😊