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Fact Of The Day — 691 episodes
The deepest lake holds 20% of the unfrozen fresh water on the planet
It would take 6 minutes to fall from the height of Mt Everest to the bottom of Mariana Trench
Between 1970 & 1989 Soviet Scientists dugg a 12.2k hole
Prolactin can cause non pregnant people to lactate
Testosterone increases your risk decisions
Adrenaline is your emergancy mute button
Cortisol will rat you out to the police...
You yawn because of oxytocin
One Lightning bolt can power a kiwi house for 4 months
The record for the most power from an electric eel is...
Joule (messurement of engery) was named after a Brewer
How a monkey caused a nationwide power outage
Why does America not have electrical switches?
George Washington spent over $5,000 on ice cream in one summer
Who made the first ice cream?
Jersey Cows make the best ice cream
New Zealand eats more ice cream then any other country in the world (per capita)
Hot Dogs do not have any dog meat in them and never have
A pineapple is not called a pineapple in any other language other than English
A peanut is not a pea nor is it a nut
What different countries call the contraceptive pill
Owl Week: Owls spit up pellets of food they couldn't digest
Owl Week: Texas Owls have blind snake housekeepers
Owl Week: Owls can fly silently
Pope Week: Pope facts on blast
Pope Week: Pope Steven VI put the previous pope on trial
Pope week: Pope Joan disguised herself as a man as rose through the ranks to become pope
Pope week: Pope Benedict IX is considered the worst pope in history
Pope Week: Sylvester the magic pope
Upside down week: Sending a letter with the sticker upside down means 'I Love You'
Upside down Week: In Syracuse New York the traffic lights are upside down
Upside down week: An ambigram is a word that can be read the same when upside down
Upside down week: Formula One cars technically could drive upside down
Vasectomy week!
14.7% of men who had a vasectomy reported pain that lasted for months
The first vasectomy was performed on a dog
March is the most popular month in the USA to get a vasectomy
The old people smell
Lots of smells facts!
You'll find the same chemicular making in foot odour and old cheese
Cats love the smell of human earwax
There are 16 trademarked 'smells' in the USA
Samsung started out doing fried fish and noodles
Goat week: Viking goat Heiðrún
Goat week: Goats can read human emotions
Goat week: The goats that loved human urine
Goat week: The term scapegoat comes from...
Goat week: They'll befriend other goats so someone else can kill them
Disaster Week: The world year to be alive was 536AD
Disaster Week: The worst thing you can donate is used clothing
Disaster Week: The largest tornado ever
Disaster Week: A trillion kgs of water pushed the earth down 2 cms in Texas
Disaster week: The most expensive disasters in history
Walk Disney Week: Walt Disney has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Walt Disney Week: A businessman met Walt Disney on a flight in 1924, who designed his logo for him
Walt Disney Week: His housekeeper got shares and became a millionaire
Walt Disney Week: He invented the difficulty levels of ski slopes
Different languages have different points associated to them in Scrabble
Moon week: 12 people have walked on the Moon
Moon week: It looks bigger when its rising, we don't know why
Moon Week: The Sun is 400x bigger than the Moon and 400x further away
When fizzy drink is on your tongue, your tongue is actually tasting the carbon dioxide
A vagina is the same PH level as root beer
Soda does taste different out of different vessels
Flag Week: The Hawaii state flag has a UK union jack on it only because the king liked it
Flag Week: The Jamaican flag is the only one which doesn't contain red,white or blue
Flag week continued: Rainbow flags origins
Flag week continued: There's a flag factory in Iran that makes flags to burn at protests
Flag Week: A flag that means you are invited to have a gun with a ships captain
Cars week: There's a lambo for free if you want it but...
Cars Week: Manual vs Auto cars
Cars week: The first commercially manufactured cars in Antarctica was...
Cars week: To buy a car in NZ was once REALLY hard and REALLY expensive
Cars week: USA only made 139 cars when they were busy doing WW2
Everest Week: It's a big mountain
Everest Week: In 2024 it costs $98,000 to climb Everest on average
Everest Week: The highest point on earth was once the sea floor
Everest Week: 6000 people have summited Mt Everest
Everest Week: The youngest person to climb Everest was 13
Things that are banned: The 'moon pose' in official bodybuilding
Things that are banned: Canadian pennies
Things that are banned: High heels
Cloud Week: Why clouds are white
Cloud week: an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location
Cloud Week: There are clouds made by fire called pyrocumulus
Cloud week: 67% of the earth is covered by clouds
Streak week: A Pakistani squash player won 550 games in a row
Streak week: The longest carryover 'Jeopardy' contestant made up stories just so he had things to talk about
Streak week: The current Duolingo streak leader has 4274 days in a row
Streak week: A women rolled 154 dice in a row without hitting a seven during craps
Fire Truck Week: In Salem, USA they have Darude Sandstorm as their fire truck siren
Fire Truck Week: Why they are red
Fire Truck Week: Russia has a firefighting tank
Fire Truck Week: Some airport fire appliances are equipped with a penetrating nozzle
Fire Truck Week: There's a difference between a fire truck and a fire engine
The Paralympic medals are a little bit different than the Olympic medals
NZ Native Bird Week: Haast Eagle
NZ Native Bird Week: The wonders of the Kakapo
NZ Native Bird Week: Fantails can have multiple nests per season
NZ Native Bird Week: Maori kept Tui birds in cages and trained them to greet visitors
NZ Native Bird Week: The kiwi is monogamous and can run 20kph
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!): Paralympics Week!
The history of cheaters in the Paralympics
Athletes who have competed in both the Olympics and Paralympics
A woman with birth defects from Chernobyl won a Paralympics gold medal
The Paralympics started because a Doctor was rehabing so many WWll injuries
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Cat Fest!!
There is a 'CatCon' in Pasadena, California
New York has a film festival dedicated to cat movies
There's a cat festival in Belgium called Kattenstoet
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Surprising Food Origins!
National dishes that aren't from that country: Hawaiian pizza is not from Hawaii
National dishes that aren't from that country: Fish and Chips
National dishes that aren't from that country: American hotdogs aren't from America
National dishes that aren't from that country: Corona beer isn't from Mexico
National dishes that aren't from that country: Tempura isn't from Japan
Five percent of the world will never experience a headache
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Fortnight!) - The Games!
An engraver can be considered primarily responsible for the rebirth of the modern Olympics
The first ever disqualified Olympic athlete for a banned substance
The swimmer with the top 18 fastest ever times in her category
What the Olympic logo represents
If Michael Phelps was his own country, it would rank 40th all-time of countries with the most medals
Bangladesh is the largest country to never had won an Olympic medal.
The Olympics gets it's name from Mount Olympus in Greece
Greece have never won a medal at the Winter Olympics
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Changed Names Week!
Heaps of celebrities have changed their names
Sports teams with name changes due to offensive connotations...they're all American
Lots of foods have received name changes due to their racist origins
The Austrian town named F***ing
The Rolls-Royce Silver Mist and Mitsubishi Pajero had to change names in certain countries
Joey Chestnut is the worlds greatest eater
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Weird Food Records Week!
The record for amount of kale eaten in 8 minutes
The world record for live cockroaches eaten in 60 seconds
This is the world record for butter eating
A woman ate over 8kgs of food in one sitting and died from it
Celebs at school week: High school celeb medley
Celebs at school week: Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman
Celebs at school week: Rami Malek, Rahel Bilson and Kirsten Dunst all went to school together
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Space Week!
Space Week: The sun loses 4.7 million tonnes of mass as energy per second
Space Week: The International Space Station is not zero gravity
Space week: The Milky Way smells of rum, raisins and booze
Space week: The moon is NOT spherical
Space week: The distance between earth and the international space station
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Calendar Week!
Here's when you can reuse your old calendars from different years
From 1929-1940, the Soviet Union didn't have weekends
A traditional Japanese calendar has 72 micro seasons in a year
Here's why the months are named what they are.
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Heart Rate Week!
Alcohol is a banned substance the in competitive shooting world
Tour De France Champion Miguel Indurain has a resting heart rate of 28 BPM
Bear week: How a bear nearly destroyed the world
Bear Week: Wojtek the bear
Black Bears can pause their pregnancies
Brown Bears and Grizzly Bears are the same bear
A Romanian cave has been isolated for 5.5million years
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Cave Week!
The deepest cave in the world
The cave that was a tuberculosis hotel
The cave that is now a musical instrument
There is a cave of of giant crystals in Mexico
The venn diagram
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Inventions named after their Inventors!!
Tupperware
The Jacuzzi
The gatling gun
Doc Martins have their origins in Nazi Germany
Antarctica Week: There was been one successful Tinder match on the continent
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Antarctica!
Antarctica week: It was originally called.....Australia
Antarctica week: Antarctica wasn't sighted until 1820
Antarctica Week: There's a mountain range buried under ice
Antarctica Week: Most Meteorites are found in Antarctica
Public Transport Week: China holds the record for fastest public transport sped recorded
Public Transport Week: In Equdor, there's a bus-train hybrid that would climb a mountain
Public Transport Week: The oldest continually running transport route is a ferry in the UK, running since 1150
Public Transport Week: WW2 Jeeps left in the Phillipines got turned into buses called Jeepneys
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Public Transport!
Accidental discoveries week: Potato chips were invented by an angry chef
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Accidental Inventions!
Accidental discoveries week: The slink was meant to stop instruments from breaking whilst at sea
Accidental discoveries week: Wilson Greatbatch accidentally invented the pacemaker
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - 50th Week!
Liposuction was invented 50 years ago
The UPC Barcode turns 50 this year
Bayleys Irish Whiskey turns 50 this year
The Rubix Cube is 50 years old today
Television Week: 2019 was the year humans consumed more phone screen time than TV time
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Television Week!
Television Week: Americans collectively watch around 250 BILLION hours of TV each year
Television Week: The worlds smallest commercial television was 30cm wide
Television Week: LCD displays were discovered by an Austrian who was studying carrots
Television Week: The cost of a flatscreen TV over time
Incorrectly named animals extravaganza!
It's only called 'Chinese' checkers, to give the game an exotic title
Berries should really be called 'agregate fruits'
Digestives are misleading in their name
Mythical creature week: Animals that were considered mythical creatures
Mythical creature week: Erchitu from Sardinia
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Mythical Creatures Week!
Mythical creature week: Akaname will lick the filth and scum that collect in bathtubs and bathrooms
Mythical creature week: The orca who can turn into a wolf
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Pirate Week!
If Pirates needed a bigger ship they would just steal ship
Pirates drank grog so much because the water on their sea voyages would go off quickly
The origin of the word Pirate
A red pirate flag meant death!
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Pilot Week!
In WWII a New Zealand pilot put out a fire on the wing of his plane in mid air
56% percent of pilots have admtted to falling asleep on the flight
The Superbowl is the 2nd highest day of food consumption for Americans
A special coin is minted for the coin toss at the start of the Superbowl
They Superbowl will never be played in a cold stadium
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Things that were named after the places they were invented!
The rotweiler and leonberger are named after towns in Germany
The name 'tuxedo' is named after Tuxedo Park in New York
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Bad Parents Week!
Your best chance of becoming a billionaire...
The Superbowl halftime show came about because people tuned out to watch sketch comedy
Superbowl technically didn't have Superbowl l or ll
Bad parent week: Never cheat on a female house sparrow
Histories youngest billionaire
Bad parent week: The sand goby will eat it's own kids behind the mothers back
Bad parent week: The Quokka's awful survival strategy
The worlds first ever billionaire was...
Word origins animal special
Torpedos are named after stingrays
The word salad comes the latin word for 'salted'
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Billionaires Week!
The word shampoo means to 'massage'
The origins of the word 'Tattoo'
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Superbowl Week!
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Origins Week!
How the term 'nightmare' came about
Why we say 'resting on our laurels'
How we started using the term 'Broadway'
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Mushroom Week!
Mushrooms can help trees talk to each other
A mushroom can cause it's own wind
Magic Mushrooms did NOT arrive on the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
How Fallout Boy got their name
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Band Names!
How Eiffel 65 got their name
How Charlie XCX got her name
How the band Imagine Dragons got their name
How the band *NSync got their name
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Christmas Week!
On Xmas Norwegians hide their brooms from the witches
Here's why egg nog became associated with Christmas
The Spanish nativity scene involves someone in the corner doing a poo
The candy cane isn't a J for Jesus, it's a shepperds crook
The biggest ever Christmas present was the Statue of Liberty
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Most Expensive Week!
This is worlds most expensive dog
The most expensive bottle of nail polish cost a $250,000USD per botle
The world's most expensive mountain bike cost 1 million dollars
The worlds most expensive gum will cos you $1 NZD per piece
How much extra blood a woman will carry when pregnant
Here's how many litres of blood your heart will pump in your lifetime
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Blood Week!
Mosquitoes have preferred types of human blood
If you juiced every human of their blood, you could extract 1500kgs of gold
Blood has the same protein content per ml as your standard protein shake
Men and women poop differently
The best sight in the animal kingdom is...
The animal with the best hearing in the animal kingdom belongs too...
The most sensitive animal when it comes to taste is...
The most sensitive animal when it comes to touch is...
And the animal with the best sense of smell is...
Why poop is brown
What the Kakapo will do to find a mate
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Super Senses Week!
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Native Bird Week!
The Takahē was thought to be extinct for hundreds of years until it was rediscovered recently
The amazing evolutionary powers of the Gannet
Global warming is causing rising divorce rates for Albatrosses
The kiwi bird has the smallest beaks in the world
THIS was the original theme song for Friends
In S01E14 of Friends the numbers on the doors changed
The 6 main cast members of Friends make approx 20 million dollars per year from reruns
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Friends Week!
The coffee machine from Central Perk on Friends is the exact same as the one on Full House
The iconic orange couch from the set of Friends was founding rotting in a basement before it was rediscovered
Queen Victoria wore crotchless undergarments
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Lingerie Week!
'sweater girls' and their 'bullet bras' were famous before Madonna
The monobosum was the 'look' back in the early 1900s
A stamp caused major controversy in 1996 when a child was shown in a forward facing carseat
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Stamp Week!
A stamp sale doesn't necessarily mean it's the stamp that's on sale
New Zealands most expensive stamp
The worlds most expensive stamps were owned by some pretty weird people
Collectable stamps make the post office so much money because people buy them but never use them
There have been 37 recorded deaths on rollercoasters in 93 years
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Roller Coaster Week!
These are the fastest, longest and highest rollercoasters in the world
Russian mountains predated rollercoasters but only worked in the Winter
Before the rollercoaster invention, people rode a coal cart down a steep hill
The rollercoaster was invented to steer people away from brothels and saloons
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Sesame St Week!
New York renamed a Manhatten street 'Sesame Street' in honour of the shows 50th anniversary
There are over 30 slightly varied versions of Sesame Street around the world
James Earl Jones was the first celebrity guest on Sesame Street
Cookie Monster and Ernie are the only left handed muppets on Sesame St
An episode of Sesame Street never aired because it didn't test well with children
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Ancient Rome Week!
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Road Signs Week!
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Vast Ocean Week!
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Honey Badger Week!
Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Wind Week!
Commodus from the 2000 film Gladiator was a real Roman Emporer
The ancient romans invented luxury cruises
101 uses for your ancient Roman gladiator
The ancient roman energy drink
Drive carefully due to invisible cows
Conneticut has E.T Buckle Up signs everywhere in one of the worst decisions ever
The first stop sign was invented by a police sergeant in Detroit
There are no stop signs in Paris
The ocean floor is technically the worlds largest museum
The worlds largest waterfall is actually underwater
If you took all of the salt out of the ocean it would form a 166 metre crust of salt around earth
A Honey Badger has one of the strongest bites in the animal kingdom
Honey Badgers have skin that is 6mm thick on average
Honey Badgers can produce a very smelly liquid like it's cousin the 'skunk'
Honey Badgers are called that because they dig into beehives fearlessly and gorge on honey
The jetstream always goes West to East
Australia holds the record for highest windspeed ever recorded
The lines on a windsock indicates an increase in speed
In 1910, inmates on death row had to play baseball and would stay alive as long as they kept winning
English churches aren't sinking, the ground around them is rising
A Korean mayor dumped rubbish on his beach so people had something to clean on beach cleanup day
Roosters only got this name in the late 18th century
Why Los Angeles doesn't usually deal with tropical cyclones
A music label receptionist made up a bunch of slang words on the spot to explain 'grunge' to the New York post
Why you're actually allowed to take photos in the Sistine Chapel
The three lines on a website that drops a menu is called the hamburger button
Having a 4, 6, 8 or even 12 pack of abs cannot be altered by your exercise
Baked beans are actually not baked at all
Sergio the serial marathon cheater
A man literally nailed a million dollar basketball shot, didn't get paid out for it then Michael Jordans team did
In South Australia it's illegal to own any part of a great white shark...unless...
There's a Japanese beetle that can be eaten by a frog and come out the other side unscathed.
Actor and WWE wrestler Dave Bautista would leave asthma inhalers around the ring
There's a race where a human will race a horse over a full marathon distance and humans have won 3 times
The leading cause for amputations in America is doors
This is the current record holder for the 'worlds hardest tongue twister'
The big scare about killer bees in the 1980's & 90's was all caused by Rupert Murdoch
In 1978 Sacremento Kings Coach Clifford Ray reached down a dolphins throat and pulled out a screw
Paua have two human-like teeth to eat seaweed
A mother in 2017, gave birth to her daughter that was only 1 year younger than her...technically
The sauna competition in Finland doesn't happen anymore because a man died in it
The toy designer of 'Barbie' would choose lovers who looked like her
Young Orcas partake in cultural trends
In 2001, a couple got married on the deck of the titanic
Before Beatlemania or Beiber Fever, there was Lisztomania
The founder of the Roxy brand was once in a harem of pleasure wives to a Saudi weapons trading billionaire
Adolf Hitlers half newphew tried to bribe his way up the Nazi party, but was rejected so fled and joined the US Navy
The Burj Khalifa is not hooked up to Dubais sewage system
Frostnip is the official name of the stage before frostbite
This is the longest word in the English language
We give our babies the bacteria that causes tooth decay
Time Magazine originated the term 'World War 2'
A lot of episodes of MTVs 'Cribs' were filmed using rented mansions
America nearly became the nation fed on 'Hippo'
Why we call people 'guy'
A cannibalistic tribe is now immune to some brain diseases because of it
In Sweden there is a library for sports and leisure items
Torpenhow Hill translates to 'Hill hill hill hill' in four different languages
It's official, on a plane the middle seat gets both armrests
At a Singaporean crosswalk, seniors can swipe a card to receive extra time to cross
Brunei is the only country where they have a two day weekend in two parts
An engineer in a jetfighter accidentally engaged afterburners, survived and was ordered to fix his mistake
Cookie monster is actually eating painted rice cakes made to LOOK like cookies
Why we call them 'plumbers'
1 out of 25 men will raise another mans child unknowingly
There is a classical musical range called 'castrato' named because of exactly the reason you are thinking
The average human body has 35kgs of edible 'meat'
The worlds highest stadium is 4380m above sea level
The largest car heist in history is held by North Korea
In Austria, mini hamsters eat all the funeral candles
Crocodiles can gallop
New Zealand has the worlds loneliest tree
The worlds most remote pub is somewhere between South America and South Africa
The tallest known cliff is 20kms high and it would take you 12 minutes to free fall
More plural facts
Using the plural 'fishes' is acceptable in certain circumstances
The type of plural on an animals name is dependant on the animals name origins
If you're allergic to shellfish, chances are you're allergic to insects too
Spraypaint was invented in 1949 based on WW2 mosquito killing technology
Things are painted at Disneyland called 'go-away green'
In the 1960's 'anti-climb' paint was developed
15 minutes of shivering cold with burn as much fat as 1 hour of working out
Sloths can hold their breaths underwater twice as long as a dolphin
A society in the 60's believed any animal longer than 6 inches should be clothed at all times
Why we use '60' seconds, minutes and 24 hours in a day to measure time
The difference between initialism and an acronym
ASICS is a Japanese company that is a latin acronym.
If every human jumped in the ocean, it would barely raise the water level
Tapping tongs before use isn't just a funny meme, you're calibrating your brain
In 1993 Mattel unknowlingly released a gay Ken doll
31% of burns at the Burns Center in Chicago was as a result of instant noodles
Without tuberculosis we may never have got the cowboy hat
Scientists cannot prove that fire exists anywhere else in the universe
Hitlers fathers name was Schicklgruber before he changed it
Instead of 'once upon a time' Koreans say 'back when tigers used to smoke tobacco'
There is an opposite of 'copyright' and it's called 'copyleft'
Good Friday factoid megamix!
A man challenged an ostrich to a spaghetti eating competition and won
The hottest man-made temperature was 250,000x hotter than the centre of the Sun
Less than 100 years ago Syria put a ban on yoyos because they thought it mocked the rain
Whales breastmilk has the consistency of toothpaste
Gordon Ramsays tongue is insured for 10 MILLION dollars
The French don't use speech marks, they use arrows
The first time celiac disease was in the Dutch famine during WW2
There's a fruit called 'Gac fruit' and it's the greatest thing ever
Return to Innocence by Enigma is a drinking song in Taiwan
The Oscars use more gold each year than the James Webb Telescope needs in it's construction
It's been 247 years since we discovered Uranus
You can grow rhubarb from just candlelight
A man was killed by a dinosaur
McDonalds big M was once just a single golden arch
The inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was a creep
If you go to Kenya, all the clocks look upside down
The origins of the name 'Mayonaise'
The penalty for the first ever parking infringement was death and impaling
If you start taking oxygen on a plane, it will only last for around 14 minutes
The worlds fastest computer beats the second fastest one by double
'V' is the only letter in the English language that is NEVER silent
A tablespoon of Sun weighs 2kgs
McDonalds stopped offering coffee spoons because people were using them for drugs
When bananas were first introduced to the Western world it was considered quite immoral
Double stuffed Oreos are only stuffed 1.86x as much
A Irish language does not have a similar word for 'yes'
The Hallstatt salt mine workers of the iron age, would enjoy a diet of blue cheese and beers
The origins of how the 'grapefruit' came to be
The first English written guacamole recipe was written by a pirate
The Olympic record for the javelin throw is basically unbeatable
You can use 'anymore' in a positive way, but it's tricky
93% of adults can tell if water being poured is hot or cold based just on the sound
America has been to war with a weather balloon before
After 53 years of building airplane 747s, the last one was delivered to it's owner this month
Most farm raised salmon are deaf
To find hydrogen leaks in fires in the 60's a man would just hold out a broom
The word 'you' was invented by posh people who didn't want to use the word 'thou'
90% of people that take up guitar quit within the first year
The origins of the word 'Panic'
Cats love olives and kiwifruit vines
There are actually quite a lot of sabre-toothed animals
Corn cobs can be used to wipe your bum
Don't go near monkeys in Florida it's all bad news
A man who died in 1911 became a display in a haunted house
Longyearbyen is the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000
If a show set in L.A has palm trees in it, it's not L.A
Owls and Eagles are bitter rivals
In the U.K you can buy 'alien abduction' insurance
Indiana Jones is based on Scrooge McDuck
When you don't take a photo of something you actually remember it better
Dogs can't chew sideways
The owners of an intl airport are buried under their own runway
Australias coal industry creates more Co2 than all of Germany
The guy who invented airplanes got to see it evolve into a full jet
How Phantom Rectum Syndrome works
Qatars population is 2.9 million, but only 700,000 are female
There's a giant piece of land that NOBODY wants
The world record for 'longest walk' is 30,600kms
Friday Jams Live - The Uncut Interviews!
A train travelling from West to East is lighter than one going from East to West
By the year 2100 we'll have approximately 5% more rainbows
In medival times it was believe a man could have kittens by spewing one up
Why is it called a 'dumbbell'?
This man has the world record for 'most greeting cards received'
If you can make the 'rumbly thunder' sound in your ear, that makes you special
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea refers to how far they TRAVELLED underwater
The average Swiss citzen travels 2430kms a year via train
In South Korea, if someone has a cold they drink honey, lemon & COKE
Wild oat seeds can WALK
Ghengis Khan's grave and treasures have never been found
Ben and Jerry's workers are allowed the tubs of ice cream A DAY as a perk
Sperm spin like a torpedo to move around
Jelly babies were originally called 'unclaimed babies'
Too much hot sauce CAN actually kill you
THIS hit song was banned from US radio for encouraging juvenile delinquency although it doesn't have lyrics
A rat can bite with more pressure than a crocodile
Humans have always found amazing uses for urine
Turtles flirt by slapping each other around
Cereal box characters always look down to catch the eyeline of children
An Italian man broke down the algorithm in American music to score a major hit
Antarctica doesn't have it's own phone country code
A canning plant in Wigan, U.K can process up to 3 million cans of food a day
'Rex' and 'Regina' is latin for 'King' and 'Queen'
An Australian fern causes you to lose weight and potentially starve
Ancient Egyptians would use the term "OMG Slay! Good luck is coming our way"
Capuchin monkeys and capuchino coffee are named from the same source
If you got caught cheating at the ancient olympics, it was written in statue
The origins of the term 'shaving the yak'
Despite 4 kids, you can't find any pictures of Queen Elizabeth whilst pregnant
Your fingernails grow much faster than your toenails
What is old factory fatigue?
They tried to demolish the great pyramids of Egypt once but found it impossible
This is the time of year Icelanders yeet puffins off cliffs
The UK Royal stamp collection is worth one hundred MILLION pounds
A college janitor found 85,000 baby teeth in a closet
Queen Elizabeth factaganza!
Giraffes cannot swim
A drop of water spends approx 3000 years in the ocean before being evaporated into air
A leech only needs to feed once every 5 years if kept at 4 degrees
In Japan, you receive a silver sake cup on your 100th birthday
The snooze button is set for 9 minutes because of it's origin story
In WW2 the US navy had a ship whose sole purpose was to produce ice cream
Two men scammed people by pretending to be a sock donation charity
In Germany there is a mass frog grave that is the result of a giant orgy
The longest straight road in the world is 240kms long
New Zealand has three native species of termite
Your bellybutton style purely depends on how you heal
That 56k Dial up sound was the internet and your ISP agreeing to work together
In 2013, a lady named Maria was the first person to cycle to the South Pole
The odd night time behaviour in cats and dogs is very normal and is called FRAPS
The origins of the phrase 'Close, but no cigar'
Why the dessert is spelt S-U-N-D-A-E
That crack in your cats fang is actually a blood groove
If you minced the human population, we would only fill a 1km sphere
When collars were first invented they were removable
UVB boosts attraction and libido
The annual global cost of things going rusty is $2.5 TRILLION
A hitman was hired to do a job, which ended up with a complete 180
A British surgeon burnt his initials into a patients liver
The western fence lizard does pushups to attract a mate
Unmarried couples stopped hanky panky in the olden days with a wooden blocker board
Only two cities in the world have hosted the Commonwealth games more than once.
The story of how WW2 gave us Sprite
The origin story of the 'backpack'
A survivor of the Titanic found living next to a stadium too traumatic
Trains always have a box of sand on board for rainy days
The country that produces the most bagpipes in the world is Pakistan
The warty comb jellyfish has a transient anus
The brits are literally melting in this heatwave
The total price of all the real estate in the world is $326.5 TRILLION
The McDonalds happy meal was invented in Guatemala
The colour Magenta is a lie
The 'office cubicle' design was meant to be part of a much bigger plan
Australia has a golf course that is 165kms long
Snails often have up to 25000 teeth
It's Sonic the Hedgehog's birthday!
Tiger beetles run so fast they temporarily go blind
Originally Tinkerbell didn't have fairy dust, so why did Disney add it in?
Napoleon snorted 3.2kgs of tobacco a month
NZ had cars BEFORE having road rules
When were cup holders included in cars?
Goosebumps can encourage hair growth
What do porcupines do when they're in the mood?
One mans bladder once held 11 litres
There's 10x as much water in the atmosphere than rivers
How a killer fell right into the police's trap
How many types of pasta are recognised in Italy?
The bell that was used as a pot
Hippos milk can be pink
Can I give Covid-19 to my pets?
The Offspring singer, Dexter Holland, has a PhD
When it rains, why do we see lots of worms?
Why was the Teletubbies set location flooded?
How long was the shortest war?
A broken guitar lost United Airlines $180 million
You can live stream theme parks 24/7
Kazakhstan didn't know NZ was a country!
How much water do steam locomotives use?
A Rolls-Royce that was too soundproof!
Europeans once used sheep bones to eat apples
What is beauty parlour syndrome?
What is the eagle feather law?
Originally, what was used to carry home oysters?
QR codes and its endless arrangements
Natures own font
Eel blood is toxic to humans
The most dangerous diets
Why did a dog push kids into the river?
Cemeteries used to be a popular place to picnic
Powdered corn cob can be made into rat poison
What country has the most diverse language?
How long would it take to boil an ostrich egg?
Who pooped on the Apollo 10 mission?
What is the 'Assassins Teapot?
A hobby that's killed 33 people
The first pipes used to transport gas were made from bamboo
Humans haven't beaten a computer at chess since 2005
Mountbatten Pink is named after Prince Phillips family
Leonardo Da Vinci nearly stole a river
Describing something as 'jet black' is referring to the lowest form of coal
The smallest inhabited island in the world is about the size of a tennis court
If all the western front trenches dug in WW1 were laid together, they would go around the world at the equator
The Opossum is the only mammal on earth with an odd number of nipples
China currently has it's lowest percentage of 'total world population' ever
There was a period of a billion years in earths history where NOTHING happened
Antarctica is the continent with the lowest infant mortality rate
Candy Crush was listed as a major cause of divorces in Egypt
New Zealand is on it's own timezone because of World War ll
Carmel, Indiana started using roundabouts since the 90's and its been a game changer
There are areas in the Phillipines where you're only allowed to drive WHITE cars
In 2021, the gaming made 80 BILLION dollars, half of which was on mobile gaming alone
You can tell an ecomonic downturn is coming when men stop buy underpants
19 countries in the world don't have rivers
The TV Show River Monsters ended because the host caught them all
In 2008, you couldn't google search 'Whakatane' in the town of 'Whakatane'
Roman archers had to pass a really weird vision test
Every full moon has a name according to the old farmers almanac
USA has 43 percent of the worlds golf courses
The white stuff in an Oreo is not called 'cream'
A San Franciso lamp post was chopped down by people constantly peeing on it
How insulation keeps astronauts alive on the International Space Station
A 'regnal name' means when you become the ruling monarch, you can go by any of your names
In the UK there is a blood bank just for pets
The origin story of the drink name 'The Bloody Mary'
In WW2 Gillette made special hollow handled shavers for spies
It's been 25 years since the death of The Notorious B.I.G
In New Zealand, children can legally booze it up with Mum and Dad
Thomas Edison was embarassed by his son and paid him go by a different surname
F35 fighter pilots are not allowed to change hairstyles
On average, each caveman would produce babies with 17 different cavewomen
Constant worry about 'the next thing to do' causes memory issues.
The President of Ukraine is also the voice of Paddington Bear
The President of Ukraine won the 1st season of Dancing with the Stars
The island where no one is allowed to die
Feeling full of food can cause uncontrollably sneezing
You're reading into first impressions wrong
3% of all birds have penises
What TV event caused a water shortage?
Who said 'OMG' first?
How old is the chocolate chip cookie?
The covering of explicit images in France
There's a reason for your mysterious headache
When were humans, on average, taller?
Detention for bad teachers
NZ's open road speed limit, measured in Weet-Bix
How was diabetes once tested?
What's the best smell?
Micheal Jackson was nearly Ja Ja Binks
A pod of belugas adopts lost narwhal
Donald Duck as a superhero?
Carrots are native to Afghanistan
How old is ciabatta bread?
Hollywoods fixation on quicksand
Tunnel machines and their female names
Did 'Born in the USA' chart better in NZ?
Gunpowder was used when burning at the stake
Josh Wardle is the inventor of Wordle
There are 16 unused starts in NZ postcodes
A cemetery statues bulge
Botox was named after sausage
Dave, 76, built New Plymouth's wind wand
THROW BACK: WHO declaring a pandemic
58 million barbies are sold each year
Robert Lopez may win a 3rd EGOT
Boa snakes kill by cutting of air supply
An old tradition costed someone 3 fingers
Argentina is named after an element
Kirsten Dunst was in a Japanese art exhibition
'Ye' is pronounced like 'The'
4 years, 5 men, living on an Oil rig
After WW2 Americans began brushing
Witches need to stay below 150 meters
Europe's largest banana plantation is in Iceland
In WW2 Bulgaria faced war with everyone
1745 - the Polish encyclopedia was published
1G still works in Russia
In Japan the word 'Viking' means 'Buffets'
The rarest plant lives in NZ
Dolly Parton & Buffy share the same bday
English was simplified in 1906
'Teenager' was first used in 1944.
Our inner monologue is called Elliptical speech
A song was written for guests
1896: The oldest Christmas film
Fruit cake should be dense like wood
A prize to win The Simpsons house
There's a city called David
NASA employs a super sniffer
Angostura's label is a great mistake
A festive statue provokes chaos
Silly string is used by US military
The man who invented celsius died before it was used
Male donkeys and billy goats are great protectors for those weak bulls
If you can contra-rotate your thumbs, you've got a well connected brain
In the US you once needed to get a blood test to get legally married
Alpacas are the ultimate bodyguards
The male garter snake is capable of releasing female pheromones
In 1997 it was illegal to tattoo someone in NYC
Why we call it the Milky Way
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