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Hot Dogs do not have any dog meat in them and never have

2

A pineapple is not called a pineapple in any other language other than English

3

A peanut is not a pea nor is it a nut

4

What different countries call the contraceptive pill

5

Owl Week: Owls spit up pellets of food they couldn't digest

6

Owl Week: Texas Owls have blind snake housekeepers

7

Owl Week: Owls can fly silently

8

Pope Week: Pope facts on blast

9

Pope Week: Pope Steven VI put the previous pope on trial

10

Pope week: Pope Joan disguised herself as a man as rose through the ranks to become pope

11

Pope week: Pope Benedict IX is considered the worst pope in history

12

Pope Week: Sylvester the magic pope

13

Upside down week: Sending a letter with the sticker upside down means 'I Love You'

14

Upside down Week: In Syracuse New York the traffic lights are upside down

15

Upside down week: An ambigram is a word that can be read the same when upside down

16

Upside down week: Formula One cars technically could drive upside down

17

Vasectomy week!

18

14.7% of men who had a vasectomy reported pain that lasted for months

19

The first vasectomy was performed on a dog

20

March is the most popular month in the USA to get a vasectomy

21

The old people smell

22

Lots of smells facts!

23

You'll find the same chemicular making in foot odour and old cheese

24

Cats love the smell of human earwax

25

There are 16 trademarked 'smells' in the USA

26

Samsung started out doing fried fish and noodles

27

Goat week: Viking goat Heiðrún

28

Goat week: Goats can read human emotions

29

Goat week: The goats that loved human urine

30

Goat week: The term scapegoat comes from...

31

Goat week: They'll befriend other goats so someone else can kill them

32

Disaster Week: The world year to be alive was 536AD

33

Disaster Week: The worst thing you can donate is used clothing

34

Disaster Week: The largest tornado ever

35

Disaster Week: A trillion kgs of water pushed the earth down 2 cms in Texas

36

Disaster week: The most expensive disasters in history

37

Walk Disney Week: Walt Disney has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

38

Walt Disney Week: A businessman met Walt Disney on a flight in 1924, who designed his logo for him

39

Walt Disney Week: His housekeeper got shares and became a millionaire

40

Walt Disney Week: He invented the difficulty levels of ski slopes

41

Different languages have different points associated to them in Scrabble

42

Moon week: 12 people have walked on the Moon

43

Moon week: It looks bigger when its rising, we don't know why

44

Moon Week: The Sun is 400x bigger than the Moon and 400x further away

45

When fizzy drink is on your tongue, your tongue is actually tasting the carbon dioxide

46

A vagina is the same PH level as root beer

47

Soda does taste different out of different vessels

48

Flag Week: The Hawaii state flag has a UK union jack on it only because the king liked it

49

Flag Week: The Jamaican flag is the only one which doesn't contain red,white or blue

50

Flag week continued: Rainbow flags origins

51

Flag week continued: There's a flag factory in Iran that makes flags to burn at protests

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Flag Week: A flag that means you are invited to have a gun with a ships captain

53

Cars week: There's a lambo for free if you want it but...

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Cars Week: Manual vs Auto cars

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Cars week: The first commercially manufactured cars in Antarctica was...

56

Cars week: To buy a car in NZ was once REALLY hard and REALLY expensive

57

Cars week: USA only made 139 cars when they were busy doing WW2

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Everest Week: It's a big mountain

59

Everest Week: In 2024 it costs $98,000 to climb Everest on average

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Everest Week: The highest point on earth was once the sea floor

61

Everest Week: 6000 people have summited Mt Everest

62

Everest Week: The youngest person to climb Everest was 13

63

Things that are banned: The 'moon pose' in official bodybuilding

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Things that are banned: Canadian pennies

65

Things that are banned: High heels

66

Cloud Week: Why clouds are white

67

Cloud week: an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location

68

Cloud Week: There are clouds made by fire called pyrocumulus

69

Cloud week: 67% of the earth is covered by clouds

70

Streak week: A Pakistani squash player won 550 games in a row

71

Streak week: The longest carryover 'Jeopardy' contestant made up stories just so he had things to talk about

72

Streak week: The current Duolingo streak leader has 4274 days in a row

73

Streak week: A women rolled 154 dice in a row without hitting a seven during craps

74

Fire Truck Week: In Salem, USA they have Darude Sandstorm as their fire truck siren

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Fire Truck Week: Why they are red

76

Fire Truck Week: Russia has a firefighting tank

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Fire Truck Week: Some airport fire appliances are equipped with a penetrating nozzle

78

Fire Truck Week: There's a difference between a fire truck and a fire engine

79

The Paralympic medals are a little bit different than the Olympic medals

80

NZ Native Bird Week: Haast Eagle

81

NZ Native Bird Week: The wonders of the Kakapo

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NZ Native Bird Week: Fantails can have multiple nests per season

83

NZ Native Bird Week: Maori kept Tui birds in cages and trained them to greet visitors

84

NZ Native Bird Week: The kiwi is monogamous and can run 20kph

85

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!): Paralympics Week!

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The history of cheaters in the Paralympics

87

Athletes who have competed in both the Olympics and Paralympics

88

A woman with birth defects from Chernobyl won a Paralympics gold medal

89

The Paralympics started because a Doctor was rehabing so many WWll injuries

90

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Cat Fest!!

91

There is a 'CatCon' in Pasadena, California

92

New York has a film festival dedicated to cat movies

93

There's a cat festival in Belgium called Kattenstoet

94

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Surprising Food Origins!

95

National dishes that aren't from that country: Hawaiian pizza is not from Hawaii

96

National dishes that aren't from that country: Fish and Chips

97

National dishes that aren't from that country: American hotdogs aren't from America

98

National dishes that aren't from that country: Corona beer isn't from Mexico

99

National dishes that aren't from that country: Tempura isn't from Japan

100

Five percent of the world will never experience a headache

101

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Fortnight!) - The Games!

102

An engraver can be considered primarily responsible for the rebirth of the modern Olympics

103

The first ever disqualified Olympic athlete for a banned substance

104

The swimmer with the top 18 fastest ever times in her category

105

What the Olympic logo represents

106

If Michael Phelps was his own country, it would rank 40th all-time of countries with the most medals

107

Bangladesh is the largest country to never had won an Olympic medal.

108

The Olympics gets it's name from Mount Olympus in Greece

109

Greece have never won a medal at the Winter Olympics

110

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Changed Names Week!

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Heaps of celebrities have changed their names

112

Sports teams with name changes due to offensive connotations...they're all American

113

Lots of foods have received name changes due to their racist origins

114

The Austrian town named F***ing

115

The Rolls-Royce Silver Mist and Mitsubishi Pajero had to change names in certain countries

116

Joey Chestnut is the worlds greatest eater

117

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Weird Food Records Week!

118

The record for amount of kale eaten in 8 minutes

119

The world record for live cockroaches eaten in 60 seconds

120

This is the world record for butter eating

121

A woman ate over 8kgs of food in one sitting and died from it

122

Celebs at school week: High school celeb medley

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Celebs at school week: Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman

124

Celebs at school week: Rami Malek, Rahel Bilson and Kirsten Dunst all went to school together

125

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Space Week!

126

Space Week: The sun loses 4.7 million tonnes of mass as energy per second

127

Space Week: The International Space Station is not zero gravity

128

Space week: The Milky Way smells of rum, raisins and booze

129

Space week: The moon is NOT spherical

130

Space week: The distance between earth and the international space station

131

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Calendar Week!

132

Here's when you can reuse your old calendars from different years

133

From 1929-1940, the Soviet Union didn't have weekends

134

A traditional Japanese calendar has 72 micro seasons in a year

135

Here's why the months are named what they are.

136

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Heart Rate Week!

137

Alcohol is a banned substance the in competitive shooting world

138

Tour De France Champion Miguel Indurain has a resting heart rate of 28 BPM

139

Bear week: How a bear nearly destroyed the world

140

Bear Week: Wojtek the bear

141

Black Bears can pause their pregnancies

142

Brown Bears and Grizzly Bears are the same bear

143

A Romanian cave has been isolated for 5.5million years

144

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Cave Week!

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The deepest cave in the world

146

The cave that was a tuberculosis hotel

147

The cave that is now a musical instrument

148

There is a cave of of giant crystals in Mexico

149

The venn diagram

150

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Inventions named after their Inventors!!

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Tupperware

152

The Jacuzzi

153

The gatling gun

154

Doc Martins have their origins in Nazi Germany

155

Antarctica Week: There was been one successful Tinder match on the continent

156

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Antarctica!

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Antarctica week: It was originally called.....Australia

158

Antarctica week: Antarctica wasn't sighted until 1820

159

Antarctica Week: There's a mountain range buried under ice

160

Antarctica Week: Most Meteorites are found in Antarctica

161

Public Transport Week: China holds the record for fastest public transport sped recorded

162

Public Transport Week: In Equdor, there's a bus-train hybrid that would climb a mountain

163

Public Transport Week: The oldest continually running transport route is a ferry in the UK, running since 1150

164

Public Transport Week: WW2 Jeeps left in the Phillipines got turned into buses called Jeepneys

165

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Public Transport!

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Accidental discoveries week: Potato chips were invented by an angry chef

167

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Accidental Inventions!

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Accidental discoveries week: The slink was meant to stop instruments from breaking whilst at sea

169

Accidental discoveries week: Wilson Greatbatch accidentally invented the pacemaker

170

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - 50th Week!

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Liposuction was invented 50 years ago

172

The UPC Barcode turns 50 this year

173

Bayleys Irish Whiskey turns 50 this year

174

The Rubix Cube is 50 years old today

175

Television Week: 2019 was the year humans consumed more phone screen time than TV time

176

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Television Week!

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Television Week: Americans collectively watch around 250 BILLION hours of TV each year

178

Television Week: The worlds smallest commercial television was 30cm wide

179

Television Week: LCD displays were discovered by an Austrian who was studying carrots

180

Television Week: The cost of a flatscreen TV over time

181

Incorrectly named animals extravaganza!

182

It's only called 'Chinese' checkers, to give the game an exotic title

183

Berries should really be called 'agregate fruits'

184

Digestives are misleading in their name

185

Mythical creature week: Animals that were considered mythical creatures

186

Mythical creature week: Erchitu from Sardinia

187

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Mythical Creatures Week!

188

Mythical creature week: Akaname will lick the filth and scum that collect in bathtubs and bathrooms

189

Mythical creature week: The orca who can turn into a wolf

190

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Pirate Week!

191

If Pirates needed a bigger ship they would just steal ship

192

Pirates drank grog so much because the water on their sea voyages would go off quickly

193

The origin of the word Pirate

194

A red pirate flag meant death!

195

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Pilot Week!

196

In WWII a New Zealand pilot put out a fire on the wing of his plane in mid air

197

56% percent of pilots have admtted to falling asleep on the flight

198

The Superbowl is the 2nd highest day of food consumption for Americans

199

A special coin is minted for the coin toss at the start of the Superbowl

200

They Superbowl will never be played in a cold stadium

201

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Things that were named after the places they were invented!

202

The rotweiler and leonberger are named after towns in Germany

203

The name 'tuxedo' is named after Tuxedo Park in New York

204

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Bad Parents Week!

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Your best chance of becoming a billionaire...

206

The Superbowl halftime show came about because people tuned out to watch sketch comedy

207

Superbowl technically didn't have Superbowl l or ll

208

Bad parent week: Never cheat on a female house sparrow

209

Histories youngest billionaire

210

Bad parent week: The sand goby will eat it's own kids behind the mothers back

211

Bad parent week: The Quokka's awful survival strategy

212

The worlds first ever billionaire was...

213

Word origins animal special

214

Torpedos are named after stingrays

215

The word salad comes the latin word for 'salted'

216

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Billionaires Week!

217

The word shampoo means to 'massage'

218

The origins of the word 'Tattoo'

219

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Superbowl Week!

220

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Origins Week!

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How the term 'nightmare' came about

222

Why we say 'resting on our laurels'

223

How we started using the term 'Broadway'

224

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Mushroom Week!

225

Mushrooms can help trees talk to each other

226

A mushroom can cause it's own wind

227

Magic Mushrooms did NOT arrive on the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

228

How Fallout Boy got their name

229

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Band Names!

230

How Eiffel 65 got their name

231

How Charlie XCX got her name

232

How the band Imagine Dragons got their name

233

How the band *NSync got their name

234

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Christmas Week!

235

On Xmas Norwegians hide their brooms from the witches

236

Here's why egg nog became associated with Christmas

237

The Spanish nativity scene involves someone in the corner doing a poo

238

The candy cane isn't a J for Jesus, it's a shepperds crook

239

The biggest ever Christmas present was the Statue of Liberty

240

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Most Expensive Week!

241

This is worlds most expensive dog

242

The most expensive bottle of nail polish cost a $250,000USD per botle

243

The world's most expensive mountain bike cost 1 million dollars

244

The worlds most expensive gum will cos you $1 NZD per piece

245

How much extra blood a woman will carry when pregnant

246

Here's how many litres of blood your heart will pump in your lifetime

247

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Blood Week!

248

Mosquitoes have preferred types of human blood

249

If you juiced every human of their blood, you could extract 1500kgs of gold

250

Blood has the same protein content per ml as your standard protein shake

251

Men and women poop differently

252

The best sight in the animal kingdom is...

253

The animal with the best hearing in the animal kingdom belongs too...

254

The most sensitive animal when it comes to taste is...

255

The most sensitive animal when it comes to touch is...

256

And the animal with the best sense of smell is...

257

Why poop is brown

258

What the Kakapo will do to find a mate

259

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Super Senses Week!

260

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Native Bird Week!

261

The Takahē was thought to be extinct for hundreds of years until it was rediscovered recently

262

The amazing evolutionary powers of the Gannet

263

Global warming is causing rising divorce rates for Albatrosses

264

The kiwi bird has the smallest beaks in the world

265

THIS was the original theme song for Friends

266

In S01E14 of Friends the numbers on the doors changed

267

The 6 main cast members of Friends make approx 20 million dollars per year from reruns

268

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Friends Week!

269

The coffee machine from Central Perk on Friends is the exact same as the one on Full House

270

The iconic orange couch from the set of Friends was founding rotting in a basement before it was rediscovered

271

Queen Victoria wore crotchless undergarments

272

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Lingerie Week!

273

'sweater girls' and their 'bullet bras' were famous before Madonna

274

The monobosum was the 'look' back in the early 1900s

275

A stamp caused major controversy in 1996 when a child was shown in a forward facing carseat

276

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Stamp Week!

277

A stamp sale doesn't necessarily mean it's the stamp that's on sale

278

New Zealands most expensive stamp

279

The worlds most expensive stamps were owned by some pretty weird people

280

Collectable stamps make the post office so much money because people buy them but never use them

281

There have been 37 recorded deaths on rollercoasters in 93 years

282

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Roller Coaster Week!

283

These are the fastest, longest and highest rollercoasters in the world

284

Russian mountains predated rollercoasters but only worked in the Winter

285

Before the rollercoaster invention, people rode a coal cart down a steep hill

286

The rollercoaster was invented to steer people away from brothels and saloons

287

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Sesame St Week!

288

New York renamed a Manhatten street 'Sesame Street' in honour of the shows 50th anniversary

289

There are over 30 slightly varied versions of Sesame Street around the world

290

James Earl Jones was the first celebrity guest on Sesame Street

291

Cookie Monster and Ernie are the only left handed muppets on Sesame St

292

An episode of Sesame Street never aired because it didn't test well with children

293

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Ancient Rome Week!

294

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Road Signs Week!

295

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Vast Ocean Week!

296

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Honey Badger Week!

297

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Wind Week!

298

Commodus from the 2000 film Gladiator was a real Roman Emporer

299

The ancient romans invented luxury cruises

300

101 uses for your ancient Roman gladiator

301

The ancient roman energy drink

302

Drive carefully due to invisible cows

303

Conneticut has E.T Buckle Up signs everywhere in one of the worst decisions ever

304

The first stop sign was invented by a police sergeant in Detroit

305

There are no stop signs in Paris

306

The ocean floor is technically the worlds largest museum

307

The worlds largest waterfall is actually underwater

308

If you took all of the salt out of the ocean it would form a 166 metre crust of salt around earth

309

A Honey Badger has one of the strongest bites in the animal kingdom

310

Honey Badgers have skin that is 6mm thick on average

311

Honey Badgers can produce a very smelly liquid like it's cousin the 'skunk'

312

Honey Badgers are called that because they dig into beehives fearlessly and gorge on honey

313

The jetstream always goes West to East

314

Australia holds the record for highest windspeed ever recorded

315

The lines on a windsock indicates an increase in speed

316

In 1910, inmates on death row had to play baseball and would stay alive as long as they kept winning

317

English churches aren't sinking, the ground around them is rising

318

A Korean mayor dumped rubbish on his beach so people had something to clean on beach cleanup day

319

Roosters only got this name in the late 18th century

320

Why Los Angeles doesn't usually deal with tropical cyclones

321

A music label receptionist made up a bunch of slang words on the spot to explain 'grunge' to the New York post

322

Why you're actually allowed to take photos in the Sistine Chapel

323

The three lines on a website that drops a menu is called the hamburger button

324

Having a 4, 6, 8 or even 12 pack of abs cannot be altered by your exercise

325

Baked beans are actually not baked at all

326

Sergio the serial marathon cheater

327

A man literally nailed a million dollar basketball shot, didn't get paid out for it then Michael Jordans team did

328

In South Australia it's illegal to own any part of a great white shark...unless...

329

There's a Japanese beetle that can be eaten by a frog and come out the other side unscathed.

330

Actor and WWE wrestler Dave Bautista would leave asthma inhalers around the ring

331

There's a race where a human will race a horse over a full marathon distance and humans have won 3 times

332

The leading cause for amputations in America is doors

333

This is the current record holder for the 'worlds hardest tongue twister'

334

The big scare about killer bees in the 1980's & 90's was all caused by Rupert Murdoch

335

In 1978 Sacremento Kings Coach Clifford Ray reached down a dolphins throat and pulled out a screw

336

Paua have two human-like teeth to eat seaweed

337

A mother in 2017, gave birth to her daughter that was only 1 year younger than her...technically

338

The sauna competition in Finland doesn't happen anymore because a man died in it

339

The toy designer of 'Barbie' would choose lovers who looked like her

340

Young Orcas partake in cultural trends

341

In 2001, a couple got married on the deck of the titanic

342

Before Beatlemania or Beiber Fever, there was Lisztomania

343

The founder of the Roxy brand was once in a harem of pleasure wives to a Saudi weapons trading billionaire

344

Adolf Hitlers half newphew tried to bribe his way up the Nazi party, but was rejected so fled and joined the US Navy

345

The Burj Khalifa is not hooked up to Dubais sewage system

346

Frostnip is the official name of the stage before frostbite

347

This is the longest word in the English language

348

We give our babies the bacteria that causes tooth decay

349

Time Magazine originated the term 'World War 2'

350

A lot of episodes of MTVs 'Cribs' were filmed using rented mansions

351

America nearly became the nation fed on 'Hippo'

352

Why we call people 'guy'

353

A cannibalistic tribe is now immune to some brain diseases because of it

354

In Sweden there is a library for sports and leisure items

355

Torpenhow Hill translates to 'Hill hill hill hill' in four different languages

356

It's official, on a plane the middle seat gets both armrests

357

At a Singaporean crosswalk, seniors can swipe a card to receive extra time to cross

358

Brunei is the only country where they have a two day weekend in two parts

359

An engineer in a jetfighter accidentally engaged afterburners, survived and was ordered to fix his mistake

360

Cookie monster is actually eating painted rice cakes made to LOOK like cookies

361

Why we call them 'plumbers'

362

1 out of 25 men will raise another mans child unknowingly

363

There is a classical musical range called 'castrato' named because of exactly the reason you are thinking

364

The average human body has 35kgs of edible 'meat'

365

The worlds highest stadium is 4380m above sea level

366

The largest car heist in history is held by North Korea

367

In Austria, mini hamsters eat all the funeral candles

368

Crocodiles can gallop

369

New Zealand has the worlds loneliest tree

370

The worlds most remote pub is somewhere between South America and South Africa

371

The tallest known cliff is 20kms high and it would take you 12 minutes to free fall

372

More plural facts

373

Using the plural 'fishes' is acceptable in certain circumstances

374

The type of plural on an animals name is dependant on the animals name origins

375

If you're allergic to shellfish, chances are you're allergic to insects too

376

Spraypaint was invented in 1949 based on WW2 mosquito killing technology

377

Things are painted at Disneyland called 'go-away green'

378

In the 1960's 'anti-climb' paint was developed

379

15 minutes of shivering cold with burn as much fat as 1 hour of working out

380

Sloths can hold their breaths underwater twice as long as a dolphin

381

A society in the 60's believed any animal longer than 6 inches should be clothed at all times

382

Why we use '60' seconds, minutes and 24 hours in a day to measure time

383

The difference between initialism and an acronym

384

ASICS is a Japanese company that is a latin acronym.

385

If every human jumped in the ocean, it would barely raise the water level

386

Tapping tongs before use isn't just a funny meme, you're calibrating your brain

387

In 1993 Mattel unknowlingly released a gay Ken doll

388

31% of burns at the Burns Center in Chicago was as a result of instant noodles

389

Without tuberculosis we may never have got the cowboy hat

390

Scientists cannot prove that fire exists anywhere else in the universe

391

Hitlers fathers name was Schicklgruber before he changed it

392

Instead of 'once upon a time' Koreans say 'back when tigers used to smoke tobacco'

393

There is an opposite of 'copyright' and it's called 'copyleft'

394

Good Friday factoid megamix!

395

A man challenged an ostrich to a spaghetti eating competition and won

396

The hottest man-made temperature was 250,000x hotter than the centre of the Sun

397

Less than 100 years ago Syria put a ban on yoyos because they thought it mocked the rain

398

Whales breastmilk has the consistency of toothpaste

399

Gordon Ramsays tongue is insured for 10 MILLION dollars

400

The French don't use speech marks, they use arrows

401

The first time celiac disease was in the Dutch famine during WW2

402

There's a fruit called 'Gac fruit' and it's the greatest thing ever

403

Return to Innocence by Enigma is a drinking song in Taiwan

404

The Oscars use more gold each year than the James Webb Telescope needs in it's construction

405

It's been 247 years since we discovered Uranus

406

You can grow rhubarb from just candlelight

407

A man was killed by a dinosaur

408

McDonalds big M was once just a single golden arch

409

The inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was a creep

410

If you go to Kenya, all the clocks look upside down

411

The origins of the name 'Mayonaise'

412

The penalty for the first ever parking infringement was death and impaling

413

If you start taking oxygen on a plane, it will only last for around 14 minutes

414

The worlds fastest computer beats the second fastest one by double

415

'V' is the only letter in the English language that is NEVER silent

416

A tablespoon of Sun weighs 2kgs

417

McDonalds stopped offering coffee spoons because people were using them for drugs

418

When bananas were first introduced to the Western world it was considered quite immoral

419

Double stuffed Oreos are only stuffed 1.86x as much

420

A Irish language does not have a similar word for 'yes'

421

The Hallstatt salt mine workers of the iron age, would enjoy a diet of blue cheese and beers

422

The origins of how the 'grapefruit' came to be

423

The first English written guacamole recipe was written by a pirate

424

The Olympic record for the javelin throw is basically unbeatable

425

You can use 'anymore' in a positive way, but it's tricky

426

93% of adults can tell if water being poured is hot or cold based just on the sound

427

America has been to war with a weather balloon before

428

After 53 years of building airplane 747s, the last one was delivered to it's owner this month

429

Most farm raised salmon are deaf

430

To find hydrogen leaks in fires in the 60's a man would just hold out a broom

431

The word 'you' was invented by posh people who didn't want to use the word 'thou'

432

90% of people that take up guitar quit within the first year

433

The origins of the word 'Panic'

434

Cats love olives and kiwifruit vines

435

There are actually quite a lot of sabre-toothed animals

436

Corn cobs can be used to wipe your bum

437

Don't go near monkeys in Florida it's all bad news

438

A man who died in 1911 became a display in a haunted house

439

Longyearbyen is the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000

440

If a show set in L.A has palm trees in it, it's not L.A

441

Owls and Eagles are bitter rivals

442

In the U.K you can buy 'alien abduction' insurance

443

Indiana Jones is based on Scrooge McDuck

444

When you don't take a photo of something you actually remember it better

445

Dogs can't chew sideways

446

The owners of an intl airport are buried under their own runway

447

Australias coal industry creates more Co2 than all of Germany

448

The guy who invented airplanes got to see it evolve into a full jet

449

How Phantom Rectum Syndrome works

450

Qatars population is 2.9 million, but only 700,000 are female

451

There's a giant piece of land that NOBODY wants

452

The world record for 'longest walk' is 30,600kms

453

Friday Jams Live - The Uncut Interviews!

454

A train travelling from West to East is lighter than one going from East to West

455

By the year 2100 we'll have approximately 5% more rainbows

456

In medival times it was believe a man could have kittens by spewing one up

457

Why is it called a 'dumbbell'?

458

This man has the world record for 'most greeting cards received'

459

If you can make the 'rumbly thunder' sound in your ear, that makes you special

460

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea refers to how far they TRAVELLED underwater

461

The average Swiss citzen travels 2430kms a year via train

462

In South Korea, if someone has a cold they drink honey, lemon & COKE

463

Wild oat seeds can WALK

464

Ghengis Khan's grave and treasures have never been found

465

Ben and Jerry's workers are allowed the tubs of ice cream A DAY as a perk

466

Sperm spin like a torpedo to move around

467

Jelly babies were originally called 'unclaimed babies'

468

Too much hot sauce CAN actually kill you

469

THIS hit song was banned from US radio for encouraging juvenile delinquency although it doesn't have lyrics

470

A rat can bite with more pressure than a crocodile

471

Humans have always found amazing uses for urine

472

Turtles flirt by slapping each other around

473

Cereal box characters always look down to catch the eyeline of children

474

An Italian man broke down the algorithm in American music to score a major hit

475

Antarctica doesn't have it's own phone country code

476

A canning plant in Wigan, U.K can process up to 3 million cans of food a day

477

'Rex' and 'Regina' is latin for 'King' and 'Queen'

478

An Australian fern causes you to lose weight and potentially starve

479

Ancient Egyptians would use the term "OMG Slay! Good luck is coming our way"

480

Capuchin monkeys and capuchino coffee are named from the same source

481

If you got caught cheating at the ancient olympics, it was written in statue

482

The origins of the term 'shaving the yak'

483

Despite 4 kids, you can't find any pictures of Queen Elizabeth whilst pregnant

484

Your fingernails grow much faster than your toenails

485

What is old factory fatigue?

486

They tried to demolish the great pyramids of Egypt once but found it impossible

487

This is the time of year Icelanders yeet puffins off cliffs

488

The UK Royal stamp collection is worth one hundred MILLION pounds

489

A college janitor found 85,000 baby teeth in a closet

490

Queen Elizabeth factaganza!

491

Giraffes cannot swim

492

A drop of water spends approx 3000 years in the ocean before being evaporated into air

493

A leech only needs to feed once every 5 years if kept at 4 degrees

494

In Japan, you receive a silver sake cup on your 100th birthday

495

The snooze button is set for 9 minutes because of it's origin story

496

In WW2 the US navy had a ship whose sole purpose was to produce ice cream

497

Two men scammed people by pretending to be a sock donation charity

498

In Germany there is a mass frog grave that is the result of a giant orgy

499

The longest straight road in the world is 240kms long

500

New Zealand has three native species of termite

501

Your bellybutton style purely depends on how you heal

502

That 56k Dial up sound was the internet and your ISP agreeing to work together

503

In 2013, a lady named Maria was the first person to cycle to the South Pole

504

The odd night time behaviour in cats and dogs is very normal and is called FRAPS

505

The origins of the phrase 'Close, but no cigar'

506

Why the dessert is spelt S-U-N-D-A-E

507

That crack in your cats fang is actually a blood groove

508

If you minced the human population, we would only fill a 1km sphere

509

When collars were first invented they were removable

510

UVB boosts attraction and libido

511

The annual global cost of things going rusty is $2.5 TRILLION

512

A hitman was hired to do a job, which ended up with a complete 180

513

A British surgeon burnt his initials into a patients liver

514

The western fence lizard does pushups to attract a mate

515

Unmarried couples stopped hanky panky in the olden days with a wooden blocker board

516

Only two cities in the world have hosted the Commonwealth games more than once.

517

The story of how WW2 gave us Sprite

518

The origin story of the 'backpack'

519

A survivor of the Titanic found living next to a stadium too traumatic

520

Trains always have a box of sand on board for rainy days

521

The country that produces the most bagpipes in the world is Pakistan

522

The warty comb jellyfish has a transient anus

523

The brits are literally melting in this heatwave

524

The total price of all the real estate in the world is $326.5 TRILLION

525

The McDonalds happy meal was invented in Guatemala

526

The colour Magenta is a lie

527

The 'office cubicle' design was meant to be part of a much bigger plan

528

Australia has a golf course that is 165kms long

529

Snails often have up to 25000 teeth

530

It's Sonic the Hedgehog's birthday!

531

Tiger beetles run so fast they temporarily go blind

532

Originally Tinkerbell didn't have fairy dust, so why did Disney add it in?

533

Napoleon snorted 3.2kgs of tobacco a month

534

NZ had cars BEFORE having road rules

535

When were cup holders included in cars?

536

Goosebumps can encourage hair growth

537

What do porcupines do when they're in the mood?

538

One mans bladder once held 11 litres

539

There's 10x as much water in the atmosphere than rivers

540

How a killer fell right into the police's trap

541

How many types of pasta are recognised in Italy?

542

The bell that was used as a pot

543

Hippos milk can be pink

544

Can I give Covid-19 to my pets?

545

The Offspring singer, Dexter Holland, has a PhD

546

When it rains, why do we see lots of worms?

547

Why was the Teletubbies set location flooded?

548

How long was the shortest war?

549

A broken guitar lost United Airlines $180 million

550

You can live stream theme parks 24/7

551

Kazakhstan didn't know NZ was a country!

552

How much water do steam locomotives use?

553

A Rolls-Royce that was too soundproof!

554

Europeans once used sheep bones to eat apples

555

What is beauty parlour syndrome?

556

What is the eagle feather law?

557

Originally, what was used to carry home oysters?

558

QR codes and its endless arrangements

559

Natures own font

560

Eel blood is toxic to humans

561

The most dangerous diets

562

Why did a dog push kids into the river?

563

Cemeteries used to be a popular place to picnic

564

Powdered corn cob can be made into rat poison

565

What country has the most diverse language?

566

How long would it take to boil an ostrich egg?

567

Who pooped on the Apollo 10 mission?

568

What is the 'Assassins Teapot?

569

A hobby that's killed 33 people

570

The first pipes used to transport gas were made from bamboo

571

Humans haven't beaten a computer at chess since 2005

572

Mountbatten Pink is named after Prince Phillips family

573

Leonardo Da Vinci nearly stole a river

574

Describing something as 'jet black' is referring to the lowest form of coal

575

The smallest inhabited island in the world is about the size of a tennis court

576

If all the western front trenches dug in WW1 were laid together, they would go around the world at the equator

577

The Opossum is the only mammal on earth with an odd number of nipples

578

China currently has it's lowest percentage of 'total world population' ever

579

There was a period of a billion years in earths history where NOTHING happened

580

Antarctica is the continent with the lowest infant mortality rate

581

Candy Crush was listed as a major cause of divorces in Egypt

582

New Zealand is on it's own timezone because of World War ll

583

Carmel, Indiana started using roundabouts since the 90's and its been a game changer

584

There are areas in the Phillipines where you're only allowed to drive WHITE cars

585

In 2021, the gaming made 80 BILLION dollars, half of which was on mobile gaming alone

586

You can tell an ecomonic downturn is coming when men stop buy underpants

587

19 countries in the world don't have rivers

588

The TV Show River Monsters ended because the host caught them all

589

In 2008, you couldn't google search 'Whakatane' in the town of 'Whakatane'

590

Roman archers had to pass a really weird vision test

591

Every full moon has a name according to the old farmers almanac

592

USA has 43 percent of the worlds golf courses

593

The white stuff in an Oreo is not called 'cream'

594

A San Franciso lamp post was chopped down by people constantly peeing on it

595

How insulation keeps astronauts alive on the International Space Station

596

A 'regnal name' means when you become the ruling monarch, you can go by any of your names

597

In the UK there is a blood bank just for pets

598

The origin story of the drink name 'The Bloody Mary'

599

In WW2 Gillette made special hollow handled shavers for spies

600

It's been 25 years since the death of The Notorious B.I.G

601

In New Zealand, children can legally booze it up with Mum and Dad

602

Thomas Edison was embarassed by his son and paid him go by a different surname

603

F35 fighter pilots are not allowed to change hairstyles

604

On average, each caveman would produce babies with 17 different cavewomen

605

Constant worry about 'the next thing to do' causes memory issues.

606

The President of Ukraine is also the voice of Paddington Bear

607

The President of Ukraine won the 1st season of Dancing with the Stars

608

The island where no one is allowed to die

609

Feeling full of food can cause uncontrollably sneezing

610

You're reading into first impressions wrong

611

3% of all birds have penises

612

What TV event caused a water shortage?

613

Who said 'OMG' first?

614

How old is the chocolate chip cookie?

615

The covering of explicit images in France

616

There's a reason for your mysterious headache

617

When were humans, on average, taller?

618

Detention for bad teachers

619

NZ's open road speed limit, measured in Weet-Bix

620

How was diabetes once tested?

621

What's the best smell?

622

Micheal Jackson was nearly Ja Ja Binks

623

A pod of belugas adopts lost narwhal

624

Donald Duck as a superhero?

625

Carrots are native to Afghanistan

626

How old is ciabatta bread?

627

Hollywoods fixation on quicksand

628

Tunnel machines and their female names

629

Did 'Born in the USA' chart better in NZ?

630

Gunpowder was used when burning at the stake

631

Josh Wardle is the inventor of Wordle

632

There are 16 unused starts in NZ postcodes

633

A cemetery statues bulge

634

Botox was named after sausage

635

Dave, 76, built New Plymouth's wind wand

636

THROW BACK: WHO declaring a pandemic

637

58 million barbies are sold each year

638

Robert Lopez may win a 3rd EGOT

639

Boa snakes kill by cutting of air supply

640

An old tradition costed someone 3 fingers

641

Argentina is named after an element

642

Kirsten Dunst was in a Japanese art exhibition

643

'Ye' is pronounced like 'The'

644

4 years, 5 men, living on an Oil rig

645

After WW2 Americans began brushing

646

Witches need to stay below 150 meters

647

Europe's largest banana plantation is in Iceland

648

In WW2 Bulgaria faced war with everyone

649

1745 - the Polish encyclopedia was published

650

1G still works in Russia

651

In Japan the word 'Viking' means 'Buffets'

652

The rarest plant lives in NZ

653

Dolly Parton & Buffy share the same bday

654

English was simplified in 1906

655

'Teenager' was first used in 1944.

656

Our inner monologue is called Elliptical speech

657

A song was written for guests

658

1896: The oldest Christmas film

659

Fruit cake should be dense like wood

660

A prize to win The Simpsons house

661

There's a city called David

662

NASA employs a super sniffer

663

Angostura's label is a great mistake

664

A festive statue provokes chaos

665

Silly string is used by US military

666

The man who invented celsius died before it was used

667

Male donkeys and billy goats are great protectors for those weak bulls

668

If you can contra-rotate your thumbs, you've got a well connected brain

669

In the US you once needed to get a blood test to get legally married

670

Alpacas are the ultimate bodyguards

671

The male garter snake is capable of releasing female pheromones

672

In 1997 it was illegal to tattoo someone in NYC

673

Why we call it the Milky Way

674

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