10 Mind-Blowing Facts that you Need to know
These are some facts that are so crazy some of them you wouldn’t believe are true!
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2 min readMar 17, 2024
When online I came across some of these and I haven’t ever forgotten them, they truly stay in your brain for a while. So here they are:
- A single cloud weights around 1 million tonnes – Is this not crazy? I thought that clouds weigh nothing as they are just air that’s condensed, it must be from holding up rainwater through precipitation.
- The speed of Earth’s rotation is changing -This could mean in the future the world will be different, it has so many different possibilities with negative connotations
- Giraffes are 300% more likely to be struck by lightning than people – I never thought of this but it’s right, you’re advised in a thunderstorm to stay low to the ground and get inside, but how tall are giraffes and they usually are in an open space. So the perfect target for lightening!
- Identical twins don’t Have the same fingerprint -So even if you have an identical twin committing a crime can have its consequences And blaming it on your identical twin won’t work out well!
- The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedali- Yes, this is actually true and this itself could scare someone
- The sun produces a sound that we can’t hear –This is a high-pitched sound that is heard throughout the universe but we on Earth can not hear it!
- You can die from laughter – intense laughter can cause a heart attack or suffocation, as sometimes when we laugh I feel I’m straining my lungs and struggle to breathe, but I thought you could always stop yourself before going too far.
- Ants don’t have lungs – they breathe through spiracles which are different openings on their body! I always thought every living animal had a lung!
- Per year, wind turbines kill between. 10,000- 100,000 birds in the UK – This is more of a sad fact, I love all animals and especially birds as I used to feed garden birds in my grandad’s garden.
- Bacteria on your skin are the reason you itch – some bacteria can cause a chemical to be released which activates a protein in the muscle causing the itchy sensation.
Let me know if you have any more crazy facts! I hope these stick with you and they are great to tell people!
Thank you for reading :)