50 Random Fun Facts To Kill Boredom

If you’re bored and have ten minutes to kill, then why not check out this awesome list of the top fifty most random and funny facts.

1. Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
2. In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day!
3. Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers!
4. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
5. A flock of crows is known as a murder.
6. “Facebook Addiction Disorder” is a mental disorder identified by Psychologists.
7. The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.
8. 29th May is officially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day“.
9. Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
10. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
11. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.
12. Hyphephilia are people who get aroused by touching fabrics.
13. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
14. The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated and made into frisbees after he died!
15. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
16. If Pinokio says “My Noes Will Grow Now”, it would cause a paradox. Details here.
17. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting. (If they lived in the same place)
18. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.
19. Bikinis and tampons were invented by men.
20. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
21. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
22. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
23. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
24. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
25. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
26. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (busted?)
27. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
28. Rats and horses can't vomit.
29. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
30. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
31. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
34. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
35. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
36. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
37. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
38. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
39. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
40. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
41. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
42. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
43. A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
44. Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.
45. The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.
46. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
47. Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations has increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5") for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.
48. In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.
49. Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.
50.  A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.