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Fun Facts From Around the World

Discover intriguing facts from history, nature, and more! From the origins of "O.K." to kangaroos and playing cards, learn fascinating trivia spanning various topics!

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Fun Facts From Around the World

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  1. DID YOU KNOW ….. O.K. During historic civil wars, when troops returned without any casualties, a writing was put up so all can see which read "0 Killed". From here we get the expression "O.K." which means all is good.

  2. DID YOU KNOW ….. It is impossible to suck your elbow.

  3. DID YOU KNOW ….. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

  4. DID YOU KNOW ….. The muscles in your heart have the strength to shoot your blood 10 meters in the air?

  5. DID YOU KNOW ….. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

  6. DID YOU KNOW ….. The body’s strongest muscle is our tongue

  7. DID YOU KNOW ….. Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying

  8. DID YOU KNOW ….. All polar bears are left handed

  9. DID YOU KNOW ….. Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongue

  10. DID YOU KNOW ….. Butterflies taste with their feet

  11. DID YOU KNOW ….. A cockroach can live 9 days without it’s head. It only dies because it cannot eat.

  12. DID YOU KNOW ….. A duck’s quack has no echoe, and nobody knows why

  13. DID YOU KNOW ….. Each King on playing cards represent a King in real history: Spades: King David. Clubs: Alexander The Great.Hearts: Charlemagne.Diamonds: Julius Cesar.

  14. DID YOU KNOW ….. It is impossible to sneeze with your eye’s open

  15. DID YOU KNOW ….. Multiplying 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

  16. DID YOU KNOW ….. Starfish have no brains

  17. DID YOU KNOW ….. A statue in a park with a soldier on a horse with it’s 2 feet in the air means the soldier died in combat. If the horse has only 1 foot in the air, the soldier died of injuries from combat. If the horse has all 4 feet on the ground, the soldier died of natural causes.

  18. DID YOU KNOW ….. Mosquitoes have teeth

  19. DID YOU KNOW ….. The word "cemetery" comes from the Greek koimetirion which means dormitory

  20. DID YOU KNOW ….. When the English settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal that jumped extremely high and far. They asked the aboriginal people using body language and signs trying to ask them about this animal. They responded with  ’’Kan Ghu Ru’’ the english then adopted the word kangaroo. What the aboriginal people were really trying to say was ‘’we don’t understand you’’, ‘’ Kan Ghu Ru’’.

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