Fun Facts That Will Blow Your Mind
1.It would take less than an hour for you to fall through a hole to the other side of the world. It has been estimated by scientists (using calculations involving air resistance and the momentum ect) that is would take 42 minutes and 12 seconds.
2.Only 38% of Americans have ever left the country according to the Department of State, there are 121,512,341 passports in circulation for the 321,362,789 American citizens out there.
3.Denmark banned the letter Q in 1872. The danish alphabet has 29 letters, the letters C, Q, W, X and Z are only used in foreign loanwords
4.Sloths can hold their breath for a whopping 40 minutes under water. This is actually longer than a dolphin who can usually only manage around 10 minutes underwater.
5.The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.In 1996, a tropical cyclone named Olivia hit off the coast of Barrow Island, Australia according to The Weather Channel.
6.Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured. Previous readings have ranged from 29,002 feet above sea level in 1856 down to 20,029 in 1955. However it hasn’t grown physically. After a new measurement were taken by surveyors representing China and Nepal with high tech GPS devices, experts have now stated that Mount Everest stands at a whopping 29,031.69 feet, due to plate tectonics.
7.North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can’t officially buy Coca-Cola. That’s because these countries are under long-term U.S. trade embargoes.
8. More people visit France than any other country. This is according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization. In 2017 it is reported that France was visited by 86.9 million people. Spain was the second-most popular destination with 81.8 million visitors, United States (76.9 million), China (60.7 million).
9.The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long. Taumatawhakatangihanga-koauauotamateaturipukakapikimaung-ahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is a place in New Zealand. That is a mouthful to say!
10. It has been less than 80 years since the last woman in UK was tried for witchcraft. Helen Duncan, a mother of six from Callander, Stirlingshire, was jailed in 1944 under the 1735 Witchcraft Act.
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