Category: Fun Facts

As we get older, we also shrink. However, at this moment in time we are talking about something that does not happen over years or decades, but something that happens over and over again on a daily basis. If you measure your height with absolute precision when you get out of bed and then do […]

Raisins are seen as being a healthy snack, but are they as healthy as you think? Of course, you could be sitting there wondering how on earth a raisin could be different, but that is until you look at various regulations as to what is allowed. You need to remember where raisins come from, but […]

There are a few crazy stats connected to human beings that are always thrown up at random times. These stats are able to show you the kind of things that we get up to in our lives without even really being aware of it all. So, what is the crazy stat at this point? Well, […]

Sneezing is annoying, and who on earth is happy about it happening? Clearly nobody is happy, but at the same time you should never try to suppress that sneeze just because the actual act of it annoys you so much. Nope, you are advised to just allow it to happen because the act of suppressing […]

The Olympic Games have been around for over a century, and during that time have included different sports that you would not even think were actually a sport. Some have only appeared once before then vanishing into oblivion, and one such example has to be the 1904 Olympics that were based in St. Louis. Now, […]

When it comes to movies that sum up the thriller genre, it would be difficult to find anything that could beat Psycho for the way in which it can play on your mind. Of course, there are so many different scenes that stand out, but perhaps the key one has to be the infamous shower […]

Snow is something that a number of us take for granted when we live in certain parts of the world. It is one of those things that we just know we are going to see every single year, and if we don’t, it is a rare thing indeed. However, a lot of people that encounter […]

With alcohol, is there anything that is more famous than beer? It comes in all shapes and sizes as well as strengths and tastes, and everybody knows that drinking too much of it is going to lead to all kinds of problems for you. But it hasn’t always been like that, especially if you lived […]

For a mountaineer, climbing Mt. Everest is the pinnacle of the sport in more ways than one. It is known to be dangerous, but the challenge is something that so many individuals feel that they have to tackle. Of course, people know their way up the mountain, as it has been conquered on numerous occasions, […]

The concept of having a duel to sort out your differences is something that we often believe to be in the past and during a time when this was really seen as being the manly way of sorting out an argument. In the civilized world, we like to think that those days are behind us […]