Other Animal Random Trivia

A sloth can take a month to digest a single meal.

The superb fairy wren teaches its chicks to sing while they are still in the egg.

Male elephants use their penises to swat flies.

An elephant can smell water from 12 miles away.

The potoo bird can see with its eyes shut.

Squirrels forget where they’ve buried three-quarters of their nuts.

Human body odor is irresistible to female goats in heat.

More people have been into space than have seen a snow tiger in the wild.

Chickens can see daylight 45 minutes before humans can.

Moose masturbate by rubbing their antlers on trees.

Costa Rica is home to the world’s only sloth orphanage.

Pet parrots released into the wild teach wild parrots how to talk.

A male hippo attracts a female hippo by spraying her with excrement.

Taken from: 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop, by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin.

Water Creature Random Trivia

Starfish have eyes at the end of their arms.

There are whales alive today that were born before Moby Dick was written in 1851.

Anglerfish have black-lined stomachs to stop their insides from giving them away after they eat something luminous.

Eel blood is toxic to humans.

The pistol shrimp uses jets of water to generate a sonic boom as loud as Concorde’s.

Alligators’ penises are permanently erect, but concealed inside their bodies.

A startled hagfish can unleash more than five gallons of defensive slime.

Dolphins can stay awake for 15 days at a time.

An octopus has horizontal pupils; whatever angle the octopus is at, its pupils always stay aligned with the horizon.

Taken from: 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop, by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin.

Insect Random Trivia

A decapitated planarian flatworm grows a new brain complete with all its old memories.

The cigarette snail is so called because a bite from its venomous tooth leaves you just enough time to smoke a cigarette before you die.

Spiders can survive for hours underwater by entering a self-induced coma.

It takes a male flea six to eight hours to unfold all the different parts of its penis.

Moths can be trained to detect plastic explosives.

Wasps can recognize each other’s faces.

Locust swarms move so fast because each locust is trying to eat the one in front and avoid being eaten by the one behind.

Slugs dislike copper; their slime reacts with it and gives them an electric shock.

Spiders recycle their webs by eating them.

Bees can count to four.

Taken from: 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop, by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin.

Even More Random Trivia

Bush Market in Kabul, named after George W. Bush, sells food and supplies stolen from US military bases.

Oymyakon in Russia is the coldest inhabited town on Earth: its only hotel has no hot water and an outside toilet.

Burning Mountain, Australia, is a natural coal fire that has been alight for 6,000 years.

40 million people in China live in caves.

The fermented-cabbage museum in Seoul has 100,000 visitors a year.

As Earth moves it makes a musical note too low for human hearing: C sharp, 29 octaves below middle C.

The only way to tell if trees are short of water is to record the sounds they make; the thirstier they are, the louder they get.

On January 22, 1943, the temperature in Spearfish, South Dakota, went from -4 degrees to +45 degrees in two minutes.

Only 22 of the world’s 193 countries have never been invaded by the British.

Taken from: 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop, by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin.