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Fun Fact of the Day Hi! Welcome to Fun Fact of the Day, a page where we bring you a fresh, informative and engaging fact every single day!

Note: We try to confirm each fact as far as possible, however of course no guarantee can be offered for full accuracy of information :)

28/04/2023

Violet Jessop was a ship nurse who served on no less than the Titanic and the sister ships the Britannic and Olympic. Each ship met an accident while she was on board, two of them sinking, but Violet survived each one and continued to serve.

27/04/2023

The statues of ancient Rome were usually painted in colour over the sculpting, not white as we know them today. Therefore the eye detailing was left for the painter to do, giving them the iconic blank stares.

16/04/2023

Richard Branson once made an elaborate April Fool's prank on March 31, 1989. He and a friend flew a hot air balloon shaped like a flyer saucer towards London, planning to land in Hyde Park, however the winds made them land in Surrey. When police approached the 'UFO' the door opened and the friend walked out wearing a silver suit, whereupon the police simply ran away.

16/04/2023

In 1957 on April 1, the BBC broadcasted a prank news report which announced that Ticino, a town in Switzerland near Italy, had had a particularly good spaghetti crop. The camera showed people gathering spaghetti off bushes and trees and then eating it. Although some viewers saw through the prank, many called in to ask how to grow spaghetti at home.

14/04/2023

In 1959, the residents of Sao Paulo were so fed up with their city council due to the state of the city they ran an election campaign for a rhinoceros called Cacareco in the local zoo - and ended up winning with over 100,000 votes compared to the nearest human candidate with 10,000 votes. Although disqualified by the council, the protest is still famous in Brazil.

14/04/2023

The origin of April Fools Day remains a mystery, but one theory is that it spread after the change from the Julian calendar - which started the year on April 1st - to the Gregorian calendar with it's start on the 1st January. People who were slow to adapt to the new calendar were often referred to as fools and mocked.

25/12/2022

Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt but did not patent the device and encouraged other manufacturers to adopt it as they felt it would save more lives that way.

24/12/2022

The Kevlar bulletproof vest was invented by a pizza delivery man after he was shot twice on the job.

23/12/2022

Munich's Technical University has four-story high slides in the residence blocks to help the students get to classes faster than taking the stairs.

22/12/2022

There is a tree house in Ecuador built on the edge of a cliff, with a swing that allows people to swing out over an active volcano. It's called 'Swing at the End of the World'.

21/12/2022

The lowest ever recorded natural temperature reading was in July 1983 in Antarctica at the Vostok Soviet research statio, of -89.2 degrees Celsius.

20/12/2022

The hottest officially recorded temperature on Earth was in July 1913 at Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley, California, of 56.7 Celsius.

19/12/2022

Apparently, using a paper towel to dry your hands in a public bathroom decreases bacteria by 40%, while using the blow dryers increases bacteria by 220% as the warm moist environment promotes their growth.

13/11/2022

If the human sense of hearing could detect any lower frequencies of sound, we would be able to hear our muscles moving.

12/11/2022

Your body contains enough carbon to make around 9,000 pencils.

11/11/2022

Ancient Athens had a process called 'ostracism' which allowed the citizens to vote once a year on who they thought was the worst politician, who was then banished from the city.

10/11/2022

Apparently the top Roman chariot racers got paid proportionally more in their day than some international sports stars earn today.

04/11/2022

In 1696, King William III introduced a tax on large houses which required the owners to pay if they had more than 6 windows in the house. Of course, to avoid this the owners merely blocked up all the excess windows. Because this darkened the house, the tax became known as daylight robbery.

03/11/2022

If squirrels didn't constantly knaw on their food, their long front teeth would just keep growing, up to 5 inches a year!

02/11/2022

The eyes of reindeer actually change colour during the year - they are golden in the summer but change to a blue to help gather light during the dark winter months.

01/11/2022

The state of Oklahoma has a law making it illegal to take a bite out of someone else's hamburger. Good thing too.

31/10/2022

The world's most poisonous frog (the poison dart frog) is only around a centimetre in size but has a toxicity 200 times more than morphine.

30/10/2022

Apparently babies smile around 200 times a day, the average woman smiles around 62 times a day and the average man only around 8 times a day...

Apologies for the long absence! Hopefully this will make up for it :P

10/09/2022

Apparently you are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day of the year.

09/09/2022

Orange as a colour name was named after the fruit, however before this occured the colour orange was known in English as yeeo-ler-eed.

08/09/2022

Coffee was very influential in early Turkish culture, to the point where the origins of the Turkish word for breakfast means 'before coffee' and the colour brown means 'the colour of coffee'.

07/09/2022

The cigarette lighter was invented before the matchstick.

07/09/2022

There are special mirrors called non-reversing mirrors which show you exactly how you appear to other people, without the mirrored effect in your appearance.

05/09/2022

The tin can was invented in 1810. The can opener was only invented 48 years later, and in the meantime people used hammers and chisels to open the cans.

04/09/2022

Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) are artificial pumps which assist your heart - one of the effects of having a VAD is that you have no pulse.

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