Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was -144 Fahrenheit at Antarctica during a span of research between 2004 and 2016.

Just a few breaths of air at that temperature would haemorrhage your lungs and kill you.

People who are currently alive represent about 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived.

Around one in every 200 men are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.

You can’t say happiness without saying penis.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and nobody can figure out why.

The Lego Group is the world’s most powerful brand. There are more Lego Minifigures than there are people on Earth.

The moon is moving away from the Earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year.

85 million years ago it was orbiting the Earth about 35 feet from the planet's surface.

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

A ten-year-old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new due to debris that it absorbs over time.

That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand, and a lot of perspiration, which the average person loses at a rate of a quart a day.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.