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Fun Facts: Man on the moon or wheels on luggage – which came first?
Can you believe this is how much time we waste waiting for traffic lights to turn green? Test out your knowledge with this week's fun facts and figures.
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![Humans were able to place a man on the Moon before putting wheels on luggage]()
Wheels were added to suitcases in 1970, one year after Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.read moreFox NewsShare -
![The current U.S. flag was designed by a high school student for a class project - he originally received a]()
His teacher later bumped his grade to an A after the U.S. Congress accepted it as America’s national flag.read moreFox NewsShare -
![The average person will spend about a total of 6 months waiting at red lights]()
People will waste sixth months of their lives waiting for traffic lights to turn greenread moreFox NewsShare -
![Humans are about 1-2 cm taller in the morning after getting out of bed]()
Humans will start the day just slightly tallerread moreFox NewsShare -
![Before the invention of the eraser, writers used to correct their graphite mistakes with wet bread]()
Writers used to use wet bread as erasers until the modern rubber tools were invented around 1770read moreFox NewsShare -
![Beer wasn’t classified as alcohol in Russia until 2013!]()
Many Russians considered beer a soft drink until a decade agoread moreFox NewsShare -
![Wombat feces are surprisingly cube-shaped, allowing the fecal matter to not roll away when the mammals mark their territory]()
The Australian marsupials are the only animals known to produce cube-shaped fecesread moreFox NewsShare -
![A person typically produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools!]()
Salivary gland production varies between 2-6 cups per day.read moreFox NewsShare -
![The world’s deepest Postbox is in Susami Bay, Japan, where people can dive 10 meters underwater to send messages]()
The underwater mailbox was proposed to attract more tourists and divers to Susami Bayread moreFox NewsShare -
![Cheese is considered one, if not, the most shoplifted food worldwide, with nearly 4% of total cheese inventory stolen each year]()
The addictive quality and small packaging of cheese makes the dairy product highly targeted among shopliftersread moreFox NewsShare -
![Singapore, one of the cleanest countries in the world, made chewing gum illegal in 1992]()
The 1992 law helps prevent people from spitting gum on the groundread moreFox NewsShare -
![A jellyfish species, the Turritopsis dohrnii, has been deemed biologically immortal, due to its ability to reset its developmental stage after reaching maturity]()
The "immortal jellyfish" can also hit the reset button when it becomes injured or threatenedread moreFox NewsShare -
![The world’s largest cave, Son Doong in Vietnam, has its very own ecosystem, complete with a river, forest, sunlight and climate. It’s so big that it can fit an entire NYC city block inside!]()
Birds, monkeys and even snakes have been spotted inside the Vietname caveread moreFox NewsShare -
![In one lifetime, the average person will eat the weight equivalent of 6 elephants]()
An average person in the Western world eats about 70,000 pounds of food in a lifetimeread moreFox NewsShare -
![The Eiffel Tower was originally intended to be a temporary exhibit until it became so popular that it was no longer in danger of demolition]()
The Eiffel Tower was scheduled to be demolished after 20 yearsread moreFox NewsShare -
![The average lightning bolt runs at temperatures five times hotter than the surface of the sun!]()
Lightning also moves about 30,000 times faster than a bulletread moreFox NewsShare -
![The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is more than twice the height of NYC’s Empire State Building]()
Dubai's Burj Khalifa set the record as the world's tallest building in 2010 when it first openedread moreFox NewsShare -
![Humans blink about 15-20 times per minute. If you live to be 80 years old, you will have spent about 5 years of your life with your eyes closed due to blinking.]()
People would spend 5 years of their entire life with their eyes closed solely from blinking.read moreFox NewsShare -
![The Antarctic ice sheet is so massive that if it were to melt completely, global sea levels would rise by about 58 meters (190 feet).]()
Antarctic glaciers contain so much water that they would raise sea levels by 190 feet if they ever completely melted.read moreFox NewsShare -
![It takes about 1,800 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef, which equals 10 full bathtubs to create one quarter-pound burger. This includes water used for drinking, feed, and processing.]()
A quarter-pound burger requires the equivalent of about 10 bathtubs of water to be created.read moreFox NewsShare -
![Mount Everest grows approximately 0.16 inches (4 millimeters) per year due to tectonic activity. Over a human lifetime, this growth can be quite noticeable, adding about 10 inches (25 centimeters) in 60 years.]()
Mount Everest could grow 10 inches in the span of a human lifetime.read moreFox NewsShare -
![There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way: While estimates vary, it's generally accepted that there are around 3 trillion trees on Earth, whereas there are estimated to be around 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.]()
There are more trees than there are stars in the Milky Way.read moreFox NewsShare -
![To produce one pound of honey, a colony of honeybees must fly approximately 55,000 miles and visit around 2 million flowers.]()
Honeybees must visit 2 million flowers to create one pound of honey.read moreFox NewsShare -
![The Great Wall of China is over 13,000 miles (21,000 kilometers) long. If laid end to end, it would stretch more than halfway around the Earth.]()
The length of the Great Wall of China equates to more than half the Earth's circumference.read moreFox NewsShare -
![The global population reached 1 billion in 1804. It took 123 years to reach 2 billion (in 1927) and only 12 years to go from 7 billion to 8 billion (2022).]()
While it took over a century for the human population to go from one to two billion people, it took just over a decade for seven billion to go to eight billion.read moreFox NewsShare -
![Due to thermal expansion, the height of the Eiffel Tower can vary by up to 15 centimeters (6 inches) depending on the temperature. In hot weather, the iron structure expands, and in cold weather, it contracts.]()
The Eiffel Tower can stretch an extra 6 inches depending on the temperature.read moreFox NewsShare -
![A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus: Venus rotates very slowly on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation. However, its orbit around the Sun only takes about 225 Earth days, making a day (rotation) longer than a year (orbit).]()
On Venus, a day shockingly lasts longer than a year.read moreFox NewsShare -
![Every day, about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created globally. That's equivalent to 250,000 Libraries of Congress.]()
Data equivalent to a quarter-million Libraries of Congress are created every day.read moreFox NewsShare -
![The total length of a human's blood vessels could circle the earth at least twice.]()
The total length of a human's blood vessels could circle the earth at least twice.read moreFox NewsShare -
![If all the blood vessels in the human body were laid end to end, they would measure approximately 60,000 miles, enough to circle the Earth more than twice.]()
The total length of a human's blood vessels could circle the earth at least twice.read moreFox NewsShare -
![Around the world, there are about 8.6 million lightning strikes every day. Around the world, there are about 8.6 million lightning strikes every day. That's over 100 strikes per second!]()
There are over 100 strikes per second around the world!read moreFox NewsShare -
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Can you believe this is how much time we waste waiting for traffic lights to turn green? Test out your knowledge with this week's fun facts and figures.
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