Friday Fun Facts Articles

In honor of "March Madness," a Friday Fun Facts that includes facts and trivia about the NCAA Basketball Tournament will surely provide ammunition to impress a friend or seven. It's been a long tradition that the tournament champions have cut down the nets to take...

The first Academy Awards were presented in 1927. The training mantra of the Navy SEALs is, “The only easy day was yesterday.” Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447. There are at least 41,806 different spoken languages in the...

You share a birthday with about 9 million other people in the world. Tiger cubs leave their mother when they are about 2 years old. A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes. Cicadas have their hearing organs in their stomachs, at the base of the abdomen. Chuck Norris can...

Oh yeah!  It's Friday!  And everyone needs a few fun facts before the weekend. The Venus flytrap feeds primarily on ants, not flies. Like other reptiles, turtles are cold blooded. When water freezes it expands by 10%. The sound of tiger’s roar can travel a distance of...

The ancient Romans invented the arch. Values on the monopoly game board are the same today as they were in 1935. The shoestring was invented in England in 1790. Prior to this time all shoes were fastened with buckles. Hippos mostly eat grass. A goldfish names Tish...

It was once illegal to slam your car door in Switzerland. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. The game of checkers is older than the game of chess. The anaconda snake gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs. A million dollars weighs...

A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long. According to an Old English system of time, a moment is considered to be 1 1/2 minutes. Rhinos are actually in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn....

What would a Friday be without a few fun facts? • Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or placed in a body of running water, such as a stream. • Giant Huntsman spiders have leg-spans up to 12 inches. • 21,978 when multiplied by 4 is the same number...

Calvin Coolidge was sworn into office by his own father. In honor of cold weather, -40º Celsius is exactly the same as -40º Fahrenheit. Only 52% of Americans drink coffee. The first bar code was used on Wrigleys gum. The standard blue USPS mailbox can hold...