12 Fun facts

At times, it feels that you know everything and seems as if you have all the knowledge and that nothing can surprise you. However, you accidentally overhear someone reveal something you’ve never heard off. We bring you some unheard facts that will shock you.

Fact 1

Hippopotamus’s milk is pink. Yup, you heard that right! Hippos just like every mammal produces white or off-white milk. Hippos don’t have any sweat glands, but they do have mucus glands. They secrete an oily liquid also known as “blood sweat” This secretion turns the milk to a baby pink color.

Fact 2

Honey never expires. Not in a year, not in 3 — never. It may change color and turn to crystallized form, but will always remain safe to eat. If your honey has crystallized, just place the jar in hot water with its lid removed until the crystals turn to liquid.

Fact 3

The “Turritopsis Nutricula” a jellyfish is the only known life on Earth that is biologically immortal. Found mostly in the Mediterranean Sea and the waters of Japan. It can literally hit the reset button and slip back to the earlier development stages if injured or threatened.

Fact 4

A blue whale’s heart is so gigantic that a human being can actually swim through its arteries. Weighing around 1300 lb it is the size of a small hatchback. It beats at a rate of 8- 10 beats per minute. The heartbeat can be heard from over two miles away.

Fact 5

Despite having a huge heart its throat is as big as a saucer. During feeding time, it swallows massive volumes of water, which then passes through baleen plates trapping tiny food in them. Summer is the peak season when blue whales can feed up to 4 tones or more food every day. That’s 40 million krill a day.

Fact 6

There are around 1.6 million ants per human being in the world. The combined overall weight of all these ants and all the humans on the planet is equal. Ants being a biologically strong species have conquered the entire world. Ants are as old as dinosaurs and have survived the mass extinction some 65 million years ago.

Fact 7

An octopus carries three hearts. Two hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third one circulates it around the body. It is famous as the “Escape master” because of its rather spooky skill. It can squeeze through the tiniest hole and flee.


Fact 8

Formerly, Feng shui was the art of choosing the right place for a grave. It was part of Chinese funeral traditions. Chinese believed the location of the grave is important in order to pass positive energy flow from the deceased to the living family members.

Fact 9

It rains ‘Diamonds’ on Saturn and Jupiter. There is high amount of crystal carbon present in the atmosphere of these planets. Huge lightning storms turns methane into soot(carbon) which then falls down turning into lumps of graphite and then diamond. The biggest of them would be a centimeter in size, but big enough to make a ring.

Fact 10

The chances of you drinking a glass of water, that was once consumed by dinosaurs is almost a 100%. The water on our Earth is the same as it was 5 billion years ago. Only a small amount has escaped into the space.

Fact 11

There are ten times less cells than bacteria population in a human body. Being smaller than cells, they share only 1%-2% of our total body mass. An average human being carries over 100 trillion microbes which makes 90% of our body.

Fact 12

The chances of you drinking a glass of water, that was once consumed by dinosaurs is almost a 100%. The water on our Earth is the same as it was 5 billion years ago. Only a small amount has escaped into the space.