Sometimes you
gotta do things just
for fun and that’s
what this list is
about. Have any
cool facts to add?
Put them in the
comments below
and we will build a
community section
below these of other happy facts. Have fun!
1. 2013 is the first year since 1987 that consists of four
different digits.
2. At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds,
the youngest person on the planet.
3. If you spell out the numbers in order, the first time you
get to the letter “a” is at one-thousand.
4. We’ve all been here forever. Every bit of matter we see
has been here since the beginning of time and it always
will be.
5. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a
cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
6. Happiness is a skill. You can learn it and it’s not hard.
7. Except when breeding, the Common Swift spend their
entire lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in
flight. They drink, feed and often mate and sleep on the
wing.
8. Baby rabbits are called kittens.
9. Baby puffins are called pufflings.
10. Costa Rica is statistically the happiest nation on Earth.
11. Worms communicate by snuggling.
12. If you blend a sea sponge, it will re-form back into a
sea sponge.
13. The Beatles used the word “love” 613 times throughout
their career.
14. Every year, millions of trees grow thanks to squirrels
forgetting where they buried their nuts.
15. On the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.
had a pillow-fight in his motel room.
16. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the
iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made
in the interiors of collapsing stars. We’re all made of star
dust.
17. The happier you are, the more antibodies your body
generates – up to 50 percent more, in fact.
18. Penguins only have one mate their entire life and
“propose” by giving their mate a pebble.
19. Cows have best friends.
20. Cuddling releases Oxytocin which helps speed healing
and recovery from physical wounds.
21. Otters hold hands when sleeping so they don’t drift
away from each other.
22. There’s a type of jellyfish that lives forever. Turritopsis
nutricula
23. Wayne Allwine (the voice of Mickey Mouse) and Russi
Taylor (the voice of Minnie Mouse) were married in real
life.
24. We now have less crime, a lower death rate and longer
life expectancy than at any other time in human history.
25. The clitoris has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the
penis, and is the only organ in the body which exists
purely for pleasure.
26. Butterflies can taste with their feet.
27. For someone, somewhere in the world, today is the
most amazing day of their life.
28. When you die, your body decomposes, and the atoms
that contained “you” are recycled into Earth to be used
again.
29. Every year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to
Canada to thank them for their aid in the Second World
War.
30. Rats giggle when you tickle them. Their voices are so
high-pitched you need special equipment to hear them, but
when you do, their laughs are immediately evident.
31. Sea horses mate for life, are completely faithful and
travel together by holding on to each others tails.
32. 32 facts were chosen instead of a number ending in 0
or 5 because we have the freedom to do things like that!
gotta do things just
for fun and that’s
what this list is
about. Have any
cool facts to add?
Put them in the
comments below
and we will build a
community section
below these of other happy facts. Have fun!
1. 2013 is the first year since 1987 that consists of four
different digits.
2. At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds,
the youngest person on the planet.
3. If you spell out the numbers in order, the first time you
get to the letter “a” is at one-thousand.
4. We’ve all been here forever. Every bit of matter we see
has been here since the beginning of time and it always
will be.
5. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a
cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
6. Happiness is a skill. You can learn it and it’s not hard.
7. Except when breeding, the Common Swift spend their
entire lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in
flight. They drink, feed and often mate and sleep on the
wing.
8. Baby rabbits are called kittens.
9. Baby puffins are called pufflings.
10. Costa Rica is statistically the happiest nation on Earth.
11. Worms communicate by snuggling.
12. If you blend a sea sponge, it will re-form back into a
sea sponge.
13. The Beatles used the word “love” 613 times throughout
their career.
14. Every year, millions of trees grow thanks to squirrels
forgetting where they buried their nuts.
15. On the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.
had a pillow-fight in his motel room.
16. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the
iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made
in the interiors of collapsing stars. We’re all made of star
dust.
17. The happier you are, the more antibodies your body
generates – up to 50 percent more, in fact.
18. Penguins only have one mate their entire life and
“propose” by giving their mate a pebble.
19. Cows have best friends.
20. Cuddling releases Oxytocin which helps speed healing
and recovery from physical wounds.
21. Otters hold hands when sleeping so they don’t drift
away from each other.
22. There’s a type of jellyfish that lives forever. Turritopsis
nutricula
23. Wayne Allwine (the voice of Mickey Mouse) and Russi
Taylor (the voice of Minnie Mouse) were married in real
life.
24. We now have less crime, a lower death rate and longer
life expectancy than at any other time in human history.
25. The clitoris has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the
penis, and is the only organ in the body which exists
purely for pleasure.
26. Butterflies can taste with their feet.
27. For someone, somewhere in the world, today is the
most amazing day of their life.
28. When you die, your body decomposes, and the atoms
that contained “you” are recycled into Earth to be used
again.
29. Every year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to
Canada to thank them for their aid in the Second World
War.
30. Rats giggle when you tickle them. Their voices are so
high-pitched you need special equipment to hear them, but
when you do, their laughs are immediately evident.
31. Sea horses mate for life, are completely faithful and
travel together by holding on to each others tails.
32. 32 facts were chosen instead of a number ending in 0
or 5 because we have the freedom to do things like that!
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