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title: "What are some interesting random facts?"  
description: "What are some interesting random facts?"  
author: "samay srivastava"  
published: 2018-03-05  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36653/what-are-some-interesting-random-facts  
category: "general knowledge"  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# What are some interesting random facts?

What are some interesting [random](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33419/generating-random-numbers-in-objective-c) facts?

## Answers

### Answer by Shreyas Tandon

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Here are some random facts that aren’t just interesting, but reading them is also a productive way of killing your free time:-

• A group of jellyfish is not a herd, or a school, or a flock; it's called a smack. • It would take 100 Earths, lined up end-to-end, to stretch across the face of the sun. • It takes a gallon and a half of milk (5.7 L) to make a gallon (3.8 L) of ice cream. • Your hair contains traces of gold. • Scientists say that the best time to take a nap is between 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. because that's when a dip in body temperature makes us feel sleep. • Because the speed of Earth's rotation changes over time, a day in the age of dinosaurs was just 23 hours long. • Hummingbirds' wings can beat 200 times a second.\
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• There are more than 1,200 water parks in North America. • A seahorse can move its eyes in opposite directions—all the better to scan the water for food and predators. • To cook an egg, a sidewalk needs to be 158°F. • It would take 100 Earths, lined up end-to-end, to stretch across the face of the sun. • Unlike most fish, seahorses are covered in bony plates instead of scales. • You lose about 50 to 100 hairs a day. • The Chinese giant salamander can grow to be 6 feet (1.8 m) long, making it the largest salamander in the world. • Some apples can weigh about as much as a half gallon (2L) of milk. • New Jersey in America has the highest concentration of shopping malls. • All apes laugh when they are tickled. • Scientists believe that people who dream about an activity will actually get better at it in real life. \


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