Ridiculously Mind-Blowing Facts 

We bring you more ridiculously mind-blowing facts. From penguin pebble proposals to tiny toy tyres, it’s all here!

1. In Finding Nemo, all of the dentist’s office fish are based on real species you can find in the ocean.
2. The Pixar lamp mascot is named Luxo Jr after Pixar’s first short film.
3. The voice of Edna Mode in The Incredibles is actually director Brad Bird.
4. In Shrek, Mike Myers re-recorded all his lines in a Scottish accent after the first cut, doubling production costs.
5. The Lion King’s “Circle of Life” opening was so powerful, Disney used it as the trailer without any other footage.
6. Parrots can live up to 80 years.

7. Butterflies taste with their feet.
8. Penguins propose with pebbles.
9. There’s a waterfall in Antarctica that runs red, called Blood Falls.
10. There’s a “Door to Hell” in Turkmenistan – a gas crater that’s been burning since 1971.
11. Hawaii moves 7.5cm closer to Alaska every year.
12. The Dead Sea is nine times saltier than the ocean.

13. If you could fly a plane to Pluto, it would take over 800 years.
14. The Milky Way smells faintly of rum and tastes like raspberries (based on chemical compounds found in space).
15. Saturn could float in water because it’s mostly gas.
16. Viking helmets didn’t have horns – that’s a myth.
17. Neutron stars spin up to 600 times per second.
18. The Great Fire of London stopped the plague by killing disease-carrying rats.

19. The Leaning Tower of Pisa took almost 200 years to build.
20. Human saliva contains a natural painkiller called opiorphin.
21. Some metals, like gallium, can melt in your hand.
22. Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people.
23. The world’s largest pizza was over 13,500 square feet.
24. Pigeons can recognise themselves in a mirror.

25. Identical twins don’t have the same fingerprints.
26. Apples float because they are 25% air.
27. Worcestershire sauce contains anchovies.
28. Almonds are seeds, not nuts.
29. LEGO is the world’s largest tyre manufacturer (they are toy tyres, however!).
30. A jiffy is a real-time measurement – 1/100th of a second.

31. Bubblegum is pink because that’s the only colour the inventor had on hand.
32. The inventor of the Rubik’s Cube initially struggled to solve it.
33. A cloud can travel faster than 100 mph with strong winds.
34. The first-ever VCR was the size of a piano.

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Author: Love Wrexham Magazine