Funny But True Facts


If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon.

If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

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85 Responses to “Funny But True Facts”

  1. Michael, on February 25th, 2008 Said:

    Hair and fingernails dont grow after u die…. otherwise there would be fingernails sticking out of the ground everywhere (ewwwww)

  2. Victoria, on March 15th, 2008 Said:

    How do you know termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metl music?

  3. Matt, on March 17th, 2008 Said:

    ALL OF THESE FACTS ARE TRUE DO NOT QUESTION THEM…..OR YOU WILL FACE THE WRATH OF THE USELESS KNOWLEDGE GODS!!!!!!!!!!

  4. kiera, on March 22nd, 2008 Said:

    i love all these random facts, me and my friend are always in competiton on who knows the most random facts

  5. brianna, on March 26th, 2008 Said:

    umm yes fingernails do grow after death because they only grow for about two months after death. and hair grows for about the same amount of time.

    and scientists can test how fast termites eat when listining to vaious types of music.
    although how weird that sounds it is true.

    haha actually all of these are true facts. and useless :]

  6. NIKKI, on March 28th, 2008 Said:

    HI I LIKE EGGS

  7. Vonnie, on April 13th, 2008 Said:

    so umm…..whens ya next birfday? i was jus wonderin cuz my scale says i’m 130lbs. when i’m rally only 90

  8. nikki, on May 14th, 2008 Said:

    fingernails & hair are dead cells.. they don’t grow massively but enough to continue growing after death

    ps. i likee these facts [:
    keep them comingg ..?

  9. nov, on May 18th, 2008 Said:

    no, fingernails and hair do not grow after death. research it. they appear to grow because the skin around your nails and on your head shrinks somewhat after you die.

  10. random person, on August 21st, 2008 Said:

    Gadsby is the longest book never to use the letter E

  11. Mat, on August 22nd, 2008 Said:

    “Fingernails and hair grow after death.” = FALSE

    (Thank you nov at least one person knew what they were talking about.)

    The human body begins to dehydrate after a person dies. Because the skin is so dry, it “pulls away from nails and hair.” This makes it appear as though the nails and hair are growing, but in fact the body itself is shrinking.

  12. alexxxx, on September 16th, 2008 Said:

    lol@ all these losers arguing whether hair grows after people die. XDXDXD

  13. OHHHHHHHH lAAAAAAAAAAAA lAAAAAAA, on November 25th, 2008 Said:

    Smile if u r a happui person don’t frown

  14. alyssa, on November 29th, 2008 Said:

    haha i know right?
    seriously people…no one really cares. the person dead anyway. go dig some random person up and find out yourself

  15. julia, on December 10th, 2008 Said:

    did you know that all polar bears are left handed?
    or that giraffes don’t have vocal cords?
    or that it is possible to lead a cow up stairs, but not down? hows that for random?

  16. amanda, on December 13th, 2008 Said:

    seriously, its funnier that you guys are having a useless fight about usless facts than the facts themselves!

  17. Kiki*@_@*, on December 16th, 2008 Said:

    yeah, i know! isnt it strange?
    Did you know that if you leave a goldfish in a dark room it’ll turn white?
    And more money is published for Monopoly than for US treasury every DAY!!!

  18. Mackenzie, on February 21st, 2009 Said:

    hahah these are great. =]

  19. RAWR, on February 21st, 2009 Said:

    -Polar bears aren’t white; they have black skin and translucent fur.
    -It is impossible to lick your elbow (unless of course you are some kind of contortionist…)
    -If you dive too deep in the ocean without special gear, your body can implode.
    -peanuts aren’t nuts…they are related to beans.
    -a cashew is the only nut that grows on the outside of a fruit.
    -Kiwi birds were named after the fruit
    -If Christopher Columbus had discovered America, there would not have been people here before him.
    -The only mammals that lay eggs are the Platypus and the Echidna.

  20. robin and adam, on February 26th, 2009 Said:

    hair and fingernails only grow to a certain amount of time…

  21. robin and adam, on February 26th, 2009 Said:

    i just researched it……….:( i was wrong lol

  22. Tom Tom, on March 4th, 2009 Said:

    HAHAHAHA. HI I LIKE EGGS.

  23. Amanda, on March 12th, 2009 Said:

    hair and fingernails dont grow. its an illusion because in reality its your skin receding that makes it appear that your hair and nails are growing.

  24. Hollyy.Is.Better.Than.You.(:, on March 15th, 2009 Said:

    hahaha, ya’ll crack me up. arguing about nothing, anyyway, i love these. they crack me up even moree. (:

  25. tara, on March 17th, 2009 Said:

    lol i love this..what else is there to do at 2 am? ..besides study for finals..
    ahhh.

    guess what the avg speed a dragonfly can travel is 30 mph. :)
    a goldfish has a attention span of 3 seconds..idk i read it somewhere. haha

  26. Corey, on March 18th, 2009 Said:

    Hair and fingernails do NOT grow after death, the retraction of your skin makes them seem longer. Scientific fact. Eat it.

  27. charlie, on March 19th, 2009 Said:

    Ok for those of you who keep arguing about the hair and fingernails thing I hope this helps, if it doesn’t you should stop wasting your time on the internet and go do something useful with your life…( i should do that same) anyway here it goes.. Hair and fingernails aren’t actually growing. Dead is dead. The only things growing after you’re dead are worms, bacteria, and flowers. What is happening, however, is that the skin around the hair and fingernails will desiccate (i.e., lose water) and thereby shrink. When the skin shrinks, it retracts, making hair and fingernails look longer, as if they’d grown.

  28. mingoo, on March 22nd, 2009 Said:

    wow u guys are fighting about this???
    but i have to agree with the ppl tht ar saying they dont grow; i mean think about it. when u die, your whole body completely dies. gone, dead.

  29. izzy, on March 22nd, 2009 Said:

    okay…uhm who cares bout the fingernails thing? its still fun lol!

    love these facts=D lmao

  30. KautionKillerKyla, on March 22nd, 2009 Said:

    Haha.
    I love the way you put it Charlie. . .
    These are all great! =]

  31. haha, on April 25th, 2009 Said:

    haha this is funny. you guys r argueing on the internet about fingernails and hair growing after you die. but really who cares? but hey keep on argueing its funny

  32. j. chase, on April 26th, 2009 Said:

    hahaha nobody really cares once your dead how much your hair and fingernails grow cuz its not like anybody is going to dig you up and cut em… grosssss…. :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

  33. me, on May 1st, 2009 Said:

    I can like my elbow….

  34. jrg, on May 1st, 2009 Said:

    i LOVE RANDOM FACTS!!

  35. Jonathan, on May 4th, 2009 Said:

    you can like your elbow but you certainly cant lick it

  36. me, on May 11th, 2009 Said:

    the yelling thing is true i did it b4

  37. wubzy-_-, on May 12th, 2009 Said:

    WOW. ok. guys…your all sstupid. once your dead. your dead. nothing grows. its like saying you get taller when your dead. YOU CANT!! hair and nails dont grow when your dead. AND…thats it. guys..stop wasting your lives. (advice I should take). Go chase a car…or party. ok? once your dead..your dead.

  38. wubzy-_-, on May 12th, 2009 Said:

    and…”me” (the one above me). Im not sure if you MEANT to lie..but…thats impossible. u sat on a chair…4 more than 8 years with a mug in frunt of you??? nice try buckaroo…

  39. Kaitlyn, on May 14th, 2009 Said:

    i actually can lick both of my elbows. everyone says its impossible, but i can do it…

  40. Jonathan, on May 16th, 2009 Said:

    well kaitlyn if you can give me a call ;) haha jk

  41. Jeremy, on May 18th, 2009 Said:

    Fingernails and hair don’t continue to grow after you die. It appears that they do, but that is because your skin shrinks when it looses the water that is in it. However, when you die it isn’t like you body just completely shuts down instantly. The brain keeps a small electrical charge for several months after you die.

  42. Haha =), on May 21st, 2009 Said:

    Haha! What’s making me laugh even more than the actual fight is that people are still commenting/ trying to explain it. We get it. Like 10 people explained that they don’t really grow.
    Lets all calm down now =).

    Anyway, nice facts =D

  43. Victoria, on May 26th, 2009 Said:

    STOP TALKING ABOUT THE FINGERNAIL CRAP

  44. Lucas, on June 5th, 2009 Said:

    so some people believe that your fingernails and hair continue to grow after you die, but your phone calls tend to taper off.

  45. WOW!, on June 8th, 2009 Said:

    ok yeah why are we arguing about fingernails and hair? why dont you go ride a bike. or go play baseball. dont you have finals to be studying?

  46. Losers? =), on June 12th, 2009 Said:

    so i’m glad everyone thinks it’s a big deal about the fingernails and hair. Honestly? lets use some common sense here. Geeze lol

  47. egg girl, on June 20th, 2009 Said:

    hello there folks! i like eggs more than anyone in the whole entire universe so beat that!

  48. egg girl, on June 20th, 2009 Said:

    i like eggs so much they are all i eat! also i like birds. birds are cool. super cool. cooler than ice cool.

  49. egg girl, on June 20th, 2009 Said:

    wait guys im still confused. do your fingernails grow and does your hair grow when you’re dead? i think i need 10 million other people who have nothing better to do with their time tell me that they don’y.

  50. egg girl, on June 20th, 2009 Said:

    btw u guys are a bunch of comedians. have u heard of a certain girl named emilee? shes a hoot

  51. Eris, on June 22nd, 2009 Said:

    It is NOT impossible to lick your elbow. My sister and I both can do it, and we are not contortionists. I can’t even do the splits… :P

    Guiness World Records gets about five calls a day from people thinking they’ve made some world record because they can lick their elbows…. it’s just very uncommon. Very few people can do it. :]

  52. SOPHIE, on June 25th, 2009 Said:

    I THINK THAT ALL OF U R WEIRD!!!!!!!! AND THATS KUMIN 4RM A WEIRDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I LIKE EGGS THO…

  53. Dotz, on June 29th, 2009 Said:

    while im at this, here are some interesting facts xD

    1) Micheal Jacksons DEAD! :,c tear. he was weird but his music was great!
    2) cat pee glows under a black light!
    3) every 37 secends somone dumps there lover through a txt!
    4) kermit the frog is left handed!
    5) if usneeze 7 times in a row ur heart stoped too long and u die!
    6) if u micro wave a grape it will spark! carefull its a fire hazard!
    7) u spontainiously combust at 573oF!

  54. BEAR OF THE POLARS, on June 30th, 2009 Said:

    HERE IS A FUN FACT: ALL POLAR BEARS ARE LEFT HANDED!! ITS TRUE! IDK HOW THEY FIND THIS STUFF OUT BUT ITS TRUE!!!

  55. Savanah&lakin, on July 11th, 2009 Said:

    did you know if you dont breathe for an hour theres a good chance your dead,

    and if your hearts not beating theres a 25%chance
    your dead…im just saying

  56. gstar123, on July 16th, 2009 Said:

    teeth and nails dont continue to grow, everything else retracts giving the impression teeth and nails are still growing

  57. Cpt Bonefish, on July 22nd, 2009 Said:

    I OWN THESE FACTS!!!

  58. Emily, on August 12th, 2009 Said:

    hair and teeth continue to grow for 2-3 months after death because the body is decomposing.

    the reason why we dont have nails sticking out of the ground at cemetaries is because the corpses are in sealed COFFINS.

    to the author:
    great facts. i never knew that- Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.

  59. holy crap, on August 13th, 2009 Said:

    i like facts.
    i like eggs
    “i can like me elbow”
    lmfao, that made me laugh..
    shut up with the fingernail/hair/(according to emily) teeth thing!

    make love not war~
    silence the violence, increase the peace~
    i just spilled water all over my keyboard -_____-

    later skater~

  60. how bout them eggs, on August 15th, 2009 Said:

    let’s just all come down and eat some nice, hardboiled eggs, eh?

  61. erwe4y, on August 16th, 2009 Said:

    charlie, on March 19th, 2009 Said:
    Ok for those of you who keep arguing about the hair and fingernails thing I hope this helps, if it doesn’t you should stop wasting your time on the internet and go do something useful with your life…( i should do that same) anyway here it goes.. Hair and fingernails aren’t actually growing. Dead is dead. The only things growing after you’re dead are worms, bacteria, and flowers. What is happening, however, is that the skin around the hair and fingernails will desiccate (i.e., lose water) and thereby shrink. When the skin shrinks, it retracts, making hair and fingernails look longer, as if they’d grown.

    ur finger nails and hair are all ready dead so why do they grow anyway

  62. brett, on August 18th, 2009 Said:

    your heart does not actually stop when you sneeze

  63. yes, on August 31st, 2009 Said:

    yes it does.

  64. TheHeckler, on September 6th, 2009 Said:

    Your heart does not stop it skips…..and no i have debated about this in science class your hair and finger nails do not keep growing! as everyone else has pointed out the just appear to be bigger/long!

  65. Sheleigh, on September 8th, 2009 Said:

    BTW
    I LIKE EGGS 2

  66. GRAVEXXX, on September 8th, 2009 Said:

    Uhm seriously SWEET facts but people stop with the finger nail and hair things??? You all dont know that you body totally dissapear’s after having been consumed by ant’s??? Jeez give more facts and yes your heart does stop when you sneeze thats why the chinese came up with “Bless You” becuz they believed your soul had left your body for a second…Peace Out

  67. Logan, on September 15th, 2009 Said:

    the hair and nails dont grow the skin receeds so i appears to grow post mortum

  68. Tired of the debate, on September 18th, 2009 Said:

    Good Lord

    If you take an egg from the chicken, the chick is dead. The talons and feathers do not continue to grow, but man do they taste good.

  69. balls, on September 22nd, 2009 Said:

    this is what i do in school. it takes up my time but hell i have nothing better to do im in school. who cares if it grows or not. your dead. you don’t care because your dead. why should anyone else. now go grab a skateboard or a girl or something. lol.

  70. balls, on September 22nd, 2009 Said:

    oh. and likeing eggs is the first sign of a mass murderur. look it up.

  71. What???, on September 26th, 2009 Said:

    Whoeva came up with the “fingernails and hair growing after death” thing…ought to be flogged!.

  72. dood, on September 26th, 2009 Said:

    alright people you should really learn to lighten up and stopp yelling at nerds who like to argue about whether or not your fingernals and hair grow after death. jk jk :) i meant that in a good way.. i think its pretty funny and i myself really like eggs, especislly w/ cheese on them :D

  73. joleen, on October 3rd, 2009 Said:

    ok, the sneezing thing, not real, i once sneezed30 times in a row and im still alive and i like eggs and im not a mass murderer

  74. ToriLovesTori, on October 6th, 2009 Said:

    What da Heck is all Dhis??
    Love The Factss n Stuff Buh Ya’ll Be Dam Weirdos lol

  75. ELIISSOOOBOSSSS, on October 7th, 2009 Said:

    so i can lick my sisters elbow…does that count?
    and hair and fingernials,are growing,forever…they even kill little kids in theyre sleep…did nodbody read my novel?

  76. Eggsactly, on October 7th, 2009 Said:

    Don’t take my word for it:

    http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/551274.html

    And everyone can lick their elbow:

    http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/551274.html

    And we all should like eggs because:

    http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefits-of-eggs.html

    Sorry, no results shown for the whole mass murderer/eggs relationship. Try again.

    Citing your sources are fun, ain’t it.

  77. Eggsactly, on October 7th, 2009 Said:

    Sorry, the lick your elbow thing didn’t make it on the first note:

    http://www.wikihow.com/Lick-Your-Elbow

  78. FROGGY LOVER!, on October 17th, 2009 Said:

    IM SPECIAL CUASE IM IN ALL CAPS!!

  79. Jen, on October 22nd, 2009 Said:

    I can Lick my elbow! No joke!

  80. Amy, on October 29th, 2009 Said:

    you people are so wack. i don’t know why you would look this crap up. the only reason that im on here is because for halloween im being a geek and i need pointless facts to tell. so yeah. peace.

  81. 3GG5..., on October 31st, 2009 Said:

    …AR3 GOOD

  82. AftaHalloween, on November 3rd, 2009 Said:

    im not a nerd like u guys, but i do no tht its after halloween! happy halloween… and get lots of candY!

  83. johny kid, on November 4th, 2009 Said:

    that sneezing fact isn’t true, I’ve sneezed 14 times in a row before, I HATE MOWING LAWNS!

  84. AAAAAAACHOO, on November 5th, 2009 Said:

    um yea your heart actually beats faster when you sneeze

  85. kkaaayyliiii, on November 6th, 2009 Said:

    its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open!
    i’ve tried! its IMPOSSIBLEEE! ..lolz <33 xPP…

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