While sitting around your holiday table this season, here are five crazy trivia tidbits to dazzle your friends and family.
Earth’s rotation is changing speed. It’s actually slowing, and this means that, on average, the length of a day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century.
Ironically, the fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. The 36-letter word was first used in the first century BCE to criticize writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words.
Chainsaws were first invented for childbirth. They were developed in Scotland in the late 18th Century to help aid and speed up the process of symphysiotomy (widening the pubic cartilage), and the removal of disease-laden bone during childbirth.
Avocados are a fruit, not a vegetable. They’re technically considered a single-seeded berry, believe it or not.
Australia is wider than the moon. The moon is 2,112.6 miles in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 2,485.4 miles.
