15 Totally Awesome Facts You Never Knew – Part 2

 

Welcome to part 2 of our awesome facts post. We’re sure by now you’ve totally impressed everyone you know with all the interesting stuff you found out from the first part of the post and there’s a lot more where that came from! Find out the correct term for snapping your fingers and marvel at how many glasses of milk a cow can produce in a lifetime. Yes, these ’15 totally awesome facts you never knew’ will make you a hit among your peers. Take a look!

Check out part 1 below:
14 Totally Awesome Facts You Never Knew – Part 1

 

Barry Manilow wrote the State Farm Insurance “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there” jingle.

barry manilow
fanpop

 

Manilow also wrote the “stuck on Band-Aids” jingle!

band aids
YouTube

 

Did you know that there are around 850 million visits to US museums annually? That equates to more than the number of people who visit both theme parks and major league sporting events combined!

people at museum
dudziak

 

Remember to bring your walking shoes when you visit Disneyland. It is the size of two Manhattans or the whole of San Francisco!

disneyworld
jaunted

 

Love singing? Did you know that the word karaoke means ’empty orchestra’ in Japanese?

karaoke girls
sixvaniard

 

Interestingly, ‘J’ is the one letter of the alphabet which doesn’t show up in the Periodic Table.

periodic table
ScienceNotes

 

The comedienne and actress Betty White was born a full six years before ready-sliced bread was created!

keanu sliced bread
Memecrunch

 

An Italian baker created Nutella during WWII when he mixed hazelnuts up with chocolate which was rationed at the time!

nutella couple
NutellaStories

 

A tiny 11% of the population is left-handed.

lefty cartoon
unknown

 

Looking for a gender-neutral word for your nephew or niece? ‘Nibling’ is the correct term!

kids photo
Earthlink

 

Creator of ‘Spongebob’ Stephen Hillenburg is a marine biologist. Cool… so maybe there are pineapples under the sea after all!

spongebob and friends
Wikipedia

 

Cows work hard. In a lifetime, one will produce approximately 200,000 glasses of milk!

cow in field
FineArtAmerica/CallyStronk

 

When a Finnish student gets their PhD, they have to wear a top hat and carry a sword. Awesome!

top hat sword people
labaq

 

Have you been pandiculating today? (Yawning while having a real good stretch of your torso and arms.)

man stretching
Wiktionary

 

And finally, did you know that snapping your fingers is called a ‘fillip’?

woman snapping fingers
unknown

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Check out part 1 below:
14 Totally Awesome Facts You Never Knew – Part 1