Weird World Records
What was the coldest officially recorded temperature on Earth?
-128.6 °F
(Recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica, on July 21st, 1983).
What is the most famous example of a food that never spoils?
Honey
What is the largest animal on Earth?
Blue Whale
What mythical creature is known for having one eye and immense strength?
Cyclops
This was invented by Louis Braille
The braille system of reading for the blind
How old is the oldest known land animal (currently alive)?
194 years old (estimated)
Jonathan, the Seychelles giant tortoise, born approximately 1832.
Which fruit is slightly radioactive?
Bananas
(Bananas contain potassium, and a tiny amount of it is radioactive potassium-40).
Which sea creature has three hearts?
Octopuses
Which mythical creature in Chinese mythology is known as an auspicious symbol of power, strength, and good luck?
Dragon
Leonardo da Vinci
How tall was the tallest man in the world?
8 feet 11.1 inches tall
(Robert Pershing Wadlow: 1918-1940)
Which animal has cube-shaped feces?
Wombats
How many shipwrecks are estimated to be scattered across the world's oceans?
Three million
In Slavic mythology, who is the infamous witch who lives in a house with chicken legs?
Baba Yaga
Which inventor filed 2,332 patents worldwide?
Thomas Edison
1,093 U.S. patents & 1,239 foreign patents
What was the weight of the (officially recorded) heaviest baby ever born?
22 pounds
(Baby boy born on January 19th, 1879 - also broke a record for the longest baby born - 28 inches long)
Which planet in our solar system has a day that last longer than a year?
Venus
What is the most well-known shark capable of thriving in both freshwater and saltwater environments?
Bull Shark
In Scottish folklore, this sea creature is often described as a seal that can shed its skin to become human.
Selkie
The first commercially successful video game was launched in 1972, what was its name?
Pong
What is the weight of the world record for the most wool sheared from a single sheep in one shearing?
90 pounds 9.76 ounces
(Chris, a Merino ram in Australia on September 3rd, 2015)
Earth has more _____ than stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Trees
(Earth has approximately 3.04 trillion trees, the Milky Way has approximately 100-400 billion stars)
How many bones does a shark have on average?
None
Sharks don't have bones - their skeletons are made of cartilage.
Which mythical creature from Greek mythology has the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent?
Chimera
In which decade of the 1600s was the pendulum clock first introduced?
1650s