🧠 20 Weird Trivia Facts You Won’t Believe Are Real
At QuizRaid, we live for strange facts. The weirder, the better. Whether you’re crushing categories in-game or just here to feed your curiosity, these trivia tidbits are sure to make you go “Wait, really?!”
🤯 1. Bananas are berries — but strawberries aren’t.
Yep. In botanical terms, bananas qualify as berries, while strawberries do not. Weird science.
🚀 2. Astronauts grow up to 2 inches taller in space.
Without gravity compressing their spines, astronauts literally stretch out.
🧠 3. You can’t hum while holding your nose.
Try it. We’ll wait. (Still trying?)
🐙 4. Octopuses have three hearts.
Two pump blood to the gills, and one to the rest of the body. And their blood is blue!
🦵 5. The strongest muscle in your body is… your jaw.
The masseter (jaw muscle) is the MVP when it comes to brute force.
👃 6. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
Weird flex, olfactory bulb.
🕷️ 7. Spiders can’t get caught in their own webs.
They walk a special path using non-sticky parts of the silk. Pros only.
🥕 8. Carrots used to be purple.
The orange variety is a relatively modern invention. Royal branding, basically.
🎂 9. The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.
Fred Baur was cremated and partially buried in a Pringles can. Rest in crunch.
🌍 10. There’s a town in Norway where it’s illegal to die.
In Longyearbyen, bodies don’t decompose due to permafrost — so burials are banned.
🐔 11. Chickens outnumber humans 3-to-1.
There are over 25 billion chickens on Earth. No clucking way.
🎵 12. Mozart wrote music at age 5.
He was basically the original child prodigy — composing full symphonies before kindergarten.
🧃 13. Apple juice glows under blacklight.
Thanks to the presence of quinine or vitamin B2. So goth.
💀 14. The skull is made of 22 bones.
And they all fuse together by adulthood — mostly. Spooky and cool.
📬 15. There’s a place in the US with no street addresses.
In Slab City, California, mail gets tricky — because the whole town is “off the grid.”
🪑 16. The Eiffel Tower can grow by 6 inches in summer.
Heat expands the metal. Physics makes everything weird.
🎈 17. The first balloons were made of animal intestines.
The party must go on… no matter how gross the materials.
🐘 18. Elephants can’t jump.
They’re the only mammal that can’t lift all four feet off the ground. No hop, all stomp.
🧟 19. There’s a disease that makes you feel like you’re dead.
It’s called Cotard’s Delusion. Patients believe they are missing organs or already deceased.
🎤 20. The longest recorded applause lasted over 80 minutes.
For Spanish opera singer Plácido Domingo. That’s some serious clap commitment.
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Stay weird,