On average, one person commits suicide every 16.2 seconds. That's roughly 89 people a day, and so I will do 89 facts, one for each poor soul we are {hopefully not} going to lose today. As you know, as well as helping writers, Project FlashFlood also helps to raise awareness for the impact of suicide and mental health problems in general, and so that is why I opened up with that fact. However, the following 89 facts will be fun, wacky and interesting! Enjoy!

Fun Fact #1

When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

Fun Fact #2

29th May is officially 'Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day'.

Fun Fact #3

The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated and made into Frisbees after he died.

Fun Fact #4

If you consistently fart for 6 years & 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

Fun Fact #5

A baby spider is called a spiderling.

Fun Fact #6

The following can be read forward and backwards: Do geese see God?

Fun Fact #7

Hitler's mother considered abortion but the doctor persuaded her to keep the baby.

Fun Fact #8

95% of people text things they could never say in person.

Fun Fact #9

The French language has seventeen different words for 'surrender'.

Fun Fact #10

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

Fun Fact #11

Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift away from each other.

Fun Fact #12

The Pokémon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based off of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

Fun Fact #13

An arctophile is a person who collects, or is very fond of teddy bears.

Fun Fact #14

The Twitter bird actually has a name – Larry.

Fun Fact #15

It snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes on the 18th February 1979.

Fun Fact #16

Dying is illegal in the Houses of Parliaments – This has been voted as the most ridiculous law by the British citizens.

Fun Fact #17

Slugs have 4 noses.

Fun Fact #18

Mel Blanc – the voice of Bugs Bunny – was allergic to carrots.

Fun Fact #19

California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

Fun Fact #20

George W. Bush was once a cheerleader.

Fun Fact #21

The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.

Fun Fact #22

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Fun Fact #23

Samuel L. Jackson requested to have a purple lightsaber in Star Wars in order for him to accept the part as Mace Windu.

Fun Fact #24

Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th

Fun Fact #25

The two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.

Fun Fact #26

Sonic the Hedgehog's full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.

Fun Fact #27

The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

Fun Fact #28

Bullfrogs do not sleep.

Fun Fact #29

The dark region on the north pole of Pluto's moon, Charon, is called Mordor.

Fun Fact #30

Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.

Fun Fact #31

In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.

Fun Fact #32

Rowan Atkinson – also known as Mr. Bean – is the voice of Zazu in The Lion King.

Fun Fact #33

Sunsets on Mars are blue.

Fun Fact #34

Banks have therapists known as 'wealth psychologist' who help ultra-rich clients, who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.

Fun Fact #35

In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password 'eh'. At the time it was called "the most widespread security incident in the history of the web".

Fun Fact #36

Guy Fawkes is the reason guys are called "guys".

Fun Fact #37

Iguanas have three eyes. Two normal eyes and a third eye on top of their head that only perceives brightness.

Fun Fact #38

The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.

Fun Fact #39

Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for over 27 years!

Fun Fact #40

The reason the taste of artificial banana flavouring and artificial banana flavoured products doesn't taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950's.

Fun Fact #41

Justin Bieber once held up a sign from his hotel room window saying "Go to McDonalds and get me a Big Mac". He got his Big Mac.

Fun Fact #42

Hares are born with fur and can see whilst rabbits are born 'naked' and blind.

Fun Fact #43

On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity was removed from being on sale and replaced with a "Bullsh*t" box, on sale for $6. This box contained "literal faeces, from an actual bull," as the description stated on their site. This was to protest to the Black Friday shopping craziness where shoppers will literally buy anything on sale. This special Black Friday edition of Cards Against Humanity sold over 30,000 copies, where all buyers actually received a box of bull poo.

Fun Fact #44

On one of the islands off the West-Coast of Australia lies Lake Hillier. A bright, bubble-gum pink lake! Despite not being the only coloured lake in the world, it is unique because it is the only coloured lake where scientists have not yet determined what causes it to be such a bright pink.

Fun Fact #45

In China, 2013, scientists were able to grow a human tooth from scratch using stem cells taken from urine.

Fun Fact #46

Artist Salvador Dali would often get out of paying for drinks and meals by drawing on the cheques, making them priceless works of art and therefore un-cashable.

Fun Fact #47

Originally, Marge Simpson's hair style was designed that way because the creator, Matt Groening wanted to hide her rabbit ears.

Fun Fact #48

Approximately 1,000,000 dogs in the U.S. are named as the heirs of their owners' wills.

Fun Fact #49

In 2012, an Afghan Taliban Commander Mohammed Ashan turned himself in to local authorities, trying to claim the $100 reward prize he had seen on a poster for his arrest.

Fun Fact #50

When written down, the word 'almost' is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.

Fun Fact #51

In Canada, 2012, doctors were able to communicate with a man in a vegetative state. Coma patient Scott Routley was able to tell doctors by using his thoughts that he was not in any pain.

Fun Fact #52

There is an Australian man, James Harrison, who has a singularly unique blood plasma composition that has been used to cure Rhesus disease, a haemolytic disease that affects new-born babies. He has donated his blood plasma over 1000 times.

Fun Fact #53

When people are struck by lightning the mark that appears on their afflicted area afterwards looks like an intricately detailed silhouette of a fern tree and is known as 'lightning tree' or sometimes 'lightning flower'. This occurs due to delicate capillaries rupturing beneath the skin from the shock of the electrical discharge.

Fun Fact #54

The tea-bag was an accidental invention. This occurred in 1908 when tea merchant Thomas Sullivan distributed his tea samples in small, silken bags. His customers, not understanding that these were samples, dunked them and suddenly Sullivan was swamped with orders for his 'tea bags'.

Fun Fact #55

The word 'oxymoron' is itself an oxymoron. This is because it derives from Ancient Greek where 'oxy' means 'sharp' and 'moros' means 'stupid'.

Fun Fact #56

'Take Your Houseplants for a Walk Day' is celebrated on 27th July, on this bizarre day, people walk their houseplants around, so they can get to know their environment a little more, which supposedly provides the plants with a sense of knowing and familiarization to their surround areas.

Fun Fact #57

The least financially successful Harry Potter film made approximately $90 million more than the most successful Twilight movie.

Fun Fact #58

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.

Fun Fact #59

A housefly hums in the key of F.

Fun Fact #60

A 'haw' is the third eyelid of a cat, which can only be seen when the cat isn't well.

Fun Fact #61

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Fun Fact #62

There's volcano in Indonesia that spews blue lava.

Fun Fact #63

After reading this post you will not recognize that the the brain doesn't recognize the second 'the'.

Fun Fact #64

Bubble wrap was originally intended to be used as wallpaper.

Fun Fact #65

Every human being starts out as an asshole: it's the first part of the body to form in the womb.

Fun Fact #66

Receiving a text message which says, "can I ask you a question" is known to scare 99% of people.

Fun Fact #67

Tears caused by sadness, happiness and onions look different under the microscope.

Fun Fact #68

The expiration date on water bottles is for the bottle, not the water.

Fun Fact #69

You can always see your nose, but your mind just ignores it.

Fun Fact #70

On Venus, it snows metal. Two types have been discovered so far: galena and bismuthinite.

Fun Fact #71

People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.

Fun Fact #72

Hippopotamus milk is pink.

Fun Fact #73

Your heart rate slows when your face touches water; it's called the mammalian dive reflex.

Fun Fact #74

You have never seen your face, only pictures and reflections.

Fun Fact #75

A new-born baby has one cup of blood in their body.

Fun Fact #76

Tree can die from old age.

Fun Fact #77

Turritopsis dohrnii is a jellyfish that reverts to an earlier stage in its development cycle in order to cheat death.

Fun Fact #78

People are more likely to make good decisions when they need to urinate.

Fun Fact #79

Outer space is only an hours' drive away – if your car could drive straight up.

Fun Fact #80

Beavers have orange teeth.

Fun Fact #81

Your age is the number of times you've orbited around the sun.

Fun Fact #82

The brain treats rejection like physical pain.

Fun Fact #83

The human brain takes in 11 million individuals pieces of information per second but is only cognizant of roughly 40.

Fun Fact #84

Chicago is named after smelly garlic that once grew in the area.

Fun Fact #85

The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.

Fun Fact #86

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Fun Fact #87

The domain GoogleSucks.com is owned by Google.

Fun Fact #88

A handshake transfers more germs than a kiss.

Fun Fact #89

Mushrooms create their own breeze.

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So, I hope you liked these facts, it was certainly fun putting them together! Thanks for reading and being part of Project FlashFlood.

- thefineideayoucrave