6 Funniest Facts From Around The World

The funniest facts are also the ones that surprise us and sound so ridiculous but end up being true. Interesting fun facts can serve as conversation starters and help you make friends easily. These following fun facts about everything will not fail to astonish you.

# One of the funniest facts is that the British love their tea so much so that they are prepared for drinking it during the war as well. British military tanks are equipped with a boiling vessel to make coffee and tea at any time.

# One of the fun facts about Iceland is that they have a special job called an elf whisperer who looks around for elves in a construction site before work begins.

# Among the did you know facts is that chainsaws were first invented to help in childbirth. In 1780, two doctors invented the chainsaw to remove the pelvic bone faster and easier. It was later used to perform amputations and cutting bones.

# Another one of the facts for fun is that while the Battle of Vienna was the longest war, the shortest was Anglo-Zanzibar War that went on for 38 minutes. Sultan Khalid bin Barghash ascended the throne of Zanzibar in 1896 without British approval. The British sent their warships when he did not agree to step down and finished bombing the palace in little less than 40 minutes. Khalid ran away and the war was won by the British.

# ‘J’ was the last letter added to the English alphabet. ‘J’ and ‘I’ were initially the same character and were used interchangeably. In 1524, an Italian grammarian called the Gian Giorgio Trissino identified the soft ‘J’ sound and differentiated it from ‘I’.

# One of the funniest facts is that undersea waterfalls seem to be contradicting but they do exist.