Okkjj soo.. now I'm feeling all smart or something, but today I feel like saving the world from the need of asking Google everything, soooo instead I'll do the hard work myself.. great (Y)
Now, 55 incredible facts:
Now, 55 incredible facts:
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to be fired."
- Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
- The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
- Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
- More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time equal to 1/100th of a second.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
- Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- No new animals have been domesticated in the last 4000 years.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
- Every 238 years, the orbits of Neptune and Pluto change making Neptune at times the farthest planet from the sun.
- It is not known how long glass takes to break down, but it’s so long that glass made in the Middle East over 3000 years ago can still be found today.
- The labels for Crayola crayons come in 18 different colors.
- Oral-B is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better.
- Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- Every second, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.
- Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
- All babies are born colour blind
- People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
- One in 20 people have an extra rib.
- Clinical lycanthropy is the very rare psychological disorder in which a person believes they have been transformed into an animal.
- Yawns wake up the brain
- The brain has a joke center
- The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -- which is why it literally melts in your mouth.
- The Jalapeno was the first pepper to be taken into space.
- Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
- It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
- Smelling cinnamon boosts cognitive function and memory.
- Karl Marx is the father of communism for which the Soviet Union is most famous – but in fact, he never stepped foot in Russia.
- In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.
- 60-65 million years ago humans and dolphins shared a common ancestor.
- The Ice Man, found in the Italian Alps, is now thought to have been murdered. Scientists have just found an arrowhead stuck in the man's back. He is now known as the oldest murder victim on record.
- Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but were invented in India by the Hindus.
- The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
- Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails
- Did you know that you can pruchase a three part course to become a certified ghost hunter?
- Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms.
- It is possible to be addicted to always being right.
