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World's smartest dogs are border collie; poodle; and golden retriever.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. Share your odd facts on Factpark.com.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Christopher Michael Langan (born c. 1952) is an American autodidact whose IQ was reported to have been measured at between 195 and 210.
Mariusz Pudzianowski is a strongman competitor. He has won more World's Strongest Man titles than any other strongman competitor, winning the event in 2008 for the fifth time.
The world's smallest state, the Vatican city is 0.2 square miles and has a population of 770. The tiny country which surrounds St. Peter's Basilica is the spiritual center for the world's Roman Catholics. The Vatican City is surrounded by Rome, Italy.
The tallest man-made structure is Burj Dubai, a skyscraper under construction in Dubai that reached 818 m (2,684 ft) in height on 17 January 2009.
Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buying back the bonds on which they are based.
Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms. Learn odd facts and interesting facts on FactPark.com.
The number of people alive on earth right now is larger than the total number of all the people that have lived and died.
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The blue whale is the largest animal in the world. The largest blue whale caught was a 110-foot female.
Charles Osborne had hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
The name Santa Claus came from Saint Nicholas who was a bishop in the town of Myra.
111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
7 out of 10 people believe in life after death in the world.
Madam Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore.
An average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
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Mariusz Pudzianowski is a strongman competitor. He has won more World's Strongest Man titles than any other strongman competitor, winning the event in 2008 for the fifth time.
The tallest man-made structure is Burj Dubai, a skyscraper under construction in Dubai that reached 818 m (2,684 ft) in height on 17 January 2009.
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth. Share and read fun facts, interesting facts, random facts, and amusing facts about animal, people, and places on FactPark.com.
Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant materials. Share animal facts on FactPark.com.
Ketchup is a good conditioner for the hair. It also helps get the greenish tinge that some blonde haired people get after swimming in water with chlorine in it.
Uncopyrightable is the only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter. Share and learn interesting and fun facts on FactPark.com
Why fish is served with a slice of lemon? It is a traditional rooted in the Middle ages to serve fish with a slice of lemon. People believed that the lemon's juice would dissolve any bones accidentally swallowed.
The average human's body contains enough carbon to make 800 pencils. Share fun facts on FactPark.com.
Sharks have the most powerful jaws on the planet. Both the sharks' upper and lower jaws move.
A shark can grow and use over 20,000 teeth in its lifetime. Share animal facts on FactPark.com.
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Christopher Michael Langan (born c. 1952) is an American autodidact whose IQ was reported to have been measured at between 195 and 210.
The longest recorded duration of a total solar eclipse was 7.5 minutes. Share random facts, interesting facts, and amusing facts about people, science, places, and animals on FactPark.com.
Einstein never learned how to drive a car. Learn facts about people on FactPark.com - fun facts, random facts, interesting facts, and amusing facts.
The fuel in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet is enough to drive an average car four times around the world. Share fun facts on FactPark.com
The sun shrinks five feet every hour. Share random, interesting, fun, odd, and amusing facts on FactPark.com.
In 1919, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff successfully grafted monkey testicles onto human males. Share odd facts on FactPark.com.
Why fish is served with a slice of lemon? It is a traditional rooted in the Middle ages to serve fish with a slice of lemon. People believed that the lemon's juice would dissolve any bones accidentally swallowed.
The average human's body contains enough carbon to make 800 pencils. Share fun facts on FactPark.com.
Sharks have the most powerful jaws on the planet. Both the sharks' upper and lower jaws move.
A shark can grow and use over 20,000 teeth in its lifetime. Share animal facts on FactPark.com.
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The Worlds Smallest Country
The world's smallest state, the Vatican city is 0.2 square miles and has a population of 770. The tiny country which surrounds St. Peter's Basilica is the spiritual center for the world's Roman Catholics. The Vatican City is surrounded by Rome, Italy.
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The oldest animal on Earth was born in 1830 Her name is Harriet, she's a Galapagos land tortoise
Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
The first published English novel was writtn by Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, (written in 1470 and published 1485).
The number of people alive on earth right now is larger than the total number of all the people that have lived and died.
If humans eat a polar bear liver, they will die of vitamin A poisoning. T he polar bear ingests large amounts of vitamin A, which is stored in its liver. In the past, humans have been poisoned by eating the livers of polar bears.
The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515
Your joints can make a variety of sounds: popping, cracking, grinding, and snapping. The joints that "crack" are the knuckles, knees, ankles, back, and neck. There are different reasons why these joints "sound off".
Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant materials. Share animal facts on FactPark.com.
Although yams and sweet potatoes are both angiosperms (flowering plants), they are not related botanically. Yams are a monocot (a plant having one embryonic seed leaf) and from the Dioscoreaceae or Yam family. Sweet Potatoes, often called ‘yams’, are a dicot (a plant having two embryonic seed leaves) and are from the Convolvulacea or morning glory family.
Zebras' unpredictable nature and tendency to attack preclude them from being good candidates for domestication.
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