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7 out of 10 people believe in life after death in the world.
The name Santa Claus came from Saint Nicholas who was a bishop in the town of Myra.
Fossilized bird droppings are chief exports of Nauru, it is true.
In 1477, the first diamond engagement ring was given to Mary of Burgundy by Archduke Maximillian of Austria.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
Madam Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
Behram holds the record for most murders by a single individual.
The official name for homosexuals in China is "Tong Xing Lian".
Svetlana Pankratova has the longest legs of any woman in the world. While she is not the world's tallest woman, her legs are 132 centimetres (4 ft 4 in) long.
The Dutch men and women are considered the tallest.
Holland is a relatively populated country with lots of traffic jams.
Cold feet - The Dutch marry late in their lives with average 32.7 for women and 35.8 for men.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Random fact about cats: they sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
12,654,556 hectoliters of beer is the amount the Butch drank in 2006.
1 in 4 Dutch commutes was done by bicycle in 2007.
The probability of 2 people sharing the same birthday is higher than 1/2 in a small group of 23 people.
There are few interesting prime numbers based on mathematical facts. Enjoy the prime nu,ber Christmas tree.
Googol has 100 zeros. Now you know where "Google" came from.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. It will die eventually from starvation.
If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result
Human eyes are always the same size from birth, but the nose and ears never stop growing.
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".
The outermost layer of the skin swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin underneath, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling.
It is well known that gray hair results from a reduction of pigment, while white hair has no pigment, but why this happens remains somewhat of a mystery.
The hair follicle has a melanogentic clock which slows down or stops melanocyte activity, thus decreasing the pigment our hair receives. This occurs just before the hair is preparing to fall out or shed, so the roots always look pale.
An average scalp has 100,000-150,000 hairs. Some people might have more than others.
Hair is so strong that each hair can withstand the strain of 100 grams (3.5 ounces). An average head of hair could hold 10-15 tons if only the scalp was strong enough!
Human hair grows autonomously, that is each hair is on its own individual cycle. If all our hair were on the same cycle, we would molt!
Hair has the highest rate of mitosis (cell division). An average hair grows 0.3 mm a day and 1 cm per month.
Skywriting is done by one plane that can generally write up to six characters, with a skilled pilot at times maneuvering upside down as they decide when smoke is needed for the letters.
Most sources attribute the development of skywriting (1922) to John C. Savage, an Englishman. In that year, Captain Cyril Turner wrote "Daily Mail" over England and "Hello USA" over New York. The American Tobacco Co. then picked up the technique for their Lucky Strike cigarettes.
The first skywriting for advertising was in 1922 by John C. Savage, an Englishman.
April 8, 1924, Savage received a patent for “Method of producing advertising signs of smoke in the air” (US Patent 1,489,717).
A skywriting letter can be as high as one mile and take 60-90 seconds to create.
The best conditions for skywriting are few clouds, little or no wind, and cooler temperatures. Then the letters may be seen for 30 miles in any direction and can last 20 minutes.
Skywriting occurs usually at altitudes from 7,000-17,000 ft.
The paraffin oil used in skywriting vaporizes at 1500° in the heat of the plane's exhaust and is environmentally safe.
The skywriting that appeared in the movie, "Wizard of Oz" was done by special effects in a tank with an oil and water mixture.
One company in New York “writes” more than 50 marriage proposals a year in the sky.
The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
Every second, Americans eat one hundred pounds of chocolate.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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.
How did the grapefruit get its name? It doesn't look like a grape. It is believed that the name refers to the manner in which grapefruit grows in clusters on a tree.
Unstable chemicals. Onions produce the chemical irritant known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide. It stimulates the eyes' lachrymal glands so they release tears.
A sneeze is a reflex that is triggered when nerve endings inside the mucous membrane of the nose are stimulated. Pepper, be it white, black, or green, contains an alkaloid of pyridine called piperine.
Known as the "king of spices" because it is one of the oldest and most popular spices in the world.
Pepper was so valuable that in ancient Greece and Rome it was used as currency.
It is believed that when the Goths defeated Rome in 410, they demanded a ransom of 3,000 pounds of pepper, along with other valuables such as silk.
During the middle ages, peppercorns were accepted in lieu of money for dowries, rent and taxes.
During the 19th century, Salem, Massachusetts played an important role in the world pepper trade and made some of America's first millionaires.
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 oldest animal on Earth was born in 1830 Her name is Harriet, she's a Galapagos land tortoise
Galapagos tortoises may reach a length of over 4 ft and weigh over 500 lb.
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
The US has the world's highest rate of gun ownership at 90 weapons per 100 people.
The ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye. Fact.
Captured in Thailand in 1919, the harmless whale shark holds the title of largest fish, with the record of 59 feet.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The Keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named HMS Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.
The world's deepest gold mine is seven kilometers below the surface of the Earth.
Sex acts like a natural antihistamine, in can clear up a stuffy nose.
Russian I.M. Chisov survived a 21,980 plunge out of a plane with no parachute.
Norway is 27 times smaller than the United States, but it has longer coastline than the U.S.
Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall at 979 meters. It is sixteen times the height of Niagara Falls.
In Elizabethan slang, the term "to die" meant to have an orgasm.
Eighty percent of American women say they would like to have sex more often.
A restroom that was built by Lam Sai-wing in Hong Kong is the world's most expensive restroom. He built the restroom for his store and everything in the restroom is made out of gold and jewels including the 24 karat gold toilet bowl. It cost $3.5 million to build.
An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The name Jeep came from the military abbreviation GP, stands for the army's General Purpose Vehicle.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The gorilla can understand approximately 2,000 English words. Share animal, fun facts, random facts, and amusing facts on FactPark.com.
Eating parsley after eating an onion can help in getting rid of your onion breath. Share plant facts, random facts, and amusing facts on FactPark.com.
The biggest pumpkin in the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds. Learn fun facts, plant facts, random facts, and amusing facts on FactPark.com.
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.
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.
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.
Most fruits are categorized in a way that it's surprising to people. How is a pineapple categorized? To most people's surprises, a pineapple is a berry.
What fruit has the highest calories? Avocados. They have the highest calories, at 167 calories per hundred grams.
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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.
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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.
Madam Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
The first published English novel was writtn by Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, (written in 1470 and published 1485).
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.
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