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Average human brain is only two percent of our body weight. However, it uses 20 percent of the blood and 20 percent of our body’s oxygen.

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 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

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.

An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet. Share interesting and funny facts on FactPark.com.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

Eighty percent of American women say they would like to have sex more often.

Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall at 979 meters. It is sixteen times the height of Niagara Falls.

Sex acts like a natural antihistamine, in can clear up a stuffy nose.

Interesting facts about animals. Only the rabbit and the parrot can see behind itself without turning its head.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees. Share random and interesting facts about science, history, places, world, and people on FactPark.com

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet. Share random and interesting facts about science, history, places, world, and people on FactPark.com

Every year about 98% of the atoms in our body are replaced. Share random and interesting facts about science, history, places, world, and people on FactPark.com

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump. Share random and interesting facts about science, history, places, world, and people on FactPark.com

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.

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.

Captured in Thailand in 1919, the harmless whale shark holds the title of largest fish, with the record of 59 feet.

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.

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.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

The first tubular steel coaster was the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland, Anaheim, CA (1959).

One company in New York “writes” more than 50 marriage proposals a year in the sky.

The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515

If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result

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.

The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The short term memory number capacity for most people is between five and nine digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits.

According to the American Solar Energy Society, enough sunlight falls on the earth's surface each minute to meet world energy demand for an entire year.

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.

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

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.

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 first published English novel was writtn by Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, (written in 1470 and published 1485).

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.

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.

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Odd fact: right handed people live longer than left handed people

Average human brain is only two percent of our body weight. However, it uses 20 percent of the blood and 20 percent of our body’s oxygen.

strange facts about shrimps. A shrimp's heart is in its head.

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.

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.

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Sex acts like a natural antihistamine, in can clear up a stuffy nose.

An average scalp has 100,000-150,000 hairs. Some people might have more than others.

Zebras' unpredictable nature and tendency to attack preclude them from being good candidates for domestication.

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.

7 out of 10 people believe in life after death in the world.

Every day the average person loses 60-100 strands of hair. However, hair loss will vary in accordance with the season, pregnancy, illness, diet and age.

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!

World's smartest dogs are border collie; poodle; and golden retriever.

111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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