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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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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.
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.
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Galapagos tortoises may reach a length of over 4 ft and weigh over 500 lb.
During the 19th century, Salem, Massachusetts played an important role in the world pepper trade and made some of America's first millionaires.
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.
The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Fossilized bird droppings are chief exports of Nauru, it is true.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
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.
Auroras tend to be more frequent and spectacular during high solar sunspot activity, which cycles over approximately eleven years.
During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore.
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