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Do you know who invented the electric chair? Not a scientist. But a dentist! Imagine who got to use it the first time.
Odd fact: right handed people live longer than left handed people
strange facts about shrimps. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
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.
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.
In 1919, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff successfully grafted monkey testicles onto human males. Share odd facts on FactPark.com.
In Elizabethan slang, the term "to die" meant to have an orgasm.
Russian I.M. Chisov survived a 21,980 plunge out of a plane with no parachute.
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.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. It will die eventually from starvation.
The official name for homosexuals in China is "Tong Xing Lian".
During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore.
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.
7 out of 10 people believe in life after death in the world.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
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Do you know who invented the electric chair? Not a scientist. But a dentist! Imagine who got to use it the first time.
It's certain that women have got bigger over the past two decades. It shows on their bra size.
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.
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The name "Aurora Borealis" is credited to Galileo Galilei (1616) and means "northern dawn". Auroras have been observed since ancient times.
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.
Galapagos tortoises may reach a length of over 4 ft and weigh over 500 lb.
Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
An average scalp has 100,000-150,000 hairs. Some people might have more than others.
After Albert Einstein died, his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study. Share random facts on FactPark.com - fun facts, random facts, interesting facts, and amusing facts.
The blue whale is the largest animal in the world. The largest blue whale caught was a 110-foot female.
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 first published English novel was writtn by Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, (written in 1470 and published 1485).
The name Jeep came from the military abbreviation GP, stands for the army's General Purpose Vehicle.
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