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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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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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The sun shrinks five feet every hour. Share random, interesting, fun, odd, and amusing facts on FactPark.com.
Odd fact: right handed people live longer than left handed people
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.
The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
Random fact about cats: they sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
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.
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.
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.
The average human's body contains enough carbon to make 800 pencils. Share fun facts on FactPark.com.
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.
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