Below is a short list of some truly crazy and useless facts compiled from a variety of sources, places I should not have even bothered to look at. But any case, curiosity aint killing me so I compiled it,nonetheless. Hope you too find these facts as useless and as exciting I have. :)
1. In 1801. 20% of the people in United States were slaves.
2. Sharks can travel upto 40 miles per hour.
3. The first James Bond movie was Dr. No.
4. The Queen of England has two birthdays- One Real and One Official.
5. The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
6. The Japanese translation of switch is pronounced as " suitchi "
7. The first female monster to appear on a movie screen was the Bride of Frankenstein.
8. In the movie, Scarface, the "F-word" is spoken 206 times, at an average of once every 29 seconds.
9. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
10. Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
11. A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times per second.
12. German chemist Hennig Brand discovered phosphorous while he was examining urine.
13. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
14. Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed by plane crashes.
15. A car is stolen every thirty seconds in the US.
16. A deltiologist collects postcards.
17. There are 225 spaces on a Scrabble board.
18. Alfred Hitchcock never won the Academy Award for directing.
19. Peanuts is the world's most read comic strip.
20. Superfly Jimmy Snuka was the first E.C.W. World Champ.
21. In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.
22. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
23. Women blink nearly twice as much as Men.
24. Ketchup originated in China.
25. The average women consumes six pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
26. It takes a plastic container 50 thousand years to start decomposing.
27. During the Cambrian period,about five hundred million years ago, a day was 20.6 hours long.
28. The Pantheon is the largest building from ancient Rome that survives intact.
29. Worldwide, there are more statues of Joan of Arc than anyone else. France alone has about 40,000 of them.
30.There are 3,900 islands in Japan, the country of islands.
31. Nestle is the largest company in Switzerland, yet more than 98% of its revenue comes from outside the country.
32. Recycling a glass jar saves enough energy to power a TV for three hours.
33. Stainless steel was discovered by accident in 1913.
34. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.
35. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
36. Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
37. The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall.
38. The world's oldest rose is located Hildeshiem Cathedral in Germany and is thought to be over 1,000 years old.
39. More than three thousand people work on research in Antarctica each year.
40. In 1935, Jesse Owens set six track and field world records in less than one hour.
41. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
42. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
43. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
44. When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
45. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
46. A normal person laughs five times in a day.
47. All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
48. Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear.
49. The ballpoint pen was first introduced to the United States in October of 1945. It was introduced in New York's Gimbels Department Store, and the whole stock of 10,000 pens was sold out the first day for $12.50 each.
50. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
...... Hope you have had enough. Take care folks !!! My head is spinning... I need some coffee !!!
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