INTRESTING FACT ABOUT WORLD.
LET'S SEE SOME INTRESTING FACT
ABOUT WORLD.
ABOUT WORLD.
1.Did you know there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year?
2.YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google (bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined)
3.Did you know there are over 1,600 known species of starfishes?
4.Lionesses are better hunters than males and do most of the hunting for a pride.
5.The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
6.There is no word you can write with the bottom row of the keyboard.
7.At present, the country of South Africa is considered as the largest producer of gold in the world.
8.There are 366 dimples on a golf ball.
9.In an average hour, there are over 61,000
Americans airborne over the United States.
10.The most expensive black-and-white movie ever made was Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966). Production costs totaled $7.5 million, due in large part to the salaries of its stars, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton
11.When Columbus returned to Spain with natives, Queen Isabella believed they were her subjects and, therefore, could not be enslaved unless they refused to be converted. However, during the Colonial era, the Spaniards enslaved them all the time .
12. human eye blinks an average of 4,100,000 times a year.
13.Some frogs use sugars as an antifreeze for vital organs
14.When he was a child, Blaise Pascal once locked himself in his room for several days and would not allow anyone to enter.
15.Every 45 seconds a house catches fire in the United States.
16.In December 1982, Apple became the first personal company to reach $1 billion in annual sales.
17.It was Swiss chemist Jacques Edwin Brandenberger who invented cellophane, back in 1908.
18.Receiving a tattoo has been described as similar to getting stung by a bee or getting a sunburn
19.If you feed a moose, it may become aggressive and attack .
. 20.Curiosity rover played “Happy Birthday” to itself making “Happy Birthday” the first song and Curiosity the first device used to play music on a foreign planet.
21.A Formula One driver was killed when a bird flew into his face.
22.There are up to 24 dialects of American English.
23.Wendigo Psychosis is an usual mental disorder, it "awakens an insatiable desire to eat human flesh, even when other food sources are available."
24.Abraham Lincoln was shot, put in a coffin, removed from it and put in another coffin, buried, exhumed, buried, exhumed, buried, exhumed, buried, exhumed, buried, exhumed, buried, exhumed, and finally buried in a steel cage reinforced with concrete in 1901.
25.Wind turbines kill tens of thousands of North American bats every year.
26.Owls are the primary means of communication between wizards in Harry’s world.
27.Homer’s The Aenid, Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Illych, and Milton’s Paradise Lost are each divided into 12 sections
28.Irish author Bram Stoker based his horror novel Dracula on the fifteenth century Wallachian Prince, Vlad Dracul of Romania.
29.The first people to harvest chocolate were the Mokaya and other pre-Olmec peoples who lived in southeast Mexico around 1000 B.C.
30.The Twenty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry suffered the worst regimented losses in a single battle: 708 of 800 killed, wounded, or missing at Gettysburg 45.Horses can run shortly after birth. 46.There really was a Cyrano de Bergerac.
He was also a science fiction writer who was the first person in history to suggest that a rocket could carry someone into space.
31.Thereare five different species of rhinoceros, three native to southern Asia and two native to Africa.
32.The American pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb died at aged 92 – with no regrets. He said he never lost a single nights sleep.
33.Christopher Columbus believed until he died that he’d landed in Asia instead of in the “new world”.
34.Guinea pig farms can be found in Peru and other Latin American countries. In Peru, about 65 million guinea pigs are eaten every year.
35.The Beatles have spent a record 1,278 weeks on the Billboard chart.
36.A fiber-deficient diet can result in deadly colon cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in nonsmokers.
37.A 15 year old Lady Gaga made a cameo appearance in The Sopranos.
38.There is evidence we have a sense of being stared at.
39.From 1964 to 1973 the United States dropped 2 million tons of bombs on Laos — enough for a full plane load every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 9 years.
40.Yellowstone’s present area is 3,472 square miles (2,221,766 acres), occupying the northwest corner of Wyoming and slivers of land in Montana and Idaho.
41.The longest word in the dictionary with only one vowel is "STRENGTHS".
42.Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
43.The world's most popular hobby is stamp collecting.
44.Did you know the cheetah is the only cat that can't retract it's claws?
45.The number one country of origin of foreign college students in the United States is India, followed by China and South Korea
46.Smoking cigarettes can kill a woman’s eggs and cause menstrual periods to stop prematurely
47.New York City has the largest black population of any city in the United States. It is followed by Chicago and Philadelphia.
48.14% have attended a self-help meeting.
49.Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830’s
50.The first Computer was ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, unveiled on February 14, 1946
51.Having a swimming pool at home is 100 times more likely to lead to an accidental child death than having a gun at home.
52.We were almost hit by an asteroid and didn’t know about it until days later…
53.20 years ago: First test-tube baby born in England, Plutos moon, Charon, discovered.
54.The name of the dog from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" is Max.
55.The last time Marilyn Monroe appeared in a bikini on screen was in the 1962 film Something's Got to Give.
56.Some diseases are interconnected with depression, such as thyroid problems, heart disease, stroke, cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, obstructive sleep apnea, and chronic pain.
57.There’s a Japanese guy that holds the world masturbation record of almost 10 hours straight since 2008.
58.A cat's urine glows under a black light.
59.Many personal checks written by Marlon Brando were often never cashed as his signature was usually worth more than the amount on the check.
60.Did you know the first James Bond movie was called 'Dr. No'?
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