Interesting Facts

Interesting Facts

Sixty Superb-however-True Details!
Within the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it is available in contact with Pepsi.
The elevated electricity utilized by modern appliances is inflicting a shift in the Earth's magnetic subject. By the year 2327, the North Pole shall be situated in mid-Kansas, whereas the South Pole will likely be simply off the coast of East Africa.
The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" got here from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.
Male rhesus monkeys often dangle from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
Johnny Plessey batted331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, despite the fact that he spent your entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Publish-Dispatch.
Smearing a small quantity of dog feces on an insect chew will relieve the itching and swelling.
The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the truth that the wings would shear off when making an attempt to roll it over.
The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a younger man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there isn't any penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
Legislation passed during WWI making it unlawful to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was by no means repealed.
Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to talk like people, but don't accomplish that as a result of they have no ears with which to listen to the sound.
SCUBA divers cannot cross fuel at depths of 33 toes or below.
Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD variety of whiskers.
Replying greater than 100 occasions to the identical piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and intrude with their capacity to ship any more spam.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
The Air Power's F-117 fighter makes use of aerodynamics found during research into how bumblebees fly.
You can get blood from a stone, however provided that accommodates not less than 17 p.c bauxite.
Foolish Putty was "found" because the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It is not extensively publicized for obvious causes.
Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
The pores and skin needed for elbow transplants should be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
The sport of jai alai originated from a recreation played by Incan clergymen who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively seize on the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.
The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.
The amount of water that the Big Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour interval contains sufficient suspended minerals to pave 17.three toes of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Web, libraries that beforehand sank into their foundations underneath the burden of their books are actually in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
In 1843, a Parisian street mime obtained stuck in his imaginary field and consequently died of starvation.
Contact-tone telephone keypads had been originally deliberate to have buttons for Police and Fireplace Departments, however they were changed with and # when the challenge was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.
Human saliva has a boiling point 3 times that of regular water.
Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" cartoon, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
Watching an hour-lengthy soap opera burns extra energy than watching a 3-hour baseball recreation.
Till 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.
You possibly can really sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil earlier than inserting them.
To human style buds, Zima is nearly indistinguishable from zebra urine.
Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth throughout a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to 5 out of ten.
A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
A crew of University of Virginia researchers released a study selling the observe of choosing one's nose, claiming that the well being benefits of holding nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the destructive social connotations.
Amongst objects left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan have been 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls have been truly monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
Each Labrador retriever desires about bananas.
Should you put a bee in a film canister for 2 hours, it would go blind and depart behind its weight in honey.
Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the mind, staring at a blue floor during sex tremendously will increase the intensity of orgasms.
By no means hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it could blow out your eyeballs.
Centuries in the past, purchasing real property often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to forestall the purchaser from working away to avoid repayment of the mortgage. Therefore an costly buy was said to price "an arm and a leg."
When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small gut.
Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only throughout summer time months.
Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was discovered to be virtually an identical to the recipe used right this moment.
For those who part your hair on the proper aspect, you had been born to be carnivorous. When you half it on the left, your bodily and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.
When immersed in liquid, a useless sparrow will make a sound like a crying child.
In WWII the US army deliberate to airdrop over France propaganda within the type of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden within the fashions' turn-ons and switch-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple scarcity due to rationing of steel.
Though tough, it's attainable to start a fireplace by quickly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
Napoleon's favorite sort of wooden was knotty chestnut.
The world's smartest pig, owned by a arithmetic trainer in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables as much as 12.
Due to the pure "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish can't swim backwards.
In historical Greece, youngsters of rich households had been dipped in olive oil at delivery to maintain them hairless throughout their lives.
It's nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
The "9 lives" attributed to cats is probably on account of their having 9 main whiskers.
The unique inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late nineteen thirties to impress young women with the perfect notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie have been really based mostly on those of Eva Braun.
The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge particular person raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely again at his cave completely dry.
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