While surfing through facebook I found this. It’s quite interesting, take a look!
- It’s almost impossible to lick your elbow.
- The ancient Japanese believed that earthquakes were caused by giant spiders.
- If we put side by side all the Barbie dolls that were sold since its creation we could give 2 rounds to the earth.
- A drop of petrol is able to make non potable 25 liters of water.
- Microsoft spends more answering calls from users with problems
- than making programs.
- If by some reason the sun stopped producing light, it would take 8 minutes to realize that here on earth.
- The most known image in earth is the one of Che Guevara, with his hat with a star, looking toward the horizon.
- Finland banned Donald Duck comics because it didn’t have pants on
- Taking 100 cups of coffee in 4 hours technically can produce death.
- There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.
- When a month starts on Sunday, it has a Friday 13 and each month that starts on Thursday has a Tuesday 13.
- In average, a person laughs 15 times a day.
- 20 hours of video are uploaded each minute on YouTube.
- The official name of Bangkok is "Krung Thep MahaNakhon Amon PhoP Mahadilok Rattanakosin Noppharat Mahinthara Ratchathani Ayuthaya Amon Piman Udomratchaniwet Burirom Mahasathan Sathit Awata Witsanukam Sakkathattiya Prasit " which makes it the city with the longest name in the world.
- Hexakoisiohexekontahexefobia is the fear to 666.
- A 56.645 sided polygon is called pentakismyriohexakisquilioletracosiohexacontapentagonalis.
- Hipopomonstrosesquipedalifobia is the fear for long words.
- The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
- The memory of a goldfish lasts 3 seconds.
- The dolphins sleep with an open eye.
- In 1997, American Airlines saved $ 40,000 just by eliminating an olive from each salad.
- Elephants are among the few animals that can’t jump.
- The salt has more than 10,000 applications.
- The J is the only letter that doesn’t appear in the periodic table.
- 111 111 111 111 111 111 x 75 is 12,345,678,987,654,321.
- A ducks quacking doesn’t produce echo and nobody knows why.
- The giraffes are the only mammals that don’t have any vocal cords.
- 80% of body’s heat escapes through the head.
- The fastest muscle of the human body is the eye lid.
- According to the Times Magazine, the man of the year in 1938 was Hitler.
- A koala can live its entire life without drinking water.
- The Bulgarians say "yes", shaking their head side to side and they say
- "No" moving it up and down.
- An adult blinks about 23,000 times a day.
- The Vatican has enough money to end with world’s poverty and even then it has money left.
- Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare considered
- the greatest exponents of Hispanic and English literature died on April 23, 1616.
- If you shout for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days nonstop you can generate energy to heat a cup of coffee.
- The chimpanzees, orangutans, dolphins, elephants and humans,
- are the only species able to recognize themselves in a mirror.
- Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of
- darkness.
- World’s most common name is Mohamed.
- The highest temperature recorded in the world has been in El Azizia,
- Libya, on September 3, 1922 the thermometer came to 136.4
- Fahrenheit. (58 º C)
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Since we are born our eyes are always the same size.
- The first palm trees grew in the north pole.