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### Guinea Pig
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#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Guinea Pig

1. The guinea pig was domesticated as early as 5000 B.C. in South America as a source of food. They were also used in religious ceremonies and in traditional medicine. They have been kept in households as companion animals since being introduced by European traders in the 16th century.
2. The scientific name of the guinea pig is Cavia porcellus, which means “little pig.” They belong to the family Caviidae, which is a family of South American rodents. They are also not from Guinea; they originated in the Andes.
3. Guinea pigs may have been called pigs for several reasons. For example, they have a similar squeal to a pig’s. They are also somewhat built like a small pig, with a large head, stout neck, and no real tail.
4. While guinea pigs are not from Guinea, it is possible “guinea” was included in their name because they may have been sold for a guinea (English coin). Another theory is that Europeans may have believed guinea pigs came from the African country Guinea since ships carrying the furry mammals from South America often stopped there before going on to Europe.
5. Male guinea pigs are called boars, females are referred to as sows, and young ones are called pups.
6. If a female guinea pig is uninterested in a male during courtship, she will sometimes squirt a jet of urine at the persistent male.
7. The gestation period of a guinea pig is about 70 days. A female guinea pig (called a sow) is able to produce a litter of up to 4 young guinea pig pups.
8. The amazing fact is that if a female guinea pig does not give birth before she is 6 months old, her pubic bones will fuse. If she tries to give birth later, the fused bones will prevent her from giving birth resulting in the death of the mother and the unborn pups.
9. Guinea pigs have a high maternal mortality rate of about 20%.
10. Baby guinea pigs are born with their eyes open and are covered in fur. Baby pups are able to drink from a water bottle and can eat hay within hours of being born. They can run only 3 hours after being born.
11. Guinea pigs in fact have 3 toes on their forefeet and 4 toes on their hind feet.
12. Guinea pigs have a long and detailed history of being used in medical research from the 17th century. While rats and mice have become more popular test animals in the modern era, guinea pigs are still used as subjects for juvenile diabetes, tuberculosis, scurvy, and pregnancy complications.
13. There are two general categories of guinea pigs: long-haired and short-haired. Short-haired guinea pigs are typically easier to care for than long-haired ones.
14. Guinea pigs typically live about 4 or 5 years, though they may live up to 8\. The longest-living guinea pig on record was Snowball from Nottinghamshire, England. She died at the age of nearly 15 years in February 1979.
15. Guinea pigs don’t have to sleep for long periods. They prefer to take short naps throughout the day and night.
16. Guinea pig ears are very sensitive to noise and they do not like any loud bangs.
17. Guinea pigs can hear sounds of up to 40,000 to 50,000 Hz, and some guinea pig vocalizations are ultrasonic at above 20,000 Hz.
18. Guinea pigs are particularly vocal. They have a range of vocalizations to communicate with each other, including ‘purring’ when content and ‘chirping’ when stressed.
19. Guinea pigs can’t sweat like humans can and so can get heatstroke if they are left out in the sun or become too hot. They have to find shade whenever possible.
20. Guinea pigs have what is known as “open rooted” teeth like rats which constantly grow to require them to constantly grind down their teeth while eating food keeping them properly aligned.
21. Guinea pigs will eat all day and night.
22. They do not bite in self-defense and will only bite because they think your hand is food.
23. Guinea pigs have a very good field of vision and are able to see around them so as to detect predators. The amazing fact is that they can’t see anything straight in front of their noses which means they don’t see what they eat.
24. The American guinea pig is one of the oldest breeds of guinea pigs and is considered the “classic guinea pig.” One of the most commonly found, it is an ideal pet for children because of its short, smooth fur.
25. Guinea pigs typically run a higher temperature than humans, at about 101° F. Their high temperature places them at increased risk on hot days or when they’re exposed to direct sunlight.
26. After about 4 years old, guinea pigs are usually considered senior citizens, and genetic health issues usually appear at this time.
27. Guinea pigs are very social and are truly happy only when they are together with other guinea pigs. Even the most loving human cannot take the place of other guinea pigs.
28. Because guinea pigs are so social, it is illegal to own just one in Switzerland.
29. When you are holding a guinea pig, the way to settle it down if it's wriggling too much is to bring your hand under its back-side and amazingly it will stop wriggling.
30. A recent study found that children ages 5 to 12 on the autism spectrum showed a marked decrease in stress while interacting with guinea pigs. The pet could act as a “social buffer” for students with autism who may have difficulty making friends.
31. Guinea pigs are fragile creatures and so need to be treated with gentle hands. If you are rough, you could break its bones. In fact, they have a total of 258 bones in the body.
32. Amazingly guinea pigs always march in single file, with the largest guinea pig at the front and the young protected in the middle.
33. Guinea pigs have been found to be allergic to penicillin.
34. Guinea Pigs have excellent spatial orientation and are able to learn complex maze tasks using symbols as signposts.
35. Like humans, guinea pigs are unable to make vitamin C and need to acquire it through food sources. Failing to do so can lead to scurvy and eventually death.

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### Supernova
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Last updated: 2026-03-28T09:30:29.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Supernova

1. One of the most spectacular events of our universe is the Supernova explosion. It is the most powerful explosion known to humans. It is nothing but a stellar explosion being an explosion of a star.
2. The explosion is so massive that briefly, it outshines the entire galaxy in which it explodes.
3. The amount of energy radiated in one supernova explosion so much that it equals the amount of energy that has already been radiated by our Sun plus the energy that it will radiate for the rest of its life.
4. A supernova is so bright that it literally takes weeks and sometimes months for the brightness to fade away.
5. During a Supernova explosion, luminous radiations are burst out and almost all of the material of the exploding star is expelled into outer space.
6. The material that is expelled from the exploding star travels at a very high speed of 30,000 km per second.
7. This explosion sends out a shockwave in nearby outer space referred to as interstellar medium which is defined as matter that exists in space between stars within a galaxy.
8. As this shockwave travels through this interstellar medium, the gas and dust from the exploding star are bound by the shockwave and it continues to expand. This expanding structure is known as a supernova remnant.
9. Every time a supernova explosion takes place, the interstellar medium is enriched by elements of higher mass.
10. Not every star explodes. Our Sun will never explode. Stars that are about 10 to 100 times bigger than our Sun eventually explode and create a supernova explosion.
11. When a massive star eventually runs low on hydrogen (the fuel that is converted to helium through fusion reaction), the remaining hydrogen pushes outwards towards the shell, surrounding a helium core.
12. When the hydrogen moves to the outer shell around the helium core, the star becomes unstable and the outer shell is enormously inflated, converting the star into a red giant.
13. At this stage, the hydrogen in the outer shell of the red giant still fuses into helium producing thermal energy that wants to expand the star.
14. The helium core on the other hand exerts gravitational pull attempting to crush the star.
15. When the remaining hydrogen burns out, the gravitational pull of the helium core wins and helium atoms start fusing to form iron atoms, thus forming an iron core inside the helium shell.
16. Eventually, the core becomes too heavy and cannot withstand its own gravitational pull and the core starts collapsing. This is when the star explodes to form a supernova.
17. Supernova explosions also take place in what is known as binary star systems. A binary star system consists of two stars one of which is a carbon-oxygen white dwarf. The other is known as the companion star.
18. In this type of star system, the white dwarf (which is actually a star close to its life’s end, eventually collapsing into a small size almost similar to the size of earth) is known to be a thief. This white dwarf steals or draws matter from the companion star. This happens because of the enormous gravitational pull of the white dwarf.
19. At some point, the white dwarf ends up accumulating too much matter. This excessive amount of matter eventually causes the star to explode violently, resulting in a supernova explosion.
20. Supernova explosion shoots out billions and billions of atoms in every possible direction and they form colorful nebulae.
21. The exploding star may end up as a black hole and a nebula. However, if the star isn’t really a big one, the supernova explosion will end up as a neutron star and a nebula.
22. The expanding supernova remnant can produce enough kinetic energy that can compress the highly-dense molecular clouds in the interstellar space and form new stars.
23. Supernova explosions of supernovae are the primary sources of metals in interstellar space and till date, they remain known as the only dominant mechanism for the distribution of heavier metals that are usually formed inside a star during its life through nuclear fusion reaction.
24. The last known supernova explosion in our galaxy Milky Way was SN 1604\. Astronomer Johannes Kepler started observing the supernova on 17th October 1607 and hence, it is named as SN 1604.
25. The latest observed supernova was in Andromeda Galaxy in 1885 and is known as S Andromeda.
26. The first stars of our universe became supernovae around 14 billion years ago. Our sun is not big enough to become a supernova.
27. Elements like carbon, iron, silicon, nitrogen, and oxygen that we find on Earth actually came from a supernova.
28. During the explosion, elements like uranium and gold are formed because of the extremely high millions of degrees of temperature caused by the explosion.
29. In 1054 AD, Islamic and Chinese astronomers observed and documented a supernova. It was so bright that it was visible in broad daylight.
30. The Crab Nebula that we see today is actually a result of the supernova explosion of 1054 AD.

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### Tears
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Last updated: 2026-03-26T09:30:00.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Tears

1. Everyone starts life with that first cry. As you grow up, you still produce about 200 ml of tears a day, even if you never or rarely cry.
2. Although babies have the same instinct to cry to satisfy their needs, each culture’s socialization processes lead to different ways of crying as an older child or adult.
3. The film of tears on the eye is a complex system, in fact consisting of three layers of oil, water, and mucus. The water layer is the thickest and contains electrolytes like sodium and potassium, proteins (mostly enzymes), glucose, and other substances. Various facts in the outer oil layer slow evaporation.
4. The specific composition of tears may change day today.
5. The lacrimal glands that secrete tears are located on the outer portion of the upper eyes. They are peanut-sized. blinking spreads the tears across the eye surface. Tears drain into the tiny openings in the eyelids, called puncta (one on the inside corner of each lid), and then through ducts to the nasal cavity, where you either swallow them or they become part of nasal fluid.
6. Besides lubricating the eye and flushing away debris, tears also serve the function of delivering oxygen and nutrients and removing waste products. Tears also improve the image that forms on the retina by smoothing any irregularities on the surface of the eyeball.
7. Tears also serve as a defense mechanism. The antibodies, enzymes, and other immune components in tear help protect the eyes against microorganisms.
8. There are three types of tears. Continuous (or basal) tears are produced for basic eye function, such as lubrication. Reflex (or irritant) tears occur when the eye is exposed to excessive light, the cold, wind, a foreign body, or irritating food like cut onions. Psychogenic tears are shed for emotional reasons.
9. Crying is a way to communicate needs and elicit attention from others, at least in early life, and maybe a means of releasing emotional tension. As per research, psychogenic tears differ in composition from other tears, and crying may be a way to rid the body of stress-related chemicals.
10. Boys and girls cry in equal frequency. Women reportedly cry more than men.
11. When a person cries and the first drop of tears comes from the right eye, it’s happiness. But when the first tears come from the left, it’s pain.
12. Emotional tears actually contain leucine encephalin, a natural painkiller.
13. A baby who cries for more than 3 hours a day, more than 3 days a week, for more than 3 weeks may have abdominal colic.
14. The ducts that drain tears from your eyes can become blocked due to aging, infection, inflammation, injury, tumor, or cyst causing symptoms of excessive tearing and watery eyes.
15. In certain neurological conditions, crying along with laughing can be uncontrolled. The condition is called pathological laughing and crying (PLC). Laughter or sobbing can occur at inappropriate times. PLC can appear as a symptom of stroke, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS).
16. All vertebrates i.e. animals with backbones that spend time on land have continuous tears and perhaps reflex tears. Humans are the only animals that also have emotional tears. There are also reports of elephants shedding tears in grief.
17. Syn-propanediol-S-oxide is the chemical released by onions in the air which irritates the eyes making lacrimal glands release more tears. New Zealand researchers have been able to produce tearless onions by inhibiting the gene that makes this chemical.
18. If tear production declines or tears evaporate too quickly, the result is dry eye. Inflammation may play a role. Besides causing burning or grittiness, dry eye syndrome can cause blurry vision and can potentially damage the eye.
19. Tears have the same composition as saliva made up of proteins, salt, and hormones.
20. A woman’s tears amazingly send a particular chemical signal to men which causes a dip in male sexual arousal, which is an involuntary yet interesting means of nonverbal communication between the sexes.

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### Alligator
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Last updated: 2026-03-24T09:30:01.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Alligator

1. There are two living species of alligator in the world: the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis).
2. Like crocodiles, alligators are part of the order ‘Crocodylia’. They are cold-blooded reptile species.
3. The alligator is often described as “a living fossil” that has changed little in the past 65 million years.
4. American alligators live in south-eastern areas of the United States such as Florida and Louisiana while Chinese alligators are found in the Yangtze River but they are critically endangered and only a few remain in the wild.
5. The American alligator can grow up to 11 feet long and weigh nearly 450 Kg while Chinese alligators are smaller, growing nearly 5 Feet and usually weighing below 35 Kg.
6. In contrast to alligators found only in the US and China, crocodiles are found all over the world.
7. Alligators have shorter, wider heads that are more U-shaped than crocodiles. Crocodiles have V-shaped snouts.
8. Alligators strongly favor freshwater while some species of crocodile live in seawater.
9. Alligators are less aggressive than crocodiles and also tend to have a darker appearance than crocodiles.
10. An important differentiating feature of a crocodile from an alligator is that the fourth tooth of a crocodile sticks out when its mouth is closed while all of the alligator’s upper teeth can still be seen when its mouth is closed.
11. Alligators have a powerful bite but the muscles that open the jaw are very weak so much so that an adult human can hold the jaws of an alligator shut with their bare hands.
12. Alligators are social creatures and often stay in groups called congregations.
13. Female alligators construct nests made of vegetation and mud. They can lay over 50 eggs in a single season. They are amongst the most attentive parents in the reptile world, caring for them, for as long as three years.
14. The sex of a newborn alligator is determined by the temperature of the nest. Incubation temperatures of 28 Celsius or below will produce females, whereas 34 Celsius or above will produce males. Temperatures of 31 Celsius will produce an even number of males and females.
15. As soon as they are born, the babies, called hatchlings, can go and catch their own food. American hatchlings are around 6 to 8 inches long. After around 2 years, they leave their mother's protection to start their own families.
16. Although seriously endangered in the 1950s the American alligator’s numbers have grown since they came under legal protection. They were killed mainly for skin.
17. Alligators can have up to 80 teeth at any given time. New teeth grow to replace worn ones and throughout a lifetime an alligator can have between 2,000 and 3,000 teeth.
18. Alligators aren’t strict carnivores. They also eat fruit when they get the chance, and might be important seed-dispersers.
19. Alligators have their eyes bigger than their stomachs. Thanks to a special blood vessel, the second aorta, they’re able to shunt blood away from their lungs and towards their stomachs, stimulating the production of strong stomach acids to break down their meals faster.
20. Amazingly juvenile alligators are capable of eating about 23 percent of their body weight in one sitting.
21. Alligators keep to themselves and usually don't attack humans unless they are threatened.
22. Besides swimming, alligators walk, run, and crawl on land. They have a “high walk” and a “low walk.” The low walk is sprawling, while in the high walk the alligator lifts its belly off the ground.
23. American alligators are fairly accomplished climbers. Alligators can climb trees to get to a better basking spot or get the drop on you. Be aware.
24. Alligators are opportunistic feeders who ambush their prey rather than chase them. They can reach 30 miles per hour in a short burst.
25. In North American shamanism, alligators are symbols of adaptability and survival. The alligator became the official state reptile of Florida in 1987.

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### Socrates
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#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Socrates

1. A philosopher by profession, Socrates can rightly be called the father of Western thought. He hailed from ancient Greece.
2. It was around 470 BC when Socrates was born in Athens, Greece. He was executed in 399 BC.
3. Socrates’ father was Sophroniscus, a sculptor and stonemason from Athens and his mother was a midwife by the name of Phaenarete.
4. He received basic Greek education because he did not belong to a noble family and hence, he learned the skills of his father at a very early age.
5. Before turning a philosopher, Socrates took up masonry and sculpting as his profession for several years.
6. Socrates didn’t write anything. No record of his writings exist.
7. Whatever information exists today is a result of some of the records that were kept by his disciples Xenophon and Plato.
8. Xanthippe was Socrates' wife. The two had three children by the names Menexenus, Sophroniscus, and Lamprocles. She was not happy with the ‘philosopher’ profession of Socrates.
9. Socrates was far more interested in the intellectual upbringing of the young minds of Athens rather than looking after the upbringing of his own sons.
10. Socrates was the teacher of Plato, who in turn was the teacher of Aristotle.
11. The primary emphasis of Socrates was on the importance of the mind and not on physical attractiveness.
12. Socrates always believed that if anything could improve the well-being of society, it was none other than philosophy.
13. His way of thinking led him to believe that attaining true wisdom is the only way to create a government that is neither a democratic government nor a tyrannical government. He always believed that the government required individuals with greater understanding and knowledge.
14. There was no fixed classroom for Socrates as such. He traveled all across Athens and questioned common and elite men alike in order to find out the truth about ethics and politics.
15. He invented a new style of conversation which is now referred to as the "Socratic Method." This involved asking lots of questions until finally reaching an answer, rather than simply conveying information. This was based on his philosophy that "true wisdom is drawn from knowing that you know nothing" and is why he was accused of corrupting the entire social system.
16. Socrates challenged the conventional wisdom of Greek and adopted a humorous path for the same and in the process had some enemies who hated his philosophy.
17. Socrates was charged for questioning the existence of the gods and he was also charged for corrupting the youth of the city. He was put on trial where he was convicted to death. He lost his case by 280 votes against and 221 votes for him.
18. According to Athenian law, any convicted person could ask for an alternative punishment. Socrates made things worse by asking for honor, rewards, and payments for the services he rendered to the people in an attempt to enlighten them instead of asking for exile.
19. Socrates’ demand forced the jury to sentence him to death by hemlock poisoning.
20. After being sentenced to death, many of Socrates’ friends asked him to flee to exile by offering to bribe the guards but he declined. He instead said that despite the fact that the Athenian law sentenced him to death, he was still a loyal citizen of Athens and would happily accept his death. He drank a hemlock poison mixture without the slightest hint of hesitation.

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### Radiation
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Last updated: 2026-03-20T09:30:07.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Radiation

1. Radiation is the energy that comes from a source and travels through space. When this energy passes into the body, either by penetrating skin or being swallowed or inhaled, it may be harmful. Whether the radiation is ionizing or non-ionizing will influence the health risks.
2. Sources of ionizing radiation include nuclear weapons handling and detonation, nuclear plants, x-rays, etc.
3. Non-iodizing radiation is low-energy radiation that includes radiation from sources such as sunlight, microwaves, radio frequencies, radar, and sonar.
4. Radium, a radioactive element was discovered by Marie Curie who in fact died from radiation exposure.
5. Millirem is 1/1000 REM, a unit to measure radiation.
6. The loss in life expectancy from a 1 millirem dose is about 1.2 minutes, equivalent to crossing the street three times, taking three puffs on a cigarette, 10 extra Calories for an overweight person.
7. Nuclear power plants are very safe. In fact, the safety limit for exposure is just 5 millirem.
8. The average radiation exposure due to medical diagnostic procedures is about 80 millirem per year.
9. People in America living near coal-fired power stations are exposed to higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants.
10. Chest X-ray gives off about 30 millirems of radiation.
11. The average person absorbs about 300 millirems of radiation per year in total from background sources.
12. 1% of static on an untuned analog TV is from cosmic background radiation from the Big Bang.
13. The thorium-rich sands of Kerala, India give off 380 millirems per year, and similar sands in Guarapari, Brazil give locals an amazing 600 millirems per year.
14. Residents of Denver, Colorado get about four times as much cosmic radiation as those in who live at sea level, giving them an extra 115 millirems of radiation per year.
15. The Manhattan Project secretly tested the effects of radiation on its own citizens, including injecting pregnant women with radioactive mixtures and feeding children radioactive oatmeal. In the end, about 1,400 children died due to these experiments.
16. During the Manhattan Project, a man was injected with Plutonium without his knowledge or consent and he survived it for 20 years, eventually surviving the highest radiation dose known for any human.
17. Bananas are slightly radioactive and eating a banana exposes a person to radiation.
18. Because of the amount of granite used in its construction, the Grand Central Station of New York City produces more radiation than what is allowable at a nuclear power plant.
19. Astronauts on the Apollo missions reported seeing flashes and streaks of light when they closed their eyes. This was later confirmed to be caused by cosmic radiation bombarding their retinas while outside of the Earth’s magnetosphere.
20. All the American flags placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the sun.
21. In the 1950s, there was a toy called the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory that came equipped with low-level radiation sources and four Uranium-bearing ore samples. It sold for $49.50\. The product stayed on the market for only about a year between 1950 and 1951.
22. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster was huge. It is still giving off radiation, and that there is a high chance of the containment structure collapsing, causing huge amounts of radiation to spread out.
23. A fireman’s eyes at the Chernobyl disaster are said to have turned from brown to blue because of the intensity of the radiation he received.
24. There is a type fungi inside the Chernobyl reactors that thrives on radiation.
25. Flight crews are classified as radiation workers and some are exposed to more radiation annually than nuclear plant workers. One flight from New York to London is equivalent to one chest X-ray.
26. Smokers receive a radiation dose equivalent to about 300 chest x-rays annually due to the radioactive isotope Polonium-210 contained in tobacco smoke that comes from the ingredients of the fertilizers that are used in farming tobacco.
27. The USA originally denied that atomic bombs caused lingering radioactivity, calling such claims Japanese propaganda
28. A handful of raw uranium ore actually only has about as much radiation as 10 bananas. Banana has radiation due to potassium content.
29. The use of nuclear weapons and testing has resulted in steel contaminated with background radiation in many areas after 1945 making it unusable for many scientific and medical applications and steel made before 1945, often taken from sunken battleships, must be used instead.
30. On December 27, 2004, Earth was hit by the largest blast of radiation in recorded history. It came from a “giant flare” on a magnetar 50,000 light-years away.

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### Alcohol
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Last updated: 2026-03-18T09:30:49.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Alcohol

1. The production of alcohol has been traced back at least 12,000 years.
2. There are 13 minerals that are essential for human life, and all of them can be found in alcohol.
3. Most vegetables and almost all fruits contain a small amount of alcohol in them.
4. The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer.
5. The amazing fact is that the human body produces its own supply of alcohol naturally, 24 hours a day.
6. The fact is all spirits (unlike beer and wine) are originally clear and colorless. The golden brown and other colors are achieved due to the aging process.
7. Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide.
8. At any given time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk. It means 50 million people are drunk right now.
9. It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol. Alcohol is not digested; it gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream.
10. Alcohol doesn't make you forget anything. In fact, when you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses the ability to create memories.
11. Amazingly about half the world's population older than 15 have never consumed alcohol.
12. Per capita, alcohol consumption is high in Russia where there are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths each year. In fact, beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.
13. Vodka is the world's most popular liquor by a huge margin, with about 5 billion liters consumed every year.
14. The word brandy is derived from the Dutch word brandewijn; it means burnt wine.
15. Distilled spirits such as brandy, gin, rum, etc. contain no carbohydrates, no fats, and no cholesterol of any kind.
16. In order to make a bottle of wine, you will need to have approximately 600 grapes on hand.
17. White wine gets darker as it ages while red wine gets lighter.
18. The most beer-drinking country in the world is the Czech Republic with an amazing per capita beer consumption of almost 40 gallons a year. Next in ranks are Germany and Ireland.
19. Heavy drinking will lead to hepatitis and the resulting irreversible liver damage will result in liver cirrhosis which could be fatal.
20. Amazingly the soil of one of the vineyards in France is considered so precious that it is mandatory for workers to scrape the soil off their shoes before they leave.
21. The pressure in a champagne bottle is amazing 90 pounds per square inch, which is 3 times the automobile tire pressure. In fact, a bottle of Champagne contains about 49 million bubbles. The popped cork from a champagne bottle can travel as fast as 60 miles per hour.
22. Japanese doctors have observed patients with “auto-brewery syndrome,” in which high levels of candida yeast in the intestines churn out so much alcohol that they can cause drunkenness.
23. People with blue eyes have been found to have higher alcohol tolerance.
24. Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day's work, plus 10 Euro.
25. Alcohol is prohibited in the UK Parliament with one exception: the chancellor can drink while delivering the annual budget statement.
26. Sir Winston Churchill was one of the world’s heaviest drinkers while Adolf Hitler was one of the world’s best-known abstainers from alcohol.
27. Abraham Lincoln held a liquor license and operated several taverns.
28. The amazing fact is that the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded alcohol during the last few days of his life.
29. Alexander the Great once held a drinking contest among his soldiers. When it was over, amazingly 42 people had died from alcohol poisoning.
30. In the 1600’s thermometer used to be filled with brandy instead of mercury.
31. In 1985 there were fewer than 50 beer brewers in the US. Today there are nearly 30000.
32. The word “toast,” which means wishing good health originated in ancient Rome. A piece of toasted bread was literally dropped into wine back then.
33. Drinking a banana milkshake is a perfect cure for hangovers.
34. The phrase mind your p’s and q’s can also trace its roots back to alcohol. In England, pubs serve liquor in pint and quart sizes. If a customer became unruly, it used to be common for a bartender to tell that customer to mind their own pints and quarts. Over time, the saying was shortened and usage expanded.
35. In outer space, there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol that can be used to produce 400 trillion pints of beer. Amazingly it extends nearly 300 billion miles across.
36. The world record for alcohol consumption is by Andre the Giant, who drank 156 beers in one sitting (over 73 liters/16 gallons).
37. As part of an advertising campaign, Molson, a Canadian beer company, strategically placed 'beer fridges' around Europe that only Canadian passports could unlock.
38. The amazing fact is that if an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade will carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol.
39. Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
40. Amazingly even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

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### New Zealand
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Last updated: 2026-03-16T09:30:32.000Z
#### 50 Facts About New Zealand

##### Land & Geography

- New Zealand is located in the south-western Pacific Ocean and features two main islands, the North Island and the South Island.
- The population of New Zealand is about 4.5 million. The capital city of New Zealand is Wellington while the largest city is Auckland. Wellington is in fact the southernmost capital city in the world.
- *Amazingly* a kiwi is not a fruit. It is New Zealand’s native flightless national bird and a slang term for a New Zealander. Kiwis call the fruit “kiwifruit”. They are also known as Chinese Gooseberries.
- *Amazingly* no part of the country is more than 128 km (79 miles) from the sea.
- Blue Lake, in Nelson Lakes National Park, has the clearest water in the world.
- There are *amazingly* no land snakes, native or introduced, in NZ. In *fact* unlike Australia, New Zealand does not have any dangerous or poisonous animals with the one tiny exception of the Katipo Spider.
- About one third of the country is protected national park.
- The kiwi, a bird native to NZ, is known for pulling windscreen wipers off cars and eating the strips of rubber from windows.
- There is a giant albino snail in New Zealand in South Island that is carnivorous.
- NZ is home to more species of penguins than any other country.
- The Hector’s Dolphin, the world’s smallest marine dolphin, which grows to a maximum length of 1.5 metres, is found nowhere else in the world but in New Zealand waters.
- A dolphin named Pelorus Jack regularly guided ships in New Zealand through treacherous waters until his disappearance in 1912.
- *Amazing fact* is in 2008, Henry the tuatara , reptile native to New Zealand became a father for the first time at the age of 111.
- New Zealand is in *fact* home to the giant weta, the heaviest insect in the world. It is heavier than a sparrow and looks like a giant cockroach.

##### History

- New Zealand was first discovered by Europeans in 1642 when Dutch sailor Abel Tasman arrived. He left New Zealand after several of his crew were killed by Maoris, and it was not until 1769 that English Captain James Cook arrived and mapped the land.
- The Treaty of Waitangi was in *fact* signed in 1840 between the British and Maori, making New Zealand a colony of the British Empire.
- Captain James Cook, the man who navigated New Zealand, is said to have discovered a cure for scurvy, a disease that results from Vitamin C deficiency, when he played around with medicines.

##### Places 

- Lake Taupo extending to 616 square kilometres (or 238 sq miles) was formed by a super volcanic eruption 26,000 years ago which has been the largest known volcanic eruption in the world in the last 70 thousand years. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations.
- Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, is the world’s steepest street. The road has a gradient of 1 in 2.86 at its steepest section, an *amazing* 38 per cent grade.
- *Amazing fact* is Gisborne airport has train tracks running across the middle of the runway. Quite often, trains and planes have to stop until one moves out of the way.
- Ninety Mile Beach is actually only 90 km long.
- The Te Waikoropupu Springs in Golden Bay push out more fresh water than any other springs in the world, producing one to two billion litres of water a day *amazing* enough to supply drinking water to supply the entire population of New Zealand. Also the spring waters are the clearest natural water in the world outside of Antarctica. You can see an average of 63 metres when you look down through the water.
- Waitomo Caves in New Zealand’s Waikato region provide spectacular view of the fireflies. The Waitomo River runs underground through the caves where natural light cannot reach. Fireflies high above creates a night-sky effect with groups of fireflies looking like stars.
- The world’s first commercial bungee jump was a 43 metre leap off the Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown in 1988.
- There is a clock in Dunedin which has been *amazingly* running since 1864, despite never having been wound since it was made.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Maori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. Only 15% of NZ’s population are Maori.
- Sign Language is *amazingly* one of three official languages of New Zealand.
- New Zealand is in *fact* a plastic nation. Almost all personal financial transactions are made with a card including taxis. Cash is very rarely used.
- NZ is the least corrupt nation in the world tied with Denmark according to the Corruptions Perception Index.
- *Amazing fact* is one in three Auckland households own a boat.
- It is illegal for drug companies to advertise to consumers almost everywhere in the world. The only exceptions are the US and New Zealand.
- *Amazing fact*is in New Zealand , students on their exams are allowed to use text-messaging language. Teachers must treat these abbreviations as standard English and may not penalize students.
- 3 dogs in New Zealand were taught to drive a modified car around a race track in an effort to show the intelligence of shelter dogs.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Queen Elizabeth II is officially Queen of New Zealand. She is represented in New Zealand by a Governor General, who ratifies all laws put before him or her by the elected parliament of New Zealand.
- New Zealand is one of only three countries that have two official national anthems of equal standing. The first is God Save the Queen (the English National Anthem) and the other is God Defend New Zealand. The other two countries with Royal and state anthems are Denmark and Canada.
- In 1893 New Zealand in *fact* became the first country in the world to give all women the right to vote.
- *Amazing fact* is New Zealand was the first country to have all its top positions of power held simultaneously by women in 2006: The Prime Minister (Helen Clark), the Governor General (Dame Silvia Cartwright), and the Chief Justice (Sian Elias), the Queen and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
- It's *amazing* that New Zealand was forced out of the ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States) alliance in the 1980's when it outlawed nuclear arms and power. Even today there are no nuclear power stations in New Zealand.
- New Zealand may in *fact* deny people residency visas if they have too much weight.
- The logo of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is the kiwi, a flightless bird which is national bird.
- There is a law that states every high school in New Zealand may hold 1 pound of uranium and 1 pound of thorium, for conducting nuclear experiments, and will be fined $1,000,000 in case of a nuclear explosion.
- New Zealand was once governed as a part of the territory of New South Wales later a part of Australia. When Australia federated in 1901, New Zealand was offered a place as one of their states. New Zealand refused. New Zealand is still listed as a state of Australia in the Australian constitution, and can join the Australian confederation if they choose to.
- NZ has banned all television advertising on Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ANZAC Day, and Christmas Day.

##### Economy 

- Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 10 to 1\. In *fact* only 5% of NZ’s population is human. The rest are animals. Dairy products are New Zealand’s highest earning exports.
- New Zealand *amazingly* produces 100 kg of butter and 65 kg of cheese each year per capita.
- It's *amazing* that the filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy pumped around $200 million into the country’s economy. The New Zealand government even created a Minister for Lord of the Rings, to ensure the most money could be made from the films.

##### Famous People

- New Zealander and Nobel Prize Winner, Ernest Rutherford is known as the father of nuclear physics.
- Sir Edmund Hillary , a New Zealander was the first man to reach the peak of Mount Everest was and his face is on the New Zealand $5 bill.

##### Sport

- Golf is the most popular participation sport, with more golf courses in New Zealand per capita of population than any other country in the world.
- New Zealand has won more Olympic gold medals per capita, than any other country.

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### Breast Cancer
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Last updated: 2026-03-14T09:30:53.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Breast Cancer

1. The first recorded mastectomy for breast occurred in A.D. 548 on Theodora, Empress of Byzantine.
2. Breast cancer was one of the first cancers to be described by ancient physicians. For example, physicians in ancient Egypt described breast cancer more than 3,500 years ago. One surgeon describes “bulging” tumours in the breast of which “there is no cure.”
3. In 400 B.C., Hippocrates describe breast cancer as a humoral disease caused by black bile or melancholia. He labelled cancer karkinos, meaning “crab,” because the tumours seemed to have tentacles which looked like the legs of crab.
4. The first operation to use anaesthesia was a breast cancer surgery.
5. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among American women after skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women after lung cancer.
6. The incidence of breast cancer is highest in more developed countries and lowest in less developed countries.
7. The left breast is statistically more prone to developing cancer than the right breast. Reason is not known.
8. In the U.S., on average one woman die of breast cancer every 15 minutes. The United States has the most cases of breast cancer in the world.
9. Only 5-10% of breast cancers occur in women who have a genetic predisposition for it.
10. Nearly 10.4 % of all cancers in women is breast cancer.
11. Approximately 1.2 million cases of breast cancer are diagnosed around the world each year. About 75% are found in women over age 50.
12. When breast cancer spreads beyond the breast, it is said to be “metastatic.” The most common places breast cancer spreads to are the bones, liver, and lungs.
13. There are currently 2.5 million breast cancer survivors living in the United States.
14. Usually 95% of new cases and 97% of breast cancer deaths occurred in women 40 years and older. The biggest single risk factor for breast cancer is age.
15. White women have a higher incidence of breast cancer than African American women. However, African American women are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women.
16. About 1 in 3,000 pregnant or lactating women will develop breast cancer. Research has shown that once a woman has been diagnosed with breast cancer during pregnancy, her chances of survival are less than a non-pregnant woman.
17. Mammography was initially used in 1969 when the first specialized X-ray units for breast imagining were developed.
18. Women age 40 and older should have screening mammograms every 1 to 2 years. It is estimated that if every woman over the age of 50 had her yearly mammogram, breast cancer deaths in this age group would drop by 25% or more.
19. Tumors are more likely to be malignant when they are firm and have irregular shapes, while benign tumors are more likely to feel round or soft. On average, it takes 100 days or more for a cancer cell to double in size. It takes about 10 years for cells to divide to a size that can be actually felt.
20. Breast cancer in men is rare, accounting for approximately 1% of breast cancer rates. African American men are more likely to die from breast cancer than white men.
21. One in 40 women of Ashkenazi (French, German, and East European) Jewish descent carry the BRCA1 and BRCA2 (breast cancer) gene, which is significantly higher than in the general population where only 1 in 500 to 800 people carry the gene.
22. In 1882, the father of American surgery, William Steward Halstead (1852-1922), introduced the first radical mastectomy (the breast tissue underlying chest muscle and the lymph nodes are removed). Until the mid 1970s, 90% of women with breast cancer were treated with this procedure.
23. The youngest known survivor of breast cancer is Aleisha Hunter from Ontario, Canada. At only three years old, Aleisha underwent a complete mastectomy in 2010 to treat her juvenile strain of breast cancer.
24. Breastfeeding has consistently been shown to reduce breast cancer, the greater the duration, the greater the benefit.
25. No association has been found between breast implants and an increased risk of breast cancer.
26. The most common type of breast cancer (70%) originates in the breast ducts and is known as ductal carcinoma. A less common type of breast cancer (15%) is known as lobular carcinoma or cancer that originates in the lobules. More rare types of cancers include medullary carcinoma, Paget’s disease and tubular carcinoma.
27. Research has found that pomegranates may help prevent breast cancer. Chemicals called ellagitannins block the production of estrogen, which can fuel some types of breast cancer.
28. Studies report that breast cancer patients with diabetes were nearly 50% more likely to die than those who didn’t have diabetes.
29. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM). The first NBCAM took place in October 1985.
30. Not all lumps that are found in the breast are cancerous but may be a fibrocystic breast condition, which is benign.

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### Burj Khalifa
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Last updated: 2026-03-12T09:30:09.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Burj Khalifa

1. Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world with an architectural height of 2717 feet or 828.0 meters. Its people occupied height is 1918 feet or 584.5 meters.
2. The design of the tower is inspired by the shape of the Hymenocallis flower. The flower is known for its long petals extending out from its center.
3. The total cost of building Burj Khalifa was $1.5 billion.
4. Located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, this tower was initially named as Burj Dubai but was renamed to Burj Khalifa in honor of UAE president Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The construction work started in 2004 and was completed in 2010.
5. Burj Khalifa is the tallest tower in Dubai, UAE, Middle East and World beating the next tallest building by more than about 1000 Ft. It is 3 times as tall as Eiffel Tower,15 times the highest point at Niagara Falls and 2 times taller than Empire State Building.
6. The tower also holds world records for: 'tallest free standing building', 'highest occupied floor', 'highest number of stories', and 'second highest outdoor observatory deck'.
7. Burj Khalifa holds the record of 504 metres longest travel distance elevator in the world. It has 58 functional elevators that run at the fastest speed in the world at 18 meters per second.
8. The observatory deck of the building is located at a height of 1483 feet or 452.1 meters , the second highest in the world. Record for highest outdoor observation deck is now held by Canton Tower which opened in 2011.
9. There are 163 floors located above the ground and it has only one floor located below the ground.
10. Burj Khalifa has highest swimming pool installed on the 76th floor, highest mosque in the world at 158th floor and tallest nightclub at 144 floors.
11. The building is so tall that you can see it from 60 miles away. Entire Dubai and even neighboring country Iran can be seen from top of Burj Khalifa.
12. At the top in Burj Khalifa temperature drops 6 degrees from base to peak and the winds at the top can reach whooping 90 miles an hour.
13. Burj Khalifa can accommodate 35,000 people at a time.
14. It has 2909 stairs from ground floor to 160 level.
15. Amazingly it has 11 hectares of park area.
16. Burj Khalifa has 37 office floors. Office space pricing at Burj Khalifa is about $3000 to $5000 per square feet.
17. Burj Khalifa has Armani Hotel Dubai with 160 guest rooms and suites, 144 Armani private residences and 900 Burj Khalifa residences.
18. Burj Khalifa has about 3000 parking spaces.
19. There is a dining restaurant at 122 level at 442 m height and world’s second highest swimming pool at 76 level.
20. The Gross Floor Area of the tower is 3,331,140 ft2 or 309,473 m2\. The Gross Floor Area is the area within the footprint of the tower and does not include connected buildings and adjoining podiums.
21. Emaar is the developer/owner of the tower and its design architect is American firm Skidmore Owings & Merill.
22. Turner Construction was the project manager for Burj Khalifa while Besix, Arabtec and Samsung C&T Corporation were its main contractors. Dow Corning Corporation supplied sealants for the tower while Otis Elevator Company supplied the elevators.
23. During peak construction days, 12,000 workers were engaged every day.
24. 22 million man-hours, 55,000 ton steel bars and 110,000 ton concrete were used to complete the construction of the tower in 6 years.
25. Steel bars used in the construction of Burj Khalifa if laid down end to end, the total length would be one quarter of the earth circumference.
26. Total aluminum used in the tower weighs as much as five A380 aircrafts while total concrete used weighs as much as 100,000 elephants.
27. 26,000 glass panels cut individually were used to create the exterior of the building which were fitted by 300 Chinese cladding experts to withstand Dubai's summer heat.
28. The building has 12 machines of 13 tons each moving along tracks constructed outside the building.36 cleaners board these machines clean the 26,000 reflective glass panels.
29. The antenna at the top has a length of 220 meters carrying weight of 3,500 tons.
30. Burj Khalifa requires a supply of 950,000 liters of water every day through 100 Km of pipelines and total electricity consumption is equivalent to 360,000 bulbs of 100-watt each burning together.

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### Chimpanzee
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Last updated: 2026-03-10T09:30:47.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Chimpanzee

1. Closely linked by DNA, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are one of the four species of great apes that are the closest living relatives of humans – the other two being gorillas and orangutans.
2. Great apes are really different from monkeys.They are larger, walk upright for a longer period of time, don’t have tails and have much larger, more developed brains.
3. Amazingly we, Homo sapiens, share 98.4% of our DNA with chimpanzees.
4. Chimpanzees have the same bones and muscles as humans with differences only inform, such as longer arms than legs. Adapted for quadrupedal movement and movement through the trees, chimpanzees have powerful arms.
5. Because of their dense bones and muscle tissue, the upper body strength of a mature chimpanzee is 8-10 times that than that of humans.
6. An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 chimpanzees remain in the wild. They can be found in 20 African countries. Fifty years ago, there were probably a million chimpanzees living in Africa.
7. Chimpanzees used to live in 25 countries throughout tropical Africa, in an area almost the size of the United States. Today, chimpanzees are extinct in five of those countries and endangered in five others.
8. Chimpanzees are black, but older individuals may have a grey back. Both genders often have short white beards. The ears are prominent. Infants have a white tail tuft and pink to brown facial skin, which darkens by adulthood.
9. On the ground, chimpanzees usually walk on all fours using their knuckles for support with their hands clenched, a form of locomotion called knuckle-walking. Chimpanzees can also stand and walk upright.
10. Chimpanzees have been shown to have their own individual personalities. Chimpanzees behave in a way indicating that they feel empathy.
11. Chimpanzees live in communities. These communities are composed of family groups totaling 15 to 120 animals. Hierarchies are formed by the adult males of the community, which is led by one alpha (the highest) male. They are highly territorial and will routinely patrol their home boundaries. Females tend to live a more solitary life than the males, often choosing to spend much of their time alone with their offspring.
12. Chimpanzee infants are completely dependent on their mothers until about five years of age. When males are between the ages of 8-12 years, or adolescence, they will increase their independence and spend more time in the company of adult males.
13. Females tend to remain close to their mothers during adolescence, becoming mature at age 11 but only beginning to breed at age 13-14.
14. Chimpanzees can live for more than 50 years.
15. In their natural habitats, chimpanzees are known to use plants with medicinal value to self-medicate themselves.
16. The gestation period of chimpanzee is about 8.5 months, very similar to humans. A female chimp will not be fertile again until her child is fully weaned, so at most a female chimp will give birth every five years. On average females will have about three offspring during their lifetime.
17. Chimpanzees travel mostly on the ground but will mostly feed in trees during the day and make a new nest every night in the forest canopy to sleep.
18. Their diet varies seasonally consisting mainly of fruit, leaves, flowers, seeds and animal prey such as grubs, termites, ants, wasps, birds and mammals including bush-pigs, rodents and even other primates.
19. In the Ivory Coast chimpanzees will hunt together cooperatively to catch red colobus monkeys, the meat is much prized and its subsequent sharing strengthens male alliances and familial bonds.
20. Chimpanzees have opposable both thumbs and toes that allow for grasping, climbing, and object manipulation.
21. Chimpanzees cannot swim, due to the structure and density of their bodies.
22. Chimpanzees are very dexterous and are able to manipulate objects in their environment. It is one of the species that can make use of tools. Sticks are used for termite fishing and ant dipping, leaf sponges to soak up water, use sticks to probe or break open beehives for honey, and manufacture spears to kill small mammals and in West Africa, chimpanzees use specially chosen rocks to crack hard palm nuts, a behavior that can take many years to perfect. Baby female chimps were recently discovered to play with sticks like human children play with dolls.
23. Chimpanzees, like humans, use facial expressions to convey emotions. Chimpanzees have emotions similar to those we call joy, anger, grief, sorrow, pleasure, boredom, and depression. They also comfort and reassure one another by kissing and embracing.
24. Chimpanzees have 32 teeth and their body temperature is the same as humans, at 98.6 degrees. A chimpanzee’s senses of sight, taste, and hearing are similar to those of humans.
25. While humans have blood types A, B, O, and AB, chimps have only A or O.
26. Many older captive chimpanzees suffer from cardiac disease and take the same medications that humans take for heart conditions.
27. Chimpanzees have many different vocalizations from soft grunts and lip smacks to alarm barks and screams.
28. Some chimpanzees have learned to “talk” using American Sign Language, symbols, and computer graphics. Some have even combined signs to come up with new words. When the famous sign language chimpanzee, Washoe, first saw a swan, she called it a “water bird.”
29. Grooming is also the single most important social activity and takes up a lot of each day’s rest periods. Grooming has a two-fold purpose: cleaning, and cementing the bonds of family and friendship. By running their fingers through each other’s hair, chimpanzees remove dirt, dead skin, and parasites. They will also clean any cuts or scrapes another chimp may have. Through these actions chimpanzees nourish friendships, comfort each other, and patch up disagreements.
30. Chimpanzees are classified as endangered in the wild. Aside from habitat loss they are hunted for bushmeat and infants were taken for sale into the pet trade. Over 1000 chimpanzees are still being kept and used in biomedical labs for research.

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### Volcano
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Last updated: 2026-03-08T09:30:19.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Volcano

1. Anything that humans cannot control or are afraid of has been associated with gods and divinity. Ancient cultures had their own versions of volcano gods. Ancient Greeks had Hephaistos , the god of craftsmanship and fire. For Romans Vulcan was the blacksmith of gods. Among Hawaiians. Pele is the goddess of volcanoes.
2. The term “volcano” is from the Latin Volcanus or Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. The Romans first used the term to describe Mt. Etna, a volcanic mountain they believed was the forge of Vulcan.
3. “Lava” derives from the Latin lavara, meaning “to wash,” and is magma that has erupted at the surface.
4. Hot liquid rock under the Earth’s surface is known as magma, it is called lava after it comes out of a volcano through some opening. Most volcanoes happen on fault lines, or cracks in the Earth’s surface.
5. There are four major types of volcanoes, classified according to their shape, composition of their magma, and the way they erupt. Composite Volcanoes (also known as Stratovolcanoes) which are the most common type of volcanoes, generally steep-sided cone shaped mountains most of which have a crater at the summit and erupt with different kinds of lava, ash, and rock . Shield Volcanoes are wide gentle sloping volcanoes that have low viscosity lava flows. Cinder cone volcanoes are smaller single vent volcanoes, that have short-lived eruptions and often have bowl shaped craters at the summit. Lava domes are rounded volcanoes which erupt with very viscous lava that doesn’t flow great distances. An erupting volcano can trigger tsunamis, flash floods, earthquakes, mudflows and rockfalls.
6. The largest volcano found in the solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars, though it is now extinct. It rises to an elevation of 27 km measuring 550 km across.
7. Venus may have at one time produced more volcanoes than any other planet in our solar system, though they are all now extinct.
8. While no other planet besides Earth shows active volcanoes, Io, one of Jupiter’s moons, shows volcanoes that are erupting.
9. The caldera is the term used for the circular depression formed at the summit of a volcano after a large eruption. Caldera, is Spanish for “kettle.”. Once a big eruption takes place, the volcano collapses in on itself and spews out gases, lava and ash that flow down from the edges of the circular depression or caldera.
10. The largest caldera is the La Garita Caldera in Colorado which was formed 26-28 million years ago and was one of the largest eruptions if not the largest on Earth.
11. Our entire world is threatened by what is known as Pacific Ring of Fire. It is actually a volcano string around Pacific Ocean’s perimeter. The Pacific Ring of Fire is responsible for giving some of the world’s deadliest eruptions. This is the area where several tectonic plates move beneath each other.
12. The Pacific Ring of Firehouses 452 volcanoes that cover 75% of world’s total dormant and active volcanoes above sea level.
13. The material ejected from a volcano is called “pyroclastic flow” from the Greek pyro (fire) and I (broken) refering to an avalanche of volcanic gases, rock fragments, pumice and hot ash rushing down the slopes of a volcano. It can have amazing speed of 100 kilometers per hour with temperature exceeding 500 degree Celsius.
14. Volcanoes can dramatically impact global climate as it releases huge amounts ash that gets trapped in atmosphere and prevents sun rays from reaching the earth resulting in a temperature drop. The acid that is released by volcanic eruptions destroys the ozone layer, letting in harmful UV rays of sun to earth. These eruptions also release massive amounts of carbon dioxide leading to greenhouse effect increasing the temperature.
15. Ash and gases spewed by volcanic eruptions can color sunsets because the material adds more obstacles through which incoming sunlight has to pass before reaching our eyes. The effect accentuates the sky light toward the red end of the spectrum.
16. About 20% of all volcanoes are under water.
17. Japan has 10% of the world’s active volcanoes.
18. Almost 80% of earth’s surface below or above sea level has volcanic origins.
19. About 350 million or 1 in 20 people live within danger range of an active volcano.
20. Over last 10,000 years, a total of 1,500 or more volcanoes have erupted. Of these, only about 20-30 erupt in any one year.
21. World’s oldest and longest document activity is of Sicily’s Mount Etna. It has been active and erupted since 1500 B.C. It is Italy's most active volcano and also the largest active volcano in Europe.
22. Indonesia ranks first in terms of number of active volcanoes throughout history. Second position is taken by Japan while U.S. ranks third in the list.
23. Klyuchevskaya Volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is the largest active volcano in the Northern Hemisphere.
24. There are no active volcanoes in Australia because it sits in the middle of a tectonic plate.
25. Volcanoes form through subduction (when two tectonic plates smash against each other), mid-oceanic rift (when two plates drift apart), or in a hot spot (a weak spot in one of Earth’s plates).
26. In A.D. 79, Vesuvius erupted violently, devastating the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum killing 16000 people. Eyewitness accounts of the time, recent excavations, and the preserved remains tell the full story of the eruption.
27. During the past 400 years, nearly a quarter of a million people have been killed as a direct result of volcanic eruptions. Indirect aftereffects such as famine, climate change, and disease most likely have tripled that number.
28. The eruption of Mount Tambora on Sumbawa island in Indonesia in 1815 is the biggest eruption recorded in history. The explosion for the eruption was heard on Sumatra Island more than 1200 miles away. The destruction was vast, with an estimated ejection volume of 38 cubic miles (160 km3) and a death toll of more than 71,000 people. It created a massive sulfate dust cloud that fundamentally altered the planet’s climate for 3 years.
29. The 1883 eruption of Krakatau in Indonesia is thought to have released 200 megatons of energy, the equivalent of 15,000 nuclear bombs. Even though the island was uninhabited, the eruption killed 36,000 people as the result of burning ash showers and huge tsunamis. It generated the loudest sound historically reported.
30. The worst volcanic disaster of the twentieth century is considered to be the eruption of Mt. Pelée in 1902 on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean which killed 30,121 people. Only two people survived: a shoemaker living on the edge of the island and a prisoner who had been locked in a dungeon cell with thick stone walls.
31. Mount St. Helens is North America’s most active volcano. During the 9 hours that Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, the volcano spewed about 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square miles causing the largest terrestrial landslide in recorded history, reducing the mountain's summit by about 1,300 feet . The eruption had 500 times the power of an atomic bomb.
32. The most dangerous volcano today is Popocatépetl, nicknamed El Popo, which is just 33 miles from Mexico City. El Popo is still active, sending thousands of tons of gas and ash into the air each year.
33. World’s largest and active supervolcano is Yellowstone Caldera. On top of the Caldera is the Yellowstone National Park. The Yellowstone supervolcano erupted thousands of years ago but till date fuels nearly 10,000 hot springs and geysers which is about 50 % of world’s visible geothermal activity.
34. In Hawaii you will find two mountains , Mauna Lao and Mauna Kea which are massive volcanoes covering almost entire Hawaii.
35. Mauna Kea measures 4,205 meters above sea level. However, the height of the mountain when measured from the ocean floor is 10,210 meters making it the highest mountain in this world even larger then Mount Everest.
36. The most active volcano on Earth is Mount Yasur on Tanna Island, part of the archipelago nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. It has been erupting nearly continuously for 111 years.
37. The Volcano can scream just before exploding. Alaska’s Redoubt Volcano erupted in 2009 but right before erupting, the volcano started screaming forewarning the danger.
38. The volcanoes can appear all of a sudden from the middle of nowhere. Example is Paricutin, the Mexican volcano in 1943\. A long crack in the ground was followed by rumbling noises and rising earth with ash and sulfur coming out. The volcano rose to 165 meters within 24 hours and 230 meters within a week. The lava flow gradually consumed a town named San Juan. It kept erupting for 9 years rising to the height of 424 meters before it eventually died in 1952 covering 10 sq. mile of fertile land.
39. Paricutin volcano is a monogenetic volcano which is a type of volcano that never erupts again once it dies. So, Paricutin will never erupt again.
40. The volcano’s called Ol Doinyo Lengai located in Tanzania spews out a type of lava which geologists often call as ‘lava from another planet’. It is 2,200 meters tall and spews out ‘black lava’ which is carbonatite substance similar to dark mud. It is cooler than usual lava and its temperature can reach a maximum of 540℃. When the volcano erupts the lava usually cools while in air and falls down in form of glass shreds.
41. The black sand beaches in Iceland and Hawaii are formed by grains of black volcanic glass.
42. Iceland is made up almost entirely of volcanic rocks like those found on the ocean floor. It gradually built up above sea level through intense and prolonged eruptions.
43. The southernmost active volcano on the planet is Antarctica's Mount Erebus. It is also home to Earth's only long lived lava lakes.
44. Java’s volcano known as Ijen is in the area which has very high volcanic activity resulting in high sulfur concentration. The area is also known to have some of the most lethal acid lakes in the world due to sulfur turning to sulphuric acid.
45. In the crater of the volcano Ijen is the lake Kawah Ijen, which is the world’s most lethal and largest acidic lake which can eat up metals.
46. In 1982 scientists came up with what is known as VEI or Volcanic Explosivity Index which is used to determine the power of a volcanic eruption. The VEI runs from 0 to 8.
47. Eruptions with VEI 0-2 occur weekly or even daily. A category 3 volcanic eruption will shoot out ashes up to 15 kilometers high in sky. These eruptions usually occur once a year. Scale 4-5 are volcanic eruptions that take place once every few decades or centuries. Volcanic ash can shoot up up to 25 kilometers in sky.
48. Scale 6-7 are called colossal eruptions and super-colossal eruptions respectively which will shoot out lava bombs traveling well over hundred miles or more, cause tsunamis and more!
49. There is a type of volcanic rock known as pumice. This rock is the only type of rock on Earth that can float on water. Typical pumice will have numerous bubbly holes. These holes are created when the rock cools and hot gases get out of the rock in form of jets.
50. In 1883 the Krakatoa volcano erupted and was a category 6 explosion. It killed 36,417 people by thermal trauma and tsunamis.
51. 8 on the VEI scale is a mega-colossal explosion at least 100 times more powerful than a category 6 eruption. There hasn’t been any VEI-8 explosion in last 10000 years. VEI-8 can end most of our world.
52. One of the biggest eruptions ever occurred about 30 million years ago in what is today eastern Nevada and western Utah, when a supervolcano exploded 3500 cubic kilometers of magma over an area of about 12,000 square miles. It left behind deposits of debris 13,000 feet deep. It was a VEI-8 eruption.
53. Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming sits on the site of an ancient supervoclano of grade VEI-7\. It erupted around 2 million years ago, 1.3 million years ago, and 640,000 years ago. If it follows the same pattern, another eruption is due any time now.
54. Other VEI-7 explosions have taken place so far , one in 74,000 B.C. in Sumatra , Indonesia and one in 24,500 B.C. in Taupo New Zealand.
55. Volcanologists use a special electric thermometer called a “thermocouple” to take a volcano’s temperature. Lava is so hot that a glass thermometer would melt.
56. Scientists believe that all the water on the earth was originally vented into the atmosphere by volcanoes.
57. There is an endangered bird species known as the Maleo which is the only known bird species on earth that uses geothermal energy from the volcanoes to incubate the eggs which are 5 times bigger than chicken eggs. The mama bird seeks out exposed volcanic areas where the eggs can hatch using the geothermal energy from the volcanoes.
58. Before the Panama Canal opened in 1915, rival proposals for an Atlantic–Pacific link included a plan to carve a canal through Nicaragua, which had a lot more fresh water and much less deadly malaria than Panama but it also had a significant volcanic activity which resulted in Panama getting the vote.
59. Cerro Negro, a new and very active volcano that first erupted in 1850 and has blown 23 times since, most recently in 1999 has black pebble covered slopes you can surf down on a metal-bottomed wood board.
60. Surtsey, one of Earth’s newest islands, was dramatically formed in 1963 by underwater volcanic eruptions. Surtsey Island, which lies off the southwest coast of Iceland.

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### Drowning
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Last updated: 2026-03-06T09:30:46.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Drowning

1. About 1 million people around the world die by drowning every year, that is more than two persons per minute. Among them 50 % are children.
2. There are about 8 to 10 times that many who experience a drowning process but who reach safety alone or are rescued by others.
3. Every day about 10 people die due to drowning in the US. Nearly 80% of people who die from drowning are male.
4. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) performed by bystanders has been shown to save lives and improve outcomes in drowning victims. The more quickly CPR is started, the better the chance of improved outcomes. CPR should be learned by everybody.
5. If you are caught in a rip current, swim parallel to shore. Once free of the current, swim diagonally toward shore.
6. One does not need an enormous depth of water to drown. Drowning can actually happen in as little as 12 inches (30 mm) of water.
7. Children can drown in toilets, buckets, baths, etc. An adult will usually not drown in a bucket or a toilet unless they are under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
8. Besides water people can drown in other liquids also especially in industrial establishments.
9. “Wet drowning" is a type of drowning in which the water manages to enter the lungs. In fact, the air tube is sealed the moment water enters airways preventing water from entering lungs. This is due to vocal cord and larynx constrictions. As air tube is blocked, even air cannot enter lungs making person unconscious. Once unconscious, the air tube opens and water rushes into the lungs causing death.
10. In “dry drowning" the air tube will stay shut and cause cardiac arrest and hence, death. In this case the person will die before water enters lungs. Amazingly once the person is dead, water fails to enter lungs.
11. In “secondary drowning", a person actually inhales a small amount of liquid or water into lungs which irritate lungs, impairs gas exchange leading to pulmonary edema and eventually causes death by respiratory failure. This can happen even due to poison gases or chemical and even vomit getting inhaled!
12. Deepwater blackout is yet another type of drowning. When someone dives into water, the oxygen present in lungs is capable of producing enough pressure to keep the person conscious. But this pressure starts falling as the person ascends from the depths of water and causes latent hypoxia causing deep water blackout when the person reaches surface. The moment the person loses consciousness, he or she sinks! This is usually not a common occurrence and happens rarely usually to strong and fit swimmers.
13. We also have shallow water blackout. Just before diving or swimming, a person feels a strong urge to breathe, especially exhale. As a person exhales, CO2 level falls. Once in water, a person will not feel the strong urge to breathe in or inhale because the CO2 level is low but he or she will not realize that the brain is deprived of oxygen. He or she continues to swim only to faint all of a sudden and then sink. Most cases of shallow water blackout occur in swimming pools or shallow water bodies.
14. Drowning in saltwater usually takes longer. When a drowning person inhales salt water, the salt concentration in the lungs increases. Water from blood rushes into the lungs to dilute the saltwater. As a result, the blood thickens. When the blood thickens, the heart comes under pressure and causes cardiac arrest. This takes about 8-10 minutes.
15. Since the cardiac arrest in seawater drowning happens after 8-10 minutes, it is easier to rescue people drowning in saltwater.
16. In contrast to saltwater, drowning in freshwater gives you little time to rescue. If freshwater is inhaled, the water becomes hypotonic compared to tissues in the lungs. So, the water rushes into the cells to dilute the cells’ salt concentration. The red blood cells then burst, releasing hemoglobin which gets accumulated in kidneys, leading to acute renal failure. Freshwater is also absorbed into blood thereby diluting it and cooling the heart sufficient enough to cause hypothermia-induced cardiac arrest. This happens in just 2-3 minutes. Thus, rescuers do not get enough time to save the victims.
17. In fact, 90% of the drowning cases occur in freshwater.
18. It is a myth that a drowning person shouts and yells and calls for help. In fact, our respiratory system is designed to first breathe and then generate speech. When a person drowns, his or her mouth usually sinks below the water surface and then resurfaces in very short successions. This gives the respiratory system just enough time to concentrate on its primary function, i.e. breathing. A person tries to quickly inhale and exhale. Yelling becomes literally impossible.
19. It is also a myth that a drowning person throws out arms and legs in all possible directions. In fact, out of instinct, a drowning person will extend his or her arms laterally trying to press down on water surface and keep their mouth out of water to continue breathing. This arm movement is completely involuntary and happens on its own. So waving or throwing arms at get the attention of rescuers is literally impossible.
20. In case of true drowning, people really cannot help themselves even by reaching out for a rope or a ring thrown at them. Drowning is a very silent process contrary to what we see in movies.
21. A drowning person will usually show a few signs which most of us fail to recognize. Usually the head of the person will be low in water with mouth at the level of water and occasionally sinking in and coming out of water. Eyes will become empty and glassy and will usually lose focus. Eyes will mostly be open and the face will reflect fear. He or she will usually be gasping with hands stretched laterally. It will appear as if he or she is trying to climb up a ladder that is invisible. Legs and arms will be mostly under water.
22. Children are more susceptible to drowning. They can drown even in presence of adults right next to them! So, it is important to keep an eye on them always and look for any signs of drowning.
23. You have to be vigilant. A person next to you in water may be drowning and drown silently. Take special care when children are in water.
24. At home it is a good precaution to empty all tubs, buckets, containers and wading pools immediately after use. Store them upside down and out of children’s reach.
25. Keep toilet lids closed and use toilet seat locks to prevent drowning. It’s also a good idea to keep doors to bathrooms and laundry rooms closed.
26. We’re relatively poor swimmers when compared to other animals but we have the mammalian diving reflex. When a human’s face touches water, the airway closes, the heart rate slows, and the capillaries in the skin and extremities constrict, sending blood toward the vital organs. This serves a dual purpose of keeping the organs oxygenated and insulated from increasing water pressure. It also saps strength from the limbs for swimming. This reflex is most frequently seen in drowning children giving them a better chance of recovery than adults.
27. Due to above reflex action, the bodies of children who have been submerged for many minutes have been resuscitated with no neurological damage.
28. At a 1985 bash in New Orleans, Louisiana, party was being held to celebrate a summer where no one had drowned at any of the city’s pools. There were some 200 people in attendance, over half of which were certified, lifeguards. A further four lifeguards were also on active duty. Yet a 31-year-old Jerome Moody died in pool and nobody noticed.
29. The Dead Sea located between Israel and Jordan has so much salty water that it is too dense for a person to drown.
30. In fact, most sharks actually need to continue swimming to be able to survive. If they don't swim all the time, then they will end up drowning.

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### Brazil
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Last updated: 2026-03-04T09:30:55.000Z
#### 33 Amazing and Awesome Facts About Brazil

##### Land & Geography

- Brazil is the largest country in South America having a population of 190 million. Brazil covers 3 time zones.
- The name Brazil comes from a tree named brazilwood.
- *Amazingly* Brazil is the longest country in the world, spanning approximately 2,800 miles from north to south via land.
- *The fact* is that Brazil is the only country in South America that speaks Portuguese unlike most of the other countries speaking Spanish.
- The Amazon River, the 2nd longest river in the world flows through Brazil. It is the largest river in the world in water volume.
- *Amazingly* Brazil contains no desert, high-mountain, or arctic environments.
- Brazil has 60% of the rain forests that make up the Amazon rain forests. It also constitutes the world’s 25% of the rain forests. *Amazingly* 30% of the world’s oxygen comes from the Amazon rain forest.
- Very little sunlight makes it through the dense canopy of trees and foliage covering the Amazon rain forest. It is nearly completely dark. In *fact*, if it started raining, it would take ten minutes before you even got wet!
- Brazil has the greatest biodiversity of any country, and the most species of plants, freshwater fish, and mammals. The amazing *fact* is that it is home to an estimated 4 million species of plants and animals.
- The Capybara is the world’s largest rodent at 70Kg and can be seen in herds of 100s in the Pantanal wetlands.

##### History

- *Amazingly* Portugal claimed the land of Brazil way back in the year 1500\. Independence was declared only in 1822.
- Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil for almost 2 centuries before it was moved to Brasilia in 1960.

##### Places / Architecture

- The capital of Brazil, Brasilia city was conceived and built by a single plan. *Amazingly* the city has been planned in the shape of an airplane.
- The largest city in the Southern Hemisphere is Sao Paulo. The amazing *fact* is that outdoor advertising is banned in the city. The decision to dismantle all panels and signs was made in 2007 by the city authorities.
- One of the most famous mountains in the world is the Corcovado located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is known worldwide for its 98 foot (30 m) high statue of the city's emblem, Christ the Redeemer, which has been on its summit since 1931.
- Isn't it *amazing* that Brazil has over 8000 airports, the second-highest number of airports in the world, behind the United States of America, which has over 15000 ?
- *The amazing fact* is that Brazil is the location of the world’s widest road. The Monumental Axis can hold 160 cars driving side by side.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Brazil has official language is Portuguese. The facts say that country has the largest Portuguese-speaking population in the world but 80% of the people can speak English.
- *The amazing fact* is that Brazil has the largest number of Italians outside Italy and the largest number of Japanese outside Japan!
- The *fact* is Brazil has the second highest Christian population in the world. Brazil is also the largest catholic nation in the world.
- *Amazingly* there is no official religion in Brazil, though over 75% of the population are Roman Catholics. The constitution guarantees freedom of religion.
- A Brazilian Model is considered one of the most gorgeous women in the world and these women are the top of their class.
- World’s largest party is the Carnival which is the time for millions of visitors to visit Brazil. Every year in February the whole Brazil, covered by a continuous thunder of drums beat the rhythm of the samba, immersed in the most bustling, bright and cheerful holiday.
- *Amazing fact* is that an estimated fifty tribes native to the Amazon rain forest have never had any contact with the rest of the world.
- *Amazing fact* is that the Piraha tribe in the Amazon Brazil has no concept of numbering or counting! The tribe seems to also have no words for colors and no form of a written language. Not only can they not count, they haven't been able to learn how to either!

##### Politics/ Legal

- Voting in the elections is compulsory in Brazil and everyone between the ages of 18 and 65 has to vote.
- Women in Brazil obtained the right to vote in 1931, which was before countries such as France and Switzerland!
- The currency of Brazil has both horizontal and vertical pictures.

##### Economy 

- The best coffee in the world is said to come from Brazil.
- Brazil produces the most oranges in the world.
- Brazil is one of the leading producers of hydroelectric power. The country is totally energy independent since the year 2006.
- *Amazingly* Brazil has been producing “flex” cars since the oil crisis of 1973\. Now almost all new cars are flex cars, meaning that they run on gas, alcohol (ethanol), or a blend. The ethanol is made from sugar cane and burns cleanly. This has enabled the country to be 100% energy independent.

##### Sport

- Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in Brazil with the national team consistently among the best in the world, winning the World Cup *amazing* five times.

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### Ducks
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Last updated: 2026-03-02T09:30:42.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Ducks

1. The duck is a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds which include swans and geese but the duck is the smallest of them all.
2. Ducks are found on every continent except Antarctica.
3. Ducks have been domesticated as pets and farm animals for more than 500 years. All domestic ducks have descended from either the mallard or the Muscovy duck.
4. There are more than 40 breeds of domestic duck. The most common variety is the white Pekin duck ( Long Island duck) which is the most common variety raised for eggs and meat.
5. A baby duck is called a duckling, and an adult male is a drake. An adult female duck is called a hen or a duck, and a group of ducks can be called a raft, team, or paddling.
6. Ducks are birds that are also called “waterfowls” because they are normally found in places with water like marshes, oceans, rivers, ponds, and lakes. They love water.
7. Male ducks are usually brightly colored with green or chestnut brown throats. In contrast, females are brown all over.
8. Ducks have rows of small bristles lining their mouth which allow them to filter water out of their beaks without losing their food, a filtering system similar to that of the blue whale.
9. Amazingly only the females actually quack. All ducks do however have a range of communicative calls, including grunts and whistles. It is a myth that a duck's quack won't echo. It does.
10. Ducks have webbed feet which allow them to move with ease in water as well as permit them to easily walk on slippery river banks.
11. Ducks use their beaks for feeding and for grooming themselves. They will pick dirt or debris out of their feathers.
12. Ducks have a hard nail at the tip of their bills and comb-like teeth on the sides of their bills to help them eat their food.
13. Ducks are omnivorous, opportunistic eaters and will eat grass, aquatic plants, insects, seeds, fruit, fish, crustaceans, etc.
14. Depending on the species, a duck can live between 2 and 12 years.
15. Ducks’ feathers have evolved to be highly waterproof. A special gland that produces oil is located near the duck’s tail. This oil spreads and covers the outer coat of the duck’s feathers, making it water-proof.
16. Ducks keep their feathers clean by preening very often. They do this by putting their heads in funny positions and putting their beaks into their body.
17. The amazing fact is that the ducks' feet have no nerves or blood vessels. Their feet do not feel the cold enabling them to swim in icy water and walk-in ice and snow.
18. Amazingly ducks have three eyelids!
19. Most duck species are monogamous for a breeding season but they do not mate for life.
20. Ducks have a breeding season, they are vulnerable during this time as the breeding stops them from flying.
21. Once the female lays 5-12 eggs, she will start to sit on her eggs to keep them warm so that they can hatch into ducklings. The males have no role to play. The eggs will usually hatch within 28 days.
22. Amazingly ducklings are covered with down and able to walk and leave the nest just a few hours after hatching.
23. Female ducks will lead their young ducklings up to half a mile from their nest site overland to find a suitable water area for swimming and feeding.
24. When building a nest, female ducks will line the nest with soft down feathers which they pluck from their own breast to provide the best possible insulation and cushioning for the eggs.
25. Amazingly a Red-Breasted Merganser, one of the duck species was once recorded flying at just over 100 miles per hour, whilst being pursued by a plane.
26. Ducks normally migrate between 200 and 4,000 feet in the air but are capable of reaching far greater heights. They have been spotted at an altitude of 21,000 feet!
27. Many duck species will migrate for thousands of miles. Some can reach speeds beyond 60 mph when flying.
28. While migrating some ducks can fly up to 332 miles in a single day! Ducks fly in a “V” shape. This shape makes flying easier.
29. Because of their familiarity and comic nature, ducks are often featured as fictional characters. The two most famous fictional ducks are Disney's Donald Duck, who premiered in 1934, and Warner Bros. Daffy Duck, who premiered in 1937.
30. In Celtic symbolism, the duck represents honesty, simplicity, and resourcefulness. They are also viewed as sensitive and graceful and respected for their beauty and adaptation to nature.

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### Turtle
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Last updated: 2026-02-28T09:30:19.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Turtle

1. Turtles have been on the earth for about 220 million years. They evolved before mammals, birds, crocodiles, snakes, and even lizards.
2. Turtles are one of the oldest and most primitive groups of reptiles.
3. There are 327 known species of turtle alive today and many of them are endangered species.
4. Like other reptiles, turtles are cold-blooded animals.
5. The main difference between tortoise and turtle is that tortoise is primarily land animal while turtle mainly lives in the sea. Tortoises have large dome-shaped heavy shells while in turtles the shell is light, flat, and streamlined. In tortoise feet are short and sturdy with bent legs while turtles have webbed feet and have not legged, making them glide easily. Unlike tortoises, turtles don’t only eat vegetation but can feed on small fish, jellyfish, and insects.
6. Turtles can live for up to 50 years while tortoises can live for 150 years or more.
7. A group of turtles is called a bale.
8. Turtles are visually oriented creatures. They rely on sight to identify other members of the same species, food, and potential danger from predators.
9. The top domed part of a turtle's shell is called the carapace, and the bottom underlying part is called the plastron.
10. The shell of a turtle is made up of 60 different bones all connected together.
11. Shell is actually an evolutionary modification of the rib cage and part of the vertebral column. And contrary to what many believe, a turtle can't take off its shell and crawl out of it as it is part of the skeleton.
12. Turtles generally can perceive sounds in the 50 to 1,500 Hz range, compared to the typical human hearing range of 20 to 20,000 Hz.
13. Turtles and tortoises have their signature ability to retract their heads inside their shells when frightened.
14. Sea turtles excrete salt absorbed in seawater from their eyes, which is why they seem to cry.
15. The amazing fact is that sea turtles can go up to one year without eating or drinking.
16. Turtles don’t have vocal cords but they can still make noises.
17. The leatherback is the biggest sea turtle at 6 1/2 feet long and it can weigh as much as 800 Kg. The smallest turtle is the 4-inch-long Bog Turtle.
18. You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss. Without this voice, it is difficult to find gender.
19. Amazingly some land turtles can actually outrun a human on level ground.
20. Turtles have good eyesight and an excellent sense of smell. Hearing and sense of touch are both good and even the shell contains nerve endings.
21. In turtles, the intestine is also used for respiration, as it takes in oxygen. That’s how they can stay underwater for so long.
22. You will find male sea turtles on land only during the breeding season. Otherwise, they never come to the land.
23. All turtles lay their eggs on land. When in the eggs, turtles take about 2 months to incubate.
24. In turtle, the temperature determines if the egg will develop into a male or female, lower temperatures below 29 degrees leading to a male and higher temperatures above 29 leading to a female.
25. Amazingly only one out of thousand baby sea turtles survive after hatching.

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### Television
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Last updated: 2026-02-26T09:30:35.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Television

1. Television sets receive and display broadcasts of moving images and also produce sound through speakers.
2. The images on a TV screen in fact refresh fast enough to appear as a smooth motion to the human eye.
3. In fact, the first black and white static transmission was created by the German inventor Paul Nipkow’s way back in 1884.
4. John Logie Baird made technological history when the first transmission of a moving human face was seen on television on 30th October 1925.
5. The world’s first working television system was electromechanical.
6. The human face that was first aired on Baird’s TV screen was his office boy, William Taynton, who the inventor paid two shillings and a sixpence per week to simply sit in front of the hot TV transmitter.
7. The first television set had only 30 lines of display giving a very coarse image. Currently, the digital signal of the television sends pictures with 1080 lines.
8. Amazingly the inventor of the television would not let his own children watch TV. He once said to his son “There’s nothing on it worthwhile”.
9. The First American television station started working in 1928, and BBC transmission began in 1930.
10. The word “television” entered the English language in 1907 coined by the Russian scientist, Constantin Persky. The abbreviation “TV” was first used in 1948.
11. Cable television made its debut in Canada in 1952.
12. Worldwide 100 million television sets were sold first time in 1960.
13. The first satellite TV transmission took place between France and the US in 1962.
14. Color television sets didn’t become widespread until the 1970s. Sales of color TVs surpassed black-and-white sets for the first time in 1972.
15. The first TV remote control was created in 1950 by Zenith and was connected to a television by a wire. The 1980s saw the arrival of remote controls.
16. Early monitors used cathode ray tubes (CRT) which have since been replaced by thinner screens that use liquid crystal display (LCD) and plasma.
17. Similar to radio, television broadcasts are transmitted at specific frequencies.
18. More recently there has been a change from analog transmissions to digital. The 0’s and 1’s of a digital transmission are like the information stored in a computer, making them more reliable than traditional analog broadcasts.
19. Television became widely popular after the end of World War II. Over 1 million American homes had a television in 1948.
20. The first television commercial for Bulova watches was broadcast on July 1, 1941, in New York before a baseball game between Philadelphia and Brooklyn. It showed a watch ticking for exactly 60 seconds. The company paid only $9 for the ad. Currently, prime time TV advertising cost millions.
21. The first car commercial on television was for Chevrolet and aired on June 9, 1946.
22. The average American family watches TV for eight hours per day.
23. Currently, there are about 300 million television sets in the United State.
24. Way back in 1950, only 10 percent of U.S. households had a television. The percentage increased to an unbelievable 90% in 1960\. Now 99% of American homes own at least one television set, and 66% have at least three.
25. In the US the first colored pictures were aired for the 1954 Tournament of the Roses Parade; however, most programs were black and white until 1955\. The UK aired the first color pictures on BBC2 during Wimbledon in 1967\. in color.
26. Most people dream in color, but those that grew up watching black and white television may often dream in black and white.
27. The Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) was launched for consumers in 1963 in the UK, allowing viewers to record their favorite TV shows for the very first time. The videos could record only up to 20 minutes of TV. It took another decade for the technology to become a global success.
28. After President Kennedy’s death in 1963, the television networks aired four days of commercial-free coverage of his funeral, burial, and other proceedings, costing them about $100 million in lost advertising revenue. About 93% of American homes watched some coverage.
29. Product placement is illegal on Norwegian television.
30. The television is on for an average of about 8 hours a day in U.S. homes.
31. It has been calculated that the average American child sees about 13,000 deaths on television between the ages of five and 14.
32. The average American child sees about 200,000 acts of violence on TV by the age of eighteen.
33. Liquid Crystals were in fact accidentally discovered by Friedrich Reinitzer in 1888\. However, it remained a scientific curiosity for about 76 years before they were used to build liquid crystal displays (LCD) in 1964.
34. NASA has announced that they have lost all of their original tapes of Apollo 11’s TV transmission in August 2006.
35. The world’s largest LED display, the Fremont Street Experience, in Las Vegas is over 1,500 ft. long and 90 ft. high at the peak built-in 1995.
36. The first public digital high-definition television (HDTV or HD) broadcast was made in the United States in 1996.
37. Television viewers in the UK have to pay $225 for a “television license” every year as a tax to support the BBC.
38. During a live news broadcast in 1974, the news anchor announced “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first—attempted suicide.” then shot and killed herself live on television.
39. Amazingly until 1987, there were no television broadcasts in Iceland on Thursdays.
40. The famous revolving globe that is utilized by the NBC news series spent many years turning in the wrong direction. In 1984 this was eventually found and now the globe is turning correctly.

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### Fireflies
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Last updated: 2026-02-24T09:30:44.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Fireflies

1. The amazing fact is that fireflies are not flies. They are beetles. Ideally, they should be called Firebeetles!
2. Biologically fireflies are of the order Coleoptera and have wings. The family to which the fireflies belong is known as Lampyridae. All insects within the Lampyridae family are nocturnal.
3. Insects in the Lampyridae family can glow exhibiting bioluminescence but not all of them can fly. Those that fly are called fireflies. Those that don’t fly are called glowworms.
4. Most of the European female fireflies remain flightless into adulthood and take on the form of glowworms.
5. There are nearly 2,000 different species of fireflies present. They all are world’s most efficient light producers as they produce 100% of the light by chemical reaction known as bioluminescence. Compare this with incandescent bulbs produced by humans wherein only 10% of the energy is converted to light while the remaining 90% is lost in the form of heat.
6. Not all fireflies glow. Of the 2000 different species that live on this planet, there are a few species that do not glow at all.
7. Fireflies have special organs under the abdomen. Inside these special organs is a compound known as luciferin. There is also an enzyme known as luciferase. Inside these special organs, luciferase reacts with luciferin in presence of oxygen, adenosine triphosphate and magnesium ions to produce light.
8. The light produced by fireflies can vary in color. While yellow is the most common color of light produced by these flying beetles, there are other light variants as well such as, pale red, orange and even green.
9. The amazing fact is that fireflies do not produce light in the ultraviolet or infrared frequencies. All colors of light they produce fall within the range of 510 and 670 nanometers of wavelength within our visible range.
10. Amazingly irrespective of whether the adult fireflies glow or not, all larvae glow. Bioluminescence is larvae has only one function which is to ward off predators.
11. Adult fireflies use their light for attracting mates. Sometimes, the males may flash or sometimes, they may emit steady glow. Flashing in fireflies are species-specific. In other words, fireflies of two different species will flash in different patterns.
12. Adult females reply to this mating call using species specific flashing. Females can actually process the information from flashing pattern to select the most suitable mating partner.
13. Amazing fact is that in some places at some times, fireflies synchronize their flashing.
14. Luciferase has proven to be a useful chemical in scientific research, food safety testing and forensic tests. It can be used to detect levels of ATP in cells.
15. When luciferase was first discovered, the only way to obtain the chemical was from fireflies themselves. Today, synthetic luciferase is available, but some companies still harvest fireflies.
16. Once mating is done, females lay the fertilized eggs just under the ground surface or on the surface. It takes about 3 to 4 weeks for the eggs to hatch.
17. At the larval stage, many fireflies hibernate throughout the winter. Some can actually hibernate for years. They hibernate under tree barks or under the ground.
18. Once out of hibernation, the larvae undergo the pupae stage for nearly 1 to 2.5 weeks to finally fly out as adults.
19. The feeding pattern of fireflies differ dramatically from one species to another. However, in case of most species, larvae are actually skilled predators. They particularly enjoy snails.
20. In some species, larvae have extremely specialized appendages known as mandibles which are grooved and allow the larvae to directly inject digestive fluids into their prey which gets dissolved from inside for the larvae to suck the dissolved stuff.
21. Amazingly there are some species of fireflies that lay eggs in water. The eggs hatch there and the larvae have gills and they feed on aquatic snails. Finally, after the pupa stage, they fly out to as fireflies.
22. Amazingly not all species of adults are carnivores. While larvae of almost all species are carnivores, the adults may grow up taking only pollen diet. In fact, some may just grow into mouthless adults not eating at all during their adult life phase!
23. Fireflies love moist and humid areas where food is abundant.
24. Fireflies have an average lifespan of 2 months out there in the wild and the maximum size they can attain as fully grown adults is about 1 inch.
25. Fireflies are gradually declining in numbers and they may be pushed to the brink of extinction as they are losing habitat due to human encroachment. Once a habitat is destroyed, fireflies that lived there simply disappear forever. They just don’t migrate to some other place!

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### Gravity
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Last updated: 2026-02-22T09:30:24.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Gravity

1. Objects with mass are attracted to each other, this is known as gravity.
2. Gravity is by far the weakest of the four fundamental forces. The other three are electromagnetism; weak nuclear force, which governs how atoms decay; and strong nuclear force, which holds atomic nuclei together.
3. Gravity is the force of attraction between all types of matter. It is an invisible force between two objects that cannot be turned off or blocked or changed in any way. Gravity attracts physical bodies with a force that is proportional to their mass. Also, the closer that two objects are together the stronger the gravity will be.
4. Unlike the Force, with its dark and light sides, gravity has no duality; it only attracts, never repels.
5. It is the gravity or gravitation that allows matter to remain intact. It is what makes our planet orbit the Sun and keeps the Moon orbiting the Earth, and it helps to form the tides. It gives weight to objects.
6. Our bodies are pulled down onto the surface of the Earth by gravity. If there was no gravity we would float away like in space and we'd all have to be strapped down. If you kicked a ball, it would fly off forever. We certainly couldn't live without gravity.
7. The force of gravity 100 kilometers (62 miles) above Earth is just 3% less than at the Earth’s surface.
8. Gravity also is important on a larger scale. It is the Sun's gravity that keeps the Earth in orbit around the Sun. Life on Earth needs the Sun's light and warmth to survive. Gravity helps the Earth to stay just the right distance from the Sun, so it's not too hot or too cold.
9. Isaac Newton’s revolutionary theories on gravity in 1665 were thought to be inspired by seeing an apple fall from a tree. He realized that the same forces that pull an apple downwards when falling from a tree were the same forces that kept the Moon in place in orbit around the Earth.
10. To leave Earth’s gravitational pull behind, an object must travel 7 miles a second, our planet’s escape velocity.
11. Passengers on amusement park rides and the International Space Station experience microgravity incorrectly known as zero gravity because they fall at the same speed as the vehicles.
12. The amazing fact is that a dime-size magnet has enough electromagnetic force to overcome all of Earth’s gravity and stick to the fridge.
13. Newton seeing falling apple led to the first inverse square law in science, this means an object twice as far away exerts a quarter of the gravitational pull.
14. As per gravity’s inverse square law, the reach of gravitational attraction is technically infinite.
15. The force of gravity accelerates everything at the same rate, regardless of weight. If you dropped balls of the same size but different weights from a rooftop, they would hit the ground at the same time.
16. Einstein’s general theory of relativity was the first to treat gravity as a distortion of space-time, the “fabric” that physically embodies the universe. While Newton’s older law of universal gravitation is accurate in most scenarios, modern physics uses Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity to describe gravity.
17. Ocean tides are caused by the rotation of the Earth and the gravitational effects of the Moon and Sun.
18. You would weigh one-sixth of your earth's weight on the moon as the moon has less gravity.
19. At some point when falling, the friction from the air will equal the force of gravity and the object will be at a constant speed. This is called the terminal velocity. For a skydiver, this speed is around 100 miles per hour!
20. Amazingly on Saturn’s moon Titan, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could actually fly through it by flapping “wings” attached to the arms.
21. In zero gravity, a candle’s flame is round and blue.
22. Amazingly the tallest possible mountains on a neutron star can only be about 5mm tall due to their gravity.
23. NASA cannot bring birds into space because birds need gravity to swallow and will die in absence of gravity.
24. Humans usually get the urge to pee when the bladder is just 1/3 full. But in zero gravity, the urge doesn’t come until the bladder is almost full.
25. Food does not taste the same in space, since without gravity to pull fluids down, astronauts’ sinuses get clogged up and they can’t really taste much of anything.
26. Due to changes in local gravity, a pendulum clock accurate at sea level will lose around 16 seconds per day if moved to an altitude of 4000 feet.
27. Amazingly there is an empty point in space where the gravity from the earth and the Sun are equal, and objects can orbit it as if there was something there.
28. A neutron star’s gravity bends light so dramatically that more than half of its surface is visible from a given point of view. In some cases, the gravity can be so extreme that the entire surface would be visible from certain vantage points.
29. Amazingly the Earth’s gravitational force makes it impossible for mountains to be taller than 49,213 feet or 15 km.
30. Humans could one day colonize other planets with two or even three times Earth’s gravity but at 4 times the Earth’s gravity or above, we would no longer be able to sustain sufficient blood flow to the brain.

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### Mars
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Last updated: 2026-02-20T09:30:48.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Mars

1. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. Named after the Roman god of war, and often described as the “Red Planet” due to its reddish appearance. The month of March is named after Mars.
2. Mars’ red color is due to iron oxide, also known as rust, and has the consistency of talcum powder. Many ancient people believed the reddish color came from actual blood on the planet.
3. The ancient Greeks thought that Earth was the center of the universe and that Mars was one of the five traveling stars that revolved around it.
4. Egyptians called Mars the “the backward traveler” because Mars appeared to move backward through the zodiac every 25.7 months.
5. Mars has a diameter of about 6800 Km.
6. The atmosphere on Mars mostly made up of 95% carbon dioxide , 3% nitrogen, 1.6% argon and trace amounts of water and oxygen , is so thin that water cannot exist in liquid form , it can exist only as water vapor or ice.
7. No human could survive the low pressure of Mars. The oxygen in your blood would literally turn into bubbles, causing immediate death.
8. The Sun looks about half its size half it does from Earth when seen from Mars.
9. If you were driving 60 mph in a car, it would take nearly 272 years to get to Mars from Earth.
10. The surface of Mars is bombarded with a lethal dose of radiation every time the sun rises due to lack of protective ozone layer..
11. Mars has the largest and most violent dust storms in our entire solar system. These storms often have winds topping 125 mph, can last for weeks, and can cover the entire planet usually occurring when Mars is closest to the sun.
12. Considering Mars hostile environment , only 1/3 of spacecrafts sent to Mars have been successful.
13. Mars has enormous canyon named Mariner Valley which is an amazing 2,500 miles long and 4 miles deep. This gigantic canyon was possibly formed by the tectonic “cracking” of Mars’ crust and is the longest known crevice in the solar system.
14. Mars was formed about 4.5 billion years ago and is about 4,000 miles wide half the diameter of Earth. However it is much lighter than Earth, with only 1/10 of its mass. It’s the last rocky planet as the outer planets are all gaseous.
15. Mars’ crust is thicker than Earth’s and is made up of one piece, unlike Earth’s crust which consists of several moving plates.
16. Mars is the only planet other than earth to have polar caps.
17. Although it is much colder on Mars than on Earth, the similar tilt of Earth’s and Mars’ axes result in similar seasons.
18. Like Earth’s, Mars’ north and south polar caps shrink in the summer and grow in the winter. Also a day on Mars is 24 hours 37 minutes nearly the same as Earth’s.
19. It is believed that the polar caps are mostly frozen water with a thin layer of carbon dioxide. If melted into liquid form, the amount of water in the southern polar cap would cover the entire planet to a depth of about 36 feet.
20. Mars’ seasons are twice as long as those on Earth because it takes Mars 687 days to orbit the sun, twice as long as Earth.
21. The Earth’s moon is 240,000 miles away. Earth’s next closest neighbor is Venus, which comes as near as 24 million miles. After the moon and Venus, Mars is our next closest neighbor at 34 million miles away.
22. Amazingly when Mars and Earth are at the opposite sides of their orbits around the sun, they are separated by 249 million miles.
23. The orbit of Mars is the most eccentric of the eight planets.
24. Mars is home to Hellas, a vast and featureless plain that covers 1300 miles which was created by asteroids crashing into the planet’s surface of Mars nearly four billion years ago.
25. Mars’ moon Phobos (“fear”) rises in the west and sets in the east—twice a day. Deimos (“panic”), on the other hand, takes 2.7 days to rise in the east and set in the west.
26. The moons are named after the twin gods who accompanied Ares (or Mars) into battle.
27. Mars’ moon Phobos (fear) rises in the west and sets in the east twice a day. Deimos (panic) on the other hand, takes 2.7 days to rise in the east and set in the west. Mars’ moons are so named because the twin gods of panic and fear.
28. Phobos orbits very close to Mars and is gradually sinking into the Red Planet. In about 50 million years it might crash into Mars.
29. Amazingly Mars’ smallest moon, Deimos, has an escape velocity of just 5.2 meters/Sec meaning that if you were take a running jump while on it, you will launch off like a slow rocket.
30. Mars has no magnetic field, indicating that it does not have a molten metal core, like Earth.
31. Mars has 37.5% of the gravity that Earth has and we could jump three times as high on Mars.
32. Mars is home to the highest peak in the solar system called Olympus Mons which is about 15 miles high and has a diameter of 375 miles.It is called a shield volcano because it has such a wide base and rises very gradually.
33. The average temperature on Mars is −55 °C and can range from −153 °C in the winter to 20 °C in the summer.
34. In 1965, the United States spacecraft Mariner 4 made the first successful flyby of Mars. It took 228 days to reach Mars and sent only 22 images to Earth.
35. On November 14, 1971, the United States’ Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (or any other planet). After a massive dust storm cleared, Mariner 9 began transmitting nearly 73,000 images and revealing enormous volcanoes, huge canyons, frozen underground water in the form of permafrost, and what appeared to be dried-up river beds.
36. Mars 2, built by the former Soviet Union, has the distinction of being the first human-built object to touch down on Mars in November 1971\. Unfortunately, it crashed into the surface during a massive dust storm.
37. July 20, 1976, was historic because the United States’ Viking 1 was the first human spacecraft to land intact and operational on the surface of Mars. Viking 2 followed, landing successfully on September 3, 1976\. The Viking Landers relayed the first color pictures of the planet.
38. Amazing fact is that in 1999, NASA lost a $125million Mars orbiter because half the project staff used imperial measurements and the other half used metric.
39. In 1996, the United States launched Pathfinder so that it would land on America’s Independence Day July 4, 1997\. It bounced for 92 seconds on airbags before stopping.
40. Pathfinder’s small robot, Sojourner, collected and studied Martian rocks. As a precaution it moved less than .5 inches per second. Sojourner was the first robot to explore another planet.
41. Only 12 Martian meteors are known to exist on earth and are collectively called SNC (“snick”) meteorites. Meteorites that fell to Earth in Morocco during a meteor shower in July of 2011 have been confirmed to be from Mars.
42. Amazingly there is a giant smiley face shaped crater on Mars.
43. The Mars Opportunity rover, whose mission was planned to go for just 3 months is still traveling across the Mars having surpassed its duration of activity by more than 10 years.
44. Aluminum recovered from the destroyed World Trade Center towers was used on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
45. NASA uses songs from The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and The Doors to wake up the Mars Curiosity rover every morning. Mars Curiosity has only traveled roughly 400-500 meters since it landed.
46. India’s The Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft, also known as Mangalyaan, arrived at the Red Planet on the night of Sept. 23, 2014 just two days after NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution probe (MAVEN) reached Mars orbit.
47. India is the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt. Amazingly the satellite's development and execution was fast tracked and completed in a record 15 months.
48. The total cost of the Mangalyaan mission was just US$73 million , just about 10% of the budget allocated for similar mission by NASA.
49. So far only four entities have been able to put spacecraft in Mar’s orbit. They are United States, Soviet Union and Europe and India.
50. At present, Mars is host to seven functioning spacecrafts: five in orbit — the Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mangalyaan , Maven and Mars Orbiter, and two on the surface , Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity and the Mars Curiosity.

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### Hinduism
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Last updated: 2026-02-18T09:30:29.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Hinduism

1. Hinduism is the world’s oldest known religion, with its roots going back to more than 10,000 years in India.
2. The Hindu Literature Rig Veda dates back to at least 7000 BC.
3. Hinduism is strictly not a religion unlike Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. No Hindu scripture uses the word ‘Hindu’. The religion, practices, and beliefs were preached as a way of life for mankind.
4. There was nothing called ‘Hinduism’ for many centuries when it was being ‘practiced’. Word Hinduism is derived from the river Sindhu which was pronounced by Persians as Hindu. The region of the Indus valley is called Hindustan, and thus the religion called Hinduism.
5. Hinduism is the world’s 3rd largest religion closely following Christianity and Islam followed by about one Billion people which is 14% of the World’s Population.
6. Unlike the top two religions, 95% of Hindus in fact live in a single nation India!
7. The top five Countries with Hindu populations are Nepal 81.3%, India 80.5%, Mauritius 54%, Fiji 33.7%, and Guyana 28%.
8. Amazing fact is that the Vedas and many other teachings of Hinduism were preserved for thousands of years without paper. They were Chanted, memorized, and passed on to the next generations of disciples for almost 3500+ years before put into the paper, and yet it has no major discrepancies. It is indeed a stupendous achievement.
9. Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha are the four cornerstones of an ideal Hindu. Kama (the pursuit of pleasures including sexual/sensual), Artha (the pursuit of livelihood, wealth, and power), Dharma (the pursuit of philosophy, religion and doing duties to society), and Moksha (attain liberation from rebirth) are the human actions as we progress towards liberation.
10. Hindus believe the purpose of life is to attain self-realization or enlightenment or Moksha which is the highest and final goal.
11. Four Ashramas or Four stages of life each of 25 years starting from birth are : 1) Brahmacharya: Spent in learning arts of life and spirituality. 2) Grihastha: Householder life, where earning for livelihood, taking care of children and parents 3) Vanaprastha: Retirement stage, where transfer of responsibilities and duties to younger generation is done. 4) Sanyasa: renunciation stage where one renounces all worldly attachments and moves to a quiet place to practice spirituality until death.
12. All living things have a soul including animals. Advanced souls take bodies with higher abilities like that of humans. All souls evolve up the ladder
13. Hinduism believes in reincarnation as the soul is immortal which takes on the form of many bodies until they achieve enlightenment or Moksha.
14. Hinduism is the only religion to believe in Karma and re-birth believing that your next birth is determined by your actions in the present one. What you did in the past will affect what you have in the future. You suffer a lot in this life because of your bad deeds in the last life. Souls are considered immortal.
15. Om is considered to be the subtle sound of the universe, and can be heard in deep meditation. The amazing fact is that the sound of the sun recorded by NASA mimics Om.
16. The supreme divine spirit is considered to be both male and female. In Hinduism, men and women are treated as equal halves. Women are also treated as Goddesses.
17. Hinduism is an adaptive religion and is flexible with time, unlike some religions which are rigid. Teachings of Hinduism have proven true over centuries even in modern times.
18. Hinduism is the parent religion for two of the other major religions of South Asia, Buddhism, and Sikhism. It is also closely associated with its sister religion, Jainism.
19. Hinduism at one point covered most of Southeast Asia including Indonesia, Cambodia, and Malaysia.
20. The Hindu epic of Mahabharatha that embodies the principles of Hinduism is the largest poem in the world written in 1.8 million words of Sanskrit which is about 10 times the combined length of the Illiad and Odyssey.
21. Manu Smriti is the first book written on Codes of good conduct which are followed even today.
22. Amazingly unlike all other major religions, Hinduism has no founder or a prophet. Hinduism believes that religion has no origin and is eternal. Hinduism has no formal Institution, no Pope, and no central body. Hinduism derives its practices from ancient sages to today's saints followed for at least the last 10,000 years.
23. Hinduism believes in one God but in many forms as per people’s beliefs. The most worshipped forms of God are Shiva, Krishna, Ganesh, Rama, Vishnu, Durga, Kali etc.
24. There are three foremost deities. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the preserver, while Maheshwara (Shankar) is the destroyer. The three letters of the word 'AUM' are considered to represent them.
25. Hinduism is one of the few religions that does not consider the pursuit of wealth a sin. Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth both material and spiritual.
26. Hinduism also considers Nava Grahas ( 9 Planets) as gods and places Sun God at the Center. It’s amazing that these gods find mention in Hindu Literatures dating back to thousands of years before any recent Astronomers could predict that we are part of a Solar System with Sun as its Center.
27. In Hindu tradition, all books that contain knowledge are considered sacred.
28. The amazing fact is that Hinduism is an Atheist at the same time as it is Polytheist at the same time as it is Monotheist. You could have a belief in one major God with other subsidiary Gods "worshippable" too! Hinduism can also be considered "monist" i.e. the belief that all the seemingly different Gods are ultimately one. Hinduism is tolerant enough to allow being atheist.
29. It was the tolerance for the non-believers and the underlying theme to encompass new thoughts that allowed other religions such as Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism to offshoot peacefully from Hinduism unlike Islam.
30. Amazingly Hinduism has no concept of forced conversions. All the people following the faith have either willingly embraced it or acquired it by birth.
31. Jews have been living in India since 500 BC without any anti-Semitism from Hindus. In fact, the only Jews who suffered in India were under the Portuguese rule in the 20th century Goa.
32. Temples are the places where Hindus worship the deities, many people have altars/ rooms in their houses for worship. One does not wear shoes or footwear inside the temple.
33. It is worth noting that the idol worship and physical temples are a relatively new phenomenon as it has no mention in Ramayana and Mahabharatha – two of the oldest epics. People only visited holy sites, like the origins of rivers, or rivers/forests, etc.
34. The Vishnu Temple called the Balaji temple in the city of Tirupathi, in the state of Andhra Pradesh built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. On average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to it every day.
35. Angkor Wat, Cambodia's defining temple complex, which is the largest temple in the world was originally a Hindu temple. It was built by Suryavarman II in the 12th century and originally dedicated to Vishnu before it transformed into a Buddhist temple.
36. There are 108,000 recognized temples in India.
37. The world's tallest Subramanya Swamy statue is in Malaysia being 140 feet tall.
38. The institution of marriage was founded and put forth in practice by Hindus.
39. As per Hinduism, there are three modes of nature (Triguna) in any person. Sattva is pure and good in nature. Rajas are passionate and active in nature. Tamas is inertia and indifferent nature. Every person has these three qualities in varying degrees which decides his fate in life.
40. Hindu scriptures are organized into Vedas (poems that written in multiple levels from abstract rural level and going deeper into the cosmic universe), Upanishads (scientific discourses and arguments about the world), Brahmanas (manuals for ritual performances), Puranas (mythologies about Hindu gods) and Itihasas (notebooks on “historical” events”).
41. All the books related to Hinduism are written in one common language, Sanskrit. This is one of the oldest known language in the world from which most of the Indian languages are derived. It is a pure language with strict grammar rules which have not changed for thousands of years.
42. Swami Vivekananda is famous for his speech on Universal Brotherhood at world religions conference reintroducing Hinduism to the western world. The Prime street in Chicago, USA is named after Swami Vivekananda in his honor.
43. The holiest number for Hindus is 108\. This is the ratio of Sun’s distance (from the earth)/Sun’s diameter or Moon’s distance (from the earth)/Moon’s diameter. Thus, most of the prayer beads have 108 beads.
44. ‘Kumbhamela’, a Hindu Festival which occurs once every 12 years is the largest gathering of humans in the world.
45. Varanasi (Kashi) in Uttar Pradesh is the oldest city of India and also considered as the most holy of the places.
46. Hinduism respects the elders. Generally, families do not divide unless necessary. Father and son live together.
47. Men and women wear sacred ash (Vibhuti) or kumkum on the forehead, which helps them to concentrate on the third eye region.
48. After marriage women also wear bangles in wrist , Mangalsutra in the neck , ear-rings, nose-jewel and toe ring. Women decorate their hairs by adorning flowers.
49. The four holiest animals for Hindus are the cow, elephant, snake, and peacock.
50. Fully blossomed Lotus flower has used as a symbol of enlightenment, also as the symbol of the open heart (full of love).
51. Celibacy is advocated until the marriage.
52. Hinduism also formed the basis for modern science with the advent of the decimal system, zero, and point system.
53. Yoga, Pranayama, Astrology, Numerology, Palmistry, and Vastu which now are widely famous in the west are all part of Hindu culture and lifestyle.
54. Vastu Sastra, which translates to ” The Science of Architecture ” is an ancient Hindu literature of architecture written between 6000 BC and 3000 BC with its influence clearly seen in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro civilizations.
55. Ayurveda, the plant-based medical treatment practice has its roots in Hinduism.
56. Yoga, the World’s most practiced form of spiritual and physical fitness procedure, originated from Hinduism in the Indus- Saraswati civilization 5000 years ago.
57. Kamasutra, an ancient Hindu Literature written by Vatsyayana in Sanskrit is the oldest sex education book dating back to 200-400 CE.
58. Hindus hold big chariot processions to carry gods during special occasions. Some of these chariots can be huge sometimes killing people in their path when control is lost. The biggest one of all Jagannath in Puri (India) gave the English dictionary term Juggernaut meaning the unstoppable one.
59. Hinduism and Sanskrit are a major part of Indonesia’s heritage as it used to have a Hindu population ruled by a Hindu king. Presently it is a country with the highest Muslim population in the world. Evidence of heritage is found in the logo on Indonesia’s most elite engineering college which is of the Hindu God Ganesha. The national airline of Indonesia is called Garuda, the mythical bird from the Ramayana.
60. US President Barack Obama always carries a statue of Hanuman the monkey God with him.

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### Israel
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Last updated: 2026-02-16T09:30:03.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Unknown Facts about Israel

##### Land & Geography

- *The amazing fact* is that Israel is only 1/6 of 1% of the landmass of the Middle East.
- *Amazingly* Israel is the 100th smallest country and has 1/1000th of the World’s population (About 8 million).
- The Dead Sea is the lowest surface point on earth, at about 1,373 feet below sea level. *Amazingly* it is also 8.5 times saltier than the sea.

##### History

- Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) in World War I, the British assumed control of Palestine in 1917 & announced its intention to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. The Arabs were opposed. British handed the issue over to the United Nations. In November 1947, the UN recommended the partition of Palestine into two states ­ one Jewish and one Arab. The British handed over power to Israeli’s in May 1948.

##### Places / Architecture

- The Sea of Galilee, at 695 ft. Below sea level is the lowest freshwater lake in the world.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Israel is the only Jewish state whose indigenous people returned back to their native land 2000 years after forced exile. *The fact* is that Jew from any country of the world is guaranteed citizenship.
- *The amazing fact* is that Hebrew is the only cause of a dead national language being revived in all of world history. Hebrew had not been spoken as a native tongue by anyone for centuries. Today it is the native tongue of millions of people.
- Israelis, per capita, are the world’s biggest consumers of fruits and vegetables.
- Over 90% of the homes use solar energy for hot water, the highest in the world.
- Israel is the only country that entered the 21st century with a net gain in the number of trees in an area mainly desert.
- *Amazingly* Israel recycles 75% of its water, a world record.
- *The amazing fact* is that the Jews have only 0.2% of the world population, but they have 54% of Chess champions, 27% of Nobel Laureates in physics, 31% of Nobel Laureates in medicine.
- Israel leads the patents in medical equipment.
- *The amazing fact* is that Israel produces more scientific papers, the highest number of scientists and technicians, the highest number of Ph.D.’s, and the highest number of physicians per capita than any other nation in the world by a large margin.
- More Israeli patents are registered by Israeli’s than Russia, India & China combined (2.5 billion people) in the United States.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Israel is the only liberal democracy in the middle east.
- Israel spends more money per capita on its own protection than any country in the world.
- Israel has the fourth largest air force in the world (after the U.S., Russia, and China).
- With an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16s, Israel has *amazingly* the largest fleet of aircraft outside of the US.
- When the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day and saved three victims from the rubble.
- Israel is the only country in the world having compulsory military service for women.
- *The amazing fact* is that Israeli banknotes have brail on them so the blind can identify them.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the US.
- Israel has the highest number of home computers per capita in the world.
- Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies outside of the US and Canada.
- Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the World, except the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
- *Amazingly* Israel is the world’s largest wholesale diamond center, finally surpassing Antwerp in the 1970′s. Most of the cut & polished diamonds in the world come from Israel.
- Israel's $100 billion economies are larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
- Israel’s dairy cows are the most productive dairy cows in the world.
- Israel operates the world’s largest desalinization plant.

##### Inventions

- Israel's Given imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill.
- Israeli companies invented the drip irrigation system.
- *The amazing fact* is that the cell phone was developed in Israel at Motorola’s largest development center.
- The first anti-virus software for computers was developed in Israel in 1979.
- *The fact* is that most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed in Israel by Microsoft.
- *Amazingly* both the Pentium-4 and Centrino processors were entirely designed, developed, and produced in Israel.
- The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
- *The fact* is that USB drives were developed by Israeli’s.
- Israel designed the airline industry's most impenetrable flight security. U.S. officials now look to Israel for advice.

##### Literature

- Israel publishes more books and reads more books per capita than any other nation in the world.

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### Cholesterol
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Last updated: 2026-02-14T09:30:52.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Cholesterol | Amazing Facts 4U

1. Cholesterol is a type of lipid (fat) that is essential for all animal life but in the right amounts. It helps to make the outer coating of cells, makes up the bile acids that digest food, and allows the body to make Vitamin D and hormones, such as testosterone in men and estrogen in women. Cholesterol is important for an embryo’s healthy development.
2. Cholesterol protects the integrity of cell membranes keeping cells healthy. If there was no cholesterol, cell membranes would be dry and cracked and all the cell content would leak out.
3. Francois Pelletier de la Salle first discovered cholesterol in solid form in gallstones in 1769\. It was named “cholesterol” in 1815 by chemist Eugene Chevreul.
4. Because cholesterol is oil-based and blood is water-based, cholesterol is packaged as minuscule protein particles called lipoproteins to be able to circulate without forming a lump.
5. Cholesterol looks like a waxy substance that had been scraped from a whitish-yellow candle. It is produced in the liver or intestines. A human liver produces about 1 gram of cholesterol per day.
6. In most people, about two-thirds of cholesterol is carried in LDL particles, which are considered “bad” cholesterol. LDL carries the cholesterol to all parts of the body and becomes “bad” if there is too much in the body in which case, it starts depositing cholesterol into the blood vessels, the process called atherosclerosis.
7. Rest high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) are labeled “good” cholesterol because they have more protein than fat and, instead of ferrying cholesterol around the body HDL sucks up as much excess cholesterol as it can and takes it back to the liver.
8. The cholesterol in breast milk helps build nerve tissue in an infant's growing brain. Breastfed babies have lower levels of cholesterol than adults.
9. The U.S. Human Genome Project linked a pregnant woman’s cholesterol deficiency to a defect in the fetal brain called HPE (the failure of the brain to divide normally into two halves). 99 % of embryos with HPE are spontaneously aborted. Those who do live usually die within the first year of life experiencing severe mental retardation. Pregnant women are often advised not to take cholesterol-lowering drugs.
10. One large egg contains about 185 mg of cholesterol all contained in the yolk.
11. It is recommended to take about 300 mg. of cholesterol per day. If you have high cholesterol, you should take no more than 200 mg per day.
12. Total cholesterol level (the combination of “good” HDL cholesterol and “bad” LDL cholesterol) is usually 140 to 200 mg/dL. More than 200 mg/dL is considered to be unhealthy. Nearly half of all American adults have a cholesterol level at or more than 200 mg/dL. “High” cholesterol is defined as 240 mg. per deciliter (mg/dL) and above.
13. Total LDL bad cholesterol level is usually 100 to 130 mg/dL. More than 160 mg/dL is considered to be high.
14. Total HDL good cholesterol level is usually 40 to 60 mg/dL. Less than 40 mg/dL is considered to be unhealthy.
15. Amazingly high cholesterol itself typically does not have any symptoms, so many people are unaware they are at risk. All adults should check for cholesterol every 5 years.
16. Chicken is typically a low-fat meal choice but keeping the skin on the chicken or frying it turns it into a high cholesterol food.
17. A McDonald’s Big Mac has 85 mg. of cholesterol and a Wendy’s Classic Double With Everything has 175 mg. of cholesterol.
18. Liver although iron-rich has high levels of cholesterol. Three ounces of cooked liver contains 330 mg. of cholesterol.
19. Brain tissue in general is unhealthy to eat because it is high in cholesterol and fat.
20. High cholesterol is directly linked to heart disease, which is the number one killer of men and women in the world. Each year, over one million Americans have heart attacks and approximately half of them die.
21. Before menopause, women have lower total cholesterol levels than men due to estrogen which helps keep cholesterol levels down. After menopause, LDL levels tend to rise due to low estrogen.
22. Reduced blood flow caused by high cholesterol has also been linked to sexual disorders due to fatty deposits that clog blood vessels in the pelvic area, causing erectile dysfunction in men and impacting lubrication in women.
23. High cholesterol can be genetic. In fact, an inherited genetic condition called familial hypercholesterolemia causes very high LDL cholesterol levels, even at a young age.
24. It has been documented that smoking and diabetes lowers good cholesterol (HDL) and raises bad cholesterol (LDL).
25. Low cholesterol levels have been associated with higher rates of suicide, violence, Alzheimer’s, and accidents because it plays a critical role in neuron signaling and brain structure. An Ohio State study shows that increasing cholesterol levels can help ease autism symptoms in children.
26. Major risk factors that increase high LDL levels include cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol (below 40 mg/dL), family history of early heart disease, obesity, and age (men: 45 years or older, women: 55 years or older).
27. Foods that lower cholesterol is high fiber foods like kidney beans, apple, pear, etc, fishes having high omega-3 fatty acids like herring, sardines, mackerel, salmon, etc, foods rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids like walnuts, almonds, and other nuts, olive oil, foods containing sterols (Stanols) like margarine, orange juice, yogurt with added plant sterols, etc.
28. Cholesterol is found in animal products that are high in saturated fat. Foods high in cholesterol are egg yolk, liver, butter, shrimp & caviar (Fish Roe).
29. Regular exercise lowers LDL or "bad" cholesterol levels. At least 150 minutes per week of moderate exercise or 75 minutes a week of vigorous exercise are recommended.
30. There are 7 different classes of drugs to reduce cholesterol levels. They are Statins, Bile acid-binding resins, cholesterol absorption inhibitor, and statin, Fibrates, Niacin, and Omega-3 fatty acids.

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### Milky Way
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Last updated: 2026-02-12T09:30:53.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Milky Way | Amazing Facts 4U

1. The Milky Way is a galaxy i.e. a huge group of stars, gas, dust, and other matter held together in space by their mutual gravitational pull. The Milky Way is just one of the billions of galaxies in the universe in which lies the solar system.
2. Amazingly until 1924, astronomers believed the Milky Way was the entire universe and there was no other galaxy.
3. Scientists believe that the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars. The largest galaxy is known, IC 1101, has over 100 trillion stars. Smaller galaxies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud, have about 10 billion stars.
4. Scientists call the Milky Way and about 40 other galaxies nearby the Local Group which is held together by mutual gravitational attraction. The Local Group belongs to an even larger group of galaxies called the Local Supercluster which is about 100 million light-years across.
5. Besides the Andromeda galaxy, two other galaxies are close to the Milky Way: the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is about 170,000 light-years away, and the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is about 200,000 light-years away.
6. The Romans called our galaxy the Milky Road because it reminded them of milk. The Greeks called it the Milky Circle. In fact, the word “galaxy” is from the Greek word for milk.
7. The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, who lived from about 460 to 370 B.C., was the first person to suggest that the Milky Way is made of stars. Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) was the first to identify and resolve the band of light as many individual stars with his telescope in 1610.
8. Visible light, the light we can see, is only one form of energy given off by stars and other objects in the Milky Way. Other types of energy emitted are infrared light, radio waves, gamma rays, dark matter, and X-rays.
9. The amazing fact is that when we see the Milky Way at night, we are visualizing only about 0.0000025% of its hundreds of billions of stars.
10. The Milky Way has a halo of dark matter that makes up over 90% of its mass. What this means is that all we can see, even with telescopes, is less than 10% of the mass of our galaxy.
11. At the very center of the Milky Way is a black hole, which has been named Sagittarius A which is believed to weigh as much as 4 million of our suns put together.
12. Edwin Hubble (1889–1953) is credited with discovering the shape and scope of the Milky Way.
13. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy having a bar-shaped center that has curved arms that spin-out from its center. It is 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter. The central bulge of the Milky Way is about 12,000 light-years thick.
14. The largest galaxy called Hercules A is 1.5 million light-years in diameter i.e. about 15 times larger than the Milky Way.
15. The center of the Milky Way has mostly old stars while the spiral arms contain newer stars.
16. The most stars a person can see from any point on Earth in Milky Way is about 2,500\. We can only see out about 6,000 light-years into the disk of our own galaxy in the visible spectrum.
17. Any stars that you can see in the night sky without the aid of a telescope are part of the Milky Way.
18. The center of the Milky-Way cannot be seen because it is blocked by a lot of gas and dust. Infrared light can pass through the dust making infrared telescopes very valuable tools in mapping and studying the galaxy.
19. It would take a spaceship thousands of years traveling at the speed of light to get far enough to capture a picture of the entire galaxy. Every picture of the Milky Way that we have is either a picture of another galaxy or an artist’s interpretation.
20. The sun, Earth, and the rest of the solar system are located about 27,000 light-years away from the Milky-Way’s Galactic Center, on the inner edge of a minor arm of the galaxy, named the Orion Arm.
21. Our solar system orbits the center of the galaxy at the speed of 514,000 miles per hour. At this speed, one could circumnavigate Earth’s equator in 2 minutes and 54 seconds. It takes about 250 million years for the solar system to go just once around the galaxy, or to complete one galactic year.
22. The sun and our solar system have orbited the galaxy 16 times since our solar system was born about 4.6 billion years ago. It has made 1/1250 of a revolution since the origin of humans.
23. Sun is expected to last another 16 more Galactic years before it runs out of steam!
24. The orbital speed of the solar system around the center of the Milky Way galaxy is about 220 km/s or 0.073% of the speed of light. It takes about 1,400 years for the solar system to travel 1 light-year.
25. Earth’s closest star in the Milky-Way, Proxima Centauri, is more than 4 light-years away (a light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles, about 10 trillion kilometers). *Proxima* is Latin for “close.”
26. The Milky-Way rotates at a speed of 168 miles per second. So, the actual place in space where you were an hour ago is now roughly 600,000 miles away.
27. If Earth orbited the sun at the same speed that stars orbit the center of the Milky Way, our planet would travel around the sun in only 3 days instead of 365.
28. If our solar system were the size of a U.S. quarter, the sun would be a piece of dust and the Milky-Way would be about the size of the United States.
29. The oldest known star in the Milky-Way is at least 13.6 billion years old called HE1523 which was most likely formed shortly after the Big Bang.
30. Stars must reach speeds 1 million mph faster than the 600,000 mph at which objects already speed around the Milky Way to leave the galaxy. Astronomers have discovered 18 such giant blue stars being ejected out of our galaxy.
31. Astronomers estimate that seven new stars form in the Milky Way each year. They form inside huge clouds of dust and gas. In Milky Way, about twice a century, large starbursts into a supernova.
32. Astronomers discovered that the Milky-Way has already consumed several smaller galaxies. Even now, the Milky-Way is consuming two nearby dwarf galaxies.
33. The space between planets in the solar system is relatively dense because of the particles in the solar wind, though the density is much lower than the air on Earth, at about 10 million atoms per cubic meter on average. The interstellar medium in the Milky Way is thinner at about 10,000 atoms per cubic meter. The matter in the space between galaxies has the lowest density in the universe, at 1 atom per cubic meter.
34. Right now, the Milky Way and neighboring spiral galaxy called Andromeda are moving toward each other at about 75 miles (120 kilometers) per second. The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies will someday collide in about 3.75 billion years.
35. Milky-Way contains the cloud Sagittarius B2 which is enormous containing 10 billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol in the form of ethyl formate.

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### Starfish
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Last updated: 2026-02-10T09:30:06.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Starfish

1. There are about 2,000 species of starfish. Starfish is also known as sea stars.
2. Starfish along with sea urchins and sea cucumbers are called echinoderms which have five-point radial symmetry i.e. Their body has five sections or multiples thereof arranged around a central disk.
3. The starfish is not a fish. It is an animal. They do not have gills, scales, or fins like fish have and they move quite differently from fish. While fish propel themselves with their tails, sea stars have tiny tube feet to help them move along.
4. Starfish can come in many colors. Some common colors are red, orange, yellow, and coral colors.
5. Depending on the species starfish can be between 4 to 11 inches big and weigh up to 5 Kg.
6. Starfish have no brains. Its mouth is on the bottom of its body, right in the center.
7. Starfish don’t have blood in the system. Instead of blood, starfish has a water vascular system, in which it pumps seawater through its sieve plate to receive nutrients.
8. Starfish has a tough covering on its upper side, which is made up of plates of calcium carbonate with tiny spines on its surface. This is useful for protection from predators.
9. Amazingly starfish cannot survive in freshwater.
10. Starfish has very small feet called tube feet. Each tube foot has a tiny suction cup at its tip which is used to walk and also to pump in oxygen. Thus starfish actually breathe through their feet!
11. Starfish cannot swim. They move across the ocean by hundreds of tube feet on their arms and body.
12. Starfish have eight eyes, one at the end of each leg which is actually a group of cells that are very sensitive to light which helps the starfish to view the movement and differentiate between light and dark. They don’t, however, see much detail.
13. With more than 80,000 arms, the Basket Starfish has the greatest number of arms.
14. The average lifespan of a starfish is 35 years.
15. Starfish are carnivores meaning they are meat-eaters. They eat clams, oysters, snails, and tiny fish.
16. Female starfish can make millions of eggs. Starfish release the eggs into the ocean never going back to care for them.
17. The amazing fact is that starfish can change gender from male to female or female to male at any time.
18. Amazingly, sea stars can regenerate lost arms. It can take up to a year for a lost limb to grow back. In fact, you can cut up a starfish into pieces and each piece will grow into a completely new starfish.
19. The starfish has two stomachs. The cardiac stomach eats the food outside the starfish’s body. When the cardiac stomach comes back into the body, the food in it is transferred to the pyloric stomach.
20. Starfish has an amazing method to kill an oyster. When an oyster senses that a starfish is near, it will quickly close its shell but the starfish wraps its arms around the shell and uses the suction cups on its tube feet to pry the oyster’s shell open. Starfish can actually pull its stomach out through its mouth as the oyster’s shell only opens a crack and, the starfish must slip its stomach into the shell and eat the oyster while it is still in its closed shell.

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### Walking
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Last updated: 2026-02-08T09:30:53.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Walking

1. Brisk walking helps reduce body fat, lower blood pressure, and increase high-density lipoprotein.
2. Humans became bipedal three to six million years ago. Scientists believe that humans started walking on two legs to better carry goods and to use energy more efficiently.
3. The human backbone was not designed to work in the vertical position of walking on two legs. That is why modern humans suffer from sore backs, slipped discs, arthritis, and more.
4. Firewalking, or the act of walking over hot stones or coal with bare feet, is a religious ceremony practiced in several parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent, China, Fiji Islands, and New Zealand. It was also practiced in ancient Greece and India.
5. Most babies begin to walk around 13 months, the general range being 10 to 15 months.
6. The longest uninterrupted circumnavigation on foot around the world was completed by a former neon-sign salesman, Canadian Jean Beliveau. He started it when he was 45\. He burned through 54 pairs of shoes and somehow managed to maintain his relationship with his wife, Luce, who stayed at home. He walked 46,600 miles around 64 countries. The trip took him 11 years. He averaged 20 miles per day.
7. Experts suggest walking minimum of 6,000 steps a day (About 3 miles) to improve health and 10,000 steps a day to lose weight.
8. The average human walking speed is about 3.1 miles per hour or 5.0 kilometers per hour.
9. As per the study, the average Japanese takes 7000 steps per day, the average Australian takes 9500 steps per day while the average American takes just 5000 steps per day, the least of any industrialized nation.
10. The most popular form of exercise in the United States is walking.
11. However, Americans use walking as their mode of transportation in less than 6% of their trips.
12. A study found that in 1970, 66% of children walked to school. Today, only 13% walk.
13. On an average 6000 steps ( About 3 miles) of walking, taking one hour would burn about 300 calories for a 150-pound bodyweight (About 71 kg) i.e. 2 calories per Pound of body weight.
14. Amazingly running or jogging a mile burns essentially the same amount of calories as walking a mile. Running or jogging just gets a person to a destination faster.
15. Walking can help decrease the risk of heart attack, decrease the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Brisk walking can reduce stress and depression levels as well as improve cancer survival rates.
16. Mortality rates among retired men who walked less than one mile per day were almost twice as much as those who walked more than 2 miles per day.
17. Walking helps prevent osteoporosis reducing the chances of bone fracture. Research showed that postmenopausal women who walk around one mile per day each day have higher whole-body bone density than women who walk less.
18. Walking reduces the risk of both breast and colon cancer.
19. Given that the world is about 25,000 miles in circumference and that the average walking rate is 3 miles per hour, it would take a person walking nonstop approximately 350 days to walk around the world.
20. It would take about 225 million years to walk one light-year at the average pace of 3 miles per hour. One light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles.
21. Experts advise that when shopping for walking shoes, you should always buy shoes that feel comfortable right away. There is no “breaking-in period. Feet also swell during the day, so it is important to get fitted for walking shoes at the end of the day when feet are their largest.
22. A typical pair of tennis shoes will last 500 miles of walking.
23. A person is 36 more times likely to be killed walking than by driving a car. A person is 300 times more likely to be killed walking than by flying in an airplane.
24. The best way to lose weight by walking is to take a longer, moderately paced walk . Shorter, faster walks are best for conditioning the heart and lungs.
25. Sleepwalking is called somnambulism (Latin *Somnus* “sleep” + *ambulare* “to walk”). About 18% of the world suffers from it at some time in their life.

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### Body Language
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Last updated: 2026-02-06T09:30:22.000Z
#### 70 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Body Language

1. Body language is the means by which humans convey information through conscious or subconscious body movements or facial expressions. The official name for body language is kinesics.
2. Body language serves three purposes 1) as a conscious replacement for speech, 2) a means to reinforce speech, and 3) as a mirror of mood.
3. The first modern book on body language appeared more than 350 years ago by John Bulwer. Named *Chirologia: Or the Natural Language of the Hand* (1644), it was a pioneering work on hand movements.
4. An early landmark in the study of non-verbal communication was the naturalist Charles Darwin’s *The Expression of the Emotions of Man and Animals*(1872). It was the first to claim that humans and apes expressed similar facial expressions inherited from a common ancestor.
5. Amazingly woman has a wider-ranging peripheral vision, which allows her to check out a man’s body from head to toe without getting caught. A male’s peripheral vision is poorer, which is why a man has to move his gaze up and down a woman’s body in a very obvious way. Men’s tunnel vision means they just get caught more easily.
6. A normal, relaxed blinking rate is 6 to 8 blinks per minute, and the eyes are closed for about 1/10th of a second. People under pressure when they are lying dramatically increase their blinking rate.
7. The “Crotch Display” is predominately a male gesture shown by a person planting both feet firmly on the ground with legs apart. It is used as a dominant masculine signal by men.
8. A woman is instinctively four times more likely to mirror another woman than a man is to mirror another man. Additionally, while women also mirror men’s body language, men are generally reluctant to mirror a woman’s gestures or posture.
9. These are eight universal facial expressions 1) anger, 2) disgust, 3) fear, 4) happiness, 5) sadness, and 6) surprise 7) Contempt 8) embarrassment
10. Britain, along with most of Northern Europe and the Far East, is classed as a “non-contact” culture where there is very little physical contact in daily interactions. In contrast, the Middle East, Latin America, and Southern Europe are considered “high contact cultures” where physical touch is a part of socializing.
11. The “face platter” or when a person places one hand on top of the other and rests his or her face on top of the hands is often used in courtship. It’s used mainly by women and by gay men who want to attract a man’s attention.
12. Studies show that women laugh at men they’re attracted to and men are attracted to women who laugh at them. From a man’s perspective, saying a woman has a good sense of humor doesn’t mean she makes jokes; it means she laughs at his jokes.
13. In the Middle East, same-gender eye contact tends to be more intense and sustained than in the West. However, in many Asian, African, and Latin American countries, unbroken eye contact is considered aggressive.
14. The “flight response” is an instinctual response to a threat. Body language wise subconscious “evasive” actions include closing the eyes, rubbing the eyes, placing objects on a lap, turning feet to the exit, and leaning away from a person.
15. Eye blocking i.e. covering the eyes, delaying opening the eyes, lowering the eyes for a prolonged period are all powerful messages portraying consternation, disbelief, or disagreement.
16. Subconsciously pacifying behaviors result in various forms like massaging/stroking our necks or playing with our hair or rubbing the cheeks or lips from inside with their tongues etc which release calming endorphins to soothe the brain. Exhaling with puffed-out cheeks is a great way to release stress and to pacify.
17. It has been observed that when feeling discomfort, men typically prefer to touch their faces. Women, on the other hand, prefer to touch their necks, clothing, jewelry, arms, and hair.
18. Neck touching or massaging is a powerful and universal stress reliever and a pacifier in response to stress. When women subconsciously touch or cover their suprasternal notch (the neck dimple), she typically feels distressed, threatened, uncomfortable, or insecure.
19. “Leg cleansing” is one of several pacification behaviors. In this calming behavior, a person places the hand or hands palm down on the leg or legs and slides them down the thighs toward the knee. While it often occurs in people who are being deceptive, innocent people who are merely nervous also use it.
20. People under stress will often exhibit “ventilation action,” which relieves stress and emotional discomfort. A man often will put his fingers between his shirt collar and neck and pull the fabric away from his skin. Women may do it more subtlety by tossing the back of her hair to ventilate her neck.
21. In stressful situations, some individuals will pacify themselves by crossing their arms and rubbing their hands against their shoulders, in a self-administered body hug.
22. When two people talk to each other, they normally speak toe to toe. If one person turns his feet slightly away or repeatedly moves one foot in an outward direction, this is a strong sign of disagreement. When you find a person crossing both legs and arms, he has emotionally withdrawn from the conversation.
23. Even when a person is standing still, a person’s body is telling a story.
24. When people find themselves in confrontational situations, their feet and legs will splay out, not only for greater balance but also to claim more territory looking more self-assured and more confident. They typically will not cross their legs while standing because it puts them slightly off balance.
25. During social interactions, our feet and legs will mirror those of the person with whom we are talking. When people sit side to side, if they are on good terms, the top leg crossed over will point toward the other person. If a person is uncomfortable, he will switch the position of the legs so that the thigh becomes a barrier.
26. Custom officers observe that passengers who point their feet toward the exit while turning to the officer to make their custom’s declaration are more likely to be concealing something they should have declared.
27. When a foot suddenly begins to kick, it is usually a good indicator of discomfort. This is seen in people being interviewed as soon as a question is asked that they don’t like.
28. A sudden crossing of the arms during a conversation often indicates discomfort. Or a businessperson may suddenly decide to button his or her jacket when talking to someone disagreeable, only to undo the jacket once the conversation is over.
29. Splaying out on a couch or a chair is normally a sign of comfort. However, when serious issues are being discussed, splaying can indicate territorial or dominance display.
30. A partial shoulder shrug indicates that the speaker is not committed to what he is saying. An honest and true response causes both shoulders to rise fully, sharply, and equally. When only one side rises, the message is dubious.
31. Called the “regal stance,” arms behind the back response means “don’t come near.”
32. “Arms akimbo” (a standing person whose extended arms are out in a V pattern with the hands placed on the hips, thumbs backward) is a powerful territorial display that is used to establish dominance or indicate that there are “issues.” Women tend to use arms akimbo less often.
33. “Arms akimbo” with thumbs *forward* represents a more inquisitive, less authoritarian position than arms akimbo with thumbs backward.
34. The “hooding effect” is a powerful territorial display among humans done by interlaced hands behind the head which is indicative of comfort and dominance. Usually, the senior person at a meeting will pose or “hood” this way.
35. Fingertips planted and spread apart on a surface are a significant territorial display of confidence and authority.
36. One of the best ways to establish rapport with someone is to touch that person on the arm somewhere between the elbow and shoulder.
37. Hand-steepling may be the most powerful high confident hand gesture. It involves touching the spread fingertips of both hands in a gesture similar to praying hands, but the fingers are not interlocked and the palms may not be touching. It is observed that Women tend to steeple low at the waist, while men tend to steeple at chest level.
38. Hand wringing is a universal way of showing distress or concern. A person can go from steepling (high confidence) to fingers interlaced (low confidence) and back to steepling (high confidence), reflecting the ebb and flow of confidence and doubt.
39. Often seen with high-status individuals, the thumb sticking out of the pocket is a high-confidence display. When individuals carry their thumbs high, it is a sign they think highly of themselves or are confident.
40. Thumbs in the pocket indicate low status and confidence. People in authority should avoid this display because it indicates weakness.
41. Genital framing, or when someone hooks their thumbs inside their waistbands on either side of the zipper, is a powerful dominance display, especially for males.
42. A limp or exposed wrist is a sign of submission. Both women and homosexual men tend to do this subconsciously in a room with others that they want to attract.
43. It has been found that those who lie tend to gesture less, touchless, and move their arms and legs less than honest people.
44. Research shows that whatever we’re feeling first shows up in our body and only microseconds later enter our conscious minds.
45. When we are truly relaxed and comfortable, facial muscles relax and the head will tilt to one side, exposing our neck. This is a high comfort display that is impossible to mimic when we feel threatened.
46. Squinting can be very brief, just a fraction of a second, but in real-time may reflect negative thoughts or emotions. We squint when we are angry or even when we hear voices, sounds, or music we don’t like.
47. When we like something we see, our pupils dilate. When we don’t, they constrict. The more favorable the attitude, the more dilated the pupils.
48. Abused children often manifest a “freezing” response. In the presence of an abusive parent or adult, their arms will lie dormant at their sides and they avoid eye contact.
49. It has been noted that thieves will try to hide their physical presence by restricting their motions and by limiting their head exposure by raising the shoulders and lowering the head, as in a “turtle effect.” In contrast, most people walk around the store with their arms quite active and their posture upright.
50. People born blind can perform the same body language expression as people who can see, which suggests that body language is more innate than language or even facial expressions.
51. Both males and females find people with “available” body language the most attractive. Available body language includes smiling, uncrossed arms, uncrossed legs, and not looking down at shoes.
52. If a woman is feeling uncomfortable or not attracted to someone, she will either clutch her bag tightly or place it in front of her to cover her body. When she is attracted to a man, she will move it aside indicating that she does not want anything in her way.
53. Folding your arms during an interview makes you seem unfriendly and closed off from the interviewer.
54. The “thumbs-up” sign means “good” to Westerners, “one” to Italians, “five” to Japanese, and “up yours” in Greece. Amazingly in Iran, it means male genitals.
55. The very negative offensive gesture is finger-pointing. It has negative connotations all around the globe.
56. One researcher notes that the average person actually speaks words for a total of about 10–11 minutes a day. The average sentence takes 2.5 seconds to say. However amazingly we make and recognize about 25,000 facial expressions daily.
57. It has been estimated that the total impact of a message is about 7% verbal, 38% vocal, and 55% non-verbal.
58. Just as a dog will expose its throat to show submission or surrender to a victor, humans use their palms to show that they are unarmed and, therefore, not a threat.
59. Men are poorer in recognizing body gestures. When asked to decode a silent movie, 87% of women in a study were able to guess what was happening, but men could guess correctly just 42% of the time. Research shows when reading body language, 14–16 areas of a woman’s brain are active. Men show just 4–6 active areas.
60. Nodding the head means “yes” in most societies, but means “no” in some parts of Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
61. An ear grasp means “I’m sorry” in parts of India. Cupping the ear means “I can’t hear you” in all societies.
62. In Asia, kissing is considered an intimate act and not permissible in public, even as a social greeting.
63. Spitting in public is considered rude in most Western cultures. However, in many Asian countries, spitting in public is ridding the body of waste and is acceptable.
64. Some cultures, such as the Italians, use more dramatic arm and hand gestures when conversing. Other cultures, such as the Japanese are more reserved and see gesticulating with broad movements as rude.
65. The “hang loose” sign (thumb and little finger extended) means, “stay cool, relax” in Hawaii, “six” in Japan, and “would you like a drink?” in Mexico.
66. Eight of the most common lying gestures include 1) the mouth cover, 2) the nose touch, 3) incongruous nodding, 4) the eye rub, 5) the ear grab, 6) the neck scratch, 7) the collar pull, and 8) fingers in the mouth.
67. People who are lying often will not move their feet in an interview or will interlock their feet to restrict movement. People tend to restrict both arm and leg movement when lying.
68. People become more serious as they get older. An adult laughs on average 15 times per day. A preschooler laughs on average of 400 times.
69. Lowering the eyelids while simultaneously looking up, and slightly parting the lips is a body language cluster that indicates sexual submissiveness in women.
70. Someone suffering from autism may not exhibit typical body language and maybe incongruous with what they are saying. Additionally, they may not have the skills to decode other people’s body language.

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### Coca-Cola
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Last updated: 2026-02-04T09:30:54.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Coca-Cola

1. Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink that is also known as Coke. It is one of the most popular soft drinks in the world and is the second-most recognized word in the world after ‘Hello’.
2. Coca-Cola is the invention of Dr. John Styth Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist who made it in his backyard in 1886\. John Pemberton died in 1888 without realizing the success of the beverage he had created.
3. Coca-Cola was named ‘Coca-Cola’ due to the fact the original main ingredients were cocaine, which came from the coca leaf, and caffeine which came from the kola nut.
4. Pemberton's associate, Frank Robinson, suggested the name Coca-Cola, thinking two "C"s would make for attractive advertising. In 1893, the name "Coca-Cola" was registered with the U.S. Patent Office.
5. Frank Robinson also created the unique flowing script that became the Coca Cola logo that is still used today.
6. In the first year, Coca-Cola creator John Pemberton sold an average of just nine glasses a day. The company now sells 1.7 billion beverage servings every day.
7. When Coca-Cola first launched in 1886, it was marketed as a nerve tonic that "relieves exhaustion." and cures hangovers and headaches.
8. In 1894, the first factory to manufacture Coke's syrup opened in Dallas, Texas, and by 1897, Coca-Cola was being drunk in every state and territory in America.
9. It used to contain cocaine up until 1905 when it was removed due to public concern.
10. Coca-Cola's first bottling plant in Asia opened in the Philippines in 1912\. Coca-Cola's first bottling plant in Europe opened in France in 1919.
11. The Root Glass Company situated in Terre Haute, Ind. designed the well-known contour shape for Coca Cola which was introduced in 1916.
12. Between 1922 and 1933, The Coca-Cola Company was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola company three times. Coca-Cola declined on all three occasions.
13. During World War 2, the owner of Coca-Cola made sure “to see that every American in uniform gets a bottle of Coca-Cola, wherever he is and whatever it costs the Company.”
14. American Coca Cola tastes differently from International Coca Cola.
15. 3.1% of all beverages consumed around the world are ‘Coca-Cola products.’
16. Coke owns a whopping 20 brands that generate more than $1 billion in sales per year.
17. Coke makes so many different beverages that if you drank one per day, it would take you more than nine years to try them all. Coca-Cola has a product portfolio of more than 3,500 beverages (and 500 brands), spanning from sodas to energy drinks to soy-based drinks.
18. Coca-Cola spends more money on advertising than Microsoft and Apple combined
19. If all the Coca-Cola bottles in the world were stacked end to end, they would reach to the Moon and back more than 1,677 times.
20. If all the vending machines in the United States were stacked one on top of another, the pile would be over 450 miles high!
21. If every drop of Coke ever produced was placed in 8-ounce bottles and laid end-to-end, they would reach the moon and back more than 2,000 times.
22. In Chinese, the name Coca-Cola means “to make mouth happy”.
23. Coca leaves are still used in Coca Cola. A company in New Jersey extracts Cocaine from the leaves for medical uses and then ships the remainder to Coke.
24. Mexicans are the biggest drinkers of Coke in the world. On average, Mexicans drink 745 Coke beverages a year. Americans drink 401 Coke products a year on average.
25. There are only two countries in the world, Cuba and North Korea that don’t sell Coca-Cola products.
26. Farmers Union Iced Coffee outsells Coca-Cola in South Australia making it the only place in the world where a milk drink outsells a cola product.
27. In 1985, the Coca-Cola Company attempted to change its recipe, but it was rejected by the public.
28. Pepsi is actually bigger in terms of revenue than Coca-Cola because the majority of PepsiCo’s revenues no longer come from the production and sale of carbonated soft drinks. More than 60 percent of PepsiCo’s beverage sales came from its primary non-carbonated brands, namely Gatorade and Tropicana.
29. In fact, the human body is not designed to be acidic but to be alkaline. Coke or Coca-Cola is extremely acidic beating an acid battery just by one point.
30. A bottle of Coca-Cola has a PH scale of 2.8 and could dissolve a nail in just 4 days. ![50 Amazing Facts about Coca-Cola - Amazing Facts 4U](https://amazingfacts4u.com/content/images/amazingfacts4u-com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/coca-cola.jpg)
31. Drinking Coke instantly irritates the stomach due to acidity.
32. Because of its extreme acidity, Coca Cola can be easily used to clean surfaces.
33. In one night, a bottle of Coca-Cola can soften a tooth.
34. Coca-Cola is very good at cleaning up blood spots. In many states in the USA, the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
35. Coca-Cola can be used to remove grease from clothes! It’s as simple as emptying a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, adding the detergent, and run through a regular cycle.
36. It takes 2 liters of water to make just 1 liter of Coke. In 2004, farmers in India held protests because Coca Cola bottling plants were basically bleeding the water wells dry.
37. Coca-Cola has so deeply penetrated in this world that in many of the known 3rd world countries, clean drinking water is costlier than Coke. In fact, in many such countries, water shortages are primarily caused by Coca Cola because they require enormous amounts of water for manufacturing.
38. Studies have revealed that people who drink Coca-Cola every day have a 48% higher risk of stroke and heart attack compared to those who drink Coke once in a while or do not drink Coke at all.
39. A study has revealed that drinking Coke can lead to breathing and lung disorders such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.
40. When hydrochloric acid enters our body, our body needs to counter it using some kind of antacid. The only available antacid in our body is calcium. So, the stomach immediately extracts calcium from the blood and uses it to neutralize the acid buildup in the stomach. Thus coke is responsible for making bones brittle and weak.
41. Coke also has phosphoric acid which also reduces the calcium store of our body in the same way hydrochloric acid in Coke does.
42. When a beverage like Coca-Cola enters the human body, it immediately replaces water or milk which has more nutritional value.
43. Drinking Coke will immediately lead to what is known as acid reflux. When you drink Coke or a similar soft drink, the acids in your stomach start rising up and cross the esophageal valve which happens more when you lay down after drinking Coke. This acid gradually causes mechanical damage to your esophagus as the esophagus is not protected by mucus unlike the stomach setting up the stage for esophageal cancer.
44. It is not commonly known that Coke contains sugar in large amounts. One can of Coca-Cola contains a whopping 39 grams of sugar which is about ten teaspoons of sugar. Increased sugar later gets converted to fat leading to weight gain.
45. Coke Zero contains aspartame an artificial sweetener used instead of corn syrup that is used in Coke. This aspartame has the notorious amino acid known as phenylalanine. It is known to interact with several medications and make their effects weaker or stronger. Coke Zero also contains a compound named E211 which is sodium benzoate responsible for inflicting severe damages to DNA. Actually, it doesn’t destroy DNA but deactivates it leading to Parkinson’s disease and cirrhosis. E211 is also not good for asthmatics and aspirin-sensitive people.
46. Aspartame is very unstable and the high temperature inside the human body is capable of breaking it down into phenylalanine and methanol. Methanol can damage optic nerves and cause blindness.
47. Coke Zero is not always stored in refrigerators. In warm conditions aspartame transforms into formaldehyde which is known as a carcinogenic compound.
48. Because of the dangers of Aspartame, it was once made illegal but somehow and pretty mysteriously, it once again became legal and is commonly found in Coke Zero! The company is making billions of dollars at the cost of our health.
49. In 1985, Coke became the first soda drank in space when astronauts onboard the Space Shuttle Challenger tested the “Coca-Cola Space Can.”
50. Vincente Fox started at Coca Cola Mexico as a truck driver before working his way up to president of Coke Latin America. Then he became the president of Mexico.

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### Saturn
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Last updated: 2026-02-02T09:30:28.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Saturn

1. Saturn is a Roman name. In Greek mythology, we find Cronus, who is considered to be the lord of Titans. Saturn is just the Roman name for Cronus.
2. The day ‘Saturday’ in a week derives its name from this planet.
3. The Assyrians, who lived in modern-day Iraq, were the first to record sighting Saturn in 700 B.C.
4. Saturn is the second-largest planet in our Solar System after Jupiter which is 20% larger. It is the most beautiful planet in the solar system because of its stunning rings. In fact, Saturn’s nickname is “the jewel of the solar system.”
5. Saturn is the 6th planet from Sun and is one of the gas giants in our solar system others being Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.
6. Saturn is big enough to hold 760 Earths but it has a mass that’s roughly equivalent to 95 times the mass of Earth. However, if you compare it with Sun, nearly 1,600 Saturns could fit inside it.
7. Considering its density, Saturn can easily float on the water since it’s density is 0.687\. In contrast, the Earth and Mercury would sink the fastest.
8. The atmosphere of Saturn is mostly made of molecular hydrogen which accounts for 96.3% of the total atmosphere while helium takes up 3.25%. Rest is ammonia hydrosulfide aerosols, ammonia ice aerosols, ice aerosols, ethane, ammonia, methane etc.
9. The atmospheric pressure on Saturn is over 100 times greater than the Earth’s atmospheric pressure. The pressure is so powerful that it squeezes gas into liquid. It would crush any human-made spacecraft.
10. The magnetic field of Saturn is nearly 578 times as powerful as that of our Earth.
11. Scientists believe that the innermost core of the planet is made of rocky material and iron. Surrounding this core is an outer core made of methane, ammonia and water. The third layer is the liquid metallic hydrogen in highly compressed form. This third layer is covered by a fourth layer of viscous helium and hydrogen. This fourth and final layer gradually becomes gaseous at it moves towards the surface of the planet and eventually merges with the atmosphere of the planet.
12. Scientists say that the core of Saturn is nearly 10 to 20 times bigger than that of Earth.
13. The polar and equatorial diameters of Saturn are about 108,000 km and 120,000 km respectively. The planet has an equatorial circumference of 366,000 km.
14. The fifth-century B.C. text Surya Siddhanta from India approximated Saturn’s diameter just 1% off from the current estimate.
15. Saturn has temperature of about -350° F (-212° C). In contrast the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth is -129° F (-89° C).
16. Saturn gives off more than twice as much heat as it receives from the Sun. It is believed that Saturn generates heat when helium sinks slowly through liquid hydrogen deep inside the planet. In fact, the temperature at Saturn’s core is estimated to be about 11,700° C, which is almost as hot as the surface of the Sun.
17. From the Sun, Saturn is located at a distance of about 9.5 times the distance of Earth from Sun.
18. Saturn shows extraordinary golden and yellow bands in its atmosphere caused by the combination of heat emanating from the planet’s interior and superfast winds blowing in its upper atmosphere. Around the equator, this wind can reach a speed of 1,800 kph. The strongest tornadoes on Earth have reached speeds of only about 480 kph. Storms on Saturn can last for months or even years.
19. The planet spins very rapidly around its axis, completely one rotation in 10 hours and 30 minutes, making the planet slightly slower than Jupiter but faster than all other planets.
20. The planet completes one revolution around Sun in 29.4 Earth years i.e. about 10759 days.
21. Because Saturn spins on a tilt, it has seasons. Summer on Saturn lasts about 8 Earth years.
22. Saturn is often the third brightest planet in the night sky and has a yellowish color that does not twinkle. Saturn is the most distant planet visible to naked eyes from Earth.
23. Sun would appear 10 times smaller viewed from Saturn than it does from Earth. On average, Earth receives 90 times more sunlight than Saturn.
24. Traveling to Saturn by car at 70 miles per hour would take about 1300 years when Saturn is closest to Earth and 1600 years when Saturn is at its farthest.
25. Galileo Galilei was the first ever person to look at Saturn using a telescope in 1610\. His telescope was not powerful enough but he did notice ring-like structures around the planet that eventually turned out to be real rings.
26. Saturn has the most amazing planetary ring system in entire Solar System. The largest known ring of the planet is nearly 200 times the diameter of Saturn. Rings are made of water ice and small amounts of rocks and carbonaceous dust. The ring system spreads out over a distance of 175,000 miles (282,000 km.).
27. The objects that make up the rings vary in size. With smallest particles being the size of a sugar grain and the largest ones being as large as a house. The rings fan out to a distance of 120,700 kilometers from the planet’s atmosphere but the main rings are amazingly only 30 feet thick.
28. Scientists speculate that Saturn’s rings may disappear in 50 million years. Saturn’s gravititional pull will either suck the rings into the planet, or the rings will dissolve into space.
29. Saturn’s rings seem to disappear about every 14 years when Saturn is tilted directly in line with Earth.
30. Cassini-Huygens spacecraft revealed that some of the rings have weird formations. They have particles piling up in ridges and bumps that extend up to 2 miles high in space.
31. All the other gas giants i.e. Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune have rings, although they are much fainter and less spectacular than Saturn’s.
32. Only Jupiter has more moons (63) than Saturn (61) in entire solar system, not counting Saturn’s hundreds of “moonlets.”
33. The most notable moons of Saturn include Enceladus, Rhea and Titan. Titan is the largest moon of the Saturn and is the second largest moon in entire Solar System. The credit for largest moon of Solar System goes to Ganymede of Jupiter.
34. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only known moon to have a substantial atmosphere, which is 370 miles deep, 10 times thicker than Earth’s atmosphere. Conditions on Titan may resemble ancient Earth conditions, though at a much lower temperature. Titan’s atmosphere is rich of nitrogen. The moon is primarily composed of rock and water ice. Scientists believe that underneath the frozen surface of Titan lie lakes of liquid methane.
35. Titan is the second-largest moon in the solar system. Only Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is larger. Titan is even bigger than Mercury.
36. Saturn’s moon Enceladus which was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel has geysers that erupt icy particles, water vapor, and organic compounds. It is the shiniest object in the solar system because its icy surface reflects most of the light.
37. The geysers on Enceladus not only feed the rings around Saturn but also may contain “ingredients for life.” Only two other outer solar system objects have known active eruptions: Neptune’s moon Triton and Jupiter’s moon Io, which are believed to erupt nitrogen and sulfur, respectively.
38. Lapetus, another moon of Saturn has one side dark as coal and the other side bright as snow.
39. On July 1, 2004, the Cassini-Huygens was the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn. Launched in 1997, it traveled over 2 billion miles at a speed of about 70000 miles per hour before it reached Saturn.
40. The first spacecraft to fly by Saturn was Pioneer 11, which blasted off in 1973 and arrived at Saturn in 1979\. Voyagers 1 and 2 also completed fly-bys in 1980 and 1981\. Voyager 1 is now the farthest human-made object in space.

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### Nose
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Last updated: 2026-02-01T09:30:41.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Nose

1. There are at least 14 different nose types found in humans. This was found by Abraham Tamir, a professor from Israel after surveying 1,793 nose images.
2. The shape of the nose depends on the ethnic background of a person.
3. Positions of upper and lower lateral cartilages and nasal bones actually define nose shape.
4. Females have shorter noses compared to men.
5. The human nose is made up of only 5 different types of muscles which are dilatator naris anterior, dilatator naris posterior, depressor septi, nasalis, and procerus.
6. The roof of the human mouth is nothing but the floor of the nasal cavity. The ethmoid bone separates the nasal cavity and brain.
7. Different people have different sneezing styles and these styles are genetically determined.
8. Amazingly when we sneeze, about 40,000 droplets are blasted from our nostrils and mouth at a speed of up to 100 miles per hour.
9. It has been found that in women, the nose grows until the age of 15 to 17 and for men, the age is 17 to 19.
10. Nose droops and lengthens over time because of gravitational pull which happens because breaking down of elastin and collagen in the nasal tip.
11. The human nose is the best air filter in the world. It is lined up with hairs that block germs and dust. Grooves in the nasal cavity make air swirl like stream currents. The inhaled hair is moistened and warmed to protect the sensitive tissues of the lungs. The mucus lining of the nasal cavity also captures cold viruses and pollen which cannot be stopped by hair.
12. Amazing fact is that an average adult’s nose filters about 20,000 litres of air every day running round the clock!
13. Human sinuses and nose produce Mucus which contains white blood cells and enzymes which can fight infections. We produce up to a liter a day and it doubles when we catch an infection. Amazing part is we swallow most of it!
14. When someone inhales dry air, the air picks up moisture content from mucus making the mucus pasty which we call snot.
15. Nose plastic surgery is known as rhinoplasty which is the second most common cosmetic surgical procedure second only to breast augmentation. The nose job is the most difficult cosmetic and functional operation done by plastic surgeons because the difference between a good and bad outcome may be only one millimeter.
16. When a person becomes sick because of viral infections, the nose becomes runny as it produces extra in an attempt to kill the invading microbes.
17. Amazingly humans are capable of detecting 10,000+ scents with special types of cells known as olfactory nerve cells which number about 12 million in human nose. Two small odor detecting patches positioned high in the nasal passage contain most of the olfactory cells. Still it is far less sensitive than other animals such as dogs.
18. Humans gradually lose some of their smelling ability due to decreasing olfactory nerve cells with age. At the age of 80, about 50% of smelling capabilities are lost.
19. Human have 350 useful olfactory receptor genes in contrast to mice which has 1,300\. By comparison we have about 40 sensors to taste and just 4 to perceive color vision.
20. Fact is humans don't smell with nose. The olfactory nerve cells in nose are only responsible for capturing smell and sending them to the brain which identifies the smell.
21. Amazingly anything that human nose cannot smell is lethal to humans especially some gases.
22. Each individual human has an exclusive smell print Each of us has scent blind spots, meaning exact odors we can’t pick up on. Thus for a specific smell, two different people may have different perception.
23. Sense of smell in women is stronger than sense of smell in men. Female nose also becomes hypersensitive when they become pregnant resulting in unusual carving and abnormal taste sense.
24. Some people may have a very strong sense of smell. This is known as hyperosmia.
25. Inability to smell is scientifically known as anosmia. Inability to smell something correctly is known as dysosmia.
26. Sense of smell is the only one of the 5 senses in humans which has direct connection with hippocampus which is the part of the brain responsible for memory. The result is that several types of smells can bring some memories back.
27. Zinc deficiency in body can also lead to loss of smelling sense.
28. Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes can also lead to loss of smelling sense.
29. Human babies know their mothers by the scent of their mothers.
30. Less of human brain is dedicated to smelling as opposed to animals.
31. Our voice quality, richness and depth of it in speaking and singing is mostly determined by the resonating structures of the throat and nose. The nasal voice we hear in someone with a cold and allergies is due to the loss of this nasal resonation as the air cannot pass through the nose.
32. Humans release pheromones , which are a type of chemical released only in response to sexual attraction especially from nasal grooves in nostrils. Human nose is capable of detecting pheromones of opposite sex.
33. Amazingly nose can break! It is a cartilage in nose that breaks as nose doesn’t have bone.
34. Nosebleed can be caused by picking nose, allergies, exercise, dry air or cold. The bleeding is due to the breaking of septum which is a thin cartilage between two nostrils causing nosebleed.
35. Amazingly the Maori tribe in New Zealand greet people by pressing their noses! Shaking hands as a gesture of greeting is unusual for them.

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### Tongue
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Last updated: 2025-12-30T09:30:46.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Tongue

1. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body and most flexible. It is the only muscle in the body that is connected at one end to the floor of the mouth.
2. In fact, the tongue heals faster than any other part of the body. Tongue piercings are the quickest to close once jewelry has been removed.
3. 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
4. The human tongue is as unique to you as your fingerprints since it comes in various shapes and has a variable number of taste buds.
5. Amazingly almost half of all the bacteria in your mouth live on your tongue. Your tongue is germ-free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
6. Your tongue never stops working. Even when you sleep it is pushing saliva into your throat.
7. The fact is it’s almost impossible to lick your elbow.
8. The human tongue has on average 3,000 - 10,000 taste buds. One taste bud has 50-100 taste cells.
9. No single taste bud cell has the ability to differentiate between bitter and sweet. They work in conjecture with each other.
10. Not all our taste buds are on our tongue; about 10% are on the palette and the cheeks.
11. The tongue is the main sensory organ of the taste sense. The upper surface of a tongue is covered with taste buds which contain taste receptors.
12. Taste receptors cannot actually taste food until saliva has moistened it, for example, we usually taste salty things first as salt dissolves quickly in moisture.
13. The bumps we can see on the tongue are called papillae. Taste buds sit on top of these papillae but are not visible to the human eye.
14. There are 4 basic tastes. The salt and sweet taste buds are mainly at the tip of the tongue, bitter at the base and sour along the sides.
15. Humans also use the tongue for a speech where it helps with changes in sound.
16. Your tongue is a natural cleaner. It starts clearing out food on your teeth after eating.
17. On average, women have shorter tongues than men.
18. The human tongue is divided into two parts the anterior and the posterior. The anterior part of the tongue is the visible part at the front and is about two-thirds of the tongue's length. The posterior tongue area is closest to the throat, and roughly one-third of the length.
19. There are eight muscles in the human tongue. They can be classified as intrinsic or extrinsic. There are four intrinsic muscles that are not attached to any bone, they are the muscles that allow the tongue to change shape, such as point, roll, tuck, etc. There are four extrinsic muscles that are attached to the bone, they allow the tongue to change position, such as poke out, retract, side to side movement.
20. The average length of the human tongue from the back to the tip is about 10 cm (4 in).
21. Stephen Taylor holds the Guinness World Record for the longest tongue, measuring 3.74 inches (9.5 cm). They measure the tongue from the tip to the center of the closed top lip.
22. Sticking your tongue out at people is seen as childish or rude in many countries, however, in Tibet, it is considered a greeting.
23. The tongue is a special kind of muscle called a muscular hydrostatic meaning it operates without any help from your skeletal structure, like an elephant trunk or octopus tentacle.
24. The blue whale has the largest tongue. It is the size of an elephant and weighs 5,400 lbs.
25. Some animal tongues are specially designed to catch prey. Chameleons, frogs, and anteaters have tongues that can extend out of their mouth and grab insects. A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
26. Giraffes have bluish-purple tongues which are tough and covered in bristly hair to help them with eating the thorny Acacia trees.
27. Dogs and cats often use their tongues to clean their fur and body. The very rough texture of their tongue allows them to remove oils and parasites.
28. Have you ever wondered why a dog's tongue hangs out of its mouth after a lot of exercises? Well, a dog's tongue increases in size as it exercises due to greater blood flow, moisture on the tongue works to cool this blood flow, cooling the dog.
29. Cats can't taste sweets. They have fewer taste buds than humans. Cats are obligate carnivores, meaning they eat only meat. As far as science knows, cats might be the only mammals incapable of enjoying ice cream.
30. Science has only recently discovered that when cats drink, it’s like a gravity-defying act. The tongue barely brushes the surface of a liquid before darting quickly back up, forming a column of water between the moving tongue and the surface of the liquid. Then the cat's jaws snap closes around this column of water, and the cat swallows it. Cats lap at a rate of 4 times per second which is too quick for humans to see. This amazing fact was only discovered after a series of high-speed photographs.

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### Falcon
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Last updated: 2025-12-28T09:30:13.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Falcons

1. The peregrine falcon is the largest falcon and perhaps the best hunter of all its family. It hunts in wild uplands and rocky coasts, scanning the landscape for prey with its astounding eyesight.
2. The Peregrine Falcon is a raptor or bird of prey. Adults have blue-gray wings, dark brown backs, a buff-colored underside with brown spots, and white faces with a black tear stripe on their cheeks.
3. Peregrine falcon's name comes from the Latin word peregrinus, which means "to wander."
4. Peregrine falcons are among the world's most common birds of prey and live on all continents except Antarctica.
5. Peregrine Falcons were virtually eradicated from eastern North America by pesticide poisoning in the middle 20th century.
6. After significant recovery efforts, the Peregrine Falcon population is increasing. There are an estimated 2,000 breeding pairs in the United States and Canada.
7. Their eyes are larger and heavier than human eyes and they can spot prey on the ground from a great height of 300m.
8. Amazingly falcons can keep track of three moving objects at the same time.
9. Soaring through the sky on broad, pointed wings, the streamlined peregrine falcon is a most impressive sight as it hunts down small birds. The force and impact of its breathtaking ‘stoop’, a sheer, high-speed dive is often enough to kill a victim outright while still in mid-air.
10. The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on the planet. In a ‘stoop’ they can reach up to speeds of 200 miles/hr.
11. A researcher has clocked their speed up to 242 miles/hr.
12. As per a BBC documentary film, only 20 percent of falcon’s high-speed dives end in a successful kill.
13. The air pressure from a 200 miles/hr dive could possibly damage a bird’s lungs, but small bony tubercles on a Peregrine Falcon’s nostrils guide the powerful airflow away from the nostrils, enabling the bird to breathe more easily.
14. The falcon’s prey is struck in one wing so the falcon does not injure itself. It then captures the prey in mid-air; the Peregrine Falcon strikes its prey with a clenched foot, stunning or killing it with the impact. If its prey is too heavy to carry, a Peregrine will drop it to the ground and eat it there.
15. The Peregrine Falcon’s upper beak is notched near the tip, an adaptation that enables falcons to kill prey by severing the spinal column at the neck.
16. The peregrine’s courtship involves the male passing food to the female, often when in flight. To make this maneuver possible, the female will roll over when flying to take the offered food from his talons.
17. Peregrine falcon chicks mature quickly. They have tremendous appetites and double their weight in just around 6 days. At three weeks of age, they are already around 10 times their size at birth.
18. The male peregrine is called a ‘tiercel’ because it is a tierce (one third) smaller in size than the female.
19. Falcons that nest on Arctic tundra and winter in South America fly as many as 15,500 miles in a year. The amazing fact is that peregrines will often return to the same eyrie (nest) each year.
20. The life span of falcons in the wild is up to 15 years.
21. In the UK the peregrine falcon can be spotted in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, in the Lake District, Devon, Cornwall, Wales, and Ireland. Many of the peregrines seen wintering in Britain will have come across the North Sea from Scandinavia.
22. During the Second World War peregrines were deliberately shot down in case they caught a pigeon that was carrying messages.
23. Today, the main predator to the peregrine is chemical pollutants, which they ingest from their prey and are highly sensitive to. The introduction of pesticides such as DDT saw numbers in Britain declined considerably. These poisons do not break down in the environment. Instead, they accumulate in the food chain, and birds such as falcons inevitably take in large quantities of such toxic substances.
24. Other factors that contributed to the decline of the peregrine falcon include gamekeepers who shot them to protect grouse. Their eggs are also highly prized by collectors.
25. In Britain, the peregrine falcon is a specially protected bird under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Individual birds nesting in vulnerable areas may also be guarded by volunteers. There are approximately 2000 pairs left in Britain.

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### Great Wall of China
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Last updated: 2025-12-26T09:30:39.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about the Great Wall of China

1. The Great Wall of China is the longest man-made structure in the world.
2. While the Great Wall of China is not one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it is still included in the Seven Wonders of the Medieval World.
3. In 1987, UNESCO placed the Great Wall on its list of the world’s great national and historical sites.
4. That the Great Wall of China is a single, continuous wall built all at once is a myth. In reality, the wall is a discontinuous network of wall segments built by various dynasties to protect China’s northern boundary.
5. The Great Wall of China was called “the longest cemetery on earth” because more than one million people died building it.
6. The main wall is around 2,145 miles (3,460 km) long with an extra 1,770 miles (2,860 km) of branches and spurs.
7. The widest section of the wall is around 30 ft while the highest point of the wall is around 26 ft.
8. The length of all Chinese defense walls built over the last 2,000 years is approximately 31,070 miles (50,000 km) which is more than the earth's circumference.
9. Nearly 1/3 of the Great Wall has disappeared without a trace.
10. The manpower to build the Great Wall came from frontier guards, peasants, unemployed intellectuals, disgraced noblemen, and convicts. In fact, there existed a special penalty during the Qin and Han dynasties under which convicted criminals were made to work on the Wall.
11. Amazingly the mortar used to bind stones were actually made from rice flour.
12. Numerous temples were built along the Great Wall for the worship of the war god, Guandi.
13. The Great Wall of China is 25 feet high in some places and ranges from 15-30 feet wide.
14. The highest point of the Great Wall is in Beijing at Heita Mountain (5,033 feet/1,534 meters). The lowest point is at Laolongtou (sea level).
15. The most visited section of the Great Wall is in Badaling, close to Beijing, which was built during the Ming Dynasty. It was the first section of the wall to open to tourists in 1957.
16. As early as the seventh century B.C., a number of smaller walls that served as fortifications and watch towers had been built around the country. Initially, each state that would be united in the first Chinese empire had its own individual wall.
17. The earliest extensive walls were built by Qin Shi Huang (260-210 B.C.) of the Qin dynasty, who first unified China. Little of those earliest walls remain.
18. Because the Great Wall was discontinuous, Mongol invaders led by Genghis Khan (“universal ruler”) had no problem going around the wall and they subsequently conquered most of northern China between A.D. 1211 and 1223\. They ruled all of China until 1368 when the Ming defeated the Mongols.
19. The dynasties after the Qin which seriously added to and rebuilt the Great Wall were the Han (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), Sui (A.D. 581-618), Jin (115-1234), and, most famously, the Ming (1368-1644). What survives today are the stone and brick walls predominately from the Ming dynasty.
20. Since 1644, when the Ming Dynasty was overthrown, no further work has been done on the Great Wall except some restoration after 1957.
21. Contrary to common belief, the Great Wall of China cannot be seen from the moon without aid.
22. According to legend, a helpful dragon traced out the course of the Great Wall for the workforce. The builders subsequently followed the tracks of the dragon.
23. President Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972 dramatically increased tourism to the Wall. With increased tourism, sections of the Wall were restored, and after Mao Zedong’s death, the Chinese government recognized the Wall as a unifying symbol of the nation.
24. The most famous section of the Great Wall, Badaling which is close to Beijing has been visited by over 300 heads of state the first of which was Soviet statesman Klim Voroshilov in 1957.
25. The Jiankou section of the Great Wall, known for being steep and winding, enjoys the most appearances on Great Wall picture books and postcards.
26. China receives more than 50 million foreign visitors to visit the Great Wall of China.
27. During the Ming dynasty, nearly one million soldiers were said to defend the Great Wall from “barbarians” and non-Chinese.
28. The last battle fought at the Great Wall was in 1938 during the Sino-Japanese War, which was between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
29. The Great Wall of China is threatened with erosion. The northwestern sections (e.g. in Gansu and Ningxia provinces) of the Great Wall are deteriorating very quickly and may disappear within 20 years due to demolishment by nature and humans.
30. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), many bricks of the Great Wall were taken away to use in building homes, farms, or reservoirs. Actually, the government actively encouraged it then.

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### Reindeer
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Last updated: 2025-12-24T09:30:01.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Reindeer

1. Reindeers are the only deer in which males and females both have antlers though these are larger in the males than females and only some females have them.
2. Reindeer are the only mammals that grow new sets of antlers annually.
3. They live in huge herds as both resident and migratory populations.
4. Reindeer stands about four feet high at the shoulder. Adults weigh about 100 to 120 Kg.
5. As summer approaches, many reindeer herds of tens or even hundreds of thousands head north along well-trodden annual routes.
6. Amazingly reindeers migrate the furthest of any terrestrial mammal, traveling up to 5,000 km a year.
7. During migration, herds of cows (females) leave several weeks before the males, who follow with yearling calves from the previous birthing season.
8. Normally traveling about 20–55 km a day while migrating, the reindeer can run at speeds of 60–80 km/h.
9. At the end of their journey, they spend the summer feeding on the abundant grasses and plants of the tundra. In these rich grounds, an adult reindeer can eat 5 kg of food each day.
10. Reindeers make a clicking sound as tendons in their feet stretch across their foot bones. This helps them to stay together even in a blizzard.
11. Cows have one calf each year after a gestation period of seven to eight months.
12. Babies can stand after only a few minutes. They can run several miles a couple of hours of birth with their mother.
13. Reindeer milk is possibly the richest milk produced by any terrestrial mammal, at 20 percent fat.
14. When the first snows fall each year, they turn back south to spend the winter in more sheltered climes and survive by feeding on lichens.
15. Reindeer have a strong sense of smell, and it's that sense of smell that assist them in finding the lichen under the snow. They can sniff out the plant material easily, even though snow that is 60 centimeters deep.
16. It is amazing that reindeer changes eye color in summer and winter. In summer, the golden glow of reindeer eyes is due to the light-reflecting tapetum lucidum (a mirrored layer situated behind the retina). But in the fading light of winter, the tapetum undergoes a complex transformation that changes the type of light it can reflect and also gives it a blue appearance.
17. Reindeer thrive in cold climates. They have hooves that allow them to easily walk on snow and ice unlike deer and moose.
18. Their hollow hairs give them extra insulation from the extreme cold and give increased buoyancy allowing them to easily float.
19. Reindeer hooves expand in summer when the ground is soft and shrink in winter when the ground is hard.
20. Reindeer feet are the widest of feet any deer which helps in walking on ice.
21. Reindeer have large hooves that are big enough to support the animal's bulk on snow and to paddle it efficiently through the water. The hoof's underside is hollowed out like a scoop and used for digging through the snow in search of food. Its sharp edges give the animal good purchase on rocks or ice.
22. A reindeer can swim at speeds up to 10 km/h and migrating herds will not hesitate to swim across a large lake or broad river.
23. When temperatures become frigid, they have the amazing ability to lower the temperature in their legs to near freezing levels. This keeps their core body heat even.
24. For winter grazing they grow their facial hair long enough to cover their mouths, protecting their muzzles from the snow.
25. Amazingly reindeer have no internal body clock. The animals are missing a "circadian clock" that influences processes including the sleep-wake cycle and metabolism. This enables them to better cope with the extreme Arctic seasons of polar day, when the sun stays up all day, and polar night, when it does not rise.
26. Just recently it has been discovered that reindeers are the only mammal's that can see ultra violet light. While human vision cuts off at wavelengths around 400 nm, reindeers can see up to 320 nm. Reindeer see things in the glowing white of the Arctic that they would otherwise miss.
27. The Grey Wolf and bear are the most effective natural predator of adult reindeer, especially during the winter. Golden eagles prey on calves and are the most prolific hunter on calving grounds.
28. To the Sami, the indigenous people of northern Finland, reindeer are important animals both in their culture and for sustenance. They have approximately 400 words for the food, tools and other products and parts related to reindeer.
29. Reindeer have been in retreat from humans for decades and numbers are plummeting around the world.
30. Several groups of indigenous Arctic and Subarctic people hunt wild reindeer and herd semi-domesticated reindeer for meat, hides, antlers, milk, and transportation.

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### Barak Obama
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Last updated: 2025-12-22T09:30:46.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Barak Obama

1. Barack Hussein Obama is named after his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936-1982). “Barack” means “blessing/blessed/to bless” in Swahili and “Hussein” is a word meaning “good” or “beautiful.” Swahili was Obama Sr.’s native language.
2. Obama is distantly related to Vice President Dick Cheney. He is also eligible for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution; one of his maternal great great great grandfathers was a decorated Union soldier.
3. Barak Obama won the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination by defeating Hilary Clinton, the former first lady, and New York senator, and then took the presidency by beating Republican Senator John McCain. His energetic campaign was built on a theme of "hope and change" fueled by powerful oratory.
4. He became the 44th president of the United States in 2009 and the first African American to do so. A mood of national optimism prevailed at Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009, which drew an estimated 1.8 million people to the National Mall in Washington despite the bitter cold. He began his presidency with a 68 percent approval rating.
5. He was named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year” in 2008\. He was then awarded the Nobel Peace Prize although some critics said it was too soon since he had only been recently elected as president.
6. He was reelected in November 2012 after defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney and sworn in for his second final term on January 20, 2013.
7. Obama is left-handed. He can speak Spanish. He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol.
8. Barak Obama simultaneously oversaw wars in Iraq, which he ended in 2011, and Afghanistan, as well as the US military involvement in Libya that helped oust Muammar Gaddafi. In May 2011, he authorized the raid in which US Navy seals killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
9. The centerpiece of his domestic agenda was the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare reform law better known as Obamacare which gave all Americans affordable insurance and more protections, but critics say it is expensive federal interference. Obama struggled to revive the economy and create jobs.
10. Barak Obama’s grandfather, Hussin Onyango Obama (c. 1895-1979) was recruited to work for Kenya’s colonial power, Great Britain, during WWI. The British imprisoned and tortured him for taking part in the Kenyan revolution after WWII. He converted from Christianity to Islam.
11. Barak Obama has many, many relatives, as Obama’s father, paternal grandfather, and paternal great grandfather each had several wives and many children. His grandfather was known in the family as “The Terror” and his father was called “Old Man.”
12. Barak Obama’s father was born into Kenya’s Luo tribe near Lake Victoria. He initially identified himself as a Muslim but spent much of his adult life as an atheist. He was accepted to the University of Hawaii with full tuition at the age of 23, he left his pregnant first wife (Kezia) and son in the care of his father’s third wife Sarah Hussein Onyango in Kenya. He was the first person in the Obama family to leave Africa to live in another country.
13. Barak Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995) came from an old American family. The entire family moved to Hawaii in 1959 the same year Barack Obama Sr. arrived. Obama’s father and mother met in a Russian class at the University of Hawaii when she was 18 years old.
14. In 1961, Ann and Barack Obama Sr. wed in a small civil ceremony. Ann was already three months pregnant with Barack at the time of the wedding and was under the impression Obama Sr. was divorced from his first wife. In 1961, interracial marriage was still illegal in some states, but not in Hawaii.
15. Barack Obama Sr.’s father was outright opposed to his son’s marriage to Ann Durham because he thought his son was neglecting his wife and two children in Kenya.
16. Obama (who was often called “Barry” or “Bar”) was born on August 4, 1961, at the Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii.
17. When Obama was only two years old, his father left his family to pursue his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1963\. Barack would see him only one more time before his death in 1985.
18. In 1964, Obama’s mother filed for divorce from Barack Obama Sr. while he was pursuing his graduate degree at Harvard. In 1965, Obama Sr. completed his master’s degree and returned to Kenya with another woman, Ruth Nidesand, a Caucasian American-born teacher.
19. In 1967, Barack Obama’s mother married her second husband, Lolo (“Crazy”) Soetoro from Indonesia. Lolo practiced a form of Islam that incorporated ideas from other belief systems.
20. While living in Indonesia with his mother and Lolo for four years, Obama played in rice paddies, rode water buffalo, and ate chili peppers, dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper. Baby alligators, chickens, and ducks lived in the yard. For the first time, he also encountered people who had leprosy and lived in extreme poverty.
21. In 1970, Barak Obama’s mother and Lolo had a daughter, Barack’s half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng. In 1971, Ann sent Barack back to Hawaii after realizing she did not want him to grow up in Indonesia. She later divorced Lolo.
22. Obama lived with maternal grandparents and received a scholarship to Punahou, a prestigious prep school in Hawaii. He graduated in 1979 with honors.
23. Barak Obama’s mother Ann died in 1995 of ovarian and uterine cancer.
24. Barack Obama Sr. was involved in a car accident in 1982 at age 46 which led to both his legs being amputated.
25. When Barak Obama was 21, he received a call from Nairobi that his father was involved in yet another car accident and had died. He left behind three ex-wives, a mistress, six sons, and a daughter. He is buried where he grew up in Kenya’s Siaya District.
26. Barak Obama worked at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager and now dislikes ice cream. He also has worked in construction.
27. As a teenager, he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine.
28. While at Punahou Academy, Barack befriended Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987), a journalist, poet, and supposed communist whom he looked to as a role model.
29. In 1995, Barak Obama published his autobiography, *Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance*. He won a Grammy award for the audio version of the book. His second book, *The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts of Reclaiming the American Dream*, was endorsed by Oprah Winfrey and became a best seller.
30. Following 9/11, Obama was an early opponent of President George W. Bush’s plan to go to war with Iraq.
31. Barak Obama is a Christian and a former member of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. He has never been a Muslim.
32. Barak Obama met his wife Michelle Robinson, a South Side Chicago native, while he was interning at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. She was his mentor and was not initially attracted to him but after a two-year courtship, they were married in the fall of 1992 at the Trinity United Church of Christ.
33. Obama’s race against Alan Keyes in 2004 marked the first time in U.S. history that two African-Americans ran as major-party nominees for a Senate seat. Obama beat Keyes by the widest margin for a Senate race in Illinois history.
34. Barak Obama reads Harry Potter to his oldest daughter Malia every night when he is home. He has read every Harry Potter book.
35. Barak Obama once said the three men he admired the most were Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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### Tornado
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Last updated: 2025-12-20T09:30:52.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Tornado

1. Tornadoes are usually the extreme result of a very large thunderstorm called a supercell.
2. Tornadoes begin when the sun heats up the surface of the land. As the warm, less heavy air begins to rise, it meets the colder, heavier air above it. The faster-moving air begins to spin and roll over the slower wind gathering pace and growing in size. Initially it is an invisible, horizontal wind spinning and rolling like a cylinder.
3. Later stronger and more powerful warm air forces the spinning winds vertically upward, causing an updraft and gathering momentum and creating a vortex. Now it moves in the direction of the thunderstorm winds. When the pointed part of the tornado touched the ground from the cloud, it is often referred to as 'touch down'. As it moves it rips off things along its path. Its bottom end that stays in touch with the earth has a cloud of debris and dust surrounding it.
4. Tornadoes also go by the name of Twisters.
5. The whirling wind in a tornado can reach a speed of 300 miles per hour but usually stays anywhere between 110 and 300 mph. It is this wind speed that gives a tornado its destructive power.
6. Usually, some of the Tornadoes are found to last for only a few minutes but they can last up to 2 hours. In extreme cases, a tornado can last up to 4 hours.
7. Tornadoes can be really tall reaching the height of 75 feet!
8. Tornadoes move forward and they can actually move at a speed of 73 miles or 117 kilometers an hour.
9. Long-lasting Tornadoes can leave a destruction trail which can be 50 miles long and 1 mile wide.
10. Tornadoes have categories based on their destructive force. Their destructive force is measured using the Fujita Scale and are categorized as F1, F2, F3, F4, or F5 category Tornadoes.
11. F5s are terrible and the worst of the lot! They are the most destructive Tornadoes known to humans. There are several factors that are considered while categorizing these nasty fellows such as duration, distance travel, wind speed and more.
12. Tornadoes die just like everything else on this earth. They will last as long as their source of war air exists.
13. A tornado is associated with rainfall. This rain drags a region of rapidly descending air region, which scientists call as RFD or rear flank downdraft. This drag in turn drags the area of organized rotation known as the Meso cyclone of the super cell from which the tornado originated. This drag eventually cools down the RFD and chokes the tornado by cutting off the warm air source and thereby dissipating the tornado.
14. In 1925, the United States was hit by an F5 tornado that lasted for nearly 3.5 hours and traveled a distance of 219 miles. The tornado passed through parts of Illinois, Missouri and Indiana and is popular by the name Tri-State Tornado.
15. Tornadoes do not have any consistent shape or structure. They can be long and thin like ropes or they can be wide and spiral.
16. Tornadoes can occur over water bodies. These Tornadoes are known as waterspout tornadoes. There may be multiple-vortex Tornadoes!
17. There is no open area that can be considered as tornado-safe.
18. A tornado will look transparent when it starts until it actually hits the earth and starts picking up mud, dust and other debris.
19. When a tornado just starts rising, the sky takes a characteristic greenish hue.
20. Scientists make use of Pulse-Doppler radar for detecting Tornadoes. Data collection by this radar is based on the study of surrounding air reflectivity and velocity. Scientists also look for hook echoes and debris ball effects for detecting Tornadoes.
21. Cyclonic spin is characterized by clockwise spin in the southern hemisphere and anticlockwise spin in the northern hemisphere. Anti-cyclonic, on the other hand, is a ridge or high-pressure circulation in the southern and northern hemispheres.
22. The fastest winds on earth are found in Tornadoes forming condensed water funnel.
23. There is no specific time for tornado occurrences and a tornado can hit anytime throughout the year. However, the frequency of tornado occurrences is at its peak between April and May.
24. Tornadoes will usually travel a few miles before they die out.
25. Around 1200 Tornadoes hit the United States every year.
26. Bangladesh ranks 3rd in terms of the frequency of Tornadoes. The US ranks first followed by Canada.
27. Bangladesh was hit by the most destructive tornado ever recorded in entire world. The tornado claimed more than 1300 lives and hit Bangladesh in 1989 on April 26\. The tornado left a trail of complete devastation within 6 square kilometers. Except for a few tree skeletons, no other standing infrastructures were found.
28. The best place to hide during a tornado is a basement or any underground area.
29. It is widely believed that a tornado can make a house explode if a low pressure is developed inside the tornado. The actual fact is that the debris inside a tornado slams against house causing greater structural damage.
30. The noise made by Tornadoes vary and depend on the objects they pick and carry along their path. Tornadoes moving along open plain have little noise to offer.

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### McDonald
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Last updated: 2025-12-18T09:30:31.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about McDonald

1. In 1940, brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald opened up the first McDonald’s restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Eight years later, they switched to burgers, shakes, potato chips, and pie.
2. In 1955, the first franchise was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.
3. McDonald’s first drive-thru opened in 1975 in Sierra Vista, Arizona. The restaurant was located near a military base, and soldiers were not allowed to leave their cars.
4. Founder Richard McDonald first sketched the Golden Arches as an architectural feature to attract customers in cars looking from the roadside.
5. McDonald’s has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers.
6. In the United States alone, people eat over 1 billion pounds of beef at McDonald’s in a year, which is 5½ million head of cattle.
7. McDonald’s best-selling menu item is French fries! They debuted in 1949\. Before that, only potato chips were available. McDonald’s serves about 4 million Kg of fries globally per day.
8. McDonald's Corporation sells over 1 billion cups of coffee each year around the world. It sells 500 million cups a day in the U.S. alone.
9. McDonald’s opens a new restaurant every fourteen hours.
10. McDonald’s is the nation’s largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes. It is the second-largest purchaser of chicken.
11. Each year, McDonald’s buys 1.5 million Tons of potatoes. In fact, about 7% of all the potatoes grown in the U.S. are turned into McDonald's fries.
12. McDonald’s buys 25000 Tons of fresh apples a year.
13. 75% of all sesame seeds grown in Mexico end up on McDonald's hamburger buns.
14. McDonald’s Corporation is the largest owner of retail property in the world. The company earns most of its profits not from selling food, but by collecting rent.
15. The smallest McDonald’s restaurant is only 492 square feet. It is in Tokyo, Japan while the largest McDonald’s restaurant is over 28,000 square feet and is located in Beijing.
16. Amazingly the top 10 busiest McDonald’s restaurants are all in Hong Kong.
17. There are nearly 36000 McDonald’s worldwide. McDonald's makes about US$75 million per day.
18. McDonald's is not the world's largest restaurant chain. Subway is.
19. The KL Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia houses the highest McDonald's in the world.
20. The most northern McDonald’s restaurant is on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland.
21. The most southerly McDonald’s franchise is in Invercargill, New Zealand.
22. The Queen of England owns a McDonald's near Buckingham Palace.
23. Only seven items on the McDonald’s menu contain no sugar.
24. More than 80, 000 students from around the globe have graduated with “Bachelor of Hamburgerology” degrees from McDonald’s “Hamburger University.”
25. The amazing fact is that the McDonald's website for its workers tells them to avoid fast food.
26. McDonald’s largest market outside the U.S is Japan, with over 3,000 restaurants.
27. In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald due to a lack of a clear "R" sound in Japanese.
28. Every day, McDonald’s feeds over 68 million people. This is more than the entire population of the U.K.
29. A McDonald’s strawberry milkshake contains about 50 chemicals that are used to imitate the flavor of strawberries.
30. McDonald’s won’t open a franchise unless it’s economically viable in a territory, which is why the presence of the food giant is sometimes used as an indicator of the country’s financial stability.
31. McDonald’s tried to open a restaurant in Bermuda, but the local outcry was so widespread that a law was passed banning all franchised restaurants in the country
32. Countries that have banned McDonald’s include North Korea, Bolivia, Macedonia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Iceland, Yemen, Bermuda, Montenegro, and Kazakhstan.
33. The unhealthiest item on the McDonald’s menu is the “Big Breakfast with Hotcakes and Large Size Biscuit.” It has a whopping 1,150 calories, 60 grams of fat, 20 grams of saturated fat, 17 grams of sugar, 575 milligrams of cholesterol, 116 grams of carbohydrates, and 2,260 grams of sodium.
34. In 1992, 79-year-old customer Stella Liebeck sustained 3 rd degree burns after spilling a cup of McDonald’s coffee. She was awarded about half of a million dollars in total damages.
35. Of the 196 countries in the world, McDonald’s is in 119 (61%) of them.
36. There are 179 McDonald's restaurants in India, a country where most people do not eat beef or pork. McDonald’s restaurants in India are the only ones in the world where a person cannot buy beef.
37. McDonald’s sells more than 75 hamburgers per second.
38. Soda creates a huge profit margin for McDonald's. At least 5% of McDonald’s revenue comes from soft drinks. The profit margin for a fast-food soda could be as much as 1200 %.
39. The Big Mac was introduced in 1968\. The calories in a Big Mac depend on the way a specific McDonald’s restaurant adapts it to the regional cuisine. In the United States, the Big Mac has 550 calories. In Australia, it has 493 calories. In Japan, it has 557 calories.
40. McDonald’s opened a Big Mac Museum Restaurant in western Pennsylvania on August 22, 2007, to celebrate the sandwich’s 40th anniversary. It houses the world’s largest Big Mac statue, at 14 feet tall and 12 feet wide.
41. McDonald’s makes burgers like Ford makes cars: with an assembly line method.
42. McDonald’s spends more than $1 billion a year on direct media advertising.
43. McDonald’s is the largest distribution of toys in the world. It gives away around 1.5 billion toys each year with Happy Meals.
44. McDonald’s operates more playgrounds than any other private entity in the United States.
45. A potential concern for genetically modified organisms encouraged McDonald’s to state that it would no longer purchase genetically engineered potatoes in the U.S. In Europe also McDonald’s doesn’t use genetically modified foods due to restrictions imposed by the EU and national laws.
46. McDonald’s is the 68th biggest economy, which is larger than Ecuador.
47. McDonald’s employs 1 million workers in the U.S. every year, more than any other American organization, public or private. One in every eight American workers has been employed by McDonald’s.
48. McDonald’s company brand value is over US$85 billion. Starbucks is the second-ranked fast food outlet, at an estimated brand value of $25 billion. Other valuations are Subway ($21 billion), KFC ($12 billion), Pizza Hut ($8 billion).
49. Since 1948, McDonald’s has sold over 4 trillion fries. If they were placed end to end, they would circle the globe about 19000 times. It would be enough fries to go to the moon and back 300 times and to Jupiter and back 2 times.
50. Paris is the only place in the world where McDonald’s arches are white instead of golden.

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### Coconut Water
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Last updated: 2025-12-16T09:30:39.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Coconut Water

1. Coconut water is a clear water-like liquid that is sweet and tasty and is found inside the young immature coconuts, which are fruits of the coconut palm (*Cocos Nucifera*).
2. Cocos nucifera is native to the tropics and in the remote islands of the Pacific.
3. Coconut has to reach about 5-7 months of age for the purpose of reaping its drink. Each coconut may contain about 200 to 1000 ml of water depending upon cultivar type and size.
4. Any nuts younger than five months of age tend to be bitter in taste and devoid of nutrients. In contrast, mature coconuts contain less water, and their endosperm thickens quickly into a white edible substances (kernel).
5. Coconut water is indeed nature's best healthy nutritional beverage.
6. When freshly extracted from the coconut, coconut water is germ-free and parasites-free. Fresh coconut water is uncontaminated by bacteria, fungi, or other pathogens. It is nature's best-distilled water.
7. Coconut water is rich in electrolytes like Potassium, Chlorides, Calcium, Magnesium, and Sodium that are essential for maintaining the proper functioning of the body. 100 ml of water has 250 mg of potassium and 105 mg of sodium.
8. One coconut provides more potassium than four bananas.
9. Coconut water also contains a complex array of nutrients including trace minerals that come directly from the sea and which most other foods lack.
10. Coconut water has been tested for its antimicrobial properties and it has been noted that it contains biochemicals called peptides, which can kill both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
11. Coconut-water is composed of many naturally occurring bioactive enzymes such as acid phosphatase, catalase, dehydrogenase, diastase, peroxidase, RNA-polymerases, etc. In effect, these enzymes help in digestion and metabolism.
12. Most of the coconut-water found in stores is pasteurized or from concentrate is devoid of these enzymes.
13. Coconut water also contains Vitamin C and is a very good source of B-complex vitamins such as riboflavin, niacin, thiamin, pyridoxine, and folates.
14. Coconut-water provides antioxidants, which reduce the activity of many toxins in the liver.
15. Coconut water is fat-free and cholesterol-free.
16. Compared to the WHO-ORS solution, its water is low in sodium and chlorides, but rich in sugars and amino acids.
17. Being a natural laxative, coconut water is one of the best natural remedies for constipation. It can be taken for colon and bowel cleansing to eliminate toxic substances from the body.
18. It is an effective oral rehydration solution. The presence of saline and albumen makes it a good drink in diarrhea cases.
19. Coconut-water is useful as an intravenous solution in an emergency. It is also useful as a blood plasma substitute.
20. It is a useful diuretic and helps dissolve kidney and urethral stones.

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### Diabetes
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Last updated: 2025-12-14T09:30:02.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Diabetes

1. The word “diabetes” is Greek for “siphon,” which refers to the copious urine of uncontrolled diabetes. “Mellitus” is Latin for “honey” or “sweet,” a name added when physicians discovered that the urine from people with diabetes is sweet with glucose.
2. The name “diabetes” is attributed to the famed Greek physician Aretaeus of Cappadocia who practiced in the first century A.D. He believed that diabetes was caused by snakebite.
3. The earliest recorded mention of a disease that can be recognized as diabetes is found in the Ebers papyrus (1500 B.C).
4. William Cullen (1710-1790), a professor of chemistry and medicine in Scotland, is responsible for adding the term “Mellitus” (“sweet” or “honey-like”) to the word diabetes.
5. About one-third of all people with diabetes do not know they have the disease. Type 2 diabetes often does not have any symptoms.
6. Diabetes mellitus is a general name that encompasses several types of diabetes, including Type 1, Type 2, gestational, and variations such as maturity-onset diabetes in the young (MODY) and latent autoimmune diabetes of adulthood (LADA). What they all have in common is the inability to self-regulate levels of blood glucose (cellular fuel) in the body.
7. A normal fasting (no food for 8 hours) blood sugar level is between 70 and 100 mg/dL. A normal blood sugar level two hours after eating is less than 140 mg/dL.
8. Diabetes is diagnosed by 2 consecutive fasting blood glucose tests that are equal to or greater than 125 mg/dL OR any random blood glucose that is greater than 200 mg/dL OR an A1c test that is equal to or greater than 6.5 percent. A1c is a blood test that gives a three-month average of blood sugars OR A two-hour oral glucose tolerance test with any value over 200 mg/dL.
9. Prediabetes indicates you carry a risk to develop diabetes. It is diagnosed by any one of the following: A fasting blood glucose in between 100-125 mg/dL OR an A1c between 5.7 - 6.4 percent OR any value between 140 mg/dL and 200 mg/dL during a two-hour oral glucose tolerance test.
10. In 1889, Oskar Minkowski (1858-191931) discovered the link between diabetes and the pancreas when a dog from which he removed the pancreas developed diabetes.
11. Insulin was coined from the Latin insula (“island”) because the hormone is secreted by the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas.
12. Before the discovery of insulin, surgeons rarely operated on diabetic patients with gangrene because the patients typically would not heal and would inevitably die.
13. Insulin was first isolated at the University of Toronto by a team led by scientist Frederick Banting from Ox in 1921\. They then went on to give insulin to dozens of dying children and stood back to watch the miracles. The following year, Banting was granted the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
14. Banting and his team could have potentially made billions from insulin discovery but they chose to sell the patent to the University of Toronto for just half a dollar.
15. Initially, the insulin was extracted from the pancreas of a cow (bovine) or pig (porcine). Today’s insulins are created in the lab, cultured from bacteria and yeast through recombinant DNA.
16. Before the discovery of insulin, physicians would often put their patients on starvation or semi-starvation diets, recommending they eat only foods such as oatmeal.
17. In 1942, the first oral type 2 diabetes medication was identified, a sulfonylurea.
18. Obesity has led to a dramatic increase in Type 2 diabetes. Approximately 90% of people with Type 2 diabetes are found to be obese. Excess abdominal fat, is a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes.
19. Overweight individuals are more prone to develop diabetes because more fat requires more insulin, fat cells release free fatty acids which interfere with glucose metabolism, and overweight people have fewer available insulin receptors.
20. Smoking can increase diabetes risk by constricting blood vessels, raising blood pressure, and stimulating the release of catecholamines (fight-or-flight hormones), which promote insulin resistance.
21. Gestational diabetes occurs in about 200,000 or 7% of U.S. pregnancies annually.
22. Diabetes in the United States alone costs $200 billion annually. This figure includes direct medical costs, such as insulin, amputations, and hospitalizations as well as indirect costs, such as lost productivity, early retirement, and disability.
23. Some researchers have found links between the onset of Type 1 diabetes and the contracting of a virus, especially the mumps or Coxsackie virus.
24. African-Americans and Hispanics have a much higher rate of Type 2 diabetes than whites. There are 74 cases per 1,000 for African-Americans, 61 cases for Hispanics, and 36 cases for whites. Approximately one in three African-American women between the ages of 65-74 have diabetes.
25. Diabetes in Asians is five times the rate of the white population. Those with severe diabetes run the risk of slipping into diabetic coma either due to very high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) or too low blood sugar (hypoglycemia).
26. One of the worst complication of diabetes is diabetic neuropathy, which is damage to the blood vessels that supply the nerves presenting itself as a numb, painful, tingling sensation, particularly in the feet. Often, diabetics have peripheral arterial disease which restricts blood-flow to the feet. The skin becomes dry and sensitive, and is more likely to develop ulcers. The lack of circulation makes infection difficult to fight off and even with prompt medical treatment, amputation is often necessary.
27. Diabetes is the main cause of blindness in individuals aged 20-75 . Early detection and treatment could prevent up to 90% of cases of blindness that are related to diabetes.
28. Approximately 11% of all Americans aged 65-74 have diabetes. About 20% of those over 75 years old have diabetes, and nearly half of them are unaware they have the disease.
29. Approximately 25 million U.S. residents have been diagnosed with diabetes, which is nearly 10% of the estimated 250 million people suffering from diabetes worldwide. Only about five percent of all people with diabetes have type 1 diabetes.
30. Men with diabetes are at a greater risk for erectile dysfunction (ED) than non-diabetic men. Approximately 50-60% of men with diabetes over the age of 50 have problems with ED. Additionally, ED becomes a problem for diabetic men about 10 to 15 years earlier than a non-diabetic man.
31. Those with diabetes are more likely to develop carpal tunnel syndrome and tarsal tunnel syndrome.
32. Individuals with diabetes are at much greater risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia than are non-diabetics, though the reasons are unknown.
33. Individuals with diabetes are more susceptible to complications of flu and pneumonia and are six times more likely to be hospitalized for these problems than non-diabetics.
34. Experts believe that diabetes decreases life expectancy by five to 10 years.
35. Men have a higher risk of death from diabetes than women.
36. Research has found that babies who breastfeed at least three months had a lower incidence of Type 1 diabetes and may be less likely to become obese as adults.
37. Women with diabetes are more likely to develop vaginal infections than are non-diabetics because of their elevated glucose levels.
38. Diabetics have a higher risk of gingivitis than non-diabetics, which may lead to bone and tooth loss.
39. Diabetes has been reported in horses, ferrets, and ground squirrels. In environments where animals are liberally fed, diabetes has been reported in dolphins, foxes, and even a hippopotamus.
40. Inhaled insulin is an emerging twenty-first century option for people with Type 1 diabetes. Companies are also working on an insulin tablet that can be given under the tongue.
41. The soluble fiber in oatmeal helps control blood glucose levels.
42. The human body is equipped with 60,000 miles of blood vessels and wired with 100,000 miles of nerve fibers. Diabetes often blocks the cardiovascular system and deadens nerves, causing 80% of deaths among patients with diabetes.
43. India is the diabetes capital of the world with over 40 million people with diabetes. By 2025, this number is expected to swell to 70 million, meaning every fifth diabetic in the world would be Indian.
44. Diabetes causes 6 deaths every minute and one in 20 deaths in the world is due to the condition. Every year it is estimated that 3.5 million people in the world die due to the diabetes or its related causes.
45. Diabetes is responsible for over one million amputations each year, a large percentage of cataracts, and at least 5% of blindness worldwide.
46. 44% of all kidney failure cases are caused by diabetes nephropathy.
47. Certain diseases such as cystic fibrosis, pancreatitis, hemochromatosis, and Cushing’s syndrome may cause pancreatic beta cell destruction that leads to diabetes.
48. The five countries with the highest percentage of diabetes are Nauru, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
49. In 1969, Ames Diagnostics came up with the first portable blood glucose meter called the Ames Reflectance Meter (ARM). Ames later became a part of Bayer.
50. Diabetes insipidus (water diabetes) is a condition completely different from diabetes mellitus characterized by a problem with the kidneys in which the kidneys are unable to concentrate urine adequately due to a deficiency in the antidiuretic hormone (ADH).

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### Pine Apple
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Last updated: 2025-12-12T09:30:39.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts About Pine Apple

1. Pineapples are thought to have originated in Brazil and Paraguay in South America.
2. Scientifically, it is known as "Ananas comosus".
3. Pineapple is a tropical, perennial, drought-tolerant plant that grows up to 5-8 ft in height and spreads around about three to four ft. It is essentially a short, stout stem with a rosette of waxy long, needle-tipped leaves.
4. It was spread by the Indians up through South and Central America to the West Indies before Columbus carried it back to Spain from where it spread to the world.
5. They were first discovered by Columbus in 1493 on the Caribbean Island now known as Guadeloupe.
6. Pineapples, like tomatoes, spread around the world so thoroughly because they were popularly kept onboard ships as protection against scurvy.
7. When European explorers first encountered the fruit in the Americas, they called them "pineapples" because of the resemblance to pine cones.
8. The pineapple in *fact* reached England in 1660 and began to be grown in greenhouses for its fruit around 1720.
9. The Spanish introduced the first pineapples to Hawaii. The state is now one of the top pineapple producers in the world, producing one-third of the world's pineapple crop and 60 percent of the world's canned pineapple.
10. In 1911, Henry Ginaca invented the Ginaca machine that could peel and core 35 pineapples per minute, making canned pineapple much easier to produce. Before this, each pineapple had to be peeled and cored by hand.
11. Today the largest producers are from South east Asia i.e. Thailand and Philippines. Other major producers are Brazil and Costa Rica.
12. It takes almost 3 years for a single pineapple to reach maturation. Pineapple plants have really pretty flowers.
13. A pineapple is ripe if one of its top leaves can easily be pulled out.
14. Pineapple plants require a frost-free environment. They are small enough to be easily covered when frost threatens and cold weather adversely affects the fruit quality.
15. Did you know one pineapple plant produces only one pineapple every 2 years ? A pineapple plant can fruit for up to 50 years in the wild.
16. You can plant your own pineapple plant by cutting off the top of a pineapple, allowing it to dry for 2-3 days and planting it in soil.
17. The pineapple plant's flowers which can vary from lavender to bright red produce berries that actually coalesce together around the fruit's core. So the pineapple fruit itself is in *fact* a bunch of "fruitlets" fused together.
18. Gold pineapples are naturally sweet, high in vitamin C and low in acid and have a much darker golden flesh than traditional smooth pineapples. In fact, one serve (100gm) of Pure Gold pineapple provides your recommended daily intake of Vitamin C ( 35 mg) while Smoothies Pineapple provides about 12 mg.
19. Vitamin C and other antioxidants found in pine apple are essential for collagen synthesis, Vitamin C also helps to maintain the integrity of your blood vessels, skin, organs and bones. Antioxidants is also great for boosting your immune system fighting off colds and flu in winter.
20. Pineapple is also known for its high level of manganese. The Manganese mineral is an essential element for energy production, while protecting your cells from free radicals. It helps your body use key nutrients including thiamine and biotin, keeps your bones healthy and helps synthesise fatty foods.
21. Pineapple is also a rich source in Vitamin A and Beta-Carotene, which helps your immune system, eyesight and protects from free radicals; Vitamins B1 and B6 which are good for energy production and the breakdown of sugars and starches in your digestive system; copper, which helps red blood cell synthesis; and potassium, which assists in controlling the heart rate and blood pressure.
22. Once harvested, pineapples don't continue to ripen. Don't buy one and save it for a week, thinking it will ripen. In *fact*, a fully ripe pineapple is quite perishable.
23. You should eat it within two days if it's stored at room temperature and within about a week if it's refrigerated.
24. The sweetest part of a pineapple is its outermost flesh, however, which means you should slice the skin off the sides as thinly as possible and you should leave the eyes (brown spots) .The eyes all lined up in diagonal rows and you can easily cut them out in a small "V" cuts.
25. Pineapples are high in fibre, fat free , low in saturated fats , cholesterol and salt free and is excellent for weight loss.
26. It is low in calories. 100 g fruit provides just about 50 calories equivalent to that of apples.
27. Bromelain is an enzyme contained in pineapple, which breaks down proteins. It’s good for meat tenderizing. It has been shown to be an effective anti-inflammatory, muscle relaxant , anti-clotting agent and aids digestion by digesting proteins and it also includes chemicals that interfere with the growth of tumor cells, making pineapple a good food to prevent cancer.
28. Bromelain found in pineapples an enzyme that breakdown proteins can also digest proteins in your mouth membranes if kept long enough. So when you eat a pineapple, it is eating you back.
29. Because of presence of Bromelain enzyme, you can’t put fresh pineapple in jelly, because it breaks down the gelatin being protein. You can stop this by boiling the chunks of pineapple in their juice or in water for a few minutes or using canned pineapple as canning destroys Bromelain.
30. Pineapple canneries use every bit of the pineapple. The skins, core, and end portions are used to make a variety of products including vinegar, alcohol, and animal food.

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### Black Hole
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Last updated: 2025-12-10T09:30:26.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Black Hole

1. The most intriguing and the most elusive thing in the entire universe known to mankind is the Black Hole.
2. Black Holes are nothing but remnants of dead stars now converted into Black Holes. Only stars that are 10 to 15 times bigger than the sun can become Black Holes.
3. Black holes were proposed to exist in the 18th century but remained a mystery until the first black hole was found in 1964 called Cygnus X-1, an x-ray source in the constellation Cygnus.
4. The bigger stars explode at the end of their life and this phenomenon is known as Supernova Explosion. When a star dies and this explosion occurs, the majority of the total mass of a star is thrown out into the void of the space while only a cold remnant stays back. Nuclear fusion is responsible for the generation of energy and outward pressure which neutralizes the gravitational pull of the star. After the supernova explosion, fusion reaction is completely absent and there is no outward pressure resulting in the cold remnant collapsing on itself becoming infinitely dense. Even light fails to escape from it making it completely dark and invisible called Black Hole.
5. In fact, the force of gravity is so high in Black Holes that it leads to a phenomenon where time slows down due to gravitational pull. Time completely stops at the center of Black Holes.
6. Black Holes have something known as event horizon which is a 'point of no return'. Every Black Hole has this boundary. Any object outside that boundary is safe , but if an object crosses the event horizon, it will have no other option but to fall into the Black Hole never to reappear.
7. Black Holes can keep growing because anything gas, liquid or solid matter that enters the event horizon gets sucked in. Thus, Black Holes can grow infinitely large. These are known as supermassive Black Holes.
8. The core of the Black Hole is called Singularity. This point of Singularity is the ultimate destruction point. Absolutely nothing can survive at that point.
9. Any matter that enters the event horizon of a Black Hole is broken down into sub-atomic particles.
10. At the point of Singularity, laws of physics don't exist because it is literally not possible to conceive anything that will have infinite density but zero volume.
11. Black Holes are the densest objects we know beyond our imagination. In fact, a 1 cm black hole can have a mass of the entire earth.
12. Black Holes are very much like spheres and not funnels as illustrated in some books.
13. Stephen Hawking theorized that even Black Holes emit radiation which can result in black holes losing their mass.
14. Black Holes eventually shrink down to the size smaller than the size of an electron. At this stage it reaches a size what is known as Planck Length which is actually the quantum size limit. Nothing can become smaller than this.
15. Stars spin and they continue doing so even after their death. This means they keep spinning even when they become Black Holes and these Black Holes, in turn, keeps spinning faster and faster as they keep evaporating and eventually shrink to Planck Length.
16. Closer to a Black Hole, things simply get distorted aided by rapid spinning. The immense gravitational pull of the Black Holes has the ability to distort even space.
17. If something travels faster than light, it can actually escape the Black Hole but we haven’t found it yet in-universe.
18. The size and mass of a Black Hole are directly proportional. Schwarzschild Radius is the radius of the event horizon of a Black Hole. The bigger the radius, the bigger is the Black Hole.
19. It is very likely that supermassive Black Holes exist at the center of almost every galaxy. When two Black Holes bump into one another, one of these two gets kicked out of its galaxy.
20. The Black Hole that is closest to our Earth is about 1,600 light-years from our planet.
21. Our Milky Way galaxy has a supermassive Black Hole at its center known as Sagittarius A\*. Its point of Singularity has a mass equivalent to the mass of 4 million sun! It is approximately 30,000 light-years away from us.
22. Sagittarius A\* has come to life after a star exploded 2 million years ago , the event is called Seyfert Flare. The radiation from the Seyfert Flare 2 million years ago was believed to be 100 million times more powerful than the remaining radiation we experience today.
23. Black Holes are believed to be terribly noisy but can’t be heard.
24. If anyone can take a spaceship and orbit around the Black Hole outside the event horizon and then travel back to Earth, the person will actually see the future because time close to the Black Hole passes very slowly compared to that on Earth and by the time the person travels back to Earth, he or she will actually outlive his or her present.
25. Some scientists believe that if there are Black Holes that suck, there can be something exactly opposite that will endlessly spurt out matter into this universe. These objects are known as white holes. In 2006 scientists observed unusual bursts of gamma rays from an object which could be the first evidence of a white hole.

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### France
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Last updated: 2025-12-08T09:30:12.000Z
#### 60 Amazing Facts that will surprise you About France

##### Land & Geography

- France is the largest nation in Western Europe having a population of about 66 million. *Fact* is France is the most visited country in the world, with over 80 million visitors every year.
- France is also referred as L’Hexagone as it looks like the geometrical shape hexagon.
- It has nearly 3000 miles of seashore, with three major water bodies: the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the English Channel.
- The Alps mountain range on the border of France and Italy is home to France’s highest mountain, Mont Blanc, which stands at 4,807m high (15,771 ft).
- France is the only country in Europe that has 5 major water systems and 7 different mountain ranges running through and around it.
- *Amazing fact* is if you count everything, including overseas territories, then France claims the first title by covering 12 time zones. The United States would be the runner-up with 11 and then Russia with 9.

##### History

- France was once a British colony for over 3 ½ centuries. The hatred towards the British, still continue to this day.
- France got its independence from the monarchy on 14th of July 1789\. This day is also called as the “Bastille Day.”
- The Statue of Liberty was made in France, and transferred to the United States as a gift for the 100th anniversary of its independence in 1876\. The statue was created by renowned French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. The amazing fact is it traveled to the USA in 350 parts before being rebuilt there.
- France is where the gothic art and the Baroque style of architecture were born.
- *Amazingly* soldiers arrived to fight the Battle of Marne in World War I - not on foot or by military airplane or military vehicle - but by taxi cabs. France took over all the taxi cabs in Paris to get soldiers to the front.
- Rivers played a major role in transportation before the introduction of railways; France has 24 rivers and the majority of the metropolitan areas got their names from these rivers.

##### Places / Architecture

- France was the first country in the world to introduce the gothic architecture style, and use it widely during the reign of King Phillip.
- France receives an amazing 65 million visitors annually.
- Paris is called as the “City of Lights” as it has nearly 296 illuminated sites that consist of hotels, fountains, churches, national buildings, bridges, etc.
- The Louvre is the most visited and largest art museum in the world . It has some of the world’s most iconic paintings and sculptures . The famous Mona Lisa painting is on display in this museum.
- A glass pyramid stands outside the Louvre museum as a tribute to the ancient Egyptians and their amazing world.
- Eiffel Tower was built in the year 1889 by Gustave Eiffel as the entrance point for a fair. It is one of the most visited monuments in the world.
- The French government wanted to tear down the tower after the fair, but its popularity made them not to do so. There are 1665 steps in the Eiffel Tower.
- Out of 400 people who have committed suicide since the opening of the Eiffel Tower, 2 survived. One of them, a lady, by falling on a car. She recovered and later married the car’s owner!
- The Millau Bridge in southern France is the world's tallest bridge and France's tallest structure. At its highest point, it stands 343m (1125 ft) above the ground.
- *Amazingly* in France there is a place called 'Y'
- An underground rail tunnel, known as the Channel Tunnel carrying both road & rail traffic , joins England and France. It runs beneath the English Channel, connecting Folkestone, Kent in England and Coquelles, near Calais in France.
- *Amazing fact* is there's a Coffee Shop in France where not saying "hello" and "please" makes your coffee more expensive.
- Verdon Gorge in France is the 2nd largest gorge in the world; this is where Provence meets the Alps.
- Disney land, California, and Orlando was so popular among Europeans that Disney decided to build the only one in Europe in outside Paris, France

##### People Customs & Culture

- The most popular religion in France is Roman Catholic followed by Islam.
- There are over 1 million illegal immigrants in France fighting for equal right among the French people today.
- French’s love cheese. *Amazingly* there are in fact over 1000 different types available in the French market.
- Beer is considered a luxury drink saved for special occasions, wine is free with most meals.
- It is normal to take 3-hour lunches on work days while indulging in wine unsparingly.
- People automatically kiss any friend, or friend of friends you don't know on the cheek, even between men.
- French people have habit of shrugging their shoulders while responding to questions.
- The amazing fact is that you can find close to 1000 varieties of cheese in France.
- People commonly queue at the bakery every morning to get breakfast.
- Average French citizen eats 500 snails per year.
- It isn’t uncommon to tell your boss or customers "that's not part of my job" when asked to do something.
- People don’t hesitate to park car against the bumper of the car in front of you.
- You shall find very few shops open on Sundays and also open over lunch.
- April Fools’ Day celebrated on April 1, is believed to have originated in France in the year 1564 as France switched to the Gregorian calendar and those who were not aware of this change believed April 1st to be French New Year and were teased as fools on this day.
- 1 in 5 people in France have experienced depression making it the most depressed country in the world consuming highest quantity of antidepressant or tranquillizer drugs.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Human rights originated in France. The “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” was passed on 1789.
- Since 1789, the form of government has been changed 9 times in France. These include 5 times Republics, 2 times Empires and 2 times Constitutional Monarchies.
- *Amazingly* in France, the law guarantees everyone five weeks of vacation, and most full-time workers get two full months vacation.
- France has the highest tax on wealth in Europe.

##### Economy & Corporates

- France has one of the largest networks of railroads in the world.
- The country is one of the largest and finest wine producing nations in the world. producing *amazing* 20% of the world’s wine.
- France is the world’s largest net exporter of electricity (75% of which is derived from nuclear energy).
- France is the only agriculturally self-sufficient country in Europe.
- The first Flight of the supersonic concord took place from the French city of Toulouse, instantly becoming the fastest commercial plane in the world. It was was retired in 2008 due to environmental concerns.
- The makers of Levis jeans were originally founded in the city of Nimes, France which made jeans, an overnight sensation.

##### Inventions

- The French invented the metric system during the French revolution.
- The French invented an early version of the Internet called Minitel. As long ago as 1984, French people could pay bills and shop from the comfort of their own home using the Minitel service.

##### Language

- *Amazing fact* is that French is the official language in 30 countries!
- The distress code “Mayday” comes from the French for help me, M’Aide!
- The largest French speaking city in the world is Kinshasa (Congo) with 10 million inhabitants.
- What is called "French Kiss" in England and America is known as an "English Kiss" in France.
- In France, megabytes are called mega-octets because Megabyte would be a dirty word!

##### Famous People

- France has won 13 Nobel Prizes for literature more than any other country in the world.

##### Sport

- The most famous road bicycle race in the world, the Tour de France zig zags through France covering almost 2100 miles for the world title.

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### Oxygen
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Last updated: 2025-12-06T09:30:59.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Oxygen Facts

1. Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe after Hydrogen and Helium.
2. Oxygen forms in the hearts of stars, with the fusion of a carbon-12 nucleus and a helium-4 nucleus (also known as an alpha particle).
3. In *fact* on earth, oxygen is the most common element, making up about 47% of the earth's mass.
4. Oxygen is absolutely essential to human life, it is found in the air we breathe and the water we drink (H20). Humans inhale more than 6 billion tons of oxygen each year.
5. Cyanobacteria, which are organisms that "breathe" using photosynthesis, take in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen, just like modern plants. Cyanobacteria were likely responsible for the first oxygen on Earth, an event known as the Great Oxidation Event some 2.4 billion years ago.
6. When oxygen first developed on Earth 2.4 billion years ago , it is believed that it wiped out nearly 99% of all life in simple forms mostly anaerobic organisms and paved the way for life as we know it today. The simplest animals only appeared around 600 million years ago.
7. Oxygen (O2) is unstable in our planet’s atmosphere and must be constantly replenished by photosynthesis in green plants. Without them, our atmosphere would contain almost no Oxygen.
8. In simple terms photosynthesis reaction is : carbon dioxide + water + sunlight → glucose + oxygen.
9. Green algae and cyanobacteria are believed to be responsible for the production of as much as 70% of the free oxygen found in nature.
10. The Amazon rain forest consumes nearly all of the oxygen it produces through photosynthesis. The main contribution of oxygen to the atmosphere comes from plankton blooms fed by run off from its forest floor.
11. While ground-level ozone is an air pollutant, the ozone layer in the Earth’s upper atmosphere provides protection from the suns harmful rays by filtering Ultraviolet light.
12. *Amazingly* just five elements make up over 90 percent of the weight in the Earth’s crust. Almost half of the weight of the crust comes from oxygen. The other four elements are Silicon, Aluminum, Iron and calcium.
13. Scientists believe that there have been times when the Earth’s oceans have become completely devoid of oxygen and understandably many creatures died.
14. *Amazing fact* is that almost two-thirds of the weight of living things comes from oxygen mainly because living things contain a lot of water and about 89 percent of water’s weight comes from oxygen.
15. Oxygen is found in virtually all vital bodily compounds, such as carbohydrates , proteins and fats.
16. At cellular level the process is reverse to photosysnthesis providing energy to cells. In simple terms the reaction is : glucose + oxygen → carbon dioxide + water + energy.
17. Oxygen is about two times more soluble in water than nitrogen is making it possible for living organisms to thrive in seas, lakes and rivers. The polar oceans, being coolest, hold more dissolved oxygen and therefore sustain vast amounts of aquatic life.
18. During the carboniferous period in earth history , due to high oxygen levels in the range of 35 % , insects would grow to *amazing* sizes with the largest being a 2.6 meter long millipede.
19. English chemist and clergyman Joseph Priestly isolated oxygen by shining sunlight on mercuric oxide and collecting the gas from the reaction. He noted that a candle burned more brightly in this gas. Findings were published in 1774, beating out Swiss scientist Carl Wilhelm Steele, who had actually isolated oxygen in 1771 but not published the work.
20. French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier gave the name Oxygen in the year 1777.
21. Oxygen gas is colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
22. Liquid and solid oxygen are pale blues.
23. Oxygen gas normally is the divalent molecule O2\. Ozone, O3, is another form of pure oxygen. The Atomic Number (number of protons in the nucleus) of Oxygen is 8.
24. It's the most reactive of the non-metallic elements forming oxides after the reaction.
25. Oxygen was the atomic weight standard for the other elements until 1961 when it was replaced by carbon 12.
26. Dry air is 21 percent oxygen, 78 percent nitrogen and 1 percent other gases.
27. The oxygen molecule is very tough. A study found that an oxygen molecule (O2) can survive pressures 19 million times higher than atmospheric pressure.
28. Too much oxygen can be dangerous. Breathing 80 percent oxygen for more than 12 hours irritates the respiratory tract and can eventually cause deadly fluid build-up or edema in lungs.
29. *Amazing fact* is that Oxygen does not burn by itself! It does, however, support the combustion of other substances. If oxygen itself actually burnt, simply striking a match would be enough to burn all of the oxygen in our planet’s atmosphere in one go.
30. The Northern and Southern Lights , the green and dark-red colors in the sky are caused by oxygen atoms. Highly energetic electrons from the solar wind split oxygen molecules high in earth’s atmosphere into excited high energy atoms. These atoms lose energy by emitting photons, producing awe-inspiring light shows. They are usually seen in the polar regions.
31. Venous (oxygen deficient) blood is in fact not blue, but a dark red. The reason your veins appear blue is because of light scattering.
32. Because of the cornea’s need for transparency, it lacks blood vessels and oxygen must diffuse directly into cornea from air. This is why our eyes dry out in areas with low oxygen concentration.
33. *Amazingly* every mammal has an oxygen-saving reflex triggered specifically by cold water on the face. The reflex, which slows down heart rates in humans up to 25%, is only triggered by water colder than 70 °F (21 °C), and does not trigger when any other part of the body is submerged.
34. Horseshoe crabs’ blood carries oxygen with copper instead of iron.
35. *Amazing fact* is that liquid oxygen is magnetic, and it can be moved around and even picked up with a powerful magnet.
36. The reason for the lump felt in our throat when you are stressed or crying is the expanded glottis (the opening in the trachea) when we are under heavy stress for increased oxygen intake.
37. Nuclear submarines actually create breathable air by using an electric current to split the hydrogen and oxygen molecules of ocean water. This allows them to stay submerged for months at a time.
38. Oxygen therapy is used to treat emphysema, pneumonia, some heart disorders, and any disease that impairs the body’s ability to take up and use gaseous oxygen. It is also commercially produced for a wide variety of industrial uses.
39. Oxygen is commercially used in the production of steel, where it removes carbon-based impurities by forming carbon dioxide.
40. Oxygen can be liquefied at -183° C (the boiling point of oxygen) and solidified at -219° C (the melting point of oxygen). The solid form has been discovered to have enormous potential as an efficient rocket fuel, due to its superior oxidizing ability.
41. Amazing fact is that in aviation history hardly any life has ever been saved by emergency oxygen masks in commercial airplanes, nor has any life ever been lost due to their absence.
42. The Diving Bell Spider lives almost its entire life in a web that can replenish its oxygen supply by acting as a gill, drawing oxygen from the water itself.
43. There is a fish called “Climbing Gourami” that can exit water, breathe oxygen, climb and even walk.
44. Oxycyte, a perfluorocarbon which has high density of oxygen, can bypass blood clots and swollen vessels to deliver oxygen to the brain because of its smaller particle size.
45. If a dead body winds up in a cold humid environment that is devoid of oxygen, it will degrade into a crumbly, waxy material with the consistency of a soap.
46. The reason wine is stored on its side is to keep the cork moist so it doesn’t shrink and thus preventing oxygen from seeping into the bottle and ruining the wine.
47. Phrase “standing in the limelight’ originates from the fact that an intense light could be created from burning lime mixed with hydrogen and oxygen which was then for spotlights at the theater.
48. On his deathbed, Steve Jobs refused to wear his oxygen mask because he did not like the design of it
49. In 2003, Disney launched a short lived rental program to rent movies on self destructing DVDs which were not to be returned. The discs worked perfectly to view for a two-day window after taken out of the package. Then the exposure to oxygen turned the coating black and made the disc impenetrable by a DVD laser.
50. Tropicana Orange Juice is owned by Pepsico and Simply Orange is owned by Coca Cola. They strip the juice of oxygen before packaging for better storage which essentially strips the juice of its flavors. The companies then add other flavor and fragrance to make it “fresh.”

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### Russia
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Last updated: 2025-12-04T09:30:58.000Z
#### 60 Facts about Russia

##### Land & Geography

- In terms of land area, Russia is in *fact* the largest country in the world stretching over an area of 17.1 million square kilometers. *Amazingly* Russia is located across 9 time zones having a population of 145 million.
- Russia is the coldest country in the world and the coldest point in the world (except the Arctic and Antarctic) is an Oymyakon village in Yakutia. There was a recorded temperature of -71,2 ° C in 1924.
- Russia is the only country in the world washed by 12 seas.
- *The amazing fact* is that at their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart and Russia shares borders with 14 different countries!
- One-quarter of Russia is covered by trees, and its forests contain 22 percent of all the trees on earth.
- The lakes of Russia contain one-fourth of the world’s freshwater.
- Russia’s Volga River is the longest in Europe, with a length of around 3690 kilometres (2293 miles).
- Russia produces most of the world’s oxygen. Siberia acts as lungs of the World as it is home to approximately 25% of the world’s forests making Russia the largest converter of CO2 into breathable compounds.

#####  History

- *The amazing fact* is that the U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for just US$7.2 million in 1867.
- The Soviet Union (USSR) was a socialist state that occupied much of northern Asia and eastern Europe until it was dissolved in 1991 and the Russian Federation came into existence. Former Soviet states include Lithuania, Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and others.
- During WWI, Romania decided to send its vast collection of treasure to Russia for safekeeping. In 1918, the new Soviet government cut all diplomatic ties and refused to return the treasure. Russia still holds the treasure valued at over $1.5 billion and has no intention of giving it back.
- 80% males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 in *fact* did not survive World War II.
- In 1933 Soviet Russia dumped 6200 people on an island in Siberia and left them with only flour for food, a small amount of tools and no shelter. A month later about 4000 of them were dead.
- USSR liberated more concentration camps than the rest of the allies combined during World War II.
- The German invasion of the Soviet Union caused 95% of all German Army casualties that occurred from 1941 to 1944.
- The Soviets suffered far more casualties than any other nation in WWII losing in excess of thirty million people, including civilians being 14% of the population. In the Battle of Stalingrad alone, more Soviets died than the Americans lost during the whole war.
- In Soviet Russia, prisoners would get tattoos of Lenin & Stalin, because guards weren’t allowed to shoot at images of national leaders.
- The Soviet Union did not admit that a reactor had exploded at Chernobyl until nearly three days after radiation from the disaster set off alarms at a nuclear plant in Sweden 1000 km away.

##### Places / Architecture

- Lake Baikal is the largest and deepest freshwater lake in the world reaching 1642 metres (5,387 feet) in depth and contains around 20% of the world’s unfrozen fresh water. *Amazingly* it would take all the rivers of the world combined nearly one year to fill up lake Baikal's basin.
- *Amazing* thing is that there are 221 museums, 2,000 libraries, more than 80 theaters, 100 concert organizations, 45 art galleries, 62 movie theaters in St. Petersburg (Old Leningrad) alone.
- The Trans-Siberian Railway spanning the whole country for 9200 kilometer (or 5700 mile) is the single longest railway in the world departing in Moscow and crossing into Asia to the Pacific Ocean port of Vladivostok. The journey takes nearly a week to complete (152 hours and 27 minutes ).
- The Moscow Metro is the most common mode of transport. Stations are architectural monuments , many looking like underground castles. The metro runs every 90 seconds in peak hours. At least nine million people commute using the metro every day. On an an average of 9915 trains operate between 5am–1am in a single day making it the most used subway system in the World.
- The Metro of St. Petersburg is also the deepest subway in the world, at an *amazing* 100 meters deep.
- There’s a theater in Russia where all the actors are cats! The Moscow Cat Theater is a traveling circus that showcases cats.
- Russia houses ‘Tsar Kolokol’ bell which is the largest bell and has a height of 6.14 m or 20 ft, weighing 223 tons.
- Russia is home to the largest McDonalds restaurant in the world with 700 seats. It continues to hold the record as the busiest McDonald’s restaurant in the world.
- 1,311 people live in Verkhoyansk, Russia , a town with an average temperature of -45 °C (-50 °F) in January. The sun currently rises at 2 pm and sets at 3:30 pm. It was also attacked by a pack of 400 wolves in 2012 which laid siege to the town in search of food.
- The city of Norilsk, in Russia is considered to be the world's most polluted city. It's an industrial city of around 100,000 inhabitants. The city smelts Nickel Ore due to nickel smelter called Nadezhda ("The Hope"). Scientists estimate that 1% of the entire global emissions of sulfur dioxide come from this city alone. There is no living tree living within 30 miles of the nickel smelter.
- Ski resort Dombai has about 20 km of prepared ski routes.
- In Altai there are more than 820 glaciers covering over 600 sq km.
- Russia is suspected to have at least 15 “closed cities.” These “closed cities” are officially classified by the government, with their names and locations unknown, they do not appear on road maps or signs and foreigners are strictly prohibited from visiting them.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Russia has in *fact* Ten million more women than men. The imbalance is partly due to so many men dying during World War II.
- Russians generally answer the phone by saying "I am listening".
- Alcoholic consumption is relatively high among Russians responsible for over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths each year.
- Russia didn't consider beer as an alcohol until 2011\. It was previously classified as soft drink.
- There wasn’t a paid education In Russia until recently. Even after commercial Universities began to appear in Russia, all the state Universities still stayed free.
- Moscow has more billionaire residents than any other city in the world. There are a total of 74 billionaires living there which is more than the next in rank , New York.
- Wealthy Russians hire fake ambulances to beat city traffic. These contain just flat TV & couches and no medical equipments.
- In Russia, when flowers are given for a romantic occasions, flowers are given in odds numbers as even number of flowers is given at funerals only.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Peter the Great of Russia once levied an annual tax of one hundred rubles for those who refused to shave their beards.
- On the eve of the Nazi invasion of Russia, a German soldier deserted to the Soviets and told them they were going to be invaded the next day. His fate was Execution by Stalin for spreading misinformation.
- Japan and Russia still haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II due to the Kuril Islands dispute.
- Russia secretly had maps so detailed of the Canadian Arctic during the Cold War that other ships now use them over official maps.
- During the Cold War, the USSR was able to tell a Soviet passport was a forgery because the staples in real passports would corrode due to the poor quality of metal.
- *Amazingly* the Russian Army started wearing socks only recently.
- Russian Special Services still use typewriters to avoid online surveillance.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Russia is second largest producer of oil in the world behind Saudi Arabia and ahead of US which is in third position.

##### Inventions

- The world’s first satellite, named Sputnik, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957\. They also achieved the first manned flight by Yuri Gagarin in 1961.
- The first animal launched into orbit, Laika, was found as a stray dog wandering the streets of Moscow. Soviet scientists assumed that such animals had already learned to endure conditions of extreme cold and hunger.
- The first man made aircraft to successfully land on another planet and send back data was the Soviet Venera 7 in 1970 which landed on Venus and was able to send back only 23 minutes of weak data presumably because it landed on its side.
- The USSR and the USA planned to jointly go into space during the Cold War but following the assassination of President Kennedy , the Soviets didn’t trust Vice President Johnson enough and the plan fell through.
- A Soviet Union Marshal commissioned a color less Coca-Cola that resembled vodka because he liked the taste and was embarrassed to be seen drinking coke in public.
- From 1979 to 1992 Soviets drilled a super deep bore called the Kola Super deep Borehole that reached 12,262m (40,230 ft) just to see how deep they could drill.
- Among Russian inventions Popov invented wireless telegraph, Sikorsky invented helicopter and created a bomber, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky invented a color photo, and Zworykin TV. Chemical table was created by Dmitri Mendeleev.

##### Famous People

- Two of the five founding fathers of Hollywood came from Russia. In particular, the founders of MGM Goldwyn and Meyer. Meyer to the end of life in *fact* did not speak in English and had difficulty reading the script.
- *Amazing fact* is that during the Siege of Leningrad in WWII, 9 Soviet scientists died of starvation while protecting the world’s largest seed bank, refusing to eat what they saw as their country’s future.
- George Koval, the Soviet master spy infiltrated the Manhattan project, stole nearly all of USA’s nuclear secrets, single-handedly provided the key technology for Russia’s nuclear arsenal, was only discovered to be a spy in 2002.
- A Soviet NKVD executioner personally killed 7000 Polish officers over a 28 day period with a pistol, working 10 hours per night and averaging a person every three minutes. He personally accounted for almost one third of the Katyn Massacre.
- Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev is set to lose half his wealth after being ordered to pay his former wife $4.5 billion in a settlement in May 2014 dubbed as the "most expensive divorce in history." The two had been battling over the settlement for six years, after Elena Rybolovleva, the oligarch's wife of 23 years, filed for divorce.

##### Sport

- *Amazing fact* is that in 1908 the Imperial Russian Olympic Team arrived to London 12 days too late for the games because they were not using the Gregorian calendar yet.

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### Space Travel
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Last updated: 2025-12-02T09:30:15.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts that will surprise you About Space Travel

1. The first rocket was called the V-2 Rocket and was made by a German scientist and Engineer Wernher Von Braun during World War II and was used as a weapon against the allies.
2. *The fact* is a spacecraft needs to accelerate to just over 17,000 miles per hour to escape the Earth’s gravity (approximately 5 miles per second). This is called escape velocity.
3. *An amazing fact* is at blast-off around 300,000 gallons of water is released beneath the shuttle's engines as a noise suppressant.
4. *Fact* is space shuttle main engine weighs 1/7 the as much as a train engine but delivers as much power as 39 locomotives.
5. The external tank on space shuttles is not painted. It is the only part of the shuttle that is lost after launch, so it is not necessary to worry about metal corrosion.
6. The average journey into orbit takes about 8.5 minutes.
7. Yuri Gagarin was first man to travel in space, on 12 April, 1961, orbiting the Earth once.
8. The first American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn, flew into space on 20 February, 1962.
9. On 20 July, 1969, Apollo 11 made the first Moon landing. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. Michael Collins manned the command module.
10. *The amazing fact* is just twenty seconds' worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11s lunar module landed on the moon.
11. The last Apollo space mission, Apollo 17, took place in December 1972\. Eugene Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt landed on the Moon’s surface in a lunar module. In all, six Apollo spacecraft made successful landings on the Moon. *Amazingly* no one has left Earth’s orbit since then.
12. An astronaut can be up to 2 to 3 Inches taller returning from space due to expansion of cartilage disks in the spine in absence of gravity.
13. *Fact* is if you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
14. Galileo spacecraft traveled 2.4 billion miles on it's way to Jupiter using 67 gallons of fuel on the way to control the flight. *Amazingly* this is equivalent to 36 million miles travel per gallon.
15. A full moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon.
16. It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
17. When Galileo's probe entered the Jupiter atmosphere, it was traveling at *amazing* 106000 miles per hour which is the fastest speed by man made object.
18. In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
19. Astronauts cannot belch since there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
20. In zero-G, astronauts can lose muscle mass at a rate of 5% a week. Most people know at least the basis of that fact, but bones can also atrophy at a rate of 1% a week. Blood pressure evens out throughout the body as well. The body of an astronaut gets so used to this that when they return to earth they often need to be taken on stretchers.
21. For a satellite or spaceship to stay in orbit 200 Km above earth , It must *amazingly* fly at over 8 Km per Second.
22. Water acts as jelly out there in space.
23. *The amazing fact* is that the metric system was the culprit for the loss of the Mars Climate orbiter.
24. *Amazingly* NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached the edge of our solar system after 33 years and after traveling for 10.8 billion miles . The craft was first launched on September 5th, 1977 .
25. The second satellite ever launched by the United States is still orbiting the earth. Vanguard 1 was launched on March 17th, 1958, achieving the highest altitude of any man-made vehicle up to that point, and was also the first satellite to be powered by solar energy.It is predicted to remain in orbit well into the 22nd century.
26. The Mars Opportunity rover was expected to last for 91 days. *Amazingly* it’s still going after 9 years! It was launched from Earth on July 7, 2003\. It landed on Mars on January 25, 2004.
27. Astronauts abroad at the international space station *amazingly* see 15 Sunsets and 15 sunrises per day averaging one every 45 minutes.
28. The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built, at US$150 billion. Roughly half of the total price was contributed by the USA, the rest by other nations including Europe, Japan and Russia.
29. The International Space Station or ISS was completed in 2011, but people have been living on it since November 2nd, 2000.
30. The ISS is primarily composed of 15 pressurised modules (seven US, five Russian, two Japanese and one European) and four large solar panels. It weighs *amazing* 420,000 kilograms (925,000 pounds), which is more than 320 automobiles.
31. The total length of the ISS from end to end is *amazing* 109 metres (357 feet), longer than both a “proper” football field and an American Football field.
32. The International Space Station has a liveable space equivalent to a five-bedroom house and travels at 17,500 mph.
33. The Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is so large that rain clouds form inside it.
34. The Apollo 12 mission crashed a 2.5-ton piece of metal into the moon causing the moon to *amazingly* "ring like a bell" for nearly an hour!
35. Sunita Williams, the astronaut holds the record for most days in space for a female (195). On April 16, 2007, she completed the first marathon ran by someone in orbit. Her sister ran the marathon on earth while Sunita ran the marathon in space. They were updated on each other's progress throughout the race. Sunita finished the Boston Marathon in 4 hours and 24 minutes. In 2008 Sunita Williams once again ran the Boston Marathon but this time on earth.
36. *An amazingly* unprotected human beings can survive in space for just 2 minutes.
37. If two pieces of metal touch in space, they *amazingly* become permanently stuck together. This doesn’t happen on earth because the atmosphere puts a layer of oxidized material between the surfaces.
38. The Saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.
39. Astronauts in orbit feel weightless because they are constantly falling, not because there is no gravity in space.
40. The full cost of a spacesuit is about $11 million although 70% of this is for the backpack and the control module.
41. A space suit can weigh between 50 and 350 pounds on Earth.
42. Launch and entry space suits are orange as an aid to search and rescue operations in case of emergency. Suits for spacewalks are white to reflect the sun’s heat.
43. *Fact* is oxygen is circulated around the helmet in space suits in order to prevent the visor from misting.
44. The middle layers of space suits are blown up like a balloon to press against the astronaut's body. *Amazingly* without this pressure, the astronaut's body would boil!
45. The gloves included in the spacesuit have silicon rubber fingertips which allow the astronaut some sense of touch.
46. In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was *amazing* 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
47. In movies, a human body explodes if it is pushed into space without a suit. But it's mostly fiction. Although liquids do boil in a vacuum, your blood is kept under pressure by your circulatory system and would be just fine. It is a lack of air that will kill you.
48. *The amazing fact* is about half of any space walk on the International space station is spent in total darkness.
49. We are all traveling through space. Latest estimates put the speed of the Earth in relation to the cosmic background radiation at 390 km/sec, or 872,405 miles per hour.
50. Robotic spacecraft have so far landed on the moon, Venus, Mars, and several asteroids.

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### Asteroid
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Last updated: 2025-11-30T09:30:03.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Asteroids

1. An asteroid is a small body orbiting the Sun that is composed primarily of rock or metal.
2. Asteroids are amazing celestial objects that hang in our Solar System especially between Mars and Jupiter. This reservoir is known as the asteroid belt.
3. The first asteroid to be discovered was named Ceres are seen by an Italian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801\. It is the largest asteroid being 950 kilometers wide. It has earned the status of a dwarf planet.
4. Astronomer William Herschel first coined the word asteroid, which means “star-like” in 1802.
5. Asteroids number in millions. For everyone that is more than 10km wide, there are 1,000 wider than 1km and a million just 0.1km in width.
6. There are only around 200 asteroids known that exceed 100 km in diameter
7. Dark C (carbonaceous) asteroids, make up most asteroids and are in the outer asteroid belt. They’re believed to be close to the Sun’s composition, with little hydrogen or helium or other “volatile” elements.
8. Bright S (silicaceous) asteroids are in the inner asteroid belt. They tend to be metallic iron with some silicates of iron and magnesium.
9. Bright M (metallic) asteroids sit in the middle of the asteroid belt and are mostly made up of metallic iron.
10. It has been estimated that just one metal-rich asteroid could contain more metal than has ever been used by humanity. Estimates for the mineral wealth of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter equate to roughly $100bn for every person on Earth, while the resources available from near-Earth asteroids could support up to 40 times Earth’s population.
11. Asteroids are as old as our planet Earth or any other planet in our Solar System formed about 4.6 billion years ago sticking together to form larger objects and eventually forming planets and satellites. Some of these objects broke apart on collision and failed to gain mass becoming asteroids!
12. Asteroids often collide with each other. Upon collision, smaller ones can break and end up as dust on the larger ones. This dust is known as regolith.
13. Asteroids are pretty dangerous because a collision between asteroids can throw them out of their orbits and set them on a collision course with planets. Earth has experienced numerous asteroid collisions in history.
14. The collision of asteroids with planets is known as an impact event. An impact event can shape the atmosphere of a planet and change its climate. These impact events can be massive.
15. Not all asteroids that are on collision course with earth will collide on Earth. Most of them are small and destroyed in the upper atmosphere. Some burn out and sprinkle on earth in form of cosmic dust. However larger asteroids make it through the atmosphere exploding at 10 to 15 kilometers above the surface. Very few eventually land on the earth’s surface.
16. Those asteroids that crash directly on the earth’s surface leave a crater destroying everything in the surrounding area depending upon size. A single very large asteroid is capable of wiping out life from the entire earth.
17. The asteroid that killed dinosaurs 65 million years ago was so big that it left a crater that was 180 kilometers in diameter.
18. Some scientists even believe that the ancient asteroids that collided with earth during the early stages of the development of the planet were actually responsible for bringing water and other carbon-based materials that lead to the creation of life on earth.
19. Not just planets, even asteroids can have moons! The first asteroid that was discovered to have a moon was ‘243 Ida’ and its moon is known by the name ‘dactyl’. The spacecraft Galileo did a flyby of 243 Ida in 1993 and discovered its moon.
20. We have flown by, orbited and even landed on asteroids. More than 10 spacecrafts have accomplished at least one of these.
21. NASA’s Shoemaker touched down and survived for weeks on 433 Eros in 2001 despite not being designed to do it. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft spent months orbiting Vesta the second-largest member of the asteroid belt in 2011 and 2012.
22. In 2010, Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft made an astonishing return to Earth bearing samples of asteroid Itokawa that it nabbed in 2005.
23. At least one asteroid called Chariklo has rings. The discovery was made in 2013 when two rings were found surrounding the asteroid.
24. Talking of near-earth asteroids (NEAs), these are actually potential threats. NEAs are constantly monitored. Luckily no NEA has posed serious threat to us so far.
25. In February 2013 there was a close call when an asteroid managed to enter earth’s atmosphere over Russia’s Chelyabinsk city and exploded in sky but sent out shockwaves that caused quite some damage and injured 1,200 people. Scientists say that the asteroid was nearly 65 feet wide.

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### Hurricane
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Last updated: 2025-11-28T09:30:59.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Hurricane

1. The word “hurricane” comes from *Hurricane*, a name for the god of evil on some islands in the Caribbean.
2. The terms “hurricane,” “typhoon,” and “cyclone” are different names for the same type of storm, a tropical cyclone. Tropical cyclones that occur in the Atlantic Ocean or the eastern Pacific Ocean are called hurricanes; in the western Pacific Ocean they are called typhoons and in the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal, tropical cyclones are called cyclones.
3. Hurricanes form over warm ocean waters near the equator. The warm, moist air above the ocean surface rises, causing air from surrounding areas to be 'sucked' in. This 'new' air then becomes warm and moist, and rises, too, beginning a continuous cycle that forms clouds. The clouds then rotate with the spin of the Earth. If there is enough warm water to feed the storm, a hurricane forms!
4. Most hurricanes occur harmlessly out at sea. However, when they move towards the land they can be very dangerous.
5. Water must be a certain depth for hurricanes to form, at least 200 feet (60 m). Additionally, the water must be warm, over 80º F (27 º C). A hurricane’s strength depends on how warm the water is the warmer the water, the stronger the hurricane becomes.
6. Hurricanes spin around a low-pressure center called the “eye.” Sinking air makes this 20 to 30-mile-wide area calm and free of clouds. A thick ring of clouds called the “eyewall” surrounds the eye and is the strongest part of the hurricane.
7. Though the eye is the calmest part of the storm, over the ocean, it can be the most dangerous area. While waves in the eye wall travel in the same direction, waves in the eye converge from all directions, which often creates strongest waves.
8. The strong spiraling winds of a hurricane can reach speeds of up to 320kmph strong enough to rip up entire trees and destroy buildings!
9. Hurricanes are classified into 5 categories, based on their wind speeds and potential to cause damage.
10. In the Atlantic, hurricane season starts June 1, while in the Pacific it starts May 15\. Both end on November 30\. This is the time when the seas are at their warmest and most humid.
11. A tropical storm is classified as a hurricane when sustained winds reach 74 miles per hour, though hurricane winds are often faster. When a tropical cyclone’s sustained wind speed is between 39-74 mph, it is classified as a tropical storm. When its winds are less than 38 mph, a tropical cyclone is called a tropical depression.
12. In A.D. 1281, a hurricane killed 100,000 Mongols who were attacking Japan.
13. Christopher Columbus wrote the first known report of a hurricane in 1495.
14. A single hurricane is strong enough to stir up millions of miles of air and can dump more than 9 trillion liters of rain a day.
15. Every second, a large hurricane releases the energy of 10 atomic bombs. Hurricanes produce enough energy in one day to run the lights of Las Vegas for many years.
16. Hurricane-generated waves frequently toss tons of fish onto beaches. The eyes of many of the fish have popped out because of sudden changes in pressure.
17. In the southern hemisphere, hurricanes rotate in a clockwise direction, and in the northern hemisphere they rotate in an anti-clockwise direction. This is due to what's called the Coriolis Force, produced by the Earth's rotation.
18. The Southern Hemisphere typically experiences about half the number of hurricanes as the Northern Hemisphere each year.
19. Ninety percent of all hurricane deaths result from heavy sea waves, which can reach over 20 feet high and extend nearly 100 miles.
20. Hurricanes have killed approximately 1.9 million people worldwide over the past 200 years.
21. Most of the deadliest hurricanes have occurred in southeastern Asia and India due to flooding on low-lying, densely populated areas.
22. The deadliest hurricane on record is the 1970 Bhola Cyclone in Bangladesh, which killed between 150,000-300,000 people.
23. In 1900, a hurricane in Galveston, Texas, killed more than 8,000 people, making it the deadliest weather emergency in U.S. history. Hurricanes kill more people than any other type of storm.
24. Five of the 10 costliest hurricanes in the U.S. have occurred since 1990.
25. 40% of the hurricanes that occur in the United States hit Florida.
26. The costliest hurricane worldwide is widely believed to be Hurricane Katrina, with overall damage estimates at over $100 billion.
27. A hurricane makes “landfall” when its center, not its edge, crosses the coastline.
28. With 210 mile-per-hour winds at landfall, Hurricane Camille (1969) was the strongest hurricane to strike land.
29. Typhoon Tip (1979), which did not strike land, is considered to be the largest, with tropical storm-force winds 1,350 miles in diameter. It was nearly half the size of the United States! Luckily it didn’t strike land.
30. A hurricane can reach 40,000 to 50,000 feet up into the sky.
31. Most hurricanes typically last approximately 10 days.
32. Hurricane Andrew (1992) ripped an 80-foot steel beam weighing several tons off a building and flung it more than a block away.
33. The largest hurricane can be the size of 600 miles (966 kilometers) wide.
34. Hurricanes are never formed at the equator because they need the strong Coriolis force, which is very weak at the equator.
35. Hurricanes and Tornados are different. Hurricanes last several days while tornadoes last only minutes or rarely, hours.
36. Hurricanes are on average about 2,000 times bigger across than tornadoes.
37. Although hurricanes can cause terrible damage, they are an important part of Earth’s weather system. Like giant fans, they take hot air from the tropics and move it toward the poles to balance temperatures and moisture around the Earth. Without hurricanes and other storms, vast areas of the planet would be too hot for animal and human life.
38. Tornadoes have more intense winds than hurricanes. The fastest recorded hurricane wind speed is approximately 200 mph. Tornado winds can be up to 300 mph.
39. Hurricanes are often accompanied with tornadoes. Hurricane Andrew (1992) had 62 tornadoes, and Hurricane Beulah (1967) created 141 tornadoes. Tornadoes can occur days after a hurricane’s landfall.
40. Assigning hurricanes human names is a fairly recent practice. Hurricane names are chosen from a list selected by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) which has 6 separate lists for Atlantic hurricanes, with one list used each year. Each list is repeated every 7th year. However, officials retire names of hurricanes that have caused a great deal of damage or death.
41. In 1953, the National Weather Service adopted the Navy’s practice of naming Atlantic hurricanes after women. Previously, hurricanes were named either according to their longitude and latitude or were identified by the phonetic alphabet. In 1979, meteorologists added men’s names to alternate with women’s names. The first three male names ever used for hurricanes (Bob, David, and Frederick) all are now retired.
42. The first hurricane of the year is given a name beginning with the letter “A”.
43. The first time anyone flew into a hurricane happened in 1943 in the middle of World War II. Since then pilots have flown into typhoons and hurricanes but so far only 4 planes have been lost. However, no trace of these planes or their crew has ever been found.
44. Each year, approximately 10 tropical storms form over the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. Out of these, six become hurricanes.
45. Approximately five hurricanes strike the U.S. coastline during an average three-year period. Of these, two are major hurricanes over 110 mph.
46. A hurricane warning is issued when a hurricane is expected to arrive within 24 hours. A hurricane watch is issued when the storm is 24-36 hours away.
47. Approximately 85 hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones occur worldwide each year.
48. No hurricane is on record as ever hitting the United State West Pacific Coast. However, hurricanes have hit the West Coast of Mexico.
49. Hurricane/Typhoon John lasted 31 days in 1994, which is longer than any other hurricane in history. It was both a hurricane and a typhoon because it passed through both eastern and western parts of the Pacific Ocean.
50. A hurricane on Jupiter has been raging for over 300 years and is bigger than the Earth. It can be seen as a red spot on the planet.

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### Uranus
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Last updated: 2025-11-26T09:30:15.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Uranus

1. From Sun, Uranus is the 7th planet and is the 3rd gas giant to live in our Solar System.
2. Uranus gets its name from Ouranos, a Greek sky deity.
3. The planet was accidentally discovered in 1781 by Sir William Herschel, a British astronomer. He thought it to be a star. One year later it was discovered by him it was a planet.
4. The chemical element Uranium, discovered in 1789, was named after the newly discovered planet Uranus.
5. This planet has an unusual blue-green color which comes from the abundance of methane in the hydrogen-helium atmosphere of the planet.
6. This planet is actually the coldest planet in the solar system with an atmospheric temperature of -224 degrees centigrade and surface temperature of -197 degrees centigrade.
7. Uranus is referred to as ice giant because 80% of Uranus mass is made of a fluid mix of ammonia ice, methane ice and water ice in the mantle. The core of Uranus is made of magnesium silicate and iron.
8. Hydrogen gives the maximum volume to the planet’s atmosphere and makes up 82.5% of the total mass , Helium taking up 15.2% and methane 2.3%.
9. If Uranus mass is considered , 25% is taken up by rocks, 5-15% is taken up by helium and hydrogen and 60-70% is taken by ice.
10. It has amazing 99 degrees tilt with the result that it actually revolves around the sun on its side with it’s axis pointing almost directly to the sun. In contrast the axis of the Earth’s rotation is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the Sun’s plane.
11. It is believed that an Earth-sized planet may have collided with Uranus which forced its axis to drastically shift. This tilt is actually responsible for extreme seasons found on the planet. In fact it experiences seasons that are 20 year long with sun shining directly on each pole for 20 years.
12. It rotates or completes one spin in 17 hours and 14 minutes and completes one revolution around the sun in 84 Earth years following almost a circular orbit. This means that the planet always maintains almost equal distance from Sun.
13. if you could stand on the north pole of Uranus which is tilted towards sun, you would see the Sun rise in the sky and circle around for 42 years long summer followed by 42 years of winter and darkness.
14. The Equatorial and Polar diameters of the planet are 51,118 and 49,946 kilometers respectively.
15. Uranus has been found to have 27 moons. The two largest moons of Uranus are Titania and Oberon. These were first discovered in 1787 by William Herschel.
16. In terms of density, Uranus is the second least densest planet to live in our Solar System after Saturn. The density of Uranus is 1.23 grams per cubic centimeter and it wouldn’t float on water.
17. Uranus is about 14.5 times as big as Earth. However, because of low density of Uranus, it’s gravity is 89% compared to that on Earth.
18. Uranus looks like a big blue planet without any colorful bands for storms as found on Saturn and Jupiter. Some cloud patterns are only visible with infrared telescope.
19. The climatic conditions on Uranus are extreme. After long chilled winters when sunlight reaches the dark areas for the first time, the atmosphere gets heated up and this leads to massive spring storms.
20. Amazingly Uranus wind speeds can reach up to 900 km per hour.
21. Uranus has rings but not as prominent as that of Saturn but nevertheless are second most dramatic in solar system. The rings of Uranus are made of dark objects and hence, they are not easily visible.
22. Uranus has about 13 narrow rings which are only a few kilometers wide. The rings are probably quite young, and are not believed to have formed with Uranus.
23. Uranus is bright enough to fit within the brightness scale of human eyes but difficult to spot. With a magnitude of 5.3, the planet can be observed using a set of binoculars in a bright sky backdrop. Against a darker backdrop, it will be very difficult to see this planet even with binoculars.
24. one of the most distinguishing features of Uranus with respect to the other gas giants is that it does not emit more energy than it receives from the Sun. In contrast, even Neptune, which is very similar produces approximately 2.6 times the amount of heat that it receives from the Sun.
25. Uranus has been visited by humans only once by Voyager 2 of NASA that performed a flyby in 1986 and reached as close as 81,000 kilometers from it.

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### Liver
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Last updated: 2025-11-24T09:30:35.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Liver

1. ‘Hepar’ is the Greek term for the liver. It is because of this Greek name that most liver related medical terms actually start with ‘hepatic or hepato’.
2. Any living creature with a spinal column or a backbone has a liver. In short every vertebrate including humans has a liver.
3. Our liver is the largest glandular organ of the human body, its weight is around 1400 gms. It’s the second largest organ besides skin. It is reddish brown in color having two parts the right lobe and the left lobe. The right lobe is bigger than the left lobe.
4. Amazing fact is that liver consists of 96% water stored in the cells.
5. Our liver is the biggest detoxifying agent in our body A variety of substances and chemicals, counting alcohol, wine, beer, drugs and unlawful substances all are detoxified. It performs over 500 vital functions for the body simultaneously. Liver is the most complex and the largest of all metabolic organs. We are still not fully aware of all it’s functions.
6. Amazing fact about liver is that it never uses sugar for energy. It only stores sugar. In fact liver is the storehouse of any excess sugar that we consume which is stored as glycogen.
7. Whenever needed the liver breaks down the glycogen to form glucose to be used as energy fuel. Without this express mechanism to provide sugar in crisis situations , the blood sugar can drop drastically and you would fall into a coma.
8. Glycogen characteristically absorbs nearly 6 times its weight in water, so your liver is also important for water storage.
9. Liver is made up of about 10% fat. In fatty liver especially among alcoholics , this percentage rises. Fatty liver fails at storing glycogen made by glucose from food.
10. Human liver is actually an iron warehouse. It also contains extra minerals and vitamins which allows a person to perform throughout the day.
11. At any given point in time, liver contains 10% of the total blood in the body filtering about 1.4 liters of blood every minute.
12. The liver protects our body from the toxins by cleaning the blood from chemicals that are produced spontaneously within our body because of daily metabolism.
13. Liver is responsible for protecting our body from harmful substances or toxin that we put in our body either deliberately or unintentionally through food we eat or drink.
14. Liver is responsible for making proteins which our body requires for growth.
15. The chemicals removed from the blood by liver are either sent into our intestines through bile to be removed in form of feces or stool or to the kidneys to be filtered out through urine.
16. Liver is responsible for producing bile. Bile is very important because it helps in digesting food in the intestines by helping to breakdown fats into smaller particles so that the pancreatic lipase can digest fat better.
17. Bile produced by liver is responsible for the characteristic brown color of the stool. This color primarily comes from destruction of blood in the liver.
18. Almost all medicines that we consume are processed by the liver. Because our body is not capable of using the medicines as is, the liver breaks them down in a form that the body can use.
19. The liver is responsible for producing enzymes and chemicals that helps the blood to clot in the event of bleeding anywhere in body.
20. Liver is responsible for making 80 % of the cholesterol in the body from other fats that we eat. While high levels of low density lipoprotein or bad cholesterol is actually bad, cholesterol is required for building cells as well as hormones. Hormones are the messengers in our body which communicate to various organs.
21. We survive because of the blood. Before birth , liver is the organ where blood is produced.
22. When liver is damaged temporarily or permanently due to virus, alcohol or tumors , blood pigments that are processed by liver accumulates in blood and your eyes and skin turn yellow.
23. Artificial liver replacement is not possible but liver transplant is possible. Liver can sustain and survive heavy damage and can grow back.
24. The first ever liver transplant in human history was carried out by Dr. Thomas Starzl in year 1963 at Colorado. The transplant was not successful because of the lack of effective immunosuppressive drugs. He made another attempt in 1967 which was successful.
25. Liver transplant usually involves cutting out a certain part of the liver from the donor and giving it to the receiver. Liver is the only organ in the body that can actually grow back making transplant possible! In fact even if only 25% of it is still healthy , it can regenerate itself into a full liver again!

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### Air Travel
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Last updated: 2025-11-22T09:30:54.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Unknown Facts about Air Travel

1. KLM is the worlds' oldest airline established in 1919\. QANTAS is the second established in 1920.
2. The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and *amazingly* took 49 days.
3. The USA has *amazing* 15000 airports, more than any other country.
4. The World's largest Airline in terms of Fleet Size is Delta Airlines (USA) with over 700 aircraft.
5. *Amazingly* there are almost 10 million commercial flights a year in the US alone.
6. *Amazingly* every three seconds in the world, a plane makes a landing.
7. At any given hour, 61,000 people are airborne over the US.
8. *The amazing fact* is that if all the commercial planes in the world were grounded at the same time, there wouldn't be enough parking space for them.
9. Many airlines have a rule that each pilot flying the aircraft eats a different meal to minimize the risk of all pilots on board being ill.
10. *The amazing fact* is that air travel is the safest mode of travel. In order to get on the plane guaranteed to crash, you will have to fly 13 years non stop daily, still with a chance to stay alive of 10 to 1.
11. Your chances of surviving a plane crash are highest if you sit on the back! *Amazingly* passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows upfront.
12. *Amazingly* a person is 10 times more likely to be killed by a car while standing at a crosswalk waiting for the green light compared to air travel.
13. An air traveler can lose approximately 1.5 liters of water in the body during a three-hour flight.
14. *Amazingly* flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
15. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7 am, you will arrive in Honolulu at an *amazing* 7:45 pm the previous day i.e. 11 hours before you left. Honolulu's time zone is 19 hours behind Japan.
16. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or emergency. These could be used as airstrips.
17. A Brussels Airlines flight to Vienna was aborted because the pilot was attacked in the cockpit by a passenger's cat, who got out of its travel bag.
18. The windows in an airport control tower must be tilted out at exactly fifteen degrees from the vertical to minimize reflections from both inside and outside the control tower.
19. The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high.
20. Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
21. Despite having 211 airports, the entire country of Peru *amazingly* contains just one heliport.
22. Winston Churchill Avenue, the only road that connects Gibraltar to Spain, happens to intersect with the Gibraltar Airport runway. *Amazingly* movable barricades close when an airplane lands or takes off and shuts down the road each time.
23. *The amazing fact* is that the man who grounded 4,000 planes on 9/11 was on the first day of his job. Ben Sliney, the Federal Aviation Administration's National Operations Manager made this unprecedented brave call. He had no input from the President of the United States or the bureaucracy above him.
24. When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added a letter X to the previous code.
25. You should delete your browser cookies before buying airline tickets. *Amazingly* ticket fares go up if you have visited the site multiple times.

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### Amazon River
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Last updated: 2025-11-20T09:30:22.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Unknown Facts about Amazon River

1. The length of the Amazon River is approximately 6400 kilometers (4000 miles). It is the second-largest river in this world in terms of length the first being Nile. However, the latest measurements suggest that it could be as long as the Nile river or even longer.
2. Going back in history, the Amazon River originated as a transcontinental river somewhere between 11.8 million and 11.3 million years back in the Miocene Epoch. The river took its current shape some 2.4 million years back.
3. Its westernmost source is high in the Andes Mountains, within 100 miles (160 km) of the Pacific Ocean, and its mouth is in the Atlantic Ocean, on the northeastern coast of Brazil.
4. The Amazon River surrounds the entire Amazon Rainforest and covers territories belonging to French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil.
5. It flows along the Amazon tropical rainforest, home to more than 800,000 species having to support and nurturing the richest biodiversity in the world.
6. The forest covers an area of 5,400,000 square kilometers or 2,100,000 square miles.
7. In terms of the amount of water discharged, Amazon is the largest river in this world. It discharges 7,831,000 cubic feet or 209,000 cubic meters every second.
8. The total discharge by Amazon River alone is greater than the total discharge of the 7 next largest rivers of the world taken together!
9. The flood-stage discharge at the river’s mouth is four times that of the Congo and more than ten times the amount carried by the Mississippi River.
10. Of the total river flow of the world, approximately 1/5th is accounted for by the Amazon basin spanning over 7,050,000 square kilometers or 2,720,000 square miles, making Amazon the largest drainage basin in the entire world.
11. During dry seasons, the width of Amazon ranges between 1.6 and 10 kilometers but during the wet seasons, the river’s width increases to 60 kilometers.
12. The Amazon River enters the Atlantic Ocean through a broad estuary that has a width of 150 miles or 240 kilometers with the main stem mouth spanning over 80 kilometers width. Because of its immense width, the estuary is often referred to as ‘The River Sea’.
13. There are no bridges that cross the Amazon, mostly because there is no need, the majority of the Amazon River runs through rainforests rather than roads or cities.
14. The largest city along the Amazon River is Manaus which is located in Brazil having a population of over 1.7 million people.
15. The Amazon River is known by several names in different countries. In Brazil, above its confluence with Rio Negro, the river is known by the name Solimões.
16. In Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru as well as other Spanish-speaking countries, the river is known as Amazon downstream from Ucayali and Marañón rivers confluence in Peru.
17. Amazon’s primary source is the Ucayali-Apurímac river system with the main headstream being Carhuasanta glacial stream that flows off Nevado Mismi Mountain.
18. 20% of Earth’s freshwater that enters the oceans comes from Amazon. The freshwater that enters the Atlantic from the Amazon River flows on top of the seawater because freshwater is lighter. This freshwater dilutes the salinity of the seawater and changes the color of the ocean surface. This color change spans over 1,000,000 square miles.
19. More than 3000 species of fish have been identified so far in the Amazon basin and more are being discovered every year. The famed anaconda can be found in the basin’s shallow waters.
20. Amazon manatee, boto (Amazon river dolphin), tucuxi (another species of dolphin), various species of notorious piranhas, electric eels, giant otter and black caiman are some of the most commonly found creatures of Amazon.
21. The river is also known for supporting turtles, algae, and crabs. The microbes that are generally found in the Amazon River are Crenarchaeota, Gammaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, and Actinobacteria.
22. Amazon dumps directly into the turbulent Atlantic. Because of the high tidal energy and the strong waves, sediments from Amazon flow out into the open ocean and thus, Amazon never really forms a true delta.
23. Amazon has over 1,100 tributaries. Out of these, 17 are 1,500 kilometers long. The longest, Madeira River exceeds 2,000 miles (3,200 km). In terms of volume, The Negro River is the largest of all the Amazon tributaries accounting for about one-fifth of the total discharge.
24. The largest oceangoing ships can ascend the river 1,000 miles to the city of Manaus, Braz., while lesser freight and passenger vessels can reach Iquitos, Peru, 1,300 miles (2,090 km) farther upstream, at any time of year.
25. The Amazon floods every year because of the tidal wave known as ‘pororoca’. It occurs at high tide during late winter when the river is overlapped by the Atlantic Ocean, resulting in 4 meter high waves, traveling 13 kilometers inland. Not all tributaries flood at the same time of the year.

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### Pregnancy
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Last updated: 2025-11-18T09:30:42.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts About Pregnancy

1. The amazing fact is that Rabbits, dogs, pigs, whales, and humans all start as eggs roughly the same size (around 0.2mm).
2. The largest cell in the human body is while the smallest cell is the male sperm. Amazingly it takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
3. Four nutrients essential in making sperm are vitamin A & E, linoleic acid, and zinc.
4. The ovum can only live up to 24 hours while the sperm can live up to 5 days in the fertile quality cervical fluid.
5. Amazingly every human spent an hour as a single cell.
6. The fact is that on average, among couples having regular intercourse, 25% of women will conceive within 1 month, 60% within 6 months, 80% within a year, and 90% within 18 months.
7. At anytime about 4% of women in the population are pregnant.
8. Almost half the pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended i.e. more than 3 million children per year. The fact is 37 % of all pregnancies in New York City end in abortion.
9. About 10% of pregnancies end in miscarriage.
10. Amazingly pregnant women, at a healthy weight, only need to eat an extra 300 calories per day.
11. About 70% of expectant mothers report some symptoms of morning sickness during the first trimester.
12. The longest pregnancy in humans on record is 375 days (12.5 months). Amazingly, the delivered baby was only 6 pounds, 15 ounces
13. Less than 1% of women in the US choose to deliver their babies at home, while 30% of Dutch women opt for home delivery.
14. Fewer than 10% of babies are born on their exact due date, 50% are born within one week of the due date, and 90% within two weeks of the due date.
15. The largest baby ever born weighed in at over 23 pounds but died just 11 hours after his birth in 1879\. The largest surviving baby was born in October 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia, and weighed amazing 19.2 pounds at birth.
16. The highest number of surviving children from a single birth is eight with Californian Nadya Suleman giving birth to octuplets in January 2009\. She delivered six boys and two girls and all survived.
17. Fact is every 90 seconds, one woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth.
18. The amazing fact is that you can get pregnant when you're already pregnant. A woman in Arkansas was documented to have carried two children with two different due dates.
19. About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins. This rate is an increase of nearly 60% since the early 1980s. However, 17% of pregnant women over 45 will give birth to twins. Tall women are also more likely to conceive twins.
20. The fact is that of the average weight gain in pregnancy, 38% is the weight of the baby. The rest constitutes the placenta, fluid and blood, and the fat gained on the breast and uterus.
21. Nerve cells or neurons are produced in the fetus at an amazing rate of 250,000 per minute.
22. The baby's fingerprints are formed within the first three months of pregnancy.
23. The last organ to develop in the baby is the lungs.
24. Pregnant women experience a heightened sense of smell, which is the body's way of signaling them away from bad food.
25. You're likely to urinate more even during the first trimester as the uterus expands onto the bladder. Higher progesterone levels and the fact that tubes from your kidneys are dilated may also contribute to this.
26. In the second half of pregnancy, the baby urinates about one liter per day. Amazingly the baby will then drink it.
27. In fact, amniotic fluid is mostly sterile urine.
28. Over the course of the pregnancy, the uterus stretches amazingly from the size of a peach to roughly the size of a medium watermelon which is about 500 times.
29. The heart works harder and beats at a more rapid pace due to the increased volume of blood in your body. Your blood volume alone increases by 40-50% I pregnancy!
30. In order to prepare the body for birth, the body produces a hormone called relaxin which softens body ligaments helping the baby pass through the pelvis easily during labor.
31. It is established that the baby gets nutrients before it is passed on to the mother. This is why it is so important to eat regularly and healthily!
32. Fetal temperature is normally half a degree centigrade or a degree Fahrenheit above the maternal temperature.
33. Virtually all drugs are taken by the mother cross the placenta to the fetus.
34. Extra collagen in your skin tears when it stretches, causing stretch marks especially over the abdomen. They won't go after the birth but may fade.
35. The ‘mask of pregnancy' is caused by a change of pigment in your skin across your nose and cheeks in a butterfly shape. No one knows why it happens. It will fade after birth.
36. Hair becomes glossy and thicker due to the estrogen receptors it contains. It is thicker because growth has slowed down and hair loss is reduced. There is excessive hair fall after the birth which is the hair that would have been lost during the previous 9 months.
37. In England, by law, you may urinate anywhere in public, including inside a policeman's helmet if you are pregnant.
38. The placenta is a complex new organ formed that passes oxygen and nutrients from the bloodstream to the growing baby. It also protects the baby from infection and helps to remove the baby's 'waste products', such as carbon dioxide.
39. The placenta reaches maturity by 34 weeks. Linked to the baby by the umbilical cord, the placenta will weigh about 700 grams at the time of delivery.
40. When nearing the end of pregnancy, a woman's placenta produces more estrogen in a day than a non-pregnant woman’s production in three years.
41. The amazing fact is that in utero, baby girls develop all of the reproductive eggs they will ever use. Baby boys don't develop sperm until puberty.
42. Unborn babies can also cry. Because of all of the fluid, you can't hear them. Maybe they are just practicing.
43. A baby starts making its first poo, called meconium, at around 21 weeks’ gestation. However, it won’t pass it until after its birth.
44. During pregnancy, if the mother suffers organ damage, the baby in the womb sends stem cells to repair the damaged organ.
45. According to a Swiss study, first labors require an average of 135 contractions and subsequent labor, 68.
46. The only natural pregnancy induction method that is scientifically proven is nipple stimulation.
47. One in 3 women gives birth via Cesarean section. This number has tripled in the last 10 years!
48. The woman who underwent the world's first successful womb transplant became pregnant in 2013.
49. One in every two thousand babies is born with a tooth.
50. In 31 states of the U.S., Rapists can legally sue for child custody if the rape results in pregnancy.

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### X-Ray
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Last updated: 2025-11-16T09:30:06.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about X-Ray

1. X-rays were discovered by accident when German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845–1923) was experimenting with vacuum tubes in 1895.
2. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was mystified by the radiation he had discovered when he discovered X-rays, so he temporarily called them “X-rays,” with the “x” being a symbol for something unknown. The name has stuck. X-rays are also medically called Roentgen rays.
3. Amazingly Wilhelm Roentgen , the X-ray discoverer , never completed high school and was kicked out of college.
4. X- ray is a kind of electromagnetic radiation, having a wavelength which is as minute as 4 billionth part of an inch! They are shorter than the UV rays but longer than gamma rays.
5. The first use of an X-ray for clinical purposes was by John Hall-Edwards in Birmingham, England, on 11 January 1896, when he X-rayed a needle stuck in the hand of his associate. He was also the first to use X-rays in a surgical operation.
6. Dr. Harvey Cushing of Harvard furthered the development of clinical X-rays that led to pioneering work in brain surgery to locate and remove tumors.
7. Wilhelm Roentgen was awarded the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901\. He refused to take patents out related to his discovery because he wanted it to benefit mankind.
8. X-radiation or X-ray is a form of high energy electromagnetic radiation. Other types of EM radiations are microwaves, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, and gamma rays etc. They all travel in waves, but have different wavelengths.
9. When X-rays are passed through the body, some waves pass through the tissue and turn the film black. Other waves are blocked (e.g. by bones), which leaves white shadows on the film. Each kind of tissue lets X-rays through differently.
10. The first X-ray was of Roentgen’s wife’s hand, complete with wedding ring, in 1895\. However his wife was hardly impressed.
11. From identifying broken bones to disease, the X-ray is one of the most useful medical advancements in history. It is also the oldest form of imaging.
12. X-rays can be divided into hard X-rays and soft X-rays. Because hard X-rays have higher energy and, therefore, higher penetrative ability, they are used in medical radiography and airport security.
13. X-rays were initially thought to be safe until scientists and others who working with them started dying mysteriously. It was Marie Curie’s work that would lead to safety advancements in the field of radiology and radiography.
14. X-rays have enough energy to ionize atoms and disrupt molecular bonds, which makes them harmful to living tissue.
15. Amazingly the effect of X-rays is cumulative meaning that minor doses over several years can equal a large dose at one time.
16. Special types of X-rays include mammograms, dental X-rays, contrast X-rays, fluoroscopy, and CT scans. Other imaging techniques such as MRI and ultrasound do not use X-ray.
17. Computed tomography or CT scan works on the same principles as fixed plate x rays, only with a CT scan, an x ray tube rotates around the individual, taking thousands of images that are then compiled by a computer to produce a two-dimensional cross section of the body. In CT scan, the total radiation exposure is low and photographs of the body’s internal organs can be taken.
18. The first known human to be killed by X-rays was Clarence Dally who had spent a number of years working on Thomas Edison’s X-ray light bulb. He died in 1898 at the age of 39.
19. Thomas Edison was afraid of X-rays after his assistant Clarence Dally showed signs of illness.
20. Pregnant women should not have X-rays except for an emergency. Exposure of the fetus to X-rays can increase the risk of the child developing leukemia. X-rays remain the cornerstone of imaging techniques and account for at least 60%–80% of all diagnostic images.
21. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is a part of the World Health Organization, classifies X-ray and gamma radiation as a “known human carcinogen.”
22. A recent study found that children who received a radiation dose of a least 30 mGy (milligray) from a CT scan to the bone marrow had three times the risk of leukemia compared to those who received a dose of 5 mGy or less.
23. Approximately 0.4% of current cancers in the U.S. are due to CT scans.
24. A plain chest X-ray exposes a person to the same naturally occurring background radiation that a person is exposed to every day for 10 days.
25. Exposure from a dental X-ray is roughly the same as being exposed to 1 day of environmental background radiation.
26. A CT scan on the chest is equivalent to being exposed to two years of naturally occurring radiation.
27. An X-ray on the spine is equivalent to 6 months of exposure to naturally occurring background radiation. A CT on the spine is equivalent to 2 years’ worth.
28. An X-ray shoe-fitting fluoroscope was common in shoe stores during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. When a person put their foot in the fluoroscope, they were effectively standing on an X-ray tube. It was banned after serious radiation burns.
29. Our understanding of the double-helix shape of DNA was provided in part by x-ray crystallography , a technique in which x-rays bounce off the three dimensional pattern of atoms within a crystal lattice to form a shadow image of its structure.
30. X-rays have allowed scientists and art historians to see underpaintings , the rough sketches painters once used to guide their work among other secrets. It helps art historians gain a better understanding of the way artists once worked. X-rays can also show how paintings have been changed and restored over time.
31. X-rays have also been to study priceless artifacts like Egyptian mummies without damaging them. They’ve even been used to peer inside opaque amber to view otherwise invisible fossils of ancient animals, insects, and plants.
32. Emil Grubbe (1875-1960), a student at Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago, noticed that the skin from his hand would fall off after putting his hand in an X-ray machine. He suggested trying the rays on a breast-cancer patient, Rose Lee, who was terminally ill. Her cancer shrank and radiotherapy was born.
33. X-rays are emitted by black holes, neutron stars, the sun, some comets, supernova remnants, and binary star systems etc.
34. The Earth’s atmosphere is thick enough that almost no X-rays from outer space can enter to the Earth’s surface.
35. The discovery of the first cosmic X-ray source (besides the sun) occurred in 1962\. Called Scorpius X-1, this extrasolar X-ray source is the strongest known source of X-ray in the sky located about 9,000 light years away, in the Scorpius constellation. Today, many thousands of X-ray sources are known, though they are not as strong.
36. An X-ray delivers about 10 million times more energy than a radio wave, which is the reason radio waves don’t hurt us.
37. The scale from least dangerous (longest wavelengths) to the most dangerous (shortest) has radio waves at one end and then microwaves, infrared radiation, visible light, UV radiation, X-rays, and then gamma rays at the other end.
38. X-rays are actually visible to the dark adapted naked eye. Additionally, it is possible to see with the naked eye the ionization of the air molecules if the intensity of the X-ray beam is high enough.
39. The Chandra X-ray is the most sophisticated observatory ever built by NASA in 1999, designed to capture X-ray emissions from hot regions of the universe to capture such spectacular images as exploding stars, black holes, and clusters of galaxies.
40. In 2011, a camera that uses X-ray technology was revealed. By way of comparison, HD cameras capture 24 frames per second. The X-ray camera can capture an unprecedented 4.5 million frames per second. It is hoped that the new invention will shed new light on the matter.

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### Jupiter
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Last updated: 2025-11-14T09:30:15.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Jupiter |**Amazing Facts 4U** 

1. Jupiter is massive having 318 times the mass of the Earth. It would take 11 Earths lined up next to each other to stretch from one side of Jupiter to the other.
2. In fact, Jupiter has 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System put together.
3. It is made primarily of gases and is therefore known as a “gas giant”.
4. The ancient Babylonians were the first to record their sightings of Jupiter around the 7th or 8th century BC. Jupiter is named after the king of the Roman gods. To the Greeks, it represented Zeus, the god of thunder.
5. Interestingly, if Jupiter had managed to grab 80 times more mass than its current mass, it would actually end up being a star instead of a planet.
6. The atmospheric pressure of Jupiter is 1000 times greater than that on Earth. Any human will be easily crushed to death at that pressure.
7. An amazing property of Jupiter is that it emits more energy than it receives from the Sun due to it’s size which also exerts a strong gravitational force on itself, thus resulting in the compression of the planet as a whole. The cumulative effect of all this inward force is the production of a large amount of heat, which radiates into space.
8. Amazing thing is if Jupiter got any more massive, it would actually make the planet more dense and start pulling it in on itself. It is estimated that Jupiter could end up with 4 times its current mass retaining it’s current size.
9. Jupiter has the shortest day in the Solar System taking just 9 hours and 55 minutes to complete a full rotation on its axis.
10. Jupiter’s axial tilt of 3.17° is extremely small, second lowest in the Solar System behind Mercury. Due to this Jupiter doesn’t experience seasons at all.
11. Jupiter has flattened a little due to spinning and points on Jupiter’s equator are more than 4,600 km further from the center than the poles. Rapid rotation also helps generate Jupiter’s powerful magnetic fields, and contribute to the high radiation surrounding it.
12. In fact the radiations emitted from Jupiter is 1000 times stronger than the lethal dose of radiation for humans.
13. The mass of the core of Jupiter is 10 times the mass of our Earth and the magnetic field of Jupiter is 20,000 times stronger to that of Earth’s magnetic field.
14. The entire magnetosphere of Jupiter (the magnetic fields and the charged particles) extend out to some 600 million miles behind the planet and some 600,000 miles to 2 million miles towards the Sun.
15. In fact if we were able to see Jupiter's radiation belt from Earth, Jupiter would appear as big as the Sun.
16. If we were able to stand on the surface of Jupiter, we would weigh 2.5 times as much as we would weigh on Earth.
17. The Clouds on Jupiter looking massive are in fact only 50 km thick made of ammonia crystals, sulfur and mixtures of the two compounds. At roughly 90% hydrogen and 10% helium, Jupiter’s composition is nearly the same as the Sun’s all the way inside. Jupiter has surface temperature of -108°C.
18. Jupiter’s year is equal to about 4,333 Earth days (11.86 Earth years). From our point of view on Earth, it appears to move slowly in the sky, taking months to move from one constellation to another.
19. The Great Red Spot , a huge storm on Jupiter was first seen by Giovanni Cassini in 1665\. It is so large that three Earths could fit inside it. A century ago, it measured 40,000 km across, but it has shrunk to half that size. The edges of the spot spin around its center in a counterclockwise direction at a speed of 360 km (225 miles) per hour.
20. The rings on the Jupiter were discovered after those on Saturn and Uranus. The Voyager 1 gets the credit for this discovery. Jupiter’s rings are 4 in number and fainter than Saturn’s possibly due to the material ejected by its moons when struck by meteorites.
21. The Jupiter rings being 4 in number begins about 92,000 km above it’s cloud tops and stretches out to more than 225,000 km. They are between 2,000 to 12,500 km thick.
22. Jupiter’s magnetic field is the strongest in solar system being 14 times stronger than Earth possibly due to the movements of metallic hydrogen deep inside Jupiter. This magnetic field traps ionized particles from the solar wind and accelerates them to nearly the speed of light. These particles create a dangerous belt of radiation around Jupiter which can damage spacecrafts.
23. Amazing fact is that Jupiter has 67 moons most of them less than 10 kilometers in diameter. Amazingly they were discovered only after 1975, when the first spacecraft arrived at Jupiter. Well known moons are Ganymede , Callisto and Europa.
24. All the larger moons i.e. Ganymede , Callisto , Europa and Lo were discovered in 1610 by astronomer Galileo Galilei. It was the first proof of celestial bodies orbiting something other than Earth.
25. Jupiter has already been visited 8 times by spacecraft from Earth starting from Pioneer 10 in December 1973.
26. Jupiter's gravity is used to catapult spacecraft on deep space missions further away. This is how the Voyager missions of 1975 have managed to succeed.
27. Ganymede is the largest moon which is also the largest in solar System, measuring 5262 km across making it larger than planet Mercury. It is named after the mythical Greek son of a King.
28. Ganymede is the only moon in the solar system known to have a strong magnetic field.
29. Ganymede has a thin atmosphere that appears to contain oxygen which is possibly freed because of water ice on the surface which is broken apart into hydrogen and oxygen by solar radiation.
30. Callisto is the second largest moon in the Jupiter system . It is the most distant of the Galilean moons from Jupiter.
31. Callisto has the most heavily cratered surface of any world in the solar system. The most prominent feature on Callisto is a multi-ringed impact basin called Valhalla which stretches across more than 1,800 kilometers.
32. Europa is the 3 rd largest moon of Jupiter and is known for being one of the first object in space found to have a subsurface water ocean which is mainly salty water. This water body may hold twice the amount of water present on Earth.
33. Europa’s diameter is about 3200 Km. It is named after a the daughter of a king in Greek mythology. It was also discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei.
34. Because Europa is water-rich and has a warm interior, scientists think it could be hospitable to life.
35. Lo , one of the moons of Jupiter is the most volcanically active celestial body in Solar System. It has yellow orange appearance because of the sulfur spewed out by its volcanos. The reason is it is closest to Jupiter and it’s gravitational pull raises the solid surface of Io to a height of 100 mtrs generating tremendous amounts of heat enough to trigger volcanic activities.

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### Kidney
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Last updated: 2025-11-12T09:30:13.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Kidneys

1. Kidneys measure around 12 cm in length about size of a computer mouse. They are shaped like beans. Each individual kidney weighs around 140 gms. In kidneys form only 0.5% of the body weight.
2. Almost 25% of the blood pumped by the heart goes to the kidneys.This is higher the blood flow in heart, liver and brain.
3. Kidneys are responsible for maintaining a constant amount of fluid in the body and the chemical balance of the body. The entire blood in the body gets filtered around 400 times in a day through them.
4. Throughout the day, the kidneys filter and produce around 1000 to 2000 milliliters of urine. So in general we excrete around 1.5 liter urine on an average in a single day.
5. In case of dehydration, kidneys compensates by stopping production of urine until hydration is restored and blood volume increases.
6. The new born have the kidney to body weight ratio is 3 times that of adults.
7. 50 % of one single kidney is capable of doing the job that is performed by two kidneys together. This happens because the nephrons are capable of enlarging and handling excess load by hypertrophy.
8. Each kidney consists of about 1 to 2 million nephrons which are very tiny filters capable of filtering blood and eliminating the waste materials.
9. If the nephrons in both kidneys are taken out and placed end to end, they will cover a distance of about 16 kilometers.
10. After the age of 40, the number of functional nephrons present in each kidney start falling at a rate of 1% a year but this is partly compensated by nephrons having a tendency to enlarge before destruction.
11. The kidneys receive about 1000 to 1200 ml of blood every minute. Every day, kidneys filter the blood about 50 times. The kidneys reabsorb and redistribute 99% of the blood volume and only 0.1% of the blood filtered becomes urine to be excreted.
12. The yellow colour of urine is due to bilirubin which is a pigment formed as a result of about 1% of our blood getting destroyed every day.
13. If the blood pressure in kidneys decreases, kidneys send out signals to the rest of the body resulting in the blood vessels getting constricted to increase the pressure ensuring that blood reaches every part of the body.
14. If the oxygen content of the blood falls, the kidneys can sense it creating a hormone which triggers increased production of red blood cells which are responsible for carrying oxygen.
15. Malfunctioning kidneys can lead to the development of anemia. It has been shown that most anemic patients usually suffer from some kind of kidney disease.
16. Kidneys are connected to bladder with the help of two tubes known as ureters. Urine is stored in the bladder for 1 to 8 hours. After bladder is more than half full , signals are sent to the brain that it is time to urinate.
17. Kidneys can activate vitamin D production in our body. This vitamin is usually produced by special skin cells when they are exposed to sunlight. If the skin fails, the job passes on to the livers. If the liver fails, the job finally goes to the kidneys.
18. You may be born with only one kidney which hypertrophies eventually growing to the combined weight of two kidneys.
19. Kidney stones are an accumulation of mineral salts and mostly combined with calcium which can lodge anywhere along the course of the urinary tract. Excessive. High antacids and milk can promote kidney stones sugar level in diabetis also stimulate the pancreas to release insulin which causes extra calcium to be excreted in the urine leading to kidney stones.
20. Drinking 6 - 8 glasses of water or other drinks such as fruit juice each day will keep your kidneys in good condition.
21. Kidney disease can never be reversed. Its progression can only be slowed down.
22. High BP and diabetes can both lead to failure of kidneys.
23. When the kidney functions are completely lost, it is known as ESRD or End Stage Renal Disease. People suffering with ESRD can live longer only with help of kidney transplant or dialysis.
24. The first ever kidney transplant was conducted by Yuri Voronoy, a Russian surgeon in year 1933 which failed. The first ever successful kidney transplant was conducted by Dr. Joseph E. Murray in December 1954 which was between two identical twins.
25. About 1/3 rd of transplanted kidneys come from living relatives and about 2/3 rd are from someone who died recently.
26. Kidney transplant would be generally put in your pelvis and the disabled kidney will not be extracted.
27. Only one donated Kidney is needed to replace two failed Kidneys and the life expectancy of someone who donates a kidney is the same as the general population. There is no extra risk.
28. Nearly 500 million people globally i.e. About 10% of global adult population are believed to suffer from some kind of kidney problem/damage.
29. Nearly 1.5 million people globally go through kidney transplant or kidney dialysis.
30. The adrenal glands lie right above the kidneys and release stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline.

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### Breast
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#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Breast

1. The only primates on the face of Earth to have permanent full breasts are humans. All other primates only grow full breasts for the purpose of feeding their children.
2. Generally, the left breast is slightly bigger than the right one in 65% of cases.
3. There are cells inside the breasts known as alveoli that produce milk in response to a hormone known as prolactin.
4. Amazingly the amount of milk produced is independent of the breast size. The reason is that in large breasts, the proportion of fatty tissues is greater compared to glandular tissue.
5. Breast milk is generally considered to have a sweet flavor due to the high amounts of lactose.
6. Breast size fluctuates from time to time. They swell during premenstrual syndrome because of high levels of prolactin or progesterone hormones. They also grow in size during pregnancy and during intense arousal.
7. WHO says that breast milk is the perfect food for babies. It contains several antibodies that help to protect a baby from infections and diseases.
8. When women are young, their breasts store collagen, fats, and milk glands but after a certain age, breasts simply become bags of fat.
9. Cigarette smoking is bad for your breasts. The chemicals in cigarette smoke break down the elastin in our bodies, leading to saggier boobs.
10. There is in fact no natural way of increasing breast size. This can only be achieved through cosmetic surgery or botox.
11. A study found that 70% of women are always unhappy about the size of their breasts considering them either too small or too big.
12. The average bra can support breasts that weigh between 0.23 kilograms and 9 kilograms i.e. about the weight of three bricks.
13. Amazingly it has been found that 85% of all women all over the world always wear bras of incorrect size.
14. There are different types of nipples, clinically classed as ‘normal,’ ‘flat,’ ‘puffy,’ ‘inverted’.
15. Men have nipples and breasts because all fetuses are female at first. Every fetus starts as female, and it isn’t until six weeks that testosterone starts to act. Before that mark, nipples and breasts are already part of the male body.
16. Even men have large breasts in a medical condition known as gynecomastia. Here the mammary glands in men abnormally overgrow.
17. Only 20% of all men who meet a woman for the first time actually look at the face of the woman while the remaining 80% stare at her breasts.
18. A 2013 study found that men who prefer large breasts are less financially secure and men who prefer small breasts are more financially secure.
19. The largest natural breasts in the world belong to Annie Hawkins-Turner of the USA, who has a 70-inch chest, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
20. There are actually five states in the US where a woman can walk around topless: New York, Hawaii, Texas, Maine, and Ohio.

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### Kangaroo
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Last updated: 2025-11-08T09:30:21.000Z
#### 25 Amazing Kangaroo Facts that will surprise you

1. The word “kangaroo” has a unique origin. It is actually a word that comes from the original aborigines of Australia.
2. There are over 60 species of Kangaroo.
3. Male kangaroos are often called by several different names developed by the locals. Some call them Jacks, Boomers, or bucks.
4. Females also have pet names that have come from the locals. They have been called does, jills, and flyers. Young kangaroos are often called “joeys”.
5. Most people think kangaroos are endemic to Australia. But in fact, several species of tree kangaroos and forest wallabies also live in Papua New Guinea.
6. The Red Kangaroo is the largest of all kangaroos. They live across the continent of Australia and prefer arid, open grassy areas. They travel in "mobs" of about 10 males and females and are led in their nomadic ways by a single male known as a "boomer.
7. Red Kangaroos grow about 1.5 m and weigh up to 90 kg. Rat kangaroos are the smallest and grow about 25 cm and weigh 18 oz.
8. Amazingly all kangaroos are herbivores. The grazers or browsers eat only plant matter. They don't eat meat. The Kangaroo requires very little water to survive.
9. Kangaroos are made for the environment of drier regions. They can go a lifetime without water as long as there is fresh green material to eat.
10. Kangaroos have a very complex digestive system made up of individual compartments. In each compartment, it has microorganisms that help it digest the food that it is eating quickly and efficiently.
11. Kangaroos are nocturnal and are very active during the early and late twilight hours of the night. They are not active in the day because of high temperatures.
12. The amazing fact is that the newborn has no eyes or ears and weighs just 0.8-1 gram and in the largest species being just 2.5 cm (1 in) long. It looks like a transparent larva.
13. Amazingly Kangaroos are the only large animals that move by hopping.
14. The amazing fact is that a kangaroo can’t jump unless its tail is touching the ground for balancing, so if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.
15. A fully grown kangaroo can jump amazingly up to 25 feet ( 8 Mtrs) and bounce along at speeds up to 40 mph. It can jump up to 3 meters high.
16. The amazing fact is that Kangaroos cannot walk backward. Due to the size of their high feet, they must turn left or right to move in the direction they desire.
17. Kangaroos can jump 10 times more than humans, but kangaroos just can’t jump backward.
18. Kangaroos have very strong hind legs and larger feet in the back. The tree kangaroo is the only exception it also has strong front legs to grab onto branches.
19. Amazing thing is that on land kangaroos can't move their hind legs independently, only together. But when they are swimming, they kick each leg independently.
20. When pursued, kangaroos will retreat to bodies of water, so that they can hold their pursuer under and drown them in water.
21. Kangaroos have pregnancies as brief as 33 days.
22. A female kangaroo’s pouch may contain two babies born a year apart. The amazing fact is that it produces two different types of breast milk simultaneously. one teat will produce milk that is high in carbohydrates for the older offspring and the other produce fattier milk for the newborn.
23. It takes 9 to 18 months until the young are covered in fur, and mature enough to leave the pouch for the first time.
24. kangaroos mate again as soon after a baby is born, but the development of the second embryo stops, or rather, is paused after a few days. So in a way kangaroos are permanently pregnant. If a baby is lost, or if one has grown up and left the pouch, they can immediately give birth again.
25. The amazing fact is that a female kangaroo can have three babies at the same time: an older baby living outside the pouch but still drinking milk, a young one in the pouch attached to a teat, and an embryo awaiting birth.

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### Actresses
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Last updated: 2025-11-06T09:30:06.000Z
#### 34 Little-Known Facts About Actresses

#### 34 Little-Known Facts About Actresses

1. *Amazingly* Halle Berry’s stunt doubles in the movie, “Cat Women” was a man.
2. Sandra Bullock’s mother was a German opera singer.
3. *The fact* is Sandra Bullock is allergic to horses.
4. Actress Cameron Diaz’s childhood nickname was Skeletor, as she has always been skinny.
5. Oona Chaplin (from Game of Thrones) is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin!
6. Megan Fox has a fear of flying.
7. Zsa Zsa Gabor wins the list of most married female celebrities with a record 9 husbands. She is the great aunt of Paris Hilton.
8. Linda Hamilton (Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day) has an identical twin sister. For scenes requiring two Sarah Conners in T2, both Hamilton and her twin were featured on the screen.
9. During World War II, Audrey Hepburn was a courier for resistance fighters in Amsterdam, Holland.
10. *The amazing fact* is that Angelina’s blood is composed of five non-American blood ancestry. She has blood traces from France, Germany, Slovakia, Netherlands, and Canada.
11. *Amazingly* Angelina Jolie is said to be the only A-lister in Hollywood who does not have a publicist to represent her and her PR activities. She deals with her own public image.
12. Catherine Zeta-Jones' father owned a candy factory.
13. *Amazingly* Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.
14. Vivien Leigh, a British actress, was 25 when she filmed "Gone With the Wind". *Amazingly* the actress who played her mother was 28.
15. Tuberculosis, from which Vivien Leigh had suffered for years, was the ultimate cause of her death.
16. Jennifer Lopez started taking singing and dancing lessons at age 5.
17. Italian producer Carlo Ponti met Sophia Loren when he was a judge in a beauty contest. Loren was only 15 years old. She starred in one of his films five years later and they married in 1957 when Sophia was 23.
18. *Amazingly* Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
19. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
20. *The amazing fact* is that Marilyn Monroe bleached her hair. She had naturally black hair.
21. Demi Moore’s real name is Demetria Gene Guyness.
22. Demi Moore, who has earned up to 20 million per movie, first found work as a bill collector.
23. *The amazing fact* is that Demi Moore is totally blind in her left eye after undergoing an operation to correct a squint when she was a child.
24. *Amazingly* Julia Roberts lies on her back to have her make-up applied before going onto a film set. She insists it gives her a relaxed look.
25. Julia Roberts' left eye tears up when she gets nervous.
26. Sharon Stone has an IQ of 154\. She is also allergic to caffeine.
27. Actress Meryl Streep holds the record for the most Oscar-nominated actress, with a record of 13 nominations.
28. Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else.
29. Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.
30. *Amazingly* Oprah is actually a typo. Her aunt named her after a biblical character Orpah which was the name in her birth certificate but relatives had a tough time spelling and pronouncing it so she has grown up as ‘Oprah’ a wrong name her whole life.
31. Oprah Winfrey’s production company Harpo is Oprah spelled backward.
32. Oprah Winfrey just hates chewing gum.
33. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
34. Whoopie Goldberg used to put makeup on dead people in the morgue.

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### Amazing Facts
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#### 15 Amazing Facts | Amazing Facts 4U

1. Alan Stacey, a Formula One driver was killed when a bird flew into his face in 1960.
2. Amazing Fact is The US Navy still operates wooden ships.
3. Harare, Zimbabwe, is one of the most expensive cities due to its citizens switching to US Dollars as currency. They are so used to Zimbabwe money with very high values, that being charged $20 for a haircut seems a good deal as people do not have an outsider concept of the real value of the dollar.
4. The Soviet Union did not admit that a reactor had exploded at Chernobyl until nearly 3 days after radiation from the disaster set off alarms at a nuclear plant in Sweden 1000 km away.
5. Ice was exported from the US all the way to India in 1893.
6. The amazing Fact is Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
7. In Pacific Grove, California there is a law on the books establishing a $500 fine for molesting butterflies.
8. A man “blinked a book”. Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffered from Locked-in syndrome could control only his left eyelid. Bauby composed and edited the book entirely in his head and slowly dictated it one letter at a time by blinking his eye and, by doing so, was able to write his memoirs (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). His interlocutor, Claude Mendibil, listed the letters in accordance with their frequency in the French language to make it easier. The book was published in France on 7 March 1997\. Bauby died suddenly from pneumonia ten days after the publication of his book.
9. There was an ape as early as 100,000 years ago that was as tall as 9.8ft (3 meters) tall in India.
10. Today, more people worldwide suffer from obesity (1.3 billion) than hunger (900 million).
11. The galaxy M100 is so far away that if beings from there were to look at Earth right now, they would be watching the real-time extinction of the dinosaurs.
12. The first-ever cloned sheep was named after Dolly Parton because “Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell, and We couldn’t think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton’s.”
13. The name ‘Aspirin’ was originally a trademark belonging to a German pharmaceutical company ‘Bayer’, but after Germany’s loss in WWI the company was forced to hand over the trademark as a part of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
14. Gayalal a member of the Legislative Assembly from Haryana India in 1967 changed party thrice in a fortnight.
15. In 2006, a naked man in California was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.

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### Sanskrit
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#### 25 Amazing Facts About Sanskrit | Amazing Facts 4U

1. Sanskrit is the oldest language known to humanity. It is the oldest, most technical, systematic language in the world.
2. Sanskrit was the speaking language of ancient India and has *amazingly* survived ages and is still in its original form.
3. The word "Sanskrit’ is a combination of two words – "Sanskar’ and "Krit’; "Krit’ meaning "Inculcating’ and "Sanskar’ meaning "Essence of Moral Values’. Thus Sanskrit means a language that has the capacity to indoctrinate higher values in an individual.
4. The Sanskrit vocabulary uses 49 sounds, generated from five distinct areas of the mouth, allowing phonetic accuracy. *Amazingly* every Sanskrit letter has a precise sound in any word it is used in, all the time.
5. *Fact* is Sanskrit is known to be the mother of all languages of the world. Nearly(97%) of all languages have been directly or indirectly influenced by this language.
6. As early as the sixth century B.C. Panini wrote his famous grammar on the Sanskrit language *amazingly* followed as a standard authority even today.
7. *The amazing fact* is the Sanskrit language has never had any dialect and in every age, it has always remained the same.
8. Sanskrit has the perfection of the pronunciation and the uniqueness of the grammar that has remained the same in all the ages. It is the most perfect language in the world.
9. Sanskrit is the best language for use in computers.
10. Sanskrit has an *amazing* wealth of words and synonyms to give great versatility. It has in *fact* over 70 words for water while English has just got one. Even elephant has *amazing* 100 names in Sanskrit each with a specific meaning.
11. *Amazingly* the Sanskrit language has over 122 words for the action to go each with a specific meaning.
12. NASA contains over 60,000 manuscripts of palm leaf with them written in Sanskrit under research and study for the various underlying ancient technologies in it.
13. Sanskrit language and literature is the greatest treasure and finest heritage from India.
14. It is the best language available in the world for translation purposes.
15. There is a report given by a Nasa scientist which says that the USA is creating the 6th and 7th generation Super Computers based on the Sanskrit language for the 6th and 7th generation computers.
16. 17 countries in the world have a University or more to study Sanskrit but *amazingly* there is not a single university dedicated to Sanskrit for its real study in India.
17. Sanskrit is the scholarly language of 3 major World religions – Hinduism, Buddhism (along with Pali), and Jainism.
18. The Indian state of Uttarakhand in *fact* uses Sanskrit as its official language.
19. Sanskrit is the most scientific and most mature language which has been refined and sculpted to perfection.
20. The world’s greatest ancient creations Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagwad Geeta, Ayurveda, Purana, Mahabharat, and Ramayan, all are in Sanskrit. The oldest texts in Sanskrit (the Vedas) are among the oldest in the world.
21. The Sanskritic culture had an *amazing* reluctance towards writing and these were orally preserved for generations in unchanged form years before they appeared in written form. It is believed that Vedas were composed around 1500 BC but they were not set down in writing until probably the Gupta period ( 5th century A.D.) which makes some 2000 years.
22. Despite the initial reluctance to writing, the proliferation of works continued on a very diverse range of topics with the result that there are an estimated over 30 million Sanskrit manuscripts today with a conservative estimate of 7 million in India itself. In *fact,* there are more manuscripts in Sanskrit than in Latin and Greek put together many times.
23. Sanskrit did not have a “default” script (like Devanagari- Hindi) until very recently ( < 200 years ). It was written by everyone in the regional script of their region, in over two dozen scripts. This may make it the language that has been written in the most number of scripts.
24. There exist many villages in India where everyone speaks Sanskrit. Mathur/Mattur, a village 10 km from Shimoga speaks Sanskrit on daily basis.
25. *The amazing fact* is that even a Sanskrit daily newspaper exists! Sudharma, published out of Mysore India, has been running since 1970 and is now available online as an e-paper (sudharma.epapertoday.com)!

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### Divorce
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Last updated: 2025-10-30T04:30:13.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Divorce

1. The most commonly cited statistic stats is that one in every four families will face divorce. More than one million people have parents who separate or divorce each year in the U.S.
2. In ancient Rome, a couple could divorce just by declaring their intent not to live together in front of seven witnesses. Divorce was common, especially in the upper classes, and a divorced woman could receive her dowry back in full. However, a woman found guilty of adultery would receive just half of her dowry. The law did not recognize adultery by husbands.
3. In ancient Chaldea, a man could get a divorce by writing a letter to his wife’s father or by saying “Thou are not my wife.” However, if the wife ever said, “Thou are not my husband,” she would be immediately drowned.
4. In some Native American tribes, if a man left his wife without a serious reason, he was not allowed to remain a member of the tribe. Many tribes did not allow a man to separate from his wife if they had children together. The Aztecs were never permitted to divorce.
5. A few hundred years back, women in Turkey could legally divorce their husbands, if he didn't provide them with enough coffee.
6. The Catholic Church’s position developed in the 13th century stated that divorce was forbidden because a validly contracted Christian marriage could be dissolved only by the death of a husband or wife.
7. Divorce is also illegal in Malta, a country that is controlled by the Vatican. It is one of the three countries in the world (all Catholic) where divorce is illegal, even if the marriage is not a Catholic marriage.
8. The amazing fact is that in the Philippines, divorce is illegal. Any divorce that is conducted outside the country is also not recognized within the Philippines.
9. In America, the divorce rate for a first marriage, second marriage, and third marriage is about 41%. 60% and 73% respectively.
10. First marriages that end in a divorce usually last approximately 8 years.
11. The average length of divorce proceedings in the United States is 1 year.
12. The mean age of a man and woman for a first divorce is about 30 years.
13. The Air Force has the highest rate of divorce out of all the services.
14. There are 100 divorces every hour in the U.S.
15. Couples who live together before engagement have higher divorce rates than those who wait.
16. Asian women are the most likely to be in a first marriage that lasts over 20 years.
17. Every 10 to 13 seconds someone gets divorced in the world.
18. Men and women on average wait 3 to 3.5 years to remarry after a divorce.
19. The divorce rate for couples over 65 years old has doubled since 1980.
20. In the USA, western states typically have the highest marriage and divorce rates, followed by the South. The Northeast has the lowest marriage and divorce rates.
21. New Jersey has the lowest divorce rate and Nevada has the highest rate of divorce rate.
22. Marriages are more likely to last longer when people marry at an older age, have a higher education, and earn more money.
23. Couples who have a lavish wedding are more vulnerable to divorce.
24. 50 Percent of Divorcees Regret Ending Their Marriage.
25. 50 % of women and 33% of men remain angry for 10 years after the divorce.
26. 80% of those who divorce during an affair regret it afterward. The average affair lasts 2 to 4 years.
27. A marriage is more likely to end in divorce if one partner smokes. As per U.S. statistics, if one partner smokes, a marriage is 75% more likely to end in divorce.
28. One partner's weight gain can increase the risk of divorce. It has been noted that if a spouse has gained more than 20% of his or her body weight, divorce is more likely.
29. The top 5 reasons for divorce in the U.S. include 1) communication problems; 2) infidelity 3) financial problems; 4) psychological, emotional, and physical abuse; and 5) loss of interest.
30. The top six signs of an impending divorce include 1) dreaming of a life without the spouse; 2) the bad in the marriage outweighs the good; 3) lack of communication; 4) engaging negative defense mechanisms, such as becoming overly defensive and dismissive; 5) a spouse feels like he or she is the only one trying to solve problems, and 6) the couple rarely if ever has sex.
31. Children of divorced parents are twice as likely to drop out of high school and less likely to attend college.
32. Divorced men are at an especially high risk of alcohol abuse. In contrast, divorced women’s alcohol consumption falls sharply after a divorce.
33. Approximately 6% of American couples marry, divorce, and then remarry each other.
34. In 2/3 of all American divorces, it’s the woman who files for divorce.
35. Some researchers note that men are eight times more likely than divorced women to commit suicide. They are also twice as likely to suffer depression and heart attacks.
36. Only one U.S President is known to have been divorced: Ronald Reagan.
37. Amazingly in New York and Mississippi, a spouse can sue a third party for being responsible for the failure of a marriage in cases of what’s called “alienation of affection.”
38. It’s a law in Wichita, Kansas, that if a man mistreats his mother-in-law, it cannot be used as grounds for a divorce.
39. The world’s oldest divorcées are a 99-year-old Italian man and his 96-year-old (ex) wife after 60 years of marriage when he found love letters she had written to her lover in the 1940s. They had married in 1934 and divorced in 2011.
40. In Japan, visitors can write their divorce wishes on a piece of paper and flush them down the toilet in the Mantokuji Temple which was traditionally a refuge for women seeking to escape an unhappy marriage.
41. In China, when couples of the Jing people divorce, they throw away the pen and inkstone used to sign the divorce papers because they believe they contain bad luck.
42. Einstein, as part of his divorce, offered his wife all the money he would get if he were to win the Nobel Prize. She accepted and years later he delivered on his promise when he won it.
43. The amazing fact is that in 2007, A Bosnian couple divorced after discovering both had an online affair with each other under fake names.
44. Only about 1 in 100 marriages in India end in divorce, one of the lowest rates in the world. Belgium rates highest with 75% divorce rate.
45. A woman won a $1.3 million lotteries and immediately divorced him to avoid giving him half. He sued her when this was discovered. Due to a Family Code statute that penalizes spouses for falsifying data about their property during a divorce, a judge ordered her to give him 100% of the winnings.
46. Robert Lucas, upon receiving a Nobel Prize in economic sciences, was only awarded half the prize money. His ex-wife had placed a clause in their divorce settlement in 1988 stating she would receive half the prize money should he win the prize in the following 7 years. He won the price in 1995.
47. Swedish author Stieg Larsson never married his partner Eva Gabrielsson because under Swedish law they were required to make their addresses publicly available which was a security risk for them.
48. Up until 1974, banks could refuse to issue a credit card to a woman unless she was married and her husband co-signed for the card. A divorced woman was considered too much of a risk.
49. A third of all divorce filings in the U.S. contain the word "Facebook."
50. In Italy, nearly half of divorce proceedings mention the social networking app Whatsapp.

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### Salt
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Last updated: 2025-10-28T04:30:18.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Salt

1. Salt (Sodium Chloride) is formed when the unstable metal sodium reacts with chlorine gas. It is the only family of rocks regularly eaten by humans.
2. Do you know there are over 1400 different uses for salt? Salt has a fascinating history making it the world’s most amazing mineral.
3. Every cell in the body contains salt. An adult contains about 250 grams.
4. The recommended daily intake of salt is just about 2.3 gm per day (About 1 teaspoonful) . There are many food items which add to salt intake without our knowledge which include restaurant foods,processed foods, ketchup,bread , cheese etc.
5. Consumption of too much salt can be deadly. Lethal dose is about 1 gram of salt per kilogram and this was used as a method of ritual suicide in China especially amongst the nobility as salt was an expensive item.
6. It is a myth that there is no salt in products that claim to be sodium-free or salt free. A product is labeled free of it if it has less than 5 mg of sodium.
7. Sea salt contains about 80 mineral elements that the body needs. Some of these elements are needed in trace amounts. Unrefined sea salt is a better choice of salt than other types of salt on the market. Ordinary table salt that is bought in the super markets has been stripped of its companion elements and contains additive elements such as aluminum silicate to keep it powdery and porous which is a very toxic element for our nervous system.
8. Fruits and vegetables are nearly salt-free. This means that a vegetarian diet needs salt to be added to aid saliva and gastric secretions.
9. It is a commonly held myth that Roman soldiers were paid in salt and that this is where the word ‘salary’ comes from. In fact they were paid in coins, but one of their jobs was to guard the first great Roman road Via Salaria (salt road), leading from Rome to the Adriatic Sea, where salt was gathered. So this is probably where the term ‘salary’ comes from..
10. In old Japanese theatres, salt was sprinkled on to the stage before each performance to prevent evil spirits from casting a spell on the actors.
11. Right up to the 20th century, pound bars of salt (called amoleh) were the basic currency in Abyssinia (now called Ethiopia).
12. India’s independence movement began by Gandhi’s “salt satyagraha” (“march to the sea”). This was a non-violent protest against the British salt tax in 1930.
13. Sodium, a part of salt is key in the operation of all signals within, as well as to and from, the brain.
14. Salt is used to remove traces of water from aviation fuel after it is purified.
15. Only 6% of the salt used in the U.S. is used in food; another 17% is used for de-icing streets and highways in the winter months. Rest is used in the chemical industry.
16. Bolivia boasts the world’s largest salt desert, the Salar de Uyuni, which covers 4,085 square miles at an altitude of 12,500ft. It becomes mirror-like when a thin layer of water lies on top. This reflectivity makes it a very useful tool in calibrating scientific equipment from outer space. This amazing salt flat also contains half of the world’s supply of lithium. Since 1995 it has also featured the Salt Palace and Spa, the world’s only salt hotel.
17. In the Middle Ages, salt was so expensive it was sometimes referred to as “white gold”. In the early 1800s, salt was 4 times as expensive as beef.
18. Anthony Lucas (1855-1921) was a Croatian engineer who became convinced that oil deposits might be linked to the presence of salt. The result was the emergence in 1901 of the Lucas Gusher, on Spindletop Hill in Texas, a 197 ft stream of oil that shot out of the ground for nine days. This kick-started the black gold rush and marked the beginning of the modern petroleum industry.
19. There is an enormous salt mine under the city of Detroit, about 1,200 feet below ground. According to Detroit Salt Co., the century-old mine spreads out more than 1,500 acres and has more than 100 miles of underground roads.
20. Sea turtles in fact “cry” to get rid of salt. Special glands next to the turtle’s eyes produce a salty discharge. Seabirds don’t cry but their heads contain tiny desalination plants so they never need to drink fresh water.

##### Salt Uses at home

1. For stings and bites, put water on it and then pour salt on top. This should help with the pain.
2. For sore throat just gargle some warm salt water and you'll notice the relief. Just don't swallow it!
3. For whiter teeth, you can use a blender to break the salt up. Mix it with 2 parts baking soda to 1 part salt. Put a little water on the mixture and start brushing!
4. For sore feet put some salt in warm water and begin soaking. You shall get faster relief.
5. For a good facial massage, get a mixture of equal amounts of olive oil and salt into your skin and then rinse off after just a few minutes.
6. When cotton and linens begin to yellow, use a mix of salt and baking soda and boil for about an hour.
7. Wine stains, sweat stains, and bloodstains can be removed with saltwater.
8. You can restore brass shining with equal parts flour, salt, and vinegar rubbing the paste on the brass and leave for about an hour.
9. For rust stain, wet the spots with lemon juice and salt mixture. Spread the object in the sun and let bleaching take place. Then rinse thoroughly and dry.
10. If you add just a tiny bit of salt to your milk, it will stay fresh longer than it should.
11. Coffee pot bitterness builds up over a period of time. Use about 4 tablespoons of salt and run it through your coffee maker as normal. Then run regular water through the coffee maker.
12. Salt can be used for testing egg. Add two spoonfuls of salt to a cup of water and then drop an egg in. If it's fresh it won't float. Rotten eggs will. Add some salt to your boiling water and you'll notice it'll be a lot simpler to peel the eggs.
13. Adding a few pinches of salt to boiling water won't speed up the boiling process but it will boil at a higher temperature so your food will cook quicker.
14. If you want to make your cheese last longer, then wrap a saltwater damp paper towel or cloth around your cheese before storing it.
15. If overcooked coffee is bitter, throw a pinch of salt into your cup of burnt coffee, it will take away some of that unpleasant bitterness.
16. You can clean the drain by throwing some salt brine down the drain at least once a month to help clear the grease and smell out.
17. To clean the fridge just scrub your fridge with salt and soda water mix. It will clean it up fast!
18. Add a tiny bit of salt to the vase of water you keep your flowers in, they'll last longer.
19. If you want to avoid dripping candles, soak your new candles in saltwater for at least 4 or 5 hours. Now there will be no dripping.
20. If you want to keep your car or house windows from frosting up in cold weather, just rub some saltwater over the windows and dry them well.

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### Global Warming
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Last updated: 2025-10-26T04:30:12.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Global Warming

1. Global warming is the increase in the earth’s average surface temperature due to the effect of greenhouse gases. These greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane absorb heat that would otherwise escape from earth. Global warming has emerged has one of the biggest environmental issues in the two decades.
2. The earth is a natural greenhouse and is kept warm by water vapors, carbon dioxide (CO2), and other gases in the atmosphere, which absorbs the sun’s energy and radiates it back toward the earth. This type of warming is called the “natural greenhouse effect.”
3. Enhanced greenhouse effect,” on the other hand, causes global warming due to excessive levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
4. Amazingly without the atmosphere to create a greenhouse-type effect, the average temperature on Earth would be just 5° Fahrenheit (F).
5. Natural levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have varied throughout history between 180 and 300 parts per million (ppm). Current average global CO2 levels are about 380 ppm, which is 25% more than the highest recorded natural levels.
6. The years 2005 & 2010 were the warmest on record and the years 1998 and 2007 were tied for the second warmest. In fact the nine warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998\. Now 2014 has become the world’s hottest year on record, surpassing the previous records.
7. According to studies, average temperatures around the world have increased by 1.4° F since 1880, with most of the change occurring in recent decades.
8. Droughts, hurricanes, wildfires, extinction of endangered species, melting of polar ice caps, storms are a few of the effects of global warming.
9. Human activities release around 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year into the atmosphere. In fact, people dump carbon dioxide into the environment at 1000 tons per second.
10. During the twentieth century, the earth experienced two warming trends. The first was a burst in temperature from 1900-1930, and the second is a continuing increase in temperature beginning in the 1970s.
11. The last two decades of the twentieth century were the hottest decades in more than 400 years and may have been the hottest decades for several thousand years.
12. Scientists in fact expect a 3.5° F increase in average global temperatures by the year 2100, resulting in the warmest temperatures in the past million years.
13. Amazingly when the earth’s temperatures were roughly equivalent to today about 1.8 million years ago, sea levels were 12 to 18 feet higher.
14. Geologists expect sea levels could rise up to 2 feet by the end of the century if current warming trends continue.
15. It is estimated that Worldwide, about one hundred million people live within three feet of sea level in coastal areas. With global warming with the glaciers melting and the ocean levels rising cities such as London, New York, 2,100 Indonesian islands and other flat and low countries could be lost to the sea.
16. The first forced relocation due to the effects of climate change occurred in 2007 when 100 residents of Tegua Island in the Pacific Ocean were evacuated due to rising sea levels and subsequent flooding.
17. For the past million years, cool climate conditions have primarily prevailed throughout the world. The human species has evolved under these cool conditions.
18. The earth has always experienced cyclical bouts of climate change with occasional extreme periods such as the Little Ice Age of the 17 th & 18 th century and the Medieval Warm Period of the 11 th century.
19. Climate models predict the loss of Arctic sea ice earlier and more rapidly than the loss of Antarctic land ice if warming trends continue.
20. Since the 1950s, Arctic sea ice has declined by 15% and the average annual duration of northern lake and river ice has decreased by two weeks.
21. As Arctic ice disappears, it is believed that the Arctic will experience its first ice-free summer as early as the year 2040.
22. Average temperatures in the Arctic climates of Alaska, Canada, and Russia have risen at twice the global average in the last century.
23. The effects of global warming could destroy the habitats of and threaten extinction for over one million species of plants and animals.
24. Between the years 1961 and 1997, the world’s glaciers have lost about 900 cubic miles of ice.
25. In 1910, Glacier National Park in Montana boasted 150 glaciers today there are just 25.
26. Deserts worldwide are increasing as a result of warmer temperatures. Australia has lost 25% of crop production due to desertification.
27. Amazingly fossil fuel burning currently adds nearly six billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere every year. Roughly 75% of the annual increase in atmospheric CO2 is due solely to the burning of fossil fuels. Only half of this CO2 is removed by forests and oceans. Fossil fuels are the most dangerous contributors to global warming.
28. The vast majority of emitted CO2 is a result of fossil fuel burning in power plants for electricity generation.
29. Rampant deforestation currently causes 20% of the world’s global warming pollution by reducing the reabsorption of CO2.
30. The earth’s atmosphere now contains 40% more CO2 than before the Industrial Revolution.
31. The United States represents less than 5% of the world’s population, yet Americans account for 25% of the world’s commercial energy consumption and 22% of the world’s industrial emissions of CO2.
32. Cars are responsible for three-quarters of all transportation emissions. Amazingly at the current rate, the world will be driven on by more than a billion cars in 2030 and a billion more by 2050\. About 20% of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere comes from the gasoline burned in motor vehicle engines.
33. Due to global warming and pollution, coral reefs are suffering the worst bleaching with the highest dying record since 1980\. Rising water levels put fragile coral reefs in danger as it relies on sunlight to survive.
34. The gases stay in the atmosphere for years. Amazingly even if emissions were eliminated entirely today, global warming would continue as a result of all the built-up carbon dioxide. That could cause temperatures and sea levels to rise for at least a century after the emissions stop.
35. It is estimated that the world will invest some $20 trillion in new energy research over the next 25 years in an attempt to slow the effects of global warming.

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### Antarctica
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Last updated: 2025-10-24T04:30:16.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Antarctica

1. Antarctica is the fifth largest and the southernmost continent in the world. Antarctica is covered by ice all throughout the year making it unsuitable for permanent inhabitation and livelihood.
2. Because Antarctica lies in the southern hemisphere, the seasons there is the opposite of seasons in the north. Summer runs from October to February and winter covers the remainder of the year.
3. *Fact* is Antarctica is the highest, windiest, emptiest place on earth. The Antarctic is colder than the Arctic.
4. Antarctica is the coldest place on earth average temperature being -56 degrees F. The lowest temperature ever recorded was at Vostok Station (-89.20 C i.e. -128.60 F).
5. Antarctica is almost entirely desert and is the driest place on earth. Very little snow or rain falls on the continent. An amazing fact is the Dry valley’ region on the continent has not received rainfall for 2 million years.
6. It is called the White Continent as it is completely frozen. In summer, Antarctica gets light all day while in winter it is total darkness.
7. A phenomenon like an aurora australis (glow in the night sky), diamond dust (cloud of tiny ice crystals), and sun dog (bright spot beside the sun) are observed in Antarctica.
8. *The amazing fact* is that the Antarctic continent wasn't even actually seen until 1820.
9. *Amazingly* no man set foot in Antarctica until 1895.
10. The South Pole is found in Antarctica. Ronald Amundsen, a Norwegian, was the first person to reach the South Pole in 1911.
11. It's *amazing* that Antarctica is bigger than Europe and almost double the size of Australia.
12. Mt. Vinson Massif (4,892 m) is the highest peak of Antarctica. Mt. Erebus is the only active volcano in Antarctica.
13. *The fact* is nobody owns the Antarctica continent. There are no countries. It is governed by an international treaty. The ‘Antarctic Treaty’ of 1959 designates Antarctica as ‘a natural reserve, devoted to peace and science’.
14. Several minerals have been discovered in Antarctica but their commercial exploitation is banned until 2048 by the ‘Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty’.
15. *Amazingly* Antarctica is the only continent without a time zone.
16. *The amazing fact* is most of Antarctica is covered in ice over 1.6 km thick (1 mile). The ice can be more than 4 km thick in some places. Antarctica has 8 times more ice than the Arctic. The average thickness of ice sheet is around 2 km.
17. *Amazingly* there are no permanent residents in Antarctica. Only temporary residents are around 1000 scientists.
18. Antarctica has *amazingly* no trees or bushes. Vegetation on the continent is composed of mosses, lichen, and algae.
19. *Amazingly* the Antarctic ice cap has 29 million cubic km of ice. This is 90% of all the ice on the planet and between 60 and 70 % of all of the world's freshwater.
20. *The amazing fact* is if Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the world's oceans would rise by 60 to 65 meters (200 ft) around the world.
21. About 70% of the total earth’s freshwater reserve is in the Antarctica ice cap.
22. Antarctica accounts for 90% of the entire world’s ice.
23. Antarctica is the best place in the world to find meteorites. Dark meteorites show up against the white expanse of ice and snow and don't get covered by vegetation.
24. One of the biggest icebergs which ever broke free was from the Ross ice shelf in Antarctica in 2000\. It was *amazing* 295 km (183 miles) long and 37 km (23 miles) wide, with an area of 11,000 sq km (4,250 sq miles) above water and 10 times bigger below.
25. *The amazing fact* is when the Antarctic sea-ice begins to expand at the beginning of winter, it advances by around 40,000 sq miles (100,000 sq km) per day and eventually doubles the size of Antarctica adding up to an extra 20 million sq km of ice around the landmass.
26. Only about 1% of Antarctica is not covered by ice.
27. *Amazingly* the number of breeding pairs of penguins in Antarctica is estimated to be 20 million.
28. Antarctica has a peculiar group of fish called the ice fish. These have no red pigment hemoglobin in their blood to carry oxygen around. They manage without it because the temperature is so low and oxygen dissolves better in cold temperatures. They just have a larger volume of clear blood instead and this gives them an unusually ghostly white color, particularly their gills.
29. There are no land mammals in Antarctica. Eskimos and polar bears are found only in the Arctic.
30. *An amazing fact* is the largest land animal in Antarctica is an insect, a wingless midge, Belgica Antarctica, less than 1.3 cm (0.5 in) long. They don’t fly (they'd get blown away). They look shiny black and hop like fleas living among penguin colonies.
31. Fossils have been found in Antarctica which shows that once it was a warm and habitable place.
32. *Amazingly* in 1981, a swarm of krill was tracked by US scientists that were estimated at being up to 10 million tonnes of krill! This is the equivalent of about 143 million people. Krill is the main food of the blue whales.
33. Antarctica is the only continent with no native species of ants. Antarctica is also the only continent without any reptiles or snakes.
34. Antarctica has more than 70 lakes that lie below the ice sheet. Lake Vostok is the largest among them. Lake Vostok may house life. Expeditions from several countries are currently drilling the 13,100 feet (4,000 meters) to reach this hidden gem.
35. Antarctica, with its dry, clear skies, stable atmosphere, and months of complete darkness, is one of the best places in the world to observe galaxies. The largest telescope in Antarctica is the South Pole Telescope.

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### Canada
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Last updated: 2025-10-22T04:30:23.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Canada Facts you may not know

##### Land & Geography

- Factis at 3,855,103 square miles, Canada is the second-largest country in the world, behind Russia.
- *The amazing fact* is Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world's lakes combined.
- The border between Canada and the U.S. is the world's longest frontier. It stretches 3,987 miles. It is without a military defense.
- *Fact* is with over 3 million lakes 9% of Canadian territory is actually fresh water and over 60% of all the lakes in the world are found within its borders.
- *The amazing fact* is Canada has the world’s longest coastline at 2,02,080 km. which is 56% of the entire world’s coastlines!
- The longest highway in the world is the Trans-Canada Highway which is over 7604 kilometers (4725 miles) in length.
- The official languages of Canada are English and French. Throughout Canada's history up to the current time, there have been conflicts between English and French-speaking Canadians.

##### History

- *Fact is Canada has twice been invaded by the USA, first in 1775 and then 1812\. There is a Canadian organization called United North America whose goal is for Canada to join the United States.*
- *In 1995, there was a referendum for Quebec’s independence from Canada. There was 94% turnout, with 50.58% voting to stay with Canada and 49.42% voting to declare independence.*
- *For one day in 1940 a section of a hospital in Ottawa, Canada was declared an international territory, so a Dutch Princess could be delivered as a full Dutch citizen (a requirement to be a Dutch Princess). Every year the Netherlands sends Canada a gift of tulips to show their gratitude.*
- *During WWII, Britain shipped its gold reserves and foreign securities to Canada in crates labelled “Fish”. They were stored for years in an office building in downtown Montreal, where 5000 people worked throughout the war without having a clue about what was hidden in their basement*.

##### Places / Architecture

- Montreal is home to many beautiful churches and is often called The City of Saints or City of a hundred bell towers.
- *Amazing fact is Canada is home to the longest street in the world. Yonge Street in Ontario starts at Lake Ontario and it runs north through Ontario to the Minnesota border, a distance of almost 2000 kilometres.*
- *The highest tides in the world occur in the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick.*
- *Amazingly Manitoulin Island is the largest freshwater island in the world . Manitou Lake on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron is the world's largest lake within a lake ( 41.1 square miles).*
- *Wasaga beach is the longest fresh water beach in the world.*
- *Toronto’s Rogers Centre (formerly SkyDome) is home to the largest Sony big screen in the world, measuring 33.6 mtrs x 10 mtrs.*
- *Amazing fact is the Big Nickel in Sudbury, Ontario is the world’s largest coin. It is a huge reproduction of a 1951 Canadian nickel and measures 9 meters in diameter.*
- *Amazingly the Hotel de Glace in Quebec is built every year using 400 tons of ice and 12000 tons of snow. Every summer it melts away and every winter it is rebuilt.*
- *Ontario is believed to be home to the world’s smallest jail, which measures only 24.3 sq metres.*
- *There is an opera house that straddles the US/Canadian border called Haskell Opera, and inside, the seats are separated by a line. If you don’t exit the same side that you entered, you have breached the law and are subject to arrest.*
- *There’s a place in Vancouver that provides a safe space for intravenous drug addicts to inject themselves. They provide clean needles, food, and drug addiction counseling .*

##### People Customs & Culture

- *Amazingly* about 90% of Canada’s population is concentrated within 160 kilometers (100 miles) of the Canada/US border.
- *Amazingly* Montreal is the world’s second largest French speaking city after Paris.
- *Amazing fact* is tap water in Canada is held to a higher standard than bottled water.
- Canada consumes more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the world.
- *Amazingly* dog food is tax-deductible in Canada.
- Residents of Churchill, Canada, leave their cars unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians who might encounter Polar Bear attack.
- No cow in Canada can be given artificial hormones to increase its milk production. So no dairy product in Canada contains those hormones.
- There is a place in Canada called Cape Breton where Scottish descendants still speak Gaelic, and they send musicians to Scotland to teach the Scottish how to play traditional music .
- The province of Alberta, Canada has border guards dedicated to keeping rats out. They plant poison and dig up individual burrows. The entire province is rat-free, and rats are only allowed in zoos.
- Skyscrapers in downtown Toronto are air conditioned via frigid water pumped from the bottom of Lake Ontario, reducing their electricity costs by 75%.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The Mounted Police were formed in 1873, with nine officers and in 1920 it merged with the Dominion Police to become the famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which today has close to 30 000 members.
- An experimental program called Mincome existed in Canada in the 1970′s and gave everyone a minimum income just for being a citizen. It resulted in slightly fewer hours worked, but saw overall increases in health, happiness, and educational achievement.
- Random and pre employment drug tests are illegal in Canada.
- Because Iceland doesn’t have an Air Force it relies on its allies to provide protection. Currently Canada is providing air protection for Iceland.
- Canada created a $1,000,000 Coin That Is Usable.
- Canada is the only non-European member of the European Space Agency.
- There is a mayor from Canada who is 91 years old and is currently serving her 12th term.

##### Economy 

- *Fact* is Alberta has 50% of the world's supply of bitumen.
- Amazingly Canada accounts for 90% of all mustard seed exports worldwide!
- The deepest gold mine in North America is located in Quebec, Canada. The deepest shaft of the mine reaches over 2.48 miles (4 kilometers) underground and is predicted to be able to access over 12.5 million ounces of gold.
- Remember that Whiskey with an “e” comes from Ireland whilst Whisky without an “e” come from Scotland and Canada.

##### Inventions

- Insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas was first isolated at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 by Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best.
- James Till and Ernest McCulloch are credited with the discovery of the stem cell.
- The Blackberry Smartphone was developed in Ontario, at Research In Motion’s Waterloo offices.
- Canada was the third country to undertake space exploration program.

##### Sport

- The Royal Montreal Golf Club, founded in 1873, is the oldest golf club in North America.
- In the 1930 World Ice Hockey Championship, the Canadian team was so dominant that it did not participate in the knock-out tournament. Canada was right away put into the final game and it won.
- Slovakian women’s hockey team qualified for the 2010 Olympics by beating Bulgaria 82-0, and then lost to team Canada in Vancouver 18-0.

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### Ostrich
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Last updated: 2025-10-20T04:30:30.000Z
#### 25 Amazing Facts About Ostrich

1. Ostrich is the largest and heaviest living bird.
2. The average adult male is between 8 and 10 feet tall and weighs in at over 250 pounds.
3. *Amazingly* ostrich is unable to fly and does not possess a keeled sternum (breastbone) common to most birds.
4. *The amazing fact* is that the ostrich egg yolk is the biggest single cell in the world. It lays the largest eggs amongst land animals.
5. Amazingly the eggshell can support an adult human's weight even though.06 inches thick.
6. Fact is one ostrich egg equals up to 24 chicken eggs and it takes approximately 2 hours to boil!
7. The female ostrich can lay between 60 and 100 eggs each year. Once they're laid, the eggs take about 40 days to hatch.
8. *The amazing fact* is that a female ostrich shows remarkable ability to recognize her own eggs even when mixed in with those of other females in their communal nest.
9. The *fact* is an ostrich's eye is the largest eye of any land animal, almost 2 inches (5 cm) across each almost billiard ball size.
10. *Amazingly* the ostrich's eyes take up so much room in the skull that the ostrich's brain is actually smaller than either one of its eyeballs. This may explain why the ostrich is so easily trapped by predators. It can run fast, but it can't think intelligently.
11. Ostrich has 3 sets of eyelids.
12. An ostrich can go on to live for almost fifty years.
13. The male ostrich can roar like lions.
14. *The amazing fact* is that ostriches can generally run up to 70 km/hr (40 mph) and can outpace most predators such as lions, leopards, and hyenas. They can cover 10 to 16 feet (3 to 5 meters) in a single stride. It can even outrun a deer that is galloping at full speed!
15. Unlike other predators, an ostrich can *amazingly* maintain the running speed for up to half an hour.
16. It is the fastest running bird and has been clocked at a record 97.5 kilometers per hour.
17. The ostrich has two toes on each foot which gives it greater speed. All other birds have three or four toes.
18. *Amazingly* the ostrich doesn't need to drink water. The reason is that ostriches have nutritious and healthy meals full of minerals and vitamins and water enough for their needs.
19. *The amazing fact* is ostriches are so powerful that a single kick at a predator, such as a lion, could be fatal for a lion.
20. When fully grown an ostrich has one of the most advanced immune systems known to mankind.
21. *The amazing* thing is the ostrich has 46 feet long intestine.
22. Ostrich eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
23. The real reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
24. *Fact* is ostriches produce the strongest commercially available leather in the world and some of the most beautiful feathers.
25. *Amazingly* ostriches skeletons and fossils have been found which date back over 120 million years. Ostriches are truly prehistoric.

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### Australia
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Last updated: 2025-10-18T04:30:28.000Z
#### 60 Amazing Facts About Australia

##### Land & Geography

- Australia was originally called New Holland.
- Australia is the biggest island and the smallest continent in the world. It has an estimated population of over 23 million people.
- Amazingly the population density in Australia is generally calculated in square kilometers per person, not people per square kilometer as it is in other countries. The figure is about three people per square kilometer. The world average is about 45 per square kilometer.
- It has the world's 3rd largest ocean territory, spanning three oceans and covering around 12 million square kilometers.
- With an average of 330 meters, Australia is the lowest continent in the world.
- *Amazingly* Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.
- *Amazingly* in Australia, there are more kangaroos than people.
- Tasmania in Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
- Melbourne topped 140 rivals to be crowned the world's most liveable city 2 years in a row.
- There's a river in Australia called the "Never Never River."
- It has 16 world heritage listed sites including historic townships, cities, and landscapes.
- *The amazing fact* is that Australia has over 750 different reptile species, more than any other country in the world.
- The only place in the world where you can still find the lungfish which is a living fossil from the period 350 million years ago in Australia.
- 6 out of the top 10 most venomous snakes in the World are found in Australia.
- The Australian Fierce Snake found around Haddon's corner is the most poisonous snake in the world. One bite is enough to kill about 100 people! The amazing Fact is that it has never killed anyone probably because it lives in an isolated region.
- There are about 350 species of termites, 1,500 species of spider, 6,000 species of flies, and 4,000 species of ants in Australia.
- The Sydney Funnel-web spider is considered the deadliest spider in the world.
- The stonefish is the most poisonous fish in the world and lives mainly above the tropic of Capricorn off the coast of Australia.
- The Box Jellyfish is considered the world's most venomous marine creature and has killed more people in Australia than stonefish, sharks, and crocodiles combined.

##### History

- Australia has been home to aborigines for about 40,000 years.
- It is estimated that at the time of British settlement there were about 300,000 Aboriginal people who spoke around 250 languages.
- British settlers aboard the 11 ships of the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson on the 26th January 1788 (now Australia Day). The total number of convicts transported to Australia was about 162,000; they were transported in 806 ships. Transportation of British convicts to Australia ended in 1868.
- An amazing fact is that a pioneer named Thomas Austin brought 24 rabbits from England to his property in Australia for hunting in the 1800s had multiplied in number to over 2 million in ten years. In 61 years its population grew to 400 million! It was the fastest spread ever recorded of any mammal anywhere in the world.

##### Places / Architecture

- The Sydney Harbor Bridge was opened in 1932 and is the widest steel arch bridge in the world.
- The design for the Sydney Opera House was chosen after the Government conducted a competition in the late 1950s which was won by Danish Architect Jorn Utzon. Unfortunately, in 1966 he resigned from the project because of disagreements. The building was completed in 1973\. John Utzon died in 2008 without ever returning to Sydney to see in person the *amazing* Opera House he designed.
- *The amazing fact* is that if you visited a new beach in Australia every day, it would take you around 27 years to visit them all! It has about 10000 beaches.
- *The amazing* great barrier reef is the largest living structure in the World, it's length being 2600 km.
- The largest cattle station in the world is Anna Creek Station in South Australia at over 34,000 square km. It is 8 times bigger than the biggest ranch in Texas, USA and It is even larger than Belgium.
- United States architect Walter Burley Griffin won the competition in 1912 to design Australia's capital city of Canberra. Australia's new parliament house in Canberra is one of the largest buildings in the southern hemisphere. It has 4500 rooms and floor space is approx. 250,000 sq. Mtrs.
- *Amazingly* the longest section of straight railway track in the world at 478 km crosses The Nullarbor Plain ( South Australia to Western Australia).
- The longest straight section of road in the World at 146 km is also on the Nullarbor Plains.
- The longest fence in the world known as The Dingo Fence, Wild Dog Fence, or Border Fence depending on which state you are in was put up to protect sheep from wild dogs and rabbits. It stretches for 5,400 kilometers long starting at Jimbour in Queensland and continuing on to the Great Australian Bight in South Australia. It is twice as long as the Great wall of China.
- It is *amazing* that Lake Hillier in Australia is a bright pink color and scientists aren't sure why.
- *Amazingly* one of the many mysteries of Australia is the Marree Man, an enormous depiction of an Indigenous man carved in the desert. The drawing is over 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) long ever since it was noticed a decade ago. No one knows who is responsible for the drawing, or how and why they put so much effort.

##### People Customs & Culture

- More than 80 percent of Australians live within 100 kilometers of the coast making Australia one of the world's most urbanized coastal dwelling populations.
- Australians refer to English people as Pome, which is actually the acronym for Prisoners of Mother England.
- Over 200 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 Indigenous languages. The most common non-English spoken languages are Italian, Greek, Cantonese, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Mandarin.
- Australia has the world's highest proportion of migrants in a developed nation with over 25% born in another country.
- It has the highest rate of gambling in the world with over 80 percent of Australian adults engaging in gambling of some kind. Australia has twenty percent of the poker machines in the world.
- The largest Greek population in the world besides Athens in Greece can be found in Melbourne Victoria.
- Despite having a convict colony history, Australia's homicide rate is 1.2 per 100,000 population compared to the 6.3 per 100,000 in the United States.
- In cities, you will find the majority of the population participating at least once a week in a particular recreational activity or sport.
- Alcohol was banned in the capital until 1967.
- The world's longest mail run is about 1450 km between Cairns & Cape York. Postman actually flies the distance.
- It is illegal for children to buy cigarettes but if they smoke it isn't illegal.
- Australia is the most obese country in the world with a 26 percent obesity rate.
- Ugg boots are an Australian design where a sheepskin has been turned inside out and made into a boot.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Australia had a government shutdown in 1975\. The Queen of England *amazingly* fired everyone in Parliament!
- The Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt *amazingly* disappeared while going for a swim at Cheviot Beach Victoria on the 17th December 1967\. His disappearance has remained a mystery. He was never seen again.
- Bob Hawkes’ was a Guinea book record holder for drinking 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. *Amazing* that he later became prime minister of Australia.
- Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902.
- *The amazing fact* is that Canberra was selected as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital of Australia. Finally, Canberra was built in the middle of Sydney & Melbourne.
- The Kangaroo and the Emu were chosen to feature on the Australian Coat of Arms because they are incapable of walking backward and therefore symbolize a nation moving forward.
- In 1838 law was passed banning swimming at public beaches during the daytime. Law was in force until 1902.
- In Australia, it is illegal to walk on the right-hand side of the footpath.

##### Economy & Corporates

- *The amazing fact* is that Australia is a major exporter of camels. There are an estimated 750,000 wild camels roaming in Australia.
- Australia has 75 million sheep, kept for both meat and wool, and almost all of them are in the southeast of the continent. This is about 3.25 sheep per person.
- 70% of the world's wool comes from Australia. Sheep use almost half the continent for grazing.

##### Sport

- Australia beat American Samoa 31-0\. This is the largest victory in International Football Match.
- The world's longest golf course, measuring unbelievable 850 miles long is located in Australia.

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### Germany (Part 2)
URL: https://amazingfacts4u.com/germany-part-2/
Last updated: 2025-10-16T04:30:50.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts about Germany ( Part 2)

##### History

- Neanderthal man was named after the Neander Valley near Dusseldorf.
- The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was founded by Charlemagne in Aachen in 800 C.E. It lasted over a thousand years.
- In 1806 Napoleon dissolved the Holy Roman Empire.
- The oldest sun observatory currently known in Europe is the so-called Goseck circle in Saxony-Anhalt. It was built some 7,000 years ago.
- The Protestant Reformation would cause the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) throughout the Holy Roman Empire, and resulted among others in the independence of Switzerland and of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- The University of Marburg in Hesse, was founded in 1527 as the world's first Protestant university.
- The world's oldest savings bank was established in Oldenburg (Lower Saxony) in 1786.
- The world's first electric tram line was the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway opened in Berlin suburb of Lichterfelde in 1881\. It was built by the Siemens & Halske company, which would later become part of Siemens AG.
- The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 reuniting West and East Germany

##### Places / Architecture

- Fact is Germany is one of the most historically rich countries in the world there are over 150 historical castles located in Germany. Some of the castles offer daily tours to visitor.
- There are over 60 beer gardens in Munich.
- Berlin has the largest train station in Europe.
- *Amazingly* Germany has over 400 zoos, the most in the world. They have devoted a lot of time and effort into making each of their zoos identical to the native habitats of its animals.
- Berlin's Zoologischer Garten is the largest zoo in the world, both in terms of number of species (1,500) and animal population (14,000).
- The Cologne Cathedral took *amazing* 632 years to build. It is immense, over 500 feet long and more than 200 feet wide and can hold 40,000 people.
- Ulm Cathedral is the tallest church in the world. Its height is 161.53 meters.
- The world’s narrowest street is in Reutlingen. It is called Spreuerhofstrasse and is 31 cm (one foot) wide at its narrowest point.
- The Fairy Grottoes (Feengrotten) in Saalfeld, Thuringia, are the world's most colourful caves, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
- Drachenfels (Siebengebirge), in North Rhine-Westphalia, became the world's first nature reserve in 1836.
- There are about 5,800 museums in Germany (about as many as Italy and the United Kingdom combined).
- The world's two biggest cuckoo clocks are both located in Schonach im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg. One of the cuckoos measures nearly five meters and weighs 150 kg.
- The largest department store in continental Europe is the KaDeWe in Berlin, with over 60,000 square metres.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Germany is the world's second largest exporter of goods after China accounting for nearly 10 % of the world exports.
- Germany is the world's second largest producer of cars.
- Bavaria has also the oldest Brewery of Germany *amazingly* still in operation, founded in 1040 by the Benedictine monks in Freising, the Weihenstephan Brewery. It is possibly the oldest still in operation in the world!
- There are 1,300 beer breweries in Germany, making some 5,000 kinds of beer.
- *Fact* is Germany is the world’s second largest exporter of goods after China. The country provides more than 10% of world exports.
- BASF is the socond largest chemical company in the world.
- *Fact* is Germany has some very prestigious companies which include BMW, Adidas, SAP, Mercedes-Benz, Nivea, Audi, Bayer, Volkswagen and Siemens.
- Germany is in the process of phasing out nuclear power plants.
- Adidas was founded by the Bavarian, Adolf “Adi”Dassler. His other brother, Rudolf Dassler founded Puma.
- Germans are among the most avid recyclers. Germany has the third highest recycling rate (48% of waste recycled), only just surpassed by its Swiss and Austrian neighbours.
- Germany produces about 35% of the world's wind energy. There are over 20,000 wind turbines off the coast of northern Germany, the largest of which reaches 200 meters height.
- Germany has been ranked No. 1 in patent and copyright protection.
- Frankfurt International Airport serves the most international destinations. The Lufthansa, based in Frankfurt, is the world's largest airline in terms of international passengers carried.
- DELAG, translating as "German Airship Transport Corporation") was the world's first airline. It was founded on 16 November 1909 in Frankfurt.

##### Inventions

- The cuckoo clock is invented in Germany in the 17th century. It soon became world famous for the small bird that comes out every hour to let you know the time.
- Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, originally used for printing the Bible. The world's first Bible was printed in Mainz in 1456\. It allowed ordinary people to possess a copy of the holy book, previously reserved to the clergy and nobility.
- In 1886 Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz developed simultaneously the first motor-driven vehicles. The firm Benz founded with his partner still exists today as Mercedes Benz.
- Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered the X-rays in 1895.
- Notable German inventions include: Insulin, the pocket watch , the automated calculator , the light bulb, the telephone, petrol & diesel engine, differential gears , jet engine , aspirin , pregnancy test and fluorescent lamp, LCD Screen and walkman.
- The Christmas tree (Tannenbaum) tradition came from Germany.
- Robert Koch discovered and isolated the Tuberculosis bacillus in 1882\. He is considered to be one of the founders of microbiology.
- *Amazingly* over 100 Germans have been awarded the Nobel prize in their field, including Albert Einstein, who was born in Germany.
- The "TV station Paul Nipkov" was a station Berlin that began the first television broadcast on 22.3.1935\. Although only 250 televisions existed around Berlin, this was the first regular televison service in the world.

##### Literature

- Germany played a central role in the Reformation of Christianity. Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468) printed the world's very first Bible in Mainz in 1456 in German. The King James Version of the bible was finally available to the world.

##### Sport

- Germany is one of the world’s leading soccer teams every year. Soccer is the official sport of Germany.
- Germany is the winner of 2014 FIFA world cup held in Brazil.
- There are more soccer fan clubs in Germany than anywhere else in the world.
- German athletes have won a total of 1662 Olympic medals (summer and winter combined from 1896 to 2012), i.e. more than any other country in the world except the USA.

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### Germany (Part 1)
URL: https://amazingfacts4u.com/germany-part-1/
Last updated: 2025-10-14T04:30:02.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts about Germany ( Part 1)

##### Land & Geography

- The population of Germany is around 82 million and it has the largest economy in Europe.
- Germany is the second-most populous country after Russia in Europe.
- With an area of 891 square km, Capital Berlin is nine times bigger than Paris.
- Germany's land area was over 50% larger during the Second Reich (1871-1918) and included most of present-day Poland and parts of Lithuania.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Germany is made of tiny districts each of them carrying a different dialect. There are 35 dialects of the German language.
- German is the official language of 5 countries in Europe: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein.
- The German language remains the language with the most native speakers in Europe.
- 15 million people in Germany are of non-German descent i.e. 18.5% of the population half of them being foreign residents.
- About 25 % of all American citizens claim at least partial German ancestry.
- The most popular German surname is Müller.
- In Germany shaking hands with the other hand in a pocket is considered impolite.
- German people answer the telephone using their surname and not by saying “hello”.
- *Amazingly* in Germany usually “Thanks” means “No” .
- Instead of crossing their fingers to wish for good luck, Germans "press the thumb" (fold a thumb in and close their fingers on it).
- When leaving an lift, Germans say good-bye to the other people in it, even if they didn't speak to them during the ride.
- Traditionally, the schools end at lunch time. Therefore children are free to utilize the rest of the day in extracurricular activities and sports.
- Germany is the cheapest place in Europe to buy beer which are available in thousands of varieties.
- Germans are the third largest beer consumers in the world per person after the Czechs & Irish.
- Never throw water bottles in the bin, after use. You will end up losing 25 cents. This is because when you purchase a bottle of water, you pay 25 cents more. Only when you return the empty bottle to the shop, do you receive the 25 cents back. This is to ensure you return the bottle for recycling and not throw it into the trash.
- The biggest Beer Festival in the world is the Oktoberfest in Munich, Bavaria starting in September where the size of the beer glass is one whole litre.
- *Amazing fact* is in Bavaria, during the working day, the person has the right to drink beer.
- Germans love their breads. They are famous for making some of the world’s best breads.
- You can find over 300 different kinds of breads available on a daily basis. There are also bread museums.
- There are over 1,000 kinds of sausages in Germany.
- Germany is the leading producer of toilet paper. The German People use only the best. The Toilet paper in Germany is very vibrant and soft usually has the thickness of a dish towel.
- Mercedes is known for its elegance and comfort it also makes all the taxis in Germany.
- Almost all the police cars in Germany has a label “Mercedes”.
- *Amazingly* home schooling is illegal in Germany!
- In Germany Christmas trees are decorated by parents and aren't seen by children until Christmas Eve, when they are allowed to enter the Christmas room.
- Getting anything repaired in Germany is so expensive that most often easier to buy a new thing.
- Dogs are most respected in Germany: they can go just about everywhere: first-class restaurants, trains and buses, even clothing shops and bookstores.
- *The fact* is only about 2% of Germans do not use cell phones the lowest percentage in the world.
- Germans don't mind sharing a table with strangers at a restaurant.
- Germans are very fond of underlining everything with a ruler.
- People refer to friends or relatives with the word "the" in front of their name (e.g. Der Klaus, Die Laura).
- People generally keep quiet at home between 9 pm and 8 am to avoid disturbing the neighbors.
- Amazingly people buy a French or a Japanese car to stand out from everybody else who drives German Mercedes.
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) is the first composer whose biography is known. Her works are considered the foundation to what later became known as opera about 400 years later.
- The term "ecology" was first coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The German Bundestag, or Parliament, has 672 members and is the world's largest elected legislative body.
- Germans have been the pioneers of the ecological movement and green politics. The world's first Green Party,Die Grünen, was founded in 1979-1980.
- Germany is one of the rare countries (along with Belgium) where the Greens have been part of a government coalition.
- The fine for slap is *amazing* 500 euros in Germany.
- A civil servant in Germany does not pay social taxes and can’t be fired.
- Germany was the first country to adopt daylight savings time at the height of the First World War in 1916.
- The GermanAutobahnis the oldest motorway network in the world (first section completed in 1932), as well as one of the densest (12,000 km ).
- Amazing fact is that Autobahn constituting about 70 % highway in in Germany has no speed limit.
- If you run out of gas on a highway, you could get fined. You cannot stop or park your vehicle on the highway.
- *Amazing fact* is breaking out of prison is not illegal in Germany! Germans believe that it’s basic human instinct to be free. However there is a jail sentence of up to 5 years for helping someone in their attempt to escape!
- Germany is one of the last Western European countries not to have banned smoking in workplaces, and restaurants. The Nazi officially frowned on smoking and post-war German legislators have been afraid of imitating Nazi regulations.

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### North Korea
URL: https://amazingfacts4u.com/north-korea/
Last updated: 2025-10-12T04:30:50.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Mind-Boggling North Korea Facts

##### Land & Geography

- North Korea forms the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. The capital and largest city is Pyongyang.
- North Korea shares a land border with China to the north and north-west, along the Amnok and Tumen rivers. A small section of the Tumen River also forms North Korea's short border with Russia to the northeast. The Korean Demilitarized Zone marks the boundary between North Korea and South Korea.

##### History

- Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan in 1910\. In 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II, Korea was divided into two zones along the 38 th parallel with the north occupied by the Soviet Union and the south by the United States.
- Negotiations on unification failed and in 1948 two separate governments were formed: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, and the Republic of Korea in the south.
- The military of North Korea invaded the South on 25 June 1950, and invaded most of the country. A United Nations force, led by the United States, intervened to defend the South, and rapidly advanced into North Korea. As they reached the border with China, Chinese forces intervened on behalf of North Korea. Fighting ended on 27 July 1953, with an armistice that approximately restored the original boundaries between North and South Korea. More than one million civilians and soldiers were killed in the war.
- North Korea remained closely aligned to China and the Soviet Union while South Korea followed pro western policy and progressed. The last Chinese troops withdrew from North Korea in October 1958.
- Kim Il Sung , the founder of North Korea was born on the day Titanic sunk.
- North Korea is considered one of the most secretive countries in the world. The founder of North Korea, first president Kim Il Sung, created the country's policy of cutting off North Korea economically and diplomatically from the rest of the world.
- *Amazingly* Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) the founder is the Eternal President. He had the position abolished for all future so that no one can ever be president again. There are an estimated 34,000 statues of Kim Il Sung in the country. *The amazing fact* is that every adult is required to wear a pin on their shirt with his face on it every day.
- North Korea has a space program and it only has a 20% success ratio.
- North Korea is the only nation to have captured US navy ship. USS Pueblo was captured in 1968 and is still in their possession.
- *Amazingly* in 1974, Kim Il Sung took 1,000 Volvo sedans from Sweden to North Korea and never paid for them.

##### Places 

- North Korea has the largest stadium in the world having capacity of 150,000 called Rŭngnado May First Stadium, located in Pyongyang. In the late 90′s it was used as a venue to publicly burn several army generals that were implicated in an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-Il.
- For 20 years, the world’s tallest hotel was a triangle-shaped 105 story “Empty Pyramid” in Pyongyang in North Korea.
- Until 1972, North Korea’s official capital was Seoul in South Korea because they always planned to retake the south.
- In the 50’s North Korea built a nice city ‘Kijong Dong’ visible from the border. It is actually a Ghost city built to encourage South Koreans in.

##### People Customs & Culture

- *Amazing fact* is that Pyongyang is a city only for the elite. It is home to three million people, but only trustworthy, healthy, and loyal citizens can live there.
- North Korea claims to have almost 100% literacy rate.
- The World Food Program estimates that 6 million of North Korea's 25 million people are in need of food aid or are chronically malnourished.
- *Amazingly* North Korean “researchers” have concluded that North Korea is the second happiest country in the world behind China .
- Shin Dong-Hyuk is the only man in recorded history to escape a North Korean concentration camp in the “total control zone” . He works tirelessly to alert the world to the vicious human rights abuses in North Korea.
- In 1978, North Korean agents kidnapped South Korean film director Shin Sang Ok and his wife, actress Choe Eun Hui, to create a film industry in North Korea. The couple escaped to the West eight years later during a film festival in Vienna after having made dozens of films.
- In North Korea, marijuana is not only legal, it's recommended as a healthy alternative to tobacco!
- *Amazing fact* is that North Korea bases its calendar on Kim Il Sung’s date of birth : 15 April 1912\. It isn’t 2014 in North Korea. The year is 102 counted after the birth of Kim II Sung not Jesus.
- When you take a photo of one of the statues, *amazingly* you must take the photo of the entire body . it's not permitted to cut off any part of it. If you have a newspaper or any other paper with a leader on it, you're not allowed to fold the paper or throw it away.
- In *fact* you will find all kids wearing the same uniform all the time, even when they are not in school.
- Literacy in North Korea is defined by the ability to write “Kim Il-Sung” .
- Kim Jong Il’s body is preserved in a glass tomb and it is the most popular tourist attraction for visitors.
- You can’t turn off Government radio installed in your home. You are only allowed to reduce the volume.
- There are only 3 TV channels in North Korea , two of which are only available on weekends, while the other is broadcast in the evenings.
- Koreans measure age very differently! In Korea, a baby is born being one year old because they include the time in the womb as being alive. Every New Year another year is added to their age.
- A six day work week and a day of enforced ‘voluntary’ work ensures that there is no spare time.
- Everybody is assigned a job by the government after you pass high school with which you are stuck for life. If you want change , you have to bribe your way out.
- *Amazing fact* is only military and government officials can own motor vehicles.
- There are almost no working traffic lights in North Korea.
- North Korea has its own computer operating system called Red Star OS.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Both North & South Korea were accepted into the United Nations in 1991.
- North Korea follows Military First policy. It is the world's most militarized society, with about 9.5 million active, reserve, and paramilitary personnel. It possesses nuclear weapons.
- North Korea has the 4th largest army , after China, the U.S., and India and the largest submarine fleet in the world.
- In *fact*, North Korea spends about one third of its national income on the military.
- The dictator North Korean leader Kim Jong-II never flew on an aeroplane. He travelled by private train for state visits , a decision believed to be connected to his fear of flying, a phobia he shared with his father.
- North Korea publicly executed around 80 people in seven cities in November 2013 . Their crimes included reportedly watching unsanctioned South Korean TV shows and being found in possession of a Bible.
- Any North Koreans who escape to South Korea are awarded free citizenship. In the last 60 years , 23000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea. Only two South Koreans have fled to the North.
- In *fact* North Koreans who defect to South Korea get $10,000 to $28,000 “start up money.
- During truce talks between North and South Korea, both parties would try to bring a bigger national flag than the other to each meeting. This went on until a special meeting was called to address the size of the flags, as they could no longer fit in the room.
- North Korea has 51 social categories based on their loyalty to the regime.
- Nearly all property belongs to the state. A modern independent judicial system does not exist. Religious freedom does not exist.
- *Amazingly* North Korean may choose from 28 approved haircuts only.Men are prohibited from growing their hair longer than 2 inches while older men can get away with up to 3 inches.
- No North Korean people have access to the Internet because the government machinery carries out false propaganda and doesn’t want public to know. Government officials using internet are about 600.
- There is horrifying “Three generations of punishment” sentence in North Korea. This means entire family of prisoner will be sent to the camp and their subsequent two generations born in camp will also spend their entire life there. This punishment is reserved for political crimes like criticizing the Government or trying to escape.
- North Korea’s Prison Camps’ conditions are so bad that 20 to 25 per cent of the prison population dies every year.
- Hoeryong concentration camp in North Korea currently has 50000 men , women & children suffering slavery and torture for years.
- North Korea holds election every 5 years where ballot paper has only one candidate. To vote against that candidate , you have to enter special booth.
- Most visitors to the country are forced to stay in the same hotel when they're in Pyongyang with guards surrounding. Visitors can’t travel alone . They can travel with special guides provided.
- In 2013, North Korea's president killed his own uncle by throwing him naked into a cage with 120 starving dogs.
- Dogs are banned in Pyongyang to keep it clean.
- North Korea still uses a fax machine to send threats to South Korea.
- All teachers in North Korea in the 1990s were required to pass accordion playing test before getting teaching certification.
- Malaysians are the only nationality allowed to visit North Korea without a visa.

##### Economy 

- North Korea’s economy was larger than South Korea until the 70’s. Today it’s GDP is just 2.5% of that of South Korea.The North Korean GDP equals just half of the richest man in the world's net worth.

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### Argentina
URL: https://amazingfacts4u.com/argentina/
Last updated: 2025-10-10T04:30:39.000Z
#### 28 Facts about Argentina

##### Land & Geography

- *Fact*  is the name Argentina comes from the Latin word for sliver 'argentum'. Settlers believed that the country was filled with silver, but unfortunately it wasn’t.
- By land area Argentina is the 2nd largest country in South America and the 8th largest country in the world.
- Argentina has an area of 2,780,400 square kilometers.
- Argentina has a population of over 45 million people most centralized in major cities like BuenosAires. The rest are scattered around the high wine country.
- Spanish is the official language of Argentina. The capital city of Argentina is BuenosAires.
- The currency of Argentina is called the Peso.
- *Amazing fact* is both the hottest and coldest temperatures ever recorded in South America occurred in Argentina!
- The crocodiles are a major problem for farmers and rural communities with over 100 reported deaths by crocodiles each year.

##### History

- In the last decade, Argentina has been home to multiple discoveries of gigantic dinosaurs.
- Argentina became a Spanish colony in the late 1700 s. It regained its independence after a brief struggle with Spain in 1815.
- *Fact* is Argentina was one of the first countries in the world to have radio broadcasting which was made in August 1920\. At that time only 20 people had a receiver!
- Argentina was in *fact* the first country to use successfully fingerprinting as a method of identification in 1892.

##### Places 

- Argentina has the highest point in the Southern Hemisphere, Mount Aconcagua 6,962 m (22,841 Ft) which lies in Argentina’s Province of Mendoza.
- *Amazingly* Argentina also has the lowest point in the Southern Hemisphere, the lowest point being Laguna del Carbon (-105 meters) in the Province of Santa Cruz.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Argentina has the highest literacy rate in South America.
- Public transportation is used more by the people of Argentina than automobiles.
- *Amazing fact*is adults and children both travel home after lunch each day to take a siesta. Siestas are short naps that people all around the country enjoy. During siestas many businesses and schools close down, and everyone in the country relaxes.
- Ballroom dancing is a great activity that many people participate in on a daily basis. Many ballroom dances originated in the country including the tango.
- *Amazingly* at least 1 in 30 Argentines undergo cosmetic surgery and has the highest rate of plastic surgery in the world. It is a hub for cosmetic surgery tourism due to low cost.
- Argentina is in *fact* the nation with the most Psychologists per capita in the world about 150 per 100000 residents.
- Argentina has a unusual tradition. The president is considered the god parent of any child that is born 7th to a family .It started in the early 1900 s.

##### Politics/ Legal

- *Amazingly* Argentina has gone through 5 types of governments since its independence. It is currently a constitutional republic similar to the United States.
- Canada became the first country in the Americas to legalize same sex marriage in 1999 and Argentina followed suit nearly a decade later.
- The Argentina navy is the largest sea force in South America. It is constantly on patrol in the Pacific coast patrolling and policing the waters for pirates.

##### Economy 

- Argentina beef is the most requested around the world for its flavor and natural properties.
- Argentina is considered a large producer of wine. “Wine tourism” is one of the main drawing attractions to Argentina.

##### Famous People

- *Amazingly* the very first animated cartoon film in the world was created by an Argentinean man Quirino Cristiani who created the film “El Apostol” in 1917\. It was 70 minutes long and had over 58,000 frames. In fact he was an inspiration to Walt Disney, who during his trip to Argentina visited Quirino’s studio in Buenos Aires.

##### Sport

- The most popular sport in Argentina is football (soccer), the Argentine national team has won the football World Cup twice in 1978 and 1986.

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### Denmark
URL: https://amazingfacts4u.com/denmark/
Last updated: 2025-10-08T04:30:50.000Z
#### 51 Amazing Facts about Denmark

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Denmark is the Kingdom of Denmark.
- Denmark shares a land border with only one country , Germany and is connected to Sweden by a bridge.
- Denmark has a population of just over 5.5 million people. More than 80% of the Danish population are members of the Danish National Evangelical Lutheran Church seeing themselves as protestants.
- Along with the Jutland Peninsula, there are 443 named islands in Denmark. Over 70 of these islands are inhabited, with the largest two being Zealand and Funen.
- Denmark has 500km of clean sandy beaches, and the cleanest sea in the European Union.
- The capital city of Denmark is Copenhagen, located on the island of Zealand with population of 1.2 million. With historical palaces and gardens and parks, it is the most visited of all Nordic cities.
- The Kingdom of Denmark also includes the self-governing territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean.
- Faroe Islands used to belong to Norway, but were lost from them after the King of Norway lost drunken poker game with King of Denmark. They have been self governing since 1948.
- Although it’s near to Canada and has it’s own government, Greenland is actually a part of Denmark. It is the world's largest island with an area of 2,175,600 sq km.
- *Amazingly* the ice free part of Greenland is almost 10 times larger than Denmark.
- Denmark is a relatively flat country with no mountains the highest natural point, Møllehøj, rising to just 170.86 m (561 ft) and the country's average height above sea level is only 31 m (102 ft).
- Around 65% of Denmark is farmland and 11% woodlands. Denmark also has many beautiful beaches around its coastline.
- In a year, the average temperature changes from 0 °C in January to 16 °C in August.

##### History

- There is evidence that people have lived in Denmark since the Stone Age.
- Danish Vikings invaded Western Europe and ventured as far as North Africa during the 9th and 10th centuries.
- The Danish royal family is probably the oldest uninterrupted European monarchy. The first king of the "official line", ruled from 934 A.D.
- First acknowledged in 1219, the Danish flag remains the oldest state flag in the world still in use by an independent nation.
- Between 1397 and 1524, the whole of Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland) as well as southern Finland was unified under Danish rule, with Copenhagen as capital. The Denmark-Norway Union (including Iceland and Greenland) lasted until 1814.

#####  Places 

- The Royal Library in Copenhagen is the oldest in Scandinavia (1673). It consists of 500,000 volumes and 20,000 manuscripts. Among them the last great collection of manuscripts in Sanskrit, Pali and Sinhalese languages.
- The world-famous Tivoli amusement park in downtown Copenhagen is one of biggest and oldest in World. Once Walt Disney visited Tivoli and he was so excited with it that later he decided to make something similar which resulted in creating the famous Disney Land.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The official language of Denmark is Danish which is a language similar to Norwegian and Swedish however most people also understand and speak English.
- The average tax rate in Denmark is high at 49%.
- International surveys and studies have consistently ranked Denmark as the happiest place in the world based on standards of health, welfare, and education.
- Denmark is ranked very high as the world's most democratic and least corrupted country.
- Danish people have the lowest income inequality in the world.
- Fifty percent of Copenhageners commute to work via bike. Copenhagen has been rated as the world's top cities for cyclists.
- Copenhageners cycle a total of 1.2 km every day along 340 km of cycle lanes.
- The average maternity leave is 52 weeks and is 100% paid for.
- *Amazingly* Denmark has a Law on Personal Names. Parents can choose from a list of only 7,000 preapproved names. If a name isn’t on the list you need special permission from local church and government officials.
- Children are all in day care from six months so that frees up a lot of time.
- *Amazing fact* is that it is not unusual for Danes to leave their child outside home or in a car or carriages alone without fearing that they will be kidnapped or harmed in any way.
- All Danish families receive over $1,500 each year for each child under 18 years old.
- *Amazingly* Denmark is so safe that there are hardly any crimes. Nobody gets burgled, nobody gets raped and above all nobody gets their car stolen.
- Suicide is very rare and total number is in single figure for the whole country.
- If you don’t want to be married to someone you can just divorce then and carry on with the rest of your life. There is legally no forced marriage against your wish.
- One in every four Danes has the surname Jensen, Hansen or Nielsen. Two-thirds of the population have a surname ending in ‘sen’.
- Education in Denmark is provided free of charge at all levels and there are nine years of compulsory education.
- Unemployment is not a problem . *Amazing fact* is if you lose your job, the government will continue to pay 90% of your salary for up to two years!
- Sentences are really lenient here and one can do murder and only get three years prison.
- Danish men marry the oldest of all Europeans , at 32 years old average.
- Danes are very polite but *amazingly* ‘Please’ and ‘Thank You’ equivalent words are not found in the Danish dictionary.
- Many Danes do not understand what the word Vegan means. Veggie option in Denmark is chicken or fish.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Denmark is ruled by a queen (Queen Margrethe II) and *amazingly* her husband is a prince not a king!
- Denmark was the first European country to abolish slavery.
- Denmark is part of the European Union, but the country decided to retain its own currency the Danish krone.

##### Economy & Corporates

- The A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group commonly known as Mærsk, headquartered in Copenhagen, is the largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world, employing over 100,000 people in 125 countries.

##### Inventions

- LEGO was invented in Denmark. Legoland and the company headquarters are located in Billund, on the Jutland peninsula.

##### Famous People

- Denmark has 14 Nobel laureates, mainly in Literature , Physiology and Medicine. This is one of the highest numbers of Nobel laureates per capita in the world.
- The architect of the iconic Sydney Opera House was the Dane Jørn Utzon (1918-2008). In 2007, he became only the second person to have his work recognised as a World Heritage Site while he was still alive.
- Nobel Prize winner Physicist known for the explanation of the periodic system of elements was Danish.

##### Sport

- Denmark's national sport is football. Denmark is also a strong cycling nation . The national men's handball team have also won the most medals in European Championship history.

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### Cuba
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Last updated: 2025-10-06T04:30:15.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and awesome Facts About Cuba

##### Land & Geography

- Cuba is the largest of all islands in the Caribbean the country also includes more than 4000 other much smaller islands and cays. It has an area of about 1,11,000 Sq. Kms.
- Cuba is a long and narrow island. It is 750 miles from east to west, but only about 60 miles wide in most places.
- Cuba is frequently referred to as El Cocodrilo, which means alligator in Spanish. This is because the aerial view of Cuba resembles the actual form of an alligator.
- Cuba is a country of about 11 million people. The Capital of Cuba is Havana with a population of 2.2 million. The official language is Spanish.
- The smallest bird in the world (Peewee) is living in Cuba, the bee hummingbird. It weighs only 1.6 grams. The worlds’ smallest frog is also found in Cuba.
- The prehistoric fish, the Manjuarí, is now only found in Cuba.
- *The Amazing fact* is there are no animals or plants in Cuba that are poisonous or lethal to humans.

##### History

- Christopher Columbus arrived on the island and claimed it as a Spanish territory.
- Cuba remained a Spanish colony until the Spanish-American War of 1898 when the country became part of the United States. This was only brief though, the country was given independence in 1902.
- The United States had a strong influence over the island until 1959, when communist revolutionaries, led by Fidel Castro, took over. He led the country until 2008 when he stepped aside due to health complications.
- Since 1962, there has been a commercial embargo between the US and Cuba. *Amazingly* JFK bought 1,200 Cuban cigars days before it became illegal!

##### People Customs & Culture

- *Amazingly* Cuba has the highest doctor to patient ratio in the world. There are so many doctors in Cuba, that doctors are often sent abroad to needy countries.
- Cuba actually possesses one of the best health care systems anywhere in the world!
- Schooling, health care, and food are all promptly available without cost to any Cuban citizen.
- In Cuba, the crime rate is among the lowest in the world.
- It's *fact* that Government vehicles in Cuba are legally required to pick up hitch-hikers if space available!

##### Politics/ Legal

- *The amazing fact* is Cuba is full of US cars from the 1950s. This is because they’re the only cars Cuban citizens can legally own. Only pre-1959 cards that were seized from their original owners can be privately owned and worked on. All newer cars are owned by the government.
- Christmas did not become an official holiday in Cuba until 1997, in preparation for Pope John Paul II’s visit to Cuba in 1998.
- Cuba is a socialist state run by the Cuban Communist Party. Cubans vote for their leaders, but the communist party is the only legal party.
- Cuban central channels broadcast without commercials. The grid is full of educational, scientific, and popular music and TV shows, sports broadcasts, and new movies.
- Very few people are allowed internet access, and violators are given a 5-year prison sentence.
- *The amazing fact* is that up until recently, Cubans could not stay in a hotel, rent a car, or own a DVD player.

##### Economy 

- Sugar cane is the main crop grown in Cuba, followed by tobacco which is used in the making of hand-crafted cigars that are famous for being the finest cigars in the world.
- *Amazingly* over three-quarters of Cuba’s food is imported from other countries.
- *The Amazing fact* is that Bacardi rum was originally manufactured in Cuba. However, the brand moved to Puerto Rico after Fidel Castro’s takeover.

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### Eyes (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2025-10-04T04:30:25.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and awesome Facts About Eyes (Part 2) | Amazing Facts 4U

1. Your eyes are about 1 inch across and weigh 28 gms.
2. Everyone has one eye that is slightly stronger than the other.
3. Only 1/6 th of the human eyes is exposed.
4. While a fingerprint has 40 unique characteristics, an iris has an *amazing* 256\. Hence retina scans are increasingly being used.
5. Unlike insects human eye can't detect ultraviolet or infrared light.
6. *The amazing fact* is that when you look up at the blue sky and see white dots flying around, you are looking at your own while blood cells.
7. *Amazingly* if the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
8. The amazing fact is that all humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light but it is passively filtered by the lens. Those who have their lenses removed may detect ultraviolet light.
9. The fluid that fills the eye is changed 15 times a day.
10. Pirates used eye patches to have a bright vision for the above deck area from one eye and quickly adjust to dim vision with the other eyes for the below-deck area.
11. *Amazingly* when the person cries and the first drop of tears comes from the right eye, it's happiness. If from the left eye, it is pain.
12. A new research has proved that reading in dim light doesn't harm the eyes. In fact, it may strengthen the healthy eyes.
13. If you pour cold water into a person’s ear, their eyes will move in direction of the opposite ear, if you pour warm water into their ear, their eyes will move towards that same ear. This test is 'caloric stimulation' to test for brain damage.
14. Astronauts can’t cry in space due to the absence of gravity. Tears just collect in little balls and sting your eyes.
15. Astronauts on the Apollo missions reported seeing flashes and streaks of light when they closed their eyes. Scientists This was due to cosmic radiation bombarding their retinas while outside of the Earth’s magnetosphere.
16. Red-eye in photos is caused by light from the flash bouncing off the capillaries in people’s eyes.
17. If you have only one red eye in a flash photograph even if both eyes are looking directly at the camera, there is a chance that you have eye cancer. Fortunately, it has a 95% cure rate.
18. Schizophrenia can be diagnosed with 98% accuracy using a simple eye test tracking eye movement abnormalities.
19. *The amazing fact* is that nearly 100% of those older than 60 years of age are diagnosed with herpes of the eye at autopsy.
20. Humans and dogs are the only species known to seek visual interaction from another individual’s eyes, and dogs only do this when interacting with humans.
21. Dogs are color blind and can’t distinguish between red and green.
22. Camels have three eyelids to protect their eyes from sand blowing in the desert.
23. 70-80% of all white cats born with blue eyes are deaf.
24. Goats have rectangular pupils to give them a wide field of vision.
25. As a way to detect nighttime predators, many species of animals (ducks, dolphins, iguanas) sleep with one eye open. One hemisphere of their brain is asleep while the other one is awake.
26. Owls are the only bird that can see the color blue.
27. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
28. Bees have hair on their eyes which are used to determine wind direction and flight speed.
29. Scorpions can have as many as 12 eyes.
30. The box jellyfish has 24 eyes!
31. A worm has no eyes at all.
32. Snakes have two sets of eyes . One set is used to see, and the other is used to detect heat and movement.
33. The largest eye on the planet belongs to the Colossal Squid, and measures around 27cm across.
34. The four-eyed fish can see both above and below water at the same time.
35. Octopus eyes do not have a blind spot unlike human eyes and they evolved separately from vertebrate eyes.
36. A dragonfly has 30,000 lenses in its eyes, assisting them with motion detection and making them very difficult for predators to kill.
37. Johnny Depp is blind in his left eye and nearsighted in his right.
38. There exists a case of conjoined twin girls from Canada, who are connected at the thalamus and can hear each other’s thoughts and see through each other’s eyes.
39. An American POW in Vietnam repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse Code during a televised interview, spelling out the word, “T-O-R-T-U-R-E” to signal the US military how POWs were being treated.
40. The Mayans believed that cross-eyes are attractive and would make efforts to ensure their children became cross-eyed.

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### Eyes (Part 1)
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Last updated: 2025-10-02T04:30:09.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and awesome Facts About Eyes (Part 1)

1. You see with your brain, not your eyes. Eyes function like a camera, capturing light and sending data back to the brain for it to form an image.
2. In a normal life span, your eyes will see almost 24 million images of the world around you.
3. *The amazing fact* is that although our nose and ears keep growing throughout our lives, our eyes remain the same size from birth.
4. All babies are color blind at birth.
5. A newborn baby will cry, but not produce any tears. Babies do not produce tears until they are around six weeks old.
6. *Amazingly* cornea has no blood supply. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
7. Our eyes have small blind spots where the optic nerve passes through the retina, and our brains use the information from the other eye to fill this gap.
8. *The amazing fact* is that while reading as you focus on each word, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second.
9. Every second retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations.
10. We blink our eyes once every six-second i.e. 250 million times in a lifetime.
11. We spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking.
12. Blink usually lasts 100 to 150 milliseconds and it is possible to blink 5 times a second.
13. If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one lifetime and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!
14. You blink less when you read which is the reason your eyes get tired. When you talk you blink more.
15. In the right conditions and lighting, human eyes are capable of seeing the light of a candle from 14 miles away.
16. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Try it!
17. People generally read 25 percent slower on screen than on paper.
18. People say "in the blink of an eye" because it is the fastest muscle in your body.
19. When working at a computer, you should follow the 20-20-20 rule. Look at something twenty feet away from your computer every twenty minutes for twenty seconds.
20. Eyes contain 107 million cells that are sensitive to light. 7 million cones help us to see color details while 100 million rods help us to see in the dark.
21. You see things upside down. It is your brain that turns the image the right way up.
22. The human eye only sees three colors, red, blue, and green. All other colors are a combination of these.
23. Smoking reduces your night vision.
24. If you go blind in one eye you only lose around 1/5 of your total vision.
25. *The amazing fact* is that the focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. You will require walking 80 km for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.
26. *Amazingly* one-quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes as the eye muscles are the most active muscles in the human body.
27. The muscles in the eye are 100 times stronger than they need to be to perform their function.
28. *The amazing fact* is that if you go blind in one eye, you only lose about one-fifth of your vision, but all your sense of depth.
29. The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is that the tears from the eyes drain into the nose through the nasolacrimal duct.
30. An eyebrow typically contains 500 hairs.
31. An eyelash lives about 5 months.
32. *The amazing fact* is that we all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes.
33. People with blue eyes see better in dark. They also have a higher alcohol tolerance.
34. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
35. A blink of an eye lasts for 1/10th of a second.
36. Eyes blinking is a complicated process and a human eye blinks 4.2 million times in a year.
37. *The amazing fact* is that your eyes will never wear out.
38. Your eyes are always active 24/7\. The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment without rest.
39. Eyes can process 36000 bits of information every hour.
40. *The amazing fact* is that the human eye is the only multifocal lens in the world that can adjust in 2 milliseconds.
41. *Amazingly* human corneas are so similar to shark corneas that shark corneas have been used as replacements in human eye surgeries.
42. Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
43. It can *amazingly* distinguish between 500 shades of grey.
44. About 2% of women have a rare genetic mutation that enables them in having an extra retinal cone in their eyes. This allows them to see almost 100 million colors.
45. There are in fact colors that are too complex for the human eye called “Impossible Colors.”
46. The world's most common eye color is brown. The level of Melanin in the iris decides the eye color. Brown eyes have excessive Melanin.
47. *The fact* is brown eyes are actually blue underneath due to collagen and a laser procedure can turn brown eyes into blue by removing Melanin.
48. 10,000 years ago, everyone’s eyes were brown until someone living by the Black Sea developed a genetic mutation that made their eyes blue.
49. Blue-eyed people share a common ancestor with every other blue-eyed person in the world.
50. Only 2 % of the World population naturally have green eyes.

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### Water
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Last updated: 2025-09-30T04:30:38.000Z
#### 60 Amazing Facts About Water

1. *Amazingly* it is the only natural substance found in all three physical states - Solid, liquid and Gas at the temperatures that naturally occur on Earth.
2. Water is made up of two elements, hydrogen and oxygen. Its chemical formula is H2O.
3. Water expands by about 9 % as it freezes.
4. Water is the only substance on earth that is lighter as a solid than a liquid.
5. Only 1% of the world's water is drinkable.
6. *Amazing fact* is that of all the water on the earth humans can use only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.
7. *Amazing fact* that over the course of a century, the average water molecule will spend 1 week in the atmosphere , 2 weeks in lakes and rivers , 20 months as ice and 98 years in the ocean.
8. Water has a very high melting and boiling point compared to other similar molecules.
9. A*mazing* thing is that if water was not a liquid at most of the temperatures we see on Earth, Life would not be possible. The seas would all be ice, there would be no rain, nothing for plants to collect and animals to drink. Our human cells would not be filled with liquid water but ice crystals.
10. It is called the 'universal solvent' because it is capable of dissolving so many substances which are essential for body functions inside the cell. Water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.
11. Water has a high specific heat capacity. It means is that it takes a lot of energy to make water a little bit warmer. Seas, lakes and rivers maintain a much more constant temperature than air, which means that animals can live in water all year round without having to adapt to large temperature changes.
12. *Amazingly* there are more atoms in a single glass of water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.
13. Pure water doesn't conduct electricity very well. Most of water’s conductivity is caused by the water’s impurities in the form of dissolved salts.
14. *Amazing* *fact* is that salt water is 1,000 times as conductive as your average drinking water, and 1,000,000 times as conducive as highly purified water.
15. Water can move up narrow tubes against the force of gravity in what is known as capillary action.
16. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.
17. Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water. At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight. Human brains are 75% water. Human bones are 25% water. Human blood is 83% water.
18. A healthy person can drink about 11 litres (48 cups) of water per day.
19. A person must consume 2 litres of water daily to live healthily. Humans drink an average of 75.000 litres of water throughout their life.
20. *Amazingly* drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.
21. Pure water has no smell and no taste. It has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.
22. The earth is a closed system meaning that it rarely loses or gains extra matter. *Amazing fact* is that the same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is still present today. The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.
23. The Amazon River flow by volume of water is bigger than the next 8 largest rivers combined.
24. *Amazing fact* is if all the water on earth is bunched up into a ball, it’s radius will be less than 700 Km.
25. Even though each person only requires 48 litres of water on a daily basis, individuals in the United States use an average of 500 litres, those in Canada an average of 300 litres and those in England an average of 200 litres. Since 1950, water usage in the United States has risen 125 percent.
26. Of all the water that enters each household, about 95% of it ends up down the drain.
27. The average toilet uses 6 litres of clean water in a single flush.
28. By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.
29. The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.
30. In the World over 1.5 billion people do not have access to clean, safe water.
31. On average, women in Africa and Asia have to walk 3.7 miles to collect water.
32. 80% of all illness in the developing world comes from water born diseases. 3.4 million people die each year from water-related causes.
33. Water boils at 100 °C (212 °F), this is at the normal conditions at sea level. The boiling point of water actually changes relative to the barometric pressure. It boils *amazingly* at just 68 °C (154 °F) on the top of Mount Everest.
34. *Amazingly* groundwater can take a human lifetime just to traverse a single mile.
35. It doesn't take much salt to make water "salty." Water tastes salty with salt just one-thousandth of the weight of water.
36. On average, every kilogram of seawater contains around 35 grams of dissolved salt.
37. *Amazingly* it takes 1900 litres of water to make 1 kg of rice.
38. *Amazing fact* is that it takes 450 litres of water to produce one egg.
39. Manufacturing one car amazingly requires about 148,000 litres of water.
40. About 25,000 litres of water is required to grow a day's food for a family of four.
41. It takes about 140 litres of water to grow the coffee beans and process them to make one cup of coffee. It takes more than 35 litres of water to produce one slice of wheat bread.
42. *Amazingly* the sun evaporates a trillion tons of water each day.
43. Coconut water is isotonic and sterile if the husk is intact. For this reason, in undeveloped countries it has been injected directly into the blood stream as a substitute for an IV bag.
44. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America with roughly one foot of water.
45. About 3.6 Million people die each year from a water related disease mainly diarrhea.
46. Just simple washing hands can decrease the chance of diarrhea by around 35%.
47. *Amazing fact* is that extremely high pressured water can cut through a steel beam.
48. Most of the smoke billowing up from a space shuttle launch is not exhaust. It is water vapour from the pool of water under the shuttle designed to absorb the acoustic shock waves that could otherwise tear the shuttle apart.
49. An elephant can smell water up to 5 km away.
50. Rat can last the longest without water among animals.
51. Penguins can drink salt water because they have a supra orbital gland, which lets them filtrate the salt from the water.
52. New York City water supply system leaks on average 75 million litres a day. Specialized divers live underwater in a pressurized tank for over a month to try to repair these leaks.
53. There’s a geyser in Nevada that’s been spewing water continuously since someone drilled a well 50 years ago.
54. *Amazingly* in 2011, the city of Portland, Oregon discarded 7.8 million gallons of drinking water, not because of the dead animals regularly found in the drinking supply but because a drunk 21-year-old peed in it.
55. Saturn’s moon Enceladus has geysers that shoot large jets of water vapor into space and according to NASA it is emerging as the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it.
56. U.S. and Russian astronauts on the International Space Station have separate water supplies. While the U.S. water uses iodine for bacteria control, the Russian water uses silver. If these substances mix, a silver-iodine precipitate forms in the water, which may clog the sublimator in the NASA EMU spacesuit.
57. In 1936, the Russians made a computer that ran on water.
58. After WWII, a group of Jewish extremists formulated a Holocaust-revenge plan to kill 6 million German citizens by poisoning the water supply of Munich, Berlin, Weimar, Nuremberg and Hamburg. However, it was foiled by British police while the poison was in transit to Germany.
59. Set in the desert of Dubai, the Tiger Woods Golf Course uses 15 million litres of water every day to maintain its lush appearance.
60. During the Mongol empire in India, people never washed their clothes or themselves because they believed washing would pollute the water and anger the dragons that controlled the water cycle.

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### Exciting Facts
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#### 15 Exciting Facts

1. From 1946 to 1948, nearly 700 Guatemalans were deliberately infected by American doctors to study the effects of venereal disease. The US didn’t formally acknowledge the study or apologize till 2010.
2. Exciting Facts is The first human cardiac catheterization was done by Werner Forssmann who, after failing to get permission from his department chief, anesthetized his arm, inserted a catheter into his vein and threaded it into his heart. He then walked down to the X-ray department and took a picture to prove it
3. Mr. Ramon Artagaveytia survived the fire and sinking of a ship in 1871, leaving him emotionally scarred. About 41 years later, he was finally able to overcome his fears and nightmares and deciding to sail again, only to die in the sinking of that new ship, which was The Titanic.
4. *Amazingly* if a goose gets sick or is wounded while flying, a couple of other geese may drop out of formation to help and protect him. They will try to stay with the disabled goose until he dies or is able to fly again.
5. Exciting Facts is Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will in *fact* eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
6. *Amazingly* the current heir to the former Ottoman Empire, Bayezid Osman, is a US citizen, WWII Veteran, and lives in New York City where he worked as a librarian before retiring. He is 89 years old.
7. Exciting Facts is The Horror Frog, which lives in Central Africa, when threatened, breaks the bones in its toes and forces the ends through its skin to create claws for fighting.
8. In the 1920s and 30s, Procter & Gamble (originally known for soap and candles) sponsored several radio shows, with those shows becoming known as “Soap Operas”
9. Horseshoe-crab blood, at $60,000/gallon, is valued to such an extreme degree because it is not only employed worldwide in bacterial contamination tests but it is also used in testing for every single drug approved by the FDA, making it a $50 million/year industry.
10. Exciting Facts is During the entire Irish Potato Famine (1845-1852), rich landowners exported 30-50 shiploads of food per day, while more than 1 million people starved to death.
11. Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, developed many new strains of crops which yielded 4 times as much food. He has saved the lives of over a billion people.
12. The exciting Facts is is that there is a village in Assam , India called Jatinga where over the last 100 years, thousands of birds have mysteriously flown to their death over a small strip of land.
13. In 2006, a convicted murder named Richard Lee McNair escaped from United States Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana by mailing himself out.
14. American Retailer Kroger uses infrared sensors to track customers in their stores. Then an algorithm decides how many checkout lines need to be open to reduce wait times.
15. *Amazing fact* is that Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.

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### Dogs
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Last updated: 2025-09-26T04:30:45.000Z
#### 60 Amazing Facts About Dogs

1. There are approximately 450 million dogs found across the globe including both stray dogs as well as pets.
2. All dogs are direct descendants of wolf.
3. The U.S. has the highest dog population in the world. France has the second highest.
4. The most popular dog breed in Canada, U.S., and Great Britain is the Labrador retriever.
5. The average age of most dogs is around 15-20 years. The oldest dog to have been recorded lived to be a ripe age of 29 years old.
6. The shape of a dog’s face suggests how long it will live. Dogs with sharp, pointed faces that look more like wolves typically live longer while dogs with very flat faces, such as bulldogs have shorter lives.
7. The first dogs were self-domesticated wolves which, at least 12,000 years ago, became attracted to the first sites of permanent human habitation. In contrast cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years.
8. Dogs like humans are either left or right handed.
9. All the dogs have the same bony structure - 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth.
10. The average heart rate of a healthy dog is 120 heartbeats per minute, which is 50% faster than the average heart rate of humans which is 72 beats per minute.
11. The Great Dane is a breed that has its origins in Germany and is supposed to be the tallest dog.
12. An English mastiff, named Zorba is considered to be the world's longest and heaviest dog. This dog breed weighs over 150 Kg and is eight feet three inches long when measured from nose to tail.
13. The smallest dog on record was a matchbox-size Yorkshire Terrier. It was 2.5" tall at the shoulder, 3.5" from nose tip to tail, and weighed only 4 ounces.
14. *Amazingly* nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
15. The gestation period in dogs is about 60 days. .
16. A puppy's eyes do not open until it is 10 to 15 days old. And until it has grown about four weeks, it cannot see , hear or smell properly.
17. Dogs can smell about 1,000 times better than humans. While humans have 5 million smell-detecting cells, dogs have more than 220 million. The part of the brain that interprets smell is also four times larger in dogs than in humans.
18. A blood hound has over 400 million receptors and is known for acute smelling sense.
19. Different smells in the a dog’s urine can tell other dogs whether the dog leaving the message is female or male, old or young, sick or healthy, happy or angry
20. A dog can hear sounds 250 yards away compared to humans who can hear up to 25 yards. In *fact* a dog can locate the source of a sound in 1/600 of a second.
21. The average dog can learn 165 words, count up to 4 or 5 and even have a basic understanding of arithmetic.
22. Dogs and cats turn in circles before lying down because in the wild this instinctive action turns long grass into a bed.
23. When reflected from head lights ,deer's eyes are orange, whereas cats and dogs are green. Rabbits eyes remain black.
24. *Amazing fact* is that most Greyhounds are universal blood donors and are used to provide extra blood during another dog's surgery.
25. *Amazingly* dogs do not sweat by salivating, they sweat through the pads of their feet and their tongues.
26. *Fact* is dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.
27. *Amazingly* the Basenji dog and the Australian Dingo are the only species of dog that is not able to bark.
28. *Amazingly* dogs can tell the size of another dog by listening to its growls.
29. Dogs bend their 'knees' backwards because those are actually their ankles!
30. A dog was killed by a meteor in 1911 in Nakhala , Egypt. It is the only creature to be killed by a meteor.
31. *Amazingly* dogs can't see colors being color blind. Guide dogs watch the traffic to see when it is safe to cross as they can't see the difference between red and green traffic lights.
32. Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
33. Alaskan malamutes are praised sled dogs in the northerner territories having an unusual ear configuration that allows them to bend the ears backwards while running making it easier for the dogs to hear commands, from the sled master while pulling the sled.
34. Dogs can move their ears in many different directions which is one of the reasons they have such acute hearing. This is due to double the number of small muscles in their ears compared to humans.
35. Dogs can generally run up to 30 km an hour at full speed. However greyhound can reach speeds up to 72 km per hour.
36. When you are asking dog to fetch something , pointing to the object Is no good, they will only focus on the tip of your finger not the object you are pointing.
37. A dog most likely interprets a smiling person as baring their teeth, which is an act of aggression.
38. Humans and dogs are the only known species to seek visual cues from another individual’s eyes, and dogs only do this when interacting with humans.
39. When the titanic sunk, there were three dogs that survived, a Newfoundland, a Pomeranian, and a Pekingese. They survived because the owners refused to go on the boats without them.
40. When dogs bite , it has been found that it is usually the females that are the main aggressors.
41. *Fact* is German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
42. *Amazing fact* is that chocolate affects a dogs heart and nervous system. Reason is that a chemical in chocolate called theobromine also known as Xantheose is toxic to dog and can fatally affect your dog if it ingests more than 100 mg per kilogram of body weight.
43. Small quantities of grapes and raisins can cause renal failure in dogs. Cooked onions, or anything with caffeine can also be harmful to dogs. Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.
44. Laika, a stray dog, became the first ever astronaut dog to enter space in a space shuttle, the Russian Sputnik II in the year 1967.
45. A dog has slept next to his owner's grave for 6 years. No one ever showed him where it was! His owner, Miguel Guzmán died in 2006\. Capitán, the dog, disappeared while the family attended the funeral services. Dog comes around each night at 6 pm to sleep next to grave.
46. In WWII, a dog named Gander fended off two Japanese ambushes. When they came back again, with a grenade this time, Gander picked it up and charged back at them, killing more Japanese and saving his wounded team.
47. JFK’s daughter was secretly gifted the puppy of the first Russian dog in space as part of a series of secret daily correspondence between JFK and Khrushchev. The dog then proceeded to bite every Kennedy.
48. Three dogs in New Zealand were taught to drive a modified car around a race track in an effort to show that dogs are intelligent enough.
49. The Soviets trained dogs to serve as anti-tank bombers, but because they used soviet tanks to train the dogs, the dogs attacked Russian tanks instead of their German targets.
50. Three stray dogs in Afghanistan saved 50 American soldiers by attacking a suicide bomber. A Facebook group raised $21,000 to bring the dogs back to the US reuniting them with the soldiers.
51. Russia’s Vladimir Putin brought a large dog with him to a round of negotiations with German politician, Angela Merkel, knowing that she feared dogs to gain a psychological edge.
52. If a guide dog judges that a command is unsafe, it will refuse the command. This is called “intelligent disobedience”.
53. If you get the proper paperwork filed out, you can have your dog listed as an “Emotional Support Animal,” which allows you to bring him/her on planes and allows him/her to live with you even if your lodging prohibits dogs.
54. Dogs are often placed with cheetahs in captivity to help keep them calm.
55. The most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
56. In Iran, it is against the law to own a dog as a pet. If you can prove that the dog is a guard or hunting dog, this restriction doesn’t apply.
57. There are special bins in Mexico City where when you put your dog poo in it, you get free wifi. The more poo, the longer the free wifi.
58. Spiked dog collars were invented in ancient Greece and were originally designed to protect the dog’s throat from wolf attacks.
59. The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in 17 th Century England. During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals would drown and float down the streets, giving the appearance that it had actually rained cats and dogs
60. Even in biblical times the dogs were a very important part of the family. They have been mentioned more than 14 times in the bible.

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### Delightful Facts
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#### 15 Delightful Facts

1. U.S. President James Buchanan regularly used to buy slaves in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.
2. North Korea uses a fax machine to send threats to South Korea.
3. Antifreeze is made artificially bitter because the original sweet taste makes it perfect for murdering/poisoning people.
4. The WWII British code breakers had in *fact* discovered the German’s preparations for invasion of the USSR. Although this information was passed to the Soviet government, Stalin refused to believe it.
5. Burma had an economic crisis in the late 80s and the president *amazingly* decided to cancel any currency that wasn’t divisible by 9 (his favorite number).
6. U.S. President James Buchanan regularly used to buy slaves in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.
7. Delightful Facts is The tomb complex of the Biblical King Herod was found nearly two hundred years ago, but his actual resting place remained elusive until this past decade, due to the complex’s size. The lowest portion of the complex in itself covers approximately 40 acres.
8. *Amazingly* Chisels used to be handed out to people visiting Stonehenge, so they could chip away at the ancient monument to get their own souvenirs.
9. Delightful Facts is The record for most passengers on an airplane was set in 1991 when 1086 Ethiopian Jews were evacuated on a Boeing 747 to Jerusalem. The plane in *fact* landed with 1088 passengers as two babies were born during the flight.
10. In Japan gambling is illegal. The way they get around the law is by giving out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the establishment for cash.
11. Delightful Facts is that if you rub a grasshopper’s hind leg for five seconds every minute for four hours, it will trigger its brain to transform, swarm, and become a locust.
12. John Cazale (Fredo Corleone from “The Godfather”) *amazingly* appeared in only five films during his lifetime. All five were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Three of them won.
13. Government vehicles in Cuba are legally required to pick up any hitchhikers.
14. A Chinese pop star named Sa Dingding sings in Sanskrit (ancient language of India).
15. Delightful Facts is Somen Debnath is an Indian who has been cycling around the world for nine years, has already visited 80 countries and plans to visit 190 countries by 2020 to spread AIDS awareness.
16. Delightful Facts is In February 2011 a 82 year women , resident of Memphis, Tennessee named Jean Wilson who ordered pizza every day for 3 years straight was saved by a Domino’s pizza employee Susan Guy who suspected something wrong when she failed to place an order for 3 days. The poor woman had fallen down the stairs and was immobilized and couldn’t reach her telephone and simply had to wait for a miracle to happen.

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### Exercise
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#### 50 Amazing and Awesome Exercise Facts

1. Amazingly if all 600 muscles in your body pulled in one direction, you could lift 25 tons!
2. Underwater swimming is the only time you should ever hold your breath while exercising.
3. If you are not doing regular exercise, by the time you are 65 you may experience as much as an 80% decrease in your muscle strength.
4. If you’re always in a bad mood, then exercise. Regular exercise can enhance mood and overall well-being.
5. Depressed people can alleviate their symptoms by as much as 47 percent with regular aerobic exercise.
6. Six percent more men than women exercise regularly.
7. Exercising in the morning will make you more energized for the rest of the day.
8. When it comes to cancer, those who work out 15 minutes daily are 10 percent less likely to die of it than those who don't exercise at all. Every additional 15 minutes of daily exercise reduces the all-cause mortality risk by another 4 percent and the cancer mortality risk by another 1 percent.
9. Not only does exercise relieve stress in a healthy and productive way, but it also gives you a better quality of sleep which is essential for stress management.
10. We are creatures of habit. The more you exercise, the more your body learns to burn fat rather than store it.
11. The average person walks 70,000 miles during their lifetime.
12. If you are 10 kg overweight, you have nearly 5,000 extra miles of blood vessels through which your heart must pump blood.
13. Amazingly for every hour of exercise you do, you could live one and a half to two hours longer even if you don’t start exercising until you are middle-aged.
14. Exercisers can improve their performance by as much as 50% if they eat dark chocolate regularly.
15. Exercise increases heart output throughout the entire body, improving oxygen delivery and removing toxins and waste from the body.
16. Someone who exercises regularly has a much faster recovery time from surgery, illness, and injury than someone who is mostly sedentary.
17. Exercise can lead to clearer skin: regular exercise increases blood flow, which helps nourish skin cells and flush away impurities.
18. It has been found that cancer rates among exercisers have dropped by 10% and heart disease by 20%!
19. Physical activity sharpens memory: a study showed that running sprints improved vocabulary retention among healthy adults.
20. Exercising can help in addiction recovery by de-prioritizing cravings.
21. Exercise increases creativity levels: a single, intense gym session can boost creativity for up to two hours afterward.
22. Exercise increases relaxation: for some, a moderate workout can be the equivalent of a sleeping pill, even for people with insomnia.
23. For optimal heart health, you should get at least 30 minutes of moderate to intense exercise most days of the week. If you can’t do 30 minutes at a time, divide it into three 10-minute segments per day and you’ll reap the same benefits.
24. Your healthy exercise plan should include both aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercise. Aerobic exercises, such as walking, swimming, and biking, strengthen your heart and lungs by improving your body’s ability to use oxygen. The stronger your heart, the more efficient it is at pumping blood to the rest of your body. Over time, regular aerobic exercise can also help lower your blood pressure and improve your breathing.
25. When you run, your body puts 6 x the pressure on your feet.
26. Swimming is a great aerobic exercise as the advantage is that your joints are not stressed.
27. Jumping rope is a terrific inexpensive aerobic exercise. It not only burns lots of calories but is also a great way to improve your coordination. The advantage is that jumping rope involves almost every muscle in your body.
28. Yoga combines stretching, breathing, and relaxation all benefiting heart. Stress is a major risk factor for heart disease, but practicing yoga regularly can help you reduce stress. Yoga is thought to have started in India approximately 5,000 to 6,000 years ago.
29. Resistance bands help to stretch and tone your muscles. Attach them to furniture, doorknobs, or chairs, and then stretch out the bands. Pull them down, using them to rotate your shoulders while extending your arms and legs. For sedentary middle-aged women, resistance bands may be just as valuable as weight machines.
30. Anaerobic exercises, such as strength or weight training, help you build muscle. Having more muscle can help strengthen your immune system and increase your metabolism. Make weight training part of your heart exercise program at least two days a week.
31. Weight training can increase the high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or “good” cholesterol, in your blood that helps protect your arteries from plaque buildup. Free weights build muscle mass faster than weight machines because your muscles must balance free weights on their own.
32. Interval training is an ideal cardio exercise because it combines aerobic and anaerobic exercise. It involves alternating short bursts of intense activity, such as sprinting, with a less-intense form of the same activity, such as jogging or walking.
33. If we sit too much. we need to engage bum muscles squeezing them frequently so that our rear end becomes hard like an apple, not soft like applesauce.
34. Before you try a new exercise or increase the amount of weight you are lifting, ask yourself if you have mastered the basic version and have "earned the right to progress" else you might injure yourself.
35. Remember that both high metabolic demand and a calorie deficit are needed for weight loss. Exercise will only help you lose weight if you don't replace the calories you burned with extra food.
36. Use the concept of 'masses' and 'spaces' to improve your posture! Think of your head, chest, and pelvis as 'masses'. Think of your neck and waist as 'spaces'. Aim to elongate the spaces and expand the masses backward.
37. Exercising releases endorphins and makes you feel happier.
38. Laughing out loud reduces cortisol levels and improves your bone density.
39. Even if you’re ‘skinny’, you may still have a high body fat % which is unhealthy
40. After the age of 30, women lose minimum 0.5% muscle mass every year
41. Remember that more the muscle you have, then you will burn more calories at rest. Muscle does not weigh more than fat, it is simply denser.
42. Exercisers can improve their performance by as much as 50 percent if they eat dark chocolate regularly. This is due to flavonol epicatechin, a key ingredient in dark chocolate.
43. Men who exercise vigorously are only one third as likely to experience erectile dysfunction as men who exercise very little or not at all.
44. As per one study, three times as many college graduates as high-school dropouts exercise regularly.
45. Exercisers can improve their performance by as much as 15 percent if they listen to music while working out.
46. According to researchers mail carriers walk about eight miles per day, janitors walk just over five, restaurant servers walk four, and cops and lawyers walk about two and secretaries walk the least, at 1.7 miles per day.
47. As per the study people who want to quit smoking are twice as likely to succeed in quitting if they lift weights than if they don't lift weights.
48. As per study avid swimmers have a 50 percent lower mortality rate than runners, walkers, and people who don't exercise at all.
49. It was found that astronauts lost 15 percent of muscle mass and 30 percent of muscle performance during six months at the International Space Station, despite their aerobics-focused exercise regimen.
50. Cancer researchers have found that teens who exercise are 36 percent less likely to develop brain tumors (Called Glioma) than teens who don't.

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### Fascinating Facts
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#### 15 Fascinating Facts

1. In North Korea, amazingly the citizen is forced to choose one of 28 government-approved haircuts.
2. In the ancient Persian Empire, men used to debate ideas twice, once when sober and once when drunk, because an idea had to sound good in both states in order to be considered a good idea.
3. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt sold the rights for the first images of their twins to People and Hello! Magazines for $14 million for the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, thereby making them the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken.
4. Amazingly NASA had to re-label the sleeve for urinating in space suits from “small, medium, and large” to “large, gigantic, and humungous” because astronauts would only choose the large and they kept slipping off.
5. You can actually donate your voice to help people with speech impairments so that they can select a vocal identity of their own.
6. Fascinating Facts is Nehru and Indira Gandhi, Prime Ministers of India awarded Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award to themselves. Amazingly Mahatma Gandhi has still not been awarded one.
7. Fascinating Facts is that there’s a bar in Ireland that opened in the year 900 A.D. and is still operational. It is named “Sean’s Bar”
8. Jon Stewart is the highest-paid late-night host, making an estimated $25-30 million per year.
9. Despite Apple’s recent decade of marketing successes, the latest statistics show that Windows PC still holds over 90% market share.
10. In 1990, blind hiker Bill Irwin at age 50 amazingly completed the Appalachian Hiking Trail (2160-mile) spanning from Georgia to Maine with the help of his seeing guide dog ‘Orient’ without a compass, map or GPS accomplishing something very difficult even for a man with sight. Marked with white paint, the AT travels over high peaks and winds through deep woods. It crosses rivers and roads and boulder fields as it traverses 14 states. It took him 8 months.
11. Fascinating Facts is There’s a small sculpture on the moon named “Fallen Astronaut” made by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck and placed by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971\. It is in fact the only sculpture on the moon.
12. American author, Mark Twain repaid his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal obligation to do so. He said, “Honor is a harder master than the law”.
13. In Sweden, your car headlights have to be on at all times when driving, even in broad daylight.
14. Fascinating Facts is Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Coppola) changed his last name at the beginning of his career in order to avoid any favoritism he might receive as the nephew of the legendary director Francis Ford Coppola (directed “The Godfather”, “The Godfather II”, “Apocalypse Now” etc).
15. One of the testing shafts of the 1998 nuclear tests by India was in fact code-named “White House.”

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### Sun
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Last updated: 2025-09-18T04:30:23.000Z
#### 55 Amazing and Little-Known Facts About Sun

1. The amazing fact is that Sun is 99.86 % mass in the solar system.
2. All other planets with moons, comets, asteroids, etc just make up just 0.14 % most of which is in Jupiter.
3. Amazingly in spite of the Sun is an average-sized star, 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun.
4. If you consider the sun's surface, about 109 planet Earths would fit on the surface.
5. Sun as a star is classified as a G2 dwarf.
6. The largest known star UY Scuti is 5 billion times the size of the Sun and it takes 2.2 hours to cross its diameter at the speed of light.
7. Sun's composition is about 75 percent hydrogen, 23 percent helium, and 2 percent heavier elements.
8. The sun has a diameter that is more than 100 times that of Earth.
9. The sun is the closest star to Earth and is 149.60 million kilometers (92.96 million miles) away.
10. The sun is orbited by nine major planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto which is no longer an official planet.
11. All planets orbit the sun in the same direction, counterclockwise, and on roughly the same plane, known as the ecliptic.
12. Amazingly it would take a brightness of 4,00,000 moons to equal the brightness of the Sun.
13. The Sun creates energy through the nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium.
14. The amazing fact is that only half the billionth of energy released by the Sun reaches the earth.
15. The sun is actually white but perceived as yellow because of the atmospheric scattering.
16. The sun is 4.6 billion years old and is in its midlife since it is capable of maintaining a life-bearing Earth for about 11 billion years.
17. In another 5.4 billion years, it will become a Red Giant and planet Earth will not be able to escape engulfment.
18. Presently the sun will continue to burn hydrogen collected in its core but helium will become its primary fuel when it becomes a red giant.
19. The amazing fact is that the sun loses 4 million tonnes of material every second and also shrinks five feet every hour but has enough in it to last for another 5 billion years.
20. Amazingly 100 billion tons of dynamite would have to be detonated every second to match the energy produced by the sun.
21. At its core, the sun’s temperature is about 15 million degrees Celsius (about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit).
22. The average temperature of the sun is only 5700 degrees, Kelvin.
23. There are loops of superheated plasma on the surface of the sun called Coronal Loops that can reach up to 1 million degrees Kelvin. In fact, one recorded loop reached the size of 10 Earths.
24. Amazingly if a piece of a sun the size of a pinhead was to be placed on earth, you could not safely stand within 90 miles of it.
25. If the sun were the size of the dot over the letter I, the nearest star would be a dot 10 miles away.
26. If our Sun was just an inch away from earth, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
27. If the Sun was to be scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way would be the size of the continental United States.
28. The sun rotates on its axis once every 25.38 Earth days or 609.12 hours.
29. Sun travels at the speed of 250 Km per second and it takes an amazing 230 million years to complete the revolution of the galaxy which is about 100,000 light-years.
30. The Sun is thought to have completed about 20 orbits of the galaxy during its lifetime and just 1/1250th of an orbit since the origin of humans.
31. The last time the sun was in its current position, dinosaurs were on the Earth and would be for another 180 million years or so.
32. In fact, the solar system is currently traveling through an interstellar cloud that is as hot as the surface of the sun and 30 light-years long.
33. The largest known star UY Scuti is 5 billion times the size of the Sun. Amazingly it would take 2.2 hours to cross its diameter at the speed of light.
34. Every 11 years, solar activity surges. The sunspots that pepper the sun explode, hurtling massive clouds of gas known as "CMEs" through the solar system. This is called “solar maximum.”
35. Approximately every 11 years, the sun reverses its overall magnetic polarity: it's north magnetic pole becomes a south pole and vice versa.
36. During the period from 1645 to 1720 A.D., astronomers detected almost no sunspot activity on the sun. Called the “Maunder Minimum,” this event coincided with the coldest part of the Little Ice Age, a 350-year cold spell that gripped much of Europe and North America.
37. The sun radiates heat and a steady stream of charged particles known as the solar wind, which blows about 280 miles (450 kilometers) per second throughout the solar system.
38. The sun is about three million miles closer to the earth on January 1st than it is on June 1st.
39. The sun is 400 times bigger and also 400 x further away than the moon resulting in almost identical in size in our sky.
40. The amazing fact is that the light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old. It started out in the core of the sun 30000 years ago. It spent most of the time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it left the sun.
41. Amazingly Solar flares reach temperatures of 10 million °C and have the energy of a million atom bombs.
42. All satellites orbiting Earth must complete an orbit in less than 7 months. Otherwise, they will fall out of Earth's orbit and orbit the Sun instead.
43. Comet tails always face away from the Sun.
44. The amazing fact is that in Kilogram for kilogram, the human body generates 8000 times more power than the Sun.
45. Jupiter’s Magnetosphere (strength of the magnetic field) is larger than the entire Sun and nearly 20,000 times greater than Earth’s.
46. Neptune has only completed one orbit of the Sun since its discovery in 1846.
47. A person weighing 100 Kg on Earth would weigh 2,800 Kg on the sun because the sun’s gravity is 28 times that of Earth.
48. A piece of Apollo 12 floated around the sun for 31 years only to return to orbit around the earth in 2002 and managed to leave the earth’s orbit again. It may return to orbit the Earth in the mid-2040s.
49. The Greek philosopher Aristarchus is credited as being the first person to claim that the Earth orbited the sun.
50. In the 16th century, Nicholas Copernicus also argued that it was the Earth that traveled around the sun but nobody believed him until Newton formulated his laws of motion.
51. There is a town in the Italian Alps that does not get any direct sunlight for 84 days which has been fixed by installing a giant mirror on the side of the mountain.
52. In ancient Egypt, the sun god Ra was the dominant figure among the high gods. He achieved the highest status because he was believed to have created himself and eight other gods.
53. Japan’s flag is called Hinomaru, which literally means Disk of the Sun.
54. The characters which make up Japan’s name mean “sun origin” and its flag depicts the rising sun.
55. In Libya, both male and female mummies have been discovered with tattoos symbolizing sun worship.

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### Captivating Facts
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#### 15 Captivating Facts | Amazing Facts 4U

1. Captivating Facts is The asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs was powerful enough to send Earth rocks to Mars.
2. A specific species of fruit flies were kept in complete darkness for 57 years (1400 generations) and they showed genetic alterations that occurred as a result of environmental conditions.
3. Captivating Facts is The Concorde supersonic jet stretched during the flight due to the heat it generated. On its final flight, the crew placed their hats into a crevice in the floor which appeared during the flight, as the aircraft cooled the crevice closed, permanently sealing their hats in the aluminum airframe.
4. Captivating Facts is A Mexican theme park stages a fake USA border crossing with a 7.5-mile night hike for about $18 a person.
5. 69-year-old Sonny Graham received the heart of a suicide victim Terry Cottle. Graham was so thankful for having his life saved. Eventually, Graham met Cottle's widow and claimed it was love at first sight eventually marrying her. Amazingly exactly 12 years later Graham who had Cottle's heart inside of him, shot himself in the same way, in the same circumstances, and also committed suicide on the same day!
6. The European Space Agency and EU are currently deploying an alternative to GPS, called “Galileo”. As well as being accurate to 1 cm, it will also have a “Search and Rescue Service”, where distress signals can be picked up from anywhere on Earth. The full system will be completed by 2019.
7. As a child, Muhammad Ali was in fact refused an autograph by his boxing idol, Sugar Ray Robinson. When Ali became a prizefighter, he vowed never to deny an autograph request, which he honored throughout his career.
8. Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
9. A 24-year-old woman was sentenced to 20 months in jail for sending abusive Facebook messages to herself from fake profiles she made for her father and his wife.
10. Enzo Ferrari insulted a man who was a tractor dealer saying “you may be able to drive a tractor but you will never be able to handle a Ferrari properly.” The man vowed to create the perfect car and his name was Ferruccio Lamborghini.
11. Captivating Facts is Queen Elizabeth does not hold a passport. Since all British passports are issued in the queen’s name, she herself doesn’t need one. She just has to say that she is the queen.
12. Captivating Facts is A crevice and a crevasse are not the same thing. A crevice deep crack is in rock and a crevasse is a deep crack in the ice.
13. Once you become a Hindu Sadhu (Monk), you are legally dead to the country of India, and as a ritual, they may be required to attend their own funeral.
14. Amazingly over 10% of all Americans are infected with parasitic Pinworms, which make your ass itch at night when they come crawling out of your anus to lay their eggs. This makes you scratch your ass and helps these sticky eggs spread, often to your own breakfast, thereby repeating the cycle.
15. The reason cats and dogs like to lie in the sun is that the oily cholesterol on their skin is converted to vitamin D3.

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### NASA
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#### 60 Amazing Fascinating NASA Facts

1. The acronym "NASA" stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was established in 1958 by President Eisenhower one year after the Soviets launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. It has been a pioneer and leader in the field of space missions in the world.
2. Around 19,000 employees work at NASA headquarters in Washington and in its 10 command centers around the United States. Additional 40,000 contractors work for the space agency.
3. The most well-known bases are the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida where space shuttles are prepared and launched, and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas where shuttle mission control and International Space Station operators are located.
4. The area code for Kennedy Space Center in Florida and its surrounding areas is 321, given for its pronunciation resembling the countdown before liftoff.
5. NASA designs its robotic missions to comets, Mars, and other planets in the solar system at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
6. Around 85% of NASA's annual budget goes to researchers and engineers that are responsible for developing the technology used on manned and unmanned missions into space.
7. A poll revealed that Americans thought NASA’s funding accounted for 20% of the federal budget. In fact, NASA has received one cent or less per every tax dollar since 1975.
8. So far NASA has so far obtained about 6,500 patents. NASA has invented invisible braces and scratch-resistant lenses.
9. SR-71, also known as the "Blackbird," is the research aircraft used by NASA as a testbed for high-speed, high-altitude aeronautical research. It was secretly designed in the 1950s.
10. In May 1961 Freedom 7, the first piloted Mercury spacecraft carrying Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., was launched from Cape Canaveral. It was the first American space flight involving human beings.
11. President John F. Kennedy gave NASA the goal of sending a man to the moon by the end of the 1960s.
12. *Amazingly* way back in 1965, NASA built a wind tunnel capable of reaching wind speeds of up to Mach 50.
13. July 16-24, 1969 - Apollo 11 went to the moon. On July 20, 1969, the Lunar Module with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin landed on the lunar surface while Michael Collins orbited overhead in the Apollo command module. Armstrong was first to set foot on the surface, saying that it is "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
14. When Buzz Aldrin joined Armstrong on the surface, he had to make sure not to lock the Eagle's door because there was no outer handle.
15. *The amazing fact* is Neil Armstrong’s NASA application was late by a week. If it weren’t for his friend, Dick Day’s effort to secretly slip his application into the pile, he would have been rejected.
16. *Amazingly* the Apollo – 11 computers had less processing power than a simple cell phone and 1/6 th computing power of today’s calculators.
17. When Apollo 11's lunar lander, the Eagle, separated from the orbiter, the cabin wasn't fully depressurized, resulting in a burst of gas equivalent to popping a champagne cork. It threw the module's landing nearly four miles off target.
18. Pilot Neil Armstrong had nearly run out of fuel landing the Eagle, and many at mission control worried he might crash.
19. NASA took measures to prevent microorganisms from returning to earth on or in the Apollo capsules because they weren't sure that there was no life on the moon.
20. Twelve men have so far walked on the moon, all during the Apollo missions. *Amazingly* 11 of the 12 men who have walked on the moon were Boy Scouts.
21. *The most amazing* and embarrassing part of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon was the United States government’s failure to ensure the lives of its astronauts as no life insurance company in the world was ready to insure for this apparent suicide mission. The astronauts in fact signed a series of autographs which could be sold if they indeed perished on their miracle mission.
22. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin returned victorious from their moon landing, there was widespread fear that they could have brought lunar germs. They were quarantined in a converted Airstream trailer for 21 days.
23. In 1970, the Apollo 13 lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded.
24. John Aaron, a NASA flight controller, not only saved Apollo 12 after it was struck by lightning but also saved the Apollo 13 crew members by developing a unique power-up sequence to allow a safe reentry.
25. Landsat was a series of satellites that were first launched in 1972 for the purpose of photographing the whole surface of the Earth from space.
26. The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2 were launched in 1977, 16 days apart. Voyager 1 is about 19 billion kilometers from Earth while Its sibling, Voyager 2, is 15.5 billion kilometers from our planet. Voyager 1 has already entered interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to leave the Solar system. It is traveling at an *amazing* 60000 km per hour and should fly near the nearest star in about 40,000 years. Voyager 2 should also leave the solar system in 2015.
27. *The most amazing fact* is that Voyager 1 has only 68 KB of memory on board. Natural radioactive decay provides heat that generates enough electricity to help Voyager 1 still communicate with Earth. It takes NASA and Voyager I approximately 32 hours to communicate with each other.
28. When Skylab reentered the atmosphere and crashed in Australia in 1979, the Australian government fined NASA $400 for littering. The fine remained unpaid for 30 years.
29. During the flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31) in April 1990, the crew deployed the Hubble Space Telescope in space.
30. The Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars in July 1997\. Two days later, the Sojourner Rover rolled out of the Pathfinder and onto Mars's surface and began transmitting pictures of Mars back to Earth.
31. In 1998, NASA grew Insulin crystals in space. Researchers found that it was so effective it could reduce Insulin intake from 1-3 times per day to once every 3 days.
32. *The amazing fact* is that in 1999, NASA lost a $ 125 million Mars orbiter because half of the project staff used imperial measurements, and the other half used metric.
33. A man named Gregory W. Nemitz claimed ownership of Asteroid 433 Eros, on which the spacecraft Shoemaker landed in 2001\. His company Orbital Development issued NASA a parking ticket for $20.
34. The space shuttle program has had more than 120 successful flights but also two disasters in which the shuttles and crews were lost (Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003).
35. U.S. and Russian astronauts aboard International Space Station have their own separate water supplies. While the U.S. water supply uses iodine for bacteria control, the Russian water supply uses silver. If these substances were to mix, a silver-iodine precipitate would form in the water, which may clog the sublimator in the NASA EMU spacesuit.
36. In 2006, NASA launched a probe to Pluto, just months before it was demoted to dwarf planet status. It was the fastest spacecraft ever launched by NASA.
37. In 2006, NASA finally admitted that they no longer had the original videotapes of the moon landing because they recorded over them.
38. In 2006, NASA found a strange cosmic noise that boomed six times louder than expected, known as the space roar. The cause is still not known.
39. In June 2012, the National Reconnaissance Office donated 2 telescopes to NASA that are more powerful than the Hubble just because they were ‘obsolete’. Both of these satellites were never launched.
40. Curiosity entered Mars' atmosphere at 13,200 mph,17 times the speed of sound when it prepared to land on it.
41. Curiosity weighed one ton. When it landed in Aug 2012, it sent debris flying more than 1,300 yards from the touchdown site on Mars.
42. More than 1.2 million people submitted their names to be sent to Mars, etched on a microchip that the Curiosity rover will carry on its "back."
43. Curiosity has a laser gun that can vaporize a rock from 23 feet away to examine its chemical composition.
44. Due to the unreliability of solar power, Curiosity was energized by an advanced nuclear power system called the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermo Electric Generator. The on-board nuclear power plant was capable of generating electricity from plutonium-238 dioxide for up to 14 years, which should be plenty of time since Curiosity was to be functional only for 23 months.
45. Despite the fact that Curiosity spent two years on Mars, the rover only traveled a total distance of about 10 miles from its landing site during the entire duration of its mission after making the 350 million-mile trip to Mars.
46. Three men from Yemen sued NASA for trespassing on Mars. They claimed that they inherited the planet from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.
47. NASA often shows the Hollywood movie “Armageddon” as part of its management training program asking new staff to identify the scientific inaccuracies. There are at least 168 of them.
48. NASA will text you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead.
49. NASA will pay you $15,000 to lay in bed 24 hours a day for 90 days to measure the effects of zero gravity on your body.
50. NASA has discovered a “Waterworld” planet about 40 light-years away from earth that might contain exotic materials such as “hot ice” and “superfluid water.”
51. While filming his Victorian masterpiece, Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick used lenses that were commissioned by NASA for the Apollo moon landings. These lenses allowed him to capture scenes lit only by candlelight.
52. There is a large area over Brazil where the Earth’s magnetic field has weakened called South Atlantic Anomaly. NASA in fact powers down its satellites when passing over it.
53. NASA is developing a new engine that can shorten a Mars mission to days.
54. Quinoa is so nutritionally dense and complete that it is being considered a possible crop in NASA’s Controlled Ecological Life Support System for long-duration manned space expeditions.
55. NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building is so huge it needs about 10,000 tons of Air Conditioning equipment to prevent rain clouds from forming inside on humid days.
56. NASA is building a bi-directional “Flying Wing” aircraft. It can fly forwards or sideways at full speed.
57. NASA made the most perfect sphere ever created to test Einstein’s theory of relativity with no more than a difference of 40 atoms on its surface.
58. NASA solved a $100 million vibration problem for 5 bucks by programming their screens to flicker.
59. In order for NASA to recognize you as an astronaut, you must travel higher than 50 miles from the Earth’s surface.
60. *Amazing fact* is that the Soviet probe Lunokhod 1 was lost for 38 years on the Moon until NASA found it and succeeded in using its reflector dish.

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### Interesting Facts
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#### 15 Interesting Facts

1. An interesting Fact is Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression. He was scared to carry knives because he was afraid he’d kill himself.
2. Bees don’t always die when they sting. *Amazingly* they die when they sting a human or another animal with similarly thick skin but can sting other insects just fine.
3. An interesting Fact is In 1971, Saddam Hussein imported 100,000 tons of grain treated with fungicidal mercury. The grains were intended for planting, but the Iraqis, unable to understand the English and Spanish warnings or the “skull and crossbones” image, baked it into bread. Hundreds of Iraqis died as a result.
4. An interesting Fact is In the film ‘Thank You for Smoking’, *amazingly* none of the characters are ever seen smoking.
5. While millions of North Koreans starve, the nation’s rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown daily from China to Pyongyang on North Korea’s national airline.
6. An interesting Fact is Glucose (sugar) has an opposite “handed” isomer L-glucose, that tastes identical and isn’t metabolized as sugar, also safe for diabetics. *Amazingly* L-glucose costs 50% more than gold.
7. Most trees planted in 24 hours is 611,137, a record currently held by the District Administration of Dungarpur (India) at village Khemaru, in the state of Rajasthan, India from 11 to 12 August 2009.
8. An interesting Fact is During the Spanish-American war (1898), a warship was sent by the USA to capture Guam. It fired 13 shots at the harbor fort without receiving return fire. *Amazingly* the Spanish sent an officer out to apologize for not returning the ‘Salute’ as they were out of gunpowder. They hadn’t been informed that they were at war.
9. There is an atomic bomb museum in New Mexico, where the first a-bomb was detonated. *Amazingly* the museum is only open 12 hours each year.
10. Downing Street, the residence of the Prime minister of the UK, *amazingly* has a cat with a government title of Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. His day-to-day responsibilities include contemplating a solution to the mouse occupancy of the house.
11. When Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala was refused his order of a new Rolls Royce, he took his revenge by converting his old Rolls Royce cars into garbage collection vehicles.
12. Obsidian blades are so sharp (3 nm thickness) that, on a cellular level, obsidian knives will cut between cells rather than tear the cells as steel knives would do.
13. There is a clock being built inside a mountain in western Texas that is designed to tick for 10,000 years and play a unique melody that never repeats itself. It has been designed by the inventor and designer Danny Hillis. This Clock in the Mountain is being funded and built on property owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder, and CEO of Amazon.com.
14. When the leading emergency asthma medication Albuterol’s patent expired, the patent-holding pharmaceutical companies lobbied to *amazingly* have their own inhalers banned based on environmental issues, allowing them to file a new patent, and continue to monopolize the market.
15. In 1954, archaeologists excavating an 8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden found a Buddha statue from India.

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#### 55 Unknown Facts about Actors

1. Amazingly Mr. Bean , Rowan Atkinson saved his family by taking the controls of a plane, preventing it from crashing. He had never piloted before!
2. Mr. Bean , Rowan Atkinson has a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
3. Warren Betty once worked as a rat catcher!
4. Charles Bronson was a tail gunner. He completed 25 missions and was awarded the Purple Heart.
5. Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater!
6. Amazingly when Yul Brynner had hair, it was dark brown.
7. Actor Nicholas Cage's real name is Nicholas Coppola.
8. Nicholas Cage ate a live cockroach to get a part in movie ‘ Vampire Kiss’.
9. Nicholas Cage had teeth extracted for the movie ‘Birdy’.
10. [Amazing fact ](https://amazingfacts4u.com/)is that at one point, Jim Carrey and his family lived in a car and they all worked as janitors at a factory to make a living.
11. Jackie Chan once shot amazing 2900 retakes for one scene involving a Jianzi game in the movie Dragon Lord.
12. Charlie Chaplin once reshot a scene in City Lights (1931) some 342 times before he felt he had gotten it right.
13. Amazing fact is that Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
14. Chaplin was once forced to pay child support for a child that wasn’t even his. When a young woman claimed that her child was Chaplin’s, blood testing determined that the child was not Chaplin’s, but the judge refused to have the test admitted into court, so he made Chaplin pay a substantial sum.
15. Charlie Chaplin's dead body was dug up and held for ransom for over two months nine weeks after his burial in 1977.
16. Amazingly in his earlier days Sean Connery worked hard as a milkman.
17. Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey started his career as a juggling unicycle riding clown.
18. Johnny Depp is terrified of clowns.
19. Johnny Depp sold pens for a living.
20. In world war II , Henry Fonda won a Bronze Star in the Pacific. David Niven was awarded the U.S. Legion of Merit. Christopher Lee was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and won a number of awards.
21. Amazing fact is that Harrison Ford was a carpenter on the set aged 35 . George Lucas needed someone to read Han Solo’s lines during the auditions. Harrison Ford got the break and rest is history. Film was starwars.
22. Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after him!
23. Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
24. Mel Gibson was chosen numerous times as one of Most Beautiful People and voted one of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time. Amazingly despite all this, he met his wife through a dating service.
25. Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney.
26. Tom Hanks collects 1940’s typewriters.
27. Tom Hanks is a third cousin, four generations removed, of Abraham Lincoln. Their common ancestor is John Hanks, who is Abraham Lincoln’s great-great-grandfather and Tom Hanks’ great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
28. For the movie "Tootsie" actor Dustin Hoffman thought of the title. His mother used to call him that as a child.
29. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector portrayed by Anthony Hopkins amazingly does not blink in any scene.
30. No one really knew who Samuel L. Jackson was until 1994, when Pulp Fiction was released. By then, he was 46 years old.
31. Amazing fact is that by 2006, twelve years after his break-out role in Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson's films had grossed more money at the box office than any other actor in cinematic history (more than $3 billion).
32. Samuel L. Jackson was part of a group of students that held a group of trustees at Morehouse College hostage, one of which was Martin Luther King Sr. The reason for the hostage situation was a demand for the school to change its curriculum and governance. The school eventually did, but Jackson was suspended and didn’t return.
33. Actor James Earl Jones has one of the most iconic voices of our time, but as a child, he had a severe stutter that he was so ashamed of, it caused him to be silent for nearly eight whole years.
34. English Actor Sir Ben Kingsley’s birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is of Indian (Gujarati) descent. He played role of Gandhi in movie Gandhi.
35. Ashton Kutcher has webbed feet.
36. Amazing fact was that Bruce Lee could perform one hand push ups with only his thumb and index fingers. He could also throw a single grain of rice in the air and catch it with chop sticks.
37. Amazingly Bruce Lee was so quick that he could grab a coin out of your hand and replace it with another coin before you can close your fist.
38. In 1962, Bruce Lee landed amazing 15 punches and a kick that knocked out his opponent in a fight which lasted 11 seconds.
39. Bruce Lee could break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick !
40. Amazing fact is that Paul Newmann's own food donates 100 % of the profits to charity which has so far exceeded $ 350 million.
41. Amazingly Jack Nicholson hates giving interviews so much that he has not appeared on a talk show since 1971.
42. Before he pursued his acting career, Jack Nicholson worked as an office boy in MGM's cartoon department.
43. At age 37, actor Jack Nicholson discovered that the woman he'd always known as his sister for three decades was actually his mother. Even on their deathbeds, neither his mother nor his grandmother who he believed to be his mother had revealed the truth to him! He came to know it later from Times reporter who investigated the truth.
44. Actor David Niven and George Lazenby share one unique fact. They are the only men to play the James Bond character a single time.
45. Before he became an actor Brad Pitt supported himself as a chauffeur, a furniture mover and a costumed mascot for the restaurant where he danced in a chicken suit to attract customers at El Pollo Loco.
46. Amazingly a Toyota ad featuring Brad Pitt was banned in Malaysia because Pitt was too handsome! The deputy information minister of Malaysia said, "why must we use their faces in our advertisements? Aren't our own people handsome enough?"
47. Brad Pitt is banned from entering China because of his role in Seven Years in Tibet.
48. Actor Ronald Reagan appeared in over 60 films from the 1930's to the 1960's.
49. Burt Reynold’s father was the chief of police in West Palm Beach, Florida.
50. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger received a salary of $15 million; the 700 words he spoke in the movie translated to amazing $21,429 per word.
51. Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner.
52. Sylvester Stallone was so poor, he had to sell his dog for $50\. A week later, he sold the script for Rocky and amazingly bought him back for $3,000.
53. Actor Christopher Walken was a lion tamer at a circus.
54. John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison) starred in 14 World War II movies; however, due to a football injury, he never actually served in the war.
55. Robin Williams used to work as street mime.

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### Exhilarating Facts
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#### 15 Exhilarating Facts

1. Beginning in 1845, potato blight destroyed a significant proportion of Ireland's potato crop, ultimately leading to the deaths of more than 1 million individuals and the emigration of another 1-million plus. The amazing fact is that the population of Ireland still hasn’t returned to where it was before the Potato Famine.
2. It is safe to eat the stickers that are on fruit in the US and the glue used to put them on is actually food grade.
3. The Exhilarating Facts is that Harvard earns enough money on interest from its endowment that it could offer free tuition to all students and still make a profit on the interest.
4. The Khasi people of Meghalaya are a matrilineal society, i.e., the youngest daughter inherits, children take their mother’s surname, and once married, men live in their mother-in-law’s home.
5. France lost so many workers during its failed attempt to dig the Panama Canal, that for a time their project’s main source of income was selling the corpses to medical schools all over the world as cadavers. Ultimately they sold the project to the US.
6. Thanks to Tsunami, the existence of 6 temples dated 7th century AD in Mahabalipuram, India was discovered in 2005.
7. Exhilarating Facts is In 5 years from 1981 to 1986, Jahangir Khan squash player from Pakistan played 555 consecutive squash matches, maintaining an amazing unbeaten run. During this winning streak, he won the International Squash Players Association Championship, without losing a single point. He won the squash World Open five times during that stretch. He won the British Open 10 consecutive times between 1982 and 1991\. His father, Roshan Khan had also won the British Open in 1957 as well as winning the US Open three times and the Canadian Open twice.
8. Exhilarating Facts is 12% of Québec is freshwater, which is 3% of all of the world’s freshwater. Québec holds only 0.1% of the world’s population.
9. Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music teacher didn’t think she could sing and ‘sounded like a goat.’
10. Tarahumara group of Native Americans in Mexico are capable of running amazing 200 miles in one session and hunt by running their prey to death.
11. Exhilarating Facts is A village in southern Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district has been planting 111 trees for every girl child born for the last few years. To date, they have planted 250,000 trees and also have a mini-industry manufacturing products made from this “forest.”
12. Exhilarating Facts is There is a ‘Nocebo Effect’, a negative variant of the ‘Placebo Effect’. It can make someone physically suffer from side effects that don’t exist.
13. Amazingly bicycles have no speed limits in the UK, but you can get charged with ‘cycling furiously’.
14. Texas abolished the last meal for death row inmates after a prisoner ordered a ten-course meal including 2 chicken fried steaks, a triple cheeseburger, and a pound of barbeque meat and then turned it down saying he wasn’t hungry.
15. There’s a castle being built in France using only the techniques and materials used in the middle ages. When completed in the 2020s, it should be an authentic recreation of a 13th-century medieval castle.

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### Amazing Facts
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#### 15 Amazing *Facts* | *Amazing Facts 4U*

- *Amazingly* during WWI, at one point, skirmishing Russian and German forces had to declare a temporary truce to fight off a sudden onslaught of wolves that were making regular raids on trenches. The joint operation was successful.
- *An amazing fact* is twin brothers Jim Lewis and Jim Springer separated at birth and reunited 39 years later lived almost parallel lives. Both were named James, both owned a dog named Toy, both had married twice; first to women named Linda and second to women named Betty. Both drove Chevys, smoked Salem cigarettes, and drank Miller Lite.
- Shahid Afridi used Sachin Tendulkar’s bat to hit his fastest century in 36 balls in Cricket.
- *Amazingly* during the Italian invasion of France, 9 French soldiers defended the Pont Saint Louis against 5000 Italians for 10 days, of which 700 Italians were killed or injured. Eventually, an Armistice was agreed.
- At normal speed, it takes a fully loaded supertanker/oil tanker approximately 20 minutes to stop. Therefore they cut their engines 15 miles away from the dock.
- Adam’s Bridge or Ramsetu is a chain of limestone shoals, between Pamban Island, also known as Rameswaram Island, off the southeastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, and Mannar Island, off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka. It’s about 18 miles (30 km) long. It was completely above sea level passable on foot up to the 15th century until it broke in a cyclone in AD 1480\. Currently, water is only 3-30 feet deep.
- Pineapples contain an enzyme that breakdown proteins in your mouth. So when you eat a pineapple, it is eating you back.
- Nearly 80% of people who die from drowning in the USA are male.
- Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest *amazingly* only exists on computers.
- Freckles, a goat in Utah, was implanted with spider genes as an embryo to produce spider silk proteins in her milk, which is used to make “biosteel,” a material stronger than kevlar.
- In 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a WWI soldier. He returned said letter to the now-deceased widow’s 86 year old daughter.
- In 1914, Henry Ford doubled his worker’s wages out of pocket, causing wages to rise competitively nationwide. He profited as his sales increased as many more Americans were able to afford his Model T.
- The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WWII in *fact* returned years later to present his family’s 400-year-old sword in apology.
- *The amazing fact* is that Cannabis is the largest cash crop in the U.S., exceeding corn and wheat combined.
- Every year in the Greek town of Vrontados, two rival church congregations perform a “Rocket War” by firing tens of thousands of home-made rockets across town, with the objective of hitting the bell tower of the church of the other side.

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### Exciting Facts
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#### 15 Exciting Facts | Amazing Facts 4U

1. The inventor of the television in fact didn’t let his own children watch TV.
2. Alfred Nobel invented dynamites. When he was declared dead by mistake in 1888, newspapers published obituaries that said: “the merchant of death is dead.” Ashamed to leave such a legacy, he left the money he made from dynamites to celebrate humanity; thus created the Nobel Prize.
3. The most complex eyes throughout the animal kingdom belong to the mantis shrimp, who can manipulate light polarization throughout its entire visible spectrum. Amazingly that’s at least 10x as many colors in our visible spectrum.
4. An Exciting Fact is that in between the two runways in Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport (the 14th busiest airport in the world) is a fully functioning golf course. Golfers are held back by a red light whenever a plane land.
5. Amazingly in 2007, a man in Florida woke up with a severe headache. When he went to the hospital they found a bullet in his head. It turned out that his wife had shot him in the head while he was sleeping.
6. The V-2 rocket in WW2 in fact killed more people during production than as a weapon. 12,000 forced workers died making them while 9,000 died from the attacks.
7. An Exciting Fact is There is an Australian band called “The Beards.” Amazingly every single one of their 38 songs is about beards.
8. There are 7 people in the world surviving from the 1800s.
9. An Exciting Fact is The Polish government awards a “Medal for Long Marital Life” to couples who have been married longer than 50 years with at least one child, either their own or adopted.
10. 70% of the land in England is in fact still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army.
11. Daisy Outdoor Products was the company that in 1886 sold windmills and gave a complimentary BB gun with every purchase. Amazingly the BB guns became so popular that they stopped selling windmills and started selling BB guns.
12. If Wal-Mart and its employees were a country they would be, population-wise, bigger than 95 actual countries and hold the 25th largest economy in the world.
13. An Exciting Fact is The Zombie Birds are a species that have learned to track down tiny bats, split open their skulls, and feed on their brains.
14. The phrase “show your true colors” was coined centuries ago when ships in fact used to fly false national flags to get close to enemies and then switch to their “True” colors just before attacking.
15. In 1966, a Beluga whale swam up the Rhine river in Germany as far as Bonn. The skippers who first saw the whale in fact had to take blood alcohol tests after reporting it.

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### Delightful Facts
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#### 15 Delightful Facts | *Amazing Facts 4U*

1. *Delightful Fact* is Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo (social networking site), sold Bebo to AOL for $850 million in 2008 only to later buy it back for only $1 million in 2013.
2. *Amazingly* in 2011, the city of Portland, Oregon discarded 7.8 million gallons of drinking water in a reservoir, not because of any dead animals but because a drunk 21-year-old peed in it.
3. The bolt that holds the rotor onto the body of a Huey Helicopter is in *fact* called the Jesus nut because if it fails the helicopter would detach from the rotors and the only thing left for the crew to do would be to pray to Jesus as they fall from the sky.
4. Igloos can retain a temperature of 60° F on the inside during -50° weather. Ice is a bad conductor of heat. Any heat generated from inside the igloo, usually from body heat or a small fire, stays inside. Even a fire inside an ice structure won’t melt the igloo as the warmth inside the igloo does melt the inner layer of snow and ice, but the air outside often much colder than the air inside freezes it back. The result is an additional sheet of ice on the interior walls, which adds to the insulation.
5. Delightful Fact is author Ernest Vincent Wright wrote Gadsby, a 50,000 word novel without using the letter “e”. To this day it is considered one of the finest examples of constrained writing.
6. Delightful Fact is Leonardo da Vinci deliberately left errors in the designs of his inventions, in order to prevent them from being put to practice by unauthorized people.
7. Murderers in medieval Ireland were given to the deceased’s family as slaves if they fail to pay a hefty fine to buy their freedom. The family could then legally kill the murderer themselves.
8. Delightful Fact is The T-shirt was invented in 1904 and it was primarily marketed towards bachelors as a “bachelor undershirt.” It stretchy enough to be pulled over the head. “No safety pins, no buttons, no needle, no thread.”
9. There is a lake in the country of Palau (Pacific Islands) where jellyfishes have evolved without stingers. This happened after the lake’s connection to the sea closed, leaving them isolated from their natural predators. These ‘Golden’ jellyfish are totally harmless to humans and you can swim with them.
10. *Amazingly* dolphins can see our skeletons and sense our heartbeats via their sonar. They have in *fact* even been known to ward off sharks preying on humans.
11. 5000 years ago the Chinese created nail polish and used it to symbolize wealth and power among the elite. It was forbidden among the general population who were sentenced to die for wearing it.
12. Most German schools in *fact* do not have uniforms.
13. Shin Dong-hyuk is the only man in recorded history to have escaped a North Korean concentration camp in the “total control zone” and lived to tell of it. He works tirelessly to alert the world about the vicious human rights abuses in North Korea.
14. American speech is punctuated with “uh” & “um”, English speech with “er” & “erm”. Every language uses different sounds to interrupt themselves, while their brain is working on forming thoughts into words.
15. Delightful Fact is there are languages without the terms “Left, Right, Front, and Behind.” These cultures use “North, South, East, and West” their whole lives, no matter if they are in their home or in the woods. The result is a compass brain. They always know how they are oriented.

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### Blood
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Last updated: 2025-08-29T21:30:09.000Z
#### 55 Amazing and Awesome Blood Facts

1. Blood makes up around 7% of the weight of a human body.
2. Blood is about 45 % cells & 55 % plasma.
3. Plasma is 90 % water and human blood is 83% water.
4. Amazingly a Newborn baby has just about 1 cup of blood in his body.
5. Red blood cells develop in the bone marrow and have a life span of 120 days.
6. The amazing fact is that a drop of blood contains about 250 million cells.
7. Amazing thing is that the capillaries are so small that it would take ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
8. In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12,000 miles, amazingly that's four times the width of North America.
9. The amazing fact is that there are 60,000 miles ( 100000 km) of blood vessels in the human body enough to circle the earth 2.5 times which has 25000 miles ( 40000 km) circumference.
10. The fact is that all the blood in our body passes 400 times through each kidney per day.
11. Red Blood Cells are the only cells in the body that amazingly doesn't have a nucleus.
12. Lacking the nucleus, each red blood cell has more room to carry the oxygen the body needs. But without a nucleus, the cells cannot divide or synthesize new cellular components.
13. Each red blood cell lives about 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissues 75,000 times before returning to the bone marrow to die.
14. Your body is creating and killing amazing 15 million red blood cells per second.
15. The amazing fact is that normal blood sugar is just equivalent to about a teaspoon dissolved in your entire volume of blood.
16. Corn starch (a common thickening agent in foods), will spike your blood sugar level faster than pure sugar.
17. One pint of donated blood can save three lives.
18. Someone needs blood every two seconds.
19. There are 4 types of blood. O, A, B, and AB. Each type of cab is Rh-positive (Rh +) or Rh negative (Rh -ve).
20. These groups were identified first time by Karl Landsteiner in 1901.
21. 85 % of Americans have Rh +ve blood. In contrast, 99 % of Chinese have Rh +ve blood.
22. The amazing fact is that Cows have more than 800 blood types in contrast to just 4 types in humans. Dogs have 4 types of blood while the cat has 11 types of blood.
23. One out of every 10 people admitted to a hospital needs blood.
24. O –ve blood is the universal donor. It can be given to any blood type.
25. AB +ve blood is the universal recipient of blood. It can receive any type of blood.
26. June 14 was chosen as World Blood Donor Day as it was the birthday of Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943) who won the Nobel prize in 1930 for his discovery of human blood groups.
27. Every 2 seconds somebody in the US needs blood. About 38000 blood donations are needed every day in the US.
28. Red Cross supplies 40 % of the blood supply in the US.
29. It is surprising that less than 10 % of people donate blood annually. If every eligible donor donates blood thrice a year, there wouldn't be a blood shortage.
30. There are about 40 diseases that may be cured of stem cells of cord blood for self and immediate family members. Cord blood with a rich quantity of stem cells may be preserved for years.
31. Mosquitoes prefer blood type O to any other.
32. The world's first blood bank was opened in Chicago in 1936.
33. An estimated 1.3 million pints of donated blood spoil every year since blood has only 42-day shelf life in cold storage. Frozen plasma can be stored for one year.
34. After 9/11 and the flood of blood donations, the Red Cross had to throw out all of the surplus blood after 42 days and experienced a shortage of blood.
35. Amazingly the liquid inside coconuts can be used as blood plasma substitutes!
36. Your nose runs when it’s cold because the blood vessels in the nose get more blood to keep it warm. This causes the blood vessels to dilate and produce more mucus.
37. The human cornea extracts oxygen directly from the air. It has no blood supply.
38. There are about 0.2 milligrams of gold in our bodies, most of which is in our blood.
39. Pus is just white blood cells that died fighting off infection.
40. Spiders have transparent blood.
41. Grasshoppers have white blood.
42. Crabs have blue blood due to copper in place of Iron.
43. Earthworms and leeches have green blood due to the component chlorocruorin.
44. Many invertebrates, such as starfish, have clear or yellowish blood.
45. The amazing fact is that the sapphire blue blood of the horseshoe crab is the world's only known substance that can be used to test for contaminants in every drug and every vaccine in the world.
46. The crabs are "bled" by a fast and painless process. 24 hours later, they are returned to the ocean. "LAL," the protein ingredient in the crab's blood, is dropped into a new batch of drugs. If the mixture is contaminated, it clots instantly. The same process is used for every intravenous substance in the U.S., as required by the FDA. Prior to the discovery of "LAL," drugs were tested for contaminants by injecting them into a rabbit. No other animal contributes so much to science without dying in the process.
47. The amazing fact is that George Washington was in fact bled to death by doctors, who were treating him for a cold removing more than half his blood within a few hours. Bloodletting was a common medical practice in those times in order to remove “dirty blood,” when in reality it only weakened the patient.
48. Among other things, the Presidential state car features a blood bank of the President’s blood type in the trunk.
49. In the late 90s, Saddam Hussein commissioned a Quran to be written in his own blood.
50. Twinkle Trivedi, a teenager from India spontaneously bleeds 50 times a day from eyes, nose, ears, hands, feet, neck, scalp, etc all without bruising or injury. The medical reason hasn't been found.
51. After needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18\. His blood was discovered to have a rare antigen, which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
52. In 2004, a rapist fooled DNA tests by surgically implanting a tube filled with blood in his arm and tricking the laboratory technician into having a blood sample taken from it.
53. In Japan, blood type is believed to be an indicator as to one’s personality, creating a market for blood type themed goods.
54. Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products, which caused up to 10,000 people in the U.S. alone to contract HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the U.S. market and sold it to unsuspecting countries in Asia and Latin America to make money.
55. In 2007, a team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient being operated on began shedding dark greenish-black blood. It was later attributed to the migraine medication he was taking.

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### Ice
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Last updated: 2025-08-27T21:30:10.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Facts You may not know About Ice

1. The solid occupies a greater volume of space then an equal amount of the liquid form (About 1/9 more space). That is why ice is less dense than water & floats in water.
2. As the solid ice takes more space, water in our pipe will cause them to burst if they freeze.
3. As ice floats, lakes freeze from the top down to the bottom. This is clearly important for animals that live on ice, as their habitats would be greatly reduced or not exist at all if ice sank . The wildlife survive in ponds over winter.
4. *Amazingly* the water at the bottom of the deepest oceans is actually -4 degrees Celsius. It is still liquid because water has to expand to form ice. The water at the bottom of the ocean, crushed under all that water pressure, can’t expand to form ice crystals, even though it’s very cold.
5. There are actually sixteen types of ice discovered by scientists. Ice IV is the ice we find in the freezer. Difference lies in the structures of the crystals in them. e.g. Ice XI exhibits electric polarization which can be manipulated and reversed. Ice V has the most complicated crystalline structure. Ice III is actually denser than water and would actually sink in water.
6. One type called just amorphous ice has no crystalline structure and is the type of ice most often found in space also known as “glassy ice.” On earth, glassy ice can only form when water is rapidly cooled to -137C.
7. *Amazing fact* is that Mars has polar snowstorms of dry ice snowflakes. These snowflakes are microscopic being the size of human red blood cells.
8. Pykrete is a mixture of 86 percent ice with 14 percent wood pulp. The pulp reinforces the naturally brittle ice, resulting in an extremely resilient but temporary- substance. The British military considered the viability of building warships out of such substances during World War II but it was found to be unviable.
9. The snow is a good insulator and can keep things warm.
10. *Amazingly* the hardness of hard ice is as much as that of concrete.
11. Ice crystals can take on any shape or form and these are only limited by one's imagination.
12. In *fact* you can start a fire with ice.
13. *Amazingly* Eskimos have over 100 words for ice.
14. If you could throw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall.
15. Ice looks cloudy due to tiny, trapped air bubbles inside which refract the light. This is particularly true in home-made ice cubes.
16. For perfectly clear ice, use bottled water, boil it briefly to drive out any air and freeze it in the pan you’ve boiled it in to avoid incorporating any air.
17. Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide resembling snow and it’s very cold about -78 degrees Celsius. Unlike water, carbon dioxide does not go though a liquid stage as it cools from a gas stage to a solid stage. Dry ice also doesn’t melt. It changes directly from solid into a vapor or gaseous form. This change is called sublimation.
18. *Amazingly* at a thickness of two inches, Ice will support a man. At a thickness of ten inches, will support 1,000 pounds per square ft.
19. Ice is not slippery. Thin layer of ice melts under pressure and this wet layer on top of ice is slippery allowing you to skate smoothly.
20. *Amazingly* the average ice berg weighs 20 Million tons.
21. As an iceberg melts , it makes a fizzing sound due to compressed air bubbles being released.
22. When the Antarctic sea-ice begins to expand at the beginning of winter, it advances by around 40,000 square miles (100,000 square kilometres) per day, and eventually doubles the size of Antarctica, adding up to an extra 20 million square kilometres of ice around the land mass.
23. There is no ice covering Iceland.
24. There are few places in the world-- Quebec City and Jukasjaarvi, Sweden among them, where you can stay in a hotel made of ice. One temporary Igloo hotel built in Sweden every year has a capacity to sleep 100 people.
25. Permanent snow and ice cover about 12% (21 million square km's) of the Earth's land surface. 80% of the world's fresh water is locked up as ice or snow.
26. *Amazing fact* is that a single snowstorm can drop 40 million tons of snow, carrying the energy equivalent to 120 atom bombs.
27. The most snow produced in a single snowstorm is 4.8 meters (15.75ft) at Mt Shasta Ski Bowl, California (USA) between 13 and 19 February 1959
28. *Amazing Fact* is that three quarters of the fresh water in the entire world is contained in glaciers. The seasonal glacial runoff is an incredibly important source of fresh water on earth.
29. The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 80% of that land mass At the bottom of it, miles below the surface, there is ice that froze over a hundred thousand years ago. Scientists have extracted core samples of the ice from there. It contains a record of climate change all throughout history also using air samples trapped inside the ice which gives information about the temperatures and greenhouse gas levels of past hundreds of centuries.
30. *Amazing fact* is that if the Antarctic ice cap melted, it is estimated that the world sea level could rise by an average of 180 feet (55 metres). This rise is not just because of melting but due to warmer water occupying more space.
31. Sea ice is important to regulating global temperature, because the white, bright ice reflects back 80% of the light that hits it and helps to keep the ocean cool.
32. Algae grow between the cracks in sea ice and even on the underside of the ice, providing food for tiny shrimp-like krill throughout the dark, cold arctic winter.
33. *Amazingly* the Saturn rings are made up of millions of ice crystals, some as big as houses and others as small as specks of dust.
34. The largest piece of ice to fall to earth was an ice block 6 meters (20 ft) across that fell in Scotland on 13 August 1849.
35. Antarctica is the best place to find meteorites. Dark meteorites show up against the white expanse of ice and snow and don't get covered by vegetation.
36. The largest hailstone recorded fell on 14 April 1986 in Bangladesh weighing 1kg (2.25lbs). The hailstorm reportedly killed 92 people.
37. The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.
38. *Amazing fact* discovered is that nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
39. Most snowflakes form with 6 tips or branches. Generally, the colder it is when the snowflake is formed the sharper and more defined the tips will be.
40. It has been reported that Niagra falls on the 30th of March, 1847 froze. The six hundred and twenty thousand tons of water each minute ceased to flow. People even dared to ride in carriages one-third of the way across the river towards the Canada shore.

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### Walt Disney
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Last updated: 2025-08-25T21:30:30.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Walt Disney Facts

##### Personality

- Walt Disney's own childhood wasn't all that happy. His father Elias was a strict disciplinarian and Walt and his older brother Roy were beaten very often.
- When the U.S. entered World War I Roy Disney was quick to enlist. Walt wanted to join, too, but at sixteen he was too young to join.
- Walt Disney left school to join the army but the recruiter at the Red Cross was skeptical wanting to check Walt's birth certificate. He was shocked to discover that Cook County had no record that he was born in Chicago on December 5, 1901\. He forged his parents' signatures on the Red Cross form and put his date of birth as December 5, 1900, and His application was accepted.
- He got shipped over to Europe, where he chauffered military personnel around Germany and France and got to drive a few ambulances. He also started smoking for the first time, a habit he never broke.
- One of Walt Disney’s hobbies was building trains. He once built an entire 1/8 scale steam railroad in his backyard. The railroad is now on display in Disneyland’s Main Street Station.
- *An amazing fact* is when Walt was younger he was hired to work at the Kansas City Star newspaper. He was later fired from the paper because of a lack of creativity. Years later The Disney Company bought ABC which owned The Kansas City Star.
- Walt Disney felt guilty over the death of his own mother Flora in 1938 who tragically died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty heating system in a newly bought home.
- Walt Disney beginning about 1940 worked as an informant for the FBI. As head of his own movie studio, he would go to fundraisers or other Hollywood social gatherings and report to a Special Agent in Charge as to what people he thought were engaged in subversive activities.
- Disney was an invaluable FBI asset up until the end of his life. After his death, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover personally sent a telegram to Disney's widow Lillian expressing his condolences.
- In 1951, Thelma Howard became employed as a live-in housekeeper for the Disney family and served them for 30 years. Walt Disney would give Thelma shares of stock in his company as holiday gifts. At the time, they were worth pennies, but over the course of decades, they rose astronomically in value. Thelma retired in 1981 and died in June 1994\. *Amazingly* her estate was worth in excess of $9 million.
- The signature that graces Walt Disney's theme parks and films is probably one of the most recognized signatures in the world but it really isn't Disney's. It's what the company describes as a "stylized version". There's some question as to whether Disney was ever able to produce the famed signature on his own.
- Walt Disney died of Lung Cancer on December 15, 1966, possibly a result of lifelong smoking.

##### Cartoons & Films & TV

- One of the many innovations introduced by Walt Disney was the first color cartoon called Flowers and Trees in 1931.
- Walt Disney Studios was founded in the summer of 1923.
- Walt Disney produced a series of cartoons entitled "Alice in Cartoonland", which combined live-action and animation. These cartoons were made long before Mickey.
- *The amazing fact* is that Mickey Mouse’s original name was Mortimer Mouse, but Walt’s wife thought the name sounded “pompous” and made him change it.
- *Amazingly* Walt Disney was the voice of his most famous character, Mickey Mouse, for over 20 years.
- Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first-ever full-length animated movie to be released.
- *The amazing fact* is there were approximately 750 artists who took part in the making of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the days when computers were unknown and everything was manual.
- He was determined to produce a feature-length animated movie, even when everyone thought the idea was crazy. Industry insiders were convinced his efforts would fail, calling the project “Disney’s Folly.” Disney in fact run out of funding during Snow White‘s production and got additional financing after a hard bargain. Luckily for both Disney and his creditors, Snow White turned out to be a smashing success. The film earned over $8 million during its initial release, about $130 million today.
- Besides being the mascot of the company, Mickey Mouse is the most commonly used image in the world. It can be found on many different items, such as mugs and glasses, clocks, clothing items, etc. According to statistics, the number of different Mickey Mouse items is larger than 7,500.
- Between 1932 and 1969, Walt Disney *amazingly* won 22 Academy Awards and was nominated 59 times for oscar more than anybody in history.
- Walt Disney also couldn't draw the original Mickey Mouse. He had drawn up the initial plans, but the character itself was ultimately the creation of one of Disney's animators, Dutchman Dutchman Ub Iwerks.
- All of the 90′s Disney movies are from a period called the Disney Renaissance, which was considered to have started with The Little Mermaid (1989), and ended with Tarzan (1999), wherein Disney made $3.9 billion dollars worldwide.
- *An amazing fact* is Sulley from Monsters Inc has more than 2.3 million individual hairs, which are all carefully animated. This explains why a single frame of the big blue fella took an average of 12 hours to produce.
- Simba is Sri Lankan Swahili for 'lion', while Bhalu is Hindi for 'bear'.
- *Amazingly* Wayne Anthony Allwine, who was the voice of Mickey Mouse for 32 years fell in love with Russi Taylor, who played Minnie, in 1991\. The two remained happily married until his death in 2009.
- A movie called “Escape from Tomorrow” (2013) was filmed in its entirety in Disney World, without Disney knowing about it. The actors read their scripts off of cell phones to keep themselves hidden.
- Surprisingly the Disney Channel doesn’t accept any outside ads. The only commercials it airs are for its own shows and Disney products.
- *Amazingly* Mary Poppins, author P.L. Travers hated the Film Adaption of her book so much that she spent most of the premiere crying and refused to let Disney touch the rest of the series.
- Three of the five biggest money-losing movies (Mars Needs Moms, The Lone Ranger & John Carter) in history were produced by Disney for a total loss of $366 million.
- Walt Disney hired 11 dwarfs for the premiere of Pinocchio to dress up like the puppet and greet children.
- Disney was so eager to persuade Robin Williams for the voice of the genie in Aladdin that before approaching him, they animated and lip-synced the genie doing a performance from Robin’s album Reality. Williams was impressed and immediately accepted the role.
- Robin Williams only made $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladdin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. Disney later sent him a Picasso painting as a way of thanking him for his work.
- The Lion King is now the highest-grossing hand-drawn film in history.
- Walt Disney was presented with one normal-sized honorary Oscar and seven little Oscars for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1938.
- Tasked with creating the Beast, supervising animator Glen Keane took inspiration from the zoo, blending the mane of a lion, the horns and head of a buffalo, the eyebrows of a gorilla, the tusks of a wild boar, the upper body of a bear, and the legs and tail of a wolf to create the rather likable Beast.
- The final film Walt Disney personally oversaw was The Jungle Book, before his death.
- *The amazing fact* is that the two-minute storm in The Little Mermaid took 10 special effects artists over a year to finish.
- Kathryn Beaumont voiced Alice from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland at the age of 13 and over 50 years later voiced Alice again in Kingdom Hearts at the age of 64.

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### Exotic Facts
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Last updated: 2025-08-23T21:30:00.000Z
#### 15 Exotic Facts

1. The two oldest cats on record Creme Puff (1967-2005) and Granpa (1964-1998) lived to 38 and 34 years respectively. Both were in *fact* owned by the same owner Jake Perry, in Austin, Texas, and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli, and coffee. Usually, the lifespan of a cat is up to 15 years.
2. The Exotic Fact is Human beings are the only primates whose numbers are not in decline.
3. When the Latvian hockey team plays at home and wins a game, fans pay a visit to the embassy of the opposing team’s home country and lay flowers at its gate.
4. Exotic Fact is A lawyer in Toronto fell to his death in 1993 after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of a building in an attempt to prove to a group of visitors that the glass was “unbreakable”, an act he had done twice before. The glass did not break, but he popped out of the window frame and died.
5. The Exotic Fact is that around 762 A.D., the demand for books in Baghdad was so high that any traders who brought books were given the weight of the books in gold in return.
6. The US Government took the land on which Mt Rushmore was built from the Sioux nation (Native Americans) and developed Mt. Rushmore on sacred Sioux grounds without any compensation. The US Government has offered over $1 Billion in compensation, but the Sioux refuse to take it, saying the land was never for sale.
7. The film ‘Top Gun’ was made in collaboration with the Pentagon and enlistment spiked when it was released. The Navy set up recruitment tables at theaters playing the movie, and polls soon showed rising recruitments.
8. It isn’t “base jumping”, but rather B.A.S.E. jumping. It refers to the four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: building, antenna, span, and Earth (cliff).
9. *The amazing Fact* is that there is a large stinging shrub native to Australia called the Gympie Gympie that produces a neurotoxin so painful, it has driven people and animals to suicide. The pain has been described as being sprayed with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. A man was reported to have shot himself after using the tree as toilet paper.
10. In 1929, a “Bat Towеr” was built in Florida Kеys to control mosquitos. It was filled with bats, which promptly flew away, never to return.
11. Exotic Fact is Several million people in the United States sent over 100,000 petitions urging Congress to adopt the metric system way back in 1927\. Still in the USA metric system has been adopted only in parts.
12. In 1957, V. K. Krishna Menon, foreign minister of India gave an 8-hour long speech in U.N. Security Council on Kashmir which ended with him collapsing on the floor and it is still the longest speech in the United Nations history.
13. Exotic Fact is The full moon always rises at sunset. The new moon always rises at sunrise.
14. After hitting his head in the shallow end of a swimming pool, a man named Derek Amato from Colorado *amazingly* woke up with pianist skills. He then went on to become a great pianist without ever learning to play.
15. Hall of fame boxer, Sugar Ray Robinson once backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and a minister convinced him to fight, Robinson went into the ring and his opponent, Jimmy Doyle was killed in the fight.

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### Venezuela
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Last updated: 2025-08-21T21:30:00.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts About Venezuela

##### Land & Geography

- The term Venezuela literally means ‘Little Venice’. The country was so named by its explorers, who saw houses built on stilts in a lake here, reminding them of Venice.
- Venezuela is officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
- Venezuela is on the northern coast of South America, it covers an area of 916,445 km² (353,841 mi²).
- Venezuela shares a land border with Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south. Off its Caribbean Coastline lies the island nations of Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Curaçao, and Aruba.
- There are 28.5 million people living in Venezuela. Venezuela is one of the most urbanized countries in the world.
- The capital, and largest, city of Venezuela is Caracas. The population of the metropolitan area is about 4.1 million. The whole country boasts a population of 29 million.
- Pico Bolivar is the highest mountain in Venezuela at 4,979 meters.
- Venezuela is considered one of the seventeen megadiverse countries that contain most of Earth's species. Venezuela is home to many weird and interesting animals including manatees, the Giant anteater, Three-toed sloth, Two-toed sloth, jaguar, Amazon river dolphins, Orinoco crocodiles, and the worlds largest rodent the capybara.
- To protect Venezuela’s unique wildlife the government has created 43 national parks. Canaima National Park in Venezuela is one of the largest national parks in the world.
- Venezuela has *amazing* 1400 bird species, including kingfishers, ibises, ospreys, and its national bird the yellow-orange Venezuelan Troupial.
- *Amazingly* there are over 25,000 species of orchids in Venezuela, including the country's national flower.

##### History

- The first European to find the coast of Venezuela was Christopher Columbus.
- Venezuela was colonized by Spain in 1522\. It declared independence from Spanish rule in 1811, on July 5th (it's celebrated National Day). The country secured independence as part of the Republic of Gran Colombia in 1821 and became its own independent republic in 1830 after the dissolution of Gran Colombia.

##### Places

- The world's tallest waterfall, Angel Falls, is in *fact* located in Venezuela named after American aviator Jimmy Angel who landed his plane at the top of the falls in 1936\. It drops from 3,212 feet, which is around 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.
- The largest lake in South America, Lake Maracaibo, is found in Venezuela. In addition, it's one of the oldest lakes on Earth at between 20 and 36 million-years-old.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The literacy rate of the country is about 96%.
- Religion is very important to the Venezuelan people with about 92% of the country nominating Roman Catholic as their religion.
- Spanish is the official language in Venezuela but over 30 other indigenous languages are officially recognized including Wayuu, Warao, and Pemon.
- A type of small guitar called the cuatro is the national instrument of Venezuela and the national dance of Venezuela is the waltz-like dance called joropo.
- *Amazingly* Venezuela has more Miss Universes and more Miss Worlds than any other country. Venezuelan beauties have won the Miss Universe title 7 times, Miss World 6 times, Miss International 6 times, and Miss Earth 2 times to date.
- *An amazing fact* is School children in Venezuela can choose between morning classes (7 am-Noon) or afternoon classes (Noon-– 5 pm). Older children can even choose night classes (5 pm—10 pm).

##### Politics/ Legal

- Slavery was abolished in Venezuela in 1854.
- Venezuela is one of the oldest democracies in South America.
- The Venezuelan flag is colored yellow, blue, and red. The yellow is for land wealth, the blue for the sea that separates Venezuela from Spain, and the red represents the bloodshed by the heroes of independence.
- The currency of Venezuela is called the bolivar fuerte named after the liberator of the country, Simón Bolívar.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Venezuela has one of the largest natural gas reserves and has the 2nd largest oil reserve in the world. It is one of the world’s top ten crude oil exporters. Venezuela was the largest oil exporter in the world in the early twentieth century.
- Venezuela was one of the founding members of OPEC, along with Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. The petroleum industry accounts for half of the revenue of the government of Venezuela.
- Due to the large petroleum industry and subsidies, Venezuela has in *fact* the cheapest gasoline prices in the world.

##### Literature

- "The Lost World", written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was actually about an expedition on Mt. Roraima in Venezuela.

##### Sport

- Baseball is Venezuela's most popular sport, there has been a professional baseball league in the country since 1945.

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### Absorbing Facts
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Last updated: 2025-08-19T21:30:00.000Z
#### 15 Absorbing Facts

1. 1,311 people live in Verkhoyansk, Russia, a town with an average temperature of -45 °C (-50 °F) in January. The sun currently rises at 2 pm and sets at 3:30 pm. It was also attacked by a pack of 400 wolves in 2012 which laid siege to the town in search of food.
2. Absorbing Fact is The “cost per GFLOPS” (the cost for a computer that would operate at one billion floating-point operations per second) in 1997 was USD $42,000, while nowadays it is amazingly just $0.12.
3. Absorbing Fact is While serving in the Army, Clint Eastwood survived a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean by swimming 3 miles (5km) to shore. The crash kept him from being deployed to Korea.
4. Absorbing Fact is Japanese honey bees can ‘bake’ and thus kill hive invading wasps, by having multiple bees form a ball around the invader and vibrating their wings to create heat.
5. Absorbing Fact is Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev is set to lose half his wealth after being ordered to pay his former wife $4.5 billion in a settlement in May 2014 dubbed as the "most expensive divorce in history." The two had been battling over the settlement for six years, after Elena Rybolovleva, the oligarch's wife of 23 years, filed for divorce.
6. In 1575, a German mass murderer nicknamed Puschpeter is reported to have kept his wits after being impaled. The stake hit his spine and he berated the executioner. Puschpeter commanded the executioner to draw the stake out of him and gave instructions for how to make the impalement properly.
7. Absorbing Fact is Rinconada, Peru is the world’s highest elevated city at 16,732 ft above sea level and its economy is based around a gold mine. The amazing fact is that The mine operates on a unique system where employees work for 30 days without payment, and on the 31st day they are allowed to take as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders.
8. In 2002, AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne scoreline resulted from a soccer match in Madagascar where a team scored 149 own goals in the match protesting a controversial referee decision in a previous game setting a new World Record surpassing the previous record for the highest scoreline of 36–0, set in 1885.
9. The United States Gold Reserve Act of 1934 outlawed most private possessions of gold, forcing US citizens to sell it to the Treasury. Amazingly Americans were not able to freely own and trade gold again until 1975.
10. Brazil participated in WWII, the only independent South American country to do so. The 25,000-troop Brazilian Expeditionary Force worked alongside the Allies and managed to take 20,573 Axis prisoners.
11. Oskar Schindler, who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, became virtually destitute after World War II. He became bankrupt after trying to raise chickens in Argentina. For the rest of his life, he survived off gifts and donations from the Jews he had saved during the war.
12. In 2010, a man who was lost in the woods of Northern Saskatchewan, a province in Canada chopped down some power lines so that workers from Crown Utility would have to come and rescue him.
13. Back in 2006, Bank of America had someone jailed for inquiring about the legitimacy of a check. Matthew Shinnick got a check for $2000 after he sold his bike for $600 on Craigslist. Being suspicious, he expressed his concern to the cashier that this check might not be good. Bank authorities called the cops after inquiring with the business owner, who stated that no such check was written to Mr. Shinnick. Mr. Shinnick spent $14,000 and jail time to get out of this mess made by BoA. The public uproar cost BoA $50 million worth of withdrawals from irate customers.
14. Absorbing Fact is Los Angeles once, in fact, had the largest electric rail system in the world, until automobile, tire, and oil companies bought and dismantled it, along with mass transit systems in 44 other US cities. The mass transit systems were replaced with freeways and buses, thereby increasing the sales of cars, tires, and oil.
15. In 2008, police busted an amazing “Blood farm” holding 17 weak and malnourished “donors” in Uttar Pradesh India.

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### Mathematics
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Last updated: 2025-08-17T21:30:00.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts about Mathematics

1. Notches (cuts or indentation) on animal bones prove that humans have been doing mathematics since around 30,000 BC.
2. The amazing fact is that the concept of 0 (zero) was introduced in India as early as the 3rd century B.C. It was passed on to the Arabian scholars and also to the Chinese in the 9th century A.D. European scholars grasped the importance of zero in the 10th century A.D.
3. Arabic numerals amazingly are not really Arabic; they were invented in India. Aryabhata is the father of the Hindu-Arabic number system which has become universal today.
4. The amazing fact is that Roman numerals have no zero (0) representation.
5. Amazingly the name of the popular search engine ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word ‘googol’, which is a very large number to describe a one followed by 100 zeroes. It was first used by a 9-year-old, Milton Sirotta, in 1940.
6. Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the ‘Father of Geometry’ for his revolutionary ideas and an influential textbook called ‘Elements’ that he wrote around the year 300 BC.
7. Algebra, Calculus, and Trigonometry are all inventions amazingly coming from India.
8. Amazingly ancient Babylonians did the math in base 60 instead of base 10\. That's why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
9. The word ‘hundredth’ in Old Norse, from which our ‘hundred’ derives, amazingly meant not 100 but 120.
10. The symbols used for addition (+) and subtraction (-) have been around for thousands of years.
11. The = sign ("equals sign") was invented by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He first used it in 1557.
12. In 1642 French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator.
13. If all the numbers are arranged in alphabetical order, it is amazing to find that eight would be the first and Zero would be the last.
14. A, B, C, and D are all very uncommon in the English spelling of numbers . The letter 'D' amazingly does not appear until the number 100 (hundred). The letter 'A' is not used until the number 1,000 (thousand). Absolutely amazing fact thing is that 'B' does not show up until 1,000,000,000 (billion), and 'C' is not found until 1 octillion! That's 10 to the 27th power or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
15. Amazingly Forty is the only number that has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
16. Four is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
17. "Eleven plus Two" and "Twelve Plus One" both equal 13\. Both have thirteen letters and the letters are the same.
18. "Nineteen letters long" is amazingly 19 letters long.
19. A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
20. It is amazing to find that there are 293 ways to make a change for a dollar.
21. If you have a pizza with radius Z and thickness A, it's amazing to find it's volume as Pi\*Z\*Z\*A.
22. In 1900, all the world's mathematical knowledge could be written in about 80 books. The amazing fact is that today it would fill more than 100,000 books.
23. It is absolutely amazing fact that a Rubik’s Cube can make 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different combinations!
24. Amazingly the opposite sides of a dice always add up to seven.
25. If two quantities have a ratio of approximately 1.618, they are said to be in the golden ratio. This ratio has been used throughout history to design aesthetically pleasing artworks.
26. Among all shapes with the same perimeter, a circle has the largest area. Among all shapes with the same area, the circle has the shortest perimeter.
27. In 1995 in Taipei, citizens were allowed to remove ‘4’ from street numbers because it sounded like ‘death’ in Chinese. It is amazing to find that many Chinese hospitals do not have the 4th floor.
28. The Fibonacci sequence is numbers where each following number is the sum of the previous two: i.e. 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 etc.
29. A Palindrome Number is a number that reads the same backward and forward, e.g. 13431.
30. If a class has 23 students in it then the probability that at least two of the students share a birthday is about 0.5\. If there are 50 students in a class then it's virtually certain that two will share the same birthday. This seems amazing but has been absolutely proved correct.

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### Enthralling Facts
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Last updated: 2025-08-15T21:30:00.000Z
#### 15 Enthralling Facts

1. In 2009, archaeologists unearthed the oldest musical instruments ever found. There were flutes that inhabitants of southwestern Germany laboriously carved from bone and ivory at least 35,000 years ago.
2. The Enthralling Fact is that The largest centipede which ever existed was in *fact* tall enough to rear up and look a human in the eyes.
3. Flames conduct electricity as it contains ions generated by the combustion. Typically the hotter the flame the better the conduction.
4. In zero gravity, a candle’s flame is round and blue.
5. *Amazingly* Dutch swear with diseases by wishing a horrible or deadly disease on you (i.e. Cancer, TB, Smallpox, etc.)
6. Enthralling Fact is The only coast-to-coast Atlantic-to-Pacific hiking trail called The American Discovery Trail (ADT) is a non-motorized trail stretching across 6,800 miles and 15 states connecting Delaware and California linking hiking trails, rail-trails, canal towpaths, and country roads into a "Route 66" for hikers, mountain bikers, and horseback riders. The unique *amazing* route even takes travelers along greenways through major cities such as Washington, Cincinnati, Denver, and San Francisco. It passes through 14 national parks and 16 national forests and passes some 10,000 points of historic, scenic, cultural, or natural significance.
7. The Enthralling Fact is Volkswagen was sued by Czechoslovakian car maker Tatra before WWII because the original Beetle was so similar to the Tatra T97\. After Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, the lawsuit was canceled by the Nazis.
8. Pandas were in *fact* carnivorous, but they inexplicably lost their appetite for meat during evolution.
9. An Enthralling Fact is The city of Perth in Western Australia is geographically the most remote city in the world (by land). The nearest city of more than 100,000 people is almost 1500 miles away.
10. England built an underground city in the 1950s to house 4,000 key government employees in case of a nuclear strike, complete with 60 miles of roadways, an underground lake to provide freshwater, and a railway to transport the Royal Family. The amazing *Fact* is that it was not revealed to the public until 2004.
11. Robert Taylor, the inventor of soap-in-a-pump-bottle (Softsoap), knew larger competitors like Colgate would try to copy his product. In order to ensure that they couldn’t copy him, he bought every small bottle hand-pump (100 million bottles) in the US. This resulted in a year of the market to himself
12. Until 1974, banks could refuse to issue a credit card to a woman unless she was married and her husband co-signed for the card. A divorced woman was considered too much of a risk.
13. An Enthralling Fact is that The artificial sweetener Sucralose (Splenda) was *amazingly* discovered when a researcher misheard a command to “Test this chemical” as “taste this chemical”.
14. Theaters used to have “cry rooms”: Soundproof rooms at the back of theaters so mothers wouldn’t disturb others with their children.
15. The average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II saw about 8 days of combat in a year. The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year.

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### Impressive Facts
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#### 15 Impressive Facts

1. Gustave Eiffel had in fact installed a private apartment at the summit of Eiffel tower to which he alone had access.
2. An impressive fact is There’s an individual whale, known as the 52-hertz whale, which sings at a frequency unique among whales. Amazingly it’s the loneliest whale in the world as no whale responds to that frequency.
3. An impressive fact is When a 10-year-old girl with cancer was too sick to see the Pixar’s movie Up in theaters, Pixar flew out a DVD and a Pixar employee to her home for a private screening. She died 7 hours later.
4. An impressive fact is Many regions in the US, most recently being the state of Hawaii, have tried solving their homeless problem by amazingly providing one-way plane tickets out of the area.
5. There was a bear, who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WWII. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
6. An impressive fact is Before the 20th century, the death of the pope used to be confirmed by striking him in the head with a silver hammer.
7. Just one white European has ever run a 100 m race in under 10 seconds. All of the 77 men to break that record was West African, except 5 and no one from either East or North Africa has ever achieved that record.
8. The amazing fact is that about 795 sq miles of land, Bir Tawil, between Egypt and Sudan remains unclaimed by either nation. This is the only piece of unclaimed land outside of Antarctica.
9. An impressive fact is that The demilitarized zone between the border of North and South Korea, with practically no human inhabitants, has become a refuge for multiple endangered animal species.
10. 70% of lotto winners run through their money within 5 years, and it doesn’t matter whether they won $1 million or $100 million.
11. The USA experiences 75% of the world’s known tornadoes.
12. Doctors at the children's hospital of Philadelphia in 2012 employing therapy known as CTL019, successfully used a disabled form of HIV virus to reprogramme 7-year girl Emily Whitehead’s immune system to kill blood cancer cells. Emily had been fighting leukemia for two years and this was the only hope left that succeeded.
13. In 1986, a federal prisoner Ronald J. McIntosh escaped during a prisoner transfer in California. A week later, he returned in a stolen helicopter and broke out his girlfriend Samantha Dorinda Lopez. They were arrested 10 days later in a suburban shopping center while picking up wedding rings.
14. In 1851, when the refrigerated ice machine was patented, the large ice importing industry ran a smear campaign against the technology, calling it immoral.
15. There is a secret room inside Mt. Rushmore that contains porcelain enamel panels containing texts from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights sealed in a teakwood box, placed in a titanium vault, and sealed shut under the weight of a 1,200-pound granite capstone.

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### Enchanting Facts
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#### 15 Enchanting Facts

1. In 2003, Morocco offered to send 2,000 monkeys to assist the war effort in Iraq. They were to be used to detonate land mines.
2. In Michigan, *amazingly* you are never more than 6 miles from a natural water source. This is due to Michigan’s nearly 65,000 inland lakes and ponds.
3. It's *amazing* that Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by a HAM radio on earth.
4. If a Bald Eagle loses a feather, *amazingly* it will lose the same feather on the other side to remain balanced.
5. The enchanting Fact is that During the Berlin Airlift, the allies became so efficient that they landed a plane in West Berlin every 30 seconds.
6. Enchanting Fact is When NASA landed on the moon, they placed reflectors that can reflect any laser pointed at it back to the earth.
7. Steve Jobs was the “anonymous party” that sold 1.5 million shares of Apple stock in 1997 causing Apple to hit a 12-year low in stock price. That event lead to a boardroom coup of CEO Gil Amelio and placed Steve Jobs as the new CEO of Apple.
8. Enchanting Fact is In 1962, it was the CIA that tipped off South Africa’s intelligence service about the location of Nelson Mandela, leading to the arrest that put him in jail for 27 years.
9. Enchanting Fact is In 1350, when the bubonic plague struck England, the Scots took the opportunity to invade the country. But instead, the Scottish army caught the disease, was routed by the English and the fleeing army inadvertently spread the plague across Scotland.
10. A man named Albert Lexie has shined shoes at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh for 36 years. He donates everything over $5 per shine to the hospital. *Amazingly* he has contributed over $200k during his time there.
11. In 1995, Newsweek published an article scoffing at the future of the internet. It's *amazing* that it laughed at the idea that people would get news, learn, or buy airline tickets online.
12. *The amazing fact* is that crows have different warning calls, one for cats, and one for hawks, another for humans, 250 in all.
13. You can buy a 5-year pass from Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to keep your shoes, belt, and jacket on through airport security for $85.
14. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die and if you sneeze too hard, you run the chance of fracturing a rib.
15. *Amazingly* there is a 600-year-old 240 pages book called the VoynichManuscript named after a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912 that is written in a language that is still completely unknown to date.

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### Japan (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2025-08-09T21:30:00.000Z
#### 60 Amazing Japan Facts that will fascinate you ( Part II )

##### People

- *Amazingly* Japan’s literacy rate is almost 100%.
- *The fact* is there is almost no immigration in Japan. The population is 98% ethnic Japanese.
- Japan suffers from a very low birth rate, making it one of the most rapidly aging societies in the world. In fact, the sales of adult diapers are greater than the sales of baby diapers.
- The two most common last names in Japan are Sato and Suzuki.
- There are 50000 people living in Japan who are 100 years of age or older. *The fact* is that Japanese adult diaper sales are almost the same as baby diapers.
- 23% of the Japanese population is over the age of 65.
- Okinawa Island in Japan has more than 450 people living above the age of 100 and it is known as the healthiest place on Earth.
- 49% of Japanese words are words borrowed from Chinese, and 9% come from English.
- 90 % of mobile phones sold in Japan are waterproof as people tend to use them even during showers.
- *The amazing fact* is that 98% of adoptions in Japan are of males between the ages of 25 to 30! *Amazingly* the reason is that whenever the son of the head of the company isn’t suited to take over the family business, he is replaced by an adopted son!
- *Fact* is sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan. It is regarded as a sign of exhaustion after working hard! Some Japanese even fake a nap to appear dedicated to the job.
- Japan has the second-lowest homicide rate in the world. The homicide rate is 0.50 per 100,000 people.
- *Amazingly* in Japan, there are more pets than there are children under 15.
- The *fact* is that in Japan, teachers and students come together to clean the classrooms and cafeteria.
- People commonly wear masks in Japan, and they’re sold everywhere in various sizes and colors. If you’re sick, you wear a mask so you don’t spread your sickness.
- In Japan, it is not uncommon to eat rice at every meal, including breakfast.
- A very popular food in Japan is raw horse meat.
- The capsule hotel originated in Osaka, Japan. It features a set of extremely small capsules designed for basic overnight accommodation for those on a budget. Capsules are stacked side by side with one unit on top of another to maximize space.
- *Amazingly* there is a restaurant in Japan that uses monkeys as waiters.
- People make a loud "haaah" after each sip of hot tea.
- When eating food, you must slurp loudly. That indicates the food is delicious. *Amazingly* it is considered rude not to slurp.
- People routinely buy gifts for co-workers whenever you leave town, even if it's just for a few hours.
- Some Japanese companies conduct a morning exercise session for the workers to prepare them for the day's work.
- In Japan non-smoking areas are difficult to find in restaurants, including family restaurants. *The fact* is that anti-smoking laws are almost non-existent.
- The only foreign language taught and mandated in Japanese schools is English.
- 30% of single Japanese men in their 30′s have never dated a woman.
- *The amazing fact* is that many people in Japan are discriminated against because of their blood type. Employers often request it. Children at school have been split up by blood type. Japan’s softball team customizes training by player’s blood type. Companies have assignments according to the worker's blood type.
- *Amazingly* golfers in Japan purchase insurance at $65/year for coverage of up to $3,000 in the event that they sink a hole-in-one, in which case tradition dictates that they must buy gifts and drinks for all their friends.
- Japanese women give chocolates to men on Valentine’s day. Men are supposed to return the favor a month later on White Day (March 14th).
- Bike riders wear gloves to protect themselves from the sun, but no helmets.
- Trains are so crowded that railway staff workers are employed to shove passengers inside before the doors close.
- Japanese Trains are among the world's most punctual. The *amazing fact* is that the average delay is just 18 seconds. “Delay Certificates” are offered so that you can prove you’re late because of train delays.
- Naoto Matsumura is the most radioactive man on earth. He continues to live alone in the abandoned city of Tomioka (after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster) to care for the animals left behind there.
- Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese Consul in Lithuania during WWII. He saved 6,000 Jews from German-occupied Poland by writing them travel visas to Japan even after the Japanese government told him not to.
- *Amazingly* in January 2013, a 500 lb bluefin tuna fish was sold in Japan for $1.8 million.
- Japan is home to many different forms of martial arts. Karate, Judo, Sumo, Ninjutsu, Kendo, Jujutsu, and Aikido to name a few.
- The Yakuza (organized crime syndicates) operate openly in Japan. They have offices, make charitable donations, and even have large investments in mainstream companies.
- Brazil is home to the largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan.

##### Customs & Culture

- *Amazingly* there is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
- When you have a bowl of food e.g. rice, you must pick it up and bring it up to your mouth to eat. If you don’t pick up the bowl, people think you are eating like a dog.
- *The fact* is that the streets in Japan do not have names.
- Crooked teeth are considered beautiful in Japan.
- Black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.
- Watermelon is considered a good gift to give a host in Japan. Square Watermelons are grown by Japanese farmers for easier stacking.
- *Amazingly* the number "four" is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as "death".
- Many Japanese couples hold divorce ceremonies that are similar to weddings. The couples dress up in front of their friends and families, vow never to see each other again, and then smash a ring with a hammer.
- *Amazingly* the Japanese Masabumi Hosono who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.
- *The amazing fact* is that in Japan it’s considered extremely rude to blow your nose in public. Instead, people will just sit for hours and sniffle away.
- Animated Japanese films and television shows a*mazingly* account for 60% of the world’s animation.
- In the Japanese language, there is a lack of a clear "R" sound.
- In Japan, you will find the Cat Cafe where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.
- Many Hot springs and public bathhouses in Japan ban customers with tattoos from entering.
- In Japan raised floors to help indicate when to take off shoes or slippers.
- “Namahage” is a Japanese custom, in which men dress up as demons and scare the living daylights out of children for being guilty of laziness or bad behavior, all while adults smile and laugh when their children scream and cry in terror.
- There exists a sword, a jewel, and a mirror that are all over 1,000 years old and extremely sacred to Japan. They are so important that their locations are theorized, but not confirmed. Their last sighting was in 1993 during Emperor Akihito’s enthronement, but even then they were wrapped in packages.
- *The fact* is Japanese universities hold memorial services for animals that die in laboratory testing.
- Japan has a social phenomenon known as Hikikomori where people completely isolate themselves from society. It is estimated that there are 3 million Hikikomoris in Japan.
- *The amazing fact* is that Japan alone produces 60 % of the world's animated TV shows.
- In *fact,* there are close to 130 voice acting schools for animal voices.
- There are four different writing systems in Japan: romaji, katakana, hiragana, and kanji.

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### Japan (Part 1)
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Last updated: 2025-08-07T21:30:00.000Z
#### 60 Amazing Japan Facts that will fascinate you ( Part I )

##### Land & Geography

- The Japanese name for Japan is “Nippon” which means “sun origin”. Japan is nicknamed the “Land of the Rising Sun”.
- Japan belongs to the continent of Asia. Japan is an island nation surrounded by the Sea of Japan to the East and the Pacific Ocean to the West.
- The four main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu which comprise 97% of Japan’s total land area.
- The amazing fact is that Japan is made up of 6,852 islands.
- Capital Tokyo’s population is 13 million. It is the 2nd most expensive city to live in the world. The greater Tokyo area is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 35 million people.
- Japan suffers 1,500 earthquakes every year. Japan has more than 200 active volcanoes.
- The highest point in Japan is Mount Fuji, which stands at 3,776m (12,388ft).
- The lowest is Hachiro-gata, at 4 meters below sea level (-12 feet).
- Amazingly almost three-quarters of Japan's land is either forest or mountains and is difficult to be made into farms, industrial or residential areas.
- Siraitia grosvenorii is a fruit that is grown widely in Japan. Its extract is 300 times sweeter than sugar and is used for treating diabetes/obesity.
- There are giant hornets in Japan whose venom is potent enough to dissolve human flesh.
- There's an island in Japan called Okunoshima located in Japan's Inland Sea that's full of rabbits.
- Macaque monkeys of Japan have taught themselves to steal wallets and purses and take out the coins from them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.

##### History

- Japan has been inhabited since 30,000 B.C.
- The amazing fact is that Japan has the longest reigning monarchy in the world. The founding of Japan and the imperial line dates back to 660 BC beginning with Emperor Jimmu. Since then 124 recognized monarchs have reined. The current emperor is Emperor Akihito who has reigned since 1989.
- National Foundation Day is a national holiday celebrated on February 11th corresponding with the founding of the monarchy.
- Amazingly in Japan, there is a family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1,300 years or 46 generations.
- In feudal Japan, merchants were placed in the lowest class because unlike farmers and artisans, they didn’t actually produce anything.
- Japan is the only country in the world that has had atomic weapons used against it which were dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki by the USA during world war II which led to the defeat of Japan and the end of the war.
- The amazing fact is that during WWII, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with bubonic plague.
- Amazingly Japan and Russia still haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II due to the Kuril Islands dispute.
- The Ryukyu chain to the southwest was U.S.-occupied from 1945 to 1972, when it reverted to Japanese control.
- Seismometers along Japan’s coast detected the 2011 earthquake and they stopped all bullet trains from operating. Only one train, a test train without passengers, derailed.

##### Places / Architecture

- Tsukiji Market in Tokyo is the world’s largest fish market and the majority of fish in the world go through here.
- The Flame of Peace in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park has burned since 1964 in honor of the A-bomb victims and will be extinguished only when all nuclear weapons are removed from the world and the earth is free from any nuclear threat.
- The 16-storey Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth, and seventh floors.
- Tokyo has more neon signs than any city in the world.
- There are more than 1,600 temples in Kyoto.
- In Japan, they have an amazing indoor man made beach.

##### Politics

- There is a multi-party parliamentary democratic Constitutional monarchy in Japan where the Emperor acts effectively as the symbolic Head of state, and the Prime Minister acts as the Head of government.
- Japan's bicameral legislature is made up of a 480 seat House of Representatives, and a 242 seat House of Councillors.
- Japan has a four-tier court system, headed by the 15 member Supreme Court. The country has a European style civil law system.
- Amazingly the Japanese national anthem has only four lines.
- While Christians account for only 1% of the Japanese population, Japan has had seven Christian Prime Ministers.
- In Japan, they have something called the “Happy Monday System” where they aim to place as many state holidays as possible on Mondays in order to give those with a five-day workweek three-day weekends.

##### Legal

- In Japan, both old drivers above 75 and new drivers in the first year have to sport a caution badge on their cars!
- Japanese police often declare unsolved murders as suicides to save face and keep murder statistics artificially low.
- Late-night dancing is illegal in Japan.
- The amazing fact is that in Japan if you commit suicide by jumping in front of a Train, Rail Companies charge your family a fee. Japan Rail, in fact, routinely charges families of suicide victims a fee depending on the severity of disrupted traffic which may be up to the US $2 million as disruption fee.
- Japan has a conviction rate of more than 99%.
- In Japan, when a death order is issued to a condemned prisoner, he is informed of it only on the morning of his/her execution, and their family is not informed until afterward.
- The amazing fact is that in Japan gambling is illegal, the way they get around the law is to give out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the establishment for cash.
- In Japan, a husband can legally divorce his wife for sex neglect, but wives cannot make the same claim about their husbands.
- Although whaling is banned by the IWC, Japan still hunts whales under the premise of research. The harvested whale meat ends up in restaurants and supermarkets.

##### Economy / Finance

- The fact is that a 1 yen coin floats on water.
- Japan exports automobiles, consumer and office electronics, steel, and transportation equipment. It imports food, oil, lumber, and metal ores.
- The amazing fact is that Japan has to import 99.8% of its oil requirements to meet its daily needs.
- Japan has 5.5 million vending machines. Japanese vending machines contain batteries, beer, wine, condoms, cigarettes, comic books, hot dogs, lightbulbs, crepes, soft drinks, coffee, juice, noodles, eggs, sandwiches, and toys etc
- Japan is a world leader in robotics.
- Around 25 billion pairs of chopsticks are used in Japan each year.
- Japan’s Shinkansen high-speed rail system has never had a fatal accident in its five decades of service.
- Annual revenues from the pachinko machines in Japan are $ 300 billion which is 4 times the total profit of world-wide legal casino gambling, twice the annual turnover of Japan’s automobile industry, and equivalent to the estimated yearly profit of the global narcotics trade.

##### Corporates

- Amazingly the world’s oldest company Kongō Gumi, a construction company operated in Japan from 578 A.D. to 2006\. It was liquidated in 2006.
- Some of the most well-known companies in the world are Japanese such as Toyota, Honda, Sony, Canon, Panasonic, Toshiba, and Sharp.
- Amazingly one Japanese company, YKK or Waikeikei Gurūpu, manufactures 90% of all the zippers in the world.
- Japanese people traditionally eat KFC for Christmas dinner. KFC is so amazingly popular that customers must place their Christmas orders 2 months in advance.
- There are more than 5000 companies worldwide that are older than 200 years. More than 3000 of them are located in Japan.
- In Japan, Wakayama Railway Company employs a cat as the “Super Station Master”. She is the only female employee in a managerial position.

##### Sports

- Sumo is Japan's national sport, although baseball is also very popular.
- Younger sumo-wrestlers are traditionally required to clean and bathe the veteran sumo-wrestlers at their wrestling “stables” including all the hard-to-reach places.

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### China (Part 3)
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Last updated: 2025-08-05T21:30:00.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts About China (Part 3)

1. It's amazing that the August 2010 traffic jam near Beijing was over 100 km long and lasted for 12 days.
2. The amazing fact is that there used to be fake Apple stores in China. Even the staff were convinced that they were working for Apple.
3. Fact is by 2025, China intends to build 5 million new buildings with a total construction area of up to 400 million square meters. Of the 50,000 buildings will be skyscrapers, which will be equivalent to 10 New York cities.
4. Google offers free legal download of music in China, in partnership with the largest record labels in the world (since 2009).
5. Amazingly when McDonald’s first introduced drive-throughs to China, the concept was so foreign that many people would pick up their food through the drive-through, park their cars, and bring the food inside the restaurant to eat it.
6. Fact is there is a counterfeit egg industry in China, and one person can make approximately 1500 of them per day.
7. Chinese entrepreneurs rent out “traffic jam” stand-ins to wait in traffic for busy motorists who are whisked away by motorcyclists.
8. An amazing fact is China has a Dwarf Theme Park called “Kingdom of the Little People” that employs over 100 Chinese dwarves to sing and dance. The 13,000 acre and US$115 million parks also feature tiny dogs and tiny fruit trees.
9. Amazingly the first vending machine to sell live crabs debuted in 2010 in a subway station near Nanjing. The machine sells an average of 200 live crabs a day.
10. The amazing fact is if a Beijing resident uses his all annual income to buy a house, then on average, he can only get about 1 square meter.
11. in China, KFC has been the big winner. There are currently close to 3,200 KFC's in mainland China. It opens nearly one new KFC in mainland China every day.
12. Macau is the world’s top gambling destination, after overtaking Las Vegas in total gaming revenues in 2007\. Gambling has been legal in Macau, known as the “Monte Carlo of the Orient” since 1847, and generates over 40% of Macau’s GDP.
13. Amazingly a museum in Hebei Provence, China, was shut down earlier this year after the majority of its 40,000 artifacts and antiques were discovered to be faked.
14. China’s military is training 10,000 pigeons as part of a “reserve pigeon army” to serve as a back-up communication system. Messenger pigeons have been used in China for more than a thousand years.
15. During the 2008 Olympics, China employed 30 airplanes, 4,000 rocket launchers, and 7,000 anti-aircraft guns to stop the rain by shooting various chemicals into any threatening clouds to shrink rain drops before they reached the stadium.
16. China shut down nearby factories and ordered half the cars off the road to reduce pollution during the 2008 Olympics.
17. The amazing fact is there´s a hugely popular reality show in China that interviews death row prisoners moments before their execution.
18. All Disney characters were banned in China for 40 years.
19. The average Chinese manufacturing worker makes less than the US $1 an hour.
20. China is the world’s number one exporter after taking the top spot from Germany in 2009.
21. Amazingly China already consumes twice as much steel as the US, Europe, and Japan combined.
22. China is the world’s largest steel producer producing about 600 million metric tons of crude steel, which represents 47% of the world’s total output.
23. China consumes 53% of the world’s cement, 48% of the iron ore, and 47% coal.
24. China is home to 20 of the world’s 30 most polluted cities.
25. China is the world’s leader in wind power, after topping the U.S. in total installed wind capacity in 2010\. Today, China accounts for 22% of the world’s total wind power capacity.
26. Eighty percent, of the world's toys, are made in China. 85 percent of artificial Christmas trees are also made in China.
27. The amazing fact is China produces 95% of the world’s rare earth metals, which are critical in the manufacture of many high-tech products ranging from smartphones to smart bombs.
28. China is also the world’s leading producer of aluminum, antimony, barite, coal, graphite, lead, tin, tungsten, and zinc.
29. 70% of the world’s umbrellas are made in China.
30. 60% of the world’s buttons are made in China.
31. 72% of U.S. shoes were made in China.
32. 50% of U.S. kitchen appliances are made in China.
33. 1 in every 3 socks you have was made in the district of Datang in Zhuji, China, now known as "Sock City".
34. China has planted the biggest artificial forest in the world to stop the spread of the Gobi desert and plans to expand it to 2,800 miles by 2074.
35. China set up state-sanctioned protest zones for the 2008 Olympics and then arrested people who applied to use them.
36. China's economy grew 7 times as fast as America's in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
37. China is the world’s top producer of agricultural products by value, with a total production of about US$540 billion.
38. China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of rice.
39. China is the world’s largest apple producer followed by the U.S. in second place and the world’s leading exporter of apple juice.
40. The amazing fact is in 2008, China had only 649 km of high-speed railway. In three years, it now has nearly 8,400 km, which is four times as much as the next-largest network (Japan’s).
41. 66% of the world’s 130 million bicycles made are in China.
42. There are about 120 million electric bicycles in China up from a few thousand in the 1990s.
43. Amazingly about 90% of the over 20 million electric bikes sold worldwide per year are in China. Chinese electric bikes can travel up to 30 miles an hour with a 50-mile range.
44. China is now the world’s largest automobile producer and consumer. In 2010, China overtook the U.S. as the world’s largest auto market, ending more than a century of American dominance.
45. In 2010, China also overtook Japan as the world’s top automaker and Germany as the world’s largest auto exporter.
46. Amazingly breathing the air in Beijing has the same health risks as smoking 21 cigarettes a day.
47. China owns over 25% of U.S. Treasury Bonds and is the largest creditor in the world holding more than $900 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds.
48. China is responsible for 77% of pirated goods seized in the United States, with Hong Kong accountable for another 7%.
49. About 86 % of all the pirated goods in the world originate in China.
50. The amazing fact is China has built a new skyscraper every five days, more than 30 airports, metros in 25 cities, the three longest bridges in the world, more than 6,000 miles of high-speed railway lines, and 26,000 miles of motorway, all in 5 years.

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### China (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2025-08-03T21:30:00.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts About China (Part 2)

1. Watermelon is considered a good gift to give a host in China.
2. Amazingly in China, finishing all the food in a meal is considered to be rude since it means the host didn't provide enough food.
3. In 1946, during a land survey of Sichuan province in China, a forester encountered a tree he had never seen before, so he took a sample. He came to find it was as yet unknown to science and only existing as a fossil. It came to be known as the ‘Dawn Redwood’.
4. More bird species live in China than in any other place in the world.
5. An amazing 10,000 cats are eaten per day just in China’s Guangdong province alone.
6. Amazingly China has a 38% savings rate, one of the highest in the world followed by India which has a 35% saving rate.
7. The high-speed train in Shanghai goes 268 miles per hour (431 kilometers per hour), making it the fastest train in the world. China also possesses the world’s longest high-speed rail network over 9,676 km of service routes.
8. Amazingly 73% of the world's beer is consumed in China.
9. China surpassed Europe as the world’s biggest beer market. The amazing fact is that in the space of a couple of decades the country has gone from barely touching a drop to become the world’s biggest beer market. Beer drinking in China is growing fast, by nearly 10% a year.
10. Starbucks dominates the Chinese market with around 70% percent market share becoming Starbucks’ second-largest market behind the U.S.
11. China is the world’s largest cotton producer and importer producing almost 30% of the world’s total output.
12. Amazingly 98% of China’s banking assets are state-owned.
13. China’s state-owned China Mobile is the world’s biggest mobile phone operator, with a 70% share of the domestic market.
14. Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.
15. Elgoog.com (Google backward) has a huge following in China because good search terms are printed in reverse, so users are able to perform Google searches without detection by the Chinese government’s search filters.
16. It's amazing that the Chinese government employs an estimated 30,000 workers as “Internet police” to monitor Internet traffic, as well as instant messaging services, text messages, and online chat rooms.
17. Amazingly qq.com, a popular social networking and instant messaging platform in China have more than 500 million active IM accounts alone.
18. It's amazing that no Chinese citizen has won a scientific Nobel Prize.
19. China has surpassed the U.S. as a leader in patent filings.
20. Since 1978, China’s economy has consistently doubled in size every eight years.
21. China will have an estimated 221 cities with a population of a million or more by 2025\. Today, Europe only has 35 such cities.
22. Out of Shenzhen’s population of more than 14 million people, amazingly only 2.5 million are residents.
23. Chinese consume 55,000 cigarettes every second. One of every three cigarettes consumed around the world is smoked in China.
24. Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400 billion are fake, made mostly in illegal cigarette factories in caves below a city in China, often containing 80 percent more nicotine, 130 percent more carbon monoxide, and occasionally insect eggs.
25. Suicides in China account for 26% of all suicides worldwide. The amazing fact is that China is the only country in the world where more women commit suicide than men, according to World Health Organization statistics. Women in China have a 25% higher rate than men.
26. The Chinese don’t give gifts as wedding presents. Instead, they give a hong bao (“red envelope”) with cash. The amount of money is chosen to avoid the unlucky number four and favor the lucky numbers 8 and 9.
27. China was closed to foreign tourism between 1949 and 1974 during the rule of Mao Zedong. Deng Xiaoping decided to develop China’s tourism in the late 1970s as a way of earning foreign exchange.
28. The amazing Terracotta Army was accidentally uncovered by farmers digging a well near Xi’an in 1974 revealing one of the world’s most spectacular architectural finds. Archeologists eventually unearthed an entire Terracotta Army of some 7,000 warriors, chariots, and horses, which were buried with the emperor in a vast underground mausoleum to protect him in the afterlife. To keep the location secret, thousands of workers were killed and buried after construction was completed.
29. Tiananmen Square in Beijing is the largest city square in the world, measuring 440,000 sq meters (880m by 500m).
30. The amazing fact is that China has more pigs than the next 43 pork-producing countries combined. The pig population is about half a billion. On an average day in China, 1.7 million pigs are consumed.
31. Amazingly China has 64 million vacant homes, including some entire ghost cities that are empty.
32. China tried to build a city that was a replica of Paris, right down to the replica Eiffel Tower, but it’s now a ghost town.
33. In 2005, Chinese billionaire Alex Hu Guirong built the world’s largest shopping mall in Dongguan, China. At seven million square feet, the New South China Mall had room for up to 2,350 shops. The amazing fact is that from 2005 until the present, only about one percent of the mall has ever been used ever. 99 % area is gathering dust under cloth covers.
34. It's amazing that there are already more Christians in China (About 55 million) than in Italy.
35. When you buy Chinese stocks, you are basically financing the Chinese government as eight of Shanghai's top ten stocks are government-owned.
36. For the first time in over 100 years, in 2008, China became the world's biggest producer of gold. South Africa held the title of the world's biggest gold producer for about a century.
37. China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.
38. The giant panda is considered a Chinese national treasure. Just over 1,000 survive in the wild all of them in the bamboo forests of Sichuan Province. A panda’s entire mating season lasts only about two or three days. Once they have mated, females chase the males out of their territory and raise their cubs on their own.
39. The amazing fact is all pandas in the world are on loan from China, and when a baby Panda is born, by agreement, it is sent back to China to help expand the gene pool.
40. China is said to suffer from the worst brain drain in the world. 7 out of 10 students who enroll overseas never move back to live in China.
41. The number one hobby in China is stamp collecting.
42. White, rather than black, is the Chinese color for mourning and funerals.
43. China executes more than 4 times as many convicts as the rest of the world combined. Many executions are done on the road using vehicles called the death vans designed by Jinguan Motors wherein lethal injections are given on-site.
44. Time Travel depictions in films and TV are banned in China.
45. The amazing fact is people in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
46. Chinese soldiers stick needles into their collars to keep ideal postures during military parades.
47. Students in China tie their hair to the ceiling to prevent falling asleep while studying.
48. The fact is rich people in China hire body doubles to serve their prison sentence.
49. In 2006, China slaughtered 50,000 dogs after three people died of rabies. Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot. Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the beating teams were sent in.
50. Amazingly Brad Pitt was banned from ever entering China because of his role in Seven Years in Tibet.

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### China (Part 1)
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#### 50 Amazing Facts About China (Part 1)

1. China holds the record for having the largest population in the world, with the Chinese making up an amazing one-fifth of the world’s population at 1.35 billion.
2. The total area of China is about 9.6 million square km, occupying almost one-fourth of the land of our planet amazingly equivalent to the area of entire Europe.
3. The amazing fact is that Chinese people use just around 200 family names in spite of the huge population.
4. “Wang” is the most common surname shared by about 130 million Chinese (or 10% of the population).
5. Fact is China has a border with 14 countries: Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.
6. The modern word “China” most likely derives from the name of the Qin (pronounced “chin”) dynasty. First Emperor Qin Shi Huang (260-210 B.C.) of the Qin dynasty first unified China in 221 B.C., beginning an Imperial period which would last until A.D. 1912.
7. The oldest tree in the world is China's gingko, which first appeared during the Jurassic Age some 160 million years ago.
8. It's amazing that the Chinese grew rice as long as 5000 BC. Archaeologists have found rice grains in farming tools and pots from that period.
9. The Chinese have made silk since at least 3,000 B.C. The Chinese fiercely guarded the secrets of silk-making, and amazingly anyone caught smuggling silkworm eggs or cocoons outside of China was put to death.
10. The Chinese year is based on the cycles of the moon. This is called a lunar schedule. A complete cycle of the Chinese calendar takes 60 years.
11. The Chinese calendar dates back to 2600 B.C. It is the oldest known calendar.
12. Chinese years are represented by twelve animals in a calendar, each month by one distinct animal. They believe that the animal which represents a month when you were born predicts your characteristics in real life.
13. The amazing fact is that there are 40,000 plus characters in the Chinese language which are basically logograms. Chinese students have to learn around 5,000 Chinese characters at a minimum by the time they leave school. College graduates learn as many as 10,000\. You need to know 1000 to 2,000 Chinese characters to be able to read a Chinese newspaper.
14. Chinese learn each of the characters of their language by recognizing and memorizing its shape. Amazingly you can never pronounce a Chinese word letter by letter, unlike English languages.
15. The ice cream was invented in China around 2000 BC when the Chinese packed a soft milk and rice mixture in the snow. Marco Polo is rumored to have taken the recipe along with the recipe for noodles back with him to Europe.
16. The Great Wall of China was built amazingly over about 2000 years by several emperors, starting in BC 475, to protect the people from their enemies. The Wall is considered one of the seven wonders of the world.
17. The Great Wall of China snakes through the mountains of China for 4,500 miles. The Great Wall is 25 feet tall and 15-30 feet wide. Records show that more than 300,000 soldiers and 500,000 commoners worked to build it. In fact, rice flour was used to strengthen some bricks that make up the Great Wall of China.
18. By the fourth century B.C., the Chinese were drilling for natural gas and using it as a heat source, preceding Western natural gas drilling by about 2,300 years.
19. The world’s oldest surviving book is Chinese, a Buddhist text called the Diamond Sutra, which bears the date 868 AD. The book was discovered in 1907 in a walled-up cave in Dunhuang (north-west China) and is on display at the British Library.
20. The Chinese invented eyeglasses over 1,000 years ago. By the time Marco Polo arrived in China around 1270, eyeglasses were widely used in the Chinese upper class.
21. The Chinese invented the hot air balloon during the Three Kingdoms era (220-80 AD). The unmanned balloons known as Kongming lanterns were airborne lanterns that were used for military signaling.
22. Suspension bridges were invented in China in 25 B.C., 1800 years before such bridges were known in the West.
23. The Chinese were the first to invent the waterwheel to harness water in A.D. 31, 1200 years before the Europeans. China was also the first country in the world to use an iron plow. Europe didn’t begin using the iron plow until the 17th century.
24. Around 300 A.D., during the Qin Dynasty in China, government officials would use fingerprint analysis at a crime scene to help identify potential perpetrators, as they knew that no two people have identical fingerprints.
25. The mechanical clock was a Chinese invention, although the earliest model was an enormous 30 feet high. Su Song built the first mechanical clock between A.D 1088 and 1092\. It could tell the time of the day and accurate horoscopes could be determined.
26. The Chinese invented paper, the compass, gunpowder, and the science of printing.
27. Toilet paper was invented in China in the late 1300s. Amazingly it was meant for emperors only.
28. It was customary for wealthy men and women in the late empire to grow the nails of their little fingers extremely long as a sign of their rank. They often wore decorative gold and silver nail guards to protect their nails
29. Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility as other methods were not permitted. This method left no mark and recovery was quick.
30. Forbidden City in Beijing is the world's biggest ancient palace. It has the largest collection of ancient wooden structures in the world. It also has a million heritage articles. Amazingly forbidden city is spread over 180 acres and has 9,999 rooms and 980 buildings. It was completed from 1406 to 1420 A.D.
31. The Chinese did not have a word for the sport until the early nineteenth century. Amazingly there were no stadiums built.
32. Pencils are yellow because, in the 1890′s, the world’s best pencil graphite came from China. In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty, so American pencil manufacturers started painting their pencils yellow to indicate they contained high-quality Chinese graphite.
33. The bicycle was introduced into China around 1891 by two American travelers named Allen and Sachtleben. The bicycle is now the primary transportation for millions of Chinese.
34. The amazing fact is that during WWII, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with bubonic plague.
35. After Mao grabbed power in China, there were so many suicides in Shanghai that people were amazingly afraid to walk near skyscrapers for the fear that anyone might land on them.
36. Two ancient cities in China were drowned in 1959 by a man-made lake and were forgotten about until they were discovered in 2001 by a tourist diving company. The cities remain intact and in good condition.
37. The amazing fact is that 100 million people in China live on less than the US $1 per day while 500 million people in China live on less than the US $2 per day.
38. Amazingly in China, the number of people living in caves is greater than the population of Australia. At least 35 million people in China live in cave homes, called yardangs because they are warm in the winter and cool in the summer and for some people more desirable than concrete homes in the city.
39. There are currently 32 million more boys than girls in China due to the one-child policy.
40. It's amazing that sunrise in the city of Kashgar/Zhongguo (in Western China) officially occurs as late as 10:17 am because the country joined its five time zones into a single one on Beijing time.
41. The Three Gorges Hydroelectric Dam spans the Yangtze River and is the largest dam in the world. The amazing fact is that it is five times larger and generates 20 times more power than the Hoover Dam.
42. China’s Grand Canal is the world’s oldest and longest canal at 1,114 miles (1,795 km) long with 24 locks and around 60 bridges.
43. Red is considered a lucky color in China. At one-time wedding dresses were red. New Year's banners, clothing, and lucky money envelopes are still red.
44. The number 4 is the unluckiest Chinese number because it sounds like the word for “death”. Amazingly many buildings in China don’t have the 4th floor; some skip any floors with the number, such as 14, 24, 34, and all 40–49 floors.
45. The number 8 is the luckiest Chinese number because it sounds like the word for “wealth”. 88 is considered particularly lucky because it symbolized the “double happiness” characters.
46. Considering the eight as a lucky number the government scheduled the 2008 Olympics to begin on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08 PM.
47. The abacus is an ancient counting machine. It is used in schools, to learn math. Many shopkeepers still use it for calculations. It can make very complex calculations.
48. "Have you eaten yet?" is a typical Chinese greeting, akin to "How are you doing?".
49. If your main entrance is faced to the south, then the Chinese think that it should bring good luck to you.
50. The amazing fact is that there's a bridge between mainland China and Macau, where cars switch from left to right-hand drive and vice versa.

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### Engrossing Facts
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#### 15 Engrossing Facts

1. A man in Japan noticed his food going missing. He set up a webcam and amazingly found that a woman had been living in his closet for a year.
2. At 4400 words, the United States has in fact the oldest and shortest written Constitution of any major government in the world.
3. An engrossing Fact is The British king or queen has two birthdays: their real birth date and one assigned to them during the summer, to ensure better weather for the parade.
4. 14 of the world’s 25 largest stadiums belong to American college football teams.
5. Thai prisoners are released early if they take part in special kickboxing matches against foreigners.
6. Amazingly mobile phones often have two completely different phone numbers attached to them, which are both usable. One is the one you think your number is and the other is called a Mobile Identification Number (MIN), a number your carrier in fact uses to identify you.
7. A 120-meter-deep, a 17th-Century salt mine in Romania has been converted into the world’s largest salt mining museum and amusement park, complete with a Ferris wheel, an amphitheater, light shows on the rock walls and boat rides on a subterranean lake.
8. 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that is 1 mile thick.
9. Upon their return to Earth, the Apollo 11 crew members were quarantined in a special facility for 21 days just to be sure they didn’t bring back any germs from the moon.
10. The engrossing Fact is The human heart can now be permanently replaced with an artificial turbine created by Scientists at the Texas Heart Institute. It causes a constant flow of blood rather than a pulse.
11. An engrossing Fact is The Pillars of Creation, a nebula 7,000 light-years away, was destroyed by a supernova 6,000 years ago. In a thousand years, we will see it destroyed as it takes 7,000 years for the light to reach Earth.
12. Congressional approval for the first Gulf War was affected by the testimony of a Kuwaiti nurse, who claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. This never happened. The nurse was not a nurse. She was coached by a PR firm.
13. For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
14. Costa Rica abolished its military and redirected the military budget toward healthcare, education, and environmental protection over 65 years ago.
15. An engrossing Fact is There is an underwater island nearly Sicily where divers have planted a flag in for when it breaches to the surface they can claim it.

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### Penguin
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#### 60 Amazing Fascinating Facts About Penguin

1. Penguins are one of about 40 species of flightless birds. Most flightless birds live in the Southern Hemisphere.
2. The earliest known penguin fossil is the Waimanu manneringi, which dates from about 60 million years ago. The fossil was discovered in Antarctica in 1980.
3. There are 18 species of penguin in the world.
4. Out of 18 species, 13 species are either threatened or endangered, with some on the brink of extinction.
5. The Erect crested Penguin (Eudyptes sclateri) has lost approximately 70% of its population over the last 20 years.
6. The Galapagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) has lost over 50% since the 1970s.
7. The most common threats to all penguin survival are pollution, loss of habitat by human encroachment, commercial fishing, oil dumping, and global warming.
8. The Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) is named after Ferdinand Magellan, who first saw them in 1520\. Oil spills kill approximately 40,000 of them off the coast of Argentina every year.
9. All penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere. Most penguins are found in South Africa, New Zealand, Chili, Antarctica, Argentina, and Australia.
10. Only two species, the Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae) and the Emperor Penguins, live on the frozen land of Antarctica.
11. *Amazingly* penguins are not found in the Northern Hemisphere.
12. A wild penguin typically lives between 15 to 20 years, spending approximately 75% of their lives in the water.
13. A group of young penguin chicks is called a “crèche.” A group of penguins in the water is called a “raft.” A group of penguins on land is called a “waddle.”
14. Penguin nesting areas are called “rookeries” and may contain thousands of pairs of birds.
15. The emperor penguin is the largest of the penguin species standing up to 4 feet and can weigh up to 45 Kg when mature.
16. Little Fairy Penguins (Eudyptula minor) are the smallest of all the penguins. They stand 16 inches high and weigh just 1 Kg. They live in the warmer waters around Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand.
17. King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) are second in size only to Emperors. A King is almost 3 feet tall and can weigh nearly 16 Kg. Kings don’t waddle the way most penguins do. Instead, they run fairly quickly on their feet.
18. Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) can grow up to 30 inches tall and weigh up to 6 kg. They have a unique colorful orange bill, and a big tail.
19. The most rare penguin in the world is the Yellow-eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) have yellow cat-like eyes with only around 5,000 living in the wild. They live along the southeastern coast of New Zealand and nearby islands.
20. Penguins’ unique coloring is called counter shading. To predators looking down from above, the penguins’ black backs help them blend into the dark ocean. To predators looking up from underwater, the penguin’s white belly blends in against the light sky and snow.
21. *Amazingly* penguins only have one mate their entire life and “propose” by giving their mate a pebble.
22. Most penguin species breed during the spring and summer. Egg incubation varies from 1 month and 67 days, depending on the species.
23. Out of all the penguin and bird species, the Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the only penguin breeding during the Antarctic winter. Air temperatures may reach -40° F (-40° C) and wind speeds may reach 89 mph (144 km/hr).
24. Most penguin species lay two eggs. However, Emperor and King Penguins, the two largest species, build no nest at all and lay just a single egg.
25. Even though penguins spend much of their lives at sea, they all return to land to lay eggs.
26. They warm their eggs on their feet and cover it with a flap of skin called a “brood pouch” during the incubation period.”
27. *The amazing fact* is that a father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more during the incubation period without eating during which it loses a lot of weight.
28. When penguin chicks hatch, they are not waterproof, so they must stay out of the ocean. They depend on their parents to bring them food and to keep them warm until waterproof feather replace their delicate coats.
29. Emperor Penguins have the widest variety of vocalizations of all penguins. Scientists believe this is because they have no fixed nest site and must rely on vocal calls alone to find their chicks and mate.
30. A penguin’s normal body temperature is approximately 100° F (38° C).
31. Penguins are not sexually dimorphic, meaning male and female penguins look alike and are difficult to differentiate.
32. Chinstrap Penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) get their name from a thin black line that circles under their chin. Chinstrap Penguin colonies may reach up to one million penguins. They are among the boldest and most aggressive of all penguins.
33. Chinstrap penguins are the most populous penguins with a total population of over 13 million. They live on icebergs off the coast of Antarctica.
34. Chinstrap Penguin’s exceptionally loud cries have earned them the nickname “Stonecracker” penguins.
35. *Amazingly* larger penguins, such as Emperor Penguins, can dive as far as 1900 feet for as long as 22 minutes, making it the deepest-diving non-flying bird and the longest submerged bird. It has solid bones rather than air-filled bones, which eliminates the risk of barotrauma. Their heart rate slows to 15-20 beats per minute and non-essential organs shut down during long dives.
36. Penguins often slide on their tummies over ice and snow. This is called tobogganing. It is an efficient way to travel as Penguins travel faster by tobogganing than by running.
37. Penguins routinely dive to depths between 300 and 500 feet. They can stay under water for 20 minutes before coming to the surface to breathe.
38. Penguins are carnivores that catch-all their food live in the sea. They eat mostly fish and squid. They also eat crustaceans, such as crabs, shrimp, and krill. A large penguin can collect up to 30 fish in one dive.
39. *Amazingly* penguins do not have teeth. Instead, they use their beak to grab and hold wiggling prey. They have spines on the roof of their beak pointing backward to help them get a good grip. Penguins even have spines on their tongues.
40. Penguins swallow pebbles and stones as well as their food possibly to grind up and digest their food. The stones may also add enough extra weight to help penguins dive deeper.
41. Most penguins can swim 5 to 6 miles per hour, and some can have bursts of speed of up to 16 mph. They can walk between 1.7 mph and 2.4 mph.
42. Penguins’ eyes work better underwater than they do in air. Scientists believe penguins are extremely short-sighted on land.
43. When Adelie penguins hop off the ice and into the ocean, they speed *amazingly* from 0 to 16 mph in less than one second. This protects them from leopard seals that swim at an average speed of 4 mph.
44. The fastest underwater swimming bird is the Gentoo Penguin, able to swim up to 22 mph (36 km/h).
45. In 2012, scientists discovered that a primary reason penguins can swim so fast is that they have a special “bubble boost.” When penguins fluff their feathers, they release bubbles that reduce the density of the water around them. The bubbles act as lubrication that decreases water viscosity and helps to increase speed.
46. *Amazingly* the penguin is the only bird that can swim but cannot fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.
47. Penguins swim so fast that they can leap to heights as high as 7 feet (2 meters) above water. The technique they use to cut through waves like dolphins or porpoises is called “porpoising.”
48. *The fact* is penguins cannot walk backward. They are too top-heavy and their feet are too small to support their weight while walking backward.
49. *Amazingly* penguins are able to drink salt water due to the presence of a special supraorbital gland within their bodies that filters excess salt from their bloodstream allowing them to live around salt water bodies and survive.
50. Penguins’ feathers are packed together four times as densely as flying birds’ (About 70 per square inch), to keep water out and to trap a layer of air next to their skin.
51. The Emperor Penguin has it even denser (About 100 feathers per square inch). It is this, rather than their thin layer of blubber, which keeps them warm, rather like a Thermos flask.
52. Penguins spend several hours a day caring for their feathers to keep them waterproof. For extra protection, penguins spread oil on their feathers. The oil comes from a special gland near their tail feathers.
53. Penguins molt or lose their feathers, once a year. They always molt on land or ice and until they grow new waterproof coats, they are unable to go into the water. Molting may take weeks, and most penguins lose about half their body weight during this time.
54. *Amazingly* penguins’ eyes work better underwater than they do in the air, giving them superior eyesight to spot prey while hunting, even in cloudy, dark, or murky water.
55. Penguins are highly social, colonial birds that form breeding colonies numbering in the tens of thousands. They have used the same nesting grounds for thousands of years.
56. Some penguin colonies in Antarctica are huge and can contain 20 million or more penguins.
57. *Amazingly* each penguin has a distinct call, which allows individual penguins to find their mates and chicks even in the largest groups.
58. Penguins exhibit remarkable community features, during the cold Antarctic winters where temperatures can go as low as -60 Celsius (-140 degrees Fahrenheit). Penguins have been observed huddling in groups for warmth. *Amazingly* one penguin stands in the middle while the others crowd around it, once it is warm, it moves to the outside and a new penguin takes its place.
59. Penguins typically are not afraid of humans.
60. More than 30 countries have featured the Emperor Penguin on their stamps.

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### Galaxy
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#### 40 *Amazing* Mind-Boggling *Facts* About Galaxy | *Amazing Facts 4U*

1. A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust.
2. *Amazingly* there are probably more than 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
3. There are about 24 galaxies in the observable universe for every single person alive on earth.
4. Supernovae explode on an average once every 100 years in a galaxy. Assuming there are 170 billion galaxies in the universe, there are 53 supernovae exploding every single second.
5. The last time a star went supernova in our milky way galaxy was documented in 1604 and we are overdue for another one.
6. Galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million stars to giants each orbiting their galaxy’s own center of mass.
7. *Amazingly* the largest galaxies contain a million, million stars.
8. The Milky Way is what’s known as a barred spiral galaxy , it’s shaped like a spiral with a straight bar across its centre.
9. About two-thirds of the galaxies in the known universe are spirals, and about two-thirds of the spiral galaxies are barred, making it one of the most common types of galaxies.
10. Milky Way consist of a flat disk with a bulging centre and surrounding spiral arms such as our Milky Way Galaxy.
11. Scientists attribute The Milky Way’s current spiral arm structure to it consuming a dwarf galaxy over 2 billion years ago.
12. It is *amazing* 100,000 light years across and 6000 light years thick at the central bulge. We see the plane of the Galaxy as a band of light stretching across the night sky.
13. The Milky Way contains about 200 billion stars.
14. The Milky Way has two smaller spurs , one of which is called an Orion arm which houses our Sun and the Solar system.
15. If you gaze out into the night sky with a telescope, and see beyond what’s visible to the naked eye, you could see a lot of “stars” that are actually not stars but galaxies.
16. There’s a super massive black hole at its heart of most of the galaxies including our milky way.
17. Our own galaxy, The Milky Way has other smaller galaxies known satellites galaxies that orbit around it.
18. These interstellar objects that are smaller than galaxies have been named dwarf galaxies that have several billion stars and there are even smaller objects called hobbit galaxies.
19. Among them dwarf galaxy called Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy 42,000 light years away from the galactic centre.
20. The Milky Way is currently in the middle of absorbing another dwarf galaxy, the Sagittarius Elliptical Galaxy.
21. A dwarf galaxy named Segue 2 is the least massive galaxy in the known Universe, located 114,000 light-years away. The galaxy consists of just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them together
22. Even though we don't feel it , Our entire local group of galaxies is moving at about one million miles per hour toward another galaxy group called the Virgo Cluster. The Milky Way can be seen to be just a small part of a large grouping of galaxies 150 million light years in diameter called the Virgo Super cluster.
23. Our local group of Galaxies have 30 members of which largest is Andromeda (About 260,000 light years) followed by Milky Way (About 100,000 light years). Andromeda has almost 1 trillion stars.
24. Our entire solar system is orbiting the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. It takes *amazing* 230 million years for each rotation. In other words, we’ve made about a quarter of a single orbit since the dinosaurs died.
25. *Amazing fact* is we’re actually travelling at about 828,000 kilometres (515,000 miles) per hour relative to the centre of the Milky Way. That speed would take you around the Earth in just over three minutes.
26. The Earth and our solar system are currently travelling through in an area with just 5% of the average density of the Milky Way Galaxy. It was probably blasted clear by a supernova 300,000 years ago.
27. Each time the Sun makes it all the way around the Milky Way, it’s known as the galactic year, or cosmic year. It’s estimated that there have been only 18 cosmic years in the history of the Solar system.
28. Scientists have found a star, now known as S2 that is orbiting a super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy at speeds exceeding 11 million mph.
29. *Amazingly* we can only see 10 % of the matter. Rest of the matter is called dark matter which is not visible yet form the rest 90 % mass about which we know little.
30. *Amazing Fact* is that you can only see 0.000003% percent of Milky Way with our naked eyes.
31. *Fact* is the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are approaching each other and will merge eventually. They are closing in at 200 km per second which is in fact a very small cosmic distance. They will merge in 5 billion years. Then earth will be a dead planet too hot to be inhabited.
32. Andromeda (M31) is just one of the 10 galaxies which is barely visible being the most distant object visible with naked eye in the universe at the constellation of Andromeda.
33. The visible size of the Andromeda galaxy is over 4 times that of our Moon when seen from earth.
34. Andromeda spiral galaxy is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way at *amazing* 2.5 million light years . When the photons of light that hit your eyes began their journey, there were no human beings. You are seeing an almost inconceivable 2.5 million years back.
35. Amazing fact is that light entering our eyes from the top half of the Andromeda Galaxy is approx. 250,000 years older than the bottom half.
36. Recently astronomers spotted the oldest and the most distant galaxy ever observed using the Hubble Telescope which is 30 billion light years away. Amazing thing to note is that the whole universe is just 13.8 billion years old and the astronomers are seeing the galaxy as it was approximately 13.1 billion years ago. It is 30 billion light years away from earth due to the rapid expansion of the universe.
37. One of the galaxy has been named “Death Star Galaxy” because it is shooting an energetic blast of energy from its super massive black hole at its companion galaxy and thereby destroying it.
38. Due to the increasing speed with which all known galaxies are drifting further away from each other, in a few billion years future generations anywhere in the universe will be unable to see any galaxy but their own on a clear sky.
39. Quasars emit more energy than thousands of times the entire output of our galaxy.
40. South African and Swedish scientists discovered that dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way for orientation. They are the first animals proven to use our galaxy for navigation.

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### Fascinating Facts
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#### 15 Fascinating Facts

1. Mansa Musa (1280-1337) emperor of the Malian Empire of Mali West Africa in its golden years between 1312 and 1337 A.D. became one of the most powerful and wealthiest leaders of his time. Musa’s empire touched the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the Niger River in the east. It was thought to be the world’s largest depository of salt and gold. Most noted for his amazing 3,000 miles, a nine-month pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 with a caravan of 60,000 porters in a caravan of 80 camels, each carrying 100-300 pounds of gold including 12,000 servants, all dressed in brocade and Persian silk. Mansa Musa himself rode on horseback, and preceding him were 500 servants, each carrying four-foot-long shining golden staffs weighing about six pounds. His senior wife accompanied him with 500 maids. He gave away so much gold to the poor and spent so much on souvenirs that he caused super inflation and devalued the metal for the next decade in the middle east. In fact, according to a recent inflation-adjusted list, Mansa Musa was worth $400 billion, which places him as the No. 1 richest person in history, ahead of the Rothschild family ($350 billion), John D. Rockefeller ($340 billion), and Henry Ford ($199 billion).
2. Andre-Francois Raffray, a lawyer in France sought out a 90-year-old lady, who agreed to give him her apartment if he paid her $500 each month for the rest of her life. Amazingly she went on to become the oldest living person ever, living for another 30 years and even outliving the lawyer who by then had paid her $180,000, which was twice the value of the apartment.
3. During the Ahom Dynasty (1228–1826) in Assam, India, claimants to the throne had to be physically unblemished which meant that threats to the throne could be in fact removed by merely slitting the ear of an ambitious prince.
4. A budgie named Puck is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as “The bird with the largest vocabulary in the world”. He has a vocabulary of 1728 words. The puck just doesn’t mimic, he amazingly often creates his own phrases and sentences.
5. A man named Wally Wallington built a Stonehenge-like structure using no modern technology to prove there was nothing paranormal about it. He is now working on a replica of Stonehenge using only simple machines.
6. Mongols had rules against spilling noble blood over the ground. Instead, they used loopholes like making them bend backward until the backbone snapped, pouring molten silver into eyes and ears, and rolling up in a rug, and trampled to death by the Mongol cavalry.
7. A fascinating Fact is that aboriginals of Australia in their “coming of age” ritual cut a “birth control” hole in the base of the genital organs and insert a splinter in to keep it from closing. Urine and semen come out of the hole unless this sub-incision is plugged with a finger.
8. In 1954, a flight Ernest Hemingway was on crash-landed in Africa. He and his companions were rescued and put in another plane, which burst into flames on the runway. Finding the door jammed, he used his head as a battering ram, butted the door twice, and got out.
9. A fascinating Fact is that Riot control agents (e.g. pepper sprays) are considered chemical weapons and are in fact forbidden in warfare.
10. During WWII, a German and British airplane shot each other down in Norway, and the crew met and then helped each other survive. Two of them then visited each other several years after the war was over as friends.
11. The “jump” you sometimes get while falling asleep is known as hypnic myoclonus and as much as 70 percent of people worldwide experience this.
12. In the city of Yiwu in eastern China, people were confused about how a Chinese couple managed to run a busy restaurant 21 hours a day without getting tired. Locals named them “robot couple restaurant”. Amazingly it turned out that the restaurant was run by two couples, both the men and women were identical twins.
13. If the Native Americans really did sell Manhattan to the Europeans for $16 in the 1600s and if they had invested that $16 at annual interest rates of 8%, today that $16 would have been worth enough for them to buy back all of Manhattan and still have $222 Trillion dollars left over.
14. Speed is now so important in financial trading that a new $300 million transatlantic cable was laid down in order to just shave 5 milliseconds off communications between New York and London.
15. Fascinating Fact is that In 2009, Stephen Colbert won a NASA competition to have a module of the ISS named after him, but NASA opted to name it ‘Tranquility’ instead. They did, however, name a treadmill on the ISS after him. It is called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.)

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### Captivating Facts
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#### 15 Captivating Facts

1. Astronomers have discovered a planet where it amazingly rains glass (silicate) sideways, in howling 7,000 km per hour winds. This gives the planet a blue hue. It is 63 light-years from us.
2. There is a temple for a motorbike in Rajasthan, India.
3. The word “juggernaut” comes from a sacrificial procession during the 1600s in parts of India. In this ritual, devotees would allow themselves to be crushed under the wheels of a “huge wagon bearing an image of the god Krishna.” Coincidentally, one of the names for Krishna is “Juggernaut (Jagannath).”
4. Christopher Columbus, on the way to the New World, was stranded in Jamaica in 1503 A.D. Knowing that he was wearing out his welcome with the natives and that a lunar eclipse was near, Columbus warned the natives that moon would vanish if they did not continue to feed him and his sailors.
5. Captivating fact is that Peacock feathers are actually brown, but have microscopic structures that interfere with light that make the bright iridescence.
6. World's oldest creature that ever lived is revealed to be 507-year-old shellfish called Ming dredged from the North Atlantic. Unfortunately scientists accidently killed it by opening it’s shell for analysis in 2006 not knowing the long life of the Ming. Scientists initially thought it to be 405 years old but following painstaking analysis, experts from Bangor University reckon the animal was born in 1499, making it 507 when it was found in 2006\. It has in fact been confirmed as the oldest animal that ever lived. The findings mean the mollusc was born seven years after Columbus discovered America. Ming was named after the dynasty thought to be ruling China at the time of its birth.
7. During one of his innumerable Presidential affairs, John F. Kennedy tore a groin muscle and had to wear a stiff shoulder-to-groin brace that prevented the reflexive ducking, which might have saved him from the second fatal bullet.
8. In 1970, due to a wheat production quota dispute between a Farming family in west Australia and the Government, the family declared their land to be independent from Australia and created a legal micro-nation called the Principality of Hutt River, which exists till today.
9. Captivating Fact is that since 1934, there have only been two voice actors to voice Donald Duck. Clarence Nash (1934 – 1985) and Tony Anselmo (1985 – present).
10. The 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, famous for the construction and unveiling of the Eiffel Tower, had an amazing “Negro Zoo” with 400 black people in cages as one of the attractions.
11. Some orthodox Jews in the New York use caffeine suppositories for fasting, because it’s not “eating” .
12. Between 1993-98, a majority of US Senators were trading stocks and beating the market by 12 percentage points a year on average. By comparison, corporate insiders beat the market by just 5 percent, and typical households underperformed by 1.4 percent.
13. Rugby was so popular in South Africa that in 1902 there was a temporary ceasefire in the Second Boer War so that a game could be played between British and Boer forces (Afrikaners).
14. It's amazing that Abraham Lincoln signed legislation that created the Secret Service hours before he was assassinated.
15. Captivating Fact is that Prem Nazir , an actor from South India holds four acting record in the Indian film industry. He was lead actor for nearly 610 movies, played opposite the same lead actress in 107 movies, was lead actor of 39 movies which were released in a single year, and was paired alongside almost 80 actresses in his career.

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### Fruits
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Last updated: 2025-06-20T09:30:36.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts About Fruits that will surprise you

1. Most of the vitamin C in fruits is found in the skin.
2. Apples, pears, cherries, almonds & peaches are actually part of the rose family.
3. There are over 7000 different types of apples grown all over the world.
4. The apple you’re eating might be a year old due to sophisticated cold storage.
5. Apples are 25 percent air.
6. Eating an apple is a more reliable method of staying awake than consuming a cup of coffee.
7. An apple tree can produce up to 400 apples a year.
8. The very first food eaten by a U.S astronaut in outer space was apple sauce.
9. Avocado has more fat content than any other fruit and also the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
10. Bananas are in danger of being completely wiped out by disease as it belongs to a single variety called Cavendish which is sterile and seedless. Most other varieties of bananas have been wiped out by fungal disease. Cavendish being resistant to it has survived so far.
11. Banana peels can be used to purify water. They are also great for polishing items such as leather shoes and silver!
12. The most widely eaten fruit in America is the banana.
13. The fruit, synsepalum dulcificum, a small red berry, contains a special protein that binds to your taste buds and produces sweet flavors when it comes into contact with acid. So if you eat something that’s really sour or spicy, it will end up tasting really sweet. It’s native to West Africa.
14. The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
15. In the past blackberry juice was used to dye cloth navy blue and indigo.
16. The bottle gourd grows in tropical areas all over the world and can actually be used as a real bottle, rather than eaten.
17. Amazingly one-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 200 apples.
18. Cherry farmers hire helicopter pilots to air dry their trees after it rains so that the cherries don’t split open.
19. The liquid inside coconuts can be used as a blood plasma substitute!
20. Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by falling coconuts.
21. The coconut is in fact the largest seed in the world.
22. Cucumber skin is its most nutritious part.
23. A cup of figs has as much calcium as a cup of milk.
24. You can have real fruit salad trees. 7 different fruits have been grown in the same tree at the same time.
25. Grapes are grown around the world more than any other fruit.
26. The amazing fact is that Grapes explode when cooked in the microwave.
27. Grapefruit can cause dangerous reactions to some medicines. It contains natural furanocoumarins that inhibit the gastric enzyme and much more of a drug is absorbed from the gut.
28. Jackfruit is the largest tree-borne fruit in the world, growing to a hefty weight of 40 Kg.
29. Kiwi contains twice as much Vitamin C as an orange.
30. Oranges are not even in the top ten list of common foods when it comes to vitamin C levels.
31. Lemons, oranges, watermelons, and tomatoes are all berries.
32. Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
33. Surprisingly thin-skinned lemons are the juiciest.
34. Lemons can kill bacteria as they have a high content of acid which makes them suitable for cleaning.
35. Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily requirement for vitamin C.
36. Oranges contain antioxidants that help fight the free radicals that damage and age our skin.
37. The juiciest, most delicious oranges in the world are grown in Florida.
38. The amazing fact is that the color orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around!
39. The fact is you can speed up the ripening of a pineapple by standing it upside down ( On the leafy end).
40. Pollia condensata is a fruit and it's the shiniest living thing in the world.
41. Amazingly 99 % of pumpkins sold in the USA are for the sole purpose of decoration.
42. Strawberries and cashews are the only fruits that have their seeds on the outside, unlike all other fruits which have their seeds inside. In fact, the seeds on a strawberry are the actual fruit itself, not the red swelling part!
43. An average strawberry has around 200 seeds.
44. It takes about 7 strawberries to equal the amount of vitamin C in one orange.
45. 4 tablespoons of ketchup have about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.
46. The World's Most Popular Fruit is the Tomato.
47. Watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.
48. As per the study, next-day soreness after hard work or exercising can be greatly reduced by prior drinking of watermelon juice which is rich in amino acid.
49. Watermelon is considered a good gift to give a host in Japan and China. They have managed to grow square watermelons in Japan which stack better.
50. Japanese Yubari cantaloupes are the most expensive fruit in the world; two melons once sold at auction for $23,500.

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### Interesting Facts
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#### 15 Interesting Facts

1. Obese people who are too big for MRI machines at hospitals are in fact sent to Sea World to image them using machines designed for zoo animals.
2. An artist named Pierre Brassau exhibited a series of paintings in 1964 to critical acclaim. However, “Pierre Brassau” was in fact a chimpanzee. Even after the hoax was revealed, a critic declared that chimp’s painting was still the best in the exhibition.
3. An Interesting Fact is that A dolphin named Pelorus Jack amazingly guided ships in New Zealand through treacherous waters until his disappearance in 1912.
4. Since 2006 pennies and nickels have had a production cost greater than their face value. This has resulted in a net loss to taxpayers of $440 million.
5. There is a breed of chicken called the Silkie, which has black skin and black bones.
6. Amazingly a book named Agrippa was released in 1992 that can only be read once before it destroys itself. It also includes a floppy disk with a 300-word poem designed to corrupt itself after a single read. It cost $450.
7. Scopolamine is also known as Devil’s Breath, is a drug that south American criminals blow into the face of victims to turn them into compliant ‘zombies,’ who will empty their bank accounts & hand over their valuables when asked, then retain no memory of any of the events later, leaving the criminals unidentified.
8. An Interesting Fact is that Coconut water is Isotonic and Sterile. For this reason, in undeveloped countries, it has been in fact injected directly into the bloodstream as a plasma substitute by IV.
9. In New York, a woman saved a little boy’s life-giving him CPR after being hit in the chest with a baseball bat. The amazing fact is that about 7 Years later, in 2006 that very same boy saved her from choking to death by giving her the Heimlich maneuver in a restaurant where he worked.
10. An Interesting Fact is that In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked 200 or worse in a game of tennis. Karsten Braasch, a German player ranked No 203 accepted the challenge. He defeated Serena, 6-1 and Venus 6-2 in a one-set each fight.
11. Adwaita was a tortoise born in 1750 before the USA existed and died at the ripe old age of 255 on March 23rd, 2006\. He was once the pet of General Robert Clive of the British East India Company until he committed suicide in 1774\. It was given to the Alipore Zoo Kolkata India in 1875\. There he spent the remainder of his life until a crack on his shell led to an infection and he passed away from liver failure. Carbon dating confirmed his age.
12. ‘Blood Feuds’ are still active in Albania. If someone kills someone, the family then kills someone from their family and it goes back and forth. The only safe haven in your home. Some feuds are decades old, and some children hardly leave their homes to stay safe.
13. An Interesting Fact is that Between 1966 and 1970, Warner Bros. and Atlantic Records, Elektra Records, Nonesuch Records, and DC Comics were all acquired by a company that ran parking lots. This company later became Warner Communications, and eventually Time Warner.
14. Amazingly a company in India makes paper products out of elephant dung.
15. Despite never having received naval training or participating in naval combat prior to the war, and constantly being outnumbered and out supplied, it was amazing that Admiral Yi Sun-Shin defeated 333 Japanese ships with only 13 Korean ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang in 1597.

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### Africa
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Last updated: 2025-06-16T09:30:16.000Z
#### 55 Facts About Africa

1. Africa is in fact the second largest and the second-most populous continent in the world. In fact, it encompasses all four hemispheres and has the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Equator passing through it.
2. The name ‘Africa’ came from ‘Afri’, the title for a group of people who dwelt in North Africa, and ‘ca’, the Roman suffix for ‘country’ or ‘land’.
3. In Latin, ‘Africa’ means ‘sunny’ and in Greek ‘Aphrike’ means ‘without cold’.
4. Africa covers 6% of the earth’s total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. There are 54 countries and 1 non-self-governing territory in Africa.
5. An amazing fact is before colonial rule, Africa comprised of 10000 distinct autonomous states with a distinct identity, language & customs.
6. All of Africa was colonized by foreign powers during the “scramble for Africa”, except Ethiopia and Liberia.
7. In the 1950s, the independence struggle in Africa gathered momentum. Libya was the first African country to declare its independence.
8. The northernmost countries of Africa (bordering the Mediterranean Sea) are generally called ‘The Middle East’ and the countries to the south are referred to as ‘Sub-Saharan Africa’.
9. Algeria is the largest country in Africa and Seychelles is the smallest.
10. Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa and Seychelles is the least populated.
11. Namibia is the least densely populated country in Africa.
12. Cairo, Egypt is the largest urban agglomeration in Africa. The second-largest in Lagos, Nigeria.
13. The largest land animal in the world, the African elephant lives in Africa.
14. The tallest animal in the world, the giraffe lives in Africa.
15. The fastest animal in the world, the cheetah lives in Africa.
16. The largest reptile in the world, the Nile crocodile lives in Africa.
17. The largest primate in the world, the gorilla lives in Africa.
18. The world’s largest wildlife migration occurs in Serengeti, Tanzania.
19. Africa has more than 25% of the total bird species in the world.
20. Lake Malawi has in fact more fish species than any other freshwater lake in the world.
21. Africa has about 3,000 protected areas which include 129 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 50 Biosphere Reserves, and 198 Marine Protected Areas.
22. Mt. Kilimanjaro (5,895m) is the highest peak in Africa. It is a dormant volcano.
23. Lake Assal (Djibouti) is the lowest point in Africa. It is 155m below sea level.
24. Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa. It is also the second-largest freshwater lake in the world.
25. Victoria Falls is the largest waterfalls in Africa. It is about 1.7 km wide and 108m high.
26. Madagascar is the largest island in Africa. It is also the fourth largest in the world.
27. The deepest river in the world is River Congo (220m). It is also the second-largest river in the world by volume of water discharged.
28. The River Nile is in fact the longest river (6,650km) in the world. It is formed by the confluence of two smaller rivers namely the Blue Nile and the White Nile.
29. Egypt is called ‘The Gift of Nile’.
30. Africa is the world’s hottest continent.
31. Africa is the second driest continent in the world (after Australia).
32. The Sahara is the world’s hottest desert and the third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic.
33. The Sahara desert covers around one-tenth of the total land area of Africa.
34. The highest temperature ever recorded in the world is in Al-Aziziyah (Libya) in the Saharan desert which was amazing (136 F or 58 C in 1922).
35. The oldest human remains (Lucy) ever discovered were in Ethiopia (dating back to amazing 200,000 years).
36. The skeleton of ‘Lucy’, a hominid (discovered in Ethiopia, 1974), and a 165-foot trail of hominid footprints (discovered in Tanzania, 1979) helped scientists mark the northeastern territory of Africa as the birthplace of humanity.
37. The Pharaonic civilization (Egypt) is in fact one of the oldest and longest-lasting civilizations in the world.
38. Arabic is the most common language spoken in Africa.
39. Amazingly more than 2,000 languages are spoken in Africa and there are at least 3,000 different ethnic groups in Africa.
40. Islam is the most followed religion in Africa, with Christianity being the second.
41. Egypt is the most popular tourist destination in Africa.
42. Africa is the world’s poorest and the most underdeveloped continent.
43. Africa is the only continent to have a large percentage of its inhabitants transported elsewhere for slave labor.
44. The Second Congo War (1998 – 2006) is the deadliest worldwide conflict (in terms of death toll) since World War II. It is also considered the largest war in African history.
45. The amazing fact is Ethiopia counts its time on the opposite side of its clock. This can be tallied to being behind by 6 hours. 6 pm would be 12 noon and 12 noon would be 6 am.
46. The Ethiopian calendar has 13 months. The calendar is eight years behind the Western calendar. The months are usually 30 days long but the last month has 5 or 6 days. September 11th is celebrated as the day of New Year.
47. Ethiopia is the country where coffee was first discovered. Hence it is considered coffee’s homeland.
48. Amazingly in the African country of Lesotho, the people are known as Basotho and speak Sesotho.
49. Liberia, United States &, Burma are the only countries that haven't yet adopted the Metric system as the standard of measurement.
50. Amazingly a "Stock exchange System" exists in Somali pirates. One could invest in a pirate group and get the rewards as per the investment made after the successful heist.
51. The two most popular sports in Africa are football and cricket. The success of African teams added to the popularity and flourishing of these games in the continent.
52. More than 90% of the soils in Africa are unsuitable for agriculture.
53. Deforestation rates in Africa are twice that of the rest of the world.
54. Africa is connected to Asia via the Sinai Peninsula.
55. Suez Canal is the artificial waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. It allows ship transport between Europe and Asia without navigating around Africa.

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### Exhilarating Facts
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#### 15 Exhilarating Facts

1. An Exhilarating Fact is that in 2011, two men paraglided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42min, thereby avoiding the dangerous conventional 3-day descent.
2. Amazingly “Roman” fonts such as Times New Roman are all based on one man’s handwriting.
3. Men's and women’s clothes are buttoned on opposite sides because, in high societies, men generally dressed whereas women were dressed by servants. Reversing the buttons on women’s clothes made the job faster and easier.
4. Three triplets separated at birth ended up all going to the same college in New York in 1980, meeting each other there.
5. Amazingly scientists have created a computer memory crystal that can store 360 TB of data that can last approximately a million years by using pure silica.
6. An Exhilarating Fact is that The average height of European males has grown by 11 cm in just over a century.
7. In 1972, a Serbian flight attendant, Vesna Vulović fell for 33000 ft (10000 m) after the plane she was flying in was torn apart by an explosive device. Amazingly she survived the fall without permanent injuries.
8. License plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories used to be shaped like polar bears.
9. Table Knives are rounded instead of pointed to prevent people from picking their teeth and from stabbing each other.
10. Russia secretly had maps so detailed of the Canadian Arctic during the Cold War that other ships now use them over official maps.
11. When bitten by caterpillars, plants amazingly send Chemical SOS signals to parasitic wasps that attack the caterpillars.
12. An Exhilarating Fact is that During World War II, a German U-boat in fact sank due to a toilet malfunction.
13. During 1916 Rising in Dublin, the British and Irish Troops fighting at St. Stephen’s Green held daily ceasefires to allow the park-keeper to feed the ducks that lived there.
14. Mikhail Kalishnikov, the inventor of the AK-47, greatly regretted having invented the weapon.
15. The first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan war were from an American pilot bombing a training exercise.

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### Europe
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#### 50 Interesting facts - Europe

1. Europe covers 3.93 million square miles. Europe in fact constitutes 2% of the earth’s surface area and 6.8% of the total land area.
2. The amazing fact is that the whole of Europe is only two percent larger in area than Canada.
3. Europe has more than 50 countries. Russia alone constitutes 40% of Europe’s total land area.
4. Europe is said to be named after ‘Europa’, a Phoenician Princess in Greek Mythology.
5. The amazing fact is if it was not for the Europeans, the U.S.A would not have existed today.
6. The European Union has 25 countries members and was formed in 1957\. Most of the countries in Europe use the universal currency called the Euro. The Euro currency entered circulation on 1 January 2002.
7. Brussels (Belgium) is the capital of the European Union.
8. The European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.
9. The amazing fact is the British Empire based in Europe was at one time the largest empire in the world covering more than 36 million square kilometers and had a population of about 550 million people. It covered a quarter of the Earth’s surface.
10. The economy of Europe is currently the largest on earth.
11. Democracy was in fact invented in Europe almost 2000 years ago.
12. Famous European Philosophers are Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato.
13. Both the World Wars (I and II) were principally focused in Europe.
14. It’s amazing that over 60 million European soldiers were mobilized during the First World War.
15. Europe is home to the highest number of migrants in all global regions. In fact, By the end of the Second World War, Europe had more than 40 million refugees.
16. River Volga is the longest river in Europe. It is also the largest river (in terms of discharge ) in Europe.
17. The Piano and Violin were European inventions.
18. Croatia was the first country to eradicate slavery in the continent.
19. The amazing fact is Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
20. The tallest Ferris wheel (London Eye) in Europe is located in England.
21. Cricket was in fact invented in England.
22. Finland is the most forested country in Europe.
23. France is the only country in Europe to be completely self-sufficient in basic food production.
24. In France, the law in fact guarantees everyone five weeks of vacation, and most full-time workers get two full months of vacation.
25. If you count everything, including overseas territories, then France claims the title of most time zones by covering 12 of them. The United States would be the runner-up with 11 and then Russia with 9.
26. The Dune du Pilat (France) is the tallest sand dune in Europe.
27. The statue of Liberty was constructed in France and was designed by Frederic Bartholdi.
28. Greenland (Denmark) is the largest island in the world.
29. Iceland let its largest three banks fail without bailing them out but made sure that no citizens suffered financial loss.
30. Amazingly Iceland has no army and is regarded as the most peaceful country.
31. Mt. Etna (3,329m) is the tallest active volcano in Europe. It is located in Sicily, Italy.
32. The thermometer was invented in Italy.
33. Monaco is the world’s richest country in terms of GDP per capita.
34. The amazing fact is that the Netherlands is closing 8 prisons across the country because of a lack of crime.
35. Amazingly Norway will allow any student from any nation to study free of charge at their public universities.
36. Poland alone has in fact generated 17 Nobel Laureates.
37. Russia is the largest country in Europe. It is also the largest country in the world.
38. The longest railway line in the world is the Trans-Siberian Railway line. It has connected St. Petersburg to Vladivostok since 1916.
39. Russia has 13,000 uninhabited villages.
40. Golf started in Scotland.
41. The Spanish national anthem has no words.
42. Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.
43. The Tomatina Festival of Spain is one of the most unusual festivals in Europe where people throw tomatoes at each other. It is held in the Valencian town of Bunol.
44. The amazing fact is that Sweden recycles so well that it has run out of garbage and must import it from Norway for its energy programs.
45. Sweden has one of the highest populations of those who believe there is no God.
46. Amazingly the Swedish & Finnish governments pay students monthly pocket money if they attend high schools and universities.
47. If you fail your driver's license test in Switzerland three times, you are required to visit a Psychologist to explain the reasons.
48. It’s amazing that water, electricity, and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since 1991.
49. The largest country entirely in Europe is Ukraine.
50. Vatican City is the smallest country (by area and by population) in the world.

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### Language
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#### 78 Amazing Language Facts to surprise you

1. It is amazing that there are more than 2,700 languages in the world. In addition, there are more than 7,000 dialects.
2. The six official languages of the U.N. are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
3. 1 billion people speak English. That's 1 in every 7 on earth.
4. 80% of the information stored on all computers in the world is in English.
5. Amazingly French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
6. Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.
7. Amazingly the letter J was the last letter added to the English Alphabet. Before that, the letter L was used in its place.
8. English words "I", "we", "two" and "three" are among the most ancient, from thousands of years.
9. The amazing fact is that Taxi is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
10. The vocabulary of the average person consists of 7,000 to 8,000 words.
11. The five most frequently used letters in the English alphabet are, in order, E T A I S.
12. "I" is the most spoken word in the English language. "You" is the second most spoken English word.
13. Isn't it amazing that there was no punctuation until the 15th century?
14. Amazingly the name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
15. Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
16. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the alphabet.
17. Q is the only letter that does not appear in the names of any state of the United States.
18. The shortest word in English with all letters in alphabetical order is almost.
19. The dot above an 'i' is called the tittle.
20. Shortest English words with A, B, C, D, E, F are Feedback & Boldface.
21. It is amazing to find that the longest word that can be typed with the top row of letters on a Qwerty keyboard is TYPEWRITER.
22. Only one word in English with 3 consecutive sets of double letters is Bookkeeper.
23. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
24. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
25. The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
26. "Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backward.
27. The amazing fact is that if you rearrange the words "Debit Card" you get "Bad Credit".
28. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
29. The racecar spelled backward is the racecar.
30. SWIMS is the longest word with 180-degree rotational symmetry.
31. "Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
32. Amazingly if you rearrange the words "Election results" you get "Lies! Let's recount".
33. Rearrange the words "Mother-in-law". Amazingly you spell "Mother Hitler".
34. Rearrange the word "A Decimal Point". It is amazing to get "I'm a Dot in Place".
35. If you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue, every letter will sound the same.
36. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
37. If you rearrange the words "A Gentleman", It's amazing to spell "Elegant Man".
38. One out of every eight letters you read is the letter ‘e’.
39. In the book, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is one sentence that is amazingly 823 words long.
40. "Asthma" is a rare six-letter word that begins and ends with a vowel and has no other vowels between.
41. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
42. "THEREIN" is a 7 letter word that has 13 words spelled with consecutive letters i.e. the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
43. There are only four words in the English language which end in “- does”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
44. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
45. Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."
46. There are two words in the English language that uses all of the vowels, in the correct order: abstemiously & facetiously.
47. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
48. Underfund and underground are the only two English words that start and finish with "und."
49. Unprosperousness is the longest word in which every letter occurs at least twice.
50. In England, in the 1880s, amazingly "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
51. Spanish and French have no words beginning with W.
52. The Hawaiian alphabet only has twelve letters: A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, and W.
53. In Chinese, the words 'crisis' and 'opportunity' are the same.
54. The amazing fact is that there are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
55. The Chinese language does not require punctuation.
56. Isn't it amazing that China has more people who speak English than the United States?
57. Members of the Niger-Congo family in Africa speak more than 1,400 dialects.
58. Somalia is the only African country in which the entire population speaks the same language, Somali.
59. Shortest English words with A, B, C, D, E, F are Feedback & Boldface.
60. The amazing fact is that the word "verb" is actually a noun.
61. "Eleven plus Two" and "Twelve Plus One" both equal 13\. Both have thirteen letters and the letters are the same.
62. Amazingly "Silent" and "listen" are spelled with the same letters.
63. "Nineteen letters long" is 19 letters long.
64. A B, C, and D are all very uncommon in the English spelling of numbers. The letter 'D' does not appear until the number 100 (hundred). The letter 'A' is not used until the number 1,000 (thousand). The most amazing fact is that 'B' does not show up until 1,000,000,000 (billion), and 'C' is not found until 1 octillion! That's 10 to the 27th power or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
65. German is the only language that requires the capitalization of ALL nouns.
66. The most commonly used letter in the English alphabet is "E." There's a 12.7% chance that a given letter is an "E". Next is "T" with a 9% chance and next is "A" with an 8.1% chance.
67. FGH and JKL are the only three consecutive letter sets on a QWERTY style keyboard and they are right next to each other!
68. Amazingly the word "set" has the most definitions of any word in the English language at a whopping 464! The next four in the list are "run" with 396 definitions, "go" with 368, "take" with 343, and "stand" with 334.
69. Every native Japanese word ends in a vowel or the letter N!
70. Amazingly there is no synonym for synonym!
71. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
72. Amazingly the word "mortgage" comes from a French word that means "death contract".
73. The amazing fact is that a French author Michel Thaler published a 233-page novel that has no verbs.
74. Amazingly Dr. Seuss wrote a novel "Green Eggs & Ham" using only 50 different words winning a bet against his publisher who claimed it can't be done. It became one of the best-selling children's books of all time.
75. There exists a language in Mexico spoken by only two people who don't like to talk to one another.
76. Shakespeare used about 29066 different words in his writings out of which he invented 1700 of them.
77. The amazing fact is that 90% of everything written in English uses just 1,000 words.
78. Was it a car or a cat I saw is a complete sentence that is the same read in reverse.

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### Enchanting Facts
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#### 15 Enchanting Facts | Amazing Facts 4U

1. The amazing Fact is domain names were free until 1995.
2. Amazingly 8th January 1836 is the last day in history that the USA had no national debt.
3. Once the Queen bee is deemed to be unfit to serve due to old age or disease, worker bees cluster tightly around her body until she dies from overheating. This process is known as “cuddle death.”
4. Elephants are so amazingly afraid of bees that the mere sound of buzzing is enough to make an entire herd flee. They have even developed a special rumble just to warn each other if bees are nearby.
5. Vitamins are so-called because they are “VITal AMINeS” for your body.
6. The German army in fact has over a thousand troops in the US, with a headquarters outside Washington DC.
7. There is a parasitic worm in grasshoppers that after growing to maturity, makes the grasshoppers seek water and drown themselves to return the parasite to water.
8. An Enchanting fact is in 4 out of 10 of the UK’s largest airports, it's cheaper to park a light aircraft for 24 hours than to park your car.
9. Frank Hayes was a jockey, who in 1923 suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a race at Belmont Park in New York. His horse finished and won the race with his lifeless body still atop, making him the first, and thus far, only, jockey to win a race after death.
10. The Enchanting fact is 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years.
11. A 1997, comedy movie by the name of “Trojan War” made just $309 in ticket sales. It was made with a budget of $15 million.
12. Each Oscar Award loser receives a consolation bag of goodies. It's amazing that the last award “goodie bag” was worth $48,000.
13. Vincent van Gogh used to put candles in his hat, so he could paint at night. He walked ridiculously fast and never once signed his paintings “Van Gogh”.
14. In 1970, there were roughly half as many people in the world as there are now.
15. An Enchanting fact is a young entrepreneur secretly lived in AOL’s HQ for two months, eating free food, using gym & showers, sleeping in conference rooms while working on his start-up. Everyone assumed he worked there.

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### Engrossing Facts
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#### 15 Engrossing Facts | Amazing Facts 4U

1. An Engrossing fact is in 1913, it was legal to mail children. With stamps attached to their clothing, children rode trains to their destinations, accompanied by letter carriers. A newspaper reported it cost 53 cents for parents to mail their daughter to her grandparents for a family visit.
2. Sylvester Stallone talks the way he does because of complications his mother suffered during labor. This forced her obstetricians to use two pairs of forceps during his birth and misuse of these accidentally severed a nerve and caused paralysis in parts of his face.
3. NASA has their own special agents, who are armed, have arrest authority, and can execute search warrants.
4. An Engrossing fact is North Korea has a “three generations of punishment” system, where individuals found guilty of a crime are sent to the labor camps with their entire family. The subsequent two generations of that family are born in the camp and live their lives locked up inside.
5. In WWII, the US Army asked Americans to loan their dogs to the war effort. The dogs’ handlers even sent letters home to their owners for Christmas and to inform them of their dog’s performance throughout the war.
6. The US government paid $200 billion dollars to cable companies to provide the US with Fiber optic internet. They took the money and didn’t do anything with it.
7. Amazingly a 19th-century surgeon once tried to amputate a patient’s leg in under 150 seconds. In his haste, he also amputated his assistant’s fingers and slashed through the coat of a spectator. Both the patient and the assistant died of gangrene, and the spectator dropped dead of fright. It is the only instance in recorded history of an operation with a 300% mortality rate.
8. To be a London black cab driver, one is in fact expected to know over 25,000 roads and 50,000 points of interest and pass a test called “The Knowledge”. Amazingly to pass the exam, applicants usually need twelve appearances and 34 months of preparation.
9. In the 17th century, pirates in fact operated democracies (before any traditional western powers) and even had a system of checks and balances. Also, they had a form of disability insurance.
10. Russell Crowe, an actor, film producer, and musician was born in New Zealand, not Australia. However, despite living most of his life in Australia, identifying as Australian, and appearing on Australian stamps, he was refused Australian citizenship in 2006 and 2013.
11. In ancient Egypt, any books found in ships coming into port would be brought immediately to the library of Alexandria and be copied. The original would be kept in the library and the copy given back to the owner.
12. There have been numerous instances of people getting cockroach infestations after cable companies installed used cable boxes in their homes.
13. After the extinction of the dinosaurs, there was a turtle that was in fact the size of a car and could eat crocodiles.
14. In 1770, the British Parliament in fact passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
15. A sailor in the British Royal Navy may only grow a beard if they can achieve a ‘respectably full enough beard’ after two weeks’ growth.

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### Impressive Facts
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#### 15 Impressive Facts | Amazing Facts 4U

1. *The Impressive Fact* is that all pandas in the world are owned by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1million per year each for a minimum of 10 years.
2. *Amazingly* Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. This is more than the reserves of the USA, IMF, Switzerland, and Germany put together.
3. *An Impressive fact* is Chadwick (the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton), who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron).
4. The engine on the BMW M5 is so *amazingly* quiet the company plays fake engine noises through the speakers to “remind” drivers of their car’s performance.
5. Of the 270 moon rocks the US gifted to the world, in *fact,* 180 are currently unaccounted for.
6. Carrots used to be available in purple and white until the 17th century when Dutch farmers succeeded in growing the first orange carrots in honor of the ruling House of Orange-Nassau.
7. During WWI, Romania decided to send its vast collection of treasure to Russia for safekeeping. In 1918, the new Soviet government cut all diplomatic ties and refused to return the treasure. Russia still holds the treasure valued at over $1.5 billion and has no intention of giving it back.
8. *Amazingly* the inventor of the upside-down ketchup bottle earned 13 million dollars for this invention.
9. For his time as James Bond, Daniel Craig has the privilege of taking any Aston Martin from the factory for the rest of his life.
10. There are thought to be 100,000 uncharted mountains under the sea.
11. The only difference between Tylenol Cold and Tylenol Flu is in *fact* the box. They have exactly the same medical ingredients.
12. *Amazing* thing is that a survey conducted in two southern provinces of Afghanistan found that 92% of respondents had never heard of the events of 9/11.
13. Thomas Edison taught his second wife Morse code so that they could communicate in secret, by tapping into each other’s hands when her family was around.
14. Ancient Babylonians did the math in base 60 and not base 10, thus giving us 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle, etc.
15. You can in *fact* buy miniature cows and bulls for pets, and they only grow to 1 meter in height.

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### Corporates
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#### 80 Amazing Facts Corporates | **Amazing Facts 4U**

1. Bulletproof glass manufacturer 3M Security Glass placed $3 million in cash inside behind *amazingly* strong bulletproof glass at a bus stop. If you can break it, money is yours.
2. 7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world.
3. The name adobe comes from the name of the river adobe creek that ran behind the houses of the founders.
4. The name Adidas was invented by the creator of the brand named Adolf Adi Dassler.
5. *The amazing fact* is that the creators of Adidas and Puma were brothers and both Nazis.
6. Apple iPad's retina display is *amazingly* manufactured by Samsung.
7. Apple makes its employees work on fake projects until they can be trusted! If the project leaks, then they know who did it and they are fired immediately.
8. Apple recently won a $1.05 billion copyright battle against Samsung and *amazingly* Samsung paid the amount by sending 30 trucks full of 5 cents coins.
9. Smoking near Apple computers voids the warranty.
10. Apple sold amazing 340,000 iPhones per day in 2012.
11. Apple earns the US $300,000 per minute.
12. *The amazing fact* is that Apple's co-founder sold all his shares for $800\. Today, they would have been worth US$35 billion.
13. Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed, and stored.
14. *Amazing Fact* is Apple has more operating cash than the U.S. Treasury.
15. Apple's iPhone has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer.
16. The Band-Aid brand was introduced in 1921\. *Amazingly* initial bandages were 18 Inches X 3 Inches to be cut as needed.
17. Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines that recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
18. Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
19. *Amazingly* the cigarette industry produces 1000 cigarettes for each person on earth each year.
20. In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia for only five cents a glass. A pharmacist named Dr. John Pemberton created the formula for Coca-cola.
21. *Fact* is Coca-cola contains neither coca nor cola.
22. The secret recipe for Coca Cola, code-named "Merchandise 7X" is kept under lock and key in a vault in the SunTrust Bank Building in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Coke inventor Dr. John S. Pemberton.
23. It is *amazing* that only two Coca-Cola executives know the beverage's secret formula.
24. The Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages.
25. Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany because Coca Cola Germany couldn't import Coke! After the war, the Coca-Cola corporation regained control of the plant, formula, and the trademarks of the new Fanta product.
26. Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
27. Colgate faced a big marketing challenge in Spanish-speaking countries because it means "Go hang yourself" in Spanish.
28. *Amazingly* Duracell's new international headquarters was constructed using their own garbage/recycled materials from their products.
29. If the Duracell battery leaks and destroys one of your devices, the company will replace the device if that is sent with a defective battery in place.
30. The *amazing fact* is that there is an average of 18,000,000 items for sale at any time on eBay.
31. Facebook is blue because its founder Mark Zuckerberg is factually red Green colorblind and the best color he can see is blue.
32. Facebook claims 100 billion friend connections have been made on its social network. That's about the same number of humans that have ever lived since 50,000 B.C.
33. FedEx has several planes, and it keeps several of them empty in the sky to be able to respond to a changing freight demand quickly.
34. The *fact* was FedEx nearly ran out of money. FedEx’s owner Fred Smith made $27,000 gambling in Las Vegas to keep the company afloat. The result: the company stayed afloat for a few more days, enough time to collect $11 million more from investors.
35. During WWII, Ford went from producing one B-24 bomber per day to an *amazing* one per hour!
36. At General Motors cost of health care for employees exceeds the cost of steel.
37. Hallmark makes cards for 105 different relationships.
38. IKEA stores are designed like a maze to prevent customers from leaving.
39. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.
40. Intel is a shortened name for Integrated Electronics.
41. Ketchup actually began in Thailand. There it was labeled "Kachiap".
42. Kodak, who invented the first digital camera amazingly went bankrupt because they didn't convert to digital.
43. Eyeglasses are so expensive because the market is factually cornered by one very large Italian company, Luxottica which owns most eyewear companies and distributors!
44. The cigarette company Marlboro’s first owner died of Lung Cancer.
45. The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald's restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was seven miles long.
46. *Amazingly* Mcdonald's is the largest toy distributor in the world as it distributes 1.5 billion toys annually around the world.
47. McDonald's first menu items were hot dogs, not hamburgers.
48. It is *amazing* that Mcdonald's opens a new restaurant every 15 hours.
49. McDonald's restaurants feed 70 million people every day.
50. The Queen of England owns a McDonald's near Buckingham Palace.
51. McDonald's makes about US$75 million per day.
52. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
53. The Japanese planes that attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 were manufactured by Mitsubishi.
54. *Amazingly* The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
55. Nokia was started as a paper company in Finland in 1871.
56. *Amazingly* Otis transports the equivalent of the world’s population every 3 days between its elevators, escalators, and moving walkways.
57. *The amazing Fact* is that Panasonic has a factory staffed with only 15 people and robots that can make 2 million plasma displays per month!
58. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
59. The rights to 7 Up are owned by Pepsi in every country EXCEPT the US!
60. Pepsi originally contained pepsin (an enzyme that digests proteins), therefore the name.
61. A company PC Pitstop once hid a $1000 prize on their terms of service in 2005\. Just reading it would have meant winning $1000\. *Amazingly* it took 5 months and over 3,000 different sales before anyone contacted them.
62. Pizza Hut paid the Russian government approximately $1 Million in order to send a pizza to the astronauts at the International Space Station and make a commercial out of the whole experience. Pizza Hut also got their logo emblazoned on the side of the rocket as it launched.
63. Proctor & Gamble originally manufactured candles before moving on to soap.
64. It is *amazing* that luxury watchmaker Rolex also sells sand!
65. 75% of cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road today.
66. Samsung's chairman was Kun-Hee Lee was very unhappy with its products in 1995\. Cellphones didn’t work properly. He had bigger aspirations for the company. He visited the plant in Gumi and made all 2,000 employees wear headbands that said Quality First. He lit the whole inventory $50 million worth of products on fire and made them watch it burn to teach them a lesson.
67. Samsung is also a full-time weapon manufacturer.
68. *Amazingly* SONY's most successful business is selling insurance!
69. Sony and other Japanese companies have banishment rooms where surplus employees are kept and given either no work to do or do useless tasks until they are depressed enough to quit the job on their own.
70. Vaclav Laurin and Vaclav Klement both Czechs started off with a small bicycle company in the early 1890s later on becoming Skoda.
71. Starbucks spends more on the insurance of its employees than on coffee beans.
72. Subway has overtaken Mcdonald's as the largest restaurant chain in the world having more outlets.
73. Volkswagen was the first foreign company to open a factory in the United States. The auto plant opened in 1978 in Pennsylvania.
74. It is *amazing* that Volkswagen owns all the reputed brands like Bentley, Bugatti, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Ducati.
75. *Amazingly*, in 21 US states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
76. Yahoo! is an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. thought of by David Filo and Jerry Yang.
77. Yamaha the automobile company is the largest maker of musical instruments in Japan.
78. The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
79. For every dollar spent in the United States, 8 Cents are spent at Walmart.
80. It is *amazing* that the Weihenstephan brewery in Germany has been open since 1040!

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### Sea Animals
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#### 15 Interesting Facts about Sea Animals

1. Interesting Facts about Sea Animals is up to 1 million species live in the world's oceans. 2/3 rd are yet to be described.
2. The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.
3. It's amazing that a shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
4. Amazingly sharks lose more than 6000 teeth a year and lost teeth can be replaced within 24 hours.
5. Interesting Facts about Sea Animals is The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
6. Interesting Facts about Sea Animals are Sharks & Rays never get sick. They are immune to every disease including cancer possibly due to the absence of bone.
7. Amazingly the giant squid is the largest creature without a backbone. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows up to 55 feet long.
8. At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are amazingly the largest on the planet. No one knows how squids can change color!
9. Squids can fly! Squids actually take in water and expel it, using it for propulsion that makes them up to 5 times faster on air than on the water!
10. Sea otters have the thickest fur of all animals. Otters hold hands when sleeping so they don’t drift away from each other.
11. Manatees are mammals and must surface to breathe every 5 to 10 Minutes or they will drown.
12. Amazingly manatees are the only completely herbivorous marine mammal in the entire world.
13. It's amazing that an oyster can take five years just to make one pearl.
14. The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male, then becomes a female. It may go back and forth many times.
15. The amazing fact is sea sponges can be broken down to a single cell and reassemble themselves! Essentially, one sea sponge could turn into multiple sea sponges within a matter of hours, can pass through a sieve, and then reassemble!

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### Awesome Facts
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#### 15 Awesome Facts

1. Amazingly in 1518, a “dancing plague” struck Strasbourg, Alsace, France whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. The phenomenon still remains unexplained.
2. UPS had problems recruiting drivers when expanding in Germany because the brown uniform looked like Nazi Youth Group uniforms. UPS had to change the color to green.
3. Amazingly the German invasion of the Soviet Union caused 95% of all German Army casualties that occurred from 1941 to 1944.
4. The Awesome Fact is that some older/less efficient worker termites will develop ‘backpacks’ of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
5. It's amazing that when a mountain was found to be taller than Australia’s highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, their names were swapped so that Mount Kosciuszko remained the highest mountain in Australia.
6. After French soldier Jean Bernadotte (1763-1844) showed kindness to a few Swedish soldiers, he became so popular in Sweden that the Swedes decided to make him their king in 1818 when a vacancy came up, despite him never having set foot in Sweden before. The House of Bernadotte rules Sweden to this day.
7. It is possible to travel from Portugal to Vietnam solely by train. At 17,000 kilometers, this is the longest train journey in the world
8. Arnold Schwarzenegger made $75,000 for his role in Terminator, but in Terminator 2 he made $15,000,000 about 7 years later (200 x) .
9. There was a Great Hedge built by the British across India primarily to collect the salt tax. It was 4000 km long and 12 feet in height spanning from Western Punjab to Eastern Orissa. None of it remains today.
10. In 2012, amazingly an entire city in Zimbabwe was instructed to flush their toilets at the same time to unblock sewers.
11. The Awesome Fact is every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you are almost certainly creating an arrangement, which the universe has never before seen.
12. The awesome Fact is There are more variations in the game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
13. The Higgs boson is nicknamed ‘the God particle’ not because of its fundamental role in the universe, but because Leon Lederman, a theoretical physicist who wrote a book about it in 1993, called it the ‘Goddamn particle’, as it was so difficult to observe.
14. Some police stations in China use geese instead of guard dogs to keep watch at night. Geese are very territorial and have better vision than humans.
15. The awesome Fact is There is a giant tornado the size of Europe, with two separate and independently moving eyes at different altitudes, over the south pole of planet Venus.

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### Random Amazing Facts
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#### 15 Random Amazing Facts

1. In the early 1900s, lots of German kids used to die from diarrhea until a doctor named Ernst Moro invented carrot stew, which saved thousands of lives. In 2009, experiments showed that Professor Moro’s Carrot Soup could cure diarrhea caused by bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.
2. A Bosnian man faked his own death including forging a death certificate and bribing undertakers, just to see who would come to his funeral. Amazingly only his mother showed up.
3. A 35-year-old Japanese individual stock day trader named Takashi Kotegawa amazingly increased his own fund from 1.6 million yen ($15,000) to 18 billion yen ($170 million) over 8 years.
4. There have been zero spider bite-related fatalities in Australia since 1979\. An effective antivenom for Redback Spiders was introduced in 1956, and one for funnel-web spiders in 1980\. These are the only two spiders that have caused deaths in Australia in the past.
5. Amazingly tap water in Canada is held to a higher health standard than bottled water.
6. Jams are made from fruit, while jellies are made from juice. Preserves have chunks of fruit, conserves have dried fruit or nuts, and marmalades have peel and pulp. Fruit butter is slow-cooked to a smooth consistency.
7. Yang Yuanqing (Lenovo’s CEO) received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits, which he, in turn, redistributed to about 10,000 Lenovo’s employees. He did the same thing again in 2013.
8. Random Amazing Fact is Colombian drug trafficker Carlos Lehder bought himself an island in the Bahamas where he put an airstrip that controlled the drugs coming in from South America and entering the US. He became so wealthy that he offered to pay Colombia’s foreign debt for amnesty.
9. Random Amazing Fact is During World War I, Magician Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach American soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
10. Jules Verne wrote the novel “Paris in the Twentieth Century” back in 1863 and described a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators, and a worldwide communications network.
11. Random Amazing Fact is The record for the longest marathon run is held by Shizo Kanakuri with a time of about 54 years and 8 months. During the 1912 Olympics, he quit midway through a marathon race and went home to Japan without notifying the officials. He was considered a missing person in Sweden for over 50 years. In 1966, he returned to complete the marathon.
12. Random Amazing Fact is South Korea bans children aged under 16 from playing online games between midnight and 6 a.m. under a so-called “Cinderella Law”
13. Since many female insects mate just once in their lives, insect populations can be controlled by releasing swarms of sterile males into the wild. The female's mate with them, never have babies, and die. The method has eradicated populations of dangerous insects in several regions.
14. Paper in fact can be recycled only six times. After that, the fibers are too weak to hold together.
15. Random Amazing Fact is the Early humans in Southern America hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.

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### Captivating Facts
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#### 15 Captivating Facts | Amazing Facts 4U

1. *The amazing* *fact* is the IRS has instructions for employees on how to collect taxes after a nuclear war.
2. *The Captivating Fact* is it takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful of honey.
3. India was one of the only two continents, America being the other, which refused to salute Adolf Hitler during the opening ceremony of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
4. The US Government has rigorous specs for the pens it buys. They ought to be assembled by blind people, the pens must be able to write for a mile and in temps, 160 F to -40 F, are designed to fit undetected into uniforms, can stand in for a two-inch fuse, and be used for an emergency tracheotomy.
5. When Winston Churchill was warned by the German foreign minister that if WWII were to occur, the Italians would be on the German side, he responded: “That’s only fair. We had them last time.”
6. In 1948, the Nobel Prize in Peace was not awarded. The Nobel Foundation’s website suggests that it would have been awarded to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, however, due to his assassination earlier that year, it was left unassigned in his honor.
7. *The Captivating fact* is that the “proof” for 1+1 = 2 is 372 pages long and was not proven until the 20th century.
8. An astronaut once punctured his spacesuit while on a spacewalk and didn’t notice it until he finished. It was just a little 1/8 inch hole, so there was no fatal explosive decompression. *Amazingly* he survived because the skin of the astronaut’s hand partially sealed the opening. He bled into space, and his coagulating blood sealed the opening enough.
9. Liquid helium has zero viscosity and can flow through microscopic holes and up walls against gravity.
10. Nazi soldiers burned civilians alive in the town of Oradour-Sur-Glane during WW2\. Charles de Gaulle ordered that the ruins not be removed, and the empty town still exists as it was in June 1944.
11. India’s richest person, Mukesh Ambani, built a $2 billion home. It has 27 habitable floors, including six parking floors for the capacity of up to 168 cars. The house employs a staff of 600 to maintain the home.
12. *Captivating fact* is NASA Vehicle Assembly building’s interior volume is so vast that it has its own weather, with rain clouds forming below the ceiling on very humid days.
13. When news of the Pearl Harbor attack arrived at Hitler’s headquarters, one of the assembled Nazi generals embarrassedly asked the rest of the group where Pearl Harbor was. Nobody was able to answer him and a world map had to be consulted.
14. A Groom forgot his wedding pants in the dressing room of a Minnesota clothier and flew to Costa Rica for his wedding. The clothier sent his daughter on an 11-hour flight to deliver the pants personally because UPS and FedEx said they could not help.
15. According to Christian history, 3 of the 12 apostles (original 12 disciples chosen by Christ) are buried in Turkey and one is buried in India. The Santhome Basilica, Santhome in Chennai houses the tomb of Thomas the Apostle.

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### Sports
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#### 50 Amazing Facts about Sports | Amazing Facts 4U

1. The five interlocking Olympic rings are black, blue, red, green, and yellow because at least one of these colors appears on every national flag.
2. Since 1896 the beginning of the modern Olympics, *amazingly* only Greece and Australia have participated in every game.
3. The 1912 Olympic Games were the last to include gold medals actually made of solid gold. The *amazing fact* is that the gold medals are 93 percent silver and six percent copper, leaving about one percent (or six grams) for the highly prized gold finish.
4. At the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner went home to Japan without completing the race and without informing the officials. He was considered missing in Sweden for more than 50 years. *Amazingly* he was invited back to complete the marathon in 1966 which he did. His time to complete marathon 54 years 8 months.
5. In 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland University in football by an *amazing* score of 222 to nothing.
6. In the 1935 Olympics, the *amazing* event was Jesse Owens setting six track and field world records in less than one hour.
7. In the 1930’s American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
8. Until 1967 *amazingly*, it wasn't illegal for Olympic athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs during competition.
9. When Bob Beamon long jumped 29 Ft 2.5 inches in the 1968 Mexico Olympics, it was so *amazing* that they couldn't measure it with their equipment! The previous world record for the long jump leap had been 21 feet and ¾ inches. It was known as the leap of the century.
10. *The amazing fact* is that no high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.
11. Badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.
12. *The amazing fact most* soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
13. 2022 world cup final shall be played in Lusail, Qatar. *Amazingly* the city doesn't exist yet. It shall be constructed before the event.
14. *An amazing fact is* Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which amazingly all 11 players' last names ended with the letters "OV."
15. A world cup referee will run further than the players, at 12 miles in a 90-minute match.
16. In 1998, lightning killed an entire soccer team. The tragedy occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during a match between the villages of Bena Tshadi and nearby Basangana. *Amazingly*, the lightning annihilated all eleven members of the home team, while all of Basangana's players were spared with severe burns at worst!
17. In 1964 a referee's call during a soccer match in Peru caused a riot that killed over 300 people! Another 500 people were injured in that riot in Lima, Peru.
18. It is an *amazing fact* that no European team has ever won the World Cup outside of Europe.
19. The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses' intestines.
20. *The amazing fact is* In the U.S., there are more than 10,000 golf courses.
21. Cricket bats are made of a tree called Willow & base-balls bats are made out of the wood of a tree called Hickory.
22. It is a *fact* that the first game of chess has been traced back to have originated in northern India. It’s thought that today’s rules have been around since sometime in the 1400′s A.D.
23. There are 319,979,564,000 ways to play the first four moves in a game of chess. The *amazing fact* is that there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe. Possible iterations lower bound number is called Shannon Number.
24. Viswanathan Anand from India is the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match.
25. The game Monopoly was once very popular in Cuba; however, Fidel Castro ordered that all games be destroyed.
26. Vasaloppet, which is located in Sweden is the oldest, longest, and the biggest cross-country ski race in the world. Every year, 14,000 people compete in the race.
27. Canadian James Naismith invented basketball to give his physical education students at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, an indoor team sport to play during the long winters.
28. Until 1936, the jump ball in basketball took place at center court after every single made basket.
29. Every ball used in Major League Baseball is dirty. In order to take the slick factory sheen off and allow pitchers to get a better grip, Major League Baseball wipes down each baseball with mud from an undisclosed location on the Delaware River. And it's been done this way for close to 75 years now.
30. *An amazing fact is* A baseball ball has exactly 108 stitches, a cricket ball has between 65 and 70 stitches. A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 642 stitches.
31. Howard Kinsey and Mrs. R. Roark, during a game of tennis, batted the ball back and forth *amazing* 2001 consecutive times.
32. If a person had as many Rubik's cubes as there were possible configurations, they could amazingly cover the surface of the Earth 275 times. However, any Rubik's cube can be completed in 20 moves.
33. Stefaan Engels, a 49-year-old asthmatic from Belgium completed 365 marathons in 365 days, that's 9,569 miles of running, in 7 different countries!
34. Leo Fiyalko of Clearwater, FL, a legally blind 92-year-old hit an amazing hole-in-one on January 10, 2008, the distance being 110 yards.
35. The world record for spinning on an ice skate is 6 rotations per second by Lucinda Ruh! She accomplished her record in New York City on April 3, 2003, by getting one hundred and fifteen revolutions non-stop!
36. There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it!
37. *The amazing fact is* USGA regulation golf balls have 336 dimples which add turbulence for more distance.
38. Muhammad Ali became a boxer because someone stole his bicycle when he was 12 years old! The frustrated 12-year-old boy decided to report the incident to police officer Joe Martin, who also happened to be a boxing coach who saw the potential in him.
39. Formula One Racing car races at an average speed of 170 miles per hour and a golf ball when gets hits from the front strike has the same speed.
40. It is customary for jockeys to be paid in coins, no matter how large their winnings.
41. The grass at Wimbledon was kept two inches long until 1949 when an English player was bitten by a snake.
42. It is an *amazing fact* that no Olympic steeplechase silver medalist, male or female, has lived past the age of 41.
43. Dimples on a golf ball help reduce drag, allowing the ball to fly further than a ball without dimples.
44. Golf balls were originally made from dried cow eyeballs.
45. Astronaut Alan Shepard played golf on the Moon after he smuggled a golf ball and club on to the NASA Apollo 14 mission to the Moon in 1971.
46. *Amazingly* 125,000 golf balls a year are hit into the water at the famous 17th hole of the Stadium Course at Sawgrass.
47. The longest golf course in the world is the par 77 International Golf Club in Massachusetts which measures *amazing* 8325 yards. The highest golf course in the world is the Tactu Golf Club in Morococha, Peru, which sits 14,335 feet above sea level at its lowest point.
48. The fastest recorded tennis serve was an amazing 163.4 mph (263 kph) by Australian Samuel Groth at an ATP Challenger event in Busan, South Korea in May 2012.
49. In 1986 yellow balls were used at Wimbledon for the first time to make them visible for the TV cameras.
50. The *fact* is That Tennis was an Olympic event from 1896 to 1924 and was reintroduced into the games in 1988.

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### Interesting Facts
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#### 15 Interesting Facts

1. In the 1791 Battle of the Wabash, 920 US Army soldiers faced about 1,100 Native American warriors. *Amazingly* at the end of the battle, only 21 Indians were killed whereas nearly the entire US force was wiped out, (623 killed, others wounded). This was 1/4 of the entire US army’s strength at the time.
2. *The amazing fact* is the U. S. Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, in at least 26 locations off both coasts. The Army can’t say exactly where all the weapons were dumped because records are missing or were destroyed.
3. Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support.
4. Sean Connery was offered to play in Manchester United but chose to decline it and move on to the film industry.
5. *An Interesting Fact* is the 27th amendment to the Constitution, which restricts the ability of Congress to raise its own pay, was ratified in 1992, more than 200 years after the first state-approved it in 1789.
6. In the movie Poltergeist, they used real skeletons. When asked why it was a simple answer, “they were cheaper than the plastic ones.”
7. African spiny mice can shed up to 60% of the skin on their backs to escape predators. They then *amazingly* regrow hair follicles, skin, sweat glands, and fur instead of scar tissue.
8. North Korea used to buy full-page ads in the New York Times and other popular newspapers of the West as propaganda. At least 100 such ads were published.
9. *The Interesting Fact* is Russian Special Services still use typewriters to avoid online surveillance.
10. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the technology to make concrete was *amazingly* lost for 1000 years.
11. *Interesting Facts* is it’s possible to replace a lost thumb with a toe, and that the first successful toe-to-thumb transplant was performed in 1964, on a rhesus monkey and later on human in 1972.
12. During the Cold War, the USSR officials were able to identify a forged Soviet passport from a genuine one just from its staples. The staples in the real passports used to corrode quickly due to the poor quality of the metal used.
13. The U.S. bombed China’s embassy in Belgrade almost 15 years ago, killing three Chinese journalists. The bombing was blamed on outdated maps, but it was later revealed that the CIA possessed up-to-date maps.
14. *The interesting fact* is that Bluetooth was named after Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark 1000 years ago.
15. Scientists in Antarctica have set up a rugby pitch to play on when they want to relax. They have set up teams of American and New Zealand researchers to compete each year for the Ross Island Cup, which New Zealand has *amazingly* won 26 years in a row.

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### Fascinating Facts
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#### 15 Fascinating Facts

1. *An amazing fact* is in August 2001, actor James Woods reported 4 suspicious individuals on his flight. Authorities did not act on his claim and they later turned out to be the 9/11 hijackers.
2. Forbidden love in China between a young man and an older widowed woman forced the couple to live in a mountain cave. *Amazingly* over the course of 50 years, the man carved 6,000 stairs into the mountainside so that his wife could easily descend from the cave.
3. There are groups of men who commute by train attending jobs in and out of Mumbai for up to three hours each way, who play devotional music to pass the time. *Amazingly* some of these music groups have been together for 25 years.
4. *Amazingly* P.V. Narasimha Rao who served as the ninth prime minister of India was fluent in many Indian languages and was able to speak in 17 languages, including English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin, and Persian.
5. In 2011, a Chinese man paid US$200,000 for a racing pigeon, setting a new world record. Pigeon racing with a long history in Europe is also one of the most popular betting sports in China.
6. Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House in Kaifeng, China is considered the world’s oldest operating restaurant, first opening in 1153 AD during the Jing Dynasty.
7. *A fascinating fact* is the New Lucky restaurant in Ahmedabad, India is built upon a cemetery. It is peculiar that there are graves scattered between the tables.
8. *The amazing* thing was the Gardens of Versailles with its 2000+ fountains consumed more water per day than the entire city of Paris. To solve the water shortage, the fountaineers would signal each other upon the king’s approach to turning on the fountain. Once the king passed the fountain, it would be turned off again.
9. John Knoll, the visual effects supervisor of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, won an Oscar for Pirates of the Caribbean movie and also invented Photoshop.
10. *A fascinating fact* is on Good Friday in 1930, the BBC reported that there was no news to be reported, so instead, they played piano music.
11. Adwaita a tortoise in Kolkata was estimated to be 255 years old when he died in 2006.
12. In 1984, a woman named Jennifer Thompson-Canino mistakenly identified Ronald Cotton as her rapist. Cotton spent 11 years in prison until DNA evidence proved him innocent. *Amazingly* upon his release, the two became good friends and currently travel the country speaking of the dangers of false identification.
13. Chaudhary Prem Singh from Ambedkar Nagar, Delhi has never lost an election since 1958 and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the longest continuously elected representative.
14. In 1922 when scientist Niels Bohr won the Nobel Prize, he was given a house by Carlsberg Brewery next to the brewery and it had a direct pipeline to the brewery so that Bohr had free beer on tap whenever he wanted.
15. Despite fighting against Nazi troops, with 17,000 dying in combat, Colonial French (Black) troops were not allowed to liberate Paris because of their skin color. To ensure that a French regiment was allowed to liberate Paris, De Gaulle was forced to use Spanish (white) soldiers.

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### Exhilarating Facts
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#### 15 Exhilarating Facts

- Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. *Amazingly* both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
- In 1984 five Argentinians crossed the Atlantic. The boat was a raft of 13.6 meters long by 5.8 meters wide, built of logs, rudderless, and with only one sail. It was just to prove that 3500 years before Christopher Columbus, African sailors may have accidentally reached the shores of America.
- Exhilarating Facts is that the bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile. Natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.
- *Amazingly* in Italy, six scientists were charged with manslaughter because they didn’t predict an earthquake that killed 309 people.
- The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
- Exhilarating Facts is There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the United States.
- German scientist, Gerhard Domagk, developed the antibacterial agent Prontosil, a sulfonamide. He used this agent to treat his own daughter, preventing her from an arm amputation. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939.
- A city in Texas renamed itself to “DISH, Texas” to receive free Dish Satellite service for 10 years.
- Researchers have invented a helmet that gives humans *amazing* simulated 360° of vision, allowing a person to avoid a ball thrown from behind and catch an object tossed outside the normal human field of view.
- The Wright Brothers’ first powered flight in 1903 “did not create public excitement. The news soon faded. In *fact*, they were largely mocked and disregarded until a demonstration in France nearly 5 years later.
- In contrast to the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, and Royal Air Force, the British Army does not include Royal in its title because, after a historic struggle between Parliament and monarchy, the British Army has always been answerable to Parliament and the British people rather than the Monarch.
- Mussolini was expelled from school when he was 10 for stabbing a classmate. He did the same thing at his next school.
- It used to be compulsory for figure skaters to slowly trace precise, intricate shapes into the ice to be inspected by judges for scoring. Hence the name ‘figure skating’.
- A volcanologist died at an observation camp when Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980\. He had agreed, for one day, to fill in for a colleague who was rotating out a third scientist based at the camp. *Amazingly* the man rotated out died 11 years later during the Mount Unzen (Japan) eruption.
- Uranus is the coldest planet in our solar system, even though Neptune is farther from the sun.

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### Birds
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#### 47 Amazing Birds Facts You Were Unaware

1. All birds have a backbone and have lungs to breathe. They are only mammals with feathers.
2. *Amazingly* ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
3. Birds do not have sweat glands, so their bodies cannot cool down through perspiration. Their bodies cool by flight or, when at rest, panting.
4. Birds save energy by flying in a “V” formation.
5. The average minimal speed of birds in order to remain aloft in flight is reported to be about 11 miles per hour.
6. *Amazingly* a bird sees everything at once in total focus. Whereas the human eye is globular and must adjust to varying distances, the bird's eye is flat and can take in everything at once in a single glance.
7. Birds do not sleep in their nests, although they may rest in them from time to time.
8. A bird's heart beats 400 times per minute while resting and 1000 times per minute while flying.
9. *Amazingly* if birds are sent into space, they can't survive as they need gravity to swallow.
10. Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they are not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
11. At any given time, there are anywhere between one and two billion living birds on the planet.
12. *The amazing fact* is that a bird's feathers weigh more than its skeleton does.
13. The shape of a bird's beak directly corresponds to the type of diet it eats in the wild.
14. Birds bend their 'knees' backward because those are actually their ankles!
15. 90 % of bird species are monogamous.
16. *The amazing fact* is that birds’ lungs work like a jet engine as they inject air at one end and are exhausted from the other end! Their air sacs allow them to have a unidirectional air flow, unlike humans who have a bidirectional flow of air.
17. The Arctic Tern is a bird that flies the circumference of the Earth every year. Their migratory pattern brings them from their traditional breeding ground in the Arctic to their winter home in the Antarctic. *Amazingly* this is the longest annual migration trip taken by any bird in the world. The Arctic tern flies an average of 22,000 miles a year! In its lifespan, it can end up flying over 30 times around the circumference of the Earth.
18. Bluebirds can’t see the color Blue.
19. The pulse rate of a canary is 1000.
20. *The amazing fact* is that a Clark’s Nutcracker (bird) can store up to 30,000 pine nuts for the winter in over 6,000 different locations across 300 square miles and remember where at least 70% of them are, finding them even if they’re snow-covered.
21. *Amazingly* crows recognize individual human faces and can hold a grudge if you treat them badly.
22. Crows crush ants and rub the remains all over their body! *Amazingly* the reason crows do this is because ant blood contains Formic Acid that helps keep away parasites!
23. A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
24. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
25. Some ducks and geese can fly as much as 332 miles a day!
26. The Australian emu holds the land speed record for birds at about 50 kilometers per hour.
27. Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
28. The reason why flamingos are pink is because they eat shrimp which have a red pigment
29. Flamingoes live remarkably long lives, up to 80 years.
30. *The amazing fact* is that Hummingbirds from Family Trochilidae have been recorded in experiments, hovering for 50 minutes at one place.
31. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
32. *The amazing fact* is that the Kiwi, the national bird of New Zealand, can't fly and lays only 1 egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
33. Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt only by smell.
34. The Mallee Fowl Leipoa ocellata of Australia builds a mound for a nest. These mounds have been measured at 4.57 m high and 10.6 m long. A mound this size means the bird moved 250 cubic meters of vegetation and 300 tonnes of soil.
35. Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
36. *The amazing fact* is that Peacock feathers are actually brown. The colors are an optical illusion!
37. A pelican consumes about one-third of its body weight in a single meal.
38. The pelican uses the funny looking pouch under its lower beak for catching fish. It does this by swooshing into the water and scooping up as many fish as possible.
39. *Amazingly* Emperor Penguins (Aptenodytes forester) make the deepest dive of any bird ranging from 444 – 483 m. They also stay underwater the longest. The maximum dive time recorded has been 18 minutes.
40. Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice, either because their stomach can't handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them.
41. The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. She must be able to see another pigeon even her own reflection for her ovaries to function.
42. *The amazing fact* is that despite being a nine-inch-tall bird, the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter.
43. Seagull can drink salt water as it has special glands to filter out the salt.
44. *Amazingly* the swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
45. Swifts, Doves, Falcons, and Sandpipers can approach speeds of 200 miles per hour.
46. *The amazing fact* is that a woodchuck breathes 2,100 times an hour, but it only breathes ten times an hour while it is hibernating.
47. A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

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### Amazing Facts
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#### 15 Amazing Facts

1. Amazing thing is that the only Japanese who survived the Titanic, Masabumi Hosono, lost his job because he was labeled as a coward in Japan for not dying with the other passengers.
2. An amazing fact is the Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
3. Fact is sand from the Sahara is blown by the wind all the way to the Amazon, recharging its minerals. The desert literally fertilizes the rainforest.
4. Amazingly in Armenia, all children aged 6 and up are taught chess at school, as it is a mandatory part of their curriculum.
5. The amazing fact is the first and the last British soldiers to die in WWI are coincidentally buried only 15 feet apart. In the 4 year period between their deaths, nearly a million other British/Commonwealth troops died.
6. On April 1, 2007, Google sent an email to its employees warning that a python was loose in its New York Office. It was not a joke.
7. An amazing fact is in 585 BC, a solar eclipse occurred in the middle of a battle between the Lydians and the Medes. They promptly ceased fighting and signed a peace treaty.
8. The 2.3 million Americans currently jailed constitute the largest prison population in the world, and account for 25 percent of the global prison population.
9. A genetic disease called Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva causes human tissue to turn into bone. “Sufferers are slowly imprisoned by their own skeletons.”
10. Colorado switched mile marker “420″ to “419.99″ in order to stop people from stealing it.
11. George Washington’s infamous wooden teeth were actually human teeth from slaves.
12. According to a Japanese poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the twentieth century was instant noodles.
13. Layne Staley (former lead singer of Alice in Chains) was found over a week after he died not because his friends or family notified someone, but because his accountant noticed he hadn’t withdrawn money from his account in a week.
14. The murder rate in Honduras is so high that some cities have started offering a program for free funerals. There is a violent death in Honduras every 74 minutes.
15. Scientist Nikola Tesla drank whiskey every day because he thought it would make him live to 150.

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### Amphibians
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#### 25 Amphibians Facts that will surprise you

1. Amphibians are cold-blooded animals that can stay both in water and on land.
2. Turtles have been on the earth for more than 200 million years. *Amazingly* they evolved before mammals, birds, crocodiles, snakes, and even lizards.
3. Sea turtles excrete salt absorbed in seawater from their eyes, which is why they seem to cry.
4. The shell of a turtle is *amazingly* made up of 60 different bones all connected together.
5. Most tortoise species can live up to more than a hundred years of age.
6. One can determine the sex of tortoise *amazingly* by their tail. Male tortoises have long tails whereas females have short tails. Male tails are kept tucked to the side.
7. Giant tortoises keep growing their whole lives.
8. It's *amazing* that tortoises drink water through their noses. Also, tortoises do not have teeth.
9. The adult tortoises can survive for many years without access to the water.
10. Adwaita, the giant tortoise was documented to have lived *amazingly* for about 255 years! It was originally owned by General Robert Clive of the East India Company. It died in 2006 in an Indian zoo. Scientists carbon dated his shell to around the year 1750!
11. It's amazing that sea turtles can go for many months without eating or drinking.
12. Turtles don’t have vocal cords but they can still make noises.
13. The leatherback is the biggest sea turtle at 6 1/2 ft long and it can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds.
14. *The fact* is you can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
15. Some land turtles can actually outrun a human on level ground.
16. In turtles, *amazingly* the intestine is also used for respiration, as it takes in oxygen. That's how they stay underwater for so long.
17. You will find male sea turtles on land only when they hatch out; otherwise, they never come to the earth's surface. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survive after hatching.
18. When the frog blinks, its eyeballs are pushed downwards creating a bulge in the roof of its mouth which squeezes the food inside the frog's mouth down the back of its throat.
19. *The amazing fact* is the poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
20. Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
21. A frog (Amphibians) can taste its food by touching it with its eye.
22. *Amazingly* the bee frog of Africa is no bigger than a bee.
23. Unlike a frog, a toad cannot jump.
24. Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners of their eyes.
25. Salamander's breath through their skin.

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### Random Amazing Facts
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#### 15 Random Amazing Facts

1. The fact is that all the American flags planted on the moon are now white due to continuous radiation from the sun and the absence of the atmosphere.
2. The amazing fact is that if the Sun is brought down to the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way would be the size of the continental United States.
3. In 1998, Venus and Serena Williams challenged any male ranked below 200th in the world. A man ranked 203 amazingly beat both of them after playing a round of golf.
4. It's amazing that an average American eats about the same amount of sugar in five days that the average American 200 years ago consumed all year.
5. The amazing fact is that the Russian Army started wearing socks only recently.
6. Singapore has such a low birth rate that there is a government program set up to help people assist in getting children.
7. In Poland, near Gryfino, a mysterious forest has 400 pine trees, all with an amazing 90-degree bend at the base of their trunks, all facing northward.
8. By the year 2020, 24 million Chinese men will be unable to find a spouse due to the gender imbalance.
9. One of the perks of being an Oscar-winner is that you can have your Oscar repaired for free by the Academy.
10. The world’s tallest man, Bao Xishun, used his incredibly long arms (1.06m) to remove plastic from the stomachs of two dolphins, which amazingly saved their lives after all other attempts failed.
11. Australia’s largest-ever petition of 792,985 signatures was submitted to the parliament in 2000 to protest against rising beer prices.
12. The national animal of North Korea is the Chollima, a mythical winged horse that they made up.
13. The first mutiny in space occurred in 1974 aboard the Skylab 4 space station due to the exhaustive workload assigned to the astronauts.
14. There is a British soap opera named “Coronation Street” that was first aired in 1960 and is still running. They have aired over 8000 episodes.
15. The Catholic Church unknowingly made Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) a saint after the Christianization of his life story in the 14th century.

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### Mammals
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#### 60 Amazing Facts about Mammals that will surprise you

1. Mammals are warm-blooded animals with a backbone. They have lungs to breathe. Mammals give birth to live babies and produce milk.
2. All mammals have hair or fur.
3. The [amazing fact](https://amazingfacts4u.com/) is that in the past 100 years, humans have caused the extinction of over 90 mammals!
4. The fact is only 3% of mammal species are monogamous.
5. A 67 million-year-old dinosaur mummy was found in 2007 in North Dakota!
6. Dinosaurs walked on their toes.
7. The amazing fact is that a rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
8. Rhinos are part of the same family as horses.
9. Cats, Camels, and Giraffes are the only animals that walk right, right, left, left rather than right foot, left foot.
10. Amazingly when two zebras stand side by side, they usually face in opposite directions so that they can keep an eye out for predators.
11. The amazing fact is that a donkey's eyes are placed in such a manner that it can see all four of its feet at all times.
12. Fact is donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
13. Amazingly all mammals, except man and monkey are color blind.
14. The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
15. The fact is the wild panda's diet consists of 99 % bamboo.
16. Sea otters have the thickest fur of all animals.
17. Otters hold hands when sleeping so they don’t drift away from each other.
18. The amazing fact is that seals sleep only about one and a half minutes each time.
19. Manatees are mammals and must surface to breathe every 5 to 10 Minutes or they will drown.
20. Fact is manatees is the only completely herbivorous marine mammal in the entire world.
21. It is not possible for a pig to look up at the sky. A pig is the only animal that can get sunburned.
22. Pigs cannot sweat because they don't have sweat glands. Instead, they roll around in the mud to keep cool.
23. Fact is goat's milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow's milk.
24. Amazingly goats have rectangular pupils. This gives goats vision covering 320 – 340 degrees; this means they can see virtually all around them without having to move (humans have vision covering 160 – 210 degrees).
25. Sheep can detect other sheep faces as humans do. Amazing thing is that they can remember up to 50 sheep faces
26. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.
27. Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal wallets and purses, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
28. Monkeys can go bald in old age, just like humans can.
29. The amazing fact is that the mandrill baboon has a red nose, blue cheeks, and an orange beard!
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31. Rabbits never walk or trot, but always hop or leap.
32. Rabbits and guinea pigs can't sweat.
33. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning its head are the Rabbit and the Parrot.
34. Amazingly the blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
35. At an average speed of 15 Feet per day, the sloth is amazingly the slowest animal on earth.
36. Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
37. Sloths only leave their tree once a week.
38. The fact is millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
39. The Platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
40. The duckbill platypus can store amazing six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
41. Armadillos spend about 80% of their lives asleep.
42. All porcupines can float in water as they have hollow quills. They are great swimmers.
43. The typical porcupine's body is covered amazingly by 30,000 razor-sharp quills.
44. A bull known as Starbuck has fathered more than 200,000 cows! Sales of his semen amounted to an astonishing $25 million over his lifetime. This represented about 685,000 doses sold in 45 countries.
45. Armadillos is the only animal besides humans that can catch leprosy.
46. The heart of a hamster beats over 450 times a minute while a whale's heart beats just 20 times a minute.
47. Amazingly cows and deer face north or south to gaze. They do this all over the world.
48. It's amazing that Koalas sleep 22 hours a day. They will stay in the same tree for days.
49. The platypus does not suckle its young as other mammals do. It does not have nipples, but it exudes milk from specialized sweat glands on its abdomen.
50. The 'law of urination' says that all mammals - regardless of size - pee for 21 seconds!
51. An amazing fact is that a pioneer named Thomas Austin brought 24 rabbits from England to his property in Australia for hunting in the 1800s. In 61 years its population grew to 400 million! It was the fastest spread ever recorded of any mammal anywhere in the world.
52. European hares can get pregnant while already pregnant. The result is that the time between births gets reduced from 42 days to 38 days with the ability for "double" pregnancy.
53. Zebras are black with white stripes and not the other way round!
54. All cattle and deer sleep with their heads pointing north! This was not known until 2008.
55. Sloths mistakenly grab their arms instead of the branches of a tree, and they fall to their deaths.
56. The loudest land animal is the Howler monkey whose deep growls can travel up to 3 miles in the forest.
57. Squirrels forget where about 50% of the nuts they’ve hidden are.
58. Did you know a slug has not only one nose but four? What a lot of people call a nose on a slug is actually a breathing pore called a pneumostome.
59. The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.
60. South American Giant Anteater eats over 30,000 ants, per day.

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### Awesome Facts
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#### 15 Awesome Facts

1. It's amazing that in Iceland, they have an app to detect whether or not your date is a relative, due to the country’s small population.
2. The awesome fact is that the decision to ground all planes in the U.S. on September 11th was made by one man, Ben Sliney, one of the FAA’s National Operations Managers. It’s amazing that it was his first day in that position.
3. Swiss researchers found that out of 37 million companies worldwide, 147 firms amazingly control about 40% of global wealth, and 737 control 80%.
4. The awesome fact is that in 2005, Swedish millionaire, Johan Eliasch purchased a 400,000-acre plot of land in the Amazon rainforest from a logging company for the sole purpose of its preservation.
5. If an ant gets drunk, amazingly his fellow comrade will forcibly carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol.
6. The awesome fact is that people of the Mongol empire never washed their clothes or themselves due to their belief that washing would pollute the water and anger the dragons that controlled the water cycle.
7. Only Two Words in English contain all the Vowels in Order: ‘Facetiously’ and ‘Abstemiously’
8. Italy has a 13-foot tall sculpture of a middle finger in front of their stock exchange
9. An amazing fact and a very closely guarded secret for many, many years are that a number of American POWs were held where the Hiroshima A-bomb was dropped.
10. A woman jumped off of the Eiffel Tower and landed on a car and survived, then later married the car’s owner.
11. Volkswagen owns some of the most prestigious car brands in the world, namely Porsche, Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini.
12. Amazingly over 80% of the world’s eyewear manufacturer and retailer brands are owned and operated by Luxottica Group. This is the main reason why glasses are so expensive due to monopoly.
13. There is a beer pipeline laid in Germany.
14. 25% of the world’s gold reserves are reportedly held in a vault underneath the island of Manhattan USA.
15. There was supposed to be a Pinocchio film released in 1936, predating Disney’s Pinocchio by four years. It was the first Italian animated film, but for unknown reasons, the film was never completed and it is considered lost.

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### Scientists
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#### 50 Awesome and Amazing Scientist Facts

1. Amazingly Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.
2. Alexander Graham Bell never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
3. Karl Benz invented the car with a four-stroke cycle gasoline engine in 1885\. He received a patent in January 1886\. The diesel engine was invented by Rudolf Diesel in 1910.
4. The amazing fact is that Marie and Irene Curie are the only mother and daughter to win Nobel prizes with their husbands.
5. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who discovered radium, died on July 4, 1934, of radiation poisoning.
6. Marie Curie was the only person to win two different Nobel Prizes, one for chemistry and one for physics.
7. An amazing fact is when Charles Darwin published his theory on human evolution in 1871, not a single fossil that was known to be pre-human had been found to back up his ideas.
8. Charles Darwin took a long time before deciding his marriage with his first cousin Emma Wedgwood. It was quite amazing that Darwin who gave significant importance to the science of genetics in natural selection decided to marry his first cousin.
9. Darwin was a religious person. He was known to recite passages of the bible on the expedition, helping the co-workers to keep peace of mind. But after the death of his 10-year-old daughter Annie, He is said to have lost his faith in the religion.
10. The amazing fact is that Ernest Duchesne, French Physician discovered penicillin 32 years before Alexander Fleming, but he was ignored because he was only 23! Due to his age, though, his research went unrecognized and he was unable to continue research himself, because of his army service.
11. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, was actually afraid of the dark.
12. Amazingly during one four-year period, Thomas Edison obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.
13. Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
14. At the age of 10, Edison built his first laboratory in the basement of his house.
15. Edison volunteered to electrocute an aggressive circus elephant ”Topsy” in 1903 with 6600 volts to prove Tesla's AC current was dangerous.
16. Thomas Edison had a collection of 5000 birds.
17. Two years after his first wife Mary died. Edison accidentally met young Mina Miller. It was like love at first sight for both of them. Edison even taught her the secret code language called Morse code tapping language so that they can communicate with one another by tapping into each other's hands. One day Thomas Edison proposed to her by tapping and Mina tapped in yes reply and soon they got married.
18. Edison invented the first unofficial tattoo machine which worked with stencil-pen. The stencil pen was patented by Edison year 1876\. on his left arm, Edison had a tattoo formed of five dots. Samuel O’Reilly modified Edison’s the tattoo machine to be called the inventor of the first tattoo machine.
19. Albert Einstein never wore any socks.
20. Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car. He also couldn’t swim, but he loved sailing.
21. The amazing fact is that Albert Einstein's parents were told that their son was an idiot. In fact, he couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday.
22. Einstein Failed his University Entrance Exam and had to reapply a year later.
23. Albert Einstein charged between $1 and $5 for his autographs! All the proceeds from this, he gave to charity. He also donated his speaker fees for giving speeches. He would earn almost $1000 per speech.
24. Einstein had a daughter born out of wedlock with his former research student Mileva Marić in the year 1902, whom he married later. Einstein never saw Lieserl, the illegitimate daughter, and her fate is not known.
25. The fact is Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel which he politely declined.
26. Einstein was famous for having a bad memory. He could not remember the names, dates, and phone numbers.
27. The amazing fact is that Einstein never received a Nobel prize for his theory of relativity. It was actually for the photoelectric effect.
28. Amazingly Einstein's Nobel Prize money went to his ex-wife as a divorce settlement.
29. After his death in 1955, Einstein's brain was removed - without permission from his family by Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the Princeton Hospital pathologist who conducted the autopsy. Harvey even went on to exhibit Einstein’s brain by keeping it in the jar as he went in his car on a cross-country trip to California.
30. Benjamin Franklin was the youngest son of the youngest son of the youngest son of the youngest son.
31. Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal glasses.
32. Rosalind Franklin was the woman behind Watson and Crick's double helix DNA model. She did all the experiments but died before she was paid credit. Watson and Crick merely took her results and interpreted them.
33. Galileo was sent to the monastery of Jesuit to study medicine. But after spending four years of his time he decided to become a monk. His family and especially his father was upset and left him on his own. His father came to him later, when he was a defrocked priest.
34. The battle against the Catholic Roman Church forced Galileo to face trials. The Church found him guilty of spreading unethical and deceitful information in society. He was imprisoned. He was made to revile his own studies and theories. All his work was prohibited from publishing or studying further.
35. Amazingly nearly four hundred years after Galileo's death, the Roman Catholic Church realized the blunder it had made a few centuries ago. And some of them even apologized for the mistakes. Following this, a decision on erecting a statue of Galileo inside the Vatican was considered.
36. Galileo was a very devoted Catholic and remained the same until his death. But he never thought of marrying the mother of his three children.
37. Amazingly Galileo sold his telescope to Venice because he needed money to support his illegitimate children!
38. Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenohrl published the basic equation E = mc2 a year before Einstein did.
39. An amazing coincidence is that Hawking was born on Jan. 8, 1942, which just happened to be the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death.
40. Newton was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1689 and served for exactly one year. Amazingly during that time, he said one and only one sentence during the lengthy proceedings: He asked a nearby usher to close an open, drafty window!
41. The Bible was Sir Isaac's greatest passion. Amazingly he wrote more about religion than about science and mathematics!
42. Sir Isaac Newton was in fact an ordained priest in the Church of England.
43. Amazingly Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas day in 1642, the same day Galileo died.
44. Louis Pasteur, a French biologist while working on Rabies vaccine kept a loaded gun at the lab. Amazingly if anyone including himself was to get infected, he was to be shot in the head. He produced the first vaccine for rabies, saving the life of a young boy in 1885.
45. Pythagoras believed in a complete prohibition on touching or eating beans. Legend has it that after being chased from his house by attackers, he came upon a bean field, where he allegedly decided he would rather die than enter the field and his attackers killed him.
46. The amazing fact is that Jonas Salk declined to patent his polio vaccine. "There is no patent," he said. "Could you patent the sun?"
47. The amazing fact is that mathematician William Shanks spent 15 years calculating the value of pi to 707 places but he made a mistake on the 528th digit. This discovery was made over 60 years after his death. He had accidentally written a 5 instead of a 4, which threw off the next 179 calculations!
48. Arnold Sommerfield, a theoretical physicist was nominated for the Nobel Prize 81 times and never won!
49. Joseph Swan invented the light bulb in 1879, one year before Thomas Edison did. However, Swan didn't patent the idea. Later both formed joint companies.
50. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was one of science's unsung heroes. He arrived in America from Serbia in 1884 and quickly went to work for Thomas Edison, making key breakthroughs in radio, robotics, and electricity. He became obsessed with the number 3, walking around a building three times before entering it. And at each meal, he would use exactly 18 napkins to polish the utensils until they sparkled.

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### Enthralling Facts
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#### 15 Enthralling Facts

1. When you look up at the blue sky and see white dots flying around, *amazingly* you’re actually seeing your own white blood cells.
2. *An Enthralling Facts* is “North Star” or the Polaris is actually a set of three stars orbiting each other.
3. Yungay, Peru was the site of the deadliest avalanche in history. In 1962, two American scientists *amazingly* predicted the calamity and were consequently forced to flee by the government. Eight years later, their prediction came true and 20,000 people were killed in a day.
4. *An Enthralling Facts* is that Until World War II, tea was still used as a form of currency in Siberia.
5. When preparing for his role in The Last of the Mohicans (1992), actor Daniel Day-Lewis in *fact* taught himself how to live as a survivalist and refused to eat anything that he hadn’t killed himself.
6. The world’s biggest helicopter MI 26 can carry other smaller airplanes and even helicopters.
7. Usain Bolt ate nothing but chicken nuggets while he was in Beijing because that was “the only thing he knew” and won 3 gold medals.
8. If you microwave a sliced grape, it can *amazingly* explode in a fireball of super-heated plasma.
9. The longest prison sentence ever requested was 384,912 years of jail, against a 22 years old postman in Spain, who was accused of failing to deliver 42,768 letters. This sentence was requested by the prosecutor, while actually he was sentenced only to 14 years and 2 months of imprisonment.
10. Dolphins give each other names and will answer to them even when called by dolphins they don’t know.
11. The only coup in the history of the United States took place in North Carolina in 1898\. The plotters kidnapped the mayor of Wilmington and installed their own mayor.
12. Nazis formed a plan in 1939 to counterfeit the British pound to cause hyperinflation. Using a German concentration camp, they manufactured 132 million GBP, which is the equivalent of 6-7 billion modern-day pounds, and partially succeeded.
13. There is a population of radioactive wild boars in Germany, contaminated by radioactivity left over from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown over two decades ago and their number is rising.
14. The first-ever proposal to tunnel under the English Channel was in *fact* put forward by a Frenchman in 1802\. It would have had illumination from oil lamps, horse-drawn coaches, and an artificial island mid-channel for changing horses.
15. A Norwegian rockslide (About 8000 years ago) is believed to have created a tsunami so powerful that it turned Britain from a European peninsula into an island.

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### Ancient Civilization
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#### 50 Amazing Facts about Ancient Civilization

1. *Amazingly* the average lifespan of peasants during the medieval ages was 25 years.
2. *Amazingly* in medieval times, only wealthy people were allowed to wear underwear.
3. *The amazing fact* was that in medieval Bagdad if you translate a book into Arabic, you would be given that book's weight in Gold.
4. Angkor Cambodia’s history dates back to the 9th century, the Khmer Empire. *Amazingly* it is the world’s largest single religious monument site with thousands of temples scattered over a large area.
5. Ancient Chinese people chopped food in bite-size pieces because it took less time to cook and it also saved fuel. This gave rise to the need for chopsticks to eat food.
6. *Amazingly* the royal physicians in Ancient China were forbidden from touching the emperors.
7. *An amazing fact* was that visitors to the royal court in China were expected to kneel on the ground and tap their forehead on the ground nine times as a mark of respect to their ruler.
8. Ancient Chinese writers also wrote on bamboo strips before the paper was invented.
9. *The amazing fact* was that in ancient China, doctors would receive the fees only if the patient was cured. If the patient deteriorated, the doctor would have to pay the patient.
10. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
11. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
12. Egyptian workers were known to organize labor strikes.
13. *Amazingly* in order to deter flies from landing on him, Pepi II of Egypt always kept several naked slaves nearby whose bodies were smeared with honey.
14. It's an *amazing fact* that ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
15. Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lips.
16. Meteorites were very important to ancient Egyptians, they created jewelry from meteorites by hammering them into shape making beads, and other designs. The jewelry was often buried with loved ones.
17. *Amazingly* King Tutankhamun, the most famous of all Egyptian pharaoh's parents were brother and sister.
18. In ancient Egypt, it was *amazing* that actors were not allowed to testify in court as they were regarded as professional liars.
19. The Hanging Gardens, one of the wonders of the World, had a total length of 56 km.
20. The *fact* is Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
21. A human skeleton found in France, nicknamed the Giant of Castelnau, measures 11 feet 6 inches. The bones were estimated to be between 10 and 12 thousand years old.
22. Continuously inhabited for over 7,000 years, Athens is one of the oldest cities in Europe. It is also the birthplace of democracy.
23. The 1st Olympic Games were held in 776 BC at Olympia, Greece which was a religious festival dedicated to the god ZEUS.
24. It was *amazing* thatin ancient Greece if a woman watched an Olympic event, she was executed.
25. The Ancient Greeks also played an important role in the development of the alphabet. The word ‘alphabet’ itself comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - alpha and beta.
26. In ancient Athens, there was a process called Ostracism whereby people could vote once a year for the most destructive politician to the democratic process. The winner was *amazingly* banished for 10 years from Athens.
27. In ancient Greece, *amazingly* children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
28. *Amazingly* at the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city Sparta had only 25000 citizens and over 500,000 slaves.
29. Milo of Croton, a famous Olympic wrestler, was so strong he could bend nails between two fingers and carry a cow on his shoulders.
30. It is *amazing* to know that ancient Greeks did not eat tomatoes, potatoes, oranges, and lemons since these were unknown at that time.
31. Men of ancient Athens rivaled each other in the excellence of their beards. Beard trimming became an art & barbers became leading citizens.
32. Boys in Sparta were sent to military camps at the age of 7\. They learned how to read and write at 14\. Military service lasted until 60.
33. It was *amazing* that the ancient Greeks did not use napkins. Instead, they wiped their hands on pieces of bread that were given to the dogs.
34. Food for the Greeks had religious and philosophical meaning. *Amazingly* they never ate meat unless it had been sacrificed to a god.
35. In the ancient Persian Empire ( Present Iran) people used to debate ideas twice, one in sober and again in a drunk state. *Amazingly* an idea had to be approved in both states to be considered good.
36. Ancient Romans celebrated "Saturnalia", a festival in which slaves and their masters would switch places.
37. The Aztecs in Mexico were known for gruesome and cruel acts performed to appease the gods sacrificing children and virgins. In their civilization, roughly 20,000 people were killed annually in the rituals.
38. Mongols were considered barbarians and savages. One of them was Genghis Khan. *Amazingly* Mongols managed to have the largest contiguous empire in the history of mankind, from Vietnam to Hungary.
39. In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered wed when they exchanged their sandals.
40. The calendar we use was started by Julius Caesar, a Roman ruler. It is based on the movement of the earth around the sun, and so is called the 'solar calendar.'
41. The names of our months are taken from the names of Roman gods and rulers. January is named after Janus. The month 'July,' in fact, is named after Julius Caesar himself!
42. Romans wore wedding rings. And Roman brides wore veils and carried flowers too. The bride and groom signed a contract to become man and wife, just like today.
43. *Amazingly* in Roman times, it was considered to be treason for anyone other than the emperor to dress completely in purple.
44. In ancient Rome, it was *amazing* that a crooked nose was considered a sign of leadership.
45. *Amazingly* Roman laws were carved on twelve tablets. They were actually carved out on rocks so that everyone could know what the laws were.
46. In Ancient Rome, crowds used the thumbs-up sign to encourage the winning gladiator to actually kill his opponent.
47. The people of Sparta would abandon their newborn babies on a mountain to die if they didn't appear strong enough.
48. Roman emperor Caligula *amazingly* made his horse, incitatus an official Roman Senator.
49. *Amazingly* the black death reduced the population of Europe by two-thirds during the 4 year period from 1347 to 1351 during which 50 million people died.
50. Notorious for terrorizing through Europe, the Vikings were ferocious warriors who firmly believed that all people had a purpose in this life to fight to the death.

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### Facts about Authors
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#### 25 Amazing and Little Known Facts about Authors | Amazing Facts 4U

1. *Amazingly* Giacomo Casanova (1725-98) wrote his memoir in 12 Volumes, "The Story of My Life" running to 3,600 pages. It was written in French because Casanova thought it more sophisticated than his native Italian. It was published for the full first time in 1960.
2. Mystery writer, Agatha Christie, once *amazingly* disappeared for 3 months. She never revealed why or where she was.
3. Agatha Christie wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym, Mary Westmacott.
4. *Amazingly* Charles Dickens had to be facing north before he could write a word.
5. The author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, was an ophthalmologist, an eye doctor. He had to take up writing to make ends meet.
6. *The amazing fact* is that before writing 007 novels, Ian Fleming studied languages at Munich and Geneva universities, worked with Reuters in Moscow, and then became a banker and stockbroker.
7. The most expensive book is The Task by Tomas Alexander Hartmann. It has an *amazing* value from the author for 213 million U.S. dollars. It's only 13 pages long.
8. In the book, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is one sentence that is an *amazing* 823 words long.
9. Between 1986 and 1996, Brazilian author Jose Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue had a massive *amazing* 1,058 novels published.
10. *Amazingly* Stephen King received 60 rejection notices before his first short story was published!
11. During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only sold 50 copies.
12. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story in 1838, titled "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket." In the story, three shipwreck survivors in an open boat kill and eat the fourth man, named Richard Parker. In 1884, three real-life shipwreck survivors in an open boat killed and ate the fourth man, whose name was also Richard Parker.
13. Columnist and author Marilyn Vos Savant holds a Guinness world record for the highest IQ ever recorded, scoring a whopping 228 on the IQ test.
14. Dr. Seuss wrote a novel "Green Eggs & Ham" using only 50 different words winning an *amazing* bet against his publisher who claimed it can't be done. It became one of the best-selling children's books of all time.
15. As a young man, William Shakespeare was caught poaching on another person's property and sent into exile as punishment.
16. *The amazing fact* is that George Bernard Shaw is the only person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar!
17. Sidney Sheldon didn't start writing novels until he was in his fifties.
18. French author Michel Thaler published an *amazing* 233-page novel that has no verbs.
19. Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clements. Mark twain was a Mississippi riverboat term meaning mark number two. It was the second mark on the line that measured the depth of the river and signified two fathoms, or twelve feet, a safe depth for the steamboat.
20. *An amazing fact is* Mark Twain was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view.
21. When Mark Twain died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
22. Mark Twain first learned to ride a bicycle at age 55.
23. It took Noah Webster 36 years to write his first dictionary.
24. *The amazing fact* is that Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel in 1939, 'Gadsby', which contains over 50,000 words, none of them with the letter E!
25. Virginia Wolfe wrote all her books standing.

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### Politicians
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#### 30 Little known Facts About Politicians Amazing Facts 4U

1. When Castro took power in Cuba, he amazingly destroyed every copy of Monopoly!
2. Amazingly Cuban leader Fidel Castro has appeared in two-holiday movies made in 1946 as a background extra.
3. Fidel Castro (Politicians) was voted “Cuba’s best schoolboy athlete” in 1944.
4. Fidel Castro tried out for the Washington Senators baseball team but didn’t make it onto the team.
5. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
6. The amazing fact is that Winston Churchill, feared January 24 because he was certain it was destined to be the day of his death. Churchill's father had died on that date. Churchill did indeed die on January 24, 1965.
7. Winston Churchill’s severe stutter made him a great speaker! Amazingly almost every single witty retort or ingenious speech was written days in advance to be said. Churchill would spend hours and hours studying and practicing.
8. In his first year of Harrow, Amazingly Winston Churchill was at the bottom of the whole school!
9. Benjamin Franklin (Politicians) was the youngest son of the youngest son of the youngest son of the youngest son.
10. Amazingly Al Gore invented the words "internet" and "Global warming".
11. There were amazing 42 known assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler.
12. Ultimately, Hitler took his own life on April 30, 1945\. He shot himself in the head with his own pistol.
13. The fact is Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and had only one testicle.
14. Hitler was a tax evader. When he became chancellor of Germany in 1934 he had evaded paying 405,500 million Reichsmarks in tax (6.3 million USD in today’s currency). Fortunately for Hitler, he was forgiven his tax debts when he was elected.
15. In 1938, Time Magazine chose Adolf Hitler for a man of the year.
16. Amazingly Hitler and Mussolini both feared cats.
17. Hitler had a portrait of Henry Ford behind his desk regarding him as an "inspiration".
18. Hitler was saved from drowning by a priest when he was 4 years old.
19. Hitler’s first love was a Jewish girl. Lacking courage, he never spoke to her.
20. Hitler led the first anti-smoking campaign in modern history.
21. During the first world war, a British soldier spared the life of a wounded German soldier, Adolf Hitler.
22. The amazing fact is that Saddam Hussein had a Koran that was written in his own blood over a period of 2 years!
23. Ignace Paderewski, one of the greatest concert pianists of all time, was also the premiere of Poland.
24. Kim II Sung, the founder of North Korea was born on the day the Titanic sunk.
25. The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has a second job! Amazingly he teaches History at a high school in The Hague two hours each week!
26. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in USA history.
27. Time magazine named Joseph Stalin Man of the Year in 1942.
28. Amazingly Stalin didn't start learning Russian until he was 8\. His mother tongue was Georgian.
29. Stalin's guards were so much afraid of him that no one called a doctor until 12 hours after he suffered a stroke.
30. The amazing fact was that they feared that in case he recovered, they may be executed for acting outside his orders.

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### Cars
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#### 45 Awesome and Amazing Cars Facts

1. In 1478 Leonardo da Vinci sketched drawings for a self-propelled vehicle.
2. The first working automobiles didn’t come out until the late 1800s.
3. *Amazingly* Vaclav Laurin and Vaclav Klement both Czechs started off with a small bicycle company in the early 1890s later on becoming Skoda.
4. In the entire state of Ohio there were 2 cars on the roads in 1895\. *Amazingly* both cars had an accident colliding with one another. In 1895 there were only 4 registered passenger vehicles in the US.
5. *Amazing fact* is that steering wheels were not equipped on the first cars made. Drivers used a lever to steer.
6. In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket , fining a man for *amazing* 6 Miles per hour.
7. *Amazing fact* is that the average car has 30,000 parts.
8. *Amazingly* the "new car smell" is composed of over 50 volatile organic compounds.
9. The first car race in the US took place in 1895 from Chicago to Waukegan, Illinois. Due to snow , only 6 cars started out of 80 entries. Only 2 finished a course of 20 miles. Winner had speed of 7.5 miles per hour.
10. The first traffic lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914.
11. *Amazing fact* is that Bentley the luxury car company was founded in 1919 but it produced only engine and chassis and no complete car for about 27 years.
12. Charles Creighton and James Hargis in 1930, drove a Ford Model A roadster from New York City to Los Angeles without stopping the engine once. The two men then promptly drove back to New York, completing the 7,180-mile round-trip in forty-two days. *Amazing fact* was on both journeys, the car was driven exclusively in reverse.
13. A car operates at maximum economy gas wise at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
14. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for 1 minute. Half an ounce is used to start automobile.
15. *Amazingly* a car traveling at 80km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
16. *Amazing fact* is that 92% of all new sold cars in Brazil use ethanol as fuel, which is produced from sugar cane.
17. Most American Car horns sound at the key of F .
18. The *fact* is that cars are one of the most dangerous mode of transport . 1 million people die each year due to accidents.
19. At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much down force that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
20. *Amazing fact* is that 75% of cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road today.
21. The world's widest road is the Monumental Axis in Brazil, which has enough space for 160 cars to drive side by side.
22. *Amazingly* the best-selling car of all time is the Toyota Corolla, which sold a staggering 30 million.
23. Airbags move up to *amazing* 4500 mph when deployed. It takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.
24. *Amazingly* the United States has one car for every person including babies!
25. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
26. Bentley takes *amazing* 15 hours to create one steering wheel as the process of creation is too complicated for a machine.
27. *Amazingly* Ferrari only builds 14 cars each day.
28. *Amazing fact* is that the world's cheapest car is manufactured in India and is called the "TATA Nano" costing $2000.
29. The most expensive car in the world is the Bugatti Veyron super sport which is priced at $2,500,000.
30. *Amazingly* Rolls-Royce refused to sell its Phantom IV to anyone other than a member of the Royal Family.
31. The longest custom-built car is *amazing* 16-wheeled, 60ft (18.3 meters) Cadillac limousine. It features a swimming pool, hot tub, helipad, satellite dish, crystal chandelier and has 'ample luggage space'.
32. It's *amazing* that it is illegal to own a Red car in Shanghai , China.
33. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
34. *Amazing fact* is that one gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
35. *Amazingly* no matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
36. The longest track ever used for F1 is Pescara in Italy, at 24.7km.
37. In Rallying your blood group must be displayed on your helmet or overalls.
38. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
39. *Amazingly* there are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.
40. The world’s largest traffic jam was *amazing* 110 miles long, between Paris and Lyon.
41. A mid-sized car launched today generates only an estimated 5% of the pollution which was generated by a car from fifty years ago.
42. *Amazing fact* is that engine on the BMW M5 is so quiet that the company plays fake engine noises through the speakers to let driver know it is running.
43. License plates in the Canadian North West territories used to be shaped like polar bear.
44. Lamborghini cars were the result of a tractor company owner insulted by the founder of Ferrari.
45. *Amazingly* BMW had to recall their original GPS system because male German drivers refused to take directions from female voice.

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### Currency
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Last updated: 2025-04-20T09:30:47.000Z
#### 45 Amazing and Awesome Facts About Currency

1. *Amazingly* until the U.S. federal reserve was created in 1908, individual banks could print their own money.
2. The first credit card, issued in 1950, was Diner's Club.
3. Frank X. McNamara started Diner's club with 200 card holders.
4. *Amazing fact* is that only 8 % of the world currency is in physical form. Rest of it only exists in computers.
5. Amazingly one penny doubled every day becomes over 5 million dollars in just 30 days.
6. The *fact* is it costs only 3 cents to make any dollar bill in USA. It lasts about 18 Months.
7. The United States nickel (five cent piece) is made of 75% copper and 25% nickel.
8. Pennies are made of 95% copper and 5% zinc.
9. A Penny costs 2.4 cents to manufacture.
10. Coins usually survive in circulation for about 30 years.
11. *Amazingly* changing the US $1 bill for a US $1 coin would save US$4.4 billion in 30 years.
12. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, *amazingly* it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950\. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
13. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. The quarter has 119 and the half-dollar has 150\. Ridges help the visually impaired identify certain coins.
14. The $1 bill’s famous nickname of “Greenback” derives from the Demand Note dollars created by Abraham Lincoln in the late 1800s to finance the Civil War. These notes were printed in black and green on the back side.
15. *Amazing fact* is that in 1916, you could get your money laundered for free! If your money was in good enough shape, you could take it to Washington, D.C., where it could be washed, ironed and reissued.
16. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
17. *Amazingly* the motto “In God We Trust” did not appear on paper currency until 1963.
18. On the $1 bill the Latin above the pyramid, ANNUIT COEPTIS, means "God has favored our undertaking”.
19. The Latin below the pyramid on the $1 bill, NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, means "a new order for the ages”.
20. The so-called "all-seeing eye" that sits atop the pyramid on dollar bills was included as a reflection of divine providence.
21. At the base of the pyramid on the $1 bill you will find “1776” in Roman Numerals.
22. The number 172 can be seen on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
23. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
24. The *fact* is that the security thread in bills $5 and higher will turn blue if they are held under ultraviolet light.
25. Amazingly there are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
26. *Amazing fact* is that the elm tree on back of the $20 bill near the White House represents a real tree in this same location. However, the tree is no longer on the White House grounds because it succumbed to rain-softened ground in 2006.
27. The new $100 bill has the words ‘THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’ printed in tiny script on the collar of Benjamin Franklin’s jacket.
28. *Amazingly* only one woman has ever appeared on United States paper currency. That sole distinction belongs to our original first lady, Martha Washington, who appeared on a set of $1 Silver Certificates in the late 19th century.
29. On the new $100 bill, the clock tower of Independence Hall in Philadelphia is shown with the time set at 4:10.
30. High-denomination bills ($500-$100,000 notes) are technically legal tender, but were last printed in 1945 and officially discontinued on Jul 14, 1969 by President Nixon to fight organized crime.
31. *Amazing fact* is that on a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
32. US Dollar bills are made of 25 percent linen and 75 percent cotton paper. Red and blue synthetic fibers of various lengths are distributed evenly throughout the paper. Prior to World War I, the fibers were made of silk.
33. *Amazingly* 97% of all paper money have been found to contain traces of cocaine.
34. It would take *amazing* 4,000 double folds (first forward, and then backwards) before a note will tear.
35. The Office of Currency Standards will replace any damaged note if you can present to officials 51 % of the note.
36. U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .004375 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.
37. It would take *amazing* fourteen and half million notes of currency to build a mile high stack.
38. If you placed 1 million of them in a neat square, it would measure about four feet tall, four feet wide and four feet thick weighing 1 Ton.
39. The life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years.
40. The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
41. *Amazingly* you can give change for a dollar in 293 different coin variations.
42. The *fact* is that some people consider the $1 bill unlucky because there are so many 13's on it: 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even an olive branch with 13 leaves on it.
43. *Amazing fact* is that there was actually a $100,000 dollar bill. It's now worth $1.6 million. This dollar bill was only used for official transactions between Federal Reserve banks. It was never circulated among the public. It features President Woodrow Wilson on the front.
44. The “Secret Service” well known for it’s role in guarding president was started in 1865 to control counterfeit money at a time when one third of the notes in circulation were fake.
45. *Amazing fact* is that drug lord Pablo Escobar had so much cash that rats ate almost $1 billion of his money each year.

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### Google
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#### 30 Amazing Facts About Google | Amazing Facts 4U

1. The glorious history of Google started with two students Larry Page, 23, and Sergey Brin, 24, who were pursuing their Ph.D. at Stanford University.
2. Amazingly the name ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word ‘googol’, which is a very large number to describe a one followed by 100 zeroes. It was first used by a 9-year-old, Milton Sirotta, in 1940.
3. The fact is that google’s homepage has been known for its simplicity. The simplicity and minimal design are one of the major reasons why Google became more popular than its competitors like MSN, Yahoo!, and AltaVista. Amazingly the minimal design was actually created because of the limited knowledge that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had of HTML. They just provided a quick interface.
4. Amazingly Google has a guideline that the number of words on Google’s home page should not exceed 28.
5. Google has its homepage available in 88 different languages.
6. The infamous “I feel lucky” is rarely used. However, in trials, it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button. The amazing fact is that this button probably costs google $ 100 million a year in lost ad revenue.
7. It is amazing that Google has changed its logo over a thousand times!
8. Amazingly you can see every Google logo made by clicking “I’m Feeling Lucky” without a search term!
9. Google’s core search engine ranking system is called PageRank. Each page is assigned a rank that determines its ranking in the search engine results. But the term is not taken from its function; it’s actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.
10. The most intriguing part of the Page Rank method is that it works by assigning ranks to the pages based on the valid backlinks to a website. That is why initially it was named “Backrub” by its inventors.
11. The amazing fact is that if you type "google gravity" and click " I'm feeling lucky", the entire page will lose its gravity and you get to play with it.
12. If you search the word ‘recursion’ on Google, it will ask if you meant ‘recursion.’
13. In the year 1997, the amazing fact is that Yahoo rejected an offer to buy Google for $1 million and now the company is worth $20 billion, whereas Google has grown up to $200 Billion.
14. It's amazing that google uses over 1 million computers for its operation and handles over 1 billion search requests per day. Google processes around 20 petabytes / 10^15 bytes of information Data daily, which is an unbelievable number.
15. Google has the world’s largest network of translators. You can translate amazingly from 345 source language to 345 target languages from this network.
16. Google pays Mozilla Millions of dollars a year. They see themselves as partners, not competitors, to make the web better so Google's contribution provides nearly all of Mozilla's revenue. As part of the deal, Mozilla makes Google the default search provider in its Firefox web browser.
17. Gmail was used internally for nearly 2 years prior to launch to the public. They discovered there were 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.
18. YouTube co-founder Steve Chen met with executives at both Google and Yahoo! They did not want to meet at offices so they decided to meet over mozzarella sticks at Denny’s in Palo Alto. Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang came to one of those meetings. Google ended up outbidding Yahoo! for YouTube.
19. Google Earth reached 1-billion downloads in 2011.
20. Google has designed amazing driverless cars based around a modified Toyota Prius. Google was granted a license to test its cars in Nevada.
21. Google’s headquarters are known as the Googleplex. Googleplex combines the words Google and complex. It's also a play on the word googolplex which is a huge number ( A googol is 10^100 .A googolplex is 10 to the power of googol!)
22. Amazingly google offices do not have a dress code. A Googler can wear anything to the office.
23. Google believes that its employees should not have to go more than 150 feet for food. Therefore, it has food stations placed everywhere within 150 feet for the employees.
24. A Google employee is named a “Googler” and a new employee is given the name of “Noogler”.
25. Google is a dog-friendly company that allows its employees to bring their well-behaved canines to the office with them.
26. Google encourages its engineers to spend 20% of their time on ideas of their own. Google has many products that came out of this 20% idea.
27. Google provides on-site physicians and nurses, who make sure the employees do not have to leave the campus for medical checkups.
28. Googlers can request to work anywhere for a change of mood. They do not have to go and sit in their cubicles every day.
29. The amazing fact is that if a Google employee dies, their spouse gets half pay for 10 years! In fact, Google employees and their families are covered by travel insurance, even on their personal vacations.
30. Google rents goats from a company called California Grazing. The goats help Google cut down on the amount of weed at the Google headquarters. Google rents 200 goats plus the herder and a border collie to cut the weeds. Google said it is “a lot cuter to watch than lawnmowers.”

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### Crocodile
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Last updated: 2025-04-16T09:30:36.000Z
#### 22 Amazing and Awesome Crocodile Facts | Amazing Facts 4U

1. *Amazingly* crocodiles live on Earth for 240 million years. They appeared at the same time when dinosaurs appeared.
2. The largest crocodile species is the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), encountered from India to northern Australia and Fiji. In can reach 7 m (23 ft) in length and 1 tonne in weight!
3. Crocodiles can live up to 80 years!
4. *The amazing fact* is that crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar .
5. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and it can't stick it out.
6. *Amazing fact* is that crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes. Sex of crocodiles is determined by the incubation temperature. Temperatures below 31.7 degrees Celsius ( 89 Degree F) produce females. Any temperature above that, right up until 34.5 degrees Celsius ( 94 Degree F) produce males and then temperatures above 34.5 degrees Celsius ( 94 Degree F) produce female hatchlings once again. Thus there's only about a 3 degree Celcius range in which males are produced.
7. *Amazingly* crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper and also to ensure faster grinding of the food in their stomach.
8. Each crocodile jaw carries 24 sharp teeth meant to grasp and crush. *Amazingly* crocodiles can't chew.
9. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeball . It will *amazingly* let you go instantly.
10. The digestive system of crocodile is *amazingly* strong that it can digest steel , feather , bone etc.
11. Crocodiles can swim at 25 mph just with the help of their powerful tail.
12. The eyes, nose and ears are high up on the top of the skull, so that the crocodile can be almost completely submerged, yet *amazingly* it can still hear, see and breathe.
13. The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, you should run in a zigzag motion since the crocodile can’t change direction suddenly. The fastest Crocodile can run at speed of 28 miles an hour which is equal to a fastest man.
14. Many times crocodiles stay on the river banks mouth wide open. *Fact* is that it isn't an aggressive posture, but a way to cool off. They sweat through the mouth as they don't have sweat glands.
15. If you turn on a lantern at night in waters populated by crocodiles, you will *amazingly* see pairs of shiny red dots. These are the crocodiles' eyes which have a layer called tapetum behind their retina, containing crystals that reflect light and make possible the night vision.
16. *Amazingly* 99% of the crocodile offspring are eaten in the first year of life by other predators including other crocodiles.
17. The muscles that close a crocodile's jaws are capable of generating enormous power, yet the muscles that open the jaws have *amazingly* little strength. Even a thick rubber band around the snout of a crocodile is sufficient to prevent it from opening its mouth.
18. Crocodiles and alligators are not the same. Crocodiles are larger, have V-shaped jaw and some of their teeth can be seen even when the jaw is fully closed. Alligators are smaller, they have U-shaped jaw and their teeth are not visible when jaws are closed. Alligator lives in freshwater environments while crocodiles can handle salty environments.
19. Alligator and crocodile teeth are hollow. The new tooth grows inside the old one in order to be ready once the old tooth is lost.
20. *Amazing fact* is that an alligator has 80 teeth in it's mouth at one time. It can go through 3000 teeth in a lifetime.
21. An alligator cannot move its tongue, and must raise its head to swallow.
22. Alligators can go without food for up to 3 years! Their brain weighs only 8 or 9 grams, which means it can fit in half a tablespoon!

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### Airplanes
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#### 30 Amazing Airplanes Facts You Didn't Know

1. On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright made the first-ever manned flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. His flight lasted 12 seconds and covered a distance of 120 ft. That same day, Orville’s brother Wilbur made his first flight, which lasted 59 seconds, with the same aircraft.
2. Almost five years later, the Wright brothers were the first to fly in an airplane for more than one hour. On Sept 9, 1908, Orville Wright flew for 62 minutes. On Sept 21, 1908, Wilbur Wright flew for 91 minutes.
3. Orville Wright who invented the aircraft was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.
4. Birds were the fastest creatures on Earth until 1919\. At that time, pilots first reached speeds of 190 mph (306 km/hr) beating birds like the peregrine falcon, clocked at speeds nearing 185mph(298km/hr) while diving.
5. Now, pilots can fly at supersonic speeds. Pilots in the fastest aircraft, X-15A-2, can fly Mach 6 (six times the speed of sound) or about 4,500 mph (7,000 km/hr).
6. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel just to take off.
7. There is enough fuel in the Jumbo jet to drive an average car 4 times around the World.
8. The reason why the lights are turned out during takeoff and landing is for your eyes to adjust to lower levels of light if there's an accident.
9. Flights longer than 8 hours require 3 pilots to rotate flying duties. Flights longer than 12 hours require 4 pilots.
10. The outer skin of an airplane is only 5 mm thick. Only 7.5 in (19 cm) separate the passengers from the outside.
11. The wing creates lift as it moves through the air, a process that can be explained by Bernoulli's principle. Because of the airfoil shape, air flows faster over the top than the bottom, creating higher pressure underneath the wing which then pushes the plane up through the lower air pressure.
12. The black box on an airplane is in *fact* bright orange so that it can be easily found among the wreckage.
13. During takeoff, when full of high-pressure air, the takeoff weight is increased by about a ton.
14. Passengers and their luggage account for only 10 % of the aircraft weight.
15. A Boeing 737 weighing 68 Tons must deflect about 40 Tons of air, over a million cubic feet (31,500 cubic meters) down by 55 feet each second while in flight.
16. *The amazing fact* is that seventy-five thousand engineering drawings were used to produce the first 747.
17. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
18. A 747-400 has six million parts (half of which are fasteners) made in 33 different countries.
19. Airplane engines may be classified as driven by propeller, jet, turbojet, or rocket.
20. Each engine on a Boeing 747 weighs almost 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg), cost about $8 million USD.
21. Altogether the four engines account for about 5 percent of the total weight of a full 747 upon takeoff.
22. The fastest passenger aircraft was the concord which is no longer in service.
23. The Boeing 767 aircraft is a collection of 3.1 million parts from 800 different suppliers around the world.
24. A commercial aircraft door will not open in flight because it is actually bigger than the window frame itself.
25. Commercial airlines prohibit the carry mercury thermometers because if such a thermometer were to break and spill on a plane, even a tiny amount of mercury could badly damage the plane's aluminum frame by reacting with it.
26. Modern jet engines are strong enough to turn the Titanic into a speedboat.
27. IFF (Identifies Friend or Foe) on modern aircraft is an electronic component that identifies friendly or enemy aircraft in your surroundings.
28. The first flight attendants had to weigh less than 52 Kg, be unmarried, and be trained nurses.
29. The windows in an airport control tower must be tilted out at exactly fifteen degrees from the vertical to minimize reflections from both inside and outside the control tower.
30. A plane in China had to be pushed half a mile by its passengers and airport staff after landing to clear the runway at Zhengzhou Airport in September 2008\. It took two hours.

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### US Presidents
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#### 75 Amazing and Unknown Facts about US Presidents

1. *Amazingly* in 1841, the 8th 9th and 10th presidents served in an office all in one year. They were Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler.
2. The first lady of the United States doesn't have to be the president's wife. Position can be filled by his daughter, niece, or sister instead.
3. If the president and vice president both resign or die, the Speaker of the House becomes the president.
4. The White House has 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms and 6 levels.
5. The USA President carries his own blood bank in the trunk of his car!
6. Amazing fact is no president of the United states was an only child.
7. *Amazingly* every US president with a beard has been a republican.
8. *Fact* is half of the 42 U.S. Presidents are of Irish descent.
9. The only three US presidents to receive the Nobel Peace Prize were Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Barack Obama.
10. Air Force One is not called Air Force One unless the President is on it.
11. *Amazing fact* is 42 of the 44 US Presidents are related except for Martin Van Buren and Barac Obama . The distant grandfather to which all these presidents can be traced is King John "Lackland" Plantagenet, the King of England in the 13th century.
12. *Amazing* coincidence is that the 2nd president of the United States (John Adams) and 3rd president of the United States (Thomas Jefferson) both died within just a few hours apart of each other on the same exact day of July 4th 1826.
13. James Buchanan has been the only bachelor to serve as the President of the United States .
14. *Amazing* that George H.W. Bush survived 4 plane crashes during WWII.
15. *Fact* is President George H.W. Bush once vomited on the lap of the Japanese prime minister in January 1992.
16. President George W. Bush and playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins !
17. *Amazing fact* is that nine American crewmen survived when their war plane crashed during World War II. Eight of them were captured by the Japanese and eaten. Only one survived because he was picked up by a passing submarine. That survivor was George H.W. Bush.
18. Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.
19. Grover Cleveland, the 24th president of the US, *amazingly* worked briefly as an executioner before becoming president. He hung at least two convicted criminals.
20. *Amazing fact* is former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
21. Calvin Coolidge is the only president born on July 4th, in 1872.
22. *Amazing fact* is the last president that wasn’t a Republican or Democrat was Millard Fillmore in 1853.
23. *Amazingly* Gerald Ford remains the only unelected vice president and president.
24. The 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.
25. *Amazingly* Rutherford Hayes became U.S. President by just one vote.
26. Rutherford Hayes was the first president to have a phone. His phone number was 1.
27. *Amazing fact* is Herbert Hoover, who was the 31st president of the United Stated, turned over all the Federal salary checks he received to charity during the 47 years he was in government.
28. The United States had $ 0 debt only once in 1835 when president Andrew Jackson paid it all off.
29. *Amazingly* Thomas Jefferson was the first American to find a dinosaur fossil on American soil.
30. Thomas Jefferson spent eight years as president. At the time he left office, his bill for wine over those years equaled $11,000, nearly $200,000 today.
31. President Jefferson died a broke man. He sold his collection of books to congress for $25,000 which was the beginning for the library of congress.
32. President Lyndon Johnson owned an amphibious car , the Amphicar and used to scar guests by driving them into his lake screaming about brake failure.
33. In 1963, the year of John F Kennedy's assassination , it was *amazing* that it was not a federal offense to assassinate the president .
34. John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, but he was the first Roman Catholic president.
35. *Amazingly* John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy!
36. JFK’s assistant David Powers was in the car behind him filming everything when he was assassinated, but ran out of film just before the shooting!
37. John F. Kennedy’s father gave him one million dollars when he turned 21.
38. During his presidency John F. Kennedy never collected his salary of $ 150000\. He donated the full amount to charity.
39. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis kept a collection of beer cans from all over the world.
40. It's *amazing* that there are no direct descendants of Abraham Lincoln alive today.
41. Abraham Lincoln was the tallest president (6’4).
42. *Amazing fact* is Abraham Lincoln’s secretary was Mrs. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy’s secretary was Mrs. Lincoln. Both men were assassinated in office.
43. Abraham Lincoln was the first president to ever be photographed at his own inauguration. Ironically, the *amazing* photo also portrays the future assassin of the president, John Wilkes Booth.
44. Lincoln's assassin , John Wilkes Booth was a famous actor and Lincoln himself was a fan of him.
45. Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, brother of his father's killer, John Wilkes Booth.
46. Abe Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame, having lost just once in 300 matches.
47. Amazing fact is Abraham Lincoln created the secret service the day he was shot.
48. Abraham Lincoln had no middle name.
49. Lincoln suffered depression and avoided carrying knives, fearing he would use it on himself.
50. *Amazing* coincidence was that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day , 2 nd February 1809..
51. *Amazingly* Richard M. Nixon was the first president to visit all 50 states.
52. Barack Obama’s presidential limousine is known as “The Beast” and can withstand many different forms of attack.
53. The only president to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan.
54. Ronald Reagan was the oldest president inaugurated at 69 years.
55. Ronald Reagan is the only president to ever have gotten divorced.
56. Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president inaugurated at 42 years.
57. Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an automobile, fly on a plane, and go underwater in a submarine.
58. President Theodore Roosevelt wrote 37 books.
59. Theodore Roosevelt *amazingly* read an average of one book per day even on days he was busy being the president.
60. Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.
61. During the speech in Milwaukee on Oct 14 , 1912, an assassin tried to kill Roosevelt with a gun, but the bullet was slowed down by his dense overcoat, steel-reinforced eyeglass case and 50 page speech papers squeezed into his inner right jacket pocket. Attacker was promptly arrested.
62. *Amazing fact* was Roosevelt promptly told the crowd he’d just been shot in the chest showing blood stained shirt and speech papers with bullet hole and continued giving his 90 minute speech. X-rays showed the bullet lodged against Roosevelt’s fourth right rib near heart.
63. *Amazingly* Theodore Roosevelt watched his mother die of Typhoid fever on Feb. 14, 1884 and immediately went upstairs to see his wife die of complications from child birth within a time of one hour.
64. On New Year’s Day, 1907, *amazingly* President Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,513 people.
65. After his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt went on a safari in Africa in 1909\. He and his team killed or captured 11,397 different animals, including elephants, hippos, and even insects. He brought back so many animals on his trip that it took years for the Smithsonian Institution to mount them all.
66. *Amazing fact* is President William H. Taft had a second career 9 years after his presidency as he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President Harding.
67. U.S. President Harry S. Truman became the President of America on 12 April 1945\. The initial S in the middle of his name doesn't stand for anything.
68. *Amazingly* President John Tyler had fifteen children.
69. *Fact* is George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.
70. President George Washington oversaw construction of the White House, but he never lived there. It was our second President, John Adams, elected in 1796, who first lived in the White House.
71. George Washington wore a size 13 shoe.
72. George Washington grew Marijuana in his farm.
73. The only person who’s birthday is a legal holiday all across the U.S. is George Washington.
74. George Washington died on December 14, 1799 at age 67\. He had rode his horse around his farm just the day before on a cold winter wet day. He awoke the next morning very ill. His last words were “It is well”. He died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.
75. *Fact* is the only president to hold a Ph.D. was Woodrow Wilson.

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### Insects
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Last updated: 2025-04-10T09:30:42.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Unknown Facts about Insects

1. Insects are without backbone and have three body parts. In contrast, Spiders have 2 body parts.
2. *Amazingly* 80% of animals on earth are insects. Scientists discover as many as 10,000 new species of insects every year.
3. *The amazing fact* is there are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth.
4. Like humans, Insects shiver when they're cold.
5. *Amazingly* when the temperature drops, the eyesight reaction time of insects decreases, and that's why they can be caught early in the morning or at night by predators like birds whose eyesight reaction times are unaffected by temperature.
6. *The amazing fact* is insect wings shred bacteria to pieces! When bacterium lands on the wing surface, the membrane that surrounds the one-celled microorganism sticks to the surface of the nano-sized pillars, whereupon it begins to stretch into the crevices between them. Here, the bacterium’s membrane is under a lot of strain, and if it is soft enough, it will tear. In other words; their wings shred bacterium to pieces.
7. The strange and *amazing* thing with insects and crustaceans is that they have no capacity to feel pain at all!
8. *Fact* is radiation is measured in "rads". A human will die at exposure to 1,000 rads and a cockroach would die at 20,000 . But a fruit fly would live until 64,000 rads and a wasp until 180,000.
9. Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can.
10. *Amazingly* venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than that of the large scorpion.
11. *Fact* is it is possible for a scorpion to sting itself to death as they are not immune to their own poison!
12. *Amazing fact* is that if you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
13. *Amazingly* scorpions are fluorescent under a black light!
14. It's *amazing* that scorpions can hold their breath up to 6 days.
15. Flies are deaf.
16. *Amazing fact* is a fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds.
17. *Amazingly* if two flies were left to reproduce without predators or other limitations for one year, the resulting mass of flies would be the size of the Earth.
18. *Fact* is a fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.
19. In nine months, a housefly could lay enough eggs to produce a layer of flies that would cover all of Germany to a depth of 14 mtr/47 feet).
20. Amazing fact is the African cicada fly sleeps for 17 years; it stays awake for two weeks and then dies.
21. *Amazingly* only male fireflies can fly.
22. *Amazing fact* is fleas can jump up to 300 times their height. This is equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.
23. When a flea jumps , the rate of acceleration is *amazingly* 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
24. Fleas have killed more people (due to Bubonic plague) than all wars throughout history combined.
25. Fleas are essential to the health of armadillos and hedgehogs; they provide necessary stimulation of the skin. Deloused armadillos and hedgehogs will die.
26. *Amazingly* a flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.
27. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
28. Moths have no stomach.
29. It's *amazing* that locusts have leg muscles that are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
30. A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.
31. An *amazing* swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska on July 20-30, 1874 covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. The swarm must have contained at least 12.5 trillion insects, weighing about 27.5 million tons.
32. A grasshopper needs a minimum temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit in order to be able to hop.
33. Grasshoppers have white blood.
34. *Amazingly* the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
35. The male of one species of insect related to the praying mantis can only reproduce after the female has bitten off his head.
36. It's *amazing* that crickets hear from their knees, and they chirp from their wings.
37. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
38. The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles.
39. Monarch caterpillars shed their skin four times before they become a chrysalis, growing *amazing* 2700 times their original size.
40. Caterpillars have more than twice as many muscles as humans do. Caterpillars use all of their muscles in amazing way to move. They contract their body muscles, forcing their internal organs forward. When caterpillars move forward, their guts move first, and then their bodies follow.
41. *Amazingly* centipede has odd number of leg pairs. Usually the number varies from 15 to 191 pairs. No one knows why.
42. A leech has 32 brains.
43. *Amazing fact* is there are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
44. *Amazingly* the strongest animal is the Hercules Beetle. It can carry up to 850 times its own body weight.
45. *Amazing* phenomenon is that Cymothoa exigua, the tongue-eating louse crawl in through the gills of the fish , attach to the host’s tongue, and begin feeding on the tongue’s blood until it atrophies and dies. Then it remains attached to where the tongue used to be, acting as a tongue! The host fish will actually use the louse as its tongue, not even knowing the difference.
46. *Amazingly* a group as small as 30 Japanese Giant Hornets can kill 30,000 honey bees!
47. Fact is antarctica has only just one native insect. It’s called Belgica antarctica and it can't fly. It is only 2-6 millimeters long.
48. Relative to their body size, the barnacle , a type of arthropod that is related to crabs and lobsters has the largest male organ of any animal about 40 times the body length!
49. *Amazingly* male lobsters have bladders on their head and squirt urine at their predators.
50. There is a species of tiny spider-like 8 legged creatures that live inside the lungs of bees infesting upto 2 weeks ! The “honey bee tracheal mite” is an internal parasite of honey bee. More than a hundred mites can populate the tracheae and thus weaken the bee.
51. *Amazing fact* is that a crustacean and not a true shrimp, called the Mantis Shrimp about 12 Inches in length can attack faster than a speeding bullet! It creates an acceleration of 10,400 g and speeds of 23 mtr/sec. from a standing start. It took a long time for anyone to be able to video their attack slow enough for it to be seen. The claws are swung so fast that it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.
52. After spending 17 years underground, 2013 is the year the Cicada bug is expected to emerge by the billions on the east coast of the United States. Some estimate trillions will arrive.
53. Wasps can control the sex of their offspring!
54. *Amazing fact* is caterpillars literally melt down into a sac of fluid cells, which are used to create the entire body from scratch, forming a butterfly! In general it takes about two weeks.
55. *Amazingly* lobster may be considered biologically immortal . It never ages and never die unless killed.
56. The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp is *amazingly* smaller than the eye of a housefly.
57. A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue.
58. A single cocoon can produce 1,000 ft silk and to make a silk-made tie 100 cocoons are used.
59. The Bombardier beetle shoots boiling liquid as a defense mechanism.When threatened it shoots boiling hot chemicals from its abdomen up to 70 times rapidly. The liquid is a combination of hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinones which join together inside the beetle causing a chemical reaction. The liquid is fatal to small insects and creatures.
60. *Amazingly* frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed.

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### Human Body
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Last updated: 2025-04-08T09:30:05.000Z
#### 90 Amazing and Unknown Facts about Human Body

1. Amazingly every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
2. Fact is father tends to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
3. All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
4. The amazing thing is humans share about 50 % of their DNA with Bananas.
5. Humans have 46 chromosomes. Crayfish has an amazing 200.
6. The DNA in a single human cell is 37 meters (121 ft) long when unraveled.
7. The amazing fact is if you calculate the total DNA length for each person, it measures nearly 744 million miles! It would reach to the Sun and back 4 times.
8. Amazingly a scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
9. An amazing fact is from a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racer car for about 30 feet!
10. The fact is every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced. Your skeleton is completely replaced every 10 years.
11. Amazing three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.
12. Man has nipples because as an embryo everybody is a female until the Y chromosome affects differentiation.
13. The amazing fact is that about 200 muscles are used when we execute a single step!
14. If you lock your knees standing long enough, you will pass out.
15. Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
16. The fact is if you fully stretch your arms out, the fingertip to fingertip length is almost exactly your body height.
17. The amazing thing is the number of people alive today is higher than the number of all the people that have died.
18. The surprising fact is while 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1000 suffers from it.
19. It's amazing that 10 % of human dry weight comes from bacteria.
20. Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal-sized children, even if both parents are midgets or dwarfs.
21. Do you know that humans are the only species sleeping on their backs?
22. The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.
23. Amazingly person drinks 16000 Tons of water in a lifetime.
24. The human body has amazing 45 miles of nerves.
25. There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult.
26. The human body contains enough iron to make a 3-inch nail.
27. The human body contains enough carbon to make 900 pencils.
28. It's amazing that amount of Phosphorus in the human body is enough to produce 20000 match heads.
29. The amount of Chlorine in the human body is enough for the disinfection of 5 swimming pools.
30. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
31. The fact is the average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
32. It's amazing that on average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
33. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
34. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
35. People who are lying to you tend to look up and to their left.
36. It's amazing that you can't tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
37. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
38. you have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!
39. Would you believe that you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television?
40. The amazing fact is you can see your nose all the time but somehow your brain has learned to ignore it!
41. People with dark color skin wrinkle later than people having light color skins!
42. The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
43. The flu pandemic of 1918 killed amazingly over 20 million people
44. The fact is smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.
45. Three years after a person quits smoking, the chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before.
46. When a male skier falls down, he tends to fall on his face while a women skier tends to fall on her back.
47. Facts show that Men commit suicide 3 times more frequently than Women do but Women attempt suicide 2 to 3 times more often than Men.
48. Most deaths in a hospital are between the times of 4 pm and 6 pm, the time when the human body is at its weakest.
49. Amazingly a body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
50. Females have 500 more genes than males, and because of this are protected from things like color blindness and hemophilia.
51. If you combined all the muscles in an average human into one muscle, the force it would be capable of producing is an amazing 2,000 tonnes.
52. The fact is drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent and should be avoided.
53. Your blood is red throughout only half your body being purplish-blue in veins. When cut, of course, the blood always appears red because it is instantly exposed to oxygen outside the body.
54. The amazing fact is every second, the retina performs 10 billion computers like calculations.
55. Only Asian people have black hair. Every other supposedly ‘black’ hair color is actually really dark brown.
56. People with red hair only make up 2% of the population. This percentage is 12% in Ireland.
57. Red hair people included Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson & Alexander the Great.
58. Amazingly the longest recorded time for someone to have the hiccups is 69 years By Charles Osborne from 1922 to 1990! During this period he hiccupped 20 to 40 times a minute. He died 11 months after hiccups stopped.
59. With your palm up, the space between a person's wrist and the inside of their elbow is usually the same size as your foot.
60. The amazing fact is that only 40% of the population can smell Cyanide. The ability to smell cyanide is genetic.
61. It's amazing that without a point of reference, humans can't walk in a straight line.
62. Dimples are caused by an abnormally short facial muscle called zygomaticus major attached to the skin of your cheeks.
63. Amazingly the human tongue can detect a drop of lemon juice diluted in 130,000 drops of water.
64. The amazing fact is wisdom teeth fail to appear in nearly 100% of indigenous Mexicans.
65. 50% of women can see more colors than everyone else. These females can identify 10 different colors in a rainbow.
66. The human nose can distinguish more than 10,000 different smells.
67. The amazing fact is the human eye actually sees everything upside down. The images we see then remain inverted until they reach the part of our brain called the visual cortex, where visual information is processed rectifying the inverse image.
68. You can scratch your throat by massaging your ear! Massaging the earlobe will stimulate the nerves in the ear, which will trigger a reflex in the throat.
69. The amazing fact is your fingers and thumb have no muscles. They are moved by muscles in the forearm having attachments to them.
70. 25% of your bones are located in your feet and there are 33 joints in all!
71. If you go back 25 generations assuming no inbreeding occurred, amazingly you have 33,554,432 ancestors.
72. The amazing fact is during pregnancy, a woman’s uterus expands to about 500 times its normal size!
73. Men and women see the color red very differently. Women have a full and complex grasp of the red spectrum. Men, however, only know a few shades of red. This is due to the extra X chromosome.
74. The amazing thing is the human small intestines have the surface area of a tennis court, almost 2700 Square Feet!
75. Do you know that there is about 0.2 mg of gold in our bodies?
76. The amazing fact is each sperm has 37.5 MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587 GB in about 3 seconds
77. Amazingly human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed.
78. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
79. Cold weather makes fingernails grow faster.
80. If the human stomach doesn’t produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks it will totally digest itself.
81. Did you know that your brain has no pain receptors or pain fibers and the brain itself cannot feel pain? You feel headaches because the skull is surrounded by what’s called meninges or blood vessels that do have pain receptors.
82. Most people shed between 50 to 100 hairs every day.
83. The human kidney consists of over 1 million little tubes with a total length of about 40 miles in both kidneys. The kidneys filter about 500 gallons of blood each day.
84. Amazingly half of all humans who have ever lived died from malaria.
85. Of all the people in history that have reached 65 years of age, half of them are living right now.
86. The amazing fact is all the humans on the planet could fit into 1 cubic mile.
87. The tallest girl in the world ever recorded was 8 feet 2 inches tall and she died at the young age of 17.
88. The average human with a full head of hair contains between 85,000 to 150,000 hairs.
89. Amazingly four out of five people over 100 years old are women.
90. The average person laughs 15 times per day.

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### Child
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Last updated: 2025-04-06T09:30:18.000Z
#### 20 Amazing Facts You Should Know About Child

1. The amazing fact is a human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old.
2. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
3. Babies start dreaming even before they are born.
4. Human babies are born 2 months prematurely for our size and lifespan to accommodate proportionately large brains during birth.
5. The fact is a newborn baby sees the World upside down for some time before the brain matures to correct it. All babies are color blind when they are born.
6. A newborn baby breathes 5 times faster than an adult man.
7. Newborn babies cry but they have no tears. Their tear ducts aren't formed until they are a month old.
8. Babies are born farsighted, their eyes start to focus properly between 3 to 6 months of age.
9. A newborn baby has very sophisticated hearing and can work out where a sound is coming from just 10 minutes after being born.
10. The birth-to-three months period is the fastest rate of brain development in the human life span.
11. An amazing fact is up to the age of six months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
12. Babies are born without knee caps. They come after 2 to 6 years.
13. Amazingly children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.
14. Your baby’s sense of smell is much stronger than yours and he will use it to get to know you in the early weeks.
15. The fact is touch is one of your baby’s most advanced senses at birth and even premature babies born as early as 25 weeks are aware of being touched.
16. For the first three months of life, your baby can focus on objects about 22 cm away, the perfect distance for seeing a mother's face when feeding.
17. 60% of all the energy a baby expends is concentrated in the brain. In the baby’s first year, his brain will double to become half its final size.
18. Babies that wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to get a diaper rash than babies wearing a cotton diaper.
19. Babies crawl an average of 200 meters a day
20. The average 4-year-old child asks amazing 400 questions per day.

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### Germs
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Last updated: 2025-04-04T09:30:02.000Z
#### 34 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Germs

1. Bacteria are single-celled organisms' cells that can act like plants or animals.
2. *An amazing fact* is bacteria produce oxygen for us to breathe. Some Scientists estimate I could be as much as half of the oxygen we breathe.
3. *Amazingly* bacteria have been on earth for 3 billion years.
4. Do you know that bacteria in the nose and mouth are responsible for bad breath?
5. A clean mouth *amazingly* has between 1,000 and 100,000 bacteria on each tooth.
6. You are born bacteria-free but acquire them after birth.
7. *The amazing fact* is there are more bacteria on the skin of each human than the World population.
8. *The fact* is that 10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria. The human body is home to some 1,000 species of bacteria.
9. A single drop of liquid can accommodate as many as 50 million bacteria.
10. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
11. *The amazing fact* is bacteria 40 million years old have been extracted and successfully grown from a fossilized bee.
12. Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.
13. *Amazingly* in one gram of soil, there are about ten million bacteria living.
14. Would you believe that an office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet? It has about 20,000 germs per square inch.
15. In one study, diarrhea-inducing E.coli was found on 10 percent of coffee mugs.
16. *Fact* is when you wear headphones for just one hour it increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
17. The biomass of all bacteria on Earth is more than all the plants and animals combined.
18. When you flush a toilet, an invisible cloud of water full of germs shoots six feet in the air.
19. The amazing fact is that a single bacteria cell, given all the food it needs, could divide and subdivide into a ball of cells the size of the Earth in just 24 hours.
20. It's *amazing* that a typical bed houses over 6 billion dust mites.
21. Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with bacteria that help to break down stains!
22. *Amazingly* bacteria are used to make wine as well as vinegar. Vinegar is a wine that has been allowed to ferment longer than wine.
23. Scientists have *amazingly* found more than 300 viruses capable of bringing fatal diseases to insects. These organisms are entirely different than those that cause disease in humans and are harmless to man.
24. Walter Reed discovered the first human virus, yellow fever virus, in 1901.
25. Viruses are inanimate complex organic matter. They lack any form of energy, carbon metabolism, and cannot replicate or evolve.
26. *Amazingly* viruses are capable of reproducing and evolving only within cells in plants or animals.
27. In the 1950s there were 50 million cases of smallpox every year. 1 in 4 cases used to die. After a global vaccination campaign, it was eradicated in 1978.
28. There are a million virus particles per milliliter of seawater! *The amazing fact* is that lined up end to end, they would stretch mind boggling 200 million light-years into space.
29. A virus called simply M13 has the power to change the world. Scientists at the Berkeley Lab have genetically engineered M13 viruses to emit enough electricity to power a small LED screen.
30. The deadliest flu pandemic in history took more lives than World War II did. The "Spanish Flu," as it has been nicknamed, struck worldwide from the spring of 1918 until the summer of 1919\. It has been estimated that the Spanish flu killed 21,642,274 people worldwide, with a billion people been affected, that's *amazingly* half of the Earth's population at that time!
31. It's *amazing* that 10 % of your body weight is pure bacteria!
32. The smell of rain is caused by some types of Actinobacteria, the Actinomycetes in the soil mostly in warmer climates.
33. The bacteria that can withstand maximum radiation is dubbed as "Conan the Bacterium" which can *amazingly* survive 1.5 million rads, and double that when frozen. In contrast, a human will die at exposure to 1,000 rads.
34. Would you believe that you have 1,458 unique forms of bacteria in your belly button?

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### Earth
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Last updated: 2025-04-02T09:30:14.000Z
#### 65 Amazing Facts About Earth that will surprise you | Amazing Facts 4U

1. Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
2. Earth is likely to support life for another 1.5 billion years.
3. On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over an amazing million and a half miles per day.
4. Amazingly the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is Aluminium.
5. The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.
6. The fact is earth is the only planet not named after a God.
7. The amazing fact is if there was no space between any of its atoms, Earth would be the size of a baseball.
8. Antarctica is the only land on our planet not owned by any country.
9. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
10. Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown further if it is thrown west.
11. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an amazing 67,000 mph.
12. The amazing fact is that the 50 tallest mountains on Earth are all located in Asia.
13. Do you know that if you were at 0° latitude and 0° longitude, you would be standing in the Atlantic Ocean?
14. Amazingly at latitude 60 degrees south, you can sail around the world.
15. Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. The fact is that axis is what causes our seasons.
16. It's amazing that lightning puts 10,000,000 tons of nitrogen into the earth each year.
17. Groundwater comprises a 30 times greater volume than all freshwater lakes, and amazingly more than 3,000 times what's in the world's streams and rivers at any given time.
18. Most gemstones contain several elements; except the diamond, it's all carbon.
19. The curvature of the earth is pretty close to eight inches every mile, or 66 feet every hundred miles.
20. The fact is the South Pole is covered with 8,850 feet of solid ice.
21. The temperature of the earth's interior increases by one degree every 60 feet down.
22. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
23. All of the Earth's continents are amazingly wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
24. The Earth has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
25. An amazing fact is a fog belt 50 Ft deep over an area of 100 square miles contains no more moisture than a single bucket of water.
26. The North Magnetic Pole, once located over Canada, is now in the Arctic Ocean and is slowly moving towards Russia shifting 7 meters a day.
27. Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
28. Amazingly at over 2000 kilometers long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
29. At an amazing 3.3 million square miles, the Sahara Desert is as large as the world's next 20 largest hot deserts combined.
30. Although oil is known as "black gold," it isn't black, to begin with. When it spurts from the ground, the crude stuff is most often dark green.
31. The Antarctic Ice Sheet holds nearly 90 percent of the world's ice and 70 percent of its freshwater. If the entire ice sheet were to melt, sea level would rise by amazing 220 feet
32. Sound carries so well in the Arctic than on a calm day, a conversation can be heard from 1.8 miles away.
33. Mount St. Helens dropped amazing 1,313 feet in 1980.
34. The most amazing fact is if the world were tilted one degree more, either way, the Earth would not have been habitable because the area around the equator would have been too hot and the poles would have been too cold.
35. You can’t dig a hole to China from the US. You will end up in the Indian Ocean. To dig a straight hole to China, you have to be in Chile or Argentina.
36. This island off the coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is nicknamed "Snake Island" is home to the Golden Lancehead Viper and has been quarantined because it’s overflowing with deadly snakes about 1 for every sq. meter.!
37. It's amazing that if the world's population stood shoulder to shoulder, we would only fill an area the size of the city of Los Angeles.
38. Because of the curvature of the earth, when you look out into the ocean and watch the sun set, the horizon is only about three miles away from where you stand.
39. The entire world population could fit in the state of Texas and it’d only have the population density of New York City!
40. Scientists just found a 46 million-year-old mosquito fossilized in amber and filled with blood!
41. It's amazing that 5.4 million species of animals worldwide remain unnamed. The animals that we have named only makeup about a quarter of the total number of species out there!
42. From late March to late September the sun never sets at the North Pole. This is followed by 6 months of darkness.
43. The Earth was hit by a 60-ton Hoba Meteorite, the largest known meteorite on the planet an estimated 80,000 years ago in Namibia. It was discovered by a farmer in 1920\. It’s also the largest natural piece of iron in existence made of 84% iron.
44. Believe it or not, most of the Earth’s deserts are not composed entirely of sand. Much, about 85% of them, are rocks and gravel.
45. If you could evaporate all the water out of all the oceans and spread the resulting salt over all the land on Earth, you would have an amazing five hundred-foot layer coating everything.
46. The Andes Mountain range in South America is 4,525 miles long and ranks, as the world’s longest. Second Longest: The Rockies; Third: Himalayas.
47. For every 980 feet you climb up a mountain, the temperature drops 3-1/2 degrees.
48. Amazingly Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic ocean has water.
49. Water on earth is 97 % salted 3 % fresh.
50. The amazing fact is that 99 % of the earth's gold lies in its core and is enough to form 1.5 Feet coating around the surface of the earth.
51. Of all the planets in our solar system, the Earth has the greatest density. The metallic core is denser than the crust however the average density of the Earth is approximately 5.52 grams per cubic centimeter.
52. If you keep going North, you will eventually go South. If you keep going East, you will never go West.
53. A volcano was recorded to burst out at the speed of 250 miles per hour in 1980 known as St. Helen which was faster than a Japanese bullet train.
54. Australia is the only continent in the world that doesn't have an active volcano.
55. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strikes the Earth.
56. The fact is the fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18 mph.
57. There are 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as waypoints for the climbers.
58. On average, an iceberg weighs amazing 20 million tonnes.
59. Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
60. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.
61. The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research.
62. The Earth is almost Five billion years old but, life has existed only for the last 150 million to 200 million years. This is estimated to be about 5% of its lifetime.
63. After years and years of revolving and rotating, the planet is slowing down too. Millions of years ago, a day was only 20 hours long. A few million years later, it will be 27 hours long.
64. Before trees were common, the earth was covered with giant mushrooms.
65. The distance between Europe and Africa is amazingly only 36 miles.

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### India (Part 4)
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Last updated: 2025-03-30T09:30:00.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts about India

1. There are in fact 12 Delhi’s in India apart from the country’s capital.
2. The amazing fact is that India gets roughly the same number of tourists annually as the city of Venice and even smaller countries like Vietnam in spite of its diversity.
3. More than 30% of all the pending cases in courts across India are either related to cheque bounce or traffic challans.
4. The amazing fact is that only about 35 million Indians pay income tax that comes to less than 3 in 100 people.
5. In Bangalore, this year, the government shamed property tax defaulters by sending drummers to makes noise and wave banners outside of their properties until they paid their taxes.
6. The 2012 North Indian power blackout affected 620 million people or 9% of the world’s population. It was in fact the largest power outage in human history.
7. There is an amazing bank in Udaipur that collects Mother’s milk called 'Divya Mother Milk Bank' to provide milk to newborns who can’t have their mother’s milk for any reason.
8. Amazingly less than 25 percent of the world’s Punjabi Sikh population actually lives in India.
9. In order to promote lower birth rates, Indian authorities have created a sterilization lottery. Individuals that volunteer to be sterilized are given 600 rupees (About $10) and their names are put into a lottery to win televisions, motorcycles, food processors, and the grand prize, a Tata Nano.
10. India is in fact the world’s largest beef exporter
11. A monument called ‘Zero Mile Stone‘ in Nagpur, Maharashtra indicates the geographical center of India.
12. Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India in fact contribute the highest number of UN Peacekeeping troops in the world.
13. The border between India and Pakistan is visible from space at night.
14. The world’s largest school in the world is City Montessori School of Lucknow. About 400000 pupils are enrolled.
15. The record for the most qualified person in India was held by a politician Dr. Shrikant Jichkar. He was an ex-IAS & IPS, doctor, painter, photographer, actor, active ham radio operator, and youngest MLA at 25, who once held 14 portfolios as a minister. Amazingly He had 20 degrees, won 28 gold medals & had a library of 52,000 books.
16. Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay was the unsung hero of IVF (in vitro fertilization), who pioneered India’s first test-tube baby in 1978, but was not recognized by the then Indian medical fraternity, and committed suicide three years later due to depression.
17. Narayana Murthy, Co-founder of Infosys one of the most recognized software company was a firm believer of communism, but during a foreign visit, for having talked against the Bulgarian government with a co-passenger on a train, he was jailed for four days without food, which led him to become a capitalist and an entrepreneur.
18. India has in fact the largest oil refinery in the world at Jamnagar Gujarat owned by Reliance Industries with a daily refining capacity of 668,000 barrels.
19. It's amazing that all the Top 10 stores in the world by the number of pizzas sold in a year are from India.
20. Amitabh Bachchan’s Indian movie “Abhimaan” was very popular in Sri Lanka more than in India and was screened continuously for 85 weeks in the same movie theater, Empire, Colombo.
21. The fact is it will take India 51 years to double its population. For Poland, it will take 1,387 years.
22. In 2011, Guinness officially acknowledged Asha Bhosle as the most recorded artist in music history for recording up to 11,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs in over 20 Indian languages since 1947.
23. In the Battle of Longewala during the Indo-Pak War of 1971, 120 Soldiers of the Indian Army amazingly defeated 2800 Soldiers of Pakistan.
24. In parts of India, especially Bihar, grooms are often kidnapped by the bride’s family due to escalating demand for dowries and are forcefully married off.
25. India’s Parle-G biscuits were the world’s No. 1 selling biscuits.
26. Cherrapunji in Meghalaya India has the distinction of being the wettest place on earth with rainfall of about 400 to 500 inches per year, but its residents have an amazing problem of water shortages because Cherrapunji is built on a foundation of porous limestone and all the water that falls from the sky falls right through the ground like a sieve and into the valley.
27. India does not have a National Language, Hindi, and English are two Official Languages.
28. The amazing fact is that Sanjiv Mehta, a Mumbai-born entrepreneur in the UK now owns The East India Company that ruled India for few centuries.
29. Of the countries with nuclear weapons, only China, India, and North Korea have a declared “no first use” policy.
30. Some ritual chants of Kerala, India have patterns, but no known meaning. They can’t be written down and can only be transmitted orally. No language has phonetic equivalents for it. Their nearest analog is bird songs! These oral traditions are actually bird vocalizations that originated before human speech.
31. The amazing fact is Indians were not allowed to board the Palace on Wheels luxury train meant just for foreigners for quite a while since its launch on Republic day 1982.
32. An India-based Neutrino Observatory is being been expected to be completed in 2015 in the Theni District of Tamil Nadu. It is going to be one of the biggest experimental particle physics projects undertaken in India that will house the world’s most massive magnet, four times larger than the 12,500-tonne magnet used in the CERN in Switzerland.
33. Amazingly in the Eastern states of India, there are 500 years old man-made bridges weaved from living roots of trees that can withstand the monsoon floods and don’t ever rot, instead they grow stronger with time.
34. From 1928-1972, India won a medal for field hockey in every Olympics (7 golds, 1 silver, 2 bronze). In 1976, the field was switched from grass to expensive synthetic turf. In the 9 Olympics since India has won only 1 medal (gold in 1980).
35. Global warming has solved a land dispute over an Island between India and Bangladesh called New Moore Island by submerging it in the sea.
36. The amazing fact is that in 2011, India released a 108-year-old prisoner, who was serving a life sentence for killing 4 people in 1987 when he was 84.
37. The number of cellphone subscribers in India amazingly increased by 16,420% in one decade between 2001 and 2011.
38. An underground coalfield fire in Jharia (Jharkhand), India in fact has been burning since 1916 and is yet to be extinguished.
39. Shaving brushes are made from boar & badger hair that India produces in huge quantities, yet only in India can you get brushes made out of nylon-only bristles.
40. There’s a Banyan tree in Kolkata India that covers about 4 acres and is 250 years old. The central trunk was hit by lightning in 1925 and later removed, but the tree has about 3300 aerial roots.
41. India is the world’s largest milk producer, putting out almost 3 times what Pakistan produces that is No. 2 producer. That’s amazing 68% of the world’s milk from 12.5% of the people.
42. Navi Mumbai, a planned satellite township of Mumbai, was developed in 1972 and is in fact the largest planned township on the planet.
43. Viswanathan Anand from India is the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match.
44. Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteor hitting the Earth and is one of its kind in India.
45. English Actor Sir Ben Kingsley who played the role of Gandhi in “Gandhi” has a birth name as ‘Krishna Pandit Bhanji’ and he is of Indian (Gujarati) descent.
46. Mount Kailash a very sacred mountain for Hindus which is in fact in China has never been climbed despite the Chinese government’s support of the climbers.
47. India has three antarctic stations, Dakshin Gangotri, Maitri, and Bharathi.
48. One of the oldest colleges of Engineering in the world is in Chennai, College of Engineering (Guindy) which was established in 1794.
49. It's amazing that the average cost of census taking in India is just $0.5 per person (US: $40, World Average: $5).
50. Amazingly India Post allows you to order personalized stamps with your picture on them.

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### India (Part 3)
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#### 50 Amazing Facts about India

1. India at one point in time was amazingly the highest-taxed nation in the world. Under the Emergency and Poverty removal schemes, income tax levels in the early 1970s rose to a maximum of 97.5%, a record for non-communist economies.
2. Amazingly the most lengthy lawsuit ever in India was that filed by a mahant (temple keeper) in Pune in 1205 AD which was decided in 1966, 761 years later.
3. According to section 43, of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 of the Indian constitution, “Any private person may arrest any person, who in his presence commits a non-bailable and cognizable offense.”
4. The Indian space research organization (ISRO), the space agency of India successfully launched its lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1 in 2008\. In 2013, it also launched its mars orbiter mission which is currently on-route to mars.
5. Amazingly India is the only country other than the US and Japan, to have built a supercomputer indigenously.
6. Agni III is the most accurate missile in the world in its range category and BrahMos is the fastest operational cruise missile in the world.
7. Delhi is the World’s Second most bird-rich Capital city after Kenya’s Nairobi.
8. India has in fact more than 70,000 newspapers; published in more than 325 languages. This includes daily' weekly and bi-weekly publishment. More than 12000 magazines are published in 20 different languages in India.
9. India is the world's biggest newspaper market with amazing 100 million copies sold each day. India has a combined readership of more than 120 million.
10. India has the largest number of news channels in the world. India has more than 690 satellite channels aired 24/7.
11. It is the fastest-growing telecom market in the world with 900 million mobiles.
12. India has the largest number of post offices in the World numbering 550000\. One can send live bees and even the internal organs of humans via the Indian Postal Service.
13. The amazing fact is that 100 million people come to India's Kumbh Mela Festival, the world's biggest gathering of humans.
14. The largest milk producing country by volume in the whole world is India.
15. The amazing fact is India's electorate of 815 million is nearly four times as large as the next largest, the US with 219 million in the 2012 presidential poll. It is bigger than the next five - US, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia, Bangladesh put together. There were nearly 8,30,000 polling stations.
16. Indian polling stations have to be there even for remotest areas. There were 24 stations in Arunachal Pradesh having 3 to 9 voters in inaccessible areas with no motorable roads. The polling officials had to trek in hilly terrains for two days to reach them.
17. The Modakurichi constituency in Erode district in Tamilnadu had amazing 1050 candidates in a general election to the Tamilnadu legislative assembly in 1996\. The total number of registered voters in Modakurichi is less than 4000\. Many candidates stood for election just to defeat the candidates of the major two parties which had their deposits forfeited due to very few votes garnered.
18. The ballot paper in the Modakurichi election was a big mat sized paper, on which people had to crawl on their knees to get to their candidate’s icon in order to vote. Since there was no box to drop, voters threw the folded ballot papers in an open window of the room which was later sealed.
19. The world's largest pilgrimage center is a Hindu Sri Venkateswara Temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu in the city of Tirupati in the state of Andhrapradesh. On average 30000 people visit the temple daily and around $5,00,000 is in fact donated to charity every day and the annual Gold offering goes as high as 3,000 Kg.
20. About 600 barbers deftly shave over 20,000 heads a day, making Sri Venkateswara Temple, Tirupati India the world’s largest barbershop and a major exporter of hair.
21. The total distance covered by the 14,500 trains on the Indian Railways every day equals 3.5 times the distance to the moon.
22. India is the largest producer of films in the world. India produces an average of 3000 films each year. The Indian film industry is multi-lingual. It is the largest film industry in terms of ticket sales. The Nigerian film industry is known as Nollywood, is now the second-largest producer of movies in the world.
23. India produces more films per annum than the USA, yet the USA has revenue from films that are 50 times more than that of India’s film industry.
24. Ramoji Film City located in Hyderabad in fact holds Guinness world record as the world's largest film studio.
25. The water between India and Sri Lanka in Palk Strait is only 3 feet to 30 feet deep. It was reportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
26. Thumbs Up is the market leader of cola brands in India even though Coca-Cola bought it from an Indian owner and de-marketed it so that coke can take over its position but hasn't succeeded.
27. People have tried to patent products from Ayurveda. India successfully fought turmeric and basmati Patents in the USA, Neem patents in Europe and subsequently created the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy & a Traditional Knowledge Digital Library.
28. Standard Fireworks based in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu is in fact the world’s largest manufacturer of pyrotechnic products (fireworks).
29. The largest soup kitchen in the world is in India. The Langar at the Golden Temple Amritsar in the state of Punjab feeds about 100,000 people daily.
30. Half of the world’s ships end up in the shipyards of Alang in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat to be dismantled.
31. Sabir Bhatia, an Indian founded Hotmail, the first free email service.
32. Vinod Dham, an Indian designed the Pentium series of processors for Intel.
33. The co-inventor of the USB is also an Indian, Ajay Bhatt.
34. The South American Country of Guyana has Indians as the largest ethnic group, the descendants of laborers from India, who make up about 43.5% of the population of Guyana.
35. The Bhut Jolokia is among the hottest chili in the world. It grows in Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur in India.
36. Only four countries namely China, the USA, Indonesia, and Brazil have a population higher than that of the largest Indian state Uttar Pradesh and it will soon overtake Brazil.
37. Amazingly any Indian citizen, who is not a resident of states Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, and Nagaland needs a special permit to enter these states.
38. There is about a 2-hour difference between Arunachal Pradesh in the Easternmost point & Gujarat in the Westernmost point even though the whole of India has a one-time zone ( GMT +5.30 hr).
39. India amazingly has a series of coins in circulation that are in Braille.
40. Gujarat Forensic Sciences University situated in Gandhinagar, capital of Gujarat is the only University across the world, dedicated to Forensic & Investigative Science which is established by the Government of Gujarat.
41. The Indian coins have a mark at the bottom under the date of issue of the coin which tells where it was made. Marks are diamond, dot, star, or no mark.
42. It's amazing that until 2002, it was a crime to display the Indian national flag in public by a common man.
43. The amazing fact is that the state of Rajasthan in India has an open prison with no walls, no cells, and no guards. No prisoner has ever escaped in 51 years.
44. BSNL, the Government telecom operator pays 53% of its revenue as salaries. Private operators pay less than 10%.
45. Forbes awarded the highest 6 Sigma performance rating to Mumbai’s Dabbawalas who deliver over 2,00,000 meals from individual homes to offices every day and back with mostly illiterate delivery staff using no computers, employing decades-old marking system through the cycle, buses, and railways through multiple operators.
46. It's amazing that India wastes 59 Million tons of Fruits and Vegetables due to a lack of proper supply chain every year (30% of our annual produce).
47. The marathon and 10,000 m records for running barefoot are held by an Indian, Shivnath Singh since 1978.
48. Haj subsidy to Makka is approximately Rs. 70,000 ( About $ 1150) per person per year and each year. On average, about 1,00,000 Muslims have benefited every year since 1973\. The amazing fact is no subsidy is available to the majority Hindu population for their pilgrimage.
49. According to The Economist’s “Big Mac Index,” Venezuela currently has the world’s most overvalued currency, while India has is the most undervalued currency.
50. Mahindra is in fact the largest manufacturer of tractors in the world.

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### India (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2025-03-26T09:30:00.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts about India

1. The Somnath Temple located on the western coast of Gujarat, India, is one of the twelve sacred shrines of the God Shiva. Temple was destroyed amazing 16 times by Muslim invaders. It was rebuilt in November 1947.
2. Akbar, the father of Shahjahan who built the Taj Mahal tried to start his own religion by combining the features of Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. That religion amazingly had only 4 followers. His Christian wife converted to that religion but his Hindu and Muslim wife both refused to be converted.
3. Unlike what is commonly believed, Shahjahan did not cut off the hands of the workers of Taj Mahal. They were simply put under oath to never participate in the construction of any similar project.
4. The Taj Mahal’s walls were decorated with actual gemstones. They were plundered by the British. If you look closely, you can see the sockets where the gems were placed.
5. War of 27 years fought between the Maratha Empire and the Mughal Empire from 1681 to 1707 was the longest recorded military engagement in the history of India.
6. The amazing fact is India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Subsequent plundering by the British made it lose its eminence.
7. The Dutch East India Company was in fact the first corporation in existence, created in 1602\. They were the first company to issue stocks and is the grandfather of all corporations today. It was also the most valuable company ever in world history. With a value of 78 million Dutch Guilders, adjusted to today’s value it was worth about $8 trillion.
8. The Last Supper painting by Da Vinci has an orange depicted in it, which was brought to Europe by Portuguese traders from India in the 15th century and were in fact unknown at the time in Europe.
9. The British East India Company purchased the city of Mumbai from Charles II of England for an annual rent of £10 (the equivalent of £ 2000 at the Current Rate).
10. Coffee remained Yemenese monopoly until the 17th century when Baba Budan, a Sufi, smuggled 7 seeds strapped to his chest to India.
11. The Swedish East India Companies in fact imported more tea than the British East India Company and smuggled it to Britain.
12. The Dowry system, a system where the bride’s family is required to pay the negotiated amount to the Bridegroom’s family was not part of Indian marriage until the Europeans introduced the concept. Today almost 10000 dowry-related death cases are reported per year.
13. During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Indian shipbuilders were one of the best in the world. British fought French and American navies using ships built by Indians (Wadia’s of Bombay).
14. The amazing fact is that during the war of 1812, an American poet who was sailing on a ship built by Wadia’s in Bombay, India composed the American national anthem – “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
15. Until the 18th century, India in fact produced almost all the world diamonds.
16. The game of snooker (Billiards) was invented in Ooty India. The first official set of rules were drafted in 1882 Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India.
17. Gin and Tonic were first served up by the British Army in the 19th Century in India. The drink was created to help treat and prevent malaria due to the quinine in the tonic.
18. The amazing fact is that George Washington was half Indian as his mother Mary Ball Washington, was of Indian origin both her parents being Indians who met on a ship travelling to the USA. This was published in Newsweek, March 10th Issue in 1968.
19. The Himalayas are the youngest mountain range in the history of the earth at about 50 million years old and are still rising.
20. “Hindu Kush”, the 500 miles long mountain range between Afghanistan and Pakistan literally means ‘Kills the Hindu’, a reminder of the days when Indian slaves from the Indian subcontinent died in the harsh weather typical of the Afghan mountains while being transported to Central Asia.
21. It has been proved in the world scientific community that the pioneer of radio wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose from India and not Marconi. Unfortunately, Prof. Bose was denied credit for his invention.
22. The mean value theorem was first described by a Kerala mathematician named Parameshvara 400 years before its modern form was stated by Augustin Louis Cauchy.
23. When the British in the colonial city of Delhi introduced a bounty on cobras to eliminate them from the city due to their growing population, it resulted in a cobra population boom. The bounty was greater than the cost of breeding a cobra, and the citizens were breeding them to sell to the government. The term “Cobra Effect” was then coined for such schemes that exacerbate the problem.
24. The Persian Gulf used to be known as the Pirate Coast. Until 1853, tribes would raid trade ships from India. Nowadays, the same families that ruled those tribes now rule the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, some of the richest countries in the world because of their petroleum.
25. The first railroad in India was constructed by two Indians (Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Jaganath Shunkerseth) and not the British.
26. Helium was in fact discovered in India by French astronomer Jules Janssen in 1868.
27. Dr. Anandi Gopal Joshi resisted all attempts to convert to Christianity for acquiring western medical education and became the first Indian woman to obtain a medical degree in 1886.
28. The first-ever fingerprint bureau in the world was started in Calcutta in the year 1897.
29. Female literacy in India in 1901 was in fact just 0.6 percent.
30. “Letter to a Hindu” was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy in 1908 in which he argued that the only way for India to gain independence from Britain was through non-violent resistance. Gandhi read this letter that helped shape his philosophy of non-violence.
31. About 1.3 million Indian soldiers served in World War I (1914–1918) for the Allies after the United Kingdom made vague promises of self-governance for its support. Britain broke its promises after the war. Around 74,000 Indian troops were killed in action during the war.
32. The two most prolific man-eating animals in history a tiger and leopard responsible for 400+ deaths each were both hunted and killed by the founder of India’s oldest national park and tiger reserve, Jim Corbett.
33. Indian hockey team toured New Zealand in 1934\. They played 48 matches in New Zealand, Australia and Ceylon and they won all. They scored amazing 584 goals, with just 40 goals scored against them. Captain Dhyan Chand scored 201 of those 584 goals.
34. In 1937, the University of Kerala, then a princely state in India, tried to bring in Albert Einstein as the Vice-Chancellor. They offered him 6,000 rupees per month (equivalent to $500,000 per month). Einstein declined the offer.
35. The “Great Gama” from India in fact has been the only undefeated wrestler in the world during his career spanning 50 years. Bruce Lee was one of his fans.
36. Amazingly on 18 January 1942, it was decided by the Axis powers to divide the Indian subcontinent after defeating the British in India. Germany was to take the part of British India roughly corresponding to northern and western parts of modern-day Pakistan, while the rest of British India was marked for Japan.
37. In 1943, British PM Winston Churchill in the cruelest way let millions of Indians starve to death in a man-made famine by refusing to release food rations and instead of exporting food out of India.
38. India had the largest all-volunteer force in history during WWII with over 2.5 Million soldiers fighting Rommel’s Afrika Corps as well as in the Middle East. They had 30 Victorian Cross’s awarded.
39. India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.
40. In one of the biggest political blunders in 1955, Jawaharlal Nehru the prime minister of India rejected an offer to India for a permanent UN Security Council seat to avoid being embroiled in the cold war politics.
41. There was a war between India and Portugal in 1961, which India won and consequently, Goa State became part of India.
42. Of the top 30 deadliest recorded cyclones in history, 22 were in fact located in the Bay of Bengal, resulting in roughly 2.3 million deaths in India and Bangladesh.
43. Albert Einstein in fact said: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
44. Mark Twain said: "India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition."
45. Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to the USA said: "India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."
46. The United States Constitution is actually the world’s shortest written Constitution with only 7 articles and 27 amendments, compared to India’s 448 articles and 100 amendments.
47. Indian army ranks at 4th most deadly army in the world after USA, Russia, and China.
48. India has the second-largest pool of engineers, doctors, and scientists in the world.
49. India is famous for medical tourism while Indian software engineers are a class apart in the world.
50. With 500 million speakers, Hindi is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world. India ranks second in the list of English-speaking countries in order of total speakers.

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#### 50 Amazing Facts about India

1. India is the World's largest democracy. It is the seventh-largest and the second most populated country in the World.
2. India is in fact the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
3. India is very diverse in terms of languages, religions, and cultures. There are 17 major languages and 844 dialects spoken in India.
4. The rich Indian culture includes more than 2000 forms of dances and a long list of more than 370 cuisines across the country.
5. In terms of geographical area, India occupies only 2.4% of the world’s total land area, yet it is home to around 60% of the world’s biodiversity and 500 species of mammals out of which 21 are not found anywhere else in the world.
6. Altogether more than 2000 species of birds can be seen in India. The whole of North America excluding Mexico is 15 times larger than India, yet contains no more than 775 species.
7. The amazing fact is India has never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
8. Varanasi is also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C. It is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
9. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 6000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus valley civilization).
10. In the river, Sindh humans first developed the art of navigation around 4000 BC. The root word of navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'navigation'.
11. Button was in fact invented by Indians about 5000 years ago in the Indus valley. At that time buttons were generally made by using seashell.
12. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus amazingly used numbers as big as 10\*53 (10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BC during the Vedic period.
13. Yoga was developed in India as a means to keep body and soul fit, somewhere around 3000 BC.
14. There are thousands of symbols dating back to 2600–1900 BC found near Pakistan/India that are still undeciphered and all attempts to find underlying language have failed.
15. Sanskrit originated in India in 1500 BC and is regarded as the oldest language on earth. Most of the European languages are in fact derived from it.
16. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software as quoted by Forbes magazine, July 1987.
17. Ruler or scale is equipment for measuring lengths and drawing straight lines. It was developed in India in 1500 BC.
18. Gopala (Reign 750-770 BC) was probably the first democratically elected head of the state in entire South Asia. He was the founder of the Pala dynasty during the classical period of India.
19. The World's first university was in fact established in Takshashila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
20. Sushruta is the father of surgery. The amazing fact is that 2600 years ago he conducted complicated surgeries like cesarean, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones, and even plastic and brain surgery. The usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 specific surgical equipment were used.
21. In ancient India, Diabetes was called “Madhumeha” or “honey urine” as the urine would attract ants. Indian physicians Sushruta and Charaka identified Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes as separate conditions for the first time in 400-500 BC.
22. In many ancient Indian texts, we can find detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, physiology, genetics, and immunity.
23. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of Ayurveda in fact developed it 2500 years ago.
24. The first generative grammar in the modern sense was Panini’s grammar” for Sanskrit in 4th Century B.C. It is even used today as a textbook in unchanged form for precise Sanskrit.
25. Elephants kept Alexander the Great from expanding further east into present-day India because he saw that the kings of the Nanda Empire and Gangaridai could in fact deploy between 3,000 and 6,000 war elephants if need be.
26. Amazingly there existed a Greek kingdom near Punjab, India that lasted more than 100 years after Alexander the Great’s empire fell apart in 4th Century B.C.
27. India ink is a normal black ink used for writing, drawing, etc. It was developed in India in 300 BC.
28. Crucible steel was invented in India around 300 BC. It was more ductile than all the existing forms and is still used in day to day life.
29. An amazing fact is India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
30. The 'place value system' and the 'decimal system' were also developed in 100 BC in India.
31. Grand Anicut Dam of Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu is still standing after 2000 years after it was built. It was built by Chola King Karikalan during the first century.
32. Arabic numerals are not really Arabic. The fact is they were invented in India. Arabs call the system, correctly, “Hindu numerals.”
33. The process of crystallization of sugar from sugarcane juice was amazingly discovered in India in the Gupta period (350 AD).
34. The University of Nalanda was founded in the 4th century A.D. Approx. 2,000 teachers and 15,000 students from all over the world lived and studied more than 60 subjects here at the first residential international university in the world.
35. Ancient scripts that were originally written on palm leaves in India are in fact all rounded because straight lines would rip the leaves.
36. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the Europeans with amazing precision. Time is taken by earth to orbit the sun (5th century): 365.258756484 days.
37. The value of pi amazingly up to 9 digits was first calculated by Budhayana in the 6th Century.
38. Budhayana explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the Pythagoras to which this is credited.
39. Martial arts were developed in Kerala, India, and spread to different parts of the world by Buddhist missionaries. Bodhidharma, a prince of the Pallava dynasty went to China and began the physical training of the Shaolin monks that led to the creation of Kung Fu.
40. The oldest building in Asia is in fact in India, the Sanchi Stupa from the king Ashoka period.
41. It's amazing that Algebra, trigonometry, and calculus all came from India. Quadratic equations were also solved by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
42. The world's largest religious building is a Hindu temple in Angkor way in Cambodia. It was built around the 11th century.
43. The Pandyan Empire, an ancient south Indian dynasty, was both the longest-lasting empire (1850 years) and was also the richest region in the world as per contemporary historians.
44. Execution by elephant was a common method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, and particularly in India. Asian Elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives in public executions.
45. The four religions have been born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism having 25% of the world's population as followers.
46. The game of chess was in fact invented in India. A game of cards is also an ancient Indian invention.
47. The board game of snakes and ladders was invented in India in the 13th century. The ladders represented virtues while the snakes represented vices. The game was played with shells and dices.
48. It's amazing that Tamils from India reached Australia and New Zealand 500 years before Europeans.
49. Christofer Columbus in fact went searching for India and reached the shore of America.
50. Vasco da Gama did not discover India as is widely believed, instead, he was escorted to India by Indian Traders from Cape Town as per his own journal.

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### Delightful Facts
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Last updated: 2025-03-22T09:30:32.000Z
#### 15 Delightful Facts

1. The amazing fact is that the German Empire in its 47 years of existence won more Nobel Prizes in science than Britain, France, Russia, and the USA combined.
2. On July 1, 1916, at the Battle of the Somme, a charge of 60,000 lbs. of explosives was detonated creating a crater that was amazing 300 feet across and 90 feet deep. The explosion in France was heard as far away as London and was the loudest man-made sound in history at the time.
3. Amazingly 10 Syrian Pound coins are so similar to Norway’s 20 krone coins in weight that vending machines could not tell the difference. Many of their coin-to-cash machines had to be closed because of this as 20 krone is worth about 45 times more than 10 Syrian Pound.
4. The amazing thing is a man in China has kept himself alive with a homemade dialysis machine for 13 years. He made one as he couldn't afford it.
5. There are 38 million Americans who have never used the internet because many of them are simply not interested or find it difficult to use.
6. The delightful facts is that in Mizoram and Manipur in India, every fifty years, armies of bamboo rats descend upon rural areas and devour everything in their path. This is very closely related to the fruiting cycle of bamboo trees. This often leads to famine. The most recent spate of the flowering of the bamboo species began in May 2006, and the state government and the Indian Army attempted to prevent a famine.
7. In 1964, two students attempted to kidnap the British Prime Minister. The plot was foiled when he offered them beer. They accepted and abandoned their plot. This breach of security was only revealed in 2009.
8. The world’s biggest manuscript by a single person has been written by Swamy Ranganathacharya on amazing 3,80,000 pages over a period of thirty-five years and has been made available online by Andhra Pradesh Government Oriental Manuscripts Library and Research Institute in India.
9. A delightful facts is an English POW of WWI was granted permission to visit his dying mother and voluntarily returned a week later to his German prison camp.
10. In the early nineteenth century, the United States had a hundred and forty-four separate time zones.
11. Vava Suresh, a snake wrangler from Kerala has caught 30,000 snakes including 300 king cobras, has survived over 250 snake bites, and has had to be put on the ventilator at least five times. He declined a government job because he would not be able to help people in need.
12. Amazingly 800 different languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city on Earth.
13. At one time, the world's tallest man, Bao XiShun, and the world's smallest man, He PingPing, both came from China and actually met.
14. Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the US, was the first president to have electricity in the White House but amazingly he never touched any light switches because he was too scared of getting electrocuted.
15. It's amazing that Icelanders can easily read old Norse, a dead language that was spoken in Scandinavia over 1000 years ago because written Icelandic has changed so little.

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### Artists
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#### 15 Amazing Facts About Artists

1. John James Audubon from the USA painted amazing 435 watercolors of birds in his lifetime. He made it his life's work to paint a picture of every species of bird in America.
2. Frederic-August Bartholdi sculpted The Statue of Liberty.
3. In all of Dali's paintings, you can find a self-portrait. That is, if you look hard you will see at-least a silhouette of Dali himself.
4. The amazing fact is that Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting just the Mona Lisa's lips.
5. Amazingly Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
6. Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and anatomist.
7. Leonardo Da Vinci invented high heels.
8. Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian and animal rights activist, he would buy caged birds and set them free.
9. Michelangelo's father was horrified when he found out he had decided to become an artist. Fact is he was often beaten to have brought disgrace to the family by becoming an artist.
10. It's amazing that Picasso’s full name has 23 words. Picasso could draw before he could walk, and his first word was the Spanish word for pencil.
11. When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
12. Pablo Picasso loved animals. Throughout his adult life, he owned a pet monkey, an owl, a goat, a turtle, and packs of dogs and cats. He was known to leave his studio windows open and to paint the pigeons that flew through.
13. The amazing fact is that famous Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh produced more than 2000 works during his lifetime but could sell only one painting ( Red Vineyard) in his lifetime and that to his brother.
14. Amazingly Artist Vincent Van Gogh painted a picture a day in the last 70 days of his life.
15. Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide suffering a mental breakdown while painting Wheat Field with Crows at the age of 37.

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### Exciting Facts
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#### 15 Exciting Facts

1. The Amazing fact Rolls-Royce showroom in London, he felt insulted when the salesman implied that he couldn’t afford to purchase the car. He purchased ten, shipped them to India, and ordered to use them for collecting and transporting garbage.
2. There is a 2400-year-old giant “honey mushroom” in Oregon, covering 2200 acres, slowly killing off the trees in the forest. It is the largest living organism on the planet.
3. Wladimir Klitschko auctioned off his 1996 Olympic gold medal in March 2012 for charity. The buyer paid $1 million but amazingly returned it because he wanted it to stay in his family.
4. Alexander the Great was embalmed in a coffin filled with honey.
5. When a frog swallows its prey, it blinks, which pushes its eyeballs down on top of its mouth to help push the food down its throat.
6. Nazis kidnapped hundreds of thousands of Polish children that they deemed to be racially superior to other children, and forcibly Germanized them. Only 10-15% of kids ever returned back home.
7. The Exciting facts is that in Sweden, a mechanism has been set up to harvest the body heat of commuters passing through Stockholm’s Central Station to provide heat for an office building across the road from it.
8. In Auschwitz, an SS guard fell in love with a Jewish prisoner. He saved her life multiple times and in return, she testified on his behalf during his post-war trial.
9. Amazingly on 5 April 2010, there were four women in space at the same time. This was the largest female gathering off the planet.
10. Studies have found that breathing the air in Mumbai on the day of the festival of Diwali is amazingly equivalent to smoking 113 cigarettes due to firecrackers.
11. There are many untouched plane wrecks in various parts of the United Kingdom dating back to World War 2 and it’s amazing that removal is forbidden.
12. A baby elephant sucks its trunk like a baby sucks its thumb for comfort.
13. A supermarket chain in the Netherlands has a policy that if all queues have 4 people in them and not all checkout lanes are open yet, then you get your groceries for free.
14. There is a town in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
15. Vulcan Point in the Philippines is an island within a lake on an island.

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### Art
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#### 22 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Art and Artworks

1. *Amazingly* the world-famous Louvre Museum and Art Gallery in Paris, France was built in 1190 and was used as a fortress.
2. Linseed oil, the most popular of all oils for painting, comes from the flax seed a common fiber crop. The linen, a popular oil painting support, is made from the flax plant.
3. A reliable way of detecting art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 which can find out the age of the artwork.
4. The largest art gallery is in St Petersburg Russia with *amazing* 322 galleries, 15 miles of corridor and 3 million works of art.
5. In 1962 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was valued at *amazing* $100 million. It is difficult to estimate it's value now.
6. In 1911, Monalisa was stolen from the Louvre museum. In the two years preceding the recovery of the painting, *amazingly* more than 6 reproductions were sold as being the original.
7. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eye lashes. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence Italy to shave them off!
8. The Mona Lisa used to be hanged on the wall in Napoleon’s bedroom.
9. *Amazingly* X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
10. Leonardo da Vinci was a left hander and wrote all of his personal notes from right to left, forcing those who read them to use a mirror.
11. The Renaissance masterpiece "The Pieta" is the only work that Michelangelo ever signed.
12. Vincent Van Gogh produced more than 2000 works during his life time: 900 paintings and 1100 drawings and sketches.
13. *Amazing fact* is that Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting , “Red Vineyard at Arles” during his whole life.
14. Lighting on a painting needs to be dimmer at night and brighter during the day.
15. Fluorescent lighting causes more fading of artwork than incandescent lighting.
16. *Amazingly* Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.
17. *Amazingly* ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women’s feet.
18. On December 3rd, 1961, Henri Matisse's painting "Le Bateau" was put right-side up after hanging upside-down *amazingly* for 46 days without anyone noticing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York before an art student noticed the error.
19. English artist Andy Brown, created a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain by stitching together 1,000 used tea bags.
20. New Jersey has an *amazing* spoon museum that has over 5400 spoons from across the world.
21. Micro-sculptor Willard Wigan creates *amazing* artwork so small that he once inhaled one by accident. He can create a complete artwork in the eye on a needle.
22. The fact is that art has surpassed the stock market in appreciation over the past twenty years.

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### Awesome Facts
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#### 15 Awesome Facts

1. The Awesome Facts is in the late 19th century in Great Britain, attempted suicide was deemed to be equivalent to attempted murder and could be punished by hanging.
2. The first guest to enter Disneyland was a college student, Dave MacPherson. He didn’t ride a single attraction because he had to get back to school. In fact, he has been awarded a lifelong ticket to Disneyland (with up to 3 guests). The ticket has since extended to include Disney parks around the world.
3. Amazingly there are giant concrete arrows dotted across America, leftover from the days of the first airmail routes. Pilots used them to navigate.
4. An Awesome Facts is the graffiti artist who took shares instead of cash for painting Facebook’s first headquarters 7 years ago made $200 million in IPO.
5. Ostriches are the largest and heaviest birds in the world, they can outrun Leopards, their kick is strong enough to kill a Lion, male Ostriches can roar like a lion and they can see as far as 2.2 miles (3.5 km).
6. In 2007, the Malaysian space agency in fact convened a conference of 150 Islamic scientists to determine how a Muslim astronaut on the space station should pray facing Mecca.
7. Awesome Facts is During World War II in Australia, there was a dog whose hearing was so acute that it was able to warn Air Force personnel of incoming Japanese planes 20 minutes before they arrived, and before they showed up on radar. “Gunner” was able to differentiate the sounds of allied and enemy aircraft.
8. In fact, Japan imports rice from the U.S. in order to comply with World Trade Organization rules, but little of it is eaten by the Japanese. Amazingly it is given to North Korea as food aid, fed to pigs, or left to rot in warehouses.
9. Awesome Facts is Marie Curie’s research papers are still highly radioactive and to access them you must sign a waiver and wear protective clothing.
10. Awesome Facts is The world’s largest parrot, the Kakapo, is the world’s only flightless parrot. It is nocturnal, herbivorous, and is one of the world’s longest-living birds with an average lifespan of 95 years. There are only 125 living individuals known and they spend their days hiding from giant eagles that went extinct hundreds of years ago.
11. Awesome Facts is A man in Miami injected himself with snake venom during most of his adult life to build up immunity to an array of venomous snakes. He lived to age 100 and survived a reported 172 snake bites. He donated his blood to be used in treating snake-bite victims when suitable anti-venom was not available.
12. In 1967, the Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt mysteriously disappeared while swimming. His body has never been found.
13. It's amazing that there was a woman named Veronica Seider from Germany, who had vision 20x better than an average person. She was able to identify people from more than a mile away.
14. “Starbuck” was a famous Canadian bull, whose genome was so desirable that his sperm sold was for $25 million during his life and he has more than 200,000 daughters.
15. Once the Babylonians were able to predict when solar eclipses would occur, they would install a substitute king during this period. As they believed that these eclipses were an evil omen and this substitute king could be blamed. He usually was killed after, of course making the omen true.

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### Automotive
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#### 50 Amazing Facts About Automotives

1. In 1478 Leonardo da Vinci sketched drawings for a self-propelled vehicle.
2. The first working automobiles didn’t come out until the late 1800s.
3. Amazingly Vaclav Laurin and Vaclav Klement both Czechs started off with a small bicycle company in the early 1890s later on becoming Skoda.
4. In the entire state of Ohio, there were 2 cars on the roads in 1895\. Amazingly both cars had an accident colliding with one another.
5. In 1895 there were only 4 registered passenger vehicles in the US.
6. The amazing fact is that steering wheels were not equipped on the first cars made. Drivers used a lever to steer which was like a joystick.
7. In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first-ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing amazing 6 Miles per hour.
8. The term “dashboard” actually comes from the time of horse-drawn carriages. The dashboard was a piece of wood attached to the front of the carriage to keep mud from splattering the driver as the horse galloped.
9. Amazingly the average car has 30,000 parts.
10. The "new car smell" is composed of over 50 volatile organic compounds.
11. The first car race in the US took place in 1895 from Chicago to Waukegan, Illinois. Due to snow, only 6 cars started out of 80 entries.
12. Only 2 finished a racecourse of 20 miles. The winner had a speed of 7.5 miles per hour.
13. The first traffic lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914.
14. The amazing fact is in 1916, 55 % of the cars in the world were Model T Fords. The record still stands.
15. Amazingly Bentley, the luxury car company was founded in 1919 but it produced only an engine and chassis and no complete car for about 27 years.
16. Charles Creighton and James Hargis in 1930, drove a Ford Model A roadster from New York City to Los Angeles without stopping the engine once. The two men then promptly drove back to New York, completing the 7,180-mile round-trip in forty-two days. The amazing fact was on both journeys, the car was driven exclusively in reverse.
17. A car operates at maximum economy gas wise at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
18. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for 1 minute. Half an ounce is used to start the automobile.
19. Amazingly a car traveling at 80km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
20. The fact is 92% of all newly sold cars in Brazil use ethanol as fuel, which is produced from sugar cane.
21. Most American Car horns sound at the key of F.
22. Amazingly cars are one of the most dangerous modes of transport. About one million people die each year due to accidents.
23. At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
24. The fact is 75% of cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road today.
25. The world's widest road is the Monumental Axis in Brazil, which has amazingly enough space for 160 cars to drive side by side.
26. Amazingly the best-selling car of all time is the Toyota Corolla, which sold a staggering 30 million.
27. Airbags move up to 4500 mph when deployed. Amazingly it takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.
28. The fact is that the United States has one car for every person including babies!
29. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
30. Amazingly Bentley takes about 15 hours to create one steering wheel as the process of creation is too complicated for a machine.
31. The fact is Ferrari only builds 14 cars each day.
32. Toyota is the world’s largest car manufacturer. Every day they produce about 13,000 cars!
33. The amazing fact is that the world's cheapest car is manufactured in India and is called the "Tata Nano" costing $2000.
34. The most expensive car in the world is the Bugatti Veyron super sport which is priced at $2,500,000.
35. Amazingly Rolls-Royce refused to sell its Phantom IV to anyone other than a member of the Royal Family.
36. The longest custom-built car is an amazing 16-wheeled, 60ft (18.3 meters) Cadillac limousine. It features a swimming pool, hot tub, helipad, satellite dish, crystal chandelier, and has 'ample luggage space'.
37. The fact is it is illegal to own a Red car in Shanghai, China.
38. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
39. Amazingly one gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of freshwater!
40. The fact is no matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
41. The longest track ever used for F1 is Pescara in Italy, at 24.7 km
42. In Rallying your blood group must be displayed on your helmet or overalls.
43. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
44. There are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.
45. The amazing fact is that the world’s largest traffic jam was 110 miles long, between Paris and Lyon.
46. A mid-sized car launched today generates only an estimated 5% of the pollution which was generated by a car from fifty years ago.
47. Amazingly engine on the BMW M5 is so quiet that the company plays fake engine noises through the speakers to let the driver know it is running.
48. License plates in the Canadian northwest territories used to be shaped like a polar bear.
49. The amazing fact is that Lamborghini cars came into existence after a tractor company owner established it after he was insulted by the founder of Ferrari.
50. Amazingly BMW had to recall their original GPS system because male German drivers refused to take directions from a female voice.

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### Random Amazing Facts
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#### 15 Random Amazing Facts

1. The amazing fact is if Earth’s history were condensed into 24 hours, life would’ve appeared at around 4 a.m., land plants at 10:24 pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41 pm, and human history would’ve begun at 11:58:43 pm.
2. When oxygen first developed on Earth, it in *fact* wiped out nearly 99% of all life.
3. When Schwarzenegger turned down the planned sequel to Commando, it was reworked to star Bruce Willis and was retitled Die Hard.
4. *The amazing fact* is Samsung is also a full-time weapons manufacturer.
5. Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approached humans on their own terms.
6. In *fact* every year in ancient Athens, citizens could vote to banish any person from the city for 10 years.
7. *An amazing fact* is in USA, it is Possible for the Jury in a criminal trial to find the accused not-guilty despite being legally guilty as they believe the law to be unjust/wrong. This is known as Jury Nullification.
8. Mary is mentioned more in the Quran than in the entire New Testament and is also the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran.
9. A homeless man held up and robbed a bank for $1, then sat down and waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison.
10. Honey badgers emits smelly, suffocating secretions from its anal glands to fumigate hives, causing bees to flee and leave their honey for the honey badger.
11. *Amazingly* crows recognize human faces and hold grudges against ones they do not like.
12. It's *amazing* that about 15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
13. The first vending machine, a device that dispensed holy water in exchange for a coin was invented in the first century A.D. in Alexandria.
14. On the day of the High School final exams in Korea, government workers can arrive one hour late to reduce traffic congestion, motorists can’t honk their horns near exam venues, and flight schedules are altered. Police, taxis, and motorcyclists offer free rides to students who need them.
15. Adam Rainer is the only person in recorded history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant. At age 18, he measured 4 feet 8.3 inches. When he died at age 50 he measured 7 feet 8 inches.

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### Cities
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#### 75 Amazing and Unknown Facts about Cities

1. The amazing fact is that if you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin to attend the funeral, a poet will write a special poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
2. Bangkok, Thailand’s real name is amazingly the longest city name on Earth written with 163 symbols.
3. *The fact* is breathing the air in Beijing has the same health risks as smoking 21 cigarettes a day.
4. Blue Canyon, California is the snowiest city in the USA.
5. Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the only city in the world to have its government located on an island.
6. *Amazingly* Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world after Warsaw.
7. Amazingly in Churchill, Canada, residents have to leave their cars unlocked as an escape for pedestrians to escape a polar bear attack!
8. *The fact* is Damascus, Syria was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC.
9. Amazingly in Detroit most police station are closed to public for 16 hours resulting in response time of about one hour compared to national average of 10 minutes.
10. Dinosaur is a town in Colorado.
11. Dubai’s Burj Al Arab hotel *amazingly* provides guests with Gold i-pads.
12. High Wycombe is a town in the UK that weighs their mayor before and after their term as a tradition! The ceremony began in 1678 and has continued on to this day. It started because citizens were angry because they believed public officials were stealing money they didn’t deserve and getting fat of it.
13. Honk Kong has the biggest number of Rolls-Royce cars per resident in the entire world.
14. *Amazingly* Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
15. Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world that lies in two continents.
16. Juneau , Alaska is the "largest" city in the United States covering about 3,000 square miles.
17. La Paz , Capital city of Bolivia is the highest capital in the World at 17000 Ft. The amount of oxygen in the atmosphere is barely able to support fire.
18. The *fact* is the city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
19. The 315,000 watt light beam shining from the top of the Luxor hotel , Las Vegas is the most powerful in the World visible from *amazing* distance of 250 miles.
20. *Amazing fact* is Latvia has a prison hotel where Guests are treated like convicts and hotel rooms are like prison cells.
21. London is technically one of the smallest cities in the UK with only 7,000 residents! That's because the City of London is a city within the greater London. The city's boundaries have remained almost unchanged since it was founded by the Romans in 47 AD and today it covers only 1.12 square miles.
22. Do you know that in London average tourist is being caught on surveillance cameras about 300 times a day ?
23. *Amazingly* to be a London black cab driver , you are expected to know 25000 roads and 50000 points of interest and pass a test called "Knowledge". To pass the exams applicants usually need 12 appearances and has to prepare for 34 months.
24. *Fact* is when We think of Big Ben in London , We think of the clock. Actually it is the bell.
25. *Amazing fact* is the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London has been going on uninterrupted since the 14th century !
26. Los Angeles’s is named after river named “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. And can be abbreviated to two letters , “L.A. , just 3.6% of full name.
27. *Amazingly* in the city of Mackinac islands , Michigan , cars have been banned since 1898.
28. Madrid is the only European Capital city not situated on river.
29. Marion , Ohio , USA has the only popcorn museum in the world .
30. Mexico City is *amazingly* sinking at a rate of 6 to 8 inches a year because it's built on top of an underground reservoir.
31. In Mexico City, the average square yard of a sidewalk contains about 70 discarded gums.
32. Mexico City has the most museums in the world, with more than 160, almost all of which are free on Sundays! The city also has over 100 art galleries, and 30 concert halls.
33. *Amazingly* "Monowi" is a town of Nebraska which has a population of 1\. The mayor pays taxes to herself.
34. Montreal has an underground city, which has over 2,000 shops and 26 kilometers of walkways. This is in *fact* the largest underground network for any city.
35. *Amazingly* Montreal is the second largest French speaking city after Paris.
36. Moscow is the city with the most number of billionaires with 78 of them.
37. In 1626, the Dutch purchased Manhattan Island from the Lenape Native Americans for 60 guilders (about $1000). The English conquered the city from the Dutch in 1664, and “New Amsterdam” became “New York.”
38. *Amazingl*y in 1698, New York City only had a population of 4,937 people.
39. New York's Wall Street was named such due to the 1340 Ft long and 12 Feet tall wall erected in 1653 by Dutch colonists for protection against enemies.
40. *Fact* is New York city was briefly the U.S. Capital from 1789 to 1790.
41. *Amazing fact* is there are enough restaurants in New York for you to eat out every night for 54 years and never visit the same place again.
42. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
43. There's a restaurant in New York called "The Exchange Bar & Grill" where menu prices *amazingly* rise and fall based on demand just like the Stock Exchange!
44. The New York subway system is the largest mass transit system in the world with 468 stations and 842 miles (1355 km) of track.
45. Unlike most major subways systems around the world, the New York Subway runs 24 hours a day. About 40% of the New York Subway system is above ground. The first underground section of the Subway was opened in 1904.
46. The New York street network is in *fact* the longest in the world. It exceeds 10,000 km.
47. The city of New York paid only $5 million for the land that would become central park . The land is now valued at $ 550 billion. It is visited by more than 25 million visitors per year.
48. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (“The Met”) contains over 2 million works, making it one of the largest art museums in the world. It contains one of the most comprehensive collection of Asian art in the West.
49. Hartsdale , New York *amazingly* has a pet cemetery with more than 12,000 pets buried.
50. There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel.
51. Japan's Okinava island has more than 450 persons living above the age of 100 and is the healthiest place on earth.
52. *Amazingly* Paris is the only city in the world, where the «M» of the famous McDonalds logo is not written in yellow but with white because authorities insisted that yellow environment is tasteless as advised by the city’s artists.
53. Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is the only state capital name that shares no letters with the name of its state.
54. *Fact* is Sparta , a Greek city had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens att the height of its power (400 BC).
55. Rome , Italy was the first city in the World to reach a population of 1 million people in 133 B.C.
56. Every year visitors throw approx. 1.1 million Euros into the Trevi fountain in Rome. The fund is used to operate supermarket for the needy.
57. The San Francisco Fire Department uses handmade wooden ladders for safety as the streets of San Francisco are filled with low-hanging power lines. Also wood ladders are much heavier, and remain stable when strong winds come in.
58. *Amazingly* there is not a single graveyard within the city of San Francisco .
59. Seoul has been the capital city of Korea for more than 600 years.
60. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.
61. Shani Shinganapur is a town Maharashtra , India having population of 15000 that has no doors . There are only door frames even in toilets.
62. St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the US.
63. *Amazingly* there is a town in Alaska , Talkeetna , which has had a cat as a mayor for 15 years.
64. With more than 37.5 million people living in greater Tokyo, the city is the largest metropolitan area in the world. Due to limited space , a typical size of a one bedroom apartment is usually not more than 15 square meters (170 square feet). Most Japanese apartments have sliding doors.
65. Tokyo is known for tiny hotel rooms in unique "Capsule hotels". You get nothing more than a capsule or a box to sleep in.
66. Tokyo's subway is one of the busiest in the world. Millions of people use the subway and railway daily, and they even have staff cramming passengers inside the trains. In *fact* Japan has 82 of the 100 busiest train stations in the world!
67. Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.
68. The vatican city is home to only ATM that gives instructions in Latin.
69. Venice has an underwater Train.
70. The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.
71. There are no skyscrapers in Washington D.C. The height restriction *amazingly* stems from a 1910 law prohibiting buildings from being any taller than the width of the adjacent street, plus 20 feet.
72. Washington D.C. is dotted with parks that impede the flow of traffic. The city’s 19th century architects placed the parks at inconvenient locations to serve as impediments to any army invading from the water.
73. Washington D.C. is home to 74 museums, including the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, the most heavily visited museum in the world!
74. Amazing fact is Washington D.C. has 1 lawyer for every 19 residents, and 74 lobbyists for every Senator.
75. Most of Washington’s streets are named for letters and numbers. But there is no “J” Street because in Colonial times, the letters “J” and “I” were interchangeable. “J” was not yet a fully recognized letter.

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### Personalities
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Last updated: 2025-03-06T09:30:34.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Unknown Facts about Personalities

1. The amazing fact is that Columbus lied about being the first to spot America, so he could claim the lifetime pension promised by King Ferdinand! Ship's captain, Rodrigo de Triana spotted land first on the morning of October 12, 1492\. Rodrigo alerted Columbus, and the rest of the crew by firing a gun into the air. To everyone's amazement, Columbus claimed that he spotted the island a few hours before Rodrigo. Columbus was his senior officer and he could not disagree with him.
2. When the 'Elephant Whisperer' Lawrence Anthony died, *amazingly* a whole herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him!
3. Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
4. Walt Disney gave his housekeeper Disney stocks every year for the holidays. When she died, she had an *amazing* 9.5 million dollar fortune almost entirely from Disney stocks.
5. *An amazing fact* is between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars.
6. The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross.
7. Pamela Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
8. Drug lord Pablo Escobar had so much cash that rats ate nearly $1 billion of his money each year.
9. *Amazingly* all five of George Foreman's sons are named George Foreman.
10. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
11. A perfect SAT score is 1600\. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill's partner in Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600.
12. *Amazingly* Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a bellybutton.
13. Houdini was the first man to fly plane solo in Australia.
14. Howard Hughes' original fortune came from his father's invention of an oil drill bit capable of boring through subterranean rock.
15. The chief translator for the European parliament Loannis Ikonomou fluently speaks 32 languages.
16. Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart never went to school.
17. One of the main fundraisers for the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal was Joseph Pulitzer, the same man for whom the literary prize is named after.
18. Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a boxing fight as he had an *amazing* intuition that his opponent would be killed . After being convinced to fight , he fought and his opponent indeed died in the fight.
19. When adjusted for inflation John D. Rockefeller is the richest man in history of the world having net assets 10 times that of Bill Gates. *Amazingly* he gave away over 50 billion dollars during his lifetime.
20. *Amazing fact* is that Dr. Seuss was not actually a doctor.He did receive several degrees that were considered honorary. He did intend to get a doctorate, but never did. He added the Dr. to his name because his mother had always wanted him to study medicine.
21. Mother Teresa spent 15 years teaching history and geography at a high school for daughter’s of wealthy families but was distressed with the poverty all around. She found her true meaning of life when she took a trip to Darjeeling for a retreat.
22. Donald Trump *amazingly* has fear of picking up germs, which is why he doesn't shake hands often. He even refuses to push buttons in the elevator, sanitizing his hands several times each day.
23. It's *amazing* that Ted Turner owns 5% of New Mexico.
24. *Amazingly* Orville Wright numbered the eggs that his chickens produced so he could eat them in the order they were laid.
25. Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who made the guillotine popular and for whom it is named actually did not invent it. It was invented by Antoine Louis. Dr Guillotin was against the death penalty.

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### Plants
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Last updated: 2025-03-04T09:30:24.000Z
#### 38 Amazing Facts Plants

1. The amazing fact is that plants produce oxygen in day time which is ten times more than the carbon dioxide produced at night.
2. It is amazing that pollen can travel up to 500 miles a day. It never deteriorates and can last indefinitely.
3. Plantlife exists due to lightning which provides soluble nitrogen oxides that fall to the earth in rain as dilute nitric acid becoming nitrates after reaction with minerals on which the plants depend.
4. No species of the wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.
5. Amazingly almonds are members of the rose flower family or Rosaceae family. The peach and apples are also a member of the rose family.
6. The amazing fact is that the flower of the artillery plants measures only 0.35 mm in diameter. It is the smallest flower ever known.
7. Amazingly bamboo can be used to make yarn twice as soft as cotton!
8. Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are giant herbs.
9. Amazingly banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum.
10. Banana fibers are often used to make socks and pillows!
11. A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry isn’t.
12. Amazingly Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit, a total of 11 billion a year.
13. There is no such thing as a banana tree. Bananas grow on plants.
14. The amazing fact is that a bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell.
15. There are 2000 different species of cactuses.
16. It is amazing that the Saguaro Cactus, found in the Southwestern United States doesn't grow branches until it is 75 years old.
17. Amazingly the Hottest Part of a Chili is not the seed but the white membrane that the seeds are attached to. The membrane contains the highest levels of capsaicin, the component that gives chili peppers their hotness.
18. A single coffee tree yields only one pound of roasted, ground coffee annually.
19. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
20. Linen has an amazing property of absorbing up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
21. Most mushrooms we eat are the same, even if they have different names!
22. There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It amazingly covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
23. Rat-Eating Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes Attenborough) species discovered in August 2009is is believed to be the largest meat-eating plant in the world and is capable of digesting rats. Scientists found it on Mount Victoria in the Philippines and named it after famed nature broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.
24. Orchids have the smallest seeds. The amazing fact is that it takes more than 1.25 million seeds to weigh 1 gram.
25. If you inhale a pea, amazingly it can sprout and grow in your lungs.
26. It was amazing that the first diesel engine ran on peanut oil.
27. It is absolutely amazing fact that the giant puffball, Lycoperdon giganteum, produces 7,000 billion spores, each of which could grow into a puffball a foot in diameter and collectively cover an area of 280,000 square miles, greater than the size of Texas. Fortunately, only one of the spores actually becomes a puffball, and all the others die.
28. One ragweed plant can amazingly release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
29. The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches, and apricots.
30. The amazing fact is that a single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground.
31. An average strawberry has about 200 seeds. And it is the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside.
32. Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste. They can extract pollutants and metal contaminants through roots to stems & leaves.
33. The telegraph plant of Asia has leaves that amazingly flutter constantly, even when there is no breeze.
34. Vanilla is the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids.
35. The water hyacinth is the world's fastest-growing water plant & the world's biggest water plants are the Amazon lily, its floating leaves grow up to 6 feet.
36. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located halfway between Norway and the North Pole. It is deep inside a mountain on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago. It’s a fail-safe state of the art seed storage facility which amazingly houses seeds of every crop from the world to ensure survival in any calamity!
37. Welwitschia mirabilis is a desert plant looking like it came straight out of the age of dinosaurs. Two succulent leaves continuously grow from the short, thick trunk, splitting over time into strap-shaped sections. The leaves can reach twelve feet in length. These odd plants are considered living fossils and can live up to 2,000 years.
38. Wheat is the world's most widely cultivated plant; grown on every continent except Antarctica.

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### Books
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Last updated: 2025-03-02T09:30:46.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts About Books

1. The first book to ever be printed was the Bible. It was, however, in Latin rather than English.
2. *Amazingly* it took three years of constant printing to complete Johann Gutenberg's famous Bible, which appeared in 1455 in two volumes and had 1,284 pages. He reportedly printed 200 Bibles, of which 47 still exist.
3. The Bible is the best-selling book of all time with *amazing* six billion books sold.
4. The Bible was in *fact* written by about 40 men over a period of about 1600 years dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ.
5. *The amazing fact* is that if you put all the bibles printed so far on a long bookshelf and started driving along the shelf at 55 mph, you would have to drive 40 hours per week for over four months to get to the end.
6. The oldest-dated book in the world is the British Library’s copy of the Diamond Sutra, printed in China in 868.
7. In the 15 th century , scholars in China compiled a set of encyclopedia that contained *amazing* 11095 volumes.
8. In the 16th century, the world’s bestselling book was Erasmus’s handbook on good manners for children, De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus. Written in Latin in Freiburg in 1530, it has *amazingly* run to 130 editions over 300 years.
9. *Amazingly* there have been over 20,000 books written about the game of Chess.
10. It's *amazing* that the United States Library of Congress contains 73 millions books arranged on 350 miles of shelves.
11. *Amazingly* Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel in 1939 , 'Gadsby', which contains over 50,000 words , none of them with the letter E!
12. French author Michel Thaler published an *amazing* 233 page novel which has no verbs.
13. During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only sold 50 copies.
14. The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge which was *amazingly* returned by heirs 288 years later.
15. There is an *amazing* book giving the calculation of pi to two million places running to 800 pages.
16. In the book, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is one *amazing* sentence which is 823 words long.
17. The author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, was an ophthalmologist, an eye doctor. He had to take up writing to make ends meet.
18. Charles Dickens had to be facing north before he could write a word.
19. Between 1986 and 1996, Brazilian author Jose Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue had *amazing* 1,058 novels published.
20. The largest book in the world is "The Klencke Atlas” which is 1.75 meters long and 1.90 meters wide. It needs six persons to lift it and other two to open it. Johan Maurits of Nassau made The Klencke Atlas, which Amsterdam merchant Johannes Klencke apparently presented to Charles II of England upon the king's restoration to the throne in 1660\. The book is a collection of maps.
21. *Amazingly* Alice In Wonderland was banned in China in 1931 as talking animals were an insult to humans.
22. *Amazing fact* is that part of the M6 toll road is built from copies of pulped Mills and Boon novels. 2.5 million books were shredded into a paste and then added to a mixture of asphalt and Tarmac to prevent it cracking.
23. *Amazingly* the most expensive book is The Task by Tomas Alexander Hartmann. It has a value by the author for 213 million U.S. dollars. It's only 13 pages long.
24. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
25. *Fact* is Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
26. The last word in the Bible is "Amen."
27. The world's smallest book must be read using an electron microscope. This first-ever nanoscale book was published as a work of art in April 2007\. This *amazing* book, called Teeny Ted from Turnip Town, measures 0.07 mm by 0.10 mm!!
28. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , 1974 book which was *amazingly* rejected by 121 publishers has sold 5 million copies worldwide !
29. *Amazing fact* is that Harvard university library has 4 books bound in human skin.
30. The world's most expensive book ever purchased was bought by Bill Gates at auction for *amazing* $30.8 million dollars. The title of the book is Codex Leicester by Leonard da Vinci.

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### Exotic Facts
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Last updated: 2025-02-28T09:30:04.000Z
#### 15 Exotic Facts

- If the American President is unmarried or his wife dies during his term, another female relative will become the First Lady. Three president’s daughters, two president’s sisters, two nieces and two daughters-in-law have been First Lady.
- Exotic Facts is until 1953, NYC had a pneumatic tube mail network that spanned 27 miles and connected 23 post offices. At its peak, the system moved 95,000 letters a day.
- Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $ 1 million in disposable wealth.
- *Amazingly* Newman’s Own, the food company donates 100% of its post-tax profits to charity. These donations have already exceeded $350 million.
- When you are in Sweden you have the year-round right to walk, cycle, ride, ski, and camp on any land, with few exceptions, due to The Right of Public Access.
- In *fact* the United States bombed Vietnam with more than double the bomb tonnage dropped by every single country in all of World War 2.
- *Exotic Facts* is no matter how scrambled a Rubik’s Cube is, it can be solved in twenty moves or less.
- *Amazingly* in Nevada, public intoxication is not only explicitly legal, but it’s illegal for any city or town in Nevada to pass a law making it illegal.
- In 2005, during a Muslim Pilgrimage in Baghdad, one man pointed to another and accused him of carrying explosives. In *fact* 953 People died in the resulting stampede.
- Exotic Facts is due to the confusion of their names, the staff of Slovakian and Slovenian embassies meets once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail.
- *Amazingly* in 2010, the Mongolian Navy consisted of a single tugboat manned by seven men and only one of them knew how to swim.
- Season Two of the TV series “24″ featured a terrorist plot that originated from a London mosque. A few months after the season ended, authorities raided the mosque and found that it was indeed a terrorist hub.
- In 2005, an Ethiopian girl was kidnapped and attacked until a pride of lions chased her attackers off and stayed to defend her until help arrived!
- Exotic Facts is The inventor of petroleum jelly said that he ate a spoonful of it every day, claiming it had tremendous health benefits. In *fact,* he lived to be 96.
- Before trees were common, the earth was covered in giant mushrooms.

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### Country
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Last updated: 2025-02-26T09:30:49.000Z
#### 86 Amazing Facts about various Country that will surprise you

1. *Amazingly* paper bags are outlawed in grocery stores in Afghanistan. They believe paper is sacred.
2. The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
3. There is only one Jewish person left in Afghanistan. Amazingly there used to be 40000 Jews there before Israel was formed.
4. The Aleutian Islands of Alaska cross the 180 degree-meridian longitude. This means that these islands are part of the Eastern hemisphere meaning that Alaska is the state that is farthest north, east & west in the United States!
5. Amazing fact is that in Albania nodding the head means "no" and shaking the head means "yes".
6. Amazingly Austrian citizens are said to have the most vacation time of any country. Austria guarantees workers a legal minimum of 22 paid vacation days and 13 paid holidays each year.
7. Of the 3,000 islands in the Bahamas chain in the Caribbean, *amazingly* only 20 are inhabited.
8. The Bahamas once had an *amazing* undersea post office.
9. Amazing fact was that Belgium used to serve beer to school kids in 1970's since it had 1.5 % alcohol and was considered healthier than most soft drinks!
10. *Amazingly* in 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones , Bhutan.
11. Amazing fact was that Bhutan issued a stamp in 1973 that looked like a record and actually would play the Bhutanese national anthem if placed on a record player.
12. Bhutan use ‘gross national happiness’ as a key national indicator.
13. In Bhutan, marijuana grows in the wild and is more common than regular grass!
14. There have been amazing 191 coups in Bolivia since it became sovereign country in 1825.
15. The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.
16. Amazing fact is that two thirds of the World's kidnappings occur in Columbia.
17. *Fact* is Costa Rica is the only country in the Western Hemisphere that doesn’t have any military. The military was abolished in the Costa Rican Constitution in 1949.
18. The only other country in the world to celebrate the United States birthday, July 4th, is Denmark.
19. Amazing fact is that in Denmark, you get paid to go to school! All students 18 and older are entitled to a free grant which may be up to $ 950 per month.
20. *Fact* is that Eskimos never gamble.
21. The Falkland Islands ( Pop. about 2000 ) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).
22. *Amazingly* the speeding tickets in Finland are based on how much money a person makes. The director of Nokia received a speeding ticket for 116,000 euros (roughly $152,725) in Finland.
23. Finland is also known as "the land of of the thousand lakes," because of *amazing* 188,000 lakes and 179,584 islands found in this country .
24. Amazing fact is that the nation of Georgia fired its entire police force by an order by President Mikheil Saakashvili. The country had no police force for the next 3 months during which crime rate actually went down!
25. Amazingly in 1925 a war between Greece and Bulgaria began because a dog crossed their border.
26. Guam is known for roads made of coral because Guam doesn’t have any natural sand, but rather coral. The island nation makes its asphalt using a mix of ground coral and oil rather than importing sand from abroad.
27. Amazingly Haiti is almost entirely treeless. It is so badly deforested that you can tell where it borders the Dominican Republic by looking at a satellite image.
28. When a Hawaiian woman wears a flower over her left ear, it means that she is not available.
29. Amazingly in Iceland it is illegal to have pets.
30. *Fact* is in Iceland tipping is considered an insult.
31. There is no ice covering Iceland.
32. Iceland is mostly green and grassy, while Greenland is mainly cold and icy.
33. It's a set of volcanic islands called Izu Islands, off of Japan that have so much sulfur that it’s resident’s must wear gas masks outside.
34. Jamaica has *amazingly* the most churches per square mile than any other country in the world.
35. Amazingly in Kenya a child's middle name is given based on the time during the day the child is born.
36. *Fact* is Maldives is most likely to disappear beneath the waves with an average height of around 1.8 meters above sea level which is the lowest on Earth.
37. Lebanon is the only country in the Middle East without desert.
38. Libya is a desert country , amazing 99 % area being desert.
39. Malta has most of its citizens live abroad .There are now more Maltese living abroad than within the country itself.
40. There are over 500,000 slaves in Mauritania today.
41. Amazingly Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
42. Mexico and Luxembourg are the only two countries in the world that are spelled with the letter X.
43. Monaco having an area of 0.8 sq. miles is the smallest permanently inhabited nation in the world which is smaller than Central Park. It has amazing density of 16,200 people per sq. km.
44. Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.
45. At 4 people per square mile Mongolia is the least densely populated country on Earth. Compare this to the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong that has the highest population density in the world with 340,000 people per square mile.
46. Amazing fact is that Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States in 1789.
47. The Taron people purposely decided to go extinct! This small ethnic group known as Asian pygmies lives in the Himalayan foothills on the north part of Myanmar. Their average height is less than 4’3”.A large number of Taron babies were being born with increasingly worse birth defects. The tribe leaders decided that they didn’t want to risk any more misshapen children. They imposed a ban on having kids, and even getting married. There are less than 10 pure blood Taron left, which means that an entire culture will die soon because they chose to.
48. Amazingly Fossilized bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
49. With over 95% of its population being overweight, the small island nation of Nauru is by far the fattest country on Earth.
50. Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw beautiful young women into a volcano it would stop erupting.
51. Niger has the youngest population of any country having roughly half of its population aged less than 15 years.
52. Nigeria has the world’s third biggest film industry after Hollywood & Bollywood!
53. Amazingly 99% of the energy produced in Norway is renewable and clean!
54. Amazing fact is that despite being 27 times smaller , Norway’s coast line is longer than USA.
55. Pakistan was named in 1933 and is derived from the first letters of "Punjab," "Afghan," "Kashmir," "Sind," and "Tan." All of these are districts or states of what is now Pakistan.
56. The largest ocean liners pay a $250,000 toll for each trip through the Panama Canal. The canal generates about one-third of Panama's entire economy.
57. Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically *amazingly* diverse country in the world with over 820 spoken languages. Although English is its official language, only 1-2% of the population actually speak it.
58. There are no public toilets in Peru.
59. Female aristocrats on the island of Portugese Timor in Malaya, indicate their status by notching their ears.
60. Amazingly Portugal is the world's largest producer of cork. The country has regulations protecting cork trees dating back to 1320.
61. There was once a country called Prussia. After World War II, it was divided among Poland, Germany, and the USSR.
62. Amazing fact is that Qatar and Bahrain, two Middle East countries have their National Anthems with no words at all.
63. Saudi Arabia covers an area of 830,000 sq. miles, yet *amazingly* there is not a single river in the whole country.
64. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
65. Amazing fact is that in Saudi Arabia, women are allowed to fly planes but it is illegal for them to ride a bike! The male guardian or chauffeur has to bring her to the airport because as per laws , she can't drive a car.
66. *Fact* is Valentine's Day is banned in Saudi Arabia.
67. The art of knitting originated in Scotland.
68. Amazingly in South America, it is rude not to ask person about his wife and children. In Arab countries, it would be rude to do so.
69. Latin Americans have two last names.
70. Amazingly Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.
71. Amazing fact is that crucifixion is still an official form of punishment in Sudan.
72. Suriname is amazingly entirely covered in jungle with 91% of its land covered in jungle. Suriname’s half a million residents live primarily along the coast near the capital.
73. Amazing fact is Swedish wasn’t the official language of Sweden until 2009!
74. 89% of people in Sweden speak English.
75. Amazingly a company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
76. Amazingly the only Southeast Asian country never colonized by western power is Thailand.
77. In Tibet it is considered good manners to stick out your tongue at someone.
78. Amazingly Tibetan Monks sleep sitting up! They never have a sore back or neck, it's impossible to snore, and they have more energy when they are awake!
79. Over 85 percent of the residents of the United Arab Emirates are foreign.
80. Vatican City Is The Smallest City In The World. And The Only Country Within A Country. It's just 0.17 square miles.
81. Fact is the Vatican's Swiss Guard still wears a uniform designed by Michelangelo in the early 16th century.
82. The Vatican city registered 0 births in 1983.
83. Amazing fact is that Venezuelans pay only 6 cents for a gallon of gasoline being subsidized by Govt.
84. Over 40% of the people in Vietnam have the same last name: Nguyen.
85. It's amazing that Zaire alone produces 2/3 rds of World Cobalt supply.
86. Amazingly over 25% of Zaire population is infected with a form of the Ebola virus that does not kill.

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### Coincidence (Part 1)
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Last updated: 2025-02-24T09:30:55.000Z
#### 15 Amazing Coincidences ( Part 1)

- The English Dennis the Menace and the American Dennis the Menace were developed completely independently of each other and were *amazingly* published on the same day on opposite sides of the Atlantic on 12 March 1951\. The two characters had nothing in common and both became immensely popular without any copyright issues..
- In the 1920s, three Englishman were traveling separately by train through Peru. At the time of their introduction, they were the only three men in the railroad car. *Amazingly* one man's last name was Bingham, and the second man's last name was Powell. The third man announced that his last name was Bingham-Powell. None were related in any way.
- By coincidence, a married couple was photographed at the same place and time at Disney World 15 years before they met. They were from different countries. It was *amazing* for them to discover this photo after marriage.
- In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead by those with whom he was playing poker claiming he had won the $600 pot through cheating. They found a new player to take Fallon’s place and staked him with the dead man’s unlucky $600\. When the police arrived , the new player had turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings. The police demanded the original $600 to pass on to Fallon’s next of kin , only to discover *amazingly* that the new player was Fallon’s son, who had not seen his father in seven years!
- A 10 year old girl named Laura Buxton from Blurton, Staffordshire, England released a balloon with her name and address on it, which floated 140 miles and in *fact* landed in the back yard of a house where there also lived a 10 year old girl named Laura Buxton.
- A computer error gave two women in America called Patricia the same social security number. When the two women were brought together in an office to rectify the blunder they *amazingly* discovered that both had been born with the names Patricia Ann Campbell , both of their fathers were called Robert Campbell, both had same birthdays 13th March 1941, both married military men in the year 1959 within eleven days of each other , both had two children aged 19 and 21 ,both had studied cosmetics and both had worked as book-keepers.
- In a unique coincidence of history, both US founder presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4th, 1826, exactly 50 years to the day after the signing of the declaration of independence which both had finalized .
- British cavalry officer Major Summerford was fighting in the fields of Flanders in the last year of WWI, a flash of lightning knocked him off his horse and paralysed him from his waist down. He moved to Vancouver, Canada. Six years later, whilst out fishing, he was struck by lightning again and the right side of his body became paralysed. After two years of recovery he was out in a local park when a summer storm blew up and Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again permanently paralysing him. He died two years after this incident. *Amazing fact* is that four years after his death, his stone tomb was destroyed as it was struck by lightning!
- A German mother who photographed her infant son in 1914 left the film to be developed at a store in Strasbourg. World War I broke out and unable to return to Strasbourg, the woman gave up the picture for lost. Two years later she bought a film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles away, to take a picture of her newborn daughter. When developed the film turned out to be a double exposure, with the picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her son. *Amazingly* through some incredible twist of fate, her original film, never developed, had been mislabeled as unused, and had eventually been resold to her.
- As per Stephen Hawking the Physicist , if the density of the universe one second after the Big Bang had been greater by one part in a thousand billion, the universe would have recollapsed after ten years. On the other hand, if the density of the universe at that time had been less by the same amount, the universe would have been essentially empty when it was about ten years old. Existence of the world we live in is an *amazing* example of an extraordinary coincidence.
- The Sun’s distance from Earth is 400 times the Moon distance, and the Sun’s diameter is 400 times the diameter of the Moon. Because of this *amazing* coincidence we experience a total eclipse. No other known planet has total eclipses and at some point in the future they won’t occur on Earth either.
- This is *amazing* story of the twin brothers, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer separated at birth and adopted by different families. Both families named the boys James and both sought law enforcement training. Both had abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry and each married women named Linda. Both had sons, one of whom was named James Alan and the other named James Allan. Both twins also divorced their wives and married other women, both named Betty. Also they both owned dogs which they named Toy.
- On May 17, 1882, solar eclipse observers in Egypt were greatly surprised when they saw a bright streak near the Sun once the totality began. By *amazing* coincidence, the eclipse had coincided with the perihelion passage (The closest point to the Sun in an orbit) of a Kreutz comet. Comet would otherwise be unnoticed.
- In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I, went to a small restaurant for dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia- Vaglia. When the owner took King Umberto’s order, the King noticed that he and the restaurant owner were *amazing* virtual doubles. They found that both were born on the same day (March 14th, 1844) in the same town and had married a woman with same name, Margherita. Restaurant owner had opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto was crowned King of Italy. Amazing fact is that on the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the restauranteur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident and as he expressed his regret, he was assassinated by an anarchist in the crowd.
- A promising author was disturbed to find his manuscript on his front lawn. It was the manuscript he had given to his publisher hopeful of publication but apparently it had just been thrown disrespectfully over his front yard fence. He called the publisher and demanded the explanation. The publisher explained that manuscript was impressive and she wanted to publish it but while she was dining at a restaurant, thieves broke into her car and stole several things including the manuscript. Keeping the valuables, the thieves later just tossed the manuscript away, over a fence right into the author's front yard!

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### California
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Last updated: 2025-02-22T09:30:51.000Z
#### 45 Facts about California

1. California is the USA's most populous state. One out of every eight United States residents lives in California.
2. *Amazingly* California has a larger population than all of Canada.
3. *The fact* is California is a "minority-majority" state, with 58% of its population Asian, Hispanic, Native American, or other groups. 26% of its people were born outside the U.S.
4. California has the largest economy in the states of the union. California is the first state to ever reach a trillion-dollar economy in gross state product.
5. California is known variously as The Land of Milk and Honey, The El Dorado State, The Golden State, and The Grape State.
6. *Fact* is that the Gold Rush sparked the mass migration. Between 1848 and 1852, California's population grew from 14,000 to 223,000\. Today, the largest and deepest gold mine, is still in production, the Kennedy mine, in Jackson.
7. *Amazingly* prior to the Gold Rush, California had more Native Americans than all the other states combined.
8. Empire Mine, near Grass Valley, is a gold mine which operated for over 100 years and has over 367 miles of tunnels extending 2 miles (3.2 km) down. It is said to still contain gold but is now a historical park.
9. California is the largest producer of goods of all the states and the largest agricultural state in America.
10. California holds two of the top ten most populous cities: Los Angeles and San Diego.
11. *Amazingly* the highest and lowest points in the continental United States are within 100 miles of one another both in California. Mount Whitney measures 14,495 feet and Bad Water in Death Valley is 282 feet below sea level.
12. There are more than 300,000 tons of grapes grown in California annually which in turn produces more than 17 million gallons of wine each year.
13. California's Mount Whitney measures as the highest peak in the lower 48 states. Its most famous climb is Mount Whitney Trail to the 14,495 feet summit.
14. California is famous for its enormous trees. The redwood is the official state tree. In 1925 a giant sequoia located in California's Kings Canyon National Park was named the nation's national Christmas tree. The tree is over 300 feet in height.
15. Inyo National Forest is home to the bristle cone pine, the oldest living species. Some of the trees are thought to be over 4,600 years old.
16. California is home to the world's largest tree (Redwood – Named General Sherman in Sequoia National Park) having it’s trunk 102 feet (32 mtr) in circumference. It’s believed to be 3500 years old.
17. *Amazingly* the location of the world’s tallest tree, Hyperion, standing at 379 feet, is kept a secret, and is hiding somewhere in California .
18. *Amazing fact* is although the Redwoods can reach heights of nearly 40 stories tall, their root systems are only 10 feet deep. Instead of growing down, the shallow roots of the Redwood tree grow out, and spread sideways up to 250 feet (75 m) from the trunk.
19. The bark of the Redwood is deeply-furrowed, fibrous, up to about 1 foot (30.5 cm) thick and lacks resin.
20. *Amazingly* there is a palm tree and pine tree planted next to each other at the midpoint of California. The palm tree signifies the entrance to Southern California, while the pine tree signifies the entrance to Northern California.
21. Mavericks, an area of beach in San Mateo County , is considered one of the three best surfing locations in the world. Winter storms create swells and waves up to 30 feet.
22. *Amazingly* the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has enough steel wires in its cables to circle the earth at the equator 3.5 times. he Golden Gate Bridge is so big that workers paint the bridge year round. By the time they are finished with one end it is time to begin repainting the other end.
23. The things Invented in California: fortune cookies, Apple computers, the computer "mouse ,theme parks (Disneyland), blue jeans and the Barbie doll.
24. It is estimated there are approximately 500,000 detectable seismic tremors in California annually.
25. Pacific Park, on the venerable Santa Monica Pier, re-creates the amusement parks once dotting the ocean areas along the Pacific Coast. Featured are 11 amusement rides including the 1910-vintage hand-carved merry-go-round appearing in the movie "The Sting." Still running.
26. Nowhere else in the nation are more avocados grown than in the city of Fallbrook known as Avocados capital of the world.
27. Shasta Lake in Northern California is called the "Houseboat Capital of the World" with more than 400 commercial vehicles for rent.
28. San Francisco Bay is considered the world's largest landlocked harbor.
29. *Amazingly* California has some weird laws that date back over 100 years. In Pacific Grove, there is a 500 dollar fine for molesting butterflies.
30. Toothpaste use to be a home remedy for taking care of bad teeth. It began at the Los Angeles county fair with citrus and orange by products to make your own tooth paste at home.
31. The railroad Museum in Sacramento is the largest railroad museum in the World.
32. California’s underground is a Criss, cross of underground caverns well known in the world. One of the most extensive is located in the Mother lode region of the State.
33. Protection for the Bald Eagle started in California, and it is now the largest Bald eagle habitat in the world (Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge).
34. In Atwater the Castle Air Museum has the largest display of military aircraft in California.
35. Death Valley is recognized as the hottest, driest place in the United States where temperatures consistently reach over 120 F (49 C) during summer months.
36. The famous Hollywood bowel is the largest outdoor amphitheater in the country.
37. The first motion picture theater was opened in Los Angeles in 1902.
38. 8 of the top 10 cities with highest unemployment rates in America are in California.
39. *Amazing fact* is that the movie industry is based in Hollywood because movie makers were trying to get away from Thomas Edison who was based in New Jersey and had patents covering virtually the entire movie making process, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California was known to rule against patent claims.
40. n 1947 a young woman named Norma Jean was crowned Castroville's first Artichoke Queen. She went on to become actress Marilyn Monroe.
41. The entire coastline of California is a national monument, promising permanent conservation and ensuring there will not be new oil drilling within 12 nautical miles of the mainland.
42. *Amazingly* it rained nearly continually in California from Christmas Eve 1861 through the end of January 1862, destroying nearly 1/4 of the property in the state, turning the Central Valley into an inland sea, and bankrupting the state.
43. *Amazing fact* is in California, it costs $173 million per year to keep less than 3,000 inmates in prison.
44. Hearst Castle along the Pacific Coast has 165 rooms, 38 bedrooms, 61 bathrooms, 14 sitting rooms, a kitchen, a movie theater, 2 libraries, a billiard room, a dining hall, an assembly hall, 41 fireplaces, and 127 acres of gardens.
45. The 1,000,000 tiles that cover the pool room at Hearst Castle are all inlayed in real gold making it the most expensive pool room ever built.

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### Flags
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Last updated: 2025-02-20T09:30:13.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Facts About Flags of Nations

1. United States flag has 13 stripes for the thirteen original colonies and one star for every state.
2. *Amazingly* stars numbers and the position on US flag has never been standardised resulting in multiple official versions.
3. “Backwards American flags” on airplanes and military uniforms are worn with the stars in front to “give the effect of the flag flying in the breeze as the wearer moves forward.”
4. *Amazing fact* is Robert G. Heft , 18 year old student designed the current flag as a school project when Hawaii and Alaska were being discussed as possible states. He received a B- for the assignment because his teacher said it lacked creativity. He was told he would receive a higher grade if it was adopted by Congress, so he sent it on to his representative who promoted it and it eventually became the nation's flag.
5. *Fact* is Ohio is the only state flag which is not rectangular. It is shaped like a pennant.
6. *Amazingly* Hawaii state of US still has British Union Jack as it's flag.
7. *Amazingly* Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
8. Texas is the only state where citizens also pledge allegiance to the state flag.
9. The Virginia state flag is the only U.S. state flag to feature nudity.
10. The nylon American flag planted on the moon during Apollo 11 cost $5.50, was knocked over by exhaust from the Lunar Module’s ascent, and is likely to have disintegrated by four decades of heat, UV rays and radiation.
11. There are 6 US flags put on Moon by various Apollo missions , five are still standing. All have turned white from bleaching by sunlight.
12. US flag shares it's birthday with the US army which was founded on June 14 , 1775 , two years before the flag was born.
13. According the Flag Code, the American Flag should never be used for advertisement purposes in any manner whatsoever.
14. The U.S. is the only country that does not dip its flag to the host country at the Olympics opening ceremonies. When the U.S. flag-holder was asked to do so for King Edward VII at the 1908 London games, he supposedly responded, “This flag dips to no earthly king.” Tradition has continued.
15. When a foreign dignitary stays over at Blair House (the sister version of White House), their national flag is flown over the premises and the area is considered foreign soil.
16. Canada Flag has red maple leaf on it since Maple tree is national tree.
17. Lichtenstein and Haiti developed identical national flags independently of each other. No one realized until the two countries competed against each other in the 1936 Summer Olympics under the same flag.
18. The *fact* is the flags of Monaco and Indonesia are identical by coincidence. *Amazing* thing is that it becomes Polish flag turning it upside down.
19. The flags of Chad and Romania are also identical.
20. The flags of Australia and New Zealand are so similar, the Prime Minister of Australia was greeted with the flag of New Zealand on a state visit to Canada in 1984.
21. *Amazingly* the only non rectangular national flag is the double triangular shape of Nepal's made by combining two pennants.
22. The flag of the Philippines has both blue and red portion. *Amazingly* the blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is flown on top in war time.
23. Switzerland and the vatican city are the only countries with a square flag. Switzerland's flag shows famous red cross.
24. In Denmark, it is illegal to burn foreign flags, but not illegal to burn the Danish flag.
25. Denmark’s flag is the oldest flag currently in use, designed in 1219 and unchanged since.
26. There was about a 15 year period in which the flag of France was just a white flag
27. Japan is referred to be the "land of the rising sun" and uses the sun in its national flag. Another country to use it is Argentina with sun in the middle.
28. *Amazing fact* is that the national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte !
29. The flag of Belize is the only one to feature human beings.
30. Lebanon flag has a Cedar tree on it while Combodia flag has a temple on it.
31. Saudi Arabia Flag has a sword on it while Libya used to have all solid green flag with no design until 2011.
32. The words “Allahu Akbar” are repeated 22 times on the flag of Iran.
33. Mozambique Flag has AK-47 gun on it.
34. Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.
35. John Rabe, a member of the Nazi Party, prevented the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians at the hands of the Japanese by setting up a refugee zone under the Nazi flag.
36. The first African-American to receive the Medal of Honor in the Civil War was Sgt. William Harvey Carney who, despite being shot in the face, shoulders, arms, and legs, refused to let the American flag touch the ground.
37. The first Olympic flag went missing for 77 years after the 1920 games until a 1920 olympian revealed he had it in his suitcase the whole time.
38. During truce talks between North and South Korea, both parties would try to bring a bigger national flag than the other to each meeting. This went on until a special meeting was called to address the size of the flags, as they could no longer fit in the room.
39. The Bikini Atoll's , part of the Marshall Island's flag looks just like the US flag but with black stars for each island destroyed by nuclear tests done by US to serve as a reminder of the debt the US still owes them for nuclear fallout and radiation poisoning!
40. The world's largest the American Flag measures 505 feet (153.9m) x 225 feet (68.58m) and weighs *amazing* 3,000 pounds (1,361 Kg). it was made in Pennsylvania.

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### Planets
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#### 38 Amazing Facts About Planets

1. If you are having problems remembering the planets in their correct order, just remember this sentence "My very educated mother just served us nine pickles," Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
2. The fact is Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System. Mercury is just 4,879 Kms across its equator, compared with 12,742 Kms for the Earth.
3. On the planet, the mercury sun rises during the day and then amazingly turns back and sets in where it rose.
4. The temperature on the surface of Mercury amazingly exceeds 430 degrees C or almost 799 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade. It's even hotter on Venus.
5. The fact is if you were standing on Mercury, the Sun would appear 2.5 times larger than it appears from Earth.
6. It's amazing that Venus rotates so slowly that in a typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days (5,856 hours).
7. Venus spins in the opposite direction compared to earth. Amazingly the result is, Sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
8. The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
9. Amazingly Venus completes an entire orbit around the sun before it manages to turn on its axis once. This means that its day is actually longer than its year and in Venusian time, World War II ended only 56 days ago.
10. The clouds on Venus are so thick that little light reaches the surface which is converted to heat and can not escape the atmosphere making Venus the hottest planet at around 500 Degrees Celsius.
11. The fact is according to scientists, Gold exists on Mars, Mercury, and Venus.
12. Mars has Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our solar system, it stands an amazing 21 km high and is 600 km across the base.
13. The red color of Mars is due to oxidized (rusted) iron in its soil.
14. In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos, and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. The amazing fact is he did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
15. Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar system. It is amazing so big that more than 1300 Earth could fit inside it.
16. Not only is Jupiter’s mass 318 times the mass of the Earth, but it is also amazingly two and a half times the mass of all the planets in the entire Solar System.
17. The fact is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune are just made up of gases with no hard surface to land on.
18. The 'Great Red Spot' - a storm on Jupiter that has been going on for 300 years- is amazingly so big that three Earths would fit into it.
19. Jupiter has 63 moons. Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system. Ganymede measures 5,268 km across, making it larger than the planet Mercury.
20. It's amazing that Jupiter has the fastest day completing one revolution in less than ten hours but its year is 12 earth years i.e. the time it takes to orbit the sun.
21. Jupiter spins right round in less than 10 hours which means that the planet’s surface is moving at nearly 50,000 km/hr.
22. Amazingly Saturn's rings are 500000 miles in circumference but most of them are only about a foot thick. The Saturn rings are made up of millions of ice crystals, some as big as houses and others as small as specks of dust.
23. Planet Saturn has a density lesser than water. It will float if placed in water.
24. Amazingly it is believed that Saturn's moon Titan has hundreds of times more oil & natural gas than all the discovered earth reserves combined.
25. On Saturn's moon Titan, gravity is low enough and the atmosphere is thick enough that by attaching small wings to arms, one could fly like a bird.
26. It's amazing that winds ten times stronger than a hurricane on Earth swirl around Saturn’s equator reaching up to 1100 km/h – and they never let up, even for a moment.
27. Uranus was the first planet discovered by the telescope.
28. Since Uranus takes 84 Earth years to go around the sun, this means that each of its poles is in daylight for 42 years and in darkness for the next 42.
29. Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side like a barrel.
30. On Uranus, each pole gets around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness.
31. An amazing fact is in summer in Uranus, the sun does not set for 20 years. In winter, darkness lasts for 20 years. In autumn, the sun rises and sets every 9 hours.
32. Due to extreme pressure and temperature, It literally rains diamonds on Neptune & Uranus.
33. On Neptune, the winds blow at 1,600 miles an hour, the temperature can drop to -201 Celsius (-330 Fahrenheit).
34. Amazingly Neptune was the first planet in our solar system to be discovered by mathematics.
35. One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years.
36. Neptune just completed its first orbit around the Sun since its discovery in 2011 since one year on Neptune is equal to almost 165 Earth years! Neptune was first discovered in 1846.
37. The fact is Pluto has only made 1/3 rd of the revolution around the sun since its discovery.
38. To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky.

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### James Bond
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Last updated: 2025-02-16T09:30:23.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Unknown Facts about James Bond

1. Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908–1964) was an English author, journalist, and naval intelligence officer, best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. He wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952.
2. Ian Fleming named the spy James Bond after an American bird expert Dr. James Bond.
3. Ian Fleming in fact was one of the most important special agents in WWII.
4. James Bond is actually half Scottish and half Swiss. In the Bond novels, James' parents, Andrew Bond Scottish man, and Monique Delacroix-Bond Swiss woman die in a climbing accident in the French Alps, orphaning him at the age of 11.
5. James Bond is a heavy smoker, at one point smoking 70 cigarettes a day. Ian Fleming himself smoked up to 80 cigarettes a day.
6. A visit to Jamaica during World War II inspired Ian Fleming to buy an estate there, which he called Goldeneye. Fleming wrote many of his 14 novels there and, long after Fleming’s death, it became the namesake of the 17th Bond film – Pierce Brosnan’s Bond debut.
7. Amazingly Adam West, Clint Eastwood, and Burt Reynolds were all offered the role of James Bond, and all of them declined, believing that James Bond should always be played by a British Actor.
8. The role of James Bond has been played by 6 actors (Daniel Craig, Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton, George Lazenby, Pierce Brosnan, and Roger Moore).
9. The latest Bond movie, Skyfall, stars Daniel Craig. Craig, 44 is the first Bond actor to have been born after the Bond series began in 1962.
10. Bond’s code ’007′ was inspired by the bus route that runs from Canterbury to London, which was often taken by the author Ian Fleming.
11. Sean Connery wore a toupee in all of his appearances as James Bond as he started balding at the early age of 21.
12. Sean Connery's martial arts instructor on Never Say Never Again was none other than Steven Seagal, who accidentally broke Connery's wrist in training.
13. The amazing Fact is that there are two James Bond movies with the same plot, Never Say Never Again and Thunderball. Sean Connery played James Bond in both films, 18 years apart.
14. Sean Connery is the most popular and beloved James Bond and 1964's Goldfinger is by far, the most popular Bond film. This was the first Bond film to have 007 driving his famous Aston-Martin and the first to have Bond using his legendary gadgets and gimmicks.
15. Goldfinger was the first film in history to feature a laser beam.
16. The amazing Fact is that George Lazenby wasn’t an actor. He got himself a suit, a Rolex, and a new haircut, met the producer, and made up movies he had been in, and got the role as Bond.
17. George Lazenby is generally regarded as the least-liked 007\. After Connery left the series in the late 1960s, George Lazenby was given the role of his successor Bond in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Lazenby was then the world's highest-paid male Australian model in 1968.
18. While under contract to play James Bond, Pierce Brosnan wasn’t allowed to wear a tuxedo (Dinner Suit) in any non-Bond film.
19. Pierce Brosnan in fact married one of the Bond girls in For Your Eyes Only, Cassandra Harris. Sadly she died of cancer before his first movie as James Bond was released.
20. James Bond has killed 352 people in 22 films and Pierce Brosnan was the deadliest Bond. He killed 47 people in GoldenEye. Sean Connery was the biggest pacifist, dispatching a mere four men in Dr. No.
21. Amazingly each scene that shows Roger Moore running in his seven Bond films was performed by a body double. Moore felt he looked awkward when running.
22. It's amazing that Roger Moore portraying James Bond has a fear of guns dating from his days of British military training when a gun exploded in his hands.
23. The gun made popular by James Bond, the Walther PPK, is the same model that Hitler used to kill himself.
24. For his time as James Bond, Daniel Craig has the privilege of taking any Aston Martin from the factory for the rest of his life.
25. All the actors who played James Bond in the past have been 6’1″ to 6’2″ except Daniel Craig who is 5’10″.
26. James Bond has been shot 4,662 times during his career in movies.
27. Maud Adams portrayed two different bond girls. She played the soft-hearted girlfriend of The Man with the Golden Gun and also took the female lead in Octopussy.
28. Shirley Bassey in fact sang The Title Song for three James Bond films: Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, and Moonraker.
29. Oct. 5, 2012, marked the 50th anniversary of Bond’s first on-screen appearance, at the London premiere of Dr. No. (1962). There have been 23 Bond movies so far including the latest one “Skyfall” in 2012.
30. Amazingly Bond is one of just seven 00 agents spying for the British, but he has the best knack for staying alive. 002–Bill Fairbanks, killed by The Man with the Golden Gun. 003–Found dead in the snow at the beginning of A View to a Kill. 004–Killed during a training exercise in Gibraltar during the opening scene of The Living Daylights. 006–Alec Trevelyan, treacherous double-0-turned-villain killed by Bond in GoldenEye. 009–Murdered, while wearing a clown suit by knife-wielding assassins in Octopussy. Besides Bond, only the unnamed 008 proves to be a skilled agent declared as Bond’s replacement. It’s unclear why no 001 or 005 have ever been mentioned.
31. Stuntman Bob Simmons is the figure whose silhouette was used by designer Maurice Binder when Sean Connery was unavailable for the opening gun barrel sequence for the first three James Bond movies.
32. Q’s real name was Major Geoffrey Boothroyd.
33. President John F. Kennedy was a huge James Bond fan. He viewed an early print of ‘From Russia with Love’ at the White House on Nov 21st, 1963\. It was the last film he ever saw as he was killed the very next day in Dallas.
34. The producer of the James Bond movies is a woman. She casts Bond, his girls, and decides on the stories. Barbara Broccoli has been in the business for 30 years, leading the most successful cinema franchise.
35. The amazing fact is the five pilots flying the planes in Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus in Goldfinger were actually men wearing blonde wigs.
36. The existence of MI6, the agency with which James Bond works in the movies, wasn’t officially acknowledged by the British government until 1994.
37. Harry Saltzman, the man who produced several of the early Bond films along with Broccoli, worked for the US State Department during World War II as a high-ranking intelligence officer who had to keep his actions a secret for as long as he lived.
38. Aston Martin factory only uses only one robot which applies adhesives to bond aluminum body panels together and is nicknamed “James Bonder”
39. In Daniel Craig’s James Bond films, M’s real name is Olivia Mansfield.
40. If you type "James Bond" into Google Translate and have it translated to Standard Chinese, it will translate to "007".

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### Atomic Bomb
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Last updated: 2025-02-14T09:30:38.000Z
#### 45 Amazing Facts about Atomic Bomb

1. In 1933, a Hungarian scientist Leo Szilard, first theorized that enormous amounts of energy could be released by an atomic chain reaction. In December 1938, German scientists discovered nuclear fission in uranium, the heaviest natural element .The nuclear fission produced a tremendous release of energy from a very small amount of uranium.
2. Szilard, who had come to America to conduct chain reaction research, was in fact convinced that Hitler would attempt to build an "atomic" bomb. He persuaded Albert Einstein to write a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 stating that it was conceivable that extremely powerful bombs of a new type might be constructed by Germans and urged the government to actively research into chain reactions.
3. In June 1942, the army took over the task of organizing all chain reaction research into a full-blown bomb program, code named the Manhattan Project. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, the man who had just built the Pentagon, was in charge of this top-secret project.
4. Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prize-winning emigrant from Italy, in fact presided over the first self-sustaining manmade nuclear chain reaction, which took place December 2, 1942, at the University of Chicago.
5. The lead scientist on the Manhattan Project, the $2 billion wartime effort by U.S. and British scientists and the U.S. Army to develop the atomic bombs was J. Robert Oppenheimer, University of California physicist. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb".
6. At its peak, amazing 160,000 people worked on the project in more than 25 sites across the United States. No one person can be completely credited with the invention of atomic weapons.
7. The first nuclear bomb was in fact detonated on July 16, 1945, at Trinity site, New Mexico.
8. The US in fact dropped about 49 practice bombs nicknamed “pumpkin bombs” that killed 400 and injured 1,200 before nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
9. Hiroshima was chosen because it was a large port city with an army base. It also had not been damaged much by earlier bombings. B-29 planes dropped atomic bombs. A-bomb on Hiroshima was dropped by Colonel Paul Tibbets. Name of the plane dropping it was Enola Gay named after his mother.
10. About 12 cyanide pills were kept in the cockpit of the Enola Gay (plane carrying A-bomb), and pilots were instructed to take them if the mission was compromised during the bombing of Hiroshima
11. Amazing fact is that only 3 of the 12 people on board the Enola Gay actually knew the real purpose of their mission to Hiroshima.
12. In 1945, Japanese radar operators detected a small number of incoming US planes one of which carried the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima but amazingly decided not to intercept them not seeing it as a threat.
13. The bomb called ‘Little Boy’ which was dropped over Hiroshima was over 10 feet long and weighed around 10,000 pounds. A small parachute was on the bomb in order to slow its drop and allow the plane time to fly away from the blast zone.
14. ‘Little Boy’ dropped on Hiroshima exploded 580m (1,900ft) above the ground. Between 60,000 and 80,000 people were killed instantly. The fireball resulting from the bomb’s explosion was 50% hotter than the surface of the sun. Some people simply vanished in the explosion. Final death toll considering the long term effects of radiation was calculated at 135,000\. The blast destroyed more than ten square kilometres (six square miles) of the city. The intense heat of the explosion created many fires, which consumed Hiroshima and lasted for three days, trapping and killing many of the survivors of the initial blast.
15. Amazing fact is that the amount of matter converted to energy in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was just 700 milligrams.
16. On the morning of 9 August, the Americans dropped a second, bigger atomic bomb. The original target was Kokura, but this was obscured by cloud so the bomb was dropped on nearby Nagasaki, an important port. The bomb over Nagasaki called ‘Fat Man’ blew up 500m above a tennis court. About 40,000 people were killed instantly and a third of the city was destroyed. The final death toll was calculated as at least 50,000.
17. The first bomb 'Little Boy' dropped on Hiroshima was in fact made from Uranium. The bomb ‘Fat Man’ dropped on Nagasaki was made from Plutonium, which was even more powerful than Uranium.
18. Amazingly it took Tokyo about 3 hours before they realized Hiroshima had been bombed.
19. After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, hundreds of people made their way towards Nagasaki. Of these, amazing 165 survived both the bombings and lived to tell the tale.
20. The closest known survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb was in a basement only 170m (560 ft) from ground zero.
21. The USA originally denied that atomic bombs caused any lingering radioactivity whatsoever, calling such claims as Japanese propaganda. Even New York Times ran an article with the headline “No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin” citing only military sources and ignoring eyewitness accounts of radiation sickness.
22. Six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito and Japan surrendered to US forces. The Emperor announced this on the radio. It was the first time most Japanese had heard his voice.
23. Amazing fact is that the most destructive bombing event of WWII was neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki. It was the Operation Meetinghouse, the American firebombing of Tokyo.
24. For decades, the mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba wrote letters of protest each time a nuclear test was conducted, as a plea to end the use of nuclear weapons.
25. The Gingko Biloba species of tree is 270 million years old. It rarely suffers from disease or insect attack and was amazingly one of the only living things to survive the Hiroshima nuclear bombing. The trees healed quickly and are still alive today.
26. The oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima because it was the first thing to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945.
27. The Flame of Peace in Hiroshima, Japan has burned since 1964 in honor of the victims and will be extinguished only when all nuclear weapons are removed from the world and the Earth is free from nuclear threat.
28. An American made bank vault saved the contents from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. After the reconstruction of the bank, the new manager in fact sent a congratulatory letter to the vault manufacturer.
29. After the Americans showed the power of the atomic bomb, other countries wanted to have that weapon.The Soviet Union tested their first atomic bomb in 1949, the British tested their first atomic bomb in 1952, France in 1960, China in 1964, India in 1974 and Pakistan in 1998.
30. Total number of U.S. nuclear weapons tests, 1945-1992: 1,030 . First and last test: July 16, 1945 ("Trinity") and September 23, 1992 ("Divider").
31. Total known land area occupied by U.S. nuclear weapons bases and facilities is an amazing 15,654 square miles in various states.
32. The minimum number of classified pages estimated to be in the Department of Energy's possession is estimated to be 280 million.
33. Amazingly there was a nuclear explosion and no one knows who did it! It is known as the Vela Incident. On September 22, 1979, there was a double flash recorded near the Indian Ocean that is believed to be an atomic explosion. The satellite that recorded the flash had observed 41 other double flashes, which were all confirmed to be nuclear explosions. Nobody knows who did it as no one has taken credit.
34. There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
35. Since the advent of nuclear weapons, humans are now included in the list of endangered species. On our planet, we have about 25,000 nuclear warheads ready to be launched at any time enough to wipe out the entire human population of the planet many times over. A false warning can lead to nuclear war any second. More than 95% of nuclear weapons and atomic bombs are owned by the United States and Russia.
36. Amazing fact is that in one crisis a single man saved the world from destruction. If Stanislav Petrov, in 1983, had told his Russian superiors that his electronic monitors were signaling a massive nuclear attack from the US, there would have been a global nuclear war. He did not tell them and the signals turned out to be due to an electronic malfunction.
37. Amazingly globally, we have more than 2 million kilograms of HEU (Highly enriched uranium). This is a large stock enough to make millions of atomic bombs. At present, only 15 to 25 kg of HEU has been used to make all the nuclear warheads worldwide.
38. The cost of US nuclear weapons research, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance has exceeded an amazing $7.5 trillion.
39. The U.S. and Russia have an agreement to reduce the spread of nuclear weapons between Russia and the U.S. to 1.700 to 2.200 on December 31, 2012, but the deal failed. Both countries are keeping as much nuclear warheads as they can.
40. The U.S. has in fact paid compensation of $ 759 million for the Marshall Islands for the damage costs for nuclear testing.
41. The most powerful atomic bomb detonated an explosive force of 50 megatonnes of TNT .That is 2,500 times greater than the bomb on Nagasaki. Called “Tsar Bomb”, the explosives were detonated by the USSR in a test conducted on 30.10.1961 in an Arctic Ocean archipelago in Northern Russia.
42. The most powerful nuclear bomb produced and tested by the U.S. had provided a force of only 5 megatonnes TNT. But due to a chain reaction which was not foreseen in the project, the explosion was 3 times more powerful than anticipated.
43. The amazing fact is that one 5 megatons nuclear bomb has as much explosive power as all the explosives used in the second world war.
44. The average nuclear weapon in the US arsenal is approximately eight times more powerful than the nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
45. Nuclear arsenals have to be totally eliminated to ensure survival of human race. If we wait till the first nuclear weapons are launched no emergency action will help the millions of dead and dying. Our power obsessed politicians will have done their irretrievable worst.

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### Smoking
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Last updated: 2025-02-12T09:30:57.000Z
#### 30 Amazing little known Facts About Smoking

1. Over 2,000 years ago, South American Cultures began using tobacco. Brazilian peoples invented cigarettes by rolling tobacco leaves in the paper.
2. It's amazing that people used to believe Tobacco had medicinal value. A French Ambassador named Jean Nicot brought Tobacco plants to Portugal in 1559, telling friends it was useful in treating wounds, asthma, and cancer. The words nicotine and nicotiana come from Jean Nicot's last name.
3. Several Countries outlawed tobacco use in the 1600s. Amazingly in Turkey during that period, tobacco users could be tortured or killed.
4. In China, a person caught with tobacco might be beheaded. In Russia, tobacco users who were caught a second time were killed.
5. There are more than one billion smokers in the world.
6. It is amazing that 15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide every day.
7. Roughly 6 million teens in the US today smoke despite the knowledge that it is addictive and leads to disease.
8. 20 percent of American teens smoke. Each day 3,000 children smoke their first cigarette. Of these nearly 1,000 will eventually die as a result of smoking.
9. When you smoke following things happen. The heart speeds up, from 10 to 20 beats per minute. The blood vessels constrict so that blood pressure goes up 5 to 10 points. The temperature of the skin drops. The level of blood sugar falls, because the blood sugar is being burned up in a stressed-out reaction. The hypothalamus, which regulates hunger, gets a “speed-up” message, so the appetite falls too.
10. Smoking increases your risk of getting lung diseases like pneumonia, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.
11. A symptom of heavy smoking is increased coughing because the lungs are struggling to clear out dirt and deposits.
12. Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality in the world.
13. Smoking causes 1 in every 5 deaths in the U.S. every year.
14. The amazing fact is every cigarette you smoke reduces your expected life span by 11 minutes.
15. Adult male smokers lose an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lose 14.5 years of life because of smoking. Given the diseases that smoking can cause, it can steal your quality of life long before you die.
16. Women who smoke during pregnancy can slow down the baby's growth by reducing the amount of oxygen and increasing the amount of carbon monoxide that the baby receives during a critical time when its brain and nervous system are developing.
17. Babies born of mothers who smoke frequently during pregnancy are on average 7 ounces lighter than other babies.
18. Smoking while pregnant increases the chances of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages), stillbirths, and premature labor.
19. Amazingly over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet, and physical activity.
20. It is believed that an amazing 100 million deaths were caused by tobacco in the 20th century.
21. Smoking is directly responsible for approximately 90 percent of lung cancer deaths and approximately 80-90 percent of emphysema and chronic bronchitis deaths.
22. Amazing thing is that cigarettes contain arsenic, formaldehyde, lead, hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, ammonia, and a total of 69 known carcinogens.
23. Urea, a chemical compound that is a major component in urine, is used to add “flavor” to cigarettes.
24. Users of tobacco of all types – cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco – are 5 to 10 times more likely to get mouth or throat cancer than nonsmokers are.
25. Approximately 50-75 percent of children in the United States have detectable levels of cotinine, the breakdown product of nicotine, in their blood due to secondhand smoking in the family.
26. Bidis are legally imported from India and are thin unfiltered cigarettes hand-wrapped in Brown leaves and tied with short pieces of thread and are popular with school kids under 18 because they are cheap. Bidis deliver twice the amount of tar and seven times the amount of nicotine of regular cigarettes.
27. It's completely legal for minors to smoke cigarettes in the U.S. What they can't do is purchase them.
28. An amazing fact is cigarettes are the single-most traded item on the planet, with approximately 1 trillion being sold from country to country each year. The American brands Marlboro, Kool, Camel, and Kent own roughly 70% of the global cigarette market.
29. The fact is that Hitler led the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history.
30. Study after study has found that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.

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### Diamond
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Last updated: 2025-02-10T09:30:27.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts about Diamond

1. The word "Diamond" comes from the Greek word "Adamas" and means "unconquerable and indestructible".
2. The weight of a diamond is measured in carats. A carat is a fifth of a gram.
3. A fact is a man first discovered diamonds first only 4,000 years ago in the riverbeds of the Golconda region of India.
4. Diamonds were not originally mine. They were actually found alongside or at the bottom of rivers in India.
5. Amazingly until the 18th century, diamond mines were only found in India.
6. Just as India's production was dwindling, diamonds were discovered in Brazil in 1725 and in South Africa in the 19th Century.
7. The top three diamond mines in the world are Botswana (24 million carats), Russia (17.8 million carats), and Canada (10.9 million carats).
8. Even though the U.S. produces almost no diamonds, America buys more than 40 percent of the world’s gem-quality diamonds, making it the world’s largest diamond market.
9. The fact is eighty percent of diamonds mined today are used in industry for cutting, polishing, or grinding. Only 20% of diamonds are used for jewelry.
10. Diamonds are made of pure carbon.
11. Most diamonds found in nature are between one to three billion years old.
12. Diamonds are created by the combination of tremendous pressure and temperatures of 2000º –3000º F at depths between 75 and 120 miles beneath the earth’s surface. Diamonds are carried to the surface by volcanic eruptions.
13. In their pure state, diamonds are colorless. Yellow and brown are the most common colored diamonds. Blue and red are the rarest colored diamonds.
14. There are over 16,000 different classifications of diamonds.
15. Diamonds used to be the Hardest Substance on Earth but in 2005 scientists have manufactured a harder substance called hyper diamond which is 11 % harder.
16. Diamond has a hardness of 10 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, with 1 being the softest (talc) and 10 being the hardest.
17. Only a diamond cuts another diamond.
18. The amazing fact is that diamonds are brittle in spite of their hardness. If hit hard with a hammer, a diamond will shatter or splinter.
19. Diamonds have a very large melting point of 3547' C( 6420' F)
20. Diamonds have a boiling point of 4827' C( 8720' F).
21. Amazingly diamonds are dense enough to slow the speed of light traveling through them by more than half.
22. To produce a single one-carat diamond, 250 tons of earth must be mined.
23. For every 1,000 polished diamonds, only one weighs more than one carat.
24. The Diamond Cartel run by De Beers controls about 60 to 75% of the world's diamond trade.
25. Diamond is the best known thermal conductor (heat transfer) among naturally occurring substances.
26. If you put a diamond on your tongue, your tongue will start to get cooler because diamond sucks all of the heat from your tongue.
27. Ancient Chinese used diamonds to polish ceremonial burial axes in the late stone age or over 4,500 years ago.
28. Amazingly a law in Thirteenth-century France decreed that only the King could wear diamonds.
29. The amazing fact is that in 2004, scientists have discovered a diamond star that is 10 billion trillion trillion carats! The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.
30. The world’s largest diamond was the Cullinan, found in South Africa in 1905\. It weighed 3,106.75 carats uncut. It was cut into the Great Star of Africa, weighing 530.2 carats, the Lesser Star of Africa, which weighs 317.40 carats, and 104 other diamonds of nearly flawless color and clarity. They now form part of the British crown jewels.
31. Cullinan, the world’s largest diamond was big enough to create about 2,600 average-sized engagement rings when it was dug up in 1905.
32. The amazing fact is that when the world’s largest diamond was discovered in South Africa, it was shipped to England on a steamboat under heavy security. But it was a diversion, and the real stone was sent in a plain box via post.
33. In the past decade, scientists have perfected a technique called Chemical Vapor Deposition, where carbon gas cloud is passed over diamond seeds in a vacuum chamber heated to more than 1,800 degrees. In a matter of days, they are now able to "grow" diamonds that are virtually indistinguishable from natural ones.
34. The amazing fact is that candle flames contain millions of tiny diamonds. It has been revealed that around 1.5 million diamond nanoparticles are created every second in a candle flame as it burns. Unfortunately, these particles are burned away and converted to carbon dioxide.
35. Amazingly the Mir diamond mine of Serbia, Russia is so large that it creates air currents strong enough to suck a helicopter into it.
36. The perpetrators of the “Diamond Heist of the Century”, the Antwerp Diamond Heist of February 2003, amazingly got past 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations and to this day no one knows how. Thieves broke into a vault two floors beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million worth of loose diamonds, gold, jewelry.
37. The Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas is the only place in the USA where you can find naturally occurring diamonds. It is open to the public, and you can keep any diamond you find, regardless of the size.
38. Howard Hall was an American who primarily developed the synthetic diamond process for GE, making them untold millions. The first synthetic diamond was made in 1954\. Amazingly he was given just a $10 bond as a bonus for his effort in addition to his regular salary.
39. A financial institution in Dubai offers an amazing diamond-studded credit card.
40. The synthesized material known as cubic zirconia is a crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). It is at times in competition with diamond because as well as being hard, optically flawless and colorless, it is also durable and cheap.
41. Chocolate Diamonds are in fact nothing more than unwanted diamonds just marketed well.
42. A Moon-sized diamond was found in space, and it has been named “Lucy” in reference to the Beatles’ song, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.
43. Uranus and Neptune may literally rain diamonds, which then pile up miles thick and those aren’t the only diamonds being produced in space.
44. Diamonds are not rare or valuable and the reason demand is high is because of a marketing campaign by DeBeers holding a monopoly to sell more engagement rings.
45. Hope diamond has a reputation for its successive owners dying of unnatural causes. It also glows red after being exposed to UV light, fueling its cursed reputation.
46. In 2012, an all diamond ring was created by a Swiss jeweler, weighing in at 150 karats and costing $70 million.
47. When the vaults of a temple in Trivandrum India were opened after many centuries, they were found to be full of precious gold, diamonds, and rubies worth $40 billion.
48. There are at least 10 gems rarer than diamonds and some of them will change color depending on the light you see them in.
49. The Eureka Diamond, a 21.25 carat diamond from South Africa, was first used as a toy by a 15-year-old boy before it was given away to his neighbor when the neighbor offered to buy it.
50. Under extremely high pressure, diamonds can amazingly be made from peanut butter.

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### Flowers
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Last updated: 2025-02-08T09:30:22.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts About Flowers

1. Amazingly there are more than 2,50,000 species of flowering plants in the world.
2. The fragrance of flowers is due to the essence of the oil which they produce.
3. In earlier times the juice from bluebell flowers was used to make glue.
4. There are over 15,000 species of roses cultivated across the world.
5. White flowers tend to be more strongly scented than their colored kin.
6. The amazing fact is almost 60 percent of fresh-cut flowers grown in the U.S. come from California.
7. In Russia, when flowers are given for romantic occasions, flowers are given only in odd numbers. Even a number of flowers is reserved for funerals.
8. Amazingly there are more than 25,000 documented species of orchid.
9. Orchids have a symmetry similar to human faces.
10. Amazingly the city of Mt. Vernon, Washington grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland.
11. Tulip Bulbs in Holland is the symbol of love, life, and immortality.
12. An amazing fact is Tulip Bulbs were more precious than gold in the 17th century in Europe.
13. Amazing thing is that every year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to Canada to thank them for their aid in the Second World War.
14. Amazingly, Tulips can continue to grow as much as an inch per day after being cut.
15. Tulip bulbs can be substituted for onions in a recipe.
16. Titan Arum (Rafflesia arnoldii) is the world’s largest flower and is almost 10 feet in height. Due to its horrible smell of rotten flesh, it is also known as a corpse flower. It blooms only in Indonesia & Malaysia.
17. Amazingly a bouquet of a dozen Wolffia blooms would comfortably fit on the head of a pin. This very minute flowering plant is native to Australia and Malaysia.
18. There is a flower called the Scarlet Pimpernel that can forecast the weather. Amazingly if the flower is closed up, rain is coming and if it is opened up, the day will be sunny.
19. The Agave, also known as the century plant spends many years without growing any flowers, after which it grows one single bloom and dies.
20. Bamboos produce flowers once every few years. The amazing fact is that when they do, all flowers of the same species bloom at exactly the same time.
21. Dandelions flowers and leaves are amazingly good sources of vitamins A and C, iron, calcium, and potassium. One cup of dandelion greens provides 7,000-13,000 I.U. of vitamin A.
22. Amazingly Chrysanthemums are one of the few flowers that can be cultivated in bonsai style. Chrysanthemum blooms can be as small as 1 cm or as large as 25 cm.
23. Broccoli is a flower as well as a vegetable.
24. Sunflowers are able to soak up radiation.
25. Saffron is a spice that comes from a type of crocus flower.
26. Prince Charles is paid one daffodil a year as rent for his lands on the Island of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall.
27. Pink and white lady slipper (cypripedium reginae) is the State flower of Minnesota & it is illegal to pick in the state. It takes up to 16 years to produce its first flower and may live for 50 years.
28. Interflora is the world’s largest and most recognized flower delivery service, supported by a network of 50,000 florists worldwide, delivering to 150 countries.
29. There is a flower that looks like a set of hooker's lips and it is actually called "Hooker's lips".
30. Black roses occur naturally at Halfeti, Turkey.

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### Finance
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Last updated: 2025-02-06T09:30:48.000Z
#### 25 Amazing Facts You Should Know About Finance

1. The Word's first bank was Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena founded in 1472 headquartered in Tuscany Italy. The amazing thing is it is still operating.
2. Amazingly the New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
3. Fact is until the U.S. federal reserve was created in 1908 , individual banks could print their own money.
4. Before 1913, the U.S. had no income tax which came after the 16th Amendment.
5. Amazing fact is the Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy until the founder Amedeo Giannini changed it in 1930.
6. All banks in the U.S. were closed during the week of March 5th - 12th, 1933\. This was to keep scared people from taking all their money out.
7. The first credit card, issued in 1950, was Diner's Club.
8. Frank X. McNamara started the Diner's club with 200 cardholders.
9. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were amazingly used as money in Siberia.
10. Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.
11. Zimbabwe has experienced the most amazing inflation in the World in November 2008: 6,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 Percent.
12. The Amazing Finance fact is that the three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
13. To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.
14. The Amazing Finance fact is one-fourth of the World's population lives on less than $ 200 a year. Ninety million survive on less than $75 a year.
15. Adjusted for inflation, a first-class ticket on the Titanic would cost amazing $90,000 today.
16. An ATM in Abu Dhabi amazingly dispenses gold in exchange for regular currency.
17. The Amazing Finance fact is Norway's income tax is halved in November to give everyone more money for the holidays!
18. If you divide their net worths by their age, Carlos Slim and Bill Gates have amazingly accumulated more than $100,000 in net worth for every hour they've been alive.
19. Start with a dollar. Double it every day. Amazingly in 48 days you'll own every financial asset that exists on the planet, about $200 trillion.
20. The Amazing Finance fact is if you have no debts and $10 in your pocket, you have more wealth than 25% of Americans .
21. According to a study by Harvard professor , 46 % of Americans die with less than $10,000 in assets.
22. Amazingly US debt is 12 times larger than all the US $ in circulation.
23. Fortune magazine published an article titled "10 Stocks To Last the Decade" in August, 2000\. By December 2012, the portfolio had amazingly lost 74.3% of its value.
24. In Russia, 0.00007% of the population (100 people) controls 20% of the wealth.
25. According to a study, earnings up to $ 75000 a year make people happy. Beyond it, it doesn't increase your happiness.

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### USA
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Last updated: 2025-02-04T09:30:38.000Z
#### 75 Amazing Facts that will surprise you About USA

1. The word "America" comes from the European explorer "Amerigo Vespucci.
2. Amazingly at their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are just less than two miles apart.
3. Denmark is the only other country in the world to celebrate the United States birthday, July 4th.
4. The amazing fact is that the USA spends more money on its military than the next thirteen countries on the list combined.
5. The fact is the largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest air force in the world is the US Navy.
6. The border between Canada and the U.S. is the world's longest frontier. It stretches amazing 3,987 miles (6,416 km).
7. An amazing fact is the murder rate in the United States is 200 times greater than in Japan. In Japan, no private citizen can buy a handgun legally.
8. With 2.2 million people behind bars, the United States has 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s prisoners. China comes a close second at 1.5 million while Russia comes third at 870,000.
9. Amazingly USA population in 1776 was just 2.5 million.
10. The fact is thousands of Americans migrated to the USSR in the 1930s during the Great Depression.
11. Four corners are the spot in the USA where a person can amazingly stand in four states at the same time.
12. Americans save less than 1 % of their income.
13. There are amazing 16 million inventions under active patent in the USA.
14. It's estimated that Americans generate roughly 20 % of the World's garbage.
15. The amazing fact is one American consumes as many resources as 32 Kenyans.
16. About 20 million Americans live in mobile homes.
17. It's completely legal for minors to smoke cigarettes in the U.S. but they can’t purchase them.
18. Smoking causes 1 in every 5 deaths in the U.S. every year.
19. Amazingly every tweet Americans sent is being archived by the Library of Congress.
20. 7% of Americans claim they never bath.
21. Ho-Ho-Kus in New Jessey is the only town in the USA which has two dashes in its name.
22. In AspenColorado, you can have a maximum income of $104,000 and still receive government-subsidized housing.
23. The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.
24. Americans take an average of just ten days per year vacation.
25. Do you know that the USA bought Alaska from Russia for amazing 2 cents an acre?
26. In 1819, the USA purchased Florida from Spain for the cancellation of a $5 million debt.
27. Maine is the only state in the lower 48 that touches only one other state.
28. Amazingly Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including both Canadian and U.S. customs.
29. The exact geographic center of the United States (USA) is near Lebanon, Kansas.
30. The fact is before 1863, postal service in the United States (USA) was free.
31. When the U.S. War Department was established in 1789, there were just 840 soldiers in the regular army. Their job was to supervise public lands and guard the Indian frontier.
32. The amazing fact is that at the outbreak of World War I, the American air force consisted of only fifty men.
33. Amazingly the longest election in US history lasted over 315 days and was nearly won by just Two votes!
34. Workers at Ground Zero found an 18-century ship underneath the World Trade Center rubble.
35. The amazing fact is it used to be legal to send kids in the mail. When domestic parcel post service was introduced in the United States in 1913, Americans were finally able to send packages across the country at an affordable rate. At least two people sent their stamp-covered children through the mail before this was banned.
36. There is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States!
37. Amazingly it's OK for television companies to lie to their viewers.
38. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
39. The United States (USA) is the only country that has Exxon gas stations. They're called Esso everywhere else.
40. It's amazing that the average American family uses 35 times as much water as the average African family.
41. Florida has two rivers with the same name called "Withlacoochee River.
42. The United States (USA) amazingly still does not have an official language. It is the de facto, official language because 82% of people claim it as their mother tongue.
43. The fact is the White House wasn’t called “the White House” until 1901 almost 100 years after it was built.
44. School buses in the US are yellow because our eyes pick up yellow faster than other colors. In fact, your ability to detect yellow is 1.24 times greater than red.
45. It's amazing that 15 percent of Americans are living on food stamps!
46. In 1913 the US Postal Service began the parcel sending service. Soon after a businessman in Utah decided he would build a bank. A man mailed 80,000 bricks to build a bank 120 km away because it was the cheapest option at one-fourth cost! He had the bricks carefully wrapped in crates, each weighing less than 50 pounds for delivery.
47. Amazingly Manhattan had 47% more people in 1910 (About 2.3 million) than in 2014 (1.6 million)!
48. If you turn in a tax cheat, the IRS will give you at least 15% of what they collect!
49. Amazingly in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
50. Do you know that over 60 % of the US urban water consumption is used for watering lawns?
51. Amazingly there's a salt mine 1,200 feet below the surface of Detroit, Michigan spread over 1,400 acres. They have over 50 miles of roads covering them. This is enough salt to last us for 70 million years!
52. The U.S. military uses secret Velcro that is 95 % quieter than all other Velcro!
53. The only state in the U.S that grows coffee beans is Hawaii in what’s known locally as the Kona district. Hawaiians usually call coffee Kope and Hawaiian coffee is some of the most expensive in the world.
54. Disneyland amazingly does not sell chewing gum as Walt Disney did not want guests inconvenienced by stepping on gum purchased in the park.
55. Amazingly the United States, Burma & Liberia are the only countries that haven't yet adopted the Metric system as the standard of measurement.
56. The amazing fact is that the top richest 1% of Americans own 42% of the nation’s wealth, while the bottom 80% own just 7%.
57. The fact is if you have no debts and $10 in your pocket, you are wealthier than 25 % of the Americans.
58. Amazingly there are 5 times more vacant houses than homeless people in the United States.
59. In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK's assassination.
60. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks, and spoons.
61. North Dakota has never had an earthquake.
62. Today 2 out of 3 Americans are overweight.
63. Amazingly Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put together.
64. Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
65. The United States has 850 motor vehicles for every 1,000 people which is the highest in the world.
66. The U.S. Government spends the US $1.8 billion per year printing documents.
67. The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California. The amazing fact is that no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.
68. One out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.
69. The United States has a teen pregnancy rate of 22 percent - the highest in the world. New Zealand is number two at 14 percent.
70. It took from the founding of the nation until 1981 for the U.S. national debt to cross the one trillion dollar mark. Today, the national debt is well over 15 trillion dollars and more than a trillion dollars is added to debt every single year.
71. The United States (USA) had $ 0 debt only once in 1835 when president Andrew Jackson paid it all off.
72. Amazingly Philadelphia was the first capital of the United-States. Over the years the capital of this country has been through Philadelphia, New York to return to Philadelphia and then permanently to Washington DC.
73. The fact is there are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, every one is man-made.
74. The fact is the USA has spent enough in Afghanistan and Iraq to wipe out world poverty for 10 years.
75. An unknownfact is that the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people.

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### Bill Gates
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Last updated: 2025-02-02T09:30:51.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about Bill Gates

1. Bill Gate’s SAT score was 1590 out of 1600.
2. Amazingly Paul Allen, joint founder of Microsoft had a perfect score of 1600.
3. Gates's first computer program ever was a tic-tac-toe game. At 17, Gates sold his first computer program, a timetable system for his high school for which he pocketed $4,200.
4. When Bill Gates was recruited to write the class scheduling software for his high school, he tweaked the program’s code such that he was placed in a class with mostly female students.
5. Bill Gates had no college degree. In 1975, Gates dropped out of Harvard and joined his childhood friend Paul Allen to form a company which they named “Micro-Soft.” The hyphen fell off within a year.
6. At age 21 Bill Gates was arrested in New Mexico in 1977 for jumping a red light and driving without a license and he immediately posted bail from his wallet full of cash.
7. An amazing fact is that Gates aimed to become a millionaire by the age of 30\. However, he became a billionaire at 31.
8. Bill Gates instituted a company separate from Microsoft in 1989 to digitize famous art and photos because he believed homes would one day be decorated with digital picture frames.
9. Bill Gates has patented a weather-controlling machine.
10. Bill Gates, Julia Roberts, and Frank Ocean all share the same birthday, October 28.
11. Melinda was a Microsoft worker in 1987 when she met Gates who married her. They have three children.
12. The amazing fact is that during Gates’ wedding, to ensure his and his wife’s privacy for the day of their wedding, Bill rented every single hotel room at the hotel they were staying in and chartered every helicopter close by on the Hawaiian island of Lanai.
13. He also never felt that users would need more than 640 KB of memory on their PC.
14. Amazingly his predictions have gone horribly wrong. He said that Microsoft would “never make a 32-bit operating system,” which they did in 1992 with the Window NT.
15. Bill Gates also predicted that spammed email messages would be eliminated in two years, by 2004.
16. The amazing fact is that Gates's wife and children are not allowed to own or use an Apple product. A restriction was also put in place by Steve Balmer for his family.
17. Bill Gates wrote a letter to Steve Jobs when he was dying, who kept it beside his bed.
18. When Steve Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing from Apple, Gates said, “Well, Steve, I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
19. From 1995 through 2008, Gates was the richest man on earth, before being dethroned by Warren Buffet. A few years later, he regained his top status.
20. The fact is Gates pays almost $1 million in property taxes for his home, a magnificent house overlooking Lake Washington that is estimated to be worth $125 million.
21. Amazingly when guests enter Gates’ house they are made to wear pins that upon entering a room automatically adjust temperature, music, and lighting based on the guests’ preferences.
22. Bill Gates's wealth topped $100 billion for a brief period in 1999, but antitrust trials and tech stocks decline saw his fortune fall to just over $60 billion the following year.
23. The amazing fact is in 1998, Bill Gates earned $1 million per hour (almost $300 per second).
24. In 1997, Steve Jobs used patents to pressure Bill Gates into investing $150 million into Apple stocks, because he believed Apple would go under if Microsoft didn’t have “a stake in our success”.
25. Bill Gates has donated over $36 billion in his lifetime, which is more than half of his current net worth of $72 billion.
26. On December 9, 2010, Gates, investor Warren Buffett, and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook's CEO) signed the "Gates-Buffet Giving Pledge", in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth.
27. The city of Munich chose to migrate its administration from Windows to Linux around 10 years ago, so Bill Gates personally paid a visit to ask for their reasons. The mayor replied “Freedom from you, Mr. Gates.”
28. Bill Gates has saved an amazing five million lives by “bringing vaccines and improved healthcare to children internationally”.
29. In 2009, Bill Gates purchased the rights to the Feynman Lectures, so that he could annotate them and make them freely available.
30. Bill Gates purchased the Codex Leicester, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, for a whopping $30.8 million, and made it openly available on Windows Vista.
31. Bill Gates received an honorary knighthood from the Queen, but amazingly due to his American Citizenship, he cannot use the title “Sir”
32. Bill Gates intends to leave less than $10M for each of his three children, “so they can make their own way.”
33. A device has been developed that can kill 100 mosquitoes per/sec up to 100 feet away using infra-red motion censoring and a Blue laser. The idea came from Bill Gate’s initiative to fight mosquito-spread Malaria in underdeveloped countries. Production cost is around $50.
34. The IRS used to have a special computer for calculating Gates’ taxes back in 2006.
35. The amazing fact is that even at his fortune’s peak, Bill Gates was only the 6th richest man of all time.

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### Inventions
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Last updated: 2025-02-01T09:30:07.000Z
#### 60 Amazing Facts About various Inventions

1. For hundreds of years, the Chinese amazingly guarded the secret of making silk. Imperial law decreed death to those who revealed it.
2. Cement was first invented by the Egyptians.
3. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
4. The watch was invented by Peter Henlein of Nuremberg in 1510.
5. The amazing fact is the clocks made before 1660 had only hour hand no minute hand.
6. Amazingly the first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
7. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
8. The Chinese invented ice cream, which was then transferred to the western world by Marco Polo.
9. The amazing fact is that the first bicycle in 1817 didn't have any pedals. People walked it along.
10. The first fax machine was invented over 25 years before the telephone.
11. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, amazingly only six phones were sold in the first month.
12. When Bell's patent was sixteen months old, there were just 778 telephones in use.
13. The man who invented shorthand, John Gregg, was deaf.
14. English chemist John Walker never patented his invention - matches.
15. Amazingly the inventor of the ATM was just paid $ 15 for his invention.
16. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and amazingly a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
17. During one four-year period, Thomas Edison obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.
18. Whitcomb L. Judson, the inventor of the zipper, originally intended his invention to save people the trouble of buttoning and unbuttoning their shoes every day.
19. Celsius who developed a temperature scale that made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. Fellow scientists reversed this only after he died.
20. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
21. The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
22. The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922.
23. To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit amazingly still for 8 hours!
24. Fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
25. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in Dynamite.
26. The first commercial vacuum cleaner was so large that it was mounted on a wagon.
27. Gutenburg invented the printing press in the 1450s, and the first book to ever be printed was the Bible.
28. The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515.
29. Cyanoacrylate glues (super glue) were invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical materials and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.
30. Western Electric invented the loudspeaker which was initially called "the loud-speaking telephone."
31. The paper clip was patented by Norwegian inventor Johan Vaaler in 1899\. Because Norway had no patent law at the time, he had to travel to Germany where he received his patent in 1900.
32. The shoestring was invented in England in 1790, Amazingly prior to this time, all shoes were fastened with buckles.
33. The horse race starting gate is a Canadian invention, designed in the early 1900s by Philip McGinnis, a racetrack reporter. It proved popular because it prevented arguments caused when horses started prematurely.
34. The first mobile car phones were in fact located in the car's trunk, taking up nearly half of the space.
35. The safety pin was patented in 1849 by Walter Hunt. He sold the patent rights for just $400.
36. King Gilette spent 8 years trying to invent and introduce his safety razor.
37. Rubber bands were first made by Perry and Co. of London in 1845.
38. George Seldon received a patent in 1895 for the automobile. Four years later, George sold the rights for $200,000
39. The ball-point pen was created in 1938.
40. The neon light was created in 1911.
41. The amazing fact is early sewing machines were destroyed by mobs or workers who felt their jobs were threatened by automation.
42. Scientists have created a solar-powered toothbrush that doesn't need toothpaste.
43. A Japanese company has invented a portable toilet that is carried around in a briefcase.
44. 18-year-old Milan Karki, a Nepalese teenager has invented a revolutionary new type of solar panel that uses human hair.
45. The umbrella was invented to block the sun, not the rain and they were made of paper.
46. Before the invention of the light bulb, most people slept 3 hours longer than we do now.
47. German alchemist Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus while trying to make gold from urine. In the end, Brand boiled nearly 5,500 liters of urine in order to produce only 120 grams of phosphorus!
48. Chainsaws were originally designed to deliver babies and were invented in 1785!
49. An amazing fact is Xerox’s first successful copier released in 1959 burst into flame so often that it came with its own fire extinguisher!
50. The inventor of the polio vaccine Jonas Salk didn't patent it to benefit mankind. He missed out on $7 billion!
51. The new Phantom v1610 camera from Vision Research can film 1,000,000 frames per second, turning seconds into hours!
52. The founder of Fender Guitars never knew how to play the guitar since he was an engineer, not a musician!
53. A life-saving V-shaped three-point seat belt was invented by Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin in 1959 but Volvo gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it.
54. Amazing thing is that it took thousands of years after domesticating the horse to invent the stirrup.
55. The automatic pop-up bread toaster was patented before the bread slicing machine. 1919 and 1928\. People sliced their own bread for the toaster for almost a decade before sliced bread was sold.
56. Did you know the first bulletproof vest and windshield wiper blades were both invented by women?
57. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
58. Amazingly artificial sweetener Sucralose ( Splenda) was discovered when the researcher misheard a command to "Test this chemical" as "Taste this chemical"
59. The T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn't sew or replace buttons. The Spanish fashion designer, Mannel Torres, invented the world's first clothes spray which after application, can be removed, washed, and worn again.
60. In 1938 the revolver camera was invented just to take a final picture of the victim just when the trigger was pulled.

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### Reptiles
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Last updated: 2025-01-30T09:30:29.000Z
#### 25 Unknown Facts about Reptiles

1. Reptiles have backbones and are covered with scales. They lay eggs but don't look after the offsprings.
2. It's amazing that crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar.
3. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and amazingly it can't stick it out.
4. Crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes. Amazingly sex of crocodiles is determined by the incubation temperature. They become females at temperatures below 85 degrees and become males above 95 degrees.
5. Crocodiles (Reptiles) swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
6. Crocodiles can't chew. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeball. Amazingly, It will let you go instantly.
7. The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, you should run in a zigzag motion since the crocodile can not change direction suddenly.
8. The amazing fact is that you can keep a crocodile's mouth shut with a thick rubber band as the muscles for opening the jaws are very weak!
9. An alligator has 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. It can go through 3000 teeth in a lifetime.
10. Alligator and crocodile teeth are hollow. The new tooth grows inside the old one in order to be ready once the old tooth is lost.
11. Amazingly alligators can go without food for up to 3 years!
12. Snakes are immune to their own poison.
13. There are no snakes in New Zealand. Also, there are no venomous snakes in the Maine state of the US.
14. When snakes are born with two heads, amazingly they fight each other for food.
15. Beware. Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
16. You can't suck the venom out of a snakebite unlike what is shown in movies since the venom enters the bloodstream far too quickly to be sucked out effectively.
17. Snakes continue to grow until the day they die.
18. Amazingly the flying snake of Java and Malaysia is able to flatten itself out like a ribbon and sail like a glider from tree to tree.
19. The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan has amazingly enough venom in one bite to kill over 200,000 mice.
20. Snakes are the true carnivores since they don't eat any type of plant. They eat nothing but other animals. The stomach acids in a snake's stomach amazingly digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.
21. It's amazing that cobras are able to kill immediately after they are born.
22. The fastest-moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour.
23. Sea snakes are the most poisonous snakes in the world.
24. A chameleon's tongue is amazing twice the length of its body. Also chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time independently. A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
25. Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and the third one on top of their heads.

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### Engrossing Facts
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Last updated: 2025-01-28T09:30:05.000Z
#### 15 Engrossing Facts

1. Old NYC subway cars are dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to help build an artificial reef to serve as a habitat for marine life.
2. The deputy mayor of New Delhi *amazingly* died in 2007 when he fell from his balcony after being attacked by a group of monkeys.
3. Child beauty pageants are illegal in France, and punishable with up to 2 years in prison.
4. There is a species of fungus called Chorioactis found only in Texas and rural Japan thought to have been there for 19 million years.
5. *The Engrossing Facts* is that Libyan rebels would call in airstrikes by using coordinates from Google Earth and Tweet them to NATO from their cell phones.
6. The Hollywood movie “Mission to Mars” that was released in 2000 cost $28 million more than India’s actual mission to Mars.
7. Farmers in Kenya are taking advantage of elephants’ natural fears of bees and building “beehive fences” that keep wild elephants from trampling the crops keeping the farms safe.
8. In South Korea, earning an Olympic Medal means you avoid mandatory two-year military service.
9. *The Engrossing Facts* is that there is an animal called The Opossum belonging to marsupials with the ability to neutralize almost all poisons, even from creatures it has never encountered.
10. Mankind has already started growing food in space, namely potatoes, in 1995.
11. Anders Celsius originally created the temperature scale with 100 degrees as freezing and 0 degrees as boiling. *Amazingly* Carl Linnaeus, another scientist, waited until he died to reverse the scale to what it is today.
12. A 32-year-old woman named Julia Tavalaro suffered a brain hemorrhage and was trapped in her body. In 1966, six years later someone realized that she was trying to smile when she heard a joke. The amazing *fact* is she learned to communicate by blinking, became an author, and died at the age of 68, 37 years after the stroke.
13. When an Indian prince crossed the mountains into Tibet, the perplexed locals asked him where he came from. Ignorant of their Tibetan language, he pointed to the mountains. *Amazingly* Tibetans believed he was from the sky. To honor this divine man, they crowned him the first emperor of Tibet.
14. Dogs’ brains have gotten larger and they have gotten smarter relative to cats largely because dogs are more social.
15. The most Baptist state in the world isn’t Mississippi in the USA. It’s Nagaland in India where 75% of the population is a member of a Baptist church.

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### Panama
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Last updated: 2025-01-26T09:30:50.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts about Panama

##### Land & Geography

- Panama is one of the largest countries in Central America. However amazingly Panama has the smallest population anywhere in Central America at about 3.2 million.
- Panama is one of the smallest countries in the world but the most advanced in Central America.
- Panama is in a unique position in Central America. From one side of Panama, you are on the Atlantic Ocean and you can watch the sunrise. Then with just a couple of hours of trip to the Pacific, you can watch the sunset.
- At its narrowest distance, only 80 kilometers is the land in Panama, which separates the Atlantic from the Pacific Ocean.
- With 5,637 kilometers of coastline and more than 1,518 islands, Panama has more beaches than one can imagine.
- The amazing fact is that Panama shelters more birds than the United States and Canada combined. It is one of the most diverse locations in the world for exotic wildlife. There are plants, animals, and other natural occurrences that only happen in Panama and nowhere else in the world.
- The amazing fact is that Panama houses over 10,000 different plant species, including 1,200 varieties of orchids, 678 ferns, and more than 1,500 varieties of trees.
- Panama is home to the second-largest rainforest in the Western Hemisphere located in Panama City. Amazingly the capital is the only one in the world to boast a rainforest within the city limits.

##### History

- Columbus did not stop at the Caribbean when he landed in the new world he went on to explore most of Central America and even Panama in 1502.
- Panama declared independence from Spain in 1903.

##### Places / Architecture

- The Panama Canal is the most popular destination in Panama.
- One of the greatest man-made structures ever built in Central America is the amazing Panama Canal. It is now considered one of the world’s 7 modern wonders. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama’s entire economy.
- Amazingly work on the Panama Canal was started by the French in 1882 excavating 30 million cubic yards spending $ 260 Million Dollars and losing 20,000 lives.
- The U.S. paid the French $ 40 million for the Panama Canal rights and paid $ 10 million to Panama for Canal Zone by a treaty in 1904\. The Panama Canal was completed by the US Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914 excavating 232 million cubic yards at a cost of $ 375 million Dollars losing about 5600 lives.
- The U.S. paid $ 250,000 per annum as initial rent to Panama beginning in 1913.
- Panama Canal was officially opened on August 15, 1914\. It was taken care of by the U.S. troops until December 1999 when Panama assumed full control of the Panama Canal.
- The Panama Canal is in fact one of mankind’s greatest feats. Literally separating two continents, the canal allows ships voyaging between New York and San Francisco to save 7,872 miles of travel. The Canal stretches 80 kilometers from Panama City on the Pacific coast to Colón on the Atlantic side. Providing passage for nearly 14,000 ocean-going vessels per year.
- An amazing fact is the Panama Railroad was the most expensive railroad ever built, as it cost 9 million dollars and took 5 years to build and was completed in 1855, its length being 47 miles. More than 12000 people died in the construction of the railroad. It is the oldest operating railway in the world.
- Panama is the main location in Central America where you can experience the rich cultural, historical, and traditional experiences of the Mayan and Aztec cultures.
- Panama is one of the only locations in all of Central America with the richest and most historical cathedrals are located. Many bishops came to help with the construction of the first cathedrals in Central America and were there to advise the construction.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Nearly 85% of the people in the country are Catholics and the remaining 15% are Protestants.
- Panama has more United States Expats than any other country in the world.
- The Panama hat originated in Panama (Indiana Jones hat).

##### Politics/ Legal

- Panama has had a mainly male-dominated political system since its independence that all changed when in 1999 Panama named its first woman president, Mireya Moscoso.
- Amazingly Panama is one of only a few countries in the world that decided by constitution not to have a military force. Instead, Panama has Panamanian Public Forces that were created to police the country.
- Panama is one of the few countries in the world to use 2 different types of currency. The Currency used in Panama is the Balboa and Dollar.
- An amazing fact is the Panamanian constitution gives foreigners and citizens the same right to own property.
- Most of the land rights in Panama are protected rain forests instituted by the government in 1970.

##### Economy 

- Panama has the second-largest duty-free zone in the world. It is also the second-largest registrant for offshore companies.

##### Sport

- Panama's past time is soccer is has been the official sport of Panama since its inception in the early 1900s.

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### Movies
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Last updated: 2025-01-24T09:30:25.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts about Movies and Movie Making

1. Russia has more cinemas than any other country in the world.
2. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
3. In 1888, Hollywood was founded by Harvey and Daeida Wilcox, who named the city after their summer home in Chicago. Prohibitionists banned liquor from the town and offered free land to anyone willing to build a church.
4. The movie “Clue” has three different endings. Each ending was randomly chosen for different theaters.
5. In the movie, "Gandhi" in 1981,300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene. Of the 300,000, approximately 100,000 received a small fee, and the other 200,000 did it for free.
6. During the chariot scene in 'BenHur', a small red car can be seen in the distance.
7. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
8. Alfred Hitchcock did not choose to conclude the film, The Birds, with the usual “THE END” title because he wanted to leave the audience with the feeling of unending terror and uncertainty.
9. Lion used in the original MGM logo killed its trainer and two assistants the day after the logo was filmed.
10. “Top Gun" was such an effective advertisement for the Navy that the Navy had recruitment booths right there in theaters.
11. Twelve different buses were used in the filming of the movies Speed.
12. A family of 26 can go to the movies in Mexico city for the price of one in Tokyo.
13. Raider's of the lost arc ( 1981) used about 7500 boas, cobras, and pythons in the film.
14. More than 150,000 feet (28+ miles) of the film was used by David O. Selznick just to film the screen tests of potential actresses for the lead role of Scarlett O'Hara in his 1939 epic "Gone With the Wind".
15. The largest outdoor film set ever built was the Roman Forum used in The Fall of The Roman Empire (1964). It was 1,312 feet long by 754 feet wide, took 1,100 workers seven months to construct, and rose some 260 feet in the air. 75.
16. The largest indoor film set ever built was the landing site for the UFO in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Constructed inside a 10 million cubic foot hangar in Mobile, Alabama. it was 450 feet long by 250 feet wide and was 90 feet tall.
17. Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed character on film, having been played by 72 actors in 204 films. The historical character most represented in films is Napoleon Bonaparte, with 194 film portrayals. Abraham Lincoln is the U.S. President to be portrayed most on film, with 136 films featuring actors playing the role.
18. Screenwriter Joe Ezterhas was paid $3 million for his script, Basic Instinct, the highest amount ever paid to a screenwriter.
19. The largest cast of living creatures in a Hollywood film where the 22 million bees employed by Irwin Allen in The Swarm (1978).
20. The new "Karate Kid" movie doesn't have any Karate in it. It's actually about Kung-Fu.
21. The longest movie ever made is The Cure for Insomnia, lasting 5220 minutes (87 hours long!)
22. Zzyzx Road, a 2006 thriller with a budget of $1.2 million flopped. It only grossed $30\. It ran a single screening at noon each day for a total of seven days. Only six people paid to see it!
23. The 2008 film The Women did not feature a single male actor.
24. There are more Godzilla movies (28) than James Bond movies (22)!
25. Over 90% of American films made before 1929 are lost, no copies are known to exist.
26. The Movie "Paranormal Activity" cost less than $15,000 to make but grossed over $193,000,000.
27. Movie Iron Man had no screenplay! The director and star just made up scenes as they went along. All they really had was an outline.
28. Time Travel depictions in films and TV are banned in China.
29. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
30. Macaulay Culkin was paid only $100,000 for his role in Home Alone, but was paid $4.5 million for his role in Home Alone 2!
31. Theater in Paris has shown the movie "Life of Pi" in floating boats.
32. Cuban leader Fidel Castro has appeared in two-holiday movies namely "Holiday in Mexico" & "Easy to Wed" as a background extra. Both were made in 1946.
33. It took five directors and 14 writers to bring The Wizard of Oz to the big screen.
34. In the movies, The Wizard of Oz, wicked witch actress Margaret Hamilton was severely burned in the scene where she disappears into a cloud of smoke. Her stand-in and stunt double, Betty Danko, was also injured during the skywriting sequence.
35. Gone With The Wind producers were fined $5,000 for allowing obscenities in the film's dialogue. The offensive and expensive word? Damn.
36. One of the films Will Smith is known best for almost didn't happen. The actor didn't want to participate in Men in Black until his wife persuaded him otherwise.
37. Chocolate syrup was used as the blood in the movie Psycho. Hitchcock himself thought the texture really helped to make it more realistic.
38. Film executives were a bit nervous about casting Leonardo DiCaprio as the Kid in The Quick and the Dead. As a result and to show her confidence in the actor, costar Sharon Stone paid his salary out of her own pocket.
39. The shortest dialogue script since the introduction of talkies was written for Mel Brook’s Silent Movies (1976), which has only one spoken word throughout: “Non.”
40. The Hollywood star who played the most leading roles in feature films was John Wayne (1907-1979), who appeared in 153 movies.
41. With an alleged budget of $280 million, Avatar is one of the most expensive movies of all time. The word avatar is Sanskrit for “incarnation” and is used in Hindu scripture to refer to human incarnations of God.
42. The top five largest worldwide grossing movies of all time before inflation are Avatar (2009), Titanic (1997), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006), and The Dark Knight (2008).
43. The first movie to gross over $100 million was Jaws (1975).
44. The first picture to sweep all five major Academy Awards—winning for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay (adaptation)—was Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934) starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
45. The second movie to sweep all five major academy awards was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).
46. It took 15 crew members to operate each of the three full-scale (25-foot) mechanical sharks used in Jaws (1975).
47. A real bridge with a real train crossing it was blown up for 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai.
48. 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.
49. The greatest number of takes for one scene in a film is 324 in Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 City Lights.
50. The largest make-up budget was $1 million for Planet of the Apes (1968), which represented nearly 17% of the total production cost.

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### Cockroach
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Last updated: 2025-01-22T09:30:44.000Z
#### 20 Awesome Amazing Facts About Cockroach

1. Of the world's 4,000 species, amazingly only 30 species live in our household.
2. Cockroaches have existed on earth for about 280 million years under all adverse conditions.
3. The amazing fact is the cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second equivalent to humans clocking 300 miles per hour.
4. A one-day-old baby cockroach, which is about the size of a speck of dust, can run almost as fast as its parents.
5. Cockroaches have 6 legs and amazing 18 knees! These multiple leg joints help them to scale all types of terrains and quickly run away from danger.
6. They are lazy spending 75 percent of their time resting.
7. A cockroach can sense changes in air currents amazingly fast to recognize threats. The fastest start time clocked by a cockroach was just 8.2 milliseconds after it sensed a puff of air on its rear evnd.
8. An amazing fact is a cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.
9. Adult males can squeeze into a crack providing space of just 1.6 mm or the thickness of a quarter.
10. Because they are cold-blooded insects, cockroaches can live without food for one month, but will only survive a week without water. They come out in the open mostly for water not for food.
11. A cockroach can hold its breath for amazing 40 minutes.
12. They have compound eyes that help them in detecting motion. Amazingly the eyes have 4000 lenses that help them to see all directions, at the same time.
13. The amazing fact is even if you cut off its head, it would still run around the house for about a week before dying of thirst and starvation because its brain is not in its head. It’s scattered throughout its body.
14. The female cockroach mates only once and is pregnant for the rest of her life. Laboratory female cockroaches are able to reproduce without the aid of a male. They produce all-female offsprings.
15. Cockroaches' heart is nothing but a simple tube with valves that pump blood back and forth. The amazing fact is the heart can even stop without causing harm to the insect. They have white blood that flows freely in their body.
16. Cockroaches were the only organisms that could survive in an area after atomic experiments, except for scorpions! Amazingly their radiation resistance is about 80 to 100 times that of humans.
17. The fact is the only food that cockroaches won't eat are Cucumbers!
18. A cockroach that has just shed its skin is white with black eyes. After eight hours, however, it will regain its regular shell coloring.
19. The world's largest cockroach is six inches long with a one-foot wingspan found in South America.
20. The amazing fact is cockroaches get their vitamins from bacteria that live in their bodies. For millions of years, cockroaches have carried on a symbiotic relationship with special Bacteroides carried within their own bodies. The Bacteroides live within special cells called mycetocytes and are passed down to new generations of cockroaches by their mothers.

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### Sound
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Last updated: 2025-01-20T09:30:26.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Facts about Sound

1. The sound comes from vibrations. These vibrations create sound waves that move through mediums such as air and water before reaching our ears.
2. Our ears vibrate in a similar way to the original source of the vibration, allowing us to hear many different sounds. Actually sound enters the brain as a jumbled mess. *Amazingly* the brain has the capacity to organize the sound into something as amazing as human speech or music.
3. We hear sounds that vibrate between 20 and 20,000 times in a second. Bats hear sounds that vibrate up to 200,000 times a second. Sounds with a higher frequency than humans can hear are called ultrasound.
4. The scientific study of sound waves is known as acoustics.
5. *The amazing fact* is that if you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same.
6. Sound in *fact* can’t travel through a vacuum. There is no sound in space because there is no object for sound to travel through.
7. Sound is used by many animals to detect danger, warning them of possible attacks before they happen.
8. Dogs, cats, dolphins, and mice can hear ultrasounds. Certain crickets, moths, and frogs make and hear ultrasounds, too.
9. Bats use a special sense, called echolocation. They listen to echoes of their ultrasonic calls to find food and avoid obstacles.
10. We measure the loudness of sound on a scale called decibels. Loud Sounds that are greater than 85 decibels can damage your hearing. Ordinary conversation is held at 60 decibels. Aircraft taking off has sound in the range of 80 to 90 decibels. The rustle of leaves is about 10 decibel. The quiet automobile is about 50 decibel.
11. Amphitheaters, both ancient and modern, have a curved shape to create an area that echoes or amplifies sound.
12. The speed of sound is around 767 miles per hour (1,230 kilometers per hour). That means light can reach the moon in 1.2 seconds, while it would take sound 12.9 days.
13. The loud noise you create by cracking a whip occurs because the tip is moving so fast it breaks the speed of sound!
14. Wind doesn't make a sound unless it hits something in its path.
15. The Long Range Acoustic Device, categorized as a sonic weapon, is capable of firing a “beam” of sound hundreds of meters. If you are close to the weapon when it fires, you can lose your hearing and/or be physically hurt by the sound waves. These have been used in crowd control and riot breakups.
16. Sound has “shadow zones,” which are based on temperature. In these “shadow zones,” you cannot hear any sound. This is because sound waves change direction and bend upward based on temperature changes. So basically, sound travels above cold temperatures. Submarines use this to their advantage when they want to hide from sonar.
17. Sound can travel through materials.
18. When traveling through water, sound moves around four times faster than when it travels through the air.
19. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air.
20. sound travels 10 times faster through granite than air.
21. If the vibrational waves of a medium changes, the sound it produces will also change.
22. Although music can be hard to define, it is often described as a pleasing or meaningful arrangement of sounds.
23. The sound of thunder is produced by rapidly heated air surrounding lightning which expands faster than the speed of sound.
24. Sound produces a relatively low level of energy when compared to other forms of energy. Because sound produces such a low level of energy it is not used for electricity.
25. If a human being yells for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days straight, he/she would produce enough sound energy to heat up just one cup of coffee. Energy is so low.
26. Hard materials can reflect sound so that the sound travels back in the opposite direction. This is called an echo.
27. Whales in the ocean "sing" to each other. The sound of their song can travel a distance of 800km. these sounds are emitted at specific frequencies receivable by other whales.
28. At 115 dB, a baby's cry is louder than a car horn.
29. The loudest natural sounds ever made on our planet Earth are probably gigantic volcanic eruptions, such as the explosions of the island of Krakatoa.
30. All different frequencies that the human ear can hear played at once, form the sound…. OOOMMMMMMMMMM. This sound is referred to as the “sound of creation”.
31. 2 different sound frequencies played at once through headphones, each in a different ear causes the brain wave frequency to align with the difference between the two. For example, a continual 400mhz frequency in your right ear and 410mhz in your left ear will cause the brain wave frequency to align to 10mhz. This brain wave frequency is referred to as “Gamma frequency” and is common only in deep sleep or deep meditation. This form of brain wave stimulation through sound is called binaural beats.
32. The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are the three smallest bones in our bodies in our ears responsible for sound transmission. Together they are about the size of a pea!
33. Our ears pick up sound while we sleep, but our brain does not “hear” it!
34. In Africa, a tribe of people called Maabans lives in such quiet that they can hear a whisper from across a baseball field.
35. Aging causes gradual hearing loss, mostly in the high frequencies.
36. Speech reception is not seriously impaired until there is about 30 dB loss but by that time severe hearing damage may have occurred.
37. The incidence of hearing loss in classical musicians has been estimated at 4 to 43%, in rock musicians it is 13 to 30%.
38. Flies cannot hear at all.
39. Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear.
40. Lions can't roar until the age of 2.

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### Dinosaurs
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Last updated: 2025-01-18T09:30:18.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Facts about Dinosaurs

1. The word dinosaur comes from the Greek language and means ‘terrible lizard’. The word was coined by English paleontologist Richard Owen in 1842.
2. Dinosaurs lived during a period of Earth’s history called the Mesozoic (“middle life”) Era. The era is also known as the age of dinosaurs amazingly covered three geological periods of time; the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.
3. An amazing fact is dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 160 million years, from the Triassic period around 230 million years ago through the Jurassic period and until the end of the Cretaceous period around 65 million years ago when a mass extinction occurred. Contrast it with humans who have been around for just 2 million years.
4. The fact is dinosaurs were not the first reptiles to rule the earth.
5. Many scientists believe that a massive meteorite hit the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico 65 million years ago and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. The 112-mile-wide crater was caused by a rock 6 miles in diameter. The crater is called the Chixulub crater. It would have hit Earth’s crust with immense force at 30,000 km per hour sending shockwaves around the world.
6. Following massive meteorite hit, no land animal heavier than a large dog survived. However, animals such as sharks, jellyfish, fish, scorpions, birds, insects, snakes, turtles, lizards, and crocodiles survived.
7. New research indicates the asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs did so, not primarily due to dust blocking out the sun, but by ejecting 500 cubic miles of tiny glass spherules at near escape velocity. Upon falling to earth they caused fires destroying life in vast areas.
8. At present over 700 different species of dinosaurs have been identified and named.
9. It's amazing that dinosaurs lived on all the continents, including Antarctica.
10. Scientists estimate that dinosaurs lived to be between 75 and 300 years old based on the structure of their bones.
11. The amazing thing is rather than being carnivores (meat-eaters), the largest dinosaurs such as the Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus were actually herbivores (plant eaters).
12. Dinosaur skulls had large holes or “windows” that made their skulls lighter. Some of the largest skulls were as long as a car.
13. The first dinosaur to be found and named was Megalosaurus. It was named in 1824 by Reverend William Buckland.
14. The first discovery of dinosaur remains in North America was made in 1854 by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden during his exploration of the upper Missouri River.
15. The longest dinosaur was Seismosaurus, which measured over 40 meters.
16. The heaviest dinosaur was Brachiosaurus at 80 tonnes. It was the equivalent of 17 African Elephants. Brachiosaurus was 16 meters tall and 26 meters long and is the largest dinosaur skeleton to be mounted in a museum.
17. The oldest dinosaurs known are 230 million years old and have been found in Madagasgar.
18. The single biggest dinosaur bone ever found is a 5×5 ft. argentinosaurus vertebra (backbone) fossil that weighed over a ton.
19. An amazing fact is an American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews found the first known dinosaur eggs in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in 1923\. Prior to his discovery, scientists didn’t know exactly how dinosaurs reproduced.
20. The biggest dinosaur eggs scientists know of are the eggs of the stegosaurus, which were about 19 inches long while the smallest dinosaur eggs ever found measured about 0.7 inches found in northeastern Thailand in 2002.
21. About 40 kinds of dinosaur eggs have been discovered.
22. The amazing fact is that scientifically, modern-day birds aren’t just descended from dinosaurs, but are considered to be dinosaurs and, therefore, dinosaurs are not actually extinct.
23. Amazingly in Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs are only on the screen for 15 minutes. The movie is over two hours long.
24. The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
25. If aliens located 60-65 million light-years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
26. The amazing fact is if Earth’s history were condensed into 24 hrs, life would’ve appeared at around 4 am, land plants at 10:24 pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41 pm, and human history would’ve begun at 11:58:43 pm.
27. There's a small town called Dinosaur, Colorado (USA). Some of its street names include Brontosaurus Blvd, Brontosaurus Bypass, Stegosaurus Freeway, and Tyrannosaurus Trail.
28. An amazing fact is the last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
29. Amazingly scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
30. The fact is that DNA has a 521-year half-life, meaning the oldest cloneable samples of DNA could be no more than 2 million years old, ruling out any possibility of ever replicating dinosaurs, as the youngest dinosaurs were around more than 65 million years ago.
31. The fact is earth’s rotation time changes at the rate of approximately 17 milliseconds a century and the length of a day for the dinosaurs was closer to 22 hours.
32. Hans Larsson is a scientist who is trying to reactivate dormant dinosaur traits that linger in unexpressed bird genes. So far, he has managed to create chicken embryos that have teeth and long reptilian tails.
33. The Nigersaurus had 500 plus teeth: 50 columns with 9 replacement teeth behind them. The front ones would be worn out in just a month, making the Nigersaurus the fastest teeth-replacing dinosaur.
34. There is a Civil War/Dinosaur-themed amusement park in Natural Bridge, VA which features statues of Dinosaurs fighting Civil War Soldiers.
35. Seismosaurus is considered the largest dinosaur to ever have existed with a height of amazing 84 feet, 150 foot long and weighing 150 tons.
36. During the Cretaceous period (145 – 100 million years ago), Earth’s climate was so warm that there were no polar ice caps, and forests probably extended all the way to the South Pole. Local plants and dinosaurs evolved to live in continuous sunlight in the summer and darkness in the winter.
37. Chinese villagers used to consume dinosaur fossils as medicine believing the fossils to be “flying dragon bone.”
38. The first dinosaur bone described in the scientific literature was thought to be the femur of a giant human.
39. The first dinosaur in space was a Maiasaura fossil taken on a space shuttle mission in 1985.
40. A fossil Coelophysis skull was taken into orbit, and then to the Mir space station, by the space shuttle Endeavour in 1998.

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### Sleep
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Last updated: 2025-01-16T09:30:15.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts about Sleep

1. The amazing fact is that humans spend a third of their life sleeping. That's about 25 years. In fact, the average person also spends 6 years of their life dreaming.
2. Most of what we know about sleep we've learned only in the past 25 years.
3. Parents of new babies miss out on 6 months' worth of sleep in the first 2 years of their child's life.
4. Teenagers need as much sleep as small children (about 10 hrs) while those over 65 need the least of all (about six hours). For the average adult aged 25-55, eight hours is considered optimal.
5. The fact is sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy. Sleep is just as important as diet and exercise.
6. You strengthen memories made during the day while you sleep.
7. Man is the only mammal that willingly delays sleep.
8. Amazingly you will die from sleep deprivation earlier than food deprivation. You may starve for 2 weeks but probably 10 days of sleep deprivation can kill you.
9. If it takes you less than five minutes to fall asleep then very likely you are sleep deprived. The ideal amount of time is about 10 to 15 minutes.
10. It has been found that women who sleep less than 5 hours a night gain a significant amount more weight over time than those who sleep 7 hours or more.
11. The Challenger space shuttle disaster, the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, and the 1989 Exxon oil spill were all caused to some extent by sleep deprivation.
12. Not sleeping for 16 hours leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to having a blood-alcohol level of .05%
13. After five nights of partial sleep deprivation, three drinks will have the same effect on your body as six would when you've slept enough.
14. Within 5 minutes of waking up, 50 % of the dream is forgotten. Within 10 minutes, 90 % of it is gone.
15. Sometimes it may be impossible to tell if someone is really awake as people can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it.
16. REM (Rapid Eye Movement ) sleep occurs in bursts totaling about 2 hours a night, usually beginning about 90 minutes after falling asleep.
17. The continuous brain recordings that led to the discovery of REM (rapid-eye-movement) sleep were not done until 1953, partly because the scientists involved were concerned about wasting paper.
18. Snoring occurs only in non-REM sleep.
19. 10 % of snorers have sleep apnea, a disorder that causes sufferers to stop breathing up to 300 times a night and significantly increases the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke.
20. There are two periods of maximum sleepiness, the late afternoon (from around 3 to 5 PM) and the end of the night (from around 3 to 5 a.m.). There are also two periods of maximum alertness around 1 a.m. in the morning and 1 p.m. in the afternoon.
21. It's impossible to sneeze while sleeping.
22. 1 out of 50 teenagers still wet their beds.
23. The amazing fact is that you burn more calories watching TV than you do sleeping.
24. The British military amazingly figured out a way to reset soldiers’ body clocks so they can go without sleep for up to 36 hours by simulating a sunrise on their retinas.
25. 12% of people dream in black and white. Before color television, the number was 75%.
26. You can only dream about faces you have already seen.
27. The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech, and memory.
28. Both whales and dolphins literally fall half asleep. Their brain hemispheres take turns so they can continue surfacing to breathe.
29. Ducks can also sleep with half their brain at a time.
30. A snail can amazingly sleep for 3 years.

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### Jackie Chan
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#### 25 Amazing Facts about Jackie Chan

1. Jackie Chan’s real name is Chan Kong-Sang.
2. Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on April 7, 1954.
3. Jackie Chan reportedly spent 12 months in the womb. His Mother, therefore, nicknamed him “Cannonball”.
4. Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
5. Jackie Chan got the name Jackie while he was working as a construction worker in Canberra, Australia.
6. Jackie Chan while he was working as a nightclub bouncer spent two days after a fight trying to push his bone back into his fist. He later found that it wasn’t his bone, it was in fact the other guy’s tooth.
7. The amazing fact is that Jackie Chan is a classically trained vocalist and has released more than 20 albums in over five languages, in addition to providing the theme tunes for several of his earlier films and singing in several Chinese dubs of Disney classics.
8. In one scene it took Jackie Chan 2900 separate takes in the movie Dragon Lord for a 10-minute scene because it was so complicated and he demanded perfection.
9. Jackie Chan once broke twelve concrete blocks with his hand, while keeping the egg he was holding intact.
10. Nosebleed was a 2001 movie (starring Jackie Chan) about a window washer at the World Trade Centre, who stops a terrorist attack, had to be canceled when the attacks happened in the real world.
11. Jackie Chan speaks 7 languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, English, German, Korean, Japanese, and Thai, and also American sign language.
12. The hardest thing for Chan when it comes to acting is speaking in English. He says speaking English is harder than doing most of his stunts.
13. Jackie Chan actually began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films, Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon.
14. Jackie Chan was awarded Guinness World Records for the 2012 movie Chinese Zodiac for “Most Stunts Performed by a Living Actor”.
15. Jackie Chan has a permanent plastic plug in his skull due to an accident that he sustained while filming Armour of God when he had to jump from the top of the building to a tree branch. First, the take was OK but he wanted to repeat the shot. He missed the branch and fell 40 feet to the rocks below. He had a brain hemorrhage and was saved after eight hours of surgery.
16. While shooting the movie "Police Story" Jackie Chan had a crack fracture in his seventh and eighth vertebrae along with pelvic dislocation. This injury is almost unheard of.
17. So many stuntmen were injured during the shooting of “Police Story” that he found no stunt man willing to work for him again. He formed The Jackie Chan stuntmen association and provided personal training and paid all medical bills.
18. Jackie Chan claims to have broken every bone in his body at least once while performing stunts.
19. Jackie Chan actually jumped out of a plane and landed on top of a hot air balloon while filming the movie, Armour of God.
20. Possibly his most difficult stunt was sliding down from the roof to 21 floors below on a 45-degree inclined façade of a building in Rotterdam Holland in the movie “Who Am I ?”. It took him 2 weeks to work up the nerve to do it.
21. Amazingly no company ensures Jackie Chan or his team, so he pays it for himself and his stunt team.
22. Jackie Chan has his own stunt fighters that communicate when they attack him by specific grunting noises.
23. It is possible to train a fish, and Jackie Chan taught catfish tricks in Mandarin and English.
24. Jackie Chan married Taiwanese Lin Feng Jiao in 1982\. They have one son.
25. Jackie Chan is a noted philanthropist and his son may get little of his $130 million fortune. According to him, “If my son is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting my money.”

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### Electricity
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Last updated: 2025-01-12T09:30:03.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about Electricity

1. Modern society relies heavily on the convenience and versatility of electricity. It powers your microwave, helps light your house, runs your industry, lets you watch TV and so much more.
2. Electricity amazingly travels at the speed of light i.e. more than 300,000 km per second!
3. Voltage means electrical pressure. You can think of it as the pressure that pushes water through your garden hose. The higher the voltage the more electricity there is flowing through the power line.
4. The movement of electric charge is known as an electric current, and the intensity of which is usually measured in amperes (Amps). An electrical current is created from the electrons bumping into each other. Whilst each particle barely moves, the signal that is created from each small movement is near the speed of light.
5. Electric potential energy is measured in volts. Electricity is generated when the electrons in a substance are passed along a conductor such as a metal wire.
6. Electricity travels in closed loops or circuits. It must have a complete path before the electrons can move. If a circuit is open, the electrons cannot flow.
7. Two positive charges repel each other, as do two negative charges. Opposite charges on the other hand attract each other. Electric fields work in a similar way to gravity with an important exception being that while gravity always attracts, electric fields can either attract or repulse.
8. Static electricity occurs when the electrons from one object jump to another object building up an electric charge on the surface of an object. A spark of static electricity can amazingly measure up to three thousand (3,000) volts while a bolt of lightning can measure up to three million volts and it lasts less than one second.
9. Lightning is a discharge of electricity in the atmosphere. Lightning bolts can travel at around 2,10,000 kph, and reach nearly 30,000 °C in temperature.
10. Electricity always tries to find the easiest path to the ground.
11. Benjamin Franklin didn't discover electricity, but he did prove that lightning is a form of electrical energy. He also invented the lightning rod in the 18th century to protect buildings in the event of lightning.
12. The first electric battery was in fact developed by Alessandro Volta in 1800\. He discovered that when two strips of different metals were put in a sulphuric acid solution and connected with a wire, electricity began to flow.
13. Michael Faraday discovered and implemented the use of copper wire and magnets to channel electricity the most popular way electricity is currently produced.
14. The first power plant owned by Thomas Edison opened in New York City in 1882.
15. Thomas Edison amazingly invented more than 2,000 new products, including almost everything needed for us to use electricity in our homes: switches, fuses, sockets, and meters.
16. In the late-1800s, Nikola Tesla pioneered the generation, transmission, and use of alternating current (AC) electricity, which can be transmitted over much greater distances than direct current. Tesla's inventions used electricity to bring indoor lighting to our homes and to power industrial machines.
17. After transportation, electric energy is converted into mechanical energy, thermal energy, light energy, chemical energy, etc.
18. The fact that electricity can’t be easily stored means that production must be fine-tuned to consumption levels on a short-term basis.
19. Electricity can be made from wind, water, the sun, nuclear fuel, and coal.
20. The world’s biggest source of energy for producing electricity comes from coal. The burning of coal in furnaces heats boiler water until it becomes steam which then spins turbines attached to generators.
21. All the power plants that generate electrical energy actually change other forms of energy into electricity.
22. A generator is a device that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. The process is based on the relationship between magnetism and electricity.
23. A 600-megawatt natural gas plant can power 220,000 homes.
24. The difference between the direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) is in the way the electrons flow. In DC electrons move in a single direction while in AC they change directions, switching between backward and forwards. The electricity use in your home is AC while DC comes from sources that include batteries.
25. At the power station, the electric current is generated with a voltage of 25,000 volts. Shortly after the current leaves the power station, it is fed into a 'grid' substation. The substation contains a device called a transformer which increases or steps up the voltage to 400,000 volts ready for its journey to wherever it's needed.
26. The reason why voltage is raised is that if a wire or overhead line is carrying a large electric current, it heats up and energy is wasted by heating. If instead, the electricity is transmitted at a really high voltage, the current we need to transfer the same amount of energy can be much less and so less energy is wasted as heat.
27. Overhead lines are carried long distances across the countryside on tall metal pylons out of reach of people. Power lines may also be buried underground for extra safety especially in or near towns and cities. In small towns and villages, power lines may be carried above ground on wooden poles.
28. Near to where the electricity is to be used, the voltage is reduced ('stepped down') in another substation. The electric current may pass through several substations on its journey to your home or to a factory. Each substation reduces the voltage to whatever is required. Large factories and electric trains may require 33,000 volts, smaller factories may require 11,000 or 450 volts and lower for homes.
29. For domestic use, 115 Volts is the standard in US homes while in the UK the standard is 230 Volts.
30. In 1791 Luigi Galvani published his discovery of bioelectricity, demonstrating that electricity was the medium by which nerve cells passed signals to the muscles.
31. Electricity plays a role in the way your heartbeats. Muscle cells in the heart are contracted by electricity going through the heart. Electrocardiogram (ECG) machines used in hospitals measure the electricity going through someone’s heart, when the person is healthy it usually shows a line moving across a screen with regular spikes as the heartbeats.
32. Iceland was the first country ever to produce all its electrical energy from renewable sources.
33. We are often careless and waste electricity. e.g. A photocopier left on overnight uses enough energy to produce over 1500 copies. Lighting an office overnight wastes enough energy to heat water for 1000 cups of tea. A typical window left open overnight in winter will waste enough energy to drive a small car over 35 miles. A PC monitor switched on overnight wastes enough energy to microwave six dinners.
34. If a bird sits on just one power line it is safe. The moment it touches another line with a wing or foot, it creates a circuit causing electrocution.
35. Electric eels can produce strong electric shocks of around 600 volts for both self-defense and hunting.

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### Crow
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#### 25 Amazing Facts about Crow | Amazing Facts 4U

1. There are many members of the “crow’ family. The most well-known is the carrion crow which is the most fearless. There are about 40 or so species.
2. The first crows in fact appeared in Miocene, 17 million years ago, in Australia and Oceania. Crows belong in the Corvidae family, which counts over 120 species spread all over the world, excepting Antarctica.
3. The common crow will usually live for about seven years, although some have lived as long as 14 years in the wild.
4. Crows and ravens have been traditionally been feared as symbols of death because of their black feathers and because they are scavengers. Historically they have been associated with dead bodies, battlefields, and cemeteries.
5. The smallest corvid in the world is the Dwarf Jay in Mexico (Aphelocoma nana) with 40 g (1.4 oz) weight and 21.5 cm (8.5 inches) length. The largest corvids are the Common Raven (Corvus corax) and the Thick-billed Raven (Corvus crassirostris) in Ethiopia. Both have 1.500 grams (3 lbs) weight and 65 cm (26 inches) span.
6. Crows are actually very social and caring creatures, and also among the smartest animals on the planet.
7. Crows are emotional animals, too. They react to hunger and invasion by vigorously vocalizing their feelings. They display happiness, anger, and sadness.
8. Crows are considered song-birds and possess a deep repertoire of melodies. And, like humans, the more melodious the song, the more soothing the effects. Some crows have even been taught to recite opera.
9. Just like parrots, crows can also imitate human voices.
10. Crows are predators and scavengers eating practically anything. Their diet consists of various roadkill, insects, frogs, snakes, mice, corn, human fast food, even eggs, and nestlings of other birds. An adult crow needs about 11 ounces of food daily.
11. The amazing Fact is that they can remember your face and different places. If you stare at a crow they will remember you next time they see you. They have the ability to describe any event in detail to one another and the information may be passed even across generations. Generations upon generations later, they still remember specific houses or areas where a member of the crow family once died and avoid them. Next time you see a group of crows, look closely. Try to remember which one is which, and see if you can tell the difference between them the next time you pass. Odds are good that you can't find the difference but they can.
12. They learn from their mistakes. Every year thousands of crows migrated through Chatham, Ontario. Until one farmer got fed up and shot one of the crows and all thousands of them changed the route.
13. Crows are also really good at learning adaptive behavior. They’re known to memorize routes of garbage men to know when to get some tasty snacks. They memorize which of the truck drivers are nice enough to open cans for them!
14. Crows have an excellent memory. They’re masters at stashing food in many caches, moving it sometimes two or three times, and remembering exactly where they placed it. In fact, for their size, crows have the largest brains of all birds except some parrots. Their brain-to-body ratio is equivalent to that of a chimpanzee and amazingly, not far off that of a human’s. Crows also have well-developed forebrains which are where the higher intelligence is supposed to be.
15. Crows can hold a grudge. Upset them or if they think you are threatening their young and you are in trouble. They have brilliant memories and will remember you next time they see you!
16. Crows are the smartest birds in the world. They are much more intelligent than any other prey birds. Besides, they are more clever, sly and tricky than a parrot.
17. A test conducted in 2004 revealed that crows are cleverer than Bonobo chimpanzees. This amazingly made them the most intelligent creatures after humans, and hence, scientists named them ‘feathered apes.
18. They communicate with each other in an advanced fashion. In fact, it has been scientifically proven that crows have regional dialects, meaning that crows have an actual language! Each “caw” can have a different meaning. They can warn a dangerous situation, they can mimic the sounds made by other animals, or they can even learn how to associate noises with certain events.
19. Groups of crows (MURDERS) develop their own dialects, differentiating them from crows in other areas.
20. The amazing fact is crows mate for life. Unless a mate is killed or severely incapacitated, crows appear to stay with the same mate year after year.
21. Crows live all over the world, except for Antarctica.
22. When a crow is dying, a group of other crows would flock around and attack it aggressively to death to save the agony. This is the reason why a group of crows is known as murder!
23. Crows are the only creatures, excepting man and monkey, that are capable of using different tools in search of food.
24. A crow has been observed while eating the nuts that initially it couldn't crack. The ingenious bird put the nuts on a highway so that the vehicles to pass over them. The bird was so intelligent as it placed the nuts only under the wheels of smaller cars, as prior experiences proved that setting them under a bigger car would crush it and wouldn't benefit.
25. Crows have been known to carry the West Nile virus. In fact, the crows are the ones having introduced this virus in the United States of America in 1999.

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### Dreams
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Last updated: 2025-01-08T09:30:42.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts about dreams

1. Dreaming is one of the most mysterious and unexplained wonders of our lives. The purpose and content of dreams have been only partly understood.
2. The average person in fact spends 6 whole years of their life dreaming.
3. Interestingly, 70% of all the characters in a man’s dream are other men, but women’s dreams contain an equal amount of women and men. Also, men’s dreams contain a lot more aggression.
4. Most people over the age of 10 have 4 to 6 dreams every night which corresponds to about 1500 to 2000 dreams every year. We dream during REM periods (Rapid Eye Movement period in our sleep) which can range anywhere from 5 minutes to half an hour long. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night’s sleep.
5. When you dream during the REM phase, amazingly rest of your body is paralyzed.
6. Dreams tend not to be happy events and the three most common reported emotions are anger, sadness, and fear.
7. Amazing thing is that not everybody dreams in color. It is believed that 12% of dreams are black & white.
8. 5 minutes after waking up 50% of a dream is forgotten and after 10 minutes 90% of the dream is forgotten.
9. People who are blind to dream. Instead of dreaming visually, they dream with their senses of smell, sound, touch, and also emotion.
10. Your body amazingly burns more calories sleeping than it does in the daytime.
11. Babies can dream from day one. Everybody Dreams. Including animals! The best example is a dog, you will often see them twitching their paws as if they are running in their dreams.
12. You can often control your dreams. You can manipulate, twist, and turn the beginning and the ending of your dreams like it's a movie being shot in front of you. It is called "Lucid dreaming" during which one is aware that he/she is dreaming. You can lucid dream for up to 30 minutes if trained properly.
13. Drug withdrawal can cause more intense dreams. People who also quit alcohol and smoking experience heavier dreams and nightmares.
14. The amazing Fact is that if you are snoring then you cannot be dreaming.
15. You don't dream about yourself until you are approximately 3 years old.
16. You can remember dreams better if you wake up in the middle of them!
17. Depression can cause you to dream up to three to four times more than normal.
18. Dreams about losing teeth are one of the most commonly interpreted dreams, usually indicating anxiety or a profound change in your life.
19. Vitamin B6 in fact increases dream vividity and recall.
20. Japanese researchers have amazingly devised a method of decoding dreams that can accurately tell what the patient had been dreaming about.
21. People who stop smoking after having been long time smokers, have reported much more vivid dreams than those who don’t smoke.
22. Morphine is named after “Morpheus”, the Greek god of dreams.
23. There is an actual psychological disease called Oneiroid syndrome a form of schizophrenia that confuses people to think they are in a dream.
24. A study that surveyed the dreams of both non-gamers and gamers and found that those who frequently played games experienced lucid dreams more often. The gamers are also troubled less by nightmares than non-gamers.
25. The reason you can’t read in a dream is that reading and dreaming are functions of different sides of the brain, which don’t cooperate very well while dreaming. You also can’t tell the time.
26. The strangers in our dreams are actually real people who have crossed our path at least once in our lifetime. Our brain simply stores their faces, and our subconscious may end up costing them in our dreams during REM sleep.
27. It is thought and documented in some case studies, that about 10% have precognitive dreams of events yet to happen, but actually happen in the future.
28. Dreams are responsible for many of the greatest and amazing inventions of mankind. A few examples include The idea for Google -Larry Page, Alternating current generator –Tesla, DNA’s double helix spiral form -James Watson, The sewing machine -Elias Howe, Periodic table -Dimitri Mendeleyev, and many more.
29. Paul McCartney composed the entire melody of the song ‘Yesterday’ in his dream one night. It is the most covered song in the history of recorded music.
30. Hall of Fame boxer, Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight once because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fight, Robinson went into the ring and accidentally killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle.

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### Chocolate
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#### 40 Amazing Facts about Chocolate

1. Chocolate was originally used more than 2,500 years ago in Central America. The Mayan civilization considered Cacao to be a divine gift and it was used ceremoniously. The name 'Cacao' is a Maya word meaning 'God food'. It is thought that the word 'cocoa' has come about through a miss-spelling of 'cacao'.
2. Spaniards were the first to know about cocoa in Europe but amazingly, they succeeded in keeping the art of the cocoa industry a secret from the rest of Europe for nearly a hundred years. Spanish monks, who had been involved with the processing of the cocoa beans, leaked the secret out finally. The word chocolate was first recorded in English in 1604, though England’s first cup of chocolate was not brewed until 1647.
3. The cacao tree is in fact very delicate and sensitive needing protection from wind and requires a fair amount of shade especially in its first 2 to 4 years of growth. When a cacao tree is full-grown it usually measures 15 to 25 feet high. In 3 to 5 years the cacao tree will start to produce flower clusters, then flowers. Only 1 in 500 flowers goes on to produce a pod which is the fruit of the cacao bean tree.
4. One cacao pod will contain about 42 beans. 7 cacao pods or about 300 cacao beans are required to produce a pound of chocolate.
5. One cocoa tree produces about 50 pods twice a year. Each pod has enough cocoa for about eight bars of milk chocolate or four bars of the dark. So each tree gives 400-800 bars of chocolate a year.
6. The amazing Fact is that the trees are so frail and their roots so shallow that to climb the tree is too dangerous. Long-handled steel knives are used to reach the highest pods and snip them off without wounding the soft bark of the tree. Training and experience are needed to recognize which fruit is ripe and ready to cut.
7. Pods are Left out in the heat of the day for the fermentation lasting 3 to 9 days. It is a simple “yeasting” process in which the sugars contained in the beans are converted to acid, primarily lactic acid and acetic acid. Visually, a layer of pulp starts to form around the beans making them darker, less bitter. During the process, the germ of the bean is killed and enzymes are activated to form the compounds which produce the chocolate flavor. The beans are then dried for several days. When completely dried, the beans are packed in sacks, inspected, and shipped to factories for the making of chocolate.
8. After sorting and cleaning, the cocoa beans are roasted for up to two hours and then shelled. What remains are chocolate nibs, which contain 54% cocoa butter. Cocoa butter is the natural fat of the bean. As the nibs are ground, cocoa butter is released, transforming the solid nibs into the free-flowing substance known as chocolate liquor.
9. The chocolate liquor is passed through huge presses to remove a desired amount of the cocoa butter to be used later. Cocoa butter is an amazing vegetable fat that resists rancidity and oxidation and can be kept for years without spoiling. After the cocoa butter is removed, a pressed cake which is the cocoa powder is left which still contains up to 10% of cocoa butter and is sold in bulk.
10. Solid chocolate is made by adding back together with the different parts -cocoa butter, cocoa powder, and other ingredients - sugar, perhaps milk, and vanilla to achieve the individual manufacturer’s desired finished taste. The mixture then travels through a series of heavy rollers until there is a refined smooth paste ready for conching.
11. Conching is a flavor development process which “kneads” the chocolate. The final step is tempering, a process that gradually raises, lowers, and then raises the temperature again to set degrees. Finally, this finished product is poured into many shapes from candy bar sizes to ten-pound slabs.
12. Over 66 percent of the entire world's cacao is grown in Africa and 98 percent of all cocoa is cultivated by just 15 countries.
13. The Ivory Coast produces more cocoa than any other country (37 %) followed by Ghana (21 %) and Indonesia (14 %).
14. America consumes virtually 50 percent of the world's chocolate. Americans eat 2.8 billion pounds of candy annually. About half of it is chocolate.
15. The Swiss eat the most chocolate. The average person eats about 20 lbs a year.
16. More than twice as many women than men eat and crave chocolate. It is observed that chocolate cravings cannot be satisfied by any sweet/candy other than chocolate itself.
17. Chocolate produces the effects of a mild anti-depressant by increasing serotonin and endorphin levels in the brain.
18. Chocolate contains a small quantity of caffeine and emulates a mild amphetamine.
19. Cocoa butter is a by-product produced from the crushing of roasted cacao beans. It is used in a number of cosmetic products including massage oils and skin cosmetics as it is one of the most stable, highly concentrated natural fats known melting at just below average body temperature making it the ideal foundation in moisturizing creams and other such products.
20. The largest chocolate bar weighed 5,792.50 kg (12,770 lb ) and was created by Thornton plc (UK) in Alfreton, Derbyshire, the UK on 7 October 2011\. The chocolate bar measured 4.0 meters by 4.0 meter by 0.35 meters.
21. Despite being high in fat content, chocolate doesn't appear to raise blood cholesterol levels.
22. Chocolate is lower in caffeine than tea, coffee, and coca-cola. A one-ounce bar of chocolate contains about 6mg of caffeine, whereas a five-ounce cup of regular coffee contains over 40mg.
23. Dark chocolate has more cacao and less sugar than other chocolates, so it is considered healthier than milk and white chocolate. It contains lots of antioxidants that help the cardiovascular system by reducing blood pressure. It widens arteries and promotes healthy blood flow that can prevent the buildup of plaque that can block arteries. Eating dark chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart disease by 1/3.
24. Flavonoids found in cocoa products have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-clotting effects that can reduce the risk of diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity.
25. In 1842 Cadbury's in England created the world's first chocolate bar.
26. The shelf life of a bar of chocolate is approximately one year.
27. Chocolate manufacturers use 20% of the world's peanuts and 40% of the world's almonds.
28. Chocolate contains minerals such as potassium, calcium, and iron. It also contains the B-vitamin riboflavin. A chocolate ingredient known as cocoa butter is mostly of monounsaturated fatty acid also found in olive oil.
29. In general, nuts are loaded with protein. Peanuts have the most, followed by almonds, cashews, and walnuts. Protein is essential for healthy brain and muscle function, and for vegetarians, is a great substitute for animal protein. Nuts also contain omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, and fiber. Thus with all the added benefits of chocolate, chocolate-dipped nuts are a great snack.
30. Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40% of the world’s almonds and 20% of the world’s peanuts.
31. A single chocolate chip can give you enough energy to walk 150 feet.
32. Every Russian and American space voyage has included chocolate bars.
33. Chocolate’s scent increases theta brain waves, which induce relaxation. This is mainly why people feel better about their problems after eating them.
34. The guy who invented the chocolate chip cookie sold the idea to Nestle Toll House. It was sold not for money but for a lifetime supply of chocolate.
35. Milton Hershey, the founder of Hershey Chocolate, was supposed to go on the Titanic but canceled last minute due to business issues.
36. Chocolate is technically responsible for the invention of the microwave. Scientists were experimenting with microwaves A scientist named Percy Spencer entered the lab with a chocolate bar in his pocket and realized it quickly began to melt. Spencer successfully tried popping corn and then attempted to cook an egg that cooked so quickly, it blew up in his face.
37. A lethal dose of chocolate for a human being is about 10 kg (22 lbs) or 40 Hershey bars.
38. Chocolate can be deadly for dogs. Chocolate contains an ingredient called “Theobromine” which can be toxic to a dog's central nervous system and cardiac muscles.
39. In 2013, Belgium issued a limited edition of chocolate-flavored stamps.
40. Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45-second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

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### Lightning
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Last updated: 2025-01-04T09:30:16.000Z
#### 30 Awesome Facts About Lightning

1. The amazing fact is that lightning flashes more than 3 million times a day worldwide. This is equivalent to 40 times per second but not all flashes reach the ground.
2. The average temperature of lightning is around 20000 °C (36000 °F) roughly more than 3 times hotter than the surface of the sun! However, the temperature in the path of a lightning bolt can reach as high as 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. Most lightning strikes average 2 to 3 miles long and carry a current of 10000 Amps at 100 million Volts.
4. Daytime lighting is difficult or impossible to see under the local sun and/or hazy conditions. Night-time lightning can be seen up to 100 miles away.
5. The movement of rain and ice inside a thundercloud creates an electrical charge, with the negative charge (electrons) forming at the bottom of the cloud and the positive charge (protons) forming at the top. The water droplets and ice crystals carry the charge with them. Lightning is usually produced by cumulonimbus clouds that are very tall and dense.
6. That negative charge in the cloud creates a positive charge on Earth below, and the two charges start trying to connect completing a circuit.
7. Lightning can occur inside clouds, between clouds, and from clouds to the ground.
8. Around one-quarter of lightning is from cloud to ground.
9. The air between the clouds and Earth blocks the connection until the charge gets so strong that an electrical impulse called a “stepped leader” shoots down from the cloud.
10. The leader drops in steps of about 150 feet each at an amazing 136,000 mph, until it almost reaches the ground. That’s when an electrical charge called a streamer rises up to meet it and complete the circuit.
11. Then a bolt of electricity streaks back up along the leader’s path at an amazing 62 million mph and creates lightning. More bolts can rise up the same path again right after. Because it all happens so fast, all we see is one bolt of lightning.
12. The amazing fact is that all that energy travels along a path that is about as wide as a thumb! Lightning looks so much wider than it really is just because its light is so bright!
13. Lightning strikes in fact last just around 1 or 2 microseconds.
14. Most lightning occurs over land rather than oceans, with around 70% of it occurring in the Tropics.
15. The streamer can travel up through a building, a tree, or even a person while seeking the shortest route to complete the circuit which causes fatalities.
16. Lightning can be made in a laboratory by an instrument called a Van de Graaff static electricity generator which could generate millions of volts of artificial lightning from a metal sphere mounted at the top of an insulated column.
17. Your chances of being struck by lightning are estimated to be 1 in 600,000\. However, about 70% of all people struck by lightning still survive.
18. Most lightning deaths and injuries occur when people are caught outdoors in the summer months during the afternoon and evening.
19. Lightning can strike the same place twice. Lightning often strikes outside of heavy rain and may occur as far as 10 miles away from any rainfall. Rubber-soled shoes and rubber tires provide no protection from lightning. However, the steel frame of a hard-topped vehicle provides increased protection if you are not touching metal. In fact, you are much safer inside a vehicle than outside.
20. It is a common lightning myth that you will be electrocuted if you touch the victim. The human body does not store electricity. It is perfectly safe to touch a lightning victim to give them first aid and it should be given immediately.
21. It's a myth that if outside in a thunderstorm, you should seek shelter under a tree to stay dry. Being underneath a tree is the second leading cause of lightning casualties. Better to get wet instead of rain.
22. It is also a myth that if trapped outside and lightning is about to strike, you should lie flat on the ground. In fact, lying flat increases your chance of being affected by a potentially deadly ground current. Instead, you keep moving toward a safe shelter.
23. Florida is the lightning capital of the United States.
24. In the past 10 years, more than 15,000 fires have been started by lightning in the western United States and Alaska.
25. It is estimated that Lightning kills about 2,000 people a year Worldwide. It is safer to be at home during lightning storms.
26. Lightning rods (also called conductors) seen at the top of tall buildings are metal rods or similar objects that divert lightning safely to the ground.
27. Truck driver Edwin Robinson had been blinded in a traumatic traffic accident in 1971 but his sight was miraculously restored nine years later when he was struck by lightning after taking shelter from a thunderstorm under a tree. He was unconscious for 20 minutes. That evening his vision began to clear eventually restoring his ability to read. Doctors are amazed.
28. Lightning Strikes create powerful radio waves in the frequency range of 3 kHz (audio, VLF) through 10 MHz (shortwave radio). The VLF (3000 Hz to 30000 Hz) "lightning signatures" can travel around the world, allowing monitoring of world-wide lightning. The shortwave "lightning signatures can travel half-way around the Earth'
29. The best region to listen for distant shortwave lightning signatures is from 2 MHz through 7 MHz. After 3 a.m. local time you can listen to 3 MHz and hear the beautiful dispersion ringing of the static as it bounces back and forth between the earth and ionosphere. It can at times sound like hundreds of tiny bells ringing at once!
30. The study of lightning is known as pulmonology. Astraphobia is the fear of thunder and lightning.

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### Absorbing Facts
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Last updated: 2025-01-02T09:30:01.000Z
#### 15 Absorbing Facts

1. It costs an amazing $25,000 for a mountaineer to buy a single permit to climb Mt. Everest.
2. Germany builds about twice as many cars as the U.S. while paying its workers twice as much.
3. The Netherlands is the only country in the world to have compulsory private health insurance. Premiums are not based on age or health status, but on income & are on average $125 per month.
4. Microsoft receives up to $8 per Android device sold in royalties. They made $ 3.4 billion in 2013.
5. Absorbing Facts is the planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed, based on the orbit of Uranus.
6. A vulcanized rubber object, like a truck tire, is in fact a single giant molecule.
7. Amazingly in Switzerland, if you fail your practical driver’s license test 3 times, you are required to consult an official psychologist to assess the reasons for your previous failures before you are allowed to retake the exam.
8. A female shorebird was recently found to have flown 7,145 miles nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand in nine days, without taking a break for food or drink.
9. Absorbing Facts is During WWII when Hitler visited Paris, the French cut the lift cables on the Eiffel Tower so that Hitler would have to climb the steps if he wanted to visit the summit. Hitler never went on the Eiffel Tower.
10. In fact, chainsaw resistant clothing exists. When the chainsaw touches the fabric, it cuts thru the outer shell. Inside are long Kevlar fibers that are designed to be pulled into the saw and jam it, preventing further injury.
11. The grip of a sloth is so amazingly strong that sometimes when they die, they are found still clinging to the very branch they were lounging from when they were alive.
12. Absorbing Facts is Syphilis has been called the French disease in Italy, Poland, and Germany and the “Italian disease” in France. The Dutch called it the “Spanish disease”, the Russians called it the “Polish disease”, the Turks called it the “Christian disease” and the Tahitians the “British disease”.
13. Absorbing Facts is A guy in Arizona wrote his address on $1 bills pleading that they be sent back to him and he gets them back from all over the world, up to $94/month.
14. Amazingly in the Victorian era, they had special teacups that protected your mustache from getting dunked in your tea.
15. A Nepali farmer was bitten by a cobra and the farmer bit the cobra back. The cobra died but the farmer didn’t.

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### Leopard
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#### 25 Amazing Facts about Leopard

1. The scientific name of Leopard is Panthera pardus.
2. Leopards are easily recognized by their stunning amazing rosette patterned skin. The head, neck, and legs are covered in black spots, with more intricate markings, called "rosettes", on the remainder of the body. Each rosette is made up of three or four black spots on the outside with a yellow-brown center.
3. There are about 50000 leopards living around the globe, in fact, 10 times more than lions, tigers, and cheetahs combined.
4. Leopards are in fact pound for pound the strongest of the big cats.
5. They're experts at climbing up and down trees, often descending headfirst. They're the largest cat species that regularly climbs trees. They are able to climb trees even when carrying heavy prey and often choose to rest on tree branches during the day.
6. Leopards are renowned for their agility. They run up to 58 km/h and can leap 6m horizontally and 3m vertically. They are also very strong swimmers.
7. They have amazing hearing. Leopards can pick up five times more sounds than humans can.
8. Leopards don't need to drink much water; they can live off the moisture in their prey.
9. Amongst the big cats, they are the most accomplished stalkers. Leopards stalk their prey until they are a few feet away and pounce the prey. They do not usually miss. If it misses, it will seldom chase its prey. It can kill prey many times larger than it.
10. Adult leopards are solitary animals. Each adult leopard has its own territory where it lives and, although they often share parts of it, they try to avoid one another.
11. They are very resourceful and they can adapt to almost any environment.
12. A leopard’s tail is just about as long as its entire body. This helps it with balance and enables it to make sharp turns quickly.
13. Leopards are mostly nocturnal, hunting prey at night.
14. Leopards protect their food from other animals by dragging it high up into the trees. They can carry carcasses weighing more than twice their weight up vertical tree trunks.
15. They readily eat rotten meat and will feed on a stored carcass for up to four days.
16. A leopard will often leave their prey up in the tree for days and return only when they are hungry!
17. In the wild, leopards live between 12 to 15 years; in zoos, they can live up to 22 years.
18. The leopard is the most elusive and secretive of the cats. This is due to the fact that they are rather shy, secretive, and mainly nocturnal. They are very difficult to trace and locate in the wild.
19. Leopards tend to have two or three cubs per gestation. Mothers refrain from wandering their territories after giving birth until their young are capable to come with them. Cubs suckle for around 3 months and are kept hidden for about the first 8 weeks to protect themselves from predators.
20. By the time a cub is two years old, it will leave the company of its mother and live on its own.
21. Leopards tend to have distinctive dark spots called rosettes, which create beautiful patterns against their otherwise light fur. Black leopards however have dark fur which makes it difficult to see the spots. They appear almost solid black and are often called black panthers.
22. Leopards have the widest range of habitats of all the big cats. This adaptability has allowed them to survive in various different geographic areas. Perhaps the most extreme example is the amazing snow leopard which lives in the Himalayas.
23. Leopards have a distinctive call that sounds like a wood plank being cut with a saw. The sawing sound is repeated at intervals of six minutes or so during the peak calling hours which tend to occur in the early evening or before dawn.
24. The leopard's call allows territorial neighbors to keep out of each other's way and also allows males and females to find each other.
25. Leopards also make other sounds like growling when aggressive, spitting and snarling when threatened, and purring when contented.

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### Indonesia
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Last updated: 2024-12-28T09:30:34.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts about Indonesia

##### Land & Geography

- Indonesia is officially called the Republic of Indonesia. It has an area of approximately 1,919,440 square kilometers. There are approximately 250 million people living in Indonesia.
- It is the world's fourth most populous nation after China, India, and the USA.
- The capital and largest city of Indonesia is Jakarta, on the island of Java. Jakarta has a population of almost 14 million with 23 million living in Greater Jakarta.
- The country of Indonesia is ethnically diverse, with around 300 distinctive native ethnic groups each with its own customs, traditions. Bahasa Indonesia, the country’s official language, is similar to Malay.
- Indonesia is part of the Malay Archipelago covering 5,150 km's (3,200 miles) east to west, between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Scattered over either side of the equator, the country has amazing more than 17,500 islands, of which about 6,000 are inhabited. The largest of these islands are Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), Sulawesi, and the Indonesian part of New Guinea called Papua.
- The island of Java is home to 60% of the country's population (around 140 million people) making it the world's most populous island which amazingly covers only 7% of the entire territory of Indonesia..
- Indonesia shares land borders with Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and East Timor.
- Indonesia is part of the Pacific Rim "Ring of Fire", the volcano group. Amazingly the country has some 400 volcanoes, about 150 of these are active which is around 75% of all currently active volcanoes on Earth. Every day, the country experiences three vibrations and at least one earthquake.
- Indonesia is in fact the largest maritime country in the world which is covered with water in the area of 93,000 square km and the length of the coast is about 81,000 km or almost 25% of long beaches in the world. Bali is home to stunning black sand volcanic beaches due to the active volcanoes that dot the island and the Indonesian Peninsula. The black sand absorbs heat, so it's hard on the feet but it is amazing.
- The highest point in Indonesia is the peak of Puncak Jaya on the island of Papua sitting at 4,884 meters (16,024 ft) above sea level.
- Indonesia boasts of having the second-highest level of biodiversity after Brazil. Forests cover almost 60% of the nation. The longest snake having a 10-meter length was found here in 1912.
- Indonesia is home to the Mudskipper fish which is amazingly the only type of fish in the world that can climb trees, walks, even hop, and live and breathe on land.
- The Rafflesia Arnoldi, otherwise called the Corps flower with a height of 5ft and a width of 4ft making it the largest flower blooms here and weighs around 7 kilos.
- The Komodo Island houses the ancient Komodo dragon the largest lizard in the world growing up to 3 meters long and weighing up to 165 kg. It is also the national animal of the country.
- Indonesia is home to Sumatran Tiger (smallest tiger subspecies) and the Javan rhinoceros, which are found nowhere else in the world.
- Indonesia has the largest number of 150 shark species in the world.
- Indonesia has the world’s smallest primate named the Tarsier Pygmy, also known as the Mountain Tarsier, whose length is only 10 cm. This amazing animal looks like a monkey and lives on trees found in Sulawesi.
- Indonesia has the smallest fish in the world named the Paedocypris petrogenetic, with a length of 7.9 mm more or less equal to mosquitoes which were found in a Sumatra muddy swamp.
- Indonesia has the world’s largest amount of orchid biodiversity. There are about 6000 species of orchids, ranging from the largest (Tiger Orchid to the smallest Taeniophyllum, which has no leaves. The collection also includes the Black Orchid, which is extremely rare and can only be found in Papua. Indonesia also has the largest mangrove forest in the world.
- The country has three time zones as it extends from Northern Sumatra) to West Papua Guinea. It is one of the countries that has not been fully explored or mapped.

##### History

- Marco Polo was the first European to reach Indonesia reaching Sumatra in 1293\. He had traveled in search of spices which were valuable commodities in his country.
- The Dutch kept Indonesia colonized for almost 350 years. It was formerly known as the Dutch East Indies. From 1942 to 1945 it was occupied by Japan in WWII days. It was the first country to gain independence after WWII ended. Even after independence from the Netherlands in 1945, the Dutch remained in control of the western part of New Guinea (now Papua). This territory was eventually passed to Indonesia under a United Nations agreement (1963).
- In 1975 East Timor gained independence from the Portuguese but was annexed by Indonesia in 1976\. East Timor voted for independence in 1999 and later gained independence from Indonesia in 2002.
- Indonesia's island of Bali with a majority Hindu population did not come under the control of the Netherlands until 1906\. During the Dutch capture of the island, many thousands of Balinese were killed.
- Amazingly between 1811 and 1816, Indonesia came under British rule but was returned to the Dutch.
- It is the first discovery place of the oldest ancient man in the world, namely Pithecanthropus Erectus. They had lived there about 1.8 million years ago.
- The island of Bali, a center of Hindu culture, suffered a terrorist bomb blast in 2002 that killed more than 200 people mostly tourists. In 2005, the country was hit by the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 Indonesians.

##### Places / Architecture

- The Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 on the island of Sumbawa was and still is the largest observed volcanic eruption in recorded history. In 1883 the volcanic island of Krakatoa was destroyed by a volcanic eruption by one of the largest eruptions ever. This caused a tidal wave that killed over thirty thousand people.
- Indonesia is in fact home to the world’s largest volcanic lake. Lake Toba is situated in Sumatra is the site of a massive super-volcanic eruption that is estimated to have occurred around 70,000 years ago. It marks the largest known explosive eruption on Earth in the last 25 million years. Lake covers an area of 1,707 square km and the water is 450m deep in places.
- The Biggest Buddhist monument in the world is the temple of Borobudur in Central Java with a height of 42 meters (10 levels) which used to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It was built over 40 years in the ancient Mataram kingdom (750-850 AD).

##### People Customs & Culture

- Indonesia is home to 12.7% of the world’s Muslim population making it the world’s largest Muslim country, with over 87% of the country’s population being Muslim.
- Indian traders brought Hinduism by the 7th century. Nowadays, more than 80% of the population is Hindu in Bali. The area of Bali Island is 5780 Sq. km (153 km wide and 112 km from north to south).
- The amazing Fact is over 740 indigenous languages are spoken in Indonesia. Most Indonesians speak their indigenous language as their mother tongue and Bahasa Indonesia for school and careers, making most Indonesians bilingual. Bahasa Indonesia unlike other Asian languages uses Roman or Latin script making it easy for foreigners to follow.
- Roughly half of Indonesia’s population lives on less than $2 USD a day.
- Asian palm civet is a small, cat-sized mammal that is fed coffee berries. After they defecate, their feces is collected, berries washed and used to make kopi luwak, the most expensive coffee in the world. The action of the civet’s stomach enzymes gives the coffee an unrivaled richness of flavor without any of the usual bitterness. Kopi luwak costs around $1,000 per pound. In fact, the Coffee cup may cost $50.
- The amazing fact is that the Balinese usually have one of the following four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, or Ketut. They simply mean Firstborn, Secondborn, Third born, and Fourth born and it doesn’t matter if the child is a boy or a girl! If a fifth child is born to a couple, it starts all over again.
- Balinese Hinduism is rich with ancient superstitions. Amazingly one that still endures is not letting a baby’s feet touch the ground for the first three months of the infant’s life. It’s done to prevent the devil from entering the child and as a result, infants are continuously passed from relative to relative.
- Balinese celebrate New Year in a very unusual way in complete silence. During 24 hours anybody on the island doesn’t leave the house. All restaurants, offices, schools, and shops are closed.
- One of the world’s unique funeral procession takes place in a Toraja, a small town on Sulawesi island. A funeral procession takes around 7 days and costs a fortune. Families usually save up their money for years to bury their loved ones.

##### Politics / Legal

- Indonesia recognizes only six religions – Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Confucianism and you must subscribe to one of these. Amazingly two individuals with different religions are not allowed to marry unless one of them converts.
- Indonesia is in fact the first country and the only one that ever came out of the United Nations (UN) on the date January 7, 1965\. But they joined back into the United Nations in 1966.

##### Economy 

- The currency of Indonesia is called the Rupiah.
- The economy of Indonesia centers around agriculture and oil, with approximately 90% of the population involved in agriculture.
- It is in fact the world’s largest producer of palm oil. With Malaysia, Indonesia controls almost 90% of world palm oil production. 40 % of palm oil is set aside for use as biofuel.
- Indonesia is a major producer of cloves and nutmeg and ranked first in the world in terms of production. Nutmeg is native to Indonesia’s Banda Islands. It is no. 2 in the production of natural rubber.
- Indonesia is the largest exporter of plywood, which makes up 80% of the supply to the world.
- Indonesia is the largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the world (20% of world supply). It was in North Sumatra that Indonesia’s first commercial oil well was sunk in 1871 and over 60% of the country’s total petroleum and gas production comes from this island and the seas surrounding it.
- Indonesia’s west Papua island has the world’s biggest gold-producing mine and also has the world’s third-largest copper mine. Indonesia is also the second-largest tin producer.
- The amazing Fact is Indonesia exports 3,000 tons of frogs’ legs to France each year.

##### Sports

- The Indonesian badminton team is the most frequent 13 times winner of the Thomas Cup, the test of supremacy in badminton. Badminton is most popular followed by football.

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### England ( Part 2)
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Last updated: 2024-12-26T09:30:25.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Facts About England ( Part 2)

##### Politics/ Legal

- The amazing Fact is that in Medieval England animals were brought into court, and tried and sentenced by the judge for any mischief or damage they did!
- William the Conqueror ordered that everyone should go to bed at eight o’clock.
- Queen Anne had 17 children, all of them amazingly died before she did.
- East Peckham in Kent has a unique claim to fame: it’s where the first-ever speeding ticket was issued to a motorist in January 1896\. Walter Arnold was spotted doing 8mph in a 2mph zone but was easily apprehended by a policeman riding a bicycle.
- Suicide attempts were punished as crimes in England and Wales until 1961.
- Slavery was not made a statutory offense in the UK until April 6, 2010.
- British police do not carry guns except in emergencies.
- Amazingly the Queen owns all the sturgeons, whales, and dolphins in the waters within 3 miles from the UK. The reason for this is that these sea creatures are considered royal animals and are not allowed to be caught or sold by anyone.
- The flag of England is called the Union Flag when it is seen on land and Union Jack when it is being used on a ship. "Jack" because it must be flown on the jack mast of a vessel.
- By law, a pregnant woman is allowed to relieve herself wherever she wishes.

##### Economy & Corporates

- England was the first industrialized nation after the industrial revolution that began around 1760\. England's first great industry was wool. Its export had become the nation's largest source of income by the late Middle Ages.
- During the first three decades of the 19th century, West Cornwall produced two-thirds of the world's copper.
- Harry Ramsden holds the Guinness World Record for the largest fish and chip shop in the world, seating 250 people, serving nearly a million customers a year. It is Britain's longest established restaurant chain. Its first shop opened in 1928 at Guiseley, West Yorkshire.
- Britain has the highest per capita consumption of cider, as well as the largest cider-producing companies in the world. Over half of England's cider is produced in Herefordshire. Cider making was introduced by Viscount Scudamore in 1639, who brought the recipe from France.
- England boasts the company that is the third-largest employer on Earth. The National Health Service is preceded only by China's Red Army and Indian railway.

##### Inventions

- The mathematician Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) invented the symbols for "is less than" \[<\] and "is greater than" \[>\].
- Champagne was in fact invented in England, not in France. In 1662 scientist Christopher Merret described how the addition of sugar and molasses to wine make it brisk and sparkling. This method was adopted by Dom Pérignon over 30 years later to produce the first sparkling wine in Champagne.
- The claim for the world's oldest working railway is disputed between Tanfield Railway in County Durham, with the oldest section dating back to 1725, and Middleton Railway in West Yorkshire, which has been working continuously since 1758.
- Shoelaces were invented in England in 1790.
- The first postage stamps appeared in England. The first Penny Post was invented by entrepreneur William Dockwra in the 1680s for delivery of packets within London. The first adhesive stamp was the Penny Black, introduced in 1840 as part of postal reforms. Because Britain was the first country to issue national stamps, British stamps still have the unique distinction of not mentioning the country's name on them.
- The world’s first public street lighting with gas was installed in Pall Mall, London in 1807\. In 1812, the London and Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company became the world’s first gas company.
- London is the first city in the world to have an underground subway system. It has finished 150 years of existence.
- The first telephone directory for England was published in 1880 and contained only 25 names.
- In 1884, Charles Parsons invented the turbine. In 1894 he launched the first steam turbine-powered boat, the Turbinia, by far the fastest ship in the world at the time. It revolutionized marine transport and naval warfare.
- The statue of Anteros on Piccadilly Circus (1892) was the world's first statue to be cast in aluminum.
- The first road in the world to be surfaced with tarmac (asphalt) was five miles of Radcliffe Rd. in Nottingham, England during 1902.
- The amazing Fact is that the world's first electronic, digital, the programmable computer was made at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in 1943-44\. Nicknamed Colossus, it was used by British codebreakers to help read encrypted German messages during WWII. Colossus was kept a state secret until 1974, which is why Americans have been credited with the invention of the first computers. English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web.

##### Literature

- There have been a number of influential English authors but perhaps the most well-known is William Shakespeare, who wrote classics such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Macbeth is the most produced play ever written. On average, a performance is staged every 4 hours somewhere in the world.
- The world's first modern encyclopedia was Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, published in 1728 in London.
- The most published novel is "The Lord of the Rings" by British author J. Tolkien with more than 150 million copies printed. The Harry Potter series by British author J K Rowling has over 400 million printed but is essentially seven separate books with a continuous theme. J.K. Rowling is the first person to make a billion dollars from writing books.

##### Famous People

- The national anthem of the United States ("The Star-Spangled Banner") was in fact composed by an Englishman, John Stafford Smith (1750-1836) from Gloucester.
- The man behind the construction of the world-famous Sydney Opera House was Sir Eugene Goossens (1893-1962), an English conductor and composer of Belgian origin, who was director of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music at the time.
- Famous English scientists include Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Isaac Newton, and Stephen Hawking among many others.

##### Sport

- England brought the world soccer, rugby, and polo.

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### England ( Part 1)
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Last updated: 2024-12-24T09:30:10.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts About England ( Part 1)

##### Land & Geography

- England is amazing 74 times smaller than the USA, 59 times smaller than Australia, and 3 times smaller than Japan. England is however 2.5 times more populous than Australia.
- England is bordered by Scotland to the north and Wales to the west.
- In fact, no part of England is more than 75 miles from the sea.
- The Thames River is the longest river that flows through England. It has 200 bridges and 20 tunnels across its 346-kilometer course.
- The capital city of London has a population of approximately 12 million people, making it the largest city in all of Europe.
- There is in fact only a 34 kilometer (21 miles) gap between England and France and the countries are connected by the Channel Tunnel undersea which opened in 1994.
- The Slimbridge Wildlife & Wetlands Trust is the world's largest and most diversified wildfowl center. It has the largest collection of swans, geese, and ducks on Earth, and is the only place where all six species of Flamingo can still be observed.

##### History

- The stone circle at Avebury is the largest in the world. It was built between 5300 and 4600 years ago and covers 11 hectares (28 acres). The outer circle is surrounded by a bank and ditch long of 1.5 km (1 mile).
- Silbury Hill, in the English county of Wiltshire, is the largest man-made earthen mound in Europe. It was built about 4750 years ago.
- The Fossdyke, connecting the River Trent at Torksey to Lincoln, is the oldest canal in Britain. It was built by the Romans around 120 CE and is still navigable today.
- York was the first English city to become settled permanently by the Danish Vikings (in 867) and the last to remain under Viking rule (until 954).
- Winchester was the first capital of England, from 827 to 1066.
- The amazing Fact is that French was the official language of England for about 300 years, from 1066 till 1362.
- Amazingly in England the dates between the 2nd and 14th of September, 1752 did NOT exist! The adjustment was made to synchronize the calendar with the rest of Europe.
- One of the amazing historical facts is that Berengaria of Navarre, who was married to King Richard of England, had never once stepped on English soil!
- The amazing Fact is England invaded 90% of the world’s countries! It invaded 178 countries out of a total of 200.
- The shortest war against England was with Zanzibar in 1896\. Amazingly Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- There are many untouched plane wrecks in the UK, dating back to WWII. Removing them is forbidden under the Protection of Military Remains Act of 1986.
- The so-called British Imperial system of measurement (English units in the USA) has its roots in Roman units. The Romans also counted in feet, which they divided into 12 inches. 5 feet made a pace, and 1000 paces became a mile in English.

##### Places / Architecture

- The county of Kent is home to England's oldest church (St Martin's in Canterbury), oldest school (the King's School, established in 600, also in Canterbury), and oldest brewery (Shepherd's Neame Brewery in Faversham, founded in 1698).
- Windsor Castle is the oldest and largest royal residence in the world still in use. It was originally constructed in 1070 and rebuilt in stone in 1170.
- Berkeley Castle is the oldest English castle still inhabited by the family who built it.
- The founder of the Berkeley family was Robert Fitzharding (1095–1170). He started building the present castle in 1153.
- York Minster is Britain's largest medieval cathedral, has the largest Gothic nave in the country, and the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world.
- The first building in the world to overtake the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was Lincoln Cathedral, completed in 1280\. Had its spired not been destroyed by a storm in 1549, it would have remained the highest construction ever built in the world until 1884, when the Washington Monument was erected.
- Founded in 1534, Cambridge University Press is the world's oldest printing and publishing house, and the second-largest university press in the world.
- Opened in 1660, the Royal Armouries in the Tower of London is the oldest museum in the United Kingdom, and one of the oldest in the world (the first in Europe outside Italy).
- The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, inaugurated in 1683, was the world's first university museum.
- Established in 1734, Bennett's of Irongate in Derby is the oldest department store in the world, pre-dating by over 100 years the first department stores in the USA, France, or other parts of Britain. It is still trading in the original building.
- The Caen Hill Locks, a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal (between Bath and Reading) rising 72 m in 3.2 km, making it the steepest flight of locks in the world. The locks were built in the early 1800s.
- The world's oldest public zoo was opened in London in 1828.
- The world's largest second-hand book market can be found at Hay-On-Wye, a small village at the border of England and Wales. The village is also famous for proclaiming itself independent from the UK in 1977.
- Liverpool Cathedral, Britain's newest cathedral (completed in 1978) is the second-longest church on Earth after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the biggest cathedral in England.
- The London Eye is the tallest observation wheel in the world and each rotation takes about 30 minutes.
- The original London Bridge was shipped to Arizona USA in 1968\. US customs labeled it ‘large antique’.
- Amazingly contrary to popular belief, Big Ben is not the name of the clock tower, but actually the bell inside it. The tower is known as actually the Elizabeth Tower.
- 5-mile radius is how far Big Ben, which chimes every fifteen minutes, can be heard.
- In 1945, a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and put the time back by five minutes.
- The vintage lamps that light up the bridge are made from canons melted. The canons belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte.
- Did you know that Buckingham Palace was built in 1702 on the site of an infamous brothel? Buckingham Palace has its own police station.
- You can view a very special type of coloring pencil in Keswick at the Cumberland Pencil Museum – at nearly eight meters, it’s the longest in the world.

##### People Customs & Culture

- In Eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
- The amazing Fact is that until 1896, drivers in England had to warn of their presence by having a person precede their car on foot, waving a red flag.
- English people consume more tea per capita than anybody else in the world (2.5 times more than the Japanese and 22 times more than the Americans or the French).
- You may find people routinely wearing a suit in a pub.
- It is entirely acceptable to come to work with a hangover and is expected at least once a week.
- People know exactly to which social class others belong just from their accent, attitude, opinions, and way of dressing. For English people, your class is very important.
- The amazing Fact is that there are over 30,000 people with the name John Smith in England.
- People have a habit of saying ‘lovely’ and not 'nice'. You don’t say 'really good' but say 'absolutely fantastic.
- Public schools in England are in fact very exclusive and expensive ($22,500/year on average) private schools. Ordinary schools (which are free), are called state schools.

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### American Civil War
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Last updated: 2024-12-22T09:30:49.000Z
#### 25 Facts about American Civil War

1. American Civil War, also called War Between the States was a four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina) that seceded from the Union in 1861 forming the Confederate States of America.
2. An estimated 1.5 million troops joined the war on the side of the Union and approximately 1.2 million went into Confederate service. Over 620,000 Americans died in the war, with disease killing twice as many as those lost in battle. 50,000 survivors returned home as amputees.
3. In fact, neither side expected a war of long duration. Volunteers were asked to serve for 90 days but the war lingered on for 4 long years. Southerners thought Northerners too weak and cowardly to fight. Northerners thought a dependence upon slave labor had rendered Southerners too weak to present a serious battlefield threat. Both sides were due for a rude awakening.
4. The primary reason for the conflict was that southern states were invested heavily in slaves. Abraham Lincoln’s election as President in 1860 on a platform of anti-slavery was a catalyst for southern states’ secession. Confederate States of America of 11 states, when formed, had a population of 9 million, including nearly 4 million slaves.
5. The Confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River resulted in a heavy fight with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined.
6. September 17, 1862, was in fact the bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies were stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 men were dead, wounded, or missing. Lee then withdrew to Virginia.
7. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, finally abolishing slavery.
8. Before the war ended by the final surrender of the Southern states army, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln with a single bullet in the back of the head. He died the next day on April 15, 1865.
9. The last living American Civil War veteran, Albert Woolson, was in fact alive to see the beginning of the civil rights movement. He died in 1956.
10. The last surviving Civil War widow amazingly didn’t pass away until 2008\. She married an 86-year-old veteran when she was only 19.
11. Nearly the entire student body and faculty of the University of Mississippi joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War and suffered a 100% casualty rate.
12. The amazing Fact is that in 1861, a slave took over on a confederate ship and delivered it to the Union. He later was given the ship to command during the American Civil War. After the war, he bought the house he was a slave in and became a US congressman.
13. In the 1930s the Smithsonian recorded Confederate Civil War veterans reenacting the rebel yell battle cry. This is the only recording of actual veterans doing the yell.
14. The first Memorial Day was a funeral held by freed slaves for Union soldiers who liberated them after the American Civil War in 1865.
15. In the American Civil War, soldiers were required to have at least four opposing front teeth, so that they could open a gunpowder pouch. Amazingly some men had their front teeth removed to avoid service.
16. Diarrhea was the leading cause of death among soldiers in the American Civil War and soldiers had a code of honor against shooting at someone who was pooping.
17. During the Civil War, JP Morgan's founder in fact bought five thousand rifles for $3.50 each from an army arsenal and sold them to a general in the field for $22 each. The rifles were defective and would shoot off the thumbs of the soldiers using them.
18. During the civil war, the Union counterfeited Confederate currency and deliberately gave it away in the South to cause massive inflation
19. Some Civil War soldiers had wounds that glowed in the dark because of bioluminescent bacteria that were puked up by nematodes. These bacteria actually killed off other pathogens and made the survival rate of those soldiers higher.
20. A 9-year-old boy ran away from home to fight in the American Civil War. The army adopted him as their drummer boy, being too young to be a soldier. At age 11, he became the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history, and decades later he retired as the last veteran of the civil war on active duty.
21. The first battle of the Civil War took place on the farm of a man named Wilmer McLean. He moved to get away from the violence, but 4 years later Lee would surrender to Grant in Wilmer’s new house. He quoted, “The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor.”
22. Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, the civil war general involved in the early Ku Klux Klan, had a total of 29 horses shot out from under him during the war. He himself was shot four times, and he defeated over 30 Union soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.
23. The first African American to receive the Medal of Honor in the American Civil War was Sgt. William Harvey Carney who, despite being shot in the face, shoulders, arms, and legs, refused to let the American flag touch the ground.
24. There were 8 African-American men from Southern states elected to Congress in 1870, just five years after the Civil War. Amazingly another black man wouldn’t be elected from a Southern state for the next 72 years.
25. W.V Meadows was shot in the eye at the battle of Vicksburg during the American Civil War. He survived, and amazingly 58 years later coughed the bullet out of his mouth.

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### Apples
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Last updated: 2024-12-20T09:30:36.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts About Apples

1. The scientific name for apple is Aplicus Rosacea.
2. The science of apple cultivation is known as Pomology.
3. Apple trees only bear fruits after they reach 5 years of age. The average apple tree is Over 40 feet!
4. It's amazing that there are more than 8000 varieties of apples, the largest variety of fruit to exist! The tiniest apple is about the size of a pea while there are some large apples the size of a small pumpkin.
5. It is believed that apples originated from Kazakhstan. Amazingly humans have been eating apples from as far as 6500 BC!
6. In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
7. Apples come from the Rose family, Rosacea!
8. Apples aren’t true fruits! Botanically speaking, true fruits grow from the ovaries of the flower, yet apples develop from the receptacle of the flower.
9. The average apple has 10 seeds. The amazing fact is that apple seeds contain a cyanide compound but it’s not that easy to die from the cyanide in apple seeds as the tiny amount of poison is locked away inside the hard seed coat and may pass through your digestive system intact.
10. An average person eats about 65 apples a year.
11. It's amazing that apples float in water! This is because 25% of their volume consists of air.
12. Most of the anti-oxidants in apples, including Quercetin, are found in the skin.
13. The country producing the largest amount of apples in China.
14. New York City is nicknamed “the Big Apple”
15. The fact is apple trees have a life span of over 100 years.
16. The bump at the front of the throat is called Adam’s Apple, which is said to be caused by the forbidden fruit being apple getting stuck in Adam’s throat when he ate it in the Garden of Eden.
17. The only apple variety which originated in Native America is the Crabapple.
18. A medium-sized apple contains 80 calories.
19. A medium-sized apple contains 4 grams of fibers. Our daily requirement of fiber is 25 grams.
20. The soluble fiber contained in apples is called pectin and can help lower cholesterol levels. The high quantity of fiber in apples can also help fight constipation.
21. Apples are cholesterol-free, sodium-free, and fat-free.
22. Eating an apple before bed can help cleanse your teeth and is said to be able to whiten your teeth.
23. In Africa, apples are only grown in the Mediterranean regions.
24. In Chinese culture, the word for apples is pronounced as ‘ping’ which also stands for peace. This is why apples are a popular gift to give when visiting someone in China.
25. Isaac Newton is said to have discovered the Law of Gravity when an apple fell on his head!
26. The McIntosh apple is the national apple of Canada.
27. The most famous saying involving apples is, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” The original saying in the old English adage was, “To eat an apple before going to bed, will make the doctor beg his bread.”
28. Amazingly freshly pressed apple juice immediately turns brown upon contact with the air because of oxidation. A trick to prevent fresh apple juice from turning brown is to add a few squeezes of lemon juice or lime juice. This helps prevent oxidation.
29. The fact is the Apple Macintosh was named so as it was the favorite apple of the head of the team that created the computer, Jef Raskin.
30. Apples contain high levels of boron, which stimulates electrical activity of the brain and increases mental alertness. High levels of boron make it a great food to prevent osteoporosis and strengthen bones.
31. Apples have the ability to boost estrogen levels in menopausal women to a great extent.
32. Amazingly in ancient Rome, apples were regarded as luxury fruits.
33. The Turks eat the most number of apples per person in the world and Turkey is among the highest producers of apples in the world.
34. An apple-shaped body type is where most of the body fat is stored around the waist and belly, the middle of the abdomen.
35. Redlove Era Apple is amazingly read all the way to its core.

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### Lion
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Last updated: 2024-12-18T09:30:39.000Z
#### 25 Amazing Facts about Lion

1. The average male lion weighs around 180 kg (400 lb) while the average female lion weighs around 130 kg (290 lb).
2. The heaviest lion on record weighed an amazing 375 kg (826 lb).
3. Lions are in fact the national animal of Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, England, Ethiopia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
4. Now only around 20,000-30,000 of these big cats live in sub-Saharan Africa, mostly in protected reserves besides a small population of about 300 inhabit India’s Gir Forest in the state of Gujarat.
5. Lions are the only big cats to live in groups, called pride which is comprised of interrelated females and one to four adult male lions. Pride could have 15 members or more. The size of the pride is determined by the availability of food and water. Amazingly the younger male lions are kicked out of the pride when they show signs of maturity.
6. These young males that are kicked out of the family when they are maturing are known as nomads. They wander around and survive on their own or with partners until they are able to take over a proud family from another lion or create one on their own.
7. Lions are very social animals. Living in the large family in “Prides” helps the lions and their offspring to survive during a time of famine.
8. Lionesses give birth to 2-3 cubs at a time. Usually, a couple of females give birth around the same time. The cubs are then raised together, sometimes nursing communally. Cubs have a 60-70% mortality rate falling prey to other predators.
9. The amazing fact is when another group of male lions takes over pride, they kill all the cubs. Hence within the pride, the territorial males are the fathers of all the cubs.
10. Amazingly the female lion does ninety percent of the hunting usually at night. Males are the protectors of the family. They protect the family from outsiders or other predators that may want to harm their cubs.
11. After a successful hunt, all the lions in the pride always share the meal. But there is a pecking order, with the adult males taking the first claim, followed by the lionesses, and finally, the cubs.
12. Lions have amazing night vision. They are 6 times more sensitive to light than humans. This gives them a distinct advantage.
13. Male lions in fact maintain the boundaries of their territory, which can be as large as 260 sq. km (100 sq. mi.), by roaring, marking it with urine, and chasing off intruders.
14. Female lions reach two-thirds of their adult size by the time they are two years old.
15. A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year. Lions in the wild live for around 12 years. They live up to 25 years in captivity.
16. Male lions are the only ones that have large manes. It is a sign of dominance and generates fear. The darker the mane, the older the lion.
17. Most lions drink water daily if available, but can go four or five days without it.
18. Lions prefer to be alone with their pride in their territory. So, they will frequently attack and kill other predators it find like cheetahs, hyenas, and leopards.
19. Even though the lion is sometimes referred to as the “king of the jungle,” it actually only lives in grasslands and plains.
20. A lion’s heels don’t touch the ground when it walks.
21. A lion’s roar can be heard from as far as 5 miles away. A lion’s roar is the loudest of any big cat. It helps to protect its territory. Amazingly lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.
22. A lion can run for short distances at 50 mph but only in short bursts because of a lack of stamina. It can leap as far as 36 feet.
23. Lions enjoy relaxing and lazing around. The amazing fact is they spend between 16 and 20 hours each day resting and sleeping.
24. A lion in fact mates more than 50 times in one day. The mating ritual would last for only 4 to 5 days when a lioness is in heat.
25. The amazing fact is that a 12-year-old girl abducted in Africa was saved from her attackers by 3 lions. They protected this Ethiopian girl from her attackers and stayed with her until she was rescued. In fact, lions very rarely attack humans.

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### World War II (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2024-12-16T09:30:46.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about World War II (Part II)

1. In 1935, British engineer Robert Watson-Watt was working on a “death ray” that would destroy enemy aircraft using radio waves. His “death ray” amazingly evolved into radar or “radio detection and ranging”.
2. The US Military was ranked amazing 17th (in terms of size) before WWII began. Romania was 16th.
3. After the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt searched for a bulletproof car. However, because government regulation prohibited spending more than $750 to buy a car, the only one they could find was Al Capone’s limo, which had been seized by the Treasury Department after he was arrested for tax evasion.
4. Large, inflatable barrage balloons were in fact used to protect major towns and cities in Britain from air raids. The balloons were launched before a raid and trailed a network of steel cables beneath them. Bombers had to fly high to avoid becoming tangled in the cables, thus reducing their accuracy.
5. The Messerschmitt BF-109E was produced in larger numbers than any other aircraft in World War II. The amazing fact is that Germany made nearly 36,000 of them.
6. Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945 while Japan surrendered on 2 September 1945 ending WWII when Japan signed a surrender agreement on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay after droppings of atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki respectively on the 6th and 9th of August 1945.
7. During WWII, penicillin was recycled and extracted from the urine of soldiers already on the antibiotics.
8. During WWII, Pilots would intercept V-1 flying bombs also known as the Buzz Bomb, and tip them over with their wingtips causing them to crash.
9. Coconut juice or water inside not only is sterile but has the same electrolytic balance as human blood, which enabled medics in the Pacific Theater in World War II to use it as an emergency substitute for plasma.
10. During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies in fact killed the only elephant of the Berlin Zoo.
11. There were American soldiers during World War II, who used fake tanks and pre-recorded sounds to deceive the Nazis into thinking their army was bigger than it actually was. They were called the ‘Ghost Army’.
12. During World War II, A woman slipped and fell at the top of the stairs of Bethnal Green tube station in London. It was being used as a bomb shelter. Amazingly the resulting domino effect killed 176 people.
13. SS Wien of Austria was sunk in 1918 during World War I. It was raised again, salvaged, refitted, and returned to service as SS Po. It was sunk again in 1941 during World War II.
14. The Taj Mahal was in fact covered with a huge scaffold during WWII to make it look like a stockpile of Bamboos and misguide any Japanese bombers.
15. During WWII, there was a secret program used by American forces to disguise plastic explosives as flour. It was such a good disguise that even baked goods could be made with it, which could then be used to blow things up.
16. Night Witches were the members of an all-female bomber regiment in WWII Russia. These pilots would turn off their engines, glide, and bomb German targets to avoid being heard. They dropped 3,000 tons of bombs over German lines and were exceptionally good at evading enemy planes.
17. Switzerland claimed neutrality during WWII and therefore thousands of people deposited their hard-earned money in Switzerland. When the depositors died, the relatives were denied any access to their funds, funds that the banks continued to make interest off. They also funneled hundreds of millions into Nazi Germany.
18. During WWII, Britain shipped most of its gold reserves and foreign securities to Canada in crates labeled as “Fish”. They were stored for years in an office building in downtown Montreal, where about 5000 people worked throughout the war without having a clue about what was hidden in their basement.
19. The fact is the USA firebombed Tokyo during WWII resulting in 100,000 deaths, which was more than Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
20. It's amazing that because all factories were being used to support the war by manufacturing supplies, United States was only able to manufacture 139 cars during World War II.
21. Fritz Haber, a German chemist created a process of producing fertilizer that makes about half of the world’s food today. He also created chlorine gas in WWI. After his death, what he created to be a pesticide was used in WW2 gas chambers.
22. During WWII three bombs hit a single church in Malta. Two of them just bounced off and did not explode. The last one pierced the church roof, landing among a congregation of 300, but didn’t explode.
23. Pooli, the American cat was a World War II veteran, who earned three service ribbons and four battle stars.
24. During World War II, American pilot, Alan Magee fell 20,000 feet without a parachute before smashing through the glass roof of a train station. Amazingly he survived and lived to 82.
25. During World War II, a Russian pilot, Alexey Maresyev was shot down over Nazi Germany. He dragged himself 18 days to Soviet territory and had to have his legs amputated. Later, he mastered the use of prosthetic devices and returned to flying combat missions.
26. WWII Canadian soldier, Leo Major, singlehandedly captured about 93 Nazis in the Netherlands. He also later singlehandedly captured the town of Zwolle, also in the Netherlands from the Germans. It's amazing that he was blind in one eye all along.
27. Adrian Carton de Wiart, a British officer who fought in the Boer War, WWI & II, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn’t amputate them.
28. Roza Shanina was a female Soviet sniper who fought in WWII and achieved 54 confirmed hits. Allied newspapers called her, “the unseen terror of East Prussia.”
29. During World War II, Japanese Army officers hosted a party for the Japanese Navy officers, and when they ran out of meat they served the liver of a recently deceased American soldier.
30. There is a separate US cemetery in France for US soldiers, who were executed for rape or murder during WWII.
31. Nutella was invented during WWII because chocolate was in short supply due to World War II rationing.
32. After World War II, Denmark declined an offer of $100,000,000 from the United States to buy Greenland.
33. Britain only finished paying its WWII debts off in 2006.
34. Germany was forced to pay for all loss and damages to the allies after WWI. They just finished paying it in October 2010\. The WWII debt is still outstanding.
35. There is a Twitter account posting events that occurred in WWII, in real-time, on the exact same time and date (except 70 years later).

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### World War II (Part 1)
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Last updated: 2024-12-14T09:30:07.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts about World War II ( Part I)

1. The roots of World War II lie in the Treaty of Versailles which was created in 1919 to ensure peace in Europe following WWI. Germany was humiliated, lost all its overseas empires as well as land to its neighbors. The treaty stipulated that Germany would pay for damages caused by the war and that Germany could only have a small army with no air force, submarines, or tanks. German people suffered due to the harsh economic penalties and voted for Hitler to take over the government.
2. Since 1933, Germany had been ruled by Adolf Hitler and his political party, the Nazis. They wanted to take revenge for Germany’s defeat in the Great War by expanding Germany’s empire. Adolf Hitler had vowed to tear up the Treaty of Versailles.
3. On March 13, 1938, Germany took over Austria. At the Munich Conference in September 1938, the French and the British handed Germany a large portion of Czechoslovakia. Hitler then took the rest of Czechoslovakia by March 1939\. Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939\. Germany was allowed to take over both Austria and Czechoslovakia without a fight as the British & French didn’t want to fight another war after suffering heavily in World War I. Hitler used the harsh limitations that were set against Germany in the Versailles Treaty as a pretext for Germany's right to acquire land where German-speaking people lived.
4. On September 1, 1939, the beginning of the German attack, Great Britain and France in fact sent Adolf Hitler an ultimatum, either withdraw German forces from Poland or they would go to war against Germany as they had a treaty with Poland.
5. On September 3, with Germany's forces penetrating deeper into Poland, Great Britain and France both declared war on Germany. World War II had begun. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa joined allies by 10 September 1939.
6. The Germans quickly invaded Denmark and Norway (April 1940), Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and Belgium (both in May), and then conquered France by June 1940.
7. In June 1941, The Soviet Union joined the Allies, after Germany attacked it. On December 11, 1941, four days after Japan carried out a huge attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii without a declaration of war, the United States also joined the Allies. The war had become global.
8. The opposing sides in World War II were referred to as the Axis and the Allies. There were many countries in this conflict but the major ones on the Axis side were Germany, Italy & Japan. The Allies included Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, New Zealand, South Africa, Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The countries that remained neutral were Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
9. It’s estimated that an amazing 50-70 million people died due to the World War II conflicts.
10. The total casualties of the USA, Britain, and France during WWII put together roughly equal to the casualties of the Soviets in the decisive battle of Leningrad only. Amazingly Soviet casualties are 26 times that of other allies.
11. Amazingly almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II. Russia was the country with the largest number of causalities, with an estimated 21 million.
12. The Battle at Stalingrad (1942-1943) is arguably the bloodiest battle in history (800,000-1,600,000 casualties).
13. The greatest tank battle in history occurred between the Germans and Russians at the Kursk salient in Russia from July 4-22, 1943\. More than 3,600 tanks were involved.
14. In WWII the Russians trained dogs to run under German tanks with bombs on their backs. The amazing fact was that the tanks the dogs were trained to run under were Russian so they ended up running under the Russian tanks and blowing them up instead.
15. Amazingly the number of Chinese killed by the Japanese during WWII was greater than the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
16. Between 1939 and 1945 the Allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs, An average of about 27,700 tons of bombs each month.
17. It's amazing that 12,000 heavy bombers were shot down in World War II.
18. The amazing fact is that during WWII, Ford went from producing one B-24 bomber per day to one per hour!
19. German pilots used to intentionally rupture their eardrums during WWII to prevent air pressure issues. Similarly, the Bajau people of the Pacific rupture their eardrums to help them in diving and hunting at sea.
20. In the 1930s, the U.S. Army had only about 130,000 soldiers, making it the sixteenth largest force in the world, smaller than Czechoslovakia, Poland, Turkey, Spain, and Romania.
21. The official gesture that accompanied the Pledge of Allegiance was so similar to Hitler’s Nazi salute that Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the change to the hand over heart during WWII.
22. Here are the amazing statistics. More than 650,000 Jeeps were built during WWII. American factories also produced 300,000 military aircraft; 89,000 tanks; 3 million machine guns; and 7 million rifles.
23. The most powerful artillery gun created by any nation and used in WWII was named Karl by its designer General Karl Becker. Used mostly against the Russians, the huge gun could shoot a 2.5-ton shell over three miles. The shells were 24 inches wide and could go through eight to nine feet of concrete.
24. At the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, there were 96 ships anchored. During the attack, 18 were sunk or seriously damaged, including eight battleships. There were 2,402 American men killed and 1,280 injured. Three hundred and fifty aircraft were destroyed or damaged.
25. Amazingly the Russians destroyed over 500 German aircraft by ramming them in midair.
26. German U-boats sunk 2,000 Allied ships at a cost of 781 U-boats destroyed.
27. 40,000 men served on U-Boats during the war and a huge 30,000 never returned from combat
28. The Nazis murdered approximately 12 million people, nearly 6 million of those being Jews killed in the Holocaust.
29. The Red Army (Russian) defeated 75-80% of deployed German forces during WWII. The US/UK forces only defeated 20-25%.
30. The amazing fact is that Hitler never visited a single Jew concentration camp.
31. A number of air crewmen died of gaseous distention. (Ascending to 20,000 ft. in an un-pressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%! )
32. U.S. Soldier John R. McKinney held off over 100 Japanese soldiers single-handedly in WWII.
33. When the US Army landed in North Africa, among the equipment brought ashore were 3 complete Coca-Cola bottling plants.
34. The German city of Konstanz was not bombed by the Allied Forces during World War II, because the city left all its lights on at night, thus fooling the allied bombers into thinking it was actually a city of Switzerland.
35. Amazing 84 German Generals were executed by Hitler for various reasons.
36. The amazing story is that among the first "Germans" captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were capture by the US Army. These were veterans of three armies.
37. During World War II, a Germanic group called the SS short for Schuftzstaffel carried out massive executions of political opponents and ethnic minorities. Headed by Heinrich Luitopold Himmler (1900-1945), it was initially formed as a personal protection service for Hitler. It is estimated that this group killed about 1.4 million Jews.
38. During WWII, the Nazis built fake airfields to deceive the Allies. Sometimes, these airfields had fake runways and buildings. They always had fake wooden planes though. However, the Allies discovered that these were fake airfields and displaying an amazing sense of humor, dropped fake bombs on them. The bombs were actually made of wood.
39. The amazing fact is that during WWII, the Japanese army convinced 22,000 people to commit mass suicide on the island of Saipan due to the propaganda laid out by the Japanese army that US troops would torture and murder them if they didn’t.
40. During World War II, there were cars developed to run on wood! These wood gas vehicles would run on wood heated to 1400 °C (2550 °F) converting the wood into a combustible gas!
41. As the result of the Second World War Europe lost its position as the center of world power and made way for the rise of the United States and Russia as the superpowers.
42. Amazingly Russia and Japan have never signed an official peace treaty with each other to end World War II. Japan wanted Russia to return four offshore Kurile islands it had taken after the war.
43. The ‘’007’’ character that we all know was in fact based on the Yugoslavian-born spy Dusko Popov (1912-1980). Author Ian Fleming got all his insight for the character from this spy from WWII, speaking at least five languages he even came up with his own formula for invisible ink. He was the first-ever spy in history to use microdots, which are basically photos shrunk down to the size of dots. He had deciphered the vital information about the Japanese planning an airstrike on Pearl Harbor which was passed on to the FBI which did not act on his warning.
44. Nine American crewmen survived when their warplane crashed during World War II. Eight of them were captured by the Japanese and eaten. Only one survived because he was picked up by a passing submarine. Amazingly that survivor was George H.W. Bush.
45. An Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer, who fought in World War II, Hiroo Onoda never surrendered in 1945\. Until 1974, for almost 30 years, he held his position in the Philippines. His former commander traveled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving him from duty in 1974.
46. During World War II, there was a double agent named Juan Pujol Garcia, who started a spy network consisting of 27 sub-agents of his own, all of them nonexistent. He submitted expense reports for them and had the Nazis giving him money to pay their salaries.
47. The US playing card company ‘Bicycle’ had manufactured a playing card in WWII. When the card was soaked, it revealed an escape route for Prisoners of War. These cards were Christmas presents for all POWs in Germany.
48. “Monopoly” board games helped thousands of Allied POWs escape German camps. Germany allowed the Red Cross to send care packages to POWs and among the items that could be sent were board games. Special Monopoly boxes were created that contained items to help the prisoners escape: - German, French, and Italian money currency was hidden within the Monopoly money. A metal file was hidden within the board. A small compass was hidden in a playing piece. Silk maps of the prison and its location were hidden inside the hotel pieces.
49. The amazing fact is Netherland still sends Canada 10,000 tulips each year as a thank you gesture for sheltering their Dutch princess during WWII.
50. The term “dogfight” originated during WWII. The pilot had to turn off the plane’s engine from time to time so it would not stall when the plane turned quickly in the air. When a pilot restarted his engine midair, it sounded like dogs barking.

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### Fish
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Last updated: 2024-12-12T09:30:04.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Unknown Facts about Fish

1. Fish have a backbone and they breathe through gills. Most fish have scales.
2. Amazingly the age of the fish can be determined the same way as the growth rings of trees. Fish scales also have one growth ring for every year of age.
3. The amazing fact is that many fish species are known to change sex during the course of their lives.
4. Amazingly fish species that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes.
5. Barramundi, a fish, grows up as a male, but after 2 years or so, it turns into a female to breed.
6. The amazing fact is that a father sea catfish keeps eggs of his young in his mouth until ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born which may take several weeks.
7. The Nile catfish amazingly swims upside down.
8. The amazing fact is that the catfish has a maximum of 27000 taste buds amongst all living species.
9. A species of catfish found in the Amazon called the Panaque, likes to eat wood. With its "spoon-shaped teeth" it swallows wood from the river's bottom and "bacteria in their guts convert plant cellulose into nutritious chemicals."
10. The amazing fact is that the flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through the air.
11. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts. The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars.
12. The smallest fish in the world are the pygmy goby and the Luzon goby, from the Philippines, which are amazingly one-half-inch long when they are fully grown.
13. The amazing fact is that if you keep a goldfish in the darkroom, it will eventually turn white.
14. Goldfish don't blink and can't close their eyes as they have no eyelids.
15. The amazing fact is that the common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infrared and ultra-violet light.
16. The fact is Herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world.
17. Herrings communicate through farts.
18. Amazingly the African lungfish can live out of water for up to four years in a state of suspended animation.
19. The amazing fact is that Koi fish can live for over 200 years.
20. The Mola Mola or Ocean Sunfish amazingly lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
21. The amazing fact is that a parrotfish makes its own sleeping bag to sleep in. It uses mucous to make a see-through bag all around its body to protect it from attack by other creatures in the ocean.
22. One Puffer Fish contains enough poison to kill 30 people.
23. Amazingly the sailfish can swim at the speed of 109 km/h, making it the fastest swimmer. It can swim faster than a horse can gallop.
24. Atlantic salmon can amazingly jump as high as 4.5 meters out of the water.
25. The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world. It remains camouflaged on the ocean floor and strikes amazingly fast consuming its prey in less than .015 seconds.
26. The slowest fish is the seahorse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph.
27. Amazingly Seahorses reproduce in an unusual way. The male becomes pregnant.
28. Sea horses mate for life, are completely faithful and travel together by holding on to each other's tails.
29. Seahorses are the only fish with necks. They also have chameleon-like eyes that move independently of each other.
30. A shrimp has more than a hundred pairs of chromosomes in each cell nucleus.
31. All shrimp are born male but slowly grow into females as they mature.
32. The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly like a firecracker.
33. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
34. The amazing fact is that a mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.
35. Some Fish, like the Triggerfish, can swim backward.

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### Butterflies
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Last updated: 2024-12-10T09:30:55.000Z
#### Top 25 Amazing Facts About Butterflies

1. There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. Amazingly the moths are even more numerous, about 140,000 species.
2. The butterfly was originally called Flutterby.
3. A butterfly’s lifecycle is made up of four parts, egg, larva (caterpillars), pupa (chrysalis), and adult.
4. An amazing fact is during the time from hatching to pupation, a caterpillar increases its body size an astonishing 30,000 times or more.
5. Caterpillars do not have bones but have amazing 1,000 muscles with which they can move at a very quick pace.
6. Caterpillars keep on eating and growing. It has to shed its skin 5 times as it outgrows before it becomes a pupa.
7. An adult butterfly will eventually emerge from the chrysalis where it will wait a few hours for its wings to fill with blood and dry, before flying for the first time.
8. Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch. The Queen Alexandra butterflies from the island of Papua New Guinea is the largest butterfly having a wingspan of about 11 Inches!
9. Butterflies and moths can be separately identified. Butterflies have a thickened club or hook on the tip of the antenna, never 'feathery' while moths have simple thread-like or 'feathery' antenna without a club. Moths have their wings are linked together with a bristle-like structure called a frenulum while butterflies have no such linkage. Butterflies hold wings together above the body when resting while moths hold wings flat when resting. Butterflies fly during the day while moths usually Fly at night.
10. Butterflies have two compound eyes consisting of thousands of lenses, yet they can amazingly see only three colors red, green, and yellow.
11. Butterflies can't hear, but they can feel vibrations. Butterflies also don't have lungs breathing through openings on their abdomen called 'spiracles'.
12. The amazing fact is many butterflies can taste with their hind feet to find out whether the leaf they sit on is good to lay eggs on to be their caterpillars' food or not.
13. A butterfly wing is transparent being formed by layers of chitin, the protein that makes up an insect's exoskeleton. These layers are so thin you can see right through them. Amazingly what we see as color isn’t pigment but light reflected off the scales on their wings.
14. A butterfly’s mouth is a long tube, through which it sucks the sweet nectar from flowers. When the butterfly does not want to eat, it amazingly rolls the tube up! Adult butterflies can only feed on liquids. Their mouthparts are modified to enable them to drink, but they can't chew solids.
15. They don't poop! A butterfly's diet is made up only of liquids. Its body uses almost all of the liquids that it drinks.
16. The Morgan's Sphinx Moth from Madagascar has a proboscis (tube mouth) that is amazing 12 to 14 inches long to get the nectar from the bottom of a 12-inch deep orchid.
17. The amazing fact is some moths never eat anything as adults because they don't have mouths. They must live on the energy they stored as caterpillars.
18. Some butterflies can fly 50km/h or faster. Slow flying butterflies fly about 10km/h.
19. Butterflies are cold-blooded insects and need the warmth of the sun to enable them to fly. For a butterfly to fly it must have a body temperature of no less than 86 degrees Fahrenheit or 30 degrees celsius. If the temperature is less, they are rendered immobile.
20. Butterflies usually live just 2-4 weeks.
21. Monarch butterflies journey from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about 2,000 miles. Females will lay eggs and a new generation of monarchs will travel back in the spring completing the cycle. In fact, monarchs can fly 1000 km without stopping. It is the only butterfly species to migrate such a vast distance.
22. The amazing fact is there is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats.
23. There’s a group of butterflies called night butterflies that have ears on their wings to avoid being picked off and eaten by bats.
24. Butterfly wings are not solely for flight; they also act amazingly as miniature solar panels.
25. Butterflies in your stomach are caused by a lack of blood!

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### Rat
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Last updated: 2024-12-08T09:30:48.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Awesome Facts About Rat

1. Rats are rodents which are the largest species of mammals. Nearly half of all mammal species are rodents.
2. The term rat generally refers to the two main species of house rat, the Norway rat, and the Roof rat. Both species originated in Asia, but have spread throughout the world by human travel. They both belong to the genus Rattus, which includes 51 species.
3. A rat's life span is two to three years but most die within one year.
4. It is estimated that there are 70 million rats scurrying around New York City alone.
5. The average body of the Rat is 25 cm long with the tail being a further 20 cm. The average weight is 350-450 gm for females and 450-650 gm for males.
6. A group of rats is called mischief.
7. The Mallomys rat found in Papua, New Guinea grows to be about 2.7 kilograms) or 5 times larger than the average rate.
8. Rats have very poor eyesight and are colorblind.
9. Rats use their whiskers to feel where they are going because their eyesight is too poor. This is why you'll rarely see one out in the open where its whiskers aren't touching a border of some sort. This would leave them vulnerable to predators.
10. Amazingly most rats are right-handed. *Amazingly* rats do not have any thumbs.
11. *Amazing fact* is that the rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
12. It's *amazing* that a rat can go without water longer than a camel can. *Amazingly* a kangaroo rat (genus dipodomys) can spend its entire life without drinking water in desert. They get most of the moisture needed from the seeds they eat.
13. Rats have excellent memories. Once they learn a navigation route, they won’t forget it.
14. Rats don't have canine teeth.
15. Rats’ tails help them to balance, communicate and regulate their body temperature.
16. *Amazing fact* is an adult rat can squeeze into your home through a hole as small as the size of a quarter.
17. Both male and female rats will urinate around their territory as form of scent-marking. The rodents have highly developed olfactory senses, and the chemicals in rats' urine serve as their personal identification and for a mate. Rats will even pee on top each other's scent marking, an act called counter-marking to establish dominance.
18. *Amazingly* a rat can fall from a five story building without injury.
19. A rat can tread water for three days and survive being flushed down the toilet.And it can return to the building via the same route.
20. The heart of a mouse beats *amazing* 650 times per minute!
21. Amazing fact *is* rats destroy estimated 1/3 rd of the World's food supply.
22. Rats do not sweat. They regulate their temperature by constricting or expanding blood vessels in their tails.
23. *Amazing fact* is since rats get into food so often, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration actually allows a set amount of rat droppings in commercial food products.
24. When happy, rats have been observed to chatter or grind their teeth. This is often accompanied by vibrating eyes.
25. *Amazing fact* is rats can’t vomit or burp because of a limiting wall between their two stomachs and their inability to control the diaphragm muscles needed for the action. That is the reason why rat poison works.
26. Rats have bellybuttons. They don't have gallbladders and tonsils.
27. Red discharge from a rat's nose or eyes is usually porphyrin not blood , produced in glands behind the rat's eyes. Unlike blood, porphyrin is flourescent under UV light. Overproduction of this discharge can be caused by stress or illness.
28. Rats take care of injured and sick rats in their group. Without companionship rats tend to become lonely and depressed. Rats use high-frequency sounds to communicate with each other.
29. Rats make happy "laughter" sounds when they play.
30. *Fact* is rats are a very clean animal; they spend several hours per day grooming them.
31. *Amazing fact* is that the sperm of a mouse is actually longer than the sperm of an elephant.
32. The Bubonic Plague is by the bacillus yersinia pestis carried by fleas and transmitted normally by rodents including the rat. It has claimed 200 Million lives.
33. Besides plague rats are known to transmit potentially fatal diseases to humans, including viral hemorrhagic fever, Weil's disease, and Q fever.
34. *Amazingly* a rat can swim for three days before it drowns.
35. Rats' and beavers front teeth grow 4½ to 5½ inches each year. They wear them down by continuously gnawing on everything around them, including cement, brick, wood, lead pipes, and other small animals to keep them at a manageable length.
36. *Amazing* thing is their teeth would eventually grow into their brain if they didn’t maintain them.
37. A rat’s teeth are harder than iron or steel, and are easily able to gnaw through substances like wood and metals such as copper and aluminum easily.
38. Rats enjoy chocolate. Unlike dogs, it won’t hurt them.
39. The saliva of moles contains a toxin that paralyzes earthworms and as such, they are able to store their living prey for later consumption. For the purpose of storage, moles construct underground ‘larders’, where they store the paralyzed earthworms.
40. *Amazing fact* is moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
41. They dig their tunnels all the time and continuously search for food. *Amazingly* a mole can die of starvation, if it doesn’t get food in 12 hours.
42. *Amazing fact* is that the star-nosed mole is that it can fetch and eat food at a faster pace than the human eye can follow.
43. Predators for rat are humans , Owls , hawks, snakes, dogs , cat etc.
44. Large sized the Gambian pouched rat in its native Africa is intelligent enough to detect land mines. It is small enough to climb over the mines without detonating them. It has also shown a marked propensity for detecting tuberculosis in sputum far quicker than humans can through more scientific methods.
45. The oils in cedar and pine are toxic to rats, and should not be used in their bedding materials.
46. In 2006 it was revealed that a team of scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel had created a brain chip out of rat neurons.
47. Rats were one of the first animals sent into outer space. In 1961 the first rat to see outer space was launched from France.
48. Rats have starred or appeared in over 400 films and close to one hundred television series.
49. At the Karni Mata Temple in Deshoke, India, rats are actually treated with veneration and respect being the vehicle of Lord Ganesh. The temple houses at least 20,000 rats that religious devotees visit. Priests and pilgrims will feed them grain and milk. Eating food nibbled on by a temple rat or having a rat runs across one's feet are all considered signs of good fortune.
50. Rat Island off the Alaskan coast is a prime example of the rat's impressive reproductive powers. In 1780, a Japanese boat infested with sewer rats shipwrecked on its shores, and the pests subsequently took over the habitat killing off masses of resident seabirds and kept the avian population in check for the next two centuries. In 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service coated the island with poisoned grain in an effort to eradicate the rat population but in vain.

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### Stars
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Last updated: 2024-12-06T09:30:55.000Z
#### Top 20 Amazing Facts About Stars

1. An amazing fact is the total number of stars in the universe is about 10 billion trillion which are 10 followed by 21 zeros. That's more stars than the number of grains of sand on the Earth.
2. The Sun is the closest star. Amazingly when the Sun runs out of fuel in 7 billion years, it will become a red giant, bloating up many times its current size. As it expands, the Sun will consume Mercury, Venus, and probably even Earth.
3. Amazingly every single star has almost the exact same chemical composition. All-stars start out with 3/4 hydrogen and 1/4 helium, with other trace elements during the big bang. Over time, stars convert some of their hydrogens into helium. That’s why our Sun’s ratio is more like 70% hydrogen and 29% helium.
4. It's amazing that every little star you see in the night sky is bigger and brighter than our sun.
5. A person with very good eyesight may be able to see not more than 2500 stars at any one time.
6. You can see stars from the bottom of a well even in daylight.
7. Many stars you look at in the night sky seem like a single, distant glimmer of light. However many have binary star systems. They are so far away that they just appear as one speck of light.
8. The color of stars can range from red to white to blue. Red is the coolest color; that’s a star with less than 3,500 Centigrade. Stars like our Sun are yellowish-white and average around 6,000 Centigrade. The hottest stars are blue, which corresponds to surface temperatures above 12,000 Centigrade. So the temperature and color of a star are connected.
9. The twinkling is not a property of the stars, but of Earth’s turbulent atmosphere. As the light from a star passes through the atmosphere, especially when the star appears near the horizon, it must pass through many layers of often rapidly differing density. This has the effect of deflecting the light slightly. The result is “twinkling.” Above the Earth’s atmosphere, stars do not twinkle.
10. When you look at stars you are literally look back in time. This is because the light from the star takes thousands to millions of years to reach the Earth. When you look at any star, you are actually looking back that much in time.
11. The amazing fact is that the nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We’re all made of stardust.
12. The neutron star has such density that a teaspoonful of its matter weighs amazing 110 million tons which is more than all the people on the earth. They are extremely easy to recognize for astronomers to spot through telescopes because they bend the light around them, which allows them to be seen easily through infrared telescopes.
13. The largest known star Canis Majoris is so big that if our Sun were a ball 117 cm (46 in) wide, Canis Majoris would be amazing 2.25 kilometers (1.3 miles) wide.
14. A car traveling at 60 miles per hour would take over 48 million years to reach the nearest star other than the sun, Proxima Centauri. This is about 685,000 average human lifetimes.
15. It's amazing that the heart of the star reaches 16 billion Centigrade. The grain of sand this hot would kill a person 150 km away.
16. It's amazing that a Red Giant (a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth.
17. The Pistol Star is the most luminous star known, amazingly 10 million times the power of the Sun and as big as the size of Earth's entire orbit around the Sun.
18. The fact is that Betelgeuse, a massive star that is incredibly close to us, about 450 light-years away will soon become a supernova and outshine the moon at night!
19. The constellation of Cygnus, the Swan, contains the biggest star in the known universe, a hypergiant that is almost a million times as big as the sun.
20. The fastest spinning objects in the Universe are neutron stars. Amazingly these can rotate 500 times in just 1 second.

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### Octopus
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Last updated: 2024-12-04T09:30:14.000Z
#### 30 Awesome and Amazing Facts About Octopus

1. There are around 300 recognized octopus species. The largest octopus weighs about 15 kg.
2. Their intelligence is amazing. They have an extremely complicated nervous system. Their brain is formed by 500 million large neurons ( The human brain contains about 100 billion smaller neurons).
3. They are very intelligent and can navigate through mazes. They possess a long-term memory.
4. Amazingly octopuses do not have any internal or external skeletons. They have no bones and will not be able to maintain their shape out of water.
5. The amazing fact is that an octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
6. Female blanket octopuses are 40,000 times heavier and 100 times larger than male blanket octopuses. Females grow about 6.6 feet in length while males grow 0.9 inches. The males are there just to mate as they die immediately afterward.
7. For all their innovation, intelligence and abilities, octopuses don't live very long. The Common Octopus lives about 2 years, the Giant Pacific Octopus may live for 5 years. This limits their abilities to gain information.
8. The octopuses primarily prey on crabs, worms, clams, etc which mainly reside at the bottom of the ocean. However, those that dwell in the open-ocean predominantly rely on fish, prawns, shelled mollusks, etc.
9. One of the major causes of octopus death is reproduction as males, after mating, can only survive for few months. Females pass away right after the eggs hatching.
10. Female big blue octopuses are known to eat males after mating.
11. The amazing fact is that after a male octopus breed with a female he develops dementia and spends the rest of the life confused with no knowledge of previous events.
12. There are certain female octopuses that keep the sperms lively inside her for months until the maturity of eggs. The female octopuses lay around 200,000 eggs.
13. Many believe that if octopuses had lived more, they would have been the dominant intelligence on Earth.
14. They can solve problems like removing a plug or unscrew a lid to get prey from a container.
15. They have been found to play with a ‘toy’ and to have individual responses and individual temperaments.
16. Octopuses have four pairs of arms. The 1,600 cups found in the arms are not just tactile organs, but also olfactory. In other words, octopuses smell with their arms.
17. Amazingly octopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood through each of the two gills, while the third pumps blood through the body. However, the vascular system is weak and lifespan short.
18. Their blood contains a copper-rich protein and is blue in color.
19. Octopuses have wonderful eyesight and a complex sense of touch and taste. Amazingly they are deaf.
20. Since octopi have no bones, their bodies are amazingly flexible. They can squeeze through openings not much bigger than their eyeballs.
21. The octopus's eye is the most complex amongst invertebrates, very similar structurally and functionally to the human eye. Octopuses have rectangular pupils.
22. The amazing fact is that when they go upside down their eyes stay in the same position. So they never see anything upside down.
23. Using a network of pigment cells and specialized muscles in its skin, the common octopus can almost instantaneously match the colors, patterns, and even textures of its surroundings. Predators such as sharks, eels, and dolphins swim by without even noticing it.
24. The amazing mimic octopuses are capable of changing their body shape to mimic other animals.
25. When discovered, an octopus will release a cloud of black ink to obscure its attacker's view, giving it time to swim away. The ink even contains a substance that dulls a predator's sense of smell, making the fleeing octopus harder to track.
26. Amazingly an octopus's testicles are located in its head.
27. The amazing fact is that the Giant Pacific Octopus can kill a shark by breaking the shark's spine with its tentacles.
28. All octopuses are venomous, but only the small blue-ringed octopuses are known to be deadly to humans.
29. The blue-ringed octopuses are the most venomous creatures on this earth which are found in the Pacific ocean typically found around Australia. They are about 10-100 gm heavy and are typically the size of a golf ball. They have a very powerful muscular neurotoxin.
30. The blue-ringed octopuses though small in size have the ability to kill 25 human beings within a few minutes. There is no anti-venom.

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### Figures
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Last updated: 2024-12-02T09:30:06.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and surprising Facts About Figures

1. 111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321 Amazing!
2. Amazingly you can get the sum of hundred using all digits in succession in various ways. (A) 12+3-4+5+67+8+9 = 100 , (B) 123 - 45 - 67 + 89 = 100 ,(C) 123 + 4 - 5 + 67 - 89 = 100 ,(D) 123 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 + 8 - 9 = 100 , (E) 1 + 23 - 4 + 5 + 6 + 78 - 9 = 100.
3. The fact is 2,520 is the smallest number that can be exactly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.
4. 142857 is an amazing cyclic number, i.e., its digits are rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6.
5. 1729 is the only number that is the sum of 2 cubes in two different ways. 10^3 + 9^3 = 1729 & 12^3 + 1^3 = 1729\. It is named after Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician.
6. This amazing equation uses all the digits from 0 to 9\. 69^3 = 328509.
7. The amazing number 1274953680 uses all the digits 0-9 and you can divide it exactly by any number from 1-16.
8. There is a way of amazingly writing 1 by using all ten single-digit numbers only once: 148/296 + 35/70 = 1.
9. 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + 4^2 + 5^2 +... +22^2 + 23^2 + 24^2 = 70^2 Amazing !
10. The fact is that the product of any four consecutive numbers is divisible by 24!
11. Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3\. Amazingly every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number.e.g. 37,037 \*2\*3 = 222,222.
12. The amazing fact is that there are just four numbers (after 1) which are the sums of the cubes of their digits. These are 153 , 370 , 371 & 407.
13. If you multiply 21978 by 4 it amazingly turns backward. 21978 x 4 = 87912.
14. 1089 multiplied by 9 amazingly gives an exact reverse: 9801\. This also works with 10989 or 109989 or 1099989 and so on.
15. 13^2 = 169 and if you write both numbers backward you get 31^2 = 961\. This also works with 12 because 12^2 = 144 and 21^2 =441.
16. 1 ÷ 37 = 0·0270270270... and 1 ÷ 27 = 0·0370370370\. Amazing coincidence !
17. 1/1089 = 0·00091827364554637281 . Amazingly this is a table of nine.
18. To multiply 10,112,359,550,561,797,752,808,988,764,044,943,820,224,719 by 9 you just move the 9 at the very end up to the front. Amazingly it's the only number that does this.
19. 3,608,528,850,368,400,786,036,725 has 25 digits and divides by 25\. But amazingly if you just take the first n digits, the result will divide by n. For example, 360852 are the first 6 digits and 360852 divides by 6.
20. Amazing fact is that any 2-digit number multiplied by 11 is a 3-digit number where the middle digit is the sum of other two, like: 21 × 11 = 231 (2+1=3) ,13 × 11 = 143 (1+3=4) ,44 × 11 = 484 (4+4=8) ... etc.

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### Mexico
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Last updated: 2024-11-30T09:30:18.000Z
#### 34 Amazing Mexico Facts You may not know

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Mexico is the United Mexican States.
- Mexico and Luxembourg are the only two countries in the world that are spelled with the letter X.
- Between Mexico and the United States, lies the second largest border in the world. The first is the US Canada border.
- Mexico is home to more than 700 reptile species, more than any country in the world.
- About 1000 people die from scorpion stings every year in Mexico.

##### History

- Stone tools have been found in Mexico suggesting the existence of humans there 23000 years ago.
- Hundreds of Dinosaur skeletons have been found in Northern Mexico.
- The National University of Mexico was founded in 1551 by Charles V of Spain and is the oldest university in North America.
- Mexico introduced chocolate, corn, peanuts, vanilla, coconut, tomato, and chilies to the world.
- Mexico remained under Spanish control for nearly 300 years until the Mexican people, led by a priest named Father Hidalgo, rose up against the Spanish on September 16, 1810\. Hidalgo is widely considered the father of modern Mexico, and Mexican Independence is celebrated on September 15-16.

##### Places / Architecture

- Mexico is in fact home to over 31 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
- Mexico’s Chichen Itza pyramid is one of the “Seven manmade Wonders of the World”
- Mexico City has the highest elevation and is the oldest city in North America. It is also one of the largest cities in the world ( More than 20 million).
- Mexico City is built on a lake called Texcoco. Amazing thing is that Mexico is sinking at a rate of 6 to 8 inches a year as pumps draw water out for the city’s growing population.
- More than 5-6 million people use the metro every day. The city is so big and the traffic so bad that the super-rich has taken to using helicopters to get from one place to another. You often see them landing on the roofs.
- Mexico City is the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world.
- Mexico City has the most museums in the world, with more than 160, almost all of which are free on Sundays! The city also has over 100 art galleries.
- Mexico City has one of the highest police to resident ratios in the world. There is said to be one police officer for every 100 residents.
- Mexico City has the largest Taxi fleet in the world: 60,000 cars.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The main language spoken in Mexico is Spanish however Mexico has amazing 60 official languages. Mexican legal documents can now be written in any of the 60 languages!
- There are more Spanish speakers in Mexico than in any other country.
- The amazing fact is that over 600,000 U.S. Americans live in Mexico City; the largest concentration of Americans living outside of the USA. There are 10 million Mexicans living in the USA.
- Mexico is second only to Brazil in the population of Catholics.
- In Mexico, Christmas day is celebrated on January 6th, the day of the arrival of the three wise men to Bethlehem after seeing a star above the city.
- Modern Mexicans are a unique blend of many ancient civilizations, including the Olmec, Zapotec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec, Inca, African, French, and Spanish.
- Amazingly Mexican children take the name of both their parents ( Father’s last & Mother’s maiden) to preserve the heritage.
- The amazing fact is that wisdom teeth fail to appear in nearly 100% of indigenous Mexicans as a genetic trait.
- Swine flu (H1N1 Virus) in fact originated in Mexico.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Mexico has some of the strictest firearm regulations in the world. The amazing fact is that there is only one gun store in the entire country, located in Mexico City, and it is operated by the military.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Mexico amazingly receives almost 20 million tourists a year.
- Mexico is the largest producer of salt in the world.
- Born in Mexico to Lebanese parents, 73-year-old Carlos Slim Helu has spent most of the last five years as the world’s richest man, worth nearly $70 billion. The majority of his income is tied up in América Móvil, a telecommunications company he founded in 2000.

##### Famous People

- Actor Anthony Quinn was the first Mexican to win an Academy Award for his role in the 1952 movie Viva Zapata.

##### Sport

- Spanish brought bullfighting to Mexico which is a national sport. The Plaza Mexico is the largest bullring in the world.

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### Singapore
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Last updated: 2024-11-28T09:30:34.000Z
#### Top 50 Amazing Facts About Singapore

##### Land & Geography

- Singapore has a population of 6 million. It consists only of one main island and 63 other small islands most of which are uninhabited.
- Singapore is one of three city-states in the world others being Monaco and Vatican City.
- The fact is it has a total land area of only 682.7 square km. The USA is about 15,000 times bigger.
- Singapore was ranked 3rd in terms of population density. It has got nearly 7200 people per sq km.
- The country sits just 85 miles North of the equator and the temperate is generally hot. The lowest minimum recorded temperature ever is 68F recorded 80 years ago!
- Amazingly it is actually 25 % bigger than what it was when it became independent in 1963 due to land reclamation. Singapore bought billions of cubic feet of sand from Cambodia which has been turned into new Singapore territory.
- Singapore is one of the few countries in the world to be considered an island, a city, and a state all at the same time.
- Singapore has relatively flat terrain, the highest natural point being Bukit Timah Hill, which is only 164 meters high.
- The flying fox, the world’s largest bat with a wingspan of up to 1.5 meters, is found on Pulau Ubin, one of the islands off mainland Singapore.

#####  History

- Sang Nila Utama, a Srivijayan Prince from Palembang saw a creature he thought was a lion and named the island Singapura which means Lion City in Sanskrit. But truth is that there were no lions ever in Singapore.

##### Places / Architecture

- The largest fountain in the world Made of cast bronze is located in Singapore at Suntec City. it was built at the cost of US$6 million in 1997.
- The Singapore Flyer is the world’s tallest observation wheel having a height of 165 Mtrs.
- The world’s highest manmade waterfall, standing at 30 meters, is located at Jurong Bird Park.
- The world’s first night zoo, The Night Safari, is located in Singapore.
- The amazing fact is that the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve in Singapore contains more species of trees than the entire North American continent.
- The largest tropical orchid garden in the world is in Singapore Botanic Gardens.
- The buildings of Suntec City have been built in the shape of a palm of a hand symbolizing good “feng shui”.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Although English is the official working language and the most widely used language in Singapore, the national anthem is actually sung in Malay.
- There are four official languages in Singapore: English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, reflecting the different ethnic makeup of the city.
- Many Singaporeans have a habit of adding “la” to the end of their sentences. e.g. “okay la” is one example of Singlish.
- Amazingly in Singapore 1 out of every 6 households has $1 million or more in disposable income, the highest ratio in the world!
- Most of the population, about 85%, live in public housing developments and of these, 95% own their flats. Amazingly living in public housing is not considered a sign of poverty.
- With 73 percent of the population afflicted, Singapore has one of the highest rates of myopia or short-sightedness, in the world.
- With one link card, you can pay for the metro, commuter rail, the bus, and even taxis!
- Located at the National University of Singapore, the first 'Hug Me' Coca-Cola machine dispenses a bottle of Coke when a person wraps his or her arms around the machine!
- Singaporeans are believed to have the fastest walking speed in the world approx. 6.15 km in an hour!
- All schools up to the 12th grade would require their students to wear the school's distinctive uniform.
- Singapore's Electronic Road Pricing System (ERP) is the first in the world to use RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology to effectively track and manage road traffic volume at different times of the day. This serves as an electronic toll system that automatically deducts the prescribed road price from a stored value smart card inserted in an RFID-based in-vehicle unit.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Singapore became the 117th member of the United Nations on 21 September 1965.
- Since 1967, all male Singaporeans are required to join the army for 2½ years upon reaching 18 years of age.
- The amazing fact is that the entire lyrics of the Singapore national anthem are printed in the micro text on the back of the $1,000 note.
- A litter law dating from 1968 is the country’s way of keeping clean. Disregard the law, drop trash on the ground in this Southeast Asian city, and you’ll pay $1,000.
- Amazingly it is against the law and offense to not flush the toilet after using it. You are liable to fine around $150.
- The amazing fact is that chewing gum sale forbidden in Singapore since 1992\. Weird thing is, Singapore allows you to actually chew gum. Just make sure you stick it at the trash can, otherwise pay large fines.
- If you’re introducing a stranger as your good friend, speak well of him and it proves to be false, you’ll be convicted for abetment.
- Connecting on unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots amazingly means hacking which is liable for punishment. You better go to an Internet cafe shop to use the internet rather than logging in on an unsecured network.
- The amazing fact is that it is considered an offense to enter the country with cigarettes. Cigarettes are illegal in all public places.
- In Singapore, you can be sentenced to death for drug trafficking, kidnapping, and importing of firearms.
- The amazing fact is that to own a car, you must purchase a Certificate of Entitlement (COE) which gives you the right to drive a car on the streets. The COE charge, valid for 10 years varies depending on the size of the vehicle and the demand.
- The COE for a small car could be the US $50000 to $75000 in addition to the cost of the car. After 10 years, most people decide that it is not worth it to renew the COE on an old car.
- Singapore has a law stating that “shouting and other forms of unruly behavior are prohibited; Participants shall not paint their faces or bodies or wear any form of disguise even for religious reasons.”
- Caning is a form of corporal punishment still practiced in Singapore. One can be caned for offenses such as vandalism and petty theft. Only young men are canned and You must be physically awake for the caning.
- Anyone caught with more than 15 grams (weight of a quarter coin) of heroin faces a mandatory death penalty.
- Amazingly Singapore enforces a casino entry fee of S$100 exclusively for locals. Foreigners are exempted.
- Social Development Unit (SDU) is a government-sponsored dating agency. You get an exclusive membership invitation at an annual fee of only S$10 from the SDU if you are above 30 and still not married.
- The Time Zone of Singapore has been changed 6 times since 1905\. It was was 7.5 hours ahead of GMT when in 1982 it was made 8 hours ahead of GMT to match East Malaysia GMT.

##### Economy & Corporates

- The fact is that Singapore is also the only Asian country to have AAA credit ratings from Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch.
- The amazing fact is that it takes three days to start a business in Singapore while the world's average is thirty-four days.
- Singapore's banking system is considered to be among the strongest in the world. Singapore has the fourth largest foreign exchange market in the world after London, New York, and Tokyo.
- The amazing fact is that Singapore is ranked as the best country in the world to do business ahead of Hong Kong and New Zealand.

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### Sweden
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Last updated: 2024-11-26T09:30:39.000Z
#### 55 Amazing Facts about Sweden

##### Land & Geography

- Sweden is officially called the Kingdom of Sweden. By land area, Sweden is the 3rd largest EU country after France and Spain.
- Sweden has a population of about 9.5 million people. The capital and largest city in Sweden is Stockholm where 22% of the Swedish population lives.
- Stockholm is the capital and the largest city in Sweden.
- Sweden shares a land border with its Scandinavian counterparts Finland and Norway and is connected to Denmark by a bridge.
- Low unemployment, a low birth rate, a highly developed welfare system, and one of the world's longest life expectancies all contribute to modern Sweden having one of the highest standards of living in the world.
- Forests cover over 50% of Sweden, there are also around 100,000 lakes and over 24,000 islands throughout the country. Sweden's right to public access laws allows these areas to be fully accessible by the public.
- it's amazing that the sun rises at 3:30 a.m. in the summer. The sunsets at 3:30 p.m. in the winter.

##### History

- In the 9th century, Rurik the Rus, a Scandinavian Viking, founded the first kingdom in Russia. All subsequent the Tsars of Russia were thus of Swedish Viking descent.
- After French soldier Jean Bernadotte showed kindness to a few Swedish soldiers, he became so popular in Sweden that the Swedes amazingly decided to make him their king when a vacancy came up, despite him never having set foot in Sweden before. The House of Bernadotte rules Sweden to this day.
- At the height of their empire, Sweden built a large warship (The Vasa) to symbolize their power. It was so big and heavy that on its maiden voyage in 1628, it sank less than a mile out of the dock.
- The Kingdom of Sweden in fact used to include Norway and Denmark.
- During the 17th century, Sweden emerged as a great power in Europe with the Swedish Empire gaining territories in Eastern Europe. While it was once great military power. Sweden has remained neutral in all wars since 1814, including World Wars I and II. Despite the country's peaceful nature Swedes over 19 years still have to complete up to 15 months of military service.

##### Places

- The largest shopping mall in Europe is ‘Nordstan’, in Gothenburg. The Nordstan has 180 shops and 150 offices.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The main official language of Sweden is Swedish (Svenska), but the country also has 5 other official languages.
- Swedes have in fact the longest life expectancy in Europe (81.80 years).
- Between 1850 and 1910 more than one million Swedes migrated to the USA.
- Sweden is renowned for producing great pop bands and singers, including ABBA, The Cardigans, Ace of Base, Europe, and The Hives. Sweden is the world's 3rd largest exporter of music after the United States and the United Kingdom.
- When it comes to equality between the sexes, Sweden is one of the leaders. In Sweden, couples are entitled to amazing 480 days of paid parental leave, and this time can be shared between parents.
- Parental leave can be used to take off time for parenting classes before your child is born.
- Parents can save up their maternity leave for more than 5 years.
- On average Swedish women have their first babies by the age of 30.
- If you have a new child, your other children get a month of free daycare so you can concentrate on the new one.
- Sweden has the largest number of McDonald’s fast-food restaurants per capita in Europe.
- The film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was shown in Swedish theatres for amazing 11 years straight.
- Sweden’s recycling program is so successful that they are asking Norway for their trash to power their own Waste-to-Power plants because they don’t have enough non-recycled waste.
- Any product including things like clothes and shoes you purchase is in fact guaranteed for 1 year, and the retailer must exchange it if it fails in that time without any questions.
- The amazing fact is that All non-military property that is not fenced in or is not a farm or someone's personal garden is open to anyone for hiking through or camping for one night.
- Roughly 20% of the country's police stations close during the summer since everyone is off on vacation.
- Swedish university students are required to pay a membership fee in the student union, but no tuition.
- American textbooks are in fact cheaper in Sweden than in the U.S..
- Privacy is taken so seriously that putting up video cameras in laundry rooms to catch vandals is illegal.
- Learning to speak Swedish is frustrating because everyone in Sweden already speaks better English than you will ever speak Swedish.
- The first thing you do upon entering a bank/post office/chemist etc. in Sweden is to look for the queue number machine. You accept that you have to queue to take a queue number.
- Swedish in fact use the term long instead of being tall.
- A 25 % sales tax on just about everything is no big deal.
- You may find special Dog Toilets in Sweden.
- Traffic lights click or beep so blind pedestrians can tell whether the light is red or green.
- Swedish kids are required to learn to cook in elementary school.
- All furniture is generally made of light beechwood or pine.
- Amazingly you can camp, hunt, & pick berries on private property.
- Everybody owns a cellular phone. You may find a 7-year kid having it.
- You will find red boxes around town where you put your used batteries in.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The Nobel Prize Ceremonies are held in Stockholm, Sweden every year on December 10th.
- The government in fact sends you a completely filled out tax form and if it looks good you just go online and click okay to pay your taxes.
- Taxes are generally between 50 and 70% of your income and already paid by your employer.
- Companies must lay off employees in first-in-last-out order when they are downsizing.
- You can take sick leave in Sweden during your vacation if you are ill.
- All employees get 5 weeks of paid vacation a year.
- The transportation department of the Swedish government works actively to reduce the number of traffic deaths each year to zero mainly by reducing the speed limits.
- The government has made a political choice to shut down all nuclear power plants in the country for environmental reasons. Sweden is forced to import coal-generated power from Poland to meet its needs.
- Prostitution is legal in Sweden.

##### Economy & Corporates

- A number of very prominent manufacturing and technology companies were founded in Sweden including Ericsson, Volvo, Scania trucks, and Electrolux.
- Popular retail stores IKEA and H&M are both Swedish.

##### Inventions

- The zipper, marine propeller, the refrigerator, computer mouse, and pace-maker are all Swedish inventions.

##### Sport

- Ice hockey and football (soccer) are Sweden's main sports.

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### Amazing Nature (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2024-11-24T09:30:21.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Nature Facts to Astonish You (Part 2)

1. Each day, amazing 150 species of life become extinct.
2. It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last for more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.
3. The amazing fact is that one inch (2.5cm) of rain is equal to 10 inches (25cm) of snow.
4. The world's densest wood, the Black Ironwood (Olea laurifolia), does not float on water and therefore sinks.
5. The oldest and largest clearly visible meteorite crater site in the world is The Vredefort Dome in Free State, South Africa. It is 380 km across.
6. Dust from Africa can travel all the way to Florida.
7. Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is amazingly the only freshwater lake in the world that has sharks.
8. Europe is the only continent without a desert.
9. It is amazing that the sound made by the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is so loud that it can be heard 40 miles away.
10. Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
11. Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded amazing 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
12. The fact is that about 100000 cubic feet of water pour over Niagara Falls every second.
13. Angel falls in Venezuela are the highest fall in the World nearly 20 times higher than Niagara Falls.
14. Bodies that drown in Lake Tahoe rarely surface or decompose. The frigid temperatures of the lake don’t allow bodies to decompose which releases gases like carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, etc., and allow the body to rise to the surface of the water. Therefore, bodies don’t surface in the lake either.
15. A lake Karachay in Russia near their testing site in Mayak is so radioactive due to the dumping of radioactive material that amazingly you can die in less than an hour of being near it!
16. 20% of the entire world's unfrozen freshwater is in Lake Baikal located in the south of Eastern Siberia in Russia. Its average depth is 730 m which is the deepest in the world and it is also thought to be the world’s oldest lake at 25 million years!
17. Clouds fly higher during the day than the night.
18. The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was amazing 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February 1959.
19. Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.
20. If a rainbow is seen from a plane, amazingly it is possible to see the rainbow as an entire circle and not just an arc.
21. Amazingly Angel Falls in Venezuela is so high at over 3200 feet that the water often evaporates before it can land.
22. Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park in Madagascar contains a gigantic limestone formation (called the tsingy). This forest is made entirely of it. Ninety percent of the animals that inhabit this 600-square-mile refuge are species that can be found nowhere else on Earth!
23. There is a place in Austria that is a dry park in the Winter, and a 10-meter deep lake in the summer!
24. Devil’s Kettle Falls in Judge C. R. Magney State Park, on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. It is an unusual waterfall where the amazing fact is that the water plummets for 50 feet and then disappears into a hole and no one knows where it goes.
25. Australia has a lake that is naturally pink! Lake Hillier located on the largest Archipelago island in Australia is pink. The lake is only a few steps away from the normal blue-colored Southern Ocean. Scientists can’t actually figure out why the lake is so stubbornly pink.
26. The Great Barrier Reef is the biggest living thing on earth being 1800 miles long!
27. On top of Mt. Everest, water can boil at 156.2 °F (69 °C).
28. It's amazing that a river in Thailand randomly shoots red fireballs into the air. No one knows why. The Mekong River is about 70 - 100 km downstream from Vientiane, the capital of Laos.
29. The amazing fact is that there's a Lightning storm in Venezuela where the Catatumbo River meets the Lake Maracaibo that's been going on since at least the 16th century. There is lightning for 280 times an hour, 10 hours a day for 160 nights a year!
30. Amazing thing is that the Amazon River is responsible for 20% of all the freshwater that flows into the world's oceans! It-dumps so much water into the ocean that it modifies the color and salinity of the Atlantic for nearly 200 miles from the delta. It could be 20 miles wide during the rainy season.
31. There’s a lake in Indonesia that has the same pH value as car battery acid! The Kawah Ijen Lake is located in a crater and is the largest sulfuric acid lake in the world. The actual pH level in the lake is amazing 0.5! If you put an aluminum can in the lake, it will start to dissolve.
32. The smell of rain is caused by some types of Actinobacteria, the Actinomycetes in the soil which are responsible for the odor that comes from the soil after it rains, mostly in warmer climates.
33. You can’t sink in lava and die as depicted in most movies, because it’s too dense! lava is 3100 kilograms per cubic meter versus water at 1000 kilograms per cubic meter.
34. In 536 AD there was a world-wide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for a full year. It is still a mystery why it happened.
35. All the beautiful colors you see and the world you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.
36. You also hear less than 1 % of the acoustic spectrum.
37. Atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space.
38. The amazing fact is as you read this you are traveling at 220 km/sec. across the galaxy.
39. The existence of the rainbow depends upon the conical photoreceptors in your eyes. Amazing that for animals without it, a rainbow doesn't exist.
40. The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending on the tide. On December 16th, 1811, the mighty Mississippi river began to flow backward due to a powerful earthquake.

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### Amazing Nature (Part 1)
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Last updated: 2024-11-22T09:30:53.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Nature Facts to Astonish You (Part 1)

1. The amazing fact is that The earth has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
2. The top 109 highest mountains in the World are in Asia and amazingly 96 of them are in the Himalayas.
3. The amazing fact is that Mount Kailash, a sacred mountain in China has never been climbed.
4. Amazingly the greatest mountain range lies in the ocean called the Mid-Ocean Ridge, extending 64,374 km from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
5. The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.
6. The amazing fact is one million cloud droplets are needed to make enough water to produce one raindrop.
7. Rain falls at 11 kmph (7mph).
8. The fact is raindrops aren’t really shaped like drops. They are perfectly round!
9. Raindrops amazingly contain vitamin B12.
10. A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. The fact is it can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
11. Amazingly water is the only substance on earth that is lighter as a solid than a liquid.
12. A snowflake can take up to an hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.
13. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
14. There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
15. Steamboat Geyser, located in Yellowstone National Park, is the most powerful geyser in the world and can shoot super-hot water amazing 300 feet in the air.
16. The loudest sound in history was recorded in July 1883 due to a volcano eruption on the Indian Ocean island of Krakatau.
17. The amazing fact was the explosion was heard 3,000 miles away in Madagascar. Ash clouds shot 25 miles into the sky. The eruption also created a giant tsunami, sea waves, that reached heights of 175 feet, speeding across the ocean at 400 miles an hour and destroyed over 300 towns.
18. At more than 3.3 million square miles, amazingly the Sahara Desert is as large as the world's next 20 largest hot deserts combined.
19. The fact is that lightning typically travels downwards from clouds and upwards from the ground.
20. A person under an oak tree is amazingly 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than a beech tree due to the vertical roots of the oak tree.
21. 9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive.
22. The amazing fact is that in ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!
23. Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
24. Amazingly groundwater comprises a 30 times greater volume than all freshwater lakes, and more than 3,000 times what's in the world's streams and rivers at any given time.
25. A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50 km into the sky.
26. The fact is at latitude 60 degrees south, you can sail around the world.
27. Pumice is the only rock found, that can float on water.
28. Most of the dust in your home is amazingly dead skin.
29. A fire in Australia has been burning for amazing 5,000 years!
30. The water in the Great Salt Lake of Utah is more than four times as salty as any ocean.
31. A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
32. Lake Baikal in Russia contains more water than all the North American Great Lakes combined.
33. Every year Amazon river amazingly floods an area equal to the size of England.
34. A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
35. The ice that covers 98% of Antarctica holds 90% of the world's freshwater.
36. The fact is the warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
37. When scientists drilled through the ice of Antarctica’s Lake Vanda, they discovered that the water at the bottom of the lake was an amazingly warm 77 degrees Fahrenheit due to ice crystals actually heating the water by focusing on the bottom of the lake.
38. The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560 km deep!
39. The amazing fact is that there are about 3 molecules of Ozone for every 10 million air molecules.
40. It is possible to see a rainbow at night!

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### Food
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Last updated: 2024-11-20T09:30:30.000Z
#### 80 Amazing Facts about Food

1. Amazingly almost half of the world's food is thrown away every year.
2. It is amazing that Americans spend more on cat food than baby food.
3. To feed the world's ever-growing population, we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000.
4. Amazingly the average person eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime which is the equivalent of six elephants.
5. Breast-fed babies score slightly higher on mental development tests than ones on formula.
6. Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.
7. Apple seeds are poisonous as they contain a cyanide compound.
8. Bananas were discovered by Alexander the Great in 327 B.C. when he conquered India.
9. You can make Banana ice cream using only a banana!
10. Amazingly Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.
11. It is amazing that you're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.
12. Soaking beans for twelve hours in water before they are cooked can reduce flatulence caused by beans.
13. Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
14. When cabbage is chewed properly, you burn more calories than you eat, in the process.
15. Carrots have almost zero fat content.
16. Carrots haven’t been orange for that long! Before the 17th century, almost all carrots cultivated were purple! The modern-day orange carrot wasn’t even cultivated until Dutch growers in the late 16th century took mutant strains of the purple carrot, including yellow and white carrots, and gradually developed them into the orange variety we have today.
17. It is amazing that the cashew nut in its natural state contains poisonous oil. Roasting removes the oil and makes the nuts safe to eat.
18. Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
19. For those people who are lactose intolerant, chocolate helps in digesting milk.
20. It takes approximately 400 cacao beans to make one pound (450 gr.) of chocolate.
21. The inventor of the Chocolate Chip Cookie sold the idea to Nestle Toll House in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate.
22. The World's Largest Chocolate Bar Weighed 5,792 kg (12,770 lb).
23. Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
24. Amazingly two-thirds of the world's coffee comes from Brazil.
25. The amazing fact is that 10 gms Coffee or consumption of about 100 cups over 4 hours can be fatal.
26. Isn't it amazing that the world consumes close to 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day?
27. Coffee is the world's second most valuable traded commodity, behind only petroleum.
28. Instant Coffee was invented by a man called George Washington around 1910.
29. Coffee is the second most valuable commodity in the world, after oil.
30. Amazingly there are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
31. No two cornflakes are identical!
32. The amazing fact is that that you can buy live sedated crabs in a Chinese vending machine in underground train stations in Nanjing.
33. A cucumber is 96% water.
34. An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won’t.
35. No matter how hard you squeeze two ends of an egg, it will never break.
36. A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
37. An egg contains all the vitamins except Vitamin C.
38. An eggshell can have up to 17,000 tiny pores on its surface.
39. Eggs do not need to be refrigerated!
40. A scientist at MichiganStateUniversity has calculated that the production of a single hen egg requires about 120 gallons of water, a loaf of bread requires 300 gallons, and a pound of beef, 3,500.
41. It takes 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
42. When honey is swallowed, it enters the bloodstream within 20 minutes since it is already been digested by Bee.
43. The amazing fact is that honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures.
44. Amazingly honey does not spoil.
45. Archaeologists have found 2000-year-old jars of honey in Egyptian tombs, which still tasted delicious.
46. The amazing fact is that to make 1 pound of honey, bees would have to visit over 2 million flowers.
47. Honey is More Effective than Cough Syrup to Fight a Cough!
48. Did you know that the very first lemon seeds were brought to the Americas by Christopher Columbus?
49. Amazingly Lemons have more sugar than oranges.
50. Milk is heavier than cream.
51. Amazingly more people are allergic to Cow's milk than any other food.
52. Camels' milk has 10 times more iron than cows' milk.
53. Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up Sulphur from the soil.
54. Running cold water over the onion and the knife will keep you from crying when you cut it, because water neutralizes the chemical that makes you cry.
55. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
56. Isn't it amazing that the world's heaviest onion weighed more than the head of a man?
57. The amazing fact is that an onion, an apple, and a potato all have the same sweet taste with a pinched nose eliminating the smell element.
58. Do you know that the oldest known vegetable is the pea?
59. Black pepper is the most popular spice (food) in the world.
60. The amazing fact is that if you put a piece of pineapple for a longer time in your mouth, it will start eating you as it has proteins that degrade meat.
61. There are about 252 varieties of potatoes grown in the world.
62. Amazing thing is that in the USA, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
63. Amazing fact is that when potatoes were brought from South America over to Spain, it took about 200 years before it was recognized as a food.
64. The annoying air in the potato chip bag is actually nitrogen occupying 70 % space!
65. Amazingly 60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.
66. A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.
67. A single baked potato contains less than 250 calories and is over 99% fat-free.
68. Most of the nutrients in a potato reside just below the skin layer.
69. Amazingly a full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.
70. The amazing fact is that ten radishes only contain eight calories.
71. Salt is one of the few spices that is all taste and no smell.
72. A one Kg packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar.
73. Green tea is the national drink of Japan.
74. The question of whether a tomato should be classified as a fruit or a vegetable was once a Supreme Court case.
75. The active ingredient in most toothpaste is called sodium fluoride.
76. Sodium fluoride can be lethal for young children if ingested in large amounts.
77. Amazingly polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human.
78. There is a bar in London that amazingly sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped.
79. Wheat is the world's most widely cultivated plant, grown on every continent except Antarctica.
80. Wine is kept in tinted bottles because it will spoil if it's exposed to light.

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### Science
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Last updated: 2024-11-18T09:30:20.000Z
#### 75 Amazing Science Facts You May Not Know

1. Aerogel is a glass-like material but it's amazing that it is 1000 times lighter than glass because it's 99.8% air! It has the lowest bulk density of any known porous solid.
2. Amazingly air becomes liquid at - 190 degrees Celsius.
3. The amazing Fact is that at room temperature average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
4. Aluminum is the most common metal in the Earth's crust (8 percent of its weight.)
5. Astatine is the rarest element on Earth (approx. 28 gm in the Earth's entire crust.)
6. Amazing thing is that, If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
7. It is absolutely amazing to realize how empty the atom is. If an atom were the size of a stadium, its electrons would be as small as bees.
8. A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats amazingly at over nine billion times a second.
9. Minus 40 Degree Centigrade is equal to minus 40 Degree Fahrenheit.
10. Celsius who developed a temperature scale made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. Fellow scientists reversed this only after he died.
11. The amazing fact is that the chalk is made of trillions of microscopic skeleton fossils of plankton (a tiny sea creature.)
12. The amount of Chlorine in the human body is enough for the disinfection of 5 swimming pools.
13. To loosen the rusted bolt apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola for some time.
14. The dioxin 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin is 150,000 times deadlier than cyanide.
15. Amazingly most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
16. The amazing fact is that real diamonds don't show up in X-Ray.
17. Dynamite contains peanuts as an ingredient.
18. The normal static electricity shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is amazingly between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
19. The amazing fact is that electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
20. Fluoroantimonic acid is the world's strongest acid and is amazingly 100,000 billion billion billion times more potent than the Hydrochloric acid in your stomach.
21. The fact is that natural gas has no odor. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.
22. Gold and Copper are the only two non-white metals.
23. Amazingly Graphene, the world's strongest material is a million times thinner than paper but 200 times stronger than steel. It is as thin as paper. It is composed of purified graphite that has been reconfigured on a nanoscopic level.
24. Unlike any other element, helium does not solidify.
25. The amazing fact is that the period at the end of this sentence can hold 2,000,000 hydrogen atoms.
26. Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world.
27. Hydrogen solid is the densest substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.
28. Hydrogen is an explosive gas and Oxygen supports fire. Yet amazingly when combined in water, it is used to put out fires.
29. Amazingly we can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine.
30. Laser stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by Radiation".
31. The noble gas Xenon lasers can cut through materials that are so tough even diamond-tipped blades will not cut.
32. The amazing fact is that light does not age even after millions of years.
33. You can see a candle flame from 50 Kilometers on a clear, dark night.
34. The color black is produced by the complete absorption of light rays.
35. Flames get their shape due to gravity! If you strike a match in space, where there is no air or gravity, it burns in a sphere shape!
36. Candles in space burn with a nearly invisible blue flame!
37. Light doesn't always travel at the speed of light. The speed of light is only constant in a vacuum. When it passes through matter it can slow down. Photons (light particles) pass through the water at 3/4th the regular speed of light. Amazingly in an experiment light was once slowed down to 38 miles per hour.
38. Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
39. Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun. (about 50 000º F)
40. Each time lightning strikes, some Ozone gas is produced, thus strengthening the Ozone Layer in the atmosphere.
41. Amazingly a person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than a beech tree due to the vertical roots of the oak tree.
42. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
43. Mercury is actually the densest liquid. It's 13 times as dense as water. It's even denser than lead!
44. Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
45. Natural pearls melt in vinegar.
46. Amazingly the average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
47. You can detect one drop of perfume diffused throughout a three-room apartment.
48. The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter J.
49. It takes amazing 50000 years for the plastic containers to start decomposing.
50. Plastic bags are easier to recycle than their paper counterparts.
51. Plutonium, first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues, was the first man-made element.
52. An amazing fact is that a rubber tire is actually one single giant molecule.
53. An average adult body contains around 250 gm of salt.
54. You can taste one gram of salt in 500 liters of water (.0001 M).
55. Amazing thing is that if you slowly pour a handful of salt into a totally full glass of water it will not overflow. In fact, the water level will go down.
56. The radiation from smoking a pack of cigarettes a day compares to almost 2,000 chest x-rays due to fertilizer called apatite, which causes the tobacco to taste sweet, but also has uranium in it.
57. It is amazing that if sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
58. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
59. You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 meters in very quiet conditions.
60. When traveling through water, sound moves around four times faster than when it travels through the air.
61. Sound carries so well in the Arctic than on a calm day, a conversation can be heard from 1.8 miles away.
62. If you yelled for 8 1/2 years, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
63. Amazingly the whip was the first man-made object to break the sound barrier. The "crack" of the whip is actually a sonic boom because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
64. Whispering is more taxing on your voice than normal speech.
65. The amazing fact is that sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
66. The sound that you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
67. Put two straws in the mouth, one outside and one inside the drink. Amazingly you won't be able to drink through either straw.
68. Moisture not air causes superglue to dry.
69. Cotton or wool will combust if super glue is applied to it.
70. Thunder is created when the air around lightning gets rapidly heated and expands at a rate faster than the speed of sound.
71. Talc is the softest known substance.
72. Amazingly the smell of the element Tellurium is so strong that just touching a minuscule of it will make you smell like rotting garlic for almost a month.
73. The metal with the highest melting point is tungsten at 6170 degrees Fahrenheit.
74. Urea, a chemical found in your urine, is added to cigarettes to enhance flavor.
75. The amazing fact is that a car traveling at 80 Km per hour uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.

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### Law
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Last updated: 2024-11-16T09:30:05.000Z
#### 100 Amazing Law Facts You May Not Know

1. Amazingly the Constitution of the United States does not contain the word 'democracy.'
2. By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for 72 years.
3. The amazing fact is that the green card is actually pink.
4. In most American states, a wedding ring is exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy. It cannot be seized by creditors.
5. It is amazing to find that Two-thirds of the world’s lawyers live in the United States.
6. It is an amazing fact that the murder rate in the United States is 200 times greater than in Japan.
7. In Japan no private citizen can buy a handgun legally.
8. It’s illegal for prisoners to vote, but they can amazingly run for President of the United States!
9. The Twentieth Amendment USA states that the Congress must meet at least once a year.
10. The amazing fact is that leaving America with more than $5.00 in pennies or nickels is a crime that could land you in jail for five years.
11. It is amazing that throughout history, 80% of marriages have been to second cousins or closer!
12. The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
13. According to US laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.
14. In Britain, the law was changed in 1789 to make the method of execution hanging. Prior to that, burning was the modus operandi.
15. In 1770 British parliament passed a law condemning lipstick saying that "Women found guilty of seducing man into matrimony by cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft"
16. Amazingly slavery was not made a statutory offense in the UK until April 6, 2010.
17. The unit of measure of a foot was established by decree as one-third of arm of King Henry I of England which was 36 Inches.
18. Suicide attempts were punished as crimes in England and Wales until 1961\. Amazing fact is failed suicides were hanged in the 19th century.
19. Amazingly William Tyndale was executed in 1536 for translating the Bible into English from its original Greek and Hebrew.
20. An amazing fact is that the queen of England does not have the right to vote in any British election.
21. In the UK, children over 5 can legally drink so long as they are at home or at a friend’s house!
22. All swans in England are the property of the queen.
23. A married couple in the UK realized they were twins separated at birth! They were separated at birth and adopted by separate parents later married each other without realizing they were brother and sister. The siblings were recently granted an annulment in the high court's family division.
24. Divorce is legal in every nation in the world except in the Philippines and in Vatican City.
25. Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
26. In Arcadia, California peacocks have the right of way.
27. Amazingly , under Arkansas law a man can legally beat his wife, but not more than once a month.
28. In 1845 Boston had an amazing ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctor's prescription.
29. In California you may not set a mousetrap without a hunting license.
30. In California, community leaders passed an ordinance that makes it illegal for anyone to try and stop a child from playfully jumping over puddles of water.
31. In L.A. it is against the law to complain through the mail that a hotel has cockroaches, even if it is true.
32. In Los Angeles, you cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time.
33. Amazingly peeling an orange in your hotel room is banned in California.
34. Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
35. China has banned reincarnation unless the government pre-approves how you plan on being reborn!
36. In Logan County Colorado, amazing fact is that it is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep.
37. It is illegal to swim during the daytime in a pool or river within the city limits of Durango, Colorado.
38. If you live in Detroit and commit a crime, amazing thing is that you could go free if you agree not to hire a lawyer since there is shortage of public defenders!
39. In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.
40. In Corning, Iowa, it is illegal to speak to anyone passing along the street or sidewalk.
41. Members of the armed forces and the police can not vote in the Dominican Republic.
42. In Florida , Women may be fined for falling asleep under a hairdryer, as can the salon owner.
43. In Florida , special law prohibits unmarried women (whether single, divorced or widowed) from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
44. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. Amazingly after 21 long years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.
45. It is illegal to say "Oh, Boy" in Jonesboro, Georgia.
46. In Germany, there is an amazing law that every office must have a view of the sky, however small.
47. Breaking out of prison is not illegal in Germany! The amazing reason is that the Germans believe that it’s basic human instinct to be free. However there is a jail sentence of up to 5 years for helping someone in their attempt to escape!
48. The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.
49. Guinness gave the world record for 'most lawsuits filed' to a man called Jonathan Lee Riches who has filed over 2600 federal lawsuits. He also sued Guinness for it!
50. Amazingly in Halethorpe Maryland, it is illegal to kiss for more than one second.
51. In Hong Kong, a woman is allowed to kill her cheating husband, but she can only use her bare hands!
52. Idaho state law makes it illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.
53. In Pocatello, Idaho, a law passed in 1912 provided that "The carrying of concealed weapons is forbidden, unless same are exhibited to public view."
54. A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
55. In Indiana, citizens are not allowed to attend a movie house or theater nor ride in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic.
56. The amazing fact is that in Israel, there's no legal way for a man named Cohen to marry a divorced woman.
57. Amazingly there was a time in Japan when wife being left-handed was a ground for divorce.
58. Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
59. The city of Kennesaw, Georgia has a law that every family must own a gun.
60. In Kentucky by law, anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she"can’t hold onto the ground."
61. A Kentucky law says that burglary can only be committed at night.
62. In Kentucky, "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she be escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." An amendment to the above legislation: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to females weighing less than 90 pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds, nor shall it apply to female horses."
63. It is against the law in the state of Kentucky to marry a man more than 3 times.
64. In the state of Kentucky it is against the law to carry an ice cream in your back pocket.
65. An amazing King County law states that it is illegal to sit on a man's lap on a metro bus, unless you are married.
66. In Massachusetts, Snoring is prohibited unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely locked.
67. In Memphis, Tennessee, it is illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man either running or walking in front of it waving a red flag to warn approaching motorists and pedestrians.
68. The government of Mexico imposes fines for individuals who perform their national anthem incorrectly.
69. A Michigan state law stipulates that a woman's hair legally belongs to her husband. Amazingly she isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.
70. In Milan, Italy, there is a law on the books that requires a smile on the face of all citizens at all times. Exemptions include time spent visiting patients in hospitals or attending funerals.
71. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska. You can be arrested for offence committed by children.
72. Boulder City Nevada is the only place left in the state where gambling is illegal. The government did not want workers on the Hoover Dam to gamble their money away.
73. In Nevada, It is illegal to drive a camel on the highway.
74. In Eureka Nevada, an amazing law forbids men who wear mustaches to kiss women.
75. New Hampshire law forbids you to tap your feet, nod your head, or in any way keep time to the music in a tavern, restaurant, or cafe.
76. Amazingly it is illegal to wear a bulletproof jacket while committing a murder in New Jersey.
77. It's against the law in North Dakota to go to bed wearing shoes.
78. Any North Koreans who escape to South Korea are awarded free citizenship.
79. In Oklahoma , violators can be fined, arrested or jailed for making ugly faces at a dog.
80. In Oklahoma , dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property.
81. An Oregon man was jailed and fined $ 1500 for collecting rainwater . Rainwater is considered 'Property of the state"
82. In Pennsylvania, no man may purchase alcohol without written consent from his wife.
83. The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub.
84. Farmer's anti automobile society in Pennsylvania passed law: "If a driver sees a team of horses, he is to pull to one side of the road and cover his machine with a blanket or dust cover that has been painted to blend into the scenery." and "In the event that a horse refuses to pass a car on the road, the owner must take his car apart and conceal the parts in the bushes."
85. In San AntonioTexas , it is illegal for both sexes to flirt or respond to flirtation using the eyes and/or hands.
86. Amazingly in Singapore, you can't walk in your own house naked. If caught , penalty is $ 1136.
87. It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
88. Texas city ordinance states that a person cannot go barefoot without first obtaining a special five-dollar permit.
89. An Amazing Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
90. Amazingly in Texas , anti-crime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.
91. In Texas, it is illegal to shoot a buffalo from a hotel room.
92. In Turkey during the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
93. In Utah , birds have the right of way on all highways.
94. In Utah , a husband is responsible for every criminal act committed by his wife while she is in his presence.
95. In Vermont , it is illegal to paint a horse in Vermont.
96. It’s illegal to tickle a women in Virginia.
97. It's illegal in Wilbur, Washington, to ride an ugly horse.
98. There was a law on the books in Washington state that stated that a motorcar driven at night must be preceded by something like 100 yards by a man carrying a lantern.
99. In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.
100. it is an offense in Washington state to pretend your parents are rich.

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### Words
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Last updated: 2024-11-14T09:30:07.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and little known Facts About Origin of Words

1. The word "bride" is derived from an old English word meaning "cook".
2. Amazingly Sahara is an Arabic word meaning desert. When we say "Sahara desert", we are in fact saying desert.
3. Fortnight comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (2 Weeks).
4. Amazingly Drawing Room was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped.
5. The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 compass points - North, East, West, and South!
6. The fact is the word housekeeping was invented by Shakespeare.
7. Amazingly Upper and Lower case letters are so named because when print had to be set manually the upper case letters were stored in a case above the case that held the lower case letters.
8. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
9. SCUBA is not a word. It is an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
10. There is a seven-letter words in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein" -- the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
11. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
12. "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "big village".
13. "Fan" is an abbreviation for the word "fanatic."
14. The abbreviation e.g. stands for "Exempli Gratia", or "For example."
15. The word Karate means "empty hand".
16. The abbreviation for 1 pound lb. comes from the astrological sign Libra meaning balance.
17. Amazingly the word constipation comes from a Latin words that means "to crowd together."
18. English word pajamas has Persian origin meaning Pa (leg) and Ramah(garment).
19. MAFIA is an acronym Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela or "Death to the French is Italy's Cry"
20. The letter X in Greece is an abbreviation for Christ, hence the term X-mas.
21. Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.
22. The amazing fact is that "Goodbye" came from the Middle English "goodbye", which is short for "God be with ye"
23. Amazingly "Mrs." is actually an abbreviation for the words "mistress."
24. R.S.V.P. stands for the French phrase "repondez s'il vous plait," which translates to "please reply."
25. Because breakfast is typically the first meal we eat each day, by doing so we are "breaking" our nightly "fast." That is how the name originated.
26. The amazing fact is that Kennedy means “Ugly Head”! and it is an Irish term.
27. Amazingly the term "sideburns" originally comes from the hairstyle worn by Civil War general Ambrose Burnside! We used to call them "burnsides" before it was changed to "sideburns".
28. The ampersand (&) was made by combining the letters ‘e’ and ‘t.’ This is because the word ‘et’ is Latin for “and.”
29. Amazingly the name Jesus comes from several incorrect translations of “Yeshua” which appear in the Hebrew Bible.
30. The word Lieutenant comes from the French language and combines two other words. The first is “lieu,” which means “in place” as in a position. And the second word is “tenant,” which means “holding” or “holding in position.” Thus, a lieutenant meaning was someone who held a position in absence of his superior officer.

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### Human Organs
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Last updated: 2024-11-12T09:30:46.000Z
#### 90 Amazing and Unknown Facts about Human Organs

1. The amazing fact is that while only 2% in weight, the human brain requires 15% of the body's heart work, 20% of oxygen, and 25% of all glucose.
2. The longest living cells in the body are the brain cells which can live amazingly for an entire lifetime.
3. Brain surgery can amazingly be done with the patient awake since the brain has no nerve fibers for pain.
4. While we are awake, our brain generates enough power to illuminate a light bulb of 25 watts.
5. The cornea has no blood supply. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
6. While reading as you focus on each word, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second and every second retina performs amazing & mind-boggling 10 billion computer-like calculations.
7. You will require walking 80 km for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.
8. We weblink our eyes once every six-second i.e. 250 million times in a lifetime.
9. One-quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.
10. If you go blind in one eye, you only lose about one-fifth of your vision, but all your sense of depth.
11. The farthest you can see with the naked eye is the giant Andromeda Galaxy which is an amazing 2.4 million light-years away!
12. An eyebrow typically contains 500 hairs.
13. An eyelash lives about 5 months.
14. People with blue eyes see better in dark.
15. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
16. Amazingly a sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
17. When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, even your heart.
18. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
19. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
20. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents though this is much inferior to many animals..
21. The average person grows up to 6 feet of nose hair.
22. Amazingly the tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
23. Relative to size the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
24. The tongue is the only body muscle that is attached from one end only.
25. Your tongue is relatively germ-free only if it is pink. If white, there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
26. It takes seventeen muscles to smile and amazingly forty-three to frown. Keep smiling.
27. During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria, colonies are exchanged.
28. Lips are 100 times more sensitive than the fingertips.
29. Amazingly women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.
30. The smallest bone staples ( 2.8 mm) are located in the middle ear.
31. Sense of smell is around 10000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste.
32. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. First off would be your sight.
33. The ear in the human body has amazingly over 25,000 tiny hair cells to help us hear each and every sound!
34. The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat.
35. Blood is 6 times thicker than water.
36. The amazing fact is that you have enough red blood cells in your body to circle the planet 2.5 times.
37. Human blood travels 60,000 miles per day on its journey through the circulatory system.
38. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body enough to circle the earth 2.5 times.
39. Human being has about 37000 miles of capillaries.
40. Each red blood cell lives about 4 months and travels amazingly between the lungs and other tissues 75,000 times before returning to the bone marrow to die.
41. Your body is creating and killing amazing 15 million red blood cells per second.
42. Your heart is about the same size as your fist.
43. The human heart pumps at a pressure sufficient to squirt blood up to 30 feet.
44. Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.
45. When committing suicide while jumping off a high building, most of the time you have a heart attack and die before hitting the ground.
46. The total surface area of a pair of human lungs is equal to that of a tennis court.
47. You breathe mostly from only one nostril at a time!
48. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
49. Locked in a completely sealed room, it's amazing that you die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you die of oxygen deprivation.
50. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
51. You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day which are being continuously shredded.
52. 1.7 liters of saliva is produced each day.
53. The fact is human beings can't smell or taste a substance that is not soluble. On a dry tongue, sugar has no taste.
54. The average life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
55. A person swallows approximately 300 times while eating dinner.
56. The amazing fact is during your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
57. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
58. The acid in your stomach is amazingly strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
59. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
60. Food passes through the small intestine in just two hours. Inside the large intestine, it takes about 14 hours in spite of 10 times smaller length.
61. The average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas every day.
62. On average a person passes gas 14 times a day
63. The human liver amazingly performs over 500 different functions.
64. The kidneys filter about 500 gallons of blood each day.
65. The total length of little tubes in both the kidneys is amazing 40 miles.
66. Every drop of blood is filtered by kidneys over 300 times a day.
67. It's amazing that males produce 1000 sperm cells every second i.e. 86 million each day. If all cells fertilize, it can produce a world population in just 3 months.
68. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
69. Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails.
70. Our fingers don't have any muscles. The muscles which move our finger joints are located in the palm and up in the forearm.
71. The amazing fact is that the tips of your fingers have enough strength to support the weight of your whole body.
72. The human feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat every day.
73. Skin is the largest organ of the human body weighing 3.2 kg.
74. The average adult has about 3,500 square inches of skin. The skin itself has roughly a billion pores or openings.
75. A square inch of skin holds 650 sweat glands, 20 blood vessels, 60,000 pigment cells.
76. Skin is thickest, 1/5 inch, on the upper back. It is thinnest on the eyelids, which is only 1/50th inch thick.
77. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
78. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than the World population.
79. It's amazing that about 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home but the majority of these are entirely harmless.
80. Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.
81. About 15% of Caucasians have skin that never tans; it only burns.
82. Most of the dust in your home is actually dead skin.
83. An average human head has 100,000 hairs and 40 to 100 hairs are lost daily.
84. Humans have about 5 million hairs on the whole body.
85. Only Asian people have black hair. Every other supposedly ‘black’ hair color is actually really dark brown.
86. You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone.
87. Human hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from it’s flammability, human hair decays at such a slow rate that it is practically non-disintegrative.
88. One human hair can support 3 Ounces of weight.
89. Women's hair is about half the diameter of Men's hair.
90. The amazing fact is that during his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

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### Sea
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#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Sea

1. The oceans occupy nearly 71% of our planet's surface.
2. More than 97% of all our planet's water is contained in the ocean.
3. An amazing fact is ten meters (33 feet) of ocean depth has the same mass as the whole atmosphere.
4. 2.5 meters (8 feet) of ocean depth holds as much heat as the whole atmosphere and 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) of the ocean depth has as much water as the whole atmosphere.
5. Seawater is approximately 3.5 percent salt.
6. It's amazing that the oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.
7. The average temperature of all ocean water is about 3.5° C.
8. Amazingly the Antarctic ice sheet that forms and melts over the ocean each year is near twice the size of the United States.
9. If all the ice in glaciers and ice sheets melted, the sea level would rise amazing 80 meters (262 ft), about the height of a 26-story building.
10. The amazing fact is if the sea level should rise by 3 meters (10 feet), many of the World's coastal cities, like Venice, London, New Orleans, and New York, would be underwater.
11. Although tap water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), seawater does not freeze until about minus 2 degrees Celsius because 3% of it is salt.
12. The area and volume of the Pacific Ocean are greater than the Atlantic and Indian combined.
13. Amazingly the Pacific ocean has 25000 islands.
14. The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest and coldest of all oceans. The Arctic Ocean holds just one percent of the Earth's seawater. The amazing fact is this is still more than 25 times as much water as all rivers and freshwater lakes.
15. The North Pole is situated in the middle of the Arctic ocean, there is no land at the north pole, it is a floating raft of ice.
16. Amazingly the total length of the world's coastlines is about 315,000 miles, enough to circle the Equator 12 times.
17. Earth's oceans are an average of 2 Miles deep.
18. Every cubic mile of seawater holds over 150 million tons of minerals.
19. Sunlight can penetrate a clean ocean up to a depth of 240 Ft.
20. The deepest depth in the ocean is 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or 11 kilometers) at the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean well south of Japan near the Mariana Islands.
21. It's amazing that water pressure at the deepest point in the ocean is more than 8 tons per square inch, the equivalent of one person trying to hold 50 jumbo jets.
22. The highest mountain in the sea is Mauna Kea, Hawaii which rises 33,474 feet (10,203 meters) from its base on the ocean floor; only 13,680 feet (4,170 m) are above sea level. Amazingly it is higher than Mount Everest.
23. The deep-sea is the largest museum on Earth: There are more artifacts and remnants of history in the ocean than in all of the world’s museums, combined.
24. We have only explored less than 5 percent of the Earth’s oceans. In fact, we have better maps of Mars than we do of the ocean floor.
25. There are giant waterfalls under the ocean! The largest is between Greenland and Iceland. This submarine waterfall drops 11,500 feet; three times the height of any land waterfall.
26. Amazingly it would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink down to the deepest part of the ocean.
27. If the Earth was smooth, the ocean would cover the entire surface to an amazing depth of 12,000 feet.
28. Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
29. 90 % of rubbish in the world's oceans is plastic.
30. 90% of all volcanic activity on Earth occurs in the ocean. The largest known concentration of active volcanoes (approximately 1,133) on the seafloor is located in the South Pacific.
31. Tsunamis are caused by offshore earthquakes and travel at amazing 800 kilometers (500 miles) per hour as fast as a Jet Plane. At sea, they are hard to "see" because they're no more than 10 centimeters (4 inches) high! As they come toward the shore, tsunamis build up many tens of meters high and can wash inland more than a kilometer.
32. The Gulf Stream off the Atlantic seaboard of the United States flows at an amazing speed nearly 300 times faster than the typical flow of the Amazon River, the world's largest river.
33. The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be amazing 54 ft.
34. Fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it.
35. Coral reefs cover about one-fiftieth of the ocean floor, but about one-quarter of all marine species make reefs their home.
36. There is a place in the Gulf of Alaska where two oceans meet but do not mix. Freshwater glaciers melted and flowed to join the ocean water. Because of the difference in the salinity and densities of these two water bodies, a surface tension develops between them that acts like a thin wall that prevents them from mixing. The boundary between the two is outlined by a thin layer of foam.
37. An ocean wave generally can rise up to a maximum height of 21 m. Amazingly 516-meter ocean wave was recorded at the head of Lituya Bay, Alaska in 1958.
38. The amazing fact is the world’s oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold.
39. Three-quarters of the world's mega-cities are by the sea. More than half the world’s population live within a 100 km or 60 miles distance from the coast.
40. It's amazing that plastic waste kills up to 1 million sea birds, 100,000 sea mammals, and countless fish each year.

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### Trees
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Last updated: 2024-11-08T09:30:51.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Facts You Should Know About Trees

1. The fact is there are about 20,000 tree species in the world.
2. The United States has one of the largest tree treasuries second only to India.
3. The amazing fact is trees receive an estimated 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere and only 10% from the soil.
4. Trees grow from the top, not from the bottom as is commonly believed. A branch's location on a tree will amazingly only move up the trunk a few inches in 1000 years. A notch in the tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.
5. The fact is a single 30-meter-tall mature tree can absorb as much as 22.7 kilograms (50 pounds) of carbon dioxide in a year, which is approximately the same amount as would be produced by an average car being driven 41,500 kilometers (25,787 miles).
6. A single 30-meter-tall mature tree could also amazingly produce 2,721 kilograms (5,999 pounds) of oxygen in a year, which is enough to support at least two people. Tree’s capacity for photosynthesis and carbon dioxide absorption increases as they age.
7. An amazing fact is the common English Oak (Quercus robur) can support hundreds of different species, including 284 species of insect and 324 species, subspecies, and varieties of lichens living directly on the tree. These in turn provide food for numerous birds and small mammals.
8. Amazingly a large tree can also transpire as much as 378.5 liters (100 gallons) of water into the air per day. This has a cooling effect roughly equivalent to 10 single room-sized air conditioning units operating 20 hours a day! This can decrease air conditioning costs by 30 %.
9. A redwood tree in California is the Tallest Living Thing about 367 feet high residing in Montgomery Woods State Reserve.
10. The oldest living organism on Earth is believed to be the “Pando” colony of Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Utah, also known as the Trembling Giant. The colony of trees covers some 41.7 hectares (103 acres) and is estimated to weigh nearly 6,600 tons, making it also the heaviest known organism. Being a clonal colony, the tree “trunks” all share identical genetic makeup. It is estimated that parts of the inter-connected rootstock that link the colony together are in excess of 80,000 years old!
11. The amazing fact is that an olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
12. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
13. Amazingly oak trees do not produce acorns until they are at least fifty years old.
14. The bark of a Redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees.
15. Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
16. The fact is a person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than a beech tree due to the vertical roots of the oak tree.
17. The Saguaro Cactus, found in the South-western United States does not grow branches until it is 75 years old.
18. The amazing fact is the banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
19. Central African Raffia Palm is known to have the longest leaves up to an amazing 82 Ft.
20. At last count, there were 226000 trees in New York's central park.
21. In a year amazing 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
22. It's amazing fact that it takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
23. If you plant an apple seed, amazingly it is guaranteed to grow a different type of apple.
24. Corks that are used to seal-off the mouth of champagne or wine bottles are made by an oak tree
25. One large oak tree can produce amazing 100,000 soft corks.
26. You can figure out which way is south if you are near a tree stump. The growth rings are wider on the south side.
27. The Baobab tree in Africa is an amazing plant. It is known for its water storage capacity in its trunk. It can store 1000 liters to 120000 liters of water in its swollen trunk.
28. Isn't it amazing that the average size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,000 pencils?
29. An average size tree produces enough oxygen in one year to keep a family of four breathing. You breathe 6 liters of air per minute.
30. The very first type of aspirin or pain killer and fever reducer came from the tree bark of the willow tree.
31. Cricket bats are made of a tree called Willow and baseball bats are made out of the wood of a tree called Hickory.
32. The fact is a violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
33. The amazing fact is that the Siberian larch accounts for more than 20% of all the world's trees.
34. Sandbox tree found in North & South America is covered in spikes and its fruit amazingly explodes sending sharp seeds 100 feet at 150 mph!
35. The tree, called Hyperion, is the tallest known tree in the world and is hiding somewhere in California. At 379 feet, it’s about twice the size of the Statue of Liberty. Kept secret since its discovery, all that is known of its location is that it’s somewhere in Redwood National Park.
36. Felix Finkbeiner, a 14-year-old German boy got more than 1 million trees planted in Germany!
37. The Tree of Tenere was amazingly the only tree for 250 miles in the Sahara Desert in Niger until a drunk driver hit it in 1973! Scientists dug and found that its roots went 120 feet deep to reach the water table below.
38. The tree dictated on the Lebanese flag is a Cedar.
39. The roots of the Finnish pine tree can be up to 30 miles long.
40. There is a tree called Dragon's blood which bleeds red when cut.

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### Universe
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Last updated: 2024-11-06T09:30:58.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts About Universe

1. The amazing fact is there Are at Least 10 Billion Trillion Stars in the Universe.
2. Even though the Big Bang happened 13.7 billion years ago, and no object can move faster than the speed of light, the diameter of the known universe is about 150 billion light-years. It is because the expansion of the universe itself can occur faster than the speed of light.
3. Every hour the Universe amazingly expands by a billion miles in all directions.
4. The universe is so amazingly empty that it is like a building 20 miles long, 20 miles wide, and 20 miles high that contains 1 grain of matter.
5. The amazing fact is only about 0.0000000000000000000042% of the universe contains any matter. The universe is a pretty empty place.
6. All the stars, galaxies, and black holes in the universe only compose about 5% of its mass.
7. What is amazing is that the other 95% is unaccounted for. Scientists decided to label this mystery material “dark matter” and to this day they are still not sure where or what it is.
8. While neutron stars are only about 10-13 miles in diameter, they are heavier than many stars.
9. The amazing fact is that a thimbleful, or sugar cube, amount of a neutron star weighs around 100 million tons. That’s more than a large mountain.
10. Hydrogen is in fact the most common atom in the universe.
11. A single quasar produces the same amount of energy as 1 trillion suns. The brightest quasar is 2 billion light-years away.
12. Quasars are the most distant known objects in the Universe. Even the nearest is billions of light-years away.
13. The biggest thing in the observable universe, which is a so-called "large quasar group," or LQG was discovered recently. It spans an amazing distance of four billion light-years or 24 sextillion miles.
14. Time slows down near a black hole; inside it stops completely.
15. Amazingly the sky looks blue because when sunlight enters the atmosphere colors of the shortest wavelengths are scattered (Violet & Blue)
16. A dog was killed by a meteor in 1911 in Nakhala, Egypt. It is the only creature to be killed by a meteor.
17. At only 1 Degree above absolute zero, the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest place in the known universe.
18. The deepest picture of the universe ever achieved by mankind was taken over almost 4 months and was taken amazingly over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth during 2003-2004.
19. 6 to 10 billion light-years away, there is a void in space amazing one billion light-years across called Eridanus Supervoid. It is completely empty of both normal and dark matter and is a big mystery. It emits no detectable light or radiation of any kind.
20. Amazingly Sagittarius B., an interstellar cloud of gas and dust 26,000 light-years away contain over a billion billion billion liters of vinyl alcohol.
21. In 2004 scientists discovered the largest diamond ever. In fact, it’s a collapsed star. Measuring 4000 km across and having a core composed of 10 billion trillion trillion carats it’s roughly 50 light-years from the Earth.
22. Amazingly in 1977, we received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. We still don't know how or where it came from.
23. The amazing fact is there is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100000 times larger than the Sun holding 100 trillion times more water than all our oceans combined.
24. The approximation of Pi to 39 decimals is accurate enough to calculate the volume of the known universe with a precision of one atom.
25. Mira, a dying star zipping through our universe is shedding its matter leaving a tail 13 light-years in length. Each bit of its shed matter may one day grow into a new, individual star and planets of its own.
26. Bismuth has an amazing half-life of more than a billion times the estimated age of the universe.
27. Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4.468 billion years or about 1/3 the estimated age of the universe
28. The loudest events in the universe are starquakes. The largest ever recorded was in 2004, the star Magnetar SGR 1806-20 adjusted itself with a force equal to 22.7 on the Richter scale. It happened 50,000 light-years away from Earth, but if it would have been 10 light-years away, it would have caused the mass extinction of all animal and plant species on earth.
29. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the known universe was in Massachusetts, MIT, where scientists attained temperatures 810 trillionths of a degree Fahrenheit above the absolute zero (-459.67°F).
30. Our universe will not last forever. In approximately 1 Googol (10^100) years, there will be no life, stars, or even black holes left in the universe. Only subatomic particles with no way to interact will remain in the ever-expanding universe.

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### Tiger
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#### 35 Amazing Facts about Tiger

1. Tigers are the largest members of the cat family ahead of lions renowned for their power and strength.
2. It's amazing that tigers can reach a length of up to 3.3 meters (11 feet) and weigh as much as 300 kg (660 pounds). The siberian tiger is the largest tiger subspecies.
3. Three of the nine subspecies of the modern tiger are in fact extinct in the 20th century. The remaining six are all endangered species.
4. The fact is there are only about 3,500 tigers are left in the wild. There is a greater number in captivity. In fact, there are 12000 tigers in captivity in the US alone.
5. The tiger is in fact capable of killing animals over twice its size. Usually, it uses stealth to catch its victims attacking from the side of the rear.
6. Tigers have eyes with round pupils unlike cats having slitted pupils. The reason is cats are nocturnal whereas tigers hunt primarily in the dawn and dusk.
7. Tigers have eyes that are in fact the brightest of any other animal in the world. At dusk, or in the beam of a torch, you can appreciate the intensity.
8. Tigers’ night vision is about six times better than humans'.
9. White tigers carry a rare gene found in one among 10000 tigers. Amazingly tigers have yellow eyes, but white tigers have blue eyes.
10. Tigers scratch trees and use their urine to mark their territories. Their urine smells like buttered popcorn.
11. The amazing fact is tigers can tell the age, gender, and reproductive condition of other tigers from the smell of urine markings.
12. The fact is tigers normally roar only to communicate with far-off tigers. A tiger about to attack will therefore not roar but might hiss instead.
13. Tigers prefer to hunt large prey by ambush. It's amazing that if you look at a tiger straight in the eye, it is less likely to attack, as the element of surprise is lost.
14. Tigers usually kill prey by strangulation of the neck or by severing a major artery in the neck affecting heavy blood loss. They ambush and seize the prey in its neck by their teeth. Tigers can also bite through bones with their powerful teeth and jaws breaking the neck vertebrae of prey. Tigers will sometimes use their powerful front paws which are strong enough to smash a bear’s skull or break its back.
15. When several tigers are present at a kill, the fact is the males will often wait for females and cubs to eat first, unlike lions, which do the opposite. Tigers rarely argue or fight over a kill and simply wait for their turn.
16. Tigers have been known to reach speeds up to 65 kph (40 mph) however the success rate for the hunt is about 10 %.
17. Tigers are capable of leaping over 6 meters and jumping up to 5 meters vertically. Their muscular legs are so powerful that they can remain standing even when dead.
18. The amazing fact is tigers have the knack of imitating the call of other animals to successfully attract prey.
19. The tiger relies heavily on its powerful teeth for hunting. Loss of its canines (tearing teeth) through injury or old age may starve it to death.
20. Tigers usually live alone unlike lions and aggressively scent-mark large territories (up to 100 sq km) to keep their rivals away.
21. Tigers have in fact antiseptic saliva. They lick their wounds to disinfect them.
22. Females give birth to litters of two to six cubs which are raised with little help from the male. Cubs can’t take care of themselves hunt until 18 months old and thereafter remain with their mothers for two to three years when they are strong enough to find their own territory.
23. Tigers are in fact completely blind for the first week of their life. About half do not survive to adulthood.
24. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Even a shaved tiger would still show its stripes. Stripes are necessary for camouflage and help identification as it is never duplicated. Most tigers have over 100 stripes.
25. The markings on a tiger’s forehead closely resemble the Chinese character for a king, giving tigers a cultural status as a regal animal.
26. The tiger is in fact one of the best swimmers in the animal kingdom, unlike most cats which are afraid of water. They can easily swim three or four miles. Of all the big cats, only the tiger and jaguar are strong swimmers
27. Amazingly a tiger's tongue very rough and it can vigorously clean any part. In fact, it can lick the paint off a building.
28. When a tiger moves around they leave footprints called “Pug Marks” which are very distinctive of the tiger.
29. A tiger’s roar can be heard for over 3 miles. The Lion, Leopard, Jaguar, and Tiger are the only cats that can roar.
30. Tigers live for about 25 years both in captivity and in the wild.
31. Tigers’ have short-term memory which is amazing thirty times longer than humans and they do not forget things as easily as we do.
32. Tigers have a brain that is the largest of all carnivores except the polar bear weighing over 300 gm. It is comparable to the size of a Chimpanzee’s brain.
33. One man-eating tiger called the Champawat Tiger during the 19th and 20th centuries killed over 436 people in Nepal and India until Jim Corbett shot her down. Most of the man-eating tigers are found to be old and canine-less. They tend to target men as they cannot hunt their targeted animals due to their lack of strength and canine teeth. Champawat tiger was found to have lost two of her canine teeth.
34. Tigers can mate with lions and other cats in captivity to produce hybrids. Through genetics, male lions normally try to make their offspring as large as possible but are counteracted by female lions, who make offspring smaller. A male lion and a female tiger produce enormous offspring, ligers, whereas a female lion and a male tiger produce a much smaller tiglon.
35. Amazingly ligers can be over 4m long and are the largest cats in the world.

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### Bible
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Last updated: 2024-11-02T09:30:27.000Z
#### 40 Facts about Bible

1. Did you know the word Bible comes from the Greek word Biblia, meaning books? No wonder it's called the Bible: it's a collection of 66 books!
2. The amazing fact is that Bible was written over a period of some 1,500 years, from around 1450 B.C. (the time of Moses) to about 100 A.D. (following the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ) by over 40 different authors from all walks of life: shepherds, farmers, tent-makers, physicians, fishermen, priests, philosophers, and kings.
3. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew before the birth of Jesus. The New Testament was written in Greek covering the life of Christ and beyond.
4. The entire Bible has 66 books,1189 chapters,31,102 verses. Old Testament has 39 books,929 chapters, 23,145 verses while New Testament has,27 books,260 chapters,7957 verses.
5. The first three words in the Bible are 'in the beginning'. The five books of the Bible referred to as the Pentateuch, the foundation of the Bible, were written by Moses. The last word in the Bible is 'Amen'. The Apostle Paul wrote 14 books (over half) of the New Testament.
6. Psalm 117 is the shortest book in the Bible with only two verses.
7. At an average pace, one can read the Bible out loud in about seventy hours.
8. The oldest almost-complete manuscript of the Bible now in existence is The Codex Vaticanus, which dates from the first half of the fourth century. It is located in the library of the Vatican in Rome.
9. A Bible in the University of Gottingen is written on 2,470 palm leaves.
10. The Bible was divided into chapters by Stephen Langton in 1228\. The Old Testament was divided into verses by R. Nathan in 1488, and the New Testament by Robert Stephanus in 1551.
11. Bible claims to be the actual words of God. The Bible says more than 3,000 times “thus saith the Lord.” It claims that the words which follow are quotes from God.
12. The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and possessions.
13. It's amazing that there is no physical description of Jesus in The Bible. As per Bible Jesus was known to be a carpenter.
14. The fact is there is no record in the Bible of 25th December being Jesus Birthday.
15. The word “Christian” only appears three times in the Bible.
16. The word "Jehovah"(Jesus) occurs 6,855 times in Bible. The word "Lord" occurs 1,853 times.
17. Amazingly the book of Esther contains ten chapters, but neither the word "Lord" nor "God" is to be found in it.
18. The words Eternity, Reverend, and Grandmother are in fact found only once in Bible.
19. The term ‘scapegoat’ comes from the use of a goat in the Bible that was to receive the sins of the people and be released into the wilderness.
20. The sheep is the most frequently mentioned animal in the Bible.
21. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
22. Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible. There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.
23. There is a 9th century Germanic ‘Bible’ that presents Jesus as a warrior-king.
24. Laws mentioned in the Bible required farmers to leave parts of their fields unharvested for strangers, a practice that still exists in parts of the world.
25. Swearing on the Bible is against the Bible.
26. In the Old Testament, Yahweh (God) actually sues Israel for breach of contract (the Sinai covenant). It is the only amazing instance of God initiating a lawsuit against humans in the Bible.
27. Methuselah, from the Bible, is accredited as being the oldest person to have ever lived, dying at the age of 969 years (Genesis 5:27) but it is thought that this is a mistranslation and that he was 969 lunar months old when he died (78.5 years old) since early Judaic tribes used lunar months to gauge time.
28. The amazing fact is that according to the stories in the Bible, God killed a minimum of 2,400,000 people, while Satan killed only about 10.
29. In the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald.
30. The phrase ‘God never gives you more than you can handle’ never appears in the Bible and actually the opposite is said multiple times.
31. In the Bible, Adam is not banished from Eden for eating the fruit of knowledge. Instead, he is banished in case he eats the fruit of another forbidden tree, which will make him immortal.
32. As per Bible, King Solomon had 700 wives, 300 concubines, and 12,000 horses.
33. There is an organization that illegally parachutes copies of The Bible into North Korea.
34. The first translation of the English Bible was initiated by John Wycliffe and completed by John Purvey in 1388.
35. The Bible was printed in 1454 A.D. by Johannes Gutenberg who invented the "type mold" for the printing press. It was in fact the first book ever printed.
36. The Bible is the most sold book of all time. There are more than 168,000 Bibles either sold or given away per day in the United States alone. It has been translated into more than 1,200 languages. In fact, the most shoplifted book in the world is the Bible.
37. In 1631, two London Bible printers amazingly left the word “not” out of the seventh commandment by mistake, which then read, “Thou shalt commit adultery.” This legendary book is now known as the “Wicked Bible.”
38. Voltaire, the French philosopher who was an atheist, threatened that he will see to the destruction of the Bible and its removal from the face of the earth. What happened is that the Bible Society bought the house where he was born after his death and today that building is one of the biggest sales centers of the Bible.
39. The first translation of the Bible made in America was printed in 1808\. It was the work of Charles Thomson.
40. In 2011, British calligrapher Donald Jackson and a team of calligraphers completed what is believed to the first handwritten Bible with illustrations since the invention of the printing press. It took 12 years to complete and cost $8 million.

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### Squirrel
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Last updated: 2024-10-30T09:30:17.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Squirrel Facts

1. The squirrel is the Native American symbol for preparation, trust, and thriftiness.
2. Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, consisting of small or medium-size rodents.
3. Squirrels live on every continent except in Australia and Antarctica.
4. The amazing fact is that they have been around for more than 35 million years.
5. There are over 265 species of squirrels worldwide. The smallest is the African pygmy squirrel which is tiny at around 10 cm long, whereas the largest, the Indian giant squirrel is a massive three feet long.
6. Grey squirrels, commonly found in North America, are medium-size squirrels.
7. Squirrels are categorized into three types: tree squirrels, ground squirrels, and flying squirrels.
8. There are 44 species of ‘flying squirrel’. Amazingly these species glide using a membrane that stretches from their wrists to their ankles. It allows squirrels to glide naturally as humans do with the aid of a parachute up to 250 feet, making it look like they can fly.
9. A group of squirrels is called a scurry or dray. They are very territorial and will fight to the death to defend their area. Mother squirrels are the most vicious when defending their babies.
10. Squirrels are omnivores, which means they like to eat plants and meat. Squirrels mainly eat fungi, seeds, nuts, and fruits, but they will also munch on eggs, small insects, caterpillars, small animals, and even young snakes.
11. A female carries her young for a gestation period of 33 to 46 weeks and gives birth to two to eight offspring at one time. Babies are called kits or kittens and are born toothless and blind. They depend on their mothers for around two or three months.
12. The male squirrels are rather bad parents, as they play no role in raising the young ones. The mothers take complete care of them for a couple of months.
13. The lifespan of a squirrel is usually 5 to 10 years in the wild but most die in the first year of life as they have a lot of predators hunting for them.
14. A squirrel has a very large appetite. In a week's time, it eats a quantity of food that is almost equal to its body weight.
15. Squirrels have an excellent sense of vision and they can sense danger very fast. However, they have trouble seeing things that are directly in front of them due to side-eyes.
16. Squirrels have four teeth in the front of their mouth that constantly grow throughout their lives. This ensures that their teeth don't wear down from gnawing on nuts and other objects.
17. Ever wondered why squirrels eat fruits before they are even ripe? Well, squirrels are color blind and can't differentiate between the colors green and red!
18. The males are the cleanest in the rodent family. They take up a lot of time grooming themselves, unlike their female counterparts.
19. Ground squirrels aren’t only capable of climbing over fences, they’ve also accomplished diggers. The squirrels’ tunnels can in fact exceed 9 meters (30 ft) in length.
20. A squirrel can jump up to 10 times their body length. They have long, muscular hind legs and short front legs that work together to aid in leaping. Padded feet can cushion fall even from a height of 100 feet.
21. Their eyes are high on their head and placed on each side of the head so they have a wide-angle of vision without having to turn their head.
22. The amazing fact is that, unlike most mammals, Tree squirrels can descend a tree head-first. They do so by rotating their ankles 180 degrees so the hind paws are backward-pointing and can grip the tree bark.
23. They have bushy tails which enables them to balance among the branches of trees while looking for food.
24. Squirrels are great runners running at 20 mph (32 kph).
25. When a squirrel is scared and feels that it is in danger, it will at first remain motionless. If it is on the ground, it will run to a nearby tree and climb to safety, and if it is already in a tree it will circle the trunk and press up against the bark tightly with its body.
26. Squirrels are very trusting animals and are of the very few wild animal species which will eat out of a person’s hand.
27. Take care while feeding them as they have eyes at the sides so they don't see what's at the tip of their nose. As they can't see your fingers, they might accidentally bit you if you get too close.
28. In colder regions such as the UK, squirrels plan ahead in order to survive the challenging winter months. They store nuts and seeds at various locations and return to them throughout the winter to maintain their energy levels when food is scarce.
29. Wondering how the squirrel finds its way back to the buried food? They lick or rub it on their face, before burying it. This leaves a scent that allows the squirrel to find it again after the winters are over.
30. Squirrels tend to run in erratic paths. This is intended to deceive potential predators as to its chosen direction so that it may escape.
31. Squirrels are extremely intelligent creatures. They are known to put on elaborate bogus food burying displays to deceive onlookers. The fake burials are to trick potential thieves, such as other squirrels or birds, into thinking that they have stored their food stock there. Any observers planning on taking the stash will then focus on the bogus burial site, allowing the squirrel to bury the real stash elsewhere safely.
32. Tree-dwelling squirrels such as the grey squirrel build dreys (similar to bird’s nests) made of twigs high in trees. They are about the size of a football and are lined with grass, bark, moss, and feathers for added comfort and insulation.
33. Squirrels communicate with each other through various vocalizations and scent marking. They also use their tails as a signaling device, twitching it when uneasy to alert other squirrels of potential danger.
34. Amazingly Squirrels can spread bubonic plague just like rats do via fleas.
35. In 1963, the city of Longview, Washington, had to find a solution to squirrels getting killed trying to cross a busy highway. A kindhearted local offered to build an 18 meter (60 ft) long bridge above the road for free which was named Nutty Narrows. It turned the town into the squirrel lover's capital of America. The city now holds an annual Squirrel Fest. The other three bridges have now been installed.

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### Coincidence (Part 4)
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Last updated: 2024-10-28T09:30:31.000Z
#### 15 Amazing Coincidences (Part 4)

1. In 1838, the horror writer, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote a book called ‘The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym’. It was about four survivors of a shipwreck who were in an open boat for many days before they decided to kill and eat the cabin boy named Richard Parker for survival. Amazingly in 1846 just eight years after the novel was published, a real-life Richard Parker died in a shipwreck. Then in 1884, the yacht, Mignonette, sank with only four survivors, who were in an open boat for many days. Eventually, the three senior members of the crew, killed and ate the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.
2. On February 13, 1746, a Frenchman, Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed for the murder of his father. The amazing fact is that precisely 100 years later, on February 13, 1846, another Frenchman, also named Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed for the murder of his father.
3. On the 26th November 1911, three men were hanged at Greenberry Hill in London after being convicted of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry. Amazingly their names were Green, Berry, and Hill.
4. Choosing a holiday destination became the stuff of nightmares for Birmingham couple Jason and Jenny Cairns Lawrence. In 2001 the couple were visiting New York when the Twin Towers were struck; they were in London for a few days in July 2005 when three Tube trains and a bus were bombed and they were in Mumbai in November 2008 when a coordinated shooting and bombing spree brought tragedy to the city. Amazingly they were witness to three major international terrorist atrocities over seven years.
5. In the entire state of Ohio in 1895 there were only two cars on the road and the drivers of these two cars amazingly crashed into each other.
6. Lorraine and Levinia Christmas of Norfolk ,both sisters on the spur of the moment decided to drive to one another's houses to deliver presents on Christmas Eve 1994.The country road between their villages was precariously icy and both sisters were involved in a head-on crash with each other. Amazingly they spent Christmas in the same hospital as their father who was recovering from surgery.
7. Amazing fact is Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's only son) either witnessed or was in the immediate vicinity of three successful presidential assassinations i.e. President Lincoln in 1865 , President Garfield in 1881 and President McKinley in 1901.
8. Oregon's Columbian newspaper announced the winning Pick 4 lottery numbers for June 28, 2000 in advance. The newspaper had intended to print the previous set of winning numbers but erroneously printed those for the state of Virginia, namely 6-8-5-5\. Amazingly in the next Oregon lottery, those same numbers were drawn.
9. Amazing fact is Manchester United legend Paul Scholes scored on his debut, his 100th game, his 200th game, his 300th game, his 400th game, his 500th game and his 700th game. His goal on his 200th game was an own goal. He only failed to score on his 600th, but still that’s remarkable coincidence.
10. Henri Trange fought five duels in Marseilles, France, between the years of 1861 and 1878\. Amazingly the first four of his opponents died before any shots were fired. Just before any shots were fired in the fifth duel, Trange himself dropped dead.
11. Claude Volbonne killed Baron Rodemire de Tarazone of France in 1872\. Amazingly 21 years earlier, the Baron's father had been murdered by somebody else called Claude Volbonne.
12. In 1899 a bolt of lightning killed a man as he stood in his backyard in Taranto, Italy. Thirty years later his son was killed in the same way and in the same place. Most amazing fact is on October 8, 1949, Rolla Primarda, the grandson of the first victim and the son of the second victim, became the third such victim at the same spot by yet another bolt of lightning.
13. When King Louis XVI of France was a child, he was warned by an astrologer to always be on his guard on the 21st day of each month. Louis was so terrified by this that he never did business on this day. However on June 21st 1791, following the French revolution, Louis and his queen were arrested in Varennes whist trying to escape France. On September 21st 1791, France abolished the institution of Royalty and proclaimed itself a republic. Finally in fact on January 21st 1793, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine.
14. Amazingly Violet Jessop was an ocean liner stewardess that survived three separate disasters on Olympic-class ocean liners including the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The three ships were the largest and most luxurious boats of the early 20th century. She was an Irish emigrant who worked her first job as a stewardess with the Royal Mail Line on the Orinoco. On June 14, 1911, she was on the RMS Olympic when the boat crashed with the cruiser HMS Hawke. At the time of the accident, the Olympic was the largest civilian liner in the world. It took heavy damage and flooding in the crash, but was able to make it back to Southampton. On April 10, 1912, Violet boarded the RMS Titanic on the ship’s maiden voyage. Four days later, the boat hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic. She was able to board the 16th lifeboat and given a baby to look after. After the outbreak of World War I, she worked as a stewardess for the British Red Cross. On November 21, 1916, she was on board the HMHS Britannic when the ship hit a mine and sank in the Aegean Sea. The Britannic was the largest ship to be lost during World War I, and 30 people died in the tragedy. As the ship went under, she was forced to jump off her lifeboat and was rescued.
15. Mrs. Fletcher was flying from Manchester to Florida for her daughter's wedding in November 2003 when she had a heart attack. Amazingly when the urgent appeal was made for doctors, 15 fellow professionals rushed to help her. There were all cardiologists on the flight on their way to a conference who were able to keep her stable while the plane was diverted to North Carolina and she survived.

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### Coincidence (Part 3)
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#### 15 Amazing Coincidences ( Part 3)

1. In 1883, Henry Ziegland broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who committed suicide. The girl’s enraged brother hunted down Ziegland and shot him. Believing he had killed Ziegland, the brother then took his own life. In fact, Ziegland had not been killed as the bullet had only grazed his face, lodging into a tree. Years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the same tree, which still had the bullet in it. He decided to blow the huge tree up with dynamite. The explosion amazingly propelled the bullet into Ziegland’s head killing him instantly. The bullet found the target after 20 years.
2. In the 19th century Austria, a painter named Joseph Aigner attempted suicide for the first time by hanging himself at the age of 18\. He was interrupted by a mysterious monk. Again at age 22, he was prevented from hanging himself by the very same monk. At age 30 he was sentenced to the gallows for his political activities but his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk. At age 68, Joseph Aigner finally succeeded in suicide, using a pistol to shoot himself. It's amazing that his funeral ceremony was conducted by the very same Capuchin monk , a man whose name Aiger never even knew.
3. John and Arthur Mowforth were twins who lived about 80 miles apart in Great Britain. It's amazing that on the evening of May 22, 1975, both fell severely ill from chest pains and both died of heart attacks in separate hospitals.
4. In 1979 a 15-year old Norvegian boy named Robert Johansen fishing in a Norwegian fjord (Narrow inlet of sea) hauled in a 10-pound cod. Amazingly when his grandmother was preparing the meal , she found a diamond ring within the cod’s stomach which she instantly recognized as a valuable family heirloom she lost in the fjord while fishing some ten years back!
5. During WWII a rail bridge in Belgium had been prepared with explosives in case it needed to be destroyed at short notice. Amazing fact is whilst not one but two trains were crossing on it, it was struck by lightning and blew up killing most passengers.
6. In 1973, actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in “The Girl From Petrovka”, based on a novel by George Feifer. He couldn’t find a copy in any bookstore but was surprised to discover discarded book lying on a bench in a train station. Amazingly it turned out to be George Feifer’s own annotated (personal) copy, which Feifer had lent to a friend, and which had been stolen from his friend’s car.
7. In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Ellizabeth II. In one of the drawers in his hotel room at the Savoy he found some items that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin , a basketball star was a good friend of Kupcinet’s. Amazing fact is that just two days later and before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin telling Kucinet that while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie, with Kupcinet’s name on it.
8. In 1965, at the age of four, Roger Lausier was swimming off a beach in Salem and was saved from drowning by a woman called Alice Blaise. In 1974, on the same beach, Roger was out on a raft when he pulled a drowning man from the water . Amazingly, the man he saved was Alice Blaise's husband.
9. The twenty-year old Bosnian peasant Princip took out his pistol and shot twice at the motorcade carrying Austro-Hungarian leader Archduke Franz Ferdinand , heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his pregnant wife Sophie, on 28 th June 1914 killing both of them, setting off a chain of events that would plunge the world into WWI one of the bloodiest wars in history and sow the seeds for the advent of Communism and Nazism over the next few decades. It happened because of a single, remarkable coincidence. Princip intended to kill but had largely given up once the earlier attempt to kill the man with a bomb failed. After he went to a café for a quick bite, while coming out he spotted the Archduke’s car which stopped before his eyes not twenty feet away. The driver had apparently taken a wrong turn and in the process of backing up had killed the engine leaving the Archduke and his wife sitting ducks. Thinking quickly, he pulled his pistol and fired. Amazingly WWI started just because the Archduke’s driver got lost.
10. Businessman Danie de Toit made a speech to an audience in South Africa . The topic of his speech was , watch out because death can strike you down at any time. Amazing fact is that at the end of his speech, he put a peppermint in his mouth, and choked to death on it!
11. In September 1955, James Dean was killed in a horrific car accident whilst he was driving his Porsche sports car. After the crash the car was seen as very unlucky because of amazing chain of events. When the car was towed away from accident scene to a garage, the engine slipped out and fell onto a mechanic, shattering both of his legs. Eventually the engine was bought by a doctor, who put it into his racing car and was killed shortly afterwards during a race. Another racing driver, in the same race, was killed in his car, which had James Dean's driveshaft fitted to it. When James Dean's Porsche was later repaired, the garage it was in was destroyed by fire. Later the car was displayed in Sacramento, but it fell off it's mount and broke a teenager's hip. In Oregon, the trailer that the car was mounted on slipped from it's towbar and smashed through the front of a shop. Finally, in 1959, the car mysteriously broke into 11 pieces while it was sitting on steel supports.
12. While on a business trip sometime in the late 1950s, Mr. George D. Bryson stopped and registered at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky staying at room 307\. When he enquired for any mail meant for him , the mail girl handed him an envelope addressed to Mr. George D. Bryson, room 307\. Amazing thing was this letter was not for him but for room 307's just-previous occupant, another man named George D. Bryson.
13. Frane Selak, a Croatian music teacher, began his unlucky streak in 1962 on a train going from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik. The train inexplicably jumped the tracks and fell into an icy river killing 17 passengers. He managed to swim to shore suffering from hypothermia and a broken arm but survived. A year later, while on an airplane, it's door flew off and he was sucked out of the airplane. The plane crashed and he woke up in a hospital. He had been found in a haystack. Then, in 1966, he was on a bus that went off the road and into a river. Four people were killed, but he suffered minor injuries. In 1970, his car caught on fire and he stopped it and got out just before the car blew up. In 1973, he was driving another car when a faulty fuel line sprayed gas all over the engine and flames blew through his air vents. His only injury was the loss of most of his hair. In 1995 he was hit by a bus but sustained minor injuries. Finally, in 1996, he was driving on a mountain road when he went around a bend and saw a truck coming right at him. He ran his car through a guardrail and jumped out to watch his car blow up 300 feet below him. An amazing fact is finally in 2003, Selak bought a lottery ticket for the first time in 40 years at the age of 74\. He ended up winning $1 million.
14. Waldemar Andersen from Norway was fishing in the North Sea when he caught a good-sized cod. Upon cutting open its stomach, he found a gold earring. Amazingly when he presented it to his wife, it turned out to be his wife's earring lost a week earlier in the sea.
15. A few months before John Wilkes Booth obtained notoriety for murdering President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, the President’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was waiting on a narrow, crowded platform for a train in Jersey City, New Jersey when he lost his footing and fell beneath the slowly moving carriage of a departing train. Pulled to safety before any harm befell him, he turned to thank his rescuer and was surprised to see it was the well-known actor Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes. Amazingly in one of the most remarkable coincidences, the son of a president was rescued by the brother of that president’s future assassin!

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### Coincidence (Part 2)
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#### 15 Amazing Coincidences ( Part 2)

1. The flags of Haiti and Lichtenstein were identical and amazingly both nations were unaware. It was discovered only when they competed against each other in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
2. In 2002, Seventy-year-old twin brothers amazingly died within two hours of one another after separate accidents on the same road in northern Finland in Raahe, 600 kilometers north of the capital, Helsinki. The distance between accident sites was 1.5 km.
3. During the Cold War, Russian spies used hollow coins to pass messages to each other in America. One spy accidentally used his hollow coin as actual currency and it ended up in the general population. The coin was in possession of a paperboy, who discovered the message in the hollowed-out container when he dropped it splitting it open. The message inside was written in Russian code with 10 columns of numbers. The government spent four years trying to decode without luck. Eventually, a Russian spy in 1957, a Soviet agent, Hayhanen defected to America, and in the process of handing over Russian secrets, the spy was asked about the coded message in the hollow coin. The man translated the message, and it turned out to be a "Welcome to America, here's the way our operations work" message from Russia, meant amazingly for the very spy who decoded the message.
4. The scientific theory that correctly predicted the existence of asteroids has been discarded. It was just an amazing coincidence that the prediction turned out to be correct.
5. In Texas, USA, in 1899, Canadian actor Charles Francis Coghlan became ill and died whilst he was in Galveston. Because it was too far to return his remains to his home on Prince Edward Island, 3500 miles away, he was instead buried in a lead coffin inside a granite vault. A year after his death, in September 1900, a hurricane hit Galveston, flooding the graveyard, shattering Charles Coghlan’s granite vault and carrying away his lead coffin out into the Gulf of Mexico. In October 1908, eight years after the hurricane, fishermen on Prince Edward Island spotted a weathered box floating near the shore. Amazingly it was the coffin of Charles Coghlan, which had finally returned home. He was buried in the nearby church where he had been christened as a baby.
6. Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, and amazingly died on the day of its next appearance in 1910.
7. In 1979, the German magazine, Das Besteran ran a writing competition based on true incidents. The winner, Walter Kellner of Munich, wrote about a time when he was flying a Cessna 421 between Sardinia and Sicily when he encountered engine trouble at sea, landed in the water, spent some time in an emergency dinghy, and was then rescued. This story was spotted by an Austrian, also named Walter Kellner who said that the German Kellner had plagiarized the story. The Austrian Kellner said that he had flown a Cessna 421 over the same sea, experienced engine trouble, and was forced to land in Sardinia. It was essentially the same story, with a slightly different ending. The magazine checked both stories, and both amazingly turned out to be true.
8. In the 1930s when a man named Joseph Figlock was walking down the street in Detroit, the mother’s baby fell from a high window onto Flock. Both baby and Figlock were unharmed. A year later, the same baby fell from the same window, again amazingly falling onto Mr. Figlock as he was passing beneath. Once again, both of them survived.
9. American novelist Anne Parrish found an old book that was one of her childhood favorites ' Jack Frost and Other Stories in a Paris bookstore in the 1920s. She showed it to her husband who opened it and on the flyleaf found the inscription: “Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs.”Amazingly it was Anne’s very own book.
10. In 1975, while riding a moped in Bermuda, a man was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi. One year later, this man’s bother was killed in the very same way riding the same moped. Most amazing thing was that he was struck by the very same taxi driven by the same driver and even carrying the same passenger!
11. On December 5, 1664, a ship in the Menai Strait, off North Wales, sank with 81 passengers on board. The sole survivor was a man named Hugh Williams. On the same date in 1785, a ship sank with 60 passengers on board. There was one survivor, Hugh Williams. Amazingly on the very same date in 1860, a ship sank with 25 passengers on board. The only survivor was a man named Hugh Williams.
12. Barbara Forrest and Mary Ashford were both victims of a similar crime committed in the tiny village of Erdington, some five miles outside of Birmingham in England. Both twenty-year-olds happened to share the same birthday, had been raped and strangled, their bodies were found 300 yards apart and both had been found on the same day May 27th but 157 years apart (1817 and 1974)! Amazingly the man accused in both these crimes was named Thornton, and that both Thornton’s were eventually acquitted for the crime.
13. In Beatrice, Nebraska, on March 1, 1950, all church choir members scheduled to appear for group practice arrived late. Each member's various reasons for being tardy were unrelated. But it was a lucky escape. Amazingly at the appointed time, the church was destroyed by a gas explosion.
14. A woman in Gwent who had spent years trying to track down her long-lost brother amazingly discovered that he lived across the road from her house. Rose Davies had been raised by foster parents and only later been told that she had three brothers. Sid and John had been relatively easy to find but there was no trace of Chris. Little did she know that she had already befriended him and his family for three months.
15. In 1805, French writer Émile Deschamps was treated to some plum pudding by the stranger Monsieur de Fortgibu. In 1815 he encountered plum pudding on the menu of a Paris restaurant and wanted to order some, but the waiter told him the last dish had already been served to another customer, who turned out to be de Fortgibu. Many years later in 1832 Émile Deschamps was at a diner and was once again offered plum pudding. He recalled the earlier incident and told his friends that only de Fortgibu was missing to make the setting complete and amazingly now senile de Fortgibu entered the room. Émile Deschamps ate plum pudding in his life only 3 times and each time he met the stranger Monsieur de Fortgibu.

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### Horse
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#### 60 Amazing Facts About Horse

1. Emerging 60 million years ago, the first horse was called Eohippus (The Dawn Horse) and was tiny, weighing only 5 Kg and standing just 14 inches high.
2. There are more than 350 breeds of horses in the world. There are estimated around 70 million horses in the world.
3. Horses have been domesticated for over 5000 years. Dogs may have become domesticated around 14,000 years ago and cats became our companions about 8500 years ago.
4. Chariot racing was the first Olympic sport in 680 B.C.
5. Over 75% of the world's breeding resources are devoted to the 18 most popular horse breeds. The smallest breeds are the Falabellas of Argentina. The tallest breed is the Shire, from England.
6. Domestic horses have a lifespan of around 25 years. The oldest recorded horse was "Old Billy," an English barge horse, who lived to be 62 years old.
7. Horses can run shortly after birth.
8. Horses, zebras, and donkeys belong to the same genus, and hence can breed with one another!
9. Breeding a male donkey to female horse results in a mule. Breeding a male horse to female donkey results in a hinny. Mules and hinnies are almost always sterile.
10. The last remaining truly wild horse in existence is the Przewalski Horse (Asiatic Wild Horse) found in Mongolia. It has 66 chromosomes while all other horses have 64.
11. The world’s smallest horse is the Falabella which ranges from 15 to 30 inches tall.
12. A male horse is called a stallion. A female horse is called a mare. A young male horse is called a colt. A young female horse is called a filly. Ponies are small horses.
13. A horse is usually not considered to be a "horse" until it is 5 years old. A young horse under 1 year old is called a foal. Foals have milk teeth, just like human babies. Foals are born with legs 90% of their full adult length.
14. It's impossible to predict a horse's color from the foal coat color. They will go through several color changes until the color is "fixed" around two years of age.
15. Horses have 16 muscles in each ear, allowing them to rotate their ears 180 degrees.
16. At around age 3, milk teeth start getting replaced by permanent teeth. A horse's teeth can give a good estimate of its age up to 9 years!
17. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
18. The "interdental space" is an area in a horse's mouth, both on the upper and lower jaws, where there is not any teeth. This area is between the front teeth (the incisors) and the back teeth (the molars). When a horse is bridled, the interdental space is where the bit rests. On the bottom jaw, most horsemen refer to this area of bare gums as the "bars."
19. Horses don't grow new teeth as they are born with all the teeth they will have during their lifetime. But most of the tooth structure is above the gum line from which teeth descend throughout a horse's lifetime. Horses grind down their teeth as they chew. But they can form sharp hooks or unevenness as the horse chews. That is why they must have their teeth filed or "floated" as it's called at least annually.
20. Horses like sweet flavors and will usually reject anything sour or bitter.
21. Horses' larynxes (voice boxes) are higher in their throats than humans. When we choke on something, it shuts off our air supply and we might suffocate very quickly unless the object is dislodged. But when a horse chokes, amazingly they can still breathe. They just can't swallow until the object is dislodged.
22. The horse has one stomach. In contrast, cattle, sheep, goats, deer, and camels are "ruminants" having four digestive chambers instead of just one stomach. The normal horse’s small intestine is about 70 feet long and the large intestine is about 12 feet long.
23. The right-hand side of a horse is called the offside. The left-hand side is the near side.
24. Horses have 7 common blood types in contrast to 4 blood types in humans.
25. A horse's birthday is celebrated on January 1st (Northern Hemisphere) and on August 1st (southern hemisphere) irrespective of their actual birth date.
26. The height of a horse is measured using the unit, "hand", where one hand equals four inches considered to be the average width across a man's knuckles. So if a horse measures 16 hands, it is 16x4 which is 64 inches tall.
27. A horse is usually considered to be 14.2 (14 hands, 2 inches) or taller when mature. Anything under 14.2 when mature is usually considered to be a pony.
28. The amazing fact is that a horse's brain is just the size of a potato.
29. If you hold your hand out to a horse and it approaches you, while then blowing warm air onto the palm of your hand, it means that he/she wants to be friends with you. If it rests its head on your shoulder, it means that he/she trusts you.
30. Horses can communicate how they are feeling by their facial expressions. They use their ears, nostrils, and eyes to show their moods. Beware of a horse that has flared nostrils and its ears back. That means it might attack!
31. Horses can differentiate between emotions in the human voice. They differentiate tones rather than words.
32. Most of the time, a horse's ear points where the horse is looking. If they are pointed in two different directions, it means both eyes are seeing two things simultaneously.
33. Horses have fairly good eyesight due to large eyes having a diameter of 2 inches (5 cm) the largest of any land mammal. Volume-wise a horse’s eye is up to nine times larger than that of a human.
34. Horses can’t properly focus their eyes as humans do. Instead, the lower parts of their retina see objects at a distance, and the upper ones are for closer viewing.
35. A horse has considerably wide vision having the largest eyes of any land mammal, being able to see a total field of up to 350 degrees. Horses have two blind spots, the first is directly in front of them and the other is directly behind their head.
36. Horses are not color blind. They have a "two-color" vision. Horses can perceive blue and green tones and color variations based on them. However, they have difficulty with other colors, including reds.
37. Most of the time, a horse has "monocular" vision meaning a different image is seen by each eye at the same time. A horse can also have "binocular" vision when both eyes work together to see one picture happening only when it is looking down its nose.
38. Scent-detecting horses can take their place alongside dogs in search and rescue operations. Riders generally take more training than the horses. Horses have known all their lives how to follow scents. The reason it hasn’t caught on is that people don’t understand how to read the horse correctly.
39. The "nasolacrimal duct" is a tear duct that drains tears from the corner of the eye, down the tube-like nasolacrimal duct, and out through an opening at the bottom of the nose. This opening is large enough to be visible to the naked eye inside the horse's nostril. Its blockage leads to excessive eye tears.
40. Horses can sleep both lying down and standing up. They sleep only 3 - 4 hours per day! While standing they lock their legs when they sleep so they don't fall over.
41. Horses are herbivores (plant-eaters) and grazers.
42. A horse can move in four ways: walk, trot, canter, and gallop. Galloping is the fastest. Horses gallop at around 44 kph (27 mph).
43. The fastest recorded sprinting speed of a horse was 88 kph (55 mph).
44. The hoof of a horse never stops growing, like a fingernail, and has to be clipped on a regular basis. The coronary band is a band of tissue circling a horse's leg just above the hoof which is the source from which the hoof wall grows. An injury to the coronary band can sometimes result in irregular hoof growth
45. On the underside of a horse's hoof is a triangular-shaped area called the "frog." Each time the frog comes into contact with the ground it acts as a shock absorber for a horse's leg, and also helps to pump blood back up the leg. A healthy, functioning frog is vital to the hoof and leg health of a horse.
46. Horses suffocate if both nostrils are obstructed due to a snake bite or allergy because they can't breathe through the mouth. They can only breathe through the mouth.
47. Akhal-Teke, a horse breed from Russia, can go for days without food or water.
48. The amazing fact is that horses can’t vomit. The horse’s digestive tract operates in one direction. In fact, they have a strong band of muscles around their esophagus. This band is so strong that a horse’s stomach would typically burst before it would vomit.
49. The horse memory is at least as good as that of an elephant. If a horse is treated kindly, it will remember the person as a friend for as long as it lives instantly resuming friendship when it sees him again, regardless of how long they have been apart. They also remember places very well
50. American Quarter Horse is the world's most popular breed.
51. The most majestic of horses is the Arabian horse. The Arabian horse is unique in that it is the purest of all of the breeds. Arabian horses have 17 ribs (all other horses have 18), five lumbar vertebrae (other horses have six), and 16 tail vertebrae (other horses have 18).
52. Arabian horses are considered some of the strongest endurance runners in the animal kingdom, capable of running over 160 kilometers (100 mi) without rest.
53. Cars with Horse names are the Ford's Mustang, Pinto, Bronco, and the Dodge's ColJames.
54. Horses have also played a part in the invention of movie technology. In the 1870s a man named Leland Stanford was convinced that, at some point in the gallop, all four of the horse’s legs simultaneously left the ground. He recruited photographer Eadweard Muybridge to help him prove this. But Muybridge realized that camera technology at the time was far too clumsy to prove it. He set up a series of 24 cameras side by side, each taking a picture right after the other, capturing the famed racehorse called Sallie Gardner in 24 different stages of the gallop. Sallie Gardner could indeed be seen with all four legs off the ground, creating the illusion that she was flying but essentially created a 24-frame animated film. The movie industry originated this way.
55. Watt developed the term 'Horsepower' because he wanted a measurement for his steam engine that would be readily understood.
56. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
57. Horses evolved in North America but became extinct here about 16000 years ago. "Wild" horses in the Americas are descended from horses brought over by Europeans.
58. The name 'Philip,' and the feminine variant, 'Philippa,' mean 'lover of horses.'
59. On the island of Hydra in Greece, motorized vehicles are prohibited and all horse-power comes from horses & ponies.
60. There are many crazy horse laws. In several cities throughout the United States, newly married men were not allowed to ride alone, unless they had been married longer than 12 months.

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### Breast Milk
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#### 30 Facts about Breast Milk

1. As the body is born and the placenta comes out, a major drop in hormones occurs signaling a hormone called prolactin to get activated which then spurs on another hormone called oxytocin, which actually releases milk.
2. If every child was breastfed within an hour of birth, given only breast milk for their first six months of life, and continued breastfeeding up to the age of two years, amazingly 8,00,000 child lives would be saved every year.
3. Globally in fact less than 40% of infants under six months of age are exclusively breastfed.
4. Colostrum is the first milk produced from the breasts, which is a type of first natural vaccination for your baby. It is a proven fact that babies who are fed with colostrum (a thick, yellow, nutrient-dense milk) develop better self-defense against numerous infectious diseases. It's high in protein and antibodies from the mother, it contains three times as much as mature milk but low in fat and sugar which are not needed at an early stage which also makes it very easy to digest.
5. Amazingly colostrum is not irritating even if aspirated and is readily absorbed by the respiratory system. Therefore breastfeeding can be done immediately following birth.
6. Colostrum is a natural laxative to help eliminate bilirubin from the body. This serves to lessen the incidence and severity of jaundice.
7. More than 30 components have been found in colostrum and amazingly 13 of which are unique to breast milk.
8. Mother's milk is in fact perfect and has everything your baby needs. Milk changes its nutritional profile as the baby grows (milk made for a 3-month-old is different than for a 9-month-old).
9. Amazingly breastfeeding can help the mother return to her pre-baby weight faster. It takes 1000 calories a day on average to produce breast milk. Women are advised to consume an extra 500 calories a day, and the body dips into fat reserves it built up in pregnancy to make the rest.
10. The fact is the metabolic energy needed to breastfeed a baby each day is equivalent to what you would use walking seven miles. You don’t need a gym when you breast-feed a child.
11. Nursing is emotionally satisfying to both baby and mother. Nursing provides warmth and security for babies. Mother’s milk creates a very strong bond of love between mother and baby.
12. The formula contains sucrose (sugar) which is harmful to the baby’s teeth. Breast milk contains lactose, which is a simple sugar and cannot harm the baby. Breast milk completely digests in 2 hours while formula takes longer to digest so formula-fed babies may be able to go longer between feedings.
13. The babies who are breast-fed for at least one year since their birth build strong bones.
14. Mother's milk in fact contains high levels of immunoglobin A. (IgA) providing high immunity and help protect against several bacterial and viral diseases. They function directly in the infant's gastrointestinal tract by diminishing antigen contact with the intestinal mucosa. IgA helps protect against the development of food allergies.
15. A substance called the Bifidus factor and lactoferrin contained in mother's milk promotes the growth of good bacteria in the intestinal tract of breast-fed babies. These good bacteria destroy other disease-producing bacteria. Breast milk also contains a number of other defense factors, such as macrophages, granulocytes, and T- and B-lymphocytes.
16. Breast milk in fact cannot be duplicated by artificial methods. No two mothers have the same breast milk.
17. The amazing fact is that milk changes during each feeding. When your baby first starts feeding, your milk contains mostly lactose and proteins and is a bluish color. At the end of the feeding, your baby starts drinking hindmilk, which is mostly made up of fat and gives your baby the calories it needs. Offer only one breast at a feeding, or make sure your breast is completely drained before offering the other one so that your baby gets enough hindmilk.
18. It has all the vitamins, fats, and proteins needed by your baby in the exact amount for the first six months. Your breasts will only produce as much milk as your baby needs, no more and no less. The amount of breast milk a mom produces has nothing to do with her breast size.
19. Mother's milk is always available and does not get over and it is most economical.
20. At night, babies can be breastfed without your having to get up so it means you can continue resting and breastfeeding your baby at the same time.
21. Breast milk prevents diarrhea in babies.
22. Breast milk is well digested and the baby does not feel constipated.
23. Breast milk can be preserved for a day or two in the refrigerator. It does not get spoiled if preserved at the right temperature.
24. Microwaving breast milk isn't the best option as it heats up unevenly.
25. Runny noses and allergies are less common in breast-fed babies.
26. Breastfed infants are at lower risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
27. Middle-ear infections are less common in breast-fed babies. This may be because of the antibodies in breast milk. Also bottle-fed and breast-fed babies use different muscles when they suck. Bottle-fed babies don't have to suck as hard to get their milk. It may be that the muscles that bottle-fed babies don't use allow milk to back up into their Eustachian tubes causing the middle ear infection.
28. The baby can be weaned off breast milk when the mother and baby are ready after 6 months.
29. In the initial stages, some mothers have difficulty in feeding their babies and have to take the help of breast pumps. Remember that the best pump is your baby itself so let him do it.
30. An amazing fact is breastfeeding reduces a mother’s risk of ovarian and breast cancer and osteoporosis. The longer she breast-feeds, the higher the benefit.

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### Banana
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Last updated: 2024-10-18T09:30:36.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts about Banana

1. Amazingly over 100 million tons of bananas are produced every year, making it the world’s most popular fruit.
2. Bananas are a staple food for millions of people and are considered to be the fourth most important crop after rice, wheat, and maize.
3. The fact is edible bananas evolved from a plant in the Indo-Malaysian region. However presently most modern bananas are grown in tropical regions like South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
4. India is the biggest banana producer in the world, followed by Brazil . Over twenty percent of the world’s bananas are grown in India. The amazing fact is that they are not even in the top ten banana-exporting countries keeping them all for themselves.
5. The World’s biggest exporter of bananas in Ecuador.
6. The most expensive bananas in the world can be found in Australia , up to $15 per kilogram. The Australian government has banned imports of bananas, meaning that any problem with their own harvest results in huge price rises.
7. Uganda has the highest per capita consumption of bananas in the world. The average citizen eats about 200 kg of the fruit every year , roughly three bananas a day.
8. The amazing fact is that the bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; Natural bananas used to be short, fat, and had huge seeds ( Gros Michel).
9. Amazingly there is a risk of banana’s getting extinct. Until the 1950s, the Gros Michel variety was the top banana, but it was effectively wiped out by Panama disease and had to be replaced by the Cavendish that we enjoy today. This variety being resistant was not affected by Panama disease. There is only one variety left in the world and If it is affected by any disease, the Whole World’s crop could be wiped out as it has happened before with other varieties.
10. Just one banana plant has 12 to 20 individual bananas, called fingers that make up a hand. Each stem develops 7 to 20 hands of bananas. A bunch can contain amazing 400 bananas.
11. A strawberry is not a berry, but a banana is. They do not produce mature seeds . There are still tiny little seeds in bananas, but they don't serve any function in banana reproduction.
12. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In fact, the average American eats 27 pounds of bananas every year.
13. Contrary to popular belief, bananas do not grow on trees. it is actually the world's largest perennial herb posing as a tree growing up to 25 feet, developing massive banana leaves extending 9 feet in the air.
14. The rhizomes, or roots, of banana plants can be hundreds of years old.
15. The amazing fact is it's awfully hard to extract juice from bananas even though they're 80% water. Their molecular structure is just not very squeezable. The currently available banana juice is blended banana, not squeezed banana.
16. Amazingly bananas are naturally radioactive. This comes from the fact that they contain about half a gram of radioactive potassium. Specifically, they contain Potassium-40, which is a radioactive isotope of potassium.BED (Banana Equivalent Dose) of 10 means the same amount of radiation as if you had eaten 10 bananas.
17. The amazing thing is the banana tree, or herb, bears only one bunch of bananas before dying. Luckily, it shoots a new "eye" (a baby plant) before dying, the entire process only taking about ten years.
18. Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber.
19. The banana's combination of carbohydrates, simple sugars, and dietary fiber provides an instant, sustained, and substantial boost of energy needed for physical activity. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
20. Bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein plus vitamin B6 which together help the body produce serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood, and generally make you feel happier just ideal for any depression.
21. Banana has relatively high Iron content and can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood helping anemia.
22. Banana's amazingly high potassium content yet low in salt, making it perfect for blood pressure. FDA has allowed bananas to be promoted for reducing the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
23. The potassium-packed banana can assist learning by making pupils more alert increasing the brainpower.
24. Banana is high in fiber and can help restore normal bowel action helping in constipation.
25. One of the best ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
26. Bananas have a natural antacid effect on the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief. It neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
27. In mosquito bite try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
28. Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system..
29. Many cultures use bananas as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
30. A Banana a day keeps the doctor away! would be justified because as compared to an apple, it has 4 times the protein, 2 times the carbohydrate, 3 times the phosphorus, 5 times the vitamin A and iron, and 2 times other vitamins and minerals. Banana also contains 15% of your daily recommended Vitamin C helping your body heal. Add that it is potassium rich and you can say it is one of the best value foods.

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### Coffee
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Last updated: 2024-10-16T09:30:05.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Facts About Coffee

1. The fact is that as per historians, coffee was first discovered by a herd of goats. An Ethiopian herder discovered a bean making his goats crazy in the 9th century which was later termed as coffee beans.
2. The coffee berries, sometimes called coffee cherries, are edible fruit that has coffee beans inside. They are only called 'beans' because of their resemblance to beans.
3. One coffee plant can produce up to 2000 beans a year, this translates to 1kg of raw coffee per year per plant. With modern agricultural techniques, we are able to harvest about 3000 to 4000kg of coffee per hectare of coffee plants.
4. Most of the coffee consumed is either coffee Arabica (Arabica beans) or Coffea Robusta (Robusta beans).
5. There are about fifty different species of coffee. Only the state of Hawaii produces coffee commercially in the US..
6. Africa, Brazil, and Colombia produce more than 40 percent of coffee in the world.
7. The amazing fact is that 400 to 500 Billion cups of coffee are consumed each year and, as a commodity, the coffee bean ranks second only to petroleum in terms of dollars traded worldwide.
8. Average 8 oz. cup of coffee contains about 90 to 110 mg Caffeine.
9. About 65 percent of Americans drink coffee with breakfast. New York inhabitants consume 7 times more coffee than people from any other US city.
10. The coffee taster for Costa coffee has his tongue insured for an amazing £10m.
11. Before coffee became popular in the 1700s, beer was the most popular drink to go with breakfast in the USA.
12. Coffee loses caffeine as it is roasted, so a dark, “bold” cup of coffee actually has less caffeine than a lighter roast
13. If milk is added to coffee, the fat content of the milk causes the human body to absorb caffeine at a slower rate, thus weakening its effect.
14. Coffee stays warm 20% longer when you add cream.
15. The fact is coffee doesn’t taste like it smells because saliva wipes out half of the flavor.
16. The amazing fact is a coffee can be lethal if you drink about 100 cups of processed coffee drink.
17. Brewed espresso has 2.5% fat, while filtered coffee contains 0.6% fat.
18. George C Washington, an English chemist invented instant coffee in Guatemala in 1906\. The product was commercially launched in 1909.
19. An amazing fact is the original New York Stock Exchange was a coffee house on Wall Street which started in 1794 and was destroyed by fire in 1835.
20. Some Catholics urged Pope Clement VII to ban coffee, calling it “devil’s beverage”. After tasting the beverage, the Pope is said to have remarked that the drink was so delicious that it would be a sin to let only misbelievers drink it.
21. A tall Starbucks coffee has about 7.6 times the caffeine of a can of Coke and more caffeine than a 12-ounce can of Red Bull.
22. Amazingly Kopi Luwak, the world’s most expensive coffee is made from coffee beans eaten and excreted by a Sumatran wild cat.
23. The most expensive drink at Starbucks is for $25, which serves 16 shots of espresso or 1400 mg of caffeine.
24. In Japan, they have “Cat Cafes”, coffee shops where you can hang out with cats.
25. A study has found that drinking coffee may help save your liver from alcohol damage.
26. Brazil couldn’t afford to send its athletes to LA for the 1932 Olympics, so they loaded them in a ship full of coffee and made them sell it on the way.
27. Regular coffee drinkers have a decreased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and other health problems due to an unidentified component interacting with the caffeine.
28. Coffee was banned in Mecca in sixteenth Century. It was believed to stimulate radical thinking and unwanted behaviour.
29. The first webcam watched a coffee pot. It allowed researchers at Cambridge to monitor the coffee situation without leaving their desks.
30. There is a custom in Naples called Caffè Sospeso where someone who has experienced good luck would order a sospeso, paying the price of two coffees but receiving and consuming only one. A poor person enquiring later whether there was a sospeso available would then be served a coffee for free.
31. It’s a wedding custom for Turkish brides to spike the groom’s coffee with salt before the wedding. if he drinks it without complaint, he’s a keeper.
32. James Michael Tyler (Gunther) from friends got his role because he was the only one who was able to use a coffee machine during the interview.
33. The French philosopher Voltaire is said to be drinking 50 cups of coffee a day.
34. There is a spa in Japan that lets you bathe in coffee, tea, or wine.
35. Amazingly a car fueled by used coffee grounds made the 250-mile London to Manchester trip in 2010\. It was called the 'car-puccino' and made the trip on the equivalent of 11,000 espressos.
36. Amazing thing is that coffee was so scarce in Germany during WWII that ‘coffee bombs’ were dropped from planes to turn the people against the government.
37. The woman who won $2.9 million by using McDonald’s over spilled hot coffee amazingly asked for only $20,000, to cover her medical bills.
38. The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line “the British don’t know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don’t know how to make a good cup of tea. It’s an even swap.”
39. The amazing fact is that in the ancient Arab culture there was only one way a woman could legally divorce: If her husband didn’t provide enough coffee.
40. Irish coffee was actually invented to warm up cold American plane passengers leaving from Ireland.

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### Color
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Last updated: 2024-10-14T09:30:02.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about color

1. The amazing Fact is that technically, it’s all in our heads. Amazingly color does not exist at all. It is something created by our brains as a side effect when it tries to make sense of the information received by eyes from the outer world.
2. We are able to see the colors because we have three distinct types of receptor cells in our retina, each specifically sensitive to red, green, and blue color.
3. Scientists estimate that we are able to see amazing ten million different colors.
4. There’s a specific gene that allows us to see and interpret the color red. Women have two X chromosomes, while men only possess one. Because the particular “red-seeing gene” sits on the X chromosome, women see the full red spectrum, while males can see half the hues.
5. Amazingly color is responsible for 60 to 90 % of the first impressions. Bright colors will win you more friends. Violet or orange is preferable to black & neutral.
6. The fact is that Blue is the most favored color in the world (About 40 %) followed by purple being a distant second.
7. Traditionally, the primary colors used in printing were red, yellow, and blue, as these were the colors painters mixed to get all other hues. As printing emerged, they were replaced with cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK), as this color combo enables printers to produce a wider variety of colors on paper.
8. The RGB model is by far the most “popular” additive color model. Each color is described as a set of Red, Green, and Blue values on a scale from 0 to 255.
9. The CMYK model is a standard printing color model. Each color is represented by a corresponding value of cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks, on a scale from 0% to 100%. However, it is a fact that no single device is capable of reproducing all visible colors.
10. VIBGYOR, the visible color range for humans has amazingly very limited range from the total spectrum, at one end violet having a wavelength of 430-390 nm to Red at other end having a wavelength of 750-650 nm (Nanometer).
11. In bright conditions, the human eye has maximum sensitivity for the 555 nm wavelength of light, which corresponds to the yellow-green color.
12. The fact is that the human eye can detect more shades of green than any other color.
13. Humans can’t see infrared and ultraviolet lights at both extremes which are seen by some animals. The human eye also doesn't see microwaves, radio waves, x-rays, gamma rays, or anything that falls out of the visual spectrum.
14. Amazingly humans, apes, monkeys, ground squirrels, and many species of fish, birds, and insects have well-developed color vision.
15. Amazingly 8 % of human males are relatively deficient in color vision. Mammals with limited color vision include mice, rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, and crocodiles. Humans and mammals with poor color vision are unable to differentiate between reds and greens. They see the world as a blend of blues, yellows, and greys. Humans are also color-blind in dim light.
16. The official Olympic logo was created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1913\. It consists of five interlacing rings of blue, yellow, black, green, and red. At least one of these colors is found in the flag of every nation.
17. The best color for the car is silver. As per statistics, silver is less often involved in accidents. This is due to the fact that they are clearly visible on the road and under twilight.
18. Red is the most common color in national flags. Red is beautiful for Russians. It is the color of communism. In India, the traditional color for soldiers is red while For the Chinese red brings good luck.
19. Red excites you, can increase your muscle reaction, make you want to gamble more, and raise your blood pressure. Red can make you hungry.
20. Amazingly bulls are color blind. They charge the red cape because it is moving, not because it is red.
21. Green is youthful. It is a healing color, the color of nature. It is believed to increase concentration. In ancient Greece, green symbolized victory. Unlike red, green suppresses hunger.
22. Blue stands for love, which is why a bride carries or wears something blue on her wedding day. A room painted blue is said to be a relaxing, calming effect. Blue conveys trust and reliability.
23. In ancient Rome, public servants wore blue. Today, police and other public servants wear blue.
24. Purple is a royal color. Purple robes are an emblem of authority and rank. Leonardo da Vinci believed that the power of meditation increases 10 times when done in purple light, as in the purple light of stained glass. Purple in a child's room is said to help develop the imagination.
25. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra loved purple so much that she used to have her servants soak 20,000 Purpura snails for 10 days to obtain just one ounce of Tyrian purple dye.
26. Hindus in India wear yellow to celebrate the festival of spring and on auspicious occasions. To holistic healers, yellow is the color of peace. In tenth-century France, the doors of traitors and criminals were painted yellow. The color yellow can cause nausea, so it is avoided in airplanes.
27. School buses are usually yellow or greenish-yellow for a reason. You can see a yellow object that is not in front of you "in the corners of your eyes" much sooner than any other color. In fact, lateral peripheral vision for detecting yellows is 1.25 times greater than for red. Also, yellow or greenish-yellow are more visible to the human eye under dimmer conditions compared to red.
28. A white flag is a universal symbol for a truce. Angels are usually depicted wearing white robes.
29. The Egyptian pharaohs wore white crowns. It's considered good luck to be married in a white garment.
30. Black often stands for secrecy. Black is also associated with sophistication and elegance.
31. The amazing fact is that the color of mourning widely differs. The ancient Egyptians and Romans used black for mourning, as do most Europeans and Americans. White means mourning in China and Japan. In South Africa, red is the color of mourning. In Iran, blue is the color of mourning. In Thailand, purple is worn by a widow mourning her husband's death. In Egypt and Burma, yellow signifies mourning.
32. Amazingly a lobster's blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue.
33. The amazing fact is that scorpions glow under ultraviolet light.
34. Amazingly Grasshoppers have white blood while Spiders have transparent blood.
35. Amazingly the 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.

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### Dragonfly
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Last updated: 2024-10-12T09:30:40.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Little-Known Dragonfly Facts

1. Dragonflies were some of the first winged insects to evolve, some 300 million years ago. The dragonfly has hardly changed over this period.
2. There are more than 5,000 known species of dragonflies.
3. From the time a dragonfly egg hatches, it can live anywhere from six months to six years, but only about two months as an actual dragonfly. Most of the time is spent as a nymph in water.
4. Amazingly a dragonfly nymph breathes through its butt. The dragonfly nymph's gills are inside its rectum. The dragonfly nymph will pull water into its anus, where gas exchange occurs. When the dragonfly expels the water from its rear, it propels the nymph forward, providing the added benefit of locomotion.
5. The amazing fact is that despite their menacing appearance, dragonflies cannot sting and are harmless to us.
6. Nearly all of the dragonfly’s head is the eye, so they have incredible amazing supervision. It has about 30,000 lenses covering the retina of its eye, and thus sees these many images where we see only one. All these images are integrated into one image.
7. Dragonfly eyes perceive the normal color spectrum, along with UV light.
8. Dragonflies have an amazing 360-degree vision and don’t have blind spots. Most insects have a blind spot behind and underneath them. Dragonflies are notoriously hard to catch.
9. It's amazing that a dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.
10. The amazing fact is that they Calculate Velocity and direction of prey for A Perfect Kill. They’re so efficient in their hunting that in one study, the dragonflies caught 90 to 95 percent of the prey released into their enclosure. In contrast, sharks manage only 50% while lions about 25 %.
11. Dragon Fly jaws can open as wide as their entire head, allowing them to eat virtually anything within reason.
12. Amazingly Dragonflies can Isolate their prey In a swarm. It can single out one target in a swarm, then zero in on it exclusively while remaining aware of the rest of the swarm to avoid a collision.
13. Dragonflies amazingly mash their prey to a pulp with powerful serrated jaws. Most small dragonflies aren’t powerful enough to break a human’s skin. To a small fly, however, those jaws mean instant death.
14. The amazing thing is that the four wings of dragonflies operate independently of each other, allowing them to maneuver in mid-air like a helicopter. They can hover, fly forwards, backward, and sideways, and instantly change direction whenever they need to.
15. Dragonflies can even fly upside down if they need to. No other insect has such a mastery.
16. Dragonflies, which eat insects as adults, are great control of the mosquito population. A single dragonfly can eat 30 to hundreds of mosquitoes per day. They have an amazing appetite and never stop eating.
17. Dragonflies are expert fliers and if they can’t fly, they starve because they only eat prey they catch while flying.
18. An amazing fact is that a dragonfly called the globe skinner has the longest migration of any insect, 11,000 miles back and forth across the Indian Ocean.
19. Dragonflies can fly up to 50 miles per hour.
20. Dragonflies have six legs but amazingly cannot walk!

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### Spider
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Last updated: 2024-10-10T09:30:29.000Z
#### 30 Awesome and Amazing Spider Facts

1. Amazingly Spiders have more than 40000 different species.
2. Amongst all the species only 27 species have so far caused human fatalities.
3. Spiders have 8 legs while insects have 6\. Amazingly when a Spider is moving there are always 4 legs on the surface and 4 off of it.
4. Spiders don’t have antennae while insects do.
5. Amazingly all spiders are venomous with the exception of one family.
6. All spiders are predators. Spiders hunt and capture prey.
7. The amazing fact is Spiders can't digest solid foods. Before a spider can eat its prey, it must turn the meal into a liquid form. The spider exudes digestive enzymes onto the victim's body. Once the enzymes break down the tissues of the prey, it sucks up the liquefied remains, along with the digestive enzymes.
8. Females are typically larger than their male counterparts. A hungry female may consume any invertebrate that comes along, including her suitors. Male spiders often use courtship rituals to identify themselves as mates and not meals.
9. Amazingly Spiders as a group, eat more insects than birds.
10. Some male spiders pluck their cobwebs like a guitar, to attract female spiders.
11. The amazing fact is that the black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates in a single day.
12. Certain female species of spiders such as the Australian crab spider amazingly sacrifice their bodies as a food source for their offspring.
13. Amazing thing is that a strand of spider web is stronger than an equal diameter of steel.
14. Scientists haven’t been able to recreate the design of a strand of spider web even with all the technology we have today.
15. The amazing fact is that a spider silk strand long enough to circle the Earth would weigh less than 500 grams (18 oz).
16. Spiders recycle their webbing, so a spider that gets stuck in its own web may eat its way out.
17. It can take a spider up to 3 hours to make an average-sized web.
18. An extremely rare spider in Eastern Africa called the Snow Spider’s body is completely white, but it amazingly spins a completely black web.
19. The blood of a Spider is light blue in color.
20. The amazing fact is that Spider legs use hydraulic pressure for motion. They control the amount of blood pumped into them to extend and retract their legs. When they die their legs curl because the liquid dries up!
21. Amazing thing is that the Orange Magma Spider can resist heat up to 5,300 degrees F.
22. The amazing fact is that spiders can sustain hundreds of atmospheres of pressure, and can work flawlessly in a vacuum.
23. Scientists have discovered spiders working at both the bottom of the sea and in the ultra-thin atmosphere thirty miles above the Earth.
24. The fact is that spiders cannot physically die of natural causes. If kept safe, a spider can continue to live and grow larger for a theoretically unlimited amount of time.
25. Amazingly a spider egg contains as much DNA as four humans combined.
26. Tarantulas are large and often hairy spiders, the biggest species have been known to kill mice, lizards, and birds.
27. Amazingly Tarantulas can't spin webs.
28. Tarantulas can live up to 30 years.
29. The amazing fact is that if you drop a tarantula even for a short distance, it will shatter and mostly die since it is very delicate.
30. A Tarantula can survive for more than two years without food.

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### Eagle
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Last updated: 2024-10-08T09:30:56.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts about Eagle

1. There are more than 60 different species of eagles.
2. Eagles are different from many other birds of prey mainly by their larger size, more powerful build, heavier head, and large, hooked beaks.
3. Eagles have large eyes in proportion to their heads and very large pupils. Eagles’ eyes have a million light-sensitive cells per square mm of the retina, five times more than a human’s 200,000.
4. While humans see just three basic colors, eagles see five. This enables them to spot even well-camouflaged prey from a very long distance. Some eagles can spot an animal the size of a rabbit up to two miles away!
5. The life span of an eagle is about 25 to 35 years.
6. An eagle carries about 7,000 feathers which are very strong.
7. Some eagles are built with short wings and long tails enabling them to hunt in the tight confines of a forest, while others have short tails and broad long wings allowing them to soar high above open plains and water.
8. To defend their territories and attract a mate, bald eagles put on spectacular aerial displays including death-defying swoops and seemingly suicidal dogfights that involve locking talons with another bird and free-falling in a spiral.
9. Once a mating partner is found, two birds will mate for life unless one eagle dies or disappears.
10. Both the male and female build the nest, but the female chooses the nest tree. Both will defend the nest territory which is usually several square miles.
11. Eagles lay 1 to 3 eggs which are about 3 inches long. Both females and males incubate the eggs for about 35 days. The male shares in bringing food to his mate. There is almost always at least one adult on the nest for the first two weeks.
12. An older, larger chick frequently kills its younger sibling once it has hatched. Amazingly adults do not intervene.
13. Eagles build their nests called eyries on high cliffs or in tall trees. Eagles tend to use the same nests year after year. Each spring, they repair and refurbish the nest.
14. Over the years the nest can grow very large up to 13 ft deep, 8 ft wide, and weighing 1 ton or more.
15. The Harpy Eagle and the Philippine Eagle have wings that spread 2.5m across and use their massive, sharp talons (claws), to kill and carry off prey as large as deer and monkeys.
16. The amazing fact is that the eagle talon’s strike is so powerful to be twice the force of a rifle bullet.
17. It has been estimated that the gripping power (Kg by square inch) of the Eagle is ten times greater than that of a human.
18. The golden eagle is the national symbol of Mexico and a protected national treasure in the United States. It is North America’s largest bird of prey.
19. In Greece, Golden Eagles eat turtles, dropping them from great heights onto rocks to break open their armored shells.
20. Although most eagles are carnivorous the African Vulturine Fish Eagle is primarily a vegetarian, feeding on rich oil palm fruits.
21. Eagles can climb up to 3000 meters (10,00 Ft) using convention currents soaring for hours. When cruising, they can fly about 65 km/hr (40 mph).
22. Eagles attack their prey by swooping down on them at an angle. They can reach amazing speeds of up to 160 km/hr (100 mph) when diving.
23. The highly developed talon of the Bald Eagle’s hind toe is used to pierce the vital areas of prey while it is held immobile by the front toes.
24. Recognized by its white head, brown body, and hooked yellow beak, the bald eagle has been the national emblem of the United States of America since 1782\. The Great Seal of the United States also features a bald eagle. Actually, it is not bald.
25. Bald eagles feast on fish, ducks, snakes, and turtles generally living near water.
26. Though bald eagles can't swim, they can cross water without flying over it. They will sit in the water and row themselves across with their wings.
27. Bald eagles have no sense of smell, but they can taste.
28. Whenever a Bald Eagle migrates south it always goes to the same spot and when it returns north it always goes back to the same spot.
29. Native Americans historically gave eagle feathers to non-indigenous people and also members of other tribes who were deemed worthy.
30. Conservation efforts are helping some species such as the Bald Eagle which has made a dramatic comeback in the U.S. over the last few decades. The bald eagle was declared endangered species in 1967 but has been removed from the list in 2007.

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### Egg
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Last updated: 2024-10-06T09:30:03.000Z
#### 40 Awesome Facts About Egg

1. Worldwide, around 1.2 trillion eggs are produced for eating every year.
2. The average person on Earth consumes 175 eggs a year.
3. About 75 billion eggs are produced in the United States each year. The average American eats about 250 eggs a year.
4. China is the biggest supplier of eggs, producing about 390 billion each year, about half of the world's supply. Amazingly forty percent of the world’s eggs are consumed in China.
5. Eggs contain the highest quality food protein known. It is second only to mother's milk for human nutrition.
6. Chickens aren't the only birds that lay edible eggs. Duck, quail, emu, goose, and ostrich eggs can all be cooked up.
7. The average hen lays 250 to 270 eggs a year. A hen starts laying eggs at 19 weeks of age.
8. The main factor that determines the size of an egg, is the age of the hen. The commercial categories are calculated on the basis of weight. In the US there are 6 categories (from 35 g. “peewee” to 71 g. “jumbo”).
9. A freshly laid egg has a temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
10. Eggs take about 25 hours to form inside a hen. After the egg is laid, she will rest for 30 minutes, and then she will ovulate again and start the entire process over.
11. The fact is mother hen requires 5 oz. of food and 10 oz. of water for each egg.
12. A mother hen turns over her egg about fifty times per day so the yolk won't stick to the sides of the shell.
13. An egg white is made mainly of a protein called albumen. It also has niacin (vitamin B3), riboflavin (vitamin B2), magnesium, potassium, sodium, and sulfur. The white contains about 57 percent of an egg's protein.
14. Eggs in fact contain every single essential vitamin (except Vitamin C) and all the amino acids.
15. Uncooked egg yolks are an excellent, easily digested protein drink that athletes have used for generations.
16. Eggs are one of the few foods that naturally contain Vitamin D.
17. Eggs also contain choline, which is necessary for healthy cell membranes in the body. Choline stimulates brain development and function and helps to preserve memory.
18. Eggs also are good for your eyes because they contain lutein which helps prevents age-related cataracts and muscular degeneration.
19. Xanthophylls is the yellow-orange pigment found in plants eaten by hens that give yolks their color. The yolk provides 55 calories and contains all the fat in the egg and half of the proteins.
20. A whole egg is about 3 tablespoons worth of liquid, the egg yolk measures about 1 tablespoon of liquid. Egg provides about 70 to 75 calories.
21. How to find whether an egg is fresh or hard-boiled? Just spin the egg. If it wobbles, it’s raw. If it spins easily, it’s hard-boiled. A fresh egg will sink in water, a stale one will float.
22. Egg whites that are cloudy indicate that the egg is very fresh. In fact, clear egg whites indicate an egg is aging. Pink egg whites indicate that it is spoiled and should not be consumed.
23. The amazing fact is that an eggshell has as many as 17,000 pores over its surface.
24. An eggshell is made of calcium carbonate making up about 10 % of total weight. It contains minute pores allowing oxygen in and carbon dioxide and moisture out.
25. The blood sometimes seen in an egg comes from the rupture of small blood vessels in the yolk. It is safe to consume.
26. It is not necessary to wash your eggs because you may introduce microbes into the egg through the shell's pores. As the hen lays the eggs, a protective coating called a bloom seals the egg helping to keep moisture in and germs out.
27. When the eggs are hard-boiled a green ring may be formed around the yolk due to a chemical reaction between sulfur and iron. However, the egg is very safe to eat.
28. Candling an egg i.e. Shining a light source through the eggshell can show double yolks, blood spots, and other interior defects. Candling can also be used to determine if eggs are fertile or not.
29. As soon as an egg is laid, air begins to enter through the pores in the shell. A floating egg means that the egg is old and enough air has entered the shell to make the egg float. It doesn’t determine whether an egg is good or bad.
30. Fresh eggs have less air inside the shell making them hard to peel. Older eggs have a larger cell of air allowing for easier peeling, so use older eggs for hard-boiling.
31. You can in fact eat fertilized eggs but they should be refrigerated promptly. The fertilized egg will begin embryological development above 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
32. Beluga caviar, or roe from the endangered Beluga sturgeon, is the world’s most expensive egg. The price per kg ranges from $5,000 in the US to a low of around $250 in Kazakhstan, its origin.
33. Salvador Dalì was literally obsessed with eggs, which he often used in his paintings. The roof of the Dalì museum in his birthplace of Figueres, Spain, is lined with gigantic eggs.
34. The egg features in many popular games around the world: egg hunt, egg toss, egg rolling, egg tapping.
35. Because they are naturally drying, egg whites have long been used as a homemade facial.
36. Joseph Coyle was a newspaper editor from British Columbia and invented the egg carton in 1911 to solve a dispute between two locals about broken eggs.
37. Eggs are placed in their cartons large end up to keep the air cell in place and the yolk centered.
38. The ancient Romans supposedly made the first omelet, which they sweetened with honey, calling it overall (eggs and honey).
39. The bacteria salmonella can be on the inside and outside of an egg that looks normal.
40. The most expensive egg ever sold was the Faberge "Winter Egg" sold in 1994 for $5.6 million.

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### Uruguay
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Last updated: 2024-10-04T09:30:34.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts About Uruguay

##### Land & Geography

- The name of the country when translated means “river of painted birds”.
- It is a small, heart-shaped country sandwiched between Argentina to the west and south and Brazil to the north. The Atlantic Ocean forms its eastern border.
- The area of Uruguay is 176,215 square kilometers.
- Uruguay is one of the most cultured countries in South America with its high literacy rate, refined manners, and high quality of life.
- In English, the country name is unique in having the letter ‘U appear three times within the first five letters.
- About 4 million people live in Uruguay.
- Montevideo is the capital and also the chief port of the country with a population of 1.7 million. It is one of the largest capital in South America outside of Brazil.
- Montevideo was originally founded in the eighteenth century as a military stronghold by the Spanish colonizers.
- Uruguay has a coastline of about 500 kilometers, which offers some of the most beautiful and scenic beaches. Most of the good beaches are located on the Atlantic Ocean.
- Uruguay has over 400 medicinal herbs.

##### History

- Prior to colonization, the residents of Uruguay were the Charrua Indians. The Spanish entered Uruguay in search of gold and silver deposits.
- A staggering 88% of the people are from European descendants mainly immigrants from Spain and Italy during the 19th and 20th centuries. In *fact,* Uruguay is the only European-style nation in all of South America.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The official language of Uruguay is Spanish.
- The majority of people are Roman Catholic however there is no official religion in Uruguay.
- The life expectancy at birth is 75.2 years which is the highest in South America.
- Uruguay has one of the highest literary rates in the world hovering close to 98% of the population.
- The word for Uruguayan cowboys in Spanish is Gauchos.
- The national day is celebrated on August 25 as they gained their independence in 1825 on that day.
- Dueling was legalized in 1920 in a bid by the Government to control the bloodshed. *Amazingly* it was legal until 1992\. The limited amount of gunpowder that could be used and the fact that contests involving swords must be stopped at first blood prevented any further deaths until it was banned.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Jose Gervasio Artigas was an Uruguayan hero because of his strong stance in the independence war against brazil after Portugal annexed it to them. Uruguay gained its independence from Brazil in 1825.
- When Uruguay established the first government after the civil war with Spain. It chose to become a constitutional republic modeled after the USA.
- Uruguay readjusted the Electoral College in the country in 1999\. This helped the country establish new governing rules for elected presidents.
- There are two traditional national parties and branches in Uruguay the National ("Blanco") and Colorado parties, which were founded in the early 19th century.
- The Uruguayan flag has nine strips and sun in the upper left-hand corner with a human face.
- Uruguay is rated as the least corrupt country in Latin America, along with Chile.
- In 2009, Uruguay became the first nation in the world to provide every school child with a free laptop and wireless internet.

##### Economy & Corporates

- The official currency of Uruguay is the peso.
- The largest of its exports is agricultural products as which constitutes 70% of current exports.
- In Uruguay, there are 3 cows for every one person.

##### Sports

- The leading sport in Uruguay is football. Uruguay held its first FIFA world cup in 1930 Uruguay which Uruguay won. Uruguay is the smallest country in the world in terms of population to win a FIFA cup.

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### International Space Station (ISS)
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Last updated: 2024-10-02T09:30:34.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Facts About International Space Station

1. The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station in low Earth orbit. It is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998\. It is now the largest artificial body in orbit often seen with the naked eye from Earth.
2. Russia launched Zarya atop a Proton-K rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Two weeks later, NASA launched Unity. Those were the two first modules of the International Space Station.
3. The amazing fact is that it took 136 space flights on seven different types of launch vehicles to build it.
4. It weighs an amazing 1 million pounds including visiting spacecraft.
5. It has a complete surface area the size of a US football field.
6. It has more livable space than a 6-bedroom house.
7. It has two bathrooms, a gymnasium, and a 360-degree bay window.
8. It has 8 miles of wire just to connect the electrical power system.
9. All its research experiments and spacecraft systems are housed in a bit more than one hundred telephone-booth-sized racks.
10. The station is divided into two sections, the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) and the United States Orbital Segment (USOS). It has been built at the cost of 150 billion USD most of the components by Boeing.
11. The International Space Station (ISS) is the most expensive single object ever built by mankind. Roughly half of the total price was contributed by the USA. The other 15 contributor nations are Canada, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
12. The International Space Station (ISS) Solar Array Length is about 240 feet (73 meters).
13. There have been 180 spacewalks conducted in support of space station assembly, totaling almost 1,130 hours.
14. The International Space Station (ISS) maintains an orbit with an altitude of between 330 km (205 miles) and 435 km (270 miles) by means of reboost maneuvers.
15. The average speed of ISS is about 27,750 km/hour i.e. About 7.7 km/Second. 52 computers control the systems on the ISS.
16. Main U.S. control computers have 1.5 gigabytes of total main hard drive storage in the U.S. segment compared to modern PCs which commonly have 500 gigabyte hard drives.
17. The International Space Station (ISS) has been continuously occupied by astronauts since 2 November 2000.
18. there have been 151 launches to the space station: 98 Russian vehicles, 37 space shuttles, seven U.S. commercial vehicles, five European vehicles, and four Japanese vehicles.
19. The International Space Station (ISS) serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory for the crew to conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and other fields suited for the testing of spacecraft systems and equipment required for missions to the Moon and Mars.
20. It has been visited by 214 astronauts and cosmonauts from 15 different nations.
21. International Space Station (ISS) has more than 100,000 people working for space agencies and more than 500 contractor facilities in 37 US states and 16 countries. 68 countries have been involved in the research onboard the station.
22. After the U.S. Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, Soyuz rockets became the only provider of transport for astronauts at the International Space Station.
23. The amazing Fact is that astronauts aboard the ISS see 15 sunrises and 15 sunsets a day, averaging about one every 45 minutes.
24. Amazingly there is a gun kept in ISS belonging to Russians to protect themselves against bears in case their capsule lands off-course on reentry into the earth.
25. The amazing fact is that Pizza Hut once made a delivery to ISS in 2001 paying the Russians $1 million to transport the Pizza and advertise it commercially.
26. The fact is that NASA has a service texting you whenever ISS passes overhead if you register your mobile number.
27. There are “oxygen candles” that are used aboard the ISS. When ignited can provide enough oxygen for one person for 24 hours.
28. The amazing Fact is that there was a science fiction movie filmed in space aboard the ISS in 2008 called “Apogee of Fear”. It has never been released publicly.
29. There exists a small memory device inside the International Space Station that contains the digitized DNA of Stephen Hawking, Stephen Colbert, and Playboy model Jo Garcia. It is called the Immortality'
30. Astronauts have a patch of Velcro inside their helmets so that they can scratch their noses when needed.
31. Amazingly American astronauts on the ISS can vote in elections from orbit by secure email.
32. In 2007, astronaut Sunita Williams ran an entire marathon onboard the International Space Station, simultaneously with the Boston Marathon, that her sister and a fellow astronaut were running in
33. In 2009, Stephen Colbert won a NASA competition to have a module of the ISS named after him, but NASA opted to name it ‘Tranquility’ instead. They did, however, name a treadmill on the ISS after him. It is called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.)
34. Astronauts in the ISS “do their laundry” by having new clothes shipped to them in an unmanned spacecraft that then has the old clothes put into it and is burnt up upon reentry.
35. The amazing Fact is that some of the shooting stars we see are actually astronaut poop burning up in the atmosphere.
36. The spacewalks can cause astronauts’ fingernails to fall off due to the current glove design.
37. U.S. and Russian astronauts on the ISS have a separate system of water supply. While the U.S. water uses iodine for bacteria control, the Russian water uses silver. If these substances mix, silver-iodine precipitate forms in the water, which may clog the sublimator in the NASA EMU spacesuit.
38. Astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep, otherwise, they could wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide would have formed around their heads.
39. Astronauts can’t cry in space. Amazingly because of the weightless environment, the tears just collect in little balls and sting your eyes.
40. An interesting fact is that without gravity to pull fluids down, astronauts’ sinuses get clogged up and they can’t really taste much of anything.

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### Cheetah
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Last updated: 2024-09-30T09:30:30.000Z
#### 25 Amazing Facts about Cheetah

1. The cheetah originated over 4 million years ago. That’s long before any of the other big cats of today.
2. The cheetah is in fact the fastest land animal in the world, reaching speeds of up to 113km/hr (70 Miles/ Hr). They can accelerate from 0 to 100km/h in just 3 seconds taking strides of 8 meters.
3. Cheetahs are smaller than other members of the big cat family, weighing only 45 to 60 kilograms at full size.
4. It can grow to be 5 feet long, not including the tail, which can also be an additional 3 feet in length. Cheetahs only stand about 2 or 3 feet high. The male cheetahs are typically taller than the females, and also have slightly bigger heads.
5. One way to always recognize a cheetah is by the long, black lines which run from the inside of each eye to the mouth. These are called “tear lines” and they help protect the cheetah’s eyes from the harsh sun and help them to see long distances. Their smaller stature and small, flat heads also set them apart.
6. The fur is very short, which is helpful when running at high speeds. It also provides camouflage, making it easier for the cheetah to hunt its prey.
7. When running, cheetahs use their tail to steer, like a rudder for a boat. Cheetahs are in fact the only big cat that can turn in mid-air while sprinting.
8. They run so fast and stride so long, that only one foot at a time touches the ground. All its power comes from the back. The cheetah's hind limbs have muscles and fibers suited to power running, whereas those on its forelimbs are better for steering and balance.
9. Cheetahs can only maintain the sprint for about half a minute before burning out. With this limiting factor, they try to get as close as possible to their prey.
10. The respiratory rate of the cheetah is about 100 breaths per minute. This occurs at higher rates while it is chasing its prey, allowing it to sustain itself in a chase.
11. The only time a cheetah cannot capture its prey is when it is able to go in the trees. Unlike domestic cats and some larger ones, it is unable to climb trees.
12. There are many cats, large and small, that are able to defend themselves when they are attacked. The cheetah is designed to be on the offense, not defense, and therefore if a larger animal comes after the prey it has captured, it will run instead of fight.
13. Their natural habitat is mostly central to Africa, and even North-Western Asia, but some have been spotted in Iran. Namibia is an excellent location for the cheetah. The cheetah once abundant became extinct from India’s forests in 1952.
14. It is known for its beautiful spots that cover its entire body. It has a long tail that ends with bushy white fur and has extremely long legs.
15. Another unique part of the cheetah is the fact that it has semi-retractable claws. Only three other cats have these types of claws, and allow the cheetah to have a better chance of gripping its prey.
16. The two main advantages that the cheetah has over other animals in its natural habitat are its speed, and also its agility.
17. In a similar way to smaller cats, especially domestic cats, cheetahs make a purring sound. They are the only large cat that is incapable of roaring, something that is found with lions, tigers, and Jaguars.
18. The cheetah is also similar to smaller cats in the way that it hunts for its prey. Larger cats typically hunt for their food in the evening hours, but cheetahs hunt for everything during the day because of their exceptional eyesight which is able to help them see animals up to 3 miles away. However, they have poor night vision.
19. Unlike most animals that need to drink water on a regular basis, especially felines, the cheetah only needs to drink one time every four days. It is because of how its metabolism functions allowing it to go long spans without any type of liquid.
20. The cheetah has adapted over many years to be able to hunt and live in Africa. It is able to run at fast speeds for short distances because of the structure of its legs. Wide nostrils and large lungs combined with a powerful heart and strong arteries provide more oxygen to their muscles which allows them to run faster and longer than most other animals its size. Their huge leg muscles mainly consist of fast-twitch fibers, which contract faster than normal muscles.
21. Cheetahs are becoming more endangered as mankind continues to encroach upon their habitat and also they are hunted for their fur by poachers.
22. Cheetahs do not roar like lions, however, they do have a range of other meaningful vocalizations such as purring, growling, and a variety of contact calls that resemble bird-like chirping sounds.
23. Female cheetahs give birth to around three cubs at a time. They are very vulnerable to predators such as large eagles, lions, hyenas, and baboons. Only about 10% survive.
24. The cubs that survive start following their mother at around 6 weeks. Cheetahs are caring, affectionate, and dedicated mothers. They spend a long time caring for their cubs and teaching them essential survival skills like hunting. After a year and a half, their mother leaves them to breed again. The cubs stay together until the females reach sexual maturity at around two years.
25. A Group of cheetah forming a group is called a coalition which is beneficial for male cheetahs to gain territory. Females are solitary, whereas males tend to live in small groups of 2-3 individuals, usually brothers.

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### Steve Jobs
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Last updated: 2024-09-28T09:30:16.000Z
#### 35 Facts about Steve Jobs

1. Steve Jobs’ biological father was Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian Muslim professor of political science. His biological mother was Joanne Carole Schieble, an American. Her father, however, objected to the marriage so Steve was put up for adoption.
2. The one requirement his biological parents had was that he be adopted by two college-educated people. His adoptive parents were Clara and Paul Jobs.
3. His biological parents went on to have another child, Mona Simpson, whom he later met and connected with.
4. Jobs met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in high school when Jobs was just 13 and Wozniak was 18.
5. Before starting Apple, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built and sold digital blue boxes, $100 pieces of equipment that could illegally hack telephone systems and allowed them to make calls to any number in the world. Amazingly one of the first calls they made using the blue box was to the Vatican with Wozniak pretending to be Henry Kissinger. They asked to talk to the pope without success.
6. Jobs lied to Steve Wozniak. When they were hired to build the first prototype of “Breakout” for Atari, Wozniak and Jobs were going to split the pay 50-50\. The pair stayed up four days straight to finish the game and so were given extra bonus. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to do the job. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350.
7. Jobs dropped out of college. After graduating from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California he went on to study at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1972\. He only took one semester of classes before dropping out.
8. Steve Jobs calls one of the mysteries of life how his friend and Apple's Co-founder Steve Wozniak never built a floating point BASIC for the Apple II, despite Jobs having begged him for several weeks to do it. As a result of Wozniak's refusal, Job reached out to Microsoft to license Bill Gates' BASIC.
9. Apple had three founders, not two. The company was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
10. The first Apple logo was drawn by Ronald Wayne who also wrote the original partnership agreement and the Apple I computer manual. The amazing fact is that he sold his 10% stake two weeks into the partnership for just $800.
11. Because of his appalling personal hygiene, Steve Jobs was asked to work the night shift at Atari.
12. Jobs was a pescetarian which meant he ate fish but no other meat.
13. Steve Jobs in fact became a vegan due to his belief that this diet would eliminate his need to bathe regularly.
14. Every Apple Macintosh from 1984 to the early 90s had Steve Jobs’ and his team’s signatures engraved on the insides of their cases.
15. Steve Jobs tried to donate a computer for every school in America. When the government did not collaborate as they thought it was a marketing idea to get children to use macs. He donated them to the 10,000 schools in California.
16. Jobs purchased Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas in 1986.
17. Steve Jobs wasn’t interested in and was on the verge of selling Pixar, up until the huge success of “Toy Story,” when he took all the credit.
18. Steve Jobs halted all philanthropic activities by Apple 15 years ago saying they would “wait until they are profitable” and never resumed them.
19. Steve Jobs fathered an illegitimate child with Chris Ann Brennan and denied paternity and even went on to refute paying child support for 2 years. The child did turn out to be his daughter who was named Lisa. He later named the "Apple III" computer Lisa after his firstborn.
20. Jobs never used license plates on the silver Mercedes SL55 AMG he always drove. He would always park in the handicap parking zone.
21. Amazingly Steve Jobs’ shares in Disney were worth double his shares in Apple.
22. Steve Jobs used a loophole in the UNOS registration system to get his liver transplant before others.
23. When the Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that they would protest Steve Job’s funeral, they tweeted it from an iPhone.
24. Steve Jobs’ faith in alternative remedies is what cost him his life. Steve Jobs was buried in an unmarked grave.
25. In 1997, Steve Jobs used his patents to pressure Bill Gates into investing $150 million into Apple, because he believed Apple would go under if Microsoft didn’t have “a stake in our success.”
26. Steve Jobs was the “anonymous party” that sold 1.5 million shares of Apple stock in 1997 causing Apple to hit a 12-year low in stock price. That event lead to a boardroom coup of CEO Gil Amelio and placed Steve Jobs as the new CEO of Apple.
27. When asked why he had named his company Apple, he said: "Because it came before Atari in the phone book." Jobs worked for Atari before starting Apple and he also said that he likes apples and that they had to come up with a name by 5 o'clock that day.
28. Steve Jobs kept his salary at $1 since 1997, the year he became Apple's lead executive. Of his salary, Jobs joked: "I get 50 cents a year for showing up, and the other 50 cents is based on my performance."
29. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were pretty certain that their chances of success were minimal in their initial years. "We won't see the money we've invested in back," said Wozniak. Jobs replied: "Yeah, we'll lose our money, but at least we will be able to say we had a company."
30. When he returned to Apple in the mid-90s, Steve Jobs donated Apple's first computers, machines, blueprints to Stanford University clearing up the old to make space for the new.
31. His Religion was Zen Buddhism. He went to India to meditate and learn about a simpler way of life.
32. He was very private about his marriage. His wife was Laurene Powell Jobs and they got married in Yosemite national park on March 18, 1991\. His wife is an MBA graduate of Stanford and was appointed by President Obama to be a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions.
33. Jobs felt betrayed by his former apprentices from Google after the company entered the phone market with its Android devices. He said, “Apple didn’t enter the search business, so why did Google get into the phone business?”
34. The Apple Macintosh computer was named after an actual apple, the McIntosh, because this was Jef Raskin's (an Apple employee working on the Macintosh project) favorite variety.
35. After ending a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Jobs' last words were "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow" while looking over the shoulders of his family. Mona Simpson, his sister revealed this.

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### Weird Deaths
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Last updated: 2024-09-26T09:30:39.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Weird Deaths

1. Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy amazingly died in Toronto while trying to prove that the glass in the windows of a 24th-floor office was unbreakable, by throwing himself against it, an act he had done twice before. It didn’t break but it did pop out of its frame and he plunged to his death.
2. Clement Vallandigham, a 19th century US lawyer, accidentally shot himself dead while defending a murder suspect because he was trying to demonstrate that a supposed victim could have accidentally shot himself dead. He died but proved the point leading to his clients was an acquittal.
3. Monica Meyer, the mayor of Betterton, Maryland, died while checking the town’s sewage tanks. She accidentally fell in and drowned in 15 feet of human waste.
4. Robert Williams, a Ford assembly line worker, is the first human in history to have been killed by a robot. He was hit by a robot arm in 1979 and died.
5. Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he had beheaded several hours earlier. He had tied the man’s head to his horse’s saddle, but while riding home one of its protruding teeth grazed his leg. He died from the infection.
6. Brazilian Joao Maria de Souza was killed in 2013 when a cow fell amazingly through his roof onto him as he slept.
7. Frank Hayes was a jockey, who in 1923 suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a race at Belmont Park in New York but amazingly his horse finished and won the race with his lifeless body still atop for a 20–1 outsider victory making him the first, and thus far the only jockey to win a race after death.
8. Paul G. Thomas, the owner of a wool mill, fell into one of his machines in 1987 and died after being wrapped in 800 yards of wool.
9. In 1900, American physician Jesse William Lazear tried to prove that Yellow Fever was transmitted by mosquitoes by letting infected mosquitoes bite him. He amazingly died of yellow fever proving himself right.
10. Russian physician Alexander Bogdanov performed pioneering blood transfusions on himself before blood types were discovered believing they would give him good health but died of adverse reaction.
11. Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt thought he’d invented a device that could make men fly. He tested this by jumping off the Eiffel Tower wearing it. It didn’t work and he died.
12. In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard and broke his neck running away from a fire.
13. Edward Harrison was playing golf in Washington state in 1951 when his driver snapped, and the shaft lodged in his groin. He staggered about 100 yards before bleeding to death.
14. US Congressman Michael F. Farley amazingly died in 1921 as a result of shaving because his shaving brush was infected with anthrax.
15. British actor Gareth Jones died of a heart attack while performing in a live televised play in 1958 in which his character was scripted to have a heart attack. Amazingly the rest of the cast improvised around his death and finished the play.
16. Mary Ward was a pioneering Irish female scientist who is sadly better known as the first person in history to ever be killed in a car accident while driving with her family in their experimental car called “road locomotive steam engine”.
17. The first pedestrian ever killed by a car was Bridget Driscoll of Croydon, London, in 1896.
18. Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a brilliant Swedish chemist who had an unusual habit of tasting all the chemicals he discovered. He died in 1786 as a result of his exposure to lead, hydrofluoric acid, arsenic, and other poisons.
19. Engineer Horace Lawson Hunley pioneered the submarine design in the American Civil War although most of them sank. He died when his final submarine model, named after himself, sank while he was in command.
20. An amazing fact is General John Sedgwick was killed by a sniper in the American Civil War shortly after uttering the words “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”
21. In 1974, a British health fanatic Basil Brown drank himself to death with carrot juice. He guzzled 10 gallons of carrot juice in a span of 10 days! This gave him 10,000 times the recommended amount of vitamin A and ultimately led to his untimely death from severe liver damage.
22. In 1992, Greg Austin Gingrich died in the Grand Canyon after jokingly pretending to fall to his death, then losing his footing and actually falling to his death.
23. The amazing fact is that Queen Sunanda Kumariratana of Siam (now Thailand) drowned in 1880 in full view of many of her subjects because they were forbidden to touch her and couldn’t rescue her.
24. The first people ever killed in an air accident were hot air balloon pioneers Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre Romain, in 1785.
25. The first person ever killed in a powered airplane crash was Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge in 1908, in a plane piloted by Orville Wright.
26. Twenty-one people died in the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919, when a massive tank of molasses burst on a warm day, sending a 25 ft high wave of sweetener through the city at 35 mph.
27. Eight people died in the London Beer Flood of 1814, when a giant vat at a brewery burst, sending over 3,500 barrels of beer pouring through the nearby streets.
28. In 1518, a “dancing plague” struck Strasbourg, Alsace, France whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. The phenomenon still remains unexplained.
29. A Bosnian man faked his own death including forging a death certificate and bribing undertakers, just to see who would come to his funeral. Only his mother showed up.
30. In 2005, during a Muslim Pilgrimage in Baghdad, one man pointed to another and accused him of carrying explosives. Amazingly 953 People died in the resulting stampede.
31. The V-2 rocket in WW2 in fact killed more people during production than as a weapon. 12,000 forced workers died making them while 9,000 died from the attacks.
32. A 19th-century surgeon once tried to amputate a patient’s leg in under 150 seconds. In his haste, he also amputated his assistant’s fingers and slashed through the coat of a spectator. Both the patient and the assistant died of gangrene, and the spectator dropped dead of fright. It is the only instance in recorded history of an operation with a 300% mortality rate.
33. In 1971, Saddam Hussein imported 100,000 tons of grain treated with fungicidal mercury. The grains were intended for planting, but the Iraqis unable to understand the English and Spanish warnings or the “skull and crossbones” image, baked it into bread. Hundreds of Iraqis died as a result.
34. A volcanologist died at an observation camp when Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980\. He had agreed, for one day, to fill in for a colleague who was rotating out a third scientist based at the camp. The man rotated out died 11 years later during the Mount Unzen (Japan) eruption.
35. Two brothers were amazingly killed within exactly 1 year of each other. Seventeen-year-old Erskine Lawrence Ebbin was struck and killed by a taxi while driving a moped in 1975\. A tragic coincidence was that this was exactly 1 year after his 17-year-old brother was killed by the same taxi, holding the same passenger, driving the same moped, at the same intersection.

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### Mango
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Last updated: 2024-09-24T09:30:27.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts About Mango

1. The mango is known as the 'king of fruit' throughout the world. It's the most popular fruit in the World.
2. Mangos were first grown in India over 5,000 years ago. There are over 400 varieties of Mango throughout the world.
3. The name 'mango' is derived from the Tamil word 'mangkay' or 'man-gay'. When the Portuguese traders settled in Western India they adopted the name 'manga'.
4. Mango seeds traveled with humans from Asia to the Middle East, East Africa and South America beginning around 300 or 400 A.D.
5. Mango cultivars arrived in Florida in the 1830's and in California in the 1880's. Only 10 percent of all mangoes are grown in the United States.
6. Most of the mangos sold in the U.S. come from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Guatemala, and Haiti. Mangos are available all year long.
7. Legend says that Buddha meditated under the cool shade of a mango tree.
8. The mango is the national fruit of India, Pakistan, and the Philippines. It is also the national tree of Bangladesh.
9. In India and several other cultures, the mango fruit and leaves are ritually used as floral decorations at weddings, public celebrations, and religious ceremonies.
10. A mango tree in fact can grow as tall as 100 feet. They are a long-living tree with some specimens having been known to still bear fruit after 300 years.
11. The flowers of a mango tree are small and white with five petals, and the fruit takes between three and six months to ripen.
12. Most pollination of mango flowers is in fact not done by bees, but by flies and fruit bats.
13. Amazingly the Mango is a member of the cashew family of flowering plants; other species include poison ivy.
14. The bark, leaves, skin, and pit of the mango have been used in folk remedies for centuries.
15. There are over 20 million metric tons of mangos grown throughout the tropical and sub-tropical world. Nearly half of the world's mangoes are produced in India, but amazingly the country accounts for less than one percent of the international mango trade due to the fact India consumes most of its own production.
16. All across the world, Alphonso's mainly produced in India is the highest and the top-most variety of mango.
17. India in fact grows more mangoes than all its other fruits combined.
18. More fresh mangoes are eaten around the world every day than any other fruit.
19. A ripe mango will “give” slightly and a firm mango will ripen at room temperature over a few days.
20. Sour, unripe mangoes can be used in chutneys, pickles, as side dishes, or eaten raw on a stick dipped in salt, black pepper, chili, lime, or soy sauce.
21. Mangos have natural tenderizing properties, making them a perfect ingredient for marinades.
22. The most amazing fact about mango seeds is that it is used to make soap due to its high stearic acid content.
23. When the mango is green the amount of vitamin C is higher, as it ripens the amount of beta carotene (vitamin A) increases.
24. A one-cup serving of mangos is just 100 calories. About 100 gm provides 60 calories.
25. Mango provides 100% of your daily vitamin C, 35% of your daily vitamin A and 40% of your daily fiber.
26. Mangoes contain as much vitamin C as an orange.
27. Mango is free from fat, sodium, and cholesterol.
28. The antioxidant compounds in mangoes fight against cancers. These compounds are quercetin, isoquercitrin, astragalin, fisetin, gallic acid, and methyigallat.
29. Cholesterol contains low-density lipoprotein which is bad cholesterol. Mangoes produce High-density lipoprotein which balances the cholesterol level.
30. One of the useful nutrition facts of mango is that it contains Tartaric acid, malic acid, and citric acid which maintains the percentage of alkali in the body.

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### Calorie
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#### 25 Interesting Facts About Calorie

1. The definition of a calorie is “the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C”.
2. In nutrition, what we talk of as “calories” are really kilocalories enough energy to raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by 1°C.
3. Calories in our diet come from fat, protein, carbohydrates. Carbohydrates and protein contain 4 calories per gram. Fat has a whopping 9 calories per gram.
4. The average American in fact eats 300 more calories daily than in 1985\. Eating 300 extra calories a day for a year will pile on about 15 kilograms.
5. Obesity is the result of taking more calories than you consume. Extra calories are converted to body fat.
6. Each pound of body fat stores roughly 3500 calories.
7. If you would like to lose one pound per week, you would need to create a calorie shortage of 3500 calories per week or 500 calories per day.
8. In general, an adult body needs at least 1000 to 1400 calories to have enough energy to fuel key organs like the brain, heart, and lungs. This minimum number of calories varies greatly depending on age, sex, weight, and muscle mass. These many calories are needed just to survive. Any other extra activity requires additional calories.
9. The Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps eats amazing 12,000 calories per day whilst training that’s enough calories to feel ten sedentary office dieters!
10. A male athlete typically consumes upwards of 7000 calories a day!
11. Ideally, we should consume foods with a relatively high number of nutrients per calorie, or nutrient-dense foods. Otherwise, we are eating "empty calories". Soft drinks are a good example of empty-calorie foods. Nutrient-dense foods include unprocessed food items, fruits, vegetables, etc.
12. It is believed that one-third of Americans are getting nearly half of their daily calories from junk food.
13. 25 % of the calorie consumption in young adults comes from sweetened beverages like soda.
14. One serving of standard colas, such as Coke or Pepsi (12 oz.), contains about 130 calories. Calorie breakdown: 0% fat, 99% carbs, 1% protein. These drinks pack a lot of calories for their volume and bring with them no nutrition whatsoever.
15. A 1.5-ounce serving of vodka, gin, whiskey, rum, etc. supplies roughly 100-calories.
16. A 5-ounce serving of wine will also pack in about 100 calories.
17. Beer will generally have 30 to 50 calories per 100 ml.
18. Reducing the intake of calories by just 100 calories a day can reduce the chances of developing Type II diabetes by half.
19. The risk of heart disease is reduced by 1-2% for every 1% weight loss achieved.
20. On average, exercise machines overestimate calories burned by 20 percent.
21. Two big slices of pizza give about 1000 calories.
22. There are no calories in tea or coffee. Calories come from the milk and sugar that you add.
23. New York restaurants are now legally obliged to display calorie counts on menus.
24. The amazing Fact is that you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. The more you sleep, the more you burn calories.
25. Laughing for just 15 minutes a day can burn 50 calories! That is the equivalent of 5 lbs a year.

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### Zebra
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Last updated: 2024-09-20T09:30:58.000Z
#### 25 Amazing Facts About Zebra

1. Zebra are part of the Equidae family along with horses and donkeys.
2. The fact is Zebras cannot be tamed and trained like horses due to their wild unpredictable nature.
3. The Zebra is an African animal best known for its black and white stripes in different patterns unique to each animal which can be used to identify it.
4. An amazing fact is zebras are considered to be black with white stripes, not white with black stripes.
5. There is a reason for the stripes. When zebras are grouped together, their stripes make it hard for a predator to pick out one zebra to chase.
6. Zebra crossings (pedestrian crossings) are named after the black and white stripes of zebras.
7. They are highly sociable creatures.
8. The large herds are known as “harems”.
9. They live in a variety of habitats, such as grasslands, savannas, and mountains.
10. There are three main species of zebras: the Plains Zebra, the Mountain Zebra, and the Grevy’s Zebra.
11. The Grevy's zebra is the largest wild member of the horse family.
12. The Plain Zebra has the highest rate of population. The Grevy’s Zebra and the Mountain Zebra are listed as endangered species.
13. A zebra family is made up of one stallion, a few mares, and their offspring.
14. Members of a zebra family are very caring! Amazingly if one is attacked by a predator, others do not run away but stick together as the stallion tries to drive away from the predator.
15. Zebras have shiny coats that dissipate an amazing 70 percent of incoming heat and the stripes help it to withstand intense solar radiation.
16. The life span of Zebra is about 25 to 30 years.
17. The Zebras can reach a height of 4 feet and can weigh anywhere between 485 lbs (220 kg) to 990 lbs (450 kg).
18. Zebras are in fact very adaptable grazers. They feed mainly on grasses but will also eat herbs, shrubs, leaves, bark, and twigs. They have large-sized teeth meant for grinding and cropping grass.
19. They can subsist on diets of lower nutritional quality than that necessary for other herbivores.
20. Zebras have excellent eyesight and hearing.
21. They are generally slower than horses with a top speed of around 35 mph (56 kph), but their great stamina helps them outpace predators.
22. When chased, a zebra will zigzag from side to side, making it more difficult for the predator to catch them. When cornered, a zebra will rear up and kick or bite its attacker.
23. Zebra are extremely dependent on water and never wander far from waterholes, where they usually drink at least once a day.
24. Zebras amazingly stand up while sleeping.
25. The ears of a zebra show its mood.

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### Cow
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#### 25 Amazing Facts About Cow

1. Cows are social animals, and they naturally form large herds. And like people, they will make friends and bond to some herd members, while avoiding others.
2. The fact is cows are not indigenous to America. Columbus brought some with him on his second voyage. It became a law that each ship had to have one cow for every five people.
3. Cattle have amazing 360° panoramic vision. This helps them to see predators coming from any direction.
4. Cows produce around 90 percent of the milk in the world.
5. An amazing fact is a cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in its lifetime.
6. The gestation period for a cow is nine months, which is the same as for humans.
7. Cows are red-green colorblind.
8. In a bullfight, it's the waving of the cape that attracts the bull, not the red color.
9. Cows can amazingly sleep standing up.
10. The average domestic cow sleeps only about four hours a day.
11. You can lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs. Cow’s knees can’t bend properly to walk downstairs.
12. It's amazing that cows can run faster than horses when it comes to soggy places. Their cloven hooves and toes spread so their feet do not sink and get stuck, unlike the solid-foot horses.
13. A cow produces an amazing 200 times more gas a day than a normal person.
14. Just one cow gives enough methane gas to fill 400-liter bottles per day.
15. The flatulation from domesticated cows produces about 30% of the methane on this planet.
16. A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day.
17. Amazingly cows only have teeth on the bottom. Cows do not have any upper front teeth. Instead, they have a thick pad on the top jaw.
18. Cows have a single stomach, but four digestive compartments.
19. The fact is cows can’t vomit.
20. Cows have a great sense of smell. They can smell something up to 6 miles away.
21. Cattle are extremely curious creatures and investigate anything and everything.
22. The amazing fact is that cows have 800 (and possibly more) blood types in contrast to just 4 types in humans.
23. Cows are the only mammals that pee backward.
24. An American Cow called Fawn was swept up by a tornado in 1963 and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer's field. Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this too.
25. Amazingly cows and deer face north or south to gaze. They do this all over the world.

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### Bat
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#### 60 Awesome Amazing Facts About Bat

1. The scientific name for bats, Chiroptera, is from the Greek cheir = hand + pteron = wing, or “hand wing.”
2. Bats live on every continent except Antarctica. They are found almost as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as Argentina and the southern-most tip of South Africa.
3. A bat is the only mammal that flies. Bats make up about twenty percent of all mammals.
4. There are amazing 1100 different bat species. Most bats are brown and black, but a few are colorful shades of orange or red.
5. In the United States, there are about 45 kinds of bats; the three most common are the big brown bat, little brown bat, and Mexican free-tailed bat.
6. More than half of all bats in the U.S. are endangered. Both loss of habitat and a mysterious illness called “White-Nose Syndrome” are major reasons for the decline.
7. There are two main groups of bats: larger fruit-eating megabats and microbats.
8. Megabats are also known as fruit bats or flying foxes and typically live in warm climates. They use their large eyes to find food in the dark and they tend to roost in trees rather than in caves, crevices, or old buildings.
9. Microbats are generally much smaller and use echolocation to find insects. Microbats are typically found all over the world.
10. There are several differences between megabats and microbats. The megabat has two claws, one on its thumb and one on its next finger. Microbats only have one claw, on the thumb. Megabats have better developed brains than microbats and they also rely more on their senses (sight and smell) and less on echolocation.
11. Scientists believe that bats first appeared 65-100 million years ago along with dinosaurs. Megabats may be more closely related to primates (monkeys, apes, and humans) than they are to other microbats.
12. Approximately 70% of bats eat insects. The rest are frugivores, or fruit eaters.
13. Bat wings are made from finger bones covered by thin layers of skin. The wing membranes of a bat make up about 95% of its body surface area. A bat’s wing membrane helps the bat regulate body temperature, blood pressure, water balance, and gas exchange.
14. The world’s largest bat is the giant golden-crowned flying fox, a rare fruit bat living on islands in the South Pacific. It is facing extinction due to hunting . It has a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 m).
15. Amazingly the world’s smallest bat is the bumble bee bat of Thailand, which is smaller than a thumbnail and weighs less than a penny. It may be the smallest existing mammal.
16. In Southeast Asia, small club-footed bats roost inside bamboo stalks. To reach their home, the bats squeeze into an opening as small as 0.4 inches about the width of a fingernail.
17. A group of bats is called a “colony. The Bracken Bat Cave in Texas is the largest known bat colony in the world with amazing 20 million bats. When the bats leave the cave, the group is so large that it looks like a huge storm on radar. The bats will eat over 200 tons of bugs in one night.
18. Only about 5% of all U.S. caves have the right temperature and water conditions suitable for bats.
19. A single brown bat lives longer than most equally sized mammals, with a life span of nearly 30 years. Mice often live less than two years.
20. Amazing fact is that most bats rest, sleep, mate, and give birth upside down. They hang upside down so they can fly away quickly if needed.
21. Bats are not blind and, in fact, many bats can see quite well; some species can even detect ultraviolet light.
22. Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flights. Bats are more efficient fliers than birds due to their multi-jointed wings.
23. Unlike birds, which flap their entire forelimbs, bats flap their spread-out digits.
24. Amazingly some Mexican free-tailed bats can fly up to 250 miles (402 km) in a single night. They can fly up to 10,000 feet (3,048 m) high and reach speeds up to 60 miles per hour (97kph).
25. Most female bats fly with their young clinging to them, and some species have false nipples that their pups grasp during flight.
26. Amazingly bats always turn left when exiting the cave.
27. The mouse-eared bat has a heartbeat as low as 18 beats a minute during hibernation, compared to amazing rate of 880 beats a minute when active.
28. Amazingly the leg bones of a bat are so thin that most of the bats can’t walk. Vampire bats are the only bats that move well on the ground.
29. A single brown bat can catch around 1,200 mosquito-size insects in one hour.
30. The pipistrelle bat weighs less than two pennies and is only as long as a person’s little finger. Yet it can eat 3,000 insects in one night.
31. Bats can find their food in total darkness. They locate insects by emitting inaudible high-pitched sounds, 10-20 beeps per second and listening to echoes.
32. Bats can hear frequencies between 20 Hz and 120,000 Hz. Humans can hear between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz. Dogs can hears between 40 Hz and 60,000 Hz.
33. Fishing bats have echolocation so sophisticated that they can detect a minnow's fin as fine as a human hair protruding only two millimeters above a pond's surface.
34. Amazingly the bats that feed on frogs can tell the difference between safe and poisonous frogs by listening to the male frog’s call.
35. Bats are the slowest reproducing mammals in the world for their size, and pregnancy is longer in bats than in other animals of their size. Bats have only one pup a year.
36. Amazing fact is in most bat colonies, all the females birth their babies at the same time.
37. Some female bats, especially those that hibernate, can control when they give birth by storing the male’s sperm inside their body, which delays fertilization, or by slowing the development of the embryo inside them.
38. Amazing fact is that bat mothers can find their babies among thousands or millions of other bats by their unique voices and scents.
39. Bats are clean animals cleaning themselves and each other meticulously by licking and scratching for hours.
40. There are only three species of "vampire bats" , bats that live off the blood of animals. Vampire bats are the only mammals in the world that live entirely on blood.
41. The story of Dracula originated in Eastern Europe but real vampire bats are found only in Central and South America.
42. Vampire bats do not actually “suck” blood. Instead, they typically “lap” up two teaspoons of blood a night with their tongues.
43. The blood moves through the bat’s mouth in two channels under its tongue. Its body uses only red blood cells, and amazingly within two minutes of starting to eat, the bat’s body rids itself of blood plasma in the form of urine.
44. Some white-winged vampire bats pretend to be chicks. Once in position under the hens, the bats feed on their blood.
45. Rarely will a vampire bat bite a person but if it does, it will then probably come back the next night to feed again from that same person. Amazingly, vampire bats can tell people apart by the way they breathe.
46. A vampire bat that has found a meal may sometimes share the blood with other hungry vampires at the vampire roost. The vampire that found the blood vomits it to feed its friends.
47. Scientists have been able to use the anticoagulation agent in vampire bat spit to treat human stroke victims and human heart patient victims.
48. The tube-lipped nectar bat (Anoura fistulata) has the longest tongue, relative to body length, of any mammal. The bat retracts its tongue into its rib cage when it’s not being used.
49. In the winter, some bats may hibernate for months at a time. Hibernating little brown bats can stop breathing for almost an hour during hibernation to reduce their energy needs.
50. A bat uses 30-60 days of stored energy to wake up out of hibernation. That is why it is so important to not disturb hibernating bats.
51. Some seeds will not sprout unless they have passed through the digestive tracts of a bat. Additionally, bats spread millions of seeds every year from the ripe fruit they eat.
52. Amazing thing is that approximately 95% of the reforestation of the tropical rainforest is a result of seed dispersal from bats.
53. Amazingly bats keep hanging upside down even after they die.
54. Bat droppings, called guano, are one of the richest fertilizers. Bat guano was once a big business. Guano was Texas's largest mineral export before oil!
55. During the U.S. civil war, bat droppings were used to make gunpowder.
56. The amazing fact is that a rabid bat can bite you in your sleep without you knowing!
57. Wind turbines kill tens of thousands of bats every year. Rather than being struck by turbines, many bats appear to be killed by a sudden drop in air pressure near the spinning blades. The tiny blood vessels in their delicate lungs explode.
58. In China and Japan, bats are symbols of happiness. In Chinese, the words for “bat” and “good fortune” are both pronounced “fu.”
59. Fruit bats are a traditional food source for the people of Guam and they have been hunted to almost extinction. Guam now imports bat meat from other islands and serves as a major trade center for bat meat.
60. Bat Conservation International claims that 150 big brown bats can eat enough cucumber beetles in one summer to save farmers a billion dollars a year. Those beetles would have had 33 million larvae to attack the crops.

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### Bacteria (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2024-09-14T09:30:24.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Bacteria Facts (Part 2)

1. It's amazing that more than 600 strains of bacteria have been identified in dental plaques.
2. Typically there are between 10,000 and 10 million bacteria on each hand.
3. The amazing fact is that human bites are one of the most dangerous animal bites in the world due to the bacteria in our mouths as there are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
4. The fact is damp hands spread 1,000 times more germs than dry hands.
5. The number of germs on your fingertips doubles after you use the toilet.
6. It's amazing to know that the average ATM has more germs than public toilets.
7. As per experts, the bathroom is bacterial count-wise cleaner than the kitchen in the average house.
8. Surprisingly, there are more bacteria on the sink than on the floor of the kitchen!
9. Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 50% on your hands. Amazingly using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 250% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
10. It's amazing that mobile phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
11. Scientists found 1,458 new species of bacteria living just in the bellybutton of human beings. Everyone’s bellybutton ecology is unique like a fingerprint.
12. The amazing fact is after two weeks of wear a pair of jeans will have grown a 1,000-strong colony of bacteria on the front, 1,500–2,500 on the back, and 10,000 on the crotch area.
13. The amount of bacteria on a pair of jeans doesn’t increase after about 2 weeks of wear. Prolonged wear thereafter doesn’t increase the number of unhealthy bacteria.
14. Some Civil War soldiers had wounds that glowed in the dark because of a bioluminescent bacteria that came from nematodes. In fact, these bacteria actually killed off other pathogens and made the survival rate higher.
15. There’s a species of bacteria found so much resistant to radiation that scientists have nicknamed it “Conan the Bacterium”
16. Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
17. It's a proven fact that many stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria and not stress.
18. To prove that bacteria are responsible for ulcers, a scientist drank a beaker of the bacterium. He did indeed in fact develop stomach ulcers and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for proving it.
19. To treat bladder cancer, one of the innovative ways of treatment is to inject weakened bovine tuberculosis bacteria up your urethra which sets up an immune response destroying cancer cells. This treatment may in fact be more effective than chemotherapy.
20. Honey is in fact a natural reservoir for the Botulism bacteria. Adults can normally process it and infants can’t and this is why you should avoid giving it to the baby.
21. Amazingly Kangaroos barely release any methane. Scientists are therefore trying to harvest the bacteria found in their colons so that they can transfer this “skill” to cattle to control methane generation as cattle belching and farting produce about 20% of the Earth’s methane.
22. The amazing fact is that human breast milk contains sugars intended to feed intestinal bacteria, rather than the infant itself.
23. Unwashed eggs still have their protective coating, the bloom, and are safe to store on the counter. Many modern countries wash eggs before sale so they ‘look’ cleaner and safer, but this opens the pores of the shell for bacterial to enter inside during storage time.
24. Human poop, by weight, is in fact mostly bacteria that are both dead and alive.
25. Amazingly a group of scientists has transcribed the song “It’s a Small World After All” into the DNA of a bacteria that is resistant to radioactivity so that in the event of a nuclear catastrophe, we could pass a message on to future intelligent life.
26. Sweat itself is odorless. In fact, it is the bacteria on the skin that mingles with it and produces body odor.
27. Millions of people don’t actually need to use deodorant (especially East Asians) because they have a gene (ABCC11) that stops them from producing sweat that attracts body odor-causing bacteria. People with “dry earwax” also have this particular gene.
28. An amazing fact is one teaspoon of the bacterium C. botulinum if properly distributed produces so much toxin that it could kill every single human being in the USA.
29. Botox is made from a deadly bacterial toxin that is used in very small doses to remove wrinkles.
30. The “smell” of rain after a storm is in fact produced by the bacteria called actinomycetes that cause water to taste “earthy”. The smell is called petrichor, from Greek Petros, ‘stone’ and ichor, ‘the fluid that flows through the veins of the gods’.
31. An amazing fact is one single teaspoon of soil contains 1 billion bacteria & 120,000 fungi & 25,000 algae.
32. It's amazing to know that for the promotion of the movie “Contagion”, Warner Bros. Pictures Canada built two giant Petri dishes treated with bacteria and fungi and displayed them in a Toronto storefront window. Over several days, the bacteria and fungi specimens grew to spell out the name of the film and form biohazard symbols.
33. Vampirococcus is one of the predatory bacteria which attack and kill other bacteria. It lives in freshwater lakes with a high sulfur content attaching itself to a much larger, purple bacterium called Chromatium absorbing the liquid from its prey killing it just like a vampire sucking blood which gave it its name.
34. Another predatory bacteria is Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus which attaches to another bacterium and then enters the cell of the prey. It produces enzymes to digest the outer covering of its prey and also rotates, allowing it to drill its way into the prey. It reproduces inside its prey and then destroys it.
35. Bdellovibrio can in fact swim at the amazing rate of 100 cell lengths a second, making it one of the fastest-moving bacteria.
36. The amazing fact is that Deinococcus radiodurans, sometimes called "the world's toughest bacterium", can survive cold, acid, dehydration, a vacuum, and radiation 1000 times stronger than a human can withstand.
37. A flashlight fish harbors luminescent bacteria in a complimentary way. The fish have a bean-shaped light organ below each eye which turns on and off like a flashlight. The flashlight fish is nocturnal using light to communicate with other fish and to attract prey. The light of the flashlight fish is made by bacteria living in the light organ. The bacteria contain a molecule called luciferin, which releases light when it reacts with oxygen with the help of the enzyme luciferase. The bacteria benefit by receiving nutrients and oxygen from the fish's blood.
38. Vibrio fischeri , luminescent bacteria lives in the ocean and in the light organ of the Hawaiian bobtail squid, which is active in the dark. At night the squid absorbs bacteria into its light organ from the surrounding seawater. These bacteria produce a signaling molecule known as an autoinducer which activates the luminescence genes of the bacterial population, causing the bacteria to produce light. During the day the squid carries out a process called venting releasing bacteria into the ocean from the light organ and their concentration falls below the level required to produce light. The cycle is repeated every day.
39. In 1975 scientists discovered Magnetic bacteria. Magnetospirillium magneticum is a free-living bacteria that has the ability to actively take in iron, convert it to magnetic magnetite, a type of magnetic crystal and align it like a backbone along its body, and travel through its environment using magnetic fields.
40. Amazingly one species called Ralstonia metallidurans can produce solid nuggets from dissolved gold. First they "eat" the gold and then they excrete it as micro nuggets.

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### Bacteria (Part 1)
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#### 40 Amazing Bacteria Facts (Part 1)

1. All bacteria are composed of just one cell and that’s why they are called unicellular organisms. However, they have the ability to divide themselves into two cells, forming two distinct bacteria.
2. Amazingly bacteria can act like plants or animals. These are some of the oldest and diverse forms of life.
3. Bacteria have been on earth for amazing 3 billion years.
4. Bacteria have been around longer than anything else on Earth, longer even than dinosaurs. If you imagine Earth began as a single day then bacteria appeared at 5 am, Dinosaurs appeared at 10 pm and humans appeared seconds before midnight.
5. Bacteria were discovered in the 17th century by scientist Antony Van Leeuwenhoek.
6. Ferdinand Cohn, a German biologist (1828 -1898), was the man who termed the unicellular organisms like bacteria.
7. In 2007, biologists revived an 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the Antarctic ice.
8. The amazing fact is that biologists have also extracted and successfully grown bacteria from a fossilized bee 40 million years old.
9. Bacteria and their relatives number at least five billion trillions. If you line them all up in a straight line, they would stretch from here to the edge of the known universe (about ten billion light-years away).
10. Bacteria are classified mainly into three shapes, sphere (coccus), spiral (spirillum), or rod (bacillus).
11. Bacteria are about 1000 nanometres in size (a nanometre is one-millionth of a millimeter).
12. Bacteria are very resilient forms of life. They are present everywhere in all situations, from near-boiling water to the deepest ocean, inside of a rock, on radioactive waste, and even in ice. They are very tough, have existed before us, and would also outlive us.
13. It's amazing that you are born microbe-free and acquire the full complement of bacteria by around the age of 3.
14. There are in fact more bacteria cells in your body than there are human cells. There are in fact more bacteria in your intestine than there are people on earth. Most of them are usually friendly and actually help us in many ways.
15. In fact, some bacteria can live without oxygen.
16. One species (ocean-dweller Pseudomonas natriegens) can reach bacteria puberty about ten minutes after they're born. It is so prolific that in theory, a single organism could produce about one billion little clones between lunch and dinnertime.
17. Bacteria (usually dead or weak ones) are used to make vaccines.
18. There are 10 times more bacteria in the average human’s digestive system than there are cells in the entire body. This is approximately 1 kg of bacteria.
19. The amazing fact is that the strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
20. Humans have in fact known to make use of bacteria for thousands of years. Bacteria are used to make yogurt and cheese. The flavor of these foods comes from bacterial byproducts.
21. Bacteria produce oxygen for us to breathe possibly as much as half of the oxygen that we breathe.
22. Bacteria can cause food poisoning but dangerous bacteria are killed when we cook food. They grow very slowly in the cold so that is why it is important to properly cook and refrigerate food.
23. The bacterial infection is responsible for many diseases in our body like abscess, ear infections, cavities, diarrhea, Pneumonia, Typhoid, Tetanus, Tuberculosis, etc. Most bacteria in fact do not cause disease, less than 5% do.
24. Special drugs that can kill bacteria are called antibiotics which are frequently misused for viral diseases like colds and flu.
25. Frequent use of antibiotics has resulted in many antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains causing infections difficult to control.
26. Most antibiotics are made from bacteria.
27. Amazingly bacteria can get affected by viruses.
28. Without bacteria, we would have no soil in which to grow plants.
29. Bacteria are used to clean water in sewage plants.
30. Bacteria and fungus are often in close proximity and they sometimes compete for common resources or try and eat each other. In fact, many of our antibiotics are derived from the natural defenses of fungi against bacteria.
31. The amazing fact is when you wear headphones for just one hour, it increases the bacteria count in your ear about 700 times.
32. All of the bacteria in our body collectively weigh about 5 pounds.
33. It's amazing that the average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
34. Scientists have found a type of bacteria that can eat oil spills to clean it all up for us.
35. Almost one million bacteria can be created by one person in a day. Under the right conditions, bacteria double their number every 20 minutes.
36. Bad breath is due to bacteria in the nose and mouth.
37. An amazing fact is every square inch (6.5 sq. cm) of your skin hosts about 6 million bacteria.
38. About 1000 different microbes live in your healthy gut. Having good gut flora (bacteria in the gut) is important for human health.
39. Raisins and dried fruits can cause more tooth decay than chocolate because they stay on the teeth longer and therefore feed the bacteria that cause tooth decay.
40. The average lavatory seat is much cleaner than the average toothbrush. Your teeth are home to 10,000 million bacteria per square centimeter.

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### Chess
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#### 40 Amazing Facts about Chess

1. Chess was in *fact* invented in India. It is believed to originate out of India during the Gupta empire.
2. Chess made its way to the West in the 9 th century.
3. The oldest recorded chess game in history is from the 900s, between a historian from Baghdad and his student.
4. Chess is called the game of kings because for many centuries it was played primarily by nobility and the upper classes.
5. Do you know the number of possible ways of playing the first four moves for both sides in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000?
6. *Amazingly* there are approximately 1.70 x 10\*29 ways to play the first 10 moves of a game of chess.
7. There are in *fact* 400 different possible positions after one move each. It rises to 72,084 different positions after two moves each. The figure rises to over 9 million after three moves .
8. *Amazing fact* is that the number of distinct 40-move games in chess is 10^41 times greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe. The number of electrons is approximately 10^79 , while the number of unique chess games is 10^120 which is known as Shannon number. However after the fifty-move rule , the number of possible positions has been reduced to 10^43.
9. The longest game of chess that is theoretically possible is 5,949 moves.
10. The shortest number of moves necessary to achieve checkmate from the beginning of the game is *amazingly* just two moves. One sequence is called fool's mate runs thus. 1\. g4 e5, 2\. f4 Qh4 checkmate.
11. From the starting position, there are eight different ways to Mate in two moves and 355 different ways to Mate in three moves.
12. An opening is defined as a series of moves to start out a game, which can include many different sub variations. Amazingly there are well over 1,000 different openings, including variations.
13. The number of possibilities of a Knight's tour is over 122 million.
14. The longest official chess game ever was I.Nikolic - Arsovic, Belgrade 1989, which ended in a draw after 269 moves (20 hours, 15 minutes).
15. The folding chess board was originally invented in 1125 by a chess-playing priest. Since the Church forbid priests to play chess, he hid his chess board by making one that looked simply like two books lying together.
16. The second book ever printed in the English language was in *fact* about chess!
17. The new pawn move, where pawns were allowed to advance two squares on its first move instead of one, was first introduced first in Spain in 1280.
18. Initially, the Queen could only move one square at a time, diagonally. Later, she could move two squares at a time, diagonally. It wasn’t until Reconquista Spain, with its powerful queen Isabella, that the Queen became the strongest piece on the board.
19. Pawn promotion rules were limited up to 19th century when it was limited to a previously captured piece. Nowadays a pawn may be promoted to a knight, bishop, rook, or queen and there may be more than one queen now.
20. The first chess game played between space and earth was on June 9, 1970 by the Soyez-9 crew which ended in a draw.
21. In 1922, World Champion José Raúl Capablanca *amazingly* played 103 opponents simultaneously and won 102 of the games (with 1 draw).
22. The world record for simultaneous chess exhibition was just set in 2009 by Bulgarian Grandmaster Kiril Georgiev. He played 360 games for more than 14 hours. He won 284 games, drawn 70 and lost 6 games.
23. Blindfold chess is an impressive skill requiring a keen ability to see the board clearly in mind which can get difficult after many moves.
24. In 1960, Koltanowski played 56 chess games blindfolded (with only 10 seconds a move) and won 50 and drew 6! *Amazing fact* was after the games were over, he could recite the complete moves from memory.
25. There were *amazing* 72 consecutive Queen moves in the Mason-Mackenzie game at London in 1882.
26. The record of moves without capture is of 100 moves during the Match between Thorton and M. Walker in 1992.
27. A computer called Deep Thought became the first computer to beat an international grandmaster in November 1988, Long Beach, California. The computer Deep Blue was the first machine to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion in a match, when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.
28. The longest time for a Castling move to take place was the match game between Bobotsor vs. Irkovin 1966 after 46 moves.
29. As late as 1561, Castling was two moves. You had to play rook on one move followed by king on the next move.
30. The word "Checkmate" in Chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means"the King is dead."
31. Blathy, Otto (1860-1939), credited for creating the longest Chess Problem, mate in 290 moves.
32. Dr. Emanuel Lasker from Germany retained the World Chess Champion title for more time than any other player ever: 26 years and 337 days.
33. In 1985, the Soviet player Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion ever at the age of 22 years and 210 days.
34. The first Chessboard with alternating light and dark squares appeared in Europe in 1090.
35. The largest simultaneous displays usually take place in Cuba. In 2005 the previous record of 11,000 people playing against over 500 masters was broken with the new record standing at 13,500 people playing against over 600 masters.
36. In 1561 Ruy Lopez de Segura, a Spanish priest, wrote a book which translated into English means "Book of liberal invention and the art of the game of chess". It was the first complete study of the game. The Ruy Lopez opening is named after him as he was the first to analyse it in detail.
37. Chessmaster Master Alekhine Nouri aged 7 years is the youngest FIDE Master in the world! (FIDE stands for Fédération Internationale des Échecs, which literally translates into World Chess Federation).
38. Viswanathan Anand from India is in *fact* first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in all three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match.
39. *Amazingly* in one of the games, both players had three queens each on board at the same time. They all stuck around for seven moves! The game was between Szalanczy and Nguyen, Budapest 2009 .
40. Bobby Fischer, most famously known as the youngest grandmaster in chess history, received the title in 1957 at the age of 14\. Another 15 years later, he took the world championship in 1972.

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### FIFA World Cup (Part 2)
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#### 70 Facts about FIFA World Cup (Part 2)

1. Out of the 20 world cups, South America and European countries have won 10 & 11 titles each. No other continent has produced a world champion.
2. England has played 13 World Cups and Italy 17 World Cups. The amazing *fact* is that both teams however encountered each other for the very first time in a group match in Manaus on the 14th of June 2014.
3. Netherlands (Holland ) is one of the best teams to never win a World Cup. The team has lost three times (1974, 1978, 2010) in the final.
4. South Africa in 2010 became the first African nation to host a World Cup.
5. Cameroon was the first African country to reach the quarterfinals in 1990.
6. The fewest number of fans to watch a FIFA World Cup Football game was only 300 in Uruguay in 1930.
7. The only two players to have scored in four consecutive finals tournaments in 1958, 1962, 1966 & 1970 are Pele of Brazil and Uwe Seeler of West Germany.
8. One of the greatest Italian footballers of all time, Giuseppe “Peppino” Meazza played a crucial role in his country’s 1934 FIFA World Cup victory. In one of the most memorable moments, Meazza’s shorts fell down as he took a penalty kick against Brazil in the 1938 World Cup. Unfazed, he picked them up with one hand and made the shot past the Brazilian goalkeeper who was still busy laughing, sending Italy into its second consecutive World Cup final.
9. Lev Yashin, the great Soviet goalkeeper, played in three FIFA World Cups (1958, 1962, and 1966). Known as the “Black Spider” for his signature all-black outfit and ability to block balls as if he had more than two arms, he was voted best goalie of the century.
10. The total prize money on offer for the FIFA 2014 World Cup was *amazing* US$576 million (including payments of US$70 million to domestic clubs).
11. FIFA World Cup 2014 Winner Germany got $35 million as prize money.
12. FIFA installed goal-line technology in all 12 of Brazil’s world cup stadiums in the 2014 World Cup for the first time in history to be used to determine whether or not the entire ball has crossed over the goal line eliminating human errors.
13. Germany didn’t like FIFA World Cup 2014 accommodations and in *fact,* went ahead and built their own FIFA World Cup Hotel and training camp.
14. Miroslav Klose of Germany scored his 16th FIFA World Cup goal against Brazil in 2014 to break the tournament’s individual goal-scoring record. His goal made him the career scoring leader in the World Cup with 16 goals, one more than Brazilian Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima.
15. The record for most individual goals in a tournament is held by France’s Just Fontaine, with 13\. He played in just one World Cup (1958) but that was good enough to place him third on the all-time career goals list.
16. The oldest player to lead a Country to the FIFA World Cup title was the Italian goalkeeper and captain Dino Zoff, who at the age of 40 captained Italy to their 1982 FIFA World Cup title.
17. Faryd Mondragón became the oldest player to ever make an appearance at a World Cup finals when he came on for Colombia v Japan (43y 3d) beating Roger Milla from Cameroon who was 42 years old in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
18. The youngest player to score a goal is Pele at 17 years and 239 days old when he scored in 1958.
19. Russia’s Oleg Slanko holds the record for most individual goals in a single match, netting five goals against Cameroon in 1994.
20. German National Franz Beckenbauer and Brazilian Mario Zagallo are the only players in the history of the FIFA World Cup that won the title as a player and coach.
21. Hungary holds the record for scoring the most goals when they beat El Salvador 10:1 in 1982.
22. The first goalkeeper to win the Most Valuable Player award was the German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn during the 2002 Fifa World Cup.
23. Italy's Vittorio Pozzo is the only head coach to lead the nation to two consecutive FIFA World Cup titles as the head coach in 1934 and 1938.
24. The record number for most World Cup appearances is held by German player Lothar Matthaus with 25 appearances.
25. The fastest goal in World Cup history was scored by Turkey's Hakan Sukur, *amazingly* within 11 seconds into the game against South Korea during the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
26. *The amazing fact* is that although India qualified for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, the team chose to withdraw from the competition. FIFA’s requirement was that all players must wear shoes during matches. The Indian footballers were only accustomed to playing barefoot at the time.
27. The very first hat trick was scored by an American Bert Patenaude during the 1930 FIFA World Cup.
28. Sir Vivian Richards, widely regarded as a legend in the game of cricket, is in *fact* the only person to play World Cup Cricket as well as represent Antigua for football during the 1974 World Cup Qualifying matches.
29. The highest attendance at the World Cup game was during the 1950 World Cup final between Brazil and Uruguay. It is reported that 199,854 people attended this final match played at the famous Marakana stadium in Rio de Janerio.
30. Pele is the most successful FIFA World Cup player, winning the title 3 different times with Brazil.
31. The fastest red card in the World Cup history was Uruguay’s Jose Baptista who lasted only 56 seconds in 1986 against Scotland before being sent off.
32. German legend Lothar Matthaeus and Antonio Carbajal (Mexican goalkeeper) are the only two players to have played across five World Cup tournaments.
33. The first time numbers first appeared on jerseys was in 1954.
34. So far the jersey number with the most number of goals scored is number 9, the shirt number of Ronaldo.
35. The red and yellow card system was not introduced until the 1970 World Cup. The first player to receive a red card was Chile's Carlos Caszely in 1974 in a match against West Germany in the 67th minute.
36. Although the penalty shootout was introduced in the 1978 World Cup, the first penalty shootout would only be taken in Spain ’82.
37. During the 2006 World Cup, referee Graham Poll booked Croatian Josip Simunic three times before sending him off. After a second yellow card a player should automatically receive a red card and be expelled from the game, however, referee Poll seemingly lost count.
38. During the same 2006 World Cup, referee Valentin Ivanov oversaw possibly the dirtiest game of World Cup football displaying no less than 16 yellow and four red cards in the game between Portugal and the Netherlands at the Frankenstadion in Nuremberg on 25 June.
39. "Fuleco", the Official Mascot, is a three-banded armadillo from the eastern part of Brazil. He is 14 years old at the time of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It was voted on by the Brazilian public.
40. "All in one rhythm" is the Official Slogan of the 2014 World Cup Brazil.
41. England’s Geoff Hurst is the only player to score a hat trick in a World Cup final (in 1966) against West Germany.
42. Luis Monti is the only player to appear in two World Cup championship games for two different nations: Argentina (1930) and Italy (1934).
43. Maracana Stadium for FIFA World cup Final 2014 in Rio can seat 79,000\. The original venue, built for the 1950 World Cup, had a capacity of 200,000.
44. Eusebio’s three goals in the quarterfinals against North Korea helped Portugal win 4-3 after going down 3-0.
45. Bora Milutinovic is in *fact* the only man to coach five nations at World Cup finals – Mexico, Costa Rica, USA, China, and Nigeria.
46. The maximum number of appearances in FIFA world cup matches is 25\. It was done by great German footballer Lothar Matthaus.
47. Northern Ireland's Norman Whiteside was the youngest player to play in the FIFA world cup. He was just 17 years, 41 days when he played FIFA World Cup in 1982 against Yugoslavia.
48. A few months before the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the Jules Rimet trophy made of solid gold, which is awarded to each tournament’s winner, went on display at a London stamp exhibition. The amazing *fact* is that despite 24-hour surveillance, thieves managed to steal it. Six days after it disappeared, a man named David Corbett and his dog, Pickles were taking a stroll in London’s Beulah Hill district when Pickles began sniffing a newspaper-wrapped parcel which was found to contain the trophy. England went on to win its first and only World Cup that year.
49. The player on the Argentine national team Francisco Varallo died at the age of 100, as the last surviving player. His first play was at the FIFA World Cup in 1930.
50. Oliver Kahn, German is the only goalkeeper in the history of FIFA to have won the Golden Ball trophy.

##### FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil

1. Germany’s 7–1 win against Brazil marked the largest ever margin of victory in a Fifa World Cup semi-final. Brazil replaced the US, Yugoslavia, and Austria in the record books, all of whom lost 6-1 in their respective World Cup semi-finals.
2. The thumping 7-1 loss is Brazil’s biggest margin of defeat ever. (tied with a 6-0 loss to Uruguay in 1920). the 6-goal margin of loss is the worst ever thumping of a host nation in the FIFA World Cup at any stage, leave alone in the semis.
3. It was the fastest four goals scored in World Cup history as Germany scored four (4) in the span of six minutes (from 23 to 29).
4. It was also the first time five (5) goals were scored in a 29-minute period of play.
5. Toni Kroos from Germany fired in his two goals just 69 seconds apart, the fastest in the tournament’s history.
6. The 2014 World Cup saw a joint-high number of goals scored (171).
7. James Rodriguez became the first player to score in his first five career World Cup appearances since Peru’s Teofilo Cubillas (across the 1970 and 1978 tournaments).
8. There were more goals scored by substitutes in this World Cup than in any previous edition (32).
9. Tim Howard made 15 saves in the USA’s round of 16 defeat to Belgium highest ever.
10. All eight group stage winners progressed to the quarter-finals stage for the first time in World Cup history.
11. Honduras has now played nine games without a win at the World Cup (D3 L6). They have played more matches at the FIFA World Cup without winning than any other side (New Zealand, El Salvador, and Bolivia – all six).
12. Mexico has been knocked out of the World Cup finals at the second round stage in all six editions since 1994; no team has been knocked out at this stage as often as this.
13. Argentina has progressed from all four of their World Cup semi-finals.
14. Germany has reached the World Cup final for the 8th time; more often than any other side in the history of the competition.
15. Germany has scored 18 goals in these finals – the last team to score as many in a World Cup tournament was Brazil (also 18) in 2002.
16. Mario Götze is the first substitute to score a winning goal in the FIFA World Cup final.
17. Mario Götze is the youngest scorer of a goal in a World Cup final since Wolfgang Weber in 1966 (22 years, 33 days).
18. In fact, this was the first time that England has been eliminated from a World Cup at the group stage since 1958.
19. A four-goal margin (1-5 against the Netherlands) is the biggest losing margin by a defending champion at a FIFA World Cup.
20. Neymar scored the 100th goal of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil’s 100th game in World Cup finals history.

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### FIFA World Cup (Part 1)
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#### 50 Facts about FIFA World Cup (Part 1)

1. FIFA stands for The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (in English, the International Federation of Association Football).
2. FIFA has in fact 208 Member Associations vs the United Nations has 192 Member States.
3. US and Canada are in fact the only countries in the World where Football is called Soccer.
4. FIFA World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an amazing three billion people watching this competition every four years.
5. The FIFA World Cup in fact surpasses comfortably the Olympics in a number of viewers.
6. The first FIFA World Cup was held in Uruguay back in 1930 and 13 countries participated in the tournament. World Cup is played every 4 years.
7. The first-ever World Cup was won by Uruguay in 1930\. The World Cup was not played in 1942 and 1946 because of World War.
8. Lucien Laurent of France scored the first goal in World Cup history on July 13, 1930.
9. The 20 FIFA World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams.
10. In the 20 times the World Cup has been played, the host country has triumphed only six times: Uruguay in 1930, Italy in 1934, England in 1966, Germany in 1974, Argentina in 1978 and France in 1998.
11. The amazing fact is that for the first time in FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil, any nation from outside South America has won the World Cup on South American soil ( Germany ).
12. Only seven nations have won the World Cup; Brazil, Italy, West Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, England and France.
13. After winning their 2nd World Cup title in 1938, Italy went on amazing 44-year drought before winning their third title in 1982.
14. Germany holds the top spot for most eight appearances in the World Cup finals. Next is Brazil with 7 appearances in the finals.
15. Germany has played 99 World Cup matches before FIFA world cup 2014 making them a Nation to have played the most World Cup matches.
16. The Germans now have 223 goals since 1930 in all World ups, three more than Brazil.
17. Mexico holds the record for most defeats in World Cup history, losing 22 matches.
18. The record for most World Cup titles won goes to Brazil who has in fact won the tournament 5 different times.
19. Brazil is the only country to have appeared in every World Cup tournament since 1930.
20. No host Country had ever been eliminated during the first round, until South Africa in 2010.
21. Two World Cup finals have been decided on penalties. Brazil beat Italy in 1994, and Italy beat France in 2006.
22. Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and Hungary are the most successful teams to have never won the tournament. They all made two finals but never won the World Cup.
23. Argentina knocked England out of the 1986 World Cup, courtesy of the goal scored by Diego Maradonna off of his hand. This goal is known as the Hand of God.
24. Amazingly Scotland made the World Cup qualifications 8 different times and is the only country that was actually eliminated from the tournament during the first round every time in 1954, 1958, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1998.
25. The U.S.'s best showing came in 1930 when the American team placed third in the World Cup.
26. Brazil hosted the 1950 World Cup but Germany & Japan were prohibited from participating in the qualifying process.
27. Amazingly Canada has qualified for the World Cup only once, in 1986.
28. The highest-scoring World Cup match was in 1954 when Austria beat Switzerland 7-5.
29. The highest-scoring final happened when Brazil beat then host country Sweden by a score of 5-2.
30. Brazil has become the fifth country to host a World Cup tournament for the second time and it has been 36 years since a South American team has hosted (Argentina, 1978).
31. Italy, the long-standing defending champions (winners in 1934 and 1938), travelled by boat rather than a plane to the 1950 World Cup, a journey of three weeks from Naples (Italy) to Santos (Brazil).
32. The first penalty shootout in World Cup history was taken in the Semi-Final match of the 1982 World Cup in Spain between West Germany and France, West Germany won 5-4.
33. German player Uli Stielike missed the first penalty of the first penalty shootout in World cup history
34. Amazingly a national team with a foreign coach has never won the FIFA World Cup. The 18 winning coaches to date have all been in charge of their home nation.
35. Only once in FIFA World Cup history has there been no European team in the final, in 1930 when neighbours Argentina and Uruguay battled it out. Since then, there has always been a European representative in the finals.
36. In 1982, the field of nations increased from 16 to 24\. For the first time, a country from every continent was represented.
37. The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France featured 32 countries for the first time when for the first time the field of teams competing was expanded from 24 to the current 32.
38. Chosen to host the final of Brazil 2014, the Maracana is only the second stadium to have staged the final twice together with Mexico's Estadio Azteca.
39. In terms of averages, Switzerland 1954 still leads the way with 140 goals in just 26 matches an impressive average of 5.38 per game.
40. To this day, 76 national sides have taken part in at least one FIFA World Cup.
41. 3 World Cup qualifiers travelled more than 14,000 km in the World Cup 2014.
42. Bosnia And Herzegovina are the only countries to have qualified for the First Time in 2014\. The breakup of Yugoslavia resulted in the formation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
43. Germany played their 100th World Cup Match when playing Portugal in the 2014 World cup.
44. Italia '90 World Cup produced only 115 goals, a meagre average of 2.21 goals per match, the lowest average ever.
45. Argentina is 26 wins, 1 loss in all World Cup games where they have led at half-time.
46. Russia (in 2018) and Qatar (2022) will host the next two World Cups.
47. The 2002 World Cup was the first and to date only tournament to feature two host nations: South Korea and Japan.
48. The United States has qualified for every World Cup finals since 1990\. Before 1990 there was a period of 40 years when it couldn’t qualify.
49. 203 of FIFA's 208 members participated in the qualifying process for the 2014 World Cup.
50. The biggest loss for the USA came in 1934 when it lost to Italy 7-1.

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### Corn
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Last updated: 2024-09-04T09:30:16.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about Corn

1. Corn is called maize by most countries, maize is an Indian word meaning “sacred mother,” or “giver of life.”
2. An amazing fact is Corn is a domesticated grass that does not exist in the wild.
3. Amazingly in ancient times, corn ears were only about the size of your thumb. Through selective breeding, humans massively expanded their size to what is considered normal today.
4. An ear of corn is actually part of the flower and an individual kernel is a seed. On average, an ear of corn has 800 kernels in 16 rows. A pound of corn consists of approximately 1,300 kernels.
5. The amazing fact is that there is one silk strand for each kernel of corn. One bushel of corn contains about 72,800 kernels and weighs 56 pounds.
6. Amazingly the United States produces 40% of the world's harvest making it the biggest maize producer.
7. Corn is America's largest crop and accounts for more than 90 percent of the total value and production of feed grains.
8. Corn can be produced in various colors including blackish, bluish-gray, purple, green, red, white, and the most common yellow.
9. Fresh corn on the cob will lose approximately 40% of its sugar in only 6 hours at room temperature storage (it is rapidly converted to starch).
10. Never add salt to corn as it is cooking. It toughens it. Instead, for better tasting corn, try adding a little milk and sugar to the water.
11. It's amazing that Corn has a very high self-life. 1000-year-old kernels have been found to be in edible condition.
12. Amazingly from one bushel of corn, we can get sweetener for 325 cans of pop, oil for two pounds of margarine, enough starch for a ton of paper, or 15 pounds of carbon dioxide "fizz" in soft drinks.
13. The fact is one acre of corn removes about 8 tons of carbon dioxide from the air in a growing season, more than is produced by your car annually.
14. The amazing fact is there are over 3,500 different uses for corn products.
15. The main ingredient in most dry pet food is corn.
16. Amazingly cornflakes are only about 8% corn.
17. Corn is a major component in many food items like cereals, peanut butter, margarine, saccharin, snack foods, ice cream, toothpaste, and soft drinks.
18. Corn is used to producing fuel alcohol. Fuel alcohol makes gasoline burn cleaner, reducing air pollution, and it doesn't pollute the water. It is currently blended into more than 80 percent of the USA’s fuel supply.
19. Besides use as food, Corn and its by-products are also found in many non-food items such as fireworks, rust preventatives, glue, synthetic rubber, lubricating oils, linoleum, abrasives, paint, dyes, laundry detergent, soap, aspirin, antibiotics, paint, shoe polish, ink, cosmetics, the manufacturing of photographic film, synthetic fibers such as Nylon and in the production of plastics.
20. The amazing fact is that juices and soft drinks like Coca-Cola and Pepsi contain corn sweeteners. A bushel of corn can sweeten 400 cans of soft drink.
21. As they age, corn cobs develop more starches and sweet corn is one of the few vegetables that is a good source of the kind of slowly digested carbohydrate that gives you long-lasting energy. It is an excellent source of dietary fiber. It also contains vitamin C and niacin and folate and potassium to balance the body’s fluids if you eat salty foods.
22. Moderately rich in calories providing 90 calories/100 grams which are about 4% daily value. Fresh kernels are lower in calories than field corn. Sweet corn is composed of simple carbohydrates while field corn has complex carbohydrates.
23. It provides about 10% of the daily Folate requirements /100 grams. Folates lower the homocysteine levels, higher levels of which are linked to increases in the risk of heart disease.
24. The folate levels and the iron content keep the hemoglobin levels up in pregnant women and prevent neural defects in the growing fetus.
25. Being Gluten-free can be consumed safely by people with celiac disease.
26. It has good levels of dietary fiber about 5% daily value/100 grams. The fiber contents also lower the risk of colon cancer. The fiber alleviates constipation and issues with hemorrhoids. It maintains the healthy proliferation of friendly bacteria in the large intestine.
27. It has good levels of many B complex vitamins and decent amounts of many vital minerals.
28. It provides 6% of the daily requirement of Vitamin A and 11% of the daily requirements of Vitamin C per 100 grams.
29. Cooking increases the levels of the antioxidants and beneficial compounds in sweet corn. In fact, it has been found that it raises the ferulic acid content by as much as 550%, with increases in levels of other antioxidants as well. Its excellent antioxidant effect destroys the free radicals that cause different cancers. Thus Ferulic acid is very effective against breast and liver cancer.
30. Corn oil has been found to have anti-atherogenic effects on cholesterol levels. Cornhusk oil lowers LDL cholesterol since it reduces cholesterol absorption.
31. The high fiber content and protein levels enable just the right pace of digestion leading to a steady absorption of sugars and preventing sudden spikes and drops, in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
32. Minerals like iron, copper, phosphorus, magnesium, and zinc ensure healthy bones.
33. Boil fresh corn on the cob. Strain out the water. Add candy sugar to this water and drink. This relieves the burning sensation as well as makes the kidneys healthier.
34. Corn relieves urinary difficulties, bladder, infections. UTI. It is a diuretic and flushes the entire urinary tract including the kidneys, bladder, prostate, and urethra.
35. For urinary infection boil about 20 grams of corn silk in 500 ml water for about 10 to 15 minutes. Strain out the silk and drink this almost colorless water 2 to 3 times a day. You can use fresh or dried corn silk.

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### Titanic
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Last updated: 2024-09-02T09:30:08.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts About Titanic

1. The Titanic was in fact the largest man-made moving object on Earth when it entered service.
2. The Titanic measured 269 meters (882 feet) in length and more than 15,000 men worked on the ship during its construction in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
3. There were 246 injuries and two deaths recorded during the ship’s 26-month construction in Belfast. Twenty horses were in fact required to carry the main anchor.
4. Amazingly more than 3 million rivets were used to build the Titanic.
5. Not many people know that SS Naronic, a ship owned by the same company that owned Titanic had in fact disappeared on the same route without a trace in 1893.
6. Amazingly a book was published about an unsinkable 800-foot cruise liner ship that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night killing most of its passengers due to an inadequate number of lifeboats. The ship was called ‘The Titan’. The book was written in 1898 about 14 years before the actual Titanic sank.
7. 100,000 people in fact turned up to see the ship’s launch on May 31, 1911.
8. A first-class ticket on the Titanic cost an amazing $4,375 in 1912 (almost $100,000 today).
9. First-class meals aboard the Titanic in fact consisted of up to 13 courses, each with a different accompanying wine pairing, and was meant to last for 4 to 5 hours.
10. First-class passengers were given a music book containing 352 songs. Amazingly musicians on board knew them all, in case requests were made.
11. 26 of those on board were honeymooning couples.
12. The amazing fact is Titanic required 600 tons of coal a day for its operation hand shoveled into its furnaces by a team of 176 men. Almost 100 tons of ash was ejected into the sea each day.
13. Only 16 wooden lifeboats and 4 collapsible boats were in fact carried, enough to accommodate 1,178 people, about 1/3 rd of Titanic's total capacity.
14. The Titanic had its own newspaper daily named ‘The Atlantic Daily Bulletin’ printing news, advertisements, stock prices, horse-racing results, society gossip, and the day's menu.
15. Although most passengers had to share bathrooms (only the two promenade suites in first class had private bathrooms), amazingly third class had only two bathtubs for more than 700 passengers.
16. The iceberg that hit the Titanic was around 100 feet tall coming from a glacier in Greenland. Just 37 seconds in fact elapsed between the actual sighting of the iceberg and the collision with the Titanic.
17. The amazing fact is if only four of the Titanic's watertight compartments had been breached Titanic wouldn’t have sunk staying afloat but unfortunately the iceberg sliced through six.
18. The Titanic sank 2 hours and 40 minutes after hitting the iceberg.
19. Women were allowed to board lifeboats first. Of the 711 passengers of the Titanic that were rescued, only 58 were men.
20. In all, 328 bodies were found out of 1502 who perished, but 119 of these were badly damaged and thus were buried at sea.
21. All the musicians on board kept on playing for more than two hours as the ship sank and all went down.
22. Titanic’s first lifeboat with a capacity for 40 people was lowered with only 12 people on board. Later into the cold night, they refused to return to try and rescue other passengers.
23. Charles Lightoller, the Second Officer confessed years afterward that binoculars were indeed on board, in a locked box for which no one seemed to have a key. It's amazing that had binoculars been employed, disaster may have been averted.
24. Not a single engineer made it off the Titanic. They stayed till their last breath and kept the power on to facilitate the escape of passengers.
25. A priest onboard the titanic refused a place on a lifeboat twice and stayed behind to hear confessions and give absolution to the people left on the ship.
26. John Jacob Astor IV was the richest passenger on board going down with the ship. He had a net worth of around $ 85m (About $2 bn today).
27. Amazingly a woman named Violet Constance Jessop survived the sinking of the Titanic. Interestingly, she was fortunate enough to survive the sinking of its sister ship, the Britannic, and a collision on its third sister ship, the Olympic.
28. The original founders/owners of Macy’s, a famous New York store, died on the Titanic and were the old couple depicted in the Titanic movie, who went to sleep as the ship went down.
29. Millionaire Ben Guggenheim refused a lifeboat on the Titanic, and entrusted a survivor to pass on a message to his wife, “No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.”
30. Charles Joughin, the ship’s baker was in very cold water for two hours before being rescued with little ill-effects. He claimed he had not felt the cold due to the amount of whiskey he had drunk. In the movie Titanic, he is depicted as the character who drinks from a flask and rides the ship down into the ocean with Jack and Rose.
31. It's amazing that the Japanese who survived the Titanic crash were labeled a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.
32. William Edward Minahan, a doctor from Fond du Lac, Wis., had his fortune read shortly before the voyage. The fortune teller predicted his death aboard the ship. She was right.
33. There is a conspiracy theory going around that the Titanic never sunk. Instead, it was her sister ship, the Olympic that sank, and it was all done to claim insurance.
34. When the Titanic began sending out distress signals, the Californian, rather than the Carpathia, was the closest ship about 10 miles away yet the Californian did not respond until it was much too late. The crew members on the Californian saw mysterious lights in the sky which were the distress flares sent up from the Titanic and woke up their captain to tell him about it. Unfortunately, the captain issued no orders.
35. Titanic survivors were heavily charged $1 per word to send telegrams from the Carpathia, the rescuing ship. One man used his last dollar to send the word ‘Safe’ to his mother.
36. On April 15, 1912, a day later, a steward unaware of the Titanic sinking spotted an iceberg smeared with red paint and snapped a photo of it.
37. Amazingly the first movie about the Titanic was released just a month after its sinking starring one of its survivors named Gibson. Shooting began just five days after the Titanic sank. It was a hugely successful silent movie. However, all reels of the movie were destroyed in a fire in 1914.
38. Two years after the Titanic tragedy, the ship Empress Of Ireland sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and lost 68.5% of all its passengers (0.5% more than Titanic). It's amazing that the event was hardly noticed because of WWI.
39. In 1943, the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic” just to discredit the British. Royal Air Force bombed the theater it was to be premiered in.
40. In 1945, the Royal Air Force accidentally sunk a ship full of holocaust victims. The ship had been used in the Nazi Propaganda film “Titanic”.
41. The amazing fact is about three times more people died in that ship sink than in the actual Titanic.
42. They built a ship almost as big as the Titanic with a double hull fifty years earlier. It hit some rocks and didn’t sink because of the double hull. They didn’t even have to inform the passengers about the damage.
43. An amazing fact is when Robert Ballard (Professor of Oceanography) announced he was planning a mission to find the Titanic, it was actually a cover or a classified mission to search for lost nuclear submarines. They finished the job early so the team spent the extra time at sea looking for the Titanic and actually went on to found it.
44. The wreck of the Titanic was discovered in 1985 which lies 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, around 12,500 feet below the surface.
45. The marine dive specialists Deep Ocean Expeditions used to offer trips to the wreck using a Mir submersible chartered from the Russian Academy of Sciences with berths costing $59,000\. Service was stopped in 2012.
46. The cost to construct the Titanic in 1910-1912 was $ 7.5 million which was about $120 million in 1997 dollars. Amazingly the movie cost $200 million to make.
47. The ship exterior set for the Titanic shooting was constructed in a tank on a beach south of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. The entire set was mounted on hydraulic jacks and could be tilted as required.
48. In the scene where the water comes crashing into the Grand Staircase room, the filmmakers only had one shot at it because the entire set and furnishings were going to be destroyed in the shot.
49. James Cameron’s 1997 Titanic film has grossed more than $2bn and won 11 Oscars.
50. The last remaining survivor of the disaster, Millvina Dean, died on May 31, 2009, aged 97\. She was just two months old at the time of disaster.

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### Finland
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Last updated: 2024-08-30T09:30:49.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts about Finland

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Finland in the Republic of Finland.
- Finland has an area of about 338,000 square kilometers. Forests cover 2/3 of Finland while the rest 1/3 lies in the Arctic circle.
- Finland is Europe's most heavily forested country. You could build a wall around the world 10m high and 5m wide with wood!
- The population is about 5.5 million. It is the most sparsely populated country within the European Union having a population density of only 16 inhabitants per km².
- Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland.
- Finland shares borders with Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Russia.
- Finland enjoys four very different seasons (an almost continuous 2 month day and almost continuous darkness in winter).
- Finland has thousands of lakes (about 188,000) and islands (about 179,500) leading to the nickname for the country "Land of the Thousand Lakes". Both are world records. Lakes are commonly used as roads in winter.
- Lake Saiima, the largest in Finland, is home to the rare Ringed Seal, of which there are only 300 in the world.
- Another nickname for Finland is "land of the midnight sun". During summer in June & July, the sun does not drop below the horizon in the north instead shining all day and night.
- In the middle of winter sun never makes it above the horizon and everything is bathed in eerie blue light called Kaamos. The event is called “Polar nights”.
- Forests including pine, spruce, and birch cover over 86% of Finland, making the country the largest forested area and largest producer of wood, in all of Europe.

##### History

- Between the 12th and 19th centuries, Finland was part of Sweden's empire, before it became a part of the Russian Empire until gaining independence during the Russian Revolution in 1917.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Finnish people are in *fact* 100% literate.
- The official languages of Finland are Finnish, native to 90% of the population, and Swedish, native language to 5.4% of the population. The indigenous Sami language is an official language in the area of northern Lapland.
- The Finns are the world's biggest coffee drinkers, gulping down no less than 12 kg of the black substance annually, twice more than the Italians, three times more than the Americans, and four times more than the Brits. Amazingly there is not a single Starbucks store in the country.
- Santa Claus (known in Finland as Joulupukki or "Yule Goat") officially resides in a house built right on top of the Arctic circle, near the town of Rovaniemi, in the northern province of Lappland. The Santa Claus Post Office (address: Santa Claus Village, FIN-96930 Arctic Circle) receives some 700,000 letters every year from children from 198 countries.
- October 13th is International Day for Failure. A new holiday intended for people to share stories of failure and learn lessons from them. The holiday was created in Finland in 2010.
- The amazing fact is that you must keep the headlights on in the car regardless of weather or time of day. It is the law since 1982.
- Thesaurus is a Finnish heavy metal children’s music band, who dress in dinosaur costumes. The band was started by Thunderstone drummer Mirka Rantanen.
- Amazingly there are no public payphones in Finland.
- Sauna forms a significant part of the Finnish culture, and Finns take it seriously. In fact, there are 2.2 million saunas all across Finland. The sauna is to the Finn what a pub is to an Englishman.
- After a hot Finnish sauna, the traditional practice is to jump into the lake outside even in the middle of winter, when you need to have a hole cut into the ice before your sauna session so that you won’t be chipping ice there while you’re still in your “sauna birth suit”.
- The word sauna is the most widely used Finnish word in the English language.
- In Finland, children don’t go to school until they are seven years old.
- Amazingly education is 100% free. Finland made radical reforms in education 40 years back. The educational system is widely admired for its excellent results. All teachers must have master’s degrees and are highly respected. Teachers are selected from the top 10% of the graduates. The national curriculum is just broad guidelines. Students rarely take exams or do homework until they are well into their teens. There is only one mandatory standardized test taken when children are 16\. Teachers only spend 4 hours a day in the classroom. 43% of the students take up vocational courses in college.
- Finland has regularly been ranked as 2nd or 3rd best country for the State of the World’s Mothers by Save the Children.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The Finnish flag is white with a blue cross.
- President elected every 6 years by the people and Prime Minister is elected every 4 years by parliament's 200 members.
- Finland has been a member of the EU since 1995.
- Finland is one of the least corrupt and most democratic countries in the world.
- Finland is a huge welfare system providing Finns with a broad level of equality.
- Finland's tax is said to be the highest in the world. e.g. 95% of the cost of a bottle of Vodka goes to the government.
- Finland issues traffic ticket fines based on how much money you make! Police can use their cell phones to tap into official public records and find out motorists’ income to levy fine.
- The most expensive speeding ticket ever given is believed to be the one given to Jussi Salonoja in Helsinki in 2003\. He was fined 170,000 Euros for driving 80 km/hr in a 40 km/hr zone.
- Finland is the first country in the world to make broadband connection a legal right.

##### Architecture

- The 120 km Päijänne Water Tunnel is Europe's longest tunnel and the world's second-longest.

##### Economy

- Main crops are cereals, potatoes, and sugar beet
- Metals and Engineering are the dominant industry. Other big industries are Cruise ships and mobile communications are two other big industries (Nokia).
- The main mineral wealth of Finland is Zinc, copper, lead, silver, and gold.
- About 5 million people visit Finland every year limited by the weather.
- Europeans are able to ski Finland all year round but in the winter months it proves too cold and unpleasant for most European skiers
- Telecommunications company Nokia is from Finland, it is headquartered in Espoo, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers of mobile phones.
- The longest movie ever is over 10 days long! It’s called 'Modern Times Forever' and it's an experimental film that was projected on the side of the Stora Enso building in Helsinki, Finland showing the decay that would happen to that building over thousands of years, compressed into a 'shortened' 10-day sequence.

##### Sports

- Football and athletics popular in summer, Ice Hockey and skiing popular in winter.
- By gold medals won per capita, Finland is the most successful country in Olympic history. Finland is also only second to Norway for the number of Winter Olympic medals per capita.
- Drivers from Finland have won more World Rally championships (14 titles) than any other country and more Formula One championships compared to their country's population.
- They host a whole bunch of odd competitions, including wife carrying, mobile phone throwing, air guitar, and boot throwing.

##### Inventions

- Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds created the open-source operating system called Linux.
- Rovio Entertainment, creators of the phone app Angry Birds are from Finland.

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### Glass
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Last updated: 2024-08-28T09:30:57.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and fascinating Facts About Glass

1. The first glass was formed from molten volcanic rock that cooled down extremely quickly.
2. Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Molten glass solidifies so quickly that its molecules don’t have time to settle into a regular crystalline lattice.
3. Amazingly it is glass’s chaotic structure that makes it smooth and transparent. The rather random and loosely spaced molecules in glass allow much of the visible and ultra-violet spectrum of light to pass through.
4. The greater the randomness of the molecular structure, the easier it is for the light to pass through. This is why you can see through most liquids and gases.
5. As early as 4000 BC, the very first glass was used in the Middle East as a glaze to decorate beads.
6. Around 1500 BC, the Egyptians made the first glass containers.
7. Glass is made from a mixture of all-natural ingredients i.e. sand, soda ash, and limestone.
8. The fact is that glass is one of the best containers of product. This is because glass is pure, and does not affect or change the properties of the contents.
9. Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass.
10. Amazingly until the 18th and 19th centuries, glass was extremely expensive and had limited applications such as stained glass windows for churches.
11. In 1887 a machine capable of producing 200 bottles per hour was designed in England.
12. Large-scale manufacturing began with the mass production of glass containers beginning at the onset of the 20th century and glass light bulb production in 1926.
13. The amazing fact is glass is 100% infinitely recyclable and can be recycled endlessly without losing its quality, purity, and clarity.
14. About 80% of glass containers are recycled, compared with less than 25% of plastic containers.
15. Recycled glass, also called cullet, requires a lower heating temperature than glass from raw materials, thus requiring 40 percent less energy.
16. An amazing fact is bulletproof glass manufacturer 3M Security Glass placed $3 million in cash inside behind bulletproof glass at a bus stop. If you could break it, money was yours.
17. Amazingly one Way bullet-proof glass has been invented. It stops bullets from one side only, allowing return fire.
18. Liquid Glass has been invented which combines silicon dioxide with water or ethanol to make a spray that dries to form a layer of “flexible, super-durable glass“. The layer is invisible (amazing 500 times thinner than a human hair), non-toxic, and repels liquids.
19. Amazingly liquid Glass would eliminate the need for scrubbing, and make most cleaning products unnecessary because it also renders surfaces anti-bacterial. Medical instruments treated with it can be cleaned with only hot water, with no need for chemical disinfectants.
20. When you recycle one single glass bottle, enough energy is saved to illuminate a 100-watt light bulb for four hours or power a computer or television for close to half an hour.
21. When glass breaks, the cracks move amazingly fast at 3,000 miles per hour. A camera would have to shoot at a millionth of a second to catch it.
22. The amazing fact is glass practically never decomposes. It takes glass 1 million years to decompose.
23. It's amazing that a ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
24. If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass.
25. Despite the fact they are commonly known as “Glasses”, most spectacle lenses today are actually made of plastic. This is to prevent them from breaking and make them lighter in weight.

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### Frog
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Last updated: 2024-08-26T09:30:59.000Z
#### 40 Amazing little known Facts About Frog

1. There are about 4700 species of frog.
2. Some scientists say that the only thing left after a nuclear holocaust will be cockroaches and frogs.
3. Frogs are amphibians having the ability to breathe underwater and to breathe on land.
4. Frogs lay their eggs in water. These eggs will soon blossom into small tadpoles. These tadpoles over a small amount of time will metamorphose into a full-grown frog.
5. The pond frog will not produce any more tadpoles until it is three years old or older. This is the time when it is fully sexually matured.
6. When a new tadpole is born they are actually like fish as they are born with gills, long-finned tails, and webbed fins. They resemble and act more like newborn fish.
7. Frogs are found mostly in wet areas such as rivers, ponds, and lakes because a frog’s skin must stay damp in order to survive. So they are never far from water.
8. The world's biggest frog is the goliath frog from Cameroon in West Africa. Their body can be one-foot long and their weight could be more than 3 kg. *Amazingly* the smallest, the bee frog of Africa is no bigger than a bee.
9. *The fact* is that frogs cannot live in the sea or any saltwater.
10. Although they have various colors, the *amazing fact* is that frogs don't see color. They only see black or white. Generally, bright and bold colors on frogs indicate that the frog is poisonous.
11. The amazing fact is that frogs can see forwards, sideways, and upwards all at the same time. They never close their eyes, even when they sleep.
12. Frogs use their sticky, muscular tongue to catch and swallow food. Unlike humans, their tongue is not attached to the back of its mouth. Instead, it is attached to the front, enabling the frog to stick its tongue out much further.
13. A frog’s call which is called croaking is unique to its species and may be heard up to a mile away. This is used by male frogs as a way to attract females.
14. Frogs have vocal sacs, which fill with air, and are used to amplify the sound!
15. *Amazingly* frogs were the first land animals with vocal cords.
16. Frogs can *amazingly* jump over 20 times their own body length. They have long legs which allow them, to use the full force of their weight to jump off of the platforms they are sitting on. Record is held by Australia's Striped Rocket Frog Litoria nasuta which can jump a distance equivalent to 55 times its body length!
17. *The amazing fact* is that you can tell a male frog from a female is by looking at their ears. A frog’s ear is called the tympanum which is located just behind the eye. If the tympanum is larger than the frog’s eye, it is male; if it is smaller, it is female.
18. Most frogs molt once a week but some will do it every day! *Amazing* thing is that once the old skin has been pulled off, the frog usually eats it!
19. The eyes and nose of a frog are on top of its head so it can breathe and see when most of its body is under the water.
20. Frogs have teeth on their upper jaw, which they use to keep their prey in one place until they can swallow it. Frogs swallow using their eyes . When the frog blinks, its eyeballs are pushed downwards creating a bulge in the roof of its mouth which squeezes the food inside the frog's mouth down the back of its throat.
21. Frogs *amazingly* don’t need to drink water as they absorb it through their skin from their surroundings by osmosis.
22. Frogs tend to breathe mostly through their skin. However, they also breather through their nostrils to absorb 25 percent of the air that need to have to survive.
23. *Amazingly* a frog can taste it’s food by touching it with its eye.
24. Frog bones form a new ring every year when the frog is hibernating, just like trees do. Scientists can count these rings to discover the age of the frog.
25. Marsupial frog, lives in the rainforests of eastern Australia, where it lays its eggs in moist leaf-litter. Both parents guard the nest of about 30 eggs, and when the froglets emerge, they crawl into the father's two hip-pockets, where they hang out for several weeks.
26. The male Darwin frog places newly hatched tadpoles in its vocal sack or pouch. The tadpoles start their life in the pouch until they swim out of it as baby frogs.
27. Females of some frog species keep a regular check on their offspring (tadpoles) and if food becomes scarce she will deposit unfertilised eggs for them to eat.
28. Asian tree frogs build nests in trees above water so that when the tadpoles hatch they fall directly into the water.
29. *Amazing fact* is that the poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
30. One type of desert frog can *amazingly* wait as long as seven years for water by surrounding itself in a type of transparent bag that becomes its first meal once the rain comes.
31. Wood frogs are adapted to cold winters being able to survive a deep freeze. Their breathing, blood flow, and heartbeat stop, and ice crystals form beneath their skin. While ice crystals in human skin would result in frostbite, wood frogs are safe because high glycogen levels in their cells act like anti-freeze, restricting the frozen areas to the extra-cellular fluid, where no tissue damage will occur.
32. *Amazing fact* is that belly of so called glass frog is covered with translucent skin. They are usually bright green or olive green in color. They live in southern Mexico, in Central and South America. Liver, heart and intestines could be seen when the glass frog is looked from the underneath.
33. The Costa Rican flying tree frog soars from branch to branch with the help of its feet. Webbing between the frog's fingers and toes extends out, helping the frog glide.
34. Toads are frogs. The word "toad" is usually used for frogs that have warty and dry skin, as well as shorter hind legs. Unlike a frog a toad cannot jump.
35. Texas horned toads can *amazingly* shoot blood out of the corners of their eyes.
36. Big warts in toads behind eyes are parotid glands having toxic secretions useful for defence against predators.
37. The cane toad Bufo marinus has 20 bufotoxins, some of which are potent enough to kill a snake many times its size.
38. Since ancient times, the frog has been considered lucky in Scotland. This is why stone frogs are commonly kept in gardens and often given as housewarming gifts.
39. The Horror Frog, which lives in Central Africa, when threatened, breaks the bones in its toes and forces the ends through its skin to create claws for fighting.
40. In Egypt, the frog is the symbol of life and fertility, and in Egyptian mythology, Heget is a frog goddess representing fertility.

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### Lakes
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#### 25 Amazing Facts You Should Know About Lakes

1. Lake water can be salty or fresh. The difference between a lake and a sea is that a sea is open to the ocean and at “sea level”. Lakes don’t have a direct outlet to the sea and so can be above or below sea level.
2. The largest lake in the world is the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. It is *amazing* 3,363 feet deep. The Caspian Sea has the characteristics of being both a sea and a lake. The saltwater sea used to be connected to the world's oceans but became landlocked around 5.5 million years ago. It is often classed as a lake due to the definition of a lake which would make it the largest lake in the world at 370,400 km² (143,244 mi²). It has three times the volume of Lake Baikal next largest.
3. Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world with an *amazing* depth of 1,642 meters (5,387 ft) located in Siberia, Russia. It's also the world's largest lake by volume and the second longest lake in the world. It contains more water than all the North American Great Lakes combined. The bottom of the lake lies 1,186.5 meters below sea level. *Amazingly* it is more than 25 million years old making it the oldest lake in the world.
4. Lake Baikal is also saturated with a lot of methane, so when the lake melts it forms *amazing* geometrically perfect circles. These circles appear every spring, the largest of them being more than 2 miles in diameter. They could be so big that they are only visible from space.
5. Located on the border of the United States and Canada are the Great Lakes of North America. They include 5 lakes: Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario, and Superior which together contain around 21% of the world's fresh water supply. The Great Lakes shoreline is equal to almost 44 percent of the circumference of the Earth.
6. Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lake and also has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in the world at 82,000 km² (31,700 mile²). It is 1,330 feet deep.
7. *Amazing fact* is that Canada is estimated to have around 2 million lakes.
8. Finland has the nickname "Land of the Thousand Lakes" as there are *amazing* 187,000 lakes in the country.
9. It's *amazing* that nearly all of the 50000 lakes in Ohio are man-made.
10. The lowest lake in the world is the Dead Sea that borders Israel and Jordan. The surface level of which is 418 mtrs (1,371 ft) below sea level. The water from the Dead sea is 9 times saltier than the ocean. The Dead Sea is 67 kilometers (42 mi) long and 18 kilometers (11 mi) wide at its widest point. The high salinity makes it impossible for life to form with the exception of a very few bacteria and fungi. *Amazing fact* is that strong buoyancy doesn't allow person to swim underwater and person can’t drown. *Amazingly* boats can’t sail.
11. The highest lake in the world is the crater lake of Ojos del Salado at 6,390 m (20,965 ft) above sea level. The mountain lake sits on the border of Chile and Argentina. The Lhagba Pool in Tibet at 6,368 m (20,892 ft) comes second.
12. The longest lake in the world is Lake Tanganyika in Africa at 660 km (410 mi). It is also the 2nd deepest.
13. In Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada , there is a 38-acre natural phenomenon called Spotted Lake. It contains one of the world’s highest concentrations of minerals. When water dries up lake is *amazingly* converted to many small ponds connected by mineral pathways.
14. Lake Hillier (Pink lake) in Western Australia . The water itself is really pink! It is really *amazing* in that it's color is not derived from beta-carotene released by an algae when light penetrates the water; which is actually the case for pink Lake Retba in Africa and the other pink lake in Western Australia . These two lakes derive its color from the red pigment being produced by Dunaliella Salina and Halobacteria that use sunlight to create more energy. Unlike these two, the pink water of Lake Hillier is permanent . Scientists are still unable to find the cause for this amazing pink color.
15. Jellyfish Lake is located in Palau. Because of the isolation from the ocean and low population of predators, the golden jellyfish that live there thrive and reproduce at an *amazing* rate. Millions of jellyfish migrate from one side of the lake to the other, and back each day as a giant swarm.
16. Lake Titicaca on the border of Peru and Bolivia sits at the highest navigable point above sea level of any lake in the world; and is, by volume, the largest lake in South America.
17. Speckled with white borax isles, the Laguna Colorada is a shallow salt lake in southwest Bolivia. It is red in color due to sediments and pigmented algae.
18. Pitch Lake, the biggest nature-made deposit of asphalt in the world, is located in La Brea, Trinidad.
19. Located in a national Park in Kenya, Lake Nakuru lake boasts an abundance of blue-green algae, which attracts a myriad of pretty pink flamingos. Having over 400 resident bird species, it still remains one of the greatest bird-watching spots on earth.
20. Bubbling with grayish-blue water, the Boiling Lake is located in National Park on the Caribbean island of Dominica. It is the second largest hot spring in the world. Actually, only a whirlpool in the center is boiling, but the water near the shores reaches *amazing* 160-190 degrees Fahrenheit.
21. Crater Lake is located in Oregon. It has no inlets or tributaries, the waters of Crater Lake are considered one of the world's most clearest. It was formed by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. Its deepest point has been measured at 1,949 feet (594 m) deep, making it the deepest lake in the United States.
22. Plitvice Lakes (Croatia) are Sixteen Lakes interconnected by Spectacular Waterfalls set in a deep woodland and populated by wild life. A World Heritage Site, the lakes are renowned for their distinctive *amazing* colours, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colours change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight.
23. Biwa Lake is the largest fresh water lake in Japan.
24. Atitlan Lake, Lago Guatemala is the deepest lake in South America is resting in the lap of three different volcanoes. Blue and clear, a mirror of the sky, it is perhaps one of the most picturesque hiking places in the world . Area all around it is a Guatemala national park.
25. Only one world other than Earth is known to harbor lakes, Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Called Kraken Mare it is a massive 388,500 km² (150,000 mi²) making it larger than the Caspian Sea. The liquid is not water though (Titan's average temperature is -181 °C (-293.8 °F) so water would be frozen), instead it is a lake of liquid gas (methane and ethane).

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### World War I  (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2024-08-22T09:30:08.000Z
#### 35 Amazing World War I Facts (Part 2)

1. Until it was suppressed forcefully during WWI, German was in *fact* the second most widely spoken language in the United States of America. Most of the local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
2. The ocean liner Olympic, sister ship to Titanic in *fact* became the only merchant vessel in WWI to sink an enemy warship when she rammed U-boat U-103.
3. Hitler used to have a full-sized mustache but was ordered to trim it down to a ‘toothbrush’ during World War I to better accommodate wearing a gas mask.
4. Adolf Hitler was adamant about not using poison gas on the battlefield in WWII as a result of his exposure to it during World War I.
5. In WWI, British armed merchant cruiser RMS Carmania engaged and sank the German merchant cruiser SMS Cap Trafalgar. The amazing *fact* was the two ships had been disguised as each other.
6. The pharmaceutical company “Bayer” discovered Heroin and until WWI in *fact* sold it as a cough treatment.
7. Over 90,000 Chinese laborers were used by the British Army to dig trenches on the Western Front in WWI.
8. Due to steel shortages during World War I, concrete ships were built. Only ten of them are in *fact* still afloat, all of them in a small coastal town of British Columbia.
9. Karl von Müller, Captain of the German WWI vessel the SMS Emden allowed the passengers of the enemy merchant ships enough time to gather their belongings and abandon the ship before sinking it.
10. Safety Razors were invented in the late 18th century but weren’t popularized until World War I. During World War I, Gillette worked out a deal with the U.S. Armed Forces to provide it to every enlisted man or officer on his way to Europe.
11. Because metal was in great demand WWI, corsets began to fade and bras became popular.
12. Kleenex brands of tissues were used as gas mask filters during World War I.
13. New Zealand had one of the highest casualty per capita (wounded and dead) rates in WWI, at 58%.
14. *Amazingly* people did not need passports until World War I.
15. *Amazing fact* is that the Eiffel Tower was due to be demolished in 1909 after its lease ran out, but it became useful during World War I due to its antenna.
16. Brushing teeth was not a regular practice among Americans before WWI. “So many recruits had rotting teeth the officials said poor dental hygiene was a national security risk.”
17. During WWI, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had to declare a temporary ceasefire just to fight off the wolf attacks.
18. In World War I, when a pilot from either side went down behind enemy lines, the “enemy” would drop a note to inform his comrades whether he had been killed in a crash or taken prisoner.
19. Ormer Locklear, a WWI pilot, *amazingly* got out of his plane, diagnosed the problem, and repaired it all while still flying the plane and then did this numerous times after that.
20. An American hero in WWI had the *amazing* ability to sense approaching mustard gas, hear incoming artillery before anyone else and even caught a German spy. He was awarded multiple medals. He was a dog.
21. A South African monkey served in the 3rd South African Infantry Brigade for three years at the frontlines in WWI, eventually being awarded the Pretoria Citizen’s Service Medal upon his return home.
22. During World War I, the United States Government tried to rename hamburgers as “liberty sandwiches” to promote patriotism.
23. In World War I, Canadians survived the first chemical attack by urinating on their handkerchiefs and holding them over their faces as masks.
24. Germany made tires for bicycles out of metal springs after WWI because there was no more rubber available.
25. Some cataract patients have an “extraordinary sensitivity” to ultra-violet light. They were used in World War I to detect flashing UV beacons.
26. During World War I, a lone Portuguese soldier *amazingly* convinced the German soldiers that they were fighting against an entire unit for three days without eating or drinking.
27. During World War I, a Hungarian soldier named Paul Kern was shot in the frontal lobe, resulting in him being unable to fall asleep. He lived for years after that and no one really knows how.
28. Rudyard Kipling urged John, his 18-year-old son to join WWI. He had such a bad eyesight that he was repeatedly turned down. Kipling used his connections with a Commander-In-Chief of the Army to get him in.
29. Hugh Lofting, not wishing to write his children about the horrors of trench warfare in WWI, instead wrote them imaginative letters that later became the Dr. Doolittle stories.
30. Minnie Schönberg, the mother of the Marx Brothers, upon hearing that farmers were exempt from being drafted, bought a farm and forced the brothers to work on it, so they won’t be called to fight in WWI.
31. In 1955, a thunderstorm in Belgium set off 40 000 pounds of buried explosives left over from the WWI battle of Messines. Luckily, the only casualty was a single cow.
32. In 1964, the German government decided to pay back East African soldiers (Askari) that had fought for them in WWI. In *fact* most of them had no proof of service, so they had to perform the Manual of arms in German (handling and using weapons in formation) with a broom to prove themselves. Not a single one of them failed and did it perfectly.
33. In 1978 in Yukon, Canada, a bulldozer uncovered buried reels of nitrate film during excavation of a landfill. About 500 old films dating from 1910 to 1921 were uncovered. This included long lost newsreels of World War I and many long lost silent movies.
34. The last surviving Tommy of WWI died aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week, 1 day. Also the oddest part is that WWI ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
35. Germany finally paid off all of its World War I debt in 2010.

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### World War I  (Part 1)
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Last updated: 2024-08-20T09:30:57.000Z
#### 40 Amazing World War I Facts (Part 1)

1. It all began on June 28, 1914, when a Serbian terrorist shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his pregnant wife. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914\. The Allied Powers consisted of Belgium, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and the United States sided with Serbia, and The Central Powers consisted of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) supported Austria-Hungary. Other countries around the world were soon pulled into the fighting. World War I officially ended 4 years later on November 11, 1918.
2. *Amazingly* the number of people engaged in this war from 30 countries counted up to almost 65 million. The Allied powers amazingly lost 6 million men and The Central Powers approx. 10 million . In fact about two-third of the soldiers were wiped out during battles. There were heavy casualities due to disease and bad environmental conditions. There were also 25 million civilian casualties.
3. During World War I, Albert I, the King of Belgium *amazingly* fought alongside his troops, and his wife, Queen Elisabeth, worked as a nurse at the front.
4. The war in *fact* claimed the lives of at least 6,000 men a day. With 1.7 million deaths during World War I, France suffered losses more than the total losses of the US armed forces in all conflicts since 1776, including the civil war.
5. About as many horses were killed on the Western Front in WWI as people (8 million).
6. Russia mobilized an *amazing* 12 million troops during World War I, making it the largest army in the war. More than 3/4 were killed, wounded, or went missing in action.
7. *Amazingly* battle of Verdun, 1916 alone resulted in over a million casualties in ten months.
8. The bloodiest battle in World war I was an *amazing* hundred Day Offensive that claimed 18,55,000 lives.
9. At the start of the year 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to Germany’s minister in Mexico. The telegraph in fact encouraged Mexico to invade U.S. territory. The British kept it a secret from the U.S. for more than a month so they could use it at just the right time to help draw the U.S into the war on their side which they did. U.S. was in actual combat for only seven and a half months during which time 116,000 men were killed and 204,000 were wounded.
10. U.S. troops fought their first battle of World War I on November 2, 1917, in the trenches at Barthelemont, France.
11. *Amazing fact* is that some 25,000 miles of zig-zagging trenches were dug on the Western Front alone. Many had nicknames like Bond Street or Death Valley. German trenches were far superior to Allied ones. Built to last , some had shuttered windows, bunk beds, furniture, cupboards, water tanks with faucets, electric lights, and doorbells. Over 200,000 men died in the trenches of World War I. Trenches were infested with millions of rats, frogs and lice.
12. Periscope rifles were developed to see over the 12 ft trenches. Other new weapons included flame throwers and tanks . The first tank, in 1915, was called Little Willie. Tanks were so called because of early attempts to disguise them as water tanks. Tanks were split into males (armed with cannons) and females (with machine guns).
13. In the morning of the Battle Of The Somme, July 1, 1916, the British *amazingly* suffered 60,000 casualties - 20,000 dead. It was the worst toll for a single day in military history. Allied forces advanced six miles.
14. *Amazing fact* is that a total of 346 British soldiers were shot by their own side, mostly for desertion.
15. None of the soldiers had metal helmets in 1914\. The French were the first to introduce them, in 1915.
16. World War I pilots used to use pistols and carbines in air to air combat before guns were installed on planes.
17. In World War I, British and American fighter pilots were never issued any parachutes because they were considered cowardly.
18. World War I planes used Castor Oil as engine lubricant and the Pilots suffered from persistent diarrhea due to inhaling unburnt castor oil coming out of the exhaust.
19. The first use of anti-aircraft fire was not during World War I, but during the AmericanCivil War. The Confederates used artillery and small arms to attack the Union Balloon Corps. The first specialized anti-aircraft weapon was used by the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War.
20. Amazingly during WWI, a British soldier had a chance to kill Hitler, but didn't! Private Henry Tandey fought in a battle near the French town of Marcoing, when a wounded enemy soldier entered his firing line but he didn't kill him . The enemy soldier was Adolf Hitler.
21. Officially a British soldier had to be 19 years old to serve overseas but many lied about their age. About 250,000 under-age boys served. The youngest was discovered to be just 12.
22. At Christmas 1914 an unofficial truce was observed along two thirds of the Western Front. Near Ypres, Belgium, some German and British troops played a football match in No Man's Land. Germany won 3-2.
23. *Amazingly* one of the biggest blasts of the war occurred when the British detonated a million pounds of explosives under the Germans at Messines Ridge, in Belgian West Flanders. The resulting explosion could be heard 150 miles away in London.
24. The deadliest non-nuclear explosion ever recorded was a mine explosion during World War I that killed 10,000 Germans.
25. In 1917 food shortages at home caused by the loss of British shipping to German U boats meant the government *amazingly* banned the use of rice at weddings and the feeding of pigeons.
26. At the height of the war, the British Army had 870,000 horses. Dead ones were melted down for fat which was later used for making explosives.
27. The gas was in fact used by French for the first time, in 1914\. Throughout the War, 1,19, 000 tons of gas were used and almost a million soldiers were gassed meeting an awful death. Initially the only protection against gas attacks was a cloth soaked in a soldier's own urine. British officer Edward Harrison invented the first practical gas mask, saving thousands of lives.
28. Amazingly the war in the air saw Germany's Baron von Richthofen, dubbed the Red Baron, shoot down 80 Allied aircraft. The top British ace, Major Edward Mannock, shot down 61 enemy planes. Both later died in action.
29. For the span of World War I, from 1914-1918, 274 German U-boats sank amazing 6,596 ships. Most of these were sunk near the coast, particularly in the English Channel.
30. When soldiers returned there was a baby boom. Births increased by 45 percent between 1918 and 1920\. But the 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people worldwide than the war.
31. The amazing fact is that most of the weapons the armies around the world possess today were either built back then in the First World War or have been built using concepts derived from the blueprints of those weapons. Everything from flamethrowers, tanks, submarines to some of the best machine guns of all times were invented during the Great War.
32. Big Bertha was a 48-ton howitzer used by the Germans in World War I. It was named after the wife of its designer Gustav Krupp. It could fire a 2,050-lb (930-kg) shell a distance of 9.3 miles (15 km). Amazing fact was that it took a crew of 200 men six hours or more to assemble. Germany had 13 of these huge guns or “Wonder Weapons.”
33. The Devil Gun is another one of the most famous weapons of this conflict. It belonged to the French and it was a cannon which could accurately shoot at a 4-mile distance.
34. Germans were the first to use flamethrowers in World War I. Their flamethrowers could fire jets of flame as far as 130 feet (40 mtrs).
35. *Amazingly* during the war, the U.S. shipped about 7.5 million tons of supplies to France to support the Allied effort. That included 70,000 horses or mules as well as nearly 50,000 trucks, 27,000 freight cars, and 1,800 locomotives.
36. *Amazing fact* was that More than 500,000 pigeons carried messages between headquarters and the front lines. Groups of pigeons trained to return to the front lines were dropped into occupied areas by parachutes and kept there until soldiers had messages to send back.
37. There was a wounded pigeon in WWI that saved the lives of 198 American soldiers.
38. After World War I, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland emerged as independent nations.
39. During World War I, 16 days before the ship RMS Lusitania set sail, Germany published a warning in the New York Times that they would sink the ship if it set sail to Britain. They went anyway and 1198 people died.
40. During World War I, France built a ‘Fake Paris’ near its capital city to confuse German pilots.

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### Honey Bee
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Last updated: 2024-08-18T09:30:59.000Z
#### Top 30 Amazing Facts About Honey Bees

1. Amazing thing is that honeybees have remained unchanged in form or structure for 20 million years.
2. Honey bees, scientifically also known as Apis mellifera, which means "honey carrying bee", are environmentally friendly and are vital as pollinators.
3. Out of 20000 species of bees, amazingly only 4 make honey.
4. In a lifetime, on average a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
5. Amazingly it is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.
6. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.
7. The amazing fact is that bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 100,000 miles, the equivalent of more than three orbits around the earth to produce just 1 Kg of honey.
8. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.
9. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.
10. Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79 in mosquitoes.
11. Their exceptional olfactory abilities include kin recognition signals, social communication within the hive, and odor recognition for finding food. Their sense of smell is so precise that it could differentiate hundreds of different floral varieties and tell whether a flower carried pollen or nectar from meters away.
12. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
13. Amazingly honeybees can see ultraviolet light and navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds. They find it via the polarization of ultraviolet light from areas of blue sky.
14. Each honey bee colony has an amazingly unique odor for member’s identification.
15. Its wings stroke incredibly fast, at amazing 200 beats per second.
16. The bee’s brain is oval in shape having the size of a sesame seed but it can amazingly learn and remember things and calculate the distances.
17. Honey bees communicate with one another by dancing.
18. Amazingly all worker bees are female, but they are not able to reproduce.
19. Royal Jelly is the substance that turns an ordinary bee into the Queen Bee. It is made of pollen which is chewed up and mixed with a chemical secreted from a gland in the nursing bee's heads. This "milk" or "pollen mush" is fed to all the larvae for the first two days of their lives.
20. The larvae chosen to become a queen continue to eat only royal jelly. The queen grows one and a half times larger than the ordinary bee and is capable of laying up to two thousand eggs a day. The Queen Bee lives forty times longer than the bees on a regular diet. For queen bees, it takes 16 days from egg to emergence. Amazingly all female bees in a given hive are sisters.
21. There is only one queen per hive. The queen is the only bee with fully developed ovaries. A queen bee can live for 3-5 years. The queen mates only once with several male (drone) bees, and will remain fertile for life. Fertilized eggs become female (worker bees) and unfertilized eggs become male (drone bees).
22. When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, amazingly only one of the newly laid queens reigns after destroying all other queens in their cells.
23. Nearly all of the bees in a hive are worker bees. A hive consists of 20,000 - 30,000 bees in the winter, and over 60,000 - 80,000 bees in the summer. The worker bees sequentially take on a series of specific chores during their lifetime: housekeeper; nursemaid; construction worker; grocer; undertaker; guard; and finally, after 21 days they become a forager collecting pollen and nectar.
24. The worker bee has a barbed stinger that results in her death following stinging, therefore, she can only sting once.
25. Male bees are kept on standby during the summer for mating with a virgin queen. When male bee climaxes, amazingly their testicles explode then they die. There are only 300-3000 drones in a hive.
26. Before winter or when food becomes scarce, female honeybees usually force surviving males out of the nest.
27. The amazing fact is that when the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.
28. It's amazing that worker bees will cuddle an old queen bee to death! When a queen bee is getting old or sick, the worker bees start rearing replacement queens. Once a new queen is available, the workers need to get rid of the old one. Workers will cluster tightly around the queen until she dies from overheating. This is colloquially known as cuddle death.
29. Amazingly the honeybee kills more people than all the poisonous snakes combined.
30. The amazing fact is that most honey bees die after it stings people as our skin is elastic, unsuitable for their stingers which are meant for harder inelastic skins. Their venom glands are also torn out in the process.

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### Great Pyramid
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Last updated: 2024-08-16T09:30:45.000Z
#### 25 Amazing facts about Great Pyramid

1. Amazingly the Great Pyramid of Giza is the only remaining "seven wonders of the world". Built-in 2600 B.C. it was built as a tomb for the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu.
2. It is the most massive building ever erected in the world.
3. it is estimated to have amazing 2,300,000 stone blocks that weigh from 2 to 30 tons each and there are some that weigh over 50 tons. How these blocks were transported and assembled into the pyramid is still a mystery. Modern technology cannot replicate it.
4. The base of the pyramid covers 55,000 m2 (592,000 ft 2) with each side greater than 20,000 m2 (218,000 ft2) in area. The length of each side of the pyramid at the base is 755 feet (230.4 m). They rise to a height, originally, of 481 feet (147 m) but nowadays 451 feet (138 m).
5. The amazing fact is that it was the oldest and tallest structure in the world for about 3, 800 years until the Eiffel Tower was erected in 1889.
6. The outer mantle was composed of 144,000 very highly polished amazing casing stones, all of which reflected light like a mirror and was flat to an accuracy of 1/100th of an inch, about 100 inches thick and weighing about 15 tons each.
7. These outer "casing stones" protecting pyramids are missing today because about 600 years ago they were stolen by Arabs after a 13th-century earthquake loosened some of these casing stones. Arabs recognized a great quarry of pre-cut stones that could be used to finish off palaces and mosques.
8. Amazingly, the outside surface stones are cut within 0.01 (1/100th) inch of perfectly straight and at nearly perfect right angles for all six sides. And they were placed together with an intentional gap between them of 0.02 inches (0.5 mm). Our current technology can’t place them with such precision.
9. The gap of 0.02 inches (0.5 mm) was designed between stones to allow space for the mortar to seal it. The mortar used was of an unknown origin and can’t be reproduced. Amazingly it is stronger than the stone and still holding up today.
10. There are three known chambers inside the Great Pyramid – King’s chamber, Queen’s chamber, and unfinished chamber. Of all the pyramids, only the Great Pyramid has "air shafts" rising from chambers.
11. The grand gallery, the majestic passageway, leading to the King's Chamber, is 153 feet long and 7 feet wide at the floor level, 3.5 feet wide at the top, and about 28 feet high. It continues upward at 26 degrees. It is most amazing and mind-boggling to imagine how these passages were cut in stones and put into place with such precision.
12. Scientists estimate that between 20,000 and 30,000 workers spent 80 years building three pyramids and Sphinx at Giza. These were not slaves, but a mixture of local residents and itinerant craftsmen who provided specialized skills.
13. The amazing fact is that if you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.
14. If the Great Pyramid were chopped into 12-inch cubes, there would be enough cubes to circle the moon almost three times.
15. The Great Pyramid had a swivel door entrance at one time. Swivel doors were found in only two other pyramids: Khufu's father and grandfather, Sneferu and Huni, respectively. When the pyramid was first broken into that swivel door, weighing some 20 tons, it was so well balanced that it could be opened by pushing out from the inside with only minimal force, but when closed, was so perfect a fit that it could scarcely be detected and there was not enough crack or crevice around the edges to gain a grasp from the outside.
16. It is amazing that Egyptians had so much accurate knowledge about earth, sun & Geometry. If the height of the pyramid is taken as the radius of a circle, then the circumference of this circle is the same as the perimeter of the base. The value of pi was known which led to the angle of the pyramid being exactly 51 degrees, 51 minutes, and 14.3 seconds.
17. If the circumference of the Pyramid is divided by twice its height, the result is 3.14159, which is the value of pi, incredibly accurate up to six digits.
18. Amazingly the height of the pyramid is equal to the average height of land above sea level for the whole earth.
19. The amazing fact is that the Great Pyramid is located at the center of the landmass of the earth. The east/west parallel that crosses the most land and the north/south meridian that crosses the most land intersect in two places on the earth, one in the ocean and the other at the Great Pyramid.
20. The height of the pyramid (481 feet) is amazingly almost exactly one billionth of the distance from the earth to the sun.
21. The interior temperature is constant and equals the average temperature of the earth, 20 Degrees Celsius (68 Degrees Fahrenheit).
22. The Great Pyramid at Giza has vents pointing to the constellation of Orion so the mummy’s spirit could fly straight up to the gods.
23. One amazing discovery in the Great Pyramid was a spectacular ancient cedar-wood boat, which was found sealed in a pit at the base of the Great Pyramid.
24. A few years ago, the Japanese reportedly tried to duplicate the 4,600-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza at 1/4 scale, employing today's technology and knowledge. They couldn’t do it.
25. Amazingly Mexico, not Egypt, has the largest pyramid in the world in terms of volume. The Cholula Pyramid was built around the year A.D. 100\. Though it is 40% the height of Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, it covers an area of 39.5 acres. In contrast, the Great Pyramid covers 13 acres. The Mexican pyramid has a volume of 4,300,000 cubic yards, while the Great Pyramid has 3,360,000.

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### Moon
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Last updated: 2024-08-14T09:30:49.000Z
#### Top 35 Amazing Facts About Moon

1. On average, the moon is 238,750 miles (384,400 km) from Earth, or about 30 Earth widths away.
2. The moon's diameter is about 1/4 the diameter of the Earth. Amazingly about 49 moons would fit inside the Earth.
3. You would weigh about one-sixth of your weight on Earth due to gravity differences.
4. The amazing fact is that a compass would not work on the moon because it has no global magnetic field.
5. Moondust is said to smell like spent gunpowder. Lunar dust is fine, as a powder, but it cuts like glass. It’s formed when meteoroids crash on the moon’s surface, heating and pulverizing rocks and dirt, which contain silica and metals such as iron. Since there’s no wind or water to smooth rough edges, the tiny grains are sharp and jagged and cling to nearly everything.
6. Amazingly the earth rotates 1000 miles per hour. The moon rotates much slower at 10 miles per hour.
7. A full day on the moon, from one sunrise to the next, lasts amazing 29.5 Earth days on average.
8. From the moon, our Earth appears nearly four times larger than a full moon appears to us, and depending on the state of our atmosphere, shines anywhere from 45 to 100 times brighter than a full moon.
9. Amazingly Earth never moves across the moon’s sky.
10. There is no atmosphere and when someone utters something, the words won't reach the next person's ear. Amazingly the sky shall always appear black.
11. The moon gets much hotter and much colder than Earth. Amazingly it can get up 260 degrees Fahrenheit and down to minus-280 degrees Fahrenheit due to lack of atmosphere.
12. The moon doesn’t actually become larger on the horizon. That’s an optical illusion.
13. Only one side of the Moon is ever seen from Earth. This is because the Moon rotates around on its own axis in exactly the same time it takes to orbit the Earth, meaning the same side is always facing the Earth. The side we see is lit by reflected sunlight, while the side facing away from Earth lies in darkness and has amazingly only been seen by the human eye from a spacecraft.
14. The rise and fall of the tides on Earth are caused by the Moon. There are two bulges in the Earth due to the gravitational pull that the Moon exerts; one on the side facing the Moon, and the other on the opposite side that faces away from the Moon, The bulges move around the oceans as the Earth rotates, causing high and low tides around the globe.
15. The amazing fact is that an eclipse of the moon for us is an eclipse of the sun from the moon.
16. Our moon is the only moon in the solar system that has an amazing near-perfect circular orbit.
17. The Moon has only been walked on by 12 people; all American males. The first man to set foot on the Moon in 1969 was Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 mission, while the last man to walk on the Moon in 1972 was Gene Cernan on the Apollo 17 mission.
18. The amazing fact is that the original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing were erased and re-used by mistake.
19. When Alan Sheppard was on the moon, he hit a golf ball and drove it amazing 2,400 feet, nearly one-half a mile.
20. The Apollo missions brought back 2196 rock samples weighing 382 kg in total.
21. It is estimated that there are about 180,000 kilograms (about 400,000 lbs) of man-made materials lying around the Moon.
22. Lunar Roving Vehicles (LRV) were designed by Boeing. These vehicles drove for a distance of 56 miles during the three Apollo missions.
23. The moon’s core is just 2-4% of its mass, whereas Earth’s core is about 30% of its mass.
24. On November 20, 1969, the Apollo 12 crew jettisoned the lunar module ascent stage causing it to crash onto the moon. The LM’s impact (about 40 miles from the Apollo 12 landing site) created an artificial moonquake with the moon reverberating like a bell for more than an hour. This phenomenon was repeated with Apollo 13 with even more startling results. Seismic instruments recorded that the reverberations lasted for three hours and twenty minutes and traveled to a depth of twenty-five miles, leading to the conclusion that the moon has an unusually light or even no core.
25. The amazing fact is that just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
26. An average desktop computer holds five to 10 times more computing power than what was used to land a man on the moon. In fact, even your mobile phone has amazingly more computing power than it.
27. Twelve people have walked on the moon but the last time was 1972 so it’s now been over 42 years since anyone has stepped foot on the moon.
28. Other than the Earth, the moon is the only other known natural astrological object ever walked on.
29. All the American flags placed on the moon are now white due to Sun's radiation.
30. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, they honored Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin by leaving behind one of his medals.
31. The amazing fact is that scientists know more about the surface of the Moon than Earth's own ocean floor.
32. The Earth’s moon is referred to as “the Moon”, with a capital “M”. Other moons of other planets are given a lowercase “m” to show the difference.
33. It would take a brightness of 4,00,000 moons to equal the brightness of the Sun.
34. The amazing fact is that the beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because, by pure chance, the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
35. A full moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon. A full moon always rises at sunset.

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### Mummy
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Last updated: 2024-08-12T09:30:51.000Z
#### 25 Awesome and Amazing Mummy Facts | Amazing Facts 4U

1. A mummy is a person's body or an animal's body, that is preserved after death using an ancient technique called mummification.
2. One of the first persons to write about the process of mummification was Herodotus, a writer historian who traveled to Egypt in around 450 B.C.
3. Amazingly ancient Egyptians started making mummies around 3400 BC.
4. In 2600 BC ancient Egyptians finally figured out that if they took out the body's internal organs, the mummies would last instead of rot. They started drying the bodies out completely for 40 days before wrapping!
5. A single mummy took 70 days to make and it has been found in research that Egyptians made an amazing 70 million of them.
6. The best made and preserved mummies are from the 18th to the 20th Dynasty - circa 1570-1095 B.C. - and include Tutankhamen.
7. Amazingly to remove the brain without damaging the mummy's face, they used a stick with a hook on one end and pulled the brain out through the nostrils.
8. Amazingly about 1,000 yards of linen strips were used to wrap up a mummy. Without their wrappings, most mummies weigh only 5 pounds.
9. When a body was mummified each organ was removed except the heart because Egyptians considered it to be the seat of the soul.
10. The amazing fact is even the slaves and attendants were also buried with the body of pharaohs, the Egyptian kings to take care of them after death.
11. King Tutankhamun, is the most famous of all Egyptian mummies. Amazingly his parents were brother and sister.
12. King Tut's mummy was found in 1923\. King Tut was just 18 when he died and was mummified.
13. King Tut's mummy was found wearing a pair of golden sandals, and his toes were sheathed in tubes of gold for protection.
14. King Tut's casket is worth over 13 million dollars today.
15. Most pharaoh mummies wore a golden face mask inscribed with magic spells. Tutankhamen's mask was also made of solid gold.
16. The amazing fact is that on some mummies, such as that of Pharaoh Ahmose I, the person's name is written on the actual linen bandages they're wrapped in. This makes it easy to identify who the mummy was in life.
17. Amazingly no one knows where the famous Cleopatra was buried. Her tomb has never been found.
18. The amazing fact is that in 1888, about 300000 mummified cats were found in Egypt. They were sold and shipped to England to be ground up and used as fertilizer.
19. The mummy of King Tutankhamun has undergone spontaneous partial combustion as per studies.
20. Amazingly Ramses II was publicly unwrapped in June 1886 in just 15 minutes. His body became contaminated by fungi and bacteria, which literally ate him little by little. In 1975, scientists used gamma rays to sterilize and preserve his body.
21. The amazing fact is that in Victorian times, mummies were ground up into medicinal powders, as people believed they had healing powers.
22. King Charles II believed mummy dust contained the secret to greatness. He'd have a few mummies standing by, and collect the dust that fell off them. Then he'd rub the dust on his skin.
23. In the 1800's, so many mummies were dug up they became practically worthless.
24. The amazing fact is that near Tuna el-Gebel on the edge of Egypt’s Western Desert, scientists have unearthed more than four million mummies of a stork-like bird called an ibis.
25. Amazingly in Manchester, England, a statue from a mummy's tomb was repeatedly found standing backward inside its case. Was it a trick? The museum curators put a video camera on it. They played the video back and found the statue spinning around all on its own. The mystery is still unsolved.

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### Eiffel Tower
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Last updated: 2024-08-10T09:30:43.000Z
#### Top 20 Amazing Facts About Eiffel Tower

1. The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Paris World fair as the entrance arch and amazingly it was not intended to be permanent.
2. The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
3. It is named after Gustave Eiffel, a French civil engineer, whose company was in charge of the project. However, it was actually two lesser-known men, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, who came up with the original drawings for the monument.
4. The French name for the Eiffel Tower is La Tour Eiffel, it also has the nickname La dame de fer which means the iron lady.
5. The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.
6. The construction of the wrought-iron tower began in July 1887\. The amazing fact is that a group of 300 artists, sculptors, writers, and architects sent a petition to the commissioner of the Paris Exposition, pleading him to halt construction of the "ridiculous tower". The petition was rejected and work was completed in 2 years.
7. The Eiffel Tower is 324 meters (1063 feet) in height (Without the antenna, 984 feet (300 m)) and was the tallest man-made structure in the world for 41 years before being surpassed by the Chrysler Building in New York in 1930.
8. The Eiffel Tower has 108 stories, with 1,710 steps. However, visitors can only climb stairs to the first platform. There are two elevators. One elevator travels an amazing distance of 64,000 miles (102,000 kilometers) a year.
9. Each of the 18,000 pieces used to build the tower was calculated specifically for the project and prepared in Eiffel's factory on the outskirts of Paris.
10. Building the tower required an amazing 2.5 million thermally assembled rivets. Workers painted every inch of the structure that required 60 tons of paint.
11. The Eiffel Tower is made of iron and weighs around 10000 tonnes.
12. The first platform is 190 feet above the ground, the second platform is 376 feet, and the third platform is almost 900 feet up. The tower's three platforms are home to two restaurants, several buffets, a banquet hall, a champagne bar, and many unique gift shops.
13. There are amazing 5 billion lights on the Eiffel-Tower.
14. Amazingly around 50 tonnes of paint are added to the Eiffel-Tower every 7 years to protect it from rust.
15. There was a proposal to demolish the Eiffel Tower in 1909, but it was decided that it can be used as a giant radio antenna. The French military used the tower to communicate wirelessly with ships in the Atlantic Ocean and intercept enemy messages during World War I. The tower still has more than 120 antennas, broadcasting both radio and television signals throughout the capital city and beyond.
16. During WWII, when Hitler visited Paris, amazingly the French cut the lift cables on the Eiffel-Tower so that Hitler would have to climb the steps if he wanted to reach the top.
17. The amazing fact is that the Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world. Nearly 7 million people visit it every year.
18. The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by 6 inches (15 cm) due to temperature changes.
19. Inventor Franz Reichelt died by jumping from the Eiffel Tower while testing a parachute of his own design.
20. Con artist Victor Lustig "sold" the Eiffel Tower to a scrap metal dealer.

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### Worms
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Last updated: 2024-08-08T09:30:32.000Z
#### 25 Amazing Worms Facts You may not know

1. A worm has no arms, legs, or eyes. Worms are cold-blooded animals.
2. The amazing fact is that blood-sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.
3. A single cocoon of silkworm can produce 1,000 ft silk and to make a silk-made tie 100 cocoons are used.
4. The amazing fact is the silkworm consumes 86000 times its own weight in 56 days.
5. Darwin described the earthworm as “the intestines of the earth”. It's amazing that Charles Darwin spent 39 years studying earthworms.
6. There are approximately 2,700 different kinds of earthworms.
7. The fact is worms have no fewer than 5 hearts!
8. The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.
9. The amazing fact is in one acre of land, there can be more than a million earthworms.
10. Baby worm are not born. They hatch from cocoons smaller than a grain of rice.
11. Amazingly worms are hermaphrodites. Each worm has both male and female organs.
12. Worm can eat their weight each day.
13. Earthworms breathe through their skin and have to come out after heavy rain to escape suffocation. Amazingly if a worm’s skin dries out, it will die as it can't breathe.
14. A worm doesn't have eyes but is sensitive to light.
15. Worm are invertebrates, that is they have a long, soft body and no backbone or legs!
16. A worm doesn't have a brain but does have a nerve center (called ganglia).
17. Worm plays an important role in creating rich soil that plants feed on to help them grow strong and bear lots of fruit.
18. The giant earthworm has a lovely shade of Prussian Blue growing up to two meters long found in Australia.
19. Amazingly earthworms eat almost anything that was alive, as long as it is dead when they eat it.
20. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans dies after about fourteen days. But when stressed, amazingly the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months.
21. The Ribbon worm will start eating itself to avoid starvation.
22. The bite of a leech is painless due to its own anesthetic.
23. The silkworm's silk comes out of its mouth as a thread of gooey liquid. The nice silk blouse you bought is really just worm spit.
24. The biggest tapeworm found in the human body was found to be amazing 35 meters long.
25. Caterpillars completely liquefy when they transform into moths.

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### Breathing
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Last updated: 2024-08-06T09:30:39.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts About Breathing

1. Breathing through your nose warms and filters the air, and provides twice as much resistance to airflow as breathing via the mouth. This resistance helps maintain good lung elasticity and a strong heart.
2. The nose has a 4 stage filtration system. By breathing into the mouth you bypass it which easily results in sore throats, tonsillitis, and even ear infections.
3. Mouth breathing interferes with sleep, reduces the amount of oxygen reaching our cells, and has an ill-effect on posture. It also can contribute to misaligned bite, bad breath, snoring, sleep apnoea, and night-time urination.
4. The highest recorded "sneeze speed" is an amazing 165 km per hour.
5. The function of your lungs is to transport oxygen from the air you breathe into your bloodstream while taking away carbon dioxide, which is released into the air when you breathe out. The body in fact needs about 40 kg (88 pounds) of oxygen each day.
6. Breathing has very little to do with oxygen. Air has 21% oxygen and the body only needs 5%. It’s all about the removal of Carbon Dioxide!
7. 70% of our body’s waste products are eliminated via our lungs and the rest through the urine, skin, and feces. When the efficiency of our lungs is reduced due to poor breathing less oxygen is available to our cells, which slows down the flow of blood which carries wastes from the kidneys and lungs.
8. Most vertebrate animals (animals with spines) have two lungs.
9. Our right lung is slightly larger than the left allowing room for your heart.
10. The primary breathing muscle is the diaphragm, responsible for 75 percent of an inhalation's force. The secondary breathing muscles are the intercostals, located between the ribs, and our abdominal muscles. The third set of muscles involved are in the neck and upper chest (the scalenes, sternocleidomastoids, and pectoralis major).
11. Hyperventilation occurs when the upper chest and neck muscles are used as primary breathing muscles, instead of using the diaphragm.
12. The lungs are in fact the only organs that can float on water. In fact, medical examiners use the so-called "lung float test" during autopsies to determine if a baby was stillborn (died in the womb). If the lungs float, the baby was born alive; if the lungs don't float, the baby was stillborn.
13. You can live with one lung but it may limit your physical ability. You may live a relatively normal life.
14. If you laid out the lungs flat their surface area would amazingly cover a tennis court ( about 70 square meters!).
15. The capillaries in the lungs would in fact extend 1,600 kilometers if placed end to end.
16. We lose half a liter of water a day through breathing. This is the water vapor we see when we breathe onto glass. However, you lose about four times that amount when you exercise.
17. A person at rest usually breathes between 12 and 15 times a minute. The breathing rate is faster in children and women than in men. An average person breathes in around 10,000 liters of air every day.
18. With a large lung capacity, you can send oxygen around their body faster. You can increase your lung capacity with regular exercise.
19. Smoking is the worst enemy for your lungs besides carrying a risk of lung cancer.
20. Asthma is a disease that is a result of your airways narrowing after being irritated. The narrow airways make it hard for you to breathe in the air.
21. The more you breathe (hyperventilation) the hungrier you will be and the more acidic the body will become.
22. The general guideline is that you should only ever exercise to the intensity that you can keep your mouth closed.
23. When we breathe in and out of our nose during a yoga practice, we don’t want to stress our body too much. Stress is indicated by resorting to open mouth breathing.
24. We naturally change sides in our sleep approximately every 30 minutes, and this is mostly due to the balancing of the breath through each of the nostrils.
25. Inhaling through the nose, and exhaling through the mouth messes with the balance of CO2 in the body. This results in a loss of CO2\. Holding the breath can increase CO2, which will help to rebalance the PH level.
26. Ancient yogis believed we only have so many breaths for our life. If this is so why not stretch our life out a bit longer by taking slow and deep breaths?
27. Breathing is in fact the only autonomous system of the body that we can also control. This means that the body governs it but we can change how we breathe through conscious breathing practices such as pranayama.
28. Your breath is the first thing to respond in your body according to what you are thinking, feeling, observing, hearing, tasting, touching, sensing, or experiencing at the time. It is intimately connected to your physical, emotional, and spiritual state. It is an indicator of our mood and our mood is an indicator of our breath. This means that if we change how we breathe we can change our mood.
29. When we breathe we are either right nostril dominated or left nostril. The yogis believe that when the right is more open or breathing more smoothly we are more driven by the sympathetic nervous system which means we are more fired up, more active, and aroused. Dominance in the left nostril tends to happen when we are relaxed and at ease. The dominance changes around every 20 minutes during the day.
30. Quality breathing can release fear, anger, and sadness. Your breath will become disturbed when experiencing stressful emotions. One remedy is to breathe into your organs. Breathe into your lungs to remove sadness and grief. Breathe into your kidneys to dissolve fear. Breathe into your liver to dissolve anger. Breathe into your heart to open yourself up to more loving experiences. Breathe in gently and deeply to invite healthy energy into your organs. Consciously feel the stressful emotion flow out of your body with each exhale.
31. Your breath activates your nervous system: When the sympathetic nervous system is activated you are living life with the “accelerator” on full throttle. You are in “fight or flight” mode and constantly releasing stress into your body. On the other hand, the parasympathetic nervous system is like putting the “brake on” to life. It helps slow your body down which in turn allows restoration and rejuvenation. The key to activating this parasympathetic nervous system is to place your full attention on your breath. Close your eyes and allow your breath to slow down and relax.
32. A conscious exhale removes toxins from your body. Spending longer on your exhale through your nose will remove old, stuck, or stagnant carbon dioxide from the very bottom of your lungs, along with toxic byproducts the body has produced. In addition, a deep strong exhale is often a release of worries and heavy thoughts.
33. Breathing more slowly and taking longer breaths can reduce your appetite. People who breathe quickly or rapidly often overeat.
34. Denmark's Stig Severinsen currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest free dive. In 2010, he held his breath underwater for amazing 22 minutes.
35. Horses breathe only through their nostrils. They have a flap of tissue that forms a tight seal over the oral cavity, which prevents them from breathing through their mouths, even in respiratory distress. The amazing Fact is that if nostrils are obstructed for any reason, they can die.

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### Jelly Fish
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Last updated: 2024-08-04T09:30:38.000Z
#### 50 Awesome Amazing Facts About Jelly Fish

1. Jelly Fish are found in every ocean of the world and also in some freshwater lakes.
2. Amazingly Jelly Fish are the longest-living multi-organ animals living in the waters of the world for more than 650 million years, long before the dinosaurs and sharks.
3. There are more than 2,000 different types of jellyfish out of which only 70 species can hurt. It is believed that thousands of jellyfish species are yet to be discovered.
4. Jelly Fish belong to the radially symmetrical Phylum Cnidaria which also includes hydras, sea anemones, and corals.
5. The top of the jellyfish that looks like the top of a mushroom is called the bell. Its arms are called tentacles.
6. True jellyfish are scyphozoans meaning “bowl animals with bell sounded like a bowl ”. Box jellyfish are cubozoans, meaning “cube animals which have bell having sides and rounded corners.
7. Most JellyFish has two basic stages. In the first stage, called polyps they grow and grow by making buds, like plants. The polyp then buds off a young jellyfish called an ephyra which after a few weeks, becomes an adult jellyfish called medusa.
8. They are usually found in shallow coastal water but few species have been found at depths of 30,000 feet (9,000 meters).
9. Jellyfish that stay near the sunlight at the water’s surface tend to be colorless. Jellyfish that swim deeper are often red, purple, green, yellow, and sometimes they may even have stripes.
10. Jellyfish range from the size of the eraser tip of the pencil to approximately 8 feet in diameter and tentacles that reach up to 200 feet.
11. Jelly Fish are invertebrates i.e. animals without a skeleton. Approximately 95 to 98% of their body is water.
12. If Jellyfish are removed from the water, they dehydrate and die.
13. Each jellyfish tentacle is armed with thousands of cells called cnidoblasts within which are nematocysts containing a coiled stinging thread that uncoils like a harpoon when threatened.
14. The amazing fact is that the uncoiling of the jellyfish’s small stingers is one of the fastest actions in nature being faster than a bullet from a gun.
15. The amazing fact is that a jellyfish tentacle can still sting even if it is separated from the jellyfish’s body.
16. Jellyfish possess a hanging tube that acts as both their mouth and its digestive tube. In some jellyfish, the central tube is surrounded by curly ribbons like oral arms or mouth arms. True jellyfish usually have four oral arms.
17. Jelly Fish is without brain, heart, ear, head, feet, or bones. The skin is thin enough for jellyfish to breathe through it.
18. Jellyfish do have elementary nervous receptors that detecting light, vibrations, and chemicals in the water. They also have a sense of gravity allowing jellyfish to guide themselves in the water.
19. The Portuguese man of war growing from 30 to 150 feet can be confused with a jellyfish but it is not a true jellyfish being a colony of organisms that remain bound and work together.
20. Amazingly the smallest jellyfish in the world is the creeping jellyfish having bell disks from 0.5 mm to a few mm in diameter. It reproduces asexually by splitting in half.
21. Very small but extremely toxic Jelly Fish is Australian Irukandji, which is only the size of a fingernail but can have three-feet-long tentacles. Besides stingers on their tentacles, it has its bell as well. It can kill you within 20 minutes after the sting of cardiac arrest!
22. A group of jellyfish is called a bloom, swarm, or smack.
23. The Amazing fact is that Jelly Fish blooms near Japan can have over 500 million jellyfish, with each Jelly Fish the size of a refrigerator.
24. The Nomura jellyfish is the largest jellyfish weighing as much as 200 Kg followed by Lion’s mane jellyfish.
25. The Lion’s mane jellyfish can have tentacles up to 120 feet in length. Its bell can measure up to 7 feet, 6 inches across. Its sting is painful, but not deadly for us.
26. The giant Jelly Fish called Stygiomedusa gigantic has been reportedly seen only 17 times in the last 110 years.
27. Jellyfish produce both asexually and sexually. They are usually male or female, though hermaphroditic species have also been found.
28. Most jellyfish are passive carnivores feeding on plankton, crustaceans, other jellyfish, fish eggs, and small fish. They have only one hole in the middle of the bell through which to eat and void.
29. Jellyfish have several predators, including other jellyfish, sharks, tuna, swordfish, and sea turtles.
30. One species of Jelly Fish, the Turritopsis nutricula, also known as the “immortal jellyfish” can transform from the mature state back to the polyp state thereby avoiding death by a process called transdifferentiation.
31. The type of jellyfish most seen on the shores of North America and Europe is the Moon jellyfish colored blue or pink. Its sting is usually mild leaving an itchy rash.
32. The upside-down Jelly Fish does not float in the water. Instead, it anchors itself to the ocean floor, with its short arms and tentacles reaching up looking like a bowl of plants.
33. Crabs have sometimes been seen hitching a ride on a jellyfish. The crab benefits by catching a little of the food the jellyfish traps. The hard, outer shell of the crab protects it from the jellyfish’s sting.
34. Jellyfish move in two ways either taking water in their bell and then squirt it out creating a jet of water that moves them forward or by riding on water currents.
35. Jellyfish are aggressive colonizers. 8 years after comb jellyfish were introduced into the Black Sea in 1982, they totaled about 900 million tons.
36. Amazingly Jelly Fish account for more than 10 times the weight of the annual fish catch around the world.
37. Jellyfish can adapt to ocean dead zones where there are little oxygen and lots of pollution. There are over 400 marine dead zones in the world.
38. In several parts of the world, jellyfish are considered a delicacy, especially in Malaysia. The most commonly eaten jellyfish is the Cannonball jellyfish.
39. Jellyfish are also harvested for collagen which can be used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
40. Jellyfish can digest their food quickly after trapping it.
41. The most dangerous Jelly Fish is the box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri)also called "Marine Stinger" and the "Sea Wasp". The venom in a single box jellyfish can kill 60 people. The venom kills a person by stopping his or her heart in about two minutes. Scientists have developed anti-venom for box jellyfish stings.
42. Box Jelly Fish has caused about 5600 recorded deaths in the last 60 years in Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand. Each tentacle in Box Jellyfish has about 500,000 harpoon-shaped needles that can inject venom into the victim.
43. The box jellyfish is unique because it has 24 eyes and four parallel brains. Two of its eyes can see color and it also has a unique 360-degree vision. It is an active hunter mainly because it has eyes, unlike true jellyfish. It is also a better swimmer at speeds of up to 4 mph, which is faster than most people can swim.
44. Although Box Jellyfish have eyes with lenses, cornea, and retina similar to us but eyes are permanently out of focus due to the absence of the brain.
45. In fact, JellyFish kill more people than sharks do every year.
46. Jellyfish can sense a storm 10 to 15 hrs. before it actually occurs and leaves the shore and goes into the deep sea.
47. The best thing to do after the Jellyfish sting is to wash the affected with salt water (Not freshwater). Saltwater will deactivate the stinging cells, while fresh or tap water will reactivate them. The best way to remove the cells is with something such as a credit card.
48. Vinegar is the recommended first aid treatment for jellyfish stings. Alcohol, or alkaline substances, and rubbing the stung area can make things worse.
49. The bioluminescent Aequoreavictoria jellyfish expresses the green fluorescent protein (GFP) which is now widely used to mark specific organs and cells which can be then be followed in living organisms. Osamu Shimomura, who discovered GFP, and Roger Tsien and Martin Chalfie, who first developed many applications using it were awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2008.
50. Jelly Fish was responsible for temporarily shutting down a nuclear power plant in Japan after becoming stuck in its cooling system.

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### DNA
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Last updated: 2024-08-02T09:30:08.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about DNA

1. DNA or Deoxyribonucleic acid has a double helix structure like a twisted ladder. The sides of the ladder are made of sugars and phosphate atoms. The steps of the ladder are bases, the nucleotides called adenine(A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C). DNA holds the “blueprint” of life.
2. *The amazing* property of DNA is self-replication using cellular machinery made of proteins.
3. Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher discovered DNA in 1869, although its significance wasn't understood.
4. James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953 figured out the structure and function of DNA. Prior to that time, it was widely believed that proteins stored genetic information.
5. *Amazing fact* is that meteorites that fell on the early Earth brought reduced phosphorus to the planet. This allowed oxidation to phosphates, thus providing a mechanism for the generation of DNA and RNA.
6. *Amazing fact* is all humans have the DNA structure that is 99.9% similar, and the last 0.01% is enough to identify different DNA sequences and that makes everybody different.
7. The DNA within each cell is almost 2 mtr long, but it is *amazingly* constrained in no more than 0.09 mm . Humans have about 100 trillion cells containing DNA.
8. There are approximately 3 billion chemical letters (Called bases) in the DNA code in your body. One million bases of DNA sequence data is roughly equivalent to 1 megabyte of computer data storage space . A complete 3 billion base genome would take 3 gigabytes of storage space.
9. *Amazingly* you could fit 25,000 strands of DNA side by side in the width of a single adult hair.
10. *Fact* is the full stop at the end of a sentence is the size of one thousand cell nuclei which hold DNA.
11. Besides the DNA present in the nucleus, people also have DNA present in mitochondria. This DNA is only inherited from the mother as only eggs have mitochondria and not sperms. Due to such inheritance, the genetic abnormality will be expressed in all children of the abnormality carrying mother and in no children of the father with the same abnormality.
12. The DNA is tightly coiled up and structured into 46 chromosomes. Our chromosomes are arranged in pairs. We inherit one copy of the pair from each of our parents. One chromosome can have as little as 50 million base pairs or as much as 250 million base pairs.
13. The sex determining chromosomes ( X & Y) are the only asymmetrical chromosomes. X chromosome has about 153 million bases while Y chromosome has 60 million bases.
14. *Amazing fact* is if you put all the DNA molecules in your body end to end, the DNA would reach from the Earth to the Sun and back over 600 times.
15. If you could type 60 words per minute, eight hours a day, it would take *amazing* 50 years to type the human genome.
16. Sections of DNA that code for proteins are called genes. The complete set of genetic information for an organism is called the genome. The latest estimate is that there are between 20,000 and 25,000 genes in the human genome. *Amazingly* genes only make up 2-3% of genome.
17. The average gene is 10,000 to 15,000 bases long.
18. *Fact* is scientists completed final draft of human genome sequence only in 2003.
19. *Amazingly* only 2 percent of the human genome contains information regarding the formation of proteins. All the rest are so called non-coding regions.
20. DNA is *amazngly* fragile molecule. About a thousand times a day, something happens to damage it to cause errors and the body has an elaborate and constantly active system to repair it. Failure to repair DNA can lead to cancer or even cell death.
21. Changes in the DNA sequence are called mutations. Many things can cause mutations, including UV irradiation from the sun, chemicals like drugs etc.
22. DNA is like an engineer! It draws a plan known as RNA (Ribonucleic acid). It constructs a building called Protein! A mistake made by an engineer results in the mistake in his plan which in turn affects the building. Thus any mutation in DNA results in change in RNA which synthesizes wrong protein leading to genetic disorders.
23. *Amazing thing* is that a teaspoon of DNA, could contain all the information needed to build the proteins for all the species of organisms that have ever lived on the earth and there would still be enough room left for all the information in every book ever written.
24. All non-Africans are part Neanderthal, and you can get DNA testing to tell you how much Neanderthal you are as well as your ancestral lineage, and any potential genetic health problems.
25. *Amazingly* about 8 % of the human DNA is made up of ancient viruses that used to infect us.
26. It's *amazing* that you have 98% of your DNA in common with a chimpanzee and 92% common with mouse. Human DNA is closer to a rat than a cat.
27. Human DNA is 50% similar to bananas and cabbages.
28. The technique to identify the similarities of the DNA fragments of 2 individuals is called DNA fingerprinting developed by Alec Jeffreys (1985). It is used as a forensic tool to solve paternity, rape, murder etc. it can also be used for the diagnosis of genetic diseases.
29. DNA testing can be done on blood, cheek cells and urine samples.
30. In forensics, DNA analysis usually looks at 13 specific DNA markers (segments of DNA). The odds that two individuals will have the same 13-loci DNA profile is about one in one billion.
31. *Fact* is that DNA has a 521 year half-life, which means that the oldest cloneable samples of DNA could be no more than 2 million years old, ruling out any possibility of ever replicating dinosaurs, as the youngest dinosaurs were around more than 65 million years ago.
32. In an experiment conducted by Harvard researchers, they were able to store *amazing* 700 terabytes of data on a single gram of DNA.
33. There is a memory device orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station that contains the DNA of Stephen Hawking, Stephen Colbert, Lance Armstrong, among others, in case of some worldwide catastrophe. It is called the “Immortality Drive.”
34. *The amazing fact* is instead of venom, the Braconid wasp produces an immune-suppressing virus, which paves the way for its parasitic larvae in the host. This adaptation is the result of a 100-million-year-old virus, which altered the wasp’s DNA leading to the formation of an organ, whose sole purpose is to assemble the virus.
35. The Hornsleth Deep Storage Project has lowered a cast iron sculpture into the Marianas Trench, which will be filled with human blood, hair samples, and animal DNA so that it could be used to bring people and endangered species back to life in the future.

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### Hippopotamus
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Last updated: 2024-07-30T09:30:49.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Facts about Hippopotamus

1. The name Hippopotamus comes from the Ancient Greek ‘River Horse’. Hippos mostly live in sub-Saharan Africa. They can only survive in areas with abundant water.
2. Their closest living relatives are whales and porpoises etc. from which they diverged about 55 million years ago.
3. The hippopotamus is generally considered the fourth largest animal after Whales, elephants, and the White rhinoceros.
4. Two species are found in Africa called the Common Hippopotamus and the solitary and forest-dwelling endangered Pygmy Hippopotamus which is only found in western Africa.
5. A male hippopotamus is called a ‘bull’. A female hippopotamus is called a ‘cow’. A baby hippo is called a ‘calf’. A group of hippos is known as a ‘herd’, ‘pod’, ‘dale’ or ‘bloat’.
6. A herd of hippos usually consists of 10 to 30 members of both females and males lead by a dominant male.
7. Hippopotamuses have short legs, a huge mouth, and a body shaped like a barrel. Adult hippos measure about 15 feet (4.6 meters) long and 5 feet (1.5 m) tall.
8. The average female weighs around 1400 Kg while males weigh 1,600 to 3,600 kg. Female Hippos or Cows reach maximum weight at age 25 but male Hippos or Bulls appear to continue growing throughout their lives.
9. They grow to 10.8 to 16.5 feet (3.3 to 5 meters) long and up to 5.2 feet (1.6 m) tall from hooves to shoulders. The tail adds another 13.75 to 19.75 inches (35 to 50 centimeters) to its length.
10. Hippos typically live for around 45 years.
11. The Hippopotamus has an enormous head which makes up around a third of its total body weight, with its vast mouth being able to open up to amazing 150 degrees, a record among all vertebrates and revealing its large tusks which can weigh up to 3 kg each.
12. It is amazing that a hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4-foot tall child inside. When a Hippo opens its mouth, it is not yawning. An open mouth signals that the Hippo feels threatened.
13. The bellowing of a bull hippo measures an ear-splitting 115 decibels, sounding like the roar of a lion compared to the blue whale which can call at up to 188 decibels.
14. They spend all day almost 16 hours in the water and then hunt for food at night.
15. Hippopotamuses spend a large amount of time in the water to keep it's temperature down.
16. Fact is hippos are herbivores. Hippos eat mostly grass. They do not graze in the group. Instead, each Hippo eats alone because eating is private for them. Each night, a Hippo spends 4 to 5 hours grazing and consumes 40 to 50 kg of grass.
17. They have two long canine teeth (tusks) which can grow up to 50 cm long and are used for fighting.
18. The huge jaws of Hippos are studded with spike-like teeth. Amazingly it can bite a crocodile in half or split a boat in two.
19. The tusk-like incisors and canines grow continuously. They are ivory, valued even more highly than an elephant’s because they do not turn yellow with age.
20. Since the ban on trading elephant ivory, the number of Hippos killed for their teeth has risen dramatically.
21. George Washington’s false teeth were carved from the tusks of a hippopotamus.
22. Hippo has practically no hair, and its smooth skin is quite delicate.
23. Amazingly in spite of its heavy body, a hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.
24. Their eyes and nostrils are located high on their heads, which allows them to see and breathe while mostly submerged.
25. A clear membrane covers and protects their eyes while allowing them to see underwater.
26. An adult Hippo resurfaces every 3 – 5mins to breathe. The amazing fact is the process of surfacing and breathing is automatic, and even a hippo sleeping underwater will rise and breathe without waking. It closes its nostrils when it submerges in water.
27. Hippopotamuses can go underwater and hold their breath for as much as half-hour.
28. During the dry season, the dominant male chooses a partner, and then the other males fight each other for the remaining females.
29. Eight months after conception, at the height of the wet season, female hippos give birth to only one calf every two years.
30. Amazingly both reproduction and birth occur in the water.
31. A baby hippo is born underwater at a weight between 25 and 45 kg and an average length of around 4.25 Ft.
32. A newly born Hippo must swim to the surface to take their first breath. The young often rest on its mother’s back when in water and swim underwater to suckle.
33. Young hippos might be attacked by adult male hippos. The amazing is that this attack occurs only in water. Young hippos are safe if on land.
34. Hippos bask on the shoreline and secrete an oily red substance, which gave rise to the myth that they sweat blood. The liquid is actually a skin moistener also providing sun protection and also provide protection against germs.
35. The color of Hippo’s milk is bright pink. The reason is that hippo secretes two kinds of unique acids called “Hipposudoric acid” and “Norhipposudoric acid“. The Hipposudoric acid is reddish in color and often known as, “Blood Sweat”. Norhipposudoric acid is bright orange. Both these acids are strong enough to minimize the growth of the bacteria on the Hippo’s skin. These acids also act as a sunscreen for the Hippo’s skin as they absorb the UV rays that destroy the skin cells. In a milking Hippo, the two acids get combined with the white milk, and thus pink-colored milk is ejected. Thus Hippo milk is pink.
36. Amazingly the milk of a Hippo can also be ejected below the surface of the water, unlike other mammals. The baby hippos take a deep breath, close their ears and nostrils and then tightly wrap up their tongue around the teat and suckle their mother’s milk underwater.
37. Hippopotamuses break wind through their mouths.
38. The hippopotamus is one of the most aggressive creatures. They often attack human beings without any reason or apparent provocation. Don’t take chances.
39. It's estimated that Hippos are responsible for about 3,000 human deaths per year. The amazing fact is that hippos kill more people each year than lions, elephants, leopards, buffaloes, and rhinos combined.
40. Nearly all of the famous African explorers and hunters – Livingstone, Stanley, Burton, Selous, Speke, DuChaillu had boating mishaps with hippos.

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### Beaver
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Last updated: 2024-07-28T09:30:38.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts about Beaver

1. Beavers are semi-aquatic rodents usually found in streams, ponds, rivers, and lakes.
2. Beaver is the Canadian national animal and is depicted on the Canadian five-cent piece.
3. Beavers were plenty in England until they were hunted to extinction in the 12th century.
4. An adult beaver is approximately 3 feet long.
5. Beaver has a thick brown fur coat and a soft grey undercoat that protects it from all climates.
6. An adult beaver can weigh between 30 and 70 pounds. Female beavers are larger.
7. The beaver can live 15 - 21 years in the wild and much longer in captivity.
8. Beavers are nocturnal creatures working at night.
9. Beavers are in *fact* the second largest rodents on earth. Their large front teeth never stop growing. The beaver's constant gnawing on wood keeps their teeth from growing too long.
10. Beavers are second only to humans in their ability to manipulate their environment mainly because of their amazing "dam construction projects"
11. A stick-and-mud dam built across a stream at the edge of a lake can tell you a beaver is nearby.
12. The beaver is an industrious creature and its dam-building creates wetlands that support other wildlife. A beaver will fell a particular tree with its sharp teeth for a particular reason; a larger mature tree will be felled to form the basis of a dam. A young, second-growth tree will be felled for food.
13. As well as a wetland, beavers create standing deadwood (by drowning some trees) which is inhabited by insects, and in turn, attracts birdlife.
14. There are two species of beaver; the North American beaver and the European beaver. Although very similar in appearance and behavior, the two species are totally incompatible. They have a different number of chromosomes and they do not crossbreed with one another.
15. Beavers usually have one mate for life! The gestation period of beavers is 105 days.
16. Baby beavers are called Kits. Once a beaver is two-years-old, it leaves the family. It reaches sexual maturity by 3 years.
17. Beavers are territorial. They mark and protect their space.
18. Beavers have poor sight but a strong sense of smell and good hearing.
19. Beavers are herbivores. They feed on trees and tree bark; common favorites are cherry, maple, birch, and aspens. Beavers also feed on water lilies, pondweed, and leaves.
20. A common belief about beavers is that they eat wood, when in fact it's only the bark they eat.
21. Beavers move slowly on land but are good swimmers and can swim up to 5 mph. Beavers can stay underwater for up to 15 minutes.
22. Beavers homes, called lodges, are domelike constructions built from branches and mud. They are positioned in open water for protection from predators and have underwater entrance holes leading to the main living chamber.
23. Their lodges typically contain two dens, one for drying off after entering the lodge underwater, and a second, dryer den where the family will live and socialize. Beavers do not hibernate and lodges need to be built in deep enough water so the entrance does not freeze in the winter.
24. Their ears and noses have valves that they can close before submerging themselves underwater.
25. Their front teeth stick out of their closed mouths so that they may work underwater without swallowing water. When they fell a tree they waste nothing, systematically eating the bark and buds before cutting up branches and sections of the trunk to carry for use in dams or lodges.
26. They use these dams as protection from predators and as shelter throughout the winter. If a predator destroys part of the dam, it will be fixed overnight.
27. They are *amazing* lone engineers and generally work independently with little contact with each other.
28. What is believed to be the world’s largest beaver dam has been built in Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta, Canada. It is an 850-meter long beaver dam. It is located about 190 kilometers northeast of Fort McMurray, AB. Beavers are the only creatures on earth, other than humans, that build structures visible from space.
29. Beavers possess a set of transparent eyelids which enable them to see underwater.
30. A beaver's broad stiff tail about a foot long is a little like a Swiss Army knife: it is used as a rudder to steer underwater, a third leg while standing upright, as a lever to drag branches and can be slapped on the water to warn other beavers of danger.

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### Amazon Rainforest
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Last updated: 2024-07-26T09:30:40.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about Amazon Rainforest

1. The Amazon rainforest gets its name from the Amazon River, the life force of the rainforest. It is the world's largest tropical rainforest located in the Amazon basin of South America. There are so much abundance and variety of flora and fauna that much of it is yet to be documented.
2. The Amazon rainforest has existed for at least 55 million years.
3. At over five million square kilometers, the Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world covering 2/5th of South America. This is the equivalent to approximately 2/3 of the continental USA.
4. Amazingly the Amazon rainforest accounts for 54% of the entire world's remaining rainforests.
5. Brazil has 60%, Peru has 13%, and Columbia has 10% of the Amazon rainforest. It also stretches into the countries of Venezuela, Bolivia, Suriname, Guyana, French Guyana, and Ecuador.
6. The basin is drained by the Amazon River, the world's largest river in terms of discharge, and the second-longest river in the world after the Nile. The river is made up of over 1,100 tributaries, 17 of which are longer than 1000 miles.
7. The Amazon River once poured into the Pacific Ocean. When the Andes Mountains have formed 15 million years ago, the Amazon River’s flow was slowly blocked until huge freshwater lakes were formed. Approximately 10 million years ago, the river changed its course to pour into the Atlantic ocean.
8. Very little sunlight makes it through the dense canopy of trees and foliage covering the Amazon rainforest. On the ground, it is nearly completely dark. Amazingly only 2% of sunlight makes it to the bottom. In fact, if it started raining, it would take ten minutes before you even got wet!
9. Out of all the energy that goes into the Amazon, 9/10ths of it are stored in tree leaves and tissues.
10. The Amazon Rainforest receives about nine feet of rain every year.
11. Approximately 200,000 people live in the Amazon rainforest the vast majority of them indigenous Indians. In fact 500 years ago about 10 million indigenous Indians lived there.
12. Among these 200,000 people, there are 50 tribes that have never been in contact with the outside world. There are approximately 170 different languages spoken by the Amazon natives. The Yanomami tribe is the largest tribe in the Amazon today.
13. The number of edible fruits found in the rainforest is estimated at 3,000\. Amazon natives consume more than 1,500, but only 200 are cultivated for use today.
14. The amazing fact is that the Amazon rainforest is home to over two and a half million different species of insect, more than forty thousand varieties of plant, one and a half thousand bird species, and over two thousand fish species.
15. Candiru fish is a nasty little creature also called the toothpick fish, which has been reported to swim up the urethra of bathers and lodges itself therein. Removal by surgery is the only treatment.
16. About 25% of all drugs are derived from rainforest ingredients and this is just from the 10% that have been tested for medicinal properties. In fact of the plants known to have anti-cancer properties, 70% are found in the rainforest.
17. Most of our food in fact came originally from the rainforests of the Amazon. Amazon-derived products in fact include bananas, black pepper, chocolate, coffee, corn, pineapple, rice, and tomatoes.
18. Over 500 different mammals live in the Amazon rainforest including capybaras, which are the largest rodents on earth, jaguars, spider monkeys, vampire bats, and sloths. There are also over 300 different species of reptile including the anaconda snake and the caiman, a species of crocodile.
19. The world’s largest species of bat called the fishing bat has large claws. It’s also called the bulldog bat because of its dog-like snout. In the dark of night, it swoops down on fish whose surface ripples it detects using its sonar. It is the only bat species to be able to fish.
20. The glass frog’s flesh is entirely transparent, allowing you to see the internal organs, including the heart pumping away. It takes on the hue of surrounding vegetation, making it hard to see.
21. In the Amazon river itself, there are about 30 times as many different species of fish as in all European rivers combined. These include freshwater catfish called pirarucu that can grow to over 10 feet long and electric eels capable of stunning a man besides carnivorous red-bellied piranha fish.
22. Located in the Amazon is a 300-pound fish known as the Arapaimam which is covered in armor-like protective scales that protects them from a Piranha bite.
23. One-third of the world's species of birds live in the Amazon rainforest, amongst them macaws, toucans, herons, and parrots.
24. The Toucan, the loudest bird in the Amazon rainforest, can be heard from a distance of half a mile away.
25. A variety of evergreen broad-leaf trees make up most of the Amazon rainforest. Amazingly variety is so much that you can find over 200 different species in just one hectare of rainforest. Amazon water lily can measure over 7 feet across. These trees and other rainforest plants produce 20 percent of the world's oxygen.
26. Amazon river approximately 4000 miles long drains an area equivalent in size to the United States and it has 16% of the World’s river water. During the high water season, it can be 30 miles wide and the river's mouth maybe 300 miles wide, and every day up to 500 billion cubic feet of water ( About 5.8 million cubic feet/sec) may flow into the Atlantic. This daily flow into the Atlantic is enough to supply New York City's freshwater needs for nine years. The force of the current from sheer water volume alone causes Amazon River water to continue flowing amazing 125 miles out to sea before mixing with Atlantic saltwater.
27. The river current carries tons of suspended sediment all the way from the Andes. It is calculated that 106 million cubic feet of suspended sediment are swept into the ocean each day. The result from the silt deposited at the mouth of the Amazon is Majaro island, a river island about the size of Switzerland.
28. Of the top 8 largest rivers by the volume of water discharge, the Amazon River is bigger than all the others combined.
29. The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once a day and once a night for a period of only three weeks once a year, resulting in a continuous 4-meter high wave that can be surfed for up to 13 km.
30. It is believed that there is an underground river running below the Amazon, about 4 km underground and almost as long.
31. It is unfortunate that an estimated number of 2,700 million acres of the rainforest are burned each year.
32. Amazingly in 2011, a fungus, Pestalotiopsis microspora, was found in the Amazonian Forest which can survive on a diet solely consisting of polyurethane (plastic).
33. A 17-year-old woman, Juliane Koepcke, fell 3 km into the Amazon rainforest when her plane crashed. She survived & walked 10 days before being rescued. All 91 of her other co-passengers died.
34. The first “found footage” film was “Cannibal Holocaust” from 1980\. It was filmed in the Amazon Rainforest using real indigenous tribes interacting with the actors.
35. A man named Martin Strel swam the 3273-mile length of the Amazon in a record-breaking 66 days.

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### Bones
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Last updated: 2024-07-24T09:30:10.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about Bones

1. Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
2. There are 26 bones in the human feet. The human hands, including the wrist, contain 54 bones. The face has 14 bones and the whole skull has 30 bones. About half of our bones are in our hands and feet.
3. The femur, or thigh bone, is the longest and strongest bone of the human skeleton. It is about 20 inches long.
4. The stapes, in the middle ear, is the smallest and lightest bone of the human skeleton. Amazingly it only averages 2-3 mm. It is shaped like a “U.” It is the innermost bone that receives sound vibrations and passes them along to the cochlea to eventually be interpreted by the brain.
5. The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.
6. The largest bone is the pelvis or hip bone. In fact, it is made of six bones joined firmly together.
7. Our teeth form part of the skeletal system but are not counted as bones.
8. The axial skeleton part of the human skeleton has 80 bones. It includes the vertebral column, the rib cage, and the skull and helps us maintain our upright posture, by spreading the weight in the head, and upper areas down to the lower areas near the hips.
9. The appendicular skeletal section of our skeleton has 126 bones. It includes the pectoral (shoulder) girdles, the pelvic girdle, and the bones of the lower and upper limbs. Its function is for the movement of the body and to protect some organs.
10. Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight. Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. Amazingly they are more than 50% water.
11. Although bones appear very hard, under the surface they are more like sponges, with lots of air. This makes bones very strong, but very light.
12. Human bones grow continually from birth till our mid 20's. Our skeleton's bone mass is at its maximum density around the age of 30.
13. Bones stop growing in length during puberty. However bone density and strength will change over the course of life,
14. The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue.
15. Bones are made up of calcium, phosphorus, sodium, and other minerals, as well as the protein collagen.
16. Bones function as the skeleton of the human body, allow body parts to move, and protect organs from impact damage. They also produce red and white blood cells within the bone marrow.
17. Bone strength is amazing. It turns out that bone tensile, compression, and shear strength (in Kg per cubic inch) are stronger than white oak and granite when comparing compact bone to these materials. However medium steel beats bone when strength is compared.
18. The amazing Fact is that your thigh bone is stronger than concrete. A block of bone a size of matchstick can support 9 tons about 4 times as much as concrete.
19. As we age, our bones don't shrink and cause us to get shorter. Normal age shrinkage does occur, but this is due to the flattening of the tissues that fill the spaces between the vertebral bodies (spine bones). As a result, we tend to shrink on average about 3cm over a lifespan and can have normal shrinkage up to 6 cm. Any shrinkage greater than 6cm is associated with increased fracture risk.
20. Bones do not continue to grow after we die. It is a myth.
21. Arms are among the most commonly broken bones, accounting for almost half of all adults' broken bones.
22. The most commonly fractured bone in the body, when talking about a single bone, is the clavicle, or collar bone. It can be a slight fracture, but if fully broken, it can become dangerous, as the lung sits behind it can be punctured by or bone fragments.
23. The small toe bones break the easier and most often. Amazingly almost everyone has broken a toe, even a small one, in their life. It heals by itself.
24. Humans and giraffes have amazingly the same number of 7 bones in their necks.
25. Enamel on teeth is the hardest substance in the human body.
26. The insides of some bones contain special material called bone marrow in the bone cavities. It has lots of cells which make red blood cells carrying oxygen all over the body. Amazingly every second, bone marrow produces two million red blood cells! On a daily basis, bone marrow hematopoiesis generates unbelievable 500 billion blood cells.
27. Bone marrow makes up 4% of a human body mass. Besides red blood cells, it also produces lymphocytes, key components of the lymphatic system, which support the body's immune system.
28. Only one out of every 100,000 normal bone marrow cells is an uncommitted stem cell which may be converted to any cell type. These cells are critically important to researchers.
29. Over a period of 7 years, each bone of the body is fully replaced.
30. The ears and end of the nose do not have bones inside them. Their inner supports are cartilage or 'gristle', which is lighter and more flexible than bone. This is why the nose and ears can be bent.
31. After death, cartilage rots faster than bone. This is why the skulls of skeletons have no nose or ears.
32. Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease, which is characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of the bone structure. Osteoporosis can be prevented and treated. Low bone mass is when bones lose the minerals that make them strong, especially calcium, which makes them weak and fracture easily.
33. The Amazing fact is that Evel Knievel (the USA, b. Robert Craig Knievel), the pioneer of motorcycle long jumping exhibitions, had suffered 433 bone fractures by end of 1975\. In the winter of 1976, he was seriously injured during a televised attempt to jump a tank full of sharks at the Chicago Amphitheater when he retired.
34. The hardest bone in the human body is the jaw bone. It is one of the most durable and hard to break bones in the body.
35. Although almost always found in bone, multiple myeloma is not primary bone cancer. It is a bone marrow cancer. Common types of bone cancer are osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma & Ewing's tumor.

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### Radish
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Last updated: 2024-07-22T09:30:08.000Z
#### Top 40 Amazing Facts About Radish

1. Radishes are edible root vegetable. The botanical name is Raphanus sativus.
2. The radish is a member of the Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage) family; its cousins are broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and turnip.
3. The origin of radishes is most likely China, and they have been cultivated since 2700 BC. Radish crops spread through to Europe in the 1500s.
4. Radishes, onions and garlic were paid as ‘wages’ to the Ancient Egyptian laborer’s who built the Pyramids.
5. In Ancient Greece gold replicas of radishes were offered to the God Apollo.
6. Radish crop reached US by 1629\. Currently California and Florida boast the biggest crops in the US.
7. Ancient Egyptians used radish oil in their diet before olive oil was discovered.
8. There are hundreds of varieties of radishes grown worldwide, accounting for about 2% of total global vegetables.
9. Radish plant can reach 6 feet in height and 3 feet in width. Size of the root depends on the variety. Rounded varieties are usually 1 inch wide, cylindrical types are 7 inches long, while carrot-like varieties grow to the size of 2 feet.
10. Radish grows in various colors depending on the variety. Best known types are white, pink, red, purple, yellow and green.
11. Radish grows quickly. Seed starts to germinate 3 to 4 days after planting and radish can be harvested 3 to 6 weeks later.
12. Because they grow rapidly, radish plants are ideal for children's gardens.
13. Radishes can be broadly divided in 2 groups, based on the planting time. Summer types are planted in the spring. They are usually round shaped and pink in color. Winter types are sown at the end of the summer. They are often elongated and white colored and have stronger taste.
14. Biggest ever recorded radish (root) was 3 feet in length and about 45 Kg in weight.
15. Look for the roots that feature fresh, stout and firm in texture not yielding to pressure. Their top greens also should be fresh, and feature crispy green without any yellow, shriveled leaves. Yellowness indicates that the stock is old.
16. At home, remove their top greens since they rob nutrients off the roots if left intact. It can remain fresh in refrigerator for a week.
17. Both root and top greens are employed for cooking. Peeling may be avoided as the anti-oxidant isothiocyanates, which gives a peppery pungent flavor to radish, are thickly concentrated in the peel.
18. One cup of sliced radishes (100 Grams) provide just 20 calories. They are a good source of vitamin C (15 mg per 100 gm) which is powerful water soluble anti-oxidant. It also contains small amounts of other nutrients such as magnesium, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B6, folic acid, potassium and minerals such as calcium, iron, magnesium, copper and calcium.
19. Radish also contains many phytochemicals like indoles which are detoxifying agents and zea-xanthin, lutein and beta carotene, which are flavonoid antioxidants.
20. Radishes can be eaten raw either as a whole or as slaw or in salads with carrots, beets, cucumber, lettuce, etc.
21. In India the root is grated and mixed with spice and seasonings and stuffed inside bread to prepare "mooli parantha."
22. The strong, pungent flavor of radishes is caused by “isothiocyanates”. Horseradish is a type of elongated white radish that has it in abundance.
23. Daikon is another type of elongated radish, most famously used in Japanese cuisine, where it is used pickled, dried, grated, and in stir fries.
24. Oilseed radish is a type of radish specially cultivated because of its oil that is used as biofuel.
25. Tender top greens of radish are also eaten as leafy greens in some parts of the world. These are often mixed with other greens like spinach, turnip greens, etc., used in the preparation of soups, curries as well as in cooked vegetable recipes.
26. When left to grow for longer than the usual root-harvest period, all kinds of radish bear small flowers, which subsequently develop into edible fruit pods. Podding or a rat-tailedradish is a type of seed-pod variety grown exclusively for their long rat-tail like tapering edible pods.
27. Radish can be used to relieve stomach ache, to facilitate digestion and elimination of the excess body water and to regulate blood pressure.
28. Radish, like other Brassica family vegetables, contains isothiocyanate anti-oxidant compound called sulforaphane which has a proven role against prostate, breast, colon and ovarian cancers by virtue of its cancer cell growth inhibition, and cytotoxic effects.
29. Radishes are very good for the liver and stomach, and it also acts as a powerful detoxifier purifying the blood and eliminating toxins. It is extremely useful in treating jaundice because it removes bilirubin and also keeps its production at a stable level. It also reduces the destruction of red blood cells. Black radishes are more preferred in the treatment of jaundice along with radish leaves.
30. Radishes are considered roughage, as it has indigestible carbohydrates. This facilitates digestion, water retention, and it fixes constipation, which is one of the major causes of piles.
31. Radishes are diuretic in nature, which means that they increase the production of urine. Juice from radishes also cures inflammation and a burning feeling during urination. It also cleans out the kidneys and inhibits infections in the kidneys and urinary system.
32. Radishes are very filling, satisfying your hunger without increasing calorie count. They are also low in digestible carbohydrates, high in roughage and contain a lot of water, making radishes a very good option for weight loss.
33. The radish seeds are traditionally used in treatment of leukoderma or white patches. They are powdered and soaked in vinegar, ginger juice, or cows urine and then applied on the white patches. You can eat radishes as well to aid the treatment.
34. Radishes are a very good source of potassium, which contributes to reduction of blood pressure by widening the flow of the blood, instead of forcing it through narrow, constricted channels.
35. Radishes are good for diabetes as they have a low glycemic index, which means that eating it does not impact blood sugar levels.
36. In respiratory Disorders like bronchitis and asthma, radishes act as anti-congestive decreasing congestion of the respiratory system including irritation of the nose, throat, wind-pipe and lungs.
37. Vitamin C, phosphorus, zinc and vitamin B complex present in radishes are good for the skin. The water in radishes also helps to maintain healthy moisture levels in the skin. Smashed raw radish is a good cleanser and serves as an efficient face pack.
38. Radishes have anti-pruritic properties and can be used as an effective treatment for insect bites and bee stings. Radish juice also reduces pain and swelling and soothes the affected area.
39. Radishes may contain goitrogens, plant-based compounds found in cruciferous and Brassica family vegetables. They should be avoided in individuals with thyroid dysfunction.
40. In Mexico, the annual night of the radishes festival takes place on December 23rd prior to Christmas Eve. Mexican sculptors create great scenes using very large radishes.

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### Broccoli
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Last updated: 2024-07-20T09:30:11.000Z
#### Top 25 Amazing Facts About Broccoli

1. Broccoli originated in Italy off the Mediterranean. It has been eaten there since the time of the ancient Romans in the 6th Century BC.
2. The name Broccoli is derived from the Italian word “braccio,” which means “arm.”
3. Broccoli belongs to the family of cruciferous vegetables which also includes cauliflower, kale, and cabbage.
4. Broccoli can either be grown from seed or more popularly from seedlings. It grows up to 100 cm with large spreading bluish green leaves.
5. Largest producer in the world is China, producing over 8 million tons a year.
6. Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, was a fan of broccoli, importing the seeds from Italy to plant the vegetable there as early as 1767\. Presently California produces 90% of broccoli in USA.
7. The head of the broccoli is made up of tiny flower buds. If you do not harvest it on time, the head will be full of yellow flowers. Even when harvested, broccolis need to be kept in a cool temperature to prevent the buds from flowering, which will make the vegetable taste bitter.
8. To keep a head of broccoli fresh, store it, unwashed, in a ventilated plastic bag inside the refrigerator and use it within five days.
9. Its central thick stalk measures about 6-10 inches in length. Both stalk and fleshy flower heads are edible.
10. Eating broccoli raw is one of the best ways to maximize its nutrition potential. Since cooking destroys some of the valuable nutrients found in broccoli, keep cooking time as short as possible.
11. Overcooked broccoli becomes soft and mushy, an indication that it has lost both nutrients and flavor.
12. Broccoli can be served as a vegetable, in stir-fries, salads, soups and , omelets.
13. Broccoli is very low in calories, as one cup of chopped raw broccoli has only 30 calories.
14. Broccoli has very high content of Vitamin C. One cup of chopped broccoli is Vitamin C equivalent of an orange providing your daily needs.
15. Broccoli is also very high in Vitamin A which helps fight cancer within your cells, as well as keep your eyes healthy and stave off glaucoma and other eye degenerative diseases. It also helps to promote healthy skin and maintain healthy bones and teeth.
16. Broccolis also have Vitamin K, as well as the minerals calcium, potassium and iron. In addition, it contains phytochemicals that are known to detoxify the body.
17. As broccoli is rich in vitamin A and K , these help in the metabolism of vitamin D.
18. Broccoli is high in both soluble and insoluble fiber.
19. Broccoli is the best nutritional food for pregnant women due to folic acid and vitamin C which are helpful in cellular division which causes natural growth of fetus.
20. Broccoli contains high amount of calcium compared to other vegetables which is helpful to build bone mass.
21. Broccoli is also a good source of minerals like manganese, iron, magnesium, selenium, zinc and phosphorus.
22. Broccoli contains the flavonoid kaempferol which is an anti-inflammatory agent helping fight against cancer and heart disease and help prevent onset of adult diabetes.
23. Broccoli and also cabbage are rich in sulfur compounds required for healthy body.
24. Broccoli also has phytonutrients (glucoraphanin, gluconasturtiian and glucobrassicin) which are helpful in detoxifying the body from harmful chemicals. It is also enriched with flavonoid compounds like thiocyanates, indoles, sulphoraphane, isothiocyanates, beta and alpha carotene and lutein which protect from various cancers.
25. Glucoraphanin found in Broccoli is converted to sulforaphane that protects your skin making it healthy and dazzling.

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### Wheat
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Last updated: 2024-07-18T09:30:38.000Z
#### Top 30 Amazing Facts About Wheat

1. Wheat is a member of the grass family called Poaceae that produces a dry, one-seeded fruit commonly called a kernel.
2. More than 17,000 years ago, humans gathered the seeds of plants and ate them. After rubbing off the husks, early people simply chewed the kernels.
3. Wheat originated in the “cradle of civilization” in the Tigris and Euphrates river valley, near what is now Iraq.
4. The Roman goddess, Ceres, who was deemed protector of the grain, gave grains their common name today - “cereal.”
5. Currently wheat is grown on over 540 million acres worldwide which is more than any other crop. One acre of wheat yields an average of around 40 bushels of wheat.
6. This plant is highly adaptable crop and can grow almost anywhere, From sea level to Tibet (4,000 meters above sea level) and from equator to near arctic regions.
7. Wheat was first planted in the United States in 1777 as a hobby crop.
8. There are over 30 000 varieties of wheat that were produced via cross breeding of six basic types of the plant.
9. Wheat usually reaches 2 to 4 feet in height. Wheat is annual plant, which means that it finishes its life cycle in one year.
10. It develops head on a top of the stem which contains around 50 kernels. Color of the kernel depends on the variety of wheat. It can be red, blue, purple, brown or white.
11. All types of wheat can be divided in two major groups: spring and winter wheat. Spring wheat is planted during the spring and harvested during the summer. Winter wheat is planted at autumn and harvested during the spring.
12. Wheat is ready for harvest when it becomes golden in color and completely dried out.
13. Machine (called combine) removes the heads from the stem and separates kernels from the rest of the inedible plant material.
14. Kernel consists of 3 parts: bran (outer layer), endosperm (nutritive matter used for development of embryo) and germ (embryo).
15. Whole wheat flour is produced by grinding of whole kernels (All parts). Production of white flour requires removal of the bran and germ. This type of flour contains less minerals, vitamins and fibers compared to the whole-wheat flour.
16. Wheat is the primary grain used in U.S. grain products. About 75% of all U.S. grain products are made from wheat flour.
17. One bushel of wheat contains approximately one million individual kernels.
18. One bushel of wheat yields roughly 27 kilograms of whole wheat flour or 19 kilograms of white flour enough for around 73 loaves of bread or 210 servings of spaghetti.
19. It is advised not to refrigerate any bread product as they go stale up to 6 times faster in the refrigerator. Leave them at room temperature or freeze them.
20. More types of foods are made with wheat than with any other cereal grain.
21. In fact, world trade in wheat is larger than for all other crops combined.
22. Kansas is on average the largest wheat producing state in the U.S. It is often referred to as “Wheat State”.
23. Wheat is rich source of proteins, sugar (in the form of starch), vitamins of the B group and minerals such as iron, manganese, magnesium and zinc.
24. Wheat is used for the production of bread, pasta, cookies, breakfast cereals and fermented beverages.
25. 1% of human population cannot consume wheat-based products due to celiac disease resulting from intolerance to the wheat protein called gluten.
26. Besides staple food, wheat is used in medical swabs, straw, particle board.
27. Amazingly wheat starch is used in the paper industry and for the production of glue, adhesives, textile, plastic and building materials.
28. Straws of wheat can be used for roofing, manufacture of hats and baskets.
29. Hair conditioners, body lotions and lip balms often contain wheat proteins.
30. Wheat is used in the production of alcoholic beverages such as vodka, gin and whiskey. In fact, Ethanol produced from the wheat can be used as bio-fuel.

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### Pomegranate
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Last updated: 2024-07-16T09:30:10.000Z
#### Top 30 Amazing Facts About Pomegranates

1. Pomegranate remains dating back to 1000 BC have been discovered in Transcaucasia. Ancient Egyptians were often buried with pomegranates.
2. In Hinduism, the pomegranate symbolizes prosperity and fertility.
3. The English word “pomegranate” comes from the Latin words for apple (“pomum”) (apple) and seeded (“granatus”). Pomegranates are mentioned numerous times in the Bible.
4. Many scholars believe it was a pomegranate rather than an apple that tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
5. The city of Granada, Spain is named after the Spanish word for pomegranate, “Granada.” In early English, the pomegranate was called the “apple of Grenada.”
6. The word pomegranate means apple with many seeds. There are over 760 varieties of pomegranate.
7. The pomegranate is native to Iran, Saudi Arabia, Northern India, Bengal, and Southern Asia and is cultivated widely throughout the Middle East, India, southeast Asia, and parts of Africa.
8. India is the world’s largest producer of pomegranates, followed by Iran.
9. The pomegranate was introduced to California by Spanish settlers in 1769\. Thomas Jefferson planted pomegranates at Monticello in 1771.
10. Pomegranates belong to the berry family. The botanical name is Punica granatum.
11. Pomegranate trees grow in hot and dry climates. It can reach height of 15 to 25 Feet. Amazingly pomegranate trees can live for over 200 years.
12. In the Northern Hemisphere, the fruit is typically in season from September to February. In the Southern Hemisphere, the pomegranate is in season from March to May.
13. Pomegranates are used in cooking, baking, juices, smoothies and alcoholic beverages, such as martinis and wine.
14. To easily open the pomegranate relatively mess-free, cut it in half in a large bowl of water and then tear the sections apart. The seeds will sink to the bottom and the white papery pith will float. Remove the pith and then strain the seeds from the water. Pomegranates can be stored up to 2 months in the refrigerator.
15. The pomegranate contains lots of vitamins such as Vitamin A, C, K, and B5\. Other vitamin B complex compounds include pantothenic acid, folates, pyridoxine.
16. Pomegranate is also full of minerals like calcium, potassium, copper and manganese that give a proper balanced nutrition for good health.
17. The pomegranate is known as a superfood. Its jewel-like seeds (arils) have been traditionally used for medicinal purposes for just about any ailment. It helps stomach upsets, menopausal hot flashes, hemorrhoids, conjunctivitis, osteoarthritis, lowers blood pressure, stimulates the immune system, wards off the flu, reduces inflammation, reduces risk of heart disease and lowers cholesterol.
18. Pomegranate fruit's rich ruby-red look comes from polyphenols, the potent antioxidants. Both the fruit and its outer skin are also rich in flavonoids.
19. Polyphenols and flavonoids, the major antioxidant components from pomegranates, might protect people from liver damage.
20. The juice of 100 grams of pomegranate seeds contains twice as many antioxidants as blackberries, more than 3 times as many as blueberries, and 4 times as many as oranges.
21. Polyphenol compound in pomegranate can inhibit inflammation in specialized brain cells, to help prevent or slow down Alzheimer's development.
22. The strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of a pomegranate can help protect skin against sun-induced damage.
23. The antioxidants present in pomegranate help protect against breast and other cancers.
24. It contains vitamin C, which improves resistance to outer infections caused by viruses by strengthening the immune system in the body and protects you from harmful diseases.
25. Pomegranate is a rich source of soluble and insoluble fiber which helps your digestive system as bowel movements become smooth. The fiber content also reduces extra fat deposits all around the body.
26. Pomegranate has antimicrobial effects. the dried powder of pomegranate peel has been shown to strongly inhibit candida and yeast.
27. pomegranate extract has the potential to be used to encourage the uterus to contract during labor, through a rise in calcium, which is necessary for any muscle to contract.
28. Pomegranate could help reduce severe arthritis and joint inflammation and help keep your bones strong.
29. Pomegranate has been used in various cosmetic products such as moisturizers, body lotion, hair products, and various other beauty care products.
30. In Japan, the pomegranate plant is often used for bonsai because of the interesting twisted bark some pomegranate plants can attain.

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### Avocado
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Last updated: 2024-07-14T09:30:47.000Z
#### Top 30 Amazing Facts About Avocado

1. Avocados, native to Central and South America, have been cultivated in these regions since 8000 B.C.
2. Avocado is a fruit, although mostly treated as a vegetable. It is specifically a berry. They belong to the Genus Persea in the Lauraceae family.
3. Avocado is one of the top healthiest foods on earth. It is also called an Alligator Pear because of its pear-like shape and green skin.
4. The major commercial producers of avocados are the United States, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and Colombia.
5. Hass is the most popular variety of avocado grown worldwide which was discovered in the backyard of a mailman named Rudolph Hass in California in the 1930′s and he patented his tree in 1935.
6. Amazingly Hass avocado had to wait about 35 years before it really became really popular now accounting for 95% of the crop.
7. The coastal regions of central and southern California grow about 90% of the domestic crop in the USA. San Diego County is the Avocado Capital producing 40 % of all the avocados grown in California.
8. A single California Avocado tree can produce about 150 to 500 avocados per year.
9. Amazingly avocado trees do not self-pollinate; they need another avocado tree close by to bear fruit. They have been the Aztec symbol of love and fertility as they grow in pairs!
10. Avocado is a fruit and is climacteric, meaning it matures on the tree but ripens off of the tree. Avocados must be mature to ripen properly. If not picked up on maturity, they would fall off the tree and ripen on the ground.
11. Avocados are the fruit from Persea Americana, an evergreen tree that can grow up to 65 feet.
12. The amazing fact is that avocados can stay on a tree for as long as 18 months before they fell off.
13. All avocados are picked by hand. Labor and water are the major cost factors for avocado growers. Avocado trees are tall and a 16-foot pole with a pouch and clipper at one end is used to pick the out-of-reach fruit.
14. Avocados are naturally packaged as their thick skin which is not to be eaten protects them shielding the green edible part inside.
15. Avocados are ripe when they feel heavy for their size, yield to light pressure, and are dark in color. To facilitate ripening, you may put it in for 3-4 days in a brown paper bag.
16. The process of ripening of avocado can be speeded up by putting a banana or apple in the bag. This is due to the release of natural ethylene gas from them.
17. The best way to peel an avocado is what is called the "nick and peel" method. Cut the avocado lengthwise. Hold both halves and twist them in opposite directions until they separate. Remove the seed and cut each of the halves lengthwise into long quarter sections. Using your thumb and index finger, grip the edge of the skin on each quarter and peel it off.
18. Avocados are a good snack to feed to babies young and old!
19. Avocados can be part of sandwiches and salads. It can serve as a butter substitute. Brazilians add them to ice cream.
20. One medium-sized avocado (About 70 grams) provides 115 calories, 10 grams fat, 6 grams carbohydrates, 0.2-gram sugar, 14 mg vitamin K, 60 mg folate, 6 mg vitamin C, 350 mg potassium, 0.4 mg vitamin B6, 1.3 mg vitamin E, and 20 mg magnesium. It is sodium-free.
21. While a banana is well known for its potassium content, avocado provides about double potassium compared to it.
22. Avocados have the highest fiber content of any fruit. Each medium-sized avocado has about 10 grams of fiber both insoluble (75%) and soluble (25%). Insoluble fiber speeds up the passage of foods while soluble fiber makes you feel full.
23. Avocado is one of the only fruit which is a very rich source of heart-healthy monounsaturated fat (MUFAs) that helps boost good (HDL) cholesterol and lowers bad (LDL) cholesterol.
24. Avocados help the body absorb more fat-soluble nutrients from foods that are eaten with them. Thus, eating avocados and tomatoes together can boost your intake of beta carotene of tomato.
25. An avocado serving size is 50 calories (About 3 thin slices or 2 tablespoons mashed). In addition, it provides most of the vitamins and minerals.
26. Avocados contain about 4 grams of protein, making them the fruit with the highest protein content! It has eighteen ready-to-use amino acids required by the body.
27. Avocado is one of the cheapest anti-aging tools for your skin! Due to antioxidants, amino acids, and essential oils, it can help repair damaged hair, moisturize dry skin, treat sunburns and even minimize wrinkles.
28. Antioxidant phytochemicals in avocado (such as beta-sitosterol, glutathione, and lutein) help protect against various diseases like macular degeneration and cataracts, prevent oxidative damage that has the power to change DNA and result in cell mutations.
29. Phytonutrients (polyphenols and flavonoids) in avocado are anti-inflammatory compounds reducing the risk of inflammatory and degenerative disorders that can affect every part of the body including joints, the heart, brain, skin, and connective tissue.
30. If you have a latex allergy, there is a possibility that you may be allergic to avocado.

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### Neuron
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Last updated: 2024-07-12T09:30:26.000Z
#### Top 25 Amazing Facts About Neuron

1. The nervous system is a complex structure of nerves of neurons that transmit signals around the body to coordinate actions akin to electrical wiring.
2. Nerves are enclosed bundles of long fibers called axons which are made up of nerve cells. There are two types of nerve cells: neurons and glial cells.
3. About 90% of the nervous system is made up of glial cells. That means for every ten glial cells there is only one neuron! Glial cells are specialized cells that provide structure and support to neurons. They help hold neurons in place, supply nutrients to neurons, destroy germs, and remove dead neurons.
4. Some types of glial cells generate a substance called myelin that coats axons and works as electrical insulation to help them quickly and efficiently transmit signals.
5. The cell bodies of neurons vary in diameter from 4 microns (brain) to 100 microns (motor neuron in the spinal cord).
6. The longest neuron in our body runs from the big toe to the base of our spine. It is over a meter long!
7. The longest axon of a neuron in the animal kingdom is found in a giraffe which is amazingly around 15 feet (from toe to neck).
8. Neurons quickly and precisely send signals as electrochemical waves along axons to other cells. There are two types of neurons, sensory neurons, and motor neurons.
9. Sensory neurons change light, touch, and sound into neural signals which are sent back to our CNS to help our body understand and react to its surroundings.
10. Motor neurons transmit neural signals to activate muscles or glands for specific actions.
11. Amazingly there are approximately 100 billion neurons in the human brain. There are as many neurons in the human brain as stars in the [Milky Way](https://amazingfacts4u.com/Milky-Way/).
12. Our spinal cord has about 13.5 million neurons.
13. Amazingly an octopus brain has about 300 billion neurons making it so intelligent!
14. Each single brain neuron has from 1,000 to 10,000 connections with other neurons, making up to 10 trillion neuron connections possible.
15. A piece of brain tissue just the size of a grain of sand contains 100,000 neurons and 1 billion synapses.
16. There are as many as 10,000 specific types of neurons in the brain for specific functions.
17. Amazingly neurons develop at the rate of 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy.
18. A stimulating environment for a child can make the difference between a 25% greater ability to learn or 25% less in an environment with little stimulation.
19. Humans continue to make new neurons throughout life in response to mental activity.
20. Brain messages travel between neurons in just one-thousandth of a second.
21. Information through neurons can be transmitted as slowly as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec.
22. While awake, our brain neurons generate between 10 and 25 watts of power or enough energy to power a light bulb.
23. Nerves in our bodies are vulnerable to both physical damage and damage through diseases. Damage to nerves can cause great pain, loss of feeling, or loss of muscle control.
24. Alcohol interferes with brain processes by weakening connections between neurons by damaging the connective tissue at the end of neurons.
25. Most amazing thing is that the brain in our head isn’t our only brain. There’s a “second brain” in our intestines that contain 100,000 neurons. Gut bacteria are responsible for making over 30 neurotransmitters including the “happy molecule” serotonin.

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### Cabbage
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Last updated: 2024-07-10T09:30:30.000Z
#### Top 25 Amazing Facts About Cabbage

1. Cabbage is one of the oldest vegetables in existence and continues to be a dietary staple throughout the world. It is part of the human diet more than 1000 years.
2. Cabbage is a vegetable belonging to the family Brassicaceae. This plant is closely related to broccoli and cauliflower.
3. There are at least 100 different types of cabbage grown throughout the world, but the most common types in the USA are the Green, Red, and Savoy varieties.
4. Cabbage is biennial plant, which means that it finishes its life cycle in two years.
5. Cabbage requires a lot of waters and nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium for successful growth.
6. Cabbage grows up to 2 feet in height during the first year of life and 5 to 6 feet during the second year of life when plant produces flowers.
7. Insects are main pollinators of flowers. Cabbage needs to be planted 0.5 to one mile away from related species of cabbage to prevent cross-pollination.
8. Cabbage is a rounded plant which has large, spreading, green leaves at the base. In the centre, head consists of smaller leaves which tightly enclose each other around the core, which is the top end of the main stem comprising many branches.
9. Flowering cabbages are grown for ornamental purposes. These types of cabbage do not develop heads. Instead, they have miniature white, red or pink leaves surrounded with larger green or purple leaves.
10. China is the largest manufacturer of cabbage, while Russia consumes the greatest amount of cabbage in the world (About 20 Kg per capita).
11. Cabbage can be steamed, boiled, microwaved, stuffed, or stir-fried, and eaten raw in the form of salads or pickled. Steaming and stir-frying of cabbage preserves nutrients.
12. While cooking cabbage, it is advisable that utensils made of aluminum are not used as aluminum might cause chemical reaction that discolors the vegetables and also might alter the flavor.
13. It is also rich in essential vitamins such as pantothenic acid (vitamin B-5), pyridoxine (vitamin B-6) and thiamin (vitamin B-1), folic acid and Vitamin A.
14. Cabbage is a very good source of vitamin K which has the potential role in bone metabolism through promoting healthy bones. In addition, vitamin-K also has role in the cure of Alzheimer's disease patients by limiting neuronal damage inside their brain.
15. Fresh cabbage is an excellent source of natural antioxidant, vitamin C which helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents.
16. Red cabbage contains almost twice as much vitamin C as the green cabbage, while the green variety of cabbage contains twice as much folate as the red cabbage. The third variety of cabbage, the savoy cabbage, is a very rich source for beta carotene.
17. Cabbage is low in saturated fat, cholesterol, high in dietary fiber, potassium, manganese, Calcium, Iron and Magnesium. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps controlling heart rate and blood pressure.
18. One cup of cabbage only holds about 15 calories. It is definitely a good food for promoting weight loss.
19. Drinking juiced cabbage is known to assist in curing stomach and intestinal ulcers.
20. The vegetable is a storehouse of phyto-chemicals like thiocyanates, indole-3-carbinol, lutein, zea-xanthin, sulforaphane, and isothiocyanates. These compounds are powerful antioxidants and known to help protect against breast, colon, and prostate cancers and help reduce LDL or "bad cholesterol" levels in the blood.
21. Various antioxidants present in cabbages protect skin from damaging especially from UV light. Cabbage juice can also be applied as a face pack with honey. This may also clear acne and pimples.
22. Cabbage juice also reduces your headache. The lactic acid present in cabbages decreases your stress and gives you relief from headache.
23. Cabbage may contain "goitrogens,” certain plant-derived compounds, which are also found in other vegetables like cauliflower, broccoli, etc. which may cause swelling of thyroid gland and should be avoided in individuals with thyroid dysfunction.
24. Cabbage can be applied externally in the treatment of wounds that heal slowly. The compresses made of fresh cabbage leaves are especially effective in cases of wounds on the tibia.
25. Cultures in which cabbage is a staple food, such as in Poland and some parts of China, show a low incidence of breast cancer possibly due to the protective effect of sulfur-containing compounds in cabbage.

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### Lemon
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Last updated: 2024-07-08T09:30:45.000Z
#### Top 40 Amazing Facts About Lemon

1. The name Lemon is said to have been derived from an Asian word for “sour fruit”. Lemons are technically berries.
2. The lemon is native to Asia, around Northeast India, North Burma, and China.
3. Historians believe that lemons have been around since first century A.D. It is believed they were initially cultivated in the Mediterranean.
4. Lemons used to be so rare that kings used to present them to each other as gifts. Wealthy Victorians grew lemons trees in their homes as a sign of prestige and to be a fragrant.
5. Lemons are believed to be a hybrid between a sour orange and a citron.
6. Lemon tree can grow up to 20 feet tall. The lemon is an evergreen tree, it blooms with a white flower and produces fruit all year around. Each tree can produce nearly 250 kg of lemons a year.
7. Lemon tree can amazingly survive more than 100 years, but production of fruit ceases after 50 years.
8. Lemon has evergreen, leathery leaves that are oval or elliptic in shape about 4 inches long. They can be used to make tea.
9. Christopher Columbus took lemon seeds with him to the America's in 1493, introducing the fruit there.
10. The top 5 producers of lemons in the world each year are China, India, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. In USA California and Arizona produce 95% of the entire lemon crop.
11. An average lemon holds three tablespoons of juice. Lemons have a sour taste due to 5-6% citric acid within it. There are roughly 15 calories in each lemon. Common varieties of lemon include Meyer, Eureka, and Lisbon.
12. Lemons should be fully yellow. The ones with green tinges have not fully ripened and will be very acidic. Over-ripe lemons will have a wrinkling look, soft or hard patches and will not be a vibrant yellow.
13. Lemons will stay fresh in the refrigerator for up to 6 weeks and at room temperature for 2 weeks.
14. Lemon juice is the main ingredient of lemonade. Lemon zest (grated outer rind) is used for flavor in baking of cakes, sponges and biscuits and puddings.
15. Due to its high acidic content, the juice of a lemon can be used for cleaning. Lemon halves dipped in salt or baking powder can be used to brighten up copper and clean kitchenware.
16. Because lemons are high in vitamin C, they can prevent the disease scurvy which used to be common among sailors stuck on ships for months. Even today, the British Navy requires ships to carry enough lemons since naval surgeon cured scurvy with fresh lemons in 1747.
17. Lemons are acidic to the taste, but are one of the most alkaline-forming foods in the body. This makes them great for balancing a highly acidic condition in the body.
18. The lemon is the only food in the world that is anionic (an ion with a negative charge). All other foods are cationic (the ion has a positive charge.) This makes it very healthy fruit as it is the interaction between anions and cations that ultimately provides the cells with energy.
19. In 2003, the heaviest lemon ever grown was recorded in Kefar Zeitim, Israel. It weighed 5.265 kg, had a circumference of 74 cm and was 35 cm high.
20. Sprinkling the juice on other fruits can prevent them turning brown.
21. Lemon fruit is used in the production of marmalades and alcoholic beverages, such as vodka.
22. Mixture composed of equal amount of warm water and lemon juice is used for gargling as a home-made remedy for sore throat due to antibacterial properties.
23. Lemons' antibacterial properties due to citric acid and antifungal properties make them a natural alternative to treat acne and remove blackheads. Simply slice open a lemon and rub it across your face. Or you can add a few drops of honey to a lemon half before applying it directly to the area where you have blackheads. Wait 5 to 10 minutes before rinsing off with cold water.
24. Lemon is best known as a rich source of vitamin C providing 53 mg of Vitamin C per 100 gm which helps reduce free radicals in the body. Vitamin C also promotes production of collagen which is very important for new bone, blood vessels, ligaments and tendons.
25. Lemon also contains valuable minerals such as potassium, zinc, calcium and magnesium.
26. Lemons contain more potassium than apples or grapes. The potassium is very useful to control blood pressure maintaining electrolyte balance in cells. Potassium also promotes healthy heart.
27. Honey and lemon taken together can help reduce your extra weight.
28. The lemon is a wonderful stimulant to the liver and is a dissolvent of uric acid and other poisons and also liquefies the bile. Fresh lemon juice added to a large glass of water in the morning is a great liver detoxifier. This also increases peristalsis and promotes regular bowels.
29. The citric acid in lemon juice helps to dissolve gallstones, calcium deposits, and kidney stones. It also destroys intestinal worms.
30. Lemon has many anti-cancer compounds which may kill cancer cells. It may be more effective than some of the chemotherapeutic agents.
31. You may make a homemade teeth whitener using baking soda and lemon juice. Mix the two ingredients into a bubbly solution and put onto your teeth for no more than one minute and gently scrub off with a toothbrush.
32. Lemons can get rid of oily skin. Swiping a cotton swab with a little lemon juice is very effective if done before bedtime and in the morning.
33. Lemon can brighten your hair color. Combine lemon juice and hair conditioner, comb through strands, sit in the sun for some time and wash out. Repeat at least once a week, and you will notice lighter hairs.
34. Using olive oil with lemon juice strengthen nails. The solution will not only condition weak and brittle nails, but it will also whiten yellowing nails.
35. Massaging a combination of coconut oil, olive oil and raw honey with lemon juice onto your scalp is a simple household solution for dry scalp and dandruff.
36. Lemon soothe chapped lips acting as exfoliant. Rub the sliced lemon fruit to your lips and wash off the next morning. The lemon juice will remove any dead skin cells and your lipstick is super smooth.
37. Lemon juice keeps bananas, apples, avocados and other fresh fruit from turning dark for hours!
38. You can make buttermilk using lemon juice. Add one tablespoon of lemon juice with enough milk to make one cup. Buttermilk is ready in 5 minutes!
39. Amazingly lemon can be used as a battery. Dipping of electrodes into the fruit produces energy that is high enough to run a small digital watch.
40. When there is insufficient oxygen and difficulty in breathing lemons are very helpful. The first man to reach the top of Mt. Everest, Edmund Hillary, said that his success on Mt. Everest was greatly due to lemons.

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### Lobster
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Last updated: 2024-07-06T09:30:37.000Z
#### Top 40 Amazing Facts About Lobster

1. The lobster is an invertebrate that belongs to the crustacean family. There are 49 lobster species found in the oceans. Lobsters can also inhabit fresh. Out of 49 lobster species, 33 are commercially exploited.
2. Around 200 000 tons of lobsters are caught each year. Despite this, lobsters are still not listed as endangered.
3. Lobsters can be divided in two groups: clawed and spiny. Clawed lobsters have claws and they inhabit cold waters. Spiny lobsters have long antennas instead of claws and they could be found in the tropical warm waters.
4. Depending on the species, lobsters vary in size from 0.8 to 3.25 feet in length. They keep growing forever.
5. Clawed lobsters have two unequal claws. They are used for catching and slicing of prey.
6. The bigger claw is called the crusher claw which is used to break up the food. The cutter claw is used for tearing. If a lobster loses one of its claws or walking legs, it is regenerated.
7. Lobsters are ten-legged creatures, just like shrimps and crabs, which are their closest relatives.
8. Just like in other Arthropods, body of the lobster is protected by outer skeleton called "exoskeleton". It is also known as a shell.
9. Shell cannot expand in size as the lobster grows and it sheds periodically. Lobsters without shells are very vulnerable and they usually hide until new shell is formed.
10. Every time they molt splitting their shells along the seam in the carapace, lobsters increase 20 % in size. Young lobsters molt several times a year, but elder one’s molt annually.
11. If you take just molted lobster out of water, the claws will fall off as it doesn’t have the mechanical strength to keep it in place. Amazingly they eat their old shells for the calcium and phosphorus.
12. Amazing thing about the lobster is that when the lobster is under attack or simply frightened the lobster escapes from danger by walking backward at an average speed of 18 Km per hour by pumping their tails.
13. Lobsters actually don't swim. Lobsters simply crawl on the ocean's surface slowly, but without swimming. Lobsters are nocturnal animals, so it's best to hunt them at night.
14. Sometimes they walk hand in hand, with older lobsters leading the young ones.
15. Lobster blood is colorless until exposed to oxygen, at which point it turns blue. When cooked, lobster blood turns into a whitish gel.
16. Lobsters carry multiple colors. Typically, they are a mottled brown, but genetic mutations can create red, blue and even albino lobsters. Heat denatures the proteins in the lobsters’ shells which turns their shells bright red when cooked because heat destroys all colors except red.
17. Lobsters mainly eat meat, such as fish, mollusks, worms and crustaceans. They also consume algae and other type of sea vegetation.
18. Lobsters have excellent sense of smell and touch. They use both senses to detect prey. They have three pairs of antennae, the largest of which is used for tactile sensing. The two smaller pairs are chemosensory, helping the lobster find its food by sensing dissolved substances in the water.
19. Amazingly lobsters can be right-handed, left-handed, or ambidextrous like humans.
20. Lobsters can’t see clear images, but their compound eyes are sensitive to light. Eyes don't regenerate. Deep sea lobsters are blind.
21. Lobsters use the front two legs studded with chemosensory hairs to put food into their mouths. The food travels through the tomalley which is green organ consisting of a small intestine, pancreas, and liver all in one!
22. Amazingly lobsters have teeth in their stomachs called gastric mill.
23. Lobsters have very small brain no bigger than the tip of a ball point pen!
24. Lobsters pee out of their faces. The urine comes from antennal glands located near the antennae. Peeing at each other is part of both fighting and courtship.
25. Courtship in lobsters is complicated. To woo a dominant male the female heads to his shelter many times peeing urine with chemical pheromone which signals to male that “It’s time to breed and "Don’t eat me!”. This signal is important since lobsters are cannibals.
26. The lobster's voice is a crackly noise sometimes compared to violins. they have no lungs and no vocal cords.
27. During a mating period, female becomes vulnerable because she throws away her shell. After a week of mating, new shell will develop and female will have large number of eggs deposited inside her body.
28. A lobster might carry 10,000 to 40,000 eggs depending upon size, which are kept in place by glue created in her cement glands. If you’re eating lobster, you might see bright red stuff made of unextruded eggs known as roe.
29. When lobsters mate, the eggs aren't fertilized right away. Females can carry live sperm for up to two years, until they decide that it’s time to fertilize their eggs.
30. Amazingly out of 10,000 eggs, only 100 will survive until the adulthood. Lobster reaches the size of the adult animal after 7 years of constant growth.
31. Amazingly they migrate up to 160 kilometres every year to find the perfect breeding ground for their fragile babies.
32. When a fisherman traps, a female lobster carrying eggs, he puts a V-notch in her tail which is a signal to other fishermen that she's a breeding female whether she has eggs or not, and should be thrown back. They’re protected as long as that notch is present.
33. The fact is Lobster fishermen throwback lobsters that are too small or too big. The small ones need to grow, while the large ones add vigour to the gene pool. In Maine, a lobster's body must be at least 3 1/4 inches to keep, and can't be over 5 inches.
34. When lobsters first hatch, they float for the first couple of weeks. After this phase, they settle on the bottom.
35. Amazingly lobsters in the wild can survive up to 100 years however most of them live much shorter because they end up in the fishing nets.
36. Scientists have discovered an accurate way to determine a lobster's age by dissecting it and counting the rings in the eye stalk and gastric mill.
37. The largest lobster ever recorded was caught near Nova Scotia in 1977 and weighed about 20 Kg! It was 3 feet, 6 inches long.
38. Lobster meat is a great source of protein, providing 28 grams of protein per cup. They are also a great source of healthy omega3 fatty acids.
39. Lobsters have low fat content. About 100 grams provides only 96 calories and about 2 grams of fat.
40. Amazingly lobsters are extremely sensitive to insecticides, even at parts per billion concentration and can die with negligible concentrations of insecticides.

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### Onion
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Last updated: 2024-07-04T09:30:12.000Z
#### Top 25 Amazing Facts About Onion

1. Onion is a type of vegetable that belongs to the family Amaryllidaceae. This plant originated from central Asia but it can be found around the world today.
2. Onions are one of the oldest foods known to the human race. Onions are mentioned in the Bible. Cultivation began in Asia around 3500 B.C. The Romans took onions to Europe when they made their way across the continent and the Pilgrims brought onions to the US.
3. Onion was worshiped in the ancient Egypt and these plants were inevitable part of burial rituals and tombs of most rulers.
4. Egyptians believed that onion possesses magic powers and that it can ensure success in the afterlife. Onion was also used as currency along with garlic.
5. Onion was used as diuretic, to improve digestion, and to ensure good health of heart, eyes, and joints in the 6th century BC in India.
6. Onion was used as strength-booster during the Olympic Games in Greece in the 1st century AD.
7. Currently the largest producers of onions are China, India, United States and Egypt. The country that eats the most onions per capita is Libya, where each person eats about 30 Kg of onions every year.
8. There are 27 different types of onions. All onions grow under the ground. Onion grows in temperate regions, on the sandy and well drained soils.
9. For onion to grow optimally , the soil should be moist, but not too wet. If the soil is too wet, the onions will rot in the ground.
10. Onions come in many shapes and colors. Most popular ones are yellow onions, white onions, brown onions and red onions. Yellow onion is the most popular being 75% of the world’s production.
11. Onion develops root, bulb and green leaves. Bulb is edible part of the onion and it consists of tightly packed leaves. Outer leaves are dry and firm. They protect inner, moist and soft leaves.
12. Six to eight months after planting, bulb ceases production of new leaves. Nutrients from the leaves descend to the bulb, which becomes ready for the harvest.
13. All types of onions are divided in three groups based on the color: yellow, red and white onions. Onion can reach from 1 to 4.5 inches in diameter. Largest onion ever grown weighted around 5 kg.
14. Store your onion in old nylons and they will last for six months. If you take a stocking and put your onion in it, tying a knot after each onion will keep it isolated from others lasting much longer.
15. There are countless ways to enjoy onions. They can be baked, boiled, grilled, fried, roasted, powdered or eaten raw in salads.
16. Onions are filled with complex sugars that keep our metabolism healthy, vitamins, beta carotene, folate and they have no fat. One average sized onion has 30 calories.
17. Onions are low in calories, high in calcium and high in vitamin C. They are 90% water, 8% carbs and 1.7% fiber!
18. Onions are among the main dietary sources of fructans which are so-called prebiotic fibers as the beneficial bacteria in the gut can use them for fuel. This leads to the formation of short-chain fatty acids, such as butyrate, which may improve colon health, reduce inflammation, and reduce the risk of colon cancer.
19. Onion is rich source of manganese, potassium and phosphorus.
20. Cutting of onion is always associated with crying due to release of sulfur during the process of slicing which creates sulfuric acid in combination with moisture from the eyes. This acid induces tears to eliminate it.
21. Crying can be minimized by cutting onions under the cold running water or splashing a little white vinegar on the cutting board.
22. Sliced onion can sooth insect bites and burns on the skin due to anti-inflammatory properties of onion enzymes. When combined with crushed aspirin and little water, slices of onion can be also used in treatment of warts.
23. Quercetin, phenols and flavonoids isolated from onion have anti-microbial , anti-oxidant and anti-cancer properties.
24. Crushed onion can be used for polishing of silverware and other metal objects.
25. While onions are a healthy component of the diet of humans, they can be deadly for some animals, including dogs, cats, horses and monkeys. The main culprits are sulfoxides and sulfides, which can induce Heinz body anemia due to damage within the red blood cells. Make sure not to feed onion to your pet.

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### Potato
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Last updated: 2024-07-02T09:30:38.000Z
#### Top 25 Amazing Facts About Potato

1. The Potato has been cultivated for at least 4,000 years and is believed to have originated in the Andean Mountains of South America.
2. The ancient Aymara Indians developed over 200 varieties of potatoes before being conquered by the Incas.
3. The word potato comes from the Spanish word patata.
4. In 1536 Spanish conquered Peru, and carried potato to Europe. From Spain it spread to Ireland in 1589 where it was cultivated on the 40,000 acres of land near Cork. It took nearly four decades for it to spread to the rest of Europe.
5. Between 1845 and 1852 the potato crop in Ireland was devastated by a fungus known as "potato blight". Since farmers were dependent upon the potato , The "Great Potato Famine," caused a million deaths and another one million people left Ireland, mostly for Canada and the United States dropping the population of Ireland by 25%.
6. Potatoes arrived in the Colonies in 1621 when the Governor of Bermuda, sent two large cedar chests containing potatoes to Governor of Virginia. Idaho, the present day largest producer of potatoes, actually did not begin growing potatoes until 1836.
7. Amazingly during the Alaskan gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Gold at that time, was more plentiful than nutritious foods!
8. Currently Potato is the world's most important root/tuber crop after corn, wheat and rice. Potatoes are grown in more than 125 countries and eaten by more than a billion people daily.
9. China leads the world in potato production followed by Russia, India, USA and Ukraine.
10. Potato storage facilities are kept at temperatures above 4 °C (39 °F) as potato starch turns into sugar and alters the taste below this temperature.
11. Potatoes are prepared and served in many different ways, including boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes and French fries.
12. Thomas Jefferson gets the credit for introducing “french fries” to America when he served them at a White House dinner in 1801.
13. Despite health concerns, potato chips (French Fries) are one of the most common snack foods in the world along with dairy products.Today, almost 1/3rd of the U.S. Potato crop goes into making French Fries. McDonald's alone uses 7% of the entire U.S. Potato crop for its fries.
14. Although it shares the same name, the sweet potato is a root vegetable and is not related to the potato.
15. The Potato is so closely related to the tomato, it is possible to graft a tomato "top" onto a potato "root" and grow both tomatoes and potatoes on the same plant.
16. Aside from dairy products, potatoes are the most consumed produce in the U.S.
17. One medium potato with skin provides about 600 mg of potassium. Potassium helps regulate fluids and mineral balance in and out of cells maintaining normal blood pressure. Potassium is also vital for transmitting nerve signals, and in helping muscles contract.
18. Potato is fat-free, Sodium free and Gluten-free.
19. Potatoes are an excellent source of vitamin C which is more vitamin C than one medium tomato. Vitamin C acts as an antioxidant stabilizing free radicals, thus helping prevent cellular damage. It aids in collagen production; assists with iron absorption, and helps heal wounds and keep your gums healthy.
20. Amazingly Potatoes have more potassium than a banana, more vitamin C than an orange and more fiber than an apple. Yet the average potato has only about 100 calories. The high-calorie perception of potatoes is mostly due to the toppings.
21. One medium potato with the skin contributes 2 grams of fibre. Fibre cannot be digested and absorbed in the bloodstream helping with weight loss as it makes you feel full longer.
22. Potato is 80% water. Potato is also a good source of Vitamin B6 and Iron.
23. One medium-sized baked potato has just 110 calories and is absolutely fat-, sodium and cholesterol-free! Potato has about 3 grams of proteins per potato.
24. Potatoes became the first food to grow in space when potato plants were taken aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1995.
25. Amazingly the world’s biggest potato weighed about 8 Kg.

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### Light
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Last updated: 2024-06-30T09:30:15.000Z
#### Top 45 Amazing Facts About Light

1. Light energy is the only energy visible to the human eye. Light rays have different colors due to differing wavelengths.
2. Light energy is made of electromagnetic radiation. A light wave consists of energy in the form of electric and magnetic fields. The fields vibrate at right angles to the direction of movement of the wave, and at right angles to each other.
3. Red light has the longest wavelength while violet light has the shortest wavelength. Scientists study the properties and behaviors of light in a branch of physics known as optics.
4. Obviously, the biggest source of light energy is Sun comes from the Sun. It transfers an incredible amount of energy to our planet in spite of being millions of miles away.
5. Without the light energy from the Sun, humans and all other living creatures can’t survive. Plants absorb light energy to make food. Without sunlight, plants would not survive. Without light energy from Sun, our planet would be too cold for us to continue living!
6. The wavelengths of the light that most people can see ranges from 400 to 700 billionths of a meter. Infrared and Ultra Violet rays are found just beyond visible spectrum.
7. The speed of light is approximately 300,000 kilometers per second which is faster than the speed of anything else! The speed of light changes when travelling through different objects.
8. Unlike sound waves or water waves, light does not need any matter or material to carry its energy along. Thus, light can travel through a vacuum.
9. Light takes 1.25 seconds to get from the Earth to the Moon and about 8 minutes from the Sun to earth. Really long distances can be measured in light year which is the distance that light can travel in a year.
10. A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time. It is the time it takes for light to travel one cm in a vacuum, which is about 33.3564 picoseconds.
11. Light energy actually travels an infinite distance and the distance it extends does not depend on the brightness of the bulb. Our eyes can only see light of certain brightness; therefore, can’t see diminished brightness giving the impression that light has stopped.
12. Amazingly light energy is always moving and can therefore not be stored.
13. Humans and animals would be unable to see anything without light energy. It's because of light that we have the sense of sight.
14. The cornea on the front of the eye serves to focus the light entering the eye. It is further focused through the lens of the eye in order to form an image on the retina. The pupil of the eye is not a black object or spot on the surface of the eye. It is an opening in the center of the iris. It helps control the amount of light entering the eye.
15. Besides sunlight, light is emitted by hot objects such as light bulbs, and Lasers. A laser produces an incredibly powerful, concentrated form of light. This is the result of light waves bouncing back and forth between two mirrors to build up energy before being released as a narrow powerful beam which can travel long distance without losing quality.
16. Amazingly space is dark because light is only visible when it has an object from which it can bounce off to be visible.
17. Light energy travels in a straight line passing through transparent materials like glass and bouncing off other materials which are not transparent. The light rays can also bend with change of medium which is known as refraction.
18. Light waves travel out from their source in straight lines called rays. Rays do not curve around corners, so when they hit an opaque object, they are blocked from reaching the other side of that object. Shadow is the area where light is blocked.
19. The light energy from the sun provides our Earth with heat and controls its temperatures.
20. If our skin is over-exposed to sunlight it can burn and chronic exposure can lead to skin cancer. It can also damage our eyes if we look directly at the Sun.
21. Light energy reflects off surfaces. Moonlight is not produced directly by the moon. Actually, the Sun shines on the moon and the light is reflected back to Earth!
22. Light energy can be converted into other types of energy such as solar and chemical energy. During photosynthesis, plants use light energy to create chemical energy wherein carbon dioxide is converted to food.
23. Amazingly every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth. In fact, lightning kills 1000 people every year in the world.
24. Red, green and blue (RGB) are the primary colors of light. Mixing them in various ways will make all other colors, including white.
25. When sunlight is intercepted by a drop of water in the atmosphere, some of the light refracts into the drop, reflects from the drop’s inner surface, and then refracts out of the drop. The first refraction separates the sunlight into its component colors, and the second refraction increases the separation. The resultant refraction in billions of drops in the clouds result in a rainbow.
26. In fact, there are millions of colours in a rainbow. We classify them into 7 main groups of colours that our eyes can see.
27. Isaac Newton observed for the first time that a thin beam of sunlight hitting a glass prism on an angle creates a band of visible rainbow colours because different colours travel through glass at different speeds, causing them to refract at different angles and separate from each other.
28. Mediums are given a refractive index to describe by how much they slow the movement of light. Glass has a refractive index of 1.5, meaning that lights travels through it at around 1/1.5 speed (200,000 kilometres per second). The refractive index of water is 1.3 while the refractive index of air is 1.0003.
29. Refraction can make things look closer than they really are. The difference in speed between light traveling through water and through air means that, from the surface, a 4-meter pool appears to be just 3-meter deep.
30. More than half of the visible light spectrum is absorbed within 3 feet of the ocean's surface; at a depth of 10 meters, less than 20% of the light that entered at the surface is still visible; by 100 meters, this percentage drops to 0.5%.
31. When light energy passes through a prism, the colors that make up white light are separated and made visible to the human eye (VIBGYOR).
32. The light bulb was invented in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison.
33. Amazingly when you turn on a light bulb only 10 % of the electricity used is turned into light, the other 90 % is wasted as heat.
34. Low energy light bulbs last on average up to 12 times longer than traditional fluorescent bulbs.
35. UV lights having shortest wave lengths are often used by forensic scientists to see details that are not seen by the naked eye. Although humans cannot see UV light, some insects and animals have the ability to see it
36. About 20% of the human population is estimated to be affected by a so-called "photic sneeze reflex," a heritable condition that results in sneezing when the person is exposed to bright light.
37. The light from the dazzling northern lights is the result of solar wind which during solar flares reach Earth's atmosphere interacting with particles of oxygen atoms, causing them to emit stunning green lights.
38. The Hubble telescope has detected the existence of countless galaxies receding from our point in space at speeds in excess of the speed of light. This massive expansion also means that there are some galaxies whose light we'll never see.
39. In fact, at depths of over 1000 meters, a region of the ocean dubbed the "aphotic zone" there is no detectable light whatsoever. As a result, the largest source of light in the Earth's oceans actually emanates from animals residing in its depths which are bio luminescent (About 80 to 90%).
40. All living creatures including humans produce some amount of light as a result of metabolic biochemical reactions. This light is thousand times weaker than what human eye can perceive.
41. All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye’s lens. Patients who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
42. Peacock feathers are actually brown, but have microscopic structures that interfere with light that make the bright iridescence.
43. In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
44. Amazingly there is a deep-sea fish named Stoplight Loosejaw that takes advantage of the fact that fish can’t see red light, and illuminates its prey with a beam of red bio luminescence so it can hunt with an effectively invisible beam of light.
45. According to English law, the “Right to light” states that the owner of a building with windows who has received natural daylight for 20 years or more is entitled to forbid any construction or other obstruction that would deprive him or her of that illumination.

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### Cat
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Last updated: 2024-06-28T09:30:40.000Z
#### Top 50 Amazing Facts About Cats

1. Cats are America's most popular pets. There are 88 million cats compared to 74 million dogs. Cats number more than 500 million in the world.
2. Cats in world history are as prevalent more so than dogs. They have been loved, worshipped, and hated for thousands of years. Each culture had different ideas about the cats.
3. *Amazingly* kittens are born both blind and deaf. They are generally born with blue eyes. They will change color as they grow older.
4. The normal temperature of the cat is 101.5 Degree Fahrenheit.
5. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
6. The average lifespan of an indoor cat is around 15 years, while the average for an outdoor cat is only 3 to 5 years.
7. While a male cat is called a 'tom', a female is called a 'queen' or a 'molly'.
8. Cats like humans are either left or right-handed. Male cats tend to be left-pawed, while females are often right-pawed.
9. A cat can jump up to five times its height in a single leap.
10. Cats are the cleanest animals on earth. They regularly bathe themselves to keep clean.
11. *The fact* is that cat’s are mammals with the largest eyes. However, the majority of cats do not have any eyelashes.
12. Cat’s eyes can see in the dark at 1/6 th light required for human vision. However, cats cannot see directly under their noses. Studies have shown that cats are able to see greens, reds, and blues.
13. The Snow Leopard, a variety of the California Spangled Cat, always has blue eyes.
14. Amazing fact is that cat can hear ultrasonic sounds which dog and human can’t hear. It can tap the communication between rats in ultrasonic range.
15. *Amazingly* cats make over 100 different vocal sounds. In contrast dogs can make about 10.
16. A cat will never meow at another cat. Cats use this sound only for humans. To communicate with other cats, they will usually hiss, purr and spit. Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine.
17. One way to prevent a cat from going into a certain location is to make it smell bad. A cat’s most unappealing smell is a lemon or orange scent .
18. Cats sleep 70% of their lifetime. We humans only sleep 30%
19. Sticking to their picky nature, the majority of cats prefer their food at room temperature and will refuse food that is too cold or warm.
20. *Amazingly* a cat's jaw cannot move sideways so they cannot chew large chunks of food.
21. Cats only have 473 taste buds, while people have 9,000\. The *fact* is unlike humans and dogs cat’s taste buds can't taste sweet thing.
22. *Amazingly* cats can drink sea water to re-hydrate themselves ! Unlike humans , the kidneys are able to expel the salt while allowing the potable water to re-hydrate the feline in order to help it survive.
23. *Amazingly* cats are lactose intolerant. As a general rule, they shouldn't drink milk.
24. Taurine, a popular energy drink ingredient, is required in cat food products. Without it, cats will lose their fur, teeth, and eyesight .
25. Just like with human fingerprints, each cat's nose pad has a unique pattern.
26. *Amazingly* cats have 32 muscles that control the outer ear, while humans have only 6.
27. Cat’s have 24 more bones than humans.
28. A cat has 4 rows of whiskers which is used to determine the precise width of any passage.
29. Cat’s front paws have five toes while back paws has four.
30. Cats sweat through the pads of their feet.
31. Cat’s can run at 30 miles per hour and can outrun the fastest man.
32. *Amazingly* cats that fall from higher than 7 stories get fewer injuries than those that fall from lower levels.
33. Cats bend their 'knees' backwards because those are actually their ankles!
34. Cats “Headbutt” people because they make them feel safe, or they trust them.
35. Cats have no naturally occurring antibodies against dog’s blood, so they can receive dog’s blood in life threatening situations, but only once. The second time proves fatal.
36. In Japan they have “Cat Cafes”, coffee shops where you can hang out with cats.
37. Amazing fact is that a cat has been the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for 15 years.
38. The domestic cat is a revered animal in Islam. It is admired for its cleanliness as well as for being loved by Prophet Muhammad.
39. *Amazingly* a cat inherited a US$13 million fortune from its owner in Italy.
40. The CIA spent US$20 million in the 60's training cats to spy on the Soviets but trained cat equipped to spy on Soviets got hit by a taxi.
41. “Unsinkable Sam” known to the Germans as “Oscar” was a cat that served on 3 warships, one German and two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
42. Declawing cats is legal in most US states but forbidden by the European Union.
43. The Indiana State Prison started a cat program where inmates are allowed to adopt and keep a cat inside their cell improving their mood and temperament.
44. There are at least 22 cat statues scattered about the city of York in England, on top of buildings and houses. They are thought to have been put in place as far back as the early 19th century. Residents personally decorate these statues and the cats are said to protect the city’s residents.
45. The RMS Empress of Ireland had a cat named Emmy, who never missed a voyage until May 28, 1914 when Emmy refused to go aboard. The ship left without her and sunk the next day.
46. In 1879, cats were used to deliver mail in Belgium. It was unsuccessful.
47. When physics Professor Jack H. Hetherington learned that he couldn’t be the sole author on a paper, because he used words like “we” “our”, rather than rewriting the paper he added his cat as an author.
48. At night, Disneyland becomes overrun by stray cats. Disney embraces them because they keep the mouse population in check and treat them like pets, including spaying and neutering them and giving them shots.
49. Cats have been blamed for the global extinction of 33 species.
50. Sir Isaac Newton, was a true cat lover he even invented the first kitty door so they could come and go as they please.

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### Humming Bird
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Last updated: 2024-06-26T09:30:10.000Z
#### Top 25 Amazing Humming Bird Facts

1. There are 320 different species of humming birds found throughout America. The smallest of all is the tiny bee humming bird, Mellsuga helenae. They are among the tiniest of birds.
2. Each species of hummingbird makes a different humming sound, determined by the number of wing beats per second.
3. They have a short, high-pitched squeaky call.
4. *Amazingly* humming birds can't walk as their feet are weak and they weigh less than a penny.
5. *Amazing fact* is that a humming bird's brain is 4.2% of its body weight, the largest proportion in the bird kingdom.
6. Male hummingbirds are reported to have achieved *amazing* speeds of almost 400 body lengths per second when swooping in an effort to impress females.
7. *Amazing fact* is that a humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times in one second or over 5000 times a minute. Each species of hummingbird makes a different humming sound, determined by the number of wing beats per second.
8. During courtship, the wingtips of the ruby-throated hummingbird beats *amazingly* up to 200 times per second, as opposed to the usual wing beat of 90 times per second.
9. *Amazingly* hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly both forward and backwards. They can also hover in mid-air, fly sideways and even upside-down.
10. It's *amazing* that hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards .
11. The hummingbird needs to eat twice its bodyweight in food every day, and to do so they must visit hundreds of flowers daily. *Amazingly* a hummingbird will visit an average of 1,000 flowers per day for nectar.
12. Their super fast wing beats use up a lot of energy, so they spend most of the day sitting around resting.
13. Hummingbirds are very smart and they can *amazingly* remember every flower they have been to, and how long it will take a flower to refill.
14. Hummingbirds can hear better than humans and can see farther than humans.
15. *Amazingly* hummingbirds can see ultraviolet light.
16. Hummingbirds have little to no sense of smell.
17. A hummingbird's tongue is grooved like the shape of a "W". They have tiny hairs on the tip of the tongue to help lap up nectar.
18. Hummingbirds do not drink though their beaks like a straw. They lap up nectar with their tongues.
19. A hummingbird's heart *amazingly* beats up to 1,260 times per minute during action. Even at rest , it beats about 250 times per minute.
20. The hummingbird's body temperature is around 107 degrees Fahrenheit.
21. Despite their tiny size, the ruby-throated hummingbird makes a remarkable annual migration, flying over 3000 km from the eastern USA, crossing over 1000km of the Gulf of Mexico in a single journey to winter in Central America.
22. The ruby-throated hummingbird has only approximately 940 feathers on its entire body.
23. It's *amazing* that when hummingbirds sleep at night, they go into a hibernation-like state called torpor to conserve energy. The metabolic rate is one-fifteenth (1/15) of normal sleep. Heart rate can drop to as few as 50 beats per minute. The body temperature drops to as low as 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
24. The male takes no responsibility in rearing the young and may find another mate after the first brood hatches.
25. *Fact* is that it can take up to an hour for a hummingbird to fully recover from torpor. Torpor can be fatal to a weak hummingbird.

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### Camel
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Last updated: 2024-06-24T09:30:38.000Z
#### 40 Amazing little known Facts About Camel

1. The word ‘camel’ comes from the Arabic word, meaning ‘beauty’.
2. There are 17 million camels worldwide. 90 % are Arabian camels (with one hump) and 75 % of them are found in North/East Africa. 50 % of them are found in Sudan and Somalia. About 20,000 of them roam western and central Australia.
3. Arabian camels have domesticated in southwestern Arabia between 6,000 to 3,500 years ago, initially for their milk, while the larger and slower Bactrian camel (with two humps) in Northeastern Iran and southwestern Central Asia about 3,500 years ago.
4. From Arabia, Arabian camels entered Somalia, 3,500 years ago, and by 500 BC they reached the Atlantic coast.
5. *Amazingly* despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
6. A camel’s hump does not store water. It stores fat, lessening heat-trapping insulation around the rest of the body.
7. *The amazing fact* is Camel's hair brushes are not made of camel's hair. They were invented by Mr Camel.
8. Camels lips are split to help them graze. They can eat anything, including thorny twigs, without injuring their mouths.
9. They can eat anything, including thorny twigs, without injuring their mouth.
10. Camels are ruminants like cows and goats. They do not chew the food and swallow it instead. They regurgitate and chew the cud later.
11. Camels chew in a figure of eight pattern.
12. Camel milk is the basic food of the Somali people.Camel milk is lower in fat and sugar than cow’s milk.
13. There are 46 different Somali words for camel.
14. It's *amazing* that camel’s milk does not curdle.
15. Camels have thick bushy eyebrows to protect their eyes from the rays of the sun. Camels also have two layers of thick eyelashes to protect them from the dust.
16. Camels can kick in all four directions with each of their legs.
17. *Amazingly* camels can close their nostrils against wind and sand when necessary.
18. Their coats reflect sunlight and insulate them from the desert heat.
19. Camel's milk has 10 times more iron than the Cow's milk.
20. Their temperature ranges from 34 degrees Celsius at night to 41 degrees during the day. They don’t begin to sweat until they are over 41 degrees.
21. The average water content of the camel's body is low. While the cow's tissues contain 80 % water, the donkey's 65 %, for camel it is just 50 %.
22. Amazingly wild Bactrian Camels from the Gobi desert (China-Mongolia) can drink saltwater.
23. *Amazing fact* is that a camel can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight in perspiration while crossing the desert. A human would die after sweating away only 12 percent of body weight.
24. Camels can carry heavy cargoes in desert , stand sand storms and large temperature differences. They are aptly called the "desert ships", and they can swim when they encounter water.
25. The north Egyptian Lake Borollos has a depth varying between 20 cm and 2 m (0.6 to 6 ft). It cannot be crossed by boat or vehicles, and only camels can be used in this case.
26. It is *amazing* that a camel can go without water even for a month under a scorching heat.
27. Their red blood cells are oval and so will flow when they are dehydrated rather than clump as ours do. *Amazingly* the camel is the only mammal to have oval red blood cells.
28. But when it has the opportunity, in can drink 100 litres of water at once (the Bactrian Camel, which is larger, can drink up to 120 litres), in 7-8 minutes! Amazingly three days later, there is no sign of water in its stomach or hump.
29. Camels can drink so much water without water intoxication due to oval red blood cells which swell achieving a double volume and after that gradually releasing the stored liquid.
30. Camels never run, they just speed up, in their typical gait. Running would raise transpiration. They can make daily 160 km (100 miles) with a speed of 16 km (10 miles)/hour. In caravans, they make 30-40 km (18-25 miles) per day, with an average age of 3.5 km per hour. The maximum speed achieved by a camel is 25 km (16 miles) per hour, but they get tired quickly.
31. Camels adjust to the lack of water in surroundings. Their body temperature in the cooler morning is of 34o C, whereas during the hot afternoon it goes up to 41o C. The kidneys produce 7 litres of urine when water is abundant, and 500 g when it does not drink for days.
32. Ability to fluctuate body temperature and the efficiency of their sweating allows them to preserve about five litres of water a day.
33. Camel's faeces are dry enough to be used for fuelling fire when drought.
34. Camel loses just 2.5 kg litres of water daily though feces while a cattle loses 20-40 litres!
35. *Amazingly* their urine is as thick as syrup because they retain water.
36. Camels avoid stony deserts, as the gravel harms their feet.
37. Camel’s ears are very small and hairy but their hearing power is very strong .
38. Never get a camel angry, for he or she will spit at you.
39. They *amazingly* throw up a foul smelling greenish fluid from its first stomach chamber all over you if provoked.
40. Cats, Camels and Giraffes are the only animals that *amazingly* walk right, right, left, left rather than right foot, left foot.

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### Nebula
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Last updated: 2024-06-22T09:30:06.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Nebula

1. The word nebula means "cloud" in Latin; indeed, nebulae are space.
2. Nebulas are often the result of a giant star or a white dwarf going supernova.
3. The Crab Nebula was formed by a supernova in the year 1054 and this event was observed by many cultures.
4. The other means by which a nebula can form is when the gas and dust in space (the interstellar medium-ISM) becomes so dense, it starts to be pulled in by gravity.
5. *Amazingly* the ISM in-universe has an average density of only 1 atom for every cubic centimeter, compared to Earth’s atmosphere which contains 100 billion atoms per cubic centimeter.
6. Nebulae are clouds in interstellar space. They are a mixture of the gases hydrogen and helium, as well as dust and plasma.
7. These nebulae can eventually give birth to stars, planets and moons such as we see in our own solar system.
8. They range in size from millions of miles across to hundreds of light years across.
9. These nebulae survive for 25,000 to 100,000 years, a short life by astronomical standards, and expand at approximately 10 miles (16 kms) per second.
10. It is estimated that there are at least 10,000 planetary nebulae in our Milky Way Galaxy. However, so far only 2,000 have been detected.
11. Nebulae come in an extraordinary variety of shapes, colors and sizes. Some look like a horse head, some look like a crab, some like a butterfly and some look like cat’s eye! making them some of the most spectacular and fascinating objects in our Universe.
12. The brightest nebula in our sky is Orion Nebula about 1,300 light years away. It is found near Orion's belt. It looks like a tiny dot to the naked eye, even though it's 25 light-years across. It is emission nebula meaning it can collapse on itself to form a star.
13. The closest of all the bright planetary nebulae to Earth, the Helix Nebula is about 700 light years away from Earth.
14. Nebulae which exist outside the Milky Way are known as extra-galactic nebulae.
15. The Crab Pulsar is a star within the Crab Nebula about 6000 light years away which is an extremely young, spinning star, emitting radio waves picked on earth.
16. The Butterfly Nebula is located in the constellation Scorpius, in the southern hemisphere near the Milky Way. Its central star is one of the hottest stars in the galaxy, with temperatures rising up to 200,000 Kelvin.
17. The Horse-head nebula is shaped like a horse head. It is found on the south of the Alnitak star of the Orion’s Belt, approximately about 1500 light years from Earth. It is the most unique and easily identifiable nebula, seen from Earth.
18. The pillars of creation are a very famous picture that NASA took of the eagle nebula, they are large pillars that form many new stars.
19. The coolest place to naturally exist in our known universe is the Boomerang nebula first observed in 1980\. In 1998, the Hubble Space Telescope observed that it had an hourglass shape. The temperature of the nebula is -272 degrees Celsius which is only 1 degree above absolute zero!
20. It is estimated that in 5 billion years our Sun will also become a planetary nebula, following a rapid expansion that will eventually consume the Earth.

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### Greece
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Last updated: 2024-06-20T09:30:54.000Z
#### 60 Amazing Facts that will surprise you About Greece

##### Land & Geography

- Greece is located in southeast Europe, close to both Africa and Asia.
- Greece has an area of about 132,000 Square Kms.
- The population of Greece is around 11 million.
- The capital and largest city in Greece is Athens where over 40% of the population lives. Around two thirds of the Greek population live in urban areas.
- Greece has more than 2,000 islands, of which approximately 170 are populated. Greece’s largest island is Crete (8,260 Sq. Km.)
- 80% of Greece is mountainous and 50% is covered by forests. There are about 3000 islands, only a few hundreds of which are inhabited.
- Greece has zero navigable rivers because of the mountainous terrain.
- The highest mountain in Greece is Mount Olympus, it has over 50 peaks with the highest reaching 2917 meters (9570 feet).
- Greece counts some 7,000 (limestone) caves, forming 24,000 km of underground galleries.

##### Flora & Fauna

- Greece has one of the richest varieties of wildlife in Europe, including 116 species of mammals, 18 of amphibians, 59 of reptiles, 240 of bird, and 107 of fish.
- About half the endemic mammals are about to be extinct.
- The monk seal has been a part of Greek’s natural and cultural heritage. It was even found on a coin dated 500 B.C. Now, however, only 250 monk seals are left.
- History
- The Minoan civilization, that appeared in Greece around 3650 B.C. predates the first Chinese civilization by almost a millennium.
- *Amazingly* ancient Greece was made up of about 1,500 different city states . Each had its own laws and army, and they often quarreled. Athens was the largest city state.
- Slaves made up between 40% and 80% of ancient Greece’s population.
- Spartan warriors were known for their long, flowing hair. Before a battle, they would carefully comb it. Cowardly soldiers would have half their hair and half their beards shaved off.
- Ostracism allowed Athenian citizens to temporarily exile people thought dangerous to the public. If it was voted that ostracism was necessary, each citizen voted in a secret ballet and the person with the most names had to leave town in 10 days for 10 years.
- When the Roman Empire split in two in A.D. 285, the eastern half, including Greece, became known as the Byzantine Empire. In 1453 A.D., Greece fell to the Ottoman Empire. Greece wouldn't achieve independence until 1829.
- Modern Greece is only the centre of the Ancient Greek civilization, which comprised Southern Italy, the coastal areas of Turkey and the Black Sea. It also included some parts of North Africa, Southern France and Spain.
- Until the late 1990s, Greece and Turkey have had historical disputes over Cyprus and other territory for decades. Relationship improved only after a devastating earthquake that hit both countries in 1999 when both helped one another.

##### Places / Architecture

- Athens is one of the oldest cities in Europe which has been continuously inhabited for over 7,000 years.
- Greece is a popular tourist destination and home to over a dozen World Heritage Sites.
- Greece has more archaeological museums than any other country in the world.
- The Parthenon was built almost 2,500 years ago and sits on the Acropolis above the city of Athens. It actually featured colorful sculptures and a large gold and ivory statue of Athena.
- The city of Rhodes is the most popular location for tourists in Greece. It is famous for housing one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: the Colossus of Rhodes. This gigantic 98 feet statue of the god Helios, whose legs straddled the harbor, was destroyed by an earthquake in 226 B.C.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Greek is the official language spoken in Greece.
- Approximately 98% of the people in Greece are ethnic Greeks. Turks form the largest minority group.
- In the 1950s, only about 30% of Greek adults could read and write. Now, the literacy rate is more than 95%.
- Feta, which is made from goat’s milk, is the Greece’s national cheese.
- 85% of Greek people own their accommodation , the highest rate in the European Union.
- *Amazing fact* is that Greeks do not wave with an open hand. In fact, it is considered an insult to show the palm of the hand with the fingers extended. Greeks wave with the palm closed.
- Greece has about 25 % of job seekers, the highest unemployment rate among developed countries.
- Part time work is almost non existent for men in Greece.
- In Greece, the dead are always buried because the Greek Orthodox Church forbids cremation.
- Amazingly five years after a burial, the body is exhumed and the bones are first washed with wine and then placed in an ossuary.
- Greek people have one of the lowest death rate for cancer in Europe.
- Greece has by far the lowest number of fatal transport accidents per capita in the European Union.
- Ancient Greek history, culture, mythology have inspired many Hollywood films, from the earliest to the latest blockbusters, as well as Japanese and Disney animations.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Greece is a member of the European Union.
- Greece’s currency, the drachma, was 2,650 years old and Europe’s oldest currency. The drachma was replaced with the Euro in 2002.
- By law voting is compulsory for every citizen who is 18 or older.
- About 10% of a Greek worker’s pay is taken for taxes and another 10% for national health care.
- The government provides free hospitals and other medical services.
- Greek men must serve from one year to 18 months in any branch of the armed forces. Greece spends 6% of the annual GDP on the military.
- Greek ships make up 70% of the European Union’s total merchant fleet. According to Greek law, 75% of a ship’s crew must be Greek.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Important industries include the service sector, agriculture and tourism.
- Approximately 17 million tourists visit Greece each year, more than the country’s entire population. Tourism constitutes nearly 16% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
- About 7% of all the marble produced in the world comes from Greece.
- Greece is the world’s third leading producer of olives which has been cultivated since ancient times. Amazingly some olive trees planted in the thirteenth century are still producing olives.
- Shipping has been one of the most important industry in Greece since ancient times. The Greek-owned fleet is the largest in the world with a total of 3,850 ships of over 1.000 gt capacity and totalling 15% of the international shipping capacity.
- Greece is the leading producer of sea sponges.

##### Language

- Thousands of English words come from the Greek language.Common English words from Greek include “academy”, “alphabet", “apology”, “marathon" , “siren" ,”alphabet” and “typhoon".
- Numerous modern Western given names come from Greek, such as Agatha , Alexander, Andrew , Christopher , Gregory , George , Helen, Iris, Margaret , Melissa , Nicholas , Peter, Sebastian , Sophia , Stephen , Theodore,Timothy etc
- The word "Colossus" is derived from the Colossus of Rhodes which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
- The saying “taking the bull by its horns” comes from the Greek myth of Hercules saving Crete from a raging bull by seizing its horns.

##### Sports

- The first Olympic Games took place in Ancient Greece in 776 B.C. The Greeks would sacrifice 100 bulls to Zeus during each Olympics.
- The first Olympic games in modern era were held under the auspices of the IOC in the Panathenaic stadium in Athens in 1896 . Athens most recently hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 2004.
- Football is the national sport of Greece.

##### Inventions

- The work of Greek mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius lies at the basis of modern mathematics.
- Famous People
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975) was the most famous shipping magnate of the 20th century. He married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of assassinated US President John Kennedy.

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### Kings
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Last updated: 2024-06-18T09:30:49.000Z
#### 75 Amazing Facts You may not know About Kings & Queens

1. Alexander the Great was in *fact* an epileptic.
2. *Amazingly* Alexander the Great & Napoleon were terrified of cats.
3. Bananas were discovered by Alexander the Great in 327 B.C. when he conquered India.
4. *An amazing fact* was a Byzantine emperor, Basil captured 15,000 Bulgarians in battle, and blinded 99 of every 100, leaving the 100th guy with one eye and then send them all home.
5. Sir Hassanal Bolkiah has been Brunei’s sultan and prime minister since 1967\. He appoints virtually all of Brunei’s ruling bodies.
6. Brunei's amazing 1,800-room palace is considered the world’s largest private residence.
7. Queen Supayalat of Burma (Myanmar) *amazingly* ordered about 100 of her husband's relatives clubbed to death to ensure the throne to her husband.
8. Cleopatra was the queen of Egypt for around 22 years. Contrary to popular belief, Cleopatra was actually Greek, not Egyptian or African.
9. Cleopatra’s real name was Auletes!
10. In 1391, China began producing toilet paper for use by its Emperors.
11. Ancient Chinese nobility committed suicide by large amount of salt. *Fact* was Chinese nobility were often the only people who could afford large amounts of salt.
12. Emperor Shih Huang-Ti built an *amazing* network of 270 palaces, and slept in a different palace every night, because of the fear of being killed.
13. In order to deter flies from landing on him, Pepi II of Egypt *amazingly* kept several naked slaves nearby whose bodies were smeared with honey.
14. Ramses II, a pharaoh of Egypt died in 1225 B.C. At the time of his death, *amazingly* he had fathered 96 sons and 60 daughters.
15. The known tombs of Egyptian kings were all raided by robbers with one exception, the tomb of Tutankhamen (reigned 1334-1324 B.C.). It was discovered in 1922 and was full of priceless materials and beautiful workmanship.
16. Amazing fact *is* a Pharaoh (or King) would never let his hair be seen, he would always wear a crown or a headdress.
17. King Tut's tomb contained four coffins. The third coffin was made from 2,500 pounds of gold worth about $ 5,000,000.
18. *Amazingly* Tutankhamun, the most famous of all Egyptian pharaohs, was born of parents who were brother and sister.
19. It's *amazing* that all 17 children of Queen Anne died before she did.
20. Henry the VIII *amazingly* beheaded himself to get out of his marriage to Anne Bolein.
21. When Queen Elizabeth I of England died she owned an *amazing* 3000 gowns.
22. In 1917 anti-German sentiment forced George V to change the British Royal Family's name from Saxe--Coburg and Gotha to Windsor , the name of their castle. Many road names in Britain were changed too.
23. It's *amazing* that king John of England died in 1216 of over-eating.
24. King George I of England *amazingly* didn’t speak English. However he knew French , German , Italian & Dutch Languages.
25. King Henry the eighth wanted to divorce his first wife but the church would not allow it. He chose to declare himself the head of the church in England refusing to allow the pope in Rome to have any control over it. He then allowed himself the divorce he desired.
26. Queen Victoria had a longest rein of 64 years in England ( 1837-1901 ).
27. Queen Elizabeth and her husband are both great Grand children of Queen Victoria.
28. *Amazing fact* is that when dining with British Royalty, it is customary to stop eating when they have finished whether you have finished or not.
29. Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old. Her father had no male heirs and he died six days after she was born.
30. *Amazing fact* is that Queen Elizabeth II is still Queen of sixteen different countries.
31. *Fact* is the Queen does not need a passport since all passports are issued in her name but royal family members do require it.
32. Amazing fact is that having the royal family actually saves the Brits taxes in the UK ! King George III offered Parliament a deal that he’d give all the profit of his land in exchange for getting a fixed annual salary and removing all his debt which was incurred through US operation . The parliament now pays the royal family 40 million pounds a year and they receive 200 million pounds a year of profit from the royal lands. That means the UK gains 160 million pounds a year on the deal!
33. *Amazing Fact* is Queen Elizabeth has already met 12 US presidents.
34. Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic & driver in World War II.
35. *Amazingly* Louis XIV had forty personal wig makers and almost 1000 wigs.
36. King Louis XIV was so afraid of weapons that he ruled all pointed knives at dinner tables illegal.
37. The French King, Lois XIV *amazingly* owned a collection of 413 beds in several places all over France, so that he could sleep on his own bed, no matter where he traveled !
38. A clock at the palace of King Louis XIV stopped at 7:45am, the time of his death. The clock has not been fixed since that day, and to this day still reads a quarter to eight.
39. *Amazingly* King Louis XIX ruled France for just 15 Minutes.
40. When going to battle Indian kings would make their horses wear trunks. The other side’s elephants would refuse to attack the horses thinking that the horses were baby elephants.
41. Salim (1569-1627), heir to the throne of India, had 4 wives when he was only 8 years of age.
42. Jahangir, a 17th-century Indian Mughal ruler, had 5,000 women in his harem and 1,000 young boys. He also owned 12,000 elephants.
43. Queen Isabella of Castile (1451-1504) , who dispatched Christopher Columbus to find the Americas *amazingly* had only two baths in her life , at her birth and before she got married.
44. Japan's Yamato dynasty traces its origins back to 660, making it the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world. The 79-year-old Emperor Akihito of Japan has reigned since 1989 and is the 125th emperor in his line.
45. Ghengis Khan who founded the Mongol empire was extremely cruel king . He killed *amazing* 11% of the world's population! It is estimated that his campaigns resulted in the death of more than 40 million people!
46. In just two decades the Ghengis Khan empire spanned 6,000 miles and covered over 12,700,000 square miles, stretching from southeast Asia all the way to Eastern Europe and the Middle East , that’s 22% of the Earth’s total land area!
47. *Amazing fact* is that everyone of the 2000 people who attended Genghis khan's funeral was reportedly massacred by 800 soldiers who in turn were killed to make sure that his grave was never found.
48. In 1221 Genghis khan *amazingly* killed 17,48,000 people in a single day at Nishapur , Persian city now in Iran as a revenge to killing of his favorite Son in law. Nobody from the city was spared from the whole city including infants , dogs & cats. This represented 75 % of the Iran’s population then. This population didn’t recover back to its pre massacre levels until the 1950's i.e. about 700 years.
49. Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. *Amazing fact* was that four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes of the library.
50. *Amazingly* Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
51. *Amazingly* when Napoleon wore black silk handkerchiefs around his neck during a battle, he always won. *Fact* was at Waterloo, he wore it white and lost the battle and his kingdom.
52. Napoleon, the famous French general was not born in France but on the Mediterranean island of Corsica of Italian parents.
53. Napoleon always wore poison around his neck in case he got defeated! When he finally went to use it in 1814, it had lost it's potency and only succeeded in making him violently ill.
54. Napoleon was not unusually short. The French inch was longer than the British inch, so while he was thought to be 5’2” by most of the world, in reality he was closer to 5’7”, an average height for a Frenchman.
55. Amazing fact is that the national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte !
56. The *fact* was that the Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall in Napoleon’s bedroom.
57. Ines de Castro became queen of Portugal after she died. *Amazingly* King Pedro of Portugal dug up her body and crowned her as his queen.
58. After the great fire of Rome in A.D. 64, the emperor Nero ostensibly decided to lay the blame on Christians residing in the city of Rome. He gathered them, crucified them , covered them in pitch (tar), and burnt them alive. He walked around his gardens admiring the view.
59. The Roman emperor Commodos collected all the dwarfs, cripples, and freaks he could find in the city of Rome and had them brought to the Coliseum, where they were ordered to fight each other to the death.
60. The Roman Emperor Caligula tried to wage war on the god of the ocean, Neptune. He had his soldiers run up and stab the water.
61. When Elizabeth I of Russia died in 1762, 15,000 dresses were found in her closets. She used to change what she was wearing two and even three times an evening.
62. There are 47 czars buried within the Kremlin ,Russia.
63. Czar Paul I banished soldiers to Siberia for marching out of step.
64. Peter the Great was the Czar of Russia in the 18th century. Seeing how backwards Russia was, he decided to tour Western Europe in order to find ways to modernize his country taking the guise of an average merchant and came back to Russia with many ways to improve the empire. He set up new schools, created the mighty port of St. Petersburg.
65. Peter the great , the Russian King imposed a tax on beards. Noblemen paid 100 rubles a year for a medallion that served as a beard license and carried the inscription: “The beard is a useless burden.”
66. *Amazingly* since 1825 when Nicholas I was made the king , Russian leaders have alternated between bald and hairy without exception ! Currently, Vladimir Putin (bald) was succeeded by Dmitri Medvedev (hairy) and then again by Putin.
67. Saudi Prince Alwaleed owns a Diamond encrusted $48 million Mercedes and he charges $1000 just to touch it!
68. The royal house of Saudi Arabia has close to 10000 princes and princesses.
69. Sheikh Hamadan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is the wealthy son of the ruler of Dubai, bought in 2008 supposedly the best camel in the country. The price , amazing $2.7 millions.
70. The record for the most weddings is held by King Mogul of Siam, who married with 9000 wives.
71. King Solomon had about 700 wives and 0ver 200 concubines.
72. The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors.
73. Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland, had the longest monarchial reign documented lasting 82 years and 9 months! He became king when he was only a few months old in 1899\. He married 70 wives in all, had 210 children, and between 1920 and 1970 grandchildren. Swaziland gained independence from Britain in 1968\. At his death in 1982 , he already had 1000 surviving grandchildren.
74. King Charles VII, who was assassinated in 1167, was the first Swedish king with the name of Charles. Charles I, II, III, IV, V, never existed. No one knows why. To add to the mystery, almost 300 years went by before there was a Charles VIII (1448-57).
75. In 1880 the Queen of Thailand drowned while her subjects watched because they were forbidden to touch her.

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### Facebook
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Last updated: 2024-06-16T09:30:29.000Z
#### Top 20 Amazing Facts About Facebook

1. *Amazingly* when Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 , it was only meant to be a website for college students to meet online but it progressed like a wildfire as a social medium.
2. Co-founder, chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg only 30 years old has a net worth of about $20 billion.
3. Alexa has ranked Facebook second in its Top 500 Global Sites right behind Google.
4. *Amazing fact* is that Facebook has about 1250 million accounts . *Amazingly* 170 million accounts were added in 2013\. There are more than 750 million daily active users. There are about 30 million dead accounts.
5. *Amazingly* USA has about 182 million Facebook accounts while India has just crossed 100 million mark.
6. There are over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages. The Average Facebook User Has 200 Friends.
7. *Fact* is the site’s name was changed from Thefacebook.com to Facebook.com after acquiring the domain facebook.com for $200,000.
8. *Amazingly* Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook .The issue was settled out of court.
9. *Amazing fact* is that on a daily basis there are 350 million photos uploaded, 4.5 billion likes, 10 billion messages sent and 22 billion times that the Like or Share buttons are viewed. 750 million photos are uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend.
10. *Amazingly* 20 billion minutes is the collective time spent by users all over the world daily on facebook.
11. 71 % of all USA internet users are on Facebook. About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.
12. Over the years Facebook has acquired many companies like FriendFeed, Lightbox.com, face.com ,Instagram, whatsApp, Oculus etc to increase market share and also to acquire fresh talent.
13. *Amazingly* actor Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage until 2007\. Homepage design was changed thereafter.
14. Originally, engineers wanted to call the “Like” button the “Awesome” button.
15. Facebook is primarily blue just because Mark Zuckerberg suffers red-green color blindness.
16. *Amazingly* you can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.
17. *Amazing fact* is that about 600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts every day.
18. Smartphone users check Facebook 15 times a day.
19. Several people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.
20. Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009\. In spite of the ban , there are 90 million Chinese accessing facebook. Other countries which have banned facebook are Syria, Vietnam and Iran.

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### Cellphone
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Last updated: 2024-06-14T09:30:47.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts You Should Know About Cellphones

1. The first cellphone telephone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper, a former Motorola inventor, who is known as "the father of the cellphone". From Sixth Avenue in New York he *amazingly* rang the boss of a rival manufacturer.
2. The weight of the first cellphone used to make that call was *amazing* 2 lb. The brick–like battery allowed a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to charge.
3. In 1983 the first cellphone phones went on sale in the US costing *amazing* $4,000 each. By 1990 there were a million users.
4. The *fact* is that cellphone phone industry is the fastest growing in the world.
5. *Amazingly* there are about 6 billion cellphones in the world .
6. *Amazing fact* : Take all phones in the world and stack them up, we'll be able to climb about 48,000 miles up!
7. The average phone is said to include about 3% gold. Now, if we combine that gold from all cell phones in the world, it will make for *amazing* 26,000 tons of gold.
8. Modern Cellphones weigh less than 3 oz .
9. Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. *Amazingly* they are not connected to any circuitry.
10. It's *amazing* that ringtones now account for 10 per cent of the world's music market, generating about $ 3 Billion.
11. *Amazingly* South korea's SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.
12. *Fact* is as much as 75% of microwaves from cellphone phones are absorbed by your head !
13. All cell phones emit electromagnetic radiation. *Fact* is this radiation from your cell phone can travel up to 20 feet effecting not only you but family and friends.
14. Research has shown that mobile phone users are at 2.5 times risk of brain tumors caused by phone radiation.
15. *Fact* is cell phone manufacturers have the technology to reduce the radiation that would escape into the user’s head, but they are no willing to do so. This is because in doing so their profits would decrease.
16. The Apollo 11 Lunar Lander which was used to travel to the moon, had less processing power than the processor of a simple cell phone.
17. *Amazingly* the most common use for a cellphone is neither calling nor texting but checking the time.
18. It's *amazing* that more than 180 million iPhones have been sold to date.
19. The bestselling single model is the Nokia 1100, made in Finland. More than 250 million devices were sold.
20. Apple sold an *amazing* 340,000 iPhones per day in 2012.
21. The first photo to be shared using a cellphone phone was taken in 1997 by Philippe Kahn from France credited with developing the world's first camera phone.
22. The Sonim XP3300 Force is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the toughest phone. It survived after an 84 ft drop on to a layer of concrete.
23. The world's first smartphone debuted in 1993 at Florida's Wireless World Conference. Launched by BellSouth Cellular . Only 2000 sets were made.
24. The man credited with creating the SMS , the cellphone phone's short message service is German Friedhelm Hillebrand in 1985.
25. British jeweller Stuart Hughes lays claim to creating the world's most expensive cellphone phone, The iPhone 4 "Diamond Rose" edition costing $7million. It is *amazingly* studded with more than 500 diamonds.
26. *Fact* is there are nearly two-million mobile towers and antennas in the U.S.
27. *Amazing fact* is that US prisoners caught with a cellphone get 25 years added to their sentence. This is longer then most sentances for murder.
28. In 1986 Scott Jones, a 26-year-old scientist at MIT, invented the modern cellular voicemail system.
29. A chinese designer has *amazingly* made a Coca-Cola powered cell phone.
30. A modern cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon.
31. Using your phone while it's charging can damage the battery. This is why the cords for chargers are so short.
32. It's *amazing* that 1 ton of cell phones has more gold than 17 tons of gold ore!
33. Amazingly from a single ton of cell phones, around 280 grams of gold could be extracted along with 140 grams of platinum and palladium and 140 kg of copper. But it is not easy to extract Gold from mobile.
34. Using your phone while it is charging may damage the battery. This is why cords for the charger are kept short.
35. 90 % of mobile phones sold in Japan are waterproof as people tend to use them even during shower.

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### Cancer
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Last updated: 2024-06-12T09:30:20.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and little known Facts About Cancer

1. *Amazingly* there are more than 100 types of cancers; any part of the body can be affected.
2. Cancer has two main characteristics: Abnormal cell growth and the ability to spread to other parts of the body (metastasis).
3. *Amazingly* over 20,000 people die of cancer every day. It seems that within five years, cancer will surpass heart disease as the leading cause of death.
4. *Amazing fac*t is that every person has cancer cells in their body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied few billion times.
5. *Amazing* thing is that cancer cells occur in the body between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
6. *Amazing fact* is that cancer cells don’t come from outside. These cells are part of us which aren’t under our control. They multiply uncontrollably and immaturely serving no useful function while feeding on us like parasites.
7. One in eight deaths in the world are due to cancer. Cancer causes more deaths than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined.
8. Cancers of the Lung, Prostate and Stomach are the most commonly diagnosed cancers in men while cancers of the Breast, Cervix are the most commonly diagnosed cancers in women. Pap smear is single most effective tool to detect early Cervix cancer.
9. Skin cancer figures are on the rise. Now they account for nearly 50% of all cancers. Exposure to harmful UV rays from the sun is the main culprit.
10. *Amazingly* one case of breast cancer is diagnosed every two minutes, and one woman will die of breast cancer every 13 minutes in the U.S.
11. About 80-90% of breast cancers in women without symptoms in the U.S. can be detected by mammography.
12. Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.
13. *Fact* is that tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of cancer in the world causing 22% of cancer deaths. Smoking causes an estimated 90% of lung cancer. Tobacco has killed 50 million people in the last decade.
14. *Amazing fact* is that a single cigarette contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
15. *Fact* is one fifth of all cancers worldwide are caused by a chronic infection. e.g. human papillomavirus (HPV) causes cervical cancer and hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes liver cancer. The bacterium Helicobacter pylori in stomach cause gastric cancer. Immunizations against the infection of HBV and HPV are now available.
16. *Amazingly* more than 10 million Americans are living with cancer today. There are *amazing* 3 million breast cancer survivors alive in the U.S. today , the largest group of all cancer survivors. The overall survival rate in developed nations for all types of cancer is about 65 percent.
17. It is heartening and *amazing* to to know that there are 30 million cancer survivors worldwide.
18. Chemotherapy in *fact* involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells which also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc causing side effects. Similarly radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
19. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and Radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
20. The *fact* is cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life. This will promote healing.
21. Proper diet can go a long way to control cancer. Cut the sugar. It serves a s cancer feeder. Substitute milk with unsweetened soy milk. Alkaline environment is preferred. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruit help put the body into an alkaline environment. Drink fresh vegetable juice and eat raw vegetables.
22. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which are high in caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Drink plenty of water. Water is best to drink purified, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it. Carbonated water makes the body acidic. Avoid it.
23. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
24. Eat Fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork to suppress cancer growth.
25. The *fact* is that the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl produced the largest group of cancers in history from a single incident.

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### Computer
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Last updated: 2024-06-10T09:30:28.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Facts You may not know About Computers

1. The QWERTY keyboard layout is 130 years old.
2. ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. It's *amazing* that the original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.
3. The first Computer Mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
4. In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, "Hearsay" was developed in India.
5. Steve jobs and stephen Wozniak previously worked at HP before Apple was founded.
6. The fastest supercomputer in 1976 ran at 80MHz and cost $80 million. *Fact* is the cheapest phones today run at 250Mhz!
7. The 1st personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale in 1977.
8. The first Apple computer which was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, was *amazingly* made by using parts they got for free from their employers.
9. ˜Macintosh’ is in fact a variety of apple. It also was the first commercially successful personal computer.It was the first one to have a graphical user interfaces (GUI) and mouse instead of command line interfaces.
10. The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :- 'The dirty dozen'.
11. *Amazing Fact* : Type the following in MS word: =rand (200, 99) and see what happens! This is absolutely unbelievable.
12. Nobody can create a folder anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. It is a reserved word from old times..
13. The memory of first Ram was *amazingly* just46 KB.
14. Seagate introduced the first hard disk for pcs in 1979\. It *amazingly* held just 5 M.B of data.
15. In 1980, the first One GB disk drive was released , price being $40,000 with the weight of 550 pounds.
16. Time magazines Man of the year for 1982 was the computer.
17. The term Y2K was invented by David Eddie in June 1995 through the email.
18. The average computer user blinks 7 times per minute less than the normal rate of 20.
19. People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
20. HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common ,apart from being IT companies. *Amazingly* they were all started in garages.
21. On an average work day, a typist's fingers on keyboard travel 12.6 miles.
22. The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY in *fact* said to be 20 times faster.
23. 80% of information stored on all computers in the world is in English.
24. Hard drives in the near future are expected to have a track density of about 100,000 tracks/inch. This means that tracks are spaced *amazing* 10 millionths of an inch apart.
25. The nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card contains *amazing* 222 million transistors.
26. *Amazing fact* is that 128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much , much longer than the age of universe to crack a message encrypted using it. Even 20 years from now, if computers are a million times faster. it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.
27. Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is *amazingly* less than 1 microinch while a red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter and a human hair is 4000 microinches. This is equivalent to airplane flying 10 feet above the ground.
28. MP3 stands for MPEG-Layer III; it's a film compression method that shrinks the size of data sent over the Internet.
29. Microsoft founder Mr Bill Gate is using Linux Operating system in his own Personal Laptop.
30. The name of its search engine “˜Bing’ has its origins in Bingo. Just like the game, it was meant to suggest that something looked for has been found or realized.
31. You can use your headphones as a microphone! Just plug them in you mic input, and say something in them.
32. If you search the word ‘recursion’ on Google, it will *amazingly* ask if you meant ‘recursion.’
33. *Fact* was it used to be cheaper for an Australian to fly to the US and buy Adobe software than buy it in Australia!
34. The default Windows XP desktop , a beautiful green field underneath a crystal blue sky is a real picture with no digital enchantments. It is an actual photo taken in Sonoma County, California.
35. *Amazingly* there’s a printer that prints glass from sand! Markus Kaiser has developed a solar-powered, 3-D printer that works by taking the natural sunlight and superheating the sand, which is the material, to morph it into a three dimensional object that is programmed!
36. Black HP printer ink costs roughly 1,400 times as much as crude oil, gallon for gallon.
37. On a Qwerty keypad, Alaska is the only state that can be typed using one row of keys.
38. The word "Font" refers to things like "bold" or "italics".The actual style of the letters is called a "typeface".
39. *Amazing fact* is that whenever a You Tube video is buffeing or has paused , you may play a game of "snakes" by hitting the up arrow.
40. The apple app store once sold "I am Rich" application which sold for $ 999.99 and did nothing.

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### Weird
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Last updated: 2024-06-08T09:30:52.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Weird Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

1. *Amazingly* nearly 160 years ago a Frenchman and a Russian fired bullets at each other in the Crimean war and their bullets actually collided.
2. The man who once had the longest beard in the world *amazingly* died when he accidentally stepped on it and broke his neck.
3. The longest hiccups on record were by an American pig farmer whose hiccups *amazingly* persisted from 1922 to 1987.
4. *The amazing fact* is that a couple's three children were born on 8/8/08, 9/9/09, and 10/10/10\. Chad and Barbie Soper of Rockford, MI somehow managed this feat!
5. In 1975 baby in Detroit fell 14 stories on Joseph Figlock walking below. *Amazingly* a few years later it happened to them once again. Both survived.
6. In 1945 a person survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima by spending the night at an air raid shelter, took the morning train to Nagasaki to attend his regular job where He survived another atomic blast.
7. In 1926, a waiter in Budapest committed suicide. *Amazingly* he left his suicide note in the form of a crossword and the police had to get help from the public to solve it.
8. Roy C. Sullivan, a US park ranger in Virginia was struck by lightning on seven different occasions between 1942 and 1977 and survived.
9. A 13-year-old boy was struck by lightning at 13:13 hours on Friday the 13th 2010 in Lowestoft, England.
10. The world record for time without sleep is held by Randy Gardner, who went without for 264 hours, roughly twice as long as it would take for most people to die of sleep deprivation! It hasn't been broken since 1964.
11. *Amazing fact* is a Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant in World War II refused to surrender to U.S. forces after WWII. Instead, he hid in Guam in Jungle cave. He returned to Japan in 1972, 27 years after World War II ended. He had been declared dead in 1944\. He had never heard of jet planes, television, or the atomic bomb.
12. Cathie Jung of Old Mystic, Connecticut has a waist that is *amazing* 15 inches wide! She has worn corsets every day for over 12 years. She's not a naturally small person either. Her hips and bust are each 39 inches.
13. *Amazingly* an Indian holy man, Prahlad Jani claims he hasn't eaten or drunk for 70 years. After many repeated tests and observations over two weeks in 2004 & again in 2010 proving no intake of food or fluid and no evidence of passing urine or passing stool, doctors still don't know how it's possible.
14. The world's biggest family lives together in India: a man with 39 wives and 94 children.
15. 69-year old Cha Sa-soon took her driving test once or twice every weekday for 5 years, beginning in April of 2005! She passed after *amazing* 960 attempts. She used to pass the driving test but used to fail in the written section.
16. Bobby Leach, a circus stuntman from Cornwell, England ,the first man to survive going over Niagara Falls later *amazingly* died from slipping on an orange peel.
17. In 1974, a British health nut Basil Brown drank himself to death with carrot juice. He guzzled 10 gallons of carrot juice in a span of 10 days! This gave him 10,000 times the recommended amount of vitamin A and ultimately led to his untimely death from severe liver damage.
18. In 1911, three men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill. Amazingly their last names were Green, Berry, and Hill.
19. *Amazingly* a Chinese woman Ha Wenjin quit her job and sold her house and car in order to adopt over 1,500 dogs and 200 cats.
20. 56-year-old Ashrita Furman of New York City has set *amazing* 311 Guinness World Records in his lifetime since 1979 and still currently holds 123 of them.
21. *Amazing* story is that of Frane Selak, a Croatian music teacher survived 7 times in serious accidents from 1962 to 1996 in train , airplane , bus and car. He bought a lottery ticket for the first time in 40 years in 2003 at the age of 74\. He ended up winning $1 million.
22. Lal Bihari (born 1961) is a farmer from Uttar Pradesh, India tried to apply for a bank loan in 1976 and found out that he was officially dead due to his uncle bribing a government official to register him as dead so that he would get the ownership of Bihari's land. Amazing *fact* is that he fought Indian government for 18 years from 1976 to 1994 to prove that he was alive.
23. Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born June 26, 1928), is the Japanese inventor claiming to hold the world record for number of inventions with over 3,000, including the floppy disk . *Amazingly* he has been photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years.
24. *Amazing* story is that of a blind, bald, near deaf man Edwin Robinson was struck by lightning in 2008 and all three conditions were fixed.
25. Dashrath Manjhi , a man lived in a village near Gaya in Bihar, India . His wife, Falguni Devi, passed away due to a lack of medical treatment as doctor was 70 km away across the mountain. *Amazingly* over next 22 years from 1960 to 1982 he singlehandedly carved a 360 foot long, 25 foot high, and 30 foot wide road so that vehicles could get through mountain in the Gehlour hills to reduce the distance from 70 km to 1 km for medical help.
26. A postal carrier named Gabriel March Grandos, 22, of Palma de Mallorca, Spain got sentenced to 384,912 years in prison for neglecting to deliver close to 43 thousand letters.
27. *Amazingly* 31 year old man, Jerome Moody drowned at a party of 100 lifeguards celebrating a summer with no drownings in New Orleans in 1985\. Party was to celebrate the first summer in memory that no one had drowned at a New Orleans city pool. 4 lifeguards were on duty on poolside but didn't notice anything.
28. Two brothers were killed within exactly 1 year of each other . Seventeen year old Erskine Lawrence Ebbin was struck and killed by a taxi while driving a moped in 1975 . *Amazin*g and tragic coincidence was that this was exactly 1 year after his 17 year old brother was killed by the same taxi, holding the same passenger, driving the same moped, at the same intersection.
29. A college student Alex Tew had an *amazing* idea to sell pixels on a website for education funding! Each pixel on his website was sold for for $1\. There were 1 million pixels in total for him to make $1 million.
30. A pioneer named Thomas Austin brought 24 rabbits from England to his property in Australia for hunting in 1800's. *Amazin*g mind boggling *fact* is that in 61 years it's population grew to 400 million! It was the fastest spread ever recorded of any mammal anywhere in the world.

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### Molluscs
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Last updated: 2024-06-06T09:30:56.000Z
#### 25 Amazing Facts About Molluscs

1. Molluscs are invertebrates that include animals such as squid, octopuses, snails, oysters etc. There are an estimated 100,000 species of molluscs making them second largest phylum in the animal kingdom, next to only the Phylum Arthropoda (Insects).
2. Molluscs can be found almost everywhere in the deepest ocean floor and also in freshwater and land.
3. Over 1,100 species of molluscs have been discovered living deeper than one mile (1600m) below the surface of the ocean. Ewig's Gastroverm lives at an ocean depth of about 20,000 feet, or nearly four miles (over 4500m!).
4. The body of most molluscs consists of two parts: a head foot and a visceral mass. The head foot of a mollusc is an elongated, soft structure that encompasses an anterior head and an elongated foot. The head has a pair of eyes, a mouth and sensory and nervous structures. The foot is used for locomotion and for attaching onto surfaces. The visceral mass is located on top of the head-foot and contains internal organs that perform the functions of digestion, circulation, reproduction and excretion.
5. A layer of tissue called the mantle covers the visceral mass of a mollusc. It secretes a hard shell that covers and protects the visceral mass providing the mollusc with protection from predators and from harsh environmental conditions. Molluscs keep adding to this shell and keep it under repair for its entire life.
6. Most molluscs are capable of making pearls when foreign substances enter their shell which is coated with a shelly material. Some molluscs can grow pearls as big as golf balls. The older and bigger the pearl the more valuable it becomes.
7. It's *amazing* that an oyster can take about five years just to make one pearl.
8. *Amazingly* the oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male and then becomes a female. It may go back and forth many times.
9. *Amazing Fact* is that out of the 200 million eggs a female oyster produces only a handful grows to adulthood.
10. It's amazing that giant squid eyes are the largest in the animal kingdom about the size of the human head and they can see deep inside sea up to 1000 Feet.
11. *Amazing fact* is the giant squid is the largest creature without a backbone. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows up to 60 feet long.
12. The Humboldt squid can turn itself blood-red. Because this wavelength of light doesn’t travel far underwater, a dark red squid is amazingly invisible.
13. The giant clam is a species of molluscs that can grow to weights in excess of 200 Kg and diameters of more than 47 inches. Giant clams inhabit coral reefs throughout the South Pacific and Indian oceans.
14. Since octopi have no bones, their bodies are incredibly flexible. *Amazingly* they can squeeze through openings not much bigger than their eyeballs.
15. *Amazing fact* is a snail can sleep for 3 years.
16. Snails rely mainly on their sense of touch and smell when finding food because they have very poor eyesight. Snails also cannot hear.
17. *Amazingly* a snail can travel over a razor blade without harm because it secretes colourless sticky fluid to crawl along.
18. The common garden snail (Helix aspersa) can only travel about two feet in three minutes. At that rate, it would travel one mile in five and one-half days.
19. Many land snails can lift ten times their own weight up a vertical surface.
20. A snail can have *amazing* 25,000 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
21. World's largest snail is the Australian trumpet, a sea species from the shores of northern and western Australia which can grow up to 30 inches in shell length. The largest land snail known is the Giant African Land Snail. It can weigh up to 900g and attain a length of 16 inches from head to tail.
22. The smallest known snail shell is the Ammonicera rota measuring only 0.02 inches in diameter. Fifty of them laid end to end would measure one inch!
23. Cone Snail is also known as the "cigarette snail". *Amazing fact* is one drop of venom from it is enough to end 20 human lives. You die within minutes and there is no antivenom.
24. *Amazingly* snails may survive being eaten by birds as they can pass through a bird’s digestive tract unharmed.
25. The oldest form of money known is that of the seashell. Many cultures throughout history used the shell as a form of barter and trade.

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### Owl
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Last updated: 2024-06-04T09:30:37.000Z
#### Top 25 Amazing Facts About Owls

1. Owls have been found in the fossil record up to 58 million years ago. The largest recorded owl fossil stood about three feet tall.
2. There are more than 150 species of owls in the world. Only 19 owl species are found in North America.
3. The largest species of owl is the Eurasian eagle owl, which can be as much as 30 inches long and weighs up to 5 Kg. Its wingspan can be as much as 80 inches.
4. The smallest species of owl is the elf owl, which is about 5 inches long and weighs less than 40 gm.
5. A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study. Baby owls are called owlets.
6. Owls swallow their prey whole because they have no teeth. After 12 hours they cough up the feathers, bones, and fur in a shape of a football pellet.
7. Their eyes are extremely large and nearly touch inside of head being larger than humans. They are also completely immobile in its tubular eye sockets. All owls have upright posture and forward facing eyes that give them binocular vision, just like humans. However, it also makes the owl more vulnerable to predators.
8. Contrary to popular myth, an owl cannot turn its head completely backwards. It can turn its head 135 degrees in either direction; it can thus look behind its own shoulders, with a total 270-degree field of view which compensates for their forward-facing vision and immobile eyes.
9. Vision cells (called rods and cones) in owls are especially concentrated on the upper part of the retina, so things below the owl appear exceptionally clear. This helps them hunt on the ground. When owls close their eyes half way in sunlight, they block out the sky and some of the sunlight, but can still see the ground below perfectly.
10. *Amazingly* Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.
11. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All others birds raise their lower eyelids.
12. An owl can turn its head upside down. *Amazingly* they have 14 vertebra in the neck in contrast to 7 in other species to give it more flexibility.
13. An owl has three eyelids: one for blinking, one for sleeping and one for keeping the eye clean and healthy.
14. Owls are farsighted and are unable to see anything clearly within a few centimeters of their eyes.
15. Many owl species have asymmetrical ears that are different sizes and different heights on their heads. This gives the birds superior hearing and the ability to pinpoint where prey is located, even if they can't see it and when a sound is equally loud in both ears. Reason is that the sound of the prey reaches one ear a split second before it reaches the other. That difference allows the owl's brain to calculate the exact distance from the prey.
16. The flattened facial disk of an owl funnels sound to the bird's ears and magnifies it as much as ten times to help the bird hear noises humans can't detect.
17. They have alternative blood vessels routing blood to the head, blood pooling systems to keep blood circulating to and from the brain and eyes when their neck movement cuts off circulation, and air-cushioned vessel casings so they don't rupture a blood vessel when snapping their neck around 135 degrees to look over their left shoulder.
18. For most owl species, females are larger, heavier and more aggressive than males. If the birds are dimorphic, the female is often more richly colored than the male.
19. Owls have a foot structure called zygodactyl, which is similar to the structure of the feet of woodpeckers and parrots. Owls have four toes, three of which face forward and one backward when flying. However, when perched or grasping prey, the outer front toe can swivel back so that two toes face forward and two face backward. This allows an owl a better grip on prey or a branch. All the toes have sharp talons.
20. Owl wings have built-in “silencers” in their wing feathers that allow them to fly through the air nearly undetected.
21. Most Owls are nocturnal. Their sensitive retinas tend to be disoriented in bright sunlight, so Owls prefer to avoid daytime activity whenever possible.
22. Owl eye color is determined by their activity habits: most black and orange-eyed owls are nocturnal, while yellow-eyed owls can be both diurnal and nocturnal.
23. Owls cannot see in total darkness, however many owls can catch their prey even when they cannot see it. The sound of a mouse under leaves or thin snow covering would be enough for a Barn Owl to locate them using their ears alone.
24. The smallest of American owls, the elf owl specializes in catching scorpions, seizing each by the tail and nipping off its stinger. It then swallows it whole.
25. They lay white-colored eggs that are nearly spherical in shape. Owls lay eggs with an interval of 1 – 3 days.

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### Fire
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Last updated: 2024-06-02T09:30:11.000Z
#### Top 45 Amazing Facts About Fire

1. Fire is a chemical reaction that releases light and heat.
2. The ancient Greeks *amazingly* started a fire with concentrated sunlight. A parabolic mirror that focuses solar rays is still used to ignite the Olympic torch.
3. *The amazing fact* is earth is the only known planet where fire can burn. Everywhere else you don't find enough oxygen for fire to occur.
4. Fire triangle represents the three components that fires need to exist: heat, oxygen and fuel. Fire is extinguished when one of these components is missing.
5. *Fact* is oxygen supply influences the color of the flame. A low oxygen fire gives off a yellow glow. A high oxygen fire burns blue.
6. Candle flames are blue at the bottom because that’s where they take up fresh air, and yellow at the top because the rising fumes from below partly suffocate the upper part of the flame.
7. *Amazing fact* is fire can make water. Place a cold spoon over a candle and you will observe the water vapor condense on the metal. Wax contains hydrogen which combines with oxygen to make water.
8. Assuming stable fuel, heat and oxygen levels, a typical house fire will *amazingly* double in size every minute.
9. Fire is faster than generally thought as it takes less than thirty seconds for a fire to become very difficult to control.
10. A candle flame typically burns at around 1000 degrees Celsius (1800 Fahrenheit).
11. *The amazing fact*is that more people die from smoke inhalation than flames. Fire can suck all of the oxygen from a room and fill it with poisonous smoke and gases before flames even reach a room.
12. During wildfires, it's *amazing* that trees can explode if water deep inside the tree quickly turns to steam.
13. The heat from a fire alone is enough to kill. It can get as hot as 315 degrees Celsius at eye level , hot enough to scorch your lungs if you breathe it in and to melt the clothes you’re wearing into your skin.
14. If you’re in a burning house, you might not be able to see. It can be pitch black because of the dark smoke.
15. *Amazingly* you might not be able to find the exit in fire even if you’ve lived there for years since smoke can be extremely disorienting. Memorize your escape plan beforehand and practice it blindfolded.
16. Air is 21 percent oxygen which combines with acetylene and you get an oxyacetylene welding torch that burns at over 5500 degrees Fahrenheit, the hottest fire you encounter.
17. A gallon of gasoline has the explosive potential of 30 sticks of dynamite.
18. *Amazingly* you can start a fire with ice.
19. At 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, unprotected steel may collapse under its own weight during a fire.
20. *The amazing fact* is that forest fires move faster uphill than downhill! The steeper the slope, the faster the fire travels.
21. Once a forest fire begins, it can spread at an *amazing* rate of up to 15 miles per hour, consuming everything in its path.
22. On 13 August 2012 scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, Geneva, Switzerland, announced that they had achieved the Highest Manmade Temperature of over 5 trillion K and perhaps as high as 5.5 trillion K , more than 300,000 times hotter than the center of the sun.
23. When John Walker used a stick to stir a pot containing antimony sulfide, potassium chlorate & sulfur, some of the mixture stuck to the end of the stick. When the lump was scraped , it caught fire which led to the birth of match sticks.
24. Fire extinguishers control fires by discharging water, foams, carbon dioxide, dry chemicals or other substances.
25. No one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was destroyed in a fire.
26. A single fire hydrant in San Francisco survived a massive earthquake in 1906 and aided fire fighters in saving the Mission district. The hydrant was painted gold in memory of the event.
27. Walt Disney World is the largest consumer of fireworks in the United States launching the fireworks with compressed air instead of gunpowder to reduce fumes and gain better height and timing.
28. There’s a bush called dictamnus albus which secretes a flammable, oily substance which can be lit on fire, without burning the bush itself.
29. *Amazingly* cotton will catch on fire if super glue is applied to it.
30. More than 80 percent of all wildfires are started by humans.
31. The most common cause of fire deaths is cooking fires , the risk emanating from kitchen. Two of every five home fires started in the kitchen.
32. In the great fire of London in 1666, 80 % of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured. It burned out of control for 5 days and destroyed 13,000 homes and 87 churches.
33. The great fire of London also ended bubonic plague epidemic that had killed 65000 people as rats and fleas were fried.
34. A natural gas vent in Iraq known as The Eternal Fire has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and it has been mentioned in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel.
35. A coal seam about 140 miles north of Sydney, Australia, has been *amazingly* burning for thousands of years.
36. America’s deadliest fire took place in 1865, aboard the steamship Sultana when the boilers exploded. The ship was six times over capacity mostly carrying prisoners released recently. The death toll was *amazing* 1,547.
37. During WWII, Japan actually sent 9000 “fire balloons” towards North America to cause damage . About thousand of them actually hit land and killed 6 people.
38. The Cairo opera house was destroyed by fire in 1970\. *Amazing* thing was it also housed Cairo fire station.
39. Fire houses have spiral staircases because the horses that used to pull the fire wagons learned to walk up straight ones.
40. Ashtrays are compulsorily required on every commercial airplane because 123 people died on a flight in 1973 when a lit cigarette caught fire in a lavatory waste bin.
41. On August 19, 1980, a Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight carrying 301 people caught fire shortly after takeoff. The plane landed safely but when the ground crew opened the doors, everyone was already dead due to poisonous gases..
42. In 1985, Philadelphia police used a helicopter to drop two bombs on a house during an armed standoff which resulted in a fire that killed 11 and destroyed 60 homes.
43. The Black Dragon Fire of 1987, the largest wildfire in modern times, burned some 20 million acres across China and the Soviet Union, an area about the size of South Carolina.
44. A fire in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2002 killed 15 school girls . They were not allowed to leave the burning building by the state’s religious police because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress.
45. In 2004, over 300 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay because the owners shut the doors so that people wouldn’t leave without paying.

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### Papaya
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Last updated: 2024-05-30T09:30:16.000Z
#### Top 40 Amazing Facts About Papaya

1. The papaya belongs to the Carica Papaya tree.
2. The papaya is a tropical fruit tree and it is also famous as the names Papaw and Pawpaw.
3. The papaya originated in the tropical regions of the Americas.
4. There was a time when papaya was considered as an exotic fruit because it was found in Mexico and Central America.
5. The papaya fruit is actually a large berry. It usually takes a spherical shape or the shape of a pear.
6. The papaya tree grows anywhere between 5 meters and 10 meters or 16 feet and 33 feet.
7. It is a fast growing tree and can bear fruits within 6 months to 12 months from the date of planting the tree.
8. The papaya is a sparsely branched tree. It has a single stem and the spirally arranged leaves are placed usually on the trunk top.
9. The lower trunk is full of scars. These scars are left behind in places where leaves and fruits were borne by the tree.
10. Papaya’s female flowers have a superior ovary loosely connected at the base.
11. Papayas are flowering plants. They produce white flowers that have five petals each.
12. There are usually two variants of the papaya that are cultivated and sold throughout the world. The first one is the Hawaiian papaya and the second one is the Mexican papaya.
13. The Hawaiian papaya is smaller and has a pear shape. The maximum weight it attains is 1 pound. The Mexican variant on the other hand is pretty heavier and can attain the weight of 10 pounds.
14. The papaya tree will not have branches. Only time when a branch will appear is when the tree has been hurt or injured.
15. The leaves of the papaya tree grow on petioles that are nearly horizontal.
16. Every part of the papaya tree has latex.
17. There is an enzyme called papin in unripe green papaya fruit and even the papaya leaves.
18. The black seeds of the papaya have a sharp and spicy taste.
19. After being introduced to the islands via the Manila galleons, Papayas became a part of Filipino cuisine.
20. The fruit sometimes used to be referred to as a “tree melon.”
21. The papaya was introduced to Hawaii in the early 1800s.
22. Tea made from papaya leaves is consumed in some countries as protection against malaria.
23. The Papaya Fruit Fly is a threat to the fruit.
24. The seeds of the papaya can be ground up and used as a substitute for black pepper.
25. Papaya leaves are steamed and eaten in parts of Asia.
26. The bark of the papaya tree is often used to make rope.
27. Small papaya contains about 300% of the recommended daily amount of Vitamin C.
28. Papain is also used in the preparation of dietary supplements and chewing gums.
29. Women in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and various other parts of the world have used papaya as a folk remedy for contraception and abortion.
30. Papaya releases a latex fluid when not ripe, possibly causing irritation and an allergic reaction in some people.
31. Consumption of very large amounts of papaya may cause carotenemia, harmless yellowing of soles and palms.
32. The largest fruit display weighs 18,805.84 kilograms (41,459.78 lbs) and was achieved by Confederacao de Agricultura e Pecuaria on 28 July 2016.
33. The major commercial producers of papayas are India, Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Mexico.
34. Papaya is the only fruit that contains papain, an enzyme that has the ability to digest protein.
35. September is National Papaya Month.
36. The white powder sold as “Meat Tenderizer” is self-possessed mainly of an enzyme – papain.
37. The leaves of papaya can be used for fresh salads or they can be boiled and prepared like spinach.
38. Harrison Ford was treated with injections of papaya due to the injury of the spine.
39. Sometimes, papaya is used in the treatment of Dengue fever.
40. Papaya is rich in Vitamin A which helps protect your vision from degenerating.

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### ManMade
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Last updated: 2024-05-28T09:30:42.000Z
#### 37 Amazing Facts about ManMade things

1. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
2. The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch amazingly doesn't tick, it moves very smoothly. Fake can thus be identified.
3. The ice cream cone was originally a way to hold flowers, not ice cream!
4. A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7ml or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking
5. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right but women's shirts have the buttons on the left.
6. The amazing fact is that at the turn of the century, most light bulbs were hand-blown, and the cost of one was equivalent to half a day's pay for the average U.S. worker.
7. Amazingly "A" is the only vowel that is not on the top row of the keyboard.
8. Wearing sunglasses increases the risk of getting sunburned.
9. Amazingly the numbers on a roulette wheel always add up to 666.
10. A wallet has been made that only opens to the owner's fingerprint. This wallet has a Bluetooth alarm. If your wallet moves more than 5 meters from your cell phone, an alarm will go off.
11. The amazing fact is that the world’s smallest guitar is the size of a red blood cell made out of crystallized silicone! This guitar is only ten micrometers long! The guitar has six strings, and each string is only about one hundred atoms thick.
12. Before "SOS" was adopted, the universal distress signal was "CQD. The fact is "SOS" was chosen due to their unmistakable nature within Morse code for these letters: three dots, three dashes, and three more dots in rapid succession.
13. Amazingly an estimated 250,000 bullets were used per insurgent killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
14. Hanging coffins can be found in China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Many of these coffins are hundreds or even thousands of years old.
15. A lightbulb manufactured in 1901 has been amazingly burning continuously ever since in Livermore, California, in a fire station. It has lit for nearly one million hours.
16. The amazing fact is that up until 1850, there were no ‘left’ or ‘right shoes, both were identical!
17. The fact is if you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that the new order of playing cards has never existed before.
18. AceTwoThreeFourFiveSixSevenEightNineTenJackQueenKing. Count the letters of the names of cards in the deck. Amazingly they add up to 52 which is the same as the number of cards.
19. The amazing fact is that Bhutan has a stamp that can be played on a record player, the first-ever CD-ROM postage stamp.
20. Scotch Whisky's odor is made up by using more than 300 chemical substances.
21. Public phones are outdated due to cellular phones so the phone booths were converted to Aquariums in Osaka, Japan.
22. Since 1945, all British tanks come with tea-making equipment.
23. The chance that you will die on the way to buy your lottery ticket is greater than the chance of you winning the big prize in most lotteries.
24. Getting Shot Is Only Fatal 5 Percent of the Time with timely medical help. People have survived with 20 bullet wounds. It is believed that shots to roughly 80 percent of targets on the body would not be fatal.
25. You Have a 1 in 3 Chance of Surviving Getting Stabbed in the Heart.
26. There is a company that makes amazing non reversing mirrors i.e. mirrors that show you exactly as you look to other people. Your right side becomes the mirror's left.
27. A device has been developed that can kill mosquitos at the rate of 100 per sec. using infrared motion censuring and a blue laser costing $50.
28. Drying your hands with a paper towel will decrease the bacterial count in your hands by 50 % but drying with a hand drier will amazingly increase the count by 250 % since it blows out bacteria to your hands from the environment.
29. The amazing fact is that 36 armed dolphins trained by the US navy to attack terrorists are missing since 2005\. They carry toxic dart guns capable of killing a man in a single shot.
30. In 1955 someone dropped a 600-year-old plaster statue of Buddha to discover that plaster was covering a statue of solid Gold inside.
31. In the victorian era, they had special teacups that prevented your mustache from getting wet by tea.
32. There are fridges full of free beer scattered throughout Europe that will amazingly only open for the Canadians.
33. Workers at ground zero found an 18th-century ship underneath the World Trade Center rubble.
34. There is a remote control shortcut to avoid trailers, title screens, and warnings in DVDs. Just press STOP, STOP, PLAY.
35. Candles will burn longer and dripless if kept in a freezer a few hours before use.
36. There is a rain room in London which makes rainfall everywhere in the room except the place you are standing.
37. The Ice cream that you see in Ice cream ads is often mashed potato as melting ice cream is not suitable.

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### Einstein
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Last updated: 2024-05-26T09:30:56.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about Einstein

1. Einstein was born on Pi (π) Day, 14th of March 1879 in Germany to a Jewish family.
2. It's amazing that he was a fat, cuddly baby with a big and oddly shaped head. His parents were alarmed at first until the physician assured them that the boy’s head would become more regular in shape in a few weeks.
3. Albert Einstein's parents were told that their son was an idiot. In fact, he couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday.
4. His interest in science was triggered by a compass his father gave him when he was five years old. He was so fascinated by the fact that whichever way the case was turned, the needle always pointed in the same direction.
5. Contrary to popular belief, Einstein never failed math. In fact, by fifteen he had already mastered differential and integral calculus.
6. Einstein was left-handed.
7. Einstein Failed his University Entrance Exam and had to reapply a year later.
8. Albert Einstein worked as an electrician on the Oktoberfest in 1896\. He also worked in a patent office evaluating patents for electromagnetic devices after he graduated.
9. The amazing fact is that Albert Einstein never wore any socks and he never used shaving soap.
10. Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car. He also couldn’t swim, but he loved sailing.
11. He produced perhaps one of the most famous equations ever: E = mc² (energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared).
12. According to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, a “second” is 8 microseconds longer for a GPS satellite traveling 9000 mph than it is for the GPS receiver on the ground. Your GPS unit is programmed to adjust for the difference.
13. Scientists have used Atomic clocks to show that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is correct. The higher you live above sea level the faster you age.
14. The amazing fact is that "Albert Einstein" is an anagram of ‘Ten elite brains’.
15. Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity. It was actually for the photoelectric effect.
16. Einstein had a daughter born out of wedlock with his former research student Mileva Maric in the year 1902, whom he married later.
17. Amazingly Einstein never saw Lieserl, his illegitimate daughter whose fate is still unknown.
18. Einstein married for the second time on June 2, 1919, with Elsa Lowenthal, his first cousin maternally and second cousin paternally after divorcing Mileva.
19. Albert Einstein charged between $1 and $5 for his autographs! All the proceeds, he gave to charity. He also donated his speaker fees for giving speeches. He would earn almost $1000 per speech.
20. Albert Einstein once used a $1,500 check from Rockefeller Foundation as a bookmark and later lost that book.
21. Einstein was famous for having a bad memory. He could not remember names, dates, and phone numbers. When asked what was the speed of sound, Albert Einstein said, “I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book .”
22. Albert Einstein was so often approached by fans seeking explanations of his theories that he would say, “Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.”
23. After reading in the newspaper that a family died due to toxic fumes that leaked from their household refrigerator, Albert Einstein and his former student invented a refrigeration system with no moving parts known as the Einstein Refrigerator. However, it never went into production.
24. When Einstein met Charlie Chaplin, Chaplin remarked, “People applaud me because everybody understands me, and they applaud you because no one understands you.”
25. Einstein was an early proponent of the civil rights movement. He drew comparisons between Jewish people in Germany and Black people in America.
26. Einstein did not attend his own Nobel ceremony as he was then in Japan on a lecture tour.
27. Because Einstein couldn’t afford the alimony as part of his divorce, he offered his wife all the money if he was to win the Nobel Prize. Years later Einstein's Nobel Prize money went to his ex-wife as a divorce settlement.
28. Albert Einstein originally wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt warning him that the US would lose the nuclear arms race to Germany. Later, he regretted sending that letter as it caused the nuclear arms race.
29. After the death of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the post as the new President of Israel in 1952\. He declined to say he lacked the aptitude and experience to deal with people.
30. A day prior to his death, Einstein refused surgery, saying “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
31. The last words of Albert Einstein were forever lost because he spoke them in German, a language that the nurse attending him did not speak.
32. When Einstein died in 1955, a small notebook comprising of his calculations was found which has been posted online for everyone to see.
33. Albert Einstein’s eyes are kept in a safe locked away in New York City.
34. After his death in 1955, Einstein's brain was in fact removed without permission from his family by Dr. Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the Princeton Hospital pathologist who conducted the autopsy. The brain was dissected into 240 pieces, stored in jars filled with formaldehyde, and over the years. Dr. Harvey even went on to exhibit Einstein’s brain as he went in his car on a cross-country trip to California.
35. Mutter Museum in Philadelphia has 46 microscope slides that contain pieces of Einstein’s brain on display.

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### Taj Mahal
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Last updated: 2024-05-24T09:30:18.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts About Taj Mahal

1. The name Taj Mahal means “Crown of Palaces”.
2. Situated at Agra, a city in the Uttar Pradesh region of northern India 125 miles from Delhi. It is a UNESCO world heritage site.
3. The Taj Mahal was declared one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007, receiving over 100 million votes.
4. Taj Mahal attracts 2-4 million visitors annually with over 200,000 from overseas.
5. It was believed to be built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in the loving memory of his third wife Mumtaj Mahal as her final resting place.
6. Shah Jahan lost Mumtaz Mahal when she died giving birth to their 14h child.
7. With construction beginning around 1632 A.D. and finishing in 1653, the Taj Mahal took an estimated 22 years to build.
8. Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, generally regarded as the chief architect of the Taj Mahal, was not Indian; he was a Persian from Iran.
9. There were more than 22,000 people involved to build this *amazing* monument.
10. The Tajmahal is a Mixture of Indian, Persian, and Islamic style Architectures.
11. The Taj Mahal is surrounded by significant gardens and a number of other buildings including a mosque and guest houses which make up the 17 hectares of land within the complex walls.
12. During British rule in India, the garden landscaping was changed to look more like the lawns in London, England. The original garden was adorned with lots of roses and daffodils.
13. Taj Mahal was built in stages, with the plinth and the tomb taking up roughly 15 years.
14. The building of minarets, mosques, jawab, and gateway took additional 7 years to be completed.
15. *Amazingly* more than 1,000 elephants were employed to transport the construction materials used to build the Taj.
16. The Taj Mahal is mainly made of heavy white marble which was transported from Rajasthan.
17. As many as 28 different varieties of semi-precious and precious stones were used to adorn the Taj with exquisite inlay work. They brought marbles from Rajasthan, blue stones from Tibet, emerald from Sri Lanka, jasper from Punjab, and crystals from China.
18. The color of the Taj Mahal appears to change color depending on the time of the day. The Taj Mahal appears pink in the morning, while it appears white in the day. And interestingly, the Taj Mahal appears golden in the moonlight.
19. Passages from Quran have been used as decorative elements throughout the complex.
20. On the sides of the actual tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, 99 names of Allah can be found as calligraphic inscriptions.
21. The Taj Mahal cost about Rs. 32 million, which in today's money is equivalent to about $1 billion!
22. One of the Taj Mahal’s most recognizable features is a large white dome that is often called an ‘onion dome’ due to its shape. The Height of the dome is *amazing* at 214 feet and it is 59 feet in diameter. It is surrounded by 4 smaller domes.
23. The minarets of the Taj Mahal in India are angled at 88 degrees outwards so that they would not collapse into the structure should an earthquake occur.
24. The Taj Mahal is perfectly symmetrical in every way except two tombs of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz kept inside the structure. These two tombs are not equal because the male tomb had to be larger than the female tomb.
25. Following the Taj Mahal's completion, Shah Jahan was put under house arrest in 1658 by his son, Aurangzeb. Shah Jahan was only able to view the Taj Mahal from his window for the last eight years of his life.
26. There was a plan to construct the Black Taj mahal on the opposite side of the river but the plan didn’t materialize due to Emperor Shahjahan getting imprisoned and his son’s unwillingness to continue with the project. An identical Taj Mahal was supposed to be built in black marble instead of white. The base of it can still be seen across the river.
27. By the late 19th century, the Taj Mahal had been defaced by the British soldiers who chiseled out precious stones from the walls of the monument during the Indian rebellion of 1857.
28. Islamic tradition forbids the decoration of graves, so Shah Jahan and his wife are actually buried in a plain crypt in the basement 7 feet below the surface and locked behind a metal door beneath the main inner chamber.
29. Shah Jahan's other wives and even his favorite servant are buried in mausoleums just outside of the Taj Mahal.
30. The Taj Mahal's white marble is rapidly turning yellow because of terrible air pollution in Agra. Only electric vehicles are allowed near the structure and a 4000-square-mile environmental radius has been declared around the monument to help control emissions.
31. In 2008, a Bangladeshi filmmaker constructed a replica of the Taj Mahal in Bangla Desh at a cost of US $56 million dollars. The replication took five years to complete with modern equipment.
32. Different studies suggest that the Taj Mahal is very slowly sinking in the Yamuna River.
33. Mr. P. N. Oak's celebrated book titled " Tajmahal: The True Story" has claimed that the Taj Mahal is a Hindu Temple and wasn't built by Shah Jahan but existed previously giving many pieces of evidence to prove his claim.
34. A wooden piece from the riverside doorway of the Taj subjected to the carbon 14 test by an American Laboratory, has revealed the door to be 300 years older than Shahjahan, since the doors of the Taj, broken open by Muslim invaders repeatedly from the 11th century onwards, had to b replaced from time to time. The Taj edifice is much older. It belongs to 1155 A.D, i.e., almost 500 years before Shahjahan.
35. Well-known Western authorities on architecture like E.B.Havell, Mrs.Kenoyer, and Sir W.W.Hunter have gone on record to say that the TajMahal is built in the Hindu temple style. Havell points out the ground plan of the ancient Hindu Chandi Seva Temple in Java is identical to that of the Taj.

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### Skin
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Last updated: 2024-05-22T09:30:11.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Fascinating Facts About Skin

1. Skin is the largest organ in the human body. Average skin when stretched out is about 2 Sq. Meters.
2. Skin is a versatile organ acting as a waterproof, insulating shield, guarding the body against extremes of temperature, damaging sunlight, and harmful chemicals.
3. Skin also exudes antibacterial substances that prevent infection and manufactures vitamin D for converting calcium into healthy bones. Skin is a huge sensor packed with nerves for keeping the brain in touch with the outside world. At the same time, it also allows us free movement.
4. Our skin has basically 3 layers . The outer epidermis is dead skin but waterproof. The middle dermis holds hair and sweat glands and the innermost subcutis which has fat and large vessels and nerves.
5. Extent to which skin can be stretched differs from region to region.
6. The thickest skin is found on soles of feet (about 1.5 mm ) while thinnest skin is found on eyelids ( About .02 mm).
7. *Amazing fact* is that the human skin contains about 45 miles of nerves.
8. *Amazingly* in one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
9. *Amazing fact* is that every square inch of skin on the human body has about 32 million bacteria on it but the vast majority of them are harmless.
10. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
11. *Amazingly* horns, hoofs, hair (fur), feathers and scales are evolutionary adaptations of the epidermis , the outer layer of skin.
12. *Amazing fact* is that humans have about 2 to 3 million sweat glands, which can produce up to 3 liters of sweat on a hot day. A pair of feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce half a litre of sweat a day. Your body releases wastes and toxins through sweat.
13. *Fact* is sweat is actually odorless. Odor is due to bacteria on the skin eating and digesting fatty compounds.
14. The glands that produce wax in ear are nothing but specialized sweat glands.
15. Amazingly every 28 days your full skin is replaced. Every minute you shed about 30000 to 40000 dead cells. This is equivalent to shedding 4 kg a year. In fact 50 % of the dust in your home is dead skin.
16. Each hair has a small muscle pili which is responsible for raising hair during cold or in heightened emotional state.
17. *Fact* is an average human has 100000 hair follicles on the scalp. You lose around 50 to 100 hairs a day.
18. Straight hair lies flat because it is round and grows out of round follicles. Curly hair comes out of an oval follicle.
19. Scar tissue lack sweat glands and hair.
20. Amazing fact is that your skin is home to at least 1000 different types of bacteria.
21. *Amazingl*y on an average 14 species of fungi live between your toes.
22. *Amazingly* only about 7 % of skin cells are melanocytes which are responsible for your skin color.
23. It takes 6 months for babies to develop their permanent skin tone.
24. White skin appeared on humans just 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, as dark-skinned humans migrated to colder climates and lost much of their melanin pigment.
25. 1 in 110,000 people suffer from albinism , a genetic disorder . They lack melanocytes.
26. We get wrinkles in our skin after exposure to water due to absorption of water by dead skin cells. Wrinkly skin also increase the surface area of the skin.
27. *Fact* is acne is the result of overproduction of cells that line the sweat glands. Over production of sebaceous oils block skin follicles.
28. Fingernails grow 0.1 millimeters each day and toenails grow 1 millimeter a month. Fingernails grow faster than toenails, and nails grow faster during the summer than the winter.
29. Touch receptors called Meissner corpuscles , concentrated in the fingertips and palms, lips and tongue are *amazingly* sensitive to a pressure of just 20 milligrams, the weight of a fly.
30. Excessive exposure to sun can lead to skin cancer. Health professionals recommend the "ABCD's" of early detection for skin cancer. Check for Asymmetry (unequal shape), Border (look for edges that are blurry or scalloped), Color (if the color on it varies) and Diameter (if it is bigger that 1/4 of an inch).

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### Spinach
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Last updated: 2024-05-20T09:30:13.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Spinach

1. The name “Spinach” is derived from the word ispanai meaning green hand. In Latin, it became spanachia which eventually evolved into the present word.
2. Spinach is a flowering plant that belongs to the family Amaranthaceae. It originated in Persia.
3. Spinach is a native plant of Persia (modern-day Iran). It was introduced to China in the 7th century. It was most probably brought to Europe in about the 12th century and to the US in 1806.
4. Due to its origin, spinach is known as “Persian Green” in China.
5. Spinach grows on the sandy soil in moist and cool areas.
6. Spinach has thin, flexible stem that can reach one feet in height. Spinach ia an annual plant, which mean that it completes its life cycle in one year.
7. Leaves are edible part of spinach. They are oval in shape and alternately arranged on the stem. Biggest leaves are located on the base, and smallest on the top of the plant.
8. Spinach develops small yellow-green flowers. Each plant produces either male (stamens) or female (pistil) reproductive organs. Flowers are pollinated by wind. Spinach produces dry, lumpy fruit gathered in clusters that contain few seeds.
9. There are many varieties of spinach, though they mostly fall into 3 distinct groups: Savoy (Dark green, crinkly and curly leaves), Flat/smooth leaf spinach and Semi-savoy (Hybrid variety with slightly crinkled leaves).
10. Spinach is excellent source of vitamin A, K, E and vitamins of the B group. It is also high in dietary fiber.
11. Spinach is enriched with vitamin C which works as antioxidant properties. It gives a protection status again infection causing elements. It also reduces oxygen derived free radicals which causes many diseases.
12. This vegetable also rich in mineral compounds which include potassium, manganese, magnesium, copper, calcium and zinc. Potassium protects heart, manganese and copper are antioxidant that protect from diseases. Copper produces red blood cells and zinc helps in growth and development, digestion and nucleic acid synthesis.
13. Spinach contains high content of flavonoid compounds that possesses anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties.
14. Among the World's Healthiest vegetables, spinach comes out at the top for nutrient richness. Besides vitamins and minerals, it is also concentrated in health-promoting phytonutrients such as carotenoids (beta-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin) like carrot.
15. Spinach facilitates removal of the excess water from the body (diuretic) and emptying of bowels (laxative).
16. Spinach is rich in folic acid. Eating spinach is therefore good for pregnant women.
17. Spinach contains oxalic acid, which blocks the absorption of calcium and iron. An easy way to solve this problem is to pair spinach with a food high in vitamin C.
18. The power of oxalic acid can also be reduced by boiling the spinach leaves for at least two minutes. Excessive oxalic acid congestion may lead to kidney stones.
19. Freezing spinach diminishes its health benefits. The way to get the best from the leaf is to buy it fresh and eat it the same day.
20. China produces nearly 19 million tons or 85% of globally consumed spinach. California produces 75 % of the fresh spinach grown in the United States.
21. Alma, Arkansas (Population 4,700), holds an annual spinach festival each April. Alma proclaims itself to be the “spinach capital of the world”, a title also claimed by Crystal City, Texas.
22. Green pigments extracted from spinach were used in painting during the medieval times.
23. Just half a cup of raw spinach counts as 1 of the 5 servings of fruits and vegetables you should eat a day. A cup of cooked spinach contains only 40 calories and gives you a full stomach.
24. The bounty of vitamins and minerals in spinach can bring you quick relief from dry, itchy skin and lavish you with a radiant complexion. Regular consumption of fresh, organic spinach juice has been shown to improve skin health dramatically.
25. Amazingly the iron content of spinach was grossly overstated for over 50 years by Dr. Emil von Wolff when the scientist misplaced a decimal point to its rightful place as the true iron content of spinach.

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### Bear
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Last updated: 2024-05-18T09:30:40.000Z
#### 65 Awesome and Amazing Facts About Bear

1. Bears are descended from small, insect-eating mammals which lived during the time of the dinosaurs.
2. The first true bears evolved from heavy bear-like dogs around 27 million years ago.
3. The Eight Species of Bears are Malayan Sun Bear, Sloth Bear, Spectacled Bear, American Black Bear, Brown or Grizzly Bear, Polar Bear, Asiatic Black Bear, Giant Panda.
4. Of the eight bear species, four live in the Southern Hemisphere and four in the Northern Hemisphere.
5. North America is home to three of the world’s eight bear species: brown, American black, and polar bears.
6. Almost two-thirds of the bears in the world live in North America.
7. Located in Southeast Alaska near the city of Juneau, Admiralty Island is over 4,100 square kilometers (1,600 sq mi) and home to the largest population density of brown bears in North America with approximately one bear per square mile.
8. Spectacled bears are the only wild bears that live in South America.
9. Amazingly bears have never lived in Australia or Antarctica. Although bears do not currently live in Africa, bear fossils have been found there. Nobody knows why they are not found in Africa.
10. Most bears have 42 teeth about 10 more than people have. A bear’s canines can reach 1.5" long, while a human’s are less than a half-inch long.
11. Amazingly the most accurate way to determine the age of a bear is to count the rings in a cross-section of its tooth root under a microscope.
12. Bears have two layers of fur. A short layer of fur keeps the bear warm and a long layer keeps water away from the skin and short fur.
13. Amazingly bears have never lived in Australia or Antarctica. They are found only in the Arctic.
14. A male bear is called a boar or a he-bear. A female bear is called a sow or a she-bear. A group of bears is called a sleuth or sloth.
15. Bears are highly intelligent animals. Bears are very smart and have been known to roll rocks into bear traps to set off the trap and eat the bait in safety.
16. Bears live as long as 30 years in the wild. One captive brown bear lived to the age of 47.
17. Bears are bowlegged. This gives them better grip and balance. Bears can walk short distances on their hind legs.
18. The bear that a person living in North America is most likely to run into is the black bear. They live in wooded areas in every Canadian province, many U.S. states, and parts of Mexico.
19. Black bears are not always black. They come in a rainbow of colors from black to reddish brown (cinnamon bears) to light brown to white.
20. The world’s most widely distributed bear is the brown bear. However, the American black bear is the world's most common bear species.
21. The polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are the largest land predators on earth. A male polar bear can measure up to 10 feet long and weigh 700 Kg which is about the weight of eight human adults. Female polar bears are up to 50% smaller than the males.
22. Polar bears live only north of the Equator, in the Arctic. Approximately 21,000 to 28,000 polar bears live in the Arctic.
23. The largest mammalian carnivore that ever lived on land was the giant short-faced bear which was twice the size of the biggest modern bear. It died around 12,000 years ago.
24. Bears can see almost as well as humans, and they can hear a little better.
25. Unlike many mammals, bears can see in color.
26. Bears have non-retractable claws like dogs and unlike cats.
27. Bears that climb, such as black bears, have claws that are curved and strong to allow them to claw at tree bark.
28. Bears that dig, such as grizzly bears, have straight and long claws.
29. Like people, all bears except pandas walk by putting their feet flat on the ground. This kind of walking is called “plantigrade.”
30. In contrast to bears, other large animals including dogs, horses, and even elephants walk on their toes.
31. The Sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) also known as honey bears is the smallest of the bears and is about the size of a large dog. It gets its name from a blond chest patch of fur that looks like a setting sun.
32. The Sun bear is the smallest of the bears yet Sun bears have the longest claws of any bear. They also have the longest tongues, which can reach 9.8" long.
33. All polar bears alive today can trace their ancestry back to one female brown bear who lived in Ireland 50,000 years ago.
34. Although polar bears appear white, their fur is actually transparent. It only appears white, because it reflects visible light. Under their fur, polar bear skin is actually black.
35. To humans and other animals that can see only in visible light, the bears appear to blend in with their snowy surroundings. But reindeer, which polar bears sometimes prey on, can see in ultraviolet light, which makes polar bears stand out from their snowy environment.
36. Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
37. The amazing fact is that all polar bears are left-handed.
38. Only the polar bear is a true carnivore. All other bears are omnivores, or animals that eat both plants and meat.
39. Polar bears rely on sea ice to hunt and global warming could melt enough sea ice to lead to the disappearance of two-thirds of polar bears by 2050\. The decline in sea ice has already forced the bears to swim longer distances consuming energy they cannot afford to use.
40. Bears have been known to eat almost anything, including snowmobile seats, engine oil, and rubber boots.
41. Amazingly a polar bear can swim up to 100 miles without resting. Polar bears can also swim very well underwater.
42. Polar bears are the only bear species that is a marine mammal.
43. Polar bears have a thick coat with amazing 9500 hairs per square inch.
44. Not all bears hibernate. A bear’s normal heartbeat is 40 beats per minute but a hibernating bear’s heart rate drops to 8 beats per minute.
45. The amazing fact is that during hibernation, a bear does not defecate. Its body can somehow recycle body waste into protein. This process hasn’t been fully understood.
46. Polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human.
47. The amazing fact is that a bear’s sense of smell is around 100 times greater than a human’s. The fact is that polar bears can track down an odor from 20 miles (32 km) away. They can smell a dead seal under 3 feet of solid ice.
48. While most bears have bare feet, the paws of polar bears have fur on the bottoms and between the toes. Bears lose most of their heat from their paws.
49. A swimming polar bear can jump 8 ft. (2.4 m) out of the water to surprise a seal.
50. Amazingly bears can run up to 40 miles per hour, fast enough to catch a running horse. The fastest human on earth can only run at 27 mph.
51. Sloth bears’ favorite food is termites. These bears have no front teeth, so they easily suck out insects from their nests like a vacuum cleaner. They can also seal their nostrils for better suction.
52. A grizzly bear gives birth while in winter sleep.
53. About 98% of the grizzly bear population in the U.S. lives in Alaska.
54. When bears mate, the eggs within the female’s body are fertilized but do not implant in her uterus and begin developing for several months outside it.
55. A newly born Kodiak brown bear can weigh only 500 gm. As it grows up, its weight may increase as much as 1,000 times.
56. Once bears breed, they go their separate ways. Male bears do not help the mother bear raise the cubs.
57. Amazingly there's a shark species in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years.
58. DNA studies have proved that The Giant Panda is a type of bear.
59. Koala bears almost exclusively eat only eucalyptus leaves and nothing else. They are not bears at all and are not related to the bear family. They are marsupials.
60. President Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.
61. When U.S. President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt refused to shoot a black bear cub on a hunting trip, a cartoon featured the event, and soon toy manufacturers popularized “Teddy’s bear.”
62. Residents of Churchill, Canada, leave their cars unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians who might encounter Polar Bears.
63. License plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
64. A gallbladder of an Asiatic black bear killed in South Korea sold at a public auction for $64,000\. On a price per gram basis, bear gallbladders often cost more than gold.
65. Currently, approximately 8,000 bears are kept on “bear farms” in China to extract bile from the gallbladders for medicinal use through a catheter surgically implanted into the gallbladder.

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### Iceberg
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Last updated: 2024-05-16T09:30:07.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts About Iceberg

1. The word iceberg comes from the Dutch term iceberg which means “ice mountain”.
2. Icebergs are edges of glaciers that have broken off and slipped into the ocean and is floating in open water. Glaciers form on land by snow building up over thousands of years.
3. The glaciers of western Greenland, where 90% of Newfoundland’s icebergs originate, are amongst the fastest moving in the world, up to seven kilometers per year.
4. The term “iceberg” refers to chunks of ice larger than 5 meters (16 feet) across. The smallest are termed "bergy bits," which are the size of a small house, and "growlers," which are the size of a grand piano. These smaller pieces are hazardous to ships because radar may not pick them up.
5. The average weight for an iceberg is 100,000-200,000 tonnes and is equivalent to the size of a cubic 15 storey building.
6. Most of the icebergs are found in the North Atlantic near Greenland and the cold waters surrounding Antarctica.
7. Every year about 40,000 medium to large-sized icebergs break off, or calve, from Greenland glaciers.
8. After the Titanic sank near Newfoundland in 1912 due to collision with iceberg , the USA and 12 other countries formed the International Ice Patrol to warn ships of icebergs in the North Atlantic. The International Ice Patrol uses airplanes and radars to track icebergs that float into major shipping lanes .
9. *Amazingly* it takes approximately two to three years for these massive icebergs to reach Newfoundland covering a distance of 1,600 nautical miles.
10. The density of ice is 0.92 g/mL, and the density of water is 1.0 g/mL while density of salt water is 1.03\. This means that ice has nine-tenths, or 90 % of water’s density and so 90 % of the iceberg is below the water’s surface. In contrast, a piece of wood with a density of 0.5 g/mL would float with half of its volume below the surface of the water.
11. As 90% of an iceberg is under water, the phrase “tip of the iceberg” has originated. Remember that it's maximum width under water is 20% to 30% larger than you can see at the surface.
12. An iceberg exists in freshwater near Antarctica and in the North Atlantic Ocean near Greenland. Antarctic icebergs last for ten years on average, whereas, Arctic icebergs for about two years.
13. *The amazing fact* is that ninety-three percent of the world’s mass of icebergs is found surrounding the Antarctic.
14. Greenland and other North Atlantic icebergs are usually peaked and irregular in shape; Antarctic icebergs are usually tabular, with flat tops and steep sides.
15. *Amazing* thing is that the ice that makes up the Arctic icebergs may be up to 10000 years old. Glaciers form on land as the result of snow accumulation over thousands of years. Icebergs are created when the edge of a glacier advances into the ocean and breaks off in pieces.
16. It's *amazing* to note that the icebergs are created from pure, fresh water and snow . They are not salty. It is completely safe to consume.
17. Every year about 10,000 to 15,000 medium to large-sized icebergs break off, or calve, from Greenland glaciers. Each year 375 or so icebergs drift from Greenland into the shipping lanes off Newfoundland. They are a major hazard to shipping in that area.
18. The average drift speed is around 0.7 km/h, although speeds greater than 3.6 km/h have been recorded.
19. As icebergs from Greenland travel southwards and as they melt , they lose 85% of their original mass by the time they reach Newfoundland waters. Amazingly this travel covering a distance of 1,600 nautical miles might take up to 3 years.
20. The interior temperature of an iceberg is between -15 and -20 degrees Celsius.
21. Iceberg is about 10% as strong as concrete and is a lot harder than ice in our freezer.
22. When iceberg ice melts quickly, the bubbles released from it make a sound like soda water fizzing. *Amazing fact* is that the air that escapes is as old as the ice. It may have been trapped there for 15,000 years or more!
23. One of the biggest icebergs ever broke free from the Ross ice shelf in Antarctica in March 2000 was named B-15\. *Amazingly* it was 295km (183 miles) long and 37km (23 miles) wide, with a surface area of 11,000 sq km (4,250 square miles). *Amazing fact* is that it could have provided everyone in the world with 400 tons of pure drinking water.
24. When glacier ice becomes extremely dense, the properties of the ice change. It now absorbs all the colors in the spectrum except blue, which it reflects. This is why it looks blue.It's the trapped air in snow that makes it reflect almost all the spectrum and appear white. So, white ice is new ice, blue ice is old ice.
25. Icebergs often "ground" or reach the seabed and get stuck.
26. You'll often see birds perched atop icebergs, and if they suddenly fly off, it might be a sign the iceberg is about to roll or break apart which is a spectacular treat for the eyes and ears.
27. Generally, you should keep a minimum distance equal to the length of the iceberg between you and it though safety can never be guaranteed. Any attempt to climb onto an iceberg is extremely dangerous.
28. Icebergs are best viewed in late May and early June along the coast of Newfoundland. From the shore icebergs that are 5 to 10 Km away can be seen in clear weather
29. In Newfoundland, iceberg ice is now a commercial product. Ice is collected and sold as bottled water and used in the production of vodka.
30. Icebergs can also serve as tools for scientists, who study them to learn more about climate and ocean processes.

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### Gorilla
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Last updated: 2024-05-14T09:30:00.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts About Gorilla

1. Gorillas are the largest living primates, a family of animals that includes monkeys, apes, and humans.
2. Gorillas are the world’s largest primates. The DNA of gorillas is very similar to humans – about 98-99% the same. This is more than any other animal in the world except the chimpanzees.
3. There are two different gorilla species. The Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) has the sub-species: Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and Cross River Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli); while the Eastern Gorilla (Gorilla beringei) has the sub-species: Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) and Eastern Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri). All species are endangered due to habitat loss and hunting.
4. Eastern Gorillas live in the tropical forests of Democratic Republic of the Congo and along the borders of Uganda and Rwanda.
5. Western Gorillas live in the forests of Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Angola and Nigeria. Western lowland gorillas are the largest group of gorillas living.
6. Gorillas are endangered animals. Eastern lowland gorilla numbers have rapidly declined to below 5,000 today. Critically endangered, there are fewer than 300 Cross River gorillas. Mountain gorillas, another endangered subspecies, number at around 700\. There are around 100,000 western lowland gorillas.
7. A mature male gorilla can be over 6 feet tall and weigh 135 to 225 Kg. He can spread his arms 8 feet across and is as strong as 4 to 8 strong men. Adult female gorillas are about half the size of the males.
8. Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. Apes unlike monkeys don’t have tails.
9. Gorillas can live 35 years in the wild and over 50 years in captivity.
10. Gorillas are shy animals .They are not aggressive.
11. Gorillas have a gestation period of nine months like humans, but babies usually weigh less than humans at approximately 1.8 Kg, their development is however roughly twice as fast.
12. Females will start giving birth at about 10 years old and will have just one offspring every 3-4 years.
13. Gorillas are helpless at birth and baby gorillas are nursed and carried by mothers up to at least three years even though they are able to walk when they are 8 months old . The mortality rate for gorillas is about 40% during the first two years of life.
14. Young male gorillas usually leave their family group when they are about 11 years old and have their own family group by the age of 15 years old. Young female gorillas join a new group at about 8 years old.
15. A group of gorillas that live together are called a troop in groups of 6 to 12\. When the dominant male in a troop dies or is killed, then the troop will go their separate ways and find new groups to be a part of. However, if a younger male challenges the leader and wins then he becomes the new leader and the troop stays intact.
16. A troop can have a territory of up to 16 square miles (41 square kilometers).
17. Gorillas are herbivores spending most of their day foraging for food and eating fruits, bamboo, leafy plants and sometimes small insects. Adult gorillas can eat up to 30 kilograms of food each day.
18. Gorillas aren’t meat eaters, that is a common myth.
19. Gorillas usually don't need to drink water from lakes or streams as they get all of the moisture they need from their food and morning dew.
20. Although gorillas are generally quiet, they have a range of complex vocalizations including 25 different sounds which are used to communicate information in numerous contexts including teaching survival skills to young, searching for food, and in courtship.
21. Gorillas are considered to be one of the most intelligent animals in the world. They are able to process information and to think independently.
22. Gorillas are capable of understanding spoken languages and they can be made to learn to communicate in sign language.
23. *Amazing fact* is one famous captive-born individual, Koko, has been taught sign language since she was a year old. By the age of 40, she had a library of about 1,000 signs and could understand some 2,000 words of English.
24. Gorillas have been observed displaying emotions such as grief.
25. Similar to a fingerprint, gorillas have a unique nose print used by researchers to distinguish them in the field.
26. Every gorilla has a unique fingerprint just like humans.
27. They have a large bulging forehead mainly to protect their eyes.
28. Like all great apes, gorillas have arms that are longer than their legs allowing them to walk on all four limbs while still remaining somewhat upright. They tend to walk on all four limbs at by knuckle walking.
29. Gorilla beds are called nests. They will never sleep in the same nest twice on the ground. They make a new one when they nap in the afternoon and before they sleep for the night . Nest is made out of fresh leaves and twigs.
30. An adult fully grown male gorilla is called a silverback because of the distinctive silvery fur growing on their back and hips which happens around 15th year. Each gorilla family has a silverback as leader who scares away other animals by standing on it’s back legs and beating it’s chest! The silverback has the exclusive rights to mate with the females in his group.
31. Gorillas are shy and peaceful. The only natural enemy of gorillas has always been human beings. They are also preyed upon by leopards and crocodiles.
32. They use a variety of gestures body postures, vocalizations, chest slaps and facial expressions to communicate to their family and other gorillas. Male gorillas are well known for standing on their legs and roaring to intimidate would-be attackers.
33. The Mountain gorilla is especially susceptible to human diseases.
34. *Amazingly* gorillas can't swim.
35. Human birth control pills also work on gorillas.

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### Honey
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Last updated: 2024-05-12T09:30:52.000Z
#### 30 Amazing Facts about Honey

1. Honey is actually a supersaturated sugar solution with approximately 17.1 percent water. Fructose is the predominant sugar at 38.5 percent, followed by glucose at 31 percent.
2. Honey is a golden fluid, which is used as a sweetener and flavoring option to white sugar.
3. One teaspoonful of honey has 22 calories versus 16 calories in one teaspoon of table sugar. However, granulated table sugar, or sucrose, has glucose and fructose hooked together, whereas, in honey, fructose and glucose remain in individual units.
4. The amazing fact is that if properly stored, honey will not spoil at all. A pot of honey found in an ancient Egyptian tomb was as good as fresh honey.
5. Honey will ferment if it is diluted by moisture from the atmosphere or by other liquids. Prevent fermentation by keeping honey containers tightly sealed before and between uses.
6. Honey is in fact the only food source produced by an insect that humans eat.
7. When measuring honey, first coat the measuring utensil with a small amount of oil so the honey will not stick.
8. Store honey at room temperature rather than in a refrigerator. Keep it tightly covered and in a dry place.
9. The color of honey varies from colorless to dark brown, and its flavor ranges from mild to particularly bold, which depends on where the honey bees visited. Honey is produced in most countries around the world.
10. Light-colored honey is milder in taste compared to dark-colored honey, which is stronger in taste.
11. Honey should not be stored in metal containers because the acids in the honey possibly can promote oxidation of the metal container.
12. Honey should be preserved in wooden, ceramic, glass, or plastic material containers.
13. The thickness of honey increases as temperature decreases. Honey will not freeze solid even at a very low temperature.
14. Bees blend honey naturally by combining the pollens from many different flowers in areas where no one flower predominates.
15. There are three types of bees in a nest or hive: One female queen bee, several numbers male bees, and female worker bees. The worker bees gather the nectar that is later converted into honey in the hive by adding enzymes to the nectar and reducing the moisture. The job of female worker bees is to gather sugar-rich flower nectar and get back to the hive.
16. Clover Honey is thick, mild in taste, and has antibacterial properties. USA, New Zealand, and Canada extensively produce clover honey. Pure Clover honey is a pale amber to white in color.
17. Alfalfa honey is light in color and produced expansively throughout Canada and the United States. Alfalfa honey comes with a mild flavor and a very pleasant aroma.
18. Avocado honey is dark in color and has a rich, creamy, buttery taste. It is produced in California avocado blossoms.
19. Blueberry Honey is mainly produced in New England and Michigan. It is light amber in color and has a strong flavor.
20. Eucalyptus honey is one of the stronger varieties of honey produced in California. It is used for mild cough and cold.
21. Buckwheat honey is a dark honey with a higher level of minerals. This kind of honey contains antioxidants and essential fatty acids very good for health.
22. Wildflower Honey is known for its numerous medicinal benefits.
23. Fireweed honey has the flavor like a summer pear coming from a perennial herb cultivating in open woods. It is light in color.
24. Manuka Honey is dark and mostly gathered in New Zealand. It is well known for its antibacterial and healing properties.
25. Natural honey is a rich source of vitamins, amino acids, antioxidants, flavonoids, and minerals unlike table sugar which is highly processed, whereby all naturally occurring trace minerals from the sugar cane plant are removed, leaving us with "empty calories" which are devoid of nutrition like vitamins, minerals, and important enzymes.
26. Honey is not recommended for children who are less than a year old because their digestive systems may not be mature enough to digest it. Also, there is a possibility of spores in honey which may cause infant botulism. Adults are able to destroy these spores.
27. Honey is not the only thing bees produce for food and use in the hive, they also produce fresh royal jelly, bee pollen, and propolis.
28. Fresh royal jelly is a superfood produced by the bees and fed to the queen her entire life. Normal worker or drone bees just eat honey, but the fresh royal jelly allows the queen to grow much larger than a normal bee and live 50 times longer.
29. Bee Pollen is a super protein-rich food that bees feed to young maturing bees so that they can grow fast.
30. Propolis is produced by the bees to help them clean the hive and kill bacteria.

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### Meteorite
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Last updated: 2024-05-10T09:30:37.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Meteorite

1. Meteoroids are found in space while meteors are in Earth’s atmosphere and meteorites are found on the ground.
2. The word meteor comes from a Greek word that means suspended in the air.
3. Meteoroids vary in size; they can be a small as a grain of sand or as big as a small automobile!
4. When a meteoroid measures greater than 10 meters in diameter it is called an asteroid.
5. Meteorites are actually pieces of rock and debris that fall from asteroids, comets, and moons. These are fragments and particles that have been caused by collisions.
6. Although meteors have existed since ancient times, they were not believed to be from our Solar System until 1833.
7. When meteoroids hit the earth's atmosphere, they burn to become smaller in size seen as shooting stars. Chunks of meteoroids that do not fully burn on Earth's atmosphere fall to Earth called meteorites.
8. Meteorites are not necessarily hot when they reach the Earth. In fact, many meteorites are found with frost on them. A meteorite has been in the near-absolute zero temperature of space for billions of years, so the interior of it is very cold.
9. Meteors can become visible as high as 120 kilometers above Earth. Meteors can give off various colors when they burn which is associated with their composition.
10. Meteors that burn brighter than usual are called fireballs. Most fireballs go unseen because they occur over the ocean or during daylight hours.
11. The appearance of a number of meteors occurring in the same part of the sky over a period of time is called a “meteor shower”.
12. Many meteor showers are associated with comets, which leave behind debris as they orbit through the solar system. Showers occur when Earth’s orbit crosses the path of a comet’s orbit.
13. Meteoroid debris lands on Earth every day! However, it usually lands in the sea. There are millions of meteors in the Earth's atmosphere every day.
14. If a meteor produces a sound called a sonic boom, it is typically heard seconds after the meteor becomes visible.
15. Most meteorites are one of three types: stony, stony-iron, or iron. An iron or stony iron was close to the core of an asteroid, while a stony object was closer to the surface.
16. Large meteorites sometimes land on other planets besides earth, moons and asteroids. The impact causes intense damage forming craters.
17. Amazingly when a meteoroid hits the atmosphere of the Earth, they can be travelling as fast as 130,000 mph (209,215 km).
18. The length of the light trail seen depends on the meteoroids elements and dimension. The trail can last a few seconds to 30 minutes.
19. Amazingly on average, 33 metric tons of meteoroids hit Earth every day, the vast majority of which harmlessly burns up high in the atmosphere, never making it to the ground.
20. A rocky meteoroid needs to be larger than 25 m before it is likely to make it through the earth’s atmosphere and cause any damage. It needs to be larger than a kilometer or two before there will be any global effects.
21. The largest Meteorite found on Earth was discovered in Namibia, Africa in 1920 which was named Hoba. The meteorite measures 2.7m wide, 2.7m deep, 0.9 m high weighing 60 tons! Amazingly it left no crater at all as earth’s atmosphere slowed it to the point of terminal velocity. It has been declared a National Monument and is one of the rare meteorites that is also part of a tourist site. It possibly fell about 80,000 years ago. It is mostly iron, with some nickel and other trace elements.
22. Certain meteorites have crystalline pattern called Widmanstätten pattern that forms only in outer space and cannot be duplicated here on earth.
23. Most scientists believe that a colossal 8-mile-long meteor crashed into earth 65 million years ago causing devastating changes to the earth and climate resulting in extinction of dinosaurs. It created a dust cloud so huge, it blocked out sunlight for up to a year.
24. Excavation made by the researchers south of Cairo found strings of iron beads that they dated to an era thousands of years before Egypt’s Iron Age. It was concluded that the ancient Egyptians used these as jewelry and the iron came from meteorites.
25. Meteoroids often cause damage to satellites, space craft and space probes too.
26. There have only been two confirmed cases of humans being hit by a meteorite. Ann Hodges was the first person to be hit by a meteorite in 1954\. Statistically, there is a better chance of getting hit by a tornado, a bolt of lightning and a hurricane all at the same time.
27. Meteorites that fell to Earth during a meteor shower in July of 2011 have been confirmed to be from Mars which were discovered in Morocco.
28. Satellites are programmed to avoid meteorites so that they don’t get hit and destroyed. Of over 8,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, only one has ever been hit and destroyed by a meteorite.
29. Meteorites may be responsible for life beginning on the earth. Before life developed on earth, meteorites that fell on the earth brought reduced phosphorus. This allowed oxidation to phosphates, which provided a mechanism for the generation of DNA and RNA, a precursor for life on earth.
30. Russia has a cache of trillions of dollars’ worth of industrial-grade meteor crater diamonds that are twice as hard as jewelry grade ones.
31. An ancient statue that was recovered by a Nazi expedition to Tibet in the 1930s was originally carved from a highly valuable Chinga meteorite, which crashed about 15,000 years ago.
32. Amazingly on March 17, 2013 a meteor impacted the Moon, creating an explosion visible to the naked eye from Earth.
33. There’s a town in Kentucky that was built inside a 3 mile wide meteorite crater. This is the only town in US built entirely inside a crater.
34. The Allende Meteorite fell to Earth in a fireball on February 8, 1969\. It was originally about the size of a car, and pieces were strewn across the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It has become one of the most-studied meteorites of all time dating back to the formation of the Sun and Planets 4.6 Billion Years ago.
35. The Willamette Meteorite is the largest meteorite ever found in the United States at 15.5 tons and stands ten feet tall. It is a pitted iron meteorite which is believed to be the remains of the iron core of a planet destroyed in a collision billions of years ago. It landed around 1,000 years ago and was discovered by Westerners in 1902.

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### Cuckoo
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Last updated: 2024-05-08T09:30:08.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Cuckoo

1. The cuckoo is a bird of the Cuculidae family.
2. The scientific name of Cuckoo is Cuculus canorus.
3. There are all 54 species of cuckoo that can be found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
4. Only 2 of 54 cuckoo species live in Europe.
5. Cuckoo mostly inhabits open areas, such as marshes, meadows, and fields.
6. Cuckoos are birds of medium size. They can reach 12 to 14 inches in length and weigh up to 60 gms.
7. You distinguish males and females by the color of their feathers. Upperparts of the males are bluish to gray, and their white bellies are intersected with dark lines. Females have buff-colored breasts with dark lines.
8. Cuckoos are named after the sound which they produce: 'cuck-oo'.
9. Amazingly only one cuckoo species called the Common cuckoo is able to produce this sound. Other species communicate by producing different types of sounds.
10. In fact, the characteristic 'cuck-oo' sound is produced only by males. Females produce a bubbling sound, which resembles the sound of the water that is running out of the tub after removing the plug.
11. Cuckoo feeds on insects and its favorite food is a hairy caterpillar.
12. Cuckoo travels to Africa each September to avoid cold periods and lack of food during the winter in temperate areas of Europe and Asia.
13. Most amazingly although cuckoo spends almost nine months in Africa, it never sings while there.
14. Cuckoo does not build its own nests using nests of other birds to lay her own eggs.
15. Amazingly more than 120 species of birds can be tricked to raise young cuckoos as their own chicks, but 90% of cuckoo's eggs are laid in the nests of reed warbler, meadow pipit, and dunnock birds.
16. 20% of cuckoo's eggs will be recognized as foreign eggs and eliminated from the nest by other birds.
17. The female cuckoo lays one egg in each nest laying between 12 and 22 eggs per season in different nests. This cunning tactic of being a brood parasite allows for more young cuckoos to be reared by foster parents than would otherwise be possible. Often the cuckoo outgrows foster parent's size.
18. A female cuckoo will generally lay her eggs in a nest belonging to the same species of bird that reared her.
19. Female cuckoo closely observes routine and behavior of other birds to make sure that its eggs hatch before other eggs so that the young cuckoos gain an advantage over other chicks for food.
20. Young cuckoos do not tolerate other eggs or chicks in their nest. They are very aggressive toward other chicks in the nest and they will often remove them from the nest as soon as they hatch.
21. When they are several weeks old, young cuckoos are ready to fly to Africa. Most amazingly juveniles migrate several weeks later than their real parents, yet they can still find their way to the regular wintering area despite never having visited it before.
22. One of Cuckoo’s distinguishing behavioral traits is that it prefers to exist in solitude. It will never be spotted in pairs or flying in groups.
23. Migrating north from Africa, the first male common cuckoos reach Europe in mid-April.
24. The best time to hear a cuckoo is during most evenings between mid-April and June.
25. Cuckoos live less than six years in the wild.

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### Austria
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Last updated: 2024-05-06T09:30:03.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about Austria

##### Land & Geography

- Austria is officially called the Republic of Austria. In German, it is called Osterreich which means "eastern kingdom" or "eastern empire".
- Austria is a landlocked country in central Europe, with a land area of 83,855 km² (32,377 mi²). About 75% of Austria is considered to be in the Alps.
- Austria has a population of about 8.5 million people. Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria, with a population of over 1.7 million.
- Austria is bordered by 8 countries, Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Hungary and Slovakia to the east.
- Austria is a mountainous country due to its location in the Alps, two-thirds of the country sits over 500m (1,640 ft) above sea level. The highest point is the mountain of Grossglockner at 3,798 meters (12,461 ft).
- The Krimml Falls, with a height of 380 meters, are amongst the highest waterfalls in Europe.
- The Danube river is unique as it runs through 4 capital cities, the most in the world. These capital cities include Vienna, Austria; Bratislava, Slovakia; Budapest, Hungary; and Belgrade, Serbia. It is Europe’s major river flowing West to East, starting in Germany’s Black Forest and flows into the Black Sea through Romania and Ukraine. It provides an important transportation route.

##### History

- Modern Austria is the German-speaking part of the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire ruled by the Habsburg family from 1526 to 1918\. In the 16th century, the Austrian Empire included Austria, Belgium, Czecho-slovakia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Spanish American colonies, parts of Italy and the former Yugoslavia.
- The Austrian flag is in *fact* one of the oldest national flag in the world dating back to 1191.
- Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria was one of the great powers of Europe under the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- In 1938, Austria was incorporated into Nazi Germany and ceased to exist as an independent country until 1955.

##### Places / Architecture

- *Amazing fact* is that Schönbrunn Palace, the summer palace of the Habsburgs, has no less than 1,440 rooms.
- The world's largest emerald (2860 carat) is displayed in the Imperial Treasury of the Hofburg (Imperial Palace) in Vienna.
- Founded in 803 as Stiftskeller St. Peter, Haslauer is the world's oldest inn/restaurant still in operation, and the oldest company in Europe.
- The oldest zoological garden in the world is the Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, founded in 1752.
- The Semmering Railway, between Gloggnitz and Simmering, built over mountains, was one of the greatest civil engineering works of 19th century.
- Vienna is the only capital city to produce its own wine as vineyards are within the city limits catering to requirements.
- The Central Cemetery” of Vienna, opened in 1874, holds a dead population of almost twice the living population of Vienna. In its time of erection, a horse tram ran from the first district of the city to the cemetery which was eventually replaced with an electric tram, which still runs the same route today being the major public transportation line to the cemetery.

##### People Customs & Culture

- German is the official language of Austria and is spoken by over 88% of the population. Other local languages include Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Turkish and Polish.
- Austria has some of the highest standards of living in the world. Among Europeans, Austrian people work the longest, with an average of 45 hours per week.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Vienna was divided into four pieces at the conclusion of World War II. France, Britain, Russia, and the United States all took control over certain sections. The occupation ended in 1955 with the Austrian State Treaty, stating Austria’s dedication to a neutral stance and the vow not to become a member of NATO nor the Soviet bloc.
- Austria joined the European Union in 1995 and adopted the Euro currency in 1999.
- Six months of military service is required of all Austrian men. If they object , they may do 9 months of civilian service.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Tourism is a major industry as about 23 million travelers or tourists to Austria each year, almost 3 times the actual population.
- Over 60 percent of Austria’s electricity is supplied by renewable sources.
- The founder of the German sports car company 'Porsche' was the Austrian Ferdinand Porsche. He also designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car").

##### Inventions

- The sewing machine was invented in 1818 by Josef Madersperger, an Austrian.
- Austria has 20 Nobel Prize laureates including seven in Physiology or Medicine, five in Chemistry, three in Physics, and Economist Friedrich Hayek.

##### Famous People

- Dr. David Livingstone (1813-1873) who explored the interior of Africa was an Austrian. Gregor Johann Mendel, who established the basis of modern genetics, was also an Austrian.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger was born and raised in Austria before moving to America to become a Hollywood actor.
- Many famous scientists have come from Austria, including Ernst Mach, Christian Doppler, and the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud.
- Many prominent members of the Rothschild family of bankers and investors were Austrian citizens.
- The Austrian celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, who owns over 70 restaurants in the USA, is the second top-earning chef in the world, with revenues of $16 million a year. Another Austrian, Eckart Witzigmann is one of only four chefs to be named chef of the century.
- Austria has sometimes been called "the land of music. It is home to some of the most famous classical music composers the world has ever seen including Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Johann Strauss, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

##### Sport

- Alpine skiing is a very popular sport in Austria, as are snowboarding and ski-jumping, and football.

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### Watermelon
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Last updated: 2024-05-04T09:30:06.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Watermelon

1. Wild watermelons originated in southern Africa. The watermelon can be classed as both a fruit and a vegetable.
2. It is a fruit because it grows from a seed and is loosely considered a type of melon. It is a vegetable because it is a member of the same family as the cucumber, pumpkin.
3. There are more than 1200 varieties of watermelon that come in various weights, shapes, sizes, and red, orange, yellow, or white in color.
4. China is the world's largest producer of watermelons easily beating the second-largest producer Turkey by more than 20 times.
5. The watermelon is the official state vegetable of Oklahoma. The month of July is called Watermelon Month because watermelon production in this month is at its peak.
6. Amazingly watermelons can grow in desert land in spite of being water-rich.
7. Farmers in Japan have started growing cube-shaped watermelons by growing them in glass boxes where they assume the shape of the box making it easier to stack. The novelty of the cubic watermelon can fetch a double price.
8. The ripe watermelon can be picked up by a pale, buttery yellow spot (not white or green) on the bottom. This is where the watermelon sits on the ground ripening, and it's one of the best indicators of ripeness. The ripe watermelons are also heavy for their size.
9. By weight, a watermelon contains about 6% sugar and 92% water. it doesn’t contain any fat or cholesterol.
10. Remember that a medium-size watermelon has about 180 gm fructose and recommended daily fructose intake is less than 25 gms.
11. The high water and electrolyte content of watermelons make them ideal as a refreshing summer drink. They keep us hydrated, our skin fresh, and can clean the kidneys of toxins.
12. Nutritionally, watermelons contain high levels of vitamin B6 (Good for the brain), Vitamin A (good for eyesight), Potassium (Good for the heart). It also contains Vitamin B1, C, and manganese.
13. Lycopene is a powerful carotenoid that gives fruits and vegetables a pink or red color usually associated with tomatoes. Compared to large fresh tomato, one cup of watermelon has actually 1.5 times the lycopene (6 mg in watermelon compared to 4 mg in a tomato).
14. Lycopene's antioxidant activity has long been recognized to be more powerful than that of other carotenoids, such as beta-carotene. Lycopene in watermelon helps prevent strokes and has anti-cancer properties. Lycopene also gives protection against UV rays.
15. All parts of a watermelon can be eaten, even the rind, which is also nutrient-rich. In China though, the rind is commonly used as a vegetable.
16. Black watermelon seeds are also edible and contain iron, zinc, protein, and fiber.
17. A study has found that men who drank natural watermelon juice prior to their workouts had reduced muscle soreness 24 hours later due to Citrulline, an amino acid that seems to protect against muscle pain. In fact, Citrulline is found more in the rind than in the pink flesh. Besides Citrulline is converted to amino acid L-arginine in kidneys and is important for heart health and maintaining the immune system.
18. Watermelon may also prevent heart attacks by reducing blood pressure. In our body, the citrulline is converted into L-arginine, which is a precursor to nitric oxide which is required to enable your blood vessels to stay relaxed and open for blood flow lowering blood pressure.
19. Watermelon has anti-inflammatory properties due to antioxidant lycopene as well as triterpenoid (Vit E Derivative) which reduces the activity of the pain and inflammation-causing enzyme cyclooxygenase.
20. Watermelon helps in flushing out kidney stones and prevents stone formation as well due to its richness in water, Potassium, Lycopene, and Nitric Oxide. Because of its diuretic nature, urine frequency is increased and aids in throwing out stones that are dissolved by the Potassium of the fruit.
21. Watermelons show the astringent quality that helps in glowing skin and good for a beauty treatment. It neutralizes free radicals helping cure wrinkles, pimples, and scars. It is useful for damaged skin.
22. L-arginine may also help with erectile dysfunction by helping to relax the concerned blood vessels. Watermelon is sometimes referred to as "Nature's Viagra."
23. In China and Japan, watermelon is a popular gift.
24. Amazingly in Egypt, it was a custom to keep watermelons in the burial tombs of kings so that they keep nourishing their souls after their life.
25. The Guinness World Record for heaviest watermelon is for one grown by Chris Kent of Sevierville weighing about 159 kg.

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### Termite
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Last updated: 2024-05-02T09:30:55.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and fascinating Facts About Termite

1. Termites lived 130 million years ago. They look like ants but they descended from a cockroach-like ancestor.
2. A termite holds the record for the oldest example of mutualism between organisms. A 100 million-year-old termite with a ruptured abdomen was encased in amber, along with the protozoans that lived in its gut.
3. There are 2500 species of termites. They are more closely related to cockroaches than ants.
4. Termites usually inhabit tropic and sub-tropic areas. Termites are absent from the Polar Regions because they cannot survive on the low outer temperatures.
5. They feed on cellulose-based plant materials. It is estimated that termites eat their way through approximately 7 billion tonnes of plant material each year.
6. *The amazing fact* is it is estimated that for every human on Earth there may be 450 Kg of termites. That’s about the same weight as a full-grown cow!
7. *Amazingly* termites work 24 hours per day. They do not sleep.
8. Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide. One in Africa was found to be 12.8 meters high ( 42 feet)! These nests are intricately built, with a huge network of chambers and passageways, including ventilation, drainage, and heating systems.
9. *Amazingly*, termites manage to build their nests entirely out of soil, using saliva where necessary to hold it together!
10. A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day.
11. Young termites are not born with microorganism in their guts. Before they start consuming wood, they need to eat feces of other termites to equip their intestines with required number of bacteria and protozoa.
12. *Amazingly*, for a creature that lives to eat, termites can’t digest their own food. More than 100 species of bacteria and protozoa live inside their guts and help them in food digestion.
13. They don't like sunlight and can actually die if exposed to sunlight , that's why they travel in mud tubes and live in nest either below or above ground.
14. Unlike other workers and soldiers Kings and queens can see because they need to find a mating partner.
15. The Queen termite can grow as long as five inches and can live up to 30-50 years and lay 30,000 eggs every day i.e. one egg every 15 seconds. Most of the termites are as short as 1/8” but grow to be up to 3/8” in length.
16. Some African and Australian termite colonies may contain *amazingly* over 3 million individuals.
17. In Australia one Termite Nest was so large that it measured 10 Meters across . It was constructed from such hard mudding that scientist required a Jack Hammer just to enter the nest .
18. Termite workers and soldiers are almost always blind and wingless. Since they spend their lives in the confines of the dark, damp nest, they have no need to develop functional eyes.
19. Worker termites search for food up to 250 feet from their colony. They form a tube reaching up to that distance.
20. One developed colony of Formosan termites can eat 450 Kg of wood each year.
21. When termite soldiers detect a threat, they tap warning signals to the colony by banging their heads against the gallery walls to send warning vibrations throughout the colony.
22. Chemical cues guide most communication in the termite colony. Termites use pheromones, special chemical scents, to talk to one another and control each other's behavior. Termites leave scent trails to guide other workers using special glands on their chests.
23. Each colony of termites produces a distinct scent which is identified by a chemical on their cuticles.
24. New reproductive termites are winged, and able to fly. These young kings and queens leave their home colony and fly out in search of a mate, often in large swarms. Each royal pair of king and queen emerges from the swarm together and finds a new place for their own colony. They break their wings off and settle down in their new home to raise their offspring.
25. Unlike in bee colonies, where males are short-lived and die soon after mating, the termite king stays with his queen, fertilizing her eggs as needed. He also shares parental duties with the queen, helping her feed their young predigested food.
26. *The amazing fact* as per scientists is that termites release over 150 million tons of air-pollution-causing methane gas into the atmosphere every year.
27. *Amazingly* termites are roasted and eaten like popcorn in South Africa and Zaire.
28. A gourmet delight in Singapore is 2-inch long termite queens. You can have them served either live, dipped in alcohol, or preserved in fine rice wine.
29. The protein content of termites is higher than in beef. The ancient Kayapo Indians used the powder of crushed termite mounds as a condiment to serve as therapeutic remedies for a variety of illnesses:
30. In one culture in the Amazon, people believe that a termite colony found in a home means the home’s owner will soon die. The only way to escape death is to eliminate the termite colony or abandon the home.

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### Nigeria
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Last updated: 2024-04-30T09:30:40.000Z
#### 55 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Nigeria

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Nigeria is the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Nigeria derives its name from River Niger which is the longest and largest river in West Africa.
- Nigeria is located in West Africa, it shares a land border with Benin, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger.
- The total landmass of Nigeria is 923,768 km² (356,669 mi²). Nigeria’s north occupies 80% of Nigeria’s landmass. In size, it is four times the South.
- Nigeria has a population of nearly 178 million people making it the most populous country in Africa and the most populous black nation. Out of every seven Africans, one is Nigerian. Ethiopia is the next populous nation with a population of half of Nigeria.
- The largest city in Nigeria is Lagos with an estimated population of around 9 million people just behind Cairo. The population of Lagos’ metropolitan area is about 21,000,000 making Lagos the largest metropolitan area in the whole of Africa.
- The country is made up of 36 states and Abuja, the federal capital Territory. The capital city is of Nigeria is Abuja, which was planned out and then built in the 1980s, officially replacing Lagos as the capital in 1991.
- The highest point in Nigeria is the mountain Chappal Waddi at 2,419 m (7,936 ft).
- The Benue River and the Niger River are the largest rivers in Nigeria, they join and empty into the large Niger Delta.
- The Niger Delta is the second largest delta on the planet.
- Nigeria’s mangrove forests are the largest in Africa.

##### Flora & Fauna

- Nigeria is home to 4,715 different types of plant species, and over 550 species of breeding birds and mammals, making it one of the most ecologically vibrant places.
- The Jos Plateau Indigo bird, a small reddish-brown bird, is found nowhere else on the planet but Plateau state, Nigeria.
- The Anambra waxbill, a small bird of beautiful colors, is found only in Southern Nigeria.
- Nigeria also contains two species of the rarest animals in the world: the lowland Gorilla and the Drill monkey.
- Nigeria has the most diverse range of butterflies in the world.

##### History

- Nigeria has evidence of human existence dating back to 9000 B.C.
- Africa’s oldest known boat is The Dufuna canoe which was discovered in Dufuna village, Yobe state, in May 1987\. Radio-carbon tests indicate that the canoe is over 8,000 years old, thus making it the oldest in Africa.
- Discovered in 1928, Nigeria’s North and North Central region hosts West Africa’s oldest civilization; the Nok, which flourished between 1000 BC and 300 BC.
- The capital city of Kanem-Borno, Ngazargamu, was one of the largest cities in 1658 AD; the metropolis housed “about a quarter of a million people” and had 660 well-planned, wide and unbending streets.
- Sarki Muhammad Kanta The Great of Kebbi, was the only ruler who resisted control by Songhai, West Africa’s greatest empire at that time. He founded and ruled the Hausa city-state of Kebbi around 1600 A.D and built Surame its capital, a planned city that was almost impossible to penetrate during the war. In fact, UNESCO describes Surame as “one of the wonders of human history, creativity and ingenuity”, and the most massive stone-walled constructions in West Africa.
- The Portuguese reached Nigeria in 1472\. In 1880 the British began conquering Nigeria’s South. North Nigeria was conquered by 1903.
- Albert E. Kitson discovered coal in Enugu in 1909\. This discovery led to the building of Port-Harcourt town in 1912.
- The Biafran Civil War started on July 6, 1967\. After more than two million people were reportedly killed, the Biafran War came to an end on January 15, 1970.
- Nigeria has a long history of intermittent military coups after independence.
- Boko Haram, the fundamentalist Islamist sect in the North made a resurgence in 2011 possibly linked to al-Qaeda in 2011\. It launched nearly daily deadly attacks in 2011, including one on the UN headquarters in August in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, that killed 24 people. In April 2014, the group kidnapped about 280 girls from a school who haven’t been rescued yet. Fights continue to date.

##### Places / Architecture

- The Walls of Benin (800-1400AD) or moat, in present-day Edo State, are the longest ancient earthworks wonder in the world. They enclose 6500 square kilometers of community lands that connected about 500 communities. At some places, walls are as high as 18 meters. It is over 16000 km long, compared to the Great Wall of China which is 21,000 Km.

##### People Customs & Culture

- English is the official language of Nigeria and is used in education, business, and for official purposes. Apart from this, over 30 other languages are spoken in the country.
- *Amazingly* Nigeria has 250 ethnic groups and tribes.
- Major tribes in Nigeria are Hausa-Fulani (29%), Yoruba (21%), Igbo (18%), Ijaw (10%) , Kanuri (4%) ,Ibibio (3.5%) and Tiv (2.5%).
- Most of northern Nigeria is Muslim while South Nigeria is Christian.
- There are more Muslims in Nigeria (60 million) than there are in Saudi Arabia (20 million), Syria, and Afghanistan combined!. The country also has the largest Muslim population in Africa.
- *Amazingly* Nigeria has more English speakers than England.
- Today, only Nigeria has a larger black population than Brazil. More than 3.5 million black Africans were captured, enslaved, and transported to Brazil.
- Nigeria’s population was just 16 million in 1911\. It is projected to hit 444 million by 2050, surpassing the US.
- Nigeria has the 4th highest number of poor, living under a dollar a day in the entire world. 100 million are ‘destitute’.
- The Yoruba tribe has the highest rate of twin births in the world. Igbo-Ora, a little town in Oyo state, has been nicknamed the Twin capital of the World because of its unusually high rate of twins that is put as high as 160 twins per 1000 births.
- Nigeria has the highest number of musicians in the world.
- Nigeria has the highest number of police officers in Africa.
- According to old superstitions, you should not get married in May: “Marry in May and you’ll rue the day”.
- Nigeria’s Igbo tribe believes that they are descended from the lost tribes of Israel. In the eighth century B.C., Israel’s northern kingdom was invaded by Assyrians who forced the 10 tribes of Israel into exile migrating to West Africa. These ‘Jews’ of Nigeria are highly entrepreneurial and have built indigenous tanks and other weaponry.
- *Amazingly* the cost of living in Abuja is more expensive than the cost of living in London.
- Nigeria has more billionaires than any other country in Africa.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Nigeria gained independence from British in 1960.
- Nnamdi Azikwe was the first President of the Republic of Nigeria.
- Nigeria has the highest paid legislators in the entire world.
- Nigeria's president has the highest vehicle convoy in the world.
- Based on amount squandered, of an income of $81 billion per year, Nigeria is regarded as the most corrupt nation in the world.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Nigeria has ancient trade history. Kano city in 1851, one of the largest in Africa, made 10 million sandal pairs and 5 million hides for export every year.
- The currency of Nigeria is called the Naira.
- Nigeria has high levels of oil reserves. Oil was discovered in the state of Bayesla in the year 1956\. Port court on the Niger delta is recognized as the center of the oil industry.
- It relies a lot on crude oil exports as 90% of the export income is obtained by it’s export.
- The Nigerian film industry, dubbed Nollywood, is the 2nd largest in the world in terms of output, producing between 1000 to 2000 films annually with an annual turnover of around $250million.
- The second-largest deposit of bitumen can be found in Nigeria.

##### Sports

- Football is very popular in Nigeria, the national team known as the "Super Eagles" have made 5 appearances at the World Cup.

##### Famous People

- With a net worth of $16 billion, Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote from Kano State in northern Nigeria is the richest Black person in the world.

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### Pi (π)
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Last updated: 2024-04-28T09:30:36.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts About Pi (π)

1. Pi (π) is the most recognized mathematical constant in the world. It is the most important and intriguing number in all of mathematics.
2. The number Pi (π) is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. It can’t be expressed as a fraction, being an irrational number.
3. Amazingly when written as a decimal it never repeats and never ends and the sequence is random.
4. Pi is also referred to as the “circular constant,” “Archimedes’ constant,” or “Ludolph’s number.”
5. Pi has been studied by the human race for almost 4,000 years.
6. By 2000 B.C., Babylonians established the constant circle ratio as 3 1/8 or 3.125\. The ancient Egyptians arrived at a slightly different value of 3 1/7 or 3.143.
7. One of the earliest known records of pi was written by an Egyptian named Ahmes ( 1650 B.C.) on what is now known as the Rhind Papyrus. He was off by less than 1%. It was the first attempt to calculate pi by building a square inside the circle.
8. Ancient mathematicians tried to compute pi by inscribing polygons with more and more sides that would more closely approach the area of a circle. Archimedes used a 96 sided polygon. Chinese mathematician Liu Hui inscribed a 3,072-sided polygon to calculate pi to 3.14159\. Tsu Ch’ung and his son inscribed polygons with as many as 24,576 sides to calculate pi.
9. The closest fractions to the approximate value of Pi in increasing accuracy are 22/7, 355/113 & 104348/33215\. The last fraction is accurate to 0.00000001056%.
10. Ancient Egyptians knew the value of Pi. The vertical height of the Great Pyramid of Giza times 3.14 equals the perimeter of the base.
11. Plato (427-348 B.C.) supposedly obtained for his day a fairly accurate value for pi: √2 + √3 = 3.146
12. Pi was also rigorously calculated by one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world, Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 B.C.) who met his death due to his fascination with Pi. He was too engrossed in his work to notice that Roman soldiers had taken the Greek city of Syracuse. When a Roman soldier approached him, he yelled in Greek “Do not touch my circles!”. The Roman soldier simply cut off his head.
13. The amazing fact is that the value of “pi” was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.
14. Sir Isaac Newton calculated pi to at least 16 decimal places.
15. Ludolph van Ceulen (1540-1610) spent most of his life calculating the first 36 digits of pi (which were named the Ludolphine Number). These numbers were engraved on his now lost tombstone.
16. Austrian astronomer Christoph Greenberger arrived at 38 digits in 1630 which remains the most accurate approximation manually achieved using polygonal algorithms.
17. In 1706 William Jones (1675-1749) first gave the Greek letter (π), its current mathematical definition. Incidentally, Pi is the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet.
18. The amazing fact is that mathematician William Shanks spent 15 years calculating the value of pi to 707 places but unfortunately he made a mistake on the 528th digit writing a 5 instead of a 4\. This discovery was made 60 years after his death. This mistake made the next 179 digits wrong!
19. Amazingly the mirror image of 3.14 is “PIE.”
20. Pi day is celebrated on March 14 at the Exploratorium in San Francisco (March 14 is 3/14) at 1:59 PST which is 3.14159.
21. Pi Day is also Albert Einstein’s birthday. He was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm Wurttemberg, Germany.
22. Amazingly Pi occurs in hundreds of equations in many sciences including those describing the DNA double helix, a rainbow, ripples spreading from were a raindrop fell into the water, general relativity, geometry problems, waves, etc.
23. An amazing way to remember the value of Pi (3.1415926) by counting letters in the words of the sentence " May I have a large container of coffee ?".
24. Another sentence to remember Pi, “How I wish I could calculate Pi ?” (3.141592).
25. College mnemonics: “How I like a drink, alcoholic of course, After the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!” 14 decimals of pi are represented in this quote: 3.14159265358979.
26. In 1961, fellow mathematicians Daniel Shanks and John Wrench became famous for breaking the 100,000th decimal of on an IBM 7090 at the IBM Data Processing Center in New York. They used an equation found by Stormer in 1896.
27. It is amazing to note that the first decimal place of Pi is a 1 and also that the one-millionth decimal place of Pi is also a 1!
28. The amazing fact is that the 763-768 Digits of pi are 999999\. This is known as the Feynman Point.
29. The most amazing fact to be noticed is that in the first 7,000 digits, the sequence 333 is found 3 times, the sequence 555 is found 5 times & the sequence 666 is found 6 times!
30. Amazingly if you take the 3rd, 6th, and 9th digits, they are, respectively, 1, 2, and 3\. It is even more interesting to note that if you take the 100th, 200th, and 300th digits, they are respectively, 9, 6, and 3.
31. Amazingly the sum of the first 20 decimal places, 3.14159265358979323846 (not including the 3) totals 100.
32. The first 144 digits of pi add up to 666 and 144 = (6+6) x (6+6).
33. The sum of the first 358 decimals of Pi adds up exactly to 1,600\. It is amazing to note that 3 + 5 + 8 = 16!
34. Since there are 360 degrees in a circle and pi is intimately connected with the circle, it is most amazing to discover that the number 360 is at the 359th digit position of pi.
35. The first zero appears at the 32nd decimal place i.e. 3.14159265358979323846264338327950
36. There are no occurrences of the sequence 123456 in the first million digits of pi.
37. Amazingly the sequence 12345678 occurs at position 186557266\. This string occurs only once in the first 200 million digits of Pi.
38. Amazingly the sequence 0123456789 first appears beginning at the 17,387,594,880th decimal place.
39. The sequence 314159 reappears at the 176,451st decimal place of Pi. In fact, this sequence actually appears further seven times within the string of the first 10 million decimals of Pi. Extending further the sequence 31415926 appears at the 50,366,472nd decimal place of Pi.
40. The following number was found to be prime by Robert Baillie and Marvin Wunderlich at the University of Illinois in 1979\. The amazing fact is that the numbers, apparently, are all in the proper order to spell out the first 37 decimals of Pi. Number is 31,415,926,535,897,932,384,626,433,832,795,028,841\. It is read as 31-undecillion, 415-decillion, 926-nonillion, 535-octillion, 897-septillion, 932-sextillion, 384-quintillion, 626-quadrillion, 433-trillion, 832-billion, 795-million, 28 thousand, 841.
41. The amazing fact is that there is a book giving the calculation of pi to two million places running to 800 pages.
42. If the circumference of the earth were calculated using π rounded to only the ninth decimal place, an error of no more than one-quarter of an inch in 25,000 miles would result.
43. You need to know only 20 decimal places to calculate the circumference of the Earth to a millimeter.
44. The amazing fact is you need only 39 decimal places of Pi to estimate the circumference of the universe within the radius of one proton!
45. Pi has been calculated up to 12.1 Trillion Digits by Alexander J. Yee & Shigeru Kondo on December 28, 2013, using the Chudnovsky formula. It took 94 days for the computer. They had previously calculated Pi up to 10 Trillion digits 2 years back which had taken them 371 days.
46. Akira Haraguchi, a 60-year-old retired Japanese engineer set the current world record (100,000 digits) in 16 hours on October 3, 2006, in Kisarazu, east of Tokyo. His previous world record (83,431), was performed on July 1, 2005\. His mnemonic system assigns symbols to numbers allowing for the memorization of Pi as a collection of stories.
47. π is the symbol Sandra Bullock clicks on to gain access to unauthorized databases on the Web in the movie “The Net.”
48. Amazingly a mysterious 2008 crop circle in Britain shows a coded image representing the first 10 digits of pi.
49. The amazing fact is that a few authors have used the digits of π to establish a new form of constrained writing, where the word lengths are required to represent the digits of π in sequence. The Cadaeic Cadenza contains the first 3835 digits of π in this manner and the full-length book Not a Wake contains 10,000 words, each representing one digit of π.
50. The amazing fact is that there is a website titled “The Pi-Search Page” at https://www.angio.net/pi/piquery.html which searches & finds any sequence of digits in Pi up to 200 million places. You may check whether your birth date figures in the list.

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### Elephant
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Last updated: 2024-04-26T09:30:07.000Z
#### 60 Amazing Elephant Facts to surprise you

1. The word “elephant” comes from the Greek word “Elephas” meaning “ivory”.
2. There are 170 known fossil elephant species that inhabited the whole Earth, except for Australia and Antarctica. The elephants' ancestors appeared 50 million years ago in North Africa and were pig-sized.
3. Amazingly elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago.
4. In Fact, elephants are the largest mammals living on land. The life span is about 70 years. The oldest elephant ever was Lin Wang, an Asian elephant, who died in February 2003 at the age of 86.
5. There are two types of elephants, the Asian elephant, and the African elephant. Asian elephants have smaller ears and shorter tusks than African elephants. The African elephant is bigger and taller than the Asian elephant.
6. Elephants are now endangered. Today there are about 600,000 African elephants and 30,000 wild Asian elephants left. It is the responsibility of all of us to make sure that the children of the future don’t remember elephants as the dinosaurs of the 21st century.
7. Elephants have no natural predators. However, lions will sometimes prey on young or weak elephants in the wild.
8. Between 12,000 to 15,000 of the world’s elephants are living in captivity. Amazingly about 30% of the entire Asian elephant population is currently in captivity.
9. Elephants herds are matriarchal. Female elephants live in groups of about 15 animals, all related and led by the oldest in the group. She’ll decide where and when they move and rest, day to day and season to season. An elephant herd is one of the most closely knit societies of any animal.
10. In African elephants, the weight difference between males and females can be two tons, as males weigh on average 6 tons and females 4 tons. Asian elephants weigh about 1 ton less.
11. The largest elephant on record was an adult male African elephant. It weighed 10,900 Kg and was 13 feet tall at the shoulder!
12. Amazingly elephants have the largest brains in the animal kingdom weighing about 5 Kg about 3 to 4 times larger than that of humans. Their brains have more complex folds than all animals except whales. They have a more developed hippocampus, a brain region responsible for emotion and spatial awareness, than any other animal.
13. Amazingly elephants are the only mammals, besides humans, to have chins.
14. Elephants have only four functional teeth about 12 Inches long which can be replaced only 6 times. Thereafter elephants can’t feed properly.
15. The amazing thing is the tusks are not canines but enormously enlarged incisor teeth. In Asian elephants, most of the males have tusks and females have none. In African elephants, even females have smaller tusks.
16. Elephants have four molars, one on the top and one on the bottom on both sides of the mouth. Each can weigh more than 2 Kg and is the size of a brick!
17. Elephants have 6 sets of molar teeth which are replaced from time to time. When the last set is lost, the animal is unable to eat and eventually dies.
18. Tusks are used for defense, digging for water, and lifting things. An elephant's pair of tusks may exceed 200 kg.
19. Elephants have a slow pulse rate of 27\. For a canary, it is 1000!
20. Elephant lungs have dense sheets of fibery tissue instead of having a pleural space between lungs and the chest case as humans and most mammals do, allowing their lungs to withstand pressures that would cause human lungs to collapse. This is a sign that elephant ancestors were marine creatures.
21. Elephants have poor eyesight but an amazing sense of smell. Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away. In fact, African elephants have the best sense of smell in the animal kingdom.
22. Like human toddlers, great apes, and dolphins, elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror.
23. The trunk alone contains about 50,000 to 100,000 different muscles. African elephants have two finger-like features on the end of their trunk which is very sensitive and they can pick up a single grain of rice with it.
24. The elephant’s trunk is a fusion of its nose and upper lip and is the elephant’s most important limb. It is used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also for grabbing things.
25. The trunk can pluck a delicate flower or lift a huge log. The elephant’s trunk is able to sense the size, shape, and temperature of an object.
26. An elephant’s trunk can grow to be about 2 meters long and can weigh up to 140 kg. An elephant could carry up to 2 gallons of water in its trunk.
27. Elephant can amazingly throw a man 35 meters (116 Ft) away with the trunk and can drag 2 tons of weight with it.
28. Amazingly all elephants walk on tip-toe because the back portion of their foot is made of fat and has no bone. As a result, elephants can walk noiselessly. Elephants normally walk about 4 mph.
29. Elephants use their feet to listen. They can pick up sub-sonic rumblings made by other elephants, through vibrations in the ground. They are observed to listen by putting trunks on the ground and carefully positioning their feet.
30. African elephants can run at a speed of 25 miles (40 km ) per hour which is much faster than the fastest athlete. Asian elephants don’t run.
31. Elephants can move forwards and backward, but cannot trot, jump, or gallop. They are so heavy that they cannot get all four legs off the ground at the same time. Amazingly elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
32. The amazing fact is that elephants can’t survive 24 hours without drinking. This is the reason they choose to remain not far from the water source.
33. Elephants are herbivores and can spend up to 16 hours of days collecting leaves, twigs, bamboo, and roots.
34. An adult elephant requires up to 250 kg of food and 150 Litre of water per day.
35. Elephant’s skin is about 1 inch thick and is wrinkled. The wrinkled skin retains 5-10 times more water than smooth skin and the mud stuck on it dries much harder, keeping coolness for longer periods. The wrinkled skin also loses more heat helping to cool.
36. In spite of thick skin, an elephant’s skin is so sensitive that they can feel a fly landing on it.
37. Amazingly elephants do not possess sweat glands. The elephant’s very large ears are used to radiate excess heat away from the body.
38. Elephants can get sunburned so they protect themselves with sand.
39. No animal has a longer pregnancy term than that of the African elephant which is at an average of 22 months.
40. At the age of 16, an elephant can reproduce but rarely has more than four children throughout her lifetime. Elephant females can have babies until they are about 50 years old.
41. At birth, an elephant calf weighs about 110 Kg. Newborns can stand up shortly after birth. They are born blind.
42. Mothers will select several babysitters to care for the calf so that she has time to eat enough to produce sufficient milk for it. The calf is suckled for at least two years.
43. Elephants are known to be good, untiring long-distance swimmers better than most mammals. Their massive bodies surprisingly provide enough floatation while they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water. Elephants mostly swim with their face above water and their mouths below the water’s surface.
44. Amazingly elephants can manage with only two to three hours of sleep a day.
45. Elephants often communicate through infrasounds at sound levels 5 to 25 Hz which is inaudible by us. If you flap your hands faster than 5 times a second, an elephant can hear the sound.
46. It is vital to recognize aggression in elephants in the wild. It is expressed by threatening with twirled trunks and by throwing dust in the air. The African elephant also flutters its enormous ears.
47. The advantage of infrasound communication is that it can travel vast distances without losing strength. This explains the coordinated movements of elephant herds.
48. Female elephants spend their entire lives living in large groups called herds. A male elephant leaves its herds at about 12 to 15 years old and lives independent lives thereafter.
49. Elephants are social animals. They play, cry, laugh, and have a good memory. They express grief and compassion. They carry out greeting ceremonies when a friend that has been away for some time returns. The elephant is a highly emotional animal and can die from a broken heart.
50. Elephants pay homage to the bones of their dead, gently touching the skulls and tusks with their trunks and feet. When they walk past a place that a loved one has died, they will stop dead still for few minutes.
51. When the author of the book "Elephant Whisperer" Lawrence Anthony died, a herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him.
52. Amazingly the average elephant weighs less than the average blue whale's tongue.
53. No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Amazingly only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.
54. Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
55. The amazing fact is that elephant, even though the largest animal on land is extremely scared of bees and ants.
56. Only three mammals undergo menopause namely elephant, humpback whales, and human females.
57. The elephant is the only animal having four knees.
58. Amazingly about 100 elephants are being killed every day for their ivory. The street value of elephant ivory is about as much as Gold.
59. In fact, an elephant led to the discovery of an oil field during the British occupation in India. A British official working at the first railway in the area of Digboi in the state of Assam noticed an oily substance on the limb of an elephant which led to a bubbling oil pool which was the first oil field opened in Asia, in 1889\. Today, though the production is very low, Digboi still has the distinction of being the world’s oldest continuously producing oilfield.
60. Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant in 1903 to prove his rival Tesla's AC current was dangerous.

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### Leonardo Da Vinci
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#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Leonardo Da Vinci

1. Leonardo da Vinci was a genius and his work is fascinating. He was also a painter, scientist, musician, sculptor, mathematician, engineer, anatomist, architect, inventor, botanist, geologist, cartographer, and writer.
2. Leonardo lived during the Renaissance, a cultural movement that led to important developments in areas such as art and science.
3. Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452\. His full name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. The “ser” part of his name identified his father as a gentleman. “da Vinci”, means “of Vinci” which is the Italian town where he was born.
4. The place where Leonardo da Vinci was born is located in the territory of Florence. Today that area is called Tuscany, Italy.
5. Leonardo was the son of a wealthy man named Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci who was a legal notary. Da Vinci's parents never married each other. The young da Vinci lived with his mother until he was 5 years old and later moved into the home of his father, who had married another woman.
6. Leonardo was homeschooled and lacked formal education in Greek and Latin.
7. Leonardo was an apprentice to the artist Andrea di Cione in 1466 who had one of the best workshops in Florence.
8. In 1472, Leonardo qualified as a master in the prestigious guild of artists and doctors of medicine known as the Guild of St Luke. Even though his father provided him with a workshop of his own, he continued his collaboration with Verrocchio.
9. Leonardo’s earliest known work dated August 5, 1473, is a drawing of the Arno valley in pen and ink.
10. Leonardo worked in Milan, Italy, from 1482 until 1499.
11. In 1499, Leonardo da Vinci fled to Venice where he created a system of moveable barricades to protect the city from attack.
12. In 1502, as a military architect and engineer in the service of Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI, Leonardo traveled all over Italy.
13. On October 18, 1503, Leonardo da Vinci rejoined the Guild of St Luke. For the next two years, he designed and painted a mural of The Battle of Anghiari.
14. Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painted works are the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and the Virgin of the Rocks.
15. Leonardo was given permission to dissect human corpses at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and at hospitals in Milan and Rome. From these studies, he created over 200 pages of drawings. The Vitruvian Man is also one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most well-known drawings which is a study of the proportions of the human body.
16. The Mona Lisa was painted from 1503–1507\. It is the most famous painting in the world. Not only do the eyes “follow” you, but the elusive smile on her face lends an air of mystery. It has been on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris for over 200 years. The Louvre recently spent $5.5 million rehanging the Mona Lisa inside a display case set into a wall, 6 feet behind a wooden barrier.
17. Da Vinci was a notoriously slow painter, and many of his works were never finished.
18. In 1515, Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned to make a mechanical lion that could walk forward and open its chest to reveal a cluster of lilies.
19. Leonardo’s work was unique. Because of his extensive knowledge of the human form and the way humans show emotions, he was able to paint expressions and gestures that other artists found difficult to convey. He had an innovative way of laying on the paint and gradation of tone.
20. Leonardo was a vegetarian and loved animals. He had a habit of purchasing caged birds and then releasing them into the wild. Leonardo da Vinci was a strict vegetarian due to his immense love of animals. He used to question the morality of eating animals when it was not necessary for health.
21. Leonardo was a technological genius. He drew designs for calculator, tank, solar power, breathing device for underwater exploration, an armored car, a revolving crane, a pulley, and a flying ship, etc. which were not made in his life as many of these plans were limited by the level of technology at the time.
22. The flight was of particular interest to da Vinci. He studied the flight of birds and created plans for flying machines that resemble hang gliders and helicopters.
23. Some of his designs like the automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire were huge successes.
24. On 13,000 pages of journal drawings and notes, Leonard recorded all the things that sparked his interest.
25. Leonardo was the first to explain why the sky is blue which is due to the way air scatters light.
26. In 1994 Microsoft founder Bill Gates purchased perhaps Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous scientific writings, the ‘Codex Leicester’ for $30 million. It contains explanations of water movement, fossils, and the moon among other things. This manuscript is the only one not held in Europe.
27. An ambidextrous Leonardo could draw forward with one hand while writing backward with the other, producing a mirror-image script that others found difficult to read.
28. Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2, 1519, at Clos Lucé. Sixty beggars followed his casket as requested in Leonardo da Vinci’s will.
29. In 2003, Channel 4, a British television station, created a documentary called, “Leonardo’s Dream Machines.” Leonardo’s machines were built and tested according to his original drawn designs. Some were successful and others proved to be impractical after being tested.
30. In December 2000, skydiver Adrian Nicholas landed in South Africa using a parachute built from one of Leonardo's designs.

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### Influenza
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#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Influenza

1. The word influenza is the Italian word for "influence" referring to the cause of the disease. People believed that the planets, stars, and moon influenced the flu.
2. The word "influenza" was used for the first time in English in 1703.
3. Influenza Affects About 20% of Americans Every Year. In the USA alone, it is estimated that about 36,000 people will die of the flu or flu-related complications every season.
4. Globally influenza is accountable for up to 500,000 deaths a year.
5. Bacterial pneumonia is the most common complication of the flu, and in spite of potent antibiotics, most flu-related deaths are due to it.
6. The first well-documented human pandemic occurred in 1889-90 and was called the Russian flu (H2N2) which killed approximately one million people.
7. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 is the most famous because it resulted in the deaths of about 100 million people. It killed more Americans than those killed in all the American wars.
8. The Spanish flu killed more people in one year than smallpox or the Black Plague did in 50 years.
9. The Spanish flu was sometimes called “the purple death” because the worst symptom, signally certain death, was cyanosis when the lungs were starved of oxygen and the patient would turn purple or blue.
10. Historians have traced the likely beginning of the Spanish flu not to Spain, but to Haskell County, Kansas, where people lived close to their pigs and poultry. When three Haskell County boys were shipped off to Fort Riley, Kansas in late 1917, they carried the virus with them, which spread from U.S. military bases to cities across the country. The virus then spread throughout Europe, brought over with the U.S. troops of WWI, and it returned to the United States in a much deadlier form.
11. The Asian flu pandemic (1957-1958) originated in China and is estimated to have killed up to 4 million people, while the Hong Kong flu in the 1960s killed about 1 million people.
12. In normal temperatures, the virus remains infectious for about seven days. If the virus is frozen, it can be infectious for an indefinite period of time.
13. Influenza Attacks Healthy People More During Pandemic Periods.
14. Younger, healthy people are the most at risk during a pandemic because the immune systems in those who are healthy tend to overreact when the virus becomes present which can actually do more damage to the body increasing the mortality rate.
15. In 1933, British researchers Wilson Smith, Christopher Andrews, and Patrick P. Laidlaw were the first to identify the human flu virus.
16. There are three different flu viruses — Influenza A, B, and C.
17. Influenza A is the most severe of the three, causing outbreaks in birds and humans. Influenza B is exclusively found in humans but mutates at a much slower rate. Influenza C infects humans, dogs, and pigs, but is less common than the other two. However, there is an unknown number of strains as the flu itself is constantly mutating.
18. The H1N1 form of swine flu is one of the descendants of the complex strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic. It is called the “swine flu” because the overall structure of the virus is of the type that affects pigs, though other components besides swine are in the virus structure.
19. The “H” and “N” in H1N1 stand for Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase, which are key molecular components of the virus.
20. Flu viruses can live up to 48 hours on hard, nonporous surfaces such as stainless steel and up to 12 hours on cloth and tissues. They can remain infectious for about one week at human body temperature, over 30 days at freezing temperatures, and indefinitely at temperatures below freezing.
21. Thomas Francis and Jonas Salk developed the first flu vaccine in 1944\. The flu vaccine in its various forms has been used for over 60 years.
22. It is estimated that over 90 million Americans get a flu shot each year.
23. Reyes syndrome is a rare and potentially fatal disorder linked to taking aspirin during viral illnesses such as the flu. Symptoms include persistent vomiting, fever, and confusion. Liver and brain damage occur within a few days. It is advised not to give aspirin to children and young people for treating the symptoms of influenza-like symptoms.
24. The source of flu vaccines are chickens and, the vaccine can be dangerous to people who are allergic to eggs.
25. Nowadays flu can be diagnosed the flu with a simple nasal swab in the first 24 to 48 hours after infection. Antiviral agents given at this time can reduce the severity of the disease.

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### Giraffe
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#### Top 40 Amazing Facts About Giraffe

1. The name giraffe is derived from the Arab word Zarafa, which means 'the one who walks very fast.
2. The giraffe is easily identifiable by its long neck. It is usually a yellow/blond color with large brown or black spots covering its body.
3. The giraffe is the tallest mammal in the world. Amazingly even new-born babies are taller than most humans. The male giraffe is known to have a height of 4.8 to 5.5 meters (16 to 18 feet tall) and weighs up to 1300 kilograms. Females are shorter.
4. Kenya, Africa is home to the world’s largest giraffe population. They have nearly one-third of all the giraffes on the planet. There are roughly 140,000 giraffes on the planet.
5. There are 3 species groups of giraffes all mostly centrally located in the kingdom of Kenya, Africa. The most common giraffe is the Masai. There is also the Reticulated Giraffe and the Rothschild giraffe. The last two types of giraffe are considered endangered.
6. Giraffes usually live up to 25 years. The oldest living giraffe is in the San Diego zoo named Betsy is almost 40 years old.
7. Amazingly giraffes spend most of their lives standing up; they even sleep standing up.
8. Giraffes can conceive after the age of 5 years.
9. Giraffes have a gestation period of 12-15 months. They only give birth 1-2 times in their lifetime. They give birth standing up young ones falling more than 5 feet to the ground at birth.
10. Baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth and amazingly are the only animals born with horns.
11. Amazingly giraffes learn to stand just 30 minutes after birth and can run with their mothers just 10 hours after birth.
12. Giraffes are herbivorous animals. They enjoy eating different types of leaves and grass, a special favorite being the thorny acacia leaves.
13. The giraffe has the ability to eat about 35 Kg of food on a daily basis. However, under extreme circumstances, they can survive on barely 6 kg of food per day.
14. Giraffes love apples. They find them completely irresistible after their first taste.
15. They are ruminant mammals. This means that they first swallow all the food that they want after minimal chewing and then bring up the half-digested food back up to the mouth later, to chew on again.
16. The fact is that the age of a giraffe can be determined from its spots. The darker the spots, the older the giraffe.
17. Amazingly it is possible to identify the sex of the giraffe from the horns on its head. Both males and females have horns but the females are smaller and covered with hair at the top. Male giraffes may have up to 3 additional horns.
18. Giraffe horns are larger on the mails because they use them to fight over females.
19. Giraffes are sociable, peaceful animals that rarely fight. Males do perform a behavior called ‘necking’ where they will hit necks; however, these encounters rarely last more than a couple of minutes and seldom result in injury. Giraffes engage in neck wrestling matches to command authority in a herd.
20. Giraffes usually move in groups of about 30 - 35 individuals, usually mothers and their offspring. Males tend to get more solitary as they age and are generally not a part of a group.
21. A male giraffe is called a bull, a female giraffe is called a cow, and a baby giraffe a calf. When they gather together in a group they are called a herd.
22. When it comes to taking care of the young, giraffes rely on teamwork. Amazingly one female looks after the young of the entire herd, while the others go around foraging for food.
23. The amazing fact is that giraffe walks differently than most other animals. It walks by stepping forward both the Right leg and left leg instead of alternating them. Every step a giraffe takes is almost 15 feet in length.
24. Even though giraffes are tall they can run up to 34 mph when at full gallop although they cannot keep the speed up for long.
25. Giraffes have color vision and excellent eyesight helping them keep an eye on each other from a distance and also to survey the area for predators.
26. Amazingly a giraffe can go longer without water than a camel can.
27. Amazingly a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch long tongue.
28. The giraffe has the biggest heart in the animal kingdom. A giraffe's heart measures about 2 feet wide and weighs nearly 15 kg.
29. Although giraffes have to support a long neck that is between 6 - 8 feet in length (almost 18 times the length of a human neck!), they have the same number of cervical vertebrae as that of a human being, i.e. 7!
30. Giraffes have the highest blood pressure of any mammal which is about 280/180mm Hg on average.
31. The amazing fact is that a giraffe's neck is too short to reach the ground. As a result, it has to awkwardly spread its front legs or kneel to reach the ground for a drink of water. This is one of the most dangerous times for a giraffe as cannot keep a lookout for predators and can be attacked.
32. They have very elastic blood vessels in their necks making it possible for them to bend their neck to the ground and lift it again, without fainting.
33. The biggest enemies of the giraffe are lions and huge packs of hyenas.
34. Amazingly giraffes have the shortest sleep requirements of any mammal about ten minutes to two hours every day since they have to be watchful for predators!
35. Amazing fact is that giraffes are unable to cough and is one of the quietest animals since it has no vocal cords to make any noise.
36. Amazingly giraffes have blue-black tongues.
37. The amazing fact is that to know when to mate, a male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.
38. Amazingly a giraffe’s kick is so powerful that it can kill a lion!
39. The fact is that the hair that makes up a giraffes tail is about 10 times thicker than the average strand of human hair.
40. Tanzania has honored the giraffe by naming it their national animal.

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### Ant
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#### 40 Amazing and Little-Known Facts About Ants

1. Amazingly ants species are as old as the dinosaurs, about 110 to 130 million years old.
2. Ants survived the catastrophic event that destroyed dinosaurs.
3. More than 20,000 known ant species occur around the world, yet only 12,500 have so far been classified.
4. Ants rule the planet. Amazingly there are at least ten thousand trillion ants in the world.
5. Ants are found in northern Finland and also in the sweltering tropics. The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is roughly equal to the total biomass of all the people on Earth.
6. A rough estimation is that there are about 1.5 million ants on the planet for every human being.
7. On average, ants monopolize 15 to 20% of the terrestrial animal biomass, and in tropical regions where ants are especially abundant, they monopolize 25% or more.
8. Ants are social insects that form colonies that range in size from a few dozen individuals living in small natural cavities to highly organized colonies that may occupy large territories and consist of millions of members.
9. There are also amazing super colonies around the world that can contain millions of individuals.
10. Super colonies have been identified in Japan, Australia, the United States, and southern Europe.
11. The largest colony known of these insects is in Japan, where 306 million ants, with 1 million queens, live in 45,000 colonies spread over 270 hectares.
12. Ant communities are headed by a queen or queen, whose function in life is to lay thousands of eggs that will ensure the survival of the colony. Queen ants have wings, which they only shed when they start a new nest.
13. The queen licks the eggs to make them hatch. The queen feeds her eggs her own saliva.
14. Workers that we commonly see are wingless females that never reproduce, but instead, forage for food, care for the queen's offspring, work on the nest, protect the community.
15. Male ants often have only one role, mating with the queen. After they have performed this function, they may die.
16. The amazing fact is that at night the worker ants move the eggs and larvae deep into the nest to protect them from the cold. During the daytime, the worker ants move them to the top of the nest where it is warmer.
17. In certain ant species, soldier ants use their heads to plug the entrances to their nests and keep intruders from gaining access. They have amazingly modified heads to match the nest entrance. They block access with their head like a cork in a bottle. When a worker ant returns to the nest, it will touch the soldier ant's head to let the guard know it belongs to the colony.
18. Army ants may prey on much larger animals such as reptiles, birds, or even small mammals. Army Ants are always moving. They carry their larvae and their eggs with them in a long column.
19. It's amazing that one species of ant is exclusively female. We are yet to find a male of the species M. smithii. The queen ant reproduces asexually, so all offspring are clones of the queen. It is found in several countries of Central America and most countries of South America.
20. When the queen of the colony dies, the colony can only survive a few months. Queens are rarely replaced and the workers are not able to reproduce.
21. The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days.
22. Adult ants amazingly can’t chew and swallow solid food. Instead, they swallow the juice which they squeeze from pieces of food. They throw away the dry part.
23. Ants have two stomachs one for them and one to feed others.
24. An ant's sense of smell is amazing as good as that of the dog.
25. They don’t have ears. Special sensors on their feet and on their knees help ants interpret signals from their surroundings. They also use their antennae and the hairs on their body to feel around while foraging for food.
26. The amazing fact is that ant never sleeps.
27. Ant doesn't have lungs.
28. An ant's brain weighs only .3 milligrams however the ant's brain is a higher percentage of its body mass than any other living animal or insect.
29. An Ant’s brain is whopping 6 percent of body weight. (A human brain is about 2 %) .
30. An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells.
31. Ants can pull about 30 times their own weight.
32. Ants can lift about 50 times their own bodyweight of 500 mg with their strong jaws.
33. An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
34. When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source. The foraging ants then follow the path, each one adding more scent to the trail to reinforce it for others. The workers will continue walking back and forth along the line until the food source is depleted.
35. Some species practice slavery. They are known to raid neighboring colonies and steal eggs or larvae in a practice known as "dulosis". The forcibly acquired young are then either eaten or put to work.
36. Tropical ants, when a flood sweeps down on them, amazingly roll themselves into a huge living ball which drifts upon the water, with the young safe and dry at the core.
37. Camponotus Saunders, a species of ant carry sacks of sticky poison all around their body that self-destructs as a defense mechanism to scare away predators.
38. Wood ant workers live seven to ten years. Wood ants make anthills out of twigs, leaves, and soil. Wood ants squirt acid from the end of their abdomens.
39. Amazingly ants have graveyards. Two days after an ant dies, it gives off an odor that lets the other ants know it is dead. The ants then pick it up and carry it to a graveyard. The odor is due to oleic acid.
40. In an experiment, scientists dropped some on a living ant, and against its will, it was carried to the designated graveyard. Amazingly the ant was clearly alive but the others were ignoring its squirming and attempt to escape.

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### Shakespeare
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Last updated: 2024-04-16T09:30:28.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Shakespeare

1. Amazingly even though Shakespeare is so well known, his exact and actual date of birth is not known.
2. Other than what is found in a few church records and legal documents and in a few contemporary documents, most evidence of Shakespeare's life is circumstantial. Very little is known for certain.
3. By tradition, it is generally supposed that Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564\. April 23 is the national day of England. The same date is given as Shakespeare's death in 1616 at the age of 52\. The year 2016 was marked as his 400th death anniversary.
4. Shakespeare was born under the old Julian calendar, not the current Gregorian calendar that was created in 1582 and adopted in England in 1751\. What was April 23 during Shakespeare's life would be May 3 on today's calendar?
5. Shakespeare's father, John, was a leather-worker who rose through a series of positions of authority until, in 1568, he became high bailiff, the highest elective office in Stratford. He was also a money lender and was accused of lending money at exorbitant rates. All of Shakespeare's family members were illiterate.
6. Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, just three days before the Stratford parish register recorded an outbreak of the plague.
7. William Arden was a relative of Shakespeare's mother and was executed for plotting against Queen Elizabeth 1.
8. Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) was three months pregnant when they got married. Shakespeare was eight years younger than his wife.
9. William and Anne Shakespeare had three children. Susanna was christened in May 1583, and the twins Judith and Hamnet in February 1585.
10. Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, died in 1596\. His daughter Susanna died in 1649\. His younger daughter Judith had 3 children, but all died before their mother and without children. His granddaughter Elizabeth, daughter of Susanna, died childless in 1670, ending the William Shakespeare line.
11. Shakespeare is credited with writing 38 plays and 154 sonnets. “Romeo and Juliet”, ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Hamlet’ are his best-known works.
12. Shakespeare never published any of his plays himself. Many politicians and authors don't believe that Shakespeare himself wrote all his plays. As per recent research as many as 17 plays of his had Christopher Marlowe as co-writer.
13. Amazingly more than 80 spelling variations are recorded for Shakespeare's name, from “Shappere” to “Chamber.”
14. In the few signatures that have survived, Shakespeare spelled his name “Willm Shaksp,” “William Shakespeare,”, “William Shakspere,” etc but never “William Shakespeare.”
15. There is no evidence for what Shakespeare did between 1585 and 1592, the period when he moved to London and began his writing career. Thus, there is no record of how his career began or how quickly he rose to fame.
16. Shakespeare is listed as an actor on documents from 1592, 1598, 1603, and 1608\. It is supposed that he played mostly unassuming parts, such as the ghost in Hamlet, to allow him more time to write.
17. In Shakespeare's time, theaters had no curtain and used little or no scenery. Playwrights described the setting within the text of the performance.
18. Elizabethan theatergoers could purchase apples and pears to eat during the show. These snacks were often thrown at the actors by dissatisfied members of the audience.
19. In February 1599, the land for the Globe theater was leased to Cuthbert and Richard Burbage as well as five other members of the troupe, including Shakespeare, for 31 years. Shakespeare's share of the lease varied over the years, from one-fourteenth to one-tenth.
20. The Globe burned to the ground on June 29, 1613, set fire by a cannon shot during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
21. In 1603, Shakespeare's company became the official player for King James I and renamed themselves The King's Men.
22. In 1608, The King's Men opened the Blackfriar's Theatre, the template on which all later indoor theaters are based.
23. In 1609, Thomas Thorpe published Shakespeare's sonnets for the first time apparently without the poet's permission. Almost nothing is known about when the 154 sonnets were written.
24. Many of Shakespeare's sonnets are love poems addressed to a beautiful young man, suggesting the poet's bisexuality.
25. Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of more than 1700 English words invented by him including bedroom, eyeball, majestic, critical, frugal, excellent, undress, barefaced, cold-blooded, assassination, and countless, etc.
26. The First Folio, the primary source for most of Shakespeare's plays, was published by the last of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, John Heminges and Henry Condell, in August 1623\. It is the only source for 18 of Shakespeare's plays, which would otherwise be lost.
27. Amazingly Hamlet survives in three versions: the 1603 version of 2,200 lines, a better 1604 version of 3,800 lines, and the First Folio edition of 1623 with 3,570 lines. Some scholars believe that the 1603 version is most likely the one closest to the actual play.
28. Shakespeare’s work also contains excellent phrases like vanish into thin air, play fast and loose, foul play, tower of strength, flesh and blood and with bated breath, etc. recorded for the first time.
29. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616\. In his will, he left most of his real estate to his daughter Susanna. The only thing he left for his wife was one bed with bedclothes.
30. Shakespeare is buried near the altar of Holy Trinity Church, where he was baptized, in Stratford-upon Avon.

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### Fox
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#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Fox

1. Fox is a close relative of jackals, wolves, and dogs, all belonging to the canine family.
2. Out of 39 described species, there are 12 true species of foxes that can be found on all continents. Foxes can survive in all types of terrains.
3. They are native to North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa. They were introduced to Australia in the mid-19th century.
4. Depending on the species, foxes range in size. They usually weigh about 6 Kg, like a small to the medium-sized dog and larger than a cat.
5. Foxes are characterized by sharp muzzle and fluffy tails. The color of the fur can be red, brown, black, grey, silver, or white depending on their environment.
6. Amazingly tip of the tail is always white. Tips of their ears and feet are always black.
7. Foxes share some similarities with cats like retractable claws and vertical pupils.
8. A female fox is called a Vixen while a male fox is called a Dog. A fox’s home is called a den or earth.
9. Most species of foxes are solitary. Rare species live and hunt in small packs.
10. Foxes can run very fast up to 30 miles per hour thanks to their slender body.
11. Foxes use 28 different types of calls to communicate with each other
12. Vertical pupils are typical for creatures that are active at night. Foxes see well at dim light. Besides good night eyesight, foxes have an excellent sense of smell and hearing being able to hear a watch ticking 120 feet away!
13. Foxes have a specially adapted layer called the tapetum lucidum behind the light-sensitive cells which reflects light back through the eye. This doubles the intensity of images received by the fox.
14. Foxes' eyes glow green when light is shone into them at night.
15. Foxes prefer meat and they will readily hunt birds, rodents, small mammals, and reptiles. They are also able to dig and eat human waste and different types of fruit and berries.
16. The red fox has the widest geographical range of any animal in the order of Carnivora. Its flexible diet allows it to adapt to many environments.
17. Grey foxes are the only members of the dog family that are able to climb the tree.
18. The fennec fox is the smallest fox weighing just under 1.5 Kg. It has elongated ears and a creamy coat. It lives in the Sahara Desert, where it sleeps during the day to protect it from the searing heat. Its ears not only allow it to hear prey, but they also radiate body heat, which keeps the fox cool. Its paws are covered with fur so that the fox can walk on hot sand like it’s wearing snowshoes.
19. The arctic fox, which lives in the northernmost areas of the hemisphere, can handle cold better than most animals on earth. It doesn’t even get cold until –70 degrees Celsius. Its white coat also camouflages it against predators. As the seasons change, the coat changes colors turning brown or gray so the fox can blend in with the rocks and dirt.
20. In the 1960s, a Soviet geneticist named Dmitry Belyaev bred thousands of foxes before achieving a domesticated fox that is docile toward people from birth. They’re reportedly curious and sweet-tempered.
21. Foxes dig underground dens, where they hide from the predators and take care of their babies.
22. Typical predators of foxes are wolves, bears, and mountain lions.
23. Foxes mate once per year the peak of the mating season being January. During that time, foxes produce screeching sounds that can be heard during the night and in the early hours.
24. Pregnancy lasts 53 days ending with 3 to 6 pups. They are unable to see, hear or walk in the first couple of days of their life depending completely on their mother. The cubs’ eyes and ears open after two weeks and at four weeks.
25. During the blind state, cubs stay with the vixen (female) in the den while the dog (male) brings them food. They live with their parents until they're seven months old.
26. Female foxes are occasionally assisted in rearing their cubs by a non-breeding sister or a female cub from a previous litter. These ‘aunts’ gain valuable experience which helps them to rear their own litter successfully the next season.
27. When babies grow enough to be able to eat meat, the mother starts to vomit swallowed food to feed her pups.
28. They catch small rodents with characteristic stalking and high pounce. This technique is one of the first things cubs learn as they begin to hunt.
29. Foxes have whiskers on their legs and face, which help them to navigate.
30. Foxes stink, their funny ‘musky’ smell comes from scent glands at the base of their tail.
31. Like a guided missile, the fox harnesses the earth’s magnetic field to hunt. Other animals, like birds, sharks, and turtles, have this “magnetic sense,” but the fox is the first one that uses it to catch prey.
32. The fox can see the earth’s magnetic field as a “ring of shadow” on its eyes that darkens as it heads towards magnetic north.
33. The fox does not chew its food. Instead, it uses its sharp teeth to cut the meat into manageable chunks.
34. Fox live up to 3 years in the wild and up to 10 years in captivity.
35. Over the centuries the fox has been hunted for its fur. Fox hunting with dogs is still legal in places, such as Ireland, North America, and Australia.

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### Costa Rica
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Last updated: 2024-04-12T09:30:47.000Z
#### 25 Amazing Facts about Costa Rica

##### Land & Geography

- Costa Rica is in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua on the north and Panama on the south, the Pacific Ocean on the West, and the Caribbean Sea on the East.
- Costa Rica has a population of 4.5 million. The capital is San Jose, with a metro area population of approximately 2 million. The official language is Spanish.
- There are 800 miles of coastline, both on the Atlantic and Pacific.
- The amazing fact is that it only takes up .03% of the planet’s surface but holds 5% of its biodiversity!
- There are about 750,000 species of insects that live in Costa Rica, including about 20,000 different types of spiders! Also, more than 10% of the world's butterflies live here. This exotic country also hosts over 200 species of fish and over 9,000 plants.
- More than 25% of Costa Rican land is protected by national parks and refugees.
- There are more than 121 volcanic formations in Costa Rica, and seven of them are active. Poas Volcano has the second widest crater in the world and Arenal is one of the ten most active volcanoes in the world. Irazu is the tallest volcano in Costa Rica at 11,259 feet.
- Chirripo Mountain is the highest point in Costa Rica at 12,500 feet. The country's lowest point is 790 feet below sea level in the caves of Barra Honda National Park.
- There are amazingly about 52 species of hummingbirds in Costa Rica, making Costa Rica a true hummingbird capital.
- It's amazing that Costa Rica’s marine area reaches 580,000 Square Km, approximately 10 times larger than its land area of only 52,100 Square Km.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Costa Ricans call themselves Ticos (males) or Ticas (females). Natives refer to foreigners as Gringos (males)or Gringas (females). Ticos are short-statured people in general.
- Less than 1% of Costa Ricans are of indigenous ancestry. 94% are of European or mestizo ethnicity. The average life expectancy of 77 years is one of the highest in the world.
- Names are confusing in Costa Rica. Ticas do not take their husband's last name. The woman uses her full maiden name for life. No changing of national ID cards, driver's licenses, etc. She also adds her mother's maiden name. Children take their father's name but add their mother's maiden name to their full name.
- There are very few street signs in Costa Rica and even fewer addresses. Amazingly just about all addresses are in terms of a well-known building or landmark.
- In Costa Rica, it is not uncommon to give coffee to babies in their bottles with milk and to young children.
- It is common to buy wine in little paper boxes.
- Many Costa Ricans use their credit cards for everything including a candy bar, a pack of gum, etc even for an item costing 20 cents.
- Wearing shorts is considered disrespectful in public offices.
- There are Bullfights in Costa Rica, but the bull is never hurt, and often, the bull wins!
- Costa Rica has been named the safest country in Latin America. In many countries, pedestrians have rights but in Costa Rica, the Spanish word for a pedestrian is "Target". So be really careful when walking around.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Costa Rica is the longest-standing democracy in Central America.
- The amazing fact is that Costa Rica has no standing army. It was constitutionally abolished in 1949.
- Costa Rica actually provides reading lessons over public radio broadcasts.

##### Construction / Architecture

- The front doors of almost all commercial establishments almost always open inwards. If you are programmed to pull when entering and push when leaving plan to feel silly as you tug or push in the wrong direction.
- Nearly all Catholic Churches in Costa Rica face to the west which is very useful for directions.

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### Teeth
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Last updated: 2024-04-10T09:30:39.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Teeth

1. Humans get only two sets of teeth throughout their lifetime. The first set is the baby teeth with only 20 teeth in the set. Baby teeth are usually replaced by adult teeth between the ages of 6 and 12\. The second teeth called the permanent teeth to have the final 32 teeth in the set.
2. Teeth start forming way before birth during the fetal stage but they don't really show up until the baby attains the age of about 6 months.
3. The tooth enamel is the hardest known substance in the entire human body.
4. The plaque formed on our teeth is known to have more than 300 different species of bacteria which are unhealthy.
5. Amazingly on average, a person spends around 38 days in his/her entire lifetime brushing teeth.
6. Only 2/3rd of the teeth can be seen. The rest 1/3rd is hidden inside the gums.
7. Just like fingerprints, teeth are very unique to every human being and can’t be duplicated.
8. The different types of teeth have specific functions, e.g. incisors are meant for biting off pieces from food, canines are meant for holding and tearing apart the food while molars are meant for grinding.
9. Amazingly our mouth produces enough saliva in a lifetime to fill two swimming pools. Besides aiding digestion, it protects our teeth from bacteria.
10. Cavities or dental caries (tooth decay) are actually one of the most common diseases found in the world. People who drink 3 or more glasses of soda each day have 60% more tooth decay, fillings, and tooth loss than others. Brushing daily can reduce your chance of tooth decay by 25%.
11. Just brushing teeth is not enough. Brushing takes care of 40% of oral hygiene. The remaining 60% is taken care of by flossing which removes plaques and food particles between the teeth and in the gum area.
12. Amazingly the bacterial population in our mouth exceeds the world population.
13. Toothbrushes accumulate millions of bacteria every day and the best way to keep them free of germs is to keep them dry because bacteria thrive in moist conditions.
14. Amazingly Americans spend $100 billion per year on hair care products and only $2 billion a year on dental care products.
15. Brushing teeth right after eating is not recommended as the saliva in the mouth has high concentrations of acid and acidity along abrasions leads to faster wearing of teeth enamel.
16. The Romans, in 200 AD, restored cavity-ridden teeth with gold crowns, and utilized fixed bridgework to fix gaps from missing teeth. They also used a form of toothpaste concocted from honey and crushed eggshells.
17. In medieval Japan white teeth were considered ugly and women used roots and inks to stain their teeth black, which was regarded as more attractive.
18. In the middle ages in Germany, if you had a toothache, you would have been told to kiss a donkey to cure it!
19. Ancient cultures often used twigs for brushing their teeth. The use of twigs as toothbrushes still continues in many countries such as India. These twigs are often obtained from trees like neem and cinnamon that have antibacterial properties. These twigs are equally effective as modern toothbrushes.
20. In China, in 1498, the first toothbrush with bristles was made, using hair from hogs and horses. The first official modern commercial toothbrush was manufactured in 1938 with Nylon bristles. Modern toothbrush generally has about 2,500 nylon bristles grouped in forty tufts.
21. In 1873, Colgate released the first commercially prepared toothpaste, which had the minty taste we know today.
22. In the past, people used charcoal ashes, chalk, lemon juice, and other concoctions to brush their teeth.
23. An average person spends about 38 days brushing their teeth over their lifetime.
24. A tooth that gets knocked out will start to die within 15 minutes. You can extend its life of a knocked-out tooth by placing it in milk or holding it in your mouth.
25. Contrary to the myth, George Washington never had wooden teeth. His dentures were made from gold, hippopotamus tusk, elephant ivory, and human teeth! In fact, at the time of his inauguration, George Washington only had one real tooth!
26. In Sri Lanka in the city of Kandy, you will find Buddha’s left canine on display in the Temple of the Tooth. After the Buddha’s cremation, the tooth became a symbol of power so much so that whoever owned the canine had the right to rule Sri Lanka, and it was passed down from monarch to monarch.
27. The most valuable tooth belonged to Sir Isaac Newton. In 1816 one of his teeth was sold in London for $3,633, or in today's terms $35,000\. The tooth was set in a ring!
28. Norway has world's largest tooth bank which stores milk teeth from babies. The bank has 17,000 teeth stored. Milk teeth are excellent indicators of what pollutants are in the environment.
29. Ashik Gavai, a 17-year-old Indian boy suffered from a benign tumor called odontoma which was removed surgically. Amazingly within the tumor, the doctors found 232 “pearl-like” teeth.
30. In Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, fake tooth braces are considered style statements selling for a price range of $100 to $1200.
31. Amazingly teeth tattoos can be applied to a cap or crown. These images remain permanent.
32. Among animals Dogs have 42 teeth, cats have 30 teeth, pigs have 44 teeth, and an armadillo has 104 teeth.
33. A snail's mouth is no larger than the head of a pin, but it can have over 25,000 teeth!
34. The elephant grinds its molars and grows new ones. This happens six times in a lifetime! An elephant's molar is about 7-inch square and can weigh just below 3 Kg.
35. Amazingly even mosquitoes have teeth numbering 47.
36. Dolphins only use their teeth to grasp as they can’t chew, because dolphins’ jaws have no muscles.
37. Humans have two sets of teeth during their lifetime, while sharks have around 40 sets of teeth.
38. Amazingly the Crocodile Bird flies into the open mouth of a crocodile and cleans the crocodile's teeth!
39. The Blue Whale is the largest mammal on earth, but it eats only tiny shrimp because it has no teeth.
40. The amazing fact is that giraffes only have bottom teeth.

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### Shark
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Last updated: 2024-04-08T09:30:16.000Z
#### 70 Awesome and Amazing Facts About Sharks

1. Sharks have been around (400 million years) for longer than trees (350 million years) and dinosaurs (200 million years).
2. Sharks belong to a group of cartilaginous fishes. Rays and skates, which may have evolved from sharks, also belong to this group.
3. Sharks can be found in all of Earth’s oceans.
4. There are at least 400 species of sharks placed into eight groups. Only about 30 species are known to attack humans notable among them are the Great White, Tiger, Bull, Mako, and Hammerhead sharks.
5. Most sharks are completely harmless and fewer than 20% of them are larger than adult humans.
6. The smallest shark is the dwarf lantern shark, which is only seven inches long.
7. The longest shark is the whale shark, which can grow to 50 feet weighing more than 18 Tons.
8. Sharks *amazingly* don't have a single bone in their bodies. All their skeleton is made up of cartilage.
9. *The amazing fact* is that a shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water equivalent to it detecting a single drop of blood in a large swimming pool. It can sense blood from 4 Km away in the sea.
10. *Amazingly* sharks are the only animals that never get sick. They have been found to be immune to every disease including cancer possibly due to the *fact* that they have cartilaginous structures and not bones.
11. Basking sharks are pregnant for more than two years, while other sharks, such as the bonnethead shark, are pregnant for only a few months.
12. A mother shark can give birth to up to 48 pups in one litter. The pups are usually born tail first. Whale sharks give birth to the greatest number of pups up to several hundred in a litter.
13. Sand tiger sharks give birth to live young, but don’t have enough placenta or yolk to feed all of them. *Amazingly* the embryos of tiger sharks fight and eat one another until there are only two pups left, one on each side of the womb to be born. This form of cannibalism is called oophagy.
14. During a dissection of a mother tiger shark, a scientist was examining a birth canal and was bitten by a tiger shark embryo. *Amazingly* this is the only recorded instance where someone was bitten by an unborn animal.
15. *Amazing fact* is that when baby sharks are born, they swim away from their mothers right away and are on there own. In fact, their mothers might see them as prey.
16. Hammerhead sharks’ heads are soft at birth so they won’t jam the mothers’ birth canals.
17. Some female sharks have been found to give birth to an exact genetic clone of themselves without the need for a male . This is called parthenogenesis.
18. While the ostrich lays the largest eggs on land, the whale shark lays the largest eggs in the sea. An egg from a whale shark measuring 14 inches in diameter was found in the Gulf of Mexico in 1953.
19. Sharks lose more than 6000 teeth a year and *amazingly* teeth can be replaced within 24 hours. Sharks have 40-45 teeth, with up to seven rows of replacement teeth behind them. Some sharks lose over 30,000 teeth in a lifetime. Newer teeth are always larger, so sharks can look scarier as they age.
20. A shark’s jaw is not attached to its cranium. Because its mouth is situated on the underside of its head, a shark can temporarily dislocate its jaw and jut it forward to take a bite.
21. When sharks bite down, their eyes automatically close to avoid damage to their eyes in case their prey starts squirming.
22. Some sharks can bite hard enough to cut through a thick piece of steel. They usually kill only when they are hungry, which isn’t very often. Some sharks can live a year without eating, living off the oil they store in their bodies.
23. When a shark eats food that it can’t digest , it can uniquely vomit by thrusting its stomach out its mouth then pulling it back in.
24. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
25. In fact sharks never stop moving, even when they sleep or rest.
26. Hearing is probably the best of all of a shark’s senses. Some species can hear prey in the water from 3,000 feet away. They are better at detecting low frequency sounds, so they can’t detect the high-frequency sounds dolphins make. Sharks do not have ears on the outside of their body, but rather on the inside of their heads.
27. When sharks are tipped upside down , their sensors are over stimulated and they enter tonic immobility becoming temporarily paralyzed. This is the way to control aggressive shark.
28. Sharks must constantly swim in order to breathe. They need to be moving forward in order to force water through their ever moving mouths and over their gills.
29. Unlike fish, sharks do not have a swim bladder to help them keep afloat. Instead sharks have a large oil filled liver. Sharks that spend a lot of time on the surface, such as whale and basking sharks, have massive livers.
30. Shark liver oil used to be the main source of vitamin A for humans. The liver of a basking shark can weigh over 800 Kg and could be 25 % of body weight and contain 600 gallons of oil.
31. Some sharks—such as the Great White, Porbeagle, and Mako—have crescent shaped tail fins and can swim very fast. The fastest shark the "Shortfin Mako," has been clocked at 68 miles per hour.
32. *Amazingly* both the Mako and the Great White it can also leap up to 30 feet high in the air.
33. Whale sharks are the biggest sharks, yet completely harmless. They eat plankton. Reaching lengths of 40 feet, whale sharks are both the largest sharks and the largest fish in the sea.
34. About 30 fatalities are reported due to sharks. *Amazing fact* is that for every human killed by a shark, humans kill three million sharks.
35. More people are killed by bee stings and lightning than by shark attacks. A shark attack most often occurs when a shark mistakes a person for a seal or other animal.
36. About two-thirds of shark attacks on humans have taken place in water less than six feet deep. Also most shark attacks occur less than 100 feet from the shore.
37. Sharks will often give warning signs before they attack, by arching their backs, raising their heads, and pointing their pectoral fins down.
38. A single species of shark , the Great White shark kills more humans than all the other shark species combined. The shipwreck survivors in the open ocean are at risk. It’s jaw is six times stronger than a wolf’s .
39. The second-most dangerous shark in the world, the tiger shark, is sometimes called the “garbage can of the sea” because it will eat anything, including animal carcasses, tin cans, car tires, and other garbage.
40. The frilled shark, or eel shark, is called a “living fossil” because it is so much like some extinct sharks that are found preserved in fossils that became extinct 350 million years ago.
41. Portuguese sharks live at depths of 12,000 feet, which is over two miles deep.
42. As long as a shark’s back is mostly under water, it can swim easily. A nine foot-long bull shark can swim in just two feet of water.
43. Sharks *amazingly* cannot swim backwards.
44. Sharks may use the Earth’s magnetic field with special organs that act as a compass to navigate the oceans.
45. A female blue shark’s skin is three times thicker than a blue male’s to survive courtship bites.
46. *Amazingly* the Cookiecutter (cigar or luminous) shark attaches its mouth onto its victim and carves out a chunk of flesh, leaving a distinctive circular wound in its prey. Uniquely it’s body has a series of holes called “photophores” that glow in the dark water.
47. The wobbegong shark blends so well into the ocean floor that it is also called a "carpet shark"
48. Nurse sharks are the laziest sharks, spending much of the day resting on the sandy sea floor, sometimes stacked on top of each other. When they get hungry, they are like giant vacuum cleaners, sucking prey off the sea floor or from between rocks.
49. Sharks are killed because shark teeth are used to make necklaces; cartilage is used to make fertilizers; skin is used to make leather; liver is used to make face cream, sap, and fuel; and fins are used to make soup.
50. Native Americans in Florida used the teeth of Great White sharks as arrowheads.
51. A pair of shoes made of shark leather can last four times longer than shoes made with regular leather.
52. The only purpose shark fin serves in shark fin soup is to provide texture. The entire flavour comes from the other ingredients. Yet hundreds of millions of sharks’ fins are cut off while the shark is still alive. Then, unable to swim and breathe , the sharks sink to the bottom of the ocean where they slowly die.
53. There's a little known species of shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and reindeer and can live up to 200 years.
54. Many Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) have small parasites on their eyes that glow in dark water attracting prey into the sharks’ mouths. These sharks also have poisonous flesh that must be boiled three times before eating.
55. Lamniformes, the mackerel sharks (Great Whites, Makos ) do not require sleep at all.
56. Because Sharks have no ribcage, on land, its own weight can literally crush them.
57. Hammer head sharks have a 360-degree vision in the vertical plane and they can see above and below them at all times.
58. Great White Sharks congregate in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in an area known as the White Shark Café. The area described by researchers as the shark equivalent of a desert having very little food. The reasons for this behaviour have not yet been identified.
59. A bull shark can live in both salt and fresh water by regulating salt and other substances in its blood. In Australia, after a flood several years ago, a handful of bull sharks were stranded in a lake on a golf course but these survived in fresh water and started breeding.
60. Killer whales know that great white sharks need to move to breathe, and they hold them upside down in order to kill them.
61. The world’s most unusual shark, the megamouth (Megachasma pelagios), wasn’t discovered until 1976\. Its mouth can reach up to three feet across, while the body is about 16 feet long. Only 14 such animals have ever been seen.
62. *Amazingly* human corneas are so similar to shark corneas that shark corneas have been used as replacement in human eye surgeries.
63. There is a fishing community in Indonesia that has pet sharks.
64. In 1935, in Sydney, Australia, a captive shark, vomited up another, different shark, which had a human arm in its belly and that arm was found useful to solve a murder.
65. It is not clear why sharks seem to prefer to attack men. In *fact*, nearly 90% of shark attacks have happened to men.
66. A man named Rodney Fox needed over 450 stitches after a Great White Shark punctured his diaphragm, ripped open his lung, broke half of his ribs and fully exposed his abdomen and his heart’s main artery. He survived and started a foundation for the study and conservation of Great White Sharks.
67. A man in Florida wrestled a shark out of the water to retrieve his nephew’s arm that had been bitten off. Doctors were able to re-attach the arm.
68. Even if you aren’t immediately killed from a shark bite, there is a probability of you dying from infections from the atypical bacteria that live in the shark’s mouth.
69. Before sandpaper was invented, people used the rough skin of sharks, called shagreen, to smooth and polish wood. Japanese warriors wrapped the skin around the handles of their swords to keep the swords from slipping out of their hands.
70. Dick Richards, the original director of the movie Jaws, was fired because he kept calling the shark a whale.

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### Dead Sea
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Last updated: 2024-04-06T09:30:37.000Z
#### 30 Facts about the Dead Sea

1. The name, "Dead Sea" is actually gentle compared with its name in Hebrew - Yam ha Maved, which amazingly means, "Killer Sea".
2. The Dead Sea is believed to be about 3 million years old.
3. It is believed that the lake was first spotted by Herod the Great (73 to 4 BC), the Roman King of Judea. Cleopatra is also believed to have promoted the goodness of the Dead Seawater.
4. The fact is the Dead Sea isn’t actually a sea at all! The Dead Sea is a saltwater lake. Water flows into the Dead Sea from streams and rivers but does not flow out.
5. The Dead Sea is located at the deepest point in the Great Rift Valley, which extends from Syria to Mozambique. The Great Rift Valley is the world’s longest geographic phenomenon about 6,400 km (4000 miles), crossing through 20 countries.
6. The Dead Sea is 67 kilometres (42 miles) long and 18 kilometres (11 miles) wide at its widest point. Its main tributary is the Jordan River.
7. The Dead Sea has Jordan bordering to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west.
8. The Dead Sea is 377 m (1,237 ft) deep, making it the deepest hypersaline landlocked lake in the world.
9. The Dead Sea is split into two parts: the northern part of the Dead Sea is geared towards tourism and the health benefits available from the rich deposits of salt, while the southern part of the Dead Sea is largely based around the industrial usage of salts. The huge Dead Sea Works complex is at the southern end.
10. Cleopatra loved the Dead Sea so much, she ordered that cosmetic factories and resorts be built along its shores.
11. The concentration of salts and minerals in the Dead Sea is caused by the inflow of freshwater, no out-flow, and evaporation, which causes the salts to get concentrated in the water.
12. The concentration of Dead Sea salt, or the salinity, is about 8 times normal ocean saltiness (Amazing 33% salt and minerals). It is the second saltiest body of water in the world after Lake Assal in Djibouti, Africa.
13. Amazingly because of salinity the water is much denser than normal sea-water and also denser than our body. One just floats here and can't get drowned.
14. The Dead Sea is filled with minerals including calcium, iodine, saline, potassium, and bromide.
15. Amazingly the Dead Sea spits out asphalt almost constantly which occasionally rises to the surface. Asphalt used in ancient Egypt for mummification was imported from the Dead Sea.
16. Egyptian mummification processes used asphalt and balm and mud imported from the Dead Sea region.
17. There is no marine life in the Dead Sea. The high mineral and salt content of the waters make it impossible for fish or even small creatures and plants to live. Fish that end up in the Dead Sea from the Jordan River can’t survive and die quickly, hence the name dead sea. However, We can find clusters of bacteria, algae or fungi in some parts of the dead sea.
18. Potassium, manufactured from the Dead Sea, is the chief fertilizer enabling agricultural growth in many countries.
19. The date palm is one of the oldest crops in the Dead Sea region. The region contains some 250 hectares (618 acres) of date palms.
20. The surface and shores of the Dead Sea are amazing 423 metres (1,388 ft) below sea level, making it Earth’s lowest elevation on land.
21. You can't swim in the dead sea as you'll be too buoyant but you amazingly float. Hypersalinated water makes your skin feel amazing, soft, refreshed, and moisturised for up to a couple of weeks afterwards.
22. The amazing fact is that a person can drown in the Dead Sea. The high density of water makes any kind of movement extremely difficult. As long as you float on the Dead Sea on your back facing the sky, you are safe. If accidentally, you flip and your back faces the sky face down in the water, you could be in trouble. You have to quickly get back to face facing the sky position. Doing this could be difficult for inexperienced swimmers and then your face will dip in water and you might inhale deadly salty water which might cause electrolyte imbalances which could be fatal. So essentially you will drown but you will not sink!
23. One of the most amazing road journeys is from Jerusalem to the dead sea via the world’s lowest road, Highway 90 for 20 miles descending 4000 feet to reach it. The scenery is spectacularly dry, arid and beautiful with stunning sedimentary rocks on either side of the road. The rock planes are often quite twisted, showing the amazing force which generated the rocks.
24. The amazing fact is that in 1947 a Bedouin shepherd discovered some of the oldest copies of books of the Bible in a cave above the Dead Sea. These 2,100-year-old manuscripts are known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
25. There are a number of beaches and access points to the Dead Sea on the Israeli side, where you can rest on the beach or cover yourself with Dead Sea mud.
26. The two famous places are the Ein Gedi spa and Mineral Beach. The beaches are rocky and salty. At Mineral Beach, there are sinkholes near the sea with the mud of different viscosity and temperature, and at Ein Gedi, they have scooped mud up and put it in large containers.
27. After covering your whole body in mud, you then get to stand around on the beach for about 10 to 15 minutes while the mud dries. Once the mud is dry, you head for the sea.
28. You can also exfoliate with Dead sea salt. The mud contains salt granules and if you massage your skin gently, it exfoliates.
29. The amazing fact is that the unique salt in the Dead Sea is said to cure acne, psoriasis, hives, cellulite, dry skin, dandruff, stress, muscle aches.
30. Amazingly both Ein Gedi and the Mineral Beach also have hot-water sulphur pools, with the water in them coming not from the Dead Sea, but from mineral-rich springs which feed into the sea. These are wonderful experience after the Dead Sea itself.

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### Virus
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Last updated: 2024-04-04T09:30:25.000Z
#### 40 Amazing Virus Facts

1. The name virus was in fact coined from the Latin word meaning slimy liquid or poison.
2. Viruses are simpler than bacteria, made up of genetic code (DNA or RNA) with a protein shell.
3. A virus that contains RNA instead of DNA is called a retrovirus. Amazingly our body has about 8% retrovirus genes passed through generations.
4. Half of all human DNA originally came from viruses, which in fact infected and embedded themselves in our ancestors’ egg and sperm cells.
5. Viruses are not alive. They are inanimate complex organic matter. They lack any form of energy, carbon metabolism, and cannot replicate or evolve on their own.
6. Viruses can’t reproduce on their own. They need to take over another cell (plant, animal, or human).
7. They do not have an organized cell structure.They have no cell nucleus. They typically have one or two strands of DNA or RNA. They have a protective coat of protein called the capsid.
8. Viruses are not classified in any of the five kingdoms of living things. This in fact means they are not bacteria, fungi, protozoa, plants, or animals.
9. Virus particles from regular geometric shapes, even though the proteins from which they are made are irregularly shaped.
10. Viruses are in fact 20 to 400 nanometres in size.
11. The biggest known viruses are mimiviruses, which are 400 nanometers (0.0004 millimeters) in diameter. The viral genome is 1,200,000 nucleotides in length and codes for over 900 proteins.
12. The smallest known viruses are circoviruses, which are 20 nanometers (0.00002 millimeters) in diameter. The viral genome is 1,700 nucleotides in length and codes for two proteins.
13. For every organism on this planet, there are at least 10 viruses, probably more. Over 4,000 viruses have been identified so far.
14. Viruses in fact make up the single largest component in the Oceans.
15. There are a million virus particles per ml of seawater for a global total of 1031 virions!
16. The amazing fact is if they are lined up end to end (Size 200 Nanometers), they would stretch 200 million light-years into space. Almost 200 times farther than the Andromeda Galaxy! And 2000 times longer than the diameter of the whole Milky Way!
17. On average, viruses live on 370 C for seconds, for minutes on 200 C, for an hour on 100 C, for days on 0 0C, and for years on the temperature is a minus.
18. The hotter temperature of your body during viral infection helps the immune system to get rid of viruses. On the other hand, in cold weather, you have more chances to get the flu. There are still many ancient viruses living in the sub-freezing temperature of Antarctica.
19. The first written evidence of a viral infection is dated back to ancient Egypt (3700 B.C), which shows a patient with typical clinical features of poliomyelitis.
20. The first-ever discovered virus is Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) discovered by a Russian Microbiologist, Dmitry Ivanovsky in 1892.
21. The first discovered virus causing disease in humans is the Yellow Fever virus, discovered by Walter Reed in 1901.
22. The structure of the Virus was not observed until the invention of the Electron Microscope in 1931.
23. On the basis of genetic material (Ribonucleic acid), Viruses are classified as either DNA (Double Strand Nucleic Acid) or RNA (Single Strand Nucleic Acid) viruses. Among these types, DNA viruses are stable and while replicating, they make good copies of their genetic material. This can be useful to make vaccines against them. On other hand, RNA viruses are less stable, their genetic material changes quickly due to which it’s hard to make vaccines against them or get vaccinated against the same viral infection repeatedly. This is why the flu vaccine is needed every year.
24. Many viruses cause disease, viruses cause colds, flu, chickenpox, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, rabies, hepatitis, yellow fever. HIV which causes AIDS is a virus.
25. Unlike bacterial infections, it is very hard to treat viral infections. Antibiotics don’t help.
26. Viral infections cannot be cured with antibiotics. Most viral infections, like a cold or flu, or some chest infections, get better on their own with the help of our body immune systems.
27. It is estimated that 50% of children in the USA have had EBV (Epstein Barr Virus), the virus responsible for mononucleosis, and between 90-95% of adults are carriers.
28. Once infected, people become carriers of the EBV(Epstein Barr Virus) for life, though not everyone will experience symptoms.
29. Once people have had some viral infections, like chickenpox, it makes them immune from having it again. Vaccination creates the same kind of immunity, so can prevent people from getting viral infections.
30. More the people who are vaccinated, less the amount of infection in a population, protecting even those people who are not vaccinated. This is called ‘herd immunity’. Depending on the virus, 85-95% of people need to be vaccinated to protect the rest of the people.
31. There is no vaccine against colds, as there are so many different viruses that cause colds.
32. The Spanish Flu is the most well-known pandemic of the flu. It amazingly killed anywhere from 40 to 100 million people from 1918 to 1920\. The first human influenza (Flu) virus was isolated in 1933.
33. In 2005, the 1918 pandemic influenza virus strain was constructed from a nucleic acid sequence obtained from victims of the disease.
34. When we have a cold and cough the virus particles can travel at 320 kilometers an hour and up to 900 meters. That is faster than a passenger jet at takeoff!
35. The HIV-1 genome, which is about 10,000 nucleotides long, can exist as 106020different sequences. To put this number in perspective, there are 1011 stars in the Milky Way galaxy and 1080 protons in the universe.
36. Amoebas turn out to be great places to seek out new viruses. They like to swallow big things and so serve as a kind of mixing bowl where viruses and bacteria can swap genes.
37. Some viruses are useful – viruses called bacteriophages (means ‘bacteria eater’) kill bacteria and are used to protect people against harmful bacteria in food.
38. Antiviral drugs (such as Acyclovir) are Pseudo (fake) genetic material which is perceived and adopted by viruses as their own replicated genetic martial (RNA or DNA) in cells, using which render the viruses harmless.
39. Plants can get virus infections. They can make leaves and flowers change color, or make leaves and stems twisted.
40. Some parasitic wasps lay eggs in caterpillars, where they mature into adult wasps. The wasp eggs contain a virus, encoded in the wasp genome, which prevents the caterpillar from rejecting the eggs.

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### Giant Panda
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Last updated: 2024-04-02T09:30:12.000Z
#### 50 Amazing Facts About Giant Panda

1. Pandas have lived on earth for an amazing two to three million years.
2. The word “panda” may have developed from the Nepalese word poonya, which means “bamboo-eating animal” or “plant-eating animal.
3. The giant panda’s black and white coat and prominent black eye patches have made it one of the best-known species, although it is among the rarest animals in the world.
4. Under its fur, the skin of a giant panda is in fact black where its fur is black, and pink where its fur is white.
5. The red panda and the giant panda share the same habitat and diet, and both animals are also endangered. However, scientific tests show that the red panda is in the raccoon family while the giant panda is in the bear family.
6. The giant panda is a solitary animal, which spends about two-thirds of its day feeding and the remainder resting.
7. An adult giant panda weighs about 200-300 pounds (90-135 kg). On all fours, a giant panda stands about 3 feet (.9 m) tall at the shoulder and measures about 5 feet (1.5 m) long. Males are about 10% larger than females.
8. Adult pandas are so large that they do not have many natural enemies. Snow leopards, however, will prey on vulnerable panda cubs or old and sick adult pandas.
9. The amazing fact is that the giant panda feeds almost exclusively 99 % on the stems, leaves, and fresh young shoots of bamboo. There are about 20 different species of bamboo that pandas will eat. However bamboo is so nutritionally poor that the pandas have to consume up to 20 to 45 kg each day which can take up to 16 hours.
10. Panda’s digestive system is designed for meat. In fact, pandas absorb only 20%-30 % of bamboo nutrients unlike plant-eaters like deer absorbing about 80 %. An adult giant panda in spring can produce about 25 kg of droppings in 24 hours.
11. The extra digit on the panda's hand helps them to tear the bamboo and their throat and gut are covered with a thick layer of mucus to protect against splinters.
12. The giant panda has the largest molar teeth of any carnivore. Their lower jaw has an extra molar. Their molar and pre-molar teeth are adapted to slice and crush tough plant stems. Their strong jaws can crush bamboo stems up to 4 cm in diameter.
13. A giant panda’s face is not chubby. It gets its shape from massive cheek muscles. In fact, a giant panda’s jaw and cheek muscles are so powerful that a panda can easily chew an aluminum dish into tiny pieces.
14. Giant pandas have 42 teeth. Like humans, giant pandas have two sets of teeth in their lifetime.
15. A pair of breeding pandas need more than 11 square miles of land. One giant panda usually needs between 2.5 to 4 square miles of land to survive. It is very rare to see more than one panda at a time in the wild. Giant pandas cannot afford the energy it would take to compete with one another for food, territory, and mates.
16. A panda’s paw has six digits, five fingers, and an opposable pseudo thumb (an enlarged wrist bone). It uses it merely to hold bamboo while eating.
17. Pandas may climb as high as 4,000 meters to feed on higher slopes in the summer season.
18. They are skilled tree climbers and efficient swimmers. Pandas can take refuge in the nearest tree when in danger from predators such as brown bears, leopards, or wild dogs. Its paws are broad with long retractile claws and furry undersides which help it grip when climbing.
19. The giant panda does not hibernate but it will shelter in caves or hollow trees in very cold weather.
20. The panda uses its stump-like tail like a brush to mark territory with ‘scent’ produced by scent glands located beneath the tail.
21. Pandas have a highly developed sense of smell that males use to avoid each other and to find females for mating in the spring.
22. Female pandas ovulate once a year and are fertile for only two or three days.
23. Five months after mating, a single cub is born in a nest of bamboo. It is rare for a female panda to give birth to twins; if she does so, the second weaker cub is unlikely to survive as the mother may ignore it as she does not have enough energy to care for two cubs.
24. The amazing fact is that once they have mated, females chase the males out of their territory and raise their cubs on their own.
25. Giant panda cubs are usually born in August or September and are the size of a stick of butter. A cub has pink skin, a thin coat of white fur, a long tail, and no teeth. Its eyes are closed. By the end of the first month, the baby panda has all of its spots. Its eyes open around 4-6 weeks. A baby panda is almost 2 months old before it is the size of an average human newborn baby. A baby is almost 2 years old when it leaves its mother.
26. The blind infants weigh only about 140 gm at birth. A newborn panda cub is 1/900th the size of its mother and can not crawl until they reach three months of age. A cub has pink skin, a thin coat of white fur, a long tail, and no teeth. By the end of the first month, the baby panda has all of its spots. Its eyes open around 4-6 weeks. It is almost 2 months old before it is the size of an average human newborn baby.
27. More than half of newborn pandas die from diseases or from being accidentally crushed by their mothers.
28. They are in fact born white, and develop their coloring later. The eyespots of a giant panda cub are initially in the shape of a circle. As the cub grows, the circles become shaped like a teardrop.
29. It stays with its mother for about 2 years, until it is independent enough to establish its own territory.
30. There are only about 1,000 giant pandas left in the wild. The Chinese once hunted it, however, today hunting carries strict penalties in China.
31. The giant panda has been on an endangered species list since 1990\. The most significant threats to pandas are habitat loss and poaching. A panda fur is worth between $60,000 and $100,000 on the illegal trade market.
32. Bamboo reaches its flowering cycle every 30-120 years. After bamboo flowers, the entire species of bamboo dies in a process called bamboo dieback. It can take up to 10-15 years for the bamboo to grow back. Pandas have usually been able to migrate to other areas, but they have lost so much of the habitat to humans that migration has become increasingly difficult.
33. The main cause of the panda’s decline now is the erosion of its habitat due to the clearing of areas for crop cultivation. It frequently starves to death.
34. In China, special sanctuaries have been established with sufficient space for 500-600 giant pandas. Both Chinese and American scientists are monitoring conservation programs. Scientists are hoping to increase the wild panda population to 5,000 by 2025.
35. There are only about 240 captive pandas in the world. They are all part of a breeding program. All pandas in the world are owned by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1million per year each for a minimum of 10 years.
36. Keeping even a single panda in a zoo is expensive. A panda costs five times more to keep than the next most expensive animal, an elephant.
37. The first giant panda ever to be born in captivity was born in a Beijing zoo in 1963.
38. It was not until the 20th century that giant pandas became known to the rest of the world outside of China. The first live giant Panda to leave China was in 1936 was named Su-Lin. He arrived at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago USA.
39. Fashion designer and socialite Ruth Harkness (1900-1947), without training or experience, became the first Westerner to capture and present a live giant panda to the world outside China.
40. Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to ever visit China in 1972 and he received two pandas from the Chinese leader, Chairman Mao. The two pandas, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, were placed in the National Zoo in Washington D.C. More than 1 million people visited them during their first year there.
41. Pandas can stand upright, but their short hind legs aren’t strong enough to support their bodies. A panda’s bones are twice as heavy as the bones of other animals the same size.
42. Pandas are pigeon-toed; in other words, they walk with their front paws turned inward.
43. Pandas have plantigrade feet meaning their entire foot (toes and heel) touches the ground when walking similar to the way humans, other bears, and rodents walk. Other animals, such as dogs, cats, and horses walk with their weight on their toes.
44. Pandas do not run fast a slow trot is as fast as they can go.
45. Of all the members of the bear family, only sloth bears have longer tails than pandas.
46. Panda researchers have counted 11 different panda calls and four of them are used only when searching for a mate.
47. The giant panda’s genome was sequenced in 2009 according to the journal Nature.
48. Pandas have been a symbol of peace in China. For example, hundreds of years ago, warring tribes in China would raise a flag with a picture of a panda on it to stop a battle or call a truce.
49. The WWF logo was inspired by Chi-Chi, a giant panda brought to the London Zoo in 1961, when WWF was being created in 1961, one of those founders who sketched the first logo said: "We wanted an animal that is beautiful, is endangered and one loved by many people in the world for its appealing qualities. We also wanted an animal that had an impact in black and white to save money on printing costs."
50. The life span of giant pandas in the wild is approximately 20 years. Captive pandas may live to be 25-30 years old.

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### Snake
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#### 55 Awesome and Amazing Facts About Snakes

1. Snakes are among the deadliest and most dangerous animals in the world killing 40,000 people annually frightening more people than any other animal in the world.
2. There are around 3000 different species of snake.
3. It is thought that snakes evolved from lizards losing their limbs in the evolution.
4. Snakes are found on every continent of the world except Antarctica.
5. Snakes live in oceans, trees, and on the land.
6. Amazingly there are no snakes in New Zealand. There are also no venomous snakes in the Maine state of the US.
7. Instead of eyelids, snakes have a transparent scale protecting their eye.
8. Snakes are immune to their own poison.
9. In fact, snakes continue to grow until the day they die.
10. Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eye membranes.
11. Snake’s scales are made up of Keratin the same material as our fingernails are made from. Snakes shed their entire skin nearly three times a year by molting.
12. The eye of the snake goes milky just before they shed their skin.
13. Snakes scales are smooth and dry and not slimy. Corn snakes use their scales as climbing equipment by angling the scales so that it digs into the bark, allowing them to climb trees.
14. Snakes used in snake charming performances respond to the only movement, not sound. Snakes have internal ears but not external ones.
15. Snakes have poor eyesight, and so possess heat sensors that can pick up vibrations.
16. Snakes smell with their tongue and also taste chemical compositions in the air with it.
17. Snakes are believed to have infrared imaging and they can sense prey using infrared.
18. Snakes move by relaxing and contracting muscles lengthwise along the body. Sidewinding is a specialized form of motion that allows a snake to travel with speed and relatively little expenditure of energy along loose desert sand.
19. Snakes have more than 200 teeth which are not used for chewing but to bite and grip their prey securely since they point backward. Snakes can’t bite food so have to swallow it whole.
20. Snakes are the true carnivores since they don't eat any type of plant. They eat nothing but other animals.
21. Amazingly when snakes strike they have a near 100% success rate.
22. Snakes have flexible jaws which allow them to eat prey 75 to 100 percent bigger than their own size. They have been known to eat animals such as crocodiles and cows.
23. The stomach acids in a snake's stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.
24. The amazing fact is when snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
25. Pythons kill their prey by tightly wrapping around it and suffocating it in a process called constriction.
26. It is a common misconception that snakes build nests for their eggs. Only one species of snake, the king cobra, will build a nest for its young.
27. About 70 percent of snakes lay eggs. These types of snakes are called oviparous. The other 30 percent give birth to live young, much like mammals. This is because some climates are too cold for eggs to develop and hatch, so snakes living in colder climates do not lay eggs.
28. The world's smallest snake is the thread snake, which grows to only about 4 inches (10 centimeters) long looking like an earthworm.
29. Reticulated Python can grow over 9 m (30 ft) in length and are considered the longest snakes in the world. They are highly aggressive and are also known to constrict even humans.
30. The thickest and strongest snake is the Anaconda. The biggest one found measured 111 centimeters (44 inches around). But they are generally harmless to people. They can squeeze something their own weight to death.
31. The flying snake of Java and Malaysia is able to flatten itself out like a ribbon and sail like a glider from tree to tree.
32. The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan of Australia has enough venom in one bite to kill over 200,000 mice. It is found in the black soil plains where Queensland, South Australia, and the Northern Territory borders meet.
33. The amazing fact is that the inland Taipan could kill 100 people with a single bite but these snakes are shy and harmless for humans as there is still no record of a human fatality caused by it as yet.
34. Philippine Cobra is the second deadliest snake though smaller in size average length is 1 meter. Its neurotoxic venom causes death in 30 minutes though tissue damage is minimal. The Philippine cobra is capable of spitting its venom up to three meters.
35. Indian Krait is the third most venomous snake. Their venom is 16 times more effective than cobra venom quickly causing muscle paralysis. They are mostly found in India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.
36. King cobra is the world’s longest poisonous snake and may have lengths up to 22 Ft. It is mostly found in the forests of South East Asia and India.
37. King Cobras are able to kill immediately after they are born. The King Cobra is also fond of eating other snakes.
38. Cobras are the most aggressive snakes in the world. A drop of cobra’s venom can kill 50 humans. Its venom is strong enough to kill an elephant.
39. The Spitting Cobra defends itself from predators by spitting its venom. It can spit up to a distance of 11 Ft.
40. Sea snakes are also very venomous snakes. They could barely move on land but have the capability to kill 200 people.
41. In fact, you can't suck the venom out of a snake bite since the venom enters the bloodstream far too quickly to be sucked out effectively.
42. Hognose Snakes are great actors. They trick predators by playing dead. They can also set off a rancid stench that will even fool the hungriest flies.
43. Black Mamba is the longest venomous snake in African savannas and open woodlands averaging around 8 Ft and sometimes growing up to 14 Ft. Mamba uses its incredible speed to escape threats, not to hunt prey. It is known to be capable of reaching speeds of around 20 kilometers per hour traveling with up to a third of its body raised off the ground. It is the fastest moving land snake.
44. When black mamba attacks, it will charge and strike up to a dozen times in a row, injecting more venom each time making it very dangerous. The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.

##### How to Identify Poisonous Snakes

1. Snake venom is a complex mixture of proteins that, once unleashed, rapidly spreads through the victim’s body. Neurotoxin venom, which destroys the nervous system, is the variety that kills quickest.
2. Most venomous snakes usually have triangular-shaped heads unlike spoon-shaped rounded heads of nonpoisonous snakes. The triangular shape is due to venomous glands at the sides.
3. Some venomous snakes have vertical eye slits, versus round pupils usually seen in non-venomous snakes.
4. Look for a pit between the snake's eyes and nostrils. A poisonous snake normally has a heat-sensitive pit there to locate warm-blooded prey. These are pit vipers. Non-poisonous snakes lack such pits.
5. A snake with a rattle on its tail is a rattlesnake, which is poisonous.
6. Notice the underside scales on the tip of the tail. Most venomous snakes have one row of scales there while non-poisonous snakes usually have two rows.
7. If the snake is swimming with only its head above water, it is most likely a harmless water snake, but if the body is floating too, it could be a venomous snake as almost all venomous snakes swim with their lungs inflated, leaving the majority of their bodies afloat.
8. Examine the bite marks in case of a snake attack. Two close-set puncture marks would indicate that the snake has fangs and is venomous. By contrast, a ragged bite mark means the snake lacks fangs, which only non-poisonous snakes have.
9. A very bright-colored snake is likely to be poisonous. Most solid-colored snakes are not poisonous.
10. There are exceptions to the rule. Don’t take chances with snakes. The coral snake found in the USA is a very poisonous snake but does not have a heat sensor, triangular face, or slit-like pupils. The color of a coral snake, however, is characteristic enough to identify.
11. The black mamba, the cobra, the coral snake, and the inland taipan snake are venomous but have round pupils like most non-poisonous snakes.

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### Internet
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Last updated: 2024-03-28T09:30:59.000Z
#### Top 35 Amazing Internet Facts

1. Amazingly Al Gore, Vice President of USA invented the word "Internet".
2. Emails started in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson and the first e-mail was sent written entirely in UPPER CASE.
3. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.
4. The amazing fact is that while it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
5. The first domain name ever registered was symbolics.com. Business.com is the most expensive domain name sold for $ 7.5 million.
6. Amazingly facebook paid $8.5 million to acquire the domain name 'fb.com'.
7. The fact is that a single individual Dr. Lieven Van Neste owns over 200000 domain names.
8. Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
9. Domain names are being registered at an amazing rate of one million names every month.
10. When Montenegro became an independent nation from Yugoslavia, its Internet domain name amazingly changed from .yu to .me.
11. Amazingly Microsoft threatened 17-year-old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com.
12. Mosaic was the first popular web browser which was released in 1993.
13. U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.
14. The amazing fact is that Google uses over 1 million computers for its operation and handles over 1 billion search requests per day.
15. An E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
16. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
17. Amazingly only 10% of the web pages are used by search engines.
18. More than 80% of web pages are in English.
19. About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.
20. Amazingly 15% of American adults do not use the Internet.
21. Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on Youtube.
22. Of the 250 billion email messages sent every day, an amazing 81% are pure spam.
23. Amazingly over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
24. The very first youtube video was uploaded on April 23rd, 2005.
25. The longest video on YouTube is amazing 596 hours according to uploader MoldytoasterMedia.
26. The world's fastest Internet connection belongs to Sigbritt, a 75-year-old Swedish woman and is an amazing 40 Gigabit/second! she can just download a full high-definition DVD in just two seconds!
27. The first tweet on Twitter in 2006 read “just setting up my Twttr”! in the site’s infancy, the social network was called “Twttr”.
28. Amazingly Emma Watson is the most dangerous thing you can search on the Internet. About eight out of every ten search results are malicious links.
29. Hackers in 1999 discovered an amazing flaw that allowed logging into any Hotmail account with the password 'eh.'
30. All Internet is 4 exabytes of information. By the way, 1 exabyte = 1000 petabytes; 1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes; 1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes. Each year, this amount is doubled.
31. The country with the highest percentage of net users in Sweden ( 75 %).
32. The amazing fact is that if you weighed all the electrons used to store the information on the internet, it would weigh less than a chicken’s egg.
33. China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.
34. Amazingly 30,000 websites are hacked every day.
35. The fact is there's high-speed Internet on the way right up to the top of Mount Everest.

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### Bruce Lee
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Last updated: 2024-03-26T09:30:34.000Z
#### 30 Facts about Bruce Lee

1. Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco. The fact is his ancestry was German and Chinese. His father was a full-blooded Chinese, while his mother was of German-Chinese descent.
2. Bruce Lee is easily one of the single most physically fit human beings to have ever lived.
3. Bruce Lee was known to be a great Cha-Cha dancer. He had won the Hong Kong Cha-Cha Championship in 1958.
4. The amazing fact is Bruce Lee was far from being genetically perfect, as most people believe. Bruce Lee wore contact lenses and actually failed his physical exam in 1963 and was deemed physically unacceptable by the U.S. Army Draft Board.
5. Amazingly Bruce Lee was able to jump 8 feet from a standstill. Lee could also break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick.
6. It's absolutely amazing that Bruce Lee had the ability to snatch a dime off a person’s open palm before they could close it, and leave a penny behind.
7. Bruce Lee’s speed in terms of reacting + punching from a distance of three feet away was found to be amazing five-hundredths of a second (0.05 second).
8. Lee mastered this technique, in which he could deliver a devastating blow yet have his fist travel a mere one inch (2.54 cm) in distance before striking his opponent. The amazing fact is that he could send the adversary 15 feet away with that blow.
9. In 1962, Bruce lee landed 15 punches, a kick and knocked out his opponent in a fight that lasted amazing 11 seconds.
10. Bruce Lee was one of Hong Kong’s most prominent child actors, with 20 movies to his name by the time he was 18.
11. Bruce Lee’s first notable film (Golden Gate Girl) was shot in the USA but wasn’t released in the USA until 5 years after it was released in China.
12. Early footage of Lee in The Green Hornet had to be re-filmed because when it was later played back Lee’s movements were so fast all of his opponents just fell over and amazingly Lee never appeared to move at all.
13. Bruce Lee’s kicks were so fast that while filming for one scene in entering the Dragon, they had to re-film it in slow motion (34 frames) so that it wouldn’t appear fake.
14. Bruce Lee could amazingly punch holes in a soda can with his finger even when they were made of strong steel.
15. Bruce Lee could do push-ups with the thumb and index fingers of one hand only.
16. The amazing fact is Bruce Lee had the ability to catch a grain of rice in mid-air with chopsticks.
17. Once Bruce Lee kicked a man so hard that it broke a bystander’s arm when the man fell into him.
18. Bruce Lee was able to perform 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups and it has been said that he performed push-ups with up to 125 lb of weight on his back. He just weighed approx. 130 lbs.
19. Demand for his private Kung Fu lessons grew so high and his hourly rate soared to as much as $275 per hour.
20. Bruce Lee was a fan of The Great Gama, the only undefeated wrestler in the world. Great Gama’s career spanned 50 years.
21. The movie ‘Enter the Dragon’ was the last complete film made by Bruce Lee before his death. It was a 1973 Warner Brothers martial arts film.
22. Bruce's last movie "Enter the Dragon" was made for a modest $ 600,000 in 1973\. The amazing fact is to date, it has grossed over $ 300 million.
23. The San Francisco Giants eradicated their Seagull problem with a Red-Tailed Hawk named “Bruce Lee.”
24. Yip Man who taught Bruce Lee opened his own martial arts school so that he could afford opium.
25. Jackie Chan began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films, Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon.
26. There was a cultural phenomenon called Bruceploitation, in which numerous Bruce Lee look-alikes starred in cheap knock-off movies to cash in on the obsession with Lee after he died.
27. Bruce Lee’s secret hobby was writing poetry.
28. It was a tragedy that Bruce Lee died from an allergic reaction to a pain killer at the very young age of 32.
29. Bruce Lee’s last movie (Game of Death) contains footage of his actual funeral with close-ups of Lee in his coffin.
30. Steve McQueen, James Coburn, and Chuck Norris were amongst the pallbearers at Bruce Lee’s funeral.

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### Rabbit
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#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Rabbit

1. Rabbits are territorial animals that live in loosely organized social groups. They enjoy the company of other rabbits.
2. Rabbits and bunnies are the same animals.
3. Rabbits live in meadows, woods, forests, grasslands, deserts, and wetlands.
4. Male rabbits are referred to as “bucks” and female rabbits are referred to as “does”. A baby rabbit is called a kit.
5. Rabbits were first domesticated in the 5th Century by monks in France.
6. More than half the world’s population of rabbits live in North America.
7. They live in warrens comprising of an intricate series of underground tunnels with different entrances and exits.
8. Cotton Tail Rabbits live in above-ground nests.
9. In the wild, warrens can be pretty big. One single warren in Europe had 450 rabbits and 2000 entrances!
10. Although typically very quiet, rabbits do communicate vocally, with varying types of vocalizations communicating different messages
11. When a rabbit is very happy, it expresses its joy by jumping up into the air, twisting and flicking its feet and head. This movement is known as a binky!
12. Rabbits stand upright on their hind legs to give themselves a better vantage point to look for predators. They alert other rabbits to the presence of danger by thumping their hind legs.
13. Rabbits have an excellent sense of smell, hearing, and vision. They have nearly 360° panoramic vision, allowing them to detect predators from all directions except a small blind-spot in front of their nose.
14. Rabbits have good night vision and can see movement from long distances all around without moving the head.
15. Rabbits have long ears which can be as long as 10 cm (4 in). Rabbits use their long ears to pick up sounds from every direction and can hear in two directions at once! The large surface area of their ears helps to regulate body temperature.
16. Rabbit whiskers are as wide as the body so they can feel their way in tunnels and not get stuck.
17. Rabbits' noses twitch 20 to 120 times per minute faster when excited or stressed and slower when relaxed or sleeping.
18. Amazingly Rabbits can sleep with their eyes open.
19. Rabbits have extremely strong hind limbs which allow them to leap up to one-meter-high and three-meter long.
20. Rabbits are natural runners and can reach speeds of up to 50 to 65 Km.
21. Rabbits are different from hares. Hares live in above nests like Cotton Tail Rabbits. Hares are usually bigger with longer ears and a longer hind leg. Hares are born with their eyes open, hair covering their bodies, and they can run within a few minutes of birth, unlike Rabbits.
22. Rabbits are most active at dawn and dusk. They usually eat around dusk.
23. The average size of a rabbit litter is usually between 4 and 12 babies, which results after a short 30-day gestation. Male rabbits can reproduce as early as 7 months of age, and females as early as 4 months.
24. In one year a single female rabbit is capable of producing an amazing 800 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren!
25. The largest litter of bunnies ever reported consisted of 24 kits.
26. As the Rabbits multiply rapidly, they are a symbol of fertility and rebirth.
27. Domesticated rabbits that people raise do not open their eyes until they reach about 2 weeks of age. Baby domestic rabbits are actually born fur-less.
28. The average lifespan of a domesticated rabbit is around 5 to 8 years. The World’s oldest rabbit on record lived to be 16 years old.
29. The average heart rate of a rabbit ranges between 130-325 beats per minute.
30. Rabbits have 28 teeth. Amazingly, a rabbit’s teeth never stop growing throughout its life. Amazingly Rabbits chew 120 times a minute.
31. Rabbits eat their droppings as they need to digest some of their food twice. The soft nutrient-packed droppings are from the first round while the hard, round pellets are from the second round of digestion.
32. Rabbits only sweat on the pads of their feet.
33. In general, rabbits are very clean animals that will groom themselves and even each other. You rarely need to give them a bath if kept as a pet.
34. Rabbits are kept at pets in increasing numbers during the last 50 years. It is estimated that over 2 million U.S. households own a pet rabbit.
35. Rabbits kept as pets should be kept in pairs. Companionship is key. Rabbits kept as pets should also be offered shelter and hiding places. Rabbits confined to open spaces with no protection will feel threatened.
36. Rabbits are herbivores meaning they do not eat meat.
37. Fiber, in the form of hay and grass, is the most vital food for rabbits and they can die without it. A diet based solely on vegetables, fruit, and carrots does not provide all the nutrients that rabbits need.
38. Rabbits cannot vomit, so it is super important to feed them only proper healthy and fresh food.
39. Digging is an innate and favorite pastime of rabbits, both wild and domesticated. You should provide them digging substitutes, such as a sand or earth pit.
40. Domesticated rabbits should never be let out in the wild. They will not be able to survive.

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### Parrot
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Last updated: 2024-03-22T09:30:10.000Z
#### Top 30 Amazing Facts About Parrot | Amazing Facts 4U

1. There are 300 species of parrots in a variety of colors and sizes. Some 130 species of parrots have been declared endangered.
2. *Fossils of modern parrots with the same bone structure and appearance as the ones we see today are about 23 million years old.*
3. *Most parrots live in tropical areas. They have curved beaks, strong legs, and clawed feet. Parrots are often brightly colored.*
4. *Parrots are divided into groups such as cockatoos, lories, lovebirds, macaws, and parakeets.*
5. Parrots have zygodactylous feet meaning they have 4 toes, two on the front and two on the back of each foot. This helps them grip tree limbs.
6. Parrots are incredibly intelligent birds. Parrots, when not nesting, live in groups known as flocks.
7. Larger parrots can live more than 75 years, while smaller ones live up to 15 years only.
8. *Amazing fact* is that in many species of parrots, the males and females are identical and blood tests need to be done to tell them apart.
9. Parrots eat seeds, nuts, fruit, buds and other plant material.Sometimes they will eat insects.
10. The Parrot is the only bird which can bring food to it's mouth with it's foot. While eating, parrots hold their food in one of their feet, which can be either left or right, making parrots left as well as right handed.
11. *Amazingly* a parrot’s beak grows continuously and is worn down by eating, chewing wood, and by grinding the top and bottom parts against each other.
12. Parrots are hole nesters. They build their nests in holes in trees, termite mounts, rock cavities, or ground tunnels.
13. Only parrots kept as pets mimic people and noises. African gray parrots are the best mimics. *Amazingly* parrots in the wild don’t mimic.
14. Parrots have been taught how to read, count, and identify shapes and colors. *Amazingly* parrots can see ultraviolet light, while humans cannot.
15. Parrots are the only animals that are capable of mimicking human speech. Some parrots, such as African Greys, talk in context and near perfect human voices.
16. They are also monogamous, which mean they have only one partner for life.
17. The world's heaviest type of parrot is the kakapo, which can weigh up to 4 kg. They are nocturnal searching for food at night. It is endangered species. There are fewer than 150 left.
18. *Amazingly* the smallest parrot in the world is the buff-faced pygmy parrot , the little bird only weighs in at just 10 gms and grows to a very small 3 inches.
19. *Amazing* thing is that you can tell how old a macaw parrot is by looking at his eyes. Younger birds have black eyes, while older macaws have yellow eyes.
20. *Amazing fact* is that parrots do not have vocal chords. They have amazing control of their trachea and they produce sound by pushing air out of it. They change the pitch by altering the shape and depth of their trachea. When parrots talk, they are actually whistling indifferent ways.
21. *Amazingly* wild Macaws and Cockatoos species can fly up to 500 miles in a day, while searching for food.
22. Chocolate is poisonous for parrots and should not be given.
23. In comparison to other pets, like cats and dogs, parrots need more love and care. They are not born to live in cages, but they have to!
24. When caged and neglected for long periods boredom can lead to madness in parrots. The birds need constant interaction, affection, and mental stimulation. A parrot should never be left in a cage alone and with nothing to do.
25. Although colorful , *amazingly* parrot eggs are always white.
26. Parrots typically lay two to eight eggs at one time which need 18 to 30 days of incubation before they can hatch, so the parents take turns sitting on the eggs.
27. Parrot chicks are blind for the first two weeks of their lives. At three weeks, they start to grow their adult feathers. The chick will not be fully matured for one to four years, depending on its species.
28. It's *amazing* that most parrots sleep standing on one foot.
29. *Amazingly* a parrot's beak can close with a force close to 160 Kg per square inch.
30. The flag of Dominica features the sisserou parrot.

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### Philippines
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Last updated: 2024-03-20T09:30:18.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Philippines

##### Land & Geography

- The Philippines are named after King Philip II of Spain. Explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the Eastern Visayas Felipenas first, and then the name was applied to the whole country. The country’s official name is the Republic of the Philippines.
- The Philippines consists of 2,100 islands. The Philippines is the second-largest archipelago (an extensive group of islands) in the world after Indonesia and is made up of 7,107 islands located in the South China Sea, Philippine Sea, Sulu Sea, Celebes Sea, and the Luzon Strait.
- The Philippines has a population of more than 100 million people having annual growth of about 2% making it one of the fastest-growing countries in the world.
- Manila is considered to be the world’s most densely populated city with a population of 1.7 million with a population density of 43,000 per square km.
- The Conus gloriamus, the rarest and most expensive seashell in the world, is one of the 12,000 species of seashells found in the Philippines. The first of these shells sold at auction for about US$5,000.

##### Flora & Fauna

- The Philippine, or monkey-eating, eagle is the largest of all eagles and was declared the national bird of the Philippines. It is the largest of all eagles having a wingspan of almost 7 feet (2 m). It is critically endangered with only about 500 left.
- The Philippines is home to the world’s longest snake, the Reticulated Python which also happens to be the world’s longest reptile. It can grow to 28.5 feet (8.7 m) in length.
- Jellyfish Lake in the Philippines contains more than 13 million jellyfish.
- The Philippine capital city of Manila was named after the white-flowered mangrove plant, the Nilad. It is a tree with white, star-shaped flowers yielding dark blue dye. It is called the Indigo tree by other countries.
- Of the eight known species of giant clams (the largest living bivalve mollusk), seven are found in the Philippines.
- The Philippines is home to the world’s smallest hoofed animal, the Philippine mouse-deer standing about 15.8 inches (40 cm) tall at the shoulder level.
- The Philippines has the highest rate of discovery of new animal species with 16 new species of mammals discovered just in the last 10 years.

##### History

- After Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda fled the Malacañang Palace in 1986 after 20-year rule, she famously left behind 15 mink coats, 508 gowns, 1,000 handbags, and 1,060 pairs of shoes from a collection rumored to contain around 3,000 pairs.

##### Places / Architecture

- The University of Santo Tomas was founded in Manila, Philippines, by Dominican monks in 1611\. It is the world’s largest Catholic university in terms of population. Later the University of San Carlos in Cebu City was founded in 1595\. Both these are older than the Harvard University founded in 1636.
- The Mindanao Trench near the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean is the second deepest spot under the world’s oceans at 34,440 feet (10,497 m) explored by the German ship Emden in 1927.
- In the Philippine island province of Camiguin, there are more volcanoes (7) than towns (5) though there hasn’t been an eruption since the mid-1950s. The island has the most number of volcanoes per square km in the world.
- Mt. Pinatubo on the Philippine island of Luzon erupted on June 15, 1991, and created the largest mushroom cloud in the world. Its eruption ejected 10 billion metric tons of magma and 20 million tons of Sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere.
- The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River in Palawan, Philippines, is 5 miles (8.2 km) long. Until the discovery of a 6.2 mile (10 km) underground river in Mexico, it was the longest subterranean waterway in the world.
- The Philippines is prone to earthquakes experiencing one large magnitude earthquake (7.75 or higher on the Richter scale) every 10 years, seven earthquakes of major magnitude (7.0 to 7.4) every 10 years, and five earthquakes of moderate magnitude (6.0 to 6.9) every year.
- The largest school in the World is K-12 in Philippines with an enrollment of 25000 students.
- Of the top 10 largest shopping malls in the world, three are found in the Philippines: SM Megamall, SM North Edsa, and SM Mall of Asia.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The Philippines is the only majority Christian nation in Asia having 80% Roman Catholic population.
- There are about 175 individual languages spoken in the Philippines, 171 of which are living while the other 4 have no speaker left.
- English and Filipino, based on Tagalog, are the country’s two officially recognized languages. The Philippines has more than 1,000 regional dialects.
- Over 11 million Filipinos work overseas constituting about 11% of the entire population of the Philippines making them the second-largest Asian group in the United States, next to the Chinese.
- Filipinos observe the world’s longest Christmas season beginning in September and officially ends in January. As part of the festivities, they celebrate Simbang Gabi, or Night Mass where Catholics attend nine services in a row leading up to Christmas Eve. If a person attends all nine masses, it is said their wish will be granted.
- San Fernando, Philippines, is known as the “Christmas Capital of the Philippines” most famous for its parols (giant Christmas lanterns) which can rise 20 feet (6 m) in the air. Only about 10 giant parols are made each year produced each year for competition costing around US$15,000 each.
- Some Filipinos are wary of the number 13 and will avoid having 13 people at a table. Also steps to the main entrance of a house should not fall on a number divisible by three.
- Superstitious Filipinos will not travel or bathe on Holy Thursday or Good Friday during Holy Week, the week before Easter.
- According to Filipino custom, it is considered rude to open gifts immediately after they are given.
- The traditional embroidered Filipino male garment, the barong Tagalog or baro, is woven from piña, pineapple plant fibers, or jusi, banana tree fibers, and worn on formal occasions.
- In the rural Philippines, most women give birth at home and then have the baby’s placenta buried beneath the house, often with an object symbolizing what the parents hope the child will grow up to be. In the cities, this practice is prohibited.
- The Philippines is considered the text capital of the world as every day 35 million Filipinos send about 450 millions SMS messages more than the total number of daily text messages sent in the U.S. and Europe combined.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The Philippines was the first country in Southeast Asia to gain independence after World War II, in 1946.
- The Philippines is the only country in the world whose flag is hoisted upside down when the country is at war.
- Philippines has a problem of human trafficking with about 375,000 girls in the sex trades, mostly between the ages of 12 and 20.
- Even though the first elected Filipino president, Ferdinand Marcos, has been dead for more than two decades, his body has never been properly buried and it remains “on ice” while officials quibble about whether he should buried in the cemetery reserved for Filipino heroes and past presidents as his regime was riddled with corruption.

##### Economy & Corporates

- The Philippines is the world’s largest exporter of coconuts and tropical fruits, such as papaya.
- The Philippines is the world’s largest supplier of nurses, supplying roughly 25% of all overseas nurses worldwide.
- The Philippines is the world’s second biggest geothermal producer after the USA with 18% of the country’s electricity needs being met by geothermal power.
- The anti-lock braking systems (ABS) used in Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Volvo cars are made in the Philippines. Ford, Toyota, and Nissan are the most prominent automakers manufacturing cars in the country.

##### Sports

- Cockfighting is a centuries old blood sport still very popular, and the country has hosted several events in Manila’s Araneta Coliseum twice a year.
- Basketball is the most popular sport in the Philippines and the Phillipines Basketball Association is the first and oldest basketball in Asia and second oldest after USA.
- Manny Pacquiao is one of the best boxers having four major titles under his belt: the WBC International Super Featherweight Title, the RING Featherweight Title, the IBF Super Bantamweight Title, and the WBC Flyweight Title.
- The world record for most women breastfeeding simultaneously was 3,541, set in Manila, Philippines, on May 4, 2006.

##### Inventions

- The antibiotic erythromycin was invented by Filipino Dr. Abelardo Aguilar in 1949 for his company the Eli Lilly. Erythromycin is used for people who are allergic to penicillin.
- A Filipino named Roberto del Rosario patented the first working karaoke machine in 1975 meaning “singing without accompaniment” which was later made famous by Japanese.
- The world’s biggest pair of shoes was made in Marikina City, Philippines, in 2002 which measured 17.4 feet (5.3 m) in length, 7.9 feet (2.4 m) in width, and almost 6.6 feet (2 m) in height costing 2 million Philippine pesos.
- The world’s largest pearl was discovered by a Filipino diver in the Palawan Sea in 1934\. Known as the “Pearl of Lao Tzu,” the gem weighs 6.35 kg and measures 9.5 inches long and 5.5 inches in diameter valuing over US$40 million.

##### Famous People

- War journalist Carlos Peňa Rómulo was the first Asian to win the American Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence in 1942\. He was also the first Asian to become president of the United Nations.

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### Carrot
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Last updated: 2024-03-18T09:30:31.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Carrot

1. Carrots originated in Afghanistan or possibly Iran and have been cultivated for over 5,000 years.
2. The ancient Greeks cultivated carrots and passed them onto the Romans. The carrot had traveled to China, Japan, and India by the 13th century.
3. The name “carrot” comes from the Greek word “karoton.”
4. Carrots were among the first crops brought to America by the colonists in Jamestown in 1607\. California is the top fresh carrot producer in the United States, while Washington is the top producer of carrots meant for canning and other processing.
5. Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food mainly for their leaves and seeds rather than their roots.
6. In the 16th century, the orange carrot was specially developed in the Netherlands in honor of the House of Orange, the Dutch Royal Family. Yellow carrots were cross-bred with red carrots.
7. Newly orange, carrots traveled England with Dutch travelers during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
8. China is the world's top carrot producer with 45% of world production followed by Russia and the United States. The carrot is in the top 10 of most important global vegetable crops.
9. There are over 100 species of edible carrots today. Amazingly the original carrots were white, purple, red or yellow but not orange.
10. Carrots are the second most popular type of vegetable after potatoes.
11. Carrots are a biennial. They store energy their first year of life in the root and in the second year, they flower, seed and die.
12. It is estimated that the average person will consume about 11,000 carrots in a lifetime.
13. Carrots are about 87% water. They get their color from beta carotene which gets converted to vitamin A as needed in the body providing 30% of Vitamin A in U.S. diet.
14. It is impossible to get vitamin A poisoning from carrots, as vitamin A is not directly available.
15. Amazing fact is that Carrot seeds are so small that 2,000 can fit in a teaspoon making it difficult to plant by hand. Carrot seeds are often covered in clay to make a large pellet, sewn into strips of paper, or mixed with sand to ease planting by hand.
16. Unlike most vegetables, carrots are more nutritious when eaten cooked than eaten raw as carrots have tough indigestible cellular walls. Cooking partially dissolves thickened cell walls freeing up nutrients. It is better to boil or steam carrots whole and then cut them up. If they are cut first, much of the nutrients will be lost.
17. Cooking the carrots in fat or oils or juicing them increases the availability of carotenoids by 600 %. Fats also help the absorption of carotenoids into the blood by 1,000 %, as carotenoids are fat soluble, so pour a little oil on top!
18. A medium-size carrot has 25 calories, 6 grams of carbohydrates, and 2 grams of fiber. It is an excellent source of vitamin A, providing more than 200% of your daily requirement in just one carrot. One glass of milk contains the same amount of calcium as in 9 carrots.
19. Consuming 2 carrots a day lowers cholesterol levels by 20 % due to a soluble fiber called calcium pectate which bind with bile acids.
20. The world longest carrot was measured to be 19 feet 1 7/8 inches (5.839 metres). The heaviest one ever grown weighted 9.07 Kg.
21. The natural sugars and sweetness of carrots allow them to be used in carrot cakes. In India they are used as desserts, while countries such as Portugal use carrots in jam. Carrot juice is widely consumed as a health drink.
22. Carrots contain more sugar than any other vegetable, except for beets. Attempts have been made to extract sugar from Carrots, but the resulting thick syrup refuses to crystallize and has not proved commercially successful.
23. Carrots were the first vegetable to be canned commercially.
24. Eating too many carrots can lead to "carotenemia" which causes the skin to turn yellowish orange, especially on the palms or soles of the feet. The condition is harmless and reversible once the consumption is reduced.
25. Carrots have many medicinal properties. They can repair damaged cells, maintain health of the skin, serve as good antiseptic for skin, cure eye diseases, clean your mouth from bacteria, regulate alkaline ratio of your body, treat worms in children, improve breast milk in women, restore regular function of liver, regulate blood pressure etc.
26. Studies have shown carrots reduce the risk of lung cancer, breast cancer, and colon cancer.
27. In a Harvard University study, people who ate 5 or more carrots a week were less likely to suffer a stroke than those who ate only one carrot a month or less.
28. Amazingly Carrots produce more distilled spirit than potatoes.
29. Tobacconists in France used to put a carrot in their bins to keep their tobacco from drying out.
30. The research into biofuels reveals that Carrot may be one of the sources. However, it would take approximately 6000 carrots to drive one mile.

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### Switzerland  (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2024-03-16T09:30:26.000Z
#### 70 Facts about Switzerland (Part 2)

##### Customs & Culture

- Public transport runs like clockwork with no delays. You can ride on many public transit systems (bus, light rail) without buying a ticket as ticket inspections are rare.
- There are more banks than dentists.
- There are now more Starbucks coffee shops than banks!
- *The amazing fact* is every post office is a bank.
- You will find bank tellers protected by bullet-proof glass in Switzerland.
- Teaching is one of the highest-paid occupations with the most vacation time: 12 weeks!
- In Switzerland, the fuel economy is measured in "quantity per distance" (liters per 100 km). In the US, it is measured in "distance per quantity" (miles per gallon).
- In Switzerland, it is illegal to keep just one guinea pig. You got to have them in pairs.
- It is in *fact* virtually impossible to lock yourself out of an office or apartment because almost all doors only lock with a key. Almost all doors have handles, not knobs.
- The amazing fact is a child’s name must be on an approved list. Swiss parents do not have the freedom to name a kid. Resident foreigners can be exempted from this rule, but you must obtain an official statement from an embassy that attests that the name is acceptable in the other country.
- *Amazingly* homeowner and apartment dweller insurance policies state clearly that you are covered for theft even if you have left the doors or windows unlocked.
- You can be fined if you do not properly maintain the appearance of your property (house, car, etc).
- *Amazingly* house loans/mortgages can be taken out for periods up to 100 years.
- In order to use shopping carts in a supermarket, you have to deposit a CHF 2 coin in a slot on top of the cart, which releases the chain by which the cart is attached to the next one. When you return the cart to its place, you get your coin back. All stores are usually closed by 7 pm.
- In Switzerland, alcohol is not sold in stores after 9 pm.
- Almost all apartment buildings have assigned laundry times. In general, you are assigned a specific half-day slot per week.
- In Switzerland, if you fail your practical driver’s license test 3 times, you are required to consult an official psychologist to assess the reasons for your previous failures before you are allowed to retake the exam.
- There are photo radars on the autoroutes and in many towns. If you are captured on film, the police mail you a ticket. If you protest and demand the photo, you have to pay a bigger fine.
- Traffic fines for serious offenses are based on a percentage of your income. If caught speeding in a residential area, you can actually spend the night in jail!
- In *fact,* license plates are issued to individuals. If you sell the car and buy a new one, you keep the plate.
- Whenever a new building or house is being constructed, there is always a fixed crane at the site.
- *Amazingly* very few places have air conditioning.
- If you own any radios or TVs capable of receiving broadcasts, you have to pay a monthly tax (TV/Radio license).
- FM radio stations are on both even and odd frequencies.
- The common way to pay bills is to pay everything at once for all the expenses. The bills are standardized red or blue forms. When you are ready to pay, you collect all the bills together and either fill out, mail a single form to your bank, or take everything to the post office. You can also use the automatic Multimat at the bank to pay the bills by inserting the color-coded forms into the slot, where they are scanned.
- The profession of most people in *fact* is listed in the phonebook, just after their name.
- Swiss mailboxes have two slots - one for letters, and one for packages.
- The police clean up after car accidents. Once they have collected all the relevant information (photos, chalked outlines of where the accident occurred, etc.) and after the vehicle(s) have been removed, the police take broom and dustpan from their trunks and sweep up.
- *The amazing fact* is you can make it a condition of your work contract to be allowed to keep dogs in your office. One woman at a well-known business school keeps two Labrador retrievers in their own beds under her desk.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The last legal execution of a witch was in 1782.
- Switzerland outlawed the death penalty earlier than any country in the world in 1790\. For serious offenses, it will instate multiple life sentences.
- *Amazingly* after World War I law was enacted that every home and citizen should have access to a bomb shelter within a mile from their residence. Still, there are enough bomb shelters to accommodate the entire population.
- The Swiss military keeps fully stocked artillery bunkers, disguised as quaint country homes, in the middle of populated villages.
- Switzerland has no single Head of State. It instead has a seven-member executive council, which serves as the Swiss collective head of state.
- The president of Switzerland in *fact* changes every year.
- There are 26 cantons in Switzerland, each of which acts as a state, with its own constitution, legislature, government, and courts.
- The amazing fact is if Swiss citizens do not agree with a law passed by Parliament, the law can be put up for a national vote. Before such voting, the concerned citizens must be able to get 50,000 signatures challenging the law within 100 days after the law was passed. Likewise, constitutional amendments can be challenged if 100,000 signatures can be gathered within 18 months. Voters decide by a simple majority whether to accept or reject the law.
- Switzerland is the only country, in *fact,* the first country to implement such direct democracy involving public petitions and the referendum.
- Switzerland does things differently. They have no national flower, animal, or motto.
- Switzerland’s flag is square compared to other countries that are rectangular.
- Switzerland joined the United Nations only in 2002.
- Swiss guards are considered the highest trained military personal in the world. The Swiss Guards have been traditionally entrusted to protect the Vatican.
- *Amazingly* by law, you need to buy a liability insurance sticker for riding a bicycle on public roads.
- It was once against the law to slam your car door!
- *The amazing fact* is it is illegal for Islamic followers to build a mosque in Switzerland. However, private home practice is not forbidden of any religion.
- *Amazingly* men in Switzerland are required to keep the firearms they are issued during their military service at home even after they leave the military to prevent any home break-ins and to have the countries men ready to mobilize in the event of a threat.
- One of Switzerland’s main defense strategies is to demolish every main access into the country via roads, bridges, and railways. There are in *fact* at least 3,000 locations currently prepared to blow at a moment’s notice in case of an attack.
- Every citizen is required by law to own a bomb shelter or access to one.
- Switzerland, which is often praised as a model for direct democracy, did not in *fact* grant women the right to vote in any of the elections until 1990.
- *The fact* is assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland. It is also legal in Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and three American states (Oregon, Washington, and Montana).
- Swiss citizenship can be obtained after 12 years of residence in the country.

##### Economy & Corporates

- In *fact,* there are more financial institutions in Switzerland than there are doctors. The financial doctrine in Switzerland is very strict. Many individuals use Switzerland as a tax haven from other countries.
- 70% of the population is employed in the service sector: trade, health, education, finance, and insurance.
- The Swiss currency is not the euro, but the Swiss franc (CHF). The Swiss franc is among the world's most stable currencies due to the monetary policy of Switzerland banks.
- In Switzerland, in any company, the director must be a citizen of Switzerland. There is a profession of the nominal director. Swiss passport holders can earn decently doing nothing.
- Switzerland's rail system is the densest railway system in the world with 3107 miles of tracks.
- The Swiss rank only second behind Japan is relying on trains for transport.
- About 56% of Electricity generated in Switzerland is from hydroelectricity and another 39% from nuclear power, resulting in a nearly CO2-free electricity-generating network.
- The Swiss have a long tradition of watchmaking, and are the undisputed leader in luxury watches, with brands like Audemars Piguet, Baume et Mercier, Breitling, Chopard, Franck Muller, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Longines, Patek Philippe, Piaget, Rado, Rolex, TAG Heuer, Tissot, or Vacheron Constantin, etc.
- Vacheron Constantin was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1755 and is the oldest watch manufacturer in the world with an uninterrupted history.
- Switzerland is known for its exotic and expensive watches but it is also known for the cheapest watches made by the swatch.
- Sweden's Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of furniture chain Ikea, remains Switzerland's richest resident for the tenth year his assets valued at 35 billion Francs.
- Nestle, the world's largest food and beverage company was founded in Switzerland and has its headquarters in Vevey. The first bar of chocolate was produced here in the year 1819.
- Some of the world's most famous companies are Swiss, such as Adecco (Human Resources), Credit Suisse (Banking), Lindt & Sprüngli (Chocolate), Logitech (Electronics), Mövenpick (Hotels), Novartis, Roche (Pharmaceuticals), Richemont (Luxury goods), Schindler (Lifts/Elevators), Securitas (Security), UBS (Banking), Winterthur (Insurance), etc.
- Swiss army knives were painted red so that if they could be easily found in the snow. Switzerland now produces more multi-tool knives than any country in the world. The only part outsourced is the corkscrew tool which is made in Japan.
- Rapidshare’s file hosting servers are located in an underground bunker in Switzerland.
- Red Cross was founded in Geneva in 1863 and is still based there. The flag of the Red Cross is the flag of Switzerland with the colors inverted.
- Inventions
- The wristwatch was invented by Patek Philippe in 1868.
- Albert Einstein was working as a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland when he proved his Theory of Relativity.
- The typeface “Helvetica” was created in Switzerland.

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### Switzerland  (Part 1)
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Last updated: 2024-03-14T09:30:30.000Z
#### 65 Awesome Facts about Switzerland

##### Land & Geography

- Switzerland has mountains and glaciers of great beauty, blue lakes, waterfalls, and beautiful valleys. Switzerland is always beautiful in any season.
- Switzerland is in *fact* the smallest country in Europe with an area of 41,283 square kilometers.
- Switzerland has the largest population in Europe per square mile than any other country.
- Switzerland is surrounded by 5 countries: France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Liechtenstein.
- Switzerland's population is about 8 million. Swiss provinces are called “cantons.”
- Zurich is the largest city with a population of 3,80,000.
- Foreigners account for around 23 percent of the population in Switzerland.
- Nearly 70% of this land is covered in mountains with the Swiss Alps covering around 60% of the total mountainous area. This makes Switzerland the second-most alpine country after Austria.
- There are 208 mountains over 3,000 meters high and 24 over 4,000 meters. The highest is Monte Rosa at 4,634 meters (15,203 ft), however, the Matterhorn (4,478 meters or 14,692 ft) is the most famous.
- Switzerland has more than 1,500 lakes.
- In Switzerland, you are never more than 10 miles from a lake!
- The capital of Switzerland is Bern which is one of the most architecturally rich cities in all of Europe.
- *The fact* is Switzerland is abbreviated to ‘CH’ because of its Latin name, ‘Confoederatio Helvetica.’ Latin is the third most prevalent language even though not much spoken. It is found in stamps and coins.
- The German township of Büsingen am Hochrhein is entirely surrounded by Switzerland.

##### History

- Apart from occupation by Napoleon's France between 1798 and 1815 Switzerland has been an independent country since the year 1499.
- There was a war in Switzerland in 1802 called Stecklikrieg that was fought out with wooden clubs because Napoleon had taken away their weapons.
- In most major wars Switzerland has always declared neutrality not willing to get involved in world politics or affairs. It was due to neutrality during WW2 that thousands of people deposited their hard-earned money in Switzerland. When the depositors died, the relatives were denied any access to their funds.
- In spite of neutrality, it is believed that they also funnelled hundreds of millions into Nazi Germany.
- The country of Liechtenstein is so small that in 2007, Swiss troops 170 in number accidentally invaded it after getting lost in a rainstorm in the neighbouring country.

##### Places / Architecture

- The Sonneberg driving tunnel a part of highway also serves as the biggest bomb shelter in the World which can shelter 20,000 people.
- Switzerland will have the world’s longest tunnel , the Gotthard base (57 km) to be commissioned in 2017.
- The Gotthard base will be free as charges are included in the annual fee for the use of highways of the country.
- *Amazing fact*is Lac Leman ( Lake Geneva) contains more than 40 shipwrecks including four railway cars from the mid to late 1800's!
- Matterhorn, the most famous mountain has became a symbol of Switzerland having a height of 4478 meters. It resembles a pyramid and is a favourite destination for climbers and tourists.
- The longest glacier (14 miles) in Alps is found here in Switzerland which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Canton Valais is one of the star attractions of Switzerland being 130 Km long deep valley in the middle of the Alpine mountains.
- Zurich has 1224 fountains with crystal clear drinking water!
- The clock of St. Peter's Church in Zürich is the largest church clock face in Europe. *Amazingly* it is even bigger than Big Ben's.
- Geneva is the seat of the European headquarters of United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO), United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), World Economic Forum (WEF), Airports Council International (ACI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) & World Wide Web Virtual Library.
- CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, is based in Geneva and sitting in the ground under it spanning the Swiss/French border is the Large collider that physicists are using for experiments on particles.
- Switzerland has the highest train station (Jungfraujoch at 11,330 feet) in the whole of Europe.
- It also has the steepest cogwheel station in the world (48% incline).
- It has the highest man-made cement dam in the world called the Grande Dixence (935 feet).
- It is also home to the longest pedestrian stairs in the world , Niesen stairs (11,674 in number).
- Switzerland has 63,577 km of walking paths.
- Switzerland is the only country in the world to have hiking trails which are more than 1 km for each square km of area.
- In Switzerland there are 600 museums, the most important of which is the Landes museum in Zurich.
- In the Swiss city Zermatt , petrol and diesel cars are completely barred. Only electric cars are allowed.

#####  People

- Switzerland has the second highest life expectancy in the world (after Japan).
- The major religion in Switzerland is catholic followed by protestant.
- The spoken languages are: German (Spoken by 74 % People) , French, Italian, Romanisch (spoken by less than 1 %).
- You will find every person speaking at least one foreign language , French or English.
- The most common Swiss surname is Müller.
- In Switzerland, the children go to school from 4 years old. Students learn 4 days a week (Wednesday is off).
- In Switzerland, the education is free, for the foreigners too. Private schools are expensive.
- People love of cleanliness. Swiss citizens can be found to clean streets with the vacuum cleaners!
- There is a system of garbage disposal. Rubbish can be disposed of only in special paid bags. People must sort the garbage in various containers. For each of containers there is a separate schedule of export. You can throw out your old clothes and shoes just once in three months.
- Switzerland has the highest consumption of soft drinks in the world!
- *Amazingly* the average Swiss eats 12 Kg lbs of chocolate per year compared to the 5 Kg consumed by Americans*.*
- People always hold a knife in one hand and a fork in the other while eating.
- The thumb is used to indicate 1 when counting with fingers. Thus, if you want to ask for one of something, only hold up the thumb. If you hold up the index finger, you will most likely get two items.
- Switzerland has one of the lowest crime rates of all industrialised countries, despite having liberal gun laws (2.3–4.5 million guns in a population of 8 million). There is only 0.5 gun murders per 100,000 people compared to 5 per 100,000 in the US.
- Homes are too expensive in Switzerland. Only one quarter own their own homes. Most homes have bunkers, a result of the Cold War concerns of nuclear war.
- A lawyer in Switzerland represents animals in court. He has even prosecuted a fisherman for taking too long to catch a Pike.
- *Amazing fact* is when you leave a job, it is customary that you, yourself, organize a going away party. In the US, your friends/co workers do this.
- *Amazingly* people have actually been known to vote in favour of tax increases.
- In Switzerland, there are no stray dogs and cats on the streets.
- Arthur Conan Doyle brought skiing to Switzerland.
- A Swiss Jeweller made a $68 million ring that was made entirely out of diamond.

##### Famous People

- Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland in 1976 and they erected the first statue in his honour. He was one of the first outside comedians that the Switzerland population loved.
- Charlie Chaplin’s corpse was stolen by a small group of Swiss mechanics in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin’s family. After retrieving his body, he was reburied under 6 feet (1.8 m) of concrete to prevent further attempts.
- *Amazingly* Dalai Lama owns the smallest vineyard in the world, which is located in Switzerland. It consists of only three vines and has an area of 1.67 meters squared.
- The first “Bond Girl” Ursula Andress was Swiss.
- There is only one Swiss astronaut named Claude Nicollier.
- Two famous tennis players, Roger Federer and Martina Hingis are from Switzerland.

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### Spain (Part II)
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Last updated: 2024-03-12T09:30:10.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Spain (Part II)

##### People Customs & Culture

- Not all Spaniards are native speakers of (Castilian) "Spanish". There are in fact four official languages in Spain (Castilian (74%), Catalan (17%), Basque (2%), and Galician(7%)). Almost all Spaniards can speak Castilian Spanish though.
- The second most spoken language in the world is Spanish besides English.
- Spanish empire expanded in the world in the 16th century. Result is that now, more than 400 million people speak Spanish in 22 countries, including 35 million who speak it in the United States. In fact the U.S. has more Spanish speakers than Spain.
- Euskera, spoken by the Basque population in northern Spain and southern France, is one of the oldest living languages in the world.
- Traditionally, you have two surnames in Spain, the first surname from your father, and the second from your mother.
- For nearly 500 years Roman Catholicism was the official religion of Spain. It ceased to be the official religion of Spain in 1977\. Around 85% of Spanish consider themselves Catholic and 40% go to church regularly. There are around 350,000 Protestants, 400,000 Muslims, and 15,000 Jews.
- Owning one's home is very important to Spanish people, and indeed some 80% of Spanish households do. Spaniards also have the EU's highest level of second home ownership. Spain has the third lowest overcrowding rate in the EU after the Netherlands and Cyprus.
- Spain has the second highest number of bars per inhabitants, the only country that has more bars than Spain is Cyprus.
- It’s amazing to find that 40% of Spanish people between 17-24 smoke.
- There's a town in Spain where 700 people share the surname "Japon" as they are descendants of 17th-century samurais who stayed there after an embassy returned to Japan.
- Generally, the Spanish are not big fans of obeying the laws of traffic. The option of indicating the direction you are about to go in seems widely unknown. Be aware and take precautions while crossing the street.
- The Spaniards have a completely different life routine from other Europeans. They typically have lunch between 1 and 3 pm, dinner around 10 pm, and rarely sleep before the early hours of the night.
- *Amazing fact* is that Spaniards own more cars than cell phones.
- Spain had one of the fastest-growing populations in Europe in the early 1980s. In 2000, Spain had the lowest average birth rate of any country in the world, at just 1.2 children per woman. It is predicted that around 300,000 immigrants need to enter Spain each year to balance the declining number of young people.
- On May 15th all the single women in Madrid visit the chapel called Ermita de San Isidro to prick their fingers with pins and put it in a vessel, in order to find a husband.
- There are fewer marriages in Spain than in any other EU country except Sweden.
- Spain has a very low divorce rate (17%) , and few children are born outside of marriage. Just 5% of children are born to couples that are not married in Spain. In contrast, the number is 50% in Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
- Spain is the number one country in regards to organ donations in the world.
- Spanish-speaking cultures have been known for the development of new dance styles, such as Flamenco, Merengue, Salsa, Mambo and Cha-cha-cha and Rumba, etc.
- Spain has more festivals than there are days in the year.
- *Amazingly* Spaniards rub garlic and tomato on their bread in the morning instead of butter or margarine.
- Running with the bulls is a Spanish festival that has been celebrated for over 300 years. Every year there are people killed while running with the bulls. However, it is still enjoyed by thousands every year as they line the streets.
- La Tomatina, or “The World’s Biggest Food Fight,” is held every year on the last Wednesday of August in the town of Buñol, outside of Valencia. Over 150,000 tomatoes are thrown.
- It is not uncommon to find men in their forties still living with their parents.
- It is common practice to cheek kiss anybody you know, even new acquaintances.
- In business, face-to-face contact is preferred to written or telephone communication.
- Don’t be surprised if you find banks closing after 2 pm.
- There are over 500,000 Gypsies currently living in Spain, with nearly half of them living in the south. Gypsies are thought to have originated in India in the 15th century. Many Gypsies have moved to urban Spanish areas, though a large number still follow the Gypsy tradition of traveling constantly.

##### Economy 

- 60 million tourists go to Spain every year, making it the fourth most visited country in the world.
- While Spain relies on imports for most of its oil and for 50% of its coal, the country has uranium deposits, and nuclear power accounted for 30% of the country’s electricity. It also is investing in sustainable forms of energy such as solar and wind. Spain is one of the most advanced countries in Europe in developing wind farms.
- Spain produces over 260 olive varieties. The largest producer of olive oil, Spain accounts for 45% of the world’s total olive oil production. The production is more than twice that of Italy and four times that of Greece.
- *Amazingly* Spain is the only country in Europe that produces bananas , besides a few small Portuguese islands.
- Spain sells over 3 billion corks per year. Spain and Portugal provide most of the world’s cork. Cork trees flourish in the dry Meseta region in Spain.
- The Madrid-Barcelona is one of the city pairs with most flights per week in the world!
- The Port of Barcelona is Europe’s largest cruise port, with approximately 3.6 million cruisers passing through the port each year.
- Spain has some of the largest gold deposits in Europe. It is also one of the world's biggest producers of granite and marble.

##### Sports

- The Real Madrid and FC Barcelona have been ranked as the world's two richest football clubs but are fierce competitors. The rivalry stems from Franco’s dictatorship; Barcelona represented an opposition to Franco while Real Madrid was favored by the regime and Franco.
- Real Madrid is the most popular club in the world with amazing over 228 million supporters.
- FC Barcelona is the biggest privately owned stadium in the world having seating capacity of 100,000 people.
- Spaniards have dominated in motor sports, football, basketball & road bicycle race. Rafael Nadal is a top ranked tennis player.
- Contrary to the popular image abroad, the majority of contemporary Spaniards does not approve of bullfighting. The practice has even been banned in the Canaries (since 1991) and in Catalonia (since 2009). The heartland of bullfighting is essentially Andalusia and Castille (mostly in and around Madrid).
- *Amazing fact* is that in 2000, Spain's Paralympic basketball team had to return their gold medals after nearly all of their players were found to have no disability.

##### Inventions

- Spanish surgeon and scientist Miguel Servet (1511-1553) was the first European to describe pulmonary circulation.
- The first known stapler was made in the 18th century in the Basque country for the French King Louis XV and every single staple was engraved with the royal emblem.
- Spanish sailor and engineer Isaac Peral (1851-1895) designed the first fully operative military submarine.
- Spain has also given the world the mop and bucket (1956) and the forerunner of the modern cigarette (17th century) and lollipops.
- Emilio Herrera Linares of Spain invented the space suit in 1935, originally designed for high altitude balloon flights.

##### Literature 

- The first novel, Tirant lo Blanc (1490), was written by Spanish author Joanot Martorell (1413-1468). Translated as Tirant the White, it played an important role in the development of the Western novel.

##### Famous People

- Spanish culture was greatly influenced by modern art from the late 1800's, with artists like Antoni Gaudí, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí.
- Spanish double agent Joan Pujol Garcia is perhaps the only person ever to receive an Iron Cross from both the British and the Germans. Code named Garbo played an important role in the success of D-Day at the end of WWII.

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### Spain (Part I)
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Last updated: 2024-03-10T09:30:22.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Spain (Part I)

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Spain is the Kingdom of Spain having a population of about 48 million. The total area of Spain is 505,370 sq. km. Spain is the least densely populated country in Europe, with just 80 inhabitants per square Km.
- The name Spain diverged from the word Hispania, which means the land of rabbits.
- Spain is the second-largest country in Western Europe after France and the second most mountainous after Switzerland.
- The largest city and capital of Spain is Madrid with a population of 6 million. It is actually situated in the center of the country. The second-largest city is Barcelona with 1.6 million residents.
- Spain is the closest European country to the African continent. Spain still has two major exclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa on Morocco's coastline.
- *Amazingly* Spain has 4,964 km of coastline and 8000 km of beaches. Spain is one of only three countries to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. The others are France and Morocco.
- The Pyrenees is a mountain range that divides Spain and France. Since the Pyrenees Mountains were such a significant barrier in the north, and Spain is just 9 miles from Morocco in the south, Spain shares much of its early history with Africa.
- Mount Teide is the highest mountain in Spain (3718 m, 12198 ft) and an active volcano.
- Longest river is Rio Ebro having a length of 910 km. The largest lake is Mar Menor which is also the largest salt lake in Europe.

##### Flora & Fauna

- During the last ice age, most of Europe was covered in glaciers, but most of Spain was far enough south to escape the ice. Consequently, plants that were wiped out across Europe survived in Spain. Europe as a whole has 9,000 plant species; there are over 8,000 plant species in Spain alone, with 2,000 of them being unique to the country.
- The most widely known mammal in Spain is the Bat with over 50 different species found in Spain alone.
- Spain is home to a type of tailless monkey, the macaque, which is the only type of wild monkey that lives in Europe.

##### History

- In 2007, scientists in Spain found a tooth from a distant human ancestor that is more than 1 million years old.
- Most of Spain was under Muslim domination (Moors) from 711 AD to the Middle of 11 th century. The full peninsula was not reconquered by the Christian powers until 1492.
- The Moors occupied Spain for 800 years; consequently, over 4,000 Arabic words and Arabic-derived phrases have been absorbed into the Spanish language. Words beginning with “al,” are derived from Arabic. The Moors were also advanced in medicine, science, and astronomy, and Arabic words such as algebra, alcohol, chemistry, nadir, alkaline, and cipher entered the language. Even words such as checkmate, influenza, typhoon, orange, and cable can be traced back to Arabic origins.
- Under Islamic law in Spain, Christians and Jews were considered dhimmi, which allowed them to practice their religion as “people of the book” but they had to pay a special tax.
- Muslims founded the first Spanish university at Valencia in 1209.
- In 1492, Ferdinand V of Aragon and Queen Isabella paid for Christopher Columbus to explore the west in search of a new route to India. Columbus landed on one of the islands of the Bahamas by mistake. His mistake made Spain one of the richest nations in the world for a time.
- Under Philip II's reign (1556-1598), and until 1640, Spain ruled over an empire comprising Spain, the Spanish Netherlands (most of present Belgium, and Northern France), Southern Italy, most of South and Central America (Brazil included), about half of the present USA, the Philippines (named after Philip II), as well as various smaller colonies in Asia and Africa (Macao, Malacca, Goa, Daman, Diu...).
- Spanish sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476-1526) was the first man to circumnavigate the world.
- Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
- Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (1499-1543) discovered California. In 1603, Spanish sailor Gabriel de Castilla (1577-1620) became the first man ever to see Antarctica.
- In 1588, the king of Spain sent 133 ships (the Armada) to England. Almost half of the ships sank in stormy weather or while fighting the British navy. It was a significant defeat for Spain and marked the beginning of the end of Spain’s global power.
- The conquistadors that conquered central and South America loaded thousands of tons of gold back to Spain yet 2/3 of the gold was sunk or raided by pirates.
- Long after primitive horses became extinct in the Western Hemisphere, Spanish conquistadors introduced the horses we know today. Christopher Columbus (who is actually Italian) and Hernán Cortés are just two of the explorers who brought horses to the Americas. Today the Andalusian, also known as Pure Spanish Horse, is known around the world for its beauty and athletic ability.
- Tomatoes, potatoes, avocados, tobacco, and cacao, were all brought to Europe and then spread around the world by the Spaniards from their American colonies. All these words were imported from Spanish language into English, which explains why they end in "-o".
- Gibraltar was ceded by Spain to Britain in 1713, controlled the entrance to the Mediterranean.
- The Spanish colonies in the Americas (except Cuba and Puerto Rico, lost to the USA in 1898) became independent between 1809 and 1825, mostly due to Napoleon's occupation of Spain between 1808 and 1814.
- In 1894, Japan offered to buy the Philippines from Spain for 40 million pounds.
- Spain did not participate in either the First or Second World War.
- Spain experienced a civil war (1936-1939) which killed over 500,000 people. The Victorious General Francisco Franco ruled as a brutal dictator until his death in 1975\. During the Franco regime (1936-1975), Spain was like fundamentalist Islamic countries. The Spanish civil code declared that a woman needed her husband's permission to conduct any sort of activity outside the home. Women were banned from having a job, opening a bank account, starting a business, buying or selling goods, or initiate legal proceedings. Until the 1960's there was no legal recourse against a man mistreating his wife.
- Spain has spectacularly changed since the 1975 after defeat of dictator. From one of the poorest and most backward countries in Europe, it has since raised its GDP per capita to the level of Italy, and has become one of the most socially liberal and progressive nations in the world.

##### Places / Architecture

- Spain has 44 Unesco World Heritage Sites. Only Italy with 49 sites and China with 45 have more.
- The oldest known cave painting is found in the Cave of El Castillo in northern Spain. There researchers have found a faint red dot that is thought to be over 40,000 years old. The second-oldest known cave art is in France. The Cave of Altamira near Santander, Spain, is also known as the “Sistine Chapel” of cave painting.
- The ancient Roman Aqueduct of Segovia in Spain was built in the 1st century A.D. and still supplies water to the city.
- The world's oldest existing lighthouse is the Tower of Hercules, in Spain, erected in the first century which is still operational.
- *Amazingly* two Roman dams in Spain are still in use after 1900 years.
- The outer castle wall of the Moorish palace Alhambra (literally “the red one”) at Granada is one of Spain’s architectural masterpieces. Alhambra was the seat of Muslim rulers from the 13th century to the end of the 15th century. The Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- The Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona Spain, has been under construction since 1882 and it's only expected to be complete by 2026.
- The Port Vell area in Barcelona houses Aquarium Barcelona , one of Europe’s largest aquariums with 8,000 fish and 11 sharks housed in more than a million gallons of seawater.
- The Madrid subway is the second largest underground system in Europe and the sixth largest system in the world measuring about 300 km and about 300 stations.
- Madrid subway system has 1,656 escalators, most in any metro system in the world.
- There's a zipline connecting Spain and Portugal. It's 2,365 ft (720 m) and 60 seconds long.
- The Columbus monument, built in 1888 for the World Exposition, honors Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the Americas, and serves as a reminder that he reported to Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand V in Barcelona after his first trip to the new continent.
- There's a 47-story skyscraper in Spain that has no elevator.
- The Rio Tinto River in Spain is so polluted by toxic pollution from 5,000 years of mining that it contains little to no life.
- The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The Spanish people have their own monarchy living in the royal place, the 'Zarzuela Palace', outside of Madrid. The Royal Palace, Palacio Real, in the city of Madrid is the place where official functions take place. On 19 June 2014, the son of former king Juan Carlos , Felipe VI, was crowned the new king of Spain. Juan Carlos retired due to old age.
- The national anthem of Spain has no words and is the only one in world without words.
- The Bull is the national animal of Spain.
- Spain is one of the most decentralized democracies in Europe. Each of its 17 regions manages its own school, hospitals, and other public services.
- In 2004, Spain built more housing per capita than any other country. 750,000 new homes were built nationwide, more than in Germany, France and Italy combined!
- In July 2005, Spain became the third country on Earth to legalize same-sex marriage, after the Netherlands and Belgium. In the same year the country also legalized full joint adoption by same-sex couples.
- Personal consumption and home cultivation of cannabis are legal in Spain.
- Spain was one of the first European countries to ban smoking in in all workplaces, and bars and restaurants from 2006, following the lead of Ireland and Norway in 2004.
- Spain is the only country in the EU, along with Portugal, where life imprisonment has been abolished.
- *Amazingly* it is a crime in Spain to slander or libel the dead.
- The Basques in Spain were great warriors and the only people in Spain who never totally came under control of the Romans. Some Basque separatist groups are currently fighting for complete independence from Spain. The Basque region in Spain is one of most prosperous.
- There are no laws against public nudity in Spain. Spain has the lowest age of consent for sexual activity in Europe at 13 years old. Legal age for marriage is 16 years.
- It is estimated that 200,000-400,000 women work in prostitution in Spain. 90% of them are illegal immigrants. The Criminal Code of Spain does not address prostitution itself, but some activities associated with prostitution, such as pimping, are illegal. In other words, prostitution is essentially legal in Spain.

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### Rose
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Last updated: 2024-03-08T09:30:19.000Z
#### 45 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Rose

1. Rose is one of the best-known and most favorite plants in the world. The majority of them are native to Asia, while others originate from Europe, North America, and Africa.
2. There are over 15,000 different species of rose which are cultivated in different colors all over the world.
3. Cherries, apricots, apples, peaches, plums, pears, and almonds are relatives of rose.
4. Roses are among the oldest plants. The oldest fossils of roses discovered in Colorado dates back to 35 million years.
5. Roses are often used in literature and songs. There are over 4000 songs dedicated to roses.
6. On 11th October 1492, the crew of Columbus picked out the branch of a rose from the ocean which was a hint that there was a presence of beautiful land beneath. The next day, America was discovered by Columbus.
7. 54% of the land in Ecuador is filled with roses. Nearly 25% of all roses sold in the US come from Ecuador.
8. In Zambia over 80% of cultivated land is dominated by rose cultivation. Roses comprise 95% of all Zambia’s flower exports.
9. 30% of Europe’s cut flower imports are from Kenya, and most of those are roses. The bigger rose farms each employ some 5,000 workers.
10. All the rose-growing countries are near the equator in areas where water is fairly ample as roses are thirsty plants consuming up to 13 liters for one rose flower to blossom.
11. About 60% of the roses grown in the U.S. are produced in California. One acre of greenhouse rose production in the U.S. is valued at about one million dollars, including the value of plants, greenhouse structure, and land.
12. The size of the rose depends on the species. Flower can reach from a couple of inches to more than two feet in diameter. In fact, certain rose species can reach 23 feet in height.
13. The largest rose ever bred was a pink rose measuring approximately 33 inches in diameter. It was bred by Nikita K. Rulhoksoffski from San Onofre, California.
14. Roses can survive a long period of time. Rose that covers the wall of the Cathedral of Hildesheim in Germany has lasted for more than 1200 years documented since A.D. 815.
15. The color of the rose depends on the species. Roses can be found in different shades of white, yellow, pink, orange, and red colors. Blue and black roses do not exist.
16. Red Rose expresses love. White Rose is a sign of innocence, purity, and spirituality. Yellow Rose indicates evoking joy and warmth. Pink Rose conveys joy, gratitude, admiration, and sweetness. Orange Rose is used to expressing pride and intense desire towards someone. Blue Rose says I am constantly thinking about you. Lavender Rose expresses love at first sight. Black Rose conveys the death or the end of a relationship.
17. In fact, there are no roses that are black few species of roses come close. The Turkish Halfeti rose (“The Black Rose of Turkey”), is an extremely rare breed that appears pitch-black to the eye, but in fact, is a dark reddish-crimson color.
18. For years’ breeders have crossed different colors of roses in an effort to create, a blue rose but rose petals lack the enzyme needed to create a blue pigment. Only recently in 2009, genetic engineering techniques have resulted in the world’s first blue rose.
19. For hundreds of years, the rose has been widely recognized as a symbol of love, sympathy, or sorrow.
20. Historically the rose was of great importance to the Romans and Egyptians. Romans would use them as room decorations or wear them on a string around their neck.
21. The famous Cleopatra of Egypt was believed to have covered the floor of her palace room with roses before Mark Antony visited her.
22. Traditionally England’s national flower is the Rose. The rose came to prominence there during the wars of the Roses, 1455 to 1485 when the house of Lancaster was represented by the red rose and fought against the house of York which was represented by the white rose.
23. The rose is most commonly used as an ornamental plant grown in the garden for its beautiful flowers.
24. Rose oil is an important ingredient in the perfume industry. Extraction of a minimal amount of this oil requires a huge number of roses (Amazingly 1 gram of oil is produced from 2000 roses).
25. The nice scent of the rose comes from microscopic perfume glands on the petals.
26. The flowers of most species of the rose including wild roses have 5 petals except for the species 'Rosa sericea' which has only 4\. The Rosa Sericea is native to the Himalayas. This breed of rose was introduced to Europe only in the 19th century.
27. The name "Rose" is often used as a girl's name in English-speaking countries.
28. Because they're low-maintenance and nice to look at, rose shrubs are used as landscape plants for hedging (the thorns can discourage intruders) or planted on hillsides as a slope stabilizing method to stop soil erosion.
29. Roses are well known for their prickles looking like hooks which facilitate bonding to the other plants especially in the climber types of roses and protect the stem from herbivores. Even though prickles are strong and sharp, certain species of deer are able to eat roses. Insects and spiders often attack roses. Fungal diseases can also damage cultivated roses.
30. Wild roses bloom only once per year.
31. The fruit of a rose is called a rosehip. The berry-like hip is colored red or dark purple or black.
32. Roses are edible. Rosehip contains more vitamin C when compared to any vegetable or fruit. The rosehip can be made into jam, jelly, or brewed for tea. Hip seed oil is also used in skin products and makeup products.
33. Rosewater and rose syrup are commonly used in cooking.
34. Napoleon used to gift his officers with bags containing rose petals in order to boil them with white wine so that they could cure themselves of lead poisoning of bullet or shot wounds.
35. The rose is the official National Floral Emblem of the United States. This legislation was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 7, 1986.
36. In 1986 the rose also became the official flower of four states including the state of New York, Iowa, North Dakota, and Georgia.
37. The month of June has been set aside as National Rose Month since 1969.
38. Nearly 85% of Americans choose rose as their favorite flower.
39. The most expensive and exclusive rose in the world can cost $33.
40. In 2002, the miniature rose, named the “Overnight Scentsation”, journeyed to space to aid in studies regarding the effects of low gravity on the smell of the rose.
41. Introduced to the world in 2006 by famed rose breeder David Austin, the Juliet rose took 15 years and about $5 million to breed.
42. The largest rosebush in the world is of the Lady Banksia variety. The rosebush’s canopy measures 8,500 square feet, its trunk has a circumference of around 12 feet and it comprises over 200,000 blooms.
43. The largest private rose garden in the world is in Cavriglia, Italy, and holds over 7,500 different varieties of roses.
44. The rose is called the “Queen of Flowers.” The King of Sweden sent Silvia Sommerlath, now his wife and Sweden’s Queen, one dozen yellow roses every day during a four-year romance.
45. Only 3 flowers are mentioned by name in the Bible and the rose is one of them besides camphire (henna) and the lily.

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### Czech Republic
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Last updated: 2024-03-06T09:30:24.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about the Czech Republic

##### Land & Geography

- The Czech Republic is almost entirely surrounded by mountains (except to the south, toward Austria and Slovakia). Mountains mark a natural border with Germany and Poland.
- The population of the Czech Republic is just above 10 million and has an area of about 78,000 square kilometers.
- The country is renowned for its numerous spa towns, especially along the border with Germany.
- The Vltava River running through Prague is the longest river in the Czech Republic.
- The highest point in the Czech Republic is Snezka at 1,602 m (5,256 ft).

##### History

- Historically, the Czech Republic was composed of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the March of Moravia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806), then also within the Habsburg Empire (1526-1918).
- In 1918, the Czechs and Slovaks joined to make the country, Czechoslovakia, only to be captured again by the Nazis and then the Soviets. The country broke free from Soviet rule in 1989.
- The Charles University in Prague, founded in 1348, is the oldest university in Eastern Europe, and one of the oldest in the world in continuous operation.
- Prague is the only major city in Europe that wasn’t bombed in WWII as Hitler wanted to preserve it as Europe’s cultural capital.

##### Places / Architecture

- There are over 2000 castles in the Czech Republic, which makes it the most castle-rich country in Europe. Some of the most beautiful include Prague Castle , Orlik (set on a volcano above a lake), Cesky Krumlow (perched on a sheer drop over a medieval village) and Cervena Lhota, a gorgeous red castle surrounded by gardens and a pond.
- The 9th century Prague Castle is in the Guinness book of records as the largest ancient castle in the world.
- Cesky Krumlow , a UNESCO-protected village looks as if it hasn’t changed in 500 years, with a rushing river, medieval houses and winding lanes, all watched over by the spectacular edifice of the town’s ancient castle.
- The Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1348, is the oldest university in Eastern Europe, and one of the oldest in the world in continuous operation.
- Prague’s astronomical clock was installed in 1410 making it the oldest working astronomical clock in the world.
- The country has four national parks, the oldest being Krkonoše National Park (Biosphere Reserve).
- Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic is placed seventh in the World’s most popular Zoo.
- The Petrin View Tower (60 m) was built at the end of the 19th century as part of the Jubilee Exhibition based on Eiffel Tower in Paris. Visitors are treated to a spectacular view of Prague after they have climbed the 299 steps to the top!
- The Czech Republic has the largest network of signposted footpaths in the world. More than 38,000 kilometers of paths have been signposted.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The official language is Czech. Czech and Slovak languages are mutually intelligible to people accustomed to the other language's pronunciation.
- 90% of Czechs have completed at least secondary education , the highest score in the EU (along with Poles, Slovaks, and Slovenes).
- 80% of Czechs are non-religious and 10.3% are Roman Catholics.
- Czechs welcome guests with bread and salt as per tradition.
- Do not go to someone else’s home without bringing flowers, or a sweet treat. You are expected to remove your shoes upon visiting someone’s home. Most homes will provide slippers for you.
- Czechs seldom call people by their first name, unless they are family. Initial greetings are formal and reserved.
- The Czech Republic has the most hospital beds per inhabitant in the EU.
- Czech people have the second highest death rate for cancer in the EU after Hungary.
- Czech people are the world's heaviest consumers of beer. In Prague, beer is cheaper than bottled water.
- *Amazingly* Czech etiquette requires a man to precede his female companion when entering a restaurant. If they are entering other buildings, he is expected to let her in first.
- Traditional Czech Republic music requires traditional instruments. Majority of the instruments used are handmade, and are done so delicately using wood from more than 100 year old trees.
- Czech people are mostly of Slavic descent, but many people can also claim partial German ancestry, as a result of the country's 1000 years within the Holy Roman Empire or Austrian Empire.
- The Czechs’ national passion is mushroom hunting. Thousands of Czech nationals gather yearly during the St. Václav Day, which happens during the weekend that is nearest to September 28, to head to the forest and participate in mushroom hunting.

##### Politics/ Legal

- On Jan. 1, 1993, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic became independent states and Czechoslovakia ceased to exist.

##### Economy & Corporates

- The Czech Republic is the second richest Eastern European country after tiny Slovenia.
- Beer has been brewed in the Czech Republic since the year 1118.
- The Czech Republic is home to many famous international companies including Deloitte Touche, Exxon Mobil , Zara , Skoda , Pilsner Urquell and Bata.
- AVG, the free antivirus company comes from the Czech Republic.

##### Inventions

- Jakub Kryštof Rad was the director of a sugar factory in Dacice whose wife got injured while trying to cut sugar loafs in smaller pieces. She then suggested he do something about it and the sugar cubes were born in 1843.
- Czech doctor Jan Jansky was the first to divide blood into four types in 1907.
- Modern soft contact lenses were the outcome of the work of two Czechs: Otto Wichterle and Drahoslav Lim.

##### Famous People

- Famous people born in the Czech Republic include: Martina Navratilova and Ivan Lendl (Tennis pros), Milos Forman (Film director), Sigmund Freud (Psychologist), Oskar Schindler (of Schindler’s List fame) and Petra Nemcova (Supermodel).

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### Vietnam
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Last updated: 2024-03-04T09:30:56.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Vietnam

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Vietnam is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- Vietnam shares a land border with China to the north, Cambodia, and Laos to the west, and the Gulf of Tonkin and the South China Sea to the east.
- The capital city of Vietnam is Hanoi, with an estimated population of about 7 million. It is the second-largest city in Vietnam. The largest city is Ho Chi Minh City which has a population of about 8 million. The distance between Ho Chi Minh (Southern Vietnam) and Hanoi (Northern Vietnam) is more than 1,500 km (930 miles)!
- Vietnam has a population of 92 million and a land area of 128,565 square miles. The official Language is Vietnamese.
- Two rivers in Vietnam, the Mekong in the south and the Red River in the north of the country reach the sea spread over huge swampy delta plains. The lands in these areas are very fertile, ideal for growing rice and other crops, and are home to the majority of the country's population.
- *Amazingly* Vietnam is one of the least religious countries in the world with 82% of the population Non-Religious. Buddhist are 8% while Catholics are 7%.
- Fansipan, also known as The Roof of Indochina is the highest mountain peak in the region.

##### Flora & Fauna

- Vietnam has a high level of bio diversity; it is home to approximately 16% of the world's species.

##### History

- In Vietnam, they say that they were dominated by the Chinese for 1000 years, the French for 100 years and the Americans for 10 years.
- France gained control of Vietnam in 1890, with Japan briefly taking the nation during World War II. In 1945, Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party, declared Vietnam independent. After fighting between the French and communist Vietnam ended in 1954, the communist North and non-communist South were separated.
- The Vietnam War or the Second War of Indochina started as a conflict. It involved the communist government of North Vietnam in alliance with the Communist China & Russia against the government of South Vietnam with support from the Americans. Amazingly it lasted from 1954 to 1975 continuing under five different American presidents. At the end country was reunified under a communist regime. In hindsight it is considered a mistake and tragedy that could have been avoided. It cost Americans about 200 billion US dollars and estimated 2 million civilians and 1.3 million soldiers died. The two countries resumed formal diplomatic relations only in 1995 after USA recognized Vietnam’s independence.

##### Places / Architecture

- The My Son Sanctuary is a structural display of Hindu tower temples developed over ten centuries.
- Hoi an ancient town was a trading port from the 15th century that has endured up to date.
- Vietnam is also home to the world’s largest cave, Son Doong.
- The Perfume River is so named due to the scent of the tropical flowers that fall onto the water during autumn.
- The Dong Tam snake farm and living museum established in 1979 is responsible for conserving the species and finding antidotes.
- The tunnels of Cu Chi are a network of underground pathways that were used as a military base for the Vietnam soldiers in the war with USA.
- The Ha Long Bay has such a scenic beauty that it was included as one of the New seven Wonders of Nature, as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- The Forbidden Purple City is a walled fortress and palace in Hue that was only accessible to the royal family and their eunuch servants.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Their culture is a complex adaptation of Chinese, Japanese, French and American colonial influences.
- Their famous Dong Son drums are a relic of the sophisticated Bronze Age culture between 500 BC and 300 AD.
- Water puppetry is another popular art form that dates back as far as the 11th century.
- In religious construction, pagodas are for worship and offerings, while temples are built to honor historical figures.
- Tet Nguyen Dan (or simply Tet) is the most important festival in Vietnam. It celebrates rebirth, and is an equivalent of the Lunar New Year.
- Speed dating has been prevalent in hill tribal life for decades. Hill tribes from all over the regions will meet at ‘love markets’, where the local young single people will come together with the intent of finding a mate.
- Vietnam has more than 37 million registered motorbikes and only 2 million cars mainly due to 100 to 200% tax on cars which only very wealthy can afford. Motorbike is in fact used like a car.
- Quan Ho folk songs are love duets between male and female singers considered by UNESCO to be a great cultural heritage.
- The script of the language has 29 alphabets, which are very much similar to the English language’s alphabets. The language is not related to other languages, making it linguistically unique.
- The Vietnamese language has six different tones. A change in tone changes the meaning of the word which makes it difficult to learn.
- The country has a literacy level of 94% and internet users about 50 million (53%).
- The Vietnamese keep potbelly pigs as pets.
- Tet Nguyen Dan is the ‘Festival of the First Day’. It celebrates Christmas , birthdays and New Year together. Amazingly it is celebrated in January /February and date changes every year. The Ancestral spirits are welcomed and families reunite in the hope that the coming year will bring good fortune upon everyone.
- Vietnamese are fond of Lizard fishing which are caught in the arid halls of the south central coast. A hook is set on a long bamboo fishing pole and bait is dangled on the boulder.
- Nguyen (Pronounced ‘win’) is the most popular family name in Vietnam, used by around 40% of the population and is also the birth name of the famous Ho Chi Minh.
- School children are summoned by traditional gongs instead of bells.
- In Vietnam White is considered the ideal skin color and tanned skin is frowned upon. As a result, Vietnamese cover up as much as possible when in the sun, whether they’re working the fields or at the beach!
- *Amazingly* when Vietnamese drink tea or water or anything, they always leave 5 to 10% in the cup after drinking. They don’t empty their cups.
- Vietnamese usually don’t take a shower in the morning but take it in the evening.
- It is common for locals to ask your age, nationality and marital status even on the first meeting.
- The weird thing is that dogs and cats and snakes are very popular to eat in this country. Dogs eaten may have been raised at home to be eaten when they become 2 years old. In fact, Vietnamese also buy stray dogs from other Asian countries like Thailand only to eat them. Kidnapping and killing animals is very common in Vietnam.
- Loud eating is considered rude in most countries in the world. But not in Vietnam and also in China. Also Vietnamese has a habit of littering all over in the place they eat. You will find Vietnamese restaurants very dirty.
- It is easy to get confused with Vietnamese currency won as 1$ fetches 20,000 dongs. You may pay a million won for a stay in the hotel. Such big figures are very confusing to tourists and Vietnamese people may take advantage of this.
- Vietnamese people love tortoises. They believe that they are bringing luck and health.
- *The amazing* thing is Vietnamese people don’t hate Americans after the Vietnam war. Their leader Ho Chi Minh told that they shouldn’t blame American citizens for the war as the American leaders were responsible for the war.
- Smoking is very common as more than 25% of Vietnamese smoke cigarettes.

##### Politics/ Legal

- France gained control of Vietnam in 1890, with Japan briefly taking the nation during World War II. Vietnam declared independence from France on 2nd September 1945\. After fighting between the French and communist Vietnam ended in 1954 the communist North and non-communist South were separated.
- 1957 to 1975 saw war between North and South Vietnam. Countries including the United States for South Vietnam, and Russia and China for North Vietnam became involved. The country was reunified under a communist regime after 1975.
- Ho Chi Minh led the fight for independence against the French and the Japanese and against the USA. In his memory after unification in 1976, Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
- Ho Chi Minh (‘Uncle Ho’) has been dead for over 40 years now displayed at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi for only 9 months of the year as the place shut from September to December as Uncle Ho makes his annual amazing journey of 8000 miles to Moscow for ‘maintenance’.
- Vietnamese flag consists of a golden star with five points to represent farmers, workers, intellectuals, youth, and soldiers. The red background pays tribute to the bloodshed during the wars.
- Foreigners have the option of applying for a Temporary Residence Card, which is cheaper and easier to process than a visa.
- LGBT rights are getting more progressive, with a recent uplifting of the ban on same-sex marriage.

##### Economy & Corporates

- The currency of Vietnam is called the dong.
- Vietnam is the largest exporter of cashew nuts (37% of the World) and black pepper in the world. The country is also the second-largest exporter of rice behind Thailand.
- Vietnam is the second-largest exporter of rice behind Thailand.
- Vietnam is one of the biggest producers of cashew nuts in the world.
- Vietnam owns about 20% of the coffee market share and is the second-largest producer in the world after Brazil.

##### Sports

- Football is the most popular sport in Vietnam.
- Takraw, or kick volleyball, is a traditional sport in Vietnam. Here, a ball is passed from player to player by hitting it with the head and feet. Takraw also is widely played in Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia.

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### Peanut
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Last updated: 2024-03-02T09:30:01.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Peanut

1. Amazingly peanut is not a nut, but a legume related to Peas, beans, and lentils. Legumes are a group of foods that grow their seeds in pods that split open into the sides. Its scientific name is Arachis hypogaea.
2. Peanuts, unlike other legumes, grow under the ground and have hard pods called shells and not soft pods.
3. Peanuts are also called goobers, goober peas, groundnuts, ground peas, earth nuts, monkey nuts, and grass nuts.
4. Peanuts originated in South America, where they were cultivated by Indians for at least 2000 years. As early as 1500 B.C., the Incans of Peru used peanuts as sacrificial offerings and entombed them with their mummies to aid in the spiritual life.
5. Spaniards and Portuguese slave traders introduced them to Africa and Europe.
6. Spanish traders brought the peanut plant to Africa from where it was transported to America on slave ships. Thus peanuts ended up in America as a result of the slave trade.
7. Dr. George Washington Carver, American Botanist researched and developed more than 300 uses for peanuts in the early 1900s; He is considered "The Father of the Peanut Industry" because of his extensive research and selfless dedication to promoting peanuts. He promoted the use of peanuts in items such as shoe polish, shaving cream, toothpaste, grease, and ink, etc.
8. India & China together produce almost 2/3rds of the world crop. China overtook Indian production in the mid-1990s. Historically, the largest producer of peanuts in the world used to be India. Currently, China produces almost 40% of the world crop, and India almost 25%.
9. The first peanuts grown in the United States were grown in Virginia.
10. Currently, the U.S. produces only about 6% of the world crop. Annual peanut production is about 1.5 million tons per year which often exceeds the production of beans and peas combined.
11. The official state crop of Georgia is the peanut. Georgia produces about 41% of the total U.S. peanut crop followed by Texas 24%.
12. The World's Largest Peanut monument is in Turner County. A 20 feet tall peanut, signifies the importance of the peanut in Georgia history.
13. Worldwide, about 2/3rds of the peanut crop is processed for peanut oil.
14. Peanut oil, in fact, accounts for 8% of the world’s edible oil production.
15. The peanut growth cycle from planting to harvest is about five months.
16. The peanut plant is about 18 inches above the ground. It has yellow flowers. Peanuts flower above ground and then migrate underground to reach maturity.
17. A mature peanut plant produces about 40 pods that then grow into peanuts.
18. Like other legumes, peanut helps mitigate climate change by catching nitrogen from the air and putting it back into the soil.
19. There are four types of peanuts grown in the USA - Virginia, Spanish, Runner, and Valencia.
20. Currently, the two most popular peanut types are Virginia and the Spanish peanut used in snacks. The Virginia peanut is larger and more oval in shape than the smaller, rounder Spanish peanut. The Runner type is mainly used for the manufacture of peanut butter
21. Unshelled peanuts should have clean, unbroken shells and should not rattle when shaken.
22. Amazingly peanuts were originally used only to feed pigs.
23. Peanuts account for 2/3rd of all snack nuts consumed in the USA. Americans eat about 2,80,000 Tons of peanuts and about 3,20,000 Tons of peanut butter each year.
24. Peanut butter was introduced to the general public at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO in 1904.
25. Peanut butter is a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peanuts most popular in the US. As per US regulations, it must contain at least 90% peanuts by weight. Artificial flavors, artificial sweeteners, color additives, and chemical preservatives are not allowed in peanut butter. Under FDA regulations, peanut butter contains zero trans-fat.
26. Peanut butter is the number one use of peanuts in the United States. It takes, on average, about 1200 peanuts to make a 1 Kg jar of peanut butter. Amazingly on one acre of a peanut crop yields about 1300 Kg crop enough to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches!!
27. Chocolate manufacturers use 20% of the world’s peanuts.
28. In the manufacturing industry, Peanuts are included in the making of cosmetics, paints, dyes, plastics, and nitroglycerin.
29. Besides being high in protein, peanuts are naturally cholesterol-free. They are also an excellent source of folate.
30. Peanuts contain about 28% protein, 50% oil, and 18% carbohydrates. Peanuts have are good quality amino acids that are essential for growth and development.
31. The kernels are an excellent source of vitamin E (a-tocopherol). Vitamin E is a powerful lipid-soluble antioxidant that helps maintain the integrity of the cell membrane of mucus membranes and skin by protecting from harmful oxygen-free radicals.
32. Peanuts contain high concentrations of poly-phenolic antioxidants, primarily p-coumaric acid. This compound has been thought to reduce the risk of stomach cancer.
33. Peanuts are an excellent source of resveratrol, another polyphenolic antioxidant. Resveratrol has been found to have a protective function against cancers, heart disease, degenerative nerve disease, Alzheimer's disease, and viral/fungal infections. It also decreases stroke risk.
34. Studies suggest that roasting/boiling enhances antioxidant bio-availability in peanuts. It has been found that boiled peanuts have a two and a four-fold increase in antioxidants.
35. Peanuts are one of the crops that are susceptible to fungal (mold) infection, especially by aspergillus flavus which produces aflatoxin. Aflatoxin is a very powerful and dangerous known carcinogen that may cause liver cirrhosis and cancer. Roasting helps reduce toxin levels in these nuts.
36. The peanuts are packed with many important B-complex groups of vitamins such as riboflavin, niacin, thiamin, pantothenic acid, and vitamin B-6\. The nuts are a rich source of minerals like copper, manganese, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, and selenium.
37. Just a handful of peanuts per day provides enough recommended levels of phenolic anti-oxidants, minerals, vitamins, and protein.
38. Peanuts have sufficient levels of mono-unsaturated fatty acids (MUFA), especially oleic acid. MUFA helps lower LDL or "bad cholesterol" and increases HDL or "good cholesterol” levels in the blood.
39. A single cup of peanuts has 900 calories in it. Try to limit yourself to 30 peanuts and stick with the raw ones, not the processed, glazed or salted ones.
40. Peanut-milk is also popular in lactose-free milk as a healthy drink. Peanut “chutney” or paste, made from these nuts, chili peppers, salt, coriander leaves, garlic, and mustard seeds, is popular among south Indians and Sri Lankans.
41. Peanut oil is another healthy source of edible cooking oil widely employed in cooking for its aromatic flavor, especially in many South Indian states, and Sri Lanka.
42. Unshelled groundnuts can be placed in a cool dry place for many months, whereas shelled (without the shell) nuts should be placed inside an airtight container and kept inside the refrigerator to avoid them turn rancid.
43. Four of the top 10 candy bars manufactured in the USA contain peanuts or peanut butter.
44. Two peanut farmers have been elected president of the USA - Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter.
45. Astronaut Allen B. Sheppard took with him a peanut to the moon.
46. The world's largest reported peanut was four inches long. It was grown in North Carolina by Mr. Earl Adkins.
47. Amazingly, Tom Miller, a Colorado student pushed a peanut to the top of Pike's Peak (14,100 feet) using his nose in 4 days, 23 hours, 47 minutes, and 3 seconds.
48. The farthest distance to throw a peanut is 37.92 meters (124 ft 4 in), achieved by Colin Jackson (UK) at the Welsh Institute of Sport in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, the UK on 20 February 2008.
49. The term "Peanut Gallery" became popular in the late 19th century and referred to the rear or uppermost seats in a theater, which was the cheapest seats from which people throw peanuts, at those seated below them. It also applied to the first row of seats in a movie theater as the occupants of those seats could throw peanuts at the stage, stating their displeasure with the performance.
50. There are six cities in the U.S. named Peanut: Peanut, California; Lower Peanut, Pennsylvania; Upper Peanut, Pennsylvania; Peanut, Pennsylvania, Peanut, Tennessee; and Peanut West Virginia.

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### Pear
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Last updated: 2024-02-29T09:30:31.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Pear

1. Pear belongs to the family of roses. It’s the cultivation of pears about 1100 years BC in China.
2. The scientific name for pear is Pyrus communis.
3. There are over 3000 varieties of pears that can be found around the world today.
4. Pears are broadly classified based upon their place of origin as Asian-pears and European-pears. Asian varieties are crispy and firm that does not change even after harvesting or storage whereas, European types generally become soft and juicy when allowed to ripen.
5. China is the world leader in the production of pears.
6. The first pear tree was planted in North America in 1620 in the Massachusetts Bay colony. Presently the USA is one of the largest producers of pears in the world which is mostly grown on the coast, mainly in Oregon and Washington.
7. The Bartlett is the most popular variety of pear in the United States. It got its American name when a Bostonian named Enoch Bartlett bought a pear orchard and began distributing them as Bartlett pears.
8. Pear can grow to the height of 40 to 50 feet and has a pyramid-shaped crown. It has oval or heart-shaped green leaves that are alternately arranged.
9. Actually, the fruit is harvested green because it continues to ripen after removal from the tree. That it is prevented from being overripe.
10. Pears are also known as "butter fruit" because they have a soft, butter-like texture when they are ripe.
11. Pear starts to produce fruit 4 years after planting. The plant can survive from 10 to 50 years.
12. Pear is about 5 inches long and weighs about 200 gm. A medium pear has about 75 calories. It can be consumed raw or as a part of fruit salads, cakes, and other desserts.
13. Doctors recommend pears for babies when they are weaning and being introduced to baby food as pears are a low acid fruit that is unlikely to cause digestion problems in babies and pear allergy is rare.
14. The fruit is a good source of minerals such as copper, iron, potassium, manganese, and magnesium as well as B-complex vitamins such as folates, riboflavin, and pyridoxine (vitamin B6).
15. Pears boost the immune system because they contain antioxidants such as vitamin C and copper which fight off free radicals and disease in the body.
16. Pears are one of the highest-fiber fruits, offering 6 gms per medium-sized fruit, helping you meet 25% of your daily requirement. Most of the fiber in them is a nonsoluble polysaccharide (NSP), which functions as a good bulk laxative in the gut reducing the occurrence of colon polyps and also chances of colon cancer.
17. Pears contain the natural form of folic acid, folate, and they should be included in a healthy prenatal diet in pregnancy.
18. Pears also contain boron, which our bodies need in order to retain calcium, so this fruit can aid in the prevention of osteoporosis.
19. The Chinese considered the pear, which they call “li,” to be a symbol of immortality. The destruction of a pear tree symbolized tragic or untimely death. it is considered bad luck in China to share a pear because it may lead to the separation of friends or lovers.
20. Pear leaves were used for the preparation of cigarettes before tobacco became popular.
21. Pearwood is used to make furniture, musical instruments, and wood carvings. It is also used to make wooden kitchen utensils because it doesn’t impart any color or odor to the food and because it is tough enough to withstand repeated washings. Architect’s rulers are also made from pear wood because it doesn’t warp.
22. The world’s most expensive pear is Buddha-shaped pears which may cost nearly $10 each. They have been cultivated to look exactly like a Buddha statue, even down to the facial details.
23. The heaviest pear ever grown was about 3 Kg in Japan.
24. In the Odyssey, Homer called the pear a “gift from the Gods.”
25. The word pyriform means “pear-shaped.”

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### Mosquito
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Last updated: 2024-02-28T09:30:54.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Little-Known Mosquito Facts

1. Mosquitoes exist for as far back as 400 million years ago.
2. There are about 2,700 species of mosquito. There are 176 species in the United States.
3. The adult mosquitoes can be as long as 16 mm (0.6 inches), and it weighs around 2.5 mg (0.04 g). They are really slim.
4. The amazing fact is that mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on Earth. More deaths are associated with mosquitoes than any other animal on the planet.
5. They carry many deadly diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and encephalitis.
6. A single malarial mosquito can infect more than 100 people.
7. Amazingly half of all humans who have ever lived died from malaria.
8. Amazingly only female mosquitoes bite when they are pregnant. Female mosquitoes will obtain blood from humans and animals only to nourish their eggs. Their food actually consists of nectar and other plant juices.
9. Not all mosquito species feed on people. Some mosquitoes specialize in other animals. Culiseta melanura, for example, bites birds almost exclusively, and rarely bites humans.
10. Anopheles is the only species of mosquitoes known to carry malaria, apart from transmitting filariasis ( Also called elephantiasis) and encephalitis.
11. Aedes mosquitoes spread yellow fever, dengue, and encephalitis.
12. The average life span of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days. the male lives 10 to 20 days.
13. Mosquitoes don't see very well, but they zoom in like a heat-seeking missile once 30 ft away.
14. Amazingly mosquito has 47 teeth.
15. The fact is that mosquito's wings beat 300-600 times per second.
16. Mosquitoes don't like to travel. Most mosquitoes remain within a 1-mile radius of their breeding site.
17. They fly at amazingly slow speeds between 1 and 1.5 miles per hour, making them one of the slowest flying insects.
18. Salt mosquitoes can travel up to 100 miles away from their larval breeding location. Because they grow in the marsh, they fly far away to find a proper place with a plentiful source of food like nectar and blood.
19. Amazingly mosquitoes can detect carbon dioxide from 75 feet away. Carbon dioxide, which humans and other animals produce, is the key signal to mosquitoes that a potential blood meal is near. It can also detect lactic acid from our sweat.
20. Amazingly the smell of chocolate can stun the carbon dioxide sensors making it difficult to locate humans.
21. The amazing fact is that male mosquitoes find female mosquitoes by listening to the sound of their wings beating. The males can actually identify the correct species by the pitch of the female’s wings. It has been seen that when the male and female meet, their buzzing synchronizes to the same speed.
22. A single female can lay 100-300 eggs at a time, up to 1,000-3,000 in her lifetime. Amazingly mosquito eggs can survive for more than five years.
23. All mosquitoes require water to breed. Make sure you don't provide the environment where they thrive.
24. The average mosquito weighs 2.5 milligrams and when they drink blood, they consume more than 5 milligrams about twice their body weight in blood.
25. Amazingly it would take 1.2 million mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
26. Bigger people are often more attractive to mosquitoes because they are larger targets and they produce more mosquito attractants, namely CO2 and lactic acid.
27. Arctic researchers uncovered their chests, arms, and legs and reported as many as 9000 mosquito bites per person, per minute. At this rate unprotected human would lose one-half of his blood supply in approximately 2 hours.
28. Amazing thing is that people with the O blood group are most likely to be bitten by mosquitoes.
29. Mosquitoes are more attracted to dark colors than light ones.
30. A full moon increased mosquito activity 500% in one study.
31. As the mosquito is taking a blood meal, she’s also injecting an anticoagulant to get the blood flowing. Most people have a reaction to that anticoagulant saliva which causes itching.
32. Amazingly you feel the bite of the mosquito only after it has finished its job and gone.
33. Mosquitoes usually don't fly in winds more than 10 mph.
34. You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.
35. Mosquitoes are able to see the living things around them with the heat that they radiate, which is a kind of infrared light invisible to us. Since this type of sight is not reliant on visible light, they can amazingly find our blood vessels even during the darkness of the night.
36. The amazing fact is that mosquito repellents don't repel. They block mosquito sensors thus hiding you.
37. Mosquitoes have tiny hooks on their legs, which they use to latch onto the skin. And they hang onto walls the same way using hairy little foot pads like they’re wearing Velcro socks.
38. The amazing fact is that mosquitoes have the most remarkable water walking ability using their superhydrophobic legs. These limbs are so phenomenally water repellent that each one could effectively support 23 times the insect’s weight. Physicists discovered this when they took a single mosquito leg and measured the force needed to push it into a cup of water.
39. A raindrop hitting a mosquito is like a human being hit by a bus! Yet it is able to attach itself to the raindrop and just ride it downwards. Amazingly it is careful enough to break away from the drop before it splashes into the ground.
40. One of the most common mosquito predators is the dragonfly which is adept to eat mosquitoes at all phases of their lifecycle.

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### Bangladesh
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Last updated: 2024-02-26T09:30:22.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Bangladesh

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Bangladesh is the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The word Bangladesh means "Country of Bengal" in the local language.
- Historically, Bangladesh is prone to monsoon flooding and cyclones due to its unique geographic make up. The country is almost entirely flat and is dominated by the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta where the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers from the Himalayas converge.
- Bangla Desh is bordered by India on the North, East, and West and by the Bay of Bengal & Myanmar (Burma) on the South.
- The Bay of Bengal, which is bounded by India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Maldives, and Sri Lanka is the largest bay in the world-sized 2,172,000 square kilometers.
- The alluvial soil deposited by these rivers contribute to some of the most fertile delta lands in the world for farming.
- The highest peak in Bangladesh is Saka Haphong in the southeastern Mowdok Range at just 1,052 m (3,451 ft).
- Due to Bangladesh being so low lying and tropical, the ground has never frozen over with a record low of 4.5°C in Jessore during the winter of 2011.
- Bangladesh has a population of about 165 million people making it the world's eighth most populated country.
- For such a large population, Bangladesh is a relatively small country, 147,570 km² making it one of the world's most densely populated countries. It has a population density of almost 1100 people per square kilometer.
- *Amazing fact* is that population of Bangladesh is more than that of Russia which has a land area 115 time that of Bangladesh.
- The largest city and capital of Bangladesh is Dhaka founded in 1608 AD. The city has an estimated population of 17 million being the most densely populated city in the world. It is also known as the "City of Mosques". The second largest city is Chittagong (population 4 million).
- Over 98% of Bangladeshis speak the official language of Bengali. English is spoken as a second language.
- If global warming brings about climatic change, sea levels could rise by up to a meter. It is estimated that by 2050, approximately 1/5 of the country could be under the sea.

##### Flora & Fauna

- The Royal Bengal Tiger is Bangladesh’s national animal. This majestic creature has a roar that can be heard up to 3 kilometers away. It is now an endangered species as only 400 are left in Bangladesh. Sundarbans is the natural habitat of this animal.
- The Magpie Robin (Doyel) is the national bird of Bangladesh.
- The national flower of Bangladesh is the white-flowered water lily, called Shapla.
- Jackfruit is the national fruit and the Mango tree is the national tree of Bangladesh.

##### History

- In 1947 when India and Pakistan became independent, a Bengal area was divided off from India and became the East Pakistan.
- Before the Liberation War of 1971, Pakistan imposed law that Urdu must be spoken across the country which was rejected by Bangla-speaking people. In the parliamentary elections of 1970-71, East Pakistan's separatist Awami League won every single seat.Talks between the two Pakistans failed.
- On March 27, 1971, Sheikh Mujibar Rahman declared Bangladeshi independence from Pakistan. The Pakistani Army committed atrocities on civilians to stop the secession, but Bangladesh became independent after a war aided by India. On January 11, 1972, Bangladesh became an independent parliamentary democracy.
- In 1991 a cyclonic tidal wave killed around 1,40,000 people in Bangladesh.
- In September 1998, torrential monsoon rains caused the Brahmaputra, Ganges, and Megha rivers to overflow causing severe flooding that swallowed up to 300,000 houses, 10,000 km of road, 30 million houses, and killing 135,000 cattle and over 1,000 people. Amazingly this flood submerged 2/3 rd of Bangladesh.

##### Places / Architecture

- Bangladesh’s oldest known city site is the city of Mahasthangarh.
- Bangladesh has one of the largest coastal mangrove forests in the world; it forms part of the Sundarbans National Park, a World Heritage site.
- The beach in Cox's Bazar is an unbroken 125 km sandy sea beach with a gentle slope, the world's longest.
- National Martyrs' Memorial at Savar, about 35 km north-west of Dhaka was built in memory of the martyrs of 1971 war composed of seven unique isosceles triangular planes, each varying in size in its height and base. The planes are folded at the middle and placed one after another. The highest point of the structure reaches 150 feet. Memorial is spread over 110 acres.
- In Sylhet, the hilly region of north east Bangladesh, there are a number of megalithic monuments, similar to those found in Europe. It also has number of archaeological and historical sites dating back as far as the 3 rd century BC, but the frequent floods and the damp climate have destroyed much of the country's heritage.
- Bangladesh lacks rock for constructions and has hundreds of brick kilns with massive chimneys scattered all over the country.
- The National Parliament of Bangladesh is one of the largest legislative complexes in the world, comprising 200 acres (800,000 m²).
- A Bangladesh millionaire, Asanulla Muni has constructed replica of Taj Mahal in Bangladesh.

##### People Customs & Culture

- *Amazing fact* is that the farmers of the land compose almost 75% of the population of Bangladesh.
- Over 30% of Bangladesh's population live below the poverty line.
- The predominant religion in Bangladesh is Islam with 88% followers.Among Bangladeshi Muslims, 96% are Sunni. Hindus are the largest minority religion in Bangladesh at 10.5% of the population.
- It is considered rude and unclean to use your left hand in Bangladesh. Always use your right hand to pass things or even shake hands with people.
- The people of Bangladesh seldom smile. In fact, too much smiling is considered a sign of immaturity.
- *Amazingly* Bangladesh has 2000 periodicals and daily newspapers published, despite the low literacy rate and the average readership at just 15%.
- Dhaka city can be proud for having two of the biggest shopping malls in South Asia , Boshundhora City Shopping Mall and Jamuna Future Park.
- Night life in Bangladesh is very rare. It is considered unusual to stay outside home past 10 PM. Most of the shopping malls and markets get closed by 8-8:30 PM.
- Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) is the largest non-profit organization in the developing world.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The Government is headed by the Prime Minister as the head of the Government and the President is the chief of state. The President is chosen through election and serves a term for 5 years, with the maximum 2 terms.
- There hasn't been a single male Head of State since 1990.
- The national anthem of Bangladesh has been written by an Indian , Rabindranath Tagore.
- Bangladesh flag color is bottle Green with a bright red circle in the center. The bottle green color is the emblem of the widespread greenery of the country, and the reddish circle in the midst is the sun rising over the country also symbolizing bloodshed of the martyrs in 1971 liberation war.

##### Economy & Corporates

- The currency of Bangladesh is called the taka which means 'currency' in Bengali.
- It's the 2nd largest readymade garment manufacturer in the whole world.
- Bangladesh is one of the largest ship breaking nations in the world along with India.
- In February 2016, hackers made 5 transactions worth $101 million and successfully withdrew from a Bangladesh Bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. $20 million was traced to Sri Lanka and recovered and but out of $81 million traced to the Philippines only about $18 million was recovered. Hackers had issued 30 further instructions to withdraw $850 million but these were blocked.

##### Sports

- The most popular sport in Bangladesh is cricket. The national cricket team first participated in the Cricket World Cup in 1999.
- Kabaddi is the national game of Bangladesh. It is the 'game of rural Bengal'.

##### Inventions

- Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) which has saved millions of lives was developed in the Cholera Research Labs in Dhaka, now known as the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR).

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### Jackfruit
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Last updated: 2024-02-24T09:30:38.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Jackfruit

1. The jackfruit tree originated from South Asia. It is a tropical plant, thriving in areas where temperatures are warm and moisture is abundant.
2. The scientific name of Jackfruit is Artocarpus heterophyllus.
3. Jackfruit is a big tree that can grow to as high as 30 meters. Almost all the parts of the tree secrete white sticky latex-like milk (juice) upon injury.
4. The jackfruit is recognized as the largest tree fruit which can grow as big as 3 feet long and 18 inches wide and weigh as much as 25 Kg. Jackfruit outer surface is covered with blunt thorn-like projections, which become soft as the fruit ripe.
5. Jackfruits usually grow from the trunk and larger branches rather than the outer stems of the tree like most fruits do. In a single year, the jackfruit tree can produce as many as 250 fruits.
6. Amazingly it is also known to grow from the underground roots in some rare cases! In such situations, the fruit cracks the ground over it and emerges outside.
7. Jackfruit varieties are classified as hard and soft as per the texture of the flesh. “Hard” jackfruits are those that are bigger-sized and have firm flesh. “Soft,” on the other hand, are smaller but sweeter and softer in consistency.
8. Ripe jackfruit is eaten as a fruit but unripe jackfruit is prepared as a vegetable. Jackfruit is made up 80% of water.
9. The jackfruit’s flesh is very sweet and aromatic, having been described as having the flavor combination of mango, banana, melon and papaya.
10. 100 g of edible jackfruit bulbs provide 95 calories. The fruit is made of soft, easily digestible bulbs made up of simple sugars like fructose and sucrose.
11. Fresh fruit has small but significant amounts of vitamin-A, and flavonoid pigments such as carotene-ß, xanthin, lutein and cryptoxanthin-ß. These play vital roles in antioxidant and vision functions. Vitamin A is also required for maintaining integrity of mucosa and skin.
12. Jackfruit is a good source of antioxidant vitamin-C which helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents and harmful free radicals produced due to oxidative stress in the body damaging the DNA of cell and initiating production of cancer cell.
13. It is one of the rare fruits that is rich in B-complex group of vitamins containing good amounts of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), niacin, riboflavin, and folic acid.
14. Jackfruit is also a good source of potassium, magnesium, manganese, and iron.
15. Jackfruit contains calcium, which strengthens and promotes healthy bone. This can also prevent osteoporosis. Potassium in jackfruit also decrease the loss of calcium through the kidney and increase bone density.
16. Jackfruit is rich in vitamins ,Copper, Manganese and Magnesium that are required for blood formation. This also increases your body’s capacity to absorb iron, thus preventing and curing anemia.
17. The best jackfruit in the world is the peniwaraka, or honey jak, that comes from Sri Lanka.
18. Each jackfruit contains about 100 to 500 seeds. They are edible and very delicious when roasted or boiled in salted water. They are also made into flour.
19. Jackfruit is rich in energy but devoid of saturated fats or cholesterol.
20. Jackfruit slices hand-mixed with grated coconut, honey, banana slices is one of the wonderfully delicious dessert preparations commonly served on festive occasions in Southern India. The fruit is also used in jam, jelly and chutney preparations.
21. The wood derived from the jackfruit tree is known for its termite and fungus-resistant properties. It is ideal for making furniture, houses, musical instruments and oars. Palaces in the Indonesian island of Bali are made of jackwood.
22. Extracts from the roots for the jackfruit tree have been traditionally used to treat fever, asthma and diarrhea.
23. Jackfruit seed can be soaked milk and honey. Grind them into a fine paste and apply on your face. Let it dry, and then wash off to reveal flawless skin.
24. Dip jackfruit seed in cold milk for a minute and grind this well and apply on the wrinkles. Used in this way, it can reduce facial wrinkles in 6 weeks. You can consume jackfruit seeds directly which detoxifies your system to add a glowing complexion.
25. The Jackfruit tree is really a wonder tree because every part of it has its own use. The fruits are consumed as food, the leaves are fed to livestock, the tree and branches are valued for the manufacture of wood products, and the roots are utilized as medicine.

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### Turkey (Part II)
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Last updated: 2024-02-22T09:30:26.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Turkey (Part II)

##### People Customs & Culture

- The Turkish baths, or hammam, was an export of the Roman Empire to Turkey in the 7th century, derived in part from Greek, Roman, and Byzantine bathing, or purification, traditions. Turkish bath attendants are called tells, or scrubbers.
- The Ottoman Empire was known for the amazing calligraphy.
- Turkish Delight, or lokum, is one of the oldest sweets in world history, dating back 500 years. Napoleon and Winston Churchill were particularly fond of it and Picasso used to consume it daily while painting.
- The word “turquoise” comes from turc, meaning “Turkish,” and was derived from the beautiful color of the Mediterranean Sea on the southern Turkish coast.
- Once a loved symbol of nationality and a special badge of the Turks, the Fez (Type of cap) which was worn by men and women, even if not a Muslim is hardly seen these days. The Fez was banned in 1925.
- *Amazingly* in spite of most of the Turkish population being Muslim, Turkey is not officially a Muslim country. Turkey has officially been a secular nation since 1927.
- Turks are very patriotic and you can hardly hear them talking badly about their country. Turkish flag is placed everywhere throughout the country.
- Family is a number one priority in Turkey with members supporting each other unconditionally. It is common to have family members and friends to overnight as guests few times a week.
- Turkish public buildings commonly have a black arrow placed on their ceilings. It shows the direction of Mecca, which is considered to be the holiest place on Earth for Muslims.
- Turkey has the third highest number of Facebook users in the world, with 14 million users, after the U.S. and U.K.
- One way of protecting a newborn baby in Turkey is by “salting,” which is a custom where the baby’s body is rubbed all over with salt in the belief that will give the child strength to resist harmful influences.
- The Turkish alphabet is phonetic, so words are pronounced in the same way they are read.
- There are no separate words for “he, she or it.” One word used for all.
- A stranger who appears at one’s doorstep is considered God’s guest for at least three days.
- The Turks answer their phones with ‘My Master?’ instead of Hello.
- Ice cream street vendors also perform circus-clown performances to attract customers.
- Turkey eats more chicken and red meat than anywhere else in Europe, but the least amount of seafood, despite two thirds of its border being coastline
- Soup is an essential part of Turkish cuisine. They have it before every meal.
- Turks love their tea, and Turkey has the highest per-capita consumption in the world. Most Turks drink 10 or more cups of tea per day.96% of the population drinks tea every day. Turkey also ranks in the top 5 tea producers in the world. Tea in Turkey is called çay (pronounced “chai”).

##### Flora & Fauna

- The cherry tree was first introduced to Rome, and then to Europe, from Giresun in northern Turkey in 69 B.C. It is thought to be one of the earliest domesticated plants, around 10,000 years ago.
- Turkey is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. While the entire continent of Europe has 13,000 plant species, Turkey alone has 10,000 plant species with a new plant species discovered every 10 days.
- There are 11,500 species of flowers in Europe and Turkey alone has 9,000 species.
- Turkey is the richest country in Europe in terms of the variety of bird species. The number of animal species in Turkey alone number over 80,000 and to over 100,000 including sub-species. Europe has only around 60,000.
- Turkey is also home to 5 unique mammal species, 13 reptile species, and 52 freshwater fish species not found anywhere else on Earth.
- Turkeys, the birds, got their name after Turkey, the country! The turkey bird is called hindi in the country of Turkey because they believe it originated in India.
- Historians believe agriculture began in Turkey some 11,000 years ago. At sites like Çatalhöyük, in south-central Turkey, there’s evidence that the residents added crops like wheat and barley to their diet.
- İztuzu Beach, just west of Fethiye, is a major breeding ground for the endangered loggerhead sea turtle which arrive between May and October, climbing ashore at the exact site of their birth to lay a new generation of eggs. The beach sees around 300 nests dug each year.
- Despite the appearance of camels at holiday resorts, Turkey has no desert and there are no native camels.

##### Economy 

- Turkey has been producing wine since 4000 B.C.
- Turks introduced coffee to Europe, during the Ottoman raids into Central and Eastern Europe in the 16th century.
- Tulips were introduced to Europe through Dutch traders by the Turks in the 17th century.
- Goltepe located 60 miles south of Tarsus has the oldest tin mine in the World.
- Turkey really is the center of the world. From Istanbul Atatürk Airport, the flag carrier Turkish Airlines serves to more than 260 destinations. Turkish airline has often won the Best Airline in Europe award.
- Turkey is the 6th most popular tourist destination in the world and had 35 million foreign visitors per year.
- Turkey is the largest grower of hazelnuts in the world responsible for 80% of the world’s hazelnut exports.
- Turkey is the world’s 4th largest producer of tomatoes growing more than 11 million metric tons of tomatoes per year.
- About 25% of the roses grown in the world come from Turkey.
- Turkey has a strong manufacturing sector, it makes and exports cars, planes, electronics, clothing and textiles.
- The currency used in the country is called the Turkish Lira.

##### Sports

- Turkish tavla, or backgammon, is one of the most ancient of all board games, dating back to 3000 B.C.
- Turkey is home to the world’s oldest sporting event, grease wrestling, which is also its national sport. Wrestlers cover themselves with olive oil and attempt to either pin their opponents on the ground or lift them up and walk three steps. The first grease wrestling game was hosted in 1362\. In the past, these matches could last days, but there is now a time limit of 40 minutes. Held during the summer months, wrestlers are not allowed to stop for breaks or even drink water.
- Camel wrestling is a popular sport in Turkey, and they will only wrestle during mating season, which lasts from November to March. A female camel is paraded around in front of two males to provoke them.
- One of the most beloved Turkish athletes is retired weight lifter Naim Süleymanoğlu, also called Pocket Hercules because he stands only 4 feet 11 inches (1.5 m) tall. He won Olympic Gold Medals in 1988, 1992, and 1996.
- The most popular sport in Turkey is football, the Turkish national team came third in the 2002 World Cup Finals.
- Basketball and volleyball are also popular sports in Turkey.
- Nearly a dozen resort offer ski run. Palandöken, in the eastern province of Erzurum, is Turkey’s highest at 10,200 feet (3,125 meters) and claims Europe’s longest natural ski run.

##### Inventions

- One of the first and most precise world’s maps was made by famous Turkish cartographer Piri Reis in the 16th century.
- The Turks invented parchment, paper made out of calfskin when the Egyptians stopped exporting papyrus to Pergamum, Turkey, because they were afraid that Pergamum’s library would become larger than the library at Alexandria, the world’s largest at the time.
- Hezârfen Ahmet Çelebi was the first man to fly a significant distance, using artificial wings to fly across the Bosporus Straits in the 17th century, thus making the world’s first intercontinental flight 270 years before the Wright Brothers.

##### Famous People

- Turkey is the birthplace of such historical figures as Aesop; Homer; St. Paul; King Midas; Galen, noted physician, surgeon, medical researcher, and philosopher in the Roman Empire; and Herodotus, the father of history.

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### Turkey (Part I)
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Last updated: 2024-02-20T09:30:16.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Turkey (Part I)

##### Land & Geography

- The name of the country Turkey may come from Turchia, which is the word Italian observers used to refer to Anatolia, Turkey’s Asian portion as early as the 12th century. The name was officially used in 1923\. The official name of Turkey is the Republic of Turkey.
- Turkey is a peninsula that serves as a bridge between Asia and Europe. The country is surrounded by the Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea.
- In fact, there are eight countries that share a border with Turkey including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Bulgaria, Greece, and Georgia.
- Turkey has a population of about 80 million, land area being 783,562 km².
- Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey and is the third most populous urban area in Europe. Ankara is in fact the capital of Turkey since 1923.
- Turkey is home to spectacular mountain ranges and more than 130 peaks exceed 9800 Ft (3000 m). The highest point in Turkey is Mount Ararat 5137 m (16,854 ft).
- Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey.
- Turkey has 82,693 mosques, most of which are in the country's largest city, Istanbul.
- Turkey has had more than 25 major earthquakes, measuring up to 7.8 on the Richter scale, since 1939.

##### History

- One of the world’s earliest civilizations, the Hittites, flourished in Turkey around 1600 B.C. They were among the first people to work iron and use a system of writing.
- The first coins in world history were made of electrum and used by Lydian King Alyattes in Sardis, in the Aegean region of Turkey, in 640 B.C.
- Julius Caesar pronounced his famous words, “Veni, Vidi, Vici” (“I came, I saw, I conquered”) in Turkey when he defeated Pontus, a kingdom of the Black Sea region of Turkey.
- A part of the southeastern Turkey coast was a wedding gift of Marcus Antonius to Cleopatra.
- Turkey is the site of the world’s first beauty pageant, with Paris of Troy as judge and Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite as contestants. Paris chose Aphrodite, who promised him the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen, who was already married which led to the Trojan War.
- Virgin Mary spent her last days in Selcuk in Izmir, near the antic city of Ephesus. That is why the first church dedicated to Virgin Mary is in Ephesus.
- Santa Claus, also known as St. Nicholas, was born in Patara, Turkey, in the 3rd century A.D.
- For more than 2000 years Istanbul was the capital of three empires: Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman.
- The first Christian church to be built by man, the Cave Church, or Grotto, of St. Peter was built between A.D. 1098 and 1268 in Antioch, Turkey.
- The word “harem” comes from the Arabic for “forbidden” and refers to the private rooms where the sultan’s wives and concubines lived with their children. During the reign of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, there were 1,000 women living in 250 rooms of the harem at Topkapi Palace.
- In 1503, Leonardo da Vinci submitted plans to build a bridge across the Bosporus Straits. It was not built until almost 500 years later in 2001 and named the Galata Bridge.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The first recorded international treaty in the world was the Treaty of Kadesh between the Hittite and Egyptian Empires, Hattusilis III and Ramses II, in 1275 BC.
- 623 years of Ottoman rule was abolished and the newly formed "Republic of Turkey" was officially proclaimed on 29 October 1923 in Ankara. Mustafa Kemal became the republic's first President. He is a founder of the modern Turkish state. Amazingly he was born in 1881 in the Greek city of Saloniki.
- When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk rose to power, he lifted the ban on alcohol, adopted the Gregorian calendar instead of the Islamic, made Sunday a day of rest instead of Friday, changed the Turkish alphabet from Arabic letters to Roman, and mandated that the call to prayer be in Turkish rather than Arabic.
- Turkey has had equality for women going back a millennium to the Hittite civilization, and it gave women the right to vote before most European countries and the United States (1930 for local elections, 1934 for national elections).
- Most Turks did not have surnames until a law was passed requiring it in 1934.
- More journalists are imprisoned in Turkey than in any other country in the world.
- Military service is compulsory for every fit male Turkish citizen without exception.
- Wearing a headscarf is forbidden in public buildings.

##### Places / Architecture

- Turkey is home to over ten World Heritage Sites. Two of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world are in Turkey: Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. There are at least 150 archaeological digs going on in Turkey each year.
- The legendary city of Troy of the Trojan horse, Achilles, and Paris and Helen is located on the Aegean coast of Turkey.
- The stones found at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey in 1994 mark it as the world’s first temple and one of the most important archaeological sites ever discovered. Carbon dating shows the 45 stones may be as old as 13,000 years old which makes it the oldest site by an amazing margin.
- The oldest known shipwreck on earth was found and examined in Uluburun in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, about 6 miles Southeast of Kaş. It was dated to be at least 3,300 years old. That shipwreck could be seen now in the Submarine archaeology museum in Bodrum.
- Gaziantep, the Turkey, is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world.
- Turkey’s population is mostly Muslim but thousands of Christian pilgrims visit it every year. The spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Orthodox, lives in Istanbul, a vestige of the Byzantine Empire. Istanbul is also home to the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia cathedral, now a museum. The Armenian Apostolic Church was founded 1,700 years ago in what’s today the city of Kayseri.
- Seven churches mentioned in John’s revelation are all in Turkey: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.
- Noah’s Ark is purported to have landed on Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey. The mountain is actually a dormant volcano and the highest point in the country at 16,949 feet (5,166 m).
- The first known university in human history is in Harran, in southeast Turkey.
- The Hagia Sofia (Turkish: Ayasofya), or Church of the Holy Wisdom, the cathedral in Istanbul was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years. Following the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, it was turned into a mosque, and it has been a museum since 1935.
- Mimar Sinan is Turkey’s best-known architect. Born in 1497, he was a Christian who became a Muslim and was eventually appointed chief of the imperial architects under Süleyman the Magnificent. He went on to design 321 buildings, 85 of which are still standing. His best-known work is the Süleymaniye Mosque.
- The oldest known ceramics originate from Jordan valley and Catal Huyuk in Anatolia, Turkey.
- Patara is the longest beach on the Mediterranean (12 miles of pristine white sand dunes).
- Turkey has 82,693 mosques, more than any other country per capita in the world.
- Istanbul’s Kapalıçarşı, or Grand Bazaar, maybe the world’s largest outdoor market, with 64 streets, 4,000 shops, and 25,000 workers. It also may be one of the oldest, having been built in the 15th century.
- Turkey’s Istanbul Tünel is the world’s second-oldest underground railway, after the London Underground, and the oldest on the European continent. It started in 1875.
- Istanbul is the home of the Sirkeci Train Station, which was the last stop on the Orient Express, which ran between Paris and Istanbul from 1883 to 1977\. British mystery author Agatha Christie was one of the famous passengers on this famous train.
- With its huge collection of 5000 works of art exhibited in the 13 halls, its open-air gallery, and almost 30000 artifacts that are not exhibited, Antalya Museum (Antalya, Turkey) is one of the best world-class museums.
- The most valuable silk carpet in the world, with 144 knots per square centimeter, is in the Mevlâna Museum in Konya, Turkey.
- Pamukkale (“Cotton Palace”) is an attractive natural complex of unique mineral springs near Denizli city in Turkey.
- Istanbul is the world’s only city spanning two continents. Three percent is in Europe and 97% in Asia. The part that lies in Asia is called Anatolia.
- The Turkish Mediterranean resort city of Antalya holds the world record for having the highest number of “Blue Flag” certified beaches in the world, awarded for highest water quality, beach cleanliness, and highest environmental standards.

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### Muscles
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Last updated: 2024-02-18T09:30:45.000Z
#### 45 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Muscles

1. Muscle is a soft tissue in the body of humans and animals. The function of muscles is to produce force and motion.
2. Muscles are responsible for maintaining posture, physical movement, and also the movement of internal organs e.g. Pumping of the heart, movement of intestines, etc.
3. Your brain controls your body movements by sending messages to the muscles via nerves. Nerves are attached to the spinal cord which is connected to the brain. Without muscles, your body would not be able to do anything.
4. The word muscle is derived from the Latin term musculus, meaning "little mouse".
5. There are around 650 skeletal muscles in the human body. Amazingly if all the muscles of the body come together to pull in the same direction, you could actually lift over twenty tons.
6. Some of the biggest muscles are in the back, near the spine. They are responsible for keeping the body upright and gives the body the power it needs to lift and push things.
7. The foot has about 25% of all the human body’s muscles
8. Humans are born with all the muscle fibers they will ever have. New muscle fibers are not produced. The difference between us and champion bodybuilders is in the thickness of muscle fibers.
9. There are 3 types of muscles namely skeletal, cardiac, and smooth.
10. Skeletal muscles (or striated) are voluntary muscles that are responsible for all our actions done intentionally. Tendons attach the muscle to two bones across a joint, as one muscle contracts the other relaxes which moves the bones.
11. The name striated (means striped) comes from the light and dark parts of the muscle fibers as seen under the microscope making them look striped.
12. Skeletal muscle can be further divided into two types, slow twitch, and fast-twitch.
13. Slow twitch (Type I) muscle contains proteins that give it a rich red color due to high myoglobin (Oxygen carrying protein). This muscle can carry more oxygen efficiently. These muscles can contract over a long period of time useful for aerobic sports such as long-distance running and cycling.
14. Fast twitch (Type II) muscle is whiter in color as it has less myoglobin. Fast-twitch fibers contract quickly and powerfully but fatigue rapidly. These muscles are useful for anaerobic exercise such as sprinting or weightlifting.
15. Cardiac muscle is an involuntary muscle found only in the heart and is responsible for keeping the heart pumping 24/7\. It is the muscle that does the most work of any muscle over a lifetime.
16. The amazing fact is that over a lifetime, you pump enough blood to fill 13 oil supertankers. In fact, the average heart beats two billion, six hundred million times during a lifetime.
17. Amazingly the only muscle that never tires is a cardiac muscle in your heart. This is due to the mechanism providing relaxation in between the beats.
18. Smooth muscles (or visceral) carry out involuntary actions not under our control. These are found on the walls digestive tract, bladder, blood vessels, uterus, etc.
19. Muscle makes up about 50% of the total human body weight. Muscle tissue is also about 15% denser than fat tissue.
20. Typically, when people start to work out, they lose weight at the beginning by losing fat, but then start to gain weight due to muscle development.
21. In fact, it takes half as long to gain muscle as it does to lose it. Thus if it takes you a month to develop a muscle, it will take two months for that muscle to degenerate back to its original size/strength.
22. We don’t hear our muscles moving because the sound frequency is lower than 20 Hz, which we can’t hear.
23. The amazing fact is that muscles cannot push. They can only pull. When you are actually “pushing,”, it’s actually because another muscle is pulling. When your push something with your arms, it’s actually your muscles in the back of your arm pulling the elbow.
24. Each human finger is constructed of ligaments, tendons, and three bones. Amazingly there are no muscles in the fingers. Fingers move by the pull of forearm muscles on the tendons inserted into finger bones.
25. Amazingly to take one step, you use 200 muscles. Walking in fact exercises a lot of body muscles.
26. When you’re cold, your muscles contract involuntarily. This is the mechanism to send out energy that warms up your body. In fact, your muscles create at least 85% of your total body heat.
27. We actually need 72 muscles to speak.
28. Amazingly it takes 17 muscles in the face for us to smile and 43 muscles to frown. However only 12 facial muscles make a significant contribution to smiling, and only 11 make a significant contribution to frowning.
29. it is hard to determine which muscle is in fact the strongest. In terms of size, the gluteus maximus in the buttocks is the largest muscle in the body. The calf muscle uses the most force when used, and the jaw muscle (called masseter) exerts the most pressure (80 times its weight).
30. If you consider muscle relative to the function, the strongest muscles in the body are the external muscles of the eye which are about 100 times stronger than they need to be in relation to the eyeball size.
31. Scientists estimate that your eye muscles move over 100,000 times a day!
32. The stapedius in the ear is the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body. It dampens the vibrations of the stapes by pulling on the neck of that bone. This helps to control the amplitude of sound waves from external stimuli. This protects the inner ear from high noise levels.
33. The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body allowing you to blink up to 5 times a second.
34. The tensor tympani is a muscle within the ear contained in the bony canal above the osseous portion of the auditory tube and is inserted by a slender tendon into the neck of the malleus bone. Its role is to reduce the amplitude of sounds such as those produced from chewing.
35. Muscle named Palmaris longus is a visible tendon in the midline of the anterior wrist. The muscle is absent in about 14 percent of the population. It is commonly used as a replacement for other tendons in case of injury.
36. The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius found in the thigh It measures 12 inches in an adult.
37. Amazingly there are more than 40 muscles in the face, without which we could not eat, speak, communicate, express feelings or kiss!
38. The hypnic jerk, or the twitching of the limbs that accompanies a falling sensation while sleeping, is caused by the brain’s misinterpreting relaxed muscles as falling. The brain then sends signals to arm and leg muscles in an attempt to regain balance.
39. When people are electrocuted, sudden and violent contraction of all the muscles of the body occurs as a result of the electrical charge flowing through the body.
40. The tongue is controlled by eight muscles providing movements in all directions.
41. Muscle tissue is 3 times more efficient at burning calories than fat. This is why possessing more muscle leads to burning more calories and makes you fitter.
42. When you go to the gym working towards muscle strength, it is during sleep that muscles actually grow. When you are in deep sleep mode, all those hardworking muscles can finally relax, allowing more blood circulation. In addition, hormones are released during sleep that contributes to the repair and restoration of tissues crucial to new muscle tissue formation.
43. Muscle memory is created by practicing an action over and over again. Our muscles fine-tune themselves, becoming more precise and exact in what they do. So practice is very important when learning a sport!!
44. Cerebral palsy is a disorder that affects balance and motor functions, while muscular dystrophy is a genetic disease that damages muscle fibers.
45. Amazingly a team of material scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas has discovered a new way to create powerful artificial muscles from low-cost, everyday fibers such as fishing lines and high-tension sewing threads that can lift 100 times more than normal muscles.

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### Peru
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Last updated: 2024-02-16T09:30:02.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Peru

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Peru is the Republic of Peru. Peru is the only country whose name in English can be typed on a single row of a normal keyboard.
- Peru has a population of about 30 million people. Peru is the third-largest country in South America after Brazil and Argentina.
- It is located in the central part of the continent bordered by Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil, and Bolivia to the east, Chile to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
- The capital city of Peru is Lima which is home to more than a quarter of Peru's population. It was established in 1535 by Spanish.
- Peru contains the second largest segment of the Amazon rainforest after Brazil. A remote slope of Nevado Mismi, a 5,316 m peak, is the ultimate source of the Amazon River
- *Amazingly* the Peruvian Amazon covers 60% of the country.
- Peru shares borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Bolivia.
- Lake Titicaca located along Peru’s border with Bolivia is the largest lake in South America It is also the highest navigable lake in the world with a surface elevation of 3,812 meters. It is home to the Uros people. *Amazing* thing is they live on floating islands even today.
- Cotahuasi Canyon in the Arequipa region is considered one of the world’s deepest canyon at 3,535 meters (11,597 feet) deep, twice as deep as the Grand Canyon USA.

##### Flaura & Fauna

- *Amazingly* it is home to 25,000 plant species – 10% of the world’s total – and close to 5,000 species of fish and animals.
- In *fact* it ranks first in the world in terms of distinct fish species (2,000 species, or 10% of world total), second in bird species (1,816 species) and third place for both amphibians and mammals (332 and 460 species respectively).
- It has 3532 species of butterfly, and 3500 species of orchids.
- Peru has 84 of the 103 ecological zones in the world.
- The Huascarán National Park in Peru has 27 peaks over 6000 m (19,685 ft) above sea level. The highest of these is El Huascarán at 6768 m (22,204 ft).
- Tara is a Peruvian tree from which tannin is produced for the production of dyes.
- Potatoes have been cultivated in the Andes for at least 7000 yrs. It is originally from the Southern area of Peru, and *amazingly* there are over 3,000 different varieties. When the Spanish conquered the Inca Empire, the first thing they exported to Europe was the potato, where it was quickly adopted as a cheap, easy to grow food crop.
- The Tomato is originally from Peru, and it is a close relative of the Potato. It was first domesticated in Mexico.
- Peru grows more than 55 varieties of corn, and you can just about find it in any color including yellow, purple, white and black.
- *Amazing* thing Peru grows more than 55 varieties of corn, and you can just about find it in any color including yellow, purple, white and black.
- The finest cottons in the world, Pima and Tanguis are Peruvian.
- Peru has 1625 types of orchids of-which 425 can be found growing naturally close to Machu Picchu. The Inkaterra Hotel in Machu Picchu has South America’s largest privately owned collection at 500 varieties.
- The purest and rarest form of chocolate was discovered in Peru in 2009 by two mining officials working in northern Peru. The cluster of trees they found turned out to grow “Pure Nacional" cacao beans which was thought to have gone extinct!

##### History

- The oldest occupation of man in the America’s is traced back to the sacred City of Caral-Supe, north of the capital Lima. The 626 hectare (1546 acre) site dates back to 5000 years.
- Modern day Peru has been home to many ancient civilizations, the largest and wealthiest of these was the Incas who's empire ruled for over 100 years until the Spanish arrived in the 16th century.
- At the time that the Spanish conquered Peru, the Inca Empire was the largest empire in the world, and yet experts still believe that they had no formal system of writing!
- The Inca Empire was centered around highlands of the Andes mountain range and the civilization's capital city Cusco and mountain top citadel Machu Picchu are popular with visiting tourist to this day.
- The Incas created a highway and road system in Peru with over 18,000 miles of roads. The Incas performed successful skull surgeries. They were the first to cultivate the potato in Peru.
- The Incas used a dry masonry method to construct buildings without mortar using stones fit so perfectly together that nothing can slip between them and it proved to be extremely resistant to earthquakes.
- The Incas administered intelligence tests to Incan children and based on their results they were either taught a trade or sent to school to become administrators or part of the nobility.
- During Inca empire couple would not consider to be married unless they had exchanged sandals.
- Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces were defeated in 1824\. After a dozen years of military rule, Peru returned to democratic leadership in 1980.

##### Places / Architecture

- The Geoglyphs of Nazca desert was uncovered in 1927, when the Peruvian pilot, flying over the desert valley in southern Peru saw that the ground was lined by long lines and ornamented with pictures of animals. These geometric patterns appeared on the Nazca even during the Nazca civilization. It dates back to pre-Columbian civilizations, II-IV century BC.
- Cusco in Peru was the most important city in the whole of the Inca Empire, and governed as far north as Quito in Ecuador and as far south as Santiago in Chile.
- Peru's Macchu Pichu was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007, along with the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal.
- Machu Picchu was built in the 1450s but was abandoned after a century. It lay undiscovered for nearly 400 years in the Amazon Jungle until Hiram Bingham the Anerican Explorer stumbled upon it in the wilderness of the Andes in 1911.
- Caral, just 114 miles north of Lima, is the oldest discovered city in the Americas (between 2600 BC and 2000 BC).
- The National University of San Marcos is the oldest in the American continent and was founded on the 12th of May of 1551\. Harvard University, the oldest university in United States, in contrast, was founded only in 1636.
- Amongst the deepests canyons in the world are Cotahuasi (3600 meters / 11,810 ft) and Colca (3400 meters / 11,150 ft), both near Arequipa, Peru's second biggest city. Incidentally, the Grand Canyon in Colorado, USA, is only 1600 meters ( 5,300 ft ) deep.
- Peru is home to the highest sand dune in the world. Cerro Blanco located in the Sechura Desert near the Nazca Lines measures 3,860 feet (1,176 meters) from the base to the summit.
- Peru is a surfer’s paradise, thanks to the twin towns of Chicama and Mancora near Trujillo city. Chicama boasts the world’s longest left-handed wave measuring 4km, while Mancora lays claim to hosting the largest left-handed point break in the world.
- *Amazingly* Peru is the only country with place names that begin with a double-Q (Qquea, Qquecquerisca and Qquero are all places in Peru).
- The highest city in the world – La Rinconada in Peru – located at an altitude of 5099 meters above sea level. It is home to 30,000 people, most of which is occupied by gold mining. Many miners work for free for a month, and on the last day they are allowed to take as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Peru has three official languages – Spanish, Quechua and Aymara. Both Quechua and Aymara were derived from ancient Incan languages. Today, roughly 84% of the population speaks Spanish, 13% speaks Quechua, while just 1.7% speaks Aymara.
- Peru celebrates its independence from the Spanish Empire over three separate days, collectively called Fiestas Patrias (“Patriotic Holidays” in Spanish). These three days are called the ‘Countrymans Day’ (June 24), the ‘Peruvian Independence Day’ (July 28) and the following day (July 29) to celebrate Peru’s armed forces and national police. The whole country shuts down in celebrations.
- Most Peruvians follow the Catholic religion introduced by the Spanish.
- More than 50 percent of Peruvians live in poverty. The poverty line for a family of four is $300 month. Per capita income is $3,500 a year. About 60 percent of Peruvians earn less than $190 a month.
- Because of the rampant poverty, Lima has a large number of pueblos jovenes, or shantytowns, where residents live without running water or electricity. Villa El Salvador is by far the largest, with slightly fewer than 400,000 people.
- Unemployment in Peru is so out of control that it can't be measured. In Villa el Salvador, the unemployment rate is estimated to be up to 75 percent.
- The postal service in Peru is extremely unreliable. Your mailed letter may or may not get to its destination, and if it does, it could take a month.
- Cuy (Guinea pig) is a traditional meat used in Peruvian meals, it is estimated that 65 million guinea pigs are consumed in the country each year.
- In Peru, it is tradition to give friends and family yellow underpants on New Year’s Eve.
- People drink frog juice, or blended frog smoothies. It is believed to be ultimate “health food”.

##### Economy 

- The currency of Peru is the Nuevo Sol.
- Peru is the world’s second-greatest fishing nation: only China has a higher annual catch.
- Peru is extremely rich in natural mineral reserves. It is the third largest producer of all-important copper, fifth largest producer of gold, and leads the world in silver production. It is also the third largest producer of tin and zinc, and ranks fourth among lead producing countries.
- Antamina is the biggest cooper-zinc mine in the world and Camisea is the second biggest gas reserve.
- Peru is the world's largest exporter of asparagus, with 1,20,000 metric tons.
- Peru is the world's second-largest producer of cocaine.

##### Invention

- The inventor of the first modern rocket propulsion system was a Peruvian named Pedro Paulet.

##### Sports

- The world's worst soccer riot occurred in 1964 during a Peru v Argentina match in Lima after an unpopular decision by the referee. It ended with 300 fans killed and more than 500 injured.

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### Portugal
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Last updated: 2024-02-14T09:30:28.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Portugal

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Portugal is the Portuguese Republic. Portugal has a population of over 10 million people.
- Portugal is the westernmost country of the European mainland. The country also holds sovereignty over the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and the Madeira Islands.
- Lisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal. Lisbon is older than Rome Around four centuries older to be precisely existing from 1200 BC. It is in *fact* the second oldest European capital after Athens. Lisbon was devastated by a major earthquake in 1755 resulting in the loss of much of its wealth and status.
- Portugal is named after its 2nd largest city, Porto, the Latin name of which was Portus Cale. Porto's city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the city is also world-renown for being the home of Port wine.
- In *fact,* Portugal is one of the world's top surf spots. Portugal has a coastline that spans 800 kilometers and it's known to have 364 surf days throughout the year!

##### History

- Portugal became the first global maritime power during the 15th & 16th centuries. Pioneering Portuguese explorers such as Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, and Álvares Cabral founded new lands and colonies making Portugal a major economic, political and military power, ultimately dividing the world with Spain.
- The Portuguese Empire was the longest-lived of the modern European empires and was spread throughout areas that now make up 53 different sovereign states.
- The earliest recorded hot air balloon ascent was in Portugal, a model hot air balloon invented by Father Bartolomeu de Gusmão ascended on 8 August 1709 at the Casa da India, Terreiro do Paço, Portugal.
- *Amazingly* in the 18th century, the income of the king of Portugal was 30 times higher than that of the king of England. The royal House of Bragança (Ruling Portugal from 1640-1910) was so wealthy, they didn't charge taxes on its land for 120 years.
- The legacy of this exploration is that the language of Portuguese is today the 6th most spoken first language in the world with over 240 million speakers. It is the official language in 9 countries.
- Over the years Portugal's empire has slowly been broken up, with Brazil gaining independence after the revolution of 1910 and the African colonies of Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor-Leste, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau in 1974 and 75\. Macau was handed over to China in 1999 and East Timor granted sovereignty in 2002.
- The Portuguese Empire was actually the first global empire in history! It was also one of the longest-lived colonial powers, lasting for almost six centuries from when Ceuta was captured in 1415, until East Timor was handed-over in 2002.
- Portugal was one of the earliest colonizing nation of Europe, starting with Ceuta (1410), Madeira (1419), the Azores (1439), then establishing trading posts along the coast of Africa later in the 15th century. In 1498, Vasco da Gama reached India, and in 1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral, en route to India, discovered Brazil and claimed it for Portugal. The Portuguese Empire would rule, among others, over Brazil, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique, Goa, Daman, Diu, Kochi, Malacca, and Macau and east Timor.
- Portugal has had the same defined borders since 1139, making it the oldest nation-state in Europe. Afonso Henriques was proclaimed the first King of Portugal in 1139.
- The kingdom of Portugal lasted for nearly 800 years, from 1139 to 1910\. Since 1910, the country has been a republic. The modern democratic republic was founded in 1976.
- *Amazing fact* is that the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, signed in 1373, is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force. The alliance ensures that both countries will defend the other in wars. As per alliance United Kingdom entered the Iberian Peninsular War and Portugal entered World War I.
- On 1 November 1755 (All Saints' Day), Lisbon was struck by an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9 on the Richter scale resulting in city razed to ground. The resulting tsunami and ensuing fires killed up to 90,000 of the 275,000 inhabitants and 85% of the buildings were destroyed, including famous palaces and churches, the 70,000-volume royal library, as well as the royal archives, containing the detailed historical records of explorations by Vasco da Gama and other early navigators. The earthquake profoundly disrupted the country's political scene and 18th-century colonial ambitions.
- In 1761 Portugal became the first colonial power to abolish slavery, half a century before Spain, France, Britain or the USA.
- *Amazingly* Napoleon tried to conquer Portugal 3 times. And failed.
- The Pirate Code was created by a Portuguese Buccaneer called Bartolomeu Português in the 1600s. It was later used by the 18th century English pirates.
- In *fact* Portugal took chili to India. Without the Portuguese, there would be no curry.

##### Places / Architecture

- The University of Coimbra was established in 1290, making it one of the oldest universities on the European continent.
- The Vasco da Gama Bridge, over the Tagus River in Lisbon is the largest in Europe at 17.2 km's.
- Portugal has 15 sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list, 14 of these cultural sites and 1 of them natural. The country is one of the 20 most visited countries in the world with more than 13 million tourists visiting each year.
- The oldest bookstore in the world , Bertrand bookstore was established in 1732\. It is located in the capital of Lisbon.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Catholic monasteries of the Middle Ages are responsible for the wide range of famous Portuguese pastries today.
- Portuguese language is most closely related to Galician language, spoken in northwestern Spain. Galician could be regarded as a dialect of Portuguese.
- Almost 12% of the inhabitants of Luxembourg and 3% of the people in France are of Portuguese descent. Paris has the largest Portuguese community outside Portugal at 700,000 and is the second-largest Portuguese city after Lisbon based on the number of Portuguese residents.
- Portugal does not have an official religion, though 84% of the population is Catholic.
- Portugal introduced the habit of drinking tea in Britain. The world-famous tea ceremony in England has emerged thanks to Portuguese Catherine of Braganza, who married the King Charles II of England and brought this mode to the court.
- Portugal eats more fish and shellfish than any other country in the world.
- The Festa de São João do Porto, held on the night of 23 June, is one of the liveliest celebrations in the country. The tradition, which has its roots in pagan courtship rituals, requires participants to hit attractive girls on the head with garlic flowers or soft plastic hammers.
- The real Casino Royal of James Bond fame, is in Cascais. Fleming spent a considerable amount of time there during WWII and it served as inspiration for the novel.
- In December 2010, the world's largest Santa Claus parade took place in Porto. 14,963 people donned Santa outfits, beating the record of the previous years for the same parade.
- The Portuguese Water Dog has been claimed to be a hypoallergenic dog breed. In 2008, the breed made the headlines when U.S. President Barack Obama and his family were given one as a pet. A Portuguese Water Dog was chosen to become the "First Dog" in part because Malia Obama's allergies.

##### Politics/ Legal

- José Manuel Durão Barroso, the former Prime Minister of Portugal, has been President of the European Commission since 2004.
- The modern Portuguese legal system has been influenced primarily by German law.
- Due to the influence of Roman Catholicism, Portugal is one of the most socially conservative countries in Europe. Abortion was only legalized through a referendum in 2007 which was objected by Catholic priests.
- Same sex marriage was legalized in Portugal in 2010.
- Portugal is the only country in the EU, along with Spain, where life imprisonment has been abolished. In *fact* it was the first country in the world to abolish the death penalty.
- Portugal was one of the original member states of the euro zone in 1999, and replaced the Portuguese Escudo with the euro (€) currency at this time.

##### Economy

- The world-famous Port wine (also known as "Porto"), a sweet Portuguese fortified wine from the Douro Valley, has been imitated in several countries - notably Australia, South Africa, India and the United States.
- Portugal has the largest cork oak forests in the world and its cork oak is protected by law. Cork is stripped from the trunk of the cork oak every nine years without damaging the tree. Portugal is the largest producer of cork products in the world accounting for 70% of world's cork.
- Portugal is a world leader in renewable energy with about 70% of its energy coming from renewable sources such as wind, hydro and solar power. One of the world’s largest photovoltaic farms is near the town on Moura in south-east Portugal.
- Innovative projects include a floating wind farm (the WindFloat) and WaveRoller, which converts the movement of ocean waves to energy and electricity. Portugal established the world's first commercial wave farm (the Aguçadora Wave Park) to produce electricity in 2006.

##### Sports

- The most popular sport in Portugal is football. The national team finished 3rd in the 1966 World Cup, 2nd in Euro 2004, and 4th in 2006 World Cup.
- The Lisbon-based S.L. Benfica is the world's most supported football club according to the Guinness Book of World Record.
- In October 2011, Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara caught the biggest wave (30 m / 90 ft) ever surfed to date at Praia do Norte, near the town of Nazaré, in central Portugal.

##### Inventions

- The first Pirate code was invented in the 17th century by the Portuguese buccaneer Bartolomeu Português.
- In 1709, the Jesuit priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão invented one of the world's first airships, for which he sought royal favor from King John V. Portugal could have changed history with this invention but he was prevented from developing it with a threat of prosecution.

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### Grapes
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Last updated: 2024-02-12T09:30:45.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Grapes

1. Some grapevine rootstocks have been found in China that date back to before the great ice age.
2. Grapes were first cultivated over 8000 years ago. Hieroglyphics show that the ancient Egyptians were involved in grape and wine production. Grape growing is known as viticulture.
3. The deliberate cultivation of grapes probably started around the Caspian Sea. From there it spread westward to Europe and the Romans took them to Britain in 10 AD.
4. The oldest grapevine in America is a 400-year-old Scuppernong vine in North Carolina.
5. In England in the late 18th century grapes were planted in greenhouses some of these vines were still in production until the early 20th century and one vine, the Hampton Court vine, planted in 1769 is still running.
6. In October 1787, grapevines were obtained from Cape Town, South Africa, and carried to Australia by the First Fleet to Sydney Town.
7. Grape develops on the vine that can reach a length of 50 feet. One vine usually produces 40 clusters of grapes.
8. The grapevine is a perennial plant that can survive and produce fruit for centuries.
9. Grape clusters can be like a pyramid, round or long and thin. Each is attached to the main stem of the bunch by a short stem. The thin skin encloses a sweet, juicy, jelly-like, almost translucent flesh.
10. Grapes are about the size of a marble or slightly bigger, about 1-2cm long, round like a ball or egg-shaped, and either seeded or seedless. Color varies from green to dark purple.
11. Grapes appear in many colors. White, red, black, blue, green, purple, and golden. There are over 8,000 grape varieties worldwide.
12. The grape appears in the top ten of the world’s favorite fruits, along with tomatoes, mangos, and bananas.
13. The USA imports 25% of its grapes from Chile.
14. Grapes with black skins are dried to make raisins, whereas sultanas (Thomson) are dried from small seedless green grapes. In the US all dried grapes are called ‘raisins’. Raisins contain only 15% water and are a good source of iron. Seedless varieties of grapes are used in the manufacture of raisins.
15. Grapes have a combination of sugars both glucose and fructose in equal half. These carbohydrates are slowly digested so the energy you get from grapes lasts longer.
16. One cup of grapes gives about 100 calories. Grapes are a good source of dietary fiber and also contain low levels of cholesterol, sodium, and fat, and are rich in vitamin K and C. Grapes are also an excellent source of calcium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, Iron, Manganese, and magnesium. It is also a good source of Vit. B-complex vitamins such as pyridoxine, riboflavin, and thiamin.
17. Grape skin and seeds, which are also edible, are full of antioxidants mainly Resveratrol which has a protective role against cancers of the colon and prostate, coronary heart disease (CHD), degenerative nerve disease, Alzheimer's's's disease and viral/ fungal infections.
18. Amazingly eating Grape Seeds is More Nutritious than Eating the Actual Fruit. Plants use seeds as nutrient storage centers. Grape seeds are packed with vitamins, polyphenols, minerals, and healthful oils. You have to eat them raw and fresh without roasting, boiling, or salting.
19. Grape seeds also contain oils that are used in the cosmetic industry for the manufacture of skin-care products.
20. Along with the grapes themselves, the vine leaves are also edible. Picked fresh and then steamed, they are used to wrap rice and meats. It’s a traditional part of Greek and Lebanese cooking.
21. Grapes help minimize the risk of heart attacks because they increase the levels of nitric acid in the blood which prevents blood clots.
22. Grapes are 80% water so make a good snack, low in calories. Grapes are a laxative if you eat too many.
23. 100 g fresh grapes just provide 69 calories but zero cholesterol levels.
24. Grapes are classed as berries. The climbing plant can grow to 15-25 meters if it is not pruned. The flowers grow in clusters and are small, green, and fragrant. Fresh grapes are harvested by hand as machines are damaging.
25. Good grapes are plump and firmly attached to stems. Avoid soft or wrinkled fruit and those browning around the stem. Store unwashed, in the refrigerator in a sealed container or plastic bag and use within 2-3 days.
26. On average one acre of grapes can produce around 15,000 glasses of wine. It takes about 2.5 pounds of grape for the production of one bottle of vine.
27. The grape industry worldwide produces over 72 million tons a year. It is the largest food-based industry in the world. 71% of produced grapes are used in the manufacture of wines, 27% are sold as fresh fruit and 2% are turned into raisins.
28. The area which has the highest concentration of wineries in the world is The Napa Valley in California, with over 200.
29. In the 1800’s many vines in Europe were destroyed by an insect that came from America.
30. In Spain, the twelve strokes before midnight should be marked by eating 12 grapes. And it’s the time to make a wish: the grapes will bring you 12 months of good luck.

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### Scotland
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Last updated: 2024-02-10T09:30:11.000Z
#### 70 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Scotland

##### Land & Geography

- Scotland is the U.K.’s northernmost country having a land area of about 80000 km² and a population of just over 5 million and population, density is 170 per Sq. Mile.
- Scotland has some 790 islands, 130 of which are inhabited. The official animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.
- Scotland is a land of mountain wildernesses such as the Cairngorms and Western Highlands, interspersed with glacial glens (valleys) and lochs (lakes).
- The capital of Scotland is Edinburgh recognized by iconic castles while the largest city is Glasgow. Other major cities include Aberdeen and Dundee.
- Meikleour Beech Hedges, in Perthshire, is the tallest and longest hedge on earth, reaching 30 metres (100 ft) in height and 530 metres (1/3 mile) in length.
- Bass Rock, 2 km off the coast of North Berwick, is the largest single-rock Gannet colony in the world, home to some 150,000 birds for centuries.
- St Kilda, the westernmost group of islands of the Outer Hebrides, has become completely uninhabited by humans since 1930\. It is home to the world's second largest colony of Northern Gannets, totalling 30,000 pairs (24% of the global population), as well as 49,000 breeding pairs of Leach's Petrels (90% of the European population), and 136,000 pairs of Atlantic Puffins (30% of the UK's total breeding population). It has been granted World Heritage Site status in 1986.
- In Sutherland we find both Britain's highest waterfall, Eas a' Chual Aluinn (200 m / 658 ft), and the highest sea cliffs on the British mainland, known as the Clò Mór cliffs (281 m / 920 ft). The UK's highest cliff is also located in Scotland, Conachair on St Kilda, rising 427 metres above Atlantic Ocean.
- Inverness-shire, Scotland's largest county, is home to Britain's highest peak, Ben Nevis (1,343 m / 4,406 ft), Britain's deepest lake, Loch Morar (310 m / 1,017 ft), and Britain's second longest and second deepest lake, the famous Loch Ness.
- The shortest scheduled flight in the world is one-and-a-half miles long from Westray to Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The journey takes about 74 seconds to complete.
- The Hamilton Mausoleum in South Lanarkshire has the longest echo of any man-made structure in the world , about 15 seconds.

##### History & Heritage

- Skara Brae, on the island of Orkney, is the most complete Neolithic village in Europe. It is also the oldest building in Britain, dating from 3100 BCE.
- Aberdeen Harbour Board is Britain's oldest recorded business, founded in 1136.
- The University of St Andrews, founded in 1413, is the third oldest university in the UK after Oxford and Cambridge.It had Britain's first female student in 1862\. World's first students' union came into existence in 1882 here.
- Established in 1498, the Shores Porters Society in Aberdeen is the world's oldest transport company.
- Scotland was an independent country until 1603 having it’s own king. Then the king of Scotland became king of England but the two country didn't merge their governments until 1707, to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- The Bank of Scotland, founded in 1695, is the oldest surviving bank in the UK. It was also the first bank in Europe to print its own banknotes.
- A Scot, William Paterson (1658-1719), was the instigator and a co-founder of the Bank of England.
- The post office at Sanquhar, established in 1712, claims to be the oldest working post office in the world.
- The Encyclopedia Britannica, the world's oldest surviving scholarly encyclopedia was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh. The first 9 editions out of 15 so far were all edited in Scotland. From 1901 it was edited conjointly in New York City and London.
- Henry Duncan founded the world's first commercial savings bank at Ruthwell, near Dumfries, in 1810.
- Edinburgh was the first city in the world with its own fire brigade, in 1824.
- Forbes Magazine was founded in 1917 in New York by Scottish journalist Bertie Charles Forbes.

##### Places / Architecture

- Rubislaw Quarry is Britain's the deepest quarry (142 m) and one of the biggest man-made holes in Europe. It closed in 1971.
- Wanlockhead Mines, in Dumfries and Galloway, possesses one of the greatest variety of minerals in Europe (lead, zinc, copper, silver and gold). Its gold is amongst the world's purest, at 22.8 carats.
- The Ballochmyle Viaduct is the highest extant railway viaduct in Britain. When it was completed in 1848, it boasted the world's longest masonry arch (55m / 181 ft) of any railway bridge. The bridge featured in the 1996 film Mission Impossible starring Tom Cruise.
- William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton and John Brown and Company of Clydebank were two of the most internationally renowned shipbuilding companies in the world from the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. RMS Queen Elizabeth the largest passenger liner ever built until 1994 was built here.
- Established by James Young in 1852, Bathgate Chemical Works in West Lothian was the world's first oil refinery. From 1865 to 1880, Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company was the world largest oil producer.
- Upon its completion in early 1878 the Tay Rail Bridge was the longest in the world, but was destroyed by a storm in December 1879\. The second Tay Bridge, opened in 1887, with a length of 4,500 m (14,800 ft), and remained the longest bridge in the world until 1903\. It is still Britain's longest bridge.
- The Forth Railway Bridge, opened in 1890, was the world's first major steel bridge. With a main span of 521 m (1,710 ft) and a total length of 2,529 m (8,296 ft), it is the second longest cantilever bridge in the world after Pont de Québec in Canada. When it was completed, the Forth Bridge was three times longer than any other bridge ever built.
- The 112 metre-long transparent underwater viewing tunnel at Deep Sea World at North Queensferry, in Fife, is the longest of its kind in Europe, and one of the longest in the world.
- Glasgow Tower, completed in 2001, is the tallest tower in the world (127 m / 417 ft) in which the whole structure is capable of rotating 360 degrees.

##### People / Customs & Culture

- Skibo Castle in Sutherland, Andrew Carnegie's former holiday retreat, has become the Carnegie Club, one of the world's most exclusive private clubs. The castle is a venue for quite a few celebrity weddings, including singer Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie in 2000.
- The Edinburgh Festival, a grouping of arts and cultural festivals taking place in summer, form the largest annual cultural festival in the world.
- Scotland has three officially recognised languages: English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic (a completely different language).Scotland is known as "Alba" in Gaelic.
- The official religion of Scotland is Christianity, with churches traditionally being called “kirks”.
- Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads in the world. Around 13% of the population has red hair, with 40% carrying the recessive gene.
- About 5 million Americans reported Scottish ancestry. The highest concentration of people of Scottish descent are found in New England and in the North-West.
- Among major cities with Scottish names we find Houston, Dallas and Knoxville in the USA, Hamilton in Canada, and Brisbane and Perth in Australia.
- Founded by Tibetan refugees in 1967, the Kagyu Samyé Ling monastery near Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, is home to the largest Buddhist temple in western Europe.
- In 2004, Edinburgh became the UNESCO's first City of Literature.
- Scotland is reputed for its Scotch whisky which was invented in China, and was first distilled by monks in Ireland in the early 15th century before reaching Scotland 100 years later.
- Edinburgh was home to Skye terrier Grey Friar’s Bobby, who captured the hearts of the nation by sitting on the grave of his dead owner for 14 years.

##### Government & Politics

- The Scottish Parliament has been reconvened on 1st July 1999 for the first time after nearly 300 years of interruption. It had been dissolved when the Act of Union was signed in 1707\. Recently movement for independence from England has grown since brexit.
- The country still has its own legal system, separate from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Juries can return verdict of “guilty”, “not guilty” and “not proven.”
- Scotland provided a fair share of British Prime Ministers, among whom we find William Gladstone, the only British PM to serve four separate times, and more recently Tony Blair (1997-2007) and Gordon Brown (2007-2010).

##### Economy & Corporates

- The Asda Walmart Almondvale Shopping Centre in Livingston is the largest of its kind in Europe.
- Scottish waters have some of Europe's largest oil reserve and Aberdeen is the centre of Europe's petroleum industry. It is known as Europe’s oil capital, or the “Granite City”.
- The Sullom Voe Terminal in the Shetland Islands is Europe's largest oil and liquefied gas terminal.
- Scotland is a major producer of wool and wool textiles, and is famous around the world for its distinctive tweed cloth and Tartan patterns.
- Producing their first blend in 1865, Johnnie Walker quickly became the world's leading whisky company. Now part of the Diageo group, the world's largest producer of spirits, Johnnie Walker remains the most widely distributed brand of blended Scotch whisky in the world.
- Glenfiddich became the first distillery to market single-malt whisky (as opposed to blended whisky) outside Scotland in 1963\. It is now the world's best-selling single malt, sold in 180 countries, and accounts for about 35% of single malt sales.
- Strathisla is the oldest continuously operating distillery in Scotland. It was founded as the Milltown Distillery by George Taylor in 1789.
- The Herald, Scotland's leading newspaper, is Britain's and one of the world's oldest continuously-published English-language newspapers. It was first published on 27 January 1783 as the Glasgow Advertiser.

##### Sports

- The modern game of golf originated in Scotland in the 15th century. Golf was originally played on a course of 22 holes which was reduced to 18 holes at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1764\. St Andrews is dubbed the "home of golf" and exercises legislative authority.
- The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers in Muirfield is the oldest organised golf club in the world. The club's records date continuously back to 1744.
- The world's first international rugby match was played at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh on 27 March 1871, opposing Scotland to England.
- The world's first international football match, Scotland v England, took place on 30 November 1872 at Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow.

##### Sciences & Inventions

- Notable Scottish inventions include the method of logarithms (1614), tarmac (1820), the waterproof raincoat (1823), the hot blast furnace (1828), and the pneumatic tyre (1887).
- The raincoat was invented by Charles Macintosh, a chemist born in Glasgow. In Great Britain, the garment is still called a “Mac”.
- The modern, rear-wheel driven bicycle was invented in 1839 by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a blacksmith from Keir, Dumfries-shire.
- The pneumatic tyre was invented in 1845 by Robert William Thomson from Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. It was re-invented in a more practical way in 1887 by another Scotsman, John Boyd Dunlop, founder of Dunlop Rubber.
- James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform in 1847, and successfully introduced it for general medical use.
- Famous Scottish inventions include the television, developed by John Logie Baird in 1925, the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and penicillin, by Alexander Fleming in 1928.

##### Famous People

- Scotland has produced great thinkers and inventors like James Watt, Sir Alexander Fleming, Alexander Graham Bell etc.
- Scottish literature includes such names as Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and J.K. Rowling.
- Famous Scottish actors include Sean Connery, Gerard Butler and Ewan McGregor.
- At least 6 US Presidents were of Scottish descent: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk, William McKinley and Thomas Wilson. Other famous Americans with Scottish ancestry include John Paul Jones (father of the American Navy) and Thomas Edison (inventor).
- The two first Prime Minister of Canada, John A. Macdonald and Alexander Mackenzie were Scottish. Many Australian Prime Ministers were also of Scottish descent, like George Reid , Andrew Fisher , Stanley Bruce and Robert Menzies.
- The first teaching hospital in America, the Baltimore Infirmary was founded by a Glasgow surgeon, Granville Sharp Pattison, in 1816.

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### South Korea
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Last updated: 2024-02-08T09:30:44.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about South Korea

##### Land & Geography

- The name “Korea” comes from Goryeo, which was the name given to the dynasty established by General Wang Geon in AD 918\. Goryeo means “high and clear.”
- South Korea has a population of about 49 million. The land area is 98,190 Square Km. South Korea is the southern part of the 1,200-kilometer-long Korean peninsula located in the easternmost part of the Asian continent.
- South Korea is a crowded country, with about 500 citizens for every square km. Seoul is the capital of South Korea having a population of more than 10 million.

##### Flora & Fauna

- The Mugunghwa (Rose of Sharon) is South Korea’s national flower. It is a type of hibiscus and is represented in the national anthem.
- The crane is a symbol of good fortune in South Korea. Red-crowned cranes can stand about 5 feet (1.5 m) high.

##### History

- People have been living in Korea for at least 10,000 years. Archaeologists believe the ancestors of today's Koreans came from Mongolia and Siberia.
- Korea's first kingdom was Old Chosun, which ruled the northwest and parts of China for more than 22 centuries. In 108 B.C. it was overthrown by Chinese armies, and three new kingdoms emerged: Koguryo, Paekche, and Silla. In the A.D. 660s, the Silla, with the help of Chinese troops, won control of the country.
- By A.D. 901 Korea had once again broken into three kingdoms. In 936, a powerful noble named Wang Kon unified the country under the name Koryo. This kingdom lasted until 1392, when the Yi family seized the throne and began the Choson dynasty, which ruled until 1910.
- In 1894, Japan and China sent soldiers to put down an uprising in Korea. Afterward, they and Russia fought for control of Korea, which Japan won in 1910\. When Japan lost in World War II, its territories, including Korea, were taken over by the Allies. Soviet troops occupied the North Korea while U.S. troops stayed in the South Korea.
- In 1950, the communists in the north invaded the south, sparking the beginning of the Korean War. The war raged until 1953, and more than 2.5 million Koreans, Americans, Chinese, and others died. The war was never officially ended, and the Koreas remain divided and ceasefire has since been upheld. It was the first major military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union backing South and North Korea respectively.

##### Places / Architecture

- South Korea is home to Cheomseongdae Observatory, the world’s first astronomical laboratory, built during the mid-600s at Gyeongju.
- South Korea’s Yoido Full Gospel Church has the biggest congregation in the world. The Seoul-based Pentecostal Christian church had close to 1 million members. On any given Sunday, 200,000 faithful will attend 1 of 7 services and an additional 200,000 to 300,000 will watch on TV and in satellite churches.
- Seoul attractions include futuristic Dongdaemun Design Plaza, a convention hall with curving architecture and a rooftop park, Gyeongbokgung Palace, which once had more than 7,000 rooms and Jogyesa Temple, site of centuries-old locust and pine trees.
- On Jeju, South Korea’s largest island, giant stone statutes known as dol hareubang (old grandfather) can be found along the beaches. Newlywed women believe that if they touch the statues’ long, broad, noses, they will be blessed with child.
- Since 1998, millions of people from around the world have flocked to South Korea’s Boryeong Mud Festival, originally conceived as a way to advertise mud cosmetics, where for ten days’ people enjoy mud massages, mud photo contests, mud marathons, and mud wrestling contests.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The South Korean people are one of the most uniform populations in the world related to the Mongoloid racial groups, including the Chinese. They share much in common with the Chinese, Mongolians, and Japanese, whom they still do not like after the Japanese invasion during World War II.
- South Koreans work hard clocking about 55 hours a week compared to the 40-hour week of the average factory worker in the USA.
- Koreans, both North and South, speak and write the Hangul language. It consists of 14 consonants and 10 vowels, and the alphabet can be combined into various syllables.
- Christmas is an official holiday in South Korea, with almost 1/3 of South Koreans being Christians.
- The most common family names in South Korea are Kim, Lee and Park. More than 20% of South Koreans have the last name Kim.
- South Korean wedding garments are usually red, which is a symbol of good fortune.
- South Korea’s national dish is kimchi, which is a combination of vegetables and spices that have been fermented underground for months. It can be served with almost everything. The first written description of making kimchi dates back to about AD 1250 and there are about 250 varieties. Most restaurants, including McDonald’s, will deliver food straight to homes in South Korea via motor cycle drivers. Korean distilled rice liquor, is the best-selling liquor in the world.
- South Koreans love Honey Butter Chips, which are potato chips flavored with honey and butter from France. South Koreans love sweet potatoes so much that there is every possible dish flavored with sweet potato, including main courses, desserts, chips, bread, salads, and sweet potato-topped pizza.
- *Amazingly* in Korea, babies are considered one-year-old at birth.
- Only 3.2% of South Koreans are overweight, which ties the country of Japan for the lowest percentage in the world.
- *Amazingly* South Korean men love makeup, spending close to US$1 billion a year, or 25% of the world’s men’s cosmetics. Up to 20% of the male Korean population is reported to use makeup regularly.
- When a Korean’s name is written in red ink, this indicates that that person is about to die or is already dead.
- Like Chinese, South Koreans consider the number 4 as unlucky associated with death.
- South Korea is the largest market for plastic surgery per capita in the world. It is estimated between 1/5 and 1/3 of the women in Seoul have gone for at least one cosmetic surgery. Eyelid surgery is one of the most common plastic surgery procedures performed in South Korea by wealthy young South Koreans for their 16th birthday as a gift to make their eyes appear more Western.
- South Korea is famous for its practice of “crime re-creation.” Citizens suspected of crimes such as rape or murder are led by the police in handcuffs to the scene of the crime and ordered to publicly reenact the crime. The media is also invited to take pictures and publish details about the crime.
- Both the tiger and rabbit are important Korean folk symbols. Koreans say the Korean Peninsula is shaped like a tiger and rabbit. Both animals are found in Korean folktales and folk art.
- South Koreans believe that leaving an electric fan on overnight will kill the person sleeping directly below it. Companies design fans with timer inside.
- South Koreans love shopping, and the country has some of the biggest shopping malls in the world which are open until 4:00 in the morning, while most restaurants, bars, and cafes are open only until 11:00 p.m.
- 80% of the South Korean population had a smartphone, the highest percentage in the world. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, 98% have a smart phone.
- All South Korean roofs are curved at the ends giving the appearance of a smile.
- Accidentally pushing the wrong elevator floor button is no problem in South Korea. Elevators are smart here. You can easily click the same button again to deselect your wrong choice.
- Playing the online video game StarCraft is a legitimate career in South Korea. Since it’s launch in 1988, nearly half of all the games have been sold in South Korea making it one of the best-selling games for the personal computer in history. Amazingly there are also cable channels devoted solely to the game.
- About 15% of the people between the ages of 9 and 12 have an Internet addiction and South Korea has passed a law called the Shutdown, or Cinderella, Law that bans anyone younger than 16 from online game sites, which is mostly ignored.
- Love motels are very popular in South Korea rented by the hour or for a night. They feature tiny, themed rooms with outrageous decorations for couples. They are so trendy and clean for tourists and business people on a budget.
- Instead of air heaters, Koreans have heated floors called ondol (warm stone), the heat is passed in pipes under the floor. This heating system goes back to the Koguryo Dynasty (37–668 BC). More than 90% of the houses have ondol, and people eat, sleep, and watch TV on the warm floor.
- On the South Korean island of Jeju, women traditionally go out to work while their husbands stay home. These women are called haenyeo (“sea women”), and they dive for sea urchins, abalone, and octopus, continuing a tradition that goes back 1,500 years.
- Valentine’s Day in South Korea is celebrated with a difference. It is a day where women show their love for their men by giving chocolates and gifts to their husbands or boyfriends. On March 14, Koreans celebrate White Day, where men buy gifts for their ladies but they are supposed to spend three times the amount they received on Valentine’s Day.
- About 2.1 million South Koreans live in U.S. cities such as New York, Chicago, and Seattle. It started with the first migration in 1903 and they lived on the Hawaiian Islands working on sugar and pineapple plantations.
- For the Harvest Moon Festival, more than 20 million South Koreans travel to their hometowns to visit the graves of their ancestors and bring gifts such as fine foods to place on the graves.
- More than 2 billion people have viewed the “Gangnam Style” music video of Korean pop artist Psy since 2011\. It topped the charts in 30 countries around the world. The song refers to the Gangnam District of Seoul.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was built on top of the demolished village of Panmunjom during the Korean War. It divides North and South Korea and is one of the most heavily militarized borders in the world. It is 2.5 miles (4 km) wide and stretches 152 miles (245 km) from the East Sea to the Yellow Sea.
- South Koreans are automatically classified at birth according to their blood type, which is a custom that originated in Japan but has become very important in South Korean culture which may determine your future spouse. Group B is the least desirable group.
- Taxis in South Korea are color coded according to the level of experience for the service. A gray or white taxi is a basic car with a qualified but potentially inexperienced driver, while the black cabs are luxury cars with experienced drivers.
- South Koreans are the world's biggest users of credit cards making about 130 transactions per year.
- Married Koreans used to face up to two years in prison if they had extra marital affairs, or got involved with a married person as per 1953 law and thousands were convicted. The law was repealed in 2015.
- Guns don’t exist in the public domain and are permitted for police and government security and not for general public.
- In 2012, a prison in the South Korean city of Pohang became home to the world’s first robotic prison guards. The country also uses robots to guard the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea and as teachers.

##### Economy & Corporates

- South Korea currency is Won.
- *Amazingly* the microchips for Apple’s iPhones are made by it’s rival, the South Korean company Samsung.
- South Korea has the world’s fastest wireless speeds on the planet, with an average download speed 33.5 megabits per second, nearly three times the average speed of second-place Hong Kong. The country also has an average upload speed of 17 megabits per second. Amazingly 100% percent of South Koreans have broadband access.
- South Korea harvests more than 90% of the world’s seaweed consumption.
- South Korea has some of the largest companies in the world. Samsung Electronics is the world’s biggest technology firm by revenue, and the largest-listed company in South Korea. It was founded in 1969 and is the now the world’s biggest maker of memory chips, smartphones and televisions. Samsung Life Insurance is biggest life insurer in South Korea with about 26 percent of local market share. Hyundai Motor is the world’s fifth-biggest carmaker and the top automaker in South Korea. Posco is the world’s fourth-biggest steelmaker. Kia Motors is second-largest automaker and a subsidiary of the Hyundai Motor Group. LG Chem is South Korea’s largest chemical maker. The group has big consumer division. Hyundai Heavy Industries is the world’s largest shipbuilding company. SK Hynix is the world’s second largest memory chipmaker.

##### Sports

- South Korean martial art taekwondo is the country’s most famous sport. It literally means “the way of the fist and foot.” It most likely started around 2,000 years ago. It is practiced worldwide today and became an official Olympic sport in 2002\. It is the only Olympic sport that has originated in South Korea.
- Korean wrestling, can be traced back to 37 BC. It started as a competition between villagers before it became a martial art. Today, it is a televised sport with matches performed in stadiums. Two wrestlers try to push each other out a ring of sand.
- South Korean women excel at golf boasting 38 out of the top 100 female golfers in the world, and 9 of the current top 25, are South Korean. Lydia Ko set the world record in 2013 for the youngest woman ever to win a professional tournament, at age 14\. She was also the youngest golfer of either gender to be ranked #1 in the world.

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### London (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2024-02-06T09:30:29.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about London (Part 2)

1. London is famous for the plays and musicals you can see in the city’s West End. There are over 100 theatres playing shows. Each summer, a whole season of classical music concerts called The Proms are held at the Royal Albert Hall which was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871\. The Proms began in 1895.
2. Underneath Cleopatra’s Needle on the Embankment, there’s a time capsule from 1878 that’s said to contain cigars, a razor, a portrait of Queen Victoria, copies of 10 daily newspapers, and pictures of 12 “English beauties of the day”.
3. London’s first telephone directory was published in 1880 and had only 248 names and addresses without telephone numbers. You had to call the operator and ask for someone’s name to get connected.
4. When New Scotland Yard was being built in 1888, the torso of a woman, headless and without arms, was discovered in the foundations. All the resources of the Criminal Investigation Dept. failed to find the murderer or the identity of the victim. And so Scotland Yard was built on the site of an unsolved murder.
5. London buses were not always red. Before 1907, different routes had different-colored buses.
6. The 1908 Russian Olympic team arrived 12 days late to London because they hadn’t yet started using the Gregorian calendar.
7. Until 1910 you could walk across the walkway at the top of Tower Bridge. It was shut “due to lack of use” but also allegedly because it had started to become popular with prostitutes.
8. Amazingly Harrods sold cocaine until 1916.
9. The Times New Roman typeface was commissioned by The Times of London in 1931\. They invented it after they were accused of being “badly printed and typographically antiquated”.
10. When the 999 services were introduced to Britain in 1937, the buzzer which alerted the switchboard operators to an emergency call was so loud that a number of girl operators fainted when they heard it. The noise level was eventually reduced by inserting a tennis ball in the mouth of the buzzer.
11. In 1945, a flock of birds landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and put the time back by 5 minutes.
12. Until 1994 there were no “Road”s in the City of London, and now there’s only one, Goswell Road. There are plenty of Lanes, Streets, and Ways, but public paths weren’t generally referred to as roads.
13. To be a cab driver in the city, you must master 320 basic routes, all of the 25,000 streets that are scattered within those routes, and about 20,000 landmarks and places of interest within a six-mile radius of Charing Cross. It normally takes between two and four years to pass the exam. The test is called ‘The Knowledge’.
14. The GDP of London is significantly larger than that of several European countries, including Belgium and Sweden.
15. The people of Oslo, Norway present the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree each year in gratitude to the people of London for their assistance during World War II.
16. Burger King sells a special $200 burger once per week in London and proceeds from the sale go to a London charity.
17. In order to drive in downtown London between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., one must pay a “congestion charge” of 10 pounds. It is possible to avoid this charge by paying a lower fee to register your car as a private taxi and then just never pick up any passengers.
18. There is a “rain room” in London that makes rainfall everywhere in the room except the spot that you are standing.
19. London banned drinking on public transportation in 2008.
20. The statue of George Washington in the Trafalgar Square in London sits on imported soil from the USA because George Washington claimed, “he would never again step foot on English soil”.
21. Amazingly New York Police Department also operates in London.
22. It’s amazing that there are about 20 hidden rivers underneath London.
23. There is a growing sport in Berlin and London called Chess Boxing. Players alternate between a round of chess and a round of boxing until one is declared winner either by checkmate, KO, or technical stoppage.
24. Amazingly it is considered an act of treason to put a postage stamp with the queen’s head upside down on an envelope!
25. The picture of the Queen on £1 coins shows her age at the time they were made.
26. St Thomas' Hospital used to have seven buildings, one for each day of the week, supposedly so that staff knew on which day patients had been admitted. Only two of the buildings remain.
27. The only true home shared by all four Beatles was a flat at 57 Green Street near Hyde Park, where they lived in the autumn of 1963.
28. London's smallest house is three-and-a half-feet wide, and forms part of the Tyburn Convent in Hyde Park Place, where 20 nuns live.
29. The site of Tyburn Tree, London's infamous public gallows where an estimated 50,000 people were hanged is now a traffic island at the junction of Marble Arch and Edgware Road.
30. Only one British Prime Minister out of 51 who have held the office since 1751, has ever been assassinated. Spencer Perceval was shot at the House of Commons in 1812.
31. Even though being the sovereign of The United Kingdom, Her Majesty the Queen is not allowed to enter the City of London without seeking the permission of its Lord Mayor.
32. William the Conqueror ordered that everyone should go to bed at eight o’clock.
33. On the floor of Westminster Abbey is a tiny stone marking the burial place of the poet Ben Jonson. He was too poor to pay for the normal grave space, so he is buried standing up.
34. There are more Londons in the world than We know. The USA alone has 8 towns with the same name. Even in Canada, there is its own London.
35. Each Englishman is daily photographed on 50 street surveillance cameras.
36. In any area, you can find the Laundry room, as washing shirts and t-shirts at home are generally not common.
37. The Olympics 2012 in London cost the US $ 15 billion. London became the first city in history that hosted the Olympic games for the third time having done it previously in 1908 & 1948.
38. The London 2012 Olympics organizers wanted Keith Moon to play at the Olympics ceremony. They realized later that he had been dead for 34 years.
39. In Britain, motorists drive on the left except for one road: Savoy Court, leading into the Savoy Hotel, where cars enter and exit on the right. This was changed by an act of parliament.
40. London has more international visitors than any other city in the world: About 15 million per year.
41. London has the largest wheelchair-accessible bus network in the world.
42. London’s ring-road the M25 is the largest orbital in the world (Length about 200 Km).
43. There are 6,128 licensed restaurants in London, a remarkable 22% of Britain's restaurants.
44. There are almost 21,000 licensed taxis in London. 'Black Cabs' come in 12 different colors. The name comes from the device, the taximeter which was used to measure the distance traveled, which was invented in the 1890s. If the orange light above the driver is off, it has a passenger and won't stop.
45. The world's first traffic light was installed at the junction of Great George St & Bridge St near Westminster Palace in 1868\. It used 'semaphore' style signals during the day and colored gas lamps at night (red & green); with a policeman operating the equipment at all times. A month after launch, a leaky gas main caused an explosion & the operating policeman was badly burnt. The whole project was abandoned. The next traffic lights appeared 40 years later, in the USA.
46. The current London Bridge is the third with that name to span the Thames. The first stood from 1209-1831\. The second by John Rennie, built to replace the original, lasted until 1968 when it was sold to an American entrepreneur. The current London Bridge was opened in 1973 and is the only bridge controlled by the City of London Corporation.
47. It takes 61 seconds to open Tower Bridge, which opens about 1,000 times a year.
48. The Monument commemorating the Great Fire of London in 1666 is the tallest isolated stone column in the world. It rises to 62 m (202 ft) on Fish Hill, 62 m away from where the fire began, in a bakery in Pudding Lane.
49. The Museum of London, which retraces the history of London from Prehistoric times to the present day, is the largest urban history museum in the world.
50. The ArcelorMittal Orbit, a 115-meter-high (377 Ft) sculpture and observation tower in the Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, is Britain's largest piece of public art. It is intended to be a permanent lasting legacy of London's hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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### London (Part 1)
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Last updated: 2024-02-04T09:30:54.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about London (Part 1)

1. Modern London, the capital of England was formed by two ancient cities called City and Westminster, which together formed a district of greater London which has a population of 8.4 million.
2. London was the first city to reach a population of more than one million, in 1811\. It remained the largest city in the world until it was overtaken by Tokyo in 1957.
3. The City of London was the original Roman settlement, Londinium, which makes it the oldest part of the capital and was already 1000 years old when the famous Tower of London was built.
4. With about 270 nationalities and 300 languages spoken, London is considered the most international city in the world. 2.5 million people, one-third of Londoners, are foreign-born. About 50% of people in London are white.
5. The City of London is the center of business and the financial heart of the UK. It is actually one of the smallest cities in the U.K with a population of just over 7,000 residents having an area of only 1 square mile often referred to as the ‘square mile’, demarcated by its medieval boundaries.
6. The administrative district of Greater London, while technically not a city, homes around 8.3 million residents and is large enough to fit over 4 New York’s and almost 50 Paris.
7. The Bank of England is here along with the London Stock Exchange.
8. The Houses of Parliament are officially known as the Palace of Westminster and it is the largest palace in the country. It has 1,000 rooms, 100 staircases, and 11 courtyards none of them open to the public.
9. The Palace of Westminster was deliberately constructed next to the River Thames so that it could not be surrounded by a mob.
10. The “Big Ben” in London isn’t a tower, the bell inside the tower is called “Big Ben”. Its chime is in the key of E. The tower itself is called “The Elizabeth Tower”.
11. Buckingham Palace is also found here and is the official London home of Queen Elizabeth II and her royal family.
12. Windsor Castle is the oldest royal residence in the world that is still being used by the royal family.
13. Many playwrights and poets are buried at Westminster Abbey. The tomb of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser in Westminster Abbey is said to contain unpublished works by his contemporaries including Shakespeare who threw manuscripts into his grave to honor his genius.
14. London Eye is 135 meters high and is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe. The number of capsules for passengers represents the number of suburbs of London i.e. 32\. Each “Cabinet” weighs about 10 tons and can accommodate 25 people.
15. The Shard, an 87 story skyscraper near London Bridge, is the tallest building in the European Union, standing at a height of 309.6 meters (1,016 ft). It was inaugurated on 5 July 2012, three weeks before the London Olympics.
16. The Thames is one of the UK’s longest rivers and flows through the UK’s capital city. Starting from its source in Gloucestershire, it flows 346 Km into the North Sea. The Thames is said to be one of the cleanest city rivers in the world.
17. The Thames is home to slimy eels that used to be a traditional meal of Londoners! Wild salmons are also found in the Thames.
18. On a huge loop of the River Thames, you will find the O2 Arena, which is the largest domed tent in the world. You could fit either the Great Pyramid of Giza or New York’s Statue of Liberty inside it!
19. Rowing boats are a common sight on the Thames. Every year the famous Oxford and Cambridge University boat race takes place along the river.
20. The oldest church in the city, All Hallows by the Tower, near Tower Hill, was founded in 675\. Its undercroft has Roman pavement dating from the 2nd century A.D.
21. The Bethlehem Royal Hospital is the world's oldest institution to specialize in mental illnesses. It was first founded in 1247 near Bishopsgate as the Priory of St Mary Bethlehem.
22. The tax on a deck of playing cards in 16th-century England was 2s 6d much more than a lot of people earned in a month.
23. Opened in 1652, Pasqua Rosee's was the first coffee house in London. It was located on St Michael's Alley and burned down during the Great Fire of 1666.
24. Brought back from China by Dutch merchants, tea made its first appearance in London in September 1658.
25. In 1647, Christmas was abolished by the English Parliament. No-one was allowed to celebrate!
26. In 1666 in London there was the biggest fire in the history of the city, called the Great London Fire. About 60% of the city was on fire for over 4 days, the fire destroyed more than 13 thousand buildings. The restoration of the city continued for 50 years. Only 6 people died mostly from jumping from heights.
27. Founded in London in 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company is the world's oldest chartered company.
28. On Oct. 17, 1678, the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was discovered in a field near the present Regent's Park called Greenbury Hill. Later three men were executed for the murder. Amazingly their names were Green, Berry, and Hill.
29. Founded in 1694, the Bank of England was the first privately owned national bank in any country.
30. Amazingly 20% of all women in 1700s London were prostitutes.
31. Nothing officially happened in Britain between 3 and 14 September 1752\. This was because the country was switching from the old Julian calendar to the Western or Gregorian calendar, a move initially instituted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.
32. St Paul's Cathedral was the tallest building (111 m/365 Ft) in London from 1710 to 1962\. It is the second-largest church in the UK after Liverpool Cathedral. Its dome is the third-largest in the world, and one of the highest.
33. Because Britain lived by the Julian calendar, until 1752, New Year’s Day fell on 25 March.
34. Jonathan's Coffee-House, founded around 1680 by Jonathan Miles effectively became the first London Stock Exchange and was renamed The Stock Exchange in 1773, until it was destroyed by fire in 1778.
35. The Bedlam asylum was one of the most popular tourist attractions of 18th-century Londan. Visitors paid a penny to watch suffering inmates. Entry was free on Tuesdays.
36. In the 1800s gay men in London made up an entire slang language so they could communicate in public without fear of being arrested.
37. The world's first public street lighting with gas was installed in Pall Mall, London in 1807.
38. In 1812, the London and Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company became the world's first gas company.
39. The world's oldest public zoo opened in London in 1828.
40. The world's first underground public lavatory opened in 1855 under the pavement next to the Bank of England.
41. Law reformer Jeremy Bentham left his entire estate to London’s University College in 1832 on condition that he be stuffed, dressed in his finest clothes, and mounted in a chair from where he would continue to attend the annual meeting of the university’s board of governors. His figure is still brought out to preside over an annual debate.
42. Only one house where Charles Dickens lives still stands, at 48 Doughty Street, which is now a museum. He lived there from 1837 and 1839, and it’s where he wrote Oliver Twist and The Pickwick Papers.
43. London was the first city in the world to have an underground railway known as the tube way back in 1863!
44. There is a metro line on which trains are electronically operated and go without drivers at all.
45. Angel Tube Station has the longest escalator in Western Europe, 318 steps.
46. Five stations on the Underground system are named after pubs: Elephant & Castle, Angel, Swiss Cottage, Royal Oak, and Manor House.
47. Blackfriars is the only train station to have entrances on both sides of the Thames.
48. 55% of the London Underground network in fact runs above ground. Only two Tube stations have all five vowels in their name: South Ealing and Mansion House.
49. There are several abandoned Tube stations, many of which are used for filming and even private parties, including Strand, closed in 1994; Down Street, closed in 1932; Brompton Road, closed in 1934; and Mark Lane.
50. Mosquitoes live in the Tube system. They’re not native to Britain and can’t be found anywhere else. It’s thought they traveled on Underground trains from Heathrow where they arrived by plane.

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### Inflation
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Last updated: 2024-02-02T09:30:30.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Inflation

1. The term “inflation” is from the Latin term inflate, meaning to “blow up or inflate,” and it was first used in a monetary sense to describe “an increase in the amount of money” in 1838.
2. Inflation means a continued rise in prices while the value of money declines. Inflation decreases the value of money, making goods more expensive to buy.
3. The inflation rate is the percentage increase in the price of goods per year. If the inflation rate is 5%, then a $1 candy will cost $1.05 in a year.
4. Inflation influences the interest rate we get on our savings and the rate we pay on our mortgages. It also affects the level of pensions and benefits that you get.
5. The most frequently quoted and most significant indexes to measure inflation are the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the Retail Prices Index (RPI). As the formula is different, usually CPI has a lower reading than RPI.
6. Historians cite runaway inflation as a major cause of ancient Rome’s fall.
7. A dollar from 1950 is now worth only $0.12.
8. The annual inflation rate in the United States has fluctuated greatly over its history, ranging from nearly zero inflation to 23% inflation. The federal government tries to keep inflation around 2 to 3%.
9. There are at least two main theories to explain inflation. (1) Prices rise as “Cost-Push inflation,” or inflation that begins when rising costs result in increased prices, and (2) “Demand-Pull inflation,” or when people’s ability to spend rises more rapidly than the availability of goods and services.
10. The movie Cleopatra cost $44 million to make in 1963\. With inflation taken into account, the same movie would cost $350 million to make today.
11. Highest inflation rates in history are Hungary (July 1946 / 1.295x1016 %), Zimbabwe (Nov 2008 / 7.96x1010 %), Yugoslovia (Jan 1994 / 3.13x108 %), Germany (Oct 1923 / 29500 %),
12. Greece (Nov 1944 / 11300%) and China (May 1949 / 4210%).
13. Hyperinflation occurred in Germany in 1920, leading to great social unrest. The purchasing power of money fell so low that the German currency, the Mark became really worthless. Hitler blamed the Jews for the hyperinflation which helped pave the way for the Holocaust.
14. The paperback, German currency was exchanging at a rate of 4.2 per US dollar in 1914\. By August 1923, it was 1 million papiermark per US dollar, and two months later, it was 238 million papiermark to one US dollar!
15. The amazing fact is that in Germany in November 1923, 1 pound of bread cost 3 billion; 1 pound of meat: 36 billion; 1 glass of beer: 4 billion.
16. Hungary holds the record for the largest banknote ever issued, but its banknote did not depict all the zeros. In fact, the amount was spelled out.
17. The post-world war II hyperinflation of Hungary holds the record for the most rapid monthly inflation increase ever: 41,900,000,000,000,000% for July 1946, which means prices doubled every 13.5 hours.
18. People in Hungary in 1946 were paying for their groceries with one hundred quintillions (100,000,000,000,000,000,000) pengő bills. People were carrying money around in suitcases, and banknotes were often stamped with new denominations as new money could not be printed quickly enough.
19. The first country to hyperinflate in the 21st century is Zimbabwe. In 2008, a loaf of bread cost 1.6 trillion Zimbabwe dollars. By April of 2008, the $50 million ZWD note was worth a little over one US dollar. They were printing so much money; they ran out of paper. The country was full of trillionaires and almost all of them were struggling to survive.
20. The Zimbabwean dollar banknote holds the record for the greatest number of zeros shown (100,000,000,000,000).
21. In 1942, the highest denomination of currency in Greece was the 50,000 drachma note. Just two years later in 1944 when 11,300% inflation occurred, it was the 100 trillion drachma note.
22. Historians have noted that war and inflation go hand-in-hand. Every war in the last century has brought high inflation.
23. Nations who were on the Gold Standard during the 19th century until 1914 experienced little or no inflationary trends.
24. In 1974, President Ford declared inflation “public enemy number one” and urged the public to wear WIN pins, or “Whip Inflation Now” pins. In fact, inflation was around 7% then. The people ridiculed the pins and even worn upside down to say “NIW,” or “Need Immediate Money.”
25. Adjusted for inflation, the top five highest-grossing movies of all time are Gone With the Wind ($1.6 billion), Star Wars, Sound of Music, ET: Extra-Terrestrial, and The Ten Commandments ($1 billion).

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### Kenya
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Last updated: 2024-01-30T09:30:22.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Kenya

##### Land & Geography

- Kenya is located in East Africa, on the equator.
- Kenya is officially known as the Republic of Kenya.
- The population of Kenya was estimated to be around 45 million.
- Kenya lies on the equator bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south-east and Tanzania to the south, Uganda on the west, South Sudan in the north-western part, Ethiopia to the north, and Somalia to the north-east.
- Kenya has 536 kilometers of coastline.
- The capital and largest city is Nairobi established in 1899\. Mombasa is the second-largest city.
- Kenya is named after Mt Kenya, the tallest mountain in the country (5,199 meters, 17,057 feet).

##### Flora & Fauna

- Kenya features more than 50 national parks and wildlife reserves. Kenya's highland forests are home to many animals found nowhere else in the world!
- Large animals such as lions, buffalo, leopards, elephants, and rhinoceros are present in Kenya.
- Each May after the rainy season, the Masai Mara is visited by a million migrating animals including wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle.

##### History

- Slavery is predominant in Kenya's history. During the 1600s and 1700s, many Kenyans were kidnapped and taken as slaves by Arabs, Europeans, and Americans all over the world.

##### Places / Architecture

- Kenya shares Lake Victoria, the world's second-largest freshwater lake, with Tanzania and Uganda.
- Kenya is home to two big lakes, Lake Turkana and Lake Victoria.
- Lake Turkana National Park & Mount Kenya national park are world heritage sites.
- The rift valley is known as 'the cradle of civilization as it contains fossils of pre-human hominins dating back to 6 million years. Great Rift Valley has formed around 20 million years ago when the crust of the Earth was split. Mankind might have its origin here.
- Kenya's port cities of Lamu, Malindi, and Mombassa were founded by Arab traders, and residents there still adhere to Islamic culture and clothing.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The two official languages in Kenya are English and Ki-Swahili. Ki-Swahili, the national language has a lot of words from Hindi and Urdu in their dictionary owing to deep Indian influence.
- In Kenya, more than 60 languages are spoken and there are more than 40 ethnic groups. The largest ethnic group is the Kikuyu representing 22% of the population.
- The main religion is Christianity and 82% of people are Christian.
- Kenyans consider coffee as an export product. The local favorites are tea and beer.
- Most Kenyans are either very poor or very rich. There is hardly any middle class.
- Kenyans are very well dressed people on all occasions.
- In Kenya, a child is brought up uniquely by the community and the society at large, and not just the family members alone making it easy for people to develop feelings of concern and helpfulness towards others.
- Whenever people meet, irrespective of whether they are acquaintances, they must greet each other, either through a raised hand, thumbs up, or even the use of the most common words, “Habari yako.”
- The Kenyans of Indian origin form the richest group of people owning everything from shopping malls, hotels, main industries, and shops to prime real estate.
- There are a lot of places in Kenya, which the local himself avoids owing to safety reasons. Nakuru is the theft capital of Kenya What it requires is a momentary lapse for you to lose your belongings including your car.
- Kenya has hardly any road-based public transport system. A matatu (a big van) is mostly operated by private players.
- On reaching the age of 18, a male belonging to the Masai tribe has to undergo circumcision. If he sheds a single tear, cries, or shouts during this event, he is banished forever from the community.
- A Masai boy has to kill a lion to become a man. Also, polygamy is the norm in all of Kenya’s tribes. The dowry for a man to pay to his bride’s family starts at 10 cows onwards.
- *The amazing fact* is that at a Masai wedding it is customary for the bride’s father to bless his daughter by spitting on her.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Kenya was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1920 until 1963 before gaining independence. Each year on 12 December, the country celebrates its Independence Day.
- Kenya gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1963.
- The most amazing thing about Kenyan politics is that parties are never meant to last which are often formed just to fulfill the ambitions of politicians, and once the elections are over, the parties are dissolved.
- The money used in Kenya is called the Kenya shillings.
- Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda have an open roads policy meaning that vehicles of these 3 countries are allowed to drive on roads of all these countries provided they have the right papers.
- The corruption level is high. You can get away with anything by a bribe.
- The Kenyan law supports its women in all domestic matters without doubting it. If a man is hit by his wife and he complains, he is thrown into prison.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Hydroelectricity is the largest contributor to Kenya's electricity supply.
- After coffee, Kenya’s biggest income generator is tourism.

##### Sports

- Kenya is best known for its middle-distance and long-distance runners, with the country frequently producing Olympic champions. Kenya’s Kalenjin tribe has been dubbed ‘the running tribe’ for its unbelievable ability to generate world record-breaking runners.

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### Isaac Newton
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Last updated: 2024-01-28T09:30:02.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Isaac Newton

1. Isaac Newton is regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time.
2. He was a real Renaissance man with accomplishments in several fields, including astronomy, physics, and mathematics. Newton gave us new theories on gravity, planetary motion, and optics.
3. His book, the Principia Mathematica, is still one of the most important and relevant scientific works in history, even after more than 300 years.
4. He formulated his Three Laws of Motion, which were derived from Johann Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion and his own mathematical description of gravity which has laid the groundwork for modern physics.
5. The three laws of motion are: First, a stationary body will stay stationary unless an external force is applied to it. Second, force is equal to mass times acceleration, and a change in motion is proportional to the force applied and third, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
6. These discoveries represented a huge leap forward for the fields of math, physics, and astronomy, allowing for calculations that more accurately model the behavior of the universe than ever before.
7. Isaac Newton was born prematurely on December 25, 1642\. The Great Galileo died the same year.
8. Amazingly Sir Isaac Newton’s father’s name was also Isaac Newton!
9. Isaac Newton was actually born in a poor farmer family. As he was lacking in farmer skills, his uncle persuaded his mother Hannah to allow him to join Cambridge’s Trinity College after her second marriage which had improved her financial condition.
10. Isaac Newton completed his bachelor’s degree at Cambridge University’s Trinity College in 1665 but immediately thereafter an epidemic of the bubonic plague led to the university getting closed. During the first seven months of the outbreak, roughly 100,000 London residents died.
11. It was during these two years of break from regular studies that Newton worked on the development of his theories on calculus, optics, and the law of gravitation.
12. He was named the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge in 1669, taking over the post from his mentor Isaac Barrow.
13. Isaac Newton actually never married.
14. Isaac Newton was very fond of alchemy which is a pseudoscience which deals with the study of converting a lead and other base metals into gold. He actually wrote 169 articles on it, none of which were ever published as during his lifetime making gold and silver was considered a felony.
15. Isaac Newton actually spent more than half his life hunting hidden meanings in the bible rather than working on science.
16. Isaac Newton went to the extent of learning Hebrew just because he wanted to understand the bible thoroughly.
17. Among Newton’s predictions from the study of the bible was that Jews will take back Israel and it turned out to absolutely correct!
18. The “apple tree” story never happened. Contrary to the popular belief that an apple fell on his head which led him to postulate the theory of universal gravitation, he actually saw it falling and had an idea that the invisible force that makes apples fall is also responsible for the movements of the moon.
19. Amazingly the descendants of the original apple tree can still be found at Cambridge.
20. A piece of the original apple tree was given to NASA who took it into space.
21. Weirdly enough, despite being a very religious man, he never believed in ghosts, spirits, the devil, and Satan. He went on to write a whole thesis that argued against the Holy Trinity doctrine of the Church keeping it secret. The thesis went into publication 37 years after his death.
22. Isaac Newton was actually secretive in his discoveries. He kept many of these scientific and mathematical works secret. His work on optics in which he found that the white light is composed of a spectrum of colors, was completed by him in 1669 but he presented his findings only in 1672.
23. Because of his secretive nature, some of his crucial work went into serious disputes. He actually invented methods of calculus ahead of Gottfried Leibniz, a German mathematician but didn’t publish it. Now the credit for inventing calculus is today shared by both Newton and Leibniz.
24. Isaac Newton in 1689 he became a Member of Parliament but had no interest in politics. Amazingly he spoke only once during his one-year tenure, asking the window to be closed.
25. Isaac Newton had an arch-rival in Robert Hooke who was an accomplished and respected scientist in his own right. Hooke claimed that Newton had stolen his gravitational work. stole his work but he died early. Newton became the President of the Royal Society and the controversy was laid to rest.
26. Edmond Halley (of Halley’s Comet fame) was his friend and he paid for the publication of Newton’s Principia Mathematica.
27. Isaac Newton faced two nervous breakdowns. One was in 1678 and the other was in 1693\. The possible reason seems to be chemical poisoning as a result of his alchemy practices. It was after this second breakdown that his scientific research ended.
28. One of Newton’s teeth was sold in 1816 at auction for about $3,600 which is about $35,000 today making it the most valuable tooth in the world.
29. He worked as a Master of the Royal Mint in 1696 the position he held until his death. He personally pursued counterfeiters. At that time counterfeiting was considered high treason and punishable by death. He was responsible for moving the currency from silver to gold standard.
30. Isaac Newton was a famous and wealthy man at the time of his death in 1727 and was given the king’s send-off. His body lay in state in Westminster Abbey like a king.

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### United Arab Emirates (UAE) (Part II)
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Last updated: 2024-01-26T09:30:50.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about UAE (Part II)

##### People Customs & Culture

- There are hundreds of mosques in Dubai and the call to prayer can be heard throughout the city. Hotel rooms have arrows pointing in the direction of Mecca just in case.
- Since 2006, the Dubai and UAE weekend has been Friday-Saturday, as a compromise between Friday’s holiness to Muslims and the Western weekend of Saturday-Sunday.
- More than 3,000 taxis operate within Dubai making an average of nearly 2,00,000 trips daily. There is also a Ladies Taxi service for female passengers, employing female drivers.
- Although English is widely used, Arabic is the official language of Dubai and the United Arab Emirates and Islam is the official religion of Dubai and the UAE.
- Petrol is cheap and easy to come by costing around $0.50 per liter.
- In Dubai, you must obtain a “liquor license” to drink from the privacy of your own home.
- There are almost 5,000 ATMs located throughout the UAE.
- Among the people living in Dubai, mobile penetration is about 150% i.e. 3 mobiles for every two persons.
- Radio is a very popular medium in Dubai, but it must follow strict rules. It is illegal to talk about the Royal family, politics, or sex on air.
- The internet was first available in Dubai and the UAE in 1995\. Internet content is regulated throughout the UAE, and a proxy server filters content that is inconsistent with the values of the country.
- All sorts of American fast-food restaurants have branches here including KFC, Burger King, Subway, and Dunkin Donuts.
- Dubai celebrates two major holidays including Eid al Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, and the December 2 National Day, which celebrates the formation of the United Arab Emirates.
- Big festivals like Dubai shopping festivals, luxury car parade, and an exclusive mustang parade showcases a high standard of living in Dubai.
- Their air conditioning is not just inside the buildings, it’s also at bus stops.
- Amazing fact is that Dubai has no address system, no zip codes, no area codes, and no postal system. For a package to be sent properly, the sender would have to leave proper directions to the destination in the space provided. People have to get P.O boxes to receive regular mail.
- Amazingly Dubai has no sewer system, instead, they use poop trucks to haul the entire cities’ excrement away.
- Health care is not provided free to expatriates living or working in Dubai, and private hospitals and clinics are quite expensive. Have adequate health insurance.
- When the Palm Atlantic opened in 2008, the entire circumference of the Palm Jumeirah was lit up in a spectacular display of pyrotechnics. The $20 million show cost $3 million more than the fireworks used for the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics which was up to then, the most expensive display ever.
- After the global financial crisis in 2008, many exotic cars were abandoned all over Dubai and its airport as most of these cars was bought with easy credit during the boom and the owners were unable to meet car payments.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The UAE was established on 2 December 1971 which is celebrated as National Day.
- Dubai is one of the seven emirates that make up the country known as the United Arab Emirates or the “UAE.” Established in December 1971, the seven emirates of UAE are Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain.
- Each emirate is governed by an absolute monarch; together the monarchs make up the Federal Supreme Council. One of the seven monarchs is selected as the President of the United Arab Emirates.
- Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the only two of the seven emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the United Arab Emirates legislature.
- Because of the monarchy, there are no political parties in the country.
- Working hours reduce to 6 hours a day during Ramadan for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Eating in public is also strictly prohibited during fasting hours.
- Sharing a private space with a member of the opposite sex when not related by family ties or marriage is forbidden. Private space would be a house, room, hotel room, and even car.
- You can’t stay in a hotel if you’re under 18 years old and not accompanied by an adult.
- The UAE region is tax-free. No one here is required to pay any kind of personal or income taxes! There are absolutely no forms to fill, and no claims to make.
- Emiratis are provided with free education, free medical, and free housing. However, lately, their subsidies have been cut back and they have been encouraged to get mainly government jobs and tourist positions.
- In the UAE swearing and indecent gesturing is forbidden and you can be fined or imprisoned. Any aggressive hand move is considered indecent. Moving your thumb up and down hoping to catch a hitchhike is not done and pointing at something or someone is considered impolite.
- It is a crime to take pictures of others without permission. Any person being captured on camera in any public space in the UAE can be produced in court and fined. Beware of taking pictures of other women and families.
- Taking photos of government buildings that have signs prohibiting photography is to be avoided. In fact, any form of hobby that involves cameras, binoculars, or telescopes may well be misunderstood by officials if practiced anywhere near a government building, military site, or airport.
- Dubai is one of the safest cities as laws in the UAE are based on Sharia law which results in almost zero crime rate. It has the death penalty for serious crimes such as murder, rape, and treason. Homosexuality, cross-dressing, and adultery are all subject to severe punishment.
- Sentences for drug trafficking can include the death penalty and possession of even the smallest content of illegal drugs can lead to a minimum 4-year jail sentence. The Emirati authorities amazingly count the presence of drugs in the bloodstream as a possession.
- Possession of painkillers like codeine and some cold and flu medication could result in a mandatory 4-year prison sentence. Keep your medicines in their original containers and bring a letter from your doctor as well as a copy of your prescription with you.
- Distributing and preaching non-Islamic religious material to Muslims is punishable by imprisonment and deportation.
- Bouncing a cheque or non-payment of a bill is taken very seriously resulting in imprisonment and/or a fine. Non-residents of the UAE arrested for fraud are not usually eligible for bail, and convicted debtors usually have to remain in jail until the debt is either paid or waived.
- Kissing in public in Dubai is strictly illegal and can result in deportation.
- Sex outside marriage is not allowed and you will end up in jail for up to six years or more. Engaged with boyfriend excuse is not allowed.
- The rapist is only punished by law if there are four adult male witnesses to the crime of rape else the complainant can be tried for extramarital sex.
- Only non-Muslims are allowed to consume alcohol, and only within licensed venues such as hotels or at home with the possession of an alcohol license.
- The Dubai police fleet includes a Lamborghini, Ferrari, and Bentley. This is to allow them to catch speeders who can outrun other cars.
- The Dubai police has a bagpipe band imitated from Scottish people.
- The United Arab Emirates donated a laptop to every high school student in Joplin, Missouri after the city had been devastated by a tornado.

##### Economy & Corporates

- The currency of Dubai is the dirham.
- Oil wealth was used to develop the UAE into one of the world's most open and successful economies. More than 90% of reserves of Oil & Gas are located in Abu Dhabi.
- Currently, sales of oil constitute only 6% of Dubai’s economy. The local economy is mainly based on real estate and tourism and financial services. Dubai has one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, with a growth rate of 6%.
- About 70 percent of the UAE’s daily oil production is shipped by pipeline to Fujairah, avoiding the potential bottleneck at the Strait of Hormuz. The pipeline can move 1.8 million barrels of oil per day to the storage facilities on the Gulf of Oman.
- The Dubai International Airport (DXB) handles more than 70 million passengers per year. Dubai is the hub for Emirates Airlines, the national airline of Dubai. It flies to 142 destinations in more than 70 countries across six continents.
- Emirates airline operates the largest fleet of the world’s largest airplane, the Airbus A380\. And it was the first airline in the world to provide an on-board shower for its passengers.
- Emirates and Etihad have placed firm orders for 100 superjumbos Airbus A380s meaning that the UAE is home to more of the double-decker planes than anywhere else in the world which shall be catered by a dedicated terminal the first in the world for its A380s.
- Technically, Dubai has one airport with three terminals. Every terminal is large enough to be a separate airport. Terminal 3 is for Emirates Airline exclusively. Terminal 1 mostly for budget airlines and Terminal 2 is for all the rest.
- Parts for the new Boeing 787 Dreamliners are manufactured at Al Ain’s aerospace hub.
- China is Dubai’s largest international trading partner, followed by India, followed by the United States.
- 25% of the world’s operational cranes are located in Dubai.
- On April 23, 2011, the UAE sent its first satellite into orbit through European Space Agency to provide enhanced telecommunications services orbiting at 36000 Km above the earth.
- Dubai Duty-Free is the busiest travel retailer in the world, with sales worth $1.5 billion per year. Perfumes account for 15 %.
- Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi officially opened with an area larger than the entire island of Singapore for trade. It will be the largest container port in the region.
- More than a half a million cruise passengers dock at the luxurious Dubai Cruise Terminal at Port Rashid each year.
- Dubai has the biggest container port in the Middle East, Port Jebel Ali, located on the world’s largest man-made harbor.

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### United Arab Emirates (UAE) (Part I)
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Last updated: 2024-01-24T09:30:31.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about UAE (Part I)

##### Land & Geography

- The area of UAE. is 83,600 Sq. km.
- UAE is bordered to the North by the Arabian Gulf, to the East by the Gulf of Oman and Sultanate of Oman, to the South by Saudi Arabia and Sultanate of Oman, and to the West by Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
- The UAE’s capital, Abu Dhabi, is the largest Emirate. It takes up 87% of the UAE’s total area. Ajman, the smallest Emirate, accounts for less than 1%, covering only 259 km!
- Dubai is approximately 52 feet above sea level and covers an area of 1,588 sq. miles.
- About 88 sq. miles of Dubai are the result of land reclaimed from the sea.
- Located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf with a population of about 2.4 million, Dubai is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
- The Emiratis or the locals are outnumbered 11 to 1 by the expatriates, who make up a whopping 91% of the population.
- The other 85 percent of residents are mostly Asians comprising of Indians (51%), Pakistanis (16%), Bangladeshis (9%), and Filipinos (3%.).
- Dubai has no natural rivers; however, Dubai does have a natural inlet, Dubai Creek, which has been dredged to make it deep enough for large vessels. Dubai Creek runs northeast-southwest through the city.
- As a desert climate, most days in Dubai are sunny year-round. During January, the coldest month, daytime high temperatures average 75 °F while overnight low temperatures average 57 °F. Summers in Dubai are extremely hot, windy, and humid, with high temperatures averaging 106 °F and overnight lows around 86 °F in August.
- Rainfall averages just 3.75 inches per year.
- There is minimal risk of earthquakes or tsunamis as the region is located in a stable zone and the Persian Gulf waters are not deep enough to trigger a tsunami.

##### Flora & Fauna

- The UAE is home to the most date palm trees anywhere on the planet numbering 42 million.
- The world’s largest flower garden in Dubai called the Dubai Miracle Garden has 45 million flowers grown with drip irrigation. The 72,000-square-meter colorful garden has flowers fashioned into the shapes of hearts, stars, igloos, pyramids, flower-decked vintage cars, arc-shaped walkways, and so on, which will change each season.
- Cheetahs, hyenas, Arabian oryx, and thousands of other animals are found on Sir Bani Yas Island, once a royal hunting preserve.

##### History

- The Persian Gulf used to be known as the Pirate Coast. Until 1853, tribes would raid trade ships from India. Nowadays, the same families that ruled those tribes now rule the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar.
- Oil discovery was made in 1963 paving the way for tremendous progress.

##### Places / Architecture

- Amazingly in 1991, Dubai had just one tall building and it was at the edge of the desert. Now Dubai has over 400 high rises!
- Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world with 164 floors rising to a height of 2,722 feet. It was initially supposed to be named Burj Dubai. Sheikh Khalifa of Abu Dhabi saved Dubai from massive debt by loaning them tons of money, hence, the change of name. It took 6 years to complete and opened in January 2010.
- The Burj Khalifa can apparently be seen from around 95 km away.
- Visitors to Burj Khalifa can pay to visit one of two outdoor observation decks on the 124th floor at 1,483 ft., making it the highest outdoor observation deck in the world when it opened.
- After Cloud Top 488 opened a deck at 1,601 ft on the Canton Tower in China, Burj Khalifa opened the 148th floor Sky level at 1,821 ft., once again reclaiming the title. It costs approximately $136 U.S. dollars.
- 39% percent of Burj Al Arab is “wasted space” because and uninhabitable because they concentrated on the architectural vanity sizing and not on utility value.
- Dubai Fountain is the largest dancing fountain in the world. It is illuminated by 6,600 lights and 25 color projectors that create a visual spectrum of over 1,000 abstract attractions. This amazing 275 meters-long (900 ft.) fountain can spray 83,000 liters of water and shoots water jets as high as 152 m (500 ft.) into the air.
- Amazingly the Emirates Palace Hotel is home to the first bank machine in the UAE and the world distributing gold bars. Since May 2010, the machine has been issuing the precious metal on average 150 times daily.
- The Palm Islands are the largest artificial islands in the world and one of the most ambitious developments on earth. These amazing man-made islands are considered the eighth wonder of the world.
- The Empire State Building has a volume of 37 million cubic meters whereas the construction of Dubai’s artificial Palm Islands made use of 94 million cubic meters of sand.
- The Palm Jumeirah is the world’s largest artificial island. It adds 520 km of shoreline to the UAE. It has the region’s only monorail as well.
- Dubai Marina is the largest man-made marina in the world. It is an artificial canal city, where the waters of the Persian Gulf were brought into the 3 km site. Its waterfront provides shelter for hundreds of yachts and also includes a 7 km long pedestrian walkway, with a string of outdoor cafés, bars, and restaurants.
- 7 of the 10 world’s tallest hotels are located in Dubai. The third tallest but most iconic is the Burg Al Arab, a luxury hotel designed to mimic the sail of a ship. It’s a 7-star Hotel. Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island 920 ft. from Jumeirah beach, connected to the city by a private curving bridge
- A stunning 1,790 square meter of 24-carat gold leaf covers the interior of the Burj Al Arab.
- The Dubai Mall is the largest shopping center in the world with over 1,200 stores and many international brands. It has 3.9 million square feet of retail space.
- Located at the center of the enormous Dubai Mall, Dubai Aquarium is the largest suspended aquarium in the world. This wonder provides unique views of 33,000 submarine animals behind the world’s largest acrylic viewing panel and the 48-meter long aquarium walk-through tunnel.
- Dubai is home to the Gold Souk that houses more than 300 retail shops dedicated to gold. It is estimated that the souk contains 10 tons of gold at any given time and it trades 40 % of the world’s physical gold.
- Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, has four 350-foot (107-meter) minarets, 82 white marble domes, and possibly the world’s largest hand-knotted carpet. The mosque and its courtyard are large enough to accommodate more than 40,000 worshippers.
- The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque also contains the world’s largest chandelier that is 15 meters high, 10 meters in diameter, and weighs more than 9 tons.
- The $3-billion Emirates Palace hotel, a kilometer (0.6 miles) from end to end, sprawls on a white beach 4,265 feet (1.3 kilometers) long and features 114 domes, the tallest climbing 238 feet (72.5 meters) and has over a thousand Swarovski crystal chandeliers.
- The huge indoor theme park Ferrari World Abu Dhabi sits under a roof designed in the style of a classic Ferrari GT double-curved body shell. There are more than 20 rides and attractions including the world’s fastest roller coaster.
- The above-ground metro station opened in Dubai in 2009\. It consists of 42 stations and was built amazingly in just 18 months.
- The Dubai Metro system is the longest automated network in the world with a 75 km network having 87 automated trains without drivers. The trains are maintained at 20 degrees Celsius for passengers and are carbon neutral in operation.
- Amazingly the Dubai Metro opened on the 9th day of the 9th month of 2009 at 9 pm. It became the first train service to open in the region.
- Infinity Tower is the world’s tallest high-rise building with a twist of 90˚. The unique, almost completed, skyscraper spirals by an amazing 90 degrees from its base to its crown, 305 meters (1,000 feet) above the ground. The 80-story high residential tower has dynamic waterfront views.
- With its striking wave-like design, the five-star Jumeirah Beach Hotel is one of the architectural wonders that graces Dubai’s skyline. Standing 93 meters high and 275 meters long, the 26-story building is curved both in plan and on elevation.
- The extravagant Atlantis Palm Hotel houses two underwater suites that provide views from floor-to-ceiling windows into a lagoon filled with 65,000 marine creatures, including sharks. With more than 1,500 guest rooms, the complex also features a 1.4 km pristine white beach.
- Ski Dubai is a 22,500-square-meter indoor ski resort that offers the incredible opportunity to enjoy real snow in the desert all year round. Located inside the Mall of the Emirates, it features an 85-meter-high indoor mountain with 5 runs that vary in difficulty, height, and gradient, including a 400-meter-long run with a fall of over 60 meters.
- The luxurious JW Marriott Marquis Dubai Hotel is the tallest hotel in the world. The 72-storey, 355 meters (1,165 ft.) skyscraper complex spreads across two iconic towers.
- Dubai holds the record for having the tallest residential building in the world. The Princess Tower, rises to 414 meters, surpassing the nearby Torch building as the tallest.
- The World or World Islands is a collection of 300 manmade islands constructed in the shape of a world map, situated 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) off the coast of Dubai. The entire development is an area that covers 6 by 9 kilometers and is surrounded by an oval-shaped breakwater island.
- The Louvre Museum is the first universal museum in the Arab world showing art and pieces spanning all time periods and all cultures. The 24,000 square meter complex features some 300 pieces of art and other exhibitions from the French museum.
- Masdar City under construction will be home to 60,000 people living and working in the greenest place on earth as more than 80% of the water will be recycled, with its power needs coming from renewable sources. Private vehicles are banned in the city. Instead, transportation is provided through electric cars, clean-energy vehicles, and personal rapid transit pod cars.
- Since November 2008, the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2, one of the largest in the world is docked at Port Rashid earmarked as a luxury floating hotel and apartments with a permanent home soon on the Palm Jumeirah.
- Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi is 160 meters high but is recognized as the building with the greatest lean. Its tilt is four times greater than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The 35-story building forms the centerpiece for the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition.
- If you want to enjoy heights go dune bashing taking on the Tel Moreeb dune near Liwa on the edge of Rub Al Khali. It has a 50-degree incline and has a height of over 300 meters and it is 1600 meters wide.
- Dubai land will be twice the size of Disneyworld in Florida and is expected to be the largest tourist destination by 2020.

##### Sports

- Football and cricket are the most popular sports in Dubai. UAE managed to reach the finals of the 1990 football World Cup in Italy.
- The Sharjah Cricket Grounds holds the record for hosting the most ODI tests.
- The Dubai World Cup meeting is the richest night of horse racing anywhere on the planet with prize money of about $27 million.
- Abu Dhabi United Group purchased Manchester City Football Club in 2008.
- The DP World Tour Championship is organized for 60 of the best golfers on the planet for the biggest prize money on the European Tour. It’s held annually at the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates. The maintenance requires amazing 4 million gallons of water a day.
- Meydan Racecourse is home to the longest grandstand in the world which opened in March 2009 and is home to the Dubai World Cup. It is overlooked by a building that is 1.6 km long.

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### Whale
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Last updated: 2024-01-22T09:30:56.000Z
#### Top 65 Amazing Facts About Whale

1. The blue whale is not only the largest animal on Earth, but is also the largest animal to have ever existed on Earth at any point.
2. Like dolphins and porpoises, whales are believed to have descended from land animals that returned to the water roughly 50 million years ago after living millions of years on land.
3. There are two suborders of whales to which all species of whales belong: toothed whales and baleen whales.
4. Toothed whales include sperm, killer, and beluga whales preying on large fish in deep waters as their main source of food.
5. Baleen whales include blue and humpback whales which are filter feeders feeding on small organisms such as krill and plankton by straining large amounts of seawater through baleen which is a comb-like structure in their mouth.
6. As mammals, whales are warm-blooded and maintain a body temperature similar to that of a human.
7. In colder environments maintaining body temperature is facilitated by a thick wall of fat called blubber insulating their bodies.
8. The blue whale is about 100 feet long and weighs nearly 200 tons.
9. The amazing fact is a blue whale is as many as 4 large dinosaurs, 23 elephants, 230 cows, or 1800 men.
10. The blue whale can live between 80 and 90 years in the wild.
11. Although the blue whale is a deepwater hunter, as a mammal, it must come to the surface to breathe.
12. Only one-half of the whale’s brain sleeps at a time. This process allows their body to get adequate rest while still providing for the necessary function of breathing to continue.
13. Whales and other cetaceans move through the water by plunging their tails up and down in a vertical motion distinguishing them from fish, which move their tails from side to side when swimming.
14. “Fluking” is the term for a whale lifting its tail out of the water prior to making a deep dive. The action is unique for each whale species’ allowing observers to identify species from a distance.
15. Whales jumping out of the water is called “breaching” which is most often performed by the humpback whale. Amazingly they sometimes leave the water completely during a leap.
16. Breaching is done by swimming quickly forward and then turning its spout suddenly upward to send its forward momentum skyward. It is quite a feat considering its massive weight.
17. A whale’s visible exhalation is typically called the blow or spout which may rise vertically above the water for up to 9 meters. It is believed that the visible mist in the air forming the spout is a combination of moisture condensed from the whale’s breath and mucous sprayed from the nasal passages.
18. Sperm whales can dive as deep as two miles into the water, and their bodies have unique physiological adaptations to survive the intense cold and crushing pressure. They can limit circulation to the brain and other organs, slow the heart to 10 beats per minute and collapse the lungs and rib cage to withstand the pressure.
19. When a blue whale dives into the water, its head is already deeper than most scuba divers dare to go before its tail leaves the surface of the water.
20. Blue whales are endangered species. It is estimated that only about 10,000-25,000 blue whales now remain in oceans.
21. The amazing fact is that at 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal which can be heard from 500 km away.
22. Amazingly a child can crawl through the arteries in a blue whale’s heart. Its heartbeat is also so loud that it can be heard two miles away.
23. A blue whale's tongue is about the size of an elephant.
24. Blue whale's heart is about the size of a compact car.
25. It's amazing that the grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year.
26. Amazingly a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2000 balloons.
27. Around 100 people can fit in the mouth of the blue whale, and yet amazingly it eats one of the smallest animals on the planet, krill (shrimp-like invertebrates) a crustacean smaller than a child’s finger.
28. The amazing fact is that during the feeding season in Antarctica, a full grown blue whale eats about 4 million krill per day, that's about 4 tons every day for 6 months.
29. The whale’s mouth has a fascinating row of plates fringed with bristles to help it filter the minute prey and hold it.
30. With each mouthful, the whale can hold up to 5,000 kg of water and plankton.
31. The amazing fact is a whale’s throat is only large enough to roughly let a volleyball pass through, whereas its mouth can store up to 90 metric tons of food and water.
32. The blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating after the feeding season.
33. The blue whales usually cruise the ocean at over 8 km/h but can reach speeds of over 30 km/h.
34. Amazingly females breed only once every three years and gestation is about one year.
35. Females usually have only one offspring.
36. It's amazing that a baby blue whale (calf) emerges at birth weighing up to 3 Tons and up to 8 meters long.
37. The calf is suckled in the water, drinking more than 600 liters of milk each day and gaining about 90 kg every day in the first year, and grows 1.5 inches per day.
38. Nursing whale’s milk is similar to toothpaste as it must be thick enough not to dissipate into the water.
39. Whales do not drink seawater instead, they extract water from their food by metabolizing the fat.
40. The amazing fact is that black whales are born white.
41. The songs of humpback whales can change dramatically from year to year, yet amazingly each whale in an ocean always sings the same song as the others.
42. The fact is the wax plug in the ear of the whale has a pattern of layers when cut lengthwise. Scientists can count it to estimate the age of the whale.
43. Amazing thing is whales can't swim backward, tarantulas can't spin webs, crocodiles can't chew and hummingbirds can't walk.
44. If a blue whale were able to live on land, it would not survive as it would be crushed by its own body weight.
45. Baleen whales use sonar to communicate with one another, emitting low-frequency sounds that can travel enormous distances underwater. The bass notes uttered by baleen whales are the loudest natural noises made by any animal.
46. Most toothed whales hunt their prey using echolocation measuring the distance by the timing of the echo travel. In the dark depths of the ocean, this is the only sense that helps.
47. The amazing fact is there's a whale that has been swimming alone since 1992\. It's known as the "52Hz Whale" because of its sound frequency. Since other whales communicate between 12 and 25 Hz, no other whale responds to its song.
48. Because whales typically use hearing as their primary sense, they have very small eyes in proportion to their overall body size.
49. The average blue whale amazingly produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it ejaculates.
50. An adult hunchback whale may be the host to as many as half a tons of parasitic barnacles. To remove them whales slough off patches of skin continuously.
51. The fact is a killer whale is not species of whale but a type of dolphin.
52. Killer whales know that great white sharks need to move to breathe and intelligently will hold them upside down in order to kill them.
53. The killer whale, or orca, is the swiftest of all the marine animals with a swimming speed of 35 miles per hour. Only tuna, marlin, sailfish, and swordfish are faster.
54. All killer whales are marked by defining patches of white on their black skin which distinguishes them uniquely.
55. Whale vomit is worth tens of thousands of dollars and is used in the production of perfume.
56. Blue whale fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse.
57. Only three mammals undergo menopause namely elephant, humpback whales, and human females.
58. Whales have no natural predators other than humans, who have hunted them for thousands of years for their meat and other raw materials as early as 3000 B.C.
59. While ancient fishermen used the meat of whales for food, in the modern era whales were primarily hunted for oil and whalebone, a term used for the baleen. Whalebone was used to make corsets, umbrella ribs, handles, and brushes, while the oil was used for cooking, candle wax, and, much later, making margarine.
60. Sperm whales used to be the most highly prized species due to the spermaceti organ contained in a sperm whale’s large, bulbous forehead holding up to 500 gallons of oil.
61. A bowhead whale caught in 2007 had a harpoon embedded in its neck from 1880, making it at least 130 years old.
62. In 1986, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) declared a moratorium on commercial whaling. There are still few nations that practicing commercial whaling Japan being one of them.
63. When a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, amazingly it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades called a “whale fall”.
64. An amazing fact is as per the law if a dead whale is found on a British beach, the head belongs to the king and the tail to the queen.
65. Amazingly Japan used $30 million of its Tsunami relief funds to support whaling.

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### South Africa
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Last updated: 2024-01-20T09:30:08.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about South Africa

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of South Africa is the Republic of South Africa. The country is located at the southern end of Africa.
- The population of South Africa is around 55 million.
- South Africa shares borders on the north with Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; Mozambique and Swaziland on the eastern part; the rest is the sea.
- Lesotho and Swaziland are countries situated within South Africa.
- The largest city in South Africa is Johannesburg. Other major cities include Soweto and Durban.
- South Africa's coastline stretches over 2500 km (1553 miles) in length.
- The longest river in South Africa is the Orange River which also forms part of the border between Namibia from South Africa.
- Tugela Falls in South Africa is the second-highest waterfalls in the world.

##### Flora & Fauna

- South Africa is home to a wide variety of animals including giraffes, hippopotamus, leopards, and lions.
- South Africa naturally hosts four of the seven fastest mammals in the world, namely the wildebeest, the African lion, the springbok, and the cheetah.
- Table Mountain itself is noted to have over 1500 different species of plant life which is more than England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland combined.

##### History

- The oldest remains of modern humans were found in South Africa and are well over 160,000 years’ old
- The Karoo region in the Western Cape is home to some of the best fossils of early dinosaurs. In fact, about 80% of the mammalian fossils found to date have been found in the Karoo.
- Cave paintings have been found in South Africa that date to around 75000 years ago.
- There are more than 2000 shipwrecks off the South African coast, most dating back at least 500 years.

##### Places / Architecture

- South Africa is home to the oldest meteor scar in the world the Vredefort Dome in a town called Parys which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is believed to be 222 million years old.
- Adams Calendar is a stone structure found in 2005 in Mpumalanga which is a functional monolithic stone calendar dating back to about 7,50, 000 years. The amazing fact is that the location of the Adams calendar is along the same longitudinal axis as the Great Pyramid and Great Zimbabwe ruins.
- Table Mountain in Cape Town is believed to be one of the oldest mountains in the world and one of the planet’s 12 main energy centers, radiating magnetic, electric, or spiritual energy.
- Swartberg displays technicolored sandstone cliffs and houses the Kango Caves, one of the most amazing cave systems in the world. The Sudwala Caves in South Africa is the oldest known caves in the world.
- South Africa boasts of seven world heritage sites.
- The most scenic drives are Chapman’s Peak and the Garden Route in Cape Town.
- Included in the Cape Winelands region is Route 62 which is considered the longest wine route in the world.
- The world’s largest themed resort hotel in the world, The Palace of the Lost City is in South Africa. Surrounding the Palace is a 25-hectare manmade botanical jungle with almost 2 million plants, trees, and shrubs. It is the largest building project undertaken in the southern hemisphere.
- The world’s best land-based whale-watching spot is located in Hermanus in the Western Cape.
- The South African Rovos Rail is considered the most luxurious train in the world.
- Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto is the biggest hospital in the world.
- Stellenbosch University was the first African university in the world to design and launch a microsatellite.
- The University of South Africa (UNISA) is a pioneer in tertiary distance education. It is the largest correspondence university in the world, with 250,000 students. The first MBA program outside of the USA was started by the University of Pretoria in 1949.
- The Western Deep Levels is the world’s deepest mine at 3777 meters.

##### People Customs & Culture

- South Africa is quite a multi-ethnic and multicultural society with one of the most diversified cultures and languages in the world. There are 11 official languages recognized in the constitution: English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Venda, Xhosa, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, and Zulu. There is no other country in the world that has as many official languages.
- South Africa has 45 million active cell phone subscribers i.e. 90 mobiles per 100 population placing it among the top 5 countries with the highest cell phone penetration.

##### Politics/ Legal

- South Africa is the only country to have 3 capital cities: Pretoria is the Executive Capital, Cape Town the Legislative Capital, and Bloemfontein the judicial Capital separate for each branch of its government.
- South Africa has the world’s second-oldest air force, established in 1920.
- South Africa followed apartheid policies enforcing a system of segregation from 1948 until 1994\. Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994 after South Africa’s first universal elections.
- The country is the first, and up to date, the only country to build its own nuclear weapons and to voluntarily dismantle its nuclear weapons program. No other country in history has done so.
- Despite the country’s status as a democratic republic, the Province of KwaZulu-Natal has a monarchy, specially provided for by the Constitution. Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu is the King of the Zulu Nation, has 27 kids and 6 wives, and lives like a King!

##### Economy & Corporates

- The South African currency is Rand.
- South Africa accounts for almost 25% of the GDP of the entire African continent, with an economy more than twice the size of the second biggest – Algeria.
- South Africa is the only African country that is a member of the G20.
- South Africa generates two-thirds of Africa’s electricity.
- It has nearly 90% of all the platinum on earth and around 41% of all the world’s Gold! It also has the world’s largest deposits of chrome and manganese.
- South Africa’s Cape Winelands have around 560 wineries and 4400 primary producers.
- South African brewery SABMiller ranks by volume as the largest brewing company in the world. It supplies up to 50% of China’s beer.
- There are 727 Airports found in South Africa, 143 of these airports have paved runways.
- South Africa receives about 12 million tourists a year.

##### Sports

- The most popular sports in South Africa are football, rugby, and cricket.
- South Africa is only the second country in the world to have hosted the Football, Cricket, and Rugby World Cup!
- South Africa hosts the world’s largest individually timed cycle race (the Cape Argus Cycle Race), the world’s largest open water swim (the Midmar Mile), and the world’s largest ultra-marathon (the Comrades Marathon).
- South Africa is home to the highest commercial bungee jump in the world, called Bloukrans Bridge Bungy at 216 meters.

##### Famous People

- The only street in the world to house two Nobel Peace prize winners is in Vilakazi Street, Soweto, South Africa. (Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu).
- The first human heart transplant was performed in a Cape Town hospital in 1967 by Dr. Christian Barnard.

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### Colombia
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Last updated: 2024-01-18T09:30:30.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Colombia

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Colombia is the Republic of Colombia. The name "Colombia" is derived from the last name of the explorer Christopher Columbus.
- The area covered by modern-day Colombia was originally inhabited by the indigenous tribes Muisca, Quimbaya, and Tairona. In 1499 the Spanish arrived making the area a Spanish colony called New Granada.
- Colombia has a population of over 45 million people. 99% of the population speaks Spanish which is the official language of Colombia.
- Colombia covers a land area of 1,141,748 square km around the same size as Spain, Portugal and France put together.
- It is bordered by five countries: Venezuela to the East, Brazil to the South-East, Ecuador, and Peru to the South, and Panama to the North-West.
- *Amazingly* Colombia is the only country in South America that has a coastline on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
- Bogotá is the capital of Colombia which is the second-largest capital city in South America and at 2640 m (8661 feet) it is one of the highest capital cities in the world with a population of more than 3 million. It is one of the smartest cities.
- Colombia has vast stretches of beautiful Atlantic and Pacific coastline over 3200 km. It has 300 beaches.
- Colombia has the highest coastal mountain range in the world, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Its highest peak is also Colombia’s highest mountain, Pico Cristobal Colon standing at around 5,775 meters (19,058 feet).
- Colombia is part of the Ring of Fire, a group of countries in the Pacific Ocean vulnerable to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
- Colombia only has summer as there is no winter near the equator. It has sunlight throughout the year. It is dark by 6 pm.
- River Caño Cristales is famous for it’s diverse colors formed by the rock formations and the diversity of flora and fauna. River appears blue, green, orange and red at various places earning the nickname ‘The Liquid Rainbow’.

##### Flora & Fauna

- The near-empty eastern jungles of Colombia hold 54% of its land but only 3% of its population. The area is largely closed to tourists due to guerilla activity. In fact 1/3 rd of Colombia is covered by Amazon jungle.
- Colombia is classed as a "megadiverse" country, ranking as the 2nd most biodiverse country in the world after Brazil.
- It has the highest number of species by area in the world, including the most endemic species of butterflies, the most orchid species and the most amphibian species than all of Europe and North America combined.
- Colombia has most species of birds in the world, it is the habitat of more than 1879 species of bird.
- Colombia has more endemic species (species that exist only in one country) than any other country in the world!
- The national bird is the Andean Condor, a highly endangered species in Colombia. It is the heaviest bird capable of flight on the planet. They have a wingspan of up to 3.2 meters across.
- The national tree is the Colombian Wax Palm which is the tallest palm in the world, reaching heights of up to 60 meters.
- Colombia has 58 National Parks that cover more than 11% of entire Colombia. You have over 55,000 square miles for you to explore!

##### History

- The Battle of Boyaca in 1819 was the rebellion led by Simon Bolívar that led to Colombia gaining its final independence from the Spanish Monarchy. The event is celebrated on August 7 every year.
- After independence, Colombia was actually Gran Colombia, which also included the territories of Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, as a single, unified nation which was split later.
- Colombia was the first country in South America with a constitutional government.

##### Places / Architecture

- Colombia’s ‘second city’ Medellin was once the murder capital of the world with 17 murders every day in 1991\. It has since undergone a sea change and is now one of the country’s main cultural hubs.
- Capital Bogota has South America’s largest network of bicycle routes measuring over 300km stretching from slum areas and suburbs to the city center.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Colombia is the happiest country in the world according to the survey.
- Colombian ladies are often voted the most beautiful on the planet. Plastic surgery is common to alter curves.
- Colombia has the biggest salsa festival, biggest theater festival, biggest outdoor horse parade, biggest flower parade and second biggest carnival all over the world.
- 90% of the country is Catholic.
- *Amazingly* you will find many People sell phone minutes on the street and you can make a phone call from someone else´s phone for a fee. You will find all types of items sold on the street including movie tickets.
- *Amazingly* almost any building has his own doorman.
- The men bringing cash to the banks always carry pump action shotguns. For high withdrawals of money from the bank, policemen will walk you home.
- Punctuality is not really part of the culture. People often say they will do something, but don’t always expect them to keep their word. They are just polite.
- You will find that every price has to be negotiated.
- Buses and planes are the main means of transportation. There are no trains.
- *Amazingly* the busetas (small buses) stop wherever you want them to.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The Colombian flag is identical to the Ecuadorian flag, the only difference being that the Colombian flag removes the coat of arms.
- Colombia is rich in education having literacy rate of 93% which has been possible due to the basic education being compulsory by law. Education expenditure as a % of GDP is one of the highest in Latin America.
- At school, you will be charged if you fail at a subject.
- There are policemen and military men everywhere.
- National anthem is played on radio at 6am & 6pm.

##### Economy & Corporates

- The currency of Colombia is called the Colombian peso.
- Colombia is rich in natural resources, with major exports including petroleum and coal, accounting for a total of 40% of exports.
- Colombia is the world's leading source of emeralds and its coffee is world renowned.
- Colombia accounts for 70% of cut flowers imported to the United States.
- Medical tourism especially cosmetic surgery is popular in Colombia due to the high quality of treatment and relatively low cost.

##### Sports

- The traditional national sport of Colombia is called Tejo. It is a team sport that involves launching projectiles at a target.
- The most popular sport in Colombia is football (soccer). The Colombian national team won the 2001 Copa América (South American Championship).

##### Famous People

- Colombia has a vibrant music scene, two of the most well-known Colombian musicians are Shakira and Juanes.
- Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar could make $20 billion annually. Amazingly 5% of the cash ($1 billion) was eaten by rats. His empire was widespread in the 80s and 90s.

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### King Cobra
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Last updated: 2024-01-16T09:30:00.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about King Cobra

1. The King Cobra species was first described in 1836 by a Danish naturalist by the name of Theodore Edward Cantor.
2. The king cobra also known as Ophiphagus Hannah is the world's largest venomous snake.
3. It actually belongs to a genus of its own, called Ophipohagus under the Elapidae family. It is not a member of the Naja genus which includes most cobra species, known as “true cobras”.
4. The Ophipohagus Hannah has 11 large scales on his head which resemble a King’s crown, hence his majestic name. Ophiophagus is actually a Latin word for “Snake Eater”.
5. The King is a great climber and an excellent swimmer, and his preferred spots are areas with lakes, streams, or near swamps. His habitat can also include open fields or agricultural areas.
6. In fact, King cobra is a ferocious snake eater looking for small pythons and rat snakes, and also other cobras.
7. The easiest way of identifying a King Cobra is by its pair of large scales at the back of its head. These are unique to the King.
8. They are commonly found in the rainforest of countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam, India, China, the Philippines, Burma, Nepal and Bangladesh.
9. An average length of king cobra ranges between 3-4 meters and weighs 6 kg. The male king is usually larger and thicker than the female.
10. The colors of King Cobras can vary depending on their geographic location. The Kings in China are usually dark brown or even black, banded with yellow, white or brown. The Kings in India are mostly olive green with yellow bands, while the Kings is Southeast Asia will usually be completely olive green or yellow-green.
11. They have an expandable head that allows it to swallow its prey.
12. An average cobra can live up to 20 years or even more.
13. In some cultures, king cobra is treated with a lot of respect. Its images are found in the entrance of many Buddhist and Hindu temples.
14. They are very shy and usually avoid confrontation with human by escaping, however they can be very aggressive if threatened or provoked when they raise a third of its body, making forward or backward movement as it exposes it fangs while producing hissing sound.
15. King cobra snake has a poor sense of hearing; although it can pick ground vibration very well. In addition, it has a very sensitive organ (Jacobson organ), and a forked tongue that allows it to picks the sense of smell and use it to detect presence of prey.
16. It can see very well at night and spot its prey moving 100 meters away.
17. The King Cobra is said to be far more intelligent, active and alert than any other snake on the planet.
18. The King also has two fixed fangs in the front of his mouth. These deadly fangs are used like needles to inject the venom into its prey.
19. After you are bitten, venom targets the central nervous system, eventually leading to kidney, heart and lung failure. Initial symptoms include pain, drowsiness, a stumbling gait, blurred vision, paralysis of the limbs, convulsions, headache and loss of consciousness. Death is usually due to respiratory failure caused by neurotoxins.
20. In *fact*, a bite by a King Cobra can lead to death within thirty minutes.
21. *Amazingly* King cobra is known to inject a large amount of neurotoxin from just a single bite enough to kill at least 20 people or an adult elephant.
22. The young ones are equally dangerous since they can produce as much venom as the adult.
23. King cobra is able to hunt throughout the day, and is hardly seen at night making use of his high alertness and intelligence.
24. There are only two types of anti-venom produced for treating bites by King Cobras. One is manufactured in Thailand by the Red Cross, while the other is made in India by the Central Research Institute.
25. One herbal remedy that may be tried until medical help arrives is a mixture of ground root turmeric with alcohol.
26. The untreated fatality rate of King Cobra’s victims is 50-60%.
27. King cobra venom doesn't affect mongoose which makes it easier for it to attack and kill the king with ease
28. Its meal consists of eggs, frogs, toads, fish, the rat snake, small python snake, and other species of cobra including its own kind. It is also known of devouring krait which is also a very poisonous snake.
29. It has a very slow metabolism and a single large prey swallowed whole can suffice for a month. Its fondness for rat may drive it close to human habitat.
30. King cobra is the only snake in the world that makes nest on the ground for laying eggs the same way as birds do on top of trees. The nest is made up of leaves and sticks into a mound where she deposits her egg.
31. The female lays approximately 20-40 eggs on the nest.
32. The incubation time will last between 60-90 days. The nest is protected by both male and female from intruders, although the female will move away once the eggs have hatched so as to avoiding eating the young ones.
33. Hatchlings will reach average lengths of 20 inch (50 cm), and will have venom that is as strong and powerful as that of adult kings. They can fully defend themselves, exactly like their parents. Baby kings are usually very nervous during their first few weeks, so if disturbed they might become extremely aggressive.
34. Juvenile Kings are shiny black stripped by narrow yellow bands. As they grow older, they acquire the famous olive green color of a King. However, it may take some time until a young King Cobra can display its notorious hood.
35. In India, the King Cobras have been placed under the Wildlife Protection Act and 6-year imprisonment can be given to anyone who kills a King.

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### Poland
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Last updated: 2024-01-14T09:30:12.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Poland

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Poland in the Republic of Poland. The name Poland comes from the tribe “Polanie” meaning people living in open land.
- Poland is home to over 38 million people.
- Geographically, Poland is not actually in Eastern Europe. It is in fact in the very center of Europe.
- Poland is the 9th largest country in Europe by land area (3,12,000 Km2). Poland is the 6th most populous and the 6th largest of the European Union's 27 member states.
- Most of the country is flat, with an average elevation of 173 meters. The peak of Rysy in the Tatra Mountains is the highest point in Poland at 2499 m (8199 ft).
- Forests cover over 30% of Poland's land area and the country is the fourth most forested in Europe.
- Seven countries share a border with Poland including Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Slovakia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
- Warsaw is the largest city and capital of Poland.
- Poland’s national symbol is the White Eagle.
- Of all migratory birds that travel to Europe for the summer, one quarter of them breed in Poland making it the most important bird breeding ground in Europe.

##### History

- The country's first historically documented ruler was Mieszko I (c. 935-992). The Kingdom of Poland was founded shortly after in 1025.
- In ancient times, what is now Poland was inhabited by a multitude of ethnic groups, including various Celtic, Slavic (in the center and south-east), Baltic (in the north-east) and Germanic (in the west and south-west) tribes.
- Kraków was the headquarters and the place of coronation of Polish kings and the nation's capital from 1038 until the move to Warsaw in 1596.
- It was "stolen" between 1772 and 1795 when the country was divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria and erased from the map.
- The last Polish monarch, Stanisław Poniatowski, died in prison in 1798 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- In 1807, Poland was reborn as the Duchy of Warsaw under Napoleon Bonaparte but his defeat in 1815 ended with Poland being partitioned by Russia, Prussia (then Germany), and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Between 1815 and 1918, Poland ceased to exist as a political entity.
- Poland has fought too many wars. It has been invaded or has fought for freedom about 43 times between year 1600 and 1945.
- In 1939, Poland had the largest Jewish community in Europe (Almost 3.5 million). This may be why 70% of the Nazi extermination camps during WWII were located in what is now Poland, including the three most infamous ones : Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Belzec.
- On September 1, 1939, the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland without any prior declaration of war, thereby beginning World War II. On November 3, 1939, the first death sentence of World War II was passed by the Nazis on two Polish women who had torn down Nazi placards.
- It is estimated that more than 6 million Poles including soldiers and civilians died in concentration camps, labor camps, prisons, and forced labor during the 5 years of Nazi occupation.
- Nazi-occupied Poland was the only territory where the Germans decreed that any kind of help for Jews was punishable by death during WWII. Up to 50,000 Poles were executed by the Nazis for saving Jews. Poles rescued at least 450,000 Jews from certain death.
- Pomerania, Prussia and Silesia were ceded by Germany to Poland as war reparations in 1945\. However, Poland remained under a Communist government until 1989.
- On September 12, 1989, the first freely elected, noncommunist government in a Warsaw Pact state took office, led by Poland’s Nobel Peace Prize-winner Lech Wałęsa, who was instrumental in organizing the Solidarity movement of the 1980s.

##### Places / Architecture

- Poland has 14 heritage sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
- Wieliczka Salt Mine built in the 13th century is one of the world's old salt mines still in operation until 2007\. It is also referred to as "the Underground Salt Cathedral of Poland" due to its three chapels and an entire cathedral carved out of the rock salt by the miners and placed on the UNESCO list of the World Heritage Sites in 1978.
- *Amazingly* the Wieliczka Salt Mine reaches a depth of 1,073 feet (327 m) and is over 178 miles (287 km) long.
- Located in Wrocław is the oldest restaurant in Europe, "Piwnica Swidnicka", operating since 1275.
- Nicolaus Copernicus, the famous 16th century astronomer who first suggested the sun was the center of our universe was born in Thorn, Royal Prussia, part of the Kingdom of Poland.
- The historic site of the Auschwitz German concentration camp by Nazi near Oświęcim is now a site of pilgrimage and monument where during World War II, at least 1.1\. million Nazi prisoners were killed. Ninety percent of the prisoners killed were Jewish. The first exterminations of prisoners took place in September 1941.

##### People Customs & Culture

- 90% of Poles have completed at least secondary education, the highest score in the EU, along with the Czechs, Slovaks, and Slovenes. 50% poles have an academic degree.
- Polish people marry the youngest within the European Union (24 years old for women and 26.5 years old for men in average).
- Polish people have the largest households in the European Union.
- Poland's long friendship with France during the 18th and 19th centuries has resulted in many Polish artists and intellectuals moving to Paris.
- Poland is nowadays one of the most staunchly Catholic country in Europe. Roman Catholicism is so popular that Poland has a TV channel dedicated to the Pope.
- Nearly 35% of the 60 million poles live abroad. Large Polish speaking communities can be found in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, Brazil and Argentina.
- *Amazingly* first floor is regarded as floor “0”. If you want to go to second floor in elevator, press “1”.
- Poland is one of the few countries where courteous hand kissing is still a common practice.
- *Amazing fact* is that when foreign movies are dubbed for Polish TV, one man reads all the dialogues of men, women or children.
- Polish alphabet consists of 32 letters in contrast to English 26.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Polish constitution in 1791 was the first in Europe and second in the world after USA.
- The Polish flag has two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red. The colors derive from the Polish emblem, which is a white eagle on a red field. Poland’s flag is similar to the flags of Indonesia and Monaco, which are in reverse colors.
- Poland’s national symbol is the white-tailed eagle.
- Recently it held its first free elections in more than 40 years in 1989 after collapse of communist regime.

##### Economy 

- Poland is the world’s biggest amber exporter.
- It is among the world's biggest producers of hard coal. Poland's reserves of hard coal are estimated at 45 billion tons, enough to meet the country's demand for almost 500 years.
- Poland has a history of producing high-quality vodka for more than 500 years. The first Polish vodkas appeared in the 11th century.
- The first oil refinery in the world was built in 1856 by Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer, Ignacy Lukasiewicz.

##### Sports

- The most popular sport in Poland is football. Polish national team came third in the 1974 and 1982 World Cup Finals and won Olympic Gold in 1972.
- Poland boasts the most winners of the “World’s Strongest Men” title. In fact Polish-born Mariusz Pudzianowski is a 5 time winner of the title.

##### Famous People

- Polish born astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the solar system, thus starting the scientific revolution that would transform Europe and weaken the dogma of the Catholic Church.
- Polish astronomer, Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) published the earliest exact maps of the moon.
- Marie Curie (born Maria Sklodowska 1867-1934), physicist, chemist ,the first and only Nobel laureate in two different sciences and first female professor at the Sorbonne University. However, she lived much of her life in France.
- The famous English writer Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski, 1857-1924)
- The co-founder of Marks & Spencer, Michael Marks (1859-1907)
- The cosmetics industrialist Helena Rubinstein (1871-1965)
- Max Factor was founded by a Pol Maksymilian Factorowicz.
- Pope John Paul II also known as Karol Wojtyla (1920-2005) was Polish. He was the only Polish Pope to date and served the second longest.
- Fashion TV was founded by a Pol Michel Adam Lisowski.
- The biochemist Casimir Funk (1884-1967), who first isolated and formulated the concept of "vitamins" proposing the name.
- Poles have won a total of 17 Nobel prizes (more than Japan, China, India or Australia), including four Peace Prizes, and five in Literature.

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### Brain
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Last updated: 2024-01-12T09:30:24.000Z
#### 60 Amazing little known Facts About Brain

1. The nervous system of vertebrates (which includes humans and animals that have backbones and spinal columns) has two parts, the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Humans have the most complex brain of any animal on earth.
2. The CNS includes the brain, spinal cord, and retina of the eyes. The brain is protected by the skull, and the spinal cord by the skeletal vertebrae.
3. The PNS includes all other nervous system structures that sit outside the CNS but that help connects the CNS to areas of the body.
4. The human brain is about 1300-1400 cubic centimeters in volume.
5. The human brain is over 3 times as big as the brain of other mammals that are of similar body size.
6. The longest living cells in the body are the brain cells which can live for an entire lifetime.
7. The male brain is on average up to 10% larger than a female's brain, it has also been proven that female's brains have more nerve cells and connectors, therefore working more efficiently than men's. Scientists have discovered that men's and women’s brains react differently to pain, which explains why they may perceive or discuss pain differently.
8. The left side of the brain controls the right side of your body and the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body.
9. The human brain has 100 billion neurons, making it the most powerful learning tool in the world. Amazingly an octopus brain has about 300 billion neurons with two-thirds of these neurons located in the arms!!
10. The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain and makes up 85% of the brain’s weight. The total surface area of the cerebral cortex is about 25000 sq. cm.
11. In *fact*, your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.
12. The white matter is made up of dendrites and axons, which create the network by which neurons send their signals. The brain’s Gray matter is made up of neurons, which gather and transmit signals. Your brain is 60% white matter and 40% gray matter.
13. The brain is made up of about 75% water. It takes only 2% dehydration to affect your attention, memory and other cognitive skills.
14. *Amazing fact* is that brain has no pain receptors or pain fibers and the brain itself can’t feel pain. The brain surgery can be done with patient awake since brain has no nerve fibers for pain. You feel headaches because the skull is surrounded by what’s called meninges or blood vessels which do have pain receptors.
15. A living brain is so soft you could cut it with a butter knife.
16. 90 minutes of sweating can temporarily shrink the brain as much as one year of aging.
17. 25% of the body’s cholesterol resides within the brain. Cholesterol is an integral part of every brain cell. Without adequate cholesterol, brain cells die.
18. While an elephant’s brain is physically larger than a human brain, the human brain is 2% of total body weight compared to just 0.15% of an elephant’s brain, meaning humans have the largest brain to body size.
19. Each single brain neuron has from 1,000 to 10,000 connections with other neurons, making up to 10 trillion neuron connections possible.
20. *Amazingly* the diameter of an individual brain neuron is 4 microns, meaning 30,000 could fit on the head of a pin.
21. All brain cells are not alike. There are as many as 10,000 specific types of neurons in the brain.
22. Human brain can store 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica. Storage capacity of the brain in electronic terms is 3 to 1,000 terabytes (1 terabyte= 1000 gigabytes).
23. Human brain is the most powerful computer which has the processing speed of 3000+ Ghz.
24. The brain is much more active at night than during the day.
25. It’s absolutely amazing to know that there are 400 miles of blood vessels in the brain.
26. Each time you have a new thought or memory, a new brain connection is made between two or more brain cells.
27. The same part of the brain interprets both your physical and emotional pain.
28. It was believed that only 4% of the brains cells work and the remaining cells are kept in reserve but recent research reveals that most of the brain works.
29. Human babies are born 2 months prematurely for our size and lifespan to accommodate proportionately large brain during birth.The birth-to-three-month period is the fastest rate of brain development in human life span.
30. 60% of all the energy a baby expends is concentrated in the brain.
31. In baby’s first year, his brain will double to become half its final size. A 2-year-old’s brain is 80% of adult size. Your brain reaches full maturity by the age 25.
32. While awake, your brain generates between 10 and 25 watts of power or enough energy to power a light bulb.
33. A newborn baby sees World upside down for some time before the brain matures to correct it.
34. The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.
35. More than 100,000 chemicals reactions take place in your brain every second.
36. Every time you recall a memory or have a new thought, you are creating a new connection in your brain. Memory is formed by associations, so if you want help remembering things, create associations.
37. The human brain is the fattest organ in the body and may consists of at least 60% fat.
38. Although brain makes up just 2% of the body's weight, it uses around 20% of its energy.
39. *Amazingly* 25% of the human brain is used to control the eyes.
40. Reading aloud and talking often to a young child promotes brain development.
41. The cerebral cortex grows thicker as you learn to use it.
42. We think we are in control of our but the fact is that 95% of our decisions take place in our subconscious mind.
43. The capacity for such emotions as joy, happiness, fear, and shyness are already developed at birth but the type of nurturing a child shapes these emotions.
44. Laughing at a joke is no simple task as it requires activity in five different areas of the brain.
45. The first sense to develop while in utero is the sense of touch. The lips and cheeks can experience touch at about 8 weeks and the rest of the body around 12 weeks.
46. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
47. Without any words, you may be able to determine if someone is in a good mood, is feeling sad, or is angry just by reading the face. The area in brain responsible for this recognition is called the amygdala.
48. If your brain loses blood for 8 to 10 seconds, you will lose consciousness. No oxygen for 5 to 10 minutes will result in permanent brain damage.
49. Information can be processed by the brain nerves as slowly as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec.
50. For years, medical professionals believed that tinnitus, the constant sound in the ear was due to a function within the mechanics of the ear, but newer evidence shows that it is actually a function of the brain.
51. *Amazing fact* is that each time we blink, our brain plays its role keeping things illuminated so the whole world doesn’t go dark each time we blink (about 20,000 times a day).
52. Harvard maintains a Brain Bank where over 7,000 human brains are in store for research purposes.
53. Music lessons have shown to considerably boost brain organization and ability in both children and adults.
54. Einstein’s brain was similar in size to other humans except in the region that is responsible for math and spatial perception. In that region, his brain was 35% wider than average.
55. The story of Albert Einstein’s brain is weird. The pathologist who performed Einstein’s autopsy kept the brain in a jar in his basement for 40 years without anybody’s knowledge. Eventually he handed it over to Einstein’s granddaughter.
56. London taxi drivers famous for knowing all the London streets by heart, have a larger than normal hippocampus. The study suggests that as people memorize more and more information, this part of their brain continues to grow.
57. After the age of 35, human brain will start losing about 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
58. *Amazing* thing is that the brain in our head isn’t our only brain. There’s a “second brain” in our intestines that contain 100,000 neurons. Gut bacteria are responsible for making over 30 neurotransmitters including the “happy molecule” serotonin.
59. Sometimes half a brain is a good as a whole one. When surgeons perform a hemispherectomy, they remove or disable half of the brain as a surgical treatment. Amazingly patients may not experience any effect on personality or memory.
60. A blood-brain barrier protects your brain from foreign substances. But it works differently for different products. E.g. The nicotine in smoke rushes into the brain in a mere 7 seconds but alcohol, on the other hand, takes about 6 minutes.

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### Popcorn
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Last updated: 2024-01-10T09:30:43.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Popcorn

1. Evidence in Peru suggests that popcorn existed as early as 4700 B.C., making it one of the oldest forms of corn. The oldest ears of popcorn ever found came from New Mexico.
2. The Aztecs used popcorn during ceremonies. Several young women would dance a “popcorn dance” with popcorn garlands on their heads. They also used popcorn as decoration for ceremonial headdresses, necklaces, and ornaments on statues of their gods.
3. Grains of popcorn around 1,000 years old have been found in tombs in Peru. The kernels are so well preserved that they can still be popped.
4. A 1,000-year-old popped kernel of popcorn was found in a dry cave in the southwestern part of Utah.
5. Christopher Columbus allegedly introduced popcorn to the Europeans in the late 15th century.
6. Americans eat more popcorn than any other country eating so much popcorn every year that this would fill the Empire State Building 18 times. By volume, popcorn is America’s favorite snack food.
7. While other businesses failed during the Great Depression, the popcorn business thrived. Popcorn sold at around 5 to 10 cents a bag, making it one of the more affordable treats for poor families.
8. Nebraska produces an estimated 1,20,000 Tons of popcorn per year more than any other state which is about 25% of all the popcorn the produced in the USA every year.
9. Popcorn is the official snack of Illinois and the annual “Popcorn Day” on January 19th is observed every year since 1958.
10. Popcorn is a healthy snack for diabetics and can be exchanged for bread especially for weight control.
11. Unpopped popcorn should not be stored in the refrigerator as the refrigerator will dry out the moisture in the kernels. Without the moisture, popcorn will not pop. The ideal place to store popcorn is in a cool, dry cupboard.
12. Popcorn kernels have been found to pop up to 3 feet in the air.
13. Popcorn has more protein than any other cereal grain. It also has more iron than eggs or roast beef. It has more fiber than potato chips.
14. Popcorn has more phosphorus, protein, and iron than ice cream cone or potato chips.
15. Popped popcorn comes in two shapes: “snowflake” or “mushroom.” Because “snowflake” shaped popcorn is bigger, movie theaters typically sell that shape.
16. Popcorn has been sold in theaters since 1912\. It has been a big money maker as it is generally overpriced. In movie theaters, for every dollar spent on popcorn, about 90 cents is profit.
17. Unpopped popcorn kernels are called “spinsters” or “old maids.” Quality popcorn should produce 98% popped kernels with under 2% being spinsters.
18. There are two possible explanations for “spinsters” or “old maids”. The first is that they didn't contain sufficient moisture (Ideal moisture 13.5%) to create an explosion; the second is that their outer coating (the hull) was damaged, so that steam escaped gradually, rather than with a pop.
19. Popcorn is made up of both yellow and white kernels but only about 1 in 10 kernels are white.
20. Approximately 70% of popcorn sold in America is eaten in the home. The other 30% is eaten in theaters, stadiums, school, etc.
21. Autumn is the peak time for popcorn consumption, followed by the winter months. Popcorn sales taper off during the spring and summer.
22. There are six major maize types: pod corn, sweet corn, flour corn, dent corn, flint corn, and popcorn. Popcorn kernels come in three shapes: rice, pearl, and South American. Most commercial popcorn is the pearl type. The major trait shared by all types of popcorn kernels is their ability to explode and create a flake when kernels are exposed to heat.
23. Popcorn “pop” because of moisture in it. A kernel of popcorn when heated, turns water into steam and the kernels “pop.” Popcorn maize is different than many other grains because its shell is not water permeable, making it possible for pressure to build up until the kernel finally explodes.
24. The ideal popping temperature for popcorn is 400-460° Fahrenheit. A kernel will pop, on average, when it reaches 347° Fahrenheit (175 degrees Celsius). At this temperature the pressure reaches about 60 Kg per square inch and the kernel explodes.
25. There is no such thing as “hull-less” popcorn. All popcorn needs a hull in order to pop. Some varieties of popcorn have been bred so the hull shatters upon popping, making it appear to be hull-less.
26. The world’s oldest known popper, a shallow vessel with a handle and hole on top was designed around A.D. 300\. American businessman Charles Cretors invented large-scale commercial popcorn machines in 1893 which was presented at World’s Fair in Chicago.
27. Home poppers were first introduced around 1925.
28. In 1945, Percy Spencer discovered that when popcorn was placed under microwave energy, it popped. This led to experiments with other foods, and the birth of the microwave oven.
29. Popcorn kernels, like those of all cereal, have three major components: the germ or embryo, the endosperm, and the outer hull called the pericarp.
30. Popped corn contains large amounts of protein, vitamins, and minerals. Among other health benefits, popped corn helps build bones and muscle tissues and assists in digestion.
31. *Amazingly* most of the nutrients are found in the “hull” or shell rather than the fluffy, white part.
32. A single portion of popcorn contains more antioxidants called “polyphenols” than all the fruit and vegetables most people eat in a day. A serving of popcorn provides up to 300 mg polyphenols in contrast to 115 mg for a serving of sweet corn and 160 mg for all fruits per serving.
33. Popcorn is a whole grain snack with only 55 calories per cup. If you use an air popper it has just 31 calories. To get a full serving of whole grains, you need to eat three full cups. Popcorn is high in fiber, very low in fat, and contains no salt or sugar or Sodium. oil is often added during preparation and butter, sugar, and salt are all popular toppings which may compromise nutritional quality.
34. One cup of popcorn provides the 1.3 grams of dietary fiber needed.
35. If you laid popcorn kernels end to end from coast to coast beginning in New York City and ending in Los Angeles, it would take more than 350 million popped kernels to span the distance.

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### Malaysia
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Last updated: 2024-01-08T09:30:59.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Malaysia

##### Land & Geography

- Malaysia has a population of over 29 million people. There are 878 islands in Malaysia.
- Malaysia is made up of two main landmasses, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo, they are separated by the South China Sea.
- The Capital of this Country is Kuala Lumpur and means "Muddy Estuary" in the Malay language and it's the Largest City. Putrajaya city has government offices.
- Malaysia shares land borders with Thailand, Indonesia, and Brunei, and is linked to Singapore by a causeway and bridge.
- Malaysia is made up of two main landmasses, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo, they are separated by the South China Sea. Malaysia has over 200 separate islands.
- Mount Kinabalu in the Crocker Ranges, is the tallest mountain in Malaysia at 4,095 meter (13,436 ft) above sea level.
- Malaysia contains a cave that is 100 km long and is considered the longest in southeast Asia
- Tanjung Piai in southern Johor is the southernmost tip of continental Asia.

##### Flaura & Fauna

- Sabah in Malaysia has the largest flower in the world called the Rafflesia. It really smells horrible.
- Malaysia is one of 17 megadiverse countries on Earth. It is estimated that Malaysia contains 20% of the world's animal species.
- There are total of 28 national parks in Malaysia.
- The national animal of Malaysia is the endangered Malayan tiger.
- The largest insect egg in Malaysia comes from the 15 cm Malaysian Stick Insect which lays eggs that measure 1.3 cm, larger than a peanut.
- Malaysia has one of the world’s largest populations of king cobras .The longest King Cobra in the world, measuring 5.54 metres, was captured alive in Port Dickson in April 1937 but later grew to 5.71 metres in captivity in London Zoo.
- The largest undivided leaf in the world, Alocasia macrorrhiza, comes from Sabah. Amazingly a specimen found in 1966 was 3.02 metres long and 1.92 metres wide.
- One of the indigenous fruits found in Malaysia is the pomelo (Citrus maxima), which is the largest citrus fruit in the world. It can reach the size of a small football weighing 1 to 3 kg.
- The oil palm in Malaysia produces the highest yield of oil per hectare compared to other vegetable oils. It is the most consumed and the cheapest edible oil in the world.
- Orangutan, or “man of the forest” in Malay, is humans’ closest relative and Asia’s only great ape. Orangutans can be found only in the wild in Borneo and Sumatra. They have unusually long arms about one and a half times longer than the legs.

##### History

- The Japanese invaded Malaysia on December 6, 1941, the same day they bombed Pearl Harbor. They landed at Khota Baru and stole bicycles in every town they took on their way to Singapore, making the trip in 45 days.
- Captain Tristram Speedy, who was acting British Resident for Perak, was responsible for bringing in the first batch of 110 Sikhs to Malaya in 1873.

##### Places / Architecture

- Lembah Bujang in the foothills of Gunung Jerai is believed to be the location of an old Malay Langkasuka empire, holding ruins that may date back 1,500 years.
- The largest cave chamber (Single Room) in the world is the Sarawak Chamber in Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak. The corridor of Deer Cave, a 1-mile-/1.6-km-long passage of the caves, could house five rows of eight Boeing 747 jetliners parked nose to tail.
- Malaysia’s Taman Negara (literally, “national park”) is one of the oldest rainforests on Earth. At 130 million years, it is older than the tropical rainforests of the Amazon and the Congo Basins. It supports more than 10,000 species of plants, 1,000 types of butterflies, 140 types of animals, 350 bird species, 100 kinds of snakes, and 150,000 kinds of insects. It has a size of 4,343 sq km.
- Right in the heart of Kuala Lumpur you can see a rainforest which is Bukit Nanas Rainforest Reserve covering only around 10.5 hectare among the smallest rainforest patches on earth.
- Penang Free School is the oldest English school in Southeast Asia, founded by Rev. Sparke Hutchings in 1816.
- Penang’s St. George Church, built in 1818, is the oldest Anglican church in Southeast Asia.
- The first railroad in Malaya was between Port Weld (now Kuala Sepetang) and Taiping, built by the British in 1885 covering a distance of 13.6 km.
- The Petronas Towers are twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur. They were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004 and are still regarded as the world’s tallest 'twin' buildings. The two buildings are joined by a sky bridge at levels 41 and 41, which are 558 feet (170 m) off the ground.
- At 421 metres high, the Kuala Lumpur Tower is the fourth tallest in the world and tallest in Southeast Asia.
- The Penang Bridge is the third longest in Asia at 13.7 km.
- The World´s biggest round about is located in Malaysia at Putrajaya with 3.5 km in diameter.
- By using the Malacca Strait instead of the Lombok Strait in Indonesia, ships can save about 1,600 km or 3 days.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Malaysia´s official religion is the Islam, with around 61% practicing it. Almost 20% practice Buddhism and the rest Christianity and Hinduism.
- The official language of Malaysia is Malaysian. English remains a widely used second language.
- Bahasa Malay, the official language of Malaysia, has no written script of its own. Malaysia uses English letters instead for script.
- The national day of Malaysia is called Hari Merdeka. It occurs on August 31 each year to celebrate Malaysia's independence from British colonial rule in 1957.
- Some buildings in Malaysia do not have a 4 th floor. They are replaced by “3A” as the sound of four (sì) is similar to the sound of death in Chinese.
- Like Japan it is customary to remove your shoes when entering a Malaysia persons home as a sign of respect.
- In Malaysia, it is generally considered rude to point at people or things with the index finger. A bent index finger or thumb is used to point in the right direction.
- Malaysia is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country. Along with the many indigenous cultures, substantial influences from Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arabic, and British cultures have taken place.
- Malay brides wear their engagement rings on the 4 th finger of their right hand. The ring is placed there by a senior female relative of the groom, instead of the groom himself.
- Among the Iban community on Malaysia’s Sarawak province, before a newborn baby is named, they are affectionately called ulat (“worm”), irrespective of their gender. When the baby is named, they must be named after a deceased relative. When the parents have chosen a few names, rice balls are made, each representing a name. The first rice ball pecked at by a fighting cock determines the child’s name.
- Traditional Malaysian artworks include caved wooden masks, handwoven baskets, and silverworks.
- The national drink of Malaysia is a hot milk tea called Teh tari, and the national dish is called Nasi lemak, it is a fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk, often served wrapped in a banana leaf, and usually eaten for breakfast.
- Malaysia shares with Qatar the world's lowest death rate of respiratory diseases, at 7.5 death per annum per 100 000 people.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Malaysia achieved Independence from the United Kingdom on 31 August 1957.
- Singapore declared independence from Malaysia on 9 th August 1965 when Malaysian parliament voted in favor of expulsion of Singapore from Malaysia 126-0 in 1965.
- Malaysia has nine distinct royal families, or hereditary state rulers, the highest number in the world. The Malaysian king is elected from these for a 5-year term as ceremonial head of state.
- "TUN" is the most senior federal title and there can be no more than 25 living recipients at any one time.
- The Malaysian flag was adopted on Sept 16,1963 designed by Mohamed Hamzah, a 29-year old Public Works Department architect.
- Local time has been adjusted in peninsular Malaysia a total of 8 times. The last time change was effected on January 1, 1982.
- Caning is still a common punishment under the Malaysian law , maximum strokes restricted to 24\. Women can never be caned, nor can boys under the age of 10 or men over 50, except for rape.
- This country is very strict with possession of drugs. You can be punished by death.
- The states of Sabah and Sarawak have their own immigration laws, so a passport is required for all Malaysians when travelling between East and Peninsular Malaysia.

##### Economy 

- Bursa Malaysia, formerly known as the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, dates back to 1930 when the Singapore Stockbroker's Association was set up to deal in securities in Malaya.
- The currency of Malaysia is called the Ringgit. The word ringgit means "jagged" in Malay, which refers to the jagged edges of Spanish silver dollars that used to be used in the region.
- Malaysia is the world’s third largest natural rubber producer producing about a million metric tons of rubber. It is the world’s largest supplier of rubber gloves.
- Malaysia produces the best quality (lightweight, low sulphur) and the most expensive crude oil in the world. It is called ‘Malaysian Tapis Blend 44°’.

##### Sports

- Popular sports played in Malaysia include football, badminton, field hockey, bowls, tennis, squash, martial arts, sailing, horse riding, and skateboarding.
- 5 out of 6 Malaysia’s Olympic medals were for men’s badminton; the other one was for diving.

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### Ireland
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Last updated: 2024-01-06T09:30:05.000Z
#### 75 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Ireland

##### Land & Geography

- Ireland covers 5/6th of the island of the same name, the remaining 1/6th of the island is Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.
- There are over 4.75 million people living in Ireland. The Irish capital, Dublin is home to over one-quarter of the total population. Other important cities are Cork, Limerick, and Galway. Louth is the smallest county in Ireland and Cork is the largest.
- At a height of 688 meters above the Atlantic Ocean, Croaghaun (on Achill Island) are the second-highest cliffs in Europe.
- The Irish National Stud's Japanese Gardens, laid between 1906 and 1910 by Japanese master horticulturist Tassa Eida, are considered the finest of their kind in Europe located in Kildare.
- Amazingly Ireland has virtually no coal deposits, even though it’s just 60 miles from Wales, one of the world’s richest coal fields.
- The River Shannon is the longest river in Ireland or Britain.
- There has never been a snake in Ireland. Due to its isolation from the European mainland, Ireland lacks several species common elsewhere in Europe.
- All polar bears alive today can trace their ancestry back to one female brown bear who lived in Ireland 50,000 years ago.

##### Places / Architecture

- Ireland's oldest pub is Sean's Bar in Athlone founded 900 years back. However, the country's oldest licensed pub is Grace Neill's Bar in Donaghadee, established in 1611.
- The Woodenbridge Hotel, which opened in 1608, is the oldest hotel in Ireland located in the Vale of Avoca, County Wicklow.
- Trim Castle was the first Anglo-Norman castle built (from 1169) in Ireland which was the largest ever built, covering an area of 30,000 m². Kilbrittain Castle, County Cork, is the oldest inhabited castle in Ireland built-in 1035.
- Kilkea Castle, in County Kildare, is the oldest continuously inhabited castle in Ireland from the early 13th century until the early 1960's. The castle was subsequently converted into a hotel.
- The scenic “Wicklow Way" is the oldest and most popular hiking route in Ireland stretching from the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham in a south-westerly direction toward the village of Clonegal, in County Carlow. the 25-year-old public walking route is traversed by over 20,000 people each year.
- Ireland's top visitor attraction is the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin. The Canary Islands are the most popular sunshine holiday destination with retired Irish citizens.

##### Heritage Sites

- The Neolithic site of Newgrange (3200 BCE), County Meath, is the best-preserved passage grave in Europe. The monument's central room is the oldest 'solar observatory' in the world.
- The passage tomb cemeteries in Carrowmore, County Sligo, are the largest group of megalithic tombs (30 of them) in Ireland or Britain.The Céide Fields in County Mayo are the most extensive Stone Age site in the world containing the oldest known field systems in the world (6,000 years old), as well as Europe's largest stone enclosure (About 77 km).
- The Hill of Uisneach, in County Westmeath, marked the traditional centre of Ireland. The location of this 182-meter tall hill is unique as 22 counties, two-third of Ireland, can be seen from the top.
- In 1854, three workmen clearing the way for the Ennis railway line stumbled across the remains of the Late Bronze Age Mooghaun Hillfort, the largest in Ireland. On the site was a stone box containing 150 objects, most of them made of gold. It was the largest discovery of assorted gold objects in Western Europe and is known as the Great Clare Gold Find.

##### History

- Dublin was founded in 988 by the Vikings.
- Prior to the annexation to England, then the United Kingdom, Ireland was never unified under a single monarchy like other European countries. Instead, there were hundreds of minor kings waging war with one another on a nearly permanent basis.
- Ireland was one of the last European nations to abolish slavery of its own people as opposed to slaves imported from abroad.
- The Irish are now some of the most fervently Catholic Europeans along with the Poles. Yet, Ireland was the last Western European country to adopt Catholicism in the 15th century.
- Erected from 1729, the Irish Houses of Parliament was the world's first purpose-built two-chamber parliament house. It now houses the headquarters of the Bank of Ireland.
- Founded in 1745, the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin is the world's oldest maternity hospital. More than 300,000 babies have been born there since it opened its doors.
- In the late 18th century, Cork was the largest exporter of butter in the world, mostly to Britain and British Empire.
- The Union Jack was flown for the very first time in Dublin on 1st January 1801 to herald the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
- The term 'boycott' comes from Captain Charles Boycott (1832-1897), the land agent of an absentee landlord from Ulster. In 1880, after refusing to reduce the rents of his employer's tenants, the Irish community decided to stop dealing with him. The term boycott came to mean organized isolation.
- The world's first suburban commuter railway opened between Dublin and Dun Laoghaire in 1834.
- On 9th July 1939, the Pan Am Clipper III left Botwood, Newfoundland, and landed the next day at Foynes, County Limerick. It was the first direct commercial passenger flight from America to Europe.There is the Foynes Flying Boat Museum, on the site of the old airport. In 1942, Shannon Airport replaced Foynes as the gateway to America. It is also in Shannon that the world's first duty free opened in April 1947.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The Irish consume on average 130 liters of beer per year, the 2nd highest per-capita consumption after the Czech Republic.Dublin boasts one pub for every 100 head of population.
- 88% of Irish citizens are nominally Roman Catholic. The Republic of Ireland has one of the highest rates of church attendance in the Western World (45%).
- The ancestral language of Irish people is Irish Gaelic. Now only 380,000 fluent speakers remain. Gaelic is spoken next to Irish and English.Amazingly there are nearly 8 times more Polish speakers in Ireland than Gaelic speakers.
- Many Irish family names start with "Mac" or "O'...", which means respectively "son of ..." and "grandson of ..." in Gaelic.
- Irish marriages last an average of 13 years, although the majority do not end in divorce. Irish couples prefer to separate and live with their new partners rather than go through costly legal proceedings.
- Amazingly couples in Ireland could marry legally on St. Brigid's Day (February 1st) in Teltown, County Meath, as recently as the 1920s by simply walking towards each other. If the marriage failed, they could "divorce'" by walking away from each other at the same spot, on St. Brigid’s day the following year.
- Dalkey, a suburb of Dublin, is Ireland's "Beverly Hills", home to a number of Irish celebrities including George Bernard Shaw.
- Montgomery Street in Dublin was once the largest red light district in all of Europe, with 1600 prostitutes.
- It is estimated that over 80 million people of Irish descent live outside Ireland, in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Mexico, South Africa, and states of the Caribbean and continental Europe. Amazingly this is 14 times more than the population of Ireland (including Northern Ireland)! 3 million of these emigrants still hold Irish nationality.
- In 1800, the population of Ireland was almost twice as large as that of the United States. Amazingly by 2000, America’s population was about 60 times that of Ireland.
- Roughly 34 million Americans reported Irish ancestry in the 2000 US Census, which makes it the second largest ethnic group after the German Americans. The highest concentration of Irish Americans is in the North-East (New York and New England).
- It is estimated that over 40% of all American presidents have had some Irish ancestry including President Obama.
- About 40% of the people in Australia are of Irish descent.
- An odd Irish birthday tradition is to lift the birthday child upside down and give his head a few gentle bumps on the floor for good luck. The number of bumps should correspond to the child’s age plus one.
- Cats now outnumber dogs by two to one as Ireland's most popular pet.
- RTE's "The Late Late Show" is the world's longest running talk show running since 1965.
- Sucking a king's nipples was a gesture of submission in ancient Ireland.
- Grace O’Malley (Nicknamed Pirate Queen) Was Irish born in the west of Ireland in 1530\. She is famed for being a fearsome pirate and controlling a large fleet of ships and property.
- Ireland has had its own version of the Olympics Games since the Bronze Age, called the Tailteann Games.

##### Politics / Legal

- In 1801, the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain merged to create a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- The Irish have a long history of suffering under British rule. Ultimately after long freedom struggle, Ireland was divided into Northern Ireland (6 counties) and the Irish Free State (26 counties) in 1922.
- Mary Robinson was the first female President of Ireland. She was followed by Mary McAleese. This is the only instance in the world where one female President was replaced by another.
- Ireland is the only EU country where abortion is still illegal except to protect the mother's life.
- In 2002 Ireland was the first country in the world to have an environmental tax for plastic shopping bags and in 2004 it was the first to introduce a public smoking ban.
- Ireland’s 15 principal railway stations are named after the leaders of the 1916 uprising.
- Ireland Is the only country in the world with a musical instrument as its national symbol.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Famous Irish breweries include Guinness, Smithwicks (Kilkenny), and Harp Lager.
- The Tara Mine near Navan, County Meath, is the largest zinc mine in Europe, and the fifth largest in the world.
- One of the most successful beer brands worldwide, Guinness was once the largest brewery in the world. It originated in the Dublin brewery of Arthur Guinness. Amazingly the brewery has a 9,000-year lease on its 16,000m² property, at a perpetual rate of 45 Irish pounds per year.
- 25% of Europe's computers are now made in Ireland making it the world's largest exporter of software. The European headquarters and/or customer service operations of Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Oracle, Lotus, and Boeing Computer Services are all located in Ireland.

##### Inventions

- The Anglo-Irish physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893) was the first to prove the Greenhouse Effect, the first to discover why the sky is blue (Tyndall effect).
- In 1845, William Parsons built the Leviathan of Parsonstown, a reflecting telescope of the 72-inch aperture which was the largest telescope in the world until 1917\. His youngest son, Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (1854-1931) invented the steam turbine and built the world's first turbine powered battleship and passenger ship. In 1879, Charles's elder brother, installed a water wheel equipped with a turbine on the River Camcor to provide electricity to Birr Castle and the town, making it the first town in the world to be lit by electricity.
- John Philip Holland invented the first functional self-propelled submarine in 1877\. He later developed the first submarines used by the U.S. Navy (1900), the Royal Navy (1901), and the Japanese Imperial Navy (1904).
- The astronomer William Edward Wilson (1851–1908) took some of the earliest photographs of the stars, the moon, the sun, and a solar eclipse. In 1889, he became the first person to measure the temperature of the sun, reaching an estimation of 6590°C, remarkably close to the modern value of 6075°C.
- Louis Brennan (1852-1932), an Irish mechanical engineer who emigrated to Australia, invented the steerable torpedo in 1874\. It was the first weapon in history that could be remotely directed to its target. He later invented the gyroscopic helicopter, which performed the world's first unmanned helicopter flight.
- In 1844 Doctor Francis Rynd, a Dublin-based doctor, invented the hypodermic syringe and needle. The world’s very first subcutaneous injection was given in Dublin’s Meath hospital.

##### Achievements

- Hook Lighthouse is thought to be the oldest working lighthouses in Europe, or possibly in the world located at Hook Head, in County Wexford. The present structure was completed either possibly in 1245, although the first lighthouse on that spot dates back to the 5th century.
- The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was founded in 1824 by Richard Martin, an Irish politician and one of the first animal rights activists.
- In 1907, Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi set up the world's first permanent transatlantic radio station in Derrigimlagh Bog near Clifden, in County Galway. It operated until 1918.
- RMS Titanic which sunk on its maiden voyage was built in Belfast, Northern Ireland. On 11 February 1912, Cobh (called Queenstown) was the last port of call of the Titanic. The ship had left Southampton the day before, stopped at Cherbourg and Cobh. It sank 4 days later. Out of 1,308 passengers and 898 crew on board , there were 706 survivors. Elizabeth Gladys 'Millvina' Dean, the last living survivor who was two months old then died on 31 May 2009.
- In 1919, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten completed the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic landing near Marconi radio station bringing with them the first transatlantic mail. In 1928, Dublin-born pilot Captain James FitzMaurice flew from Dublin to Newfoundland, in what was the first Trans-Atlantic aircraft flight from East to West.
- Kilkenny-born architect James Hoban designed the original White House in Washington after winning a competition sponsored by President George Washington in 1792\. When it was burned by the British during the war of 1812, Hoban was called again to oversee 3 yearlong restoration work.
- The iconic oscar statue was designed by Cedric Gibbons, a native of Dublin, in 1928.
- Famous wit Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854\. Irish famous novelists include Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), Bram Stoker (Dracula), and James Joyce (Ulysses). The story of vampire Count Dracula was written in 1897 in Dublin.
- The world's first recorded open yacht race was held in Dublin Bay in 1663.The Royal Cork Yacht Club was founded in 1720 and remains the world's oldest yacht club.
- Cork Harbour claims to be the second largest natural harbor in the world by navigational area, after Sydney's Port Jackson.

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### New Born
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Last updated: 2024-01-04T09:30:27.000Z
#### Top 45 Amazing Facts About New Born

1. The term “infant” is from the Latin infants, meaning “unable to speak” and typically refers to the ages from 1-12 months.
2. A “New Born” usually refers to an infant in the first 28 days of life.
3. The word “baby” may come from a baby’s babbling, as in “ba-ba-ba-ba.”
4. The amazing fact is that for at least 2 seconds, you were once the youngest person in the world.
5. Amazingly a human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old.
6. During the nine months between conception and birth, a baby’s weight increases by 3,000 million times.
7. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
8. It's amazing that babies start dreaming even before they are born.
9. Human babies are born 2 months prematurely for our size and lifespan to accommodate proportionately large brains during birth.
10. In fact, a baby’s head is proportionally huge, being ¼th of the total body length, compared to only 1/8th of the total adult’s length.
11. The grasp of a New Born baby is so strong that its whole body can hang in midair, with its bent fingers supporting its weight.
12. At the moment of birth, a baby’s heart beats at 180 pulses per minute. Within a few hours, the rate falls to 140 pulses.
13. At 1 year old, the infant's heart rate is 115 beats per minute. An adult’s average resting level is 70-80 beats a minute.
14. Amazingly a New Born baby sees the World upside down for some time before the brain matures to correct it.
15. Babies are actually born far-sighted; Amazingly for the first three months of life, your baby can focus on objects about 22 cm away, the perfect distance for seeing a mother's face when feeding. their eyes start to focus properly between 3 to 6 months of age.
16. Babies are born with natural swimming abilities and can hold their breath. However, this ability quickly disappears.
17. A New Born baby breathes 5 times faster than an adult man.
18. The amazing fact is that all babies are born color blind.
19. Approximately 80% of infants are born with some form of birthmark, usually “stork bites” and “port-wine stains.”
20. Babies are born without knee caps. They come after 2 to 6 years.
21. The amazing fact is that a New Born baby has very sophisticated hearing and can work out where a sound is coming from just 10 minutes after being born. The inner ear of the baby is fully developed by the middle of pregnancy.
22. Approximately two or three of every 1,000 children are born deaf or hard-of-hearing.
23. A baby can recognize the smell and voice of its mother at birth. Your baby’s sense of smell is much stronger than yours. It takes a few weeks before a baby can see the difference between its mother and other adults.
24. Touch is one of your baby’s most advanced senses at birth and even premature babies born as early as 25 weeks are aware of being touched.
25. A baby’s first social smile appears between four and six weeks after birth.
26. Amazingly within a few days of birth, a baby can distinguish between the touch of bristles that are of different diameters.
27. In fact, a baby has around 10,000 taste buds, far more than adults. They are not just on the tongue but also on the sides, back, and roof of the mouth. Eventually, these extra taste buds disappear.
28. A baby cannot taste salt until it is 4 months old. The delay may be related to the development of kidneys, which start to process sodium at about that age.
29. A baby’s eyes are 75% of their adult size, but its vision is around 20/400\. By 6 months, a baby’s vision should reach a normal 20/20.
30. The birth-to-three months’ period is the fastest rate of brain development in the human life span.
31. The brain of New Born accounts for 10% of its total body weight. In adults, this figure is down to 2%. By the end of the first year, an infant’s brain increases in size 2.5 times. By the end of the 5th year, it is 3 times what it was at birth. By kindergarten, the brain has reached almost its full size.
32. Between birth and the end of its second year, an infant will have quadrupled in size.
33. If a person who was born 3 Kg and 20 inches at birth continued growing at the same rate as he does the first year, by the time he reached 20, he would be 25 ft. tall and weigh nearly 145 Kg.
34. The intestines of a New Born are about 11 feet long. The length will double by the time the baby grows to adulthood.
35. Meconium, or the greenish-black sticky material in the baby’s digestive tract, stands in for fecal material and allows the intestine to develop so it can digest milk immediately after birth.
36. At around 6 months old, a baby learns that each object is unique. Before this time, whenever it sees a bird in a tree, it always assumes it was the same bird.
37. Adults have 206 bones. When babies are born, they have 300\. Their bones fuse as they grow, resulting in fewer bones as adults.
38. Amazingly up to the age of six months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
39. 60% of all the energy a baby expends is directed towards the brain.
40. New Born babies cry but they have no tears. Their tear ducts aren't formed until they are a month old.
41. A New Born urinates about every 20 minutes and then roughly every hour at 6 months.
42. An average baby will go through approximately 2,700 diapers a year.
43. Amazing babies born prematurely include Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mark Twain, Pablo Picasso, and Sir Winston Churchill.
44. The largest number of babies born to a woman is 69\. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.
45. The Apache Indians ritually killed one twin, arguing that the mother did not have sufficient milk to feed two infants, and some Eskimo tribes left one twin outside to die in the cold.

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### Hungary
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Last updated: 2024-01-02T09:30:47.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Hungary

##### Land & Geography

- Hungary has a size of 93 thousand square km and it is strategically situated at the border of Eastern and Western Europe.
- Hungary is landlocked in Central Europe sharing a border with seven countries, including, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria.
- Hungary’s population is about 10 million. The capital is Budapest which is the with over 1.7 million people. Budapest had its origin in 1873 when Buda and old Buda on the west bank of the Danube River unified with Pest on the east bank to become Budapest.
- The north-south flowing Danube and Tisza Rivers divide the country into three large regions. Tisza River is the Longest River in Hungary.
- The highest point in Hungary is Kékes 1,014 m (3327 ft) in the Mátra Mountains.
- The famous Lake Balaton is situated here, which is the largest one in entire central Europe.

##### History

- In *fact* Hungary is one of the oldest countries in Europe. It was founded in 896, before France and Germany became separate entities, and before the unification of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
- Hungary became a Christian kingdom under St Stephen in the year 1000\. Then the Kingdom of Hungary was one of the largest states in Europe, bigger than France.
- Ottoman empire occupied and ruled Hungary for 150 years (1541-1699). Thereafter it came under Habsburg rule and later formed a major part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867-1918).
- In World War I Hungary was ally to Germany and Austria. In 1918 the Monarchy broke up and the country became the Republic of Hungary.
- After losing the war, the allied Atlantic countries overran Hungary and in accordance with the Treaty of Trianon, split up the country. The Hungary of more than 20 million became a small country of less than 8 million.
- World War II brought more problems to the people of Hungary. After the Germans were beaten by the Allies, Soviets took over the country in 1947\. In 1956 the people tried to revolt but failed. The soviet communist rule lasted until 1989.
- Since October 1989, Hungary has become an independent democratic republic. It joined NATO in 1999 and the EU five years later.

##### Places / Architecture

- The University of Pécs, the oldest university of Hungary, was founded in 1367.
- It is the land of the thermal water. It has one of the most important thermal spring culture in Europe with around 1,500 spas, typically featuring Roman, Greek and Turkish architecture. You can find water with temperature above 30°C in the 70% of Hungary. Some of the most sumptuous thermal resorts include the Széchenyi Medicinal Bath, Gellért Baths, Lukács Baths, and Margaret Island.
- Hungary also has 450 public baths.
- Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, is home for Dohány Street Synagogue, the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world after one in New York. It was built in the mid nineteenth century.
- World’s largest geothermal cave system is found in Hungary. It is located in the undergrounds of Budapest.
- The Europe’s largest underground lake has also been recently discovered and is located under Gellért Hill.

##### People Customs & Culture

- The official language of Hungary is Hungarian descending directly as the language spoken by the Hun people. It is unique in that it is like no other languages in Europe except for Finnish and Estonian.
- One third of the 15 million Hungarian speakers live outside Hungary, mostly in Romania and in all adjacent countries to Hungary.
- As per survey, Hungarian is officially among the most difficult language to be learnt and spoken.
- Most of the Western countries alphabet usually contains around 7 vowels. In Italy there are only 5.Whereas the Hungarian language recognizes and uses 14 vowels: a-á, e-é, i-I, o-ó, ö-ő, u-ú, ü-ű.
- Hungarian names have the family names first followed by first name which makes sorting easier.
- Dates are written as year , month , day.
- Around two-thirds of the Hungarian people are Roman Catholic.
- Literacy of total population is 99%.
- As per legend , during execution of 13 revolutionary generals by Austrians , they clinked glasses after each execution. Hence Hungarians never clink glasses or bottles of beer.
- Greece and Bulgaria are the only countries in Europe where more people smoke than in Hungary.
- Hungary the highest death rate by cancer in Europe, and the highest female suicide rate.
- The word 'coach' derives from the name of the Hungarian town Kocs, where multi-passenger wheeled vehicles first appeared around 1500.

##### Economy 

- Hungary is one of the thirty most popular tourist destinations in the world attracting more than 10 million tourists a year.
- The currency of Hungary is called forint.
- Hungary has the highest standard V.A.T. rate in the world (27 %).
- *Amazing fact* is that in 1946, after massive inflation , Hungary issued banknotes of a face value of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 pengo (one quintillion pengo) , the world's highest denomination ever.

##### Sports

- Hungary's men's water polo team is considered the best in the history of the sport with 15 Olympic medals (9 gold), and 10 World Championship medals (3 gold).
- The Hungarian football team has won 3 Olympic titles in 1952, 1964, 1968, made two World Cup finals in 1938 and 1954\. Legend Ferenc Puskás is one of world footballs all-time greats.
- Only five countries (USA, USSR, UK, France and Italy) have won more Summer Olympic gold medals won by Hungary in history.
- Hungarians won gold medals at every summer Olympics except Antwerp 1920 and Los Angeles 1984 when they did not compete.
- Hungarian fencer Aladar Gerevich won gold in six consecutive Olympics from 1932-1960.

##### Inventions

- Hungarian's have invented the electric motor (1827) and the Telephone Exchange
- Viamin C was discovered by Szent Albert in 1937.
- BASIC programming language was invented by John Kemeny with Thomas E. Kurtz.
- Laszlo Biro invented the ballpoint pen in 1938.
- Erno Rubik , Hungarian engineer invented the Rubik's Cube. The most Rubik's cubes solved in 24 hours is 4,786 and was achieved by Milán Baticz (Hungary) in Budapest, Hungary, on 16 November 2008 averaging 199.4 cubes solved each hour.
- Holography was invented by Dennis Gabord in 1971.

##### Famous People

- Hungary is famous for its mathematicians including the designer of modern geometry Farkas Bolyai and his son designer of non-Euclidian geometry János Bolyai, Paul Erdős for Erdős numbers and John von Neumann, who was a key contributor in Quantum mechanics, Game theory, and digital computing.
- in *fact* 13 Hungarian or Hungarian-born scientists have received the Nobel Prize, all of whom emigrated from Hungary, due to persecution during the communist regime.
- Hungarians have won Nobel Prizes in every category except peace.
- Hungary, like Austria, has a long tradition of classical music. Composers Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály or Franz Liszt were all Hungarians.

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### Taiwan
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Last updated: 2023-12-30T09:30:33.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Taiwan

##### Land & Geography

- Taiwan is nestled between Japan and Philippines in the Western Pacific Ocean. This sweet-potato-shaped country is near the southwest coast of China.
- Taiwan is 245 miles long and 89 miles wide and has a total area of 13,900 square miles.
- There are about 23 million people who live in Taiwan. This is a small island country that is quite densely populated.
- Amazingly Taipei (2.7 million) is only number four in population compared to other cities in Taiwan.
- The largest city is New Taipei (3.9 million) followed by Kaohsiung and then Taichung.
- The country is commonly known by the name “Taiwan” but officially it is actually called the Republic of China. This should not be confused with the People's Republic of China.
- The majority of countries in the world, including the People's Republic of China, still do not recognize Taiwan as an independent country. Only the Vatican City and other 21 countries of the United Nations have officially recognized it.
- Taiwan is almost 60% mountainous. Taiwan has the highest mountain in all of southeast Asia. The Jade mountain is nearly 13000 ft tall.

##### Flora & Fauna

- The Alishan Sacred Tree in Taiwan was one of the oldest trees in the world believed to be 3,000 years old when it collapsed in July 1, 1997\. It was 60 meters in height.

##### History

- Taiwan has a history that goes back many thousands of years to the earliest evidence of humans existing on the planet. Taiwan was the Beginning of many Southeast Asian Cultures.
- When the Portuguese saw the island of Taiwan back in the 16th century, they called it Ilha Formosa (Beautiful Island). The name was the official name for the island until WWII. Formosa is still informally used as a name for Taiwan.
- By around the 1700s, the Dutch colonized the island. The Han Chinese and Hakka immigrants from Guangdong and Fujian provinces also entered here.
- By the late 17th century, a Ming Dynasty loyalist called Koxinga lost mainland China. Instead, he defeated the Dutch to establish a base on the island. The Qing dynasty then conquered him and his efforts, and Qing dynasty started influencing Taiwanese culture.
- The Spanish tried to inhabit the country in the 18th century but were not successful.
- In the First Sino war of 1895, the Empire of Japan conquered the island. During World War Two, Japanese imperial education systems were started in Taiwan. Taiwanese had to join Japanese soldiers during the Second World War.
- After the Second World War, KMT or Kuomintang (National People Party) took Taiwan in 1949 as 2 million nationalists went to Taiwan. Chiang Kai Shek introduced martial law in Taiwan and ruled Taiwan.
- After the Second World War, Taiwan had great economic growth and industrialization due to democratic period and reforms.
- The first presidential election was held in 1996\. This was also the time of the Taiwan Missile Crisis. In the year 2000, the election ended Kuomintang’s status as a ruling group.

##### Places / Architecture

- Taiwan has some of the most elaborate and authentic historical museums in all of Asia which consist of over 35,000 artifacts from countries around the world.
- The most famous museum in Taiwan is The National Museum of World Prehistory comprising of more than 650,000 items. Chinese history is told through bronze statues, jade carvings, calligraphy, lacquerware and other historical pieces many of which belonged to Chinese imperial families. Only a fraction of the collection is on display (no more than 10,000 items at any one time), making the museum worth returning to several times a year.
- Taiwan has Taipei 101 in Taipei which used to be the tallest building in the world. The elevators go almost 60 Km per hour.
- For an island smaller in area than Switzerland, Taiwan has a lot of night markets an estimated 300 island wide.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are the three prevalent religions in Taiwan.
- 84% of the people are Taiwanese, with only 14% being mainland Chinese.
- Most of the people of Taiwan can trace their ancestry to China
- 96 % of Taiwanese adults can read.
- Taiwanese girls like to have fair skin and therefore stay away from the sunshine at all costs.
- As women are very conscious to maintain fair skin, on a sunny day, sidewalks are filled with people carrying their umbrellas, keeping the sun off of their faces and keep their bodies cool. You may also see people hiking with an umbrella in their hand. In very hot weather women will have zero percent of their skin exposed, wearing a hat, sunglasses, face wrap, long pants and long sleeved shirts, as well as gloves. The same trend is found in Vietnam.
- It is considered bad manners in Taiwan to waste food, so wherever you eat in Taiwan, be sure to finish the plate.
- Everybody works hard all the time. Kids study so much that they have the world’s best math scores. Most people love to work, and they are at their jobs up to 70 hours per week without any grievance. People have high IQ here.
- Kids are normally asked to learn math and a musical instrument at an early age.
- Some of the kids have funny English names like King, Circle or Lion.
- Taiwanese teenage boys cry like little girls and aren’t ashamed to show their emotions unlike western world.
- Taiwanese people love to cycle and it is getting more and more popular every day. The government invests a lot in creating and maintaining cycle paths. The country's capital city, Taipei, in particular has an extensive infrastructure for cyclists.
- There are no garbage cans outdoors. Garbage cans are usually kept inside of a house or place of business. The garbage is tossed into a garbage truck when it arrives playing loud music to indicate their arrival in the streets.
- In Taiwan you will find bats in the parks that fly around all over the place.
- Politeness, honor and respect for elders is of major element in Taiwan culture.
- People are very happy to welcome their guests giving them great respect.
- Taiwan has the highest density of Convenience Stores. They are everywhere open all night with various amenities mostly owned by a Japanese company. Here you can print a document, call a taxi, send a parcel, pay your bills and do much more.
- Amazingly fertility rate in Taiwan is just 0.9\. This makes Taiwan the country with the lowest fertility rate in the world possibly due to women taking up jobs and high child care expenses.
- Taiwan is one of the few countries that still use traditional Chinese characters in the written form. These days, in almost every country where people speak Chinese, simplified Chinese characters are used. However, Taiwan and two autonomous parts of China (Hong Kong and Macau) still continue to use traditional characters.
- Taiwanese have vertical apartments. You could have one or two rooms per floor. Lot of walking is part of the life style.
- In Taiwan there are 14 recognized aboriginal tribes making up 1.8% of the country's population living in the country for 8,000 years before mass immigration by the Han Chinese commenced in the 17th century. Each tribe has its own language.
- The color white symbolizes death and is used at funerals instead of the black common in the West. The color red represents good luck and is often used at weddings and other celebrations.
- Taiwan has the highest recycling rates in the world.
- Taiwan has the lowest poverty rate in the world.
- At the National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium in Pingtung, visitors can choose to camp overnight in the museum/aquarium. Thus you can sleep with the fishes in the Museum.
- Taiwan offers gay-friendly atmosphere. The island supports some of the most progressive protections for LGBT people in Asia. Today, Taiwan Pride is the biggest LGBT event in Asia. Taipei also has a number of gay bars, clubs, and shops, especially around the Ximen area.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Taiwan is the first democratic country in Asia.
- Taiwan is not a member of UN due to resisting China.
- The New Taiwan dollar is the currency used in Taiwan.
- The Taiwanese flag was used in mainland China, as well as by the KMT in the 1900s.This flag became the official flag of Taiwan in 1928.
- The KMT party flag has now become the Taiwan flag, which represents a blue sky with a white sun. The twelve rays of sun represents 12 Chinese hours of the time clock, and the 12 months of the year. The red on the Taiwanese flag symbolizes the revolutionaries and the blood they shed to create Taiwan.
- As China does not recognize Taiwan’s independence, the Taiwan flag is not allowed to be used during sporting events. Instead Taiwan uses Chinese Taipei Olympic flag.
- The city government of Taipei decided that everyone should have access to the Internet in any public space such as shopping areas, hospitals and libraries etc.
- Taiwan has possibly the best universal healthcare system in the world. Legal residents can visit any specialist in the country. Docs anywhere will pull up their entire medical record via smart card. Fees are billed directly to and reimbursed by the National Health Insurance Administration, whose 2% administrative costs are the lowest in the world.

##### Economy & Corporates

- It is one of the world’s leading producers of computers and computer related products. HTC, Acer and ASUS are some of the renowned Taiwanese companies.
- Taiwanese film industry dates back to 1901, when it released the first Taiwanese film!
- Amazing fact is that with an army of about 400 animators, Next Media Animation (NMA), a Taiwan-based animation studio, can turn any news story into a cartoon in as fast as 90 minutes.

##### Sports

- National sport of Taiwan is Baseball. Taiwan won the 1995 little league world championship in the US.

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### Orange
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Last updated: 2023-12-28T09:30:23.000Z
#### 45 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Orange

1. Orange is a type of berry. Oranges are the largest citrus crop in the world. Oranges were first grown in Southeast Asia, northeastern India, and southern China and were first cultivated in China around 2500 BC.
2. In the first century AD, Romans brought young orange trees all the way from India to Rome. North Africa also began growing oranges in the 1st century AD.
3. The sour orange, or Seville, was introduced to the Mediterranean region by the Arabs about the 10th century, and the sweet orange was introduced by Italian traders in the 15th century.
4. Christopher Columbus brought the first orange seeds and seedlings to the New World on his second voyage in 1493 across the Atlantic Ocean to Haiti, where he planted orange orchards. By 1518 oranges were introduced to Panama and Mexico, and a little later Brazil started growing orange trees.
5. America’s first orange trees were planted in Florida in 1513 by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon.
6. In the 18th Century, British sailors took citrus fruits on the ships to prevent scurvy.
7. Amazingly Orange tree foliage remains green throughout the year. Old leaves are replaced by new leaves which always keep the plant green.
8. Amazingly, it is possible for more than one plant to grow from a single seed of orange.
9. After chocolate and vanilla, orange is the world's favorite flavor.
10. An orange tree can grow to reach 30 feet and live for over a hundred years. It may be called a civilized fruit in the sense that it is not found in the wild. It is domesticated and cultivated only in orangeries.
11. Amazingly citrus fruit will never rot before it plucked from the tree.
12. In fact, more orange trees are killed by lighting than plant diseases.
13. A single citrus plant can bear as many as 60,000 white flowers, but only 1% of those flowers will turn into fruit. The orange flower is the state flower of Florida and is one of the most fragrant flowers.
14. Amazingly the Washington Navel Orange tree that helped start the California citrus industry is still standing and producing fruit in Riverside, California.
15. There are over 600 varieties of oranges. The popular varieties of oranges can be listed as under Valencia, Hamlin, Pineapple Oranges, Temple Oranges, Washington Navel, Red Cara Navel, Blood Oranges, Amber sweet, Moro Orange, Seville Orange, Jaffa, Persian Variety, Parson Brown, etc.
16. The two most common varieties of oranges are Valencia and Navel.
17. Orange is one of the best known hybrid fruits. Sweet orange actually originated from a blend of citrus and Sinensis while bitter orange originated from citrus and aurantium.
18. Oranges top the list in terms of quantity of citrus fruits produced followed by grapefruit & lemons.
19. Brazil is the largest producer of orange (About 1/3rd), followed by the United States, Mexico, and China.
20. There are over 35 million orange trees in Spain.
21. About 25 billion oranges are grown each year in America. Florida produces about 70 % of the total U.S. crop. Oranges are the fourth most popular fruit and orange juice is the most popular juice in America.
22. The Florida oranges are greener than the California oranges. The warm night climate in Florida causes the chlorophyll pigments to migrate into the orange peel making it greener.
23. Buy fresh fruits that are firm, yet yield to gentle pressure. Fresh oranges have bright color, no wrinkles on the skin, and feel heavy for their size. Avoid overly soft oranges with spots and mold.
24. Oranges can be kept at room temperature for a week or so and but keep well for up to two weeks in the refrigerator. Keep them loose in the fruit container and place them in the cool area away from excessive moisture, as they tend to get mold easily.
25. Warm weather causes the skin to re-green, or reabsorb chlorophyll, giving it a greenish color but the taste is not affected.
26. The interior flesh of orange is composed of segments, called carpels, made up of numerous fluid-filled vesicles that are actually specialized hair cells.
27. Navel oranges are named that because of the belly-button formation opposite the stem end. The bigger the navel in an orange, the sweeter it will be. Because Navel Oranges are seedless, they can’t reproduce through pollination and require “budding” or grafting to create new trees.
28. Moro oranges are also called blood oranges because the pulp is bright red while bergamot orange is primarily grown as a source of oils for cosmetics and flavoring.
29. About 20 percent of the total crop of oranges is sold as whole fruit; the remainder is used in preparing orange juice, extracts, and preserves.
30. Dried leaves and flowers of the orange trees can be used for the preparation of tea.
31. Orange peels contain many volatile oil glands in pits. It can be used in food e.g to make candy and orange tea. It can be used at home as a natural cleanser. In Jamaica, people use orange peel to cut grease and oil. It can be used as a natural medicine due to low sugar. It can relieve respiratory problems, bad breath, constipation, and also work as a facial bleach.
32. Oranges contain phytochemicals citrus limonoids that protect against a number of cancers including that of the skin, lung, breast, stomach, liver, and colon.
33. Drinking orange juice regularly prevents kidney diseases and reduces the risk of kidney stones.
34. Oranges contain more fiber than most fruits and vegetables. In fact, you will have to eat 7 cups of cornflakes to get the same amount of fiber that one medium orange provides! Because of soluble fiber, oranges are helpful in lowering cholesterol. Fiber also stimulates digestive juices and relieves constipation.
35. Oranges are full of potassium, an electrolyte mineral responsible for helping the heart function well. When potassium levels get too low, you may develop heart arrhythmia.
36. Oranges are full of vitamin C, which protects cells by neutralizing free radicals that may cause cancer and heart disease. One orange supplies a full day's Vitamin C requirement.
37. Orange has an abundance of polyphenols that protect against viral infections.
38. Oranges are rich in carotenoid compounds which are converted to vitamin A and help prevent macular degeneration and visual impairment.
39. The flavonoid hesperidin found in oranges helps regulate high blood pressure and the magnesium in oranges helps maintain blood pressure.
40. Oranges are full of beta-carotene, which is a powerful antioxidant that protects the cells from damage protecting the skin from free radicals and helps prevent the signs of aging.
41. Although oranges are acidic before you digest them, they contain many alkaline minerals that help to promote the alkaline medium necessary for proper digestion. In this respect, they are similar to lemons.
42. Oranges provide smart carbohydrates that do not cause a blood sugar spike. Orange has a glycemic index of 40\. Anything under 55 is considered low.
43. Oranges are high in antioxidants, which neutralize the effects of free radicals, unstable oxygen molecules in your body, believed to cause aging.
44. One very good property of orange is its absorbing power of medicines. e.g. Vitamin D is absorbed better if taken with orange.
45. Orange also provides other vitamins like vitamin B1, vitamin B6, Vitamin-D, Folate, and vitamin B-12.

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### Hair
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Last updated: 2023-12-26T09:30:29.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Hair

1. Hair is the storehouse of information as you can find out everything that has been into a person’s bloodstream by analyzing a strand of hair including medicines, alcohol, vitamins, and minerals. This is very useful for forensic evidence.
2. Hair is mainly made up mostly of keratin, the same protein animals’ horns, hooves, claws, feathers, and beaks are made of.
3. The cross-section of a hair strand is made up of 3 key layers. The outer layer is called the cuticle, within that is the cortex containing the keratin, while the center layer is called the medulla.
4. It is estimated that the human head has on average, 100,000 to 150,000 strands of hair. In fact, there are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee.
5. Chemically hair is 50% carbon, 21% oxygen, 17% nitrogen, 6% hydrogen, and 5% Sulphur.
6. One cubic centimeter of hair weighs about 1.3 grams.
7. You don’t realize that even if you have straight hair, all hair is actually curly, to a lesser or greater degree, because all hair twists, as it grows.
8. The amazing fact is that human hair is virtually indestructible. Human hair decays at such a slow rate that it is practically non-disintegrative. It cannot be destroyed by the cold, change of climate, water, or other natural forces and it is resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive chemicals. It easily clogs pipes.
9. It is difficult to believe but every day an average person loses 60-100 strands of hair. Amazingly you must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone.
10. An amazingly single strand of hair is strong enough to support 100 grams of weight. It means that all hairs taken together can support up to 10 tons of weight.
11. You can’t identify a person’s gender using hair but women's hair has a lesser diameter.
12. What we see is actually dead hair. The living hair follicle lies within the skin in the epidermis.
13. The amazing fact is that each hair follicle in our body is an independent entity having its own microscopic nerve supply, blood supply, and muscle.
14. Goosebumps from cold or fear is nothing but the result of hair follicles contracting, causing the hair and surrounding skin to bunch up.
15. Each of our individual hair follicles is capable of producing 20 individual hairs during a person’s lifetime. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.
16. Hair grows at the rate of 1 cm per month but in Asians, hair grows at the rate of 1.3 cm per month possibly due to warm weather but Asian hair has the lowest density of all. The slowest hair growth rate is among Africans at 0.9 cm per month but their hair density is highest.
17. If you observe cross-sections of hairs, you will find Asians having round-shaped hairs, Europeans having oval-shaped hairs, and flat shaped African-Americans.
18. The hair density of blondes is more than that of redheads and people with darker hair color. Blondes have around 145,000 hair strands while redheads have around 85,000 hair strands.
19. Lighter hair has less carbon compared to darker hair.
20. Hair has high elasticity and when wet can stretch up to 30% without sustaining any damage. However, black hair has low elasticity compared to lighter colored hair.
21. If you take a copper wire of the same diameter as hair, hair has more strength.
22. The commonest hair color found in the world is black and the rarest is red (About 4%).
23. Ancient Roman women used pigeon dung to dye the hair blonde.
24. The highest proportion of 13% redheads is found in Scotland but the USA leads in terms of total numbers of redheads.
25. In our body, whenever a hair strand is plucked, another one starts growing. In fact, hair follicles are completely independent of each other.
26. We may not realize this but we lose almost 50 to 100 strands of hair every single day.
27. A survey reveals that 90% of Japanese and 80% of North Americans wash their hair twice a day while most Europeans usually wash their hair thrice a week.
28. Hair has a lifespan of around 5 years. At any time 90% of hairs are in a growth phase and 10% are resting.
29. The amazing fact is that all the hair follicles a person will ever have throughout his or her lifetime actually form when the fetus is only 5 months old but they grow one after another and the majority of the hairs are too fine or light to be seen.
30. The amazing fact is that hair contains 14 different trace elements. Surprisingly one of them is Gold!
31. Amazingly hair is capable of absorbing out oil from water. So, hairs can be utilized to clean up oil spills.
32. In Hirsutism, excess hair grows in places where it is not supposed to grow, for example, on the face especially in women.
33. The myth that hair continues to grow even after death is wrong!
34. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. In fact, if the average man never shaved his beard, it would grow to over 30 feet during his lifetime.
35. The first people who started to remove unwanted hair were the Egyptians.
36. Hair never grows on palms, feet soles, lips, mucous membranes, and eyelids but hair can grow everywhere else.
37. Cutting your hair does not affect in any way the rate of hair growth, nor its texture.
38. The very basis of chemotherapy is that it eliminates those cells that replicate very quickly targeting cancer cells. As hair follicle cells also grow rapidly, hair cells are affected resulting in hair fall!
39. On average women spend around 2 hours every week styling their hair while Men spend half the time shaving.
40. Amazingly in 1950, only about 7% of women colored their hair, but currently, it’s up to about 75%.

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### Yak
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Last updated: 2023-12-24T09:30:59.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Yak

1. Yak is a close relative of buffalo and bison. There are two species of yaks: mostly domesticated and some wild. These two differ in size and appearance. Wild yaks inhabit alpine meadows and steppes of central Asia.
2. The yaks are domesticated for milk, butter, meat, wool, dung, and leather.
3. Yak’s coarse outer-hair is used in weaving ropes, belts, and bags. The animal is also employed for pulling heavy farm machines and transporting large loads through the mountain passes. Yak milk is high in fat; hence, it is processed into cheese, yogurt, and butter.
4. Over 90% of the world’s yak population of nearly 15 million lives on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalaya region of south Central Asia, and as far north as Mongolia and Russia.
5. The primary habitat of wild yaks consists of treeless uplands between 9,800 and 18,000 feet (3,000 and 5,500 m).
6. A yak can climb an altitude as high as 20,000 feet, the highest elevation of any mammal’s habitat. The large lung capacity of a yak enables it to inhale lots of oxygen.
7. Amazingly yaks do not thrive at lower altitudes and begin to suffer from heat exhaustion above about 59 °F (15 °C).
8. Also known as the “grunting ox”, yak has short, thick legs and humped shoulders.
9. Domesticated yaks are smaller than the wild type. On average, wild male yak can reach a height of 6.5 feet at the shoulder and weigh 1000 Kg. Females are three times smaller than males. Their bodies can grow up to 11 feet in length and their tails can grow up to 2 feet and are very bushy.
10. The male yak is known as “Yak and the female yak is “Nak” or “Dri”, by the Sherpas of Nepal.
11. Yaks are herd animals. Herds can contain 10 to 100 individuals. The herds consist primarily of females and they're young, with a smaller number of adult males.
12. Yaks are herbivores (plant-eaters). They graze grass, herbs, lichens, wildflowers, moss, and eat tubers on grassy plains in the mountains.
13. Similar to other cow species, the yak has more than one stomach which it uses to successfully get all the nutrients out of the plants that it eats.
14. Yaks have firm, dense horns which they use to break through the snow in order to get the plants that are buried beneath it. They will also use their horns in defense. Horns in males are two times longer than in females and they can reach 40 inches in length.
15. They have a dense undercoat covered by generally dark brown to black outer hair, which hangs down to the ankles, providing it warmth.
16. In winter a yak can survive temperatures as low as -40 degrees (F). They can also swim in the nearly frozen waters without affecting normal body temperature.
17. At night and in snowstorms, they will protect themselves from the cold by huddling up together, with the calves in the center.
18. The mating season of yaks takes place during September. Pregnancy lasts 9 months and ends with one baby. Female gives birth every second year.
19. The female will find a secluded spot to give birth, but the calf is able to walk within about ten minutes and the pair will rejoin the herd.
20. The mother takes care of the baby until it reaches the age of one year. After that period, the young animals will become independent. The young yak will reach the size of an adult animal 7 to 8 years after birth.
21. Wild yak can survive up to 20 years in the wild. Domesticated yak can survive few years longer.
22. Yaks are highly friendly in nature and there has been very little documented aggression from yaks towards human beings, although mothers can be extremely protective of their young and will bluff charge if they feel threatened.
23. Yaks grunt and, unlike cattle, are not known to produce the characteristic bovine lowing (mooing) sound.
24. It is believed that the strength of yak wool comes from the high levels of amino acids contained within the fibers. Yak wool is also very resistant to static electricity and garments are less likely to spark or cling to the body during dry conditions.
25. Lamps in Tibetan monasteries are fueled by yak butter. Yak cheese has higher amounts of healthy fats than cheese from dairy cattle.
26. The yak dung is dried and used as fuel in the treeless Tibetan plateaus.
27. A major use for the yak’s coarse tail hair is to create fake beards worn by actors in Chinese opera.
28. Yak bone is often made into exquisite handicrafts, including combs, buttons, and ornaments.
29. Historically, the main natural predator of the wild yak has been the Tibetan wolf, but brown bears and snow leopards have also been reported as predators in some areas.
30. The wild yak is threatened by loss of habitat and also overhunting by humans. Wild yaks with gold-colored hair, known as Wild Golden Yak is considered endangered, with an estimated population of just 170 left in the wild.

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### Rome
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Last updated: 2023-12-22T09:30:01.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Rome

1. Rome covers 1,285 Sq. km with 98% of the population Roman Catholic. Rome attracts nearly 13 million tourists every year.
2. Rome was founded in 753 BC by Romulus. Roman legend says that Romulus had a twin brother called Remus. As babies, they were abandoned in the area which later became Rome. A she-wolf found and raised them, but when they grew up Romulus fought and killed Remus and became the first ruler of Rome!
3. Julius Caesar was the one who introduced the modern 12-month calendar known as the Julian calendar and was introduced in 46 BC. Before that Lunar or Arabic calendars were used.
4. Julius Caesar invaded England first. The Romans remained in Britain from 43 AD to 410 AD. That is almost four centuries.
5. In response to a 73 B.C. revolt against Rome by Spartacus the gladiator, 6,000 slaves were crucified.
6. In A.D. 64, a huge fire destroyed half of Rome. Some claim Nero purposely set it so he could rebuild the city how he wanted it.
7. Rome is often called the “Eternal City.” When the Roman Empire reached its peak in 117 AD it spanned 2.5 million square miles.
8. Concrete was a Roman invention used on many structures such as the Pantheon, the Colosseum, and the Roman Forum, which are still standing. The Romans first began building with concrete over 2,100 years ago.
9. Rome’s population of more than a million was not matched by any other European city until London finally overtook it in the 19th century.
10. The first-ever shopping mall was built by Emperor Trajan in Rome. It consisted of several levels and more than 150 outlets.
11. The snake was a common image in Roman art and jewelry and was believed to have powers over a family’s well-being.
12. Phalluses were considered good luck charms in ancient Rome. They were worn as charms on necklaces or hung in doorways as wind chimes as a way to ward off evil spirits.
13. Purple, the most expensive dye from Murex seashells, was reserved for the emperors’ clothes or senators. It became treason for others to dress completely in purple.
14. By the early 4th century, the Romans had built a road network of 53,000 miles throughout the empire. Each Roman mile was about 1,000 paces (about 4,800 feet) and was marked by a milestone.
15. Built by the emperor Hadrian (118-125), the Pantheon (“Temple of the Gods”) is remarkable for its massive 142 Ft diameter dome made of concrete that has withstood for almost 2,000 years with no steel reinforcing. It is even bigger than the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica. The Pantheon was the largest unreinforced concrete curved dome in existence until the 19th century.
16. The Colosseum took 12 years to build, and the exit time for all 70,000 spectators was only three minutes. The Colosseum had a large sunroof that could be stretched over the crowd to keep the spectators in the shade.
17. On the day the Colosseum officially opened, 5,000 animals were killed. During its history, it has been estimated that over 500,000 people and over a million animals were killed there.
18. Romans invented central heating and would warm rooms from under the floor using what was called a hypocaust, literally “heat from below.”
19. After the death of an emperor, an eagle (symbol of the god Jupiter) was released to take his soul to heaven.
20. Romans were highly superstitious and feared anything to do with the left. Their words for “left” and “left-handed” were sinister and sinstra, giving us the modern meaning of “sinister.”
21. In ancient Rome, an infant was placed at the father’s feet shortly after birth. If the father took the child into his arms, it showed he accepted responsibility for its upbringing. If the baby was not accepted, it was to be abandoned and left to die.
22. The month of August was named in honor of the Roman Emperor Augustus. January is named after the Roman god of beginnings, Janus. April is from the Latin aperire which means “to open,” perhaps referring to the opening of flowers.
23. The Vestal Virgins were women priests who tended the sacred fire of Vesta, goddess of the hearth fire from the age of 10 years. If they lost their virginity, even as a result of rape, they were buried alive in an unmarked grave.
24. Roman divorce was quick and easy. If there were any children, they remained with the father, though the dowry was returned to the woman provided she had not committed adultery.
25. Romans thought that not owning slaves was a sign of extreme poverty. Many people would take 3 slaves with them just to go to the baths.
26. Land ownership was so important that almost all Roman citizens owned at least a small plot.
27. Crucifixion was in fact a common punishment in the days of ancient Rome as long as you committed treason or weren’t a citizen. It was a very painful and cruel way to die. If a Roman citizen committed a crime, no matter what it was, he was usually exiled or given a fine.
28. Rome had over 140 public toilets which served as places for socialization.
29. Because urine contains ammonia, a powerful bleaching agent, ancient Romans used to wash their clothes in pee! At public urinals that men could use, their contents were collected every day and brought to the laundries.
30. After the fall of Rome, Latin continued in a variety of dialects which later developed into the Romance languages such as Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, French, and Spanish. Latin has also significantly influenced English.
31. Rome’s first university, La Sapienza (A.D. 1303), is the largest in Europe and the second-largest in the world.
32. Rome became the capital city of a unified Italy in 1870 after taking the title from Florence.
33. The population of the city of Rome is around 2.7 million. The entire metropolitan area of Rome has an estimated 3.7 million people.
34. The word “palace” comes from the Palatine Hill, where Augustus established the emperors’ tradition of building their palaces.
35. Every night at the Trevi Fountain about 3,000 Euros are swept up from the bottom of the basin. The money is donated to Caritas, a catholic charity, which uses the money to provide services for needy families.
36. Modern Rome has 280 fountains and more than 900 churches.
37. SPQR stands for "Senatus Populusque Romanus" and means "The senate and the people of Rome." The symbol is still seen all over the city today.
38. On Capitoline Hill (one of the Seven Hills) at noon on April 21 every year, a special bell called Patarina rings to celebrate the founding of Rome.
39. The Monte Testaccio is a vast, nonbiodegradable garbage dump where an estimated 53 million ceramic vases were thrown. It is one of the largest and most organized dumps found anywhere in the ancient world.

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### Gold
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Last updated: 2023-12-20T09:30:49.000Z
#### 60 Amazing Facts about Gold You Probably Didn't Know

1. Gold is one investment that doesn't lose its value unlike fiat currencies printed out of thin air backed just by an assurance from the federal government in our world with looming currency and debt crisis.
2. Traditionally, investors try to preserve their assets during hard economic times by investing in precious metals, such as gold and silver.
3. The word Gold is derived from the Old English word Gelo meaning yellow. The element symbol for gold is Au which comes from the old Latin name for gold, aurum, which means "shining dawn" or "glow of sunrise".
4. The amazing fact is that nearly all of the gold on Earth that is mined came from meteorites that bombarded the planet over 200 million years after the earth was formed.
5. The vast majority of Earth’s gold and platinum is found in its core. The reason these elements are so rare on the surface is that they mostly sunk to the core when the planet was molten.
6. It is believed that there’s enough gold in Earth’s core to coat its surface in 1.5 feet of Gold.
7. Amazingly the oldest worked gold objects were made as early as 6000 BC. You will find more than 400 references of gold in the bible.
8. A gold pendant was found in Thessaly dating from around 6000-5300 BC.
9. In 560 B.C., the Lydians introduced the first gold coin, which was actually a naturally occurring amalgam of gold and silver called electrum.
10. When the Lydians were captured by the Persians in 546 B.C., the use of gold coins began to spread.
11. Gold is the only metal that is yellow or "golden". Other metals may develop a yellowish color, but only after some chemical reaction.
12. In fact, Gold and Copper are the only two non-white metals.
13. The amazing fact is absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
14. High purity metallic gold is odorless and tasteless since the metal is unreactive.
15. The amazing fact is Gold never erodes. Very few chemicals can attack gold, so that’s why it keeps it shine even when buried for thousands of years.
16. While acids dissolve most metals, a special mixture of acids called aqua regia is required to dissolve gold.
17. Amazingly at one time in fact aluminum used to be more valuable than gold! Aluminum used to be one of the most expensive metals in the world. Only the wealthiest ate with aluminum utensils, while lesser nobility ate with gold.
18. Malleability is a measure of how easily a material can be hammered into thin sheets. Gold is the most malleable element. A single ounce of gold can be beaten out into a sheet that is 300 square feet.
19. A sheet of gold can be made thin enough to be transparent. Very thin sheets of gold may appear greenish blue because gold strongly reflects red and yellow.
20. 24 karat gold is pure elemental gold. 18 karat gold is 75% pure gold. 14 karat gold is 58.5% pure gold. The remaining portion of the metal usually is silver, but may consist of other metals or a combination of metals, such as platinum, copper, palladium, zinc, nickel, iron, and cadmium, etc.
21. Worldwide about 60 % of gold mined is used for making jewelry. Being inert Gold does not cause skin irritation. If gold jewelry irritates the skin, it is likely that the gold was mixed with some other metal.
22. Gold is relatively heavy. In fact one cubic foot of gold weighs half a ton.
23. 75 % of all gold in circulation has in fact been extracted since 1910.
24. At least 15% of annual gold consumption is recycled each year. That means you could have ancient Egyptian gold in your dental filling!
25. Gold is edible without any harm. Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood.
26. The visors of astronauts' space helmets receive an amazing coating of gold so thin (0.00005 millimeters, or 0.000002 inches) that it is transparent. Even this thin layer reduces glare and heat from sunlight.
27. An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long. Amazingly the resulting wire would be only 5 microns wide.
28. The amazing fact is that if all of the existing gold in the world was to be turned into 5-micron wire, it could wrap around the planet about million times.
29. Amazingly it is rarer to find a one-ounce nugget of gold than a five-carat diamond.
30. The temperature of the human body is 37 degrees centigrade. Because of gold’s unique conductivity, gold jewelry rapidly matches your body’s heat, becoming part of you.
31. Gold melts at 1064 degrees centigrade and only boils at 2808 degrees centigrade.
32. It can conduct both heat and electricity and it never rusts.
33. The world's largest gold bar weighs 250 kg (551 lb).
34. Gold thread can be used as embroidery thread.
35. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt wore garments made from threads of beaten gold up to 500 threads per inch of cloth.
36. One cubic mile of seawater amazingly contains about 50 pounds of gold. The fact is if all the Gold sitting in the oceans were mined, each of us would get 20 kg each.
37. More gold is recoverable from a ton of personal computers than from 17 tons of gold ore.
38. In Olympics, so-called Gold Medal in fact only contain 6 grams of gold. The last time Olympic gold medals were entire of gold was in 1912.
39. Do you know that over 6 milligrams of gold are lost every year from a Wedding Ring just by wearing it?
40. The amazing fact is that only approximately 142,000 tons of gold have mined throughout history which if melted, makes a cube measuring approximately 25 x 25 x 25 meters. Gold is so rare that the world pours more steel in an hour than it has poured gold since the beginning of recorded history.
41. The value of all the gold in the world is about $1000 for each person on the planet.
42. Gold leaf may be only 0.18 microns (seven-millionths of an inch) thick; a stack of 7,055 sheets would be no thicker than a dime.
43. The "Welcome Stranger," the largest gold nugget ever recorded, was found in Victoria, Australia, in 1869\. It weighed 78 kilograms and dimensions were 25 by 10 inches. When it was melted down, it produced 71 kilograms of pure gold. The amazing fact is that it was found just 2 inches below the ground.
44. Gold mines of South Africa can descend up to 12000 Ft and a temperature of 54 Degree Centigrade.
45. In South Africa, 70 million tons of earth are raised and milled to extract 500 tons of Gold.
46. In 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt outlawed US citizens from hoarding Gold. Owning Gold attracted penalty of $ 10000 and/or ten years in prison. Before that, the U.S. mint made $2.50, $10, and $15 coins of solid gold.
47. The value of gold has been used as the standard for many currencies. After WWII, the United States created the Bretton Woods System, which set the value of the U.S. dollar to 1/35th of a troy ounce (888.671 mg) of gold.
48. The U.S. assured the world that enough gold would be kept to cover printed money if the dollar is made world reserve currency. The U.S. abandoned this in 1971 after the Vietnam war breaking the promise and paving the way for unlimited money printing out of thin air taking huge advantage of the dollar being a world currency.
49. Ice cream taste-testers in fact eat with golden spoons! Eating on gold allows the tester to taste the product 100% without being influenced by a metal aftertaste, common with most spoon metals.
50. Gold has many uses, aside from its monetary and symbolic value. It is used in electronics, electrical wiring, dentistry, electronics, medicine, radiation shielding, and in the color glass.
51. In 1955, someone accidentally dropped more than a 600-year-old plaster Buddha statue in Bangkok, Thailand to discover the plaster was actually covering a solid gold statue.
52. Wladimir Klitschko auctioned off his 1996 Olympic gold medal in March 2012 for charity. The buyer paid $1 million, but immediately returned it because he wanted it to stay in the family.
53. Canada has minted a $300 Gold Coin.
54. Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. After the war, the gold was recast into medals and again presented to Laue and Franck.
55. Gaius Gracchus, the ancient Roman politician, had a bounty put on his head to the price of the head’s weight in gold. Although the head was delivered, the prize was never paid, as it was discovered that Gaius’ captor had emptied out his brain and replaced it with molten lead.
56. It was common for sailors to wear gold earrings so that in the event of their death and the body washing up on shore, the earring would serve as payment for a “proper Christian burial”.
57. In 1992, a man looking for his hammer with a metal detector found one of the largest hoards of Roman gold and silver ever found in Britain.
58. There are ATMs in Dubai that dispense gold bars.
59. Indian citizens buy so much gold that the Indian government owns officially only 360 metric tons, while private gold holdings since generations are estimated to be more than 30,000 metric tons.
60. Tiny spheres of gold are used by the Amersham Corporation of Illinois as a way to tag specific proteins to identify their function in the human body for the treatment of disease.

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### Silver
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Last updated: 2023-12-18T09:30:14.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts About Silver | Amazing Facts 4U

1. Silver is real currency unlike fiat currencies printed out of thin air backed just by an assurance from the federal government in our world with looming currency and debt crisis. The value of Silver has been suppressed for many years by the banking cartel and its value can rise precipitously in the near future as the cartel is facing a crisis.
2. Man learned to separate silver from lead as early as 3,000 B.C. Silver has been mined and prized for its beauty and durability for at least 6,000 years. Silver nuggets or crystals of pure silver in fact exist in nature. Silver also occurs as a natural alloy with gold that is called electrum.
3. The primary source of silver today is from Mexico followed by Peru. The United States, Canada, Russia, China, and Australia also produce silver. Around two-thirds of the silver obtained today is a by-product of copper, lead, and zinc mining.
4. The symbol for silver in the periodic table of elements is Ag. This comes from the Latin name for the metal which is Argentum.
5. Argentina is in fact the only country to be named after a chemical element after Argentum.
6. Silver has been coined to use as money since 700 BC.
7. The amazing Fact is that in ancient Egypt and Medieval Europe, silver was often more valuable than gold.
8. Words for silver and money are the same in at least fourteen languages.
9. In ancient China, babies were traditionally given a silver necklace that was placed around their necks to ward off evil spirits.
10. Hippocrates wrote that silver had beneficial healing and anti-disease properties. The expression 'born with a silver spoon in their mouth' stems from health rather than wealth status, as children fed with silver utensils were believed to be healthier.
11. Coins minted in the United States prior to 1965 consisted of about 90% silver. Kennedy half dollars minted in the United States between 1965 to 1969 had 40% silver.
12. In many countries, Sterling Silver (92.5% silver, 7.5% copper) is the standard for Jewelry and has been since the 14th century. The copper toughens the silver and makes it possible to use silver 925 for decorative and fashionable jewelry.
13. Silver is in fact the whitest color of any metal. The crystal structure of silver is cubic.
14. Silver is harder than gold but softer than copper.
15. Silver is stable in oxygen and water, but it tarnishes in the air because of a reaction with Hydrogen Sulphide and Ozone to form a black sulfide layer.
16. Silver's melting point is 1761 degrees F or 960 degrees C.
17. Silver’s unique properties restrict its substitution in most applications.
18. In modern times silver is also used in dentistry, electronics, photography, mirrors, and in a number of industrial applications that make use of its unique properties. The silver used is not available for recycling most of the time raising the possibility of silver being extinct in 25 years!
19. Amazing thing is that Silver is not toxic but almost all of the silver salts are poisonous.
20. Silver is the best conductor of electricity of all elements. In fact, silver defines conductivity, all other metals are compared against it. On a scale of 0 to 100, silver ranks 100, with copper at 97 and gold at 76.
21. Silver has in fact made photography possible. Silver halide crystals are present in the unexposed film.
22. Silver is used in long-life batteries. Billions of silver oxide-zinc batteries are in use every day powering everything from quartz watches to digital cameras.
23. Most mirrors are backed with aluminum. For the highest quality finish, silver is used because of its high-quality reflectivity. Silver has the highest degree of optical reflectivity of all elements. A silver mirror can reflect about 95% of the visible light spectrum. However, silver is a poor reflector of ultraviolet light.
24. The transitional lenses in your eyeglasses are made with silver halide. These lenses can change light transmission from 96% to 22% in less than one minute and they effectively block 97% of the damaging ultraviolet rays from sunlight. These changes can be reversed over and over again.
25. Silver is more ductile than any element except gold. One ounce of silver can be amazingly drawn into 8,000 feet of thin wire.
26. Silver is more malleable than any element except gold. One grain of silver can be made into a sheet amazing one hundred and fifty times thinner than a piece of paper.
27. The silver iodide has been used for cloud seeding, to cause clouds to produce rain and try to control hurricanes.
28. Rolls Royce jet engines use silver-coated bearings to give their engines the high degree of performance and safety demanded by the industry.
29. Silver fulminate is a very powerful explosive.
30. Silver in pure form is not harmful and can be used as a food decoration. In India, food can be found decorated with a thin layer of silver, known as Varakh.
31. Silver has superior bactericidal qualities. Small concentrations of silver or silver salts kill bacteria by chemically affecting the cell membranes, causing them to break down. Bacteria do not develop resistance to silver, as they do to many antibiotics.
32. Silver ion technology is being used in the new Samsung washing machine reducing the build-up of bacteria and odors on fabrics without bleach.
33. After testing 23 methods of purifying water, NASA chose silver as the purifying agent on the first Space Shuttle program.
34. A typical modern washing machine requires 16 silver contacts to control its electric motor, pump, and gear clutch and a fully-equipped car may have over 40 silver-tipped switches to start the engine, activate power steering, brakes, windows, mirrors, locks, and other electrical accessories.
35. Do you know that every time We turn on a microwave oven, dishwasher, clothes washer, or television set, the action activates a switch with silver contacts that completes the required electrical circuit?

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### Bitcoin
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Last updated: 2023-12-16T09:30:44.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Bitcoin

1. The integration of the internet into our daily lives has allowed the financial world to evolve. In addition to banking new online currencies called cryptocurrencies have evolved.
2. Bitcoin is the first digital cryptocurrency, a form of currency without notes and coins. It is a decentralized currency that is traded solely on computers and the internet.
3. All bitcoin transactions are handled through what is called the blockchain which is a database containing a record of every Bitcoin transaction ever. To store and use Bitcoins on a server, it must contain a copy of the blockchain. The integrity and the chronological order of the blockchain are enforced with military-grade cryptography, thus the label crypto-currency.
4. The amazing fact is that Bitcoin and bitcoin are not the same. Bitcoin with a capital 'B' is used when referring to the network, while the currency is spelled with a small 'b'.
5. Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym of the person who invented bitcoin in 2008\. He communicated with the first users by email never by phone or in person. He is said to be from Japan but his mail ID was from Germany and the bitcoin software was not available in Japanese.
6. Amazingly Satoshi Nakamoto has continued to remain in the shadows in spite of the spectacular rise of bitcoins and disappeared completely in 2011\. The true identity of him is still not known. It is believed that Satoshi Nakamoto holds about 1 million bitcoins.
7. The computer software source code for bitcoins is about 31000 lines long.
8. The first bitcoin transaction occurred in January 2009\. Bitcoin has encryptions to maintain security and validity and has a real value that can be exchanged for any other physical currency online. It has risen in popularity and strength over the years.
9. Unlike regular money, each bitcoin has a detailed history that is hard to duplicate or fake.
10. It took 5 years for bitcoin value to rise from 0 to $1000 which was followed by about 30% erosion of value. In November 2013, it was briefly valued more than gold.
11. Bitcoin has a history of very high volatility. It was valued at just 4 Cents in early 2010, one year after its launch. It was valued at $7 in August 2011 soaring to an all-time high of $1250 in November 2013.
12. No single entity can control this currency. In fact, the value is controlled by everyone who uses bitcoin as the software used for this currency logs and validates who log and validates activities of the bitcoins across the globe. Everything regarding Bitcoins including detailed reports of the operations is also available. The information is not controlled by anyone.
13. There is a finite number of bitcoins. Over the years the number of bitcoins will increase but at a reduced rate. At the present number of bitcoins are under 16 million which would reach a final figure of 21 million bitcoins only in 2140.
14. Presently bitcoins are created at a fixed rate. Obviously, it doesn’t get devalued like fiat currencies as it can’t be arbitrarily generated.
15. The amazing fact is that bitcoins have no inherent or set value. The more popular bitcoin gets; the more value is going to be placed on each individual bitcoin.
16. Amazingly you can see all transactions of bitcoin. It is completely transparent showing no personal data but transactions and amounts. Everything is able to be seen on the blockchain and it’s this complete openness that gives a lot of trust and security.
17. Bitcoins are generated by mining. Mining bitcoins means you are using a computer program to solve mathematical problems to verify various transactions around the world. Bitcoin miners then get paid a certain number of bitcoins for solving those problems. Mining is very hardware intensive.
18. Every 10 minutes, 25 Bitcoins are generated by the network. Every miner or mining pool is competing to find those 25 coins (3600 per day). Every 4 years this number would halve.
19. It is believed that about 20000 advanced computers are engaged in bitcoin mining.
20. One of the most integral features of bitcoins is that you can never be forced to pay, nor can you take back a transaction. You cannot revoke any transaction.
21. The amazing fact is that there is no trace back to you as your transaction is anonymous and that is the main reason why some countries are banning and prohibiting the use of it. you don’t need to provide any of your personal details like your name, address, email, phone number, etc., unlike PayPal transactions. You can pay for anything with Bitcoin and remain completely anonymous.
22. China has banned bitcoin transactions in December 2013.
23. Unlike traditional banking methods, you can send money with little to no fees using bitcoin. With bitcoins, there are little to no transaction fees, and the money is transferred instantly.
24. Bitcoins are held in digital wallets and you can see your balance online. However, if you lose unique keys to this wallet, bitcoins are lost forever. However, nobody can steal bitcoin from your wallet. Amazingly you don’t have to pay any annual fees to keep the wallet. You can have as many wallets and bitcoin addresses as you like.
25. You can also have a physical wallet the same way there is a digital Bitcoin which holds a piece of digital information on paper that can be stored in a safe space.
26. With increasing use, you can really buy things with bitcoins as it is evolving into real currency. A variety of merchants have started accepting bitcoins as payment for items, both online stores, and physical stores.
27. Bitcoin Computes More Than 100,000 Transactions a Day. The number has been growing at an exponential rate.
28. Bitcoin (BTC) is divisible to one million bits i.e. decimal places 0.00000001 which is equivalent to one "Satoshi". The smallest denomination viable for a transaction is 5,430 satoshis.
29. When the US federal government raided and shut down the first online drug illegal marketplace, Silk Road, it also seized bitcoins to the tune of $28.5 million or almost 1.5 percent of the world's bitcoin mine at that time. It is now auctioning them off to put them back in circulation without flooding the market and crashing their value.
30. In Newport, Wales, in July 2013, a man named James Howell threw away his old hard drive in a Welsh landfill, without realizing that it also held his digital wallet with 7,500 bitcoins which he had mined in 2009 when bitcoins were limited. By the time he discovered his mistake in November 2013, the value of those bitcoins had soared to $7.5 million then and it was lost forever.
31. Norwegian Kristoffer Koch invested $28 in bitcoin in 2009 and forgot about it. When he remembered this in 2013, it was worth about $8,25,000.
32. When Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer paid a fellow bitcoin user 10,000 bitcoins (roughly $25 then) for two Papa John's pizzas on May 22, 2010, little did he know that it would be worth millions today. Since then, May 22 is celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day to celebrate the most expensive pizzas in history.
33. It has been observed that almost 65 percent of bitcoins in the world are mined or bought and stored being inactive wallets. The regular transactions that keep the bitcoins network working are only happening on the remaining 35 percent that uses it like a currency rather than a commodity.
34. The amazing fact is that Bitcoin is designed in such a way that pooling 51 percent of the bitcoin network gives you control which can wreak havoc with the bitcoins but this is most unlikely to happen.
35. Currently, about ten people /organizations hold roughly 20% of all Bitcoins.
36. Mt Gox was a company that was handling almost 70% of all the transactions based on Bitcoin, and at the time of the crash in February 2014 due to theft by hackers, it was holding over 850,000 Bitcoins worth billions. Since Bitcoin is untraceable, they only managed to retrieve 200,000 Bitcoins.
37. Argentina has seen massive bitcoin transactions recently as its currency has crashed and people have lost faith in it.
38. WikiLeaks turned to bitcoins for donations as the leading money transfer companies refused to deal with it.
39. Lamborghini became the first car company to accept payment in bitcoins.
40. The Canadian city, Vancouver became the first city to install bitcoin cash machines.

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### Alaska
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Last updated: 2023-12-14T09:30:56.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Alaska

1. The fact is nearly one-third of Alaska lies within the Arctic Circle.
2. Europeans first discovered Alaska in 1741, when Danish explorer Vitus Bering sighted it on his long voyage from Siberia. The first settlement in Alaska was established by Russian whalers and fur traders on Kodiak Island in 1784.
3. The amazing fact is that in 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward bought Alaska from Russia for just $7,200,000\. That works out to a mere 2 cents per acre. When adjusted for inflation, is $118 million which is nearly $2.5 million less than what Real Madrid paid for Cristiano Ronaldo.
4. The fact is from 1787 through 1912, the US never went more than 15 years without adding a state. Then 47 years passed before Alaska joined the union and the US is now in the longest period in US history without a state being added (55 years).
5. The Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of 1971 remains the most extensive compensation to any Native people in the history of the United States giving Alaska’s aboriginal groups 40 million acres of traditional use lands, plus a billion dollars to be divided among them.
6. During the Klondike gold rush in 1897, potatoes were so amazingly valued for their vitamin C content, that miners traded gold for them.
7. The fact is Alaska is by far the largest state in the union having a population of 7,10,000 (1/5 area of the entire USA) and is over twice the size of Texas the next largest. From north to south Alaska is approximately 1,400 miles long and 2,700 miles wide from west to east.
8. Juneau, Alaska, with over 3,000 square miles within its boundaries, has the largest area of any North American city. The North Slope Borough, at 88,000 square miles is the largest municipally governed entity in the world.
9. Amazingly Alaska is as big as England, France, Italy, and Spain combined.
10. It's amazing that of the 20 highest peaks in the United States, 17 are in Alaska, including the highest peak in North America (20,320 ft. above sea level), Mt. McKinley.
11. There are more than 3,000 rivers and an amazing 3 million lakes in Alaska.
12. The amazing fact is that Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the United States combined (over 34,000 miles). Alaska is the only state to have coastlines on three different seas: the Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the Bering Sea.
13. Turnagain Arm, an Alaskan fjord along the southern boundary of Chugach State Park, has one of the highest tidal variations in the world at 32 feet (10 m).
14. More than half the world's active glaciers are in Alaska (About 1,00,000). In fact, about 5 percent of Alaska is covered by glaciers.
15. Alaska has the lowest population density in the nation at 1.2 people per square mile. Amazingly if New York City had the same population density as Alaska, only 20 people would be living in Manhattan.
16. It's amazing that Juneau has no road access to the rest of the state! It is the only capital city in the United States accessible only by boat or plane. It is also the largest U.S. city covering 3,108 square miles. Only 20 percent of Alaska is accessible by road.
17. The world's largest and busiest seaplane base in Anchorage's Lake Hood and it accommodates more than 800 takeoffs and landings on a peak summer day.
18. Alaska is the most popular state for flying in the U.S. One of every 58 Alaskans is a registered pilot owning a plane.
19. Every year Alaska hosts the 1,200 mile-long Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome, often called the "Last great race on Earth."
20. The amazing fact is that Alaska is the only state that does not collect state sales tax or levy an individual income tax.
21. The highest temperature recorded in Alaska was 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Fort Yukon in 1915 while the lowest temperature recorded in Alaska was -80 degrees Fahrenheit at Prospect Creek Camp in 1971.
22. Amazingly Alaska accounts for 25% of the oil produced in the United States.
23. In 1968, a large oil and gas reservoir near Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Coast was found. The Prudhoe Bay reservoir, with an estimated recoverable 10 billion barrels of oil and 27 trillion cubic feet of gas, is twice as large as any other oil field in North America.
24. Alaska is the only U.S. state to produce platinum. Half a million ounces have been mined from southwestern Alaska since the first platinum nugget was discovered there by an Eskimo named Walter Smith in 1926.
25. The amazing fact is that the town of Talkeetna in Alaska has had a cat named Stubbs as mayor for 15 years.
26. The Red Dog zinc mine in northwest Alaska is the world’s largest zinc producer.
27. Northern lights (Aurora Borealis) can be seen an average of 243 days a year in Fairbanks. The northern lights are produced by charged electrons and protons striking the earth’s upper atmosphere.
28. During WWII, the Japanese invaded Alaska, and more Americans were killed or wounded defending Alaska than at Pearl Harbor.
29. Amazing thing is that there is a pizza place in Alaska that delivers by plane.
30. Alaska is the only US state name that you can type on one row of a keyboard.
31. In the United States, Alaska is the state that is farthest north, east, and west (due to the fact that the Aleutian Islands cross the 180° meridian of longitude).
32. Because of mainland Alaska’s one time zone, northwest Alaska experiences two sunsets in one calendar day around August 8th.
33. An amazing fact is in 1958, Alaska was hit with a mega-tsunami that measured 1720 feet tall, taller than the Empire State Building.
34. The 1964 earthquake in Alaska was so big that water sloshed in wells in Africa. It had a magnitude of 9.2, making it the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
35. Amazingly until 1986, you didn’t even need to buy property in Alaska. You could build a house and it would have been yours.
36. Alaska has the longest salmon run in the world which is amazing 2,000 miles up the Yukon River.
37. Admiralty Island Monument, part of Tongass National Forest, has the greatest known concentration of bald eagles in the world, averaging more than one nest per mile of coastline in Seymour Canal. It also has about 6,000 grizzly bears outnumbering Admiralty’s human inhabitants nearly three to one.
38. The amazing fact is there is a species of frog in Alaska that freezes during the winter and while frozen, the frog stops breathing, its heart stops beating, its blood stops flowing, and it cannot move. However, when spring arrives, the frog’s body thaws and the frog returns to normal life.
39. Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the United States.
40. Comparing the population of bears in Alaska, there is 1 bear for every 21 people.
41. Beach sand ridges at Alaska’s Cape Krusenstern National Monument, deposited by the ocean over time, curve in graceful arcs parallel to the Chukchi Sea and hide archaeological site having 114 ridges containing artifacts from every known Eskimo occupation of North America in chronological order, dating from 6000 BC.
42. Amazingly while it is legal to shoot bears in Alaska, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.
43. The fact is Alaska’s closest point to Russia is Little Diomede Island, located in the Bering Strait between the Alaska mainland and Siberia. Big Diomede, Russia is only 2.4 miles from Little Diomede, Alaska.
44. Barrow, 800 miles south of the North Pole, has the longest and shortest day. When the sun rises on May 10, it doesn’t set for nearly 3 months. When it sets on November 18, Barrow residents do not see the sun again for nearly two months.
45. The construction of the Alaska Highway from February to November 1942 is heralded as one of the great engineering feats of World War II. The 1,500-mile highway stretches from Fairbanks to Dawson Creek, British Colombia, and then connects to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Some 4,000 black troops joined approximately 6,000 white troops in Alaska to work on the Alaskan Highway Project.
46. The world’s largest rechargeable battery is in Fairbanks, Alaska, weighs 1,400 tons, and costs $35 M to build.
47. The Pribilof Islands are home to the largest seal colony with over one million seals.
48. An ice worm thrives on the glaciers of Alaska and will actually melt if heated to 41°F.
49. In 2001, a drunken Alaskan gunman once shot a hole in the Alaskan oil pipeline. He had to pay for the $17 million cleanups and received 16 years in jail.
50. Alaska and Hawaii are tied as the US State with the lowest high temperature, at 100 degrees F.
51. Bennie Benson designed Alaska’s flag in 1926 at the age of 13 winning a contest. It would become the official state flag upon Alaska’s adoption into the Union in 1959.
52. The long summer days in Alaska regularly produce “Giant Vegetables” by August harvest, with products such as 58 Kg cabbage and 3 ft long beans setting records at the Alaska State Fair.
53. A company in Alaska has developed a powdered beer.
54. The Adak National Forest in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, is the smallest National Forest in America, with only 33 trees.
55. George Cormack and his two Indian brothers-in-law, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie found gold in Alaska’s Klondike Valley at Bonanza Creek on August 17, 1896, sparking North America’s last great gold rush.
56. Balto, the famous dog from the 1920′s who helped save countless lives by delivering precious antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome is stuffed and mounted in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
57. There was a man so dedicated to April Fools Pranks that in 1974, he flew hundreds of tires into Edgecumbe dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire, thereby fooling the local populace, and coast guard into thinking the volcano became active.
58. Alaska’s first newspaper, The Sitka Times, was published in 1860.
59. The 50th anniversary of the State of Alaska marked the end of an indigenous Alaskan Native language, Eyak, which lost its last speaker when Chief Marie Smith Jones died in January 2008.
60. Gambler Tex Rickard from Alaska later went on to build Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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### Thailand
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#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Thailand |Amazing Facts 4U

##### Land & Geography

- The population of Thailand is about 67 million. Thailand is made up of approximately 1,430 islands.
- Thailand’s name in the Thai language is Prathet Thai, which means “Land of the Free.” It is the only country in Southeast Asia that was never colonized by a European nation.
- Thailand shares a border with four countries: Myanmar (formerly Burma) to the north and west, Laos to the north and east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Malaysia to the south.
- Bangkok is the capital of Thailand and is also called the ‘Venice of the East’ due to its large number on canals. However, as Bangkok grew larger, most canals were filled and paved. It is the world’s most visited city ahead of London having 16 million international visitors per year.
- The longest name of the city in the world is the full name of Bangkok (169 Characters). 1 in 10 Thais live in Bangkok city. Khao San Road is the liveliest and busiest tourist area in Bangkok.
- The highest elevation in Thailand is Doi Inthanon at 8,514 feet (2,595 m) .

##### Flora & Fauna

- One-tenth of all animal species on Earth live in Thailand.
- The world’s smallest mammal, the Craseonycteris thonglongyai (the bumble bat), is found in Thailand. Amazingly it just weighs two grams.
- More than 1,500 species of orchids grow wild in Thai forests. Thailand is the world’s number one orchid exporter. Orchid is also the national flower of Thailand.
- Thailand is home to what may be the world’s longest snake, the reticulated python. The largest one ever found stretched over 33 feet (10 m) from end to end.
- Thailand is home to the world’s longest poisonous snake, the king cobra. The cobra can reach more than 18 feet long, and one bite from it can kill an elephant.
- The largest living lizard is native to Thailand. The monitor lizard can grow as long as 7 feet.
- Swiftlet nests are made from strands of saliva from the male swiftlet bird. Swiftlet nests collected from Thai caves can fetch more than $900 per pound. It is one of the world’s most coveted and expensive food items.
- The Mekong River, which forms part of Thailand’s eastern border, supports more than 1,300 species of fish. It holds some of the world’s largest freshwater fish, including a giant catfish which can reach nearly 10 feet long and weigh as much as 660 lbs.
- Thailand houses the world’s largest fish, the 12-meter Rhincodon typus, otherwise known as the whale shark.
- One of Thailand’s most curious creatures is the mudskipper, which is a fish that is capable of walking on land and climbing trees. It uses its fins to “walk” and can absorb oxygen through its skin and lining in its mouth. It spends most of its time out of the water, eating the algae in tidal pools.
- A century ago, more than 100,000 elephants lived in Thailand, with about 20,000 of them untamed. Now, there are about 5,000, with less than half of them wild.

##### History

- Thailand has a long history of monarchy for centuries from 13th century. The current Chakri Dynasty was created in 1782.
- Thailand’s and the world’s longest-reigning monarch is Bhumibol Adulyadej, who became King Rama IX in June 1946\. He was born in the U.S. in 1927 when his father was studying medicine at Harvard. He owns a patent on a form of cloud seeding and holds a degree in engineering from Switzerland. He also plays the sax and composed Thailand’s national anthem.

##### Places / Architecture

- Thailand is home to the largest crocodile farm, the largest restaurant, the longest single-span suspension bridge, and the world’s tallest hotel.
- Don Mueang International Airport sports the tallest control tower in the world, measuring 132.2m (434ft)
- Thailand is home to the world’s 9th tallest statue, the Great Buddha of Thailand, at the Wat Muang Monastery in Ang Thong province which is also the world's highest stupa, Phra Pathom Chedi at 127 meters.
- The town of Kanchanburi is home to the famous “Bridge Over the River Kwai”, part of the Burma-Siam railway. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 people died in the course of the railway project.
- Thailand is truly a land of temples. There are about 35,000 temples in Thailand.

##### People Customs & Culture

- In the past, all Thai young men including the kings became Buddhist monks for at least a short period of time before their 20th birthday.
- 75 % percent of the people in Thailand are Thai and 14% are Chinese.
- The Thai alphabet has 32 vowels and 44 consonants.
- Buddhism is Thailand’s largest religion with approximately 94.6% of the population practicing the religion. Muslims make up 4.6%, Christians 0.7%.
- A nuclear family in Thailand is rare because most people live in large extended families.
- In Thailand, the head is the most important part of the body. No one must ever touch another person, even a child, on the head. This always try to keep their heads lower than the head of any person who is older or more important, to show respect.
- Traditionally in Thailand, feet are considered lowly. A person must never sit with their feet pointing to a statue in a temple or at some other person. Feet must always be tucked underneath the body.
- Over 300,000 Thai have settled in North America with the largest communities along the West Coast while over 10,000 Americans live in Thailand.
- One of the country’s most unusual festivals is the annual Monkey Buffet, held in front of the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province. More than 600 monkeys are invited to feast on over two tons of grilled sausage, fresh fruit, ice cream, and other treats. The locals see it as a thank you to the monkeys which inhabit the village and bring thousands of tourists there each year.
- The Ramakien is the national epic narrative of Thailand which has influenced everyday Thai life for hundreds of years. The story is actually the Thai version of Ramayana, a poem first told in India 3,000 years ago.
- Prostitution is technically illegal in Thailand, but the law is very rarely enforced and trade flourishes. Sex workers are estimated to be up to 1 million.
- Thailand currently has the highest prevalence of HIV in Asia.
- Traffic police in Bangkok wear facemasks because of dangerous levels of air pollution. More than 20% of Bangkok’s police have some form of lung disease.
- In 1996, two rare “diamond-eyed cats,” Phet and Ploy, were married in a lavish $16,241 Thai wedding, the most expensive pet wedding in the world.
- The world’s largest Christmas log cake was made in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 25, 1997\. The cake weighed 5,071 lbs. and reached 27′ 6″. It was later cut into 19, 212 portions
- Thailand set the record for the longest catwalk on April 9, 2010\. The catwalk was 1,584 meters long and was part of the Pattaya International Fashion Week.
- Sometimes the Sky Train will stop for no apparent reason. When any member of the Royal family travels downtown, the trains will stop in a position so that it is not above the Royal. Essentially your head can not be directly above theirs. That goes for walking on the overhead passes too.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Thailand is a constitutional monarchy like England. It is strictly against the law to criticize the monarchy.
- The Garuda (a creature from the Hindu religion) is a national and royal symbol of Thailand.
- It is illegal to drive shirtless in Thailand. It is also illegal to leave the house without underwear on.

##### Economy 

- Each year, more than 10 million foreign tourists visit Thailand. Thailand has also attracted many expatriates from developed countries.
- Thailand is the world’s largest producer of tin. It is also the world’s largest exporter of rice.

##### Sports

- In 1999, a group of 282 skydivers set the record for the largest number of skydivers in a free-fall formation above Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. They held the link for 7.11 seconds.

##### Famous People

- Medicine man Hoo Sateow from Thailand has the world’s documented longest hair at 16’ 11" long.
- The brothers who gave the world the term “Siamese twins” were born in 1811 in a village near Bangkok. The twin's Eng and Chang were joined at the chest and left Thailand for the U.S when they were 17 years old. Each brother married, and between them, they had 22 children. In 1873, Eng caught pneumonia and died. Chang died a few hours later.
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### Dolphin
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#### 70 Amazing and Awesome Facts about Dolphin

1. Dolphins belong to mammals and kids are nursed with mother’s milk.
2. Dolphins are cetaceans that have been further classified into two suborders, marine, and River Dolphins.
3. There are 41 species of Dolphins being 36 oceanic and 5 freshwater Dolphins. The most common Dolphin is the Bottlenose Dolphin.
4. Dolphins once lived on land and looked and behaved something like a small wolf but with five hoof-like toes on each foot instead of claws.
5. Some dolphins still have hair on their heads and the Amazon River dolphin has hair on its beak. Dolphins also have remnant finger bones in their flippers, a forearm, wrists, and a few remnant leg bones deep inside their bodies. They have been called “re-entrants”.
6. Killing a dolphin in ancient Greece was considered sacrilegious and was punishable by death.
7. Dolphins are very intelligent animals and very friendly fascinating humans for centuries.
8. While the brains of most mammals have a relatively smooth surface, the brains of humans are extremely convoluted. Scientists often measure intelligence by the number of brain “folds.” The dolphin brain is even more “folded” than humans and has been this way for millions of years.
9. Some dolphins can understand as many as 60 words, which can make up 2000 sentences.
10. Dolphins are capable to engage in complex activities and playing and even solving problems creatively.
11. The distinction between dolphins and porpoises is often blurred, but generally, porpoises have spade-shaped teeth and bluntly rounded faces. Dolphins have teeth shaped like rounded cones set in jaws that extend in a snout or beak.
12. Dolphins also “see” with sounds. They emit a series of clicks and pings that travel long distances through water. When the sound hits an object, echoes are bounced back to the dolphin, enabling it to literally hear the distance, shape, density, movement, and texture of an object.
13. With their “echo-location,” dolphins can distinguish between types of fish the same size, between aluminum and brass, and between a steel ball that is 2½ in diameter and one that is 2¼ in diameter.
14. A dolphin’s “sonar” or echo-location is rare in nature and is far superior to either the bat’s sonar or human-made sonar.
15. Dolphin sonar seems not to detect the fine threads of fishing nets, and millions of dolphins have drowned as a result of becoming entangled.
16. A dolphin can produce whistles for communication and clicks for sonar at the same time, which would be like a human speaking in two voices, with two different pitches, holding two different conversations.
17. Amazingly dolphins don’t have a sense of smell, but they do have a sense of taste and, like humans, can distinguish between sweet, sour, bitter, and salty tastes.
18. Dolphins are social creatures living in pods of 10 to 12 individuals that have formed a group for protection and feeding.
19. Within the pod, Dolphins protect each other, reproduce and take care of their babies. Pods are also very important for their feeding.
20. It has even been proved that Dolphins have cultural behavior within the pods as they transmit learned skills from mothers to younger Dolphins.
21. To hunt, Dolphins use several techniques the most common is herding, where a pod of Dolphins surrounds a school of fish to keep them as tight as possible, and then Dolphins take turns to dive through the compacted pod, feeding themselves.
22. Dolphins breathe through a blowhole located at the top of their bodies which takes the air directly to their lungs.
23. Amazingly Dolphins don't automatically breathe. They have to tell themselves to breathe.
24. The fact is only one half of a Dolphin's brain sleeps at a time. The other half that's awake signals the Dolphin to come up for air to prevent drowning
25. The amazing fact is that Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time.
26. Amazingly Dolphins always sleep with one eye open! Dolphins also must sleep at the surface of the water with their blowholes exposed.
27. As dolphins do not breathe automatically as humans do, they will die if given a general anesthetic.
28. Spinner dolphins amazingly sleep in pairs, one with the left hemisphere asleep, the other with the right. Both keep watch with one eye and half a brain. They are known to sleep-mate for life.
29. Dolphin teeth are used for grasping, not chewing. They have no jaw muscles for chewing.
30. The amazing fact is that dolphins can commit suicide by voluntarily ceasing to breathe as they are not “automatic breathers”. Cases of captive Dolphins doing the same have been reported.
31. Dolphins eat fish like mackerel, herring, cod, or squid.
32. Dolphins communicate in several forms through whistles, clicks, and sounds.
33. Water-based mammals like Dolphins and whales swish their tails up and down while fish move them sideways. In fact, a dolphin carries more oxygen in its blood than a fish and can swim longer than a fish. Thus dolphins are better adapted to the sea than are any fish.
34. The amazing fact is that Dolphins can kill sharks by ramming them with their snout.
35. Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape.
36. Dolphins can amazingly jump up to 20 feet above the water.
37. Dolphin's gestation period ranges from 11 to 17 months as per species.
38. The amazing fact is that calves are delivered with the help of another Dolphin in the pod which takes the role of a midwife. Other dolphins, including bulls, will swim around the mother during birth to protect her.
39. A baby dolphin is born tail-first to prevent drowning. After the mother breaks the umbilical cord by swiftly swimming away, she must immediately return to her baby and take it to the surface to breathe.
40. A baby dolphin must learn to hold its breath while nursing.
41. As mammals, calves are nursed with milk for up to 18 months, but they stay with their mothers for up to 6 years learning to hunt and survive.
42. A dolphin eats approximately 1/8th of its body weight daily.
43. It has been found that Dolphins name themselves when they are young and keep the same name throughout their lives. Other Dolphins recognize the name even if it’s not spoken by the Dolphin whose name it is.
44. The Dolphin can live to be 50 years old.
45. Dolphins have very few natural enemies, only a few species of large sharks are a potential threat for Dolphins, especially for calves. Dolphin's biggest threat is from humans.
46. Spinner Dolphins are famous for acrobatic displays in which they spin along their longitudinal axis as they leap through the air.
47. It is amazing that killer whale is not species of the whale but the largest species of dolphin. True whales don’t have teeth but sift their prey through plates of baleen.
48. The narwhal dolphin has a large ivory tusk (like a unicorn) which is often poached. The only remaining populations are in the Greenland Sea and the Baffin Bay.
49. Amazingly Dolphins don't drink water because seawater makes them sick and may possibly kill them. They get their water needs through the foods that they eat.
50. Amazingly just a tablespoon of water in a dolphin’s lung could drown it. In contrast, a human could drown if two tablespoons of water were inhaled into the lungs.
51. The blowhole is an evolved nose that has moved upward to the top of the dolphin’s head. Air can be expelled from a dolphin’s blowhole at speeds topping 100 mph.
52. A dolphin’s body has adapted to avoid the bends (the formation of air bubbles in blood and tissue as a diver returns to the surface) by completely collapsing its ribcage, forcing the air under pressure out of its lungs and into the windpipe and the complex air chambers that lie below the blowhole.
53. The eyes of a dolphin produce “dolphin tears,” a slippery secretion that protects the eye against foreign objects and infection and reduces friction between the surface of the eye and surrounding seawater. Marine dolphins see quite well both below and above the water.
54. The fact is humans and Dolphins are the only species that copulate for pleasure.
55. Amazingly male Dolphins are known to separate female Dolphins from their families and deny them food until they agree to mate.
56. Dolphins are known to go on killing sprees when they sexually frustrated.
57. 36 armed Dolphins trained by the U.S. Navy to kill terrorists have been missing since 2005\. They carried “toxic dart guns” capable of killing a man in a single shot.
58. In 2006, the world’s tallest man, Bao Xishun, used his incredibly long arms (1.06m) to remove plastic from the stomachs of two Dolphins which saved their lives after other attempts failed.
59. Amazingly Dolphins can identify humans underwater by checking our skeletal structure through their sonar. They are known to often help shipwreck victims fight sharks and stay afloat.
60. A Dolphin named Pelorus Jack used to guide ships in New Zealand through the difficult waters of Cook Strait until his disappearance in 1912.
61. Pelorus Jack was even protected under the Sea Fisheries Act of 1904 after someone tried to shoot it. Pelorus Jack was the first individual sea creature protected by law in any country.
62. In Laguna, Brazil, bottlenose Dolphins actively herd fish towards local fishermen and then signal with tail slaps for the fishermen to throw their nets. The Dolphins get to feed on the escaping fish. The amazing fact is that this collaboration between the Dolphins and the fishermen has been going on since at least 1847 without any training.
63. In 2013, scientists found that a lonely, deformed Dolphin was adopted by a family of sperm whales.
64. There have been several recorded instances where whales play around and give rides to Dolphins on their back.
65. Wholphins are a crossbreed between a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale, which has the mean amount of teeth of both the parents (Dolphin: 88, false Killer whale: 44, Wholphin: 66)
66. Amazingly there is an organization called Anti-Dolphin Organization, whose members fear that Dolphins are a threat to the human race and should be eliminated.
67. India recognizes Dolphins as non-human persons and is one of four countries to ban the import/export of Dolphins, whales, and porpoises for commercial use.
68. A species of Dolphin is born naturally blind in the Indus and Ganges rivers of South Asia but they have a highly sophisticated sonar system and swim on only one side of their body.
69. There is a pink albino Dolphin in Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana USA.
70. Maui's Dolphin is the world's rarest and smallest known subspecies of Dolphin being a subspecies of Hector's Dolphin. They are only found off the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. There are only 55 left. Save 55 campaign has been started.

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### Netherland
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#### 70 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Netherlands

##### Land & Geography

- In fact, the Netherlands and Holland are not synonymous. Holland is largely the western coastal region of the Netherlands, comprising of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leiden and the Hague contributing the most to the Dutch kingdom's economy and wealth.
- The Netherlands also includes three Caribbean islands: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. Their citizens are Dutch and can vote in EU elections.
- The Netherlands borders Belgium and Germany. The population of the Netherlands is estimated to be around 17 million.
- The capital and largest city in the Netherlands is Amsterdam. Other major cities include Rotterdam and the Hague. Around 20% of the Netherlands is located below sea level.
- An entire province is made from land reclaimed from the sea: Flevoland became a province in 1986 and is largely made of land reclaimed from the Zuiderzee in the 20th century.
- The 'Netherlands' mean "Low Country" in Dutch. About half of its surface area is less than 1 metre above sea level. Amazingly its highest point Vaalserberg is just 321 metres (1,053 ft) above sea level.
- The lowest point is in Netherland is Zuidplaspolder 7 metres below sea level. Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, where most visitors land, is actually 4 metres below sea level.
- Amazing fact is that Maeslantkering, a movable storm surge barrier near Rotterdam is twice as long as the Eiffel Tower is tall.
- The Netherlands has more than 4,000 km of navigable canals, rivers and lakes.
- The village of Giethoorn, in the province of Overijssel, does not have any roads. All transport is done by water over one of the many canals. It is known as the "Venice of the Netherlands".
- Amazing fact is that it once had 10,000 windmills.
- Keukenhof Park is the largest flower garden in the world.
- The Netherlands had the highest percentage of broadband subscriptions in the world, with most of the population connected.
- There are close to 1,000 museums in the Netherlands.

##### History

- The Dutch national anthem, Wilhelmus, is the oldest in the world which was written and first used from 1568, although officially adopted in 1932\. The national flag of the Netherlands dates from 1572 and is also the oldest tricolour flag.
- The Dutch were the first Europeans to discover Australia and New Zealand in the 17th century. Australia was then named "New Holland". New Zealand was named after the province of Zeeland. Tasmania was named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman (1603-1659).
- Orange-coloured carrots appeared in the Netherlands in the 16th century. Before that carrots were white, yellow, black, purple or red. Orange carrots are said to have been bred in honour of the House of Orange, who led the Dutch Revolt against Spain and later became the Dutch Royal family. Orange is still the official colour of the Netherlands and a sign of patriotism. The Dutch national football team wears a bright orange shirt. And the country's largest financial institution, the ING Group, makes abundant use of the national colour on its logo and on the decoration of its banks.
- New York City started as a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam. Many places names in New York remind of the Dutch origins of the city, such as Flushing in Queens (famous for Flushing Meadows), named after Flushing in the Dutch province of Zeeland.
- The island country of Mauritius was named in 1598 in honour of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the Stadtholder (Chief magistrate) of the Netherlands at the time.
- Although the Portuguese were the first Europeans to "discover" tea in East Asia, it was the Dutch who introduced the beverage commercially to Europe in 1610\. Tea didn't reach England until the 1650's.
- Indonesia was a Dutch colony until 1945\. Jakarta was then called "Batavia", after the Latin name for the Netherlands. The Dutch language is still spoken by a minority of Indonesians.

##### Places / Architecture

- The village of Giethoorn, in the province of Overijssel, does not have any roads. All transport is done by water over one of the many canals. It is known as the "Venice of the Netherlands".
- There are 1180 windmills in the Netherlands. Amazingly there are over 1,000 windmills still standing from 1850\. These were used to pump away water for hundreds of years.
- Keukenhof Park is the largest flower garden in the world.

##### People Customs & Culture

- In fact Netherlands has the highest population density (500 inhabitants per square km - water excluded) of any European country with over 1 million inhabitants. Worldwide, only Bangladesh and Taiwan, among major countries, have a higher density of population.
- The Netherlands is a largely secular country: up to 40 % of Dutch say they have no religion, compared to 30 % who are Catholic and 20 % who are Protestant.
- The Netherlands is the healthiest country in the world for diet: It ranked first in the world, above France and Switzerland, for having the most plentiful, nutritious, healthy and affordable food among major 125 countries.
- Dutch people are the tallest in the world, with an average height of 184 cm for men and 170 cm for women. Dutch males have grown some 20 cm over the last 200 years compared to just 6 cm that Americans grew due to various environment factors.
- The Netherlands has the highest English-proficiency in Europe: and the second-highest in the world, after Sweden. Some nine in 10 Dutch people speak English as a second language. 94 percent of Dutch people could speak two languages, well above the EU average of 54 percent. In fact, half of the population also speak German.
- The Dutch are the most physically active EU population: 52 % of the population participate in sport on a weekly basis, well above the European Union average of 38 %. The Netherlands ranked the highest for recreational non-sports physical activities.
- More than 40 percent of people in the Netherlands live in the Randstad area, a megalopolis in the central-western part of the country mostly consisting of the four largest cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.
- Home births are still encouraged in the Netherlands and about 30% babies are born at home which is one of the highest home birth rates in the developed world. In fact, home births are covered by Dutch health insurance while hospital births without medical necessity can be refused.
- A UNICEF report on child well-being in rich countries ranked the Netherlands as the best country for children to live.
- The Netherlands is home to more bikes than people: There are around 18 million bikes in the country. Dutch cycle an average distance of 3 km per day and use bicycles for more than 25% of all trips, compared to just 2 % in the UK.
- Cycling in the Netherlands is the safest in the world. There are 35,000 km of excellent cycle lanes and that bikes get the same respect as cars. Pedestrians are not allowed to walk on cycle lanes. Groningen station has a whopping 10,000 bike spaces.
- Wooden shoes or clogs or "Klompen" have been popular in the Netherlands for about 700 years as industrial footwear worn by farmers, fishermen, factory workers, artisans and others to protect their feet from injury and keep them dry.
- Despite the rainy weather, the Dutch use raincoats and rain "suits" instead of umbrellas because the wind is too strong and it is very difficult to hold it and cycle at the same time
- The main square of every city has its own brightly lit Christmas tree.
- Dutch people have the lowest incidence of lactose intolerance of any country - only 1%.
- Netherlands had the highest percentage of broadband subscriptions in the world, with 38% of the population connected.
- In Netherlands most graves are leased for 10, 15 or 20 years only and not purchased due to the short supply of grave space.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The Netherlands has two capitals : Amsterdam (the official capital by constitution since the 19th century) and The Hague (the seat of government and first capital since 1584).
- It was one of the six founding members of the European Union.
- Soft drugs (e.g. cannabis, "magic mushrooms") are legal in the Netherlands. Only licenced "coffee shops" are allowed to sell such drugs, although people are allowed to grow cannabis at home for their personal use.
- In fact prostitution is legal in the Netherlands. However, prostitutes must be at least 18, and clients must be at least 16.
- Abortion on demand at any point between conception and viability has been legal since 1981.
- The Dutch government has legalized same-sex marriages since 2001 and euthanasia since 2002.
- The Dutch government plans to ban the sales of petrol and diesel-powered cars in 2025 to promote green energy. The government’s goal is to have only electric cars driving on Dutch streets in future.
- Amazing fact is that Netherlands is closing 8 prisons due to a lack of prisoners!

##### Economy & Corporates

- The first multinational company, stocks and stock exchange were Dutch. The Dutch East India Company is recognized as the first truly multinational company and the first to issue stocks in 1602\. It established the Amsterdam Stock Exchange the same year, which is considered the oldest 'modern' exchange in the world.
- Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport offers more direct flights than any airport in the world. Schiphol is 100% government-owned and handles around 60 million passengers per year.
- More than 60 % of the Netherlands is agriculture and horticulture. It is the world’s second largest exporter of fresh vegetables. It is also one of the world's largest exporter of seeds, live trees, plants, bulbs, roots and cut flowers. Many of the world's tomatoes, cucumbers and flowers are exported from the Netherlands.
- The Dutch have been making cheese since 400 AD. It is the largest exporter of cheese in the world with a dairy industry contributing around EUR 7 billion.
- Tulips were imported from the Ottoman Empire and became very popular in Holland in the early 17th century. Nowadays, the Netherlands is the world's first producer and exporter of tulips. In fact nine billion bulbs and millions of flowers are grown each year primarily for export.
- Famous Dutch companies include Philips, Akzo Nobel , Royal Dutch Shell (half-British), Unilever (half-British), Heineken, Aegon, IKEA (formerly Swedish) as well as the banks ING and ABN-AMRO.
- The KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) is the longest running national airline in the world. It was founded in 1919.
- Dutch brewery Heineken is the 3rd largest beer brewer in the world with over 140 breweries in over 70 countries. At home , it owns around 50 percent of the Dutch beer market.
- The Netherlands has long been one of the richest countries in the world. Its GDP per capita was estimated to be the highest in the world in 1820, and the 2nd highest in Europe in 1900 (after Belgium). Nowadays, it still enjoys the 4th highest nominal GDP per capita (or 3rd at PPP) within the European Union.
- The Netherlands have the highest level of foreign direct investment per capita in the world.
- Rotterdam, in South Holland, is the largest seaport in Europe. It used to be the largest port in the world by cargo tonnage, until being overtaken by Singapore in the 1990's, then Shanghai in 2003.
- The Netherlands has long been one of the richest countries in the world. Its GDP per capita was estimated to be the highest in the world in 1820, and the 2nd highest in Europe in 1900 (after Belgium). Nowadays, it still enjoys the 4th highest nominal GDP per capita within the European Union.
- The Netherland has the highest level of foreign direct investment per capita in the world.
- Rotterdam, in South Holland, is the largest seaport in Europe. It used to be the largest port in the world by cargo tonnage, until being overtaken by Singapore in the 1990's, then Shanghai in 2003.
- The Netherlands is the world’s second biggest beer exporter , one-third going to US markets. It was the world’s biggest exporter of beer until 2010, when it was overtaken by Mexico.

##### Inventions

- Gin was invented in the Netherlands under the name of Jenever. It was first sold as a medicine in the late 16th century.
- Dutch people started the science of microbiology and virology. The first compound microscope was built in the Netherlands in 1590\. In the 1670s, Antoine van Leeuwenhoek, called 'the father of microbiology' viewed and researched microbes.
- The telescope, pendulum clock and the mercury thermometer are all 16th or 17th century Dutch inventions.
- In 1898, Martinus Beijerinck showed that disease could be caused by an agent smaller than bacteria, which he called a virus.
- The Dutch company 'Philips' invented the audio tape (in 1967), the video tape (in 1972), the Compact Disk (in 1982) and the CD-ROM (in 1985).

##### Famous People

- The Netherlands has spawned many world-class painters, such as Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Jan Steen, Vincent van Gogh etc.

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### Microsoft
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Last updated: 2023-12-06T09:30:44.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Microsoft

1. Though Microsoft is currently headquartered in Redmond, Washington, the company was actually founded in New Mexico back in April 1975\. It moved to Redmond in 1986.
2. Microsoft was created and named by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as being a combination of the words "microcomputer" and "software,". It was originally spelled as "Micro-soft.". The hyphen was removed in 1976.
3. Amazingly Microsoft didn't make the original MS-DOS operating system. It licensed the software for 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, reworked it, and then later renamed the software MS-DOS.
4. Microsoft cofounders Bill Gates and Paul Allen designed the company's first logo in under a day.
5. Bill Gates right from the beginning consciously decided not to sell any software that Microsoft developed. It only licenses its software and enjoys full retaining rights. This strategy has made billions for Microsoft as it reached every business and home.
6. Microsoft is a software giant employing about 1,13,000 workers all over the world and We find it’s presence all around us in our life.
7. The Microsoft Partner Network includes over 430,000 organizations with more than 160 million mutual customers worldwide.
8. Microsoft has 16 different $1 billion-plus businesses.
9. About 1.5 billion people use Windows every day. More than 1.1 billion people use Microsoft Office.
10. Microsoft had it’s first ever quarterly loss in July of 2012.
11. In 1981 , IBM introduced its personal computer with Microsoft’s 16-bit operating system, MS-DOS 1.0.
12. Though Microsoft made its billions on software, the company had in fact, first ever hardware product , the Microsoft Mouse dating back to 1983.
13. Mcrosoft stock goes public in 1986\. In it’s first year of public trading, Microsoft only managed $16,000 in revenue. However, just 4 years later, that amount had jumped all the way up to a million.
14. If you had bought one share of Microsoft stock for $21 at its IPO, it would be worth nearly $15,000 today. In fact, in 1987, at age 31, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates became the youngest-ever billionaire at the time.
15. Microsoft's explosive growth and the resulting increase in stock value has made for at least two more billionaires and as many as 12,000 millionaires.
16. Microsoft launched Windows 3.0 in 1990 followed by Windows 95 and Windows 98 and Windows 2000.
17. Bill Gates in fact named windows 1.0 'Interface Manager.' Gates had the good sense to abandon his preferred name and instead go with ‘Windows’. Windows 1.0 had a colour 16-bit interface and was less than 1MB in size requiring a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB) RAM, two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.
18. Microsoft truly became a dominant force in desktop computing after release of Windows 95 in August 1995\. It had a massive advertising budget. Over the next 10 years, Microsoft's annual revenue climbed by more than five times.
19. Windows 95, startup chime was created by a music legend, Brian Eno. He was instructed to limit it to 3 1/4 seconds long.
20. Windows XP was launched in 2001\. It was immensely popular product. It was compiled from 45 million lines of code. Thereafter Windows 7 was launched in 2009 & Windows 8 was launched in 2012.
21. The standard Windows XP background photo titled "Bliss," is the photo taken in Sonoma County, California, by Charles O'Rear in 1996\. It is the most viewed photo in the history of the world.
22. Microsoft's first killer app was Microsoft Excel, which unseated long established spreadsheet products Apple VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3\. Microsoft office all grew from that one program.
23. Although iPhone took the lead in crafting the modern-day smartphones , Microsoft was in fact busy putting Windows mobile on PDAs and smartphones as early as 2000, a good seven years before the iPhone was released.
24. Microsoft and Apple actually worked together for years on software for the first Macintosh computer until Microsoft announced its competing Windows, which sparked a rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
25. In 1994, Timex and Microsoft designed the Datalink 150 watch together. It was the first-ever smartwatch, beating Apple by 12 years. However, it didn’t click then.
26. It’s not well known that in 1997, Microsoft saved Apple from certain bankruptcy by making a $150 million investment.
27. Microsoft released the Xbox games console in 2001\. "Xbox" is short for "DirectX Box" derived from DirectX which is the crucial software on Windows required for intense game graphics.
28. Microsoft and partners launched Tablet PC in 2002.
29. Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in 2010, Windows Phone 8 in 2012 and Windows 10 in 2015.
30. The Windows Phone Store features nearly 250,000 apps and games.
31. Microsft outlook has over 400 million active users and is the world’s fastest-growing email service.
32. Microsoft has acquired about 150 companies. Hotmail, the first email was amongst them. Microsoft closed its acquisition of Skype in 2011\. Skype users now make an average of 50 billion minutes of calls per month.
33. Microsoft acquired Nokia in 2013 which has turned out to be one of the very costliest acquisitions.
34. Microsoft has recently announced it’s plan to purchase LinkedIn for the huge sum of 26 billion dollars , it’s biggest acquisition.
35. In 2006, Microsoft had the chance to buy YouTube for just 500 million dollars, but they didn’t think it could ever be that valuable. Today YouTube is worth between 25 and 40 billion dollars.
36. Satya Nadella named chief executive officer for Microsoft in 2014.
37. Microsoft launches latest Office 2016 in 2015.
38. Amazing facts is that Microsoft holds over 10,000 patents. It files about 3,000 patent per year. Any staff member that secures a new patent gets a $1,500 bonus, a plaque, and a specially marked granite cube for their desk.
39. Amazing fact is that you can’t create any of these folders in windows as these are reserved names, namely CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9.
40. Microsoft has a collection of over 5,000 contemporary pieces including painting, sculptures, paper work, photographs and multimedia works, It is one of the largest corporate collector of artwork.

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### Adolf Hitler
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Last updated: 2023-12-04T09:30:29.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Adolf Hitler

1. Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship in Germany reflects unforeseen levels of barbarity and genocide, unparalleled manipulation of the media to control and mobilize the masses, the destructive power of ideologies of racial superiority, and perverted use of modern technology and social engineering.
2. Hitler has left the legacy of the Cold War, a split Germany, the Iron Curtain, and nuclear weapons.
3. The name “Adolph” means “noble wolf.” Hitler used the pseudonym Herr Wolf early in his career when he wanted to avoid recognition. He named his headquarters “Wolf’s Lair” and “Wolf’s Headquarters”.
4. Hitler’s family had for generations been a peasant family, small holders in the Waldviertel, a poor area in the northwestern part of Lower Austria, bordering Bohemia.
5. Hitler’s father’s name was originally Alois Schicklgruber but changed it to Alois Hitler in 1876, 13 years before Adolf was born. It is unclear why he changed his name.
6. Hitler’s father Alois was married three times. First to a woman much older than himself, then to women who were young enough to be his daughters.
7. Klara Polzl (1860-1907) was Hitler’s mother and he was the eldest of only three surviving children out of eleven. Officially, Hitler’s father, Alois, and his mother were second cousins and needed government permission to marry.
8. Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, on an Easter Saturday in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. He wasn’t born in Germany in spite of being Chancellor.
9. Hitler was the 4th of 6 children. His older siblings Gustav, Ida, and Otto died in infancy. His younger brother Edmund died of measles in 1900, when he was 11\. Only a sister, Paula, survived to adulthood.
10. Both of Hitler’s parents died before he was 19\. His mother died of breast cancer in 1907, when he was 18 years old. His father died of pleural hemorrhage in 1903, when Hitler was 14 years old.
11. Hitler was a decorated WWI veteran receiving the Iron Cross, Second Class in 1914, the Iron Cross, First Class and the Black Wound Badge in 1918.
12. Hitler was seriously injured twice during WWI. In October 1916 he was wounded by a grenade splinter and in October 1918 he became temporarily blind from a gas attack.
13. Some historians believe Hitler had a son with a French teenager while serving as a soldier during WWI having an affair with a woman named Charlotte Lobjoie, age 16, in June 1917\. Their son Jean-Marie Loret died in 1985 at the age of 67.
14. Hitler's son never met his father, but he did fight the Nazis during WWII.
15. The Treaty of Versailles helped fuel Hitler's political motivations. The treaty humiliated Germany making it relinquish several of its territories, imposing severe economic sanctions, and it declaring Germany responsible for the war.
16. After WWI, Hitler stayed in the army in intelligence, where he met his mentor Anton Drexler (1884-1942), a leader in the German Worker’s Party which later became the Nazi party. In February 1920, Hitler and Drexler published their “25 Points” which refused the terms of the Versailles Treaty.
17. Hitler was imprisoned in 1923 when he participated in the attempt to overthrow the government. During his time in prison, he wrote his memoir, *Mein Kampf* (My Struggle).
18. Hitler never gained majority support in free elections. The most his party, the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) garnered was 37.3% in July 1932\. Next year when Hitler became Chancellor, the Nazis had only one third of the seats in the Reichstag.
19. After becoming Chancellor of Germany, Hitler ordered a series of assassinations and executions called the “Blood Purge,” over a period of 12 years aimed at rivals within the party. He justified these murders by saying that there would be no further upheavals in Germany for a thousand years once these rebels were killed.
20. Amazingly Hitler, for "better or worse," was the most influential man in 1938 being the Time Magazine’s Man of the Year.
21. When he turned 50 on April 20, 1939, Hitler told his generals that he wanted to fight a war soon, while he was still strong. Less than five months later, on September 1, he invaded Poland and WWII began.
22. Hitler’s racism policies led to the murder of 11 million people, which included 6 million Jews. In fact, overall, between 50-70 million died during World War II.
23. Hitler’s longest relationship was with Eva Braun (1912-1945). She tried to commit suicide twice in an attempt to garner more of Hitler’s attention.
24. Hitler and Eva Braun were married in 1945 and killed themselves 36 hours later. Braun was 33 years old. Hitler was 56.
25. Hitler was in fact a good orator but had a raspy voice which was a result of a gas attack he suffered during WWI.
26. Hitler's mustache has been nicknamed the "toothbrush mustache".
27. Amazingly using the Hitler salute by extending your arm in front is a criminal offense in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands.
28. Hitler’s unusual medical remedies included enemas and leeches.
29. Hitler became vegetarian after after the autopsy of his half-niece and ex-girlfriend Geli Raubal, who shot herself in the heart.
30. Hitler was very fond of chocolates eating up to two pounds of chocolate per day.
31. The swastika that Hitler adopted is an ancient symbol that most likely represents the sun wheeling across the sky. The term “swastika” comes from the Indian Sanskrit language , su “good” + asti “to be,” which means “good luck.”
32. Hitler plotted to kill Sir Winston Churchill with exploding chocolate. The explosive devices were covered with a thin layer of dark chocolate and wrapped it in black and gold paper. The plot was foiled by British agents.
33. Hitler never learned to drive, though he was instrumental in the development of the Volkswagen car.
34. Both Hitler’s father and mother were Catholic. Hitler was “deeply religions but entirely anti-Christian believing that the religions of the Japanese and the Muslims were superior to Christianity
35. Amazingly a recently opened clothing store in the Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad is named “Hitler.” A swastika dots the letter “i” in Hitler.

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### Common Cold
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Last updated: 2023-12-02T09:30:21.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Common Cold

1. The earliest records of the common cold is found in Egyptian Ebers Papyrus , the oldest known medical text in existence.
2. The common cold affects people all around the globe. Children catch cold 5 to10 times a year while adults catch a cold about 2 to 5 times.
3. The older you get, fewer colds you have because you have acquired an immunity to a number of viruses. You may escape with just one cold a year.
4. By the time you turn 75, you would have probably suffered from 200 colds and spent two years of your lifetime coughing and sneezing.
5. Common cold is generally self-limiting and mild and 50% of the cases are usually cured within 10 days while 90% cases get cured within 15 days from the day of infection.
6. Amazingly antibiotics are prescribed for more than 60 percent of common colds, despite the fact that bacteria are involved in only 2 percent.
7. People who are either very young or very old or people who are immunosuppressed are likely to have complications by the common cold. The most common complications are ear infection, pharyngitis, and sinusitis.
8. The amazing fact is that a common cold virus is capable of reproducing 16 million offspring just within 24 hours!
9. It has been found that the patient with the common cold is most contagious at days 2 to 4 of the cold.
10. It was found that a typical sneeze travels 2 feet at a speed of 15 feet per second while the normal breath travels at a speed of 5 feet per second.
11. Scientific study has found that if you stand 6 feet away from the person infected with common cold, you are likely to be safe.
12. The amazing Fact is that a single sneeze can spray 100,000 viruses into the air.
13. Rhinoviruses usually survive for three hours outside of the body, and may live up to 48 hours on skin or other touchable surfaces like elevator buttons, kitchen counters, keyboards, light switches, toilet paper rolls, doorknobs, etc.
14. The proper remedy for common cold is difficult because there are over 200 different viruses that have been implicated in common cold. It is further complicated by the fact that viruses could have multiple strains. Rhinovirus is responsible for about 40% of common cold cases and has over 100 different strains. Mutations can produce new strains of the virus. There could be no single universal vaccine that can cure the common cold.
15. Colds are spread by touching infected surface and then touching your nose or eyes, or inhaling virus-containing droplets in the air after an infected person sneezes or coughs.
16. Contrary to the popular myth, kissing usually doesn’t transfer the common cold viruses. However, an Eskimo kiss which is an act of rubbing a nose with another person’s nose may transfer viruses.
17. The lower the humidity, the more moisture evaporates from sneeze and cough droplets, the farther the germs can travel. Dry air also dries out the mucous lining in our nasal passages which is an important protective barrier. Both these contribute to the increase in colds during cold, dry weather.
18. Scientists have been able to sequence the entire genome of all the major rhinoviruses.
19. The longest sneezing fit ever recorded is that of Donna Griffiths (UK) (born 1969) who started sneezing on 13 January 1981 and achieved her first sneeze-free day on 16 September 16 1983, the 978th day. She is believed to have sneezed an estimated one million times in the first year of sneezing.
20. Vitamin C can’t cure a cold but 200 mg of it every day may decrease the duration of a cold by a day or two. It is yet to be proven.

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### Marilyn Monroe
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Last updated: 2023-11-30T09:30:01.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Marilyn Monroe

1. Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson.
2. Her childhood was not pleasant. Her mother Gladys was institutionalized and she lived in an orphanage and had eleven different sets of foster parents. She almost spent a year in the Children’s Aid Society Orphanage in Los Angeles.
3. Monroe's first marriage, to neighbor James Dougherty when she was 16, took place as a means of keeping her from being sent back to a state-run orphanage after one of her many foster families could no longer care for her. Later she married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956.
4. In fact, Marilyn Monroe owed her first big break to Ronald Reagan. During World War II in 1945, Captain Ronald Reagan thought it would be a great morale booster for the troops to see some pictures of some pretty factory girls. She was 19 years old working in a Radioplane company owned by Reagan’s friend where her photogenic face attracted an experienced photographer.
5. She began her career as a model before starting her movie career in 1946.
6. She had several minor roles including appearances in ‘All About Eve’ and the ‘Asphalt Jungle’ in 1950 going on to get lead roles in ‘Don’t Bother to knock in 1952’ and ‘Niagara’ in 1953.
7. "Niagara" is the only movie she made in which her character dies.
8. She once roomed with Shelley Winters who was 6 years senior sharing intimate secrets. In fact, Winters was instrumental in persuading Monroe to move to New York and study at the Actors' Studio.
9. A fact not very well known is that she was extremely well-read. Her personal library at the time of her death contained over 400 volumes.
10. Marilyn Monroe had an IQ of 168, higher than that of Albert Einstein.
11. She was a jogger in the early 1950s long before jogging became popular. She also lifted weights as part of her exercise regimen.
12. Marilyn Monroe underwent plastic surgery on her chin and nose early in her career.
13. Monroe had an off-screen life that was quite different from her public image. She was known to dress quite modestly regarding her screen image as a character, someone very different from herself. When she was living in New York, if she went out without makeup, people found it difficult to recognize her.
14. She wasn’t fond of diamonds or expensive jewelry. Most of her jewelry was in fact costume jewelry with the sole exception of a string of pearls and a diamond ring given to her by Joe DiMaggio, her second husband.
15. In fact, Monroe had a stutter all through her childhood and into her teens disappearing later on. The stutter returned during the filming of her final movie, ‘Something’s Got to Give’ due to the stress she was undergoing.
16. Amazingly despite all the acclaim that she received for her acting abilities, Marilyn Monroe never received an Academy Nomination.
17. Marilyn Monroe was infamous in Hollywood for being chronically late to movie sets and struggling with her lines.
18. Her famous dresses are worth millions. The skin-tight dress, so skin-tight that she had to be sewn into it that she wore when she sung happy birthday song to John F. Kennedy sold for over one million dollars in 1999, and her white dress from the movie ‘The Seven Year Itch’, sold for an amazing 4.6 million in 2011.
19. It’s amazing that Marilyn Monroe was only paid fifty dollars for the famous nude photographs that appeared in Playboy magazine. These photos were to be used in the calendar and were originally taken in 1949 by photographer Tom Kelley. Hugh Heffner bought the photographs years later for $500 and used them in the inaugural issue of Playboy Magazine in 1953, and he went on to make millions.
20. She was an early devotee of yoga her teacher being Indra Devi, a Swedish-Russian Bollywood film star.
21. Marilyn Monroe had a fixation on Clark Gable, her co-star in The Misfits. As a young girl, she dreamed that he was her father. When he died, she couldn’t stop crying for two days.
22. Her mother Gladys told her that her father was Gladys' boss, Charles Gifford, who looked like Clark Gable. Monroe never met him and never knew for certain who her father was.
23. She desperately wanted to become a mother when was married to Arthur Miller, but, unfortunately, she had an ectopic pregnancy and a miscarriage.
24. Marilyn Monroe owned many dogs during her life, the last being a Maltese terrier given to her by Frank Sinatra which kept her company for 2 years after her break up with Arthur Miller.
25. Amazingly in the last years of her life, Monroe was seeing a psychoanalyst almost daily.
26. She wrote an autobiography “My Story” published a decade after her death.
27. Her untimely death from an overdose of barbiturates in 1962 was really shocking for the entire world.
28. Before her death, Monroe made her husband, Joe DiMaggio, promise that he would leave flowers on her grave every week after her death. He kept that promise for 20 years and half a dozen roses were delivered to her grave 3 times a week.
29. Several of the burial vaults near Marilyn’s have been put on sale. When Elsie Poncher, the widow of the man in the vault above Marilyn’s, put his space up for sale on eBay, she received the highest bid of $3.5 million.
30. Hugh Hefner owns the burial vault next to Marilyn at the Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles. He bought it in 1992 for $65,000.

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### Hillary Clinton
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Last updated: 2023-11-28T09:30:38.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Hillary Clinton

1. Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and has become the first woman in the history of the United States to lead the presidential campaign for a major political party.
2. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She has two brothers, Hugh (1950) and Anthony (1957).
3. Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (1911-1993), Hillary’s father, worked as a textile wholesaler.
4. Hillary Clinton wrote to NASA as a 14-year child in 1961 inquiring how to become an astronaut. NASA replied that girls could not be astronauts.
5. Her parents were Republicans. As a young adult, Hillary was an active Republican and even campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater in 1964.
6. The Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement in America, and other influences resulted in her leaving the Republican party in 1968.
7. Hillary Clinton was accepted to both Yale and Harvard Law schools. A friend introduced her to one of the legendary Harvard law professors saying, “This is Hillary Rodham. She’s trying to decide between us and our nearest competitor.” The professor replied, “First of all, we have no nearest competitor, and secondly, we don’t need any more women.” Hillary decided to go to Yale.
8. It’s amazing how she met Bill Clinton at Yale: She got up from her desk, walked over to him, extended her hand, and said, “If you keep looking at me, and I’m going to keep looking back, we might as well be introduced. I’m Hillary Rodham.”
9. Hillary Clinton was part of the presidential impeachment inquiry of President Richard Nixon.
10. As a young attorney in 1974, Hillary worked for John Doar, who was the Special Counsel in charge of inquiry considering to impeach Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal.
11. Hillary and Bill were married in a Methodist ceremony in their living room on October 11, 1975\. When asked what attracted Hillary to Bill, she replied, “He wasn’t afraid of me”.
12. In 1977, Hillary landed a place at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas. Founded in 1820, it was one of the oldest and most prestigious law firms west of the Mississippi River.
13. In 1988 and 1991, The National Law Journal named Hillary one of the 100 most powerful lawyers in America.
14. She gave birth to her daughter, Chelsea, in 1980 and she welcomed her first granddaughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, in 2014.
15. In the early 1990s, when Bill Clinton was making $35,000 as governor of Arkansas, Hillary was making $100,000 a year from her law firm salary and corporate board fees.
16. Hillary Clinton was the first First Lady to hold a postgraduate degree (Yale Law, 1973) and to run for and be elected Senator (NY, 2000) and also the first woman to run for the presidency.
17. Hillary Clinton was the first woman elected to the New York senate.
18. When Bill Clinton became president in 1992, she became the first presidential spouse to earn a postgraduate degree.
19. Bill and Hillary were the only First Couple to be fingerprinted by the FBI due to file gate controversy.
20. In 1997, Hillary won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for the audio of her book It Takes a Village.
21. Her autobiography Living History (2003) received a near-record advance of $8 million.
22. Clinton came close to defeating Barack Obama for the 2008 presidential nomination for the Democratic Party. In fact, she received more than 17 million votes during the nomination process and trailed Obama by 103 delegates as the end of it.
23. She served as the 67th U.S. secretary of state during Obama’s first term in office. She was the third female secretary of state in U.S. history.
24. She’s the most traveled Secretary of State ever. She visited 112 countries in four years traveling almost 1 million miles.
25. Hillary Clinton has served on the board of Wal-Mart from 1986 to 1992.

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### Hong Kong
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Last updated: 2023-11-26T09:30:09.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Hong Kong

##### Land & Geography

- Hong Kong’s official name is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, or Hong Kong SAR. Hong Kong means Fragrant Harbor.
- Hong Kong is located on China’s southern coast, across the Pearl River Delta from Macau. Hong Kong borders Guangdong province in the north and faces the South China Sea in the east, west, and south.
- Hong Kong spans an area of 1,104 square kilometers, with 733 kilometers of coastline. Its population is about 7 million.
- Hong Kong includes over 200 islands, like Hong Kong Island and Lantau, the largest island in Hong Kong along with some land reclaimed from the sea.
- Three-quarters of Hong Kong consists of parks, scenic areas, gardens, and woodlands. It has twenty-four nature parks and four marine parks.

##### History

- Hong Kong was taken over by the British forces after the defeat of China in the Opium War of 1842.
- Hong Kong was under Japanese occupation for a brief period from 1941 to 1945.
- On December 19, 1984, the People’s Republic of China and the United Kingdom signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing that Hong Kong would return to the People’s Republic of China on July 1, 1997, after 150 years of British Rule.
- On July 1st, 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of China. The capitalist economy, political and social systems established by the British will be maintained by China for at least 50 years after the handover as per agreement.
- China has the right to absorb Hong Kong in 2047, and Macau in 2049, into China proper.

##### Places / Architecture

- It has the most skyscrapers in the world, with 8,000 buildings having more than 14 floors, almost double that of New York.
- There are more than 1,200 skyscrapers in Hong Kong, which puts the city at the top. It has more buildings taller than 500 feet (150 m) than any other city in the world.
- Mongkok, where one of the Ladies Markets located, in Kowloon has a very high population density of 130,000 people per square km and is the busiest district in the world.
- When designing and constructing a building in Hong Kong, engineers and architects take Feng Shui into consideration which involves the placement of floors, doors, and stairs in various ways to ensure that the energies flow quite smoothly throughout the building.
- The Peak Tram became the first cable cliff railway in Asia in 1888 and remains one of the steepest and oldest cable railroads in the world. An average of over 11,000 people rides the Peak Tram every day or more than 4 million annually.
- The longest bi-cable aerial ride in Asia is Ngong Ping 360\. This 25-minute, 3.5 miles ride from Tung Chung to Ngong Ping offers stunning views of Lantau Island including the Ngong Ping Village, Giant Buddha, Po Lin Monastery, and Wisdom Path.
- The Tsing Ma Bridge, with a main span of 1,377 meters (4,518 ft) and a height of 206 meters (676 ft) is the longest suspension bridge with both rail and road traffic in the world, 100m longer than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. It links Lantau island (Location of Hong Kong Airport), Tsing Yi, and Ma Wan which were all isolated islands.
- The new airport of Hong Kong is on Lantau Island. It is linked to the mainland by the Tsing Ma Bridge.
- Hong Kong Disneyland which opened in 2005, is the third Disney theme park outside the US and the first in China.
- Its 5,000 hectare Hong Kong Global Geopark of China is listed as part of UNESCO's Global Geoparks Network.
- ‘A Symphony of Lights’ is a daily light and sound show in Hong Kong which is the world’s largest permanent light and sound show lasting 14 minutes with searchlights and lasers streaming through 47 skyscrapers on both sides of Victoria harbor.
- The Big Buddha on Lantau Island, the world's tallest outdoor seated bronze statue was unveiled in 1993.
- Amazingly the outdoor covered escalator in Central is the longest in the world covering about 800m distance. Constructed in 1993, it elevates over 135m from bottom to top takes about 20 minutes.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Hong Kong has the highest IQ average of 107 in the world.
- Hong Kong’s official languages are Chinese (Spoken Cantonese) and English.
- Hong Kong has the highest life expectancy in the world with an average age of 81 for men and 86 for women.
- The union symbol of Hong Kong (with China) is the Chinese White Dolphin.
- Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than any other city in the world.
- It has the largest fleet of double-decker tramcars in the world.
- Amazingly 90% of people use public transport i.e. Around five million passengers daily.
- The Hong Kong's Peak Tram was the first rail tram in Asia in 1888\. About 11,000 people still ride the tram every day translating into 4 million people annually.
- Because the population density is so high (About 6500 people per sq Km), schools work on two shifts a day.
- It is the world's most expensive place to buy a home where HKD1.5 million buys only 500 square feet. 1 bedroom apartments in Tsim Sha Tsui are sold for almost HKD25 million.
- It ended New York's reign as the home of the world's most expensive district for retailers as luxury-brand companies like Salvatore Ferragamo, Gucci, Chanel, Aigner, Christian Dior, and Marc Jacobs competed for space here. The average annual rent at Causeway Bay is about HKD2,600 per square foot.
- A severe lack of affordable housing in Hong Kong has forced the city’s poor to live in small plywood “coffins” or iron cages, costing around US$200 a month.
- For Hong Kong Chinese lucky numbers are 2, 3, 6, 8, and 9 while 1, 4, and 7 are unlucky. Because of this, many buildings do not have the fourth floor.
- Octopus Cards allow users to ride various transports around the city. This store value card also allows purchases of fast food and groceries.
- In Hong Kong, a License to operate a taxi costs about US$ one million. Vehicles in Hong Kong are driven on the left side of the road, unlike China’s vehicles, which are driven on the right side.
- Spitting in public areas carries a penalty since 2003.
- In Hong Kong, people are not allowed to have private firework parties.
- Amazingly there are no restrictions in Hong Kong on selling alcohol to minors.
- It consumes triple the world average of tea at a total of 10 million kg annually. This equates to an average of 1.4 kg of tea per person in Hong Kong per year. The world's most expensive tea available in Hong Kong is Iron Buddha at HKD20,000 per kilogram.
- Eating noodles on one’s birthday is considered by the residents of Hong Kong to afford one a long and blessed life.
- You can get married at Mcdonald's in Hong Kong. It includes a balloon wedding dress, balloon rings, venue, and of course, food by McDonald's. This costs about $2000 USD.
- At funerals, Hong Kong residents burn items that they think will help the deceased in the afterlife, such as money.
- The amazing fact is that due to severe overcrowding and high real estate in Hong Kong, burials in public cemeteries are exhumed after 6 years. Residents consider purchasing burial plots online plots like those at the Chinese Christian Cemetery in Pokfulam which can cost more than HKD650,000 if available.
- In 2012, a Hong Kong billionaire offered $65 million to any man able to woo and marry his lesbian daughter.
- The world's most expensive bottles of wine at USD232,692 per bottle were sold at an auction in Hong Kong.
- Dancing is serious business especially among Hong Kong's rich ladies who are willing to pay for the best teachers in order to rule the city's charity ball circuit. It was reported in 2006 that one such individual paid HKD62 million for salsa dance lessons.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The government of Hong Kong is based on English Common Law and is a limited democracy. While China maintains control over its foreign and defense policies, Hong Kong is allowed freedom of governance in its financial and social affairs.
- Amazingly visitors to Hong Kong are only legally allowed to bring in 19 cigarettes, not packs.

##### Economy & Corporates

- Annual tourist arrivals are about 60 million spendings about $350 billion. It has been voted the Best Business City in the World for some years.
- The main items that Hong Kong exports are watches, clocks, textiles, and footwear.
- The services industry accounts for 93 percent of Hong Kong's GDP.
- Hong Kong has one of the world's highest per-capita concentrations of cafes and restaurants at one restaurant for every 600 people.
- Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) one of the world's top 10 busiest international passenger airports. It receives more than 70 million passengers, about 4.3 million tons of cargo, 1,000 aircraft per day. Over 100 airlines link HKIA with about 170 destinations worldwide every day.
- Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific has received the award from Skytrax as the world's best airline 4 times. No other airline in the world received as many times.

##### Inventions

- Professor Charles Kao from Hong Kong is regarded as the father of fiber optic communications which has changed the world forever. He won Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009.

##### Famous Persons

- Kung Fu and Martial arts are synonymous with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Hong Kong is home to both of these legends of World Cinema.
- Li Ka Shing is the richest man in Hong Kong. His company, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, runs one of the busiest container terminals in the world. Amazingly this company also owns the Panama Canal.

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### Twins
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Last updated: 2023-11-24T09:30:33.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Twins

1. About 1 in 30 pregnancies result in identical twins in the USA. Rate is on the increase due to infertility treatments.
2. The chances of having a twin pregnancy are increased by maternal age (After 30). Also, Tall women are more likely to have twins.
3. Fraternal twinning is genetically predisposed while Identical twinning is random. Fraternal twinning is the result of a woman releasing multiple eggs at the same time and is largely the result of a genetic predisposition. Identical twins, however, are the result of a random split of a single egg. In recent years, the number of fraternal twins has risen in response to fertility treatments, while the number of identical twin births has stayed the same. Fraternal twins don't share identical genetic material.
4. Twins can have different gestational ages when it comes to fraternal twins. One egg may be fertilized days before the other, leading to a difference in the age and development of the twins.
5. Massachusetts has the most twin births of any state in America.
6. China has the lowest rate for multiple births averaging 1 in 300.
7. Identical twins are the result of a random split of a single egg and cannot be genetically predisposed.
8. About 15 to 20% percent of all twin pregnancies will miscarry one fetus.
9. Once you have fraternal twins, you are 3 to 4 times more likely to have another set!
10. Nigeria has the highest rate of multiple births and more identical twins.
11. In fact over 50% of twins are born before 37 weeks.
12. 22 % percent of twins are left handed, compared to 10% in singletons.
13. Fraternal twin girls have twice the chance of giving birth to twins than singletons.
14. Fingerprints are not solely generated based on DNA. When identical twins are conceived, they start out with the same fingerprints due to same DNA , but during weeks six through 13 of pregnancy, as the babies start to move, they each touch the amniotic sac, and unique ridges and lines are formed on each twin's hand that result in different fingerprints.
15. For polar bears, twins aren't unusual at all. In fact, they most commonly give birth to twins, and rarely deliver single cubs or triplets.
16. It's possible that twins can have different dads. In 2009, Mia Washington gave birth to twins who have different fathers which is said to be a one-in-a-million occurrence.
17. 40% of twins invent their own special language. These languages are called autonomous languages. These autonomous languages are formed when two very close babies are learning how to speak a real language alongside one another and naturally often play and communicate with each other. The made up "languages" often disappear soon after childhood, once the children have learned a real language.
18. About 25% of identical twins are called mirror image twins. This means that they are, in fact, identical, but only in the way that your reflection in a mirror is an identical image of you. For example, if one twin has a mole under her right eye, the other will have it under her left eye. Scientists think this is due to the fertilized egg splitting later than the norm for identical twins, around nine to twelve days after fertilization.
19. Although it’s difficult for humans to differentiate between identical twins, this isn’t the case for specially trained German Shepherds, who can pick up on scent variations between both identical and non-identical twins.
20. Twins do not have to be born on the same date. In fact, they can be born surprisingly far apart.
21. Amy and Katie are twins that were born 87 days apart. Their mother's water broke a mere 23 weeks into pregnancy. Amy was born four months premature, weighing little more than one pound and fighting for her life in an incubator while Katie was struggling to survive in the womb.
22. Research on identical twins shows that they have almost perfectly matching brainwave patterns and they might just think alike.
23. Twins can celebrate their twinning in Twinsberg, Ohio. If you or your children are twins, you can head to this city in Ohio to celebrate the Twins Days Festival. You'll be amid a sea of look-alikes, with twins, triplets and multiples from all over the nation.
24. The incidence of twin types and genders are oddly symmetrical. One third of all twins born are identical, one third are same sex fraternal and one third are male/female fraternal. Of the identical twins, half are male/male and half are female/female. Of the same sex fraternal, half are male/male and half are female/female.
25. Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were four weeks old when they were separated, with each of the twins going to different adoptive families. It was later discovered that their lives shared some truly remarkable similarities. Both had a dog named Toy as kids. Both married twice, first to women named Linda and second to women named Betty. Both drove Chevys, smoked Salem cigarettes.
26. Krista and Tatiana Hogan are attached at the head and share a thalamus - the part of the brain that controls physical sensations and motor functions. As a result, the girls can see through each other’s eyes and hear each other’s thoughts. They can also feel and see what the other one does.
27. One of the easiest ways to tell identical twins apart is their belly buttons. Belly buttons are scars from the detachment of the umbilical cord, so they aren’t caused by genetics and each one is slightly unique.
28. Identical twins can make master criminals. Apart from their fingerprints, identical twins are 99.99% identical on a DNA level. In January, 2009, $6.8 million worth of jewelry was stolen in Berlin. The single suspect left behind sweat beads, which police extracted DNA from and tracked down to two people - Hassan and Abbas both identical twins. Both denied responsibility, accused the other, and because police couldn’t identify which of the twins the DNA belonged to, both ended up walking free.
29. Customers were confused how a Chinese couple could run their busy restaurant for 21 hours a day without getting tired. It turned out that the restaurant was run by two twin brothers who had married twin sisters.
30. One set of twins, Aaron and Luke Hegenberger, were born only 8 minutes apart but were born in two different millenniums.

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### Yoga
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Last updated: 2023-11-22T09:30:46.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Yoga

1. The word “yoga” is derived from the Sanskrit root Yuj meaning to yoke or join together. It refers to the yoking of a conscious subject (jiva-atman) with a Supreme.
2. In simple words, the purpose of yoga is to unite body, mind, and spirit.
3. Yoga is not a religion, it’s a way of life that leads you to spiritual and physical self-realization.
4. The first known appearance of the word “yoga”, with the same meaning as the modern term, is in the Katha Upanishad, composed about the fourth to third century BCE.
5. The swastika is a yoga symbol that comes from the Sanskrit term Swastik, meaning “that which is associated with well-being.
6. The yoga symbol “Om” is found in Hindu philosophy. It is said to be the primordial sound of the universe.
7. At the initiative of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, First International Day of Yoga was observed all over the World on 21st of June, 2015.
8. Yoga is all about changing the breathing patterns and inhaling and exhaling in rhythm with various body postures.
9. The lotus pose in yoga is a sitting pose meant to resemble the perfect symmetry and beauty of a lotus flower. Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, and Shiva God are typically shown in this pose.
10. Patanjali (150 B.C.) was an Indian sage who recorded a series aphorism on how to practice yoga in the text Yoga Sutras. He is considered the father of yoga. His treatise on Yoga is titled “Patanjali Yoga Sutra”
11. Yoga is defined as having eight branches or limbs. (Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyhara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi). Only the third limb, “Asana,” refers to postures and poses that most people think of when they hear the word “yoga.
12. Hindu leader Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) is considered a key figure in introducing yoga into Western culture and his address to the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 is said to have initiated yoga’s evolution in the West.
13. The Beatles, especially George Harrison, in fact helped introduce yoga into the West.
14. Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian yogi who taught Kriya Yoga to millions around the world.
15. Those who practice yoga traditionally do not eat meat as they believe in Ahimsa (non violence). Besides this the meat is dead and has no Pranic Value (life force) within it while the yoga practice is designed to increase your Prana (life force).
16. There are seven chakras (Energy Center) from the base of the spine up to the crown named Mooladhara, Swadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddhi, Ajna, and Sahasrar. When these are purified through yoga practice the yogi is able to retain Prana (life force) and develop spiritually and get divine powers.
17. If you do yoga, your body takes few months to change, but almost immediately your mind changes, your emotions change, your presence changes, and you develop noticeable glow on your face.
18. Yogic breathing expands your lungs. Yoga prevents osteoporosis. Yoga relives anxiety and depression better than the anti-depressant drugs. People who practice Yoga are believed to live longer than their counterparts who don’t.
19. During yoga three Bandhas (energy ‘locks) are frequently done during asana. One at the throat (Jalandhara Bandha), the other below the belly button (Uddiyana Bandha), and one near the pelvic floor (Moola Bandha). They enhance life force.
20. It is believed that about 20 million Americans regularly practice Yoga. The figure is increasing 20% per year.
21. There are about 300 million people worldwide who practice Yoga.
22. Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung was one of the first Westerners to study yoga in depth. His comments on developing higher consciousness in the East helped introduce the West to yoga concepts and practices.
23. Scholars believe that the Rig-Veda (“praise of knowledge”), about 4000 years old, is one of the oldest known texts in the world containing elements of yoga.
24. Studies show that yoga reduces the risk of heart disease by improving arterial flow. Yoga also helps treat diabetes, high blood pressure, and asthma.
25. There are over 100 different schools of yoga, including Hatha yoga, Raja yoga (“royal yoga”), Jnana yoga (“path of knowledge”), Bhakti yoga and Karma yoga, (“discipline of action”). While each school of yoga has different practices, they have a unified goal i.e. the state of pure bliss and oneness with the universe.
26. Ancient yogis believed that we only have a limited number of breaths in each life and our life span can be extended by taking slow and deep breaths.
27. Ashtanga tradition observes “Moon Days” as yoga holidays because the human body has over 70% water and the phases of the moon are thought to affect our bodies as it affects the sea.
28. Singer Madonna once claimed in an interview that she became so much “addicted” to yoga that she practiced it seven days a week.
29. Computer manufacturer Lenovo has a tablet named Yoga.
30. The Islamic clerics of Indonesia and Malaysia have banned yoga since it includes Hindu rituals and this may corrupt their Muslim faith. However, they have allowed Yoga as long as it is only for physical exercise and did not include chanting, mantras or meditation.

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### Samsung
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Last updated: 2023-11-20T09:30:42.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Samsung

1. Samsung is the world's largest IT company.
2. The founder of Samsung Lee Byung Chul had high ambitions for his company founded in 1938.
3. The company’s name choice built from the Korean words sam (three) and sung (stars) meant three stars representing something “big, numerous and powerful”.
4. Samsung initially sold groceries & noodles with just 40 employees. It added insurance & securities business in the late 1950s.
5. Samsung introduced 12 Inch Black & white TV in 1970\. The first Samsung computer came in 1983 followed by the first cellphone in 1985.
6. While the Samsung logo changed a few times prior to the 70s, after this, it has changed only three times until the current logo introduced in 1993.
7. In 1995, Chairman Kun hee Lee was frustrated with the product quality and lack of commitment for this. With the aim of creating a greater understanding of the importance of products’ quality, he gathered 150,000 phones, TV, and fax machines in piles. Lee and his board of directors then proceeded to destroy all these products, even employing heavy to break the cases and screens. Lee made sure that his 2000 employees watched the show marking a new era of superior quality. In the process, $50 million worth of hardware was destroyed. The quick growth and global success have continued since then.
8. Samsung was in fact pioneer in introducing SCH-100 in 1996, using CDMA technology. It had some real advantages over GSM.
9. In 1999, Samsung was the first pioneer to build a watch that also doubled as a phone called the Samsung SPH-WP10 which could not only tell time, it also could make phone calls for up to 90 minutes. After that, the battery would run out.
10. Samsung introduced the first “PDA phone” with a color display in the US market in 2001 called the SPH-i300.
11. Amazingly the Samsung Group has 59 unlisted companies and 19 listed. They often compete with one another. These companies range from constructions to financial services, shipbuilding, and medical. It employs over 320,000 people across 84 countries.
12. Samsung overtook Japanese Sony as the most popular electronics brand in 2004.
13. Samsung is currently the largest smartphone manufacturer shipping about 335 million smartphones followed by Apple and Huawei.
14. Samsung shipping division builds 30 large ships per year. It has a massive four million square foot shipyard.
15. Samsung’s construction division in fact built the Burj Khalifa the tallest building in the world. It has also built Taipei 101 & Petronas Tower-2 as primary Contractors.
16. Samsung is known for very aggressive advertising more than any other company. Its advertising budget is mindboggling $14 billion for a revenue of more than $300 billion.
17. Amazingly CPU chips for all Apple 4,45,5,5s are solely manufactured by Samsung. They number about 600 Million a year.
18. 70% of smartphones in the world contain DRAM manufactured by Samsung. Since 1993, Samsung Electronics has been the largest producer of memory chips in the world.
19. Samsung lists 145 products on its web site under the "cell phones" category. In contrast, Apple has three phones in two different colors.
20. To make sure the best quality products, 90% of the company’s products are manufactured in Samsung’s own factories.
21. One out of every three smartphones sold all over the world bears the Samsung brand on it.
22. Samsung accounts for 17 percent of Korea's Gross Domestic Product.
23. Amazingly Samsung has been the top-selling TV maker in the world for the last ten straight years having about 28% market share.
24. There are 100 Samsung TVs being sold every minute.
25. Samsung is also the No. 1 manufacturer of refrigerators in the world.
26. Samsung Techwin made the first fighter jet of South Korea named KF-16\. It also manufactures helicopters & jet engines.
27. Samsung Techwin also built K9 thunder which is an anti-infantry tank that can target up to 40 km.
28. Samsung has also built SGR A1 robotic machine gun that can identify & shoot a target 3.2 km away.
29. Samsung owns South Korea's largest theme park called Everland.
30. Samsung donates $100 million to a non-profit medical center every year which employs 1200 doctors & 2300 nurses.
31. There are 33 Samsung’s R&D centers all over the world.
32. In fact, Samsung Group produces around one-fifth of South Korea's total exports.
33. Samsung has 60 % of the mobile market of South Korea while apple has 14%. In contrast in the US, Apple has a 40% share while Samsung has a 26%.
34. Samsung spends an amazing $40 million daily for research & development.
35. Samsung files about 5000 patents in the US (2nd) and about 2500 (1 st) in European Union every year.

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### Chicken
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Last updated: 2023-11-18T09:30:04.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Chicken

1. The chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus, is a domestic subspecies of the red junglefowl, a member of the pheasant family that is native to Asia.
2. It is believed by scientists that chickens were domesticated about 8000 years ago in India & China.
3. Amazingly chickens were at first domesticated for the cruel “sport” of cockfighting and not for food.
4. There are over 25 billion of them in the world, that's more than any other bird and about 4 times the population of the world. About 450 million hens are used a year for eggs.
5. More chickens are raised and killed for food than all other land animals combined.
6. Amazingly the chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.
7. Chicken contains 266% more fat than it did 40 years ago.
8. 8 billion chickens are consumed in the U.S. every year. 22 million chickens are consumed every day.
9. Chickens are able to remember and recognize over 100 individuals.
10. Chickens have full-color vision. They have no color blindness which is associated with many animals.
11. Chickens experience rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which in fact means they can dream just like we do.
12. Chickens are just like human mothers who talk to their babies during pregnancy. Amazingly a mother hen begins to teach calls to her chicks before they even hatch.
13. A hen can lay more than 300 eggs a year.
14. A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times in a day. This is to make sure that the yolk does not stick to the shell.
15. If the white of the egg is cloudy, it is fresh. The record number of yolks in an egg is nine!
16. A freshly laid egg is 105 degrees Fahrenheit. The record number of eggs laid in one day by a chicken is seven.
17. Because of their sensitivity to infrared light, chickens see daylight about 45 minutes before humans do.
18. The color of a hen earlobes will usually determine the color of the egg shell. Farmers know hens with red or darker colored earlobes are most likely to lay brown eggs and hens with lighter colored or white earlobes will usually lay white eggs.
19. A chicken heart beats more than 300 times a minute.
20. The chicken can fly for a limited period. The record flight time for a chicken is 13 seconds.
21. The amazing fact is that a chicken's beak can bleed.
22. Chickens don't pee. It is just mixed into the poop.
23. A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.
24. Amazingly chickens have more bones in their necks than giraffes!
25. Chickens have evolved a very sophisticated social behaviour with a dominance hierarchy where higher individuals dominate subordinates. This is where the term pecking order comes from!
26. The dominant male (cockerel) protects the females (hens) and they choose to feed close to him for safety.
27. Chickens perform over 30 types of complex vocalization with meanings varying from calling youngsters, alarm calls, and alerting others to the whereabouts of food.
28. Chickens have different alarm calls for specific types of predators, which allow them to know the type of threat they face and what sort of anti-predation behaviour to perform.
29. Amazingly chickens are able to comprehend that when an object is taken away and hidden from them, it still exists. In contrast young human children are unable to understand this.
30. Hens are extremely affectionate and caring mothers. In Ancient Rome, saying ‘you were raised by a hen’ was really a compliment.
31. Chickens in fact can’t taste sweetness in foods but they can detect salt, and most choose to avoid it.
32. Chicken hypnosis also called “tonic immobility” refers to a sort of catatonic state triggered by fear in chickens. Chickens can be tricked into this state by holding the chicken on the ground and drawing a straight line in front of its beak. The chicken will focus on the line and become hypnotized, remaining completely motionless even when its legs are released. The chicken can remain in this trance like state for anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes.
33. The male chicken was chosen to be the mascot of the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
34. Avian influenza (bird flu) is extremely contagious and fatal for chickens. The highly pathogenic form of the disease can kill most of the birds in a flock in just 48 hours.
35. The chicken was the first bird to have its genome sequenced, in 2004.

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### Paris
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Last updated: 2023-11-16T09:30:15.000Z
#### 45 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Paris

1. Paris is the political, cultural, and intellectual capital of France.
2. Paris is the single most visited city in the world, visited by about 25 million people per year.
3. Paris was founded in the 3rd century BC by a Celtic people called the Parisii, who gave the city its name.
4. By the 12th century, Paris was the largest city in the western world and also a prosperous trading center.
5. The oldest house in Paris is located at 51 de la rue de Montmorency and dates from 1407.
6. The first book printed in France, Epistolae (“Letters”), by Gasparinus de Bergamo, was published in Paris in 1470.Since then, Paris has been the center of the French publishing industry.
7. Almost all the books published in Paris in the Middle Ages were in Latin, rather than French.
8. Paris was one of the first European cities to adopt gas street lighting. In 1820, 56,000 gas lamps were placed to light up the streets presenting a breathtaking night view of Paris and gained the nick name “City of Lights”
9. The City of Paris largely retains its one and a half century old boundaries, with an area of 105 km² and a population under 2.5 million.
10. The Eiffel Tower is 276m high and was created by Alexandre Gustav Eiffel in 1889\. He also built the internal frame of the Statue of Liberty in 1885\. It was to be taken down after the World Fair of 1889\. It has about 2.5 million rivets in it’s frame.
11. Amazingly at the start of the 20th century, Paris had a zoo full of confined humans brought in from their colonies in Madagascar, India, China, Sudan, Congo, Tunisia and Morocco. Over a million people used to visit this zoo.
12. There is a Statue of Liberty in Paris that faces the Statue of Liberty in America, symbolizing the friendship between the two countries. The size is only 1/3 of the original. It was given to the French people in 1889 by the American community in Paris standing on a small island in the Seine.
13. During WWI, France built a ‘Fake Paris’ near the capital city to confuse German pilots.
14. Guy de Maupassant (the famed French writer) ate lunch at base of Eiffel Tower almost each day reasoning that he hated the Eiffel Tower the most and that was the only place in the whole Paris from which he could not see it.
15. Paris and Rome are exclusive sister cities, seeing no other city as equal counterparts. The two use the motto: “Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris.”
16. It took 666 years to build the Louvre. It was originally built as a palace but is now the most visited art museum in the world.
17. Louvre houses over 35,000 works of art and 380,000 objects and would take 10 months to look at every single item. The famous Mona Lisa painting is on display here.
18. Before the Nazi armies invaded Paris during World War 2, the Louvre was vacated and its contents were secretly distributed among wealthy French citizens, who hid them in their houses around the country.
19. Hitler gave orders to destroy Paris on the eve of the allied liberation in 1944, but the Nazi General in control of Paris intentionally ignored the order saving the city.
20. By law, no buildings cannot exceed six stories in Paris to make sure that ample sunshine is available to all.
21. The French Resistance cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower to keep Hitler from visiting it during his visit after Paris fell. When faced with the prospect of climbing more than 1500 stairs, he opted out.
22. There is a man in Paris, who invites complete strangers to his house for a dinner party each week. He has been doing this for more than thirty years. You got to register on his website first to be invited.
23. Right before World War II, Madame de Florian fled to southern France, locking her apartment and leaving behind everything she owned. She never returned, and for over seventy years, the room collected dust as rent was paid faithfully on time. She died at 91\. A painting worth 2 million Euros was discovered inside.
24. The Hollywood Movie Count of Monte Cristo was likely based on the true life events of a man, who was wrongfully imprisoned by his friends, found a hidden treasure whose whereabouts were revealed to him by a dying priest, and later returned to Paris under a false name to pay vengeance on his accusers.
25. There is a population of kangaroos living in the wild in the township of Émancé, about an hour outside of Paris which have descended from a breeding population that escaped during a failed burglary attempt at an animal park in the 1970s.
26. When the mummy of Ramesses II (Egyptian king) was flown to Paris in 1974, it was issued a passport that listed his occupation as “King (deceased)”.
27. Amazing fact is that the largest French-speaking city in the world is not Paris or Montreal but Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a population of over 10 million.
28. Paris is the home of the world’s largest cosmetics company, L’Oréal, and 3 of the 5 top global makers of luxury fashion accessories; Louis Vuitton, Hermés and Cartier.
29. The Paris sewer system in fact matches the streets above it. It is cleaned by rolling giant stone balls down it.
30. All the trees in Paris are referenced and measured. And there are about 500,000 of them.
31. Each summer, the banks of the Seine are turned into a beach. Tons of sand are brought up the river by barge and spread along the little road that runs alongside the Seine. A suspended swimming pool over the river provides a safe swimming area. The concept was invented in 2002 to cater for those who could not afford to get away to the beach.
32. Amazingly in the whole of Paris, there is only one stop sign, situated at the exit of a building company in the rich 16th arrondissement (Administrative Division). The traffic system in Paris is mainly based on giving way to those coming from the right.
33. Notre Dame Cathedral, gets even more visitors than the Eiffel tower. The main bell in the tower, called Emmanuel, weighs more than 13 tons.
34. There are 6,100 streets in Paris shortest being just 5.75 meters.
35. Paris has 328 metro stations in the city center and 384 stations in total.
36. Amazingly Paris has 300 kilometers of underground catacombs. The Catacombs were created about 200 years ago because the graveyards had become overcrowded and smelly. The bones were all moved by cart at night after being blessed by a priest and carefully stacked and arranged in the old limestone mines beneath the city. It took 70 long years.
37. To visit catacombs, you have to go down a spiral staircase which takes you 65ft beneath the City.
38. Paris is the fashion capital of the world. However, any woman walking down the street could be arrested for wearing pants until January 31, 2013\. The bizarre law was to ban pants was created in 1800, after the French Revolution lasting for 213 years in the books.
39. There are around 9,100 open terrace restaurants, bars and cafes in Paris. Paris also has about 1,800 bakeries.
40. Disneyland Paris which opened in 1992 attracts 15 million people every year.
41. Disneyland Paris has been visited by 250 million people so far. It contains 2 amazing theme parks (Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park), 7 Disney themed hotels, shops, a nightclub and a cinema complex.
42. Plaster of Paris, used to make a cast if you fracture your bone was invented in Paris. It comes from a powdered rock called gypsum plentiful in the hills around Paris which used to be mixed with water, to create miniature sculptures before casting their masterpieces in bronze.
43. Paris authorities regularly gives out medals to parents who have successfully raised several children with dignity.
44. Amazingly there are more dogs in Paris than there are children, around 300,000 dogs. They are properly cared for.
45. China tried to build a city that was a replica of Paris, right down to the replica Eiffel Tower, but now it has turned out to be a ghost town.

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### Ear
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Last updated: 2023-11-14T09:30:07.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Ear

1. Our ear has 3 bones that are so small that they can be placed together on a penny. These three bones are called stapes, malleus, and incus. The stapes is the smallest of these three bones. These bones are also called hammer, anvil, and stirrup respectively.
2. The middle ear is connected to the throat using a tube named the Eustachian tube. This tube is responsible for striking equilibrium between the body pressure and the atmospheric pressure.
3. Ear infections are more common in children because of their developing immune systems and their Eustachian tubes being at a more horizontal angle than adults.
4. The human ear is divided into three parts – the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. Each part has separate functions. The outer ear is the visible part of the ear and its function is to direct the sound further inside. The outer ear ends where the eardrum starts. The area after the eardrum is the middle ear which ends at what is known as oval window. This middle ear consists of the three tiny bones as above.
5. The sound that enters the outer ear makes the eardrum vibrate. These vibrations are picked up by these three bones which actually form a bridge. The last bone is the stapes which transmits the vibrations to the oval window. The middle ear is the place where the sound gets amplified.
6. The sound transmitted to the oval window moves into the inner ear which is actually a network of passages and tubes often referred to as ‘labyrinth’. This inner ear has a small snail shell-like organ known as cochlea where the sound is transformed into electrical impulses. These impulses are then sent to brain’s auditory center using auditory nerves and we can hear!
7. In fact, in inner ear, the sound waves moves into a liquid medium. The tiny hair cells about 20,000 in number present in inner ear, react to the sound waves traveling through the liquid medium. This causes the hair cells to release chemicals that are carried by auditory nerves to the brain.
8. The inner ear is located inside the temporal bone, one of the hardest bone in the human body for protection. The inner ear is no larger than a pencil eraser in circumference.
9. Ears, like garbage cans, pick up all sounds and auditory symbols from the atmosphere and send them to the brain which is the higher center that makes sense of the useful sounds and neglects the rest.
10. Your ears are more than just necessary for hearing. They also help you keep your balance.
11. Sometimes if you have damage to your ears, your perception of taste may be affected because the nerve called the Chorda Tympani which run through the ear and connect the taste buds on the front of your tongue to your brain could be damaged.
12. We might get strange feelings in ear or even go slightly deaf when we go high up on mountains because the Eustachian tube fails to maintain pressure resulting in dizziness, discomfort, ear pain etc.
13. Amazingly human ear functions even when a person sleeps. The ears will continue to pick up sound but brain blocks them out.
14. Human ears are self-cleaning organs. They produce what is known as ear wax medically called cerumen which is produced by tiny pores present in ear canal. There are tiny hairs in ear canal which are known as cilia. Cilia are responsible pushing the wax out. However too much wax impairs hearing abilities.
15. Ear wax protects the ear from dust and friction. Aggressively cleaning ear wax may lead to deafness by damage to tympanic membrane.
16. Amazing fact is that our ear drum is smaller than 0.7 inches in width and it moves less than a billionth of an inch while hearing to transmit sound.
17. In ancient China it was believed that long earlobes signify long life while thick earlobes signify wealth. We long ears of Buddha and in images of ancient Chinese emperors. It is believed that Liu Bei, the founder of minor Han Dynasty in AD 221 had ears so long that they reached his shoulders and he was capable of seeing his own ears!
18. Piercing earlobes and ornamenting them with jewellry has been common practice around the world for thousands of years for both for cultural and cosmetic reasons.
19. It was widely believed among sailors that piercing one ear will improve their vision.
20. Humans are capable of hearing sounds as low as 20 Hz. and as high as 20,000 Hz.
21. The number one cause of hearing loss is exposure to excessively loud sounds (85 decibels or higher). Your hearing can be damaged permanently even after a single incident of exposure to extremely loud noise (shotgun blast, explosion, etc.).
22. Sitting in front of the speakers at a rock concert can expose you to 120 decibels, which will begin to damage hearing in only 7 1/2 minutes.
23. Not all living creatures hear with ears. Snakes use jawbones, fish respond to pressure changes, and male mosquitoes use antennae.
24. Many animals here much better than us. In World War I parrots were kept on the Eiffel Tower in Paris. When the parrots heard enemy aircraft, they warned every one of the approaching danger long before any human ear would hear it.
25. The strongest known ears belong to Manjit Singh. This man pulled a 7.5-ton passenger aircraft with his ears for a distance of 13 feet. He wore ear harnesses and ropes were attached to them. These ropes were in turn attached to aircraft.

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### Diet Fibre
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Last updated: 2023-11-12T09:30:29.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Diet Fibre

1. Fibre is a non-digestible, plant-derived carbohydrate that includes the storage and cell wall parts of the plant. Fibre is referred to as “nature’s broom” because it helps “clean out” the intestinal tract.
2. Amazingly fibre is found only in plant foods. Meat and dairy products have no fibre.
3. Amazingly fibre passes through the human digestive tract essentially intact without digestion or metabolism and has little to no caloric value. However, it provides a “time-release” of vitamins, minerals, fats, and sugars during digestion, which help optimize their metabolism.
4. The “Father of Medicine,” Hippocrates (4th century B.C.) was one of the first physicians to argue for the benefits of fibre in the form bran to help keep the large intestine healthy.
5. It has been noted that the emergence of common diseases occurred in the U.S. and England after 1890, when a new milling technique removed fibre from whole-grain flour to produce white flour.
6. 100 years ago, meat, fat, and sugar between them contributed only 15% of the total number of calories in an average diet. The figure now is about 60%. The quantity of fibre has dropped an amazing 90%.
7. In fact, the most common abdominal emergency in the West is appendicitis. In USA about 3,00,000 such surgeries are done every year. A low-fibre diet increases the risk of appendicitis.
8. There are two types of fibre both essential for us namely soluble fibre, which dissolves in water, and insoluble fibre, which does not dissolve in water. They are naturally found in plant foods such as beans, seeds, nuts, vegetables, fruits, and whole grains.
9. Most people only eat about 15 grams of fibre a day but recommended amount is about 20-35 grams per day.
10. The National Cancer institute concludes that for every 10-gram increase in fibre intake, risk of death drops 15% in women and 10% in men.
11. Too much fiber can also cause negative health effects especially when fiber intake is more than 50 grams per day leading to diarrhoea and bloating, which can interfere with the body’s absorption of other minerals.
12. For a food to be a “Good Source” fibre means that it has to have at least 3 grams of fibre per serving. An “Excellent Source” of fibre means it has to have at least 5 grams of fibre per serving.
13. The more fibre a person includes in his or her diet, the more water he or she will need to keep the fibre moving through the digestive tract.
14. Fibre can help with overeating. Fibre takes longer to chew, which gives the body time to let a person know when he or she is full. Research shows that eating an additional 14 grams of fibre each day resulted in a 10% decrease in calorie intake.
15. Insoluble fibre (“roughage” fibre) acts like a sponge, capable of absorbing up to 15 times its own weight in water and making a person feel full longer.
16. Insoluble fibre attaches to waste in the body, which makes waste bulkier and easier to pass which can prevent haemorrhoids, and some types of cancer.
17. Insoluble sources of fibre include fruits with skins, uncooked vegetables, nuts, legumes, bran, brown rice, and whole-grain flour.
18. Grains offer the most fibre. The best sources are whole grains and concentrated grain products. Choosing 100% whole-grain bread for a sandwich can add 3-5 grams of fibre per serving. Whole wheat has nearly four times the fibre component of brown rice.
19. Soluble fibre in fact slows down the absorption of sugar and fats in the blood, which helps regulate blood sugar levels.
20. Soluble fibre binds with and removes cholesterol from the blood stream, which helps lower LDL, or “bad” cholesterol.
21. Common sources of soluble fibre include oats, oat bran, barley, dried beans, peas, and certain fruits and vegetables, such as strawberries, apples, potatoes and citrus.
22. Many types of soluble fibre can act as prebiotics that feed healthy gut bacteria which, in turn, contributes to colon health.
23. Cooking does not remove the fibre from food. Additionally, drying food also does not remove fibre from food.
24. Lentils 1 cup provides about 15 gm of fibre. 1 cup of peas will provide about 9 gm.
25. 1 cup of raspberries can provide about 8 gm fibre. 1 whole pear gives about 5.5 gm. Medium apple, 1 cup of carrot or 1 cup of spinach has about 4.5 gm fibre.
26. Research shows that fibre can lower the risk of prostate cancer progression and decrease levels of testosterone, which helps decrease tumour growth. If people doubled their fibre intake, they could lower their risk of colon cancer by 40%.
27. Foods rich in fibre help prevent diverticulosis, which is the formation of intestinal pouches. Fibre contributes to the bulk of stool in the colon, which means less forceful contractions are needed to move the stool and intestinal pouches aren’t so readily formed.
28. The average amount of time it takes food to travel through the body in a healthy adult is about 3 days. For someone who is constipated, it’s 10 days. In the elderly, it may take 2 weeks.
29. In countries where fibre content is high, such as in many third-world countries, food will take only 1½ days to travel through the body. The longer it takes for stools to pass through the bowel, the higher the risk for developing gastrointestinal diseases, such as diverticular disease, ulcers, and colon cancer.
30. Fruit and vegetable juices have hardly any fibre because the skin is removed to make the juice. It is more healthful to eat whole fruit and vegetables than to drink fruit and vegetable juices.

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### Stomach
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Last updated: 2023-11-10T09:30:47.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Stomach

1. The stomach is found in the left upper part of the belly. The stomach is about 12 inches long and is 6 inches wide at its widest point.
2. An adult stomach can hold around 1.5 liters of food/drink. However, amazingly it can expand to hold as much as 4 liters of food at a time.
3. Once swallowed, the food travels down through the esophagus to the stomach, taking about 7 seconds to get there.
4. One of the most amazing facts is that the human stomach is fully expendable. After the stomach is removed, a person can survive.
5. It is a myth that the stomach is responsible for digesting food all the food. Only partial digestion takes place in the stomach acting upon food already softened by salivary amylase. The rest of the digestion is carried out by our small intestine.
6. Food stays in the stomach for around two to five hours.
7. Once a stomach is totally removed, a process called Total Gastrectomy, the surgeons attach the esophagus to the small intestine directly. So, whatever you consume goes to the small intestine, where it gets digested. Only this time, the small intestine needs to work really hard to digest.
8. Stomach is the first defense against harmful microbes that enter our body with the food. Acid in the stomach tries to eliminate those microbes.
9. The most amazing thing is that the stomach produces industrial grade concentrated hydrochloric acid which can eat through bones and metals. In fact if put on our palm , it can really burn through.
10. Inside our stomach is a layer of mucus membrane layer known as the mucosa. This mucosa has two types of cells , the parietal cells and goblet cells. The goblet cells are the ones that produce very large quantities of mucus, which covers the entire mucosa. This mucus is immune to acidic corrosion and hence, the stomach itself remains immune to the corrosive acid.
11. The mucus that actually protects our stomach gets replaced every 2 weeks. Thus every 2 weeks, the stomach wears a new mucus dress.
12. Amazingly the parietal cells are the ones that produce about 3 liters of hydrochloric acid each day.
13. Stomach also produces two other types of cells , the G Cells and the Gastric Chief Cells which produce proenzymes . Proenzymes are actually enzymes in inactive state which doesn’t harm the stomach wall.
14. Inactive proenzymes become active only after entering the stomach cavity giving rise to enzymes which are corrosive enough to damage stomach wall but are protected by mucus lining.
15. Now since the enzymes are in active state, they are pretty much corrosive and capable of damaging the stomach. But again, the mucus lining saves the day!
16. The hydrochloric acid in the stomach helps to break down food into smaller pieces for the enzymes to act efficiently. The acid also activates the proenzymes. Enzymes can work optimally under the ideal pH level 2 maintained by the hydrochloric acid.
17. When the acid and enzyme laced food enters the small intestine from the stomach, the small intestine gets exposed to the corrosive acid with no mucus protection. Protection is provided by HCO3 , a bicarbonate alkaline from pancreas which converts acidic environment to alkaline one preventing corrosion of intestine.
18. The main proenzyme known as the pepsinogen released by stomach cells is activated into the enzyme known as pepsin by HCL. Pepsin breaks down the big protein molecules. This is chemical digestion.
19. Due to mechanical action of the stomach , the food is mechanically churned around and converted into smaller pieces producing thick paste called chyme which is gradually released into the small intestine through pyloric sphincter.
20. Peptic ulcers are painful sores on the lining of stomach affecting about 50 million Americans each year. Stress and spicy foods were believed to be culprits for almost 100 years but in 1982 Australian researchers Barry Marshall and Robin Warren found that the real culprit behind ulcers is the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which burrows into the stomach's mucosal lining. Now peptic ulcers are managed better.
21. Laundry detergents often contain several different classes of enzymes, including proteases, amylases and lipases. The human digestive system also employs these types of enzymes to break down food. Proteases break down proteins, amylases break down carbohydrates and lipases break down fats. Our saliva contains both amylases and lipases, and our stomach and small intestine has proteases.
22. Stomach also blushes when we blush because adrenaline released by the body dilates blood vessels including that of stomach. As the blood supply increases , our stomach lining appears red.
23. We often hear our stomachs rumble (called borborygmi) which is normal. The sounds are generated by a unidirectional wave like movement called peristalsis in the esophagus , stomach and the small intestine which pushes the food down.
24. Every time we drink carbonated water or eat some food, some air goes right into the stomach. Burping is the easiest way of getting rid of this air.
25. If you turn upside down while eating or after eating, the food will never fall out of your stomach back into esophagus and then out of your mouth. In fact gravity has no role to play here. This is prevented by because the wave like movement takes place only in one direction, i.e. from esophagus to stomach and from stomach further down in small intestine.
26. It is a very popular myth that thin people have smaller stomachs than big people, but it isn't true.The stomach is really the same size in everyone. What changes is the food thermostat i.e. the point where your stomach feels full.
27. The type of food you eat does matter in how hungry you still feel afterward. Foods high in sugars are digested very quickly, making you feel hungry faster, while foods high in protein and fats digest much slower, allowing you to go longer before feeling hungry.
28. Some animals have stomachs with multiple compartments. Cows and other "ruminants" including giraffes, deer, and cattle have four-chambered stomachs, which help them digest their plant-based food.
29. Some animals including seahorses, lungfishes, and platypuses have no stomach. Their food goes from the esophagus straight to the intestines.
30. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

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### Norway
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Last updated: 2023-11-08T09:30:40.000Z
#### 55 Amazing Facts About Norway

##### Land & Geography

- The name “Norway” means “path to the North”. The country of Norway is officially known as the Kingdom of Norway. Norway is one of the wealthiest and also one of the most peaceful countries in the World. Norway is the 6th largest country in Europe but only ranks 28th as far as population.
- It gained independence from Sweden in 1905\. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a population of 5.08 million people. The literacy rate is 100% and life expectancy is 81.5 years.
- Norway shares a border with Russia, Finland, and Sweden.
- Norway along with Sweden and Denmark make up Scandinavia. Norway is one of the members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
- Norway has in *fact* over 20,000 km of coastline.
- There are *amazing* 450,000 lakes in Norway . In *fact* only about 200 or so are 4 square miles or more in size.
- Norway is often described as the "Land of the Midnight Sun", because during the summer months of late May through to late July the sun never completely drops below the horizon in northern Arctic Circle areas of the country and other areas have around 20 hours of sunlight a day. However, it is the opposite in winter.
- Norway is home to a number of Arctic animals such as reindeer, wolverines, polar bear, the puffin bird and the Arctic fox.

##### History

- In 1251, Henry III of England was given a polar bear by the King of Norway. He kept it in the Tower of London, on a long chain so that it could swim in the Thames.
- King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, who was the daughter of a cloth merchant. They both later married and she became the Queen of Norway.

##### Places 

- Norway is home to the world's longest, the Laerdal road tunnel with a length of 24.5 km's (15.3 miles) which has become a tourist attraction. It is an ordinary two-lane undivided highway. There is a separate ventilation tunnel to a mountain valley above. To reduce mental strain and claustrophobia and also to have turn around points the tunnel has three large caves with blue or green light. It was built from 1995 to 2000 between Oslo and Bergen.
- Norway also has the world’s deepest underwater tunnel at 287 meters deep.
- The archipelago of Lofoten in Norway is north of the Arctic Circle. Yet because of the largest positive temperature anomaly in the world relative to latitude, it is teeming with life and has the largest deep water coral reef in the word.
- The Troll A gas production platform is the largest object ever moved by humans. The platform is 472 meters high (of which 369 under water) and weighs about 656 million kilograms. This huge structure is two times heavier than Empire State Building in NY City and is mostly a concrete structure that contains reinforcing steel corresponding to 10 times the entire Eiffel tower.

##### People Customs & Culture

- *Amazingly* hundreds of different dialects in Norway are so completely different to written Norwegian that even natives have difficulties understanding people from other parts of the country.
- The relative number of English speakers is higher in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands than it is in Canada.
- In total, about 1 million Norwegians left for America around 1900, when Norway had about 2 million inhabitants. There are as many Norwegian descendants living in the US as there are Norwegians living in Norway, especially the states of North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
- The Sami are an indigenous people of northern Scandinavia who have been living in the northern territories for over 10,000 years. They are known for their colorful clothes and herding of reindeer.
- As per Encyclopedia Britannica, Norwegians read more than any other population in the world.
- It's *amazing* that education is completely free in Norway including college education.
- Norwegians are one of the only people in the world to hunt whales.
- Norwegians do not typically smile or start talking to a stranger on the bus. In Norway it’s not considered rude to bump into someone at the supermarket and not apologize. Equally, it’s not considered rude not to say thank you or refrain from smiling back at strangers.
- Norway has some of the world's highest petrol prices, despite being one of biggest oil exporters in the world.
- To encourage more men to assume a greater share of care-giving responsibilities, Norwegian law states that 14 weeks of parental leave is reserved for fathers. Norway is the first country to introduce compulsory paternity leave.
- It can cost in the thousands for Norwegian teenagers to get their license (minimum age 18).
- If caught driving under the influence, there is an automatic 30 days in jail, lose your license for a year, and pay fines up to 10% of your annual income! They are allowed back on the roads after a year, provided they pass the proper driving tests, which may cost a further US$ 5000 – 7000.
- Speeding fines are often more serious than if a person is caught with drugs.
- The people of Oslo, Norway donate the official Trafalgar Square Christmas tree in London every year in gratitude to the people of London for their assistance during WWII.
- Food stores cannot be open on Sundays. If you need groceries then, you have to get them at the local gas station, which are allowed to sell food on Sundays. Norway’s national dish is frozen Pizza.
- Food prices are so high in Norway that many people travel to Sweden to buy their groceries. These purchases amount to over 2 billion USD every year.
- Many police stations in Norway are only manned during office hours. This is a result of inadequate funding from the Government. Many police stations are actually closed during the weekends.
- You can buy beer in grocery stores but you can only buy wine and hard liquor from stores called Vinmonopolet (It means Wine Monololy)which closes quite early . There are only one or two in each city, and none in the countryside towns.
- If you own a TV in Norway, you have to pay an annual fee of $300 USD. Failure to pay this licence could result in a hefty fine.
- It’s illegal in Norway to buy sex, but it’s not illegal to sell sex. This means that a female prostitute will not be prosecuted for selling sex, but her male customer will be prosecuted for buying sex.

##### Politics/ Legal

- Norway has voted against membership in the EU several times, but has implemented more EU directives than any other EU member state.
- The national day of Norway is officially called 'Norwegian Constitution Day'. It is celebrated on May 17th to commemorate Norway's constitution of 1814.
- Infrastructure projects have not been given the go-ahead because the Government is worried that this might ‘damage the economy’ by putting upward pressure on interest rates. *Amazing* result is that one of the richest nations on earth has only got a total of 300 kilometres of four lane highways due to this unwillingness to spend money. This leads to traffic congestion in big cities.
- Norway has the World’s biggest sovereign fund, where it has been saving almost all the money it gets from the sale of oil and is worth almost a trillion dollars.
- Norway has a minimum security luxurious prison where inmates are almost free to do as they wish. The criminals in prison are among Norway’s worst but it has the lowest rate of reoffending in Europe, if not the world. In one of the prisons in Norway inmates can go fishing and swim at the beach. They also have TVs, computers and showers in their cells.
- *Amazing Fact* is that the Norwegian police force often doesn’t fire a single shot in the whole year.
- The Norwegian Government spent US$ 7 million on the construction of an underground doomsday vault (seed vault) on the arctic island of Svalbard. The purpose of the doomsday vault is to preserve plants seeds from around the world seeds from all possible threats such as war and disasters.
- Farmers are being subsidised to the tune of US$ 3 billion each year by the Government, and they are obliged to abide by Government quotas which regulates how much milk and meat they can sell on a yearly basis. The subsidies are the main factor behind the country’s exuberant food prices that Norwegian consumer are forced to pay.
- In 1999, Norway granted refuge to an U.S. drug smuggler because the Norwegian Supreme Court declared that U.S. prisons do not meet “minimum humanitarian standards.”
- Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo annually since 1901 for outstanding work in making or keeping peace. The Norwegian King Harald V is also present at the award ceremony in Oslo. Although Alfred Nobel was a Swede (1833-1896) he decided that world famous Nobel Peace Prize would be voted for by a Norwegian Committee every year. Other Nobel Prizes are awarded at ceremonies in Stockholm, sweden.

##### Economy 

- Norway gets 98-99% of its electricity from hydroelectric power, more than any other country.
- *Amazingly* IKEA names sofas, coffee tables, bookshelves, media storage and doorknobs after places in Sweden; beds, wardrobes and hall furniture after places in Norway; carpets after places in Denmark and dining tables and chairs after places in Finland.
- *Amazingly* in Norway, income and wealth are public record, easily viewable online.

##### Inventions

- The paper clip was invented by a Norwegian inventor called Johan Vaaler in 1899.

##### Literature

- The English words with Norvegian origin are ski , bag , equipment , club , sky , are, they and flat.

##### Famous People

- Actress Marilyn Monroe was of Norwegian descent. Paris Hilton is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton who founded the Hilton hotel chain and he came from the Hilton farm near Oslo airport. Lance Armstrong the reputed cyclist is of Norwegian descent.
- Norwegian Roald Amundsen was the first person to reach the South Pole on Dec 14 ,1911 . He placed a Norwegian flag on the South Pole, a month before England’s Captain Scott died trying to do so.

##### Sport

- Norway is the birthplace of modern skiing. The word “ski” is Norwegian for “piece of wood”.
- A Norwegian called Sondre Norheim invented ‘modern day’ skis that allow skiers to jump and turn without losing their skis.
- Norway has won the largest number of Gold, Silver and Bronze medals of all countries in the Winter Olympics.
- The Brazilian national football team has never defeated the Norwegian national team. This is a source of great pride and joy for die hard Norwegian football fans. The two teams have only met three times, with Norway winning twice and drawing once.

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### Pigeon
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Last updated: 2023-11-06T09:30:21.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Pigeon

1. The word ‘pigeon’ comes from the Latin word ‘pipio’, meaning ‘young bird’. The word then passed into Old French as ‘pijon’ and later on the English name ‘pigeon’ was derived.
2. Pigeons and humans have in fact lived in close proximity for thousands of years.
3. During human history the pigeon has adopted many roles ranging from symbols of gods and goddesses through to sacrificial victims, messengers, pets, food and even war heroes!
4. Pigeons are incredibly complex and intelligent animals. They are one of only species to pass the ‘mirror test’, which is a test of self recognition.
5. They can also recognize each letter of the alphabet, differentiate between photographs, and can even distinguish different humans within a photograph.
6. Pigeons are renowned for their outstanding navigational abilities. They in fact use the sun as a guide and also have an internal ‘magnetic compass’. They are known to use landmarks as signposts and will travel along man-made roads and motorways, even changing direction at junctions.
7. Pigeons can travel 400-600 miles away from its home and can amazingly return within the day.
8. The earliest large scale communication network using pigeons as messengers was established in Syria and Persia around the 5th century BC.
9. In the 12th century AD, the city of Baghdad and all the main towns and cities in Syria and Egypt were linked by messages carried by pigeons. This was in fact the sole source of communication.
10. In Roman times the pigeon was used to carry results of sporting events, such as the Olympic Games, and this is why white doves are released at the start of the Olympic Games today.
11. In India during British times pigeon post service was very active. Amazingly, the last ‘pigeon post’ service was abandoned in India only in 2004.
12. Amazingly pigeons can fly at altitudes up to and beyond 6000 feet, and at an average speed of 77.6 mph. The fastest recorded speed is 92.5 mph.
13. Pigeons are highly sociable animals often seen in flocks of 20-30 birds.
14. The pigeon mates for life and can breed up to 8 times a year bringing two young into the world each time. Eggs take about 18 days to hatch.
15. Young dependant pigeons are known as ‘squabs’ which are ready to leave the nest at about two months of age.
16. Both female and male pigeons share responsibility of caring for and raising young. Both sexes take turn incubating the eggs and both feed the chicks ‘pigeon milk’, a special secretion from the lining of the crop which both sexes produce.
17. Pigeons have excellent hearing abilities detecting sounds at far lower frequencies than humans are able to. They can hear distant storms and volcanoes.
18. The pigeon has side mounted eyes, unlike humans and owls which have forward facing eyes. As pigeons have monocular vision rather than binocular vision they have to bob their heads for depth of perception.
19. Though believed to be dirty and disease ridden, pigeons are actually very clean animals and they are not significant transmitters of any disease.
20. Pigeon droppings (guano) were seen as extremely valuable few centuries ago. It was viewed as the best available fertiliser and armed guards would even stand by pigeon houses to stop others taking the droppings.
21. In England in the 16th century pigeon guano was the only known source of saltpetre, an essential ingredient of gunpowder.
22. In both the First and Second World Wars the pigeon saved thousands of human lives by carrying messages across enemy lines. Pigeons were carried on ships in convoys and in the event of a U-boat attack a messenger pigeon was released with details of the location of the sinking ship.
23. Pigeons are fed by many members of different religions including Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs for spiritual reasons. In the Christian religion the pigeon is both a symbol of peace and of the Holy Spirit.
24. During the First World War a pigeon named Cher Ami (dear friend) saved the lives of many French soldiers by carrying a message across enemy lines in the heat of battle. It was shot in the chest and the leg, losing most of the leg to which the message was attached, but continued the half hour flight to get the message home. It was awarded the French ‘Croix de Guerre’ medal for heroic service.
25. During the second world war heroic pigeon named G.I. Joe saved the lives of a thousand soldiers after British troops had established a position within an Italian town that was due to be bombed. Communication equipment was down. Message was hastily written and sent through G.I. Joe which flew 20 miles in 20 minutes arriving at the air base whilst the planes were taxiing on the runway. Disaster was averted with 5 minutes to spare. G.I. Joe received the ‘Dickin’ medal for his bravery.
26. One of the richest and most famous families in the world , Rothschild family amassed its wealth, certainly in part, as a result of exploiting the pigeon. In the early 1800s they used pigeons to carry information between its financial houses in Europe. This method proved to be quicker and more efficient and the ability to send and receive information ahead of the competition helped them amass a vast fortune.
27. One of the most famous royals being a fan of humble pigeon is Queen Elizabeth of England who has lofts and pigeon keepers at her estate in Sandringham, Norfolk.
28. The greatest disaster to befall the species was the extermination of the passenger pigeon in North America in the early 20th century. There were estimated 3-5 billion passenger pigeons in North America and flocks of thousands of birds would blacken the skies as they flew over. Overhunting resulted in wiping out every last bird by 1914.
29. A recent and quite bizarre disaster befell about 60000 of racing pigeons released from Nantes in France as part of a race held to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association in England. Only a few birds ever arrived back at their lofts throughout southern England. Possibly the sonic boom created by Concorde as it flew over the English Channel, at that time disorientated the birds and their inbuilt navigation system.
30. Racing pigeons can be worth huge sums of money. One racing pigeon recently sold for a staggering $132,517.00! The 3 year old bird was a champion racer, beating 21,000 other pigeons in one long distance race. British company buying it breeds racing pigeons for ‘stud’.

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### Lungs
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Last updated: 2023-11-04T09:30:45.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Lungs

1. The word "Lung" originates from a 13th-century European language, it means "light" which refers to the weight of the organ when considering its size.
2. Most vertebrate animals i.e. animals with spines have two lungs. The study of lung diseases is known as pulmonology.
3. Human lungs are the organs responsible for respiration which involves inhaling oxygen to be sent to all body parts and exhaling carbon dioxide which has been produced due to metabolic processes.
4. There are two lungs in the human body, the right lung, and the left lung. These two lungs together weigh about 1.3 kilograms. The left lung has two lobes and is slightly smaller than the right lung due to a heart notch. The right lung has three lobes.
5. A healthy lung is pink, smooth, and shiny while people who smoke damage their lungs making it black, bumpy and dull.
6. Amazing fact is that the total length of the airways running through the two lungs is 1,500 miles or 2,400 kilometers.
7. The two lungs together contain 300 to 500 million alveoli which are tiny and spongy air sacks no thicker than a typical cell. These alveoli are present at the end of the smallest of airways and are the true sites of carbon dioxide and oxygen exchange.
8. It has been estimated that the total internal surface area of lungs in adult humans vary between 30-50 sq. meters which is about the total area of one side of a tennis court.
9. The alveoli in lungs are surrounded by capillaries which are the smallest of blood vessels in human body. If all capillaries surrounding the alveoli are placed end to end, they will cover an amazing 616 miles or 992 kilometers.
10. Our mouth is directly connected to the lungs through trachea while esophagus connects to stomach. Interestingly, both trachea and esophagus share the same opening, which is why we can breathe using our mouth.
11. At the time of birth, a baby’s lungs are not inflated and are actually filled with a fluid that is secreted by the lungs. After birth a sudden change in environment and temperature triggers the first breath usually within 10 seconds expanding the lungs.
12. Human lungs consist of special cells which are responsible for the production of mucous which is then pushed up and out of the lungs by special tiny hairs. The mucous is our first line of defense against dangerous microbes that enter our body while breathing.
13. Lungs play a pivotal role when it comes to talking or making sound. Our voice box called larynx is placed right above our wind pipe containing two small ridges known as vocal cords that open and close to produce sound. The amounts of air we push through the vocal cords from our lungs actually control the volume and pitch of our talk.
14. Amazingly no matter how hard we exhale, our lungs will always retain 1 liter of air in the airways. This makes the lungs only human organs that can float on water.
15. Fact is that our lungs breathe in and out about 11,000 liters of air every day. Every year our lungs process more than about 4 million liters of air.
16. The rate at which the lungs inhale and exhale are directed by the brain. The brain is capable of sensing oxygen concentration in air and thereby increases or decreases respiration rate accordingly.
17. Most people do not breathe correctly without even realising it. We often breathe too shallow, hold our breath, breathe through our mouths, or breathe through just one nostril. Inhaling should be deep with abdomen pushed out. Focusing on breathing correctly will increase oxygen supplies to help us relax and improve concentration..
18. The important diseases affecting lungs are asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia and tuberculosis.
19. Smoking is really bad for lungs. Tar from cigarettes can cause lung diseases and lung cancer. Smoking is responsible for over 80% of lung cancer deaths.
20. We can live with one lung but it limits our physical ability. Many people around the world live with just one lung.

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### Bhutan
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Last updated: 2023-11-02T09:30:12.000Z
#### 35 Amazing Facts about Bhutan

##### Land & Geography

- This landlocked country in South Asia is nestled in the eastern end of the Himalayas mountains bordered by India in the south, east, and west and by China in the north.
- In *fact,* it’s regarded as one of the most isolated nations in the world. Bhutan controls many key mountain passes between India & China.
- With only around 14,800 square miles (38,400 square kilometers) of territory, Bhutan is roughly half the size of Indiana, just slightly smaller than Switzerland.
- Druk Yul, the local name for Bhutan means "Land of the Thunder Dragon." because of the extremely powerful storms which constantly roar in from the Himalayas.
- Its capital is Thimpu with a population of about 750,000.

##### History

- Bhutanese monarchy was founded in 1907\. The first King of Bhutan was Gongsar Ugen Wangchuck, who reigned till 1926.
- In the early 1990s riots erupted in the Nepalese community living in Bhutan after the King’s decree to have all Bhutanese follow traditional customs including dress and conduct. This led to the repatriation of about 30,000 Nepali-Bhutanese to Newark, New Jersey, USA in early 2010.
- Bhutan is still negotiating parts of its mountainous border with China. Aside from land disputes, the Bhutanese have very little diplomatic relations with China. In 2005, Chinese soldiers began constructing roads and bridges without Bhutan's permission to gain better access to disputed territory.

##### Places / Architecture

- *Amazingly* Thimpu is one of just two capital cities in Asia that does not have a single traffic light (The other is Pyongyang, North Korea). In fact when traffic lights were installed the people objected and the city reverted back to the use of traffic police.
- At 24,840 feet, Gangkhar Puensum is the highest point in Bhutan and the highest unclimbed mountain in the world. The mountain is held so sacred by the Bhutanese that the government has banned mountaineering on any peak above 19,685 feet.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Dzongka is the official language.
- The state religion of Bhutan is Buddhism following tantric Buddhist texts.
- *Amazing fact* is until the 1960’s it had no roads, automobiles, telephone, postal system or electricity. Bhutanese had no access to TV or Internet until limited access was permitted in 1999.
- Bhutan has a mandatory national dress code. Men wear knee length traditional garments and women must wear ankle length dresses. The colors are determined by social class and status. A Bhutanese is not allowed to wear pants while visiting government offices, and during official and religious functions.
- Bhutanese manners dictate that you are to refuse food whenever it’s offered to you. The tradition is to cover your mouth with your hands. You can give in, though, after two or three offers.
- *Amazingly* inheritance (land, house, and animals) is generally passed to the eldest daughter rather than the eldest son. A man often moves into the home of his new wife until he can earn his keep.
- Despite all the strict rules, polygamy and polyandry (woman with more than one husband) are surprisingly legal in Bhutan although they are not common. The fourth king in *fact* married four real sisters.
- The physician density was just one doctor per 50,000 people. In contrast, the US has around 133 doctors per 50,000 residents.
- Visiting as an independent traveler is nearly impossible. In *fact* to receive a travel visa, all visitors to Bhutan must book through a government approved tour agency and pay the full price of the trip before arrival.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The King of Bhutan handed the crown to his eldest son in 2008\. At the age of 28, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck became the youngest reigning monarch in the world.
- Bhutan became a constitutional monarchy with a two-party system in 2008.
- The tiny Bhutanese Army is trained by the Indian Army and has a total annual budget of just $15 million.
- Despite being a mostly closed-off country, Bhutan is a member of the United Nations. The United Nations recognized Bhutan as a country in 1971.
- *Amazing fact* is in 2010, Bhutan became the first country in the world to ban the production and sales of tobacco products.
- The first foreign tourists in *fact* were allowed into Bhutan in 1974.
- Anyone found guilty of killing a highly endangered and culturally sacred black-necked crane could be sentenced to life in prison.
- In *fact*, it’s in the country’s constitution to keep 60% of its land forested. Respect for the environment, the eco system and all species is a serious matter in Bhutan.
- *Amazing fact* is the King of Bhutan finally allowed television and internet access into the country only in 1999\. Bhutan was among the last countries in the world to adopt television.
- *Fact* is despite the country’s low GDP, the government provides free education for all at all levels as well as free health care through Basic Health Units. Health care is also free for visitors.
- Plastic bags have been banned in Bhutan since 1999.
- *Amazingly* all citizens officially become one year older on New Year’s Day. This way, no one forgets anyone’s birthday!
- Bhutanese are forbidden to marry foreigners.

##### Economy

- *Amazingly* Bhutan is the world’s only carbon sink absorbing more CO2 than it gives out. It sells hydro-electrical power, making it the only country whose largest export is renewable energy. 72% of the country is forested.
- It's *amazing* that in Bhutan, Gross National Happiness is an official development policy that is more important than Gross National Product. The United Nations bought into the idea in 2011 and is working to develop an indicator that encompasses social, health, and environmental wellness into an index rather than just economic concerns.

##### Sport

- The national sport of Bhutan is archery.

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### Cocaine
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Last updated: 2023-10-30T09:30:21.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Cocaine

1. Cocaine is an extraction of the leaves of the *Erythroxylon coca* bush, commonly found in the Andean highlands of South America.
2. Most of the cocaine in the US arrives from Colombia.
3. After marijuana, cocaine is the second most commonly used illicit drug in the US.
4. Amazingly more Colombians die every year from American tobacco than Americans die from Colombian cocaine. Cocaine can be purchased for about US$5 per gram in Colombia while in the U.S. it sells for at least US$80.
5. In fact, Worldwide sales of cocaine earn more than Microsoft, McDonald's, and Kellogg's combined.
6. Cocaine is found in both powder and crystalline forms. The crystal form is called crack or freebase which hasn’t neutralized by an acid.
7. Coca leaves, the source of pure cocaine, have been chewed and ingested for thousands of years for the euphoric effects of the drug. They were first used by members of the Inca civilization in the Andes.
8. Pure cocaine was first extracted from the leaves of the coca plant in 1859 and was marketed in a fortified wine in France as early as 1863.
9. Amazingly cocaine was first used in the U.S. in the 1880s as an anesthetic for eye, nose, and throat operations. The use became obsolete after safer drugs became available.
10. Cocaine hydrochloride, the purified chemical from the leaves of the coca plant, was the main active ingredient in several tonics and elixirs produced for a variety of illnesses in the early 1900s.
11. The soft drink Coca-Cola originally contained an estimated 9 milligrams of cocaine per serving, which combined with caffeine created the drink’s powerful stimulating effects. Cocaine was officially removed from the drink’s ingredients in 1903.
12. Cocaine was first regulated under federal law by the Harrison Act of 1914 which banned it for nonmedical use and categorized it with opium, morphine, and heroine which were already banned.
13. About 2,500 Americans every day will try cocaine for the very first time. Approximately 10% of people who begin using cocaine will immediately progress to serious, heavy use of the drug.
14. It is estimated that about 35 million Americans aged 12 and older have tried cocaine at least once. More than 2 million Americans are regular users. Of them about one third use crack cocaine.
15. Cocaine is responsible for 3 times more deaths than any other illegal drug. Amazingly taking cocaine increases the chance of having a heart attack within the hour by 2,400%.
16. Cocaine is usually administered by snorting through the nose, injecting into the bloodstream, or smoking to produce vapours. Powder cocaine is generally snorted or mixed with water and injected, while crack cocaine is commonly smoked.
17. Cocaine is the most powerful central nervous stimulant found in nature. Users experience greater alertness, energy, self-confidence, and power after it is administered.
18. Euphoric effect after cocaine is due to release of Dopamine , a chemical associated with pleasure and mental alertness.
19. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in fact recommended use of cocaine for treatment of depression, alcoholism, and morphine addiction. He tried it for the first time in 1884 and later became addict.
20. The famous 19th century literary character Sherlock Holmes was a frequent user of cocaine especially when no interesting cases were present for him to investigate.
21. After cocaine was outlawed in 1914, use of the drug dropped significantly but it rebounded in the 1970s and 1980s. Crack cocaine became popular due to inexpensive street price and quick euphoria.
22. Cocaine is usually diluted by dealers to maximize profits. Common additives in cocaine include lactose, lidocaine, corn starch, talcum powder, and sugar.
23. Because cocaine enters the bloodstream much faster when it is smoked, smoking crack cocaine can bring users to a euphoric state twice as fast as when the drug is snorted. Crack cocaine is most often smoked in a clear glass pipe where the drug is heated to produce vapours.
24. Average street price for a gram of pure cocaine in the U.S. is about $80 while a rock of crack cocaine costs $20.
25. The Coast Guard seized more than $1 billion worth of cocaine in 2015 at San Diego Naval Base it’s largest ever from Latin America on a single day. The estimated street value of the haul over the year was about $1.8 billion.
26. Babies born to mothers who used cocaine during the pregnancy tend to be born prematurely, have low birth weights, and suffer from brain damage. The risk of spontaneous abortion is also greatly increased.
27. When cocaine is used in combination with alcohol, the body converts the two substances into cocaethylene. This toxic combination causes a greater duration of drug effects in the brain and is responsible for most of the cocaine related deaths.
28. In fact, between 30% and 60% of users combine cocaine with alcohol. This concurrent use is the cause of nearly 75% of cocaine-related fatalities. Cocaine user is 25 times more likely to experience sudden death when combining it with alcohol.
29. According to one study, trace amounts of cocaine can be found on four out of every five dollar bills in circulation.
30. Worldwide, the use of cocaine has been reported in more than two thirds of all countries. Scotland has the highest incidence of cocaine (2.4%) followed by USA, Spain, and Australia. The lowest rates of cocaine use are found in Asia.

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### New York (Part 2)
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Last updated: 2023-10-28T10:12:12.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about New York (Part 2)

1. An average of 5 million people rides the New York City subway each weekday.
2. The New York City subway system runs 26 routes with 6,200 subway cars that stop at 468 different subway stations.
3. Amazingly about 800,000 companies operate in New York City.
4. Karl Marx was a journalist for New York Daily Tribune and wrote a lot of articles on events that took place in Europe.
5. Jon Stewart proposed to his wife through a personalized crossword puzzle created with the help of the crossword editor, Will Shortz, at The New York Times.
6. September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City were the worst single foreign assault on American soil. The attack was the nation's deadliest tragedy for U.S. firefighters, and 2,753 people in total lost their lives.
7. Amazingly New York Times wrote an article about each individual September 11th victim.
8. New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge, on which 140,000 people drive daily, is so structurally unsound that New York State aides refer to it as the “hold-your-breath bridge”.
9. There are no Wal-Marts in New York City due to intense opposition from local unions and politicians.
10. There is a ‘ghost town’ in New York City called “The Hole”. It is an area of Queens built too close to the water table. It is mostly abandoned, usually flooded, and was once a body-dumping ground for the mafia.
11. There is a waterfall in Chestnut Ridge Park of New York which curtains an ‘eternal flame’ – a natural gas leak, which visitors keep lit all year round.
12. Parts of New York City have a vacuum-driven garbage-collection system that literally sucks garbage through the pipes, under the streets to a central disposal location. It has been in operation for 45 years.
13. Amazingly in 1973, New York residents, Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson held a press conference to announce they had “traded lives.” This included the exchange of wives, children, and dogs.
14. USS New York battle ship was built with 24 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center to commemorate the victims of 9/11.
15. Amazing fact is that in New York City, for the last 50 years, the price of a slice of pizza and that of a subway ride have been nearly exactly the same and a rise in the price of one predicts the rise in the price of other.
16. The imperial House of Bonaparte continues to keep track of Napoleon’s bloodline. If France ever decides to put power back into the hands of the dynasty, the present Emperor would be Jean-Cristophe, Prince Napoleon, presently an investment banker in New York City.
17. Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park, Union Square Park, and Bryant Park used to be cemeteries. There are 20,000 bodies buried in Washington Square Park alone.
18. It can cost over $289,000 for a one-year hot dog stand permit in Central Park.
19. The city of New York will pay for a one-way plane ticket for any homeless person if they have a guaranteed place to stay.
20. Amazingly on Nov. 28, 2012, not a single murder, shooting, stabbing, or other incident of violent crime in New York City was reported for an entire day.
21. Both Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt were born in New York.
22. The New York City Marathon draws up to 50,000 runners annually, and travels through all five boroughs.
23. The Museum of Modern Art is one of the finest museums in the world, and displays important pieces from around the globe.
24. The Bronx Zoo in New York is the largest city zoo in the United States with over 500 species and 4,000 rare animals.
25. The New York Aquarium, located on Coney Island, provides visitors with the opportunity to see sea creatures up close.
26. The New York Botanical Gardens allow residents and visitors to see beautiful plants and flowers of all types.
27. The ice cream cone was invented in New York City.
28. Many of New York City's restaurants rank among the most expensive in the world. Some cost an average of $400 or more per person.
29. It costs $1 million to get a license (medallion) to operate a taxicab.
30. There’s a man who mines sidewalk cracks for gold. He can make over $600 a week.
31. Up until 1957, there was a pneumatic mail tube system that was used to connect 23 post offices across 27 miles. At one point, it moved 97,000 letters a day.
32. UPS, FedEx, and other commercial delivery companies receive up to 7,000 parking tickets a day, contributing up to $120 million in revenue for the city of New York.
33. 60 % of cigarettes sold in NYC are illegally smuggled from other states.
34. New York City’s 520-mile coastline is longer than those of Miami, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco combined.
35. McSorley’s, the oldest Irish ale house in NYC, didn’t allow women inside until 1970.
36. There’s a 150-foot-deep hole (15 stories) on Park Avenue between 36th and 37th streets.
37. The nitrogen gas tanks you see on the corners of streets are used to keep underground telephone wires dry.
38. New York sets train tracks on fire to keep them free of ice in the winter.
39. More people in New York die of suicide than murder.
40. New Yorkers drink 7 times more coffee than people in the rest of America.
41. Amazingly New Yorkers bite 10 times more people than sharks do worldwide each year.
42. Adirondack Park in northeast New York has 6 million acres, making it the largest national park in the United States. It is larger than Yellowstone, Glacier, Everglades, and Grand Canyon National Parks combined.
43. The world's smallest church is found in Oneida, NY. The Cross Island Chapel is 51" x 81", making it large enough to sit two people.
44. As landfills in New York have begun to fill up with waste, garbage has been shipped to other nearby states. New York city alone sends a 9-mile-long fleet of trucks of trash each day to sites up to 300 miles away.
45. The New York Public Library has over 50 million books and other items and is the second largest library system in the nation after the Library of Congress.
46. The first railroad in the United States ran 11 miles in New York, from Albany to Schenectady.
47. Both the game of Scrabble and the Teddy Bear were invented in New York!
48. It is illegal to wear masks in public gatherings of two or more in NYC.
49. With the decline of rail travel at the end of the 1940s, in 1954 there were plans to demolish Grand Central Terminal and replace it with an 80-story office tower that would be taller even than the Empire State Building. But with much protest and after Grand Central became a Historic Landmark, the station was saved and the Pan Am/Met Life building built instead.
50. In 2018 NYC will open the world's first underground park.

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### New York (Part 1)
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Last updated: 2023-10-26T10:09:59.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about New York (Part 1)

1. New York City is not the largest city in the United States but is made up of five separate boroughs: Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and Manhattan. The entire city is approximately 300 square miles in size.
2. In New York City, more than 26,000 people live in each square mile.
3. The first known name for Manhattan was New Amsterdam, which referred to the southern tip of Manhattan, a Dutch trading port. The first settlers arrived in 1624.
4. The Island of Manhattan derives its name from the Native American tribe that lived in the area, called the Mannahatta.
5. Dutch explorer Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan in 1626 (Actually its southern tip) from the Algonquin tribe for trinkets and tools worth about $24! (The modern equivalent of US $1000)
6. The oldest standing building in New York City is the Wyckoff Farmhouse, originally built in 1652.
7. In 1664, the English took the territory of New Amsterdam from the Dutch settlers living there. King Charles II named the territory New York after his brother the Duke of York and gave it to him as a gift.
8. The winter of 1780 was so harsh in New York that New York harbor froze over. People could walk from Manhattan to Staten Island on the ice.
9. Amazingly New York City was the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790.
10. The New York Post, established by Alexander Hamilton in 1803, is the longest-running newspaper in the United States.
11. In 1848, the first women's rights convention in the United States was held in Seneca Falls, NY, officially starting off the fight for women's rights. Women would win the right to vote in New York in 1917.
12. In 1857, toilet paper was invented by Joseph C. Gayetty in NYC.
13. During the 1863 New York Draft Riots, the staff of The New York Times averted rioters that targeted newspaper with two Gatling guns; one of which was manned by Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, himself.
14. France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1886 as a celebration of 100 years of U.S. independence and continued allegiance between the two countries. The statue was shipped as 350 pieces in 214 crates and took 4 months to assemble at its current home on New York’s Ellis Island.
15. New York City buries its unclaimed bodies on an island off the coast of the Bronx called Hart Island. Since 1869, nearly a million bodies have been buried there. The island is not open to the public.
16. Hog Island, a one-mile-long island south of Rockaway Beach, was never seen again after the hurricane of 1893\. This is the only reported incidence ever of the removal of an entire island by a hurricane.
17. In 1901, New York was the first state to require all automobiles to have license plates. However, the plates were not issued by the state but were made by the owner and were required to have the owner's initials.
18. Amazingly in 1906, the Bronx Zoo put an African man on exhibit in the monkey house.
19. In 1926, New York City launched a cabaret law that requires any place that serves food or drink to get an additional permit to allow dancing. Without this license, it was illegal to dance on the premises and the law is still in effect today.
20. The original Penn Railway Station was considered to be one of the most beautiful train stations in the world but was torn down because of declining rail usage.
21. The Brooklyn Bridge was the first steel wire suspension bridge constructed, and the first to include electric lighting. It spans the East River to connect Brooklyn with Manhattan.
22. The New York Stock Exchange is the largest exchange in the world. The second largest is the NASDAQ, which is also located in New York.Manhattan is home to the first commodity market in the world, called the New York Cotton Exchange, as well as the largest securities exchange in the world: The New York Stock Market.
23. After WWII, the United Nations headquarters was established in New York City in 1952.
24. By the beginning of the 20th Century, the population of New York City was over 3 million.
25. In 1920, a horse-drawn carriage filled with explosives was detonated on Wall Street killing 30 people. No one was ever caught, and it is considered to be one of the first acts of domestic terrorism.
26. Currently New York city has about 8.4 million population. This represents more than one-third of the entire state's population. The population of the entire metro New York City area is close to 19 million.
27. New York City's population is approximately 44 percent white, 25 percent African American and 28 percent Hispanic.
28. With over 800 languages spoken by a significant portion of the population, New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
29. Normally home to about 1.5 million residents, Manhattan's population nearly doubles during the work week, when an additional 1.5 million commuters come to the island.
30. New York City has more people than 39 of the 50 states in the U.S.
31. New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia. Chinatown is the world’s largest Chinese society in the Western Hemisphere.
32. New York City is the city with the largest Polish population after Warsaw.The Jewish population in NYC is the largest in the world outside of Israel.
33. The Empire State Building was the world's tallest structure from its construction in 1931 until 1972\. The Empire State building has its own zip code.
34. When the skies are clear, you can see up to 80 miles from the top of the Empire State Building. You can see five states including: New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
35. Central Park is one of the largest urban parks in the world. Encompassing over 800 acres, drawing over 35 million annual visitors. It is larger than the principality of Monaco.
36. Times Square, which is sometimes known as the "Center of the Universe," is one of the most iconic and popular places in New York City. Name comes after the New York Times stationed there.
37. It takes amazing 75,000 trees to print a Sunday edition of the New York Times.
38. Approximately 1/3 of all New York City residents live at or below the poverty line. Approximately 6 percent of New York City residents have an income that is more than 10 times the poverty level.
39. 1 out of every 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire.
40. New York has approximately 50,000 homeless people.
41. Amazingly New Yorkers travel an average of 40 minutes to work each day.
42. The New York City Council consists of 51 members and is the legislative branch of city.
43. The average sale price of an apartment in Manhattan is about $1.5 million.
44. New York's Yellow Cabs are yellow because John Hertz, the company's founder, learned from a study that yellow was the easiest color for the eye to spot. He was right.
45. The Federal Reserve Bank on New York's Wall Street contains vaults that are located 80 feet beneath the bank and probably hold about 25 percent of the world's gold bullion.
46. 56 million international and domestic visitors come to New York City every year spending about $17 billion.
47. The average daily room rate in New York hotels is about $275.
48. More than 250 feature films are shot on location in New York City each year.
49. More than 12,700 licensed medallion taxis work the streets of New York City.
50. More than 18,600 restaurants and eating establishments do business in New York City, and the average cost of a dinner is about $40.

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### Sheep
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Last updated: 2023-10-24T09:30:29.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Sheep

1. Sheep have domesticated 10000 years ago in Central Asia.
2. There are over 1 billion sheep in the world and about 900 different breeds. China has the largest number of sheep in the world.
3. The oldest organized industry in the world is raising sheep. Amazingly 10 % of the world's sheep are hair sheep not having wool coats.
4. Man learned how to spin wool in 3,500 B.C.
5. Sheep and goats may look similar, but they’re different species. Sheep have 54 chromosomes, while goats have 60 chromosomes. While a sheep emits the “Baa” sound, a goat, on the other hand, emits “Maa”.
6. There are approximately seven sheep for every human in New Zealand. Amazingly in 1982, when New Zealand had an astounding 22 sheep for every person!
7. Sheep and shepherds are mentioned 247 times in the Bible.
8. Sheep are one of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. Sheep are seen to represent righteousness, sincerity, gentleness, and compassion.
9. Sheep are popular in nursery rhymes such as Little Bo Peep, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and Mary Had a Little Lamb.
10. Egyptians believed that sheep were sacred. They even had them mummified when they died, just like humans. There are several ancient Egyptian mummified sheep in the British Museum’s collection.
11. In the 15th century, Spain’s thriving wool trade financed various expeditions including the voyage of Christopher Columbus. In fact, Columbus came from a family of wool traders.
12. Amazingly Spain so valued its Merino sheep which produced highly prized Merino wool that until the 18th century, exporting sheep was an offense punishable by death.
13. Adult female sheep are known as ewes while adult male sheep are known as rams. Castrated adult male sheep are known as wethers. Young sheep are called lambs (Less than 14 months).
14. A group of sheep is known as a herd, flock or mob.
15. Wild sheep tend to be larger than domesticated species, the largest (Argali) being 1.2m tall. They also have longer horns to defend from predators.
16. Contrary to popular misconception, sheep are extremely intelligent animals capable of problem-solving. They are considered to have a similar IQ level to cattle and are nearly as clever as pigs.
17. Sheep have very good memories. They can remember at least 50 individual sheep and humans for years.
18. Sheep have been shown to display emotions, some of which can be studied by observing the position of their ears.
19. Like various other species including humans, sheep make different vocalisations to communicate different emotions. They also display and recognise emotion by facial expressions.
20. Sheep have excellent hearing but poor vision. They have large rectangular pupils and have a field of vision of around 300 degrees, allowing them to see behind themselves without having to turn their head. Humans only see 170˚ at best.
21. Sheep are herbivores that eat vegetation such as grass.The digestive system of sheep features four chambers which help them break down food.
22. Sheep do not possess teeth in their upper front jaw.
23. Sheep prefer to walk into the wind and uphill, rather than downhill and with the wind.
24. Sheep have just two digits on their feet.
25. Sheep cannot right themselves from certain positions especially lying on the back and have to be assisted to get upright. If left unaided , they will eventually die.
26. An average body temperature of a sheep is high at about 102.5 ˚F which categorizes as fever in humans.
27. Milk from sheep have higher levels of fat, protein, riboflavin,calcium, zinc, niacin and thiamine than milk from goats and cows.
28. Amazingly sheep are known to self-medicate when they have some illnesses. They will eat specific plants when ill that can cure them.
29. Sheep are highly independent from birth. After their birth, healthy lambs can stand immediately, within minutes, and join the herd. They are gregarious liking to be in a group.
30. The gestation time from conception to birth for a female sheep is five months.
31. Female sheep are very caring mothers and form deep bonds with their lambs that can recognize them by their call (bleat) when they wander too far away.
32. Wool, fiber made from the fleece of the sheep, is durable, insulating, wrinkle-resisting, fire-resistant and moisture-absorbing making an ideal fabric for sweaters, coats, rugs, blankets etc.
33. Australia has over 150 million sheep for shearing and produces 80% of the wool used in clothing.
34. The fleece of just one sheep can be spun to produce a strand the length of approximately 200 Km.
35. Amazingly to make 1 tennis racket, small intestines from 11 sheep are needed.
36. There are 450 feet of wool yarn in a baseball.
37. One years growth of fleece produces approximately 3.75 Kg of wool. Wool sheep are usually shorn once a year. Wool that comes directly from the sheep is called raw wool which may go through 70 processing steps to make sure it is the highest quality.
38. Fat extracted from sheep, known as tallow, is used to make soap and candles.
39. On 5 July 1996 Dolly, a Finnish sheep, was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. She was euthanized in 2003 due to lung disease. Dolly was named after singer Dolly Parton.
40. The meat of sheep is widely eaten by people across the world. Sheep milk is also drunk and used to make other products such as cheese.

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### Lip
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Last updated: 2023-10-22T09:30:06.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Lips

1. Lip is one of the most sensitive organs in the human body has more than a million nerve endings. The only other parts of the body with rich nerves are nipples.
2. The nerve endings in lips are in fact almost 100 times more than those in our fingertips.
3. Because of numerous nerve ending they possess, lips are extremely sensitive to touch or tactile senses. This is why toddlers and babies tend to explore new things by touching them with lips.
4. Amazing fact is that lips do not sweat as they do not possess sweat glands. As the lips are not moisturized by sweat , they dry out faster than any other part of the body.
5. In absence of sweat glands, the lips can never get a pimple.
6. The fact is lips are unique like fingerprints. You will never find individuals with identical lip impressions.
7. Lips are the only part of the body where the inside extends outside. The same mucus membrane that forms the inner lining of the mouth also makes the lips.
8. Lips appear red-pink due to the blood capillaries that lie under the transparent mucus membrane of the lip. The transparency of the mucus membrane is due to skin on lips having only 3 to 6 layers of cells compared to 16 layers found in other parts of the skin.
9. Lips lack the mechanism to protect themselves when exposed to cold, wind, and sun in absence of glands. The only way to protect the lips from these natural elements is to use some kind of lip balm. Lipsticks work equally well in women.
10. Lip cancer is more prevalent in men than in women as they rarely use lip balms. Women on the other hand usually use lipsticks that keep their lips protected from harmful UV rays of Sun.
11. Lips grow thinner as you grow old due to decreased collagen production which is a vital protein giving shape to the lips. Another reason is that more fat deposited in the lips as you age and since fat contains only 2% water compared to the 80% found in muscles, your lips lose their thickness and firmness and childlike pout!
12. Lips are composed of a complex of muscles known as orbicularis oris. This muscle complex also encircles the mouth. For puckering or for whistling or for kissing, the orbicularis oris needs to be contracted.
13. When it comes to attracting opposite sex, women with big lips get more attention while women are often found to prefer men with medium lips.
14. Humans possess a fleshy bump on their upper lips. This is known as the ‘labia tubercle’.
15. The junction where mouth’s surrounding skin meets the lips is known as Vermilion Border. The Vermilion Border of the upper lip is also called Cupid’s bow.
16. Among species , only human lips have such a distinct Vermillion border between the pinkish, reddish parts and the surrounding skin.
17. According to Dr. Bryant, no one the entire new world kissed. It was India where kissing started and then it was spread by Alexander the Great’s soldiers who carried the kissing custom to their home.
18. Amazingly kissing for one full minute can burn up to twenty six calories.
19. On average, the typical human being spends about 2 weeks of their entire lifetime kissing!
20. Did you know that one kiss delivers you close to 300 different bacteria!
21. Thai couple Ekkachai and Laksana Tiranarat currently hold the world record for the longest kiss of all time after spending 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds locking lips in 2013 in Pattaya , Thailand.
22. A survey conducted in France found that women with redder lips become more attractive to males.
23. Lips are mediums for expressing emotions visually like frowning , smile , provocation , dissent etc.
24. Studies suggest that the youthful and childlike facial structure of women during puberty and maturation are determined by the estrogen levels in women. The greater the level of this hormone, the fuller are the lips and the bigger are the eyes which are considered to be more feminine.
25. Bell’s palsy is a form of facial paralysis due to the damaged facial nerve and you can have trouble smiling or frowning as lips may be paralyzed. Fortunately, the condition generally recovers with time.

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### Comet
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Last updated: 2023-10-20T09:30:03.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Comet

1. The name comet comes from the Greek word meaning hair of the head, it came from Aristotle who observed comets as stars with hair.
2. Comet is an icy body releasing dust and/or gas. Recent studies on comets have led scientists to call them snowy dirtballs. All comets orbit the sun.
3. Comets are one of the oldest objects of the universe. They are in fact celestial objects created from the leftovers of rocks, dust, ice, and gas that were formed some 4.6 billion years ago when the universe was formed.
4. Comets may have brought life to Earth and filled our oceans. In 2009 a NASA space probe took a sample from comet Wild-2 and found that it contained the amino acid glycine, an essential building block of life. A study suggests that comet collisions may have brought 10 trillion Kg of organic material to Earth, and provided energy for the synthesis of more complex molecules.
5. In 2011 scientists also discovered that the water inside a comet was just like the water in Earth's oceans suggesting that comets may have brought water to Earth billions of years ago.
6. The periodic Comet Halley is the most famous in history. It has been observed since at least 240 B.C. It returns to the inner solar system once every 76 years. It’s most recent appearance was in 1986 when it was photographed close up by Europe's Giotti spacecraft and Russia's Vega 1 and Vega 2 space crafts. Its next appearance will be in 2061.
7. American writer Mark Twain was born on November 30th 1835, two weeks after an appearance of Halley's Comet's. In his biography, he stated that he was born with Halley's Comet, and is likely to die with it. Mark Twain in fact died on April 21st 1910 the day after Halley's Comet reappeared.
8. Comet Hale-Bopp was initially believed the comet to be a spacecraft. It was last visible in 1997 and will not be visible again for approximately 2,300 years.
9. A great comet is one which is bright enough to be visible from Earth with naked eyes. Aproximately one great comet happens every ten years.
10. A comet has four components: a nucleus, a coma, a dust tail and an ion tail.
11. A comet's main body is known as nucleus also called as the core. The core or the nucleus is made of dust with dark organic material coating and ice. The ice present in the nucleus is made of frozen water, carbon dioxide, ammonia, carbon monoxide and methane. . The nucleus of most comets ranges from about 10 to 100 km in diameter, though they can be as large as 100 km in diameter.
12. The cloud of gases that forms around the nucleus as it is heated is know as the coma. These gases are usually a mixture of water vapor, ammonia, carbon dioxide. The coma of a comet can extend up to 1.6 million kilometers or 1 million miles.
13. Usually comets do not have nuclei greater than 16 kilometers or 10 miles wide.
14. The dust tail is composed of dust particles which are pushed away from the coma by the radiations from the sun. The dust tail always and always points away from the sun. The dust tail is the most visible part of a comet. The tail of a comet can extend all the way up to 100 million miles or 160 million kilometers.
15. Apart from the dust tail, a comet has something called ion tail. As the comet gets closer to the sun, some of the gases gets converted into ions. These ions are also pushed out by the sun's radiations, forming it. The ion tail is not visible to naked eyes. It also always points away from the sun.
16. The comet may be confused with asteroid when dust tail and ion tail aren’t visible. Presence of at least one of the tails differentiates them.
17. In fact it is the glow of the coma and the dust tail that makes a comet visible to naked eyes. Without the glow, the comets will not be visible to naked eyes. They glow because they reflect sunlight and also absorb energy from sun rays. The absorbed energy is then radiated out in form of visible light.
18. Amazingly a comet almost always leaves behind a debris trail, which leads to meteor shower.
19. A short-period comet is one that takes 200 years or less to complete one orbit while long-period comets on the other hand are those that take more than 200 years to complete one orbital rotation.
20. Single apparition comets are the comets that are by no means bound to the sun. In fact, their orbit is such that they just move out of the solar system.
21. Sun gazers are comets that end up smashing right into the sun or they simply get so close to the sun that they break up and eventually evaporate.
22. As per scientists, short-period comets originate from Kuiper Belt while the long-period comets originate from the Oort Cloud.
23. Scientists say that the main asteroid belt of our solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is also a source of several comets. These comets are key water sources for inner terrestrial planets.
24. Comets are usually named after their discoverers. Halley's comet was discovered by Edmond Halley.
25. Ancients often used to associate comets with the bad omen. Romans looked upon comets as bad omen so much that Emperor Nero executed all possible successors of the throne just to protect himself from the so-called “curse of the comet".
26. Comets usually follow an elliptical orbit around the sun. This is why there is a significant difference between perihelion (the closest distance from the sun) and aphelion (the farthest distance from the sun).
27. Amazingly comets can hit the earth. Scientists say that 28 million years ago, a comet actually crashed into the Sahara Desert. Scientists have actually found in the Sahara, a tiny pebble that they call Hypatia which is possibly from the nucleus of a comet.
28. Scientists have actually discovered some 4,000 comets so far and they say that there are actually trillions of them out there in space.
29. One comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 went on to spectacularly collide with Jupiter in 1994\. The gravitational tug of the planet ripped the comet into pieces and 21 visible impacts were recorded. A massive fireball rising to the height of 1,800 miles was the result. The collision resulted in a giant dark spot extending up to 12,000 kilometers across. The collision was believed to have a force of 6,000 gigatons of TNT!
30. Europe's Rosetta probe made its historic arrival at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Aug. 6, 2014, making Rosetta the first human-built craft ever to rendezvous with a comet and send pictures. It flew about 100 kilometers from the comet to gather valuable data that has helped scientists learn more about comets.

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### Sloth
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Last updated: 2023-10-18T09:30:45.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Sloth

1. There are four living species of three-toed sloths; these are the brown-throated sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated sloth, and the pygmy three-toed sloth.
2. Sloths can live up to 40 years old.
3. Sloths are identified by the number of long, prominent claws that they have on each front foot. There are both two-toed and three-toed sloths.
4. Extinct sloth species include many ground sloths, some of which attained the size of elephants.
5. The pygmy three-toed sloth can only be found on Isla Escudo de Veraguas which has been separated from mainland Panama for 9,000 years. The major threat to the pygmy three-toed sloth is habitat destruction which is reducing the size of its already small habitat.
6. Being the world's slowest mammal, the sloth travels at a top speed of 0.24 kilometers per hour (0.15 mph). They are so sedentary that algae grow on their furry coat making them green aiding camouflage.
7. Sloths make a good habitat for other organisms, and a single sloth may be home to moths, beetles, cockroaches, and fungi as well as algae.
8. The three-toed sloth is arboreal (tree-dwelling), with a body adapted to hang by its limbs; the large curved claws help the sloth to keep a strong grip on tree branches. It lives high in the canopy.
9. The amazing fact is that three-toed sloths can turn their heads almost 360 degrees due to extra neck vertebra.
10. Sloths only urinate/defecate once a week. They descend once a week to defecate on the forest floor. Amazingly sloths defecate and urinate at the same place every time and become vulnerable to predators.
11. Sloths sleep in trees for some 10 to 15 hours every day. Even when awake they often remain motionless.
12. At night they eat leaves, shoots and fruit from the trees and get almost all of their water from juicy plants.
13. Amazingly dead sloths have been known to retain their grip and remain suspended from a branch.
14. Sloths will move between different trees up to four times a day, although they prefer to keep to a particular type of tree, which varies between individuals, perhaps as a means of allowing multiple sloths to occupy overlapping home ranges without competing with each other.
15. Although they are quite slow in trees, three-toed sloths are agile swimmers.
16. On land, sloths' weak hind legs provide no power and their long claws are a hindrance. They cannot walk on all four limbs so they must use their front arms and claws to drag themselves across the rain forest floor.
17. If caught on land, these animals have no chance to evade predators, such as big cats and must try to defend themselves by clawing and biting.
18. Sloths’ primary predators include eagles, snakes, and jaguars.
19. In trees the sloth’s greenish color and its sluggish habits provide an effective camouflage. Hanging quietly, the sloth resembles a bundle of leaves.
20. The three-toed sloth, unlike most other mammals, does not fully maintain a constant body temperature, and this limits it to warm environments.
21. Sloths are solitary creatures who only gather to mate.
22. Sloths mate and give birth while hanging in the trees. Females give birth to a single young after a gestation period of around six months.
23. Three toed sloth babies are often seen clinging to their mothers . They travel by hanging on to them for the first nine months of their lives.
24. Once sloth babies are weaned, the mother leaves her home territory to her offspring and moves elsewhere.
25. Adults are solitary, and mark their territories using anal scent glands and dung.

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### Yawning
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Last updated: 2023-10-16T09:30:04.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Yawning

1. Most of the vertebrates in this world yawn including humans, dogs, chimpanzees, etc.
2. On average, a typical yawn in humans lasts for about 6 seconds.
3. Yawning might serve a social function (to communicate boredom) and a physiological function (regulation of body state).
4. Yawns in male students have been found to last longer than those in female students.
5. The medical term for yawning is oscitation which involves simultaneous stretching of eardrums with deep inhalation followed by exhalation. There is also a coordinated movement of the thoracic muscles in the chest, diaphragm, larynx in the throat, and palate in the mouth. By yawning, we also help distribute surfactant (wetting agent) to coat the alveoli (tiny air sacs) in the lungs.
6. There is always a significant spike in the heart rate during a yawn. No one knows why!
7. Generally speaking, we cannot yawn on command. Yawning is a semi-voluntary action and partly a reflex possibly controlled by neurotransmitters in the hypothalamus of the brain.
8. The fact is yawning is extremely contagious triggering the event in it in persons around. Studies suggest that 55% of people will end up yawning within 5 minutes after they see someone else yawning.
9. Yawning is found to be more contagious in close friends or family. If they are related to you, they are most likely to catch your yawn.
10. What makes us yawn is the mystery that scientists have failed to solve conclusively as there are more than 20 theories explaining why we yawn but not all experts agree.
11. A very popular theory is that when the level of oxygen in the body depletes, we yawn to get the necessary influx of oxygen but oxygen intake studies are not conclusive.
12. Some believe that yawning occurs when there are excessive amounts of carbon dioxide in your blood. By yawning, your body tries to lower the levels of carbon dioxide. However, if you try to voluntarily increase your oxygen input by inhaling during yawning, the process does not stop.
13. Another theory says that yawning helps to stretch the throat and tongue, which are important muscles responsible for helping us to swallow, breathe and talk and yawning just helps to stretch and refresh them.
14. Some believe that yawns are caused by chemicals in the brain which are the ones that control our appetite, our mood, our emotions. The chemicals are nitric oxide, glutamic acid, dopamine, and serotonin.
15. When the brain becomes warmer than the homeostatic (stable) temperature, we might yawn to cool the brain. It is theorized that cooler blood from the body floods into the brain and the warm blood circulates out through the jugular vein.
16. An open-mouthed yawn also causes sinus walls to expand and contract to pump air onto the brain, which lowers its temperature.
17. Some blame yawning on nervousness. The alertness increases after yawning.
18. A spontaneous variant is a type of yawning where we yawn because of physiological or psychological reasons like fatigue, boredom, stress, etc.
19. The amazing fact is that scientists have been able to photograph yawning fetuses inside the womb being about 11 weeks old!
20. According to a Harvard Health study, a person may yawn about 10 times an hour. On average, a person yawns amazing 240,000 times in a whole lifetime.
21. There is something called ritual yawning seen in baboons. Males with a series of long yawns signal to other group members that it’s bedtime.
22. As we age, our tendency to yawn reduces and this is true not just for spontaneous variant but also for the contagious spectrum.
23. Excessive yawning may be indicative of diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, or even Migraine Headache.
24. The Siamese fighting fish yawn too! They yawn when they happen to face another fish from the same species or they see their mirror image. Their yawning is indicative of aggressive intent.
25. Scientists say that dogs may yawn when they see humans yawning.

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### Neptune
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Last updated: 2023-10-14T09:30:04.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Neptune

1. Neptune gets its name from Roman and Greek mythology. Neptune is actually the name of the Roman god of the sea.
2. Neptune is the first planet in our entire solar system whose existence was predicted by mathematical calculations before we actually spotted it using a telescope.
3. It was Alex Bouvard, a French astronomer who predicted that the gravitation pull of some other celestial body was responsible for giving Uranus its orbital irregularities. His suggestion was used as a basis of mathematical calculations by Johann Galle, a German astronomer to help scientists spot Neptune using a telescope.
4. Neptune was discovered on September 23, 1846\. Neptune is the most distant planet since Pluto has been demoted to a dwarf planet.
5. Neptune is covered by clouds and emanates a blue tint. The blue tint could be due to methane which is known for absorbing red light.
6. Just beneath Neptune's atmosphere is a thick layer of a fluid mixture consisting of methane ice, ammonia, and water. Due to this, it is often referred to as an ice giant.
7. The core of Neptune is made of magnesium silicate and iron.
8. Neptune has a mass 17 times greater than the mass of Earth but surface gravity is about 17% stronger than earth. The overall volume of Neptune is 58 times that of the earth.
9. The magnetic field of the planet is 27 times greater than that of Earth.
10. By volume 80% of Neptune's atmosphere is made of hydrogen. Helium takes up 19% and the rest is methane. Neptune is the densest gaseous planet in the entire solar system.
11. If considered by mass, 60-70% of the planet is ice, 25% is rock, and the rest is taken up by hydrogen and helium.
12. The amazing fact about Neptune is that despite its great distance from Earth and despite getting enough sunlight to keep the planet warm and drive its atmosphere, the winds on the planet can reach a top speed of 2,400 kilometers an hour which is the fastest wind speed in the solar system.
13. The surface temperature of Neptune is about -220 degrees Celsius. It is the coldest planet in the solar system.
14. In 1989, Voyager 2 tracked a large dark storm on the southern hemisphere of Neptune called as 'Great Dark Spot' which was big enough to engulf the entire Earth.
15. Neptune has an oval-shaped elliptical orbit the average distance being 4.5 billion kilometers or 2.8 billion miles from the sun which is about 30 times the distance of Earth from the Sun. It can’t be seen with naked eyes.
16. The planet completes one revolution around the Sun in about 165 Earth years. Since its discovery in 1846, the planet completed one revolution in 2011.
17. Neptune has 5 rings but they are not easily visible. These rings are not at all uniform and consist of arcs that are thick and bright dust clumps. Scientists believe that these rings are relatively young and not very stable.
18. Neptune has 14 known moons. The largest of all moons of Neptune is Triton which was also discovered in 1846 the same year the planet itself was discovered.
19. Amazingly Triton is the only large moon that revolves around Neptune in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the planet known as retrograde orbit.
20. The only spacecraft to have ever visited Neptune is Voyager 2 of NASA which visited the planet in 1989 passing within 3,000 km of the planet’s north pole discovering 6 moons and the rings of the planet.

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### Desert
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Last updated: 2023-10-12T09:30:15.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Desert

1. The word ‘Sahara’ means ‘desert’ in Arabic, so the Sahara Desert just means ‘desert desert’.
2. There are a number of different definitions to describe a dessert but they are typically areas that receive extremely low amounts of rain.
3. For a place to be called a desert, it has to be an area that gets less than 10 inches (25 mm) of rain a year.
4. Deserts are typically found across our planet along two fringes parallel to the equator at 25–35° latitude in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
5. Around one-third of the Earth's surface is covered in deserts. Europe is the only continent with no large deserts.
6. The Sahara Desert is large enough to cover almost all of the United States and spans 12 countries. It is the largest hot desert in the world occupying 8% of the world area.
7. The Sahara Desert is home to 2 million people in spite of harsh conditions.
8. As recently as 6,000 BC, grains and millet were grown across much of what is now the Sahara Desert.
9. In fact, there are about 80,000 square miles of oasis across the Sahara i.e. Over 2 % of the Sahara is covered by oasis.
10. Amazingly only about 30% of the Sahara Desert is covered in sand. There are lots of sand dunes, with some of them as high as 500 feet high.
11. The Arabian Desert in the Middle East is the second largest hot desert on Earth but is substantially smaller than the Sahara.
12. Other large hot deserts in the world are the Gobi Desert in Asia, the Kalahari Desert in Africa, the Patagonian Desert in South America, the Great Victoria Desert in Australia, the Syrian Desert in the Middle East, and the Great Basin Desert in North America.
13. The Lut Desert in Iran is the hottest place on earth.
14. Amazingly some deserts can get as hot as 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius) during the day and drop to 0 degrees Fahrenheit (-18 degrees Celsius) at night!
15. The all-time hottest temperature ever recorded in the desert was 136 degrees F, in Azizia, Libya, in 1922.
16. Sahara is currently in a dry period and scientists expect it to be green again in 15,000 years.
17. There was a solitary tree in the Sahara Desert of Niger called the Tree of the Ténéré that kept itself alive by a 110 feet deep root system. It was the only tree for roughly 250 miles in any direction. In 1973, a drunk Libyan truck driver managed to ram his truck into it and uprooting it.
18. The scarab beetle is an essential part of life in the Sahara Desert. It’s also known as the “dung beetle” because they are able to survive almost entirely on animal feces. They roll dung into a ball and push it or dig a new burrow next to a heap of dung in which they live.
19. An adult desert tortoise can survive more than a year without water and can survive temperatures that exceed 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
20. Amazingly it snowed in the Sahara Desert in 1979.
21. A 30-mile giant eye in the Sahara Desert once served as a geographical landmark for astronauts.
22. The amazing fact is that sand from the Sahara is blown by the wind all the way to the Amazon, recharging its minerals. The desert literally fertilizes the rainforest.
23. The amazing fact is that there’s a society of 1.2 million of Muslims in the middle of the Sahara Desert where men wear veils and women do not; where most women are literate while most men are illiterate; and where livestock is owned by the women.
24. There is an annual ultramarathon held each year in the Sahara Desert called the Marathon des Sables (MDS) in southern Morocco each year in April. It has to be entered several years in advance, and it costs over $4,500 to participate. The race is run in six stages over seven days, and runners have to carry all of their supplies on their backs. The total distance covered over sand dunes and rocky plateaus is 156 miles. It is considered the toughest foot race on the planet.
25. A boy named Hadara was lost by his parents in the Sahara Desert at the age of two, and was apprehended, and raised by ostriches for a period of ten years.
26. There is a Stonehenge type megalithic stone, a calendar structure in the Sahara Desert, built around 6000 years ago.
27. After getting lost in the Sahara Desert, a man tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists, he was so dehydrated that his blood clotted the wounds. 9 days later he was rescued 186 miles (299km) away and had lost 18 Kgs, living off his urine, bats, and snakes.
28. The world record for crossing the Sahara by bicycle was set in 2011 by Reza Pakravan, 36, a market security analyst in London, who made about 1084 miles journey in 13 days, 6 hours. He started in Algeria, cycled south, then turned east through Niger and Chad to reach Sudan. He needed 6,000 calories of food and 7 liters of water each day.
29. Rain does fall occasionally in deserts, and desert storms are often violent. A record 44 millimeters of rain once fell within 3 hours in the Sahara.
30. Large Saharan storms may deliver up to 1 millimeter per minute. Normally dry stream channels, called arroyos or wadis, can quickly fill after heavy rains, and flash floods make these channels dangerous. More people drown in deserts than die of thirst.
31. Scientists have recently found an ancient mega lake under the Sahara Desert.
32. The $1 billion, 2,900-mile Trans-Saharan highway will link Africa’s most populous city, Lagos, Nigeria, to Algeria and Tunisia.
33. The Great Sphinx of Giza is not located in a remote region of the Egyptian desert. It actually is situated in a suburb of Cairo.
34. There is also a tree called the Tree of Life in Bahrain, living in the desert with no other vegetation in the surrounding area.
35. About 1,000 square miles of Chinese land turns into Gobi Desert every year, fueling deadly, globe-circling dust storms. China has planted the biggest artificial forest in the world to stop the spread of the Gobi Desert.
36. The first dinosaur eggs discovered were found in the Gobi Desert in 1923 by an expedition led by the American Museum of Natural History.
37. A German particle physicist Gerhard Knies has calculated that in 6 hours, the world’s deserts receive more energy from the sun than humans consume in a year.
38. That calculation has inspired the 2009 formation of the Desertec Industrial Initiative, a project that aims to construct a network of solar and wind farms stretching across Africa and the Middle East. It would connect electricity to Europe via high-voltage DC cables.
39. The disappearance of the Aral Sea has left behind a desert filled with ship graveyard. In just 50 years, it went from the world’s fourth-largest saline body of water to a desert.
40. The largest cold desert in the world is Antarctica, because a desert doesn’t need to be hot, but only lose moisture more than it gains.
41. Many of the ice-free regions of the Arctic and Antarctic are known as polar deserts.
42. The South American Atacama Desert gets an average rainfall of 1 millimeter (.04 inches) per year and had not had any significant rainfall in over 400 years making it the driest desert. Amazingly in July 2011, it received a whopping 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) of rain.
43. Amazingly more than 1 million people live in the Atacama Desert today.
44. Camels don’t store water in their humps. They store fat there. They can survive for so long in the desert because of their ovular blood cells, relatively dry urine and feces, and nostrils that recycle water vapor.
45. In 1958, a Cessna (A type of plane) was flown continually for over two months, refueled via truck matching its speed on a desert highway.
46. Sand dunes are actually said to “sing” audibly in 30 deserts around the world, producing haunting and baffling sounds. It was first recorded by Marco Polo when he crossed the Gobi Desert. Each song lasts up to several minutes.
47. Alaska has a sand desert with dunes over 150 feet high.
48. Those residing in the Atacama Desert Use Fog catching nets to provide up to 10,000 Liters/day of freshwater.
49. The Taa language, spoken by less than 5,000 people in the Kalahari Desert is the language with the most vowels and consonants.
50. The world’s largest film studio is located in Morocco, consisting mostly of deserts and mountains, and was used for the latest Game of Thrones episode, The Mummy, Gladiator, etc. It has also become a popular tourist resort.

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### Tea
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Last updated: 2023-10-10T09:30:30.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Tea

1. There is an estimated 1,500 different types of tea. China is the world’s largest producer of tea. India is second.
2. According to legend, tea was discovered in 2737 B.C. by Chinese Emperor Shen-Ning. He discovered the beverage when tea leaves accidentally blew into his pot of boiling water.
3. All tea is made from the leaf of the plant Camellia sinensis. The specific types of tea are made by processing the tea leaves differently.
4. Though the Eastern world has been using tea for more than 4,500 years , tea was introduced to the West only 400 years ago.
5. Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, after water.
6. Tea was a major factor in establishing connections between the East and West. It was also a catalyst for developing new technology, such as faster transport ships.
7. It takes around four to 12 years for a tea plant to produce seed. It takes about three years before a new plant is ready to harvest. Tea plants need at least 50 inches of rain a year. Tea plants thrive in hot, humid climates with high rainfall.
8. Most of the world’s tea is grown in mountain areas 3,000-7,000 feet above sea level and between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Tea-producing countries include Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya Malawi, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania.
9. Just the top 1 to 2 inches of a mature plant, or the flushes of the plant, are picked to make tea. A new flush grows within 7 to 15 days during growing season.
10. A tea plant can grow into a tree that is as tall as 52 feet if its leaves are not harvested. Cultivated plants are usually pruned to waist height.
11. More than 200 cups of tea can be brewed from one pound of loose tea leaves.
12. A cup of brewed tea usually has less than half the caffeine of a cup of coffee. You can decaffeinate loose tea by “rinsing” tea leaves i.e. begin brewing tea as usual and then remove the leaves after 20 seconds. Discard the brew and start again with fresh boiling water. The tea leaves are now decaffeinated.
13. Lipton is the world’s best selling tea brand.The Lipton Tea Factory in Jebel Ali, Dubai, produces 5 billion tea bags a year.
14. Black tea undergoes the longest process of oxidation. White tea undergoes the shortest.
15. Black tea production involves withering, rolling, fermenting and then firing the leaves which helps to preserve the tea for long periods of time. This process was originally used to prevent tea from rotting in containers when sent from China to the rest of the world.
16. Black tea is called “red tea” in China. When tea is being poured in China, traditionally guests tap two or three fingers on the table three times to show gratitude to the server.
17. Black tea constitutes around 75% of the world’s tea consumption. It is the most common tea beverage in the United States, the U.K., and Europe. Green tea is popular in Japan and China.
18. While 1,120 liters of water go into producing a single liter of coffee, only 120 liters go into making the same amount of tea. In fact, to produce one liter of tea takes less water than producing wine, apple juice, orange juice, or beer.
19. The total value of the worldwide tea market was over $20 billion. Over 3 million tons of tea is produced every year worldwide.
20. Russians started drinking tea in the 17th century, but because of its high price, it did not become widely popular until the beginning of the 19th century.
21. Solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia until the 19th century.
22. Ireland is the largest nation of tea drinkers per capita. 75 per cent of the population are avid tea drinkers drinking on average six cups a day. Britain is second in rank.
23. Tea is the national drink in Iran and Afghanistan. Green tea is consumed as a thirst quencher, and black tea as a warming beverage.
24. It is widely believed that iced tea was invented in 1904 at the St. Louis World Fair by Richard Blechynden, a British tea merchant. An estimated 85% of tea that is consumed in the United States is iced tea.
25. The Ritz Carlton of Hong Kong has the world’s most expensive High Tea meal, at a price of $8,888 per couple.
26. The most expensive teapot in the world is a rare pair of “melon” teapots from 18th century China. They sold for $2.18 million.
27. As per research green tea, helps reduce some forms of cancer, helps bad breath, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, reduces blood pressure, helps with weight control, kills bacteria and virus, acts as an anti-inflammatory, and has neuroprotective power.
28. The catechins in green tea help decrease body weight as well as maintaining body weight after weight loss.The tannins found in green tea have been found to help stop bleeding by coagulating the blood.
29. Green tea is also full of antioxidants which, when added to water, can help boost the health of plants
30. Tea tasting is no easy job you have to have a keen eye for tea leaves, a sharp taste for brewed teas and a keen smell to determine whether the aroma of brewed tea is good or not.

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### Wolf
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Last updated: 2023-10-08T09:30:59.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Wolf

1. Wolves are the largest members of the Canidae family, which includes domestic dogs, many types of foxes, and several kinds of jackals.
2. Wolves were once the most widely distributed land predator the world has ever seen. The only places they didn’t thrive were in the true desert and rainforests.
3. The earliest drawings of wolves are in caves in southern Europe and date from 20,000 B.C.
4. The Vikings wore wolf skins and drank wolf blood to take on the wolf’s spirit in battle. They also viewed real wolves as battle companions.
5. In approximately the year 800, Charlemagne founded a special wolf-hunting force, the Louveterie, which remained active until 1789\. It was reactivated in 1814, and the last French wolf was killed in 1927.
6. In 1500, the last wolf was killed in England. In 1770, Ireland’s last wolf was killed. In 1772, Denmark’s last wolf was killed.
7. Britain’s King Edgar imposed an annual tax of 300 wolf skins on Wales. The Welsh wolf population was quickly exterminated.
8. In the 1600s, Ireland was called “Wolf-land” because it had so many wolves. Wolf hunting was a popular sport among the nobility. The earliest record of an Irish wolf hunting dates from Roman times in A.D. 391.
9. When Europeans arrived in North America, wolves became the most widely hunted animal in American history and were nearly extinct by the beginning of the twentieth century.
10. The U.S. Federal government in fact even enacted a wolf eradication program in the Western states in 1915.
11. The North American gray wolf population in 1600 was 2 million. Today the population in North America is approximately 65,000\. The world population is approximately 150,000.
12. Wolves do not make good guard dogs because they are naturally afraid of the unfamiliar and will hide from visitors rather than bark at them.
13. The autoimmune disease Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), or lupus, literally means wolf redness, because in the eighteenth century, physicians believed the disease was caused by a wolf bite.
14. Wolves run on their toes, which helps them to stop and turn quickly and to prevent their paw pads from wearing down.
15. Wolves have about 200 million scent cells. In contrast humans have only about 5 million. Wolves can smell other animals more than one mile (1.6 kilometers) away.
16. Under certain conditions, wolves can hear as far as six miles away in the forest and ten miles in the open.
17. A male and female that mate usually stay together for life. They are devoted parents and maintain sophisticated family ties.
18. Wolf gestation is around 65 days. Wolf pups are born both deaf and blind and weigh only 450 gms.
19. A wolf pup’s eyes are blue at birth. Their eyes turn yellow by the time they are eight months old.
20. Amazingly in order for a new wolf cub to urinate, its mother has to massage its belly with her warm tongue.
21. Among true wolves, two species are recognized: Canis lupus (often known simply as “gray wolves”). The other recognized species is the red wolf (Canis rufus), which are smaller and have longer legs and shorter fur.
22. Immense power is concentrated in a wolf’s jaw. It has a crushing pressure of nearly 700 Kg per square inch (compared with around 350 for a large dog). The jaws themselves are massive, bearing 42 teeth specialized for stabbing, shearing, and crunching bones. Their jaws also open farther than those of a dog.
23. A hungry wolf can eat 10 Kg of meat in a single meal, which is akin to a human eating one hundred hamburgers.
24. A wolf pack may contain just two or three animals, or it may be 10 times as large.
25. Though many females in a pack are able to have pups, only a few will actually mate and bear pups. Often, only the alpha female and male will mate, which serves to produce the strongest cubs and helps limit the number of cubs the pack must care for. The other females will help raise and “babysit” the cubs.
26. Lower-ranking males do not mate and often suffer from a condition of stress and inhibition that has been referred to as “psychological castration.” Amazingly lower-ranking females are sometimes so afraid of the alpha female that they do not even go into heat.
27. Wolves can swim distances of up to 8 miles (13 kilometers) aided by small webs between their toes.
28. Adolph Hitler (whose first name means “lead wolf”) was fascinated by wolves. Hitler’s code names for various military headquarters used to incorporate wolf name.
29. Biologists describe wolf territory as not just spatial, but spatial-temporal, so that each pack moves in and out of each other’s turf depending on how recently the “no trespassing” signals were posted.
30. A wolf can run about 20 miles (32 km) per hour, and up to 40 miles (56 km) per hour when necessary, but only for a minute or two. They can “dog trot” around 5 miles (8km) per hour and can travel all day at this speed.
31. The smallest wolves live in the Middle East, where they may weigh only 14 Kg. The largest wolves inhabit Canada, Alaska, and the Soviet Union, where they can reach 80 Kg.
32. Wolves howl to contact separated members of their group, to rally the group before hunting, or to warn rival wolf packs to keep away. Lone wolves will howl to attract mates or just because they are alone.
33. A light-reflecting layer on a wolf’s eye called the tapetum lucidum (Latin for “bright tapestry”) causes a wolf’s eyes to glow in the dark and may also facilitate night vision. While a wolf’s color perception and visual acuity may be inferior to a human’s, a wolf’s eyes are extremely sensitive to movement.
34. Where there are wolves, there are often ravens (sometimes known as “wolf-birds”). Ravens often follow wolves to grab leftovers from the hunt and to tease the wolves. They play with the wolves by diving at them and then speeding away or pecking their tails to try to get the wolves to chase them.
35. Wolves are one of the few animals that communicate using a great range of facial expressions also helping pack unity.
36. The Japanese word for wolf means “great god.”
37. Between 6,000 and 7,000 wolf skins are still traded across the world each year. The skins are supplied mainly by Russia, Mongolia, and China and are used mainly for coats.
38. Wolves were the first animals to be placed on the U.S. Endangered Species Act list in 1973.
39. The last wolf in Yellowstone Park was killed in 1926\. In 1995, wolves were reintroduced and, after just ten years, approximately 136 wolves now roam the Park in about 13 wolf packs.
40. Currently, there are about 50,000 wolves in Canada; 6,500 in Alaska; and 3,500 in the Lower 48 States. There are 70,000 in Russia. In Europe, dwindling population is found in Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden & Poland.

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### Belgium
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Last updated: 2023-10-06T09:30:03.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Belgium

##### Land & Geography

- The official name of Belgium is the Kingdom of Belgium.
- Belgium shares a land border with 4 countries including France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
- Belgium has a population of 10.5 million people. Covering an area of just 30,528 km² (11,787 mi²), Belgium is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Belgium is the world's 3rd country with the most vehicles per square kilometers after the Netherlands and Japan. It has the highest density of roads and the highest density of railroads in the world.
- The largest city and capital of Belgium are Brussels. The city has a population of 1.2 million is home to the NATO headquarters.
- Brussels, Belgium is in *fact* the capital of the European Union being a centralized location and also due to the neutrality that Belgium is known for.

##### History

- Charles Martel (686-741) saved Europe from Islamization by defeating the invading Muslims at the Battle of Poitiers in 732.
- It was a Belgian that actually founded New York City in the late 1400s.
- Oil paints for painting were first developed in Belgium in the 15th century. Many such famous paintings can still be seen in many of the museums, legislative buildings, and other historical locations all around Belgium. Belgium has the highest density of art collectors of any country.

##### Places / Architecture

- The Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps is the longest and the second oldest F1 Grand Prix circuit still in use First Grand Prix was held in 1924, two years after it started in Italy.
- The town of Spa in Belgium is where the word 'spa' comes from. People as far back as ancient Roman times used to come to the town to bathe in the famed cold springs for health and healing purposes.
- Europe's first casino, "la Redoute", opened in 1763 in Spa.
- Brussels' Royal Palace is in *fact* bigger than Buckingham Palace. It has a façade 50% longer.
- The Belgium motorway is the prominent manmade object on earth that can be seen clearly from the moon. (At night, due to the lights all along the motorway).
- The longest tramway line in the world is the Belgian coast tram (68 km), which opened in 1885 and operates between De Panne and Knokke Heist, from the French border to the Dutch border.

##### People Customs & Culture

- Nearly all Belgians live in cities, the country has an urban population of an *amazing* 97%.
- There are three official languages in Belgium. Dutch, spoken by just under 60% of the population, French spoke by around 40% of the population, and German spoken by a small group.
- Belgium is known around the world as the Essence of Europe Because of the savory food, beer, and desserts it creates. These recipes have been passed down for hundreds of years.
- Education in Belgium is a top priority it is in *fact* mandatory for all citizens under 18 to finish school. This has provided Belgium many opportunities in high tech fields.
- Belgium has the highest rates of ecstasy use in the world over 25 million tablets were consumed.
- When eating at a restaurant with a large group of friends or colleagues, it is common to find that you don't split the bill equally and expect everyone to pay only for what they ordered, even if it takes time.
- People are suspicious of people smiling at you in the street or being overly friendly for no reason.
- In Belgium, it is a struggle to make progress in French or Dutch since every time you try to practice with locals they reply to you in fluent English.
- Shops may be closed by 6 pm and you may be driven out by 5.45 pm even if you intend to buy.
- You are not required to tip in restaurants or cafés because it's included in the bill by law.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The country legalized female partisans in the clergy in 1921 one of the first countries to allow it in the world. It was one of the earliest countries to have a female parliamentarian in 1921.
- Belgium is one of the few countries worldwide with compulsory voting which is enforced.
- The Law Courts of Brussels is the largest court of justice in the world with a built land area of 26,000 m² at ground level.
- Belgium has legalised euthanasia in 2002, and gay marriage in 2003 (First in World).
- Belgium was the world's first country, along with Italy, to introduce electronic ID cards in March 2003\. Belgium was also the first country in the world to issue electronic passports complying with the recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
- Belgium is the country that grants the newest citizenships per capita in the world after Canada.
- The name of the euro currency was first proposed by a Belgian to the European Commission in 1992\. The design of the euro sign (€) was created by the Belgian Alain Billiet.
- It is usual to find that an immigrant worker cannot get a job without a work permit and cannot get a work permit without a job.
- All motorways are lit in bright orange light at night.
- It is very usual to find the names of cities on road signs change from French to Dutch and vice versa every 5 or 10 kilometers of the motorway.

##### Economy

- The world's two first printed newspapers were both published in 1605 in Belgium. One was printed in Strasbourg, the other was printed in Antwerp.
- On 5 May 1835, the first railway line on the continent and first in the world outside the UK opened between Brussels and Mechelen, 2 years before the first railway in Germany, France, or Italy.
- Belgium produces the greatest variety of bricks in the world.
- Brussels has one of the highest income tax rates in the world. In fact, inheritance tax can reach up to 80%. They use this to offer many civil services, healthcare, and insurance to everyone.
- Belgium is also the world’s main diamond center (in Antwerp) and the second-largest petrochemical center. 90% of the world's raw diamonds are negotiated and distributed in Antwerp.
- Belgium is world-famous for beer. Belgium is the only country in the world that brews 800 different kinds of beers. Belgians consume on an average 150 liters of beer per person per year.
- Belgium is the world's largest producer of chocolate producing about 220,000 tons of chocolates annually. It is also the world's number one exporter of chocolates. The world's biggest chocolate selling point is Brussels National Airport. Belgium is also renowned for its bakeries.

##### Inventions

- In 1846, Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone. It soon became a known instrument used in many bluegrass, jazz, and other bands.
- The Body Mass Index (BMI), still used today to know one's ideal weight, was developed by the Belgian statistician and anthropometrist Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874).
- French fries are believed to have been invented in Belgium, not France.

##### Literature

- Belgium has more comic makers per square km than any other country in the world.

##### Famous People

- The world's richest girl lives in Brussels (Athina Onassis Roussel de Miranda, granddaughter and sole heir of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis).

##### Sport

- Football is one of the most popular sports in Belgium along with cycling, tennis, judo, and swimming.
- Nemo33, in the Brussels neighborhood of Uccle, is the world's deepest swimming pool, reaching 35 meters in depth. It is a famous place to practice scuba diving.
- Billiards balls made in Belgium are highly sought by many pool players as they are made of pure ivory. 80% of professional billiard players use Belgian-made balls.
- Belgium has the most cycling Tour de France victories of any country except France, famous Belgian tour winners include Eddy Merckx and Philippe Thys.

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### Donkey
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Last updated: 2023-10-04T09:30:47.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Donkey

1. Donkeys (Equus Asinus) are the smallest members of the equine family which also includes horses, zebras, and mules. They are distinguished by the longest ears in the family.
2. Donkeys are originally from desert areas of the Middle East and Africa and are anatomically well equipped to survive in difficult conditions.
3. Donkeys were first domesticated around 4500 years ago. In those days having a donkey was a status symbol of their owners’ wealth.
4. The wealth of the Egyptians was due to the precious metals carried from Africa by donkeys. Donkeys were used to carry silk along the 'Silk Road' from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean in return for trade goods.
5. China has the largest number of donkeys with about 11 million of the world’s 41 million. Other countries with significant populations are Ethiopia, Pakistan, Egypt, and Mexico.
6. Donkeys are used today as work animals in poor countries. They carry materials, plow fields and draw up water.
7. ‘Donkey' is a late 18th-century word. Ass is the most scientifically correct name for donkeys.
8. Donkeys are by nature herd animals. They prefer to stay in groups but a single donkey can actually live happily with a group of goats. Donkeys get depressed very easily when left alone.
9. The strongest one in the herd is usually selected as the herd leader. A herd leader always acts like a leader in face of a threat like that of a predator attacking the herd. The leader will stay and face the threat allowing enough time for the rest of the herd to escape to safety.
10. Just like in the case of chimps and monkeys, donkeys in a herd will groom each other and keep themselves clean.
11. When it comes to traveling in all terrains, donkeys are far better than horses. In fact, donkeys are considered to be all-terrain animals. A donkey is stronger than a horse of the same size.
12. A donkey can live for 40 to 50 years.
13. A male donkey is often referred to as Jack while a female goes by the name Jenny.
14. Jennies stay pregnant for 365 days and eventually give birth to a single baby (foal). Twin births are very rare.
15. There are 3 different types of donkeys based on their shoulder height. The smallest type is known as the Miniature donkey having a height less than of 36 inches. The standard breed measures 36-54 inches and the Mammoth breed measures more than 54 inches.
16. George Washington is responsible for the first breeding of Mammoth Jacks in the United States.
17. The amazing fact is that donkeys are capable of remembering a place they have been to or other donkeys they met 25 years ago!
18. A donkey is capable of hearing another donkey from a distance of 60 miles in proper desert conditions. This is possible because of their large ears which also help to keep their body cool in hot and arid desert conditions.
19. Compared to horses, donkeys are capable of independent thinking and decision making ensuring their safety. Amazingly a donkey will never get involved in an activity if it considers unsafe. In case they sense something wrong while traveling, they will simply not move ahead and will start digging in their heels giving an impression that they are stubborn.
20. Donkeys hate rain. Their coat is not waterproof and staying out in rain for a long period actually damages their health.
21. Donkeys have a very efficient digestive system that is capable of breaking down even the most inedible vegetation known. They don't just breakdown the vegetation, they can even extract moisture very efficiently.
22. In fact, donkeys are capable of utilizing 95% of an entire meal they eat. This is because they are basically desert animals. In desert areas food is scarce and wasting food is not a luxury.
23. Donkeys enjoy rolling on the ground. This is in fact their favorite pastime.
24. Donkeys milk was once valued as a medicine for premature and sick children. The milk of a donkey contains much more sugar and protein than cow’s milk and also has less fat.
25. Donkeys and horses are often crossbred. The baby of a female horse and a male donkey is known as Mule. The baby of a male horse and a female donkey is known as Hinny.
26. Hinnies and Mules are sterile by birth. Mules are more desirable than Hinnies because Mules are stronger.
27. Donkeys have natural hatred against canines. They defend themselves and their companions very aggressively against the canines. Donkeys are used as guard animals for cattle, sheep, and goats.
28. Donkeys and horses have the same gait but donkeys are rarely seen running. Deserts being their native climate, donkeys probably saw running as unnecessary in high temperature. This instinct of not running has stayed with them since their evolution.
29. Donkeys are often fielded with horses due to the perceived calming effect they have on nervous horses. If a donkey is introduced to a mare and foal, the foal will often turn to the donkey for support after it has left its mother.
30. Amazingly in Britain, traveling donkeys have been required to have a passport since 2005!

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### Navel
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Last updated: 2023-10-02T09:30:27.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Navel

1. The navel or the belly button or the umbilicus is really just a scar that marks the spot where the umbilical cord was attached. The cord is clamped the moment we arrive into the world and the leftovers eventually fall off leaving us with our belly buttons! Your belly button is your first scar.
2. The navel is unique only to mammals who deliver babies. Non-mammals that lay eggs don't have it.
3. The belly button can appear as sticking out and is known as outtie or it can actually stick in and is known as an innie. Innies are 96 % compared to outies (4 %). Outies are caused by extra skin left from umbilical cords or umbilical hernias.
4. The navel can change shape especially during pregnancy resulting in the innie popping out becoming outie and staying that way for the rest of life.
5. Amazingly researchers have found 1,400 different strains of bacteria living in human navels. On average navel is home to 67 different types of bacteria in each individual human being.
6. The navel may have a T-shape or horizontal shape or something different. Researchers have found a small, vertical, T-shaped navel with a flap of overlying skin was the most attractive navel closely followed by a horizontally shaped one.
7. The amazing fact is that two humans will never have identical belly buttons because the bacterial species residing inside the scar are unique to each human. The possibility of new germs finding a home inside the scar is scarce.
8. Cloth lint collecting inside the navel is in fact accumulation of clothing fibers, sweat, skin cells, and bacteria primarily due to the activity of hairs around it propelling the material inwards. Women are less prone to navel lint compared to men due to scarce hair.
9. New T-shirts generate more belly button lint than old ones do. Old clothing may generate no lint at all.
10. Amazingly in November 2000, a man named Graham Barker was officially recognized for the largest collection of belly button lint. He has collected navel lint since 1984, filling three large bottles.
11. According to Indian traditional yoga, there are 7 major chakras or energy points in the human body and the navel is one of them.
12. The navel center or Manipur Center is a major chakra responsible for digestive processes and pranic life energy distribution all over the body. The navel has been used as a site to treat many ailments in alternative medicine.
13. Bible mentions that the navel links heaven and earth, making it one of the most sacred places on earth.
14. You may have an umbilical hernia wherein intestines protrude out through a gap in the navel area underneath the skin. Surgical treatment and reconstruction may leave you with a simple rather than a navel. Karolina Kurkova voted as the world's sexiest woman in 2008 did not have navel after the above surgery.
15. The navel is often considered a sexual body part, as it is one of the body’s many erogenous zones.
16. The amazing fact is that navel rarely ever gets bacterial infections in spite of the large bacterial population. The navel infections are usually fungally found in fat people who have large skin folds which can cover up the navel making it hot and moist facilitating fungal infections.
17. Using antibacterial products to wash the navel is not advised as these can kill the harmless bacteria that live in the navel which are in fact our first line of defense against external microbes. Use plain soap or simply water to wash it.
18. Recent surgical advances in so-called ‘orifice’ surgery or keyhole surgery involves carrying out abdominal or pelvic surgery through just one incision in the belly button, which means less chance of wound infection and no scar. Hernia repair, removal of the gallbladder or the appendix, some bowel cancer surgery, gastric banding, and hysterectomies can all be performed like this.
19. As per studies, the position of your belly button helps determine how fast you run or swim. Given two runners or swimmers of the same height, the positional height of the belly button matters. This may explain why so many elite runners are of African ancestry who tend to have longer legs than people of European ancestry, resulting in meaning their belly buttons are about 5 cm higher than those of whites.
20. In ancient times, a pierced navel was a sign of masculinity and bravery. Some people still practice it but it’s not advised as the navel takes up to six months to heal compared to six weeks in the case of ears, nose, eyebrows, etc. The period being too long makes the scar susceptible to severe infections especially if you wear tight clothing.

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### Mercury
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Last updated: 2023-09-30T09:30:49.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Mercury

1. The name Mercury was actually given by the Romans after their messenger God considered to be very swift-footed.
2. Mercury has been known to humans for at least 5,000 years.
3. It is believed that Mercury’s core cooled off and was solidified long ago because of its small size before the earth was formed.
4. Mercury is only 1/3rd the size of Earth having a diameter of 4879 Km. It has no moon or rings.
5. Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system only slightly bigger than Earth's moon. It's smaller than both Saturn's moon Titan and Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
6. The mass of Mercury is about 5.5% of that of earth.
7. Mercury is the closest planet to Sun and hence, its surface temperature is very hot which can reach 450 degrees Celsius during the day.
8. Unlike Earth, Mercury has a little atmosphere and hence, it is not capable of trapping any heat from Sun resulting in temperature plunging to minus 170 degrees Celsius at night.
9. The Mercurial atmosphere is so thin that it is virtually non-existent. In fact, Mercury’s atmosphere is closer to a true vacuum than any man-made vacuum ever created.
10. Mercury’s extremely thin atmosphere consists of 42% oxygen, 29% sodium, 22% hydrogen, 6% helium, and other trace amounts.
11. Because of the weak gravitation of Mercury (approximately 38% of the Earth), the gases from its atmosphere constantly escapes to outer space. However, solar winds keep replenishing the atmosphere.
12. The inner metallic core of Mercury is iron while the external shell is silicate.
13. The temperature swing of Mercury is the highest in the entire Solar System. During a single day, the temperature of Mercury can swing more than 600 degrees Celsius.
14. In spite of high temperatures, Mercury is still believed to have water ice on it around the South and the North Pole deep inside the craters as these areas always remain in shadow and are always cold.
15. Because Mercury has a little atmosphere, asteroids approaching the planet hit it without any restriction forming big craters. Mercury has more craters and impact marks than any other planet. Any crater larger than 250 kilometers in diameter is referred to as a Basin.
16. One such crater is known as Caloris Basin that was created some 4 billion years ago by an asteroid impact. The asteroid is believed to have been around 100 kilometers wide and is thought to have hit Mercury with a force equal to that generated by 1 trillion bombs of 1 megaton each. Caloris basin is roughly 1,550 kilometers or 960 miles wide.
17. Mercury is the second densest planet in our Solar System after the Earth. It has a metallic core spanning between 3,600 and 3,800 kilometers.
18. The diameter of the metallic core is about 75% of the planet’s diameter. The outer shell of Mercury on the other hand is merely 500 to 600 kilometers.
19. Mariner 10, the first spacecraft to visit Mercury discovered that Mercury had its own magnetic field. It was previously believed that only planets that have a molten core and spin rapidly can have magnetic fields.
20. Amazingly Mercury completes one rotation in 59 days i.e. Its day is 59 earth days long.
21. The strength of the magnetic pull of Mercury is just 1% of that of Earth. However, it is interesting to note that the magnetic field of Mercury is pretty active. The magnetic field produced by solar wind often touches Mercury’s magnetic field producing very powerful magnetic tornadoes. These tornadoes are responsible for sending gushes of hot plasma solar wind to Mercury’s surface. The solar wind has streams of charged particles ejected from the Sun.
22. Mercury’s crust is full of lobe-shaped cliffs. These can run for several hundred miles on the surface and soar up to a mile high in the air.
23. Mercury completes one complete revolution around our Sun in 88 days i.e. One year on Mercury is equal to 88 earth days.
24. Mercury travels around the sun at a speed of 180,000 kilometers per hour or 112,000 miles per hour making it the fastest planet in the entire Solar System.
25. The orbit of Mercury is elliptical in shape. The closest the planet gets to the Sun is 47 million kilometers or 29 million miles. This closest point is known as Perihelion. The greatest distance of Mercury from the Sun during one complete revolution is 70 million kilometers or 43 million miles. The farthest point is known as Aphelion.
26. When Mercury reaches its closest point to Sun, the Sun will appear at least 3 times bigger there than what it actually appears from Earth.
27. During sunrise, the Sun appears to rise and then set for some time and then again rise. During sunset, the Sun will appear to set and then rise for a brief time period and then again set. This happens because of the elliptical orbit of Mercury and also because of the slow rotation speed of the planet on its axis.
28. 13 times in every 100 years, Mercury can be seen traveling across Sun’s face which can be seen directly from Earth.
29. Mercury’s eccentric orbit relative to the other planets, and its close distance to the Sun, helped scientists confirm Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
30. Only two spacecraft have ever visited Mercury as due to it’s proximity to the Sun it’s a difficult planet to visit. During 1974 and 1975 Mariner 10 flew by Mercury 3 times, mapping just under half of the planet’s surface. In August 2004, the Messenger probe was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to Mercury. It is orbiting Mercury since 2011 and it has beamed back some amazing images of the closest planet to the sun. Scientists have used those images to create the first-ever complete map of Mercury's surface.

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### Earthworm
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Last updated: 2023-09-28T09:30:13.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Earthworms

1. Fossilized worms, similar to earthworms, have been found in rocks laid down 600 million years ago.
2. Earthworms exist in about 6,000 species worldwide.
3. Over a million earthworms can be found in every single acre of land.
4. Earthworms consume about 1/2 to 1 time its body weight per day.
5. Earthworms have no ears or eyes. They also don’t have any bones or skeletons.
6. Most worms will live between 1 and 2 years. However, they can live as long as up to 8 years.
7. The length of an earthworm varies among species, ranging from less than half an inch to nearly 14 feet long. The largest earthworm found in 1967 measured 22 feet long.
8. The earthworm has a tremendous contribution to soil fertility. They tunnel through the ground, eating their way through the soil. They also drag leaves and other plant debris down into the soil, which allows air to enter it and water to drain through making rich, fertile soils from dense, infertile clays.
9. Amazingly the earthworm eats the soil. It crunches it up in its muscular stomach, digests what it can and ejects the rest.
10. Earthworms cast from one square metre of meadow were weighed over one year. It was found that they brought about 8 kg of soil to the surface in an year.
11. As they lack lungs or other specialized respiratory organs, earthworms breathe through their skin.
12. Earthworms have red blood, just like humans. Worms are cold blooded and can have between 1 and 5 pairs of hearts.
13. Earthworms are 90% water compared to 75 % water in us.
14. The earthworm exudes a lubricating fluid that makes moving through underground burrows easier and helps keep skin moist. One Australian species can shoot fluid as far as one feet through skin pores.
15. The earthworm body is basically like a tube of muscle arranged in two layers horizontally and vertically. Tightening the horizontal muscles forces the worm’s head forward. A wave of contractions then passes back down the body, squeezing more of the worm forward until the long muscles take over to pull up the tail. Worms can crawl both backward and forward in the soil.
16. The Earthworms body is bristling with sense organs , as many as 1,900 on just one segment. These receptors give the worm a sense of touch, the capacity to taste, and the ability to detect light.
17. The thin-skinned earthworm has no resistance to the sun’s ultra-violet radiation, so daylight for an hour can be fatal to them. Earthworms will anchor their tail in its burrow and at any sudden noise it will slither back into the earth.
18. Earthworms are hermaphrodites i.e. They have both male and female sex organs. Amazingly they cannot fertilize themselves as they they need to mate with another worm to exchange genetic material.
19. Earthworms are attracted to one another by scent. Their mating ritual involves the two worms lying head-to-tail on the surface of the soil and exchange sperm while bound together in a mucus covering.
20. Earthworms can contain up to 20 eggs which are sealed up to form a cocoon which can survive extreme conditions.
21. Baby worms hatch from cocoons smaller than a grain of rice. Usually only one worm emerges from it.
22. In favorable conditions, worms breed every seven to ten days and can double their population in 90 days.
23. The eggs can stay dormant in soil or compost for up to 15 years, waiting for conditions like moisture and food to be good enough to support their life.
24. The earthworm falls prey to most animals and birds, but the mole is its main predator , A mole can eat up to 50 earthworms in one day.
25. If an earthworm loses one end of its body it may grow a replacement, however, if it is cut in half, it dies.

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### Venus
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Last updated: 2023-09-26T09:30:28.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Venus

1. Venus is often called Earth’s twin because it is the closest planet in size to Earth. Scientists estimate the diameter of Venus at about 7,520 miles, making it approximately 400 miles smaller in diameter than Earth.
2. Venus is the second planet from the sun and the closest planet to Earth. The distance between Venus and Earth varies from 23.7 million miles when the planets are closest together to 162 million miles when they are farthest apart.
3. The planet was named Venus after the Roman goddess of beauty and love. Venus is the only planet in the Solar System to be named after a female figure.
4. Geologists believe that Venus once had large bodies of water on its surface, similar to those on Earth, which dried up approximately 300 million years ago as the sun began emitting greater amounts of solar energy.
5. The surface conditions of Venus are very hostile as the planet’s surface is very hot and dry and contains no liquid water, due to extremely high surface temperatures.
6. The average temperature on Venus’ surface is about 870° Fahrenheit (465° Centigrade) , making it the hottest planet in the solar system and hotter than most ovens.
7. Because Venus is only slightly tilted on its axis, it has no real seasonal variation in temperature as does Earth. it is hot all the time.
8. Venus has a constant, high-speed wind that carries its clouds on a complete trip around the planet every four Earth days.
9. Amazingly ancient astronomers called Venus both Phosphorous and Hesperus, mistakenly believing that the object visible in the morning and evening were two separate celestial bodies.
10. While the equatorial diameter of Earth is 27 miles greater than its diameter measured from pole to pole, the two diameters for Venus are virtually the same, making the planet an almost perfect sphere.
11. Venus travels around the sun in a nearly circular orbit taking about 225 Earth days to travel completely around the sun, compared to Earth’s 365 days.
12. With its faster orbit around the sun, Venus overtakes Earth every 584 Earth days, changing from an evening star to a morning star and then vice versa.
13. Venus and Mercury are the only two planets in the solar system that do not have any moons orbiting around them.
14. The fact is Venus is one of only two planets that rotates on its axis clockwise from east to west. The only other planet to do so is Uranus.
15. Amazing fact is that Venus rotates very slowly on its axis taking 243 days to make a complete rotation. The result is that a day on Venus is longer than its year.
16. When seen from Earth, Venus is brighter than any other planet or any star in the sky. Sometimes it is the first planet or star visible in the western sky at night and at other times it is the last planet or star visible in the morning.
17. Venus, the brightest of all the planets, can be so bright that on a moonless night, the planet can actually cast shadows on Earth.
18. Venus can appear so bright that a pilot aboard an Air Canada flight in January 2011 actually mistook the dazzling planet for an oncoming aircraft. The pilot sent his plane into an emergency dive to avoid a midair collision with what investigators later determined was Venus, which was still safely millions of miles away.
19. Venus is rare among the planets in that we can see it cross in front of the sun. Only Venus and Mercury do this from the vantage point of Earth. Venus transits occur rarely, with pairs separated by eight years coming around less than once a century.
20. Venus is surrounded by thick clouds consisting of mercury, ferric chloride hydrocarbons and mainly sulphuric acid. These clouds create the most corrosive acid rain found anywhere in our solar system.
21. No visible light can penetrate to Venus surface and We are unable to view the planet’s features through telescopes. Most of the knowledge about Venus’ surface has been gained through space probes.
22. Because the large masses of clouds never clear from Venus’ skies, neither Earth nor the sun is ever visible from the planet’s surface.
23. Approximately 65% of Venus’ surface is covered in flat, smooth plains, and the remaining 35% is made up of six mountainous regions. The highest mountain range Maxwell is about seven miles high and 540 miles long.
24. The atmosphere of Venus is heavier than the atmosphere of any other planet. It is made up primarily of carbon dioxide (96.5 %) and exerts roughly 90 times more pressure than Earth’s atmosphere which is the same as the water pressure on Earth about half a mile (1 km) under the ocean.
25. Venus’ high surface temperature is a result of the greenhouse effect as a result of the large clouds of sulfuric acid surrounding the planet and its thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide.
26. Nearly all of the radiant energy from the sun that enters the atmosphere is trapped and held at the planet’s surface.
27. The force of gravity on Venus is about 88 % compared to earth. Due to its smaller size and lower density, Venus’ mass is about 80% that of Earth.
28. Venus was first observed from space on December 14, 1962, when an unmanned U.S. spacecraft Mariner 2 passed within 21,600 miles of the planet after traveling through space for 3½ months. It was the first of all the planets other than earth to be seen from space.
29. The first spacecraft to successfully land on Venus was the Soviet spaceship Venera 7, which reached the planet’s surface on December 15, 1970\. The Soviet Venera 3 had crashed into the planet in 1966.
30. Venus Express spacecraft was launched by the European Space Agency in November 2005 to explore the venus surface.

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### Tarantula
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Last updated: 2023-09-24T09:30:37.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Tarantula

1. As the world’s largest spiders, tarantulas are both feared and beloved. There are approximately 900 species of tarantula in the family Theraphosidae.
2. The name tarantula was originally given to a spider living in Southern Italy from the town of Taranto which had a fatal bite. The only cure was for the victim to dance until exhausted by which time the poison would have been sweated from the system.
3. The frenzied folk dance based on the Italian legend is called the tarantella.
4. The size of the tarantula can range from being as small as a fingernail or large as a dinner plate.
5. The largest species is the Goliath bird eater spider which lives in the rain forests of South America. It has a leg span of up to 30cm and can weigh up to 120 grams. In contrast, most spiders weigh around 2 grams and most other tarantulas weigh around 7 grams.
6. The tarantula’s reputation is based more on legend than reality. The venom of most is not highly toxic to humans. Tarantulas are actually placid and harmless and will rarely attack. The bite is no more harmful than a bee sting
7. Most tarantulas are hairy, have 8 legs and 2 fangs. They have 8 eyes, but they have poor vision.
8. Tarantulas live primarily in the tropical, subtropical, and desert areas of the world. The majority are found in South America.
9. Tarantula’s jaws move up and down, instead of the more common side-to-side motion in other spiders. The hairs which cover its body are extremely sensitive to vibrations.
10. Tarantula detects vibration of the ground that comes from predators and from prey. In the case of predators, it will hide. In the case of prey, it will wait in ambush until the prey gets close.
11. Some species have adhesive ‘hair-brushes’ on the tip of their legs which allows them to climb vertically up even the smoothest leaves.
12. Tree dwelling species locate a mate by their scent and then follow the silken trail that the female leaves as she moves.
13. After mating, the female carries her eggs in a silken cocoon attached to her body. The growth of a newly hatched spider into a mature spider is a long process and can take up to ten years.
14. Males are much smaller than females. Amazingly most females will eat males after mating.
15. Female lays around 2000 eggs that will hatch after 1to3 months of incubation. Very few young spiders survive from predators in the first few years of their life.
16. Female tarantulas can live 30 years or longer in the wild. Males, on the other hand, don't make it much beyond reaching sexual maturity, with a life span of just 5-10 years on average. In fact, males don't even molt once they reach maturity making them easily recognizable.
17. Tarantulas ambush small prey at night, stealthily sneaking up on a potential meal and then pouncing!
18. Tarantulas don't use webs to capture prey, unlike other spiders. They hunt on foot. Smaller tarantulas eat insects, while some of the larger species will hunt frogs, mice, and even birds.
19. A fall can be fatal to a tarantula as they are thin-skinned creatures, particularly around the abdomen. Amazingly even a fall from a short height can cause a deadly rupture of the tarantula's exoskeleton.
20. Should a tarantula lose a leg, a new one will reappear the next time it molts. The regenerated leg may not be quite as long as the one it lost. However, over successive molts, the leg will gradually get longer until it reaches normal size again. Tarantulas will sometimes eat their detached legs as a way to recycle the protein.
21. Tarantulas have in fact retractable claws on each leg, like cats. It's important for them to get a good grip when climbing to avoid falls. By extending special claws at the end of each leg, a tarantula can get a better grasp of whatever surface it is attempting to scale.
22. The tarantula bites its prey with long, curved fangs, injecting it with a poison that slowly renders the victim helpless. It will then crush its food between its powerful jaws, at the same time injecting a fluid that breaks down the victim’s tissues. This turns the prey into a soft pulp, which can then be eaten. Tarantula has a mouth shaped like a straw and it easily sucks liquefied food.
23. Though tarantulas don't spin webs, they do produce silk. Females use silk to line the interiors of their burrows strengthening their earthen walls. Males weave a silken mat on which to lay their sperm. Females encase their eggs in a silken cocoon. Tarantulas also use silk trap lines near their burrows to alert them to potential prey, or to the approach of predators.
24. Scientists recently discovered tarantulas can produce silk with their feet, in addition to using spinnerets as other spiders do.
25. South American species of tarantula use their legs to scrape off the fine barbed hairs from the top of their abdomen. Each hair is covered with tiny points which, when propelled at an enemy, are both painful and dangerous, especially if they come into contact with the eyes or skin. These tactics are used against a variety of predators.
26. The ‘spider-hunting wasp’ is the most deadly enemy of the tarantula. Known as the ‘tarantula hawk’, it is usually much smaller than the tarantula but reaches into its burrow and manages to paralyze it with its sting. It then drags it out to its own burrow and keeps it to provide a fresh supply of food for its larvae.
27. Some of the more popular and colorful species are now threatened. The Mexican red-kneed tarantula is a protected species and international trade in this spider is restricted under law.
28. Spiders, specifically Tarantulas were not really considered delicacy until the 1970s. The tradition started back in the mid-1970s after Cambodia went under Khmer Rouge communist regime resulting in mass starvation. In the rest of the world, the popularity started somewhere in the 1990s.
29. For being used as food, the tarantulas are captured and fangs are removed before cooking. Then they are seasoned with salt, garlic, soy sauce, and sometimes sugar.
30. As far as nutrition content is concerned, tarantulas have particularly high zinc content and are particularly good for child growth. They are also good sources of Magnesium, Sodium, and Phosphorus.

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### Grasshopper
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Last updated: 2023-09-22T09:30:27.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Grasshopper

1. The grasshopper is an insect that belongs to the order Orthoptera. There are about 11000 different types of grasshopper which are found in every part of the globe except north and south Poles.
2. The ancestors of our modern-day grasshoppers evolved well over 200 millions year ago. They are believed to be older than dinosaurs.
3. In fact, grasshoppers and locusts are the same things. Locusts are actually species of short-horned grasshoppers, they are notorious for traveling in large swarms.
4. Grasshoppers grow to around 2 inches (5 cm), with some growing as big as 5 inches (12.5 cm). Females are usually larger than males.
5. Their body structures consist of the head, thorax, abdomen, and six legs along with two pairs of wings.
6. They have two big eyes, on each side of their head. They have another two on the bottom of each antenna and the last eye is between the two antennas. This enables grasshoppers to see in all directions.
7. The limbs are powerful enough to jump, lifting their body weight up to 20 times of the total body length. They can jump about 25cm high and around 1 meter long.
8. Grasshoppers are able to jump this far because they have powerful six-jointed legs that use a catapult design. A grasshopper will bend its hind legs at the knee, thereby slowly contracting its big flexor muscles. This potential energy is stored in a piece of cuticle in the knee, just like a spring. In order to jump, the grasshopper then relaxes its muscles, which causes the cuticle to release the stored energy catapulting the grasshopper into the air.
9. Grasshoppers are diurnal, which means they rest at night and are active during the day. This is largely because grasshoppers need to absorb sunlight in order to raise their body temperature so that they have their required energy.
10. The amazing fact is that grasshoppers have their auditory organs in an unusual location on the abdomen on each side of the first abdominal segment, tucked under the wings. These membranes vibrate in response to sound waves. They can detect rhythm and intensity, but it cannot hear the pitch of a sound.
11. Each grasshopper sub-family can generate different tunes or songs by clapping their wings in the air, while others would rub their hind legs to produce sounds.
12. Usually, the males will sing most of the time to attract females. Each species produces a characteristic rhythm that distinguishes its song from others, and enables courting males and females of a given species to find each other.
13. Grasshoppers are often colored in a way that camouflages them in their local habitat, The main colors of Grasshoppers are brown, gray, and green.
14. They will grow fast in the in the grass which is their preferred plant to eat.
15. The spring would be the perfect perhaps the best time for them to grow and invade our world.if it is too hot, or too cold, grasshopper will never have the chance to live.
16. They mate at start of summer.The hatched eggs will hibernating and going through autumn, winter, and early summer before turning into nymphs. (About 10 months).
17. These young grasshoppers don’t have any wings which develop after 10 days.
18. Within 30 days, the young grasshopper will evolve into an adult, and about 15 days later they are ready to mate again.
19. On an average , a grasshopper can live up to 1 year of age.
20. Grasshoppers love to eat crops, such as wheat, barley, oats, corn etc.
21. Depending on which species some would be a threat to crops while other types would only have appetite on grasses.
22. Grasshoppers also migrate during the colder months of the year. They tend to migrate in large groups, or swarms. Migration enables grasshoppers to find better sources of food during the winter months when crops are scarcer. Incredibly, grasshoppers can remain in the air for as long as three days without landing.
23. Locusts are most destructive in farming regions of Africa. The desert locust found in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia inhabit some 60 countries and can cover one-fifth of Earth's land surface.
24. A desert locust swarm can be 1,200 square kilometers in size and pack between 40 and 80 million locusts into less than one square kilometer. These massive swarms travel as many as 100 miles a day.
25. Each locust can eat its weight in plants each day, so a swarm of such size would eat about 200 million kilograms of plants every day.
26. Amazingly a desert locust swarm in Kenya in 1954 consumed over 200 square kilometers of wild and cultivated plants.
27. Locust swarms can inflict massive damage. In the U.S. alone, grasshoppers cause about $1.5 billion in damage to grazing lands each year.
28. Grasshoppers sometimes "spit" brown liquid to defend themselves repelling predators.
29. Grasshoppers are symbols of luck in Japan.
30. In some parts of the world grasshoppers are alternative to meat being a rich source of protein and low in fat. People in Thailand and China would sell deep-fried grasshopper as street food, in Africa people eat them as daily meal.

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### Heart
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Last updated: 2023-09-20T09:30:31.000Z
#### 50 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Heart

1. The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100,000 times a day; 3.6 million times a year; and an amazing 2.5 billion times during a lifetime.
2. The heart has four chambers, two atria and two ventricles on either side. “Atrium” is Latin for “entrance hall,” and “ventricle” is Latin for “little belly.”
3. Your left lung is actually smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart. The study of the human heart and its various disorders is known as cardiology.
4. *The amazing fact* is that the human heart is not heart-shaped. A cow's heart is more heart-shaped than a human one. Generally speaking, a healthy heart is about the size of a person's fist.
5. Aristotle believed that the heart was the body's source of heat.
6. Though weighing only about 300 gm on average, a healthy heart pumps about 7500 liters of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels each day which would stretch around the world more than twice!
7. The heart is one big muscular pump made up of involuntary striated muscle cells. Grab a tennis ball and squeeze it tightly. That’s how hard the beating heart works to pump blood.
8. During an average lifetime, the heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood. A kitchen faucet would have to be turned on all the way for at least 45 years to equal the amount of blood pumped by the heart in an average lifetime.
9. In an average lifetime, a human heart pumps enough blood to fill 100 swimming pools.
10. Blood pressure is a measure of the pressure exerted by blood on the walls of the heart chambers. Systolic is a measure of the pressure when the heart is pumping and diastolic is a measure when the heart is relaxed.
11. *Amazingly* the pressure created in the heart during a heartbeat is enough to squirt blood a distance of 30 feet.
12. The heart circulation cycle starts with blood flowing into the right atrium and through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle from where it is pumped to the lungs to dispose of CO2 and pick up O2\. This oxygenated blood is pumped into the left atrium and then to the left ventricle, through the bicuspid valve. Finally, it is pumped out of the left ventricle to the body via the aorta and finally to the capillaries. Deoxygenated blood is collected through veins back to the right atrium.
13. The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body’s 75 trillion cells. Only our corneas receive no blood supply.
14. 5 % of blood supplies the heart, 15-20% goes to the brain and central nervous system, and 22% blood goes to the kidneys.
15. The volume of blood pumped by the heart can vary over a wide range, from five to 30 liters per minute depending on person and exertion.
16. *Amazingly* every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles. In a lifetime, that is equivalent to driving to the moon and back.
17. Because the heart has its own electrical impulse, it can continue to beat even when separated from the body, as long as it is provided enough oxygen supply.
18. The fetal heart rate is approximately twice as fast as an adult’s, at about 150 beats per minute.
19. The heartbeat (lub-dub sound) is the produced by the closing of the atrioventricular valves.
20. The heart does the most physical work of any muscle during a lifetime. The power output of the heart ranges from 1-5 watts throughout life. The heart in fact starts beating at four weeks after conception and continue until death. In contrast quadriceps muscle can produce 100 watts for a few minutes.
21. A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in circulation. An adult human has about 5 liters.
22. In *fact*, the heart pumps oxygenated blood through the aorta at about 1 mile (1.6 km) per hour. By the time blood reaches the capillaries, it is moving at around 3.5 feet (110 cm) per hour.
23. Prolonged lack of sleep and other causes can cause irregular jumping heartbeats called premature ventricular contractions which could be dangerous.
24. Cocaine affects the heart’s electrical activity and causes spasm of the arteries, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke, even in healthy people.
25. In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) examined the inside of his own heart by threading a catheter into his arm vein and pushing it 20 inches into his heart, inventing cardiac catheterization. He had been denied permission to do so by the department head. He then walked down to the X-ray department and took a picture to prove it.
26. On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001) of South Africa transplanted a human heart into the body of Louis Washansky in Cape Town making it the first successful heart transplant. The recipient survived 18 days.
27. A woman’s heart typically beats faster than a man’s. The heartbeat of an average man is about 70 while that of the average woman is about 78 beats per minute.
28. Blood is actually a liquid tissue. It takes only 6 seconds for the blood to go from the heart to the lungs and back, only 8 seconds for it to go the brain and back, and only 16 seconds for it to reach the toes and travel all the way back to the heart.
29. French physician Rene Laennec (1781-1826) invented the stethoscope to examine heart.
30. William Harvey (1578-1657) discovered the circulatory system in 1616 realizing that there was a finite amount of blood in the body which circulated in one direction.
31. In 1903, physiologist Willem Einthoven (1860-1927) invented the electrocardiograph (ECG) which measures micro electric current in the heart.
32. Heart attack or myocardial infarct is due to partial/complete blockage of right & left coronary arteries and their branches which supply blood to the heart affecting the heart function.
33. One-third of first heart attacks are fatal, and another third result in permanent damage to the heart.Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 AM with Monday being the most "popular" day.
34. Smoking makes the risk of a heart attack 200% to 400% greater than that of nonsmokers.
35. The risk of heart disease for inactive people is double that of people who get regular exercise. The American Heart Association recommends at least 30 min of moderate exercise on most days of the week. Other risk factors for heart attack are high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, obesity and diabetes.
36. Instead of chest pains, women are likely to have nausea, indigestion, and shoulder aches as symptoms of heart attack. Symptoms may also be masked if you have diabetes.
37. Frank Hayes was a jockey who, in 1923, suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a race at Belmont Park in New York. His horse finished and won the race with his lifeless body making him the first, and thus far, only, jockey to win a race after death.
38. Having an orgasm at least 3 times a week cuts in half the likelihood of coronary heart disease.
39. A study has found that eating dark chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart disease by one-third.
40. A hearty laugh can send up to 20% more blood pumping throughout your body.
41. Cardiovascular disease is the leading global cause of death, accounting for about 17.3 million deaths per year in the world. Number is growing year by year. Cardiovascular diseases claim more lives than all forms of cancer combined.
42. Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death in the world and the leading cause of death in the United States, killing over 375,000 Americans a year. Heart disease accounts for 1 in 7 deaths in the U.S. Someone in the U.S. dies from heart disease about once every 90 seconds.
43. The inventor of the heart stent approached many companies for funding and was rejected. It was funded by the owner of Fuddrucker's restaurant, whom he met by chance on a golf course.
44. Scientists have been able to develop artificial heart with two turbines which can now replace human heart. It will have a constant flow of blood rather than a pulse.
45. *Amazingly* when a pregnant woman suffers organ damage such as a heart attack, the fetus sends stem cells to the damaged organ to help repair it.
46. In New York, a golfer was killed by his own club he threw in frustration. It bounced back and pierced his heart.
47. Cocaine increases the chance of having a heart attack within the hour by 2,400%
48. *Amazing fact* is that as late as 1985 doctors believed babies did not feel pain, and conducted open heart surgeries on infants with no anesthesia.
49. A man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and 12 years later killed himself in the same way the donor did.
50. *Amazingly* NBA player Pete Maravich said in an interview when he was 26 that he didn’t want to play in the NBA for 10 years, then die of a heart attack at 40\. He proceeded to have a 10 year NBA career, and then die of a heart attack at 40.

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### Seahorse
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Last updated: 2023-09-18T09:30:30.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Seahorse

1. There are about 40 known species of seahorses.
2. Seahorses are masters of disguise. They swim upright and avoid predators by mimicking the color of underwater plants.
3. Seahorses can range from 0.6 inches to 14 inches in height.
4. A baby seahorse is called a fry while a group of seahorses is called a herd.
5. Seahorses prefer to swim in pairs with their tails linked together.
6. Except for crabs, few marine predators eat the seahorse as it is too bony and indigestible.
7. Seahorses propel themselves by using a small fin on their back that flutters up to 35 times per second. Even smaller pectoral fins located near the back of the head are used for steering.
8. Because of their body shape, seahorses are terrible swimmers and can easily die of exhaustion when caught in storms in seas.
9. They anchor themselves with their prehensile tails to seagrasses and corals, using their elongated snouts to suck in plankton and small crustaceans that drift by. The seahorse can suck up food from as far as 3cm away.
10. The seahorse feeds constantly on plankton and tiny fish. It moves each of its eyes independently, so it can follow the activity of passing sea life without giving its presence away.
11. Seahorses have no teeth and no stomach. Food passes through their digestive systems so quickly, they must eat almost constantly to stay alive.
12. They are the master assassins of the sea. Seahorse heads are shaped to let them move through the water undetected. Their predatory kill rate is an amazing 90%.
13. They can consume 3,000 or more brine shrimp per day.
14. Seahorses are monogamous and mate for life.
15. The amazing fact is that they are among the only animal species on Earth in which the male bears the unborn young.
16. Male pregnancy frees females to make more eggs straight away and so reproduce quicker.
17. Seahorse courtship begins with a daily "dance," during which the male and female gracefully swim together spinning around, swimming side by side and changing colors. This courtship happens every morning for several days. The final dance can last up to eight hours until the couple finally does the deed.
18. When mating, the female seahorse releases up to 50 eggs into a pouch on the male’s abdomen.
19. The male seahorse carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch, then releases fully formed, miniature seahorses into the water. As little as 5 or as many as 1,500 young can be born.
20. Unfortunately less than one in a thousand young Seahorse will survive long enough to become an adult.

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### Andromeda Galaxy
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Last updated: 2023-09-16T09:30:41.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Andromeda Galaxy

1. The Andromeda is a spiral galaxy that is located at a distance of 2.5 million light-years from our galaxy Milky Way.
2. The Andromedia galaxy is also known as Messier 31 or in short, M31.
3. In the galaxy cluster known as the Local Group, Andromeda is the largest galaxy. The Local Group is a cluster of 54 galaxies including the Milky Way.
4. Scientists estimate that there are 1 trillion stars in the Andromeda galaxy.
5. This galaxy appears in the area of the Andromeda constellation and hence it is named as Andromeda galaxy. Andromeda was the name of a mythical Greek princess.
6. Since it is the nearest spiral galaxy to us, astronomers use the Andromeda Galaxy to understand the origin and evolution of such galaxies.
7. The apparent magnitude of the brightness of this spiral galaxy is 3.4, which makes it visible to naked eyes from earth on a clear moonless night.
8. The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object you can spot with the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere.
9. The diameter of the Andromedia galaxy is estimated to be 260,000 light-years.
10. The estimated mass of Andromeda is 400 billion solar masses which is less than Milky Way which is denser.
11. The Andromeda is headed towards Milky Way at a speed of 110 kilometers per second and it will clash with Milky Way in about 3.75 billion years.
12. Andromeda has a double nucleus. At the very center or the core of the galaxy is a massive cluster of stars. But at the core, there is also at least one supermassive black hole. Apart from the supermassive black hole at the center of Andromeda, there are 26 more black holes inside this galaxy.
13. Andromeda's spiral arms are distorted. This distortion is caused by the gravitational tug of the companions M32 and M110.
14. Once the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy collide together, scientists expect that the resulting entity will be a gigantic elliptical galaxy.
15. Radio emission from the Andromeda Galaxy was first detected in 1950.

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### Dam
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Last updated: 2023-09-14T09:30:48.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Dams

1. A dam is a barrier designed and constructed to contain the flow of water.
2. Dams are built for purposes such as generating hydroelectricity, creating recreational areas, minimizing flood risks, diverting water for irrigation, and providing water for towns and cities.
3. The first dam for which reliable records exist was built on the Nile River sometime before 4000 BC. near the ancient city of Memphis.
4. The oldest continuously operating dam still in use is the Kofini Dam, which was constructed in 1260 BC on the Lakissa River in Greece.
5. There are approximately 850,000 dams located around the world. Of the more than 40,000 that are categorized as large dams, more than half are located in China and India.
6. It is estimated that 24 countries currently generate more than 90 percent of their electrical power from dams, and 70 countries rely on dams for flood control.
7. Gravity Dams use the downward force of the weight of the construction materials to resist the horizontal force of the water. These are the largest and heaviest of the concrete dams. They have a large base and they can only be built on a solid rock foundation.
8. Arch Dams are supported by the walls of the canyon in which they are built. The arch dam is built in a curved arch facing the water. Arch dams can only be built in narrow canyons where the rock walls are solid and steep. Notches, called keyways, are cut into the canyon walls on both sides, and then the dam is built so that it fits into these notches.
9. Buttress Dams have a sloping slab that is supported by buttresses or walls. Buttress dams use less concrete than the other two types of dams as above.
10. Embankment dams typically are constructed of compacted earth, rock, or both, making them less expensive than others that are constructed of concrete. More than 80 percent of all large dams are of this type. Because the earth is not as strong as concrete, earthen dams are very thick. When building an earthen dam, engineers use soils that do not let water seep through.
11. Dams require vast financial resources. The construction of the Itaipu Dam on the border of Brazil and Paraguay which was completed in 1984 cost around US$20 billion.
12. Built along the Colorado River between 1931 and 1936, The well-known Hoover Dam reaches 726 feet in height. The base is 660 Feet thick.
13. When the Hoover Dam was completed it was both the world’s largest concrete structure and largest hydroelectric power station.
14. The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
15. Enough rock was excavated in Hoover dam construction to build the Great Wall of China.
16. The Hoover Dam is made of enough concrete to make a two-lane highway from New York to San Francisco, which’s around 2500 miles (4000 km).
17. Hoover Dam is 726 feet tall and 660 feet thick at its base.
18. As many as 20,000 vehicles a day drive across the 45 ft. wide top of the dam between Nevada and Arizona.
19. Each of the 17 generators of Hoover Dam weighs as much as 4 1/2 fully loaded Boeing 747's.
20. The world's tallest dam currently is the 305 meter Jinping-1 in China. The close second is Nurek Dam in Tajikistan reaching 300 meters.
21. China has begun building a 314-meter high Shuangjiankou dam on a tributary of China's Yangtze river which will be the world's tallest to be completed in 2022\. The project could cost about US$100 billion.
22. Three Gorges Dam which is now the world’s largest reservoir required a total of 1.3 million people had to be relocated from their homes comprising of 1,600 villages, spread across 140 towns and 13 cities. It has the honor of being the world’s largest power station.
23. Three gorge dam is built entirely of steel and concrete. It used 510,000 tons of steel which is enough to build the Eiffel Tower 60 times over! If three gorge dam bursts, there is the potential for 360 million lives. This is unlikely to happen but it’s a truly frightening thought.
24. In 1889 a failure of the South Fork Dam near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA, killed over 2200 people.
25. In 1975, the Banqiao Dam in China was among many dams that were destroyed after the extreme rains of Typhoon Nina. It is estimated that between 90000 and 230000 lives were lost as a result of the Banqiao Dam breaking.

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### Tsunami
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Last updated: 2023-09-12T09:30:31.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Tsunami

1. A tsunami is usually caused by an earthquake but can also be caused by a volcanic eruption, landslide, rapid changes in atmospheric pressure, or a meteorite.
2. Tsunami means “harbor wave” in Japanese (*tsu =* harbor + *nami =* wave), reflecting Japan’s tsunami-prone history.
3. Many scientists believe that a meteorite may have created a tsunami that wiped out life on Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago.
4. Scientists believe that an asteroid struck the Indian Ocean about 4,800 years ago. The tsunami that resulted is theorized to have been approximately 600 feet (180 m) high.
5. When an enormous earthquake hit Lisbon in 1755, the city’s terrified citizens rushed to the seashore for safety. They were amazed to see seawater rushing away from the shore but minutes later, a massive tsunami arrived killing 90,000 residents.
6. Only two large tsunamis are known to have struck Europe: one struck Crete and surrounding Mediterranean coasts in 1530 B.C., and one struck Lisbon, Portugal in 1755.
7. A “mega-tsunami” is a tsunami with extremely high waves and is usually caused by a landslide. A mega-tsunami occurred at Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958, creating the tallest tsunami ever recorded at 1,700 feet (534 m) high. Miraculously, only two people died.
8. Scientists hypothesize that the next mega-tsunami may occur in the Canary Islands. The mega-tsunami could cross the Atlantic Ocean and devastate U.S. coastal cities like New York, Boston, and Miami with waves reaching more than 100 feet high.
9. One of the largest earthquakes in history occurred over 100 miles off the coast of Chile on May 22, 1960\. Just 15 minutes after the 9.5 quakes, 80-foot waves struck the coast. 15 hours later, tsunami waves struck Hawaii and, 22 hours after the earthquake, it struck Japan, 10,000 miles from where the earthquake took place.
10. A 9.0 earthquake 81 miles off the coast of Sendai caused the massive 2011 tsunami. The earthquake that caused it is the world’s fifth-largest earthquake since 1900\. It has been 1,200 years since an earthquake of this magnitude struck the plate boundary of Japan.
11. The World Bank estimates that rebuilding the tsunami-affected areas of Japan will cost $232 billion and will take at least five years.
12. Because of its long history of devastating tsunamis, Japan has the most advanced tsunami warning system in the world consisting of more than 1,500 seismometers and more than 500 water-level gauges. Japan’s tsunami warning system costs $20 million a year to run.
13. A tsunami is in fact a series of waves called a “wave train.” The time period between waves is called the “wave period” and can be between a few minutes and two hours. The first wave is usually not the strongest, and later waves, such as the fifth or sixth, may be significantly larger.
14. Tsunamis retain their energy, meaning they can travel across entire oceans with limited energy loss. The farthest distance inland reached by tsunami waters is referred to as the area of inundation. The highest point that this water reaches is called the run-up.
15. Reports show that those who use their cars to escape tsunamis often get stuck in traffic jams or encounter other obstacles and are, therefore, more likely to be swept away. The best way to escape is on foot, climbing up any steep slopes nearby as quickly as possible. You should try to reach a place at least 50 feet above sea level during a tsunami.
16. People often die after the first tsunami wave because they return to their homes too soon or go to the beach to help stranded people or animals, only to be engulfed by another tsunami wave.
17. If caught by a tsunami wave, it is better not to swim, but rather to grab a floating object and allow the current to carry you.
18. In the deepest part of the ocean, tsunami waves are often only one to three feet tall. It may be difficult to realize that tsunami waves are passing underneath. Full force is realized when it reaches the coast.
19. Up to half an hour before a tsunami strikes, the ocean can but not always suddenly appear to drain away. The withdraw of the water is called the “drawback” and is the trough of the tsunami reaching the shore. Be aware.
20. When a tsunami crashes into coastal areas, it is typically moving at about 22 mph (35 km/hr). The speed as it moves inland changes dramatically depending on the slope of the beach and the shore environment.
21. A tsunami hits land with thousands of times the power of a regular wave. Regular waves are caused by wind pushing water at the surface of the ocean or other body of water. Tsunami waves are created by an event that affects the entire water column, from the ocean floor to its surface.
22. As a tsunami wave approaches shallow water near land, it slows down to about 20-30 miles (30-50 km) per hour. As it slows, all the water that had been traveling so fast pulls up, causing the wave to grow higher and higher. By the time it hits the shore, a tsunami wave can be gigantic.
23. Tsunami waves do not look like normal waves because they do not break and curl as normal waves do. They come as rapid floods of water or in the form of a large, steep wave that looks like a wall of water.
24. Earthquake-induced tsunamis are created along subduction zones, or when a lighter tectonic plate is forced above a heavier plate. The sudden rise or fall of the ocean floor displaces the entire overlying water column generating a tsunami. A tsunami will generally not form if the tectonic plates instead split apart or slide past each other.
25. Approximately 99% of all tsunami-related fatalities have occurred within 160 miles (250 km) of the tsunami’s origin or within 30 minutes of when the tsunami was generated.
26. Amazingly some animals have the ability to detect impending tsunami. Hours before the Indian Ocean tsunami, people reported seeing elephants and flamingos heading for higher ground. Dogs and zoo animals refused to leave their shelters. After the tsunami, very few dead animals were found.
27. The Indian Ocean 9.0 earthquake in 2004 released more energy than all the earthquakes on the planet in the last 25 years combined. A segment of seafloor the size of the state of California moved upward and seaward by more than 30 feet, displacing huge amounts of water.
28. The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 in South East Asia killed more than 275,000 people from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. Victims included not only local people but also approximately 9,000 foreign tourists spending their Christmas vacations at beach resorts. About one-third of the dead were children and, in many places, four times as many women as men were killed.
29. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami uncovered the remains of Mahabalipuram
30. The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 uncovered the lost city Mahabalipuram, the capital of a powerful kingdom that traded with China, Roma, Greece, Arabia, and Egypt some 1,500 years ago.
31. While waves generated by wind may travel anywhere from around 2 to 60 miles per hour, tsunami waves can travel at speeds of 600 miles per hour, the speed of a jet plane.
32. The state at greatest risk for a tsunami in Hawaii. Hawaii experiences about one tsunami a year and a damaging tsunami every seven years. California, Oregon, and Washington have a damaging tsunami about every 18 years.
33. Tsunamis can poison freshwater surface and groundwater systems as well as soil by leaving large amounts of salt behind. Consequently, thousands of people can die of starvation and disease long after the tsunami is gone.
34. About 80 % of all tsunamis occur in the Pacific “Ring of Fire”. In the Pacific region, nearly 500,000 people have died from tsunamis over the last 2,000 years.
35. Of the three major oceans, only the Pacific Ocean has an integrated multinational tsunami warning system. There was no tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean in 2004.

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### Autism
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Last updated: 2023-09-10T09:30:19.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Autism

1. Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), a Swiss psychiatrist, first termed “autism” but applied it to adult schizophrenia.
2. In 1943, the term was redefined by Leo Kanner (1894-1981) who dissociated autism from schizophrenia to create the modern understanding of the disorder.
3. Autism has its origin from the Greek *autos* meaning “self,” autism literally means “alone.”
4. Autism was initially called “Early Infantile Autism” or “Kanner’s Syndrome.”
5. Autism is a bio-neurological developmental disability that generally appears before the age of 3.
6. Autism impacts the normal development of the brain in the areas of social interaction, communication skills, and cognitive function. Individuals with autism typically have difficulties in verbal and non-verbal communication, social interactions, and leisure or play activities.
7. It is believed that autism is a combination of genetic vulnerability that is triggered by some kind of social or toxic influence.
8. Environmental factors that could trigger predisposed genes to mutate and cause autism are drugs, chemicals, heavy metal exposure, antibiotics or infections during pregnancy.
9. There is no blood test, no scan, and no image that can detect autism. Diagnosis relies on behavioural observation and screening.
10. As early as infancy, a baby can begin to show the three hallmark features of autism: communication challenges, impaired social interactions, and repetitive behaviour.
11. It is advised to have autistic testing if a baby doesn’t babble or coo by 12 months, doesn’t point or wave by 12 months, doesn’t say single words by 16 months and doesn’t say two-word phrases by 24 months.
12. Autism may also be suspected if no response to name or the child loses previously acquired language or social skills at any age or has poor eye contact or excessive lining up of toys or objects and no smiling or social responsiveness.
13. The late symptoms of autism are impaired ability to make friends with peers, impaired ability to initiate or sustain a conversation, absence or impairment of imaginative and social play, repetitive or unusual use of language, abnormally intense or focused interest, preoccupation with certain objects and inflexible adherence to specific routines or rituals.
14. About 40% of children with autism do not speak. Others might speak, but not until later in childhood.
15. Autism doesn't just affect children. Autistic children grow up to be autistic adults. Autism is a hidden disability. You can't always tell if someone has it.
16. Autism is one of the fastest-growing developmental disorders in the U.S.
17. About 24,000 children are diagnosed with autism for the first time every year.
18. About 1 per cent of the world population has autism spectrum disorder.
19. Prevalence in the United States is estimated at 1 in 68 births.
20. Approximately 67 million people worldwide are affected by autism.
21. Autism is more common than childhood cancer, diabetes, and AIDS combined.
22. If one identical twin is diagnosed with autism, the other twin has about 90% chance of developing an autistic disorder.
23. Mutations on chromosome 16 have been tied to autism. The problem is in a DNA region that contains genes which historically have changed very rapidly as humans evolved. In other words, the same method that helped evolve human intelligence may contribute to autism.
24. There is no permanent cure for autism but the right support at the right time can make an enormous difference to the affected child.
25. Researchers have found that the area of the brain called the amygdala was on average 13% larger in young children with autism compared with children without autism.
26. Autism is frequently referred to as autisms because each child’s case is different.
27. The USA administration advocates universal screening for all infants for autism disorders, as well as rescreening for all 2-year-olds.
28. One in 10 extremely premature infants has been tested positive for autism.
29. Children who are born more than three months early are likely to have double the expected rate of autism.
30. Many children with autism have a reduced sensitivity to pain but may be extra sensitive to sound touch or other sensory stimulation which may contribute to a reluctance to being cuddled or hugged.
31. About 20% to 30% of autistic children develop epilepsy by the time they reach adulthood. The reason is not clear.
32. Girls with autistic symptoms may be suffering from Rett Syndrome. The syndrome affects mainly females because male foetuses with the disorder rarely survive to term. Development is typical until 6-18 months when language and motor milestones are lost.
33. Scientists suggest that people with autism may have abnormal levels of serotonin or other neurotransmitters in the brain, which may have resulted in the disruption of normal brain development early in foetal development.
34. Research suggests that having an older father may increase a child’s risk of autism. Children born to men 40 years old or older were almost six times more likely to have an autism spectrum disorder than those born to men younger than 30 years old.
35. Maternal age seems to have little effect on autism risk.
36. In families with one autistic child, the risk of having a second child with the disorder is approximately 5% or one in 20\. This is greater than the risk for the general population.
37. Researchers are unclear why boys are diagnosed with autism 4 times more than girls, but some think that the problem lies with the X chromosome, of which boys only have one.
38. Scholars and parents debate whether autism is a disability or whether it should be considered merely a different kind of personality.
39. Mothers who have autoimmune diseases such as type1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and celiac disease have up to three times greater risk for having a child with autism.
40. Dogs have been shown to improve autistic children’s quality of life, independence, and safety. The presence of a trained dog can reduce aggressive behaviour, calm the child, and serve as a link to the child’s community.

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### Memory
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Last updated: 2023-09-08T09:30:37.000Z
#### 40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Memory

1. A piece of brain tissue the size of a grain of sand amazingly contains 100,000 neurons and 1 billion synapses all communicating with each other.
2. The brain has about 1 billion neurons.
3. Research has shown that the human brain starts remembering things from the womb from 20 weeks gestation onwards.
4. In fact, people don't recall any memories from their earliest years of life, usually before age 3 or 4\. This is known as infantile amnesia.
5. Amazingly the average brain registers about 50,000 thoughts per day and 70% of these are believed to be negative.
6. In fact, each time a memory is recalled or a new thought occurs, a new connection is created in the brain.
7. The amazing fact is that the storage capacity of the human brain is virtually limitless. Neurons combine through synapses exponentially increasing the brain’s memory capacity to around 25,00,000 Gigabytes which is equivalent to remembering TV programs running continuously for more than 300 years.
8. Experts believe that you can hold about 7 items in short-term memory for about 20 to 30 seconds.
9. Our attention spans are getting shorter. In 2000, the average attention span was twelve seconds which is now down to eight seconds. That’s shorter than the attention span of the average goldfish which is nine seconds.
10. Short-term memory happens as a result of chemical and electrical impulses in the brain in contrast to more structural changes that are associated with long-term memory.
11. The hippocampus is a horse-shoe shaped area of the brain that has an important role in converting information from short-term memory into long-term memory. Amazingly memory is unaffected even if the right or left side of the hippocampus is damaged.
12. Sleep has an important role in memory as the brain consolidates memories during sleep. Sleep also aids the storage and retrieval of long-term memories.
13. The fact is memory gets broken up into bits and pieces and stored in different parts of the brain. When the memory is to be recalled, it gets reconstructed from the individual fragments.
14. It is believed that an adult can remember 20 to 100 thousand words.
15. Anterograde amnesia is the loss of the ability to form new memories while retrograde amnesia is losing the ability to recollect past memories, although the ability to create new memories remains intact.
16. In fact, memory does not decay. Everything is stored in there but, without rehearsal, memories become harder to access as our ability to retrieve them is affected.
17. Your long-term memory shuts down during sleep. That’s why you often dream about something you just saw and why dreams fade quickly once you wake up. Dreams aren’t being recorded into long-term memory.
18. In fact, when a recall is easy, learning is low. When something comes to mind quickly, i.e. we do no work to recall it, no learning occurs. When we have to work hard to bring it to consciousness, we learn.
19. Your memory can associate a scent with a certain event or occurrence. A smell can trigger the memory in your mind associated with it as the hippocampus is also associated with scent.
20. It’s a well-known fact that feelings play an important role in remembering things. In a state of emotional splash memory sometimes can calls things, forgotten a long time ago.
21. Information that has long become inaccessible can still be revived. Indeed it is then relearned more quickly than new information.
22. Forgetting actually helps you learn as less relevant information becomes inaccessible and we are naturally left with the information that is most important to our daily survival.
23. Memory thrives on storytelling. The more things you can link together into a narrative, the more readily you’ll be able to recall them later on.
24. The color most easily remembered and recalled is chartreuse which is like a bright yellow with a tinge of green.
25. Many cities have changed their fire trucks from red to a yellow-green color to make them more visible.
26. Anytime you are given a picture, graph, video, infographic, or other visual elements to demonstrate new information, you are much more likely to commit that information to memory.
27. There is such a thing as “false memory”. We can't always tell the difference between our memories and our imagination. Emotions, motivation, cues, context, and frequency of use can all affect how accurately you can remember something. Our memories may have changed, but they all feel very real to us.
28. Walking Through Doorways Causes Memory Lapses especially when you enter an unfamiliar environment. This is called an “event boundary” which separates what happens in one room from what happens in another.
29. TV if watched for more than 2 hours is likely to damage your memory. It also increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s later in life.
30. In fact, caffeine doesn’t maintain memory performances, it only increases alertness.
31. People who do long flights associated with crossing many time zones are at risk of brain damage and memory problems due to jet lag. This, apparently, is the result of stress hormones that damage the temporal lobe and mamory.
32. Yawning in fact causes the brain to mobilize awakening and refreshing it. Yawning lets more air in bringing your body to a state of readiness. An amazing fact is Alexander the Great remembered all of the names of his soldiers. There were approximately 30,000 people in his army.
33. Amazingly Mozart was able to play and write down all of the notes from a song he had heard just once.
34. Winston Churchill in fact knew by heart almost all of William Shakespeare’s works.
35. Bill Gates can remember hundreds of different codes of the programming language that he designed.
36. Diane Van Deren, one of the world’s top ultra-runners, didn’t start running until a seizure crippled her ability to form new memories. She has the psychological advantage of never knowing how much distance she still has to run.
37. Around 33 people have been recorded to have Hyperthymesia, a condition that allows people to remember every detail of their lives. They can recall almost every personal event in their lives and the exact dates.
38. Highway hypnosis is a mental state in which the person can drive a truck or automobile great distances, responding to external events in an expected manner with no recollection of having consciously done so.
39. Grand Master of Memory is awarded to people who are able to memorize 1,000 random digits in an hour, the order of 10 shuffled decks of cards in an hour, and the order of one shuffled deck of cards in under 2 minutes.
40. Amazingly brain scientist Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat’s brain he removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery.

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### Crabs
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Last updated: 2023-09-06T09:30:47.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Crabs

1. Both crabs and lobsters are decapods or crustaceans with 10 limbs. Other decapods include crayfish, prawns, and shrimp.
2. While lobsters have a long, segmented abdomen that sticks out at the back of their bodies, crabs have a similar but smaller abdomen that is curled up underneath the main shell. A crab’s shell is really a skeleton on the outside of its body. Insects and spiders also have external skeletons.
3. Most crabs have flat bodies that enable them to squeeze into very narrow crevices. A group of crabs is called a cast.
4. Spider Crab The Japanese Spider Crab may live up to 100 years.
5. The largest crab in the world is the giant Japanese Spider Crab, which can measure up to 13 feet across.
6. Crabs are also known as “spiders of the sea” because, like crabs, spiders have legs that bend at joints.
7. There are two kinds of crabs. First are true crabs, or brachyurans, which have a very short abdomen and use four pairs of long legs for walking. True crabs include blue crabs, spider crabs, and ghost crabs. Second is false crabs, or anomurans, which have a longer abdominal section and fewer walking legs. False crabs include hermit crabs, king crabs, horseshoe crabs, crab lice, and squat lobsters.
8. There are about 5,000 species of crabs. Only about 4,500 are true crabs. The other 500 types are false crabs.
9. All crabs have claws on their two front legs. All crabs have one pair of pincers (chelipeds) and four pairs of walking legs.
10. A crab can use its claws as a vice for crushing or like scissors for cutting. They can also be used like chopsticks to pick up food.
11. Crabs have large compound eyes made up of hundreds of tiny lenses. Eyes are set on eyestalks which can move in different directions and allow a crab to see all around. The stalk helps a crab see while hiding underwater, rock, coral, sand, or mud.
12. The Sally Lightfoot crab is the most colorful crab in the world. It is red, orange, yellow, and white but not considered very edible by humans.
13. Crabs live in more different places than any other sea animal. They are found almost everywhere in the ocean, including smoking volcanic vents thousands of feet below the surface. They also live under the ice in Antarctica. One type of crab even lives on land and climbs trees.
14. Crab lice, also known as “pubic lice,” are parasitic insects that live on humans. They can live in any place where there is hair, including pubic hair and eyelashes. They feed only on blood.
15. The word “cancer” is related to the word “crab” in Latin. Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, among others, noted the similarity of swollen tumors with veins to crabs.
16. The coconut crab is a giant hermit crab that lives on islands in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. It weighs up to 10 pounds, making it the world’s largest land invertebrate.
17. Male and female crabs can be distinguished by looking at their abdomens. In most male crabs, the form of the abdomen (pleon) is narrow and triangular, while the females have a broader, rounded abdomen. Additionally, female crabs have smaller claws than male crabs.
18. A female crab lays millions of eggs at one time. She carries them underneath her body until the eggs hatch. Crabs hatch as tiny larvae, just the size of the head of a pin. Crab larvae float for several weeks before settling to the ocean floor to hatch.
19. Crabs communicate by flapping their pincers or drumming their claws.
20. Humans eat about 1.5 million tons of crab every year. In fact, crabs make up 1/5 of all creatures that are caught from bodies of water around the world.
21. The Japanese Blue Crab or the Horse crab is the most consumed crab in the world.
22. Crabmeat is very high in vitamin B12\. Just 2–3 ounces of crab meat will supply an adult with the daily B12 requirement.
23. True crabs can walk slowly in any direction, but when they need to hurry, they usually move sideways.
24. Pea crabs are the smallest of all crabs and, not surprisingly, are about the size of a pea.
25. Some crabs, such as the spider crab, disguise themselves by attaching living things, such as anemones, to their bodies. These living decorations not only camouflage the crab, but the anemones’ stings also discourage predators.
26. Crabs are omnivores. They are usually not picky eaters and will eat bits of dead plants and animals, algae, worms, detritus, or other crustaceans.
27. Crabs have several predators, including seagulls, sea otters, octopuses, and humans.
28. A crab may lose a claw or leg in a fight. In time, the claw or leg grows back.
29. Crabs can live on land as long as they keep their gills moist.
30. Crabs often work together to get food and to protect their families.
31. A crab’s shell does not grow or stretch. When a grab gets bigger, it must climb out its shell in a process called molting. When a crab molts, a crack forms along with the shell, and then the crab backs out of it. Most crabs molt six or seven times during their first year of life, and then they molt just once or twice a year.
32. Crabs are invertebrates, which means they don’t have a backbone. In fact, more than 95% of all kinds of animals are invertebrates.
33. Horseshoe crabs are not crabs at all. They are not even crustaceans. They belong to a class named Merostomata. They have hardly changed since the age of the dinosaurs, and their closest living relatives are spiders.
34. While crabs do not have teeth inside their mouth, some crabs such as the decorator and brown crabs have teeth in their stomachs. These grind against one another when the stomach contracts to mash up food.
35. The amazing fact is that crabs can contract a terrifying parasite called a sacculina, which effectively castrates a crab and makes it incubate and hatch the parasite’s eggs. Additionally, due to loss of nutrition, the crab’s natural ability to grow another claw for defense purposes is also lost.

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### Snoring
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Last updated: 2023-09-04T09:30:08.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Snoring

1. You snore when the flow of air as you breathe makes the tissues in the back of your throat vibrate.
2. Snoring itself is actually benign and harmless but it may indicate several other disorders.
3. About half of people snore at some point in their lives.
4. The 3 main reasons for snoring are: being overweight, smoking, and drinking alcohol.
5. People become more susceptible to snoring as they age. Irrespective of their age, people cannot really hear themselves snoring.
6. Snoring can be hereditary running into families.
7. Sleeping on your back may make you more likely to snore. Sleep on the sides.
8. You are advised to sleep without a pillow as pillows can contribute to airway obstruction by bending your neck out of alignment.
9. People who snore loudly are more likely to be overweight
10. About 40 percent of adult men and 24 percent of adult women are habitual snorers.
11. Sedatives, drugs, and alcohol, etc can either lead to the pulling back of the tongue in the throat or lax muscles or both leading to snoring.
12. Nasal congestion caused by allergies and colds can also lead to snoring. Such conditions lead to vacuum creation in the throat and thereby increases airflow, which in turn leads to snoring.
13. Tumors and/or cysts in throats can also lead to snoring.
14. Deviated septum or other structural deformities of the nose can also lead to snoring.
15. Don't drink alcohol within three hours of bedtime. Also avoid sedatives and antihistamines, especially at bedtime to prevent snoring.
16. Stop smoking which causes nasal and lung congestion, a major cause of snoring.
17. Snoring can also indicate a serious disease known as OSA or Obstructed Sleep Apnea. During sleep, there may be episodes when the airway is obstructed in the throat and breathing stops for about ten seconds and then you make a snorting sound and wake up, leading to a diminished number of hours of sleep. OSA can happen several hundred times in a single night’s sleep.
18. During snoring, the tissues that vibrate can swell up. This will in turn block the airway and may lead to OSA episodes.
19. SUS or socially unacceptable snoring referring to loud snoring which is preventing the sleep of the bed partner or roommate.
20. Amazingly snoring sound is equivalent to the sound created by a pneumatic drill. The sound ranges between 50 and 100 Decibels.
21. The fact is elevating the bed head about 12 to 18 inches may prevent the tongue from falling back in the throat and thus prevent snoring.
22. If the obstructed nasal passage is causing snoring, it can be cured by using nasal strips. The strips are put on the nasal bridge. It looks like an adhesive bandage on the bridge. Nasal strips clear nasal passages and stop snoring.
23. An oral appliance is a small plastic device that fits in your mouth over your teeth while you sleep that stops you from snoring. The device prevents the airway from collapsing by holding the tongue in position or by sliding your jaw forward so that you can breathe when you are asleep.
24. Snoring can be treated through a surgery called Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty wherein tissues are removed to widen the airway. This is a very invasive surgery not to be taken lightly as it can lead to the formation of scar tissue and severe sleep apnea.
25. People who snore regularly are five times more likely to develop hypertension, stroke, and cardiac diseases compared to people who snore occasionally.

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### Tattoos
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Last updated: 2023-09-02T09:30:28.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Tattoos

1. The first-ever tattoo to be found on a human being is believed to be found on a mummified iceman in 3300 BC. He had 58 tattoos on his body which contained lines and dots.
2. The oldest physical body in existence, the Iceman (3300-3200 B.C.) has the oldest tattoos that have ever been preserved. When scientists X-rayed his body, they discovered joint disease under each tattoo, which suggests the tattoos were meant to relieve pain.
3. The Greeks learned tattooing from the Persians and used tattoos to mark slaves and criminals so they could be identified if they tried to escape. The Romans learned it from the Greeks and would tattoo “fug” on the foreheads of slaves for “fugitive.”
4. In A.D. 787, Pope Hadrian I banned tattooing of any kind, even on criminals or gladiators. From then on, tattooing was virtually unknown in the Christian world until the 19th century. Judaism and Islam also discouraged tattooing.
5. The oldest known description of tattoo technique with a formula for tattoo ink is found in Medicare artis principles (1567). The formula for ink included Egyptian pine wood (especially the bark), corroded bronze, vitriol, vinegar, and leek juice.
6. The word “tattoo” derives from the Polynesian word “ta” (“to strike”), which describes the sound of a tattooing spike being knocked on skin.
7. Samuel F. O'Reilly patented the first tattoo machine in 1891\. It was actually a modification of a machine designed for autographic printing, first patented by Thomas Alva Edison in 1876.
8. A tattoo machine has four parts: 1) the needle, 2) the tube that holds the ink, 3) an electric motor, and 4) a foot pedal to control the movement
9. Most people believe that tattoos are done with vegetable colors, which isn't true. In fact, tattoos contain permanent color particles with metal salts, plastic, and several other chemicals that aren't natural at all.
10. Modern ink may contain pigments from ground plastics, such as Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), which creates extremely vivid tattooing with clearer, longer-lasting lines that are resistant to the fading and blurring of traditional inks.
11. UV tattoos are created with ink that is completely invisible in normal daylight but glows brightly under ultraviolet light.
12. People in many traditions get their children tattooed to protect them from evil spirits and energies.
13. Women love to get tattooed more than men as tattoos are an easy way for women to attract attention to themselves and their beauty. It is popularly done on lower backs and breasts.
14. Survey reveals that 36% of those ages 18-25 and 40% of those ages 26-40 have at least one tattoo.
15. Not all skin on the body is the same and, therefore, will not take tattoo pigment uniformly. In fact, tattoos on elbows, knuckles, knees, and feet are notorious for fading.
16. The top 10 most popular spots for tattoos are 1) lower back, 2) wrist, 3) foot, 4) ankle, 5) armband, 6) back 7) arm, 8) chest, 9) breast, and 10) neck.
17. To get a tattoo, the skin is pierced between 50 and 3,000 times a minute by a tattoo machine.
18. A tattoo is actually in the dermis, which is the second layer of skin. The cells of the dermis are significantly more stable than the cells in the epidermis, with minor fading and dispersion for a person’s entire life.
19. There are over 20,000 tattoo parlors in the United States alone. A new establishment is being added in the country every day.
20. In fact, between 1961 and 1997, it was illegal to get a tattoo in New York City following the outbreak of hepatitis B.
21. The existing tattoo designs displayed in a tattoo shop are known as “flash.” Clients can choose from flash or request a customized design.
22. Generally, the most painful areas to tattoo are over the bone such as the ankle, collarbone, chest, ribs, and spine.
23. Getting a tattoo was illegal in Oklahoma until 2006\. In Massachusetts, tattooing was illegal until 2000.
24. The most tattooed man in the world is Gregory Paul McLaren (1971), also known as Lucky Diamond Rich. He is 100% tattooed, including the inside of his foreskin, mouth, and ears.
25. The second most tattooed person in the world is Tom Leppard (1934) from the Isle of Sky, Scotland. Also known as the “Leopard Man,” his body is 99.9% covered in tattoos. The only parts of his body not tattooed are between his toes and the insides of his ears.
26. Robbie Koch recently made a world record by inking 577 tattoos under 24 hours.
27. Laser surgery is the most effective way to remove a tattoo. The laser penetrates the skin and breaks up the tattoo pigments so that they can be carried away naturally by the body’s immune system. Black is the easiest color to remove because it absorbs more laser waves. Green and yellow are more difficult to remove.
28. Other methods of tattoo removal include dermabrasion (sanding the skin), cryosurgery (freezing the skin), and excision (cutting away the tattoo with a scalpel and stitching up the wound.
29. Winston Churchill’s mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, had a tattoo of a snake around her wrists, which she covered with a diamond bracelet at formal occasions. Churchill himself had an anchor on his foreman.
30. Rocker Tommy Lee was entered in the 2007 Guinness Book of Records when he became the first man to be tattooed in mid-air during a private flight to Miami.

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### Nail
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Last updated: 2023-08-22T09:30:27.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Nail

1. While most mammals have claws to help them with daily tasks, fingernails distinguish primates including humans from the rest of the animals.
2. Human nails are made of Keratin which is a protective protein that also makes up our hair. However, the arrangement of keratin molecules in hair is completely different from the arrangement of keratin molecules in nails. This is why nails are tougher than hair.
3. Nails are designed for protecting not only the fingertips and toe tips but also the surrounding soft tissue from any external injuries.
4. Nails are very complex and they are made up of several parts. The visible area, the hard part is actually the nail plate.
5. Nails also provide a visual picture of the overall health of a person since it is affected by various illnesses.
6. Fingernails have a faster growth rate compared to toenails. Fingernails grow at a rate of 3.5 mm per month while toenails only manage 1.6 mm a month. Toenails are twice as thick as the fingernails.
7. Nails grow faster in the summer months compared to the winter months.
8. It has been found that excessive stress can actually inhibit the growth of nails in individuals.
9. The nail on the middle finger has the fastest growth rate while the nail on the thumb has the slowest growth rate.
10. Nails grow at a faster rate in males compared to females.
11. The matrix is a part or extension of the nail bed which lays beneath the nail plate. It is a living part and has blood vessels, lymph vessels, and nerves.
12. The matrix actually produces the cells that eventually turn into the nail plate.
13. There is a popular myth that white spots on nails are indicative of calcium or zinc deficiency which isn’t true. They are outcomes of some kind of trauma that befell nail plates or matrix.
14. A small crescent-shaped area on the nails that looks whitish is the visible part of the matrix called the lunula (little moon). It may not be visible on all nails.
15. As new nail plate cells are produced by the matrix, the older ones are pushed out forward and they get compressed, translucent, and flat. It is this translucency that makes the nail plates look pinkish because the capillaries beneath the nail plates now become visible.
16. Underneath the nail plate is a layer of skin which is known as the nail bed. The nail bed in turn is made up of two layers of tissues. The first layer is the epidermis which moves along with the nail plate towards the fingertip. The second layer is the dermis which has glands and capillaries. The epidermis and the dermis are attached together by small longitudinal grooves known as matrix crests.
17. Nail plate is made of dead cells so they really cannot breathe. However, the plate allows oxygen to pass through to the nail bed which requires oxygen. Thus, whenever you paint your nails, the colors block the oxygen and prevent it from reaching the nail bed. Over the long run, continued use of nail paints gradually makes the nail bed suffocate and it dries. As the nail bed dries, the nails become weak.
18. Nail sinus is the place where the root of the nail is located. The nail sinus grows actively from a tissue just underneath the matrix.
19. The distal edge or the free margin is the area of the nail plate that is actually cut off from time to time.
20. At the tip of the finger, at the area where the nail plate loses contact with the skin and extends out into the distal edge, is a layer of epithelium cells called hyponychium which lies at the junction of the skin of the fingertip and the nail plate and acts as a protective seal for the nail bed.
21. The hyponychium in turn is sealed with the nail plate using the onychodermal band. It is located right at the end of the nail bed and just under the free margin or the distal edge.
22. Children between the age of 10 and 18 have the habit of biting nails. The condition is called onychophagia.
23. 10% of all known dermatological conditions known today are related to nails. Fungal infections, bacterial infections, vertical lines, and ingrown toenails are some of the common nail disorders.
24. Nails never sweat because they do not have any sweat glands. Whatever sweat we see around the nails actually comes from the surrounding skin.
25. Shridhar Chillal from Pune, India hasn't cut fingernails since 1952, when he was 16 years old. His thumbnail is the longest at two meters.

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### Carpet
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Last updated: 2023-08-20T09:30:39.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Carpets

1. The term “carpet” derives from the Latin *carpere,* “to pluck,” probably because carpets were made from unraveled “plucked” fabric
2. Rug and carpet mean the same thing. Any piece smaller than 40 square feet is considered a rug while anything larger is a carpet.
3. The oldest surviving carpet is the Pazyryk carpet, over 2,000 years old. It was found in the 1940s in a tomb in southern Siberia.
4. Oriental and Persian rugs are not the same. Oriental rugs are those that are knotted by hand in Asia, Iran, India, Russia, China, Turkey, Pakistan, Nepal, and Turkey, while Persian rugs are created by fine craftspeople only in Iran (which was known as Persia).
5. Only hand-knotted rugs are true Oriental or Persian rugs. All rugs so long as they are truly hand-made and made well will increase in value over time.
6. Persian rug designs once were named after the city in which they were created but as their popularity increased, these designs started to be produced elsewhere. Still, they retain their original names.
7. Persian rugs can be identified by their very thick pile of up to 160 to 200 knots per square inch for an average quality rug and 1,500 and higher for higher quality. They are also known for their exceptional and unique designs and rich combination of colors.
8. Red carpets traditionally marked the ceremonial and formal routes of leaders and politicians. You find the first reference to a “red carpet” is Agamemnon (458 B.C.) by Aeschylus.
9. The longest carpet in the world is the Qasr al-Alam carpet in Iran completed in 2007\. It measures an enormous 5,625 square feet. It was designed by Iranian artist Ali Khaliqi and was woven by 1,200 women over 16 months.
10. The longest red carpet in the world measured 5149 meters and was found in the city of Haarlem, Netherlands. The record was attempted as part of an annual shopping event, on 16 June 2011.
11. The highest amount ever paid for a carpet was the ‘Vase Carpet’ for sale at Sotheby’s. It was a mid-17th-century piece from Southeast Persia which was sold for a record price of $9.6 million.
12. The phrase “to sweep under the carpet” in its figurative sense was first recorded in 1963.
13. Every year we unknowingly tread large amounts of soil and dirt into our carpets!
14. The amazing fact is that a person sheds about 1.5 million skin flakes an hour, most of which becomes embedded in our carpets.
15. The bacteria can survive even after four weeks on carpet. Germs such as Salmonella typhimurium, Campylobacter, and Salmonella enteritis may be transferred to food.
16. Bed bugs can live in carpet fibers and wooden floorboards. They are extremely fast and can crawl more than 100 feet to obtain a blood meal, usually at night.
17. Indoor air usually contains about twice as much dust as the air outside which is about a million microscopic particles per cubic inch of air. About 75 dust mites can live happily on one gram of carpet dust.
18. Amazingly most people’s carpets are 4,000 times dirtier than toilet seats, and they are about 7 times dirtier than average city streets.
19. Wall-to-wall carpeting is less healthy than smaller rugs because it tends to be more permanent and harder to clean places for moisture, chemicals, liquids, and other spills that provide molds, yeasts, and bacteria with a continuous supply of nutrients.
20. Naphthalene is commonly found in carpet cleaners. In concentrated form, it is dangerous to breathe and can cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, and urinary irritation. It is a suspected carcinogen and can be toxic to children, infants, and pets.
21. Some carpets made from knotted wool can house beetle grubs or “woolly bears.” Special chemicals in their stomachs can convert wool into sugar serving as their food.
22. To make a carpet brighter, sprinkle salt onto the carpet for an hour followed by vacuuming it up. Salt is also effective in removing muddy footprints.
23. Carpet near a fireplace can get very warm, making it a perfect place for a creature called a “firebrat” which has a long, flexible body and is able to eat almost anything.
24. The caterpillar of the palm flower moth is fond of making its home in a deep cavity in a carpet. The caterpillar will use the fibers to make a cocoon.
25. When Hoover vacuums first came out, they were very hard to sell to consumers because people were offended by the thought that “their” carpets were so dirty!
26. Kawasaki Syndrome named after a Japanese physician first diagnosed in the 1960s is a rare illness that some scientists suggest may be triggered by the toxic chemicals in carpet cleaners.
27. It is advisable to clean all carpets by professionals every 12 to 18 months.
28. You can easily polish your oriental rug at home by simply wearing socks and walking over your carpet! Fiber against fiber is good for cleaning.
29. When properly cleaned and maintained, the carpeting may improve the quality of air through trapping allergy-inducing dust and allergens.
30. Carpets are highly effective places for mature fleas to live because fleas thrive in the carpet’s dry temperature. Conversely, flea eggs love wetter carpet that may be damp due to flooding, inadequate bathroom ventilation, or kitchen-generated moisture.
31. Club soda is effective in removing fresh stains on the carpet. Just pour some on the spot, let it set for a few seconds, and then sponge it up.
32. To remove candle wax from a carpet, place a brown paper bag over the spot and put a hot iron over it. The wax will be absorbed into the bag. To remove gum from carpet, try pressing ice cubes against the gum until it becomes brittle and breaks off. Then use a spot remover to get rid of the remnants.
33. Carpets in particular can become heavily infested with mites. The chemical benzyl benzoate will kill mites, but their dead carcasses can still be allergenic and will need to be vacuumed up afterward. A diluted solution of tannic acid can be sprayed onto the carpet to kill dust mites, but tannic acid can be dangerous to humans.
34. To raise depressions in the carpet left by heavy furniture, hold a steam iron close enough for steam to reach the carpet, but don’t let the iron touch the carpet. Lift fibres by scraping them with edge of a coin or spoon.
35. The term “carpet bagger” is a derogatory reference to Northerners who sought to take political and economic advantage of the South’s defeat after the Civil War. The name refers to the travel bag made from carpet that many Northerners used to carry their possessions.

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### Quasar
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Last updated: 2023-08-18T09:30:53.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Quasar

1. ‘Quasars’ is actually a short name for Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources.
2. They actually belong to a family of objects which are together known as the active galactic nuclei (AGN). Of all the objects in AGN, the quasars are the most distant and most energetic objects.
3. Quasars are the brightest known objects invisible universe. They are 100 times more luminous than our entire Milky Way which consists of nearly 200-400 billion stars!
4. They are so bright that they outshine the entire galaxy they sit in. They emit radio waves, x-rays, and light waves.
5. Quasars are the most distant objects ever on record. The most distant quasar discovered called ULAS J1120+0641 is nearly 29 billion light-years away from us.
6. Quasars can only be detected using radio telescopes. With a normal optical telescope, a quasar will look like a normal bright star. The difference between a quasar and a star is difficult to identify even with Hubble Space Telescope. A normal star will perhaps be 100 light-years away but a quasar will be millions or billions of light-years away.
7. The first quasar that was discovered was in 1950 and was named 3C 273\. As of date, nearly 200,000 quasars have been discovered.
8. Because of the staggering distance of the quasars from the earth, they are clearly the most ancient objects known to us. They give an insight into the early years of the formation of our universe.
9. It is believed that a quasar is a compact region found at the central part of a massive galaxy and that this central region is actually surrounding the supermassive black hole that sits at the very center of the galaxy. A supermassive black hole has a mass equivalent to a billion solar masses.
10. An accretion disc is a circular disc-like structure usually made of gasses and the matter spins around the black hole at a very high speed. As matter starts falling into the black hole from the accretion disc, the friction between matters gradually heats up the matter, leading to energy emission.
11. The energy or radiation of charged particles prefers to get attached to the magnetic field lines. So, as the disc rotates, these charged particles are shot upward and because of the twisted magnetic field lines, the charged particles from a tight column known as the astrophysical jets or cosmic jets, or quasar jets.
12. These quasar jets shoot out to long distances but they don’t really originate from the center of the black hole but are emitted from spinning disc of gas and matter that gradually falls down into the black hole.
13. The charged particles inside the quasar jets travel at nearly the speed of light, making them visible from a very long distance.
14. This collision of the quasar jets with intergalactic medium gives rise to massive hotspots which are known as DRAGN or Double Radio Source Active Galactic Nucleus. Amazingly a DRAGN can extend to a distance of 1.5 million light-years or more from one end to another end.
15. Today’s largest known quasars burn mass every year that is equivalent to the mass of 1000 suns! In terms of earth, these largest quasars eat up mass equivalent to 600 piles of the earth every single day!
16. Quasars eventually die. This happens when the supermassive black hole consumes all the matter of the accretion disc and there is nothing left for it to feed on.
17. Quasars show high redshift. A redshift is defined as an object’s light spectrum shifting towards the red end of the visible light range. This simply means that an object is moving away from the point from where it is being viewed. Thus, quasars are actually shifting away from earth.
18. It has been found that quasars are drifting away from us at the speed of at least 93,200 miles per second (which is half the speed of light). Some quasars move at 93% of the speed of light.
19. Combining the redshift of the quasars with Hubble’s Law, scientists have found that quasars are THE MOST distant objects visible to us in time and space. The closest known quasar known as IC 2497 is 730 million light-years away from us.
20. Perhaps our Milky Way once hosted a quasar but now it is dead. Our galaxy may have a quasar when Andromeda Galaxy collides with our Galaxy some 3-5 billion years from now.

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### Depression
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Last updated: 2023-08-16T09:30:34.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Depression

1. The main risk factors of depression are past abuse (physical, sexual, emotional), some medications, conflict with family members or friends, death or loss, chronic or major illness, and family history.
2. More than 20 million people in the United States suffer from depression in a given year.
3. At some point in their lives, about one in four Americans will experience depression.
4. Bipolar disorder, or manic depression, affects nearly 6 million American adults in a given year.
5. Depression affects all people regardless of age, geographic location, demographic, or social position.
6. About 6% of children are believed to suffer from major depression. Once a child or teenager has an episode of depression, he or she has a greater than 50% chance of experiencing another episode in the next five years.
7. The average age for the onset of depression varies between 24-35 years of age, with a mean age of 27\. Approximately 80% of sufferers of depression are not receiving treatment.
8. Depression often presents itself in four ways: mood changes, cognitive (memory and thought process) changes, physical changes, and behavioral changes.
9. Depression distorts your thinking. When you are depressed, your mind can play tricks on you. You could have thoughts of suicide. Depression also makes you selfish. All you can think about is your own pain.
10. Persistent irritability and chronic pain could be other presenting symptoms of depression.
11. Depression is often experienced as anxiety 65 percent of the time. It is vital to make an accurate diagnosis.
12. Long-term use of some medications may cause depressive symptoms, such as corticosteroids, the anti-inflammatory Interferon, bronchodilators like theophylline, sleeping and anti-anxiety pills (Valium, Librium), acne medications some antihypertensives, oral contraceptives, and anticancer drugs (tamoxifen), etc.
13. 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.
14. Depressed individuals have two times greater overall mortality risk than the general population due to direct (e.g., suicide) and indirect (medical illness) causes.
15. Abraham Lincoln first fell into a deep depression after Ann Rutledge, his first love, died. Lincoln reportedly suffered from chronic depression his entire life.
16. Women are twice as likely to suffer from depression as men. Women may be at a higher risk for depression due in part to estrogen. Once men hit middle age, they may face an increased risk of depression due to the decreased level of testosterone.
17. Men typically experience depression differently from women. Generally, women may feel hopeless while men may feel irritable. Women may crave a listening ear, while men may become socially withdrawn or become violent or abusive.
18. Sufferers of depression are more likely to have a heart attack than those who are not depressed. Additionally, people who have heart attacks or heart surgery are more at risk for depression.
19. Exercise is the easiest and least expensive cure for depression. Just walking 30 minutes a day will help you and sometimes completely alleviate your symptoms.
20. Perimenopause (menopause transition) and the resulting reduced and fluctuating hormone levels can trigger depression.
21. People with depression are five times more likely to have a breathing-related sleep disorder than non-depressed people.
22. Patients with depression may develop agoraphobia or a fear of going out in public.
23. The World Health Organization estimates that depression will be the second-highest medical cause of disability by the year 2030, second only to HIV/AIDS. At present depression ranks fourth as a cause of disability and early death.
24. There is 10 times more major depression in people born after 1945 than in those born before. This clearly shows that the root cause of most depression is a modern way of life and not a chemical imbalance or genetic.
25. Freud, who revolutionized the practice of psychiatry with his theories of the unconscious, postulated that depression comes from anger turned against oneself.

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### Tortoise
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Last updated: 2023-08-14T09:30:07.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Tortoise

1. There are around 40 different species of tortoise found around the world.
2. A Tortoise is a turtle, but a turtle isn’t a tortoise because strictly speaking a turtle is any shelled reptile belonging to the order Chelonii. The term tortoise is more specific, referring to terrestrial turtles.
3. Like other reptiles, tortoises are cold-blooded animals.
4. The main difference between tortoise and turtle is that tortoise is primarily land animal while turtle mainly lives in the sea. Tortoises have large dome-shaped heavy shells while in turtles the shell is light, flat, and streamlined. In tortoises, feet are short and sturdy with bent legs while turtles have webbed feet and long claws making them glide easily.
5. Tortoises are what are known as herbivores, they eat grass, ferns, flowers, tree leaves, and fruit.
6. Unlike turtles, tortoises can’t swim but they can hold their breath for a long time.
7. A group of tortoises is called a creep but they are usually solitary animals.
8. Female tortoises are usually larger than their male counterparts.
9. Females dig burrows in which they can lay up anything from 1 to 30 eggs.
10. When baby tortoises break out of their shells they're called hatchlings. Tortoise eggs incubate between 90 to 120 days to hatch out.
11. Tortoises can live for 150 years or more while turtles can live for up to 50 years.
12. One can determine the sex of the tortoise by their tail. Male tortoises have long tails whereas females have short tails. Male tails are kept tucked to the side.
13. Giant tortoises keep growing their whole lives.
14. Tortoises drink water through their noses.
15. Tortoises have extremely strong mouths but no teeth instead they have horny type beaks.
16. The top domed part of a tortoises’ shell is called the carapace, and the bottom underlying part is called the plastron. Both are connected by what is known as a bridge.
17. The scales on the carapace are called scutes which are made of the same keratin found in fingernails and hooves. Scutes protect the bony plates of the shell from injury and infection. The growth rings around scutes can be counted to determine the approximate age of wild tortoises.
18. The shell of a tortoise is made up of 60 different bones all connected together.
19. Shell is actually an evolutionary modification of the rib cage and part of the vertebral column. And contrary to what many believe, a tortoise can't take off its shell and crawl out of it as it is part of a skeleton.
20. Tortoises have their signature ability to retract their heads inside their shells when frightened.
21. Tortoises hindgut system works like a double digestive tract, separating water from their waste. When the water's scarce, they'll hang on to the last drop of water waste and simply excrete the urates, which look like white toothpaste.
22. The adult tortoises can survive for many years without access to the water.
23. Like other reptiles, tortoises detect the faintest of smells with the Jacobson's Organ, on the roof of their mouths. Instead of flicking their tongues, they pump their throats to circulate air through the nose and around the mouth.
24. Tortoises generally can perceive sounds in the 50 to 1,500 Hz range, compared to the typical human hearing range of 20 to 20,000 Hz.
25. Adwaita the giant tortoise lived an estimated 255 years! It was originally owned by General Robert Clive of East India who died in 1774 and left his already 34-year-old tortoise behind. Adwaita was eventually brought to an Indian zoo in 1875 and spent the rest of his life there dying in 2006\. Scientists carbon dated his shell to around the year 1750!

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### Sugar
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Last updated: 2023-08-12T09:30:57.000Z
#### 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Sugar |Amazing Facts 4U

1. The word “sugar” originates from the Sanskrit word sharkara, which means “material in a granule form.” In Arabic, it is sakkar; Turkish is sheker; Italian is zucchero; and Yoruba speakers in Nigeria call it suga.
2. Sugar is one of the world’s oldest ingredients. The people of New Guinea were most likely the first to domesticate sugar cane around 8000 B.C.
3. Originally, people would chew sugar cane raw for its sweetness. Indians were the first to crystallize sugar during the Gupta dynasty around A.D. 350.
4. Christopher Columbus introduced sugar cane seeds to the New World, on his second voyage in 1493.
5. Until the late 1500s, sugar was called “White Gold,” and European nobility used it to display their social standing. After about 1600 on, technological improvements helped turn sugar into a bulk commodity.
6. Sugar cane is usually grown in large plantations or cane fields. It can yield up to 20 kg of sugar for every square meter of land.
7. More than half of the 8.4 million metric tons of sugar that is produced in the United States each year comes from sugar beets.
8. In the 16th century, a teaspoon of sugar cost the equivalent of five dollars in London.
9. The only taste humans are born craving is sugar.
10. The American Heart Association recommends that adult women eat no more than 24 grams, or 6 teaspoons, of added sugar and men no more than 36 grams, or 9 teaspoons, per day. Amazingly the current average is over 30 teaspoons of sugar per day.
11. In 1822, the average American ate 45 grams of sugar which is the amount in one of today’s 12 oz. sodas every five days. In 2012, Americans consumed 765 grams of sugar every five days.
12. One teaspoon of white sugar has 15 calories and one teaspoon of corn syrup has 20 calories. Soft drinks are responsible for most of the added sugar in the average American diet.
13. Worldwide, people consume 500 extra calories a day from sugar, which is roughly the amount of calories needed to gain a pound a week.
14. Americans consume most sugar (33%) through regular soft drinks, followed by sugars and candy (16%); cakes, cookies, and pies (13%); fruit drinks (10%); dairy desserts and milk (8%); and other grains (6%) etc.
15. The average American eats 3,550 pounds of sugar in a lifetime.
16. Brazil is the world’s largest producer of sugar cane while India is the world’s largest consumer of sugar.
17. Sugar is useful in cooking. It helps cakes and bread rise, prevents food from spoiling, keeps the color of fruit by holding water, and brings out the flavor in many different foods.
18. While foods rich in fiber, fat, and protein help make a person feel full, sugar does not create feelings of satiety.
19. Sugar can take several forms, including sucrose, fructose, and lactose. Sucrose is the most commonly used form of sugar and is usually called table sugar.
20. When the body cannot clear glucose, or sugar, quickly enough due to inadequate insulin secretion from pancreas, sugar level in blood rises causing diabetis which damages tissues in multiple organs.
21. Too much sugar can increase the overall risk for heart disease. In fact, sugar actually changes the muscle protein of the heart as well as the pumping mechanics of the heart.
22. Excess sugar consumption has been linked to cancer production. Studies have found that high sugar intake negatively affects the survival rates in both breast cancer patients and colon cancer patients.
23. Studies have found that glucose consumption accelerated the aging of cells in the body. Additionally, excess sugar consumption was tied to deficiencies in memory and overall cognitive processing.
24. A study has found that at least 200,000 deaths worldwide are linked to sweetened beverage consumption. The U.S. alone accounted for 25,000 deaths.
25. One 20 oz. bottle of Coca Cola has 65 grams of sugar. A 15.2 oz. bottle of Minute Maid 100% Apple Juice contains 49 grams of sugar. A 23 oz. bottle of Arizona Green Tea has about 51 grams of sugar. A Grande Starbucks Iced Flavored drink has about 28 grams of sugar. Heinz ketchup contains 1 teaspoon of sugar in each 1 tablespoon serving.
26. Lemons have more sugar than strawberries.
27. The scientists who discovered sucralose (Splenda) were trying to make an insecticide. An assistant thought he had been instructed to “taste” a sample he had been asked to “test.”
28. The sweetest compound known is called lugduname. It’s over 20,000 times sweeter than sugar.
29. There are at least 115 names for sugar in its many forms and for other types of sweeteners. To avoid listing “sugar” as the first ingredient, food manufactures may use a different name.
30. Sugar has been shown to cause wrinkles via glycation, which happens when excess blood sugar binds to collagen in the skin and makes it less elastic.

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### Egypt
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Last updated: 2023-08-10T09:30:08.000Z
#### 65 Amazing Egypt Facts that will surprise you

##### Land & Geography

- The formal name of Egypt is the Arab Republic of Egypt.
- Egypt is the 30th largest country in the world by area. Egypt’s area is 386,560 square miles (1,001,450 square km).
- Egypt has the largest Arabic population in the world which is about 86 million.
- Approximately 99% of the population lives on about 5.5% of the land.
- The capital of Egypt is Cairo it still stands as one of man’s oldest settlements and archaeologists have uncovered many older settlements.
- Egypt’s Nile River is the world’s longest, running 4,135 miles (6,670 km) and running through 9 countries.
- *The amazing fact* is that Bir Tawil is a strip of land between Egypt and Sudan that is not claimed by either country. It covers an area of 2,060 sq. kms.
- On average, only an inch of rain falls in Egypt per year.

##### History

- Egypt is the oldest sovereign state. *Amazingly* the first dynasty was formed in 3150 BC.
- The first pharaoh of Egypt is considered to be King Menes, who united the Upper and Lower Kingdoms in 3150 B.C. He named the capital of the united lands Memphis, which means “Balance of Two Lands.” Legend says he ruled for 60 years until he was killed by a hippopotamus.
- Pharaoh Pepi II (2246-2152 B.C.) had the longest reign in history for 94 years. He became Egypt’s king when he was only 6 years old.
- Egypt pharaoh Pepi II was so much afraid of flies he kept naked slaves near him smothered in honey to prevent flies biting him.
- Ramses II (1279-1212 B.C.) is often considered the greatest pharaoh of the Egyptian empire. He ruled Egypt for 60 years .He had over 90 children from eight official wives and nearly 100 concubines. Uniquely he had red hair.
- Ramses II mummy was publicly unwrapped in June 1886 in just 15 minutes. His body became contaminated by fungi and bacteria which ate him little by little. In 1975, scientists used gamma rays to sterilize his body and stored him in an antibacterial case.
- There were three female pharaohs, of whom the greatest was Hatshepsut (Reigned 1498-1483 B.C.).
- Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian or African.
- Hieroglyphs were developed about 3,000 B.C. and may have started as early wall paintings.
- In contrast to English’s 26 letters, there are *amazingly* more than 700 different Egyptian hieroglyphs. The last hieroglyphic inscription was made in 394 A.D. and the last demotic inscription in 452 A.D. Both were found at the temple of Isis in Philae.
- Around 332 B.C. Alexander the Great conquered Egypt and founded Alexandria. A Macedonian dynasty ruled until 31 B.C.
- The lost Egyptian city of Heracleion was found after 1200 years under the sea.
- *Amazing fact* is that in 1888 , about 300000 mummified cats were found in Egypt. They were sold and shipped to England to be ground up and used as fertilizer.
- Near Tuna el-Gebel on the edge of Egypt’s Western Desert, scientists have unearthed more than four million mummies of a stork-like bird called an ibis.

##### Places / Architecture

- Most Ancient Egyptian pyramids were *amazingly* built as tombs for pharaohs , the rulers of Ancient Egypt and their families. To date, over 130 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt.
- The *fact* is that the Great Pyramid of Giza is the only surviving "seven wonders of the world". Built in 2600 B.C. it was built as a tomb for the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu Khufu (2589-2566 B.C.).It took 20 years to build.
- The famous Great Pyramid at Giza was built as a burial place for King and took more than 20 years to build. It is built from over two million blocks of limestone, each one weighing as much as two and a half elephants.
- *Amazingly* the Great Pyramid is the most massive building ever erected in the world It stands about 460 feet (149 m) high which is taller than the Statue of Liberty. The base of the Great Pyramid takes up almost as much space as five football fields..
- *Amazing fact* is that it was the oldest and tallest structure in the world for about 3, 800 years until the Eiffel Tower was erected in 1889.
- It is estimated to have *amazing* 2,500,000 lime stone blocks that weigh from 2 to 30 tons each and there are some that weigh over 50 tons. How these blocks were transported and assembled into the pyramid is still a mystery. Modern technology cannot replicate it.
- *Amazing fact* is if the Great Pyramid were chopped into 12-inch cubes, there would be enough cubes to circle the moon almost three times.
- The Great Pyramid at Giza has vents pointing to the constellation of Orion so the mummy’s spirit could fly straight up to the gods.
- The Sphinx is the largest monolith statue in the world.
- The known tombs of Egyptian kings were all raided by robbers with one exception, the tomb of Tutankhamen (reigned 1334-1324 B.C.). It was discovered in 1922 and was full of priceless materials and beautiful workmanship.
- In 2011, archeologists discovered an enormous statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III (grandfather of Tutankhamen). One of the largest statues ever found, it was actually first discovered in 1923 and then rehidden.
- In an attempt to control the annual flooding of the Nile, one of the largest dams in the world was built in Egypt in 1971 called Aswan High Dam forming huge Lake Nasser.
- In France, a glass pyramid stands outside the famous Louvre museum as a tribute to the ancient Egyptians and their amazing world.

##### Ancient Customs & Culture

- The ancient Egyptians *amazingly* worshiped more than 1,400 different gods and goddesses. The most important god of all was Ra, the sun god.
- Slaves of owners could not be traded or sold after death so many were murdered and put to rest with their owners to accompany them in the afterlife.
- *Amazingly* both Egyptian men and women wore makeup. The eye-paint was usually green (made from copper) or black (made from lead). As well as offering protection from the sun, the Egyptians believed makeup had magical healing powers.
- To stay cool and avoid lice, both men and women in ancient Egypt shaved their heads and often wore wigs. In fact, because wigs indicated social status, they became one of the most important fashion accessories in ancient Egypt. Rich people wore wigs made from human hair, while poor people wore wigs made from wool or vegetable fiber.
- Ancient Egyptians believed that mummification ensured the deceased a safe passage to the afterlife. They started making mummies around 3400 BC. In 2600 BC ancient Egyptians finally figured out that if they took out the body's internal organs, the mummies would last instead of rot. They started drying the bodies out completely for 40 days before wrapping!
- A single mummy took 70 days to make and it is found in a research that Egyptians *amazingly* made total of 70 millions of them.
- Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals as well. Archaeologists discovered a 15 feet long mummified crocodile.
- *Amazing fact* is that Christianity was the main religion in Egypt between the Fourth and Sixth Centuries.
- Ancient Egyptian women had more rights and privileges than most other women in the ancient world.

##### People 

- Approximately 90% of Egyptians are Muslim , primarily Sunni.
- Tourism compromises 12% of the work force in Egypt.
- There are five million Face book users in Egypt, more than any other Middle Eastern country.
- Most of the Egyptian population still lives in the Nile river valley today which provides enough water and farm land to sustain the population of Egypt.

##### Politics/ Legal

- The ancient Egyptians forged one of the earliest peace treaties on record. In 1259 B.C. Ramses II and the Hittite King Hattusili III negotiated a famous peace treaty. The Egyptian-Hittite treaty is now recognized as one of the earliest surviving peace accords.
- *Amazing fact* is that the penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
- The oldest death sentence recorded is found in ancient Egypt. Found in the Amherst papyri, a teenaged male in 1500 B.C. is sentenced to kill himself by either poison or stabbing for practicing magic.
- The Egyptian flag is similar to the flags of Syria, Iraq, and Yemen and consists of three bands of colours from the Arab Liberation flag—red, white, and black—with the golden eagle of Saladin on the white band.
- In 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., between Anwar El Sadat and Menachem Begin, making Egypt the first Arab country to official recognize Israel.
- The 2011 Egyptian revolution began on January 25th when protestors focused on lack of free speech and free elections, police brutality, government corruption, high unemployment, inflation, and continued use of emergency law. An estimated 800 people died and over 6,000 were injured in the process.
- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had to resign after 2 weeks.The Egyptian revolution sparked other revolutions in Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Libya, and Bahrain.

##### Inventions

- The oldest dress in the world was found in Egypt. It is 5,000 years old.
- Egyptians knew the existence of planets Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter. They had names for them.
- The Egyptians invented the calendar. It had 365 days divided into 12 months. They came up with the idea in 4,241 BC. That was more than 6,000 years ago.
- Egyptians’ kept time by using advances fractions and dividing the day between sunset and sunrise to 1/12th of the day.
- The oldest surviving work about mathematics was written by the ancient Egyptian scribe Ahmes around 1650 B.C. Found on the Rhine Mathematical Papyrus, it is titled “The Entrance into the Knowledge of All Existing Things and All Obscure Secrets.
- The Berlin Papyrus (c. 1800 B.C.) contains directions for the oldest known pregnancy test. The test involved wetting cereals with urine. If barley grew, it meant the woman was pregnant with a male child; if the wheat grew, she was pregnant with a girl. If neither grew, the woman would not give birth.
- Egyptians invented many forms of musical instruments including the flute and trumpet
- The oldest board game known to man called Senet was invented in Egypt around 200 B.C.
- Recently found inscribed on a tablet is a cure for concrete which has been duplicated and found to be 10x stronger then today's’ concrete mixture.
- Egyptians’ used the natural sand to make glass objects.

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### Earthquake
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Last updated: 2023-08-08T09:30:28.000Z
#### 60 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Earthquakes

1. Earthquakes kill approximately 8,000 people each year and have caused an estimated 13 million deaths in the past 4,000 years.
2. In Hindu mythology, Earth is held in place by eight gigantic elephants, all balanced on the back of a turtle, which stands on the coils of a snake. If any of these animals shift or move, an earthquake occurs.
3. In ancient Greece, people believed that the god of the sea, Poseidon, caused earthquakes. When he was angry, Poseidon would strike the ground with his trident and set off an earthquake. Aristotle was the first to note that soft ground shakes more than hard ground.
4. The earliest recorded earthquake is from 1831 B.C. in the Shandong province in China.
5. An earthquake in A.D. 1201 in the eastern Mediterranean is labeled the worst earthquake in history and claimed an estimated one million lives.
6. Nearly 2,000 years ago, a Chinese astronomer named Zhang Heng (A.D. 78-139) invented the world’s first earthquake detector. It could detect earthquakes more than 370 miles (600 km) away.
7. The worst avalanche triggered by an earthquake occurred in Peru in 1070\. A 250-foot (850-meter) wave of ice, mud, and rock fell down the mountain in Huascaran at 250 miles (400 km) per hour. It carried away entire villages and killed more than 18,000 people.
8. The biggest earthquake ever felt in Britain was in 1580\. It caused a tsunami that sank around 150 ships and drowned 120 people in Dover.
9. The highest tsunami caused by an earthquake happened in Japan in 1771\. A tsunami 278 feet (85 meters) high struck Ishigaki Island.
10. Englishman John Milne invented the seismograph in 1880.
11. The 1906 earthquake in California was before the Richter scale, but scientists estimate it would rank as a 7.8\. As much as 90% of the damage in San Francisco was from fires caused by cracked gas pipes. San Francisco burned for three days and nights.
12. The 1906 California earthquake was one of the first major disasters to be recorded by photography.
13. The world’s worst landslide started by an earthquake occurred in 1920 in the Kansu province in China. The landslide killed about 200,000 people.
14. American scientist Charles Richter invented the Richter scale in 1935.
15. The Chilean quake of 1960 shook the entire Earth for many days, a phenomenon called oscillation that was measured by seismic stations around the planet. It had a magnitude of 9.5 and is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
16. The 1964 Alaska 9.2 quake lasted four minutes and dropped streets 20 feet (6 meters) below normal. It caused flooding on the coast of [Hawaii](http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/04/03%5Fhawaii.html?ref=amazingfacts4u.com), more than 3,100 miles away.
17. You may not notice a magnitude 2 quake. You would feel the ground shake in a magnitude 3 quake. A magnitude 7 or higher can destroy a city.
18. Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone nations in the world. Thousands of earthquakes occur in Japan every year, but most of them are very weak.
19. Though the ground moved for only about 20 seconds during the 1995 Kobe, Japan, earthquake, more than 5,000 people were killed, 300,000 people were left homeless, and more than 100,000 buildings were destroyed.
20. An average earthquake lasts around a minute. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake lasted nearly 10 minutes, the longest on record.
21. The Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004 triggered a series of tsunamis. These tsunamis hit 11 countries and 225,000 lives were lost that year. Tsunami waves as high as 100 feet tall several coastlines.
22. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake released enough energy to power all the homes and business in the United States for three days.
23. An earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010 with a magnitude of 7.0 killed over 200000 people.
24. The 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan March 11, 2011 was the worst earthquake in Japan’s history. It created a tsunami with waves as high as 30 feet (10 meters) and severely damaged nuclear power plants. It killed 15000 people.
25. Japan’s 9.0 earthquake in 2011 not only moved the island closer to the United States, it also shifted the planet’s axis by 6.5 inches.
26. Japan’s 9.0 earthquake in 2011 also created a massive 186-mile long and 93-mile-wide rift 15 miles under the ocean.
27. There are about 500,000 earthquakes a year around the world, as detected by sensitive instruments. About 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 or so cause damage each year.
28. An earthquake happens somewhere in the world once every thirty seconds.
29. Each year the southern California area alone experiences about 10,000 earthquakes, most of them not felt by people.
30. Approximately one earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 or higher occurs every year.
31. Earthquakes can set off volcanoes, as was the case in the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption and the Mount Etna eruption in 2002.
32. The moment magnitude scale (MMS) replaced the 1930s-era Richter scale in the 1970s as the method of measuring the size of earthquakes in terms of energy released.
33. A quake is considered major when it registers more than 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale.
34. The Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004 generated enough energy to power all the homes and businesses in the United States for three days.
35. The largest earthquake in recent history was a 9.5 and occurred in Chile in 1960\. It caused giant ocean waves as far as 6,000 miles (10,000 km) away.
36. The largest earthquake in the U.S. on record was a 9.2 quake that occurred in Alaska in 1964.
37. The speed of the fastest seismic wave is 225 miles (360 kilometers) per hour.
38. Aftershocks can occur years after a main earthquake because the displaced fault line and crust are adjusting to the effects of the main earthquake.
39. Parkfield, California, is known as “The Earthquake Capital of the World” and has a bridge that spans two tectonic plates.
40. Earthquakes are mostly caused by geological faults, but they can also be caused by landslides, nuclear testing, mine tests, and volcanic activity.
41. The “focus” or “hypocenter” is the earthquake’s initial point of rupture. Its “epicenter” is the point at ground level above the hypocenter.
42. Scientists developed the theory of plate tectonics in the mid-twentieth century. There are four types of faults: normal, reverse, thrust, and strike-up.
43. Even a small plate movement can trigger major earthquakes.Tectonic plates move less than 3 inches(8 cm) per year. However, a tectonic plate movement of just 8 Inches (20 cm) is enough to set off a major earthquake.
44. Earthquakes occur only in the Earth’s crust. Deep earthquakes originate in crust that is sliding down beneath another tectonic plate.
45. The most devastating earthquakes are those that are strong and shallow with the focus point less than 20 miles (32 km) underground.
46. Nearly 80% of Earth’s largest earthquakes occur near the “Ring of Fire,” which is a horseshoe-shaped region in the Pacific Ocean where many tectonic plates meet.
47. “Ring of fire” circles the Pacific Ocean, touching the coasts North and South America, Japan, China and Russia.
48. The second-most earthquake-prone area is a region called the Alpide Belt, which includes countries such as Turkey, India, and Pakistan.
49. Many animals may sense weak tremors before a quake. Other scientists think that animals may sense electrical signals set off by the shifting of underground rocks.
50. An earthquake can release hundreds times more energy than the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan in 1945.
51. An earthquake under the ocean can cause a tsunami, which travels outward in all directions up to 600 miles (970 km) per hour, the speed of a jet.
52. When the tsunami reaches the shoreline, it suddenly rolls up to massive heights causing massive destruction.
53. The San Andreas fault extends at least 20 miles vertically into the Earth.
54. The San Andreas Fault is moving about 2 inches a year, about the same rate fingernails grow. At this rate, San Francisco and Los Angeles will be next to each other in 15 million years.
55. The most earthquake-prone state is Alaska in USA.
56. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
57. The San Andres is one of the longest fault zones in the world. It is a strike-slip fault and runs over 800 miles (1,280 km) from San Francisco through southern California to Mexico. The San Andres fault is not just one fault but it is actually made up of many faults.
58. Steel, reinforced concrete and wood are good building materials for an earthquake resistant house because they flex somewhat without breaking. Family homes built completely out of brick are not as safe because they can break apart easily.
59. The five strongest earthquakes since 1900 A.D. are Chile 1960 (9.5) , Alaska 1964 (9.2), Indonesia 2004 (9.1), Japan 2011 (9.0) & Russia 1952 (9.0).
60. The two deadliest earthquakes in history are Syria in 1201 A.D. which claimed 11,00,000 deaths & China in 1556 which claimed 8,30,000 lives.

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### Himalayas
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Last updated: 2023-08-06T09:30:37.000Z
#### 35 Amazing and Interesting Facts about the Himalayas

1. The name Himalaya is a compound word in Sanskrit. It is formed of the words Hima and Alaya. Hima means Snow and Alaya means Adobe. So, the name Himalaya literally translates into Adobe of Snow.
2. The Himalayas refers to a mountain range and not a single mountain. The Himalayan mountain range is the youngest on this planet.
3. Himalayan ranges were formed about 70 million years ago.
4. The Himalayas were formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Indo-Australian tectonic plate which has now broken down into the Australian plate and the Indian plate. The collision between these two massive tectonic plates gave birth to the majestic Himalayan ranges.
5. The Himalayan range is geologically active. Within the next 10 million years, the Indian subcontinent will move nearly 1500 kilometers further into Asia because the Indian plate is moving at a speed of 20 millimeters a year.
6. As India and Asia are converging, the southern front of the Himalayas is absorbing a portion of this convergence. As a result of this, the Himalayan ranges are still gaining height at a rate of 5 mm per year.
7. After Antarctica and the Arctic, the Himalayan ranges are the home to the third-largest deposit of snow and ice on this planet.
8. A total of 12000 cubic kilometers of freshwater is stored within the 15,000 glaciers that are found within the Himalayan range.
9. The largest glacier not of polar origins is the Siachen glacier of the Himalayas which is 76 Km long.
10. The Himalayan range forms an arc that runs over a length of 2,400 km from northwest to southeast. On the west, the maximum width of the arc is 400 km while on the eastern side, the width of the arc is 150 Km.
11. Throughout this length , the Himalayan mountain system is made up of two almost parallel ranges with a wide valley in between.
12. The Great Himalayas is the northernmost zone of the southern range system. This is where the Mount Everest sits. The Great Himalayas remain covered in snow perpetually. This means that the snow never melts there.
13. Because of its sheer length, the Himalayan mountain system stretches across six countries in total, which are Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Tibet.
14. The total area covered by the Himalayas is 612,021 sq. km.
15. Himalayas served as a natural barrier for thousands of years, preventing early interactions between the people of India, China and Mongolia.
16. Himalayas is the source of many large perennial rivers in the world, which are divided into two river systems , the Indus river system and the Ganges Brahmaputra river system.
17. The Indus river system consists of the rivers on the western side of the Himalayas. Of all the rivers on that side, Indus is the largest of all. Indus, along with other western rivers like Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Chenab, Jhelum etc. combine to form the Indus Basin. Indus originates in Tibet, flows southwest to enter India and then moves to Pakistan to finally drain into the Arabian Sea.
18. The other river system, i.e. the Ganges-Brahmaputra system consists of three main rivers – the Ganga, the Yamuna and the Brahmaputra. Brahmaputra's origin is also in Tibet. The Ganga and Brahmaputra merge together in Bangladesh to finally drain into the Bay of Bengal.
19. The rivers originating from the Himalayas range are believed to be older than the Himalayan peaks itself.
20. Himalayas are the highest mountains in the world, with 30 peaks towering over 24, 000 feet.
21. Himalayas stretches over 75% of Nepal. Of the fourteen highest mountain peaks in the World, nine of them are contained within the Nepal Himalayas.
22. Mount Everest of Himalayas is the highest peak in this world above sea level. It stands tall at 8,848 meters or 29,029 feet. It sits at the Nepal-Tibet border.
23. The second highest peak is the K2 which has attained a height of 8,611 meters or 28,251 feet. The third spot is captured by Kanchenjunga which stands at 8,586 meters or 28,169 feet.
24. Because the Himalayas are geologically active, the region is prone to natural phenomena such as tremors, earthquakes and landslides.
25. Himalayas go by the name Giriraj in Hindu religion. This literally translates into 'King of Mountains'. According to Hindu religion, Himalayas is the home of gods, most notable of them being Lord Shiva. Himalayas have been extensively mentioned in Hindu texts and epics.
26. Nepalese people call the Mount Everest by the name 'Sagarmatha' which literally translates into 'Goddess of the Universe'.
27. The Mount Everest was named by Sir Andrew Waugh, a British Army Officer to give respect to his predecessor, Colonel Sir George Everest, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.
28. The Himalayas is the home to world's some of the most exotic wildlife. Most notable of them being snow leopard, musk deer, Tibetan sheep, wild goat, red panda etc.
29. Some of the most notable exotic birds found in Himalayas are gray bushchat, brown rock chat, verditer flycatcher, Himalayan bulbul, hill patridge and black rumped flameback woodpecker.
30. Himalayas uniquely houses multiple ecological systems. At low altitudes we can find tropic rainforests. At mid altitudes we can find sub-tropical forests with broadleaved trees. At higher altitudes there are coniferous forests and grasslands. Higher than that, there are no signs of vegetation.
31. The first two people to ever reach Mount Everest were Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. They made it to the summit in 1953\. Thereafter more than 5000 people are believed to have climbed the Mount Everest.
32. Nearly 150 people have laid their lives in their expedition to the Everest.
33. Himalayas remains the world's second-most virgin places on earth. The first spot is taken by Antarctica.
34. Himalayas is the home of many medical herbs of highest degree of purity. Many of these herbs have been extensively used in Ayurveda , one of the oldest know medical systems in world which originated in India.
35. You can find people of various cultures and religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism in the Himalayas. There are plenty of beautiful Buddhist Monasteries in the Himalaya region. The prominent Hindu pilgrimage destinations such as the Amarnath, Gangotri , Kedarnath and Badrinath are in the Himalayas.

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### Peacock
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Last updated: 2023-08-04T09:30:24.000Z
#### 20 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Peacock

1. The collective term for these birds is “peafowl.” The males are “peacocks” and the females are “peahens.” The babies are called “peachicks.”
2. There are in fact 3 species. Indian peafowl found in India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, Green peafowl found in Southeast Asia, and Congo peafowl found in Central Africa.
3. A group of peacocks is known as a "party". The name for a group of peahens is a "harem".
4. Peafowls can live 15-20 years in the wild, and up to 35 years in captivity.
5. Their predators include leopards, tigers, and mongoose.
6. They are highly sociable birds and require companionship.
7. Peafowls are omnivorous i.e, they eat both meat and vegetables. The meal consists of berries, seeds, leaves, insects, small mammals, and reptiles.
8. The peacock is one of the largest flying birds. A peacock's total length can reach 8 feet; 3 feet for the body and 5 feet for the tail feathers (train).
9. The male peachicks don’t start growing their showy trains until about age three. In fact, it’s hard to tell the sex of a peachick because they’re nearly identical to their mothers. At around six months, the males will begin to change color. The Congo peafowl doesn’t have the train of feathers.
10. Peacocks are best known for their amazing eye-spotted tail feathers or plumage. During a display ceremony, the peacock will stand its tail feathers up to form a fan that stretches out nearly 2 m in length. The eye-like spot on the feather is called the ocellus.
11. A male peacock displays beautiful colors and designs while the poor peahen is so plain. The male peacock has 20 large tail feathers which he uses to attract female peahens. The peacock's tail feathers in fact make up 60% of his total length.
12. Peahen chooses its partner by the length, width, and coloration, and designs of the tail and perpetuates these designs through her offspring.
13. The peahen will lay an egg each day until she fills her nest with 3-7 eggs. She'll also lay unfertilized "decoy" eggs that she'll place away from the nest to confuse predators. The eggs hatch in about 28 days.
14. Amazingly there is no blue or green pigment is present in the tail feathers of a male peacock. The brilliant colors that we see are due to microscopic “crystal-like structures” on feathers that reflect different wavelengths of light depending on how they’re spaced resulting in fluorescent colors.
15. The tail feathers in fact fall off and are replaced once each summer.
16. Peafowls are forest birds that stay on the ground in the day but nest in trees at night
17. Peacocks have spurs on their feet that are primarily used to fight with other males. They are polygamous. Peacocks generally have a harem of 2 - 5 females.
18. Blue peacocks are the most commonly seen in parks and zoos and are of the Indian variety. The Indian peacock is in fact the national bird of India
19. It is one of the loudest birds. The frequency of calls is increased in the monsoon season. In the wild, their calls indicate the presence of some predator like a tiger. They in fact have a range of up to 11 distinct calls that carry long distances.
20. The most popular of all the colored mutations is the one without color. The whole bird is pure white due to the cells lacking the ability to make any pigment whatsoever called leucism.

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### Ebola Virus
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Last updated: 2023-08-02T09:30:32.000Z
#### 25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Ebola Virus

1. Ebola is the name used for describing Ebola Virus Disease or EVD. It was previously known as Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever.
2. The term 'hemorrhagic' refers to bleeding. There are other types of hemorrhagic fever such as Dengue fever, Lassa fever, Yellow fever, and Marburg fever.
3. Viruses can cause fever associated with bleeding. Besides Ebola other viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF) are Dengue fever, Lassa fever, Yellow fever, and Marburg fever.
4. Ebola is caused by one of 5 different species of Ebola virus. They all infect humans except one which infects non-human primates.
5. So far Ebola viruses have been restricted to some African countries.
6. The first-ever recorded outbreak was in 1976 close to a river named Ebola which is now a part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then several other EVD outbreaks have been recorded with 2014 being the worst.
7. The amazing fact is EVD is not spread through food, water, or air. It is believed that these viruses are borne and spread by animals.
8. Bats are the most likely natural reservoir for the Ebola virus. In fact, fruit bats are considered a delicacy in Africa.
9. Direct contact with infected primates like monkeys and apes and even direct contact with fruit bats can lead to transmission of this virus.
10. Human to human transmission of the Ebola virus is by direct contact with bodily fluids of an Ebola-infected person. Bodily fluids can include breast milk, vomit, semen, urine, saliva, feces, blood, etc. The virus can also be transmitted through infected syringes and needles.
11. Even after a person has recovered completely from EVD, the Ebola virus is found to stay in semen for a period of up to 3 months.
12. Amazingly scientists have found no evidence of mosquitoes or even other insects transmitting the virus into humans.
13. EVD becomes contagious only after the symptoms of the disease appear generally within 8 to 10 days.
14. The symptoms of EVD include unexplained bruising and bleeding, high fever, stomach pain, severe headache, vomiting, fatigue, diarrhea, weakness and muscle pain, rash, sore throat, difficulty swallowing or breathing, etc.
15. There is no known cure or vaccine for the Ebola virus. The treatment is only supportive including balancing body fluids, maintaining blood pressure, maintaining the body's oxygen levels, and treatment for complications.
16. EVD is diagnosed by a highly specialized blood test.
17. EVD is extremely dangerous and has a fatality rate of 60%.
18. In fact, a person can die within 6 days after symptoms appear.
19. The Ebola virus, however, infects the dendritic cells first and rendering them defective which fails to inform the T lymphocytes and the T cells simply don't respond to the infection. Because the T cells fail to get activated, the antibodies that depend on their activation also fail to fight the Ebola virus thus promoting Ebola replication.
20. Once inside the body, the virus travels through the blood to different parts of the body. Macrophages a type of immune cells that get infected with Ebola releasing a type of protein that leads to coagulation in different parts of the body. The infected macrophages also release other types of proteins along with nitric oxide that is responsible for damaging the linings of the blood vessels which start leaking, leading to hemorrhages.
21. The Ebola virus also destroys those liver cells that are responsible for producing proteins that are required for coagulating the blood.
22. Ebola virus also destroys cells in gastrointestinal tracts leading to diarrhea and dehydration.
23. Ebola virus also travels to adrenal glands and damages cells that control blood pressure leading to complete collapse of the circulatory system.
24. The African countries that saw Ebola outbreaks include the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), South Sudan, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Republic of the Congo & Uganda.
25. People who manage to recover from this deadly disease end up developing antibodies that last for 10 years making them immune to the virus for this period.

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