Remarkable Facts

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• Living US presidents cannot be featured on US currency.
• The only mammals that cannot jump are elephants.
• Symbolics.com is the first ever internet domain registered in 1985.
• A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of raw potatoes.
• Cats have over 100 vocal sounds whereas dogs have about 10.
• Lima beans contain cyanide.
• The people in Bali only have one of four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut
• Frogs use their eyes to help them eat their food.
• Some in Japan bath in coffee grounds that were fermented with pineapple pulp to improve their skin and reduce wrinkles.
• Human eye can detect 10 million colors.
• A snail can sleep for three years
• Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states.
• There are more pyramids in Peru than in Egypt.
• The length of your thumb and nose is same.
• The state official motto of Alaska is " North to the Future".
• The most popular pets in the United States are cats.
• Twitchers are the [eople who chase after rare birds.
• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king (shah) is dead (mat)."
• Butterflies smell with their feet.
• Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
• Pigs can't look up in the sky and Horses can't vomit.
• In Germany, an official approval is needed before a new born is named.

Surprising Facts

The shrimp's heart is in its head.

You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.

Famous actor Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

In general, a man’s heart beats slower than a woman’s.

The country with highest divorce rate in the world is United States.

Cats are capable to hear ultrasound.

Dutch, on average are the tallest people in the world.

Natural pearls melt in vinegar.

An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.

There is no butter in buttermilk.

The earth is estimated to weigh approximately 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

There are 86,400 seconds in day.

Ants never sleep and that’s a fact.

The human brain is 80% water and 20% grey material.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

While peeling onions, you can chew gums to reduce your tears.

There are no less than 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess. Perhaps that’s why they call it a true mind game.

There are about 540,000 words in the English language and growing.

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew food on your right side. If you are left handed, you are likely to chew food on your left side.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day

One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet.

The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV

Random Facts

Tuesday is considered as the most productive day of the week.

People with blue eyes see better in dark.

In human body the right lung takes in more air than the left one.

The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer which is a brand of the Microsoft’s rival company.

Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.

The snowiest city in the USA is Blue Canyon, California.

In the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.

The gasoline cannot freeze no matter how cold the temperature falls.

Jimmy Carter is the first USA president to have born in hospital.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

Astronauts cannot burp in space.

Human birth control pill works on gorillas.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.

True to spin an egg, Its strange that a hard-boiled egg will spin but an uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.

Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

The Polar Bear can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.

Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

Human stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.

Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog.