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Martin Luther King Jr. Facts

Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister. He is greatly remembered as being the leader of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also a great orator, with the ability to move the masses with his words. Following are some of the interesting and lesser-known facts about his life.

Interesting Facts about Martin Luther King Jr.:

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.
At birth, he was named Michael King Jr. His father later changed his name after being inspired by German monk and leader Martin Luther.
King’s father was a Baptist minister while his mother was a school teacher.
King enrolled in Morehouse College in 1944 at the age of 15, after skipping 9th and 12th grades in high school.
On May 17, 1957, King gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech in front of more than 250,000 people. This march in Washington DC was focused on the importance of civil rights legislation.
King was greatly inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian leader famous for his non-violent protests.
King was imprisoned 29 times during his life, on charges ranging from acts of civil disobedience to driving over the speed limit.
King was the youngest person ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
More than 730 streets in the United States are named after Martin Luther King, Jr.
King met his future wife Coretta Scott, a music student and aspiring singer, in 1953. The couple had four children.
He gave his last great speech “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” on April 3, 1968. The next day, on April 4th, he was assassinated by James Earl Ray, while standing on the balcony of a motel.
Some people including King’s family believe that there was a wider conspiracy regarding his murder, with Ray just being a scapegoat.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004 posthumously.
The Lorraine Motel, where he was killed, is now the site of the National Civil Rights Museum.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a national holiday in the United States. Since 1986, it is commemorated on the third Monday in January each year.

20 Less Known Facts About Hillary Clinton

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Hillary Clinton seems to always have been in the political spotlight. She has been the first lady, the senator of New York and Secretary of State. And in November 2016, she lost the Presidential Elections to Donald Trump. Here are few less known facts about Hillary Clinton.

Interesting Facts about Hillary Clinton:

Hillary Clinton won a Grammy in 1997 for Best Spoken Word Album for the audio version of her book “It Takes a Village.”
Hillary stated in 2012 that she no longer drives a car. She says that the last time she drove a car was in 1996.
Hillary Clinton was once a Republican and campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964. But She switched parties in 1968 and went on to work for Democratic nominee George McGovern in 1972 and Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Bill and Hillary Clinton attend different churches. While Hillary is a Methodist, Bill is a Southern Baptist.
During her time as First Lady, she was given the codename Evergreen by the Secret Service. She still maintains the same codename during her campaigns for Presidency.
Hillary was both senator and first lady for 20 days. She was sworn in as a U.S. senator on Jan. 1, 2001, and Bill left the White House on the 20th.
In 1988 and 1991, the National Law Journal ranked her as one of the top 100 most influential lawyers in the United States.
Hillary decided not to appear in Vogue in 2007 because she did not want to appear “too feminine”.
Hillary Clinton was very well travelled during her 4-year term as Secretary of State. She visited 112 countries, flew 1 million miles and spent 25% of her time travelling.
After marriage, Hillary changed her last name from Rothamto Clinton only to please the Arkansas voters so that Bill Clinton could become a Governor.
Before she married Bill Clinton, she tried to join the Marines, but she was rejected on the ground she was too old, had poor eyesight and was a woman.
In 1974, Hillary Clinton served as a member of the impeachment inquiry staff during Nixon’s impeachment proceedings.
She married Bill Clinton in 1975, and gave birth to their daughter, Chelsea, in 1980.
From 1986 until 1992, she served on the board for Wal-Mart.
Hillary loves spicy food. She always carries a small bottle of Tabasco and red pepper flakes in her purse so that she can have spicy food no matter where she goes.
Hillary Clinton was the first woman elected to the New York senate.
Hillary Clinton won the TV quiz show College Bowl while attending Wellesley College.
After graduating from Wellesley College, Hillary worked in a fish canning factory in Alaska. The plant fired her and then shut down after she complained about unhealthy conditions.
She was president of her high school’s Fabian Fan Club. She has said that there were only three girls in the club, but they took it very seriously. Fabian was a singer and actor.
In one of Hillary Clinton’s first trials before a jury, she represented a canning company that had been sued by someone who claimed they found the rear end of a rat in a can. Though she won the case, she became the butt of her husband’s jokes for years over what he called her “rat’s ass” case.

20 Facts about Left Handed People

Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Here is a list of 20 interesting facts about left-handed people which you probably didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there are a lot of fun and interesting facts about left handers which you weren’t aware of.

Interesting Left Handed People Facts:

10% of the world’s population is left-handed.
Few of the famous left-handed people are Napoleon, Da Vinci, Einstein, Newton, Bill Gates, Oprah, Obama, Hugh Jackman and Bradd Pitt.
Since 1996, every August 13th is celebrated as “Left-Handers Day“.
They are more likely to be on extreme poles of the intelligence scale, that is, either have a very high IQ or a low one.
Left-handed people are more likely to be insomniacs.
More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year by using equipment meant for right-handed people.
On an average, left-handed people die 3 years earlier than right-handed people.
They are more prone to migraines, compared to right-handed people.
According to research, they are better at multitasking.
On an average, there are more left-handed people with IQs over 140 than right-handed people, according to a study.
They process things faster while playing video games or sports.
According to a study, left-handed college graduates on average become 26% richer than right-handed graduates.
Homosexuals are 39% more likely to be left-handed!
They tend to chew on the left side of the mouth, as compared to right-handed people who tend to chew on the right side.
According to studies, prematurely born babies are more likely to be left-handed.
Inherited genes account for just 25% of the chance of being left-handed, according to a study.
They are more likely to pursue creative careers.
Soldiers who are left-handed prepare and throw grenades upside down because of how the safety pin is placed.
According to research, left-handed people are affected by post-traumatic stress far more than right-handed people.
They are three times more likely to become alcoholics as the right side of the brain has a lower tolerance to alcohol.

20 Interesting Facts About Facebook

Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Facebook has become such an important part of our lives in the past few years. But what are some interesting facts about this social networking site which you didn’t know? Check the fun facts about Facebook right here!

Interesting Facebook Facts List:

On an average, Facebook is adding 7,246 people every 15 minutes or 8 per second.
Around 600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts every day.
Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colour blindness.
Several people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.
Facebook has been banned in China since July 2008.
Every minute, 1.8 million new “likes” are made on Facebook.
According to estimates, Facebook spends US$30 million a month on hosting alone.
You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg’s account on Facebook.
Facebook is estimated to spend US$30 million a month on hosting alone.
Smartphone users check Facebook 14 times a day.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes home salary of just US$ 1.
If you open a conversation on Facebook Messenger and type ‘@fbchess play’, you can play a game of chess with your friend.
There are about 30 million dead people on Facebook.
Facebook has a feature that lets you decide who will manage your account when you die.
Facebook’s first annual Hacker Cup (2011) coding challenge was won by Petr Mitrichev, a programmer at Google. He showed up at Facebook headquarters to collect his prize wearing his Google employee badge. (badass spotted)
The “Like” button on Facebook was originally going to be called“Awesome”.
Around 8.7% of all Facebook users are fake.
Any text you put into the status update box is sent to Facebook’s servers, even if you don’t click the post button.
Facebook earns an average of US$ 5.85 from every U.S. user.
1 in 3 people feels more dissatisfied with their lives after visiting Facebook, according to a study.

20 Interesting Facts about Mexico

Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Mexico is one of the most historical and the 13th biggest country in the world. This North American country has contributed many inventions such as popcorn and chocolate and is the largest Spanish speaking country. Here is a list of 20 interesting facts about Mexico which you probably didn’t know.

Interesting Mexico Facts List:

Mexico’s official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United Mexican States).
Mexico introduced chillies, corn and chocolate to the world.
Mexico is the 11th most populous country in the world with a population of 121 million.
In Mexico, artists can pay their taxes with their artworks.
Mexico has the second largest population of Catholic citizens, after Brazil.
Mexico city is sinking slowly at a rate of 6 to 8 inches a year as it is built on a lake, over the ruins of a great Aztec city, Tenochtitlan.
Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico is the largest pyramid in the world, ahead of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The world’s smallest dog, the Chihuahua is named after a Mexican state.
In 1913, Mexico had three different presidents, in a span of one hour.
Mexico City is home to the world’s largest taxi fleet of 100,000 taxis running every day.
Mexico has 68 official languages.
The city of San Francisco was part of Mexico until the Mexican-American War in 1848.
Mexican children do not receive presents on Christmas Day, instead, they receive gifts on January 6 (Three Kings Day#Mexico)).
Mexico is located in the “Ring of Fire” which is one of the earth’s most violent earthquake and volcano zone.
Every year, millions of Monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico from the USA and Canada.
Sugary drinks kill more people than violent crimes in Mexico.
The first great civilisation in Mexico was the Olmec (from 1500 B.C.to 400 B.C.).
A very rare breed of rabbit, called Volcano Rabbit is found in Mexico near the Mexican volcanoes.
The National University of Mexico is the oldest university in North America was founded by Charles V Spain in 1551.
The border between Mexico and the United States is the second-largest border in the world.

20 Interesting Facts about Mars

Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Here is a list of 20 interesting facts about planet Mars which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there are a lot of fun and interesting facts about the red planet Mars which you didn’t know!

Interesting Mars Fact List:

Mars is home to Olympus Mons, which is the largest volcano in our solar system, standing 21km high and 600km wide across the base.
Mars gets its red colour from the iron oxide dust on its surface.
Mars gets its name from the Roman god of war of the same name.
Mars is the second smallest planet in the solar system, after Mercury.
On its one-year anniversary, the NASA’s Curiosity Rover sang “Happy Birthday” tune to itself on Mars.
Till date, only 4 countries/group have been able to successful send rockets to Mars: The USA, European Space Agency, Russia and India.
Mars has two moons: Phobos and Deimos.
Unlike Earth, Mars doesn’t have a magnetic field.
Mars’ seasons are twice as long as those on Earth since it takes Mars 687 days to orbit the sun which is twice as long as Earth’s 365-day journey.
The first successful Mars flyby was achieved by the Mariner 4 in 1965.
In 1976, Viking 1 became the first human spacecraft to successfully land operational on the surface of Mars.
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is the cheapest Mars mission ever costing just $72 million.
The Hollywood movie Gravity was more expensive than India’s Mars Orbiter Mission.
Mars lacks an ozone layer, as a result each time the sun rises, Mars’s surface is bathed in a lethal dose of radiation.
Mars has the largest dust storms in the whole solar system which can even last for months.
Mars’s specific gravity is about 37% of earth’s specific gravity. Which means that you can jump on mars nearly 3 times as high as you can jump on earth.
Sun appears half the size on Mars as what it does on Earth.
The sun appears half it’s size when viewed from Mars, as compared to Earth.
In 1609, Galileo Galilee became the first person to observe Mars through a telescope.
Mars is the only planet to be solely occupied by man-made robots.

20 Interesting Facts about Pandas

Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Here is a list of 10 interesting facts about Giant Pandas which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there are a lot of fun and interesting facts about the big, fat and adorable considered pandas that you weren’t aware of until now.

Amazing Giant Panda Facts:

A giant panda cub weighs around 150 grams only while a fully grown male can weigh up to 150kg.
Pandas are the most expensive animals to be kept in zoos or captivity. A panda costs 5 times more than the next most expensive animal, an elephant.
A giant panda eats as much as 10kg of bamboo per day.
Pandas are actually bears.
Usually,pandas spend half of their day eating, and the other half sleeping.
All pandas around the world are on loan from China.
A group of pandas is called an “embarrassment”.
Beneath its outer fur, the skin of a giant panda is white where the fur is black and pink where the fur is white .
Giant pandas are excellent tree climbers.
Giant pandas are omnivorous, they eat both bamboo as well as small animals and fishes.
Unlike most other bears, pandas don’t hibernate.
The natural life span of a giant panda is about 30 years.
In the wild, the lifespan of giant pandas is around 20 years.
One of the reasons the World Wide Fund (WWF) chose the Panda as their logo was to save printing costs.
Giant pandas possess a highly developed sense of smell that is used by the males to avoid each other and to find females for mating during the spring .
A panda’s throat has a special lining of mucus to protect it from bamboo splinters.
On the illegal trade market, a panda fur is worth between US$60,000 and US$100,000 .
Female giant pandas are only fertile once for two to three days a year (during Spring Season).
Giant pandas have 6 digits on their paws, 5 fingers and 1 pseudo-thumb which help them holding and eating the bamboo more easily .
Giant pandas have 42 teeth, and like humans, they also have 2 set of teeth during their lifetime.

20 Interesting Facts about Lord of the Rings (Movie)

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular and successful movie series of all time. Based on the written works of JRR Tolkien, the trilogy is arguably the best fantasy work ever created. Here’s a list of 20 interest facts about the movie series, which made millions of people dream.

Interesting Lord of the Rings Facts List:

Christopher Lee read The Lord of the Rings every single year since the year it was published and was the only member of the cast and crew ever to have met J.R.R. Tolkien.
Apart from the role of Gollum, Andy Serkis also voiced the black riders.
Originally, Orlando Bloom(Legolas) auditioned for the role of Faramir, John Rhys-Davies(Gimli) for the role of Denethor, and Christopher Lee for the role of Gandalf.
Sean Connery was originally offered the role of Gandalf, but he declined as he had never read the books and ‘didn’t understand the script’.
Nicolas Cage was first offered the role of Aragorn, but he turned it down because of ‘family obligations’.
All 3 movies of the Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King(2003) were filmed simultaneously.
The Helm’s Deep battle in The Two Towers took four months to shoot, all of it at night.
Sean Bean is afraid of flying, and while filming in the mountains of New Zealand refused to take helicopter rides to the set. Instead, he hiked up to the set in full Boromir costume every day.
In the 1960s, the Beatles wanted to make a movie adaptation of Lord of the Rings, with Stanley Kubrick directing, but Tolkien killed the project.
Shelob’s design is based on a New Zealand spider called a “tunnelweb”.
After the shooting was complete, veteran sword master Bob Anderson called Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) “the best swordsman I’ve ever trained”.
Viggo Mortensen did all of his own stunts and used a real steel sword while filming, rather than one made from aluminium and rubber-like the rest of the cast.
While filming the big standoff scene between Gandalf and the Balrog in Fellowship of The Ring, Ian McKellen was actually acting to a ping pong ball.
Gimli’s armour weighted around 30KG.
The Return of the King holds the record for highest movie body count, tallying in at 836.
Tolkien considered Sam as the “chief hero” of the story.
One frame of Gollum took around eight minutes to render, while one frame of Treebeard sometimes took up to 48 hours to render.
Samwise Gamgee’s daughter in The Return of the King is played by his real-life daughter, Alexandra.
The mountains on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, are named in honour of Tolkien’s work.
The sound of the fell beasts that the ringwraiths fly on is actually the noise of a donkey.

28 Interesting Facts about Google

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Google has evolved from being just a search engine to being a pillar of the internet. With its products like YouTube, Android, Gmail, Google Maps among others, Google is firmly integrated into our daily lives. Below is a list of interesting facts about the tech giant which will definitely amaze you.

Interesting Google Facts List

Google’s headquarters is called Googleplex, which is a combination of Google + Complex.
The Google Street View has more than 28 million miles of photographed roads till now.
Google has averaged a new company acquisition each week since 2010.
Over 1 billion search requests every day are handled by Google. This is done by using more than 1 million computers.
Google pays Mozilla millions of dollars a year so that Google acts as default search engine of the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
Many Google employees became instant millionaires when Google went public in 2014.
Alphabet Inc. is Google’s parent company.
By searching ‘atari breakout’ in Google Images, you can play the game. Try it now.
Google has a pet T-rex, named Stan, which lives at their California headquarters. Founders bought it to remind the employees to not let Google go extinct.
It is estimated that Google processes around 20 petabytes or 20,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information daily.
On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.
The first Google Doodle was about the Burning Man festival attended by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Google’s office is known as GooglePlex.
Google has the world’s largest network of translators, enabling users to translate 345 different languages into each other.
The “I’m feeling lucky” button remains one of the least popular Google features. However, in trials, it was found that removing it made the users uncomfortable.
Until March 2001, the Google homepage was aligned towards the right side of the page instead of centre.
Because Gmail was launched on 1st April 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools’ Day prank.
In 1999, the chew candy called “Swedish Fish” became the first company snack to be ordered into the Google office.
Google’s first computer storage used a Lego case so that the storage capacity could be increased easily.
Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.
Google bought YouTube in the year 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars.
A person working in Google is called as a ‘Googler’.
Google uses reCAPTCHA to teach computers how to read the text. With 200,000 million CAPTCHAs solved each day, Google’s computers learn how to identify words scanned from books even if they’re warped.
Google takes more 200 factors into account to deliver the best results for any search query in a fraction of a second.
Google’s first tweet ever was “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.” which when translated from binary code means “I’m feeling lucky”.
The name “Google” was an accident. A spelling mistake made the founders choose ‘Google’ instead of ‘Goggle’.
In 2013, Google got most search requests for Nelson Mandela, Paul Walker, iPhone 5, Cory Monteith, Harlem Shake, Boston Marathon, Royal Baby, Samsung Galaxy S, PlayStation 4 and North Korea.
Google rents 200 goats to help cut down weeds and bushes at Google HQ.
Google Maps’ Street View includes 360-degree views of the Mount Everest base camp.

20 Interesting Facts About Cats

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Cats are one of the most loved pets all around the world. Known for their unique and distant behaviour, they are the perfect companions for many. Here are the top 20 interesting facts about cats which you probably didn’t know.

Interesting Cat Facts:

Cats have brilliant night vision enabling them to see objects in 6 times dimmer light than humans.
On average cats spend 2/3rd of their day sleeping.
Cat kidneys are so efficient they are able to rehydrate by drinking seawater.
Cats can’t taste sweet things.
Cats can fit into any opening of the size of their head because they don’t have a collarbone.
Cats can’t chew large chunks of food because their jaws are unable to move sideways.
Cats can’t eat large chunks of food since their jaws can’t move sideways.
In China, more than 4 million cats are eaten every year.
The ‘Cat Flap’ in doors was invented by Isaac Newton.
Cats make around 100 different noises, while dogs only make 10.
Black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.
A cat called “Dusty” from Texas, USA produced 420 kittens during her breeding life, a world record.
Just like each human being has a unique fingerprint, each cat has a unique nose print.
According to a research, owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
There are more than 500 million domestic cats around the globe, from around 40 known species.
In Ancient Egypt, killing a cat, even by accident, resulted in a death penalty.
Cats can get sick or die from eating chocolate.
Cats can attain a maximum speed of about 50 km/h over a short distance.
A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, beating 110-140 times a minute.

10 Interesting Disney Facts

Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Here is a list of 10 interesting facts about Disney which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there are a lot of fun and interesting facts about Disney Studios, Disney World, Disney Movies and Walt Disney himself which you didn’t know until now.

Interesting Disney Facts List:

Walt Disney’s personal favourite character was Goofy.
Walt Disney held the patent for Technicolor for a few years, making him the only animator allowed to make colour films.
Clarence Nash, who gave the voice to Donald Duck, also created the dog barks for 101 Dalmations.
Simba is Swahili for ‘lion’, while Bhalu (Baloo) means ‘bear’ in Hindi.
Want a special gift for your wedding? if you send Mickey and Minnie Mouse an invitation to your wedding they’ll send you back an autographed photo and a ‘Just Married’ badge. Or if you send Cinderella and Prince Charming an invitation to your big day, you’ll get an autographed congratulatory certificate.
Wall-E, the fan-favourite rubbish compactor was named after Walter Elias Disney himself.
In 1938, Walt Disney was presented with one normal-sized honorary Oscar and seven little Oscars for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
The first animated character to receive a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame was Mickey Mouse.
Wayne Anthony Allwine, who was the voice of Mickey Mouse for 32 years married Russi Taylor, who played Minnie, in 1991. The two had a successful marriage until Allwine’s death in 2009.
Until Brave was made, Ariel was the only Disney princess to have siblings – the rest are all only children.

Interesting Facts about Dreams

Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Many people love dreaming. The subconscious mind’s ability to create scenarios and stories that can match fantasy works is one of the biggest wonders of the world. Here are some interesting facts about dreams which you probably didn’t know.

Interesting Dreams Facts List:

You can’t read in a dream because reading and dreaming are functions of different sides of the brain, which don’t cooperate while dreams.
The time we spend dreaming helps us overcome painful experiences.
Lucid dreaming is a technique by which you can control your dreams.
Your body gets paralysed while you dream.
An average human being spends around 6 years of his life dreaming.
People blind from birth are not able to see images in their dreams, but their dreams involve other senses like touch, sound, smell and emotions.
Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream roughly equally about both the genders.
On average, a person has 4-6 dreams every night.
Your mind never creates new faces in your dreams, that is you have seen each person that appears as a stranger to you in your dreams.
You can’t dream and snore at the same time.
We forget more than 90% of our dreams.
One in every eight people dreams in black and white.
Both men and women can have orgasms while dreaming.
Negative dreams are more common than positive dreams.
Children under 3-4 years of age can’t see themselves in their dreams.

Interesting History Facts

Sun, 20 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Here is a list of all the interesting facts about history and historical events which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there are a lot of fun and interesting facts about history (which most of us consider boring anyway) which you didn’t know until now!

Interesting History Facts List :

The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor.
The grid layout used in many cities around the world is not a new invention – it first appeared in the city of Mohenjo-Daro, in India, 4,500 years ago. The houses to the side of the streets had bare walls facing the street to keep out the sun and dust from carts.
In the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt, hoards of staff and family members were walled up with the body of the dead king. The humans and animals buried with the king were expected to help him in the afterlife.
Francis Galton, the inventor of modern fingerprinting methods, had many other notable ideas: the weather map, the phrase “nature vs. nurture,” and the silent dog whistle.
In ancient Rome, the punishment for killing one’s father was to be drowned in a sack along with a viper, a dog, and a rooster.
Gorgias of Epirus (3rd century BC), a Greek sophist, was born in his dead mother’s coffin! Pallbearers heard him crying out as they carried his mother’s coffin to the grave.
Cleopatra had a special lipstick made for her, consisting of crushed ants and deep red carmine beetles.
In the 14th century, the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
When anaesthetic was used for the first time in childbirth in 1847, the mother was so amazed and relieved at how painless the birth was that she named her child Anaesthesia.
In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past.
On August 2, 1922, the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
In 1927 Otto Rohwedder invented sliced bread. He made the first machine to slice and wrap bread and won a patent for the process. After only six years after the invention, more sliced bread was sold than unsliced.
Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize in physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
Wireless communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
In 1956, a psychiatrist had declared Rock’N’Roll a communicable disease.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s Gum.
The term geek originally referred to circus performers that would bite off the heads of live chickens.

Interesting Man-Made World Facts

Sun, 20 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Here is a list of all the interesting facts about the man-made world which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there are a lot of fun and interesting facts about our world as built by us humans which you didn’t know until now.

Interesting Man-Made World Facts List:

Colgate’s first toothpaste came in a jar.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.
The Eiffel Tower contains 18,038 pieces of steel connected by 2.5 million rivets.
The Sunday edition of the New York Times for 14 September 1984 contained 1,612 pages and weighed 5.4 Kg.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
A person from Nigeria is a Nigerian, while a person from Niger is a Nigerien.
The first fax machine was invented over 25 years before the telephone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
A hand clap at the entrance of Golkanda Fort in Hyderabad, India can be heard from atop the fort’s 300-foot summit a half-mile away.
Drivers tend to drive faster when other cars are around. It doesn’t matter whether they are in front, behind or beside them.
The White House was originally called the President’s Palace. Theodore Roosevelt gave the White House its current name in 1901.
The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922.
Josephine Cochran invented the first dishwasher and patented it in 1886.
More than 100 million people hold hunting licenses.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
The London Eye in England is the largest Ferris wheel in Europe, standing at a height of 135 meters.
The tallest wind turbine in the world has rotor tips that reach over 200 meters above the ground.
The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE. It reaches an incredible 828 metres (2717 feet) in height.
The building of the Panama Canal, which links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, was one of the most difficult engineering projects ever. It is estimated that over 25000 workers lost their lives during the long and dangerous project.
The Hoover Dam, built along the Colorado River between 1931 and 1936 reaches 726 feet in height (221 meters).
High-speed passenger trains in China reach speeds of up to 350 kph (220 mph).
When travelling at 80 kilometres per hour (50 miles per hour), cars use around half of their fuel just to overcome wind resistance.
There are 722 miles of subway track in New York City.
A fully loaded supertanker travelling at a normal speed needs about 20 minutes to stop completely.
‘El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula’ is the full name of the American city, Los Angeles.
In Turkestan, in 1919, a train was powered by almost 9000 tonnes of dry fish.
In Malaysia, it’s legal to divorce your partner via text message.

Interesting Space Facts

Sun, 20 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Nothing is more fascinating than space. Despite all it’s vastness, space is still expanding. Human effort of space exploration is still very new. There are billions of galaxies, stars, planets out there, of which we’ll never know. Here are some interesting facts about the space, universe, solar system, planets, the moon which you didn’t know.

Interesting Space Facts List:

41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
In space, astronauts can’t cry properly because of the zero gravity.
Mars appears red because it’s covered in rust.
The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes.
Our solar system was formed more than 4 billion years ago.
The sun looks 1600 times fainter from the pluto than it does from the earth.
Saturn’s rings are made up of particles of ice, dust and rock. Some particles are as small as grains of sand while others are much larger than skyscrapers.
Some large asteroids even have their own moon.
Halley’s Comet appears about every 76 years.
One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was the size of a pea.
The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years.
It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for the light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
The largest galaxies contain nearly 400 billion stars.
A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million.
The International Space Station orbits at 248 miles above the Earth.
The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion litres of alcohol.
The Temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees Celsius during the day and at night reaches up to minus 180 degrees.
99% of the solar system’s mass is concentrated in the sun.
The Earth is 4.56 billion years old, the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
If our Sun was just an inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
Golf the only sport played on the moon – on 6 February 1971, Alan Shepard hit a golf ball.
In the whole solar system, our home planet is the only one not named after a God.
Earth and Mercury are the two most dense planets in the Solar System.
From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the planets. This is because sunlight is reflected off the planet’s water.
Light from the Earth takes just 1.255 seconds to reach the Moon.
Twelve people have walked on the moon.
The visual “tail” of a comet has nothing to do with its direction of travel; rather, the solar wind pushes it so that it always points away from the Sun.
Jupiter is larger than 1,000 Earths.
The orbits of most asteroids lie partially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroids are believed to be ancient remnants of the formation of our solar system.
The most dangerous asteroids, those capable of causing major regional or global disasters, usually impact the earth only once every 100,000 years on average.
There are over 20 million observable meteors per day.
Only 1 or 2 meteors reach the surface of earth per day.
The largest found meteorite was found in Hoba, Namibia. It weighed 60 tonnes.
There are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe.
Europa, Jupiter’s moon is completely covered with ice.
There has only been 1 satellite destroyed by a meteor, it was the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.
Light-reflecting off the moon takes 1.2822 seconds to reach earth.

20 Fascinating Facts about Weather

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Our lives are greatly affected by the weather. No wonder weather forecast is such a hit on TV. But do you the most exciting facts about the weather? Like which place receives the most rain or what is the lowest temperature ever recorded? Read all the amazing weather and climate facts below.

Interesting Weather Facts List:

The naming of hurricanes and tropical storms officially began in 1953.
The wind doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object.
Average global temperature is up 0.94°C (1.7°F) since 1880.
Fire whirls are tornadoes made of fire caused by wildfires.
At any given time, on average there are about 1800 thunderstorms occurring on Earth with 100 lightning strikes per second.
For each minute of the day, 1 billion tonnes of rain falls on the Earth.
A molecule of water will stay in the Earth’s atmosphere for an average duration of 10-12 days.
Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18 mph.
It was so cold in 1684 that the Thames River in England froze solid for two months. 9 out of 10 lightings strike land rather than water.
Mawsynram in Meghalaya, India is the wettest place on Earth with an annual rainfall of more than 11 meters.
Highest Temperature Recorded on Earth is 56.7°C (134°F) at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913.
Lowest Temperature Recorded on Earth is -89.2°C (-128.5°F) at Vostok, Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.
In 1899, it was so cold that the Mississippi river froze over its entire length.
The air located around a lightning bolt is heated to around 30,000°C. This is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
The average width of a tornado’s funnel averages about 100 to 200 yards, but it may be as wide as a mile.
Snowflakes falling at 2-4 mph can take up to 1 hour to reach the ground.
The country most affected by tornadoes is the USA which faces on average 1200 tornadoes every year.
Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica is the windiest place on Earth with winds of 200mph been recorded.

Interesting Earth Facts

Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Earth is the planet to all the known life. Being the 3rd planet in the solar system, earth provides the perfect enviroment for life to thrive in. Here is a list interesting facts about our home planet earth which you probably didn’t know.

Interesting Earth Facts List:

The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.
The equator lies across 14 different countries.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific.
The Earth’s shape could be described as an oblate spheroid.
Earth is almost five billion years old, although life (resembling life as we know it) has only existed on the planet for the last 150 million to 200 million years.
Life has only been present on Earth for only 5%-10% of its lifetime.
The 50 tallest mountains on Earth are all located in Asia !The air at the summit of Mount Everest , 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at the sea level.
The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.
The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Lambert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
Point Farthest From the Center of the Earth is the peak of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador at 20,561 feet (6267 m). It is farthest from the centre of the earth due to its location near the equator and the oblateness of the Earth.
The largest inland sea is the Caspian Sea which is on the border of Iran and Russia.
Each year, about 1 million earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
Hawaii is the most geographically isolated land mass in the world.
Earth accumulate 10 to 100 tonnes of material each day.
Chemical Composition of the Earth mainly consists of 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2% Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulphur, and 0.05% Titanium.
An earthquake on 16th December 1811, caused parts of the Mississippi river to flow backwards.

Interesting Animal Facts

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Here is a list of all the interesting animal facts which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there is a lot of stuff related to different animals which is very interesting.

Interesting Facts About Animals:

Penguins can convert salt water into freshwater.
Fishes were there even before the dinosaurs.
Goldfish lose their colour if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water.
Octopus have 3 hearts.
Kangaroos have 3 vaginas.
For every human, there are 200 million insects.
Dogs can make approximately 100 different facial expressions.
The head of a jellyfish is called the ‘Bell’.
The average hen lays 228 eggs a year.
Cats spend 66% of their life asleep.
Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
Hippopotamuses are born underwater.
Female lions complete 90% of the hunting in their herd.
Flies always launch backwards for a quick getaway.
Birds need gravity to Swallow.
The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes.
Frogs can swallow with their eyes open.
The stomach acids found in a snake’s stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.
A lobster’s blood is colourless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue.
It’s physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.
Bulls can run faster uphill than down.
Until they are about a year old, baby blue whales gain an incredible weight of 91 Kg each day.
A cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
duck eggs are the largest eggs in the world.
If you were to shave a tiger’s fur, its skins would still have stripes.
Elephant’s tusks are the longest teeth in the world.
A camel’s hump doesn’t store water at all, it stores fat.
Sharks lose teeth each week.
The sloth is the world’s slowest mammal, so lazy that algae grow on its furry coat.
The world’s smallest cockroach is only 3 mm long.
Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare.
Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day (and your mother thought you slept a lot).
The low-frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
At 15 inches, the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
Seahorse can see in 2 different directions at the same time.
Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
A tiger’s tail can be up to one-third of its total body length.
Fish can taste with their fins and tail as well as their mouth.
Tigers move both legs on the same side of the body simultaneously when they walk.
A duck\s quack doesn\t echo. No one knows why.
Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year.
Though dragonflies possess 6 legs like any other insect, they cannot walk.
The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4-foot tall child inside.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Lobsters and Jellyfish are biologically immortal, they can live forever.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and prey.
The hippopotamus kill more humans annually than lions, crocodiles, or snakes.
The cuddly animal koala bear, as it is often called, is not a bear at all, it’s a marsupial! It sleeps for up to 18 hours a day.
Elephants use their trunks to help them stay cool. First, they squirt a trunkful of cool water over their bodies. They often follow that with a sprinkling of dust or mud to create a protective sunscreen of dirt on their skin.
All tigers have similar markings on their forehead, which resembles the Chinese symbol Wang, meaning king.
Over the course of her life, a female tiger will give birth to an approximately equal number of male and female cubs.
A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
A hummingbird’s heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute.
Reindeer’s hairs are hollow inside like a tube.
Dragonflies have 6 legs but can’t walk.
White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf.
The smallest dog is the Chihuahua.
Keeping cats can increase the chances of mental illness and cause suicidal behaviour in women.
In 2005, a sheep in turkey committed suicide by jumping off a cliff and 1500 sheep followed.
Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
African elephants only have 4 teeth.
Crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper.
The mouth of a jellyfish is also its anus.
To take care of their herds, powerful male dolphins occasionally rape weaker males.
Giraffes can’t yawn.
A snail can sleep continuously for 3 years.
Hamsters are colour blind.

Comics and Cartoons Facts

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Here is a list of all the interesting comics and cartoons facts which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, so enjoy reading through all the interesting facts related to your favourite comics and cartoons.

Interesting Facts about Cartoons:

“Keep ’em flying” was a slogan in World War 2, it was also the battle cry of Wonder Woman.
Every 5th book published in Japan is a comic.
The man who voiced for Optimus Prime also gave voice to Eeyore and Nintendo’s Mario.
Pokemon stimulates the same part of the brain in children as heroin.
Hulk was Originally Grey and not Green.
Jim Davis’ Garfield is printed in 7 different languages.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear trousers.
The longest-running primetime animated series is the Simpsons, which began in 1987.
Superman, Spider-Man and Batman are the three most popular American superheroes known and beloved worldwide.
Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.
Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble’s Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Walt Disney got his idea for Mickey Mouse while he worked in a garage. He was watching the mice play one night and got the inspiration for Mortimer Mouse. He didn’t change the name until shortly before he finished the first Mickey Mouse cartoon – the 1928 “Steamboat Willie”.
The comic known as Peanuts was originally known as Li’lfolks.
Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eye”!
The cartoon character Zorro, originally created by Johnston McCully, has made appearances in 69 films.
Fred and Wilma Flinstone were the first TV couple to sleep in the same bed.
Mickey Mouse was originally named Mortimer Mouse and in 1936, Disney created a character named Mortimer Mouse who was Mickey’s enemy.
Crusader Rabbit was the first animated series, airing from 1949-1951.
Pluto (the dog from Disney) was originally called “Rover”.
If Barbie (the doll) was life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
One of the 150,000 colour cells from Disney’s Snow White (USA 1937) was sold in 1991 for $203,000.
The most expensive animated film was The Prince of Egypt (1998, the US), which cost 60 million dollars to make.
In 1991 Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, married Russi Taylor—the voice of Minnie.
The most syndicated comic strip was Peanuts by Charles Schulz (the US) appears in 2,620 different newspapers in 75 different countries.
Before Pixar settled on Toy Story, other names suggested include Made in Taiwan, Moving Buddies, and Toyz in the Hood!
Mel Blanc insisted on chewing real carrots to provide the chomping sounds when he voiced Bugs Bunny.
The Pokemon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based on Bruce Lee and Jakie Chan.
It was Walt Disney’s wife who convinced him to change the name of his character from ‘Mortimer Mouse’ to ‘Mickey Mouse’!
All the Professors in Pokemon are named after trees.
In Japan, more paper is used to print comic books than to make toilet paper.
If you want to buy the first Super Man comic, it will cost you at least $150,000.

Famous Personalities Facts

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Here is a list of all the famous personalities facts which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there is a lot of stuff related to the lives of famous people which you didn’t know.

Facts about Famous People:

Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dates his most famous painting – the Mona Lisa.
Despite his immense wealth, Bill Gates’ children will only inherit $10 million each, with rest going to charity.
George Bush and Sadam Hussein both had their shoe hand-made by the same Italian shoemaker.
At his first year of Harrow, Winston Churchill was at the bottom of the whole school.
Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
Bruce Lee could perform one-hand push-ups using only the thumb and index finger. Lee performed 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Bruce Lee could break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Francis Galton, the inventor of modern fingerprinting methods, had many other notable ideas: the weather map, the phrase “nature vs. nurture,” and the silent dog whistle.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.
The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence – he invented dynamite.
Mozart never went to school.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.
Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de Los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
In thanks for narrating a documentary, the museum of Natural History named a spider after Harrison Ford – Calponia Harrisonfordi.
Adolf Hitler was _Time Magazine_‘s Man of the Year for 1938.
The first “Teddy Bear” was made in honour of the then American President Theodore Roosevelt (nicknamed Teddy) after he refused to shoot a bear cub on one of his hunting trips.
The French King, Lois XIV owned a collection of 413 beds in several places all over France, so that he could sleep in his own bed, no matter where he travelled.
George Bernard Shaw is the only person to win both – a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.
Newton served as a member of the Parliament of England for one year. During all the lengthy proceedings, he spoke only once: he asked the person next to him to close an open window.
Artin Elmayan, 95 years old, from Argentina, is the world’s oldest professionally ranked tennis player.
The last words of the Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) were “Ow, fuck”.
Barack Obama’s favourite cartoon character is Spongebob Squarepants.
Leonardo da Vinci worked on painting Mona Lisa for 15 years when he died in the year 1519, he still didn’t consider it to be finished.

25 Interesting Food Facts

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Here is a list of all the interesting food-related facts which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there is a lot of stuff related to different foodstuff which is very interesting.

Interesting Food Facts List:

Grapes explode when you put them in microwaves.
White wine gets darker as it ages, while the red wine becomes lighter in colour.
Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.
Heineken beer is designed to foam for exactly 5 minutes.
An average person’s fast food intake a year will contain about 12 public hairs.
Ice cream is Chinese food.
Within 2 hours of standing in direct sunlight, milk loses more than half of its vitamin B content.
Dark chocolate reduces the risk of heart diseases.
Goat’s milk is used more widely than cow’s milk.
In its ancient form, the carrot was purple and not orange.
The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer.
Coffee beans are not beans, but fruit pits.
Blueberry juice boosts memory.
Orange juice naturally contains a small quantity of alcohol.
Coca-Cola was originally green in colour.
Chewing on a gum while cutting onions stops tears.
All the 13 minerals needed for human life can be found in alcohol beverages.
You can only taste food if it is mixed with saliva.
By the year 3,000 BC, there were at least 6 different types of beers in Egypt.
Coffee drinkers have sex more often than tea drinkers.
Bananas aren’t fruits they are a type of herbs.
The first soft drink to be consumed in space was Coca-Cola.
During your life, you will eat 60,000 pounds of food, which is equivalent to the weight of 6 elephants.
Lemon juice can aid in reducing the swelling caused by insect bites.
Cucumber is 96% water.

Human Body Facts

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Humans are the most advanced and dominant species on earth. This has been achieved through centuries of continuous evolution. Here is a list of interesting facts about human anatomy which you probably didn’t know.

Interesting Human Body Facts List:

40% of the human race didn’t survive beyond its first birthday.
All babies are colour blind when they are born.
A human heart pumps enough blood during the lifetime to fill 3 supertankers.
Enamel is the Hardest substance in the human body.
All the blinking in one day equates to keeping your eyes closed for 30 minutes.
You are always able to see your nose, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
20% of the population has cheek-dimples.
If you electrically shock a person’s brain, their math skills can greatly improve for up to six months.
Approx 80% of a child’s intelligence is acquired from the mother.
Singing exercises your heart, lungs and relaxes endorphins, making you feel good.
The human body is better suited for 2 four-hour sleep cycles than 1 eight-hour session.
10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
It’s impossible to breathe and swallow at the same time.
By the time you finish reading this sentence 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced by new cells.
There is enough carbon in your body to fill 900 pencils, enough fat to make 75 candles, enough phosphorus to make 220 match heads. and enough iron to make a 7.5 cm nail.
Your stomach produces up to 2 litres of hydrochloric acid every day.
Your sneezes can travel at a speed of 160 km/h: faster than a train.
At least 30% of adults snore.
There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life.
Without its lining of mucus, your stomach would digest itself.
A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
A hard-working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
Your foot is the same size as the distance between your wrist and elbow. You can put your foot in that area and it will fit.
Bone cells are constantly renewed, so every ten years you have a “new” skeleton.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods.
The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.
Dimples may be cute, but they are an inherited genetic flaw. They are caused by a fibrous band of tissue that connects the skin to an underlying bone.
It is impossible to hum while your nose is plugged close.
If you are severely scared of going to the dentist or having dental work, you may actually have a phobia called odontophobia.
Cold weather makes fingernails grow faster.
During thinking, we use about 35% of our brains.
Goosebumps are actually caused by a muscle called the arrector pili muscle.
Blue eyes are the result of an ancient genetic mutation.
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
Every time you sneeze, some of your brain cells die.
Women tears have been proven to biologically reduce sexual desire in men.
As embryos, the first thing that develops is our anus.
Women need up to an hour’s extra sleep as compared to men as women are much more susceptible to depression.
People who regularly get less than 6 hours of sleep increase their chances of dying over a 25 year period by 12%.
Consuming pizza once a week can help to reduce the chances of oesophagal cancer.
If humans were able to hear sounds at a frequency lower than 20 Hertz, we would be able to hear our muscles.

Human Psychology Facts

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Human Psychology deals with various aspects about the way we all think, react and understand different situations. Here is a collection of many interesting Human Psychology Facts which you probably didn’t know. These facts will amaze you we are sure!

Interesting Human Psychology Facts:

Logizomechanophobia is the fear of computers! (ain’t that the worst fear ever ?)
You can’t read in a dream because reading and dreaming are functions of different sides of the brain, which don’t cooperate while dreams!
Good liars are good at detecting other people’s lies!
We are more creative in the night and least creative in the afternoon!
Over 90% of humans feel uncomfortable when TV volume is not divisible by 2 or 5!
Your mind can sense someone staring at you even when asleep!
Holding objects in front of your body indicates shyness and resistance, separating yourself from others!
By 2020, depression will be one of the leading cause of death and disability!
People are more likely to return a lost wallet if they find a baby picture inside of it!
People spend almost half of their waking hours daydreaming!
On average, women cry between 30-60 times a year, while men cry around 6 times!
Lack of sleep leads to sugar craving!
Most of the serial killers are born in November!
The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones!
Nearly 40% of men don’t feel confident while meeting women for the first time!
The Truman Syndrome is a condition where an individual honestly believes that his/her life is a part of a reality show!
Studies show that men are put off by a group of loud women!
Mageirocophobia is the intense fear of having to cook!
People who spend a lot of time on the internet are more likely to be depressed, lonely and mentally unstable!
Inability to understand sarcasm can be an early warning sign of a brain disease!
The time we spend dreaming helps us in overcoming painful experiences!
Watching scary movies has lasting effects on children and teens, which may affect them well into the adulthood!
Studies show that people who sleep with multiple pillows are often lonely and depressed!
Touching a teddy bear makes people feel less lonely!
Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school!

27 Interesting Facts about English Literature

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

English literature has a deep and interesting history. From William Shakespear, Charles Dickens to JRR Tolkien and JK Rowling, the world has witnessed some great writers. But what are the most fascinating literary facts? Read all of them below:

Interesting Facts about English Literature

Sherlock Holmes never said, “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
A Language dies every 14 days.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Ghosts appear only in 4 Shakespearean plays: Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates bought ‘Codex Leicester’, one of Leonardo Di Vinci’s scientific journals for a whopping $30.8 million in November 1994.
Roald Dahl, the author of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, tested chocolates for Cadbury’s while he was at school.
Marcel Proust’s ‘Remembers of Things Past’ is the longest book in the world at 9,609,000 characters. The book is highly inspired by Proust’s personal experiences.
Lewis Carroll’s book ‘Alice in Wonderland’ was banned in China as the book suggests animals can talk and write just like humans, which according to the governor of Hunan, China is “disastrous”.
‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. ‘Dreamt’ is the only word in the English language to end with ‘mt’.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelt without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
‘SWIMS’ upside down still looks like ‘SWIMS’.
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter in the alphabet.
The town of Hamelin, Germany famous for the legend of the rat-catching Pied Piper has a Modern day Rat Problem due to the food left by tourists.
The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”.
‘Aloha’ is a Hawaiian word that means both hello and goodbye.
The longest English word without a vowel is – rhythm.
The Times (UK’s newspaper) of 22 August 1978 contained the most number of misprints – about 97. In one story about the Pope, he was called “the Pop” throughout the article.
‘The Mouse Trap’ by Agatha Christie is the longest-running play in history.
All of the roles in Shakespeare’s plays were originally acted by men and boys. In England at that time, it wasn’t proper for females to appear on stage.
‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, ‘Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.’.
John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem ‘Paradise Lost.’.
In the original story, Sleeping beauty was raped by the prince and gave birth to 2 children. She woke up when a kid sucked on her finger.
Silent and Listen are spelt with the same letters.

50 Interesting Facts about Plant

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Plants form the backbone of the earth’s ecosystem. They provide oxygen and food, which is necessary for survival on earth. Plants can come in various forms such as trees, shrubs, flowers, etc. Here is a list of fun and interesting facts about plants which you didn’t know.

Interesting Plant Facts:

An average size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,100 pencils.
The first type of aspirin, painkiller and fever reducer came from the tree bark of a willow tree.
85% of plant life is found in the ocean.
Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make people feel happy.
Brazil is named after a tree.
The Amazon rainforest produces half the world’s oxygen supply.
Cricket bats are made of a tree called Willow and baseball bats are made out of the wood of the Hickory tree.
Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings.
Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant.
Apple is 25% air, that is why it floats on water.
Peaches, Pears, apricots, quinces, strawberries, and apples are members of the rose family.
Apple, potatoes and onions have the same taste, to test this eat them with your nose closed.
The tears during cutting an onion are caused by sulfuric acid present in them.
The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
The first potatoes were cultivated in Peru about 7,000 years ago!
The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five gallons in twenty-four hours.
Strawberry is the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside. The average strawberry has 200 seeds.
Leaving the skin on potatoes while cooking is healthier as all the vitamins are in the skin.
Around 2000 different types of plants are used by humans to make food.
Small pockets of air inside cranberries cause them to bounce and float in water.
Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day.
A sunflower looks like one large flower, but each head is composed of hundreds of tiny flowers called florets, which ripen to become the seeds.
Cabbage has 91% water content.
Banana is an Arabic word for fingers.
The California redwood (coast redwood and giant sequoia) are the tallest and largest living organism in the world.
Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is one of the oldest living tree species, it dates back to about 250 million years ago.
The word pineapple comes from European explorers who thought the fruit combined the look of a pinecone with flesh like that of an apple.
The Elephant grass found in Africa is named so as it is 4.5 meters high and even elephants can hide in it.
Eating lots of onions will make you sleepy, as it acts as a sedative!
Cucumber is a fruit and not a vegetable since it has seeds in the centre.
A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas known as fingers.
Vanilla flavouring comes from the pod of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia.
The first certified botanical garden was founded by Pople Nicholas III in the Vatican City in 1278 AD.
There are over 300,000 identified plant species and the list is growing all the time.
Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.
Carrots were originally purple in colour.
During the 1600s, tulips were so valuable in Holland that their bulbs were worth more than gold. The craze was called tulip mania and caused the crash of the Dutch economy.
The baobab tree found in Africa can store 1,000 to 120,000 litres of water in its swollen trunk.
Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years old.
Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant.
At over 2000 kilometres long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

52 Random Life Facts

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Life is more interesting than you think. We fail to notice thousands of things and events taking place around us every day. Here is a list of random interesting facts about life which you didn’t know.

Interesting Random Facts List:

An ‘earworm’ is a song that gets stuck in your head.
Lemon juice can aid in reducing the swelling caused by insect bites.
10% of all the photographs in the world were taken in the last 12 months.
A burning candle creates 1 million tiny diamonds per second.
There are enough diamonds in existence to give every human on this planet a cupful.
An average person walks the equivalent of 3 times around the earth in his lifetime.
Scientists believe that untidy and unmade beds are healthier for us than neat and made beds.
Swearing when you are hurt helps in reducing the pain.
It takes 4 seconds for silence to become awkward.
Most people are happiest at 7:26 PM on Saturday night.
40% of women would consider dumping their boyfriends if her friends didn’t like him.
An average woman’s handbag weighs between 3-5 pounds.
Apples are more efficient at waking you up in the morning than tea or coffee.
Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
The search engine Google got its name from the word ‘googol’ which refers to the number one with a hundred zeroes after it.
If you could drive your car straight up, you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg.
The small “You Are Here” sticker that indicates your position on a map has a name- it’s called an ideo locator.
A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is “a meaningless existential hell.”.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
Cashews are actually a fleshy fruit. The nut that we eat is the seed that grows on the outside of the fruit.
Diamonds are actually unstable at surface temperature and pressure. Every diamond above ground is very, very slowly altering into graphite, another form of pure carbon.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th”.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Your dead skin accounts for most of your house dust.
More people have allergies to Cow’s milk than any other food product.
More people are killed from donkeys in a year than planes.
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
It doesn’t matter how fresh-picked they are, coffee beans are actually tasteless until they’re roasted.
Coca-Cola gets its name from its 2 key ingredients derived from the coca leaves and kola nut. (Its creator changed the ‘K’ in Kola to ‘C’ to make the name look better).
The name ‘Adidas’ comes from the name of its founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler (Das).
Istanbul is the only city in the world that is located on 2 continents.
Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but the women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
The name hamburger has nothing to do with ham but comes from the German city, Hamburg.
The blast of air you often feel while walking into a store is to prevent insects from flying in.
Honey is the only natural product that does not deteriorate with time.
Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill.
The chances of dying by fire are 15 billion to 1.
Mother’s Day is the second most popular day for gift giving, after Christmas.
Women Speak about 20,000 word’s daily whereas men speak only 7,000.
Under extreme conditions, diamonds can be made from peanut butter.

Science Facts

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Human’s ability to explore and understand the workings of the world is what separates us from every other species. Through analysis and exploration of science, we have evolved over many millennia. Here is a list of interesting scientific science facts which you didn’t know.

Science Facts List:

Carbon has the highest melting point among all the elements.
Light Travels 18 million times faster than rain.
The exact speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
Light would take 0.13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.
Until a study published in 1905 by Carnegie scientist Nettie Stevens that identified the Y chromosome, gender was thought to be caused by environmental factors, such as a passion for sex, nutrition, and temperature. These theories had their roots in Aristotle’s theories constructed over 2000 years ago.
Trees do not grow higher than 130m as it is physically impossible for the water to rise higher.
Albert Einstein never received a Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity.
We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine.
Recycling old aluminium uses only 5% of the energy used to make new aluminium.
At room temperature, mercury is the only metal that is in liquid form.
When travelling through water, sound moves around four times faster than when it travels through the air.
The Earth’s magnetic field is responsible for deflecting the solar wind (charged particles that come from the Sun).
Nuclear power provides around 14% of the world’s electricity.
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.
A magnifying glass uses the properties of a convex shaped lens to magnify an image, making it easier to see.
Tides are caused by the rotation of the Earth and the gravitational effects of the Moon and Sun.
The Sun creates energy through the nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium.
Enriched uranium is a crucial element for both nuclear weapons and nuclear power production.
Things invisible to the human eye can often be seen under UV light, which comes in handy for both scientists and detectives.
Liquid nitrogen boils at 77 kelvin (−196 °C, −321 °F).
Water can work against gravity, moving up narrow tubes in a process called capillary action.
The world’s biggest source of energy for producing electricity comes from coal.
When water freezes, it expands by 10%.
The word LASER stands for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
The two highest recorded IQs ever belonged to women.