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1. 99.9% of an atom is made of empty
space.
2.
Nigeria has more English speakers
than the United Kingdom.
3.
Originally, Amazon.com was going to
be named Relentless.com.
4.
In French, a walkie-talkie is called
talkie-walkie.
5.
The Sea Anemone looks like a flower
but it's actually a carnivorous animal that eats small fish and shrimp.
6.
In Japan, there's a building with a
highway passing through it.
7.
Women look their oldest at 3:30pm
every Wednesday.
8.
The Bible is available in 2,454
languages.
9.
The Ayapaneco language was at risk of
dying out because its last two speakers wouldn't speak to each other.
10. The
airplane's pilot and co-pilot eat different meals just in case one causes food
poisoning.
11. The
lion from MGM is called "Leo the Lion".
12. The
French guillotine was used for the last time in 1977.
13. There
is a Punctuation mark used to express irony.
14. Massachusetts
is the state that has the most twin births in America.
15. In
1859, a Scientific American article described chess as a time-waster which
mislead and exhausted intellectual energies.
16. A
woodpecker can peck a tree 20 times per second.
17. There's
a lizard known as Jesus Christ Lizard due to its ability to run on the water.
18. Cockroaches
get lonely and even become ill if they are left alone for too long.
19. The
country with the lowest average IQ is Equatorial Guinea, with an average of 59.
20. Right-handed
people tend to chew food on the right side, while left-handed tend to chew on
the left side.
21. 11%
of the Americans disapprove black-white marriages.
22. The
word "Yo" was first used in the 15th century.
23. As
many as 440,000 people die from preventable medical errors every year.
24. The
tiger's stripes are not only found on the fur, but are also found on the skin.
25. There
are more cars than people in Los Angeles
26. Europe
was named after a lover of Zeus from the Greek Mythology.
27. Child
mortality worldwide dropped 48% from 1990 to 2013.
28. Romania
recognizes witchcraft as a legal profession.
29. More
than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year from using equipment meant
for right-handed people.
30. Memories
take hold better during sleep.
31. In
2011, a monkey was arrested in Pakistan for crossing the border with India.
32. Mexico
has 68 official languages.
33. Bob
Marley's dad was a white Jamaican.
34. There
is a Jellyfish that could be immortal.
35. The
probability that you in any glass of water will find at least 1 molecule of
water once drunk by Cleopatra is practically 100%.
36. The
total weight of all the ants on Earth is greater than total weight of all the
humans on the planet.
37. Humans
share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
38. The
longest interval between the birth of twins is 87 days.
39. Cotton
Candy was invented by a dentist.
40. Moor
Frog males can turn blue during mating season.
41. Starfish
can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.
42. A
"Firenado" is a combination of a fire with a tornado.
43. Drinking
too much water can cause water intoxication.
44. Popsicles
were invented by an 11 year old boy.
45. In
the UK, all horses, ponies and donkeys must have a horse passport.
46. Istanbul,
Turkey, is the only city in the world that sits on two continents.
47. Flamingos
eat with their heads upside down.
48. The
world's longest musical piece lasts 639 years.
49. “Rain
of fish" is an annual weather event in which hundreds of fish rain from
the sky onto the city Yoro in Honduras.
50. When
you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
51. 1
in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
52. When
snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
53. Trichotillomania
is the compulsive urge to pull out (and in some cases, eat) one's own hair.
54. In
Britain, a woman was given 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook
profiles to send abusive messages to herself.
55. Greece
has more than 2,000 islands, of which approximately 170 are populated. Greece’s largest island is Crete.
56. In
the UK, accents change noticeably about every 25 miles
57. Shakira
was rejected from the school choir because the teacher thought she sounded like
a goat. (Hey, I was rejected from the school choir too L )
58. On
April Fool's day of 2007, Google sent an e-mail out to its employees warning
that a python was loose in the facilities. It wasn't a joke.
59. 68%
of the people suffer from Phantom Vibration Syndrome or Phantom ringing, the
feeling that one's phone is vibrating or ringing when it's not.
60. Paris
Syndrome is a disorder, mainly suffered by Japanese people, caused after
realizing Paris isn't what one expects.
61. In
China, you can major in Bra Studies.
62. The
first Selfie was taken in 1839 by Robert Cornelius.
63. Hyperthymesia
is the condition of remembering every single experience in your life.
64. Greece
is the leading producer of sea sponges
65. The
word "Photography" means "writing with light."
66. Maladaptive
daydreaming is a condition in which a person daydreams excessively.
67. The
city of Guangzhou, China is also known as the Chocolate City due to its
increasingly population of 20,000 Africans.
68. Greece
has one of the lowest divorce rates in the EU.e Greece traditionally also has
the highest abortion rates.
69. "Poveglia"
is an island near Italy that is so dangerously "haunted" that public
access is not permitted.
70. There
are more chickens than people in the world.
71.
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