Mount Everest has about 200 dead bodies on it, which are now landmarks on the way to the top.
Sharks kill 12 people per yearwhile people kill 11,417 sharks per hour.
80% of all Soviet males born in 1923 died in World War II.
You are more likely to die slipping in the bathtub, getting struck by lightning, or drowning in the bathtub, than from Terrorism.
600 Americans die each year from falling out of bed.
You are more likely to die in the taxi cab on the way to and from the airport than on the flight itself.
As many as 440,000 people die from preventable medical errors every year.
At least 1 in 25 people sentenced to the death penalty in the U.S. are innocent.
There are 1 billion cars currently in use on earth.
About 165,000 cars are produced every day.
The "new car smell" is composed of over 50 volatile organic compounds.
It would take less than 6 months to get to the Moon by car at 60mph (95km/h).
The average car has 30,000 parts.
75%of cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road today.
Volkswagen owns Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati and Porsche.
The average American spends about 38 hours a year stuck in traffic.
The odds of dying in a car accident are around 1 in 5,000.
There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.
The inventor of the cruise control was blind.
The world's fastest street-legal production car is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, at 267 mph (431 km/h).
In the U.S., the apples sold at stores can be up to a year old.
Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of the rose family.
Oranges are not even in the top ten list of common foods when it comes to vitamin C levels.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is fear of the number 666.
Philophobia is the fear of falling in love.
Phobias may be memories passed down through generations in DNA, according to a new research.
Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler, all suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
Ommatophobia is the fear of eyes.
Nikola Tesla once "shook the poop out" of a constipated Mark Twain with an experiment.
No one knows who invented the fire hydrant because its patent was burned in a fire.
Charles Richter, who invented the Richter Scale, was a nudist.
Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, all of them had no college degree.
Rudolf Diesel, who invented the Diesel engine, committed suicide in 1913 because he didn't think his invention would be successful.
Humans spend a third of their life sleeping. That's about 25 years.
Parents of new babies miss out on 6 months worth of sleep in the first 2 years of their child's life.
Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.
Only one half of a dolphin's brain goes to sleep at a time.
Before alarm clocks were invented, there were "knocker-ups" who went tapping on client's windows with long sticks until they were awake.
It's impossible to sneeze while sleeping.
Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan, as it's viewed as exhaustion from working hard.
Dysania is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.
People experience better sleep during the new moon and worse sleep during a full moon, a study found.
Half of the pilots surveyed in the UK admitted to having fallen asleep while flying a passenger plane.
Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
Believing You've Slept Well, Even If You Haven't, Improves Performance.
Memories take hold better during sleep.
Horses can sleep standing.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
The occurrence of nightmares could be due to heart conditions, migraine, sleep deprivation and beta blockers.
Sleep deprivation affects the brain in multiple ways that can impair judgment and slow reaction.
Neuroscientists believe babies don't dream for the first few years of their life.
4%of women in the U.S. are pregnant right now.
3 in every 10 teen girls in the U.S. get pregnant.
49% of pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended. That's more than 3 million children per year.
The longest pregnancy in humans on record is 375 days (12.5 months).
During pregnancy, if the mother suffers organ damage, the baby in the womb sends stem cells to repair the damaged organ.
More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
Women who snore during pregnancy are more likely to have smaller babies, according to a study.
30%of pregnant women crave nonfood items, an eating disorder called pica.
TV show "16 and pregnant" and spin-offs may have prevented about 20,000 teen pregnancies in 2010, a study says.
1 in every 200 young American women claims to have experienced a "virgin pregnancy".
Pregnant women have about 50% more blood by week 20 of pregnancy than they did before they conceived.
In 31 states of the U.S., Rapists can legally sue for child custody if the rape results in pregnancy.
A woman can get pregnant while she is already pregnant.
1 billion people speak English. That's 1 in every 7 on earth.
80% of information stored on all computers in the world is in English.
English words "I", "we", "two" and "three" are among the most ancient, from thousands of years.
The word "bride" comes from an old proto-germanic word meaning "to cook".
The concept behind the word "cool" might come from the African word "itutu", brought to America by slavery.
90% of everything written in English uses just 1,000 words.
Until the 19th century the English word for actors was "hypocrites."
Phrases in English such as "long time no see", "no go", and "no can do" come from literal translations of Chinese phrases.
One pint of donated blood can save up to 3 lives.
A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in his body.
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.
Your heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood during your lifetime, enough to fill 200 train tank cars.
Pregnant women have about 50% more blood by week 20 of pregnancy than they did before they conceived.
A red blood cell can make a complete circuit of your body in 30 seconds.
Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood.
8%of your body weight is in your blood.
Mosquitoes prefer blood type "O" to any other.
During WWII, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with bubonic plague.
The number of Chinese killed by the Japanese during WWII is greater than the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
The Mosque of Paris helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs during WWII.
80% of all Soviet males born in 1923 died in World War II.
Winston Churchill lost the 1945 election right after winning WWII.
Hitler bombed his nephew's house in Liverpool, so he joined the US NAVY to fight him.
During WWII, Japan received Jewish refugees and rejected the resulting Nazi German protests.
Chemotherapy is a by-product of the mustard gas used in WWI.
About a third of all Jewish people alive at that time were murdered in the Holocaust.
Hitler planned to collect thousands of Jewish artifacts to build a "Museum of An Extinct Race" after the war.

Some 5,500 WWII bombs are discovered in Germany every year and defused, an average of 15 per day.
In one of the last battles of WW2, American and German soldiers fought together as allies against an SS division to defend an Austrian castle.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII, Canada declared war on Japan before the U.S. did.
Dachau, the first NAZI concentration camp in Germany, opened six years before WWII.
During the invasion of Poland in WWII, 720 Poles defended their position against 40,000 Germans, stopping their advance for 3 days.
More Germans were killed by the Russians in the Battle of Stalingrad alone than were killed during the entire WWII by America.
Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles (32 km).
Your heart can keep beating even if it is separated from the body because it has its own electrical impulse.
75 trillion cells receive blood from the heart. Only the corneas don't.
Your heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood during your lifetime, enough to fill 200 train tank cars.
Owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third, researchers found.
Multivitamins increase the risk of cancer and heart disease, according to recent studies.
Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.
A man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself on the same way his donor did.
Eating dark chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart disease by one third.
Couples who are in love synchronize their heart rates after gazing into each others' eyes for three minutes.
The human heart is not on the left-hand side of the body; it's in the middle.
If Bill Gates was a country he would be the #63 richest on earth.
Bill Gates' children will only inherit US$10 million each, out of his US$72 billion net worth.
Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, all of them had no college degree.
Bill Gates was arrested in New Mexico in 1977 for jumping a red light and driving without a licence.
In 2004, Gates predicted that the problem of spam email would be gone within two years.
At a spending rate of $1 million a day, it would take Bill Gates 218 years to spend all his money.
The average married couple has sex 68.5 times a year, which is slightly more than once a week.
75%of people who marry partners from an affair eventually divorce.
1 in every 5 couples have a sexless marriage, having less than 10 encounters a year.
The word "bride" comes from an old proto-germanic word meaning "to cook".
People who endure more than 45-minute commute are 40% more likely to divorce.
A 99-year-old man divorced his 96-year-old wife after 77 years of marriage because he discovered an affair she had in the 1940s.
Couples who live together before engagement have higher divorce rates than those who wait.
Most married couples are happiest in their third year of marriage.
There are 100 divorces every hour in the U.S.
Couples who spend more money on their wedding have higher divorce rates, a study found.
Only about 9% of marijuana users become clinically dependent, according to a study.
42%of people in the U.S. has tried marijuana at least once.
Study after study has found that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.
George Washington grew Marijuana in his farm.
Medicinal Marijuana is Considered Kosher in Some Cases by Judaism.
Uruguay became, in 2013, the first country in the world to make it legal to grow, sell and consume marijuana.
In the U.S., a sentence of life in prison without parole was given for trying to sell US$10 of marijuana to an undercover officer.
In 1949, the U.S. Military created a synthetic version of Marijuana called "Dimethylheptylpyran." Just 1 mg can have effects lasting for 3 days.
In Colorado, medical marijuana dispensaries outnumber Starbucks locations 3 to 1.
Lack of oxygen in the brain for 5 to 10 minutes results in permanent brain damage.
New Brain Connections Are Created Every Time You Form a Memory.
There's a virus that attacks human DNA making people less intelligent, impairing brain activity, learning and memory.

The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.
Forgetting is good for the brain: deleting unnecessary information helps the nervous system retain its plasticity.
There is no Left Brain/Right Brain Divide. It's a myth. They work together.
Sleep deprivation affects the brain in multiple ways that can impair judgment and slow reaction.
The brain treats rejection like physical pain, according to scientists.
It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.
When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes.
By 2023, the average US$1,000 laptop will be just as fast as the human brain, according to Ray Kurzweil.
Women speak about 20,000 words a day. That's 13,000 more than the average man.
Women in ancient Rome wore the sweat of Gladiators to improve their beauty and complexion.
The average woman in the UK owns 19 pairs of shoes, but wears only 7.
Women cry on average between 30 and 64 times a year, while men cry between 6 and 17 times.
Men were the first to wear high heels around the 1600s. Women began wearing them to look more masculine.
4%of women in the U.S. are pregnant right now.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
The woman who underwent the world's first successful womb transplant became pregnant in 2013.
Women who snore during pregnancy are more likely to have smaller babies, according to a study.
Some women can have a genetic mutation which causes them to see millions of more colors.
An average woman in the UK will own 111 handbags in her lifetime.
30%of pregnant women crave nonfood items, an eating disorder called pica.
40,000 U.S. women might be allergic to male ejaculate.
Women can get pregnant even 5 to 8 days after having sex.
The most children born to one woman is 69.
68%of women say they would have an affair if they knew they could get away with it.
Only 2% of women describe themselves as beautiful.
Women blink 19 times per minute, compared to 11 for men.
Apple headquarters' employees earn an average of US$125,000 a year.
Apple sold 340,000 iPhones per day in 2012.
Apple's iPhone is almost twice more expensive in Brazil than in the U.S.
If you would have bought an iPhone in 1991, part by part, it would have cost you US$3.56 million.
If you use iTunes, you have already agreed not to use Apple products to create nuclear weapons.
The U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people.
Americans spend 5 cents per day by flushing their toilets.
Russia & America are less than 4 km apart at the nearest point.
One American consumes as much resources as 32 Kenyans.
9 million people are in prisons around world, and a quarter of them are in the U.S.
The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for just US$7.2 million in 1867.
Smoking causes 1 in every 5 deaths in the U.S. every year.
About 20 million Americans live in mobile homes.
Medical errors are the 6th leading cause of the death in the U.S.
African-Americans are twice as likely to be shot in the U.S.
Christmas was illegal in the U.S. until 1836 as it was considered an Ancient Pagan Holiday.
There are more single people than married people in the U.S. nowadays.
It costs the U.S. Government US$2,768,902 per year to hold a prisoner in Guantanamo.
The Four Corners Monument is the only point in the U.S. shared by four states.
Every day in the U.S., more than 100,000 people get a speeding ticket.
The biggest bill the U.S. issued was a US$ 10,000 bill.
At least 1 in 25 people sentenced to the death penalty in the U.S. are innocent.
US$1 in every US$5 paid in taxes in the U.S. goes to defense.
97% of rapists in the U.S. never spend a day in jail for their crime.
In 31 states of the U.S., Rapists can legally sue for child custody if the rape results in pregnancy.
Nelson Mandela was not removed from the U.S. terror watchlist until 2008.
Valentine's Day is also National Condom Day in the U.S.
There are still cases of bubonic plague reported in the U.S. every year.
The launch code for all U.S. Minuteman nuclear missiles for 20 years used the same code: 00000000.
The Afghan War is the longest war in U.S. history.
More U.S. soldiers committed suicide, than died in combat in 2012.
Hackers cost the U.S. economy up to 500,000 jobs each year.
There are 100 divorces every hour in the U.S.
There are 2 pets for every 3 people in the U.S.
An average person in the U.S. eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.
4%of women in the U.S. are pregnant right now.
American flags made in China are banned in the U.S. Military.
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.
An average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter (jaw muscle).
Having excessive body hair is linked to higher intellect.

People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.
We spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking.
All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.
There are more than 100 types of cancers; any part of the body can be affected.
Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.

Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles (32 km).
If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.
Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.
Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.
In a lifetime, your brain's long-term memory can hold as many as 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) separate bits of information.
Your heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood during your lifetime, enough to fill 200 train tank cars.
Your heart can keep beating even if it is separated from the body because it has its own electrical impulse.
When you take one step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. If your finger was the size of the Earth, you would feel the difference between houses and cars.
Russia is bigger than Pluto.
77%of Russia is made up of Siberia.
Russia & America are less than 4 km apart at the nearest point.
There are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths in Russia each year.
A russian woman in the 1700s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man.
The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for just US$7.2 million in 1867.
Gorbachev recorded an album of Russian romantic ballads in 2009.
Lake Karachay in Russia is the most radioactive and polluted lake in the world.
25% Russians die before reaching the age of 55, compared to just 1% in the U.S., and Vodka is to blame.
The first Russian child to receive the vaccine against smallpox was called "Vaccinov," given a pension, and observed all his life.
Russia's notorious murderer Vladimir Nikolayev ate some of his victim's body, then gave the rest of the meat to a friend, whose wife served it to his family thinking it was kangaroo.
Fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom. They were invented in early 1900 in San Francisco.
China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.
In China, over 35 million people still live in caves.
Nearly 700 million Chinese people drink contaminated water.
Almost a third of San Francisco's air pollution comes from China.
1 in every 3 socks you have were made in the district of Datang in Zhuji, China, now known as "Sock City".
Every year, about a million girl foetuses are aborted and tens of thousands of girl babies are abandoned in China because of the country's one-child policy.
By 2020, China could have between 30 million and 40 million men who cannot find wives.
A new skyscraper is built in China every five days.
China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.
71%of people in China measure success by the things they own, making it the world's most materialistic country.
In 1973, China proposed to give 10 million Chinese women to the U.S. to boost the U.S. population.
Company executives in China can get sentenced to death for committing fraud.
China used more cement in 3 years (2011 to 2013) than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century.
Your mobile phone has more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Apple sold 340,000 iPhones per day in 2012.
China has more internet users on mobile devices than on PCs.
The average person unlocks his or her smartphone 110 times each day.
McDonald's first menu items were hot dogs, not hamburgers.
McDonald's' golden arches are recognized by more people than the cross.
Over 80,000 people graduated from McDonald's Hamburger University with a bachelors degree in hamburgerology.
If you live in the U.S., you're never more than 115 miles (185 KM) away from a McDonald's.
You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Big Mac with a Super Sized Coke and French Fries.
To earn enough to buy a Big Mac, the average person in India has to work almost 6 hours.
Smoking causes 1 in every 5 deaths in the U.S. every year.

A single cigarette contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
About 69% of smokers want to quit completely.
Hitler led the first public
The first European who learned to smoke from the natives, was arrested back home because people thought he was possessed by the devil.
More than a third of the world's smokers are Chinese.
Tobacco addicts are most likely to consider quitting the habit on Mondays.
Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.
Study after study has found that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.
8.6 million people in the U.S. live with a serious illness caused by smoking.
Einstein Failed his University Entrance Exam, and had to reapply a year later.
Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe box in NYC.
Yoda, from Star Wars, was modeled after the appearance of Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein didn't like to wear socks.
Japan suffers 1,500 earthquakes every year.
Japan consists of over 6,800 islands.
98% of all adoptions in Japan are of male adults, so that family businesses can remain within the family.
In Korea and Japan, there is a Cat Cafe where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.
Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan, as it's viewed as exhaustion from working hard.
During WWII, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with bubonic plague.
The number of Chinese killed by the Japanese during WWII is greater than the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
In Japan, 685 kids were rushed to hospitals in 1997 after an intense Pokemon episode that caused dizziness, vomiting and seizures.
Around 24 billion pairs of chopsticks are used in Japan each year.
In Japan, they use more paper for comics than for toilet paper.
During WWII, Japan received Jewish refugees and rejected the resulting Nazi German protests.
Changing the US$1 bill for a US$1 coin would save US$4.4 billion in 30 years.
The key to happiness is spending your money on experiences rather than possessions, according to studies.
There's US$75 trillion in the entire world. If this is distributed amongst all people on Earth, each person will have less than $11,000.
The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built, at US$150 billion.
Americans spent more than US$15 billion on jeans in 2005.
Americans spent about US$61.4 billion on their pets in 2011.
Drug lord Pablo Escobar had so much cash that rats ate almost $1 billion of his money each year.
At a spending rate of $1 million a day, it would take Bill Gates 218 years to spend all his money.
Until the WWII, tea bricks were used as money in Siberia.
Sea shells were once commonly used in many parts of the world as money.
Paper money can transport live flu virus for over two weeks.
"Adolf Schicklgruber" would have been Hitler's name. His father changed his last name in 1877.
Hitler led the first public
Hitler bombed his nephew's house in Liverpool, so he joined the US NAVY to fight him.
There was a Jewish-Austrian doctor who didn't charge Hitler's family due to their economic hardship.
Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler, all suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
Hitler planned to collect thousands of Jewish artifacts to build a "Museum of An Extinct Race" after the war.
In 1913, Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito and Freud all lived within a few miles of each other in Vienna, with some of them being regulars at the same coffeehouses.
George Washington had his own brewhouse on the grounds of Mount Vernon.
The oldest known recipe for BEER is over 4,000 years old, made by Sumerians.
In the Middle Ages BEER was consumed more than water as the alcohol made it safer.
at any given time, 0.7% of the world is drunk. so 50 million people are drunk right now.
The world's longest hangover lasted 4 weeks after a Scotsman consumed 60 pints of beer.
Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day's work, plus €10 and tobacco.
Chris' voice in Family Guy is based on Buffalo Bill from “Silence of the Lambs”.
The unattractive Meg Griffin is actually voiced by the beautiful Mila Kunis.
The series is banned in Indonesia, Taiwan, Iran, Vietnam, Egypt, South Korea, South Africa, Malaysia.
Family Guy started as a Cartoon Network short in 1997.
Bart's name is an anagram of BRAT. His full name is Bartholomew JojoSimpson.
All characters are based on, and named after his creator Matt Groening’s family.
Krusty the Clown was originally created to be Homer's secret identity.
D'oh! is a real word in the Oxford English Dictionary. in The Simpsons scripts, it just says "annoyed grunt".
If you could watch all of "The Simpsons" episodes without ads nor sleep, it'd take about 8.5 days.
North Korean archaeologists announced the world in 2012 they "discovered" lair of the UNICORN
North Koreansmay only choose from28 approved haircuts.
North Korea's space agency is called "NADA", which in Spanish means "nothing."
Wearing jeans is illegal in North Korea.
The bow-tie was a last-minute addition, given to him before he went on stage.
Reubens was almost cast on SNL in 1980, but then returned to host the show as Pee-Wee in 1985.
Looking at cute animal pictures at work can make you more productive, a study claims.
Animals react to social pressure much as humans do, a study concluded.
The Chinese soft-shelled turtle is the first animal known to pee via its mouth.
Africa is home to the world's largest living land animal, the African elephant , and the tallest, the Giraffe .
Many animals have been reported to commit suicide, including dogs, cows, bulls, and sheep.
Pope Paul VI claimed that animals can go to heaven.
African elephants have the best sense of smell in the animal kingdom.
1/3of pet owners let their animals sleep in bed with them.
The city of Lusail, host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Final game, does not exist yet.
In darkness, most people eventually adjust to a 48-hour cycle: 36 hours of activity followed by 12 hours of sleep. The reasons are still unclear.
At age 14, Oprah Winfrey gave birth to a boy who died shortly after.
Bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as wallpaper.
Nepal is the country with the highest per-capita number of communist parties on Earth with 18.
Fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom. They were invented in early 1900 in San Francisco.
Drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee significantly improves blood flow.
At least 320,000 viruses are still undiscovered in mammals.
The brain treats rejection like physical pain, according to scientists.
Babies are born with no bacteria in their bodies.
An average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
The World Trade Center's most famous survivor and president of its support group, Tania Head, was later found to be a fraud: she wasn't even in NYC on 9/11.
278,000 Tweets are sent every minute.
123456 is the most common password hacked. Change your password.
All three Grammys Elvis Presley won, were for his gospel songs.
Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. If your finger was the size of the Earth, you would feel the difference between houses and cars.
Couples who spend more money on their wedding have higher divorce rates, a study found.
No one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia.
Tears caused by sadness, happiness and onions look different under the microscope.
Located within Italy, San Marino is the world's oldest republic (301 A.D.), and holds the world's oldest continuous constitution.
Spiders eat their own webs to recycle them.
A man in China fell into a coma after spending a week looking for business ideas on the Internet without sleeping.
The death penalty was outlawed in the UK partly because a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter in 1950.
Possessing Bibles, watching South Korean movies and distributing pornography may be punished with death in North Korea.
In 1944, a 14-year-old African-American was executed in the U.S. after a quick 2-hour trial with little evidence.
Saudi Arabia, a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council, punished 2,000 people with the death penalty since 1985.
The state of Washington may still execute prisoners by hanging.
Atheism is punished with the death penalty in 13 countries.
With 61 million inhabitants, Italy is the 5th most populous country in Europe.
The Italian mafia accounts for 7% of Italy's GDP.
More than a third of single Italian men between the ages of 30 and 35 live with their parents.
Italian Traffic Police has two Lamborghini Gallado in service.
500,000 Italians visit an exorcist every year.
Whatsapp is cited in nearly half of all Italian divorce proceedings.
In Italy, there is a submerged bronze statue of Jesus Christ of 2.5 metres tall.
Galileo's middle finger is on display at a museum in Florence, Italy.
At age 10, Mussolini was expelled from a religious boarding school in Italy for stabbing a classmate in the hand.
In Venice, Italy, all gondolas are required to be painted in black by law.
Poveglia is an island in Italy that is so dangerously "haunted" that public access is not permitted.
In Milan, Italy, it's a legal requirement to smile at all times, except during funerals or hospital visits.
Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with his feces, called it "Artist's sh*t" and sold them for up to €124,000 a tin.
A cat inherited a US$13 million fortune from its owner in Italy.
Galileo was born on the day that Michelangelo died.
Italian serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli was famous for turning victims into tea cakes and serving them to guests.
72%72%of Spain speaks Spanish. The rest speaks Catalan, Galician, Basque and others.
In Catalonia (Spain), a smiley-faced piece of wood called "Shitting Log" poops out the presents in Christmas.
The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.
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.
Ancient Romans celebrated "Saturnalia", a festival in which slaves and their masters would switch places.

Flamingo tongues were a delicacy in ancient Rome.
Ancient Greeks and Romans often bought slaves with salt.
Norway introduced Salmon Sushi to the Japanese in the 80s.
Norway has the world's highest gas prices at $10.12 a gallon of premium gas.
In Norway, stripping counts as an art form for tax purposes.
When you get a book published in Norway, the Government will buy a 1000 copies and distribute them to libraries.
Norway's public Universities are free for students from anywhere in the world.
Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide.
Each Russian consumes 18 litres (4.8 US gal) of alcohol per year, doubling what experts consider dangerous.
Beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.
In the U.K., it is legal for kids over 5 years old to drink alcohol at home or on other private premises.
The average temperature in Mars is -81°F (-63°C).
Your weight in Mars is over 60% less than on Earth.
Sweden banned spanking and other corporal punishment of children in 1979.
89%89%of people in Sweden speak English.
Passports issued by the UK, Sweden and Finland offer visa-free travel to more countries than any other passports.

After World War I, there were so few men in Germany that only 1 in 3 women would find a husband.
From 1989 to 2009, about 2,000 schools were closed in Germany because of a scarcity of children.
In 2014, Germany officially abolished college tuition fees, even for international students.
Fanta originated in Germany as a result of difficulties importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany during WWII.
Chinese checkers was invented in Germany.

A steady stream ofminor accomplishments makes youmore satisfied with your life than a few major accomplishments.
50%50%is the lifetime risk of developing Cancer for a man in the U.S.
The average British woman spends US$160,000 on make-up in a lifetime.
Every year, life expectancy increases by 3 months.
The average woman in the UK has 150 different hairstyles in her lifetime.
The probability of living 110 years or more is about 1 in 7 million.
9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of WWI.
"He kept us out of war" was Woodrow Wilson' slogan for the 1916 election. About a month after he took office, the U.S. declared war on Germany.
The WWI ended at 11 o'clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
The room of a WWI French soldier is still untouched since 1918.
After World War I, there were so few men in Germany that only 1 in 3 women would find a husband.
British soldiers in WWI had a tea ration of six pints a day.
The average numbers of readers of any given published scientific paper is said to be 0.6.
A 10-Year-Old Accidentally Created in 2012 a New Molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.
A new scientific method called 'toxineering' turns venoms into painkillers.
Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, so we can live without breathing.
Four Japanese scientists measured the amount of friction between a shoe, a banana skin and the floor: it's 0.07.
During photosynthesis, plants emit light, called fluorescence, that humans can't see.
If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.
Most dinosaurs are known from just a single tooth or bone.
Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
Parasitic and host plants have a dialogue by sharing genetic information with one another.
Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.
The earth's deepest known point equals to 24.5 Empire State Buildings end to end.
The average volume of farts a person generates per day ranges around 476 to 1491ml.
Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
There are about 173,000 venomous species: from lizards to spiders and fish.
Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.
Gasoline is complex, as it can contain between 150 and 1,000 different chemical compounds.
The average speed of Heinz Ketchup squirt is .028 MPH.
Google was originally called "Backrub".
If you search for "askew" in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.
Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.
Microsoft pays you to use Bing instead of Google.
Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools' Day prank.
Firefox web browser's lead developer is now working for Google Chrome.
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.
Google's First Computer Storage Was Made From LEGO.
#1#1Google beats Facebook: it's the world's most visited website.
For the 4th consecutive year, Google was named the best company to work for in the U.S. by Fortune Mag in 2014.
Africa is larger than China, USA, India, Mexico and a big part of Europe combined.
People in Africa and Asia have to walk an average of 3.7 miles (6 KM) to collect water.
Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Americas.
Facebook has 100 million active users in Africa.
South Africa is called the "Rainbow Nation" because it has 11 official languages.
There's a beer brewed from bananas in Africa.
Graca Machel is the only woman to have been first lady of two separate countries: Mozambique and South Africa.
The giant panda is actually a bear.
All pandas in the world are on loan from China.
The life span of giant pandas in the wild is approximately 20 years.
Female pandas are fertile only up to 3 days a year.
In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald due to a lack of a clear "r" sound in Japanese.
"Fart Battles" were a popular art scrolls created in Japan during the Edo period.
51% Of People Think Stormy Weather Affects Cloud Computing.
A "butt" was a Medieval unit of measure for wine.
On her 120th birthday, the oldest person ever recorded said: "I only have one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it."
Ronaldinho's deal with Coca-Cola ended after he was caught sipping a Pepsi in a news conference.
If you search for "askew" in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.
Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second (7 mph).
55% of Americans think they are smarter than the average American.
The more features your phone has, the longer you spend in the toilet.
Paris Syndrome is a psychological disorder, mainly suffered by Japanese people, caused after realizing Paris isn't what they expected.
In Dorset, Minnesota, a 3-year-old boy was elected as mayor .
There's a "DUMB Starbucks" where every product has the word "dumb" in front of it.
When Montenegro became independent from Yugoslavia, its Internet domain name went from .yu to .me.
The scientific name for the Western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.
In 2007, A Bosnian couple divorced after discovering both had an online affair with each other under fake names.
The average speed of Heinz Ketchup squirt is .028 MPH.
In the U.S. there's an official Rock Paper Scissors League.
Shakira was rejected from the school choir because the teacher thought she sounded like a goat.

The American secret service tried to spike Hitler's food with female hormones to feminise him.

West Side Story was originally called East Side Story.
A group of crows is called a "murder".
In Catalonia (Spain), a smiley-faced piece of wood called "Shitting Log" poops out the presents in Christmas.
A man named Moondyne Joe escaped prison so many times, that police built a special cell for him, from which he escaped as well.
Benjamin Franklin wrote "Fart Proudly", a scientific essay about farts.
The only member of the band "ZZ Top" without a beard is Frank Beard.
There is a French company that you can hire to kidnap you. They charge US$1600.
The word 'censorship' is censored in China.
Only 1 in 6 Americans can find Ukraine on a map.
The word "mortgage" comes from a French word that means "death contract".
Wal-Mart has a lower acceptance rate (2.6%) than Harvard University (8.9%).
Playing in a marching band is considered to be a moderate exercise.
Saddam Hussein used Whitney Houston's song "I will always love you" for his 2002 campaign.
There's a lizard known as Jesus Christ Lizard due to its ability to run on the water.
Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.
Mariah Carey's legs are insured for US$1 billion.
Charlie Sheen once bought 2,600 seats at a baseball game so he could catch a home run ball.
Four Japanese scientists measured the amount of friction between a shoe, a banana skin and the floor: it's 0.07.
The last words of Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, were actually: "I wish I'd spent more time in the office."
In Texas, it is legal to kill BigFoot if you ever find it.
In Victoria, Australia, only a licensed electrician is allowed to change a lightbulb.

There are at least 97 people called "LOL" in the U.S.
The Incas' measurement of time was based on how long it took to boil a potato.
Leo Fender, inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster, could not play guitar.
At least 1.1 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust.
In October 1941, more than 50,000 Jews were killed by Romanian troops in what is now known as the "Odessa massacre."
The Leica Camera company helped hundreds of jews before the Holocaust by hiring, and sending them abroad.
A Muslim family that saved Jews during the Holocaust, was later saved by Israel during the genocide in Bosnia, and converted to Judaism.
Judaism believes in another Torah (Bible) that Moses passed down orally in an unbroken chain from generation to generation for 1,400 years.
Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
Marilyn Monroe was Jewish: she converted for her husband Arthur Miller.

A Jewish sect, Neturei Karta, supports Palestine and calls for a peaceful dismantling of the State of Israel.
The Aztecs sacrificed 1% of their population every year, or about 250,000 people.
Popcorn was first domesticated in Mexico 9,000 years ago.
Illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. has decreased by 80% since 2000.
The first great civilization in Mexico were the Olmec, established from 1500 B.C. to 400 B.C.
Most scholars say Jesus never viewed himself as creating a new religion per se, just reforming Judaism.
Pope Pius II wrote a popular erotic book called "The Tale Of Two Lovers" before assuming office.
The Catholic Church once put a dead Pope on trial.
There is a waterfall in Antarctica that runs red as blood.
90%90%of the world's fresh water is in Antarctica.
Antarctica has only one ATM.
Antarctica is the only continent without a time zone.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica is 58.2°F (14.5°C).
Husky dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994.
More people in the world are suffering from obesity than from hunger.
1 in 3 Americans is obese.
People who regularly eat dinner or breakfast in restaurants double their risk of becoming obese.
The people of the U.S. are collectively overweight by a total of about 4 billion pounds.
When you lose weight, most of the fat is breathed out as carbon dioxide, while the rest is excreted as water.
Dogs Poop in Alignment with Earth's Magnetic Field.
A guy is 3 times more likely to get a girl's phone number if he has a dog with him.
Humans and dogs first became best friends 30,000 years ago.
In English speaking countries, the most popular names for dogs are Max and Molly.
Dogs and cats only sweat from their footpads and nose.
A dog's sense of smell is 10,000 times stronger than humans.
Husky dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994.
3 dogs survived the Titanic sinking out of 12 canines on board.
The King James Bible has inspired the lyrics of more pop songs than any other book.
The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world.
Most scholars say Jesus never viewed himself as creating a new religion per se, just reforming Judaism.
25 million Bibles were printed in 2011, compared to 208 million IKEA catalogs.
The Bible, Steve Jobs' Bio, and the Hunger Games, are the most highlighted kindle books ever.
The Bible is available in 2,454 languages.
Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random to be guided by whatever verse they see first.
Swearing on the Bible is forbidden by the Bible.
Possessing Bibles, watching South Korean movies and distributing pornography may be punished with death in North Korea.
The Bible was Isaac Newton's greatest passion, writing more about religion than science and mathematics.
When Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia, felt unwell, he would eat a few pages of the Bible.
NYC keeps train tracks free of ice by setting them on fire.
There are no Wal-Marts in New York City.
With 800 languages, New York is the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
There is skyscraper in New York City with no windows.
A Japanese man survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during WWII.
A survivor of Hiroshima's atomic bombing went to Boston in 1951 and won the Marathon.
Kokura, Japan, was the original target of the atomic bomb that landed in Nagasaki.
Atomic bomb tests were a major tourist attraction in Las Vegas during the 1950s.
During the Cold War, the U.S. seriously considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to show off its military superiority.
The Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth's land surface.
The UK spent US$15.8 billion in a health service computer system that failed and was shutdown in 2013.
In the U.K., it is legal for kids over 5 years old to drink alcohol at home or on other private premises.
In the UK, all horses, ponies and donkeys must have a horse passport.
Slavery was not made a statutory offense in the UK until April 6, 2010.
Nearly 6,000 people per year get hurt or die in the UK after tripping over their trousers or falling down stairs while pulling them up.
The death penalty was outlawed in the UK partly because a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter in 1950.
Nigeria has more English speakers than the United Kingdom.
In the 16th century, a London law forbade wife beating after 9:00 P.M., but only because the noise disturbed people's sleep.
KitKats' year production could stretch around the London Underground more than 350 times.
The Queen Mary of Scotland became queen when she was only six days old.
Since all British passports are issued in the Queen Elizabeth II's name, she herself doesn't have one.
Centenarians are the fastest-growing demographic in the UK.
Passports issued by the UK, Sweden and Finland offer visa-free travel to more countries than any other passports.
After the whistle to start the game, soccer player Lee Todd said "F*ck me, that was loud" and received the fastest red card in history: 2 seconds.
A 20-month-old baby became the youngest professional soccer player ever, after being signed up by a Belgian club.
8 of the 12 host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil are among the 50 most violent cities in the world.
In 2013, soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo opened a museum dedicated to himself.
Ronaldinho's deal with Coca-Cola ended after he was caught sipping a Pepsi in a news conference.
The original 2014 World Cup's ball was produced in Pakistan.
Famous soccer player Mario Balotelli is an Italian, born to immigrants from Ghana, raised by a Jewish mother.
Government vehicles in Cuba are legally required to pick up any hitchhikers.
Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world: 99.8%.
The CIA had a plot to use a depilatory chemical on Fidel Castro to cause his beard to fall out.
Fidel Castro has said that he saved ten working days a year by not bothering to shave.
Fidel Castro was born on a Friday the 13th.
In 1940, 12-year-old boy Fidel Castro wrote a letter to President F. Roosevelt to request a $10 bill because he had never seen one before.
A drink of rum and coke is called a "Cuba Libre" (Free Cuba) in Latin America except in Cuba, where it is called a "mentirita" (little lie).
If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you about 42 minutes to get to the other side.
The Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth's land surface.
There are more living organisms in a teaspoonful of soil than there are people on earth.
The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.
Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.
Earth is the only place in the Solar System where water can be present in its three states: solid, liquid and vapour.Earth is the only place in the Solar System where water can be present in its three states: solid, liquid and vapour.
The earth's deepest known point equals to 24.5 Empire State Buildings end to end.
The Soviets drilled the world's deepest hole into the earth for 14 years: it's 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) deep.
There are no 24 hours in a day. It has 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the time it takes to earth to rotate on its axis.
There is enough gold in Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet.
Krubera Cave, the deepest known cave on Earth, has depth of 2,197 m (7,208 ft).
Large parts of Canada have less gravity than the rest of Earth. The phenomenon was discovered in the 1960s.
8 of the 12 host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil are among the 50 most violent cities in the world.
Sex change surgeries are free under Brazil's public health system since 2008.
35%35%of men from rural Brazil have had sex with an animal, a study found.
Brazilian athletes funded their trip to the 1932 Olympics by selling coffee along the way.
The largest population of Catholics in the world is not in Italy nor Spain. It's in Brazil: 123 million, 64% of its population.
Brazil is the world's first country to ban tanning beds.
The biggest Japanese community outside of Japan is in Brazil.
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be the first time a South American country has the right to host them.
About 4 million slaves were taken from Africa to Brazil, about 40% of all in the Americas.
Voting is mandatory in Brazil.
Brazil distributes women's breast milk around the country to babies whose mothers can't provide it for them.
Brazil was the only independent South American country to send ground troops to fight in WWII, with over 25,000 soldiers.
Whale Sharks can live up to 100 years.
Sharks have an astounding sense of smell, so powerful that they can detect a single drop of blood in an Olympic-sized pool.
Sharks will sink if they stop swimming.
You are more likely to die from a falling coconut than from a shark attack.
There's a shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years.
As soon as tiger shark embryos develop teeth, they attack and eat each other in the womb.
The "Shortfin Mako" Shark can accelerate faster than a Porsche.
It is believed that sharks first appeared 420 million years ago.
Great white sharks can go for months without eating.
Sharks can grow a new set of teeth in 8 days.
People who regularly eat dinner or breakfast in restaurants double their risk of becoming obese.
Farting helps reduce high blood pressure and is good for your health.
Laughing 100 times is equivalent to 15 minutes of exercise on a stationary bicycle.
1 Can of Soda a day increases your chances of getting type 2 diabetes by 22%.
There are more skin cancer cases due to indoor tanning than lung cancer cases due to smoking.
Severe Depression can cause us to biologically age more by increasing the ageing process in cells.
Heavy marijuana smokers are at risk for some of the same health effects as cigarette smokers, like bronchitis and other respiratory illnesses.
60% of people needing mental health services in the U.S. don't get it, often because of the stigma of seeking help.60% of people needing mental health services in the U.S. don't get it, often because of the stigma of seeking help.
14 billion pounds (6B Kg.) of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year. Most of it is plastic.
Americans make up 5% of the world's population, and yet, produce 30% of the world's waste and use 25% of the world's resources.
For every 1 million tons of oil shipped, about 1 ton is spilled.
Breathing the air of Beijing has the same health risks as smoking 21 cigarettes a day.
1 in every 8 deaths on earth are linked to air pollution, a study says.
Breathing the air in Mumbai, India, for just one day is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes.

Half of all women who die from homicide are killed by their current or former husbands or partners.
50%50%is the lifetime risk of developing Cancer for a man in the U.S.
If your laptop feels hot, don't put it on your lap if you're a man, it may cause infertility.
Men with shaved heads are perceived as an inch taller and 13% stronger than men with hair.
More than a third of single Italian men between the ages of 30 and 35 live with their parents.
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Paris Exposition and was not intended to be permanent.
The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world: 6.98 million people in 2011.
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 reach the top.
Con artist Victor Lustig "sold" the Eiffel Tower to a scrap metal dealer.
The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.
The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by 5.9 inches (15 cm) due to temperature changes.
A woman named Erika La Tour Eiffel "married" the Eiffel Tower in 2007.
There are over 30 replicas of the Eiffel Tower around the world.
The paint on the Eiffel Tower weighs as much as 10 elephants.
A beautiful face attracts more partners than a beautiful body, according to a scientific survey.
It's scientifically proven: being in love makes you a less productive person.
23%23% of the couples who meet through online dating end up marrying.
Every 40 seconds, someone commits suicide.
1 in every 5 people in Greenland attempt suicide at some point in their lives.
1 in 25 U.S. teenagers has attempted suicide.
Most people who commit suicide, do it on a Wednesday.
Established writers and artists are 18 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.
In the U.S. you are twice as likely to commit suicide than be murdered by someone else.
When Ashton Kutcher was 13 years old, he contemplated committing suicide in order to give his heart to his dying brother.
Coffee is the world's second most valuable traded commodity, only behind petroleum.
Instant Coffee was invented by a man called George Washington around 1910.
There's a Coffee Shop in France where not saying "hello" and "please" makes your coffee more expensive.
54%54%of the Americans drink coffee everyday.
In the beggining, Starbucks only sold roasted whole coffee beans.
The Sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.
The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.
Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.
The American flags placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the sun.
A third of all Russians believe the Sun revolves around the Earth.

According to Bill Gates, by 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.
100100million people in China live on less than US$1 per day.
The combined wealth of the 85 richest people is equal to that of poorest 3.5 billion --half of the worlds population.
The poorest place in the U.S. is Allen, South Dakota, where 96% are Native American.
53%53%of all American workers make less than US$30,000 a year.
64% of World's Extreme Poor Live in Just 5 Countries: India, China, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Congo.
The majority of Internet traffic is not generated by humans, but bots like Google and Malware.
When Montenegro became independent from Yugoslavia, its Internet domain name went from .yu to .me.
15%15%of American adults do not use the Internet.
Psychologists examined Internet trolls and found that they are "narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic".
The Philippines has the slowest Internet speed in the entire Southeast Asian region with an average speed of 3.54 Mbps.
70%70%of all the emails sent are spam.
India has the largest slave population in the modern world with over 14 million slaves.
Ancient Romans celebrated "Saturnalia", a festival in which slaves and their masters would switch places.
Benjamin Franklin attempted to abolish slavery already in 1790.
Part of the White House was built by slaves.
There are species of ants that enslave other ants.
Slavery was not made a statutory offense in the UK until April 6, 2010.
Mississippi didn't ratify the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, until 2013.
Slavery was abolished in Saudi Arabia and Yemen as recently as 1962.
Ancient Greeks and Romans often bought slaves with salt.
About 4 million slaves were taken from Africa to Brazil, about 40% of all in the Americas.
Your mind "rewrites" monotonous speech of boring people to make it sound more interesting.
There are more than 400 distinct phobias well recognised by psychologists.
The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.
Spending money on others yields more happiness than spending it on yourself a study concluded.
Phobophobia is the fear of having a phobia.
There's a rare mental disorder where people imagine that they are decomposing, dead or non-existent.
Psychologists examined Internet trolls and found that they are "narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic".
"Erotomania" is a psychological disorder in which the affected people believe a famous person is in love with them.
68% of the people suffer from Phantom Vibration Syndrome, the feeling that one's phone is vibrating when it's not.
Paris Syndrome is a psychological disorder, mainly suffered by Japanese people, caused after realizing Paris isn't what they expected.
The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950's.
Lake Hillier in Australia is a bright pink color and scientists aren't sure why.
In 1967, Australia's Prime Minister went to the beach for a swim and was never seen again.
An iraqui man moved to Australia and used the Welfare System as income. Years later, he became successful and wrote a check to the government for every cent they gave him.
The Church of Scientology runs a child labor camp in Australia.
24 rabbits that were introduced to Australia in 1859, had multiplied in number to over 2 millions in ten years.
In Victoria, Australia, only a licensed electrician is allowed to change a lightbulb.
Many claim that a genocide was committed in Australia against its native people from 1910 to 1970 in an effort to create a "white Australia."
Australia exports camels to Saudi Arabia.
75% of Australia's living species are unknown to man.
In Australia, Burger King is called "Hungry Jack's".
The world's largest cattle station, Anna Creek Station in Australia, is larger than Israel.
The town of Docker River in Australia, was once invaded by 6,000 camels that came in search of water.
Canada is the second largest country in the world, right after Russia.
Canada is the World's Most Educated Country: over half its residents have college degrees.
Canada consumes more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the world.
Canada has the largest coastline in the world.
In Newfoundland, Canada, the Atlantic Ocean sometimes freezes so people play hockey on it.
The Mall of America is owned by Canadians.
The U.S. / Canada Border is the longest international border in the world and it lacks military defense.
"Canada" is an Iroquoian language word meaning "Village."
Large parts of Canada have less gravity than the rest of Earth. The phenomenon was discovered in the 1960s.
The world's largest gold bar weighs 250 kg (551 lb).
Olympic Gold Medals only contain 1.34% of gold.
There is enough gold in Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet.
The dinosaur noises in the "Jurassic Park" movie were made from recordings of tortoise sex.
Over 90% of American movies made before 1929 are lost, no copies are known to exist.
The word "mafia" is never mentioned in the film version of The Godfather because the actual mafia demanded it.
Movie theater Popcorn costs more per ounce than fillet mignon in U.S.A.
Time Travel depictions in films and TV are banned in China.
Godzilla was only seen for about 8 minutes in the 2014 film "Godzilla".
Sandra Bullock won the Oscar and the Golden Raspberry (for worst film) in the same weekend. She collected both.
The 1976 film “Rocky” was shot in 28 days.
The Horse Head used in the movie "The Godfather" was real.
The time traveling machine in the movie "Back to the Future" was originally supposed to be a refrigerator.
Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption were all in theatres at the same time in October of 1994.
Schwarzenegger was paid approximately US$21,429 for every word he said in Terminator 2.
When Charlie Chaplin received his honorary Oscar, he got a 12-minute standing ovation, the longest in Oscar history.
James Cameron was homeless when writing the movie "The Terminator," and sold the rights for US$1, on the condition he could direct it.
Will Smith, Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Leo DiCaprio were offered the part of Neo in "The Matrix" movie before Keanu Reeves.
When the movie "Clue" was shown in theaters in 1985, each theater was given 1 of 3 possible endings.
The movie industry relocated from New York to LA to escape from Thomas Edison's patents.
Charlie Chaplin made his movie mocking Hitler with his own money because Hollywood was afraid of losing money if they took a stand.
Keanu Reeves gave US$80 million of his US$114 million salary for "The Matrix" movie to special effects and makeup staff.
The International Space Station is as roomy as a five-bedroom house and travels at 17,500 mph.
The International Space Station is about the size of a football field.
Toilets were found in many ancient Egyptian tombs.
The World's Oldest Dress was found in Egypt and it is 5,000 years old.
The first sailing boats were invented in Egypt.
The Titanic's chief baker "fortified" himself with alcohol and thus survived the freezing water for 2 hours until he was rescued.
Most lifeboats launched off the Titanic were not filled to capacity.
The Titanic could have been saved if it wasn't for a 30-second delay in giving the order to change course after spotting the iceberg.
The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.
53% of the people on the Titanic could have survived using the lifeboats. Only 31% did.
The iceberg that sank the Titanic began its journey somewhere around 1000 BCE.
3 dogs survived the Titanic sinking out of 12 canines on board.
Kim II-Sung, founder of North Korea, was born on the day the Titanic sank.
Lincoln suffered depression and avoided carrying knives, fearing he would use it on himself.
Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
Lincoln's assassin was a famous actor and Lincoln himself was a fan of him.
Lincoln was the first major leader in the U.S. to feel that women should be allowed to vote.
Abe Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame, having lost just once in 300 matches.
Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.
Abraham Lincoln dreamt of his assassination before it happened.
In 1876, a gang of Chicago counterfeiters attempted to steal Abraham Lincoln's body from his tomb and request a US$200,000 ransom.
The Moon is not round, but egg shaped.
The American flags placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the sun.
A 2013 survey found 7% of Americans believe the moon landing was a hoax.
When Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him a piece from the Wright brothers' first airplane.
The dark side of the Moon is actually turquoise.
During the Cold War, the U.S. seriously considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to show off its military superiority.
The giant panda is actually a bear.
Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.
There's a shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years.
Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
France is the most visited country in the world: 83 million tourists in 2012.
France once controlled more than 8% of the world's land.
Napoleon wasn't short. He was actually above the average Frenchman.
In France, you can marry a dead person.
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 reach the top.
There's a Coffee Shop in France where not saying "hello" and "please" makes your coffee more expensive.
There is a town in France called Condom.
France was the first country to introduce the licence plate.
Potatoes were illegal in France between 1748 and 1772.

In France, nearly 96% of high schools have condom vending machines.
The oldest bridge in Paris, France, is the Pont Neuf, or "New Bridge."
France uses 12 different time zones, the most of any country in the world.
From 1814 to 1830, the flag of the Kingdom of France was plain white.
For 214 years until 2012, it was illegal in Paris, France, for women to wear trousers.
Some Fish, like the Triggerfish, can swim backwards.
Goldfish can't close their eyes as they have no eyelids.
Many fish species are known to change sex during the course of their lives.
Goldfish can see infrared radiation that is invisible to us.
There's a shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will lose its color.

Starfish don't have brains. Special cells on their skin gather information about their surroundings.
There is a starfish with 40 arms.
There is a Jellyfish that could be immortal.
Starfish do not have blood. Their blood is actually filtered sea water.
Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.
Goldfish can distinguish the music of one composer from another.
A 10-Year-Old Goldfish Had a 45-Minute Surgery To Remove A Tumor in 2014.
Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy.
Cats can't taste sweetness.
Adult cats only meow to communicate with humans.
A cat inherited a US$13 million fortune from its owner in Italy.
Cats recognize owners' voices but seem too cool to care, according to a study.
Black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.
A fingerprint is to a human as a nose is to a cat.
The world's smallest cat is called "Tinker Toy" and he's just 2.75 inches (7 cm) tall.
India's Hindu calendar has 6 seasons: spring, summer, monsoon, autumn, winter and prevernal.
It's illegal to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India.
Breathing the air in Mumbai, India, for just one day is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes.
A man married a dog in India as atonement.
India has more mobile phones than toilets.
70% of all the world's spices come from India.
India has the largest slave population in the modern world with over 14 million slaves.
53% of homes in India do not have a lavatory.
There's a toilet-themed restaurant in Taiwan, where food is served on miniature toilets.
Mobile phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.

The more features your phone has, the longer you spend in the toilet.
The world's oldest known "toilet" was used by dinosaurs 240 million years ago.
If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels.
Goldfish can't close their eyes as they have no eyelids.
Black lemurs are thought to be the only primates, besides humans, to have blue eyes.
Bees have five eyes.
The eye of a giant squid can measure the same as a volleyball ball.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Some lizards squirt blood out of their eyes as protection against predators.
It is impossible to sneeze with the eyes open.
Eigengrau (“brain gray”) is the color your eyes see in total darkness.Eigengrau (“brain gray”) is the color your eyes see in total darkness.
White Chocolate isn't technically Chocolate, as it contains no cocoa solids or cocoa liquor.
The inventor of the Chocolate Chip Cookie sold the idea to Nestle Toll House in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate.
M&Ms were created in 1941 as a means for soldiers to enjoy chocolate without it melting.
There are Potato Chips Dipped in Milk Chocolate.
People in Africa and Asia have to walk an average of 3.7 miles (6 KM) to collect water.
An average swimming pool loses 1,000 gallons (3,785 L) a month to evaporation and other causes.
Your bones are composed of 31% water.
About 1 in 9 people lack access to an improved water source.
Water itself does not conduct electricity well, but the impurities found in water do.
90%90%of the world's fresh water is in Antarctica.
The probability that you in any glass of water will find at least 1 molecule of water once drunk by Cleopatra is practically 100%.
20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water is in a single lake: Russia's Lake Baikal.
The first known vending machine dates back to the 1st Century AD. It accepted a coin, then dispensed holy water.
86% of holy water contains fecal matter.
Mobile phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
Sweat itself is odorless. It's the bacteria on the skin that mingles with it and produces body odor.
Tap water has a shelf-life of 6 months, after which chlorine dissipates and bacteria starts to grow.
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.
New bacteria grows on a kitchen sponge every 20 minutes.
Al Pacino was the first "face" on Facebook.
Facebook tracks which sites you visit, even AFTER you have signed out.
There are about 30 million dead people on Facebook.
Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.
Facebook earns an average of US$5.85 from every U.S. user.
So many Facebook photos and videos are uploaded via mobile that it takes up 27% of upstream web traffic.
5%5%of Brits use Facebook while having sex, according to a survey.
Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg donated US$1 billion to charity in 2013, making him the biggest charitable donor in the U.S.
The “Like” button on Facebook was originally going to be called “Awesome”.
8.7%8.7%of Facebook users are fake.
Every minute, 1.8 million new "likes" are made on Facebook.
When Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, he bragged about people trusting his site with personal information. "Dumb f*cks" he called them.
In 2005, MySpace was in talks to buy Facebook, but rejected Mark Zuckerberg's asking price of US$75 million as too expensive.
Mark Zuckerberg receives a US$ 1 salary as CEO of Facebook.
Elephants can hear one another's trumpeting calls up to 5 miles (8 kilometers) away.
When the "Elephant Whisperer" Lawrence Anthony died, a herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him.
Elephants normally only sleep 2 or 3 hours each day.
An elephant's pair of tusks may exceed 441 pounds (200 kg).
Elephants are pregnant for 2 years.
Listening to music while working out measurably improves physical performance.
The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.
Leo Fender, inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster, could not play guitar.
The world's most expensive musical instrument, a Stradivarius violin, was sold in 2011 for US$15.9 million.
First marriages that end in divorce usually last approximately 8 years.
In 2007, A Bosnian couple divorced after discovering both had an online affair with each other under fake names.
Whatsapp is cited in nearly half of all Italian divorce proceedings.
Coconut water can be used (in emergencies) as a substitute for blood plasma.
In the U.S., Childhood Food Allergies Cost Nearly US$25 Billion Every Year.
Even thinking about a favorite food triggered release of dopamine, a feel-good hormone also produced during sex and drug use.
The jars of Nutella sold in a year could cover The Great Wall of China 8 times.
Octopuses are eaten alive in Korea.
Almost 70 percent of the red meat eaten globally is goat meat.
Starting 2015, throwing away food is illegal in Seattle.
50%50%is the lifetime risk of developing Cancer for a man in the U.S.
A Marijuana-derived compound forces cancer cells to freeze and prevents them from spreading.
There are more skin cancer cases due to indoor tanning than lung cancer cases due to smoking.
Taller women are more likely to get cancer, according to a study.
Angelina Jolie's breast cancer announcement doubled the number of women being tested in its first few months.
In the U.S., 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.
The practice of burying the dead may date back 350,000 years.
You are more likely to die from a falling coconut than from a shark attack.
Every hour, at least 1 person is killed by a drunk driver in the U.S.
Every 40 seconds, someone commits suicide.
Greek philosopher Chrysippus is said to have died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk, trying to eat figs.
The creator of the Pringles packaging had his ashes stored in a Pringles Can after he died.
20,000 children die worldwide every day due to poverty.
We are born with over 270 bones, and die with 206.
Nearly 6,000 people per year get hurt or die in the UK after tripping over their trousers or falling down stairs while pulling them up.
The lack of physical activity is one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide.
1 in every 8 deaths on earth are linked to air pollution, a study says.
Hitler, while in prison, wrote to a Mercedes dealership begging for a car loan.
The first car accident occured in 1891, in Ohio.
When the car radio was introduced, some states wanted to ban it arguing that it could distract drivers and cause accidents.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
Car wrecks are the number one cause of death for Americans under 35.
in Turkmenistan, car drivers are entitled to 120 Liters (31 gal.) of free petrol a month.
The vehicle with the highest mileage covered a total of 2,850,000 miles (4,586,630 km).
A strawberry isn't an actual berry, but a banana is.
The World's Most Popular Fruit is the TOMATO.
Bananas are slightly radioactive.
The color Orange is named after the Orange fruit, but before that, it was called geoluread (yellow-red).
The Coco de Mer palm tree has the earth's largest fruit, weighing 42 kg (92 lb), and seeds weighing 17 kg (37 lb).
Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
The pineapple is actually a berry.
Strawberries have more vitamin C than oranges.
The inventor of Vaseline used to eat a spoonful of it every day.
Leo Fender, inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster, could not play guitar.
A 10-Year-Old Accidentally Created in 2012 a New Molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.
There are more than 400 distinct phobias well recognised by psychologists.
Phobophobia is the fear of having a phobia.
Caligynephobia is the fear of beautiful women.
Cherophobia is the fear of being too happy because "something tragic" will happen.
"Pistanthrophobia" is the fear of trusting people due to bad past experiences.
An experiment in 1998 found that a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Many Tibetan monks sleep upright.

John Lennon sometimes liked to sleep in an old coffin.
In 1849, David Atchison became President of the United States for just one day, and he spent most of the day sleeping.
Male seahorses can get pregnant.
Pregnant women, at a healthy weight, only need to eat an extra 300 calories per day.
In England, you may urinate anywhere in public, including inside a policeman's helmet if you are pregnant.
If your laptop feels hot, don't put it on your lap if you're a man, it may cause infertility.
89%89%of people in Sweden speak English.
The word "queue" is pronounced the same way when the last 4 letters are removed.
The word "mortgage" comes from a French word that means "death contract".
There are more English words beginning with the letter "s" than with any other letter.
Nigeria has more English speakers than the United Kingdom.
There are 24 different dialects of English in the US.
"LOL" was formally recognized in 2011's update of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The blood you donate is sold on the open market and it's a US$4.5 billion per year industry.
Someone needs blood every two seconds.

Coconut water can be used (in emergencies) as a substitute for blood plasma.
U.S. Soldier John R. McKinney held off over 100 Japanese soldiers single handedly in WWII.
A Japanese man survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during WWII.
WWII Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade survived a fall from 18,000 feet (5,500 m) without a parachute, suffering only a sprained leg.
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 reach the top.
Fanta originated in Germany as a result of difficulties importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany during WWII.
At least 1.1 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust.
In October 1941, more than 50,000 Jews were killed by Romanian troops in what is now known as the "Odessa massacre."
When Hitler informed the Czech president of the imminent invasion of his country, he suffered a heart attack and had to be kept awake to sign his surrender.
The American secret service tried to spike Hitler's food with female hormones to feminise him.
Brazil was the only independent South American country to send ground troops to fight in WWII, with over 25,000 soldiers.
Instead of chest pains, heart attacks in women have nausea, indigestion, and shoulder aches.
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
Vegetarians are 19% less likely to die from heart disease, a study found.
Bill Gates aimed to become a millionaire by the age of 30. However, he became a billionaire at 31.
6 6million lives were saved by Bill Gates with vaccines and better healthcare.
Bill Gates continued to fly coach until 1997, when his net worth was already US$36 billion.
$28$28billion dollars were donated by Bill Gates so far.
Bill Gates pays over US$1 million per year in property taxes for his house.
According to Bill Gates, by 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.
The only thing left on Bill Gates' bucket list is not to die.
In France, you can marry a dead person.
A man married a dog in India as atonement.
First marriages that end in divorce usually last approximately 8 years.
A woman named Erika La Tour Eiffel "married" the Eiffel Tower in 2007.

It's scientifically proven that even a small dose of POWER changes how a person's brain operates and diminishes empathy.
The human brain has the same consistency as tofu.
Long-term mobile phone use significantly increases the risk of brain tumours, a study found.
Half our brains can be removed by surgery with no apparent effect on personality or memory.
Heavy marijuana smokers are at risk for some of the same health effects as cigarette smokers, like bronchitis and other respiratory illnesses.
Over 800,000 people are arrested for marijuana in the U.S. each year.
A Marijuana-derived compound forces cancer cells to freeze and prevents them from spreading.
All of the 20 richest women in the world --except for #17-- inherited their money from either their husband or their father.
40%40%of births in the U.S. come from unmarried women.
Instead of chest pains, heart attacks in women have nausea, indigestion, and shoulder aches.
Women have more taste buds than men.
Taller women are more likely to get cancer, according to a study.
Women think about their appearance 9 times a day, a UK survey found.
Women were first allowed to participate at the Olympic Games in 1900.
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women.
Women in Niger have an average of 7 children, the world's highest rate.
Over 80% of women wear the wrong bra size.
The average woman in the UK has 150 different hairstyles in her lifetime.
Apple iPad's retina display is actually manufactured by Samsung.
Smoking near Apple computers voids the warranty.
Apple earns US$300,000 per minute.
Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed and stored.
Apple's iPhone has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer.
In Japan's Apple Store, there was a fan who started waiting in line 7 months early for iPhone 6.
The creator of the iPod first offered the idea to Philips and RealNetworks, but they failed to see its potential.
In the first quarter of 2014, Apple earned more than Google, Facebook, and Amazon combined.
Apple Is Worth More Than The Entire Russian Stock Market.
Every hour, at least 1 person is killed by a drunk driver in the U.S.
1 in 3 Americans is obese.
There are at least 97 people called "LOL" in the U.S.
8 billion chickens are consumed in the U.S. each year.
40%40%of births in the U.S. come from unmarried women.
Every day, nearly 4000 teens in the U.S. smoke their first cigarette, while 1,000 start smoking on a daily basis.
Four planet Earths would be required to sustain the levels of consumption of the U.S.
Every tweet Americans send is being archived by the Library of Congress.
The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders and 323,000 restaurant servers with bachelor's degrees.
College textbooks prices in the U.S. have risen faster than health care, housing, and inflation.
In the U.S. you are twice as likely to commit suicide than be murdered by someone else.
In the U.S. it costs US$245,000 to raise a child, before college.
80%80%of the land in Nevada is owned by the U.S. government.
In the U.S. there's an official Rock Paper Scissors League.
The U.S. has no official language.
63%63% of U.S. prison inmates can't read.
There are more public libraries than McDonald's in the U.S.
60,000 60,000 plastic bags are being used in the U.S. every 5 seconds.
The banana is the most popular fruit in the U.S.
The U.S. Government spends US$1.8 billion per year printing documents.
The U.S. Tax Code is 5,000 pages long, while The Bible and "War and Peace" only have about 4,500 pages.
Almost half the world's credit card frauds happens in the U.S.
The poorest place in the U.S. is Allen, South Dakota, where 96% are Native American.
1 in 25 U.S. teenagers has attempted suicide.
10%10%of all U.S. companies go out of business every year.
In 1943, the U.S. banned sliced bread as a wartime conservation measure.
50%50%is the lifetime risk of developing Cancer for a man in the U.S.
A human baby has over 60 more bones than an adult.
Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long.
We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes.
Sweat itself is odorless. It's the bacteria on the skin that mingles with it and produces body odor.
Ears and Nose never stop growing.
Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a Unique Tongue Print.
Human Bones are ounce for ounce,stronger than steel.
If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels.
The human body produces about a litre (0.26 gal) of mucus per day.

Your bones are composed of 31% water.

Our lungs and nasal passages have exquisitely tiny hairs called cilia that can "taste" bitter flavors.
Each Russian consumes 18 litres (4.8 US gal) of alcohol per year, doubling what experts consider dangerous.
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.
Stalin didn't start learning Russian until he was 8. His mother tongue was Georgian.
The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown in Russia from 32,000-year-old seeds.
Beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.
Foxes are domesticated like dogs by Russian scientists since 1959.
There was a "Beard Tax" in Russia, during Peter the Great's Reign, paid by anyone who had a beard.
There's a museum in Russia that hires cats to protect its artworks against rodents.
The word “vodka” comes from the Russian word “voda” that means “water”.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
It is believed Russia has at least 15 secret cities with their names, and locations unknown.
A third of all Russians believe the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Wealthy Russians hire fake ambulances to beat Moscow's traffic.
In Russia, during times of economic disparity or high inflation, teachers can be paid in Vodka.
20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water is in a single lake: Russia's Lake Baikal.
Apple Is Worth More Than The Entire Russian Stock Market.
100100million people in China live on less than US$1 per day.
Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.
78% of software installed in China in 2010 was pirated.
There's a bridge between mainland China and Macau, where cars switch from left to right hand drive and vice versa.
Table tennis is China's national sport.
The PlayStation is illegal in China.
If Walmart were a country, it would be China's sixth-largest export market.
In China, it is mandatory that cosmetic products are tested on animals, while in Europe it's prohibited.
In China, you can major in Bra Studies.
The word 'censorship' is censored in China.
Dyeing pets to look like other wild animals is a trend in China.
Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy.
In 2013, a Zoo in China angered visitors by trying to pass off a Tibetan mastiff dog as a lion.
Half of all the world's pigs live in China.
In 1983, the first mobile phones went on sale in the U.S. at almost $4,000 each.
Mobile phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
Apple's iPhone has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer.
Over 250 million Nokia 1100 devices were sold, making it the bestselling electrical gadget in history.
100,000 mobile phones are dropped down the toilet in Britain every year.
So many Facebook photos and videos are uploaded via mobile that it takes up 27% of upstream web traffic.
65% of smartphone users download zero apps per month.
99% of all mobile malware is targeted at Android users.
The technology behind smartphones relies on up to 250,000 separate patents.
McDonald's restaurants feed 68 million people every day. That's more than the entire population of the U.K.
McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys.
The Queen of England owns a McDonald's near Buckingham Palace.
McDonald's makes about US$75 million per day.
In 2005, a man named Ronald MacDonald actually robbed a Wendy's.
It takes the average McDonald's employee 7 months to earn what a CEO makes in an hour.
McDonald's drive-thru staff won't serve people if they come on horseback.
A McDonald's website for its workers tells them to avoid fast food.
In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald due to a lack of a clear "r" sound in Japanese.
McDonald's Big Mac is used as an economic index to compare purchasing power between currencies and countries.
Every day, nearly 4000 teens in the U.S. smoke their first cigarette, while 1,000 start smoking on a daily basis.
Smoking near Apple computers voids the warranty.
Freud never quit smoking despite having over 30 cancer surgeries because of it.
Einstein's great breakthroughs came from visual experiments performed in his head rather than the lab.
Einstein was a slow learner as a child and spoke very slowly.
Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenohrl published the basic equation E = mc2 a year before Einstein did.
Albert Einstein had no car of his own and he also never learned how to drive.
The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.
Japan has 5.52 million vending machines.
In Japan, there's a building with a highway passing through it.

Black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.
In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald due to a lack of a clear "r" sound in Japanese.
In Japan, KFC is a typical feast of Christmas Eve.
There's an island in Japan that's full of rabbits.
The biggest Japanese community outside of Japan is in Brazil.
The blood you donate is sold on the open market and it's a US$4.5 billion per year industry.
Bob Marley's final words were "Money can't buy life."
McDonald's makes about US$75 million per day.
Apple earns US$300,000 per minute.
All of the 20 richest women in the world --except for #17-- inherited their money from either their husband or their father.
Spending money on others yields more happiness than spending it on yourself a study concluded.
34.5%34.5%of the money the average American takes home is spent on interest, including credit cards and auto loans.
Slugs like beer.
Beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.
Until the 1970s in Belgium, table beer was served in schools refectories.
There's a beer brewed from bananas in Africa.
In Argentina, political parties have their own brands of beer.

As a child, Hitler wanted to be a priest.
The American secret service tried to spike Hitler's food with female hormones to feminise him.
In 1938, Hitler was TIME Magazine's Man of the Year.
Both Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden were announced dead on May 1.
Fox owns the rights to The Simpsons until 2082.
Bart Simpsons' voice is played by a woman.
Kim II-Sung, founder of North Korea, was born on the day the Titanic sank.
In the last 60 years, over 23,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea. Only two South Koreans have gone to the North.
North Koreans watched the World Cup on a 24-hour delay.
North Korea has its own operating system called Red Star OS.
In 2013, North Korea's president killed his own uncle by throwing him naked into a cage with 120 starving dogs.
Possessing Bibles, watching South Korean movies and distributing pornography may be punished with death in North Korea.
While actor Paul Reubens is over 60 years old, Pee-Wee Herman is ageless.
A "Panther" isn't a real animal.
Charles Darwin Ate Every Animal He Discovered.
70% of all animals in the jungle rely on figs for their survival.
Heavily hunted animals live in Chernobyl, because it is safer where there are no humans.
The wood frog and other animals have the ability to freeze solid during winter, thaw in the spring and remain perfectly healthy.
Calvin Klein's "Obsession for Men" is spread in camera traps because it attracts wild cats and other animals.
Dolphins have the longest memory in the animal kingdom.
In China, it is mandatory that cosmetic products are tested on animals, while in Europe it's prohibited.
The paint on the Eiffel Tower weighs as much as 10 elephants.
The average British woman spends US$160,000 on make-up in a lifetime.
There are more skin cancer cases due to indoor tanning than lung cancer cases due to smoking.
Videogame 'Grand Theft Auto V' made $800 million on its first day of sales alone.
Since all British passports are issued in the Queen Elizabeth II's name, she herself doesn't have one.
Placebos are 31% to 38% effective in treating depression, compared to 46% to 54% for antidepressants.
10%10%of the men in the U.S. are color-blind.
Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
64% of World's Extreme Poor Live in Just 5 Countries: India, China, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Congo.
Dyeing pets to look like other wild animals is a trend in China.
The giant panda is actually a bear.
It's scientifically proven that even a small dose of POWER changes how a person's brain operates and diminishes empathy.
If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you about 42 minutes to get to the other side.
78% of software installed in China in 2010 was pirated.
If your laptop feels hot, don't put it on your lap if you're a man, it may cause infertility.
We Are Living In The Most Peaceful Time In Human History.
Bill Gates pays over US$1 million per year in property taxes for his house.
Icelandic has changed so little in the last 1,000 years that Icelanders today can easily read 12th Century texts.
Karl Marx's mother once said to him: "I wish you would make some capital instead of just writing about it."
1 in 50 priests are pedophiles, according to Pope Francis.
Norway introduced Salmon Sushi to the Japanese in the 80s.
Norway has the world's highest gas prices at $10.12 a gallon of premium gas.
In Norway, stripping counts as an art form for tax purposes.
When you get a book published in Norway, the Government will buy a 1000 copies and distribute them to libraries.
Norway's public Universities are free for students from anywhere in the world.
With 61 million inhabitants, Italy is the 5th most populous country in Europe.
The Italian mafia accounts for 7% of Italy's GDP.
More than a third of single Italian men between the ages of 30 and 35 live with their parents.
Italian Traffic Police has two Lamborghini Gallado in service.
500,000 Italians visit an exorcist every year.
Whatsapp is cited in nearly half of all Italian divorce proceedings.
In Italy, there is a submerged bronze statue of Jesus Christ of 2.5 metres tall.
Galileo's middle finger is on display at a museum in Florence, Italy.
At age 10, Mussolini was expelled from a religious boarding school in Italy for stabbing a classmate in the hand.
In Venice, Italy, all gondolas are required to be painted in black by law.
Poveglia is an island in Italy that is so dangerously "haunted" that public access is not permitted.
In Milan, Italy, it's a legal requirement to smile at all times, except during funerals or hospital visits.
Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with his feces, called it "Artist's sh*t" and sold them for up to €124,000 a tin.
A cat inherited a US$13 million fortune from its owner in Italy.
Galileo was born on the day that Michelangelo died.
Italian serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli was famous for turning victims into tea cakes and serving them to guests.
72%72%of Spain speaks Spanish. The rest speaks Catalan, Galician, Basque and others.
In Catalonia (Spain), a smiley-faced piece of wood called "Shitting Log" poops out the presents in Christmas.
The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.
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.
The death penalty was outlawed in the UK partly because a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter in 1950.
Possessing Bibles, watching South Korean movies and distributing pornography may be punished with death in North Korea.
In 1944, a 14-year-old African-American was executed in the U.S. after a quick 2-hour trial with little evidence.
Saudi Arabia, a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council, punished 2,000 people with the death penalty since 1985.
The state of Washington may still execute prisoners by hanging.
Atheism is punished with the death penalty in 13 countries.
Ancient Romans celebrated "Saturnalia", a festival in which slaves and their masters would switch places.

Flamingo tongues were a delicacy in ancient Rome.
Ancient Greeks and Romans often bought slaves with salt.
Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide.
Each Russian consumes 18 litres (4.8 US gal) of alcohol per year, doubling what experts consider dangerous.
Beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.
In the U.K., it is legal for kids over 5 years old to drink alcohol at home or on other private premises.
The average temperature in Mars is -81°F (-63°C).
Your weight in Mars is over 60% less than on Earth.

A steady stream ofminor accomplishments makes youmore satisfied with your life than a few major accomplishments.
50%50%is the lifetime risk of developing Cancer for a man in the U.S.
The average British woman spends US$160,000 on make-up in a lifetime.
Every year, life expectancy increases by 3 months.
The average woman in the UK has 150 different hairstyles in her lifetime.
The probability of living 110 years or more is about 1 in 7 million.
Sweden banned spanking and other corporal punishment of children in 1979.
89%89%of people in Sweden speak English.
Passports issued by the UK, Sweden and Finland offer visa-free travel to more countries than any other passports.
The average numbers of readers of any given published scientific paper is said to be 0.6.
A 10-Year-Old Accidentally Created in 2012 a New Molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.
A new scientific method called 'toxineering' turns venoms into painkillers.
Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, so we can live without breathing.
Four Japanese scientists measured the amount of friction between a shoe, a banana skin and the floor: it's 0.07.
During photosynthesis, plants emit light, called fluorescence, that humans can't see.
If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.
Most dinosaurs are known from just a single tooth or bone.
Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
Parasitic and host plants have a dialogue by sharing genetic information with one another.
Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.
The earth's deepest known point equals to 24.5 Empire State Buildings end to end.
The average volume of farts a person generates per day ranges around 476 to 1491ml.
Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
There are about 173,000 venomous species: from lizards to spiders and fish.
Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.
Gasoline is complex, as it can contain between 150 and 1,000 different chemical compounds.
The average speed of Heinz Ketchup squirt is .028 MPH.
9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of WWI.
"He kept us out of war" was Woodrow Wilson' slogan for the 1916 election. About a month after he took office, the U.S. declared war on Germany.
The WWI ended at 11 o'clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
The room of a WWI French soldier is still untouched since 1918.
After World War I, there were so few men in Germany that only 1 in 3 women would find a husband.
British soldiers in WWI had a tea ration of six pints a day.

After World War I, there were so few men in Germany that only 1 in 3 women would find a husband.
From 1989 to 2009, about 2,000 schools were closed in Germany because of a scarcity of children.
In 2014, Germany officially abolished college tuition fees, even for international students.
Fanta originated in Germany as a result of difficulties importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany during WWII.
Chinese checkers was invented in Germany.
Africa is larger than China, USA, India, Mexico and a big part of Europe combined.
People in Africa and Asia have to walk an average of 3.7 miles (6 KM) to collect water.
Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Americas.
Facebook has 100 million active users in Africa.
South Africa is called the "Rainbow Nation" because it has 11 official languages.
There's a beer brewed from bananas in Africa.
Graca Machel is the only woman to have been first lady of two separate countries: Mozambique and South Africa.
The giant panda is actually a bear.
All pandas in the world are on loan from China.
The life span of giant pandas in the wild is approximately 20 years.
Female pandas are fertile only up to 3 days a year.
Google was originally called "Backrub".
If you search for "askew" in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.
Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.
Microsoft pays you to use Bing instead of Google.
Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools' Day prank.
Firefox web browser's lead developer is now working for Google Chrome.
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.
Google's First Computer Storage Was Made From LEGO.
#1#1Google beats Facebook: it's the world's most visited website.
For the 4th consecutive year, Google was named the best company to work for in the U.S. by Fortune Mag in 2014.
In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald due to a lack of a clear "r" sound in Japanese.
"Fart Battles" were a popular art scrolls created in Japan during the Edo period.
51% Of People Think Stormy Weather Affects Cloud Computing.
A "butt" was a Medieval unit of measure for wine.
On her 120th birthday, the oldest person ever recorded said: "I only have one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it."
Ronaldinho's deal with Coca-Cola ended after he was caught sipping a Pepsi in a news conference.
If you search for "askew" in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.
Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second (7 mph).
55% of Americans think they are smarter than the average American.
The more features your phone has, the longer you spend in the toilet.
Paris Syndrome is a psychological disorder, mainly suffered by Japanese people, caused after realizing Paris isn't what they expected.
In Dorset, Minnesota, a 3-year-old boy was elected as mayor .
There's a "DUMB Starbucks" where every product has the word "dumb" in front of it.
When Montenegro became independent from Yugoslavia, its Internet domain name went from .yu to .me.
The scientific name for the Western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.
In 2007, A Bosnian couple divorced after discovering both had an online affair with each other under fake names.
The average speed of Heinz Ketchup squirt is .028 MPH.
In the U.S. there's an official Rock Paper Scissors League.
Shakira was rejected from the school choir because the teacher thought she sounded like a goat.

The American secret service tried to spike Hitler's food with female hormones to feminise him.

West Side Story was originally called East Side Story.
A group of crows is called a "murder".
In Catalonia (Spain), a smiley-faced piece of wood called "Shitting Log" poops out the presents in Christmas.
A man named Moondyne Joe escaped prison so many times, that police built a special cell for him, from which he escaped as well.
Benjamin Franklin wrote "Fart Proudly", a scientific essay about farts.
The only member of the band "ZZ Top" without a beard is Frank Beard.
There is a French company that you can hire to kidnap you. They charge US$1600.
The word 'censorship' is censored in China.
Only 1 in 6 Americans can find Ukraine on a map.
The word "mortgage" comes from a French word that means "death contract".
Wal-Mart has a lower acceptance rate (2.6%) than Harvard University (8.9%).
Playing in a marching band is considered to be a moderate exercise.
Saddam Hussein used Whitney Houston's song "I will always love you" for his 2002 campaign.
There's a lizard known as Jesus Christ Lizard due to its ability to run on the water.
Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.
Mariah Carey's legs are insured for US$1 billion.
Charlie Sheen once bought 2,600 seats at a baseball game so he could catch a home run ball.
Four Japanese scientists measured the amount of friction between a shoe, a banana skin and the floor: it's 0.07.
The last words of Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, were actually: "I wish I'd spent more time in the office."
In Texas, it is legal to kill BigFoot if you ever find it.
In Victoria, Australia, only a licensed electrician is allowed to change a lightbulb.

There are at least 97 people called "LOL" in the U.S.
The Incas' measurement of time was based on how long it took to boil a potato.
Leo Fender, inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster, could not play guitar.
At least 1.1 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust.
In October 1941, more than 50,000 Jews were killed by Romanian troops in what is now known as the "Odessa massacre."
The Leica Camera company helped hundreds of jews before the Holocaust by hiring, and sending them abroad.
A Muslim family that saved Jews during the Holocaust, was later saved by Israel during the genocide in Bosnia, and converted to Judaism.
Judaism believes in another Torah (Bible) that Moses passed down orally in an unbroken chain from generation to generation for 1,400 years.
Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
Marilyn Monroe was Jewish: she converted for her husband Arthur Miller.

A Jewish sect, Neturei Karta, supports Palestine and calls for a peaceful dismantling of the State of Israel.
There is a waterfall in Antarctica that runs red as blood.
90%90%of the world's fresh water is in Antarctica.
Antarctica has only one ATM.
Antarctica is the only continent without a time zone.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica is 58.2°F (14.5°C).
Husky dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994.
Most scholars say Jesus never viewed himself as creating a new religion per se, just reforming Judaism.
Pope Pius II wrote a popular erotic book called "The Tale Of Two Lovers" before assuming office.
The Catholic Church once put a dead Pope on trial.
The Aztecs sacrificed 1% of their population every year, or about 250,000 people.
Popcorn was first domesticated in Mexico 9,000 years ago.
Illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. has decreased by 80% since 2000.
The first great civilization in Mexico were the Olmec, established from 1500 B.C. to 400 B.C.
More people in the world are suffering from obesity than from hunger.
1 in 3 Americans is obese.
People who regularly eat dinner or breakfast in restaurants double their risk of becoming obese.
The people of the U.S. are collectively overweight by a total of about 4 billion pounds.
When you lose weight, most of the fat is breathed out as carbon dioxide, while the rest is excreted as water.
Dogs Poop in Alignment with Earth's Magnetic Field.
A guy is 3 times more likely to get a girl's phone number if he has a dog with him.
Humans and dogs first became best friends 30,000 years ago.
In English speaking countries, the most popular names for dogs are Max and Molly.
Dogs and cats only sweat from their footpads and nose.
A dog's sense of smell is 10,000 times stronger than humans.
Husky dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994.
3 dogs survived the Titanic sinking out of 12 canines on board.
The King James Bible has inspired the lyrics of more pop songs than any other book.
The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world.
Most scholars say Jesus never viewed himself as creating a new religion per se, just reforming Judaism.
25 million Bibles were printed in 2011, compared to 208 million IKEA catalogs.
The Bible, Steve Jobs' Bio, and the Hunger Games, are the most highlighted kindle books ever.
The Bible is available in 2,454 languages.
Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random to be guided by whatever verse they see first.
Swearing on the Bible is forbidden by the Bible.
Possessing Bibles, watching South Korean movies and distributing pornography may be punished with death in North Korea.
The Bible was Isaac Newton's greatest passion, writing more about religion than science and mathematics.
When Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia, felt unwell, he would eat a few pages of the Bible.
NYC keeps train tracks free of ice by setting them on fire.
There are no Wal-Marts in New York City.
With 800 languages, New York is the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
There is skyscraper in New York City with no windows.
A Japanese man survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during WWII.
A survivor of Hiroshima's atomic bombing went to Boston in 1951 and won the Marathon.
Kokura, Japan, was the original target of the atomic bomb that landed in Nagasaki.
Atomic bomb tests were a major tourist attraction in Las Vegas during the 1950s.
During the Cold War, the U.S. seriously considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to show off its military superiority.
After the whistle to start the game, soccer player Lee Todd said "F*ck me, that was loud" and received the fastest red card in history: 2 seconds.
A 20-month-old baby became the youngest professional soccer player ever, after being signed up by a Belgian club.
8 of the 12 host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil are among the 50 most violent cities in the world.
In 2013, soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo opened a museum dedicated to himself.
Ronaldinho's deal with Coca-Cola ended after he was caught sipping a Pepsi in a news conference.
The original 2014 World Cup's ball was produced in Pakistan.
Famous soccer player Mario Balotelli is an Italian, born to immigrants from Ghana, raised by a Jewish mother.
The Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth's land surface.
The UK spent US$15.8 billion in a health service computer system that failed and was shutdown in 2013.
In the U.K., it is legal for kids over 5 years old to drink alcohol at home or on other private premises.
In the UK, all horses, ponies and donkeys must have a horse passport.
Slavery was not made a statutory offense in the UK until April 6, 2010.
Nearly 6,000 people per year get hurt or die in the UK after tripping over their trousers or falling down stairs while pulling them up.
The death penalty was outlawed in the UK partly because a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter in 1950.
Nigeria has more English speakers than the United Kingdom.
In the 16th century, a London law forbade wife beating after 9:00 P.M., but only because the noise disturbed people's sleep.
KitKats' year production could stretch around the London Underground more than 350 times.
The Queen Mary of Scotland became queen when she was only six days old.
Since all British passports are issued in the Queen Elizabeth II's name, she herself doesn't have one.
Centenarians are the fastest-growing demographic in the UK.
Passports issued by the UK, Sweden and Finland offer visa-free travel to more countries than any other passports.
If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you about 42 minutes to get to the other side.
The Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth's land surface.
There are more living organisms in a teaspoonful of soil than there are people on earth.
The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.
Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.
Earth is the only place in the Solar System where water can be present in its three states: solid, liquid and vapour.Earth is the only place in the Solar System where water can be present in its three states: solid, liquid and vapour.
The earth's deepest known point equals to 24.5 Empire State Buildings end to end.
The Soviets drilled the world's deepest hole into the earth for 14 years: it's 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) deep.
There are no 24 hours in a day. It has 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the time it takes to earth to rotate on its axis.
There is enough gold in Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet.
Krubera Cave, the deepest known cave on Earth, has depth of 2,197 m (7,208 ft).
Large parts of Canada have less gravity than the rest of Earth. The phenomenon was discovered in the 1960s.
Government vehicles in Cuba are legally required to pick up any hitchhikers.
Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world: 99.8%.
The CIA had a plot to use a depilatory chemical on Fidel Castro to cause his beard to fall out.
Fidel Castro has said that he saved ten working days a year by not bothering to shave.
Fidel Castro was born on a Friday the 13th.
In 1940, 12-year-old boy Fidel Castro wrote a letter to President F. Roosevelt to request a $10 bill because he had never seen one before.
A drink of rum and coke is called a "Cuba Libre" (Free Cuba) in Latin America except in Cuba, where it is called a "mentirita" (little lie).
8 of the 12 host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil are among the 50 most violent cities in the world.
Sex change surgeries are free under Brazil's public health system since 2008.
35%35%of men from rural Brazil have had sex with an animal, a study found.
Brazilian athletes funded their trip to the 1932 Olympics by selling coffee along the way.
The largest population of Catholics in the world is not in Italy nor Spain. It's in Brazil: 123 million, 64% of its population.
Brazil is the world's first country to ban tanning beds.
The biggest Japanese community outside of Japan is in Brazil.
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be the first time a South American country has the right to host them.
About 4 million slaves were taken from Africa to Brazil, about 40% of all in the Americas.
Voting is mandatory in Brazil.
Brazil distributes women's breast milk around the country to babies whose mothers can't provide it for them.
Brazil was the only independent South American country to send ground troops to fight in WWII, with over 25,000 soldiers.
Whale Sharks can live up to 100 years.
Sharks have an astounding sense of smell, so powerful that they can detect a single drop of blood in an Olympic-sized pool.
Sharks will sink if they stop swimming.
You are more likely to die from a falling coconut than from a shark attack.
There's a shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years.
As soon as tiger shark embryos develop teeth, they attack and eat each other in the womb.
The "Shortfin Mako" Shark can accelerate faster than a Porsche.
It is believed that sharks first appeared 420 million years ago.
Great white sharks can go for months without eating.
Sharks can grow a new set of teeth in 8 days.
People who regularly eat dinner or breakfast in restaurants double their risk of becoming obese.
Farting helps reduce high blood pressure and is good for your health.
Laughing 100 times is equivalent to 15 minutes of exercise on a stationary bicycle.
1 Can of Soda a day increases your chances of getting type 2 diabetes by 22%.
There are more skin cancer cases due to indoor tanning than lung cancer cases due to smoking.
Severe Depression can cause us to biologically age more by increasing the ageing process in cells.
Heavy marijuana smokers are at risk for some of the same health effects as cigarette smokers, like bronchitis and other respiratory illnesses.
60% of people needing mental health services in the U.S. don't get it, often because of the stigma of seeking help.60% of people needing mental health services in the U.S. don't get it, often because of the stigma of seeking help.
14 billion pounds (6B Kg.) of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year. Most of it is plastic.
Americans make up 5% of the world's population, and yet, produce 30% of the world's waste and use 25% of the world's resources.
For every 1 million tons of oil shipped, about 1 ton is spilled.
Breathing the air of Beijing has the same health risks as smoking 21 cigarettes a day.
1 in every 8 deaths on earth are linked to air pollution, a study says.
Breathing the air in Mumbai, India, for just one day is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes.

Half of all women who die from homicide are killed by their current or former husbands or partners.
50%50%is the lifetime risk of developing Cancer for a man in the U.S.
If your laptop feels hot, don't put it on your lap if you're a man, it may cause infertility.
Men with shaved heads are perceived as an inch taller and 13% stronger than men with hair.
More than a third of single Italian men between the ages of 30 and 35 live with their parents.
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Paris Exposition and was not intended to be permanent.
The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world: 6.98 million people in 2011.
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 reach the top.
Con artist Victor Lustig "sold" the Eiffel Tower to a scrap metal dealer.
The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.
The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by 5.9 inches (15 cm) due to temperature changes.
A woman named Erika La Tour Eiffel "married" the Eiffel Tower in 2007.
There are over 30 replicas of the Eiffel Tower around the world.
The paint on the Eiffel Tower weighs as much as 10 elephants.
A beautiful face attracts more partners than a beautiful body, according to a scientific survey.
It's scientifically proven: being in love makes you a less productive person.
23%23% of the couples who meet through online dating end up marrying.
Every 40 seconds, someone commits suicide.
1 in every 5 people in Greenland attempt suicide at some point in their lives.
1 in 25 U.S. teenagers has attempted suicide.
Most people who commit suicide, do it on a Wednesday.
Established writers and artists are 18 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.
In the U.S. you are twice as likely to commit suicide than be murdered by someone else.
When Ashton Kutcher was 13 years old, he contemplated committing suicide in order to give his heart to his dying brother.
Coffee is the world's second most valuable traded commodity, only behind petroleum.
Instant Coffee was invented by a man called George Washington around 1910.
There's a Coffee Shop in France where not saying "hello" and "please" makes your coffee more expensive.
54%54%of the Americans drink coffee everyday.
In the beggining, Starbucks only sold roasted whole coffee beans.
The Sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.
The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.
Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.
The American flags placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the sun.
A third of all Russians believe the Sun revolves around the Earth.

According to Bill Gates, by 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.
100100million people in China live on less than US$1 per day.
The combined wealth of the 85 richest people is equal to that of poorest 3.5 billion --half of the worlds population.
The poorest place in the U.S. is Allen, South Dakota, where 96% are Native American.
53%53%of all American workers make less than US$30,000 a year.
64% of World's Extreme Poor Live in Just 5 Countries: India, China, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Congo.
Your mind "rewrites" monotonous speech of boring people to make it sound more interesting.
There are more than 400 distinct phobias well recognised by psychologists.
The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.
Spending money on others yields more happiness than spending it on yourself a study concluded.
Phobophobia is the fear of having a phobia.
There's a rare mental disorder where people imagine that they are decomposing, dead or non-existent.
Psychologists examined Internet trolls and found that they are "narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic".
"Erotomania" is a psychological disorder in which the affected people believe a famous person is in love with them.
68% of the people suffer from Phantom Vibration Syndrome, the feeling that one's phone is vibrating when it's not.
Paris Syndrome is a psychological disorder, mainly suffered by Japanese people, caused after realizing Paris isn't what they expected.
The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950's.
India has the largest slave population in the modern world with over 14 million slaves.
Ancient Romans celebrated "Saturnalia", a festival in which slaves and their masters would switch places.
Benjamin Franklin attempted to abolish slavery already in 1790.
Part of the White House was built by slaves.
There are species of ants that enslave other ants.
Slavery was not made a statutory offense in the UK until April 6, 2010.
Mississippi didn't ratify the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, until 2013.
Slavery was abolished in Saudi Arabia and Yemen as recently as 1962.
Ancient Greeks and Romans often bought slaves with salt.
About 4 million slaves were taken from Africa to Brazil, about 40% of all in the Americas.
The majority of Internet traffic is not generated by humans, but bots like Google and Malware.
When Montenegro became independent from Yugoslavia, its Internet domain name went from .yu to .me.
15%15%of American adults do not use the Internet.
Psychologists examined Internet trolls and found that they are "narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic".
The Philippines has the slowest Internet speed in the entire Southeast Asian region with an average speed of 3.54 Mbps.
70%70%of all the emails sent are spam.
Lake Hillier in Australia is a bright pink color and scientists aren't sure why.
In 1967, Australia's Prime Minister went to the beach for a swim and was never seen again.
An iraqui man moved to Australia and used the Welfare System as income. Years later, he became successful and wrote a check to the government for every cent they gave him.
The Church of Scientology runs a child labor camp in Australia.
24 rabbits that were introduced to Australia in 1859, had multiplied in number to over 2 millions in ten years.
In Victoria, Australia, only a licensed electrician is allowed to change a lightbulb.
Many claim that a genocide was committed in Australia against its native people from 1910 to 1970 in an effort to create a "white Australia."
Australia exports camels to Saudi Arabia.
75% of Australia's living species are unknown to man.
In Australia, Burger King is called "Hungry Jack's".
The world's largest cattle station, Anna Creek Station in Australia, is larger than Israel.
The town of Docker River in Australia, was once invaded by 6,000 camels that came in search of water.
Canada is the second largest country in the world, right after Russia.
Canada is the World's Most Educated Country: over half its residents have college degrees.
Canada consumes more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the world.
Canada has the largest coastline in the world.
In Newfoundland, Canada, the Atlantic Ocean sometimes freezes so people play hockey on it.
The Mall of America is owned by Canadians.
The U.S. / Canada Border is the longest international border in the world and it lacks military defense.
"Canada" is an Iroquoian language word meaning "Village."
Large parts of Canada have less gravity than the rest of Earth. The phenomenon was discovered in the 1960s.
The world's largest gold bar weighs 250 kg (551 lb).
Olympic Gold Medals only contain 1.34% of gold.
There is enough gold in Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet.
The dinosaur noises in the "Jurassic Park" movie were made from recordings of tortoise sex.
Over 90% of American movies made before 1929 are lost, no copies are known to exist.
The word "mafia" is never mentioned in the film version of The Godfather because the actual mafia demanded it.
Movie theater Popcorn costs more per ounce than fillet mignon in U.S.A.
Time Travel depictions in films and TV are banned in China.
Godzilla was only seen for about 8 minutes in the 2014 film "Godzilla".
Sandra Bullock won the Oscar and the Golden Raspberry (for worst film) in the same weekend. She collected both.
The 1976 film “Rocky” was shot in 28 days.
The Horse Head used in the movie "The Godfather" was real.
The time traveling machine in the movie "Back to the Future" was originally supposed to be a refrigerator.
Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption were all in theatres at the same time in October of 1994.
Schwarzenegger was paid approximately US$21,429 for every word he said in Terminator 2.
When Charlie Chaplin received his honorary Oscar, he got a 12-minute standing ovation, the longest in Oscar history.
James Cameron was homeless when writing the movie "The Terminator," and sold the rights for US$1, on the condition he could direct it.
Will Smith, Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Leo DiCaprio were offered the part of Neo in "The Matrix" movie before Keanu Reeves.
When the movie "Clue" was shown in theaters in 1985, each theater was given 1 of 3 possible endings.
The movie industry relocated from New York to LA to escape from Thomas Edison's patents.
Charlie Chaplin made his movie mocking Hitler with his own money because Hollywood was afraid of losing money if they took a stand.
Keanu Reeves gave US$80 million of his US$114 million salary for "The Matrix" movie to special effects and makeup staff.
The International Space Station is as roomy as a five-bedroom house and travels at 17,500 mph.
The International Space Station is about the size of a football field.
Toilets were found in many ancient Egyptian tombs.
The World's Oldest Dress was found in Egypt and it is 5,000 years old.
The first sailing boats were invented in Egypt.
The Titanic's chief baker "fortified" himself with alcohol and thus survived the freezing water for 2 hours until he was rescued.
Most lifeboats launched off the Titanic were not filled to capacity.
The Titanic could have been saved if it wasn't for a 30-second delay in giving the order to change course after spotting the iceberg.
The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.
53% of the people on the Titanic could have survived using the lifeboats. Only 31% did.
The iceberg that sank the Titanic began its journey somewhere around 1000 BCE.
3 dogs survived the Titanic sinking out of 12 canines on board.
Kim II-Sung, founder of North Korea, was born on the day the Titanic sank.
Lincoln suffered depression and avoided carrying knives, fearing he would use it on himself.
Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
Lincoln's assassin was a famous actor and Lincoln himself was a fan of him.
Lincoln was the first major leader in the U.S. to feel that women should be allowed to vote.
Abe Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame, having lost just once in 300 matches.
Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.
Abraham Lincoln dreamt of his assassination before it happened.
In 1876, a gang of Chicago counterfeiters attempted to steal Abraham Lincoln's body from his tomb and request a US$200,000 ransom.
The Moon is not round, but egg shaped.
The American flags placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the sun.
A 2013 survey found 7% of Americans believe the moon landing was a hoax.
When Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him a piece from the Wright brothers' first airplane.
The dark side of the Moon is actually turquoise.
During the Cold War, the U.S. seriously considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to show off its military superiority.
France is the most visited country in the world: 83 million tourists in 2012.
France once controlled more than 8% of the world's land.
Napoleon wasn't short. He was actually above the average Frenchman.
In France, you can marry a dead person.
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 reach the top.
There's a Coffee Shop in France where not saying "hello" and "please" makes your coffee more expensive.
There is a town in France called Condom.
France was the first country to introduce the licence plate.
Potatoes were illegal in France between 1748 and 1772.

In France, nearly 96% of high schools have condom vending machines.
The oldest bridge in Paris, France, is the Pont Neuf, or "New Bridge."
France uses 12 different time zones, the most of any country in the world.
From 1814 to 1830, the flag of the Kingdom of France was plain white.
For 214 years until 2012, it was illegal in Paris, France, for women to wear trousers.
The giant panda is actually a bear.
Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.
There's a shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years.
Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
Some Fish, like the Triggerfish, can swim backwards.
Goldfish can't close their eyes as they have no eyelids.
Many fish species are known to change sex during the course of their lives.
Goldfish can see infrared radiation that is invisible to us.
There's a shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will lose its color.

Starfish don't have brains. Special cells on their skin gather information about their surroundings.
There is a starfish with 40 arms.
There is a Jellyfish that could be immortal.
Starfish do not have blood. Their blood is actually filtered sea water.
Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.
Goldfish can distinguish the music of one composer from another.
A 10-Year-Old Goldfish Had a 45-Minute Surgery To Remove A Tumor in 2014.