At least 1 in 25 people sentenced to the death penalty in the U.S. are innocent.
Death penalty trials are 20 times more expensive than trials seeking a sentence of life in prison without parole.
The Death Penalty is legal in 32 U.S. states.
Since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court, 1,394 people have been executed (as of December 2014).
Drug possession and trafficking is punished in Singapore with the death penalty.
Company executives in China can get sentenced to death for committing fraud.
In the 16th century, England punished vagabonds with two years of servitude for the first offence and death penalty for the second.
The night before his execution, a man in Georgia escaped from prison and, later that night, was beaten to death in a bar fight.
In 2005, A Chinese company used skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe.
Italy has the eighth-largest economy in the world.
Located within Italy, San Marino is the world's oldest republic (301 A.D.), and holds the world's oldest continuous constitution.
One third of Italians have never used the Internet.
51% of Italians can't afford a vacation.
In 2013, an italian man under house arrest asked to go to prison to escape his wife.
Italy's PM Benito Mussolini tortured his enemies by forcing them to swallow massive doses of castor oil.
The official name of Spain is the "Kingdom of Spain."
The Spanish national anthem has no words.
There's a 47-story skyscraper in Spain that has NO elevator.
Spain had more unemployment in 2013 (27.2%) than the US had during the Great Depression (25%).
Ancient Romans used a sponge with a stick to clean themselves after pooping, and shared it with everyone.
In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
During the 7th century B.C., ancient Roman "vestal virgins" were required to keep their hymens intact as proof of virginity until age 30 or they would be buried alive.
Ancient Rome was eight times more densely populated than modern New York.
Life expectancy in Ancient Rome was from 20 to 30 years.
Urine was used in Ancient Rome to wash clothes.
Early Christians were called "atheists" by Romans as they didn't pay tribute to pagan gods.
Women in ancient Rome wore the sweat of Gladiators to improve their beauty and complexion.
At its peak, the Roman Empire comprised only 12% of the world's population.
Norway was ranked the world's #1 country in the 2014 Prosperity Index for wealth and well-being.
In 2008, Norway knighted a penguin.
All prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells.
Advertising to children under the age of 12 is illegal in Norway and Sweden.
It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.
Alcohol is not digested; it gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream.
48%of the world's population older than 15 claim to have never consumed alcohol.
There are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths in Russia each year.
People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.
Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.
Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day's work, plus €10 and tobacco.
The U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people.
In the Middle Ages BEER was consumed more than water as the alcohol made it safer.
Alcohol Poisoning Kills 6 Americans Every Day.
Over 100,000 people have applied for a one-way trip to colonize Mars in 2022.
On Mars, sunsets are blue.
Mars has the tallest known mountain on a planet of our Solar System, with a height of 22 km (14 mi).
Mars is red because it is covered in rust (iron oxide).
The movie Gravity was more expensive than the Indian Mars mission.
Mars is about half the size of the Earth.
There's a Golf Club on the border of Sweden and Finland: half the holes are in one country and half in the other.
Advertising to children under the age of 12 is illegal in Norway and Sweden.
Aborting a child because of its gender is legal in Sweden.
The band Abba wore ridiculous outfits to avoid Sweden's taxes, which allowed deductions for clothing if it wasn't meant to be used every day.
Swedish wasn't made the official language of Sweden until 2009.
The cities of Aachen, Regensburg, Frankfurt-am-Main, Nuremberg, Weimar, Bonn and Berlin have all been capitals of Germany.
Berlin is 9 times bigger than Paris and has more bridges than Venice.
Holocaust denial is either implicitly or explicitly a crime in 17 countries, including Germany and Austria.
The first magazine ever seen was launched in 1663 in Germany.
In Germany, it is illegal to run out of fuel on highways.
Hamburgers got their name from Hamburg, Germany.
60% of YouTube's 1,000 most popular videos are blocked in Germany.
Germany made its final reparations payment from the WWI Treaty of Versailles in 2010.
Some 5,500 WWII bombs are discovered in Germany every year and defused, an average of 15 per day.
In 1960, two of The Beatles got deported from Germany for lighting a condom on fire.
Dachau, the first NAZI concentration camp in Germany, opened six years before WWII.
There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.

An average person in the U.S. eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.
An average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
The average person takes 183,755,600 steps in a lifetime.
The average American spends over 5 months of his life on the phone.
In his lifetime, a man spends almost six months shaving.
Joggers live, on average, six years longer.
Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.
Two-thirds of all the people in the world who have ever lived to be 65 years old are still alive today.
The average person spends two weeks of its life Kissing.
1 in 5 Americans believes that the world will end in their lifetime.
Humans spend a third of their life sleeping. That's about 25 years.
In a lifetime, your brain's long-term memory can hold as many as 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) separate bits of information.
Parents of new babies miss out on 6 months worth of sleep in the first 2 years of their child's life.
An average woman in the UK will own 111 handbags in her lifetime.
82% of Americans believe in some kind of afterlife.
The average person walks 75,000 miles (120,000 KM) in a lifetime, or five times round the world.

WWI is the sixth deadliest conflict in world history.
WWI transformed the U.S. into the largest military power in the world.
During WW1, a Hungarian man was shot in the frontal lobe, making it impossible for him to fall asleep. He continued to live a full, sleepless life.
Chemotherapy is a by-product of the mustard gas used in WWI.
Four empires collapsed after WWI: Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian.
After WWI, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland emerged as independent nations.
Germany made its final reparations payment from the WWI Treaty of Versailles in 2010.
During WWI, the U.S. Government tried to rename hamburgers as "liberty sandwiches" to promote patriotism.
Scientists can grow teeth from urine.
Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
The World's oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.
Earthquakes turn water into gold.
A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.
Rain contains vitamin B12.
Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
It would take light 100,000 years to travel from one end of the Milky Way galaxy to the other.
Every time a woodpecker's beak hits a tree, its head is subject to 1,000 times the force of gravity.
Researchers believe the first human case of HIV was in Kinshasa, Congo, around 1920.
The Big Bang Theory was actually first theorized by a Catholic priest.
There are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than body cells.
Ice melting in Antarctica has caused a small shift in gravity in the region.
Your weight on the moon is 16.5% of your weight on earth.
The Sun is 400 times further away from Earth than the Moon is.
Each foot contains about 250,000 sweat glands.
Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.
It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
The Sun is thought to have completed about 20 orbits during its lifetime and just 1/1250th of an orbit since the origin of humans.
Viruses can get viruses.
Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun.
If you were to put Saturn on water, it would float.
The moon is moving away from us by 3.78 cm (1.48 in) a year.
100,000,000,000 solar neutrinos pass through every square inch of your body every second.
If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.
The "smell of rain" is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.
Google has found GPA's and test scores to be "worthless as a criteria for hiring"; they have teams where 14% of their employees haven't gone to college.
Google earns US$20 billion a year from advertising, more than the primetime revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX combined.
Every minute,2 million searches are performed on Google.
Google is developing a computer so smart it can program itself.
Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled "googol", which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
Google prefers dogs to cats. Their official code of conduct specifically states they are a dog company.
Africa is home to the world's largest living land animal, the African elephant , and the tallest, the Giraffe .
The San people of Southern Africa today use the same set of tools that were found in a Cave, dating to 44,000 years ago.
96 elephants are killed every day in Africa.
In 1998, all 11 members of a soccer team in Africa were killed by lightning while leaving the other team unhurt.
Contrary to popular belief, there are no wild tigers in Africa. Only in Asia.
About 2,000 pandas are found in the wild.
99% of a Panda's diet consists of bamboo.
Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the feces of their mothers.
The West first learned of the giant panda in 1869, when a French missionary received a skin from a hunter.
One of the reasons the WWF chose the Panda as their logo was to save printing costs.
Pandas have lived on Earth for 2 to 3 million years.
A panda fur is worth between US$60,000 and US$100,000 on the illegal trade market.
One giant panda usually needs between 2.5 to 4 square miles (10 million m2) of land to survive.
If you have a pizza with radius Z and thickness A, its volume is = Pi*Z*Z*A
Every human being starts out as an asshole: it's the first part of the body to form in the womb.
You can change your language on Facebook to "Pirate."
1 In 4 Americans thinks the Sun goes around the Earth.
1 in 10 Americans think HTML --the language of web pages-- is a sexually transmitted disease.
A group of owls is called a Parliament.
The word pencil comes from a Latin word meaning "small penis."
Charlie Chaplin once lost in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Viruses can get viruses.
The Hundred Years' War lasted for 116 years.
Over 80,000 people graduated from McDonald's Hamburger University with a bachelors degree in hamburgerology.
Cows moo in accents specific to their region, just like humans.
In Oklahoma, it's illegal to take a bite out of another person's hamburger.
Nikola Tesla once "shook the poop out" of a constipated Mark Twain with an experiment.
Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37% fewer mistakes.
In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at someone was done to declare one's love.
In Alabama, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle.
The movie Gravity was more expensive than the Indian Mars mission.
Applying hemorrhoid cream to your chest and waist can make you look more muscular.
Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.
The word "bride" comes from an old proto-germanic word meaning "to cook".
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery-chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the official name of a village in Wales.
No one knows who invented the fire hydrant because its patent was burned in a fire.
About a third of all Jewish people alive at that time were murdered in the Holocaust.
In 1945, Einsenhower predicted that people would try to deny the holocaust, so he urged the press to come.
During WWII, Japan received Jewish refugees and rejected the resulting Nazi German protests.
Hitler planned to collect thousands of Jewish artifacts to build a "Museum of An Extinct Race" after the war.
Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier, volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather information, escape and let the world know about death camps.
The Mosque of Paris helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs during WWII.
Holocaust denial is either implicitly or explicitly a crime in 17 countries, including Germany and Austria.
The only Jewish descendants spared by the Nazis where those with grandparents who converted to Christianity before the founding of the German Empire (1871).
Four of Freud's sisters died at the Holocaust in Nazi concentration camps.
Dachau, the first NAZI concentration camp in Germany, opened six years before WWII.
Medicinal Marijuana is Considered Kosher in Some Cases by Judaism.
The population of Jews in the world is similar to the margin of error in the Chinese census.
The "eye for an eye" principle is not interpreted literally in Judaism, but as a proportional monetary compensation.
Since the 12th century, Judaism believes that if the truths derived through science or philosophy contradict religious beliefs, the religious beliefs are incorrect.
The world's largest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.
The Aztecs used Cacao seeds as a form of currency.
San Francisco was part of Mexico until the Mexican-American War in 1848.
Mexico City boasts the largest taxi fleet in the world with 100,000 taxis running every day.
There is only one gun shop in Mexico. 90% of the country's firearms are smuggled in from the USA.
Yucatan, Mexico, was named after a misunderstanding. Spaniards asked the locals what was the place called. They replied "Yucatan," which in their language means "I don't understand you."
Early Christians were called "atheists" by Romans as they didn't pay tribute to pagan gods.
A Church built into a cave is the largest church in the Middle East.
Judas sold Jesus for the equivalent of 4 months' pay of a working man.
Billy Graham personally preached Christianism to over 200 million people.
There's a Christian church in San Francisco that worships John Coltrane as a Saint and uses his lyrics as prayers.
Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.
Some parts of Antarctica have had no rain or snow for the last 2 million years.
Ice melting in Antarctica has caused a small shift in gravity in the region.
Chile has a civilian town in Antarctica, complete with a school, hospital, hostel, post office, Internet, TV and mobile phone coverage.
There are 300 lakes beneath Antarctica that are kept from freezing by the warmth of Earth's core.
The southern most active volcano on Earth is in Antarctica. It spews crystals and is very close to the U.S. Research Center.
Antarctica was once as warm as modern-day California.
"Good cholesterol" (HDL) can "turn bad" and solidify into fat-clogs.
Chicken contains 266% more fat than it did 40 years ago.
A Father's Diet Before Conception Plays a Crucial Role in a Child's Health.
The average American eats 25 pounds (11.3 KG) of candy each year.
You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Big Mac with a Super Sized Coke and French Fries.
Every Dog's mitochondrial DNA is 99.9% the same as a gray wolf.
Dogs have 13 blood types, horses have 8, cows have 9, while Humans only have 4.
Paul McCartney recorded an ultrasonic whistle audible only to dogs at the end of "A Day in the Life".
In South Carolina, the maximum sentence for beating your dog is longer than the max sentence for beating your wife.
Humans and dogs are the only two species known to seek visual cues from another's eyes. And dogs only do it with humans.
Cats are America's most popular pets: there are 88 million cats compared to 74 million dogs.
Google prefers dogs to cats. Their official code of conduct specifically states they are a dog company.
Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays because the only two accounts of birthday parties in the Bible ended in murder.
Judas sold Jesus for the equivalent of 4 months' pay of a working man.
In 1789, New York City became the first national capital of the U.S. for a year.
The island of Manhattan was purchased from American Indian people in 1626 for about US$1,000 in modern currency.
New Yorkers bite 10 times morepeople than sharks do worldwide.
Manhattan comes from a word in the Lenape language that means "Island of many hills".
New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the US.
Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe box in NYC.
More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered.
823 same-sex couples were married in New York City on the first day that same-sex marriage was legal state-wide.
NYC homeowners can request that a tree be planted outside their homes for free.
Ancient Rome was eight times more densely populated than modern New York.
New York gets 15 times as much snow as the South Pole.
All the departure boards at NYC's Grand Central are exactly one minute wrong.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not radioactive anymore mostly because the bombs didn't touch the ground, but were detonated in the air.
A month after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, a typhoon hit the city killing another 2,000 people.
The atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshima was generated by matter weighing no more than a paper clip.
UK's Internet Porn Filter Architect was Arrested On Child Porn Offences.
In the UK, accents change noticeably about every 25 miles (40km).
Concentration camps were first used by the British during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
U.S. eggs are illegal in Britain because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in the U.S. because they are not.
The average car in Britain is parked for 96% of the time.
Qatar's 2022 World Cup will take more lives than 9/11 due to horrible working conditions for migrant workers building stadiums and infrastructure.
The city of Lusail, host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Final game, does not exist yet.
The first soccer game televised was a friendly match between Arsenal's first and second team in 1937.
On average, soccer players run as far as 9.5 miles in a single match.
The Vatican has its own soccer team.
FIFA has more member countries than the U.N.
The most goals scored in a World Cup's match was 10 by Hungary against El Salvador in 1982.
The Soviet Union had transferred over 150 nuclear weapons to Cuba by the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
5%of Cubans actually have access to the open Internet.
Only two countries in the world are not allowed to sell Coca-Cola officially: North Korea and Cuba.
JFK bought 1,200 cuban cigars just hours before signing the embargo against Cuba.
When Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, he immediately ordered all game sets of Monopoly to be destroyed.
A man left Havana in a hot air balloon in 1856, and has been missing ever since.
The U.S. pays Cuba US$4,085 a month in rent for Guantanamo Bay, but Cuba refuses to cash the checks.
1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun, an average-sized star.
The Earth, seen from the moon, also goes through phases.
It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
Before trees were common, the Earth was covered in giant mushrooms.
Our galaxy probably contains at least 2 billion planets like Earth.
There are about 7500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth.
Since at least the time of Pythagoras in 500 BC, no educated person believed the Earth was flat.
The Earth lost 40% of its wildlife in the past 40 years, according to the WWF.
Earth is the only place in the solar system where a total solar eclipse can happen.
Water constitutes only 0.07% of the earth by mass, or 0.4% of the earth by volume.
Earth is the only planet whose name in English is not derived from a Greco-Roman God.
The highest place on Earth, and closest to space, is Mount Chimborazo in the Andes.
There are about 22,000 manmade objects orbiting around planet Earth.
As passengers on Earth, we are all carried around the sun at a mean velocity of 66,600 mph (107,182 km/h).
Between 100 to 300 tonnes of cosmic dust enter the Earth's atmosphere each day.
There are about 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of them cause damage.
The southern most active volcano on Earth is in Antarctica. It spews crystals and is very close to the U.S. Research Center.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball in Space, then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
Brazil is the 5th largest country in the world.
Brazil has the 2nd highest number of airports in the world, after the U.S.
In 1958, a rhinoceros was a candidate in the city council elections in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Apple's iPhone is almost twice more expensive in Brazil than in the U.S.
Rio de Janeiro means "January River" and it was called that by mistake. A portuguese explorer thought the bay was the mouth of a river.
There's an underground river 4 KM (2.4 mi) beneath the Amazon River in Brazil, that might be as long, but hundreds of times wider.
There's a colony in Brazil founded by 2,000 to 4,000 Confederate refugees who left the U.S. after losing the Civil War.
Kissing someone for one minute burns about 2 calories.
When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.
Kissing can cause tooth decay.

The average person spends two weeks of its life Kissing.
Two thirds of people tilt their head to the right when they kiss.

New Yorkers bite 10 times morepeople than sharks do worldwide.
Sharks can be introverts or extroverts.
Signs that a circling shark will attack: it will hunch its back, lower its pectoral fins and swim in zigzag motions.
A lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world, a study suggests.
Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.
Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.

Exercise, like walking, can reduce breast cancer risk by 25%.
A Father's Diet Before Conception Plays a Crucial Role in a Child's Health.
Chicken contains 266% more fat than it did 40 years ago.
On average, people who complain live longer. Releasing the tension increases immunity and boosts their health.
Human pollution has caused the average length of polar bears' penises to shrink .
Almost a third of San Francisco's air pollution comes from China.
Nearly 700 million Chinese people drink contaminated water.
Lake Karachay in Russia is the most radioactive and polluted lake in the world.
Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles per hour. Each one takes 500 years to decompose.
Fish in polluted lakes lose their sense of smell.
In his lifetime, a man spends almost six months shaving.
Men with attractive wives report higher levels of satisfaction with their marriages, a study says.
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.
Women blink 19 times per minute, compared to 11 for men.
Smoking can lead to impotence in men.
Men were the first to wear high heels around the 1600s. Women began wearing them to look more masculine.
By 2020, China could have between 30 million and 40 million men who cannot find wives.
A man walks about 7% slower when with wives or girlfriends, and speeds up when with other men.
The Eiffel Tower was going to be demolished in 1909, but was saved because it was repurposed as a giant radio antenna.
1,665 steps are needed to climb all the way to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
There are 20,000 light bulbs on the Eiffel Tower.
Couples who are in love synchronize their heart rates after gazing into each others' eyes for three minutes.
Cuddling triggers the same neurological reaction as taking painkillers.
The heart symbol was first used to denote love in the 1250. Prior to that, it represented foliage.
Romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Philophobia is the fear of falling in love.
2% of couples have fallen in love in a supermarket, according to a survey.
Marriage started shifting from arranged to love-based marriages in the 18th Century.
In 2014, a prisoner escaped a detention center in Arizona to spend Valentine's Day with his girlfriend.
In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at someone was done to declare one's love.
There are about 3 million first dates every day worldwide..

The founder of Victoria's Secret, Roy Raymond, committed suicide by leaping off the Golden Gate Bridge in 1993.
More U.S. soldiers committed suicide, than died in combat in 2012.
Many animals have been reported to commit suicide, including dogs, cows, bulls, and sheep.
The Golden Gate Bridge is the #1 suicide site in the world.
Suicide attempts were punished as crimes in England and Wales until 1961.
The world consumes close to 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day.
Energy drinks still don't have as much caffeine as a Starbucks coffee.
In Korea and Japan, there is a Cat Cafe where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.
Starbucks spends more money on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans.
Drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee significantly improves blood flow.
New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the US.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The word "coffee" comes from the Arabic for "wine of the bean".
20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal bacteria.
The beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun, an average-sized star.
Six ten-billionths of the Sun is gold.
Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun.
The Sun is thought to have completed about 20 orbits during its lifetime and just 1/1250th of an orbit since the origin of humans.
As passengers on Earth, we are all carried around the sun at a mean velocity of 66,600 mph (107,182 km/h).
Your eyes can get sunburned.
The Sun is 400 times further away from Earth than the Moon is.
A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
To our eyes, in space, the sun would appear white, not yellow.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball in Space, then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
Nearly 1 billion people will go to bed hungry tonight.
If you earn more than US$21,000 a year, you are part of the richest 4% on the planet.
Picasso burned most of his early work to keep his apartment warm because he was poor.
In China, over 35 million people still live in caves.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
If you have a pizza with radius Z and thickness A, its volume is = Pi*Z*Z*A
1089 x 9 = 9801.
Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That's why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
2,520 is the smallest number that can be exactly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.
There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie, according to mathematicians.
In 1900, all the world's mathematical knowledge could be written in about 80 books; today it would fill more than 100,000 books.
The birthday paradox says that in a group of just 23 people, there's a 50% chance that at least two will have the same birthday.
Newton invented/discovered calculus in about the same amount of time the average student learns it.
China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.
30,000 web sites are hacked every day.
There's high speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest.
A U.S. journalist faces 105 years in jail for posting a link on the web.
1 in 10 Americans think HTML --the language of web pages-- is a sexually transmitted disease.
Researchers are debating on adding Internet addiction to the list of mental disorders.
9 million adults in Britain have never used the internet.
50% of Internet users will quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds.
UK's Internet Porn Filter Architect was Arrested On Child Porn Offences.
China has more internet users on mobile devices than on PCs.
One third of Italians have never used the Internet.
The "Fi" in "WiFi" doesn't mean anything. The creators just called it that because it rhymed with "HiFi".
By the end of 1993, there were only 623 websites on the World Wide Web.
6%of the world's population has an Internet addiction.
The concept behind the word "cool" might come from the African word "itutu", brought to America by slavery.
The pyramids were built by paid laborers. Not slaves. That's a myth by Herodotus, the Greek historian.
Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life.
The key to happiness is spending your money on experiences rather than possessions, according to studies.
Romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Phobias may be memories passed down through generations in DNA, according to a new research.
30%of pregnant women crave nonfood items, an eating disorder called pica.
Researchers are debating on adding Internet addiction to the list of mental disorders.
The Truman Syndrome is a psychological disorder in which patients believe they're living in a reality TV show.
The brain treats rejection like physical pain, according to scientists.
The Jerusalem syndrome is a group of psychological phenomena triggered by a visit to Jerusalem.
No one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia.
The city of Melbourne, Australia, used to be called Batmania.
Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach everyday for over 27 years.
10% of Britons think Australia is further away than the Moon, a survey found in 2013.
Australia's Highway 1 is the world's longest national highway. With about 14,500 km, (9,000 mi), it circumnavigates the entire country.
Prostitution is legal in Canada. Buying the services of a prostitute is not.
Canada's lowest recorded temperature was -81.4 degrees Fahrenheit (-63 C) in 1947.
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world's lakes combined.
The first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan war were from an American pilot bombing a training exercise.
Licence plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
With 1,896 km (1,178 mi), the Yonge Street in Canada, is the longest street in the world.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII, Canada declared war on Japan before the U.S. did.
Canada's official phone number is 1-800-O-CANADA.
Gold has been discovered on every continent on earth.
Gold is edible.
Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood.
Earthquakes turn water into gold.
More gold is recoverable from a ton of personal computers than from 17 tons of gold ore.
3 Olympic swimming pools can hold all the gold ever mined in the world.
Six ten-billionths of the Sun is gold.
Over 6 milligrams of gold are lost every year from a Wedding Ring just by wearing it.
The world's oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold.
Nearly all of the gold on Earth came from meteorites that bombarded the planet over 200 million years after it formed.
Carat weight can be 10, 12, 14, 18, 22, or 24. The higher the number, the greater the purity.
Movie trailers used to play after the film.
The Movie "Paranormal Activity" cost less than $15,000 to make but grossed over $193,000,000.
The budget for the Movie "Titanic" was higher than the Titanic itself.
Bruce Lee was so fast, they actually had to run his films slower so you can see his moves.
Nigeria makes more movies every year than the US.
The movie Gravity was more expensive than the Indian Mars mission.
The production of Disney's film Tangled was more expensive than Avatar's production.
Before being an actor, Bruce Willis worked as a private investigator.
Two actors have died playing Judas in live Biblical productions by accidentally hanging themselves for real during his death scene.
Scarlett Johansson voiced Mandy in the Spongebob Movie.
Yoda, from Star Wars, was modeled after the appearance of Albert Einstein.
The movie "Little Miss Sunshine" was partially inspired by a quote from Arnold Schwarzenegger saying: "If there's one thing in this world I despise, it's losers."

According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal and welding fumes.
Astronauts on the International Space Station witness around 15 sunrises and 15 sunsets every day.
The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built, at US$150 billion.
In 1977, we received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. We still don't know how or where it came from.
Most astronauts become two inches taller in space.
There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean.
On the International Space Station, urine passes through a special water treatment plant that turns it into drinking water.
Inside an astronaut's helmet there is a velcro patch that serves as a scratcher.
NASA scientists have discovered stars that are cool enough to touch.
Saturn's rings are not solid. They are made up of bits of ice, dust and rock.
Floating cities above the clouds of Venus may be our best bet for becoming a two-planet species. Conditions there are so similar to Earth a human wouldn't need a pressurized suit, the gravity is similar and transit times are shorter than to Mars.
Humans can live unprotected in space for about 30 seconds if they don't hold their breath.
To our eyes, in space, the sun would appear white, not yellow.
The first man-made object in space was the German V2 rocket.
North Korea's space agency is called "NADA", which in Spanish means "nothing."
It is impossible to whistle in a Spacesuit.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball in Space, then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans.
Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.
The Statue of Liberty was intended for Egypt.
The pyramids were built by paid laborers. Not slaves. That's a myth by Herodotus, the Greek historian.
The lost Egyptian city of Heracleion was found after 1200 years under the sea.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stones.
The world's largest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
There are still unexplored passageways in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
Egypt is the most populated country in Middle East and has the world's largest Arab population.
The Musicians of the Titanic kept playing music for hours as the ship sank.
The budget for the Movie "Titanic" was higher than the Titanic itself.
After hitting the iceberg, it took the Titanic 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink.
Chocolate magnate Milton Hershey canceled his reservations for the Titanic due to last minute business matters.
Four forward compartments could flood without risk of the Titanic sinking. Six did.
Nearly a dozen couples were celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.
Ships today are more likely to encounter an iceberg than the Titanic was.
Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, brother of his father's killer, John Wilkes Booth.
Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, all of them had no college degree.
A full day on the moon, from one sunrise to the next, lasts about 29.5 Earth days on average.
The moon is moving away from us by 3.78 cm (1.48 in) a year.
The original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing were erased and re-used by mistake.
Your mobile phone has more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
It would take less than 6 months to get to the Moon by car at 60mph (95km/h).
The beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, they honored soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin by leaving behind one of his medals.
People experience better sleep during the new moon and worse sleep during a full moon, a study found.
Your weight on the moon is 16.5% of your weight on earth.
If there are two full moons in the same month, the second one is called blue moon.
Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon.
Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: 10 years and $100 billion.
The Earth, seen from the moon, also goes through phases.
Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.
There is high speed Internet on the moon: 19 MBPS.
Polar bears are the largest land predators on earth, standing over 11' high and weighting over 1,700 lbs.
Licence plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
All polar bears alive today can trace their ancestry back to one female brown bear who lived in Ireland 50,000 years ago.
Under their fur, polar bears have black skin.
 Humans can't handle that much vitamin A.
Polar bears can smell its prey on the ice 20 miles (32 km) away.
Human pollution has caused the average length of polar bears' penises to shrink .
There's only one STOP sign in the entire city of Paris.
Louis XIX was King of France for just 20 minutes.
The Mosque of Paris helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs during WWII.
King John I of France was proclaimed king five months before he was born. He only lived for five days.
Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales.
Many Fish can taste without even opening their mouths.
Herrings communicate through farts.

One Puffer Fish contains enough poison to kill 30 people.
80% of the biomass of fish in the world's oceans has been lost in the past 100 years.
Fish can drown in water.
Fish cough.
"Rain of fish" is an annual weather event in which hundreds of fish rain from the sky onto the city Yoro in Honduras.
Fish in polluted lakes lose their sense of smell.
When Anglerfish mate, they melt into each other and share their bodies forever.
Cats are America's most popular pets: there are 88 million cats compared to 74 million dogs.
Some cats have survived falls from over 32 stories (320 meters) onto concrete, due largely to their “righting reflex.”
Cats have 32 muscles that control the outer ear, while humans have only 6.
Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
The oldest video of cats on YouTube dates from 1894.
Owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third, researchers found.
The CIA spent US$20 million in the 60s training cats to spy on the Soviets. The first spy cat was hit by a taxi.
In Korea and Japan, there is a Cat Cafe where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
Cats have three eyelids.
A cat called "Dusty" produced 420 kittens during her breeding life, a world record.
India is the world's largest democracy, with 1.2 billion people.
100 million people come to India's Kumbh Mela Festival, the world's biggest gathering of humans.
The world's biggest family lives together in India: a man with 39 wives and 94 children.
Police officers in one state in India are given a slight pay upgrade for having a moustache.
India has the world's lowest meat consumption per person.
Children's Day is celebrated in India on November 14th, 9 months after Valentine's Day.
In West Bengal, India, cows must have a Photo ID Card.
To earn enough to buy a Big Mac, the average person in India has to work almost 6 hours.
In India, a polling station is setup in a forest for a lone voter in every election since 2004.
Computer Keyboards can carry more than 200 times as many bacteria as a toilet seat.
Americans spend 5 cents per day by flushing their toilets.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
Some women can have a genetic mutation which causes them to see millions of more colors.
People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.
All blue eyed people can be traced back to one person who lived near the Black Sea almost 10,000 years ago.
We spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking.
An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Researched have successfully used the game TETRIS to treat "lazy eye" in adults.
Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe box in NYC.
Your eyes can get sunburned.
Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.
Blue eyes tend to be more sensitive to light.
Humans and dogs are the only two species known to seek visual cues from another's eyes. And dogs only do it with humans.
Cats have three eyelids.
Ommatophobia is the fear of eyes.
Night vision goggles are green because the human eye can differentiate more shades of green than any other color.
The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.
It takes approximately 400 cacao beans to make one pound (450 gr.) of chocolate.
The World's Largest Chocolate Bar Weighed 5,792 kg (12,770 lb).
Chocolate magnate Milton Hershey canceled his reservations for the Titanic due to last minute business matters.
Eating dark chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart disease by one third.
Chocolate has an anti-bacterial effect on the mouth and protect against tooth decay.
A lethal dose of chocolate for a human being is about 22 lbs., or 40 Hershey bars.
1%of the World's Water Is Drinkable.
Nearly 700 million Chinese people drink contaminated water.
In the Middle Ages BEER was consumed more than water as the alcohol made it safer.
There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean.
Each foot contains about 250,000 sweat glands.
Water constitutes only 0.07% of the earth by mass, or 0.4% of the earth by volume.
It takes up to 2,900 gallons of water to make a single pair of jeans.
The expiration date on water bottles is for the bottle, not the water.
All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

The "smell of rain" is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.
Researchers found 1,458 new species of bacteria in belly buttons.
Chocolate has an anti-bacterial effect on the mouth and protect against tooth decay.
There's a breed of bacteria that lives in hair spray.
A dollar bill has 3,000 types of bacteria.
When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.
Most antibiotics are made from bacteria.
The strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
Offices with more male employees have far more bacteria.
In 2013, a bacteria was found in New Zealand that's resistant to every single antibiotic known.
Computer Keyboards can carry more than 200 times as many bacteria as a toilet seat.
20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal bacteria.
Babies are born with no bacteria in their bodies.
600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts every day.
You can change your language on Facebook to "Pirate."
Smartphone users check Facebook 14 times a day.
Several people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.
There are, on average, 3.74 degrees of separation between any one Facebook user and another.
A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the U.S. contained the word "Facebook."

The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up, according to data analyzed from Facebook.
Facebook is estimated to spend US$30 million a month on hosting alone.
The largest elephant on record weighed about 24,000 pounds (10,886 kg) with a height of 13 feet (3.96 m).
About 100 elephants are being killed every day for their ivory.
African elephants have the best sense of smell in the animal kingdom.
Africa is home to the world's largest living land animal, the African elephant , and the tallest, the Giraffe .
Elephants are the only mammals, besides humans, to have chins.
An adult elephant requires up to 300 kg of food and 160 litres of water per day.
96 elephants are killed every day in Africa.
African elephants can distinguish human languages, genders and ages associated with danger.
An elephant can smell water from 12 miles away.
Elephants can differentiate between men and women, and between different ethnicities, when they hear a voice.
You don't like the original version of a song because it's better. You like it because it's the one you heard first.
Warner Music collected over US$2 million in royalties in 2008 for public usage of the "Happy Birthday" song.
Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life.
None of The Beatles Could Read Music.
Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.
Elvis Presley didn't write any of his songs.
Musicians have the same life expectancy as Zimbabweans: the lowest on earth.
The Beatles used to be called Johnny and the Moondogs.
The world's longest concert goes so slow, it will last 639 years.
The original lyrics of the "Happy Birthday to You" song was "Good Morning to You".

In 1989, the U.S. military blared AC/DC music at General Noriega's compound in Panama for 2 continuous days. The dictator surrendered.
Jimi Hendrix couldn't read or write music.
There are 100 divorces every hour in the U.S.
A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the U.S. contained the word "Facebook."
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.
Divorce is illegal in the Philippines.
75%of people who marry partners from an affair eventually divorce.
People who endure more than 45-minute commute are 40% more likely to divorce.
Phil Collins divorced his second wife by fax.
Couples who spend more money on their wedding have higher divorce rates, a study found.
Chicken contains 266% more fat than it did 40 years ago.
CARROTS were originally PURPLE
Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
An average person in the U.S. eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.
Fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom. They were invented in early 1900 in San Francisco.
Dynamite is made with peanuts.
Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease from 20 to 50 percent.
Eating fast food regularly has the same impact on the liver as hepatitis.
India has the world's lowest meat consumption per person.
Over 20,000 people die of Cancer every day.
There are more than 100 types of cancers; any part of the body can be affected.
Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.
There are 28 million cancer survivors worldwide.
Exercise, like walking, can reduce breast cancer risk by 25%.
A single cigarette contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
Multivitamins increase the risk of cancer and heart disease, according to recent studies.
Cancer mortality rate has fallen from 215 deaths per 100,000 people in 1991 to 172 deaths per 100,000 people in 2010.
Prediabetes increases cancer risk by 15%.
Pilots and flight attendants are twice as likely to get skin cancer melanoma from higher exposure to UV rays.
Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.
About 100 billion people have died in all human history.

About 153,000 people will die on your birthday.
Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
China executes the death penalty more than 4 times as the rest of the world combined
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.
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.
"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.
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.
600 Americans die each year from falling out of bed.
Amazonian Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears.
All prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells.
The average person has 1,825 dreams per year.
Scorpions glow under the full moon light.
There are thought to be 100,000 uncharted mountains under the sea.
Elephants are the only mammals, besides humans, to have chins.
Children's Day is celebrated in India on November 14th, 9 months after Valentine's Day.
A teaspoon of water contains about 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in it.
About 165,000 cars are produced every day.
Half of the pilots surveyed in the UK admitted to having fallen asleep while flying a passenger plane.
The average American spends over 5 months of his life on the phone.
Dalmatian puppies are born completely white.
Male millipedes court females with songs and back rubs.
U.S. eggs are illegal in Britain because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in the U.S. because they are not.
Astronauts on the International Space Station witness around 15 sunrises and 15 sunsets every day.
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.
People can only remember 4 things at a time.
Lake Karachay in Russia is the most radioactive and polluted lake in the world.
35,000 people die every year in the U.S. from the flu or its complications.
At least half the world's 6,000 languages are not expected to survive into the next century.
More than a third of the world's smokers are Chinese.
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.
Norway was ranked the world's #1 country in the 2014 Prosperity Index for wealth and well-being.
In 2008, Norway knighted a penguin.
All prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells.
Advertising to children under the age of 12 is illegal in Norway and Sweden.
Italy has the eighth-largest economy in the world.
Located within Italy, San Marino is the world's oldest republic (301 A.D.), and holds the world's oldest continuous constitution.
One third of Italians have never used the Internet.
51% of Italians can't afford a vacation.
In 2013, an italian man under house arrest asked to go to prison to escape his wife.
Italy's PM Benito Mussolini tortured his enemies by forcing them to swallow massive doses of castor oil.
The official name of Spain is the "Kingdom of Spain."
The Spanish national anthem has no words.
There's a 47-story skyscraper in Spain that has NO elevator.
Spain had more unemployment in 2013 (27.2%) than the US had during the Great Depression (25%).
At least 1 in 25 people sentenced to the death penalty in the U.S. are innocent.
Death penalty trials are 20 times more expensive than trials seeking a sentence of life in prison without parole.
The Death Penalty is legal in 32 U.S. states.
Since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court, 1,394 people have been executed (as of December 2014).
Drug possession and trafficking is punished in Singapore with the death penalty.
Company executives in China can get sentenced to death for committing fraud.
In the 16th century, England punished vagabonds with two years of servitude for the first offence and death penalty for the second.
The night before his execution, a man in Georgia escaped from prison and, later that night, was beaten to death in a bar fight.
In 2005, A Chinese company used skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe.
Ancient Romans used a sponge with a stick to clean themselves after pooping, and shared it with everyone.
In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
During the 7th century B.C., ancient Roman "vestal virgins" were required to keep their hymens intact as proof of virginity until age 30 or they would be buried alive.
Ancient Rome was eight times more densely populated than modern New York.
Life expectancy in Ancient Rome was from 20 to 30 years.
Urine was used in Ancient Rome to wash clothes.
Early Christians were called "atheists" by Romans as they didn't pay tribute to pagan gods.
Women in ancient Rome wore the sweat of Gladiators to improve their beauty and complexion.
At its peak, the Roman Empire comprised only 12% of the world's population.
It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.
Alcohol is not digested; it gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream.
48%of the world's population older than 15 claim to have never consumed alcohol.
There are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths in Russia each year.
People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.
Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.
Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day's work, plus €10 and tobacco.
The U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people.
In the Middle Ages BEER was consumed more than water as the alcohol made it safer.
Alcohol Poisoning Kills 6 Americans Every Day.
Over 100,000 people have applied for a one-way trip to colonize Mars in 2022.
On Mars, sunsets are blue.
Mars has the tallest known mountain on a planet of our Solar System, with a height of 22 km (14 mi).
Mars is red because it is covered in rust (iron oxide).
The movie Gravity was more expensive than the Indian Mars mission.
Mars is about half the size of the Earth.
There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.

An average person in the U.S. eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.
An average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
The average person takes 183,755,600 steps in a lifetime.
The average American spends over 5 months of his life on the phone.
In his lifetime, a man spends almost six months shaving.
Joggers live, on average, six years longer.
Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.
Two-thirds of all the people in the world who have ever lived to be 65 years old are still alive today.
The average person spends two weeks of its life Kissing.
1 in 5 Americans believes that the world will end in their lifetime.
Humans spend a third of their life sleeping. That's about 25 years.
In a lifetime, your brain's long-term memory can hold as many as 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) separate bits of information.
Parents of new babies miss out on 6 months worth of sleep in the first 2 years of their child's life.
An average woman in the UK will own 111 handbags in her lifetime.
82% of Americans believe in some kind of afterlife.
The average person walks 75,000 miles (120,000 KM) in a lifetime, or five times round the world.

There's a Golf Club on the border of Sweden and Finland: half the holes are in one country and half in the other.
Advertising to children under the age of 12 is illegal in Norway and Sweden.
Aborting a child because of its gender is legal in Sweden.
The band Abba wore ridiculous outfits to avoid Sweden's taxes, which allowed deductions for clothing if it wasn't meant to be used every day.
Swedish wasn't made the official language of Sweden until 2009.
Scientists can grow teeth from urine.
Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
The World's oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.
Earthquakes turn water into gold.
A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.
Rain contains vitamin B12.
Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
It would take light 100,000 years to travel from one end of the Milky Way galaxy to the other.
Every time a woodpecker's beak hits a tree, its head is subject to 1,000 times the force of gravity.
Researchers believe the first human case of HIV was in Kinshasa, Congo, around 1920.
The Big Bang Theory was actually first theorized by a Catholic priest.
There are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than body cells.
Ice melting in Antarctica has caused a small shift in gravity in the region.
Your weight on the moon is 16.5% of your weight on earth.
The Sun is 400 times further away from Earth than the Moon is.
Each foot contains about 250,000 sweat glands.
Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.
It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
The Sun is thought to have completed about 20 orbits during its lifetime and just 1/1250th of an orbit since the origin of humans.
Viruses can get viruses.
Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun.
If you were to put Saturn on water, it would float.
The moon is moving away from us by 3.78 cm (1.48 in) a year.
100,000,000,000 solar neutrinos pass through every square inch of your body every second.
If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.
The "smell of rain" is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.
WWI is the sixth deadliest conflict in world history.
WWI transformed the U.S. into the largest military power in the world.
During WW1, a Hungarian man was shot in the frontal lobe, making it impossible for him to fall asleep. He continued to live a full, sleepless life.
Chemotherapy is a by-product of the mustard gas used in WWI.
Four empires collapsed after WWI: Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian.
After WWI, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland emerged as independent nations.
Germany made its final reparations payment from the WWI Treaty of Versailles in 2010.
During WWI, the U.S. Government tried to rename hamburgers as "liberty sandwiches" to promote patriotism.
The cities of Aachen, Regensburg, Frankfurt-am-Main, Nuremberg, Weimar, Bonn and Berlin have all been capitals of Germany.
Berlin is 9 times bigger than Paris and has more bridges than Venice.
Holocaust denial is either implicitly or explicitly a crime in 17 countries, including Germany and Austria.
The first magazine ever seen was launched in 1663 in Germany.
In Germany, it is illegal to run out of fuel on highways.
Hamburgers got their name from Hamburg, Germany.
60% of YouTube's 1,000 most popular videos are blocked in Germany.
Germany made its final reparations payment from the WWI Treaty of Versailles in 2010.
Some 5,500 WWII bombs are discovered in Germany every year and defused, an average of 15 per day.
In 1960, two of The Beatles got deported from Germany for lighting a condom on fire.
Dachau, the first NAZI concentration camp in Germany, opened six years before WWII.
Africa is home to the world's largest living land animal, the African elephant , and the tallest, the Giraffe .
The San people of Southern Africa today use the same set of tools that were found in a Cave, dating to 44,000 years ago.
96 elephants are killed every day in Africa.
In 1998, all 11 members of a soccer team in Africa were killed by lightning while leaving the other team unhurt.
Contrary to popular belief, there are no wild tigers in Africa. Only in Asia.
About 2,000 pandas are found in the wild.
99% of a Panda's diet consists of bamboo.
Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the feces of their mothers.
The West first learned of the giant panda in 1869, when a French missionary received a skin from a hunter.
One of the reasons the WWF chose the Panda as their logo was to save printing costs.
Pandas have lived on Earth for 2 to 3 million years.
A panda fur is worth between US$60,000 and US$100,000 on the illegal trade market.
One giant panda usually needs between 2.5 to 4 square miles (10 million m2) of land to survive.
Google has found GPA's and test scores to be "worthless as a criteria for hiring"; they have teams where 14% of their employees haven't gone to college.
Google earns US$20 billion a year from advertising, more than the primetime revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX combined.
Every minute,2 million searches are performed on Google.
Google is developing a computer so smart it can program itself.
Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled "googol", which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
Google prefers dogs to cats. Their official code of conduct specifically states they are a dog company.
If you have a pizza with radius Z and thickness A, its volume is = Pi*Z*Z*A
Every human being starts out as an asshole: it's the first part of the body to form in the womb.
You can change your language on Facebook to "Pirate."
1 In 4 Americans thinks the Sun goes around the Earth.
1 in 10 Americans think HTML --the language of web pages-- is a sexually transmitted disease.
A group of owls is called a Parliament.
The word pencil comes from a Latin word meaning "small penis."
Charlie Chaplin once lost in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Viruses can get viruses.
The Hundred Years' War lasted for 116 years.
Over 80,000 people graduated from McDonald's Hamburger University with a bachelors degree in hamburgerology.
Cows moo in accents specific to their region, just like humans.
In Oklahoma, it's illegal to take a bite out of another person's hamburger.
Nikola Tesla once "shook the poop out" of a constipated Mark Twain with an experiment.
Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37% fewer mistakes.
In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at someone was done to declare one's love.
In Alabama, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle.
The movie Gravity was more expensive than the Indian Mars mission.
Applying hemorrhoid cream to your chest and waist can make you look more muscular.
Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.
The word "bride" comes from an old proto-germanic word meaning "to cook".
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery-chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the official name of a village in Wales.
No one knows who invented the fire hydrant because its patent was burned in a fire.
About a third of all Jewish people alive at that time were murdered in the Holocaust.
In 1945, Einsenhower predicted that people would try to deny the holocaust, so he urged the press to come.
During WWII, Japan received Jewish refugees and rejected the resulting Nazi German protests.
Hitler planned to collect thousands of Jewish artifacts to build a "Museum of An Extinct Race" after the war.
Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier, volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather information, escape and let the world know about death camps.
The Mosque of Paris helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs during WWII.
Holocaust denial is either implicitly or explicitly a crime in 17 countries, including Germany and Austria.
The only Jewish descendants spared by the Nazis where those with grandparents who converted to Christianity before the founding of the German Empire (1871).
Four of Freud's sisters died at the Holocaust in Nazi concentration camps.
Dachau, the first NAZI concentration camp in Germany, opened six years before WWII.
Medicinal Marijuana is Considered Kosher in Some Cases by Judaism.
The population of Jews in the world is similar to the margin of error in the Chinese census.
The "eye for an eye" principle is not interpreted literally in Judaism, but as a proportional monetary compensation.
Since the 12th century, Judaism believes that if the truths derived through science or philosophy contradict religious beliefs, the religious beliefs are incorrect.
Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.
Some parts of Antarctica have had no rain or snow for the last 2 million years.
Ice melting in Antarctica has caused a small shift in gravity in the region.
Chile has a civilian town in Antarctica, complete with a school, hospital, hostel, post office, Internet, TV and mobile phone coverage.
There are 300 lakes beneath Antarctica that are kept from freezing by the warmth of Earth's core.
The southern most active volcano on Earth is in Antarctica. It spews crystals and is very close to the U.S. Research Center.
Antarctica was once as warm as modern-day California.
Early Christians were called "atheists" by Romans as they didn't pay tribute to pagan gods.
A Church built into a cave is the largest church in the Middle East.
Judas sold Jesus for the equivalent of 4 months' pay of a working man.
Billy Graham personally preached Christianism to over 200 million people.
There's a Christian church in San Francisco that worships John Coltrane as a Saint and uses his lyrics as prayers.
The world's largest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.
The Aztecs used Cacao seeds as a form of currency.
San Francisco was part of Mexico until the Mexican-American War in 1848.
Mexico City boasts the largest taxi fleet in the world with 100,000 taxis running every day.
There is only one gun shop in Mexico. 90% of the country's firearms are smuggled in from the USA.
Yucatan, Mexico, was named after a misunderstanding. Spaniards asked the locals what was the place called. They replied "Yucatan," which in their language means "I don't understand you."
"Good cholesterol" (HDL) can "turn bad" and solidify into fat-clogs.
Chicken contains 266% more fat than it did 40 years ago.
A Father's Diet Before Conception Plays a Crucial Role in a Child's Health.
The average American eats 25 pounds (11.3 KG) of candy each year.
You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Big Mac with a Super Sized Coke and French Fries.
Every Dog's mitochondrial DNA is 99.9% the same as a gray wolf.
Dogs have 13 blood types, horses have 8, cows have 9, while Humans only have 4.
Paul McCartney recorded an ultrasonic whistle audible only to dogs at the end of "A Day in the Life".
In South Carolina, the maximum sentence for beating your dog is longer than the max sentence for beating your wife.
Humans and dogs are the only two species known to seek visual cues from another's eyes. And dogs only do it with humans.
Cats are America's most popular pets: there are 88 million cats compared to 74 million dogs.
Google prefers dogs to cats. Their official code of conduct specifically states they are a dog company.
Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays because the only two accounts of birthday parties in the Bible ended in murder.
Judas sold Jesus for the equivalent of 4 months' pay of a working man.
In 1789, New York City became the first national capital of the U.S. for a year.
The island of Manhattan was purchased from American Indian people in 1626 for about US$1,000 in modern currency.
New Yorkers bite 10 times morepeople than sharks do worldwide.
Manhattan comes from a word in the Lenape language that means "Island of many hills".
New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the US.
Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe box in NYC.
More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered.
823 same-sex couples were married in New York City on the first day that same-sex marriage was legal state-wide.
NYC homeowners can request that a tree be planted outside their homes for free.
Ancient Rome was eight times more densely populated than modern New York.
New York gets 15 times as much snow as the South Pole.
All the departure boards at NYC's Grand Central are exactly one minute wrong.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not radioactive anymore mostly because the bombs didn't touch the ground, but were detonated in the air.
A month after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, a typhoon hit the city killing another 2,000 people.
The atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshima was generated by matter weighing no more than a paper clip.
Qatar's 2022 World Cup will take more lives than 9/11 due to horrible working conditions for migrant workers building stadiums and infrastructure.
The city of Lusail, host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Final game, does not exist yet.
The first soccer game televised was a friendly match between Arsenal's first and second team in 1937.
On average, soccer players run as far as 9.5 miles in a single match.
The Vatican has its own soccer team.
FIFA has more member countries than the U.N.
The most goals scored in a World Cup's match was 10 by Hungary against El Salvador in 1982.
UK's Internet Porn Filter Architect was Arrested On Child Porn Offences.
In the UK, accents change noticeably about every 25 miles (40km).
Concentration camps were first used by the British during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
U.S. eggs are illegal in Britain because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in the U.S. because they are not.
The average car in Britain is parked for 96% of the time.
1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun, an average-sized star.
The Earth, seen from the moon, also goes through phases.
It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
Before trees were common, the Earth was covered in giant mushrooms.
Our galaxy probably contains at least 2 billion planets like Earth.
There are about 7500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth.
Since at least the time of Pythagoras in 500 BC, no educated person believed the Earth was flat.
The Earth lost 40% of its wildlife in the past 40 years, according to the WWF.
Earth is the only place in the solar system where a total solar eclipse can happen.
Water constitutes only 0.07% of the earth by mass, or 0.4% of the earth by volume.
Earth is the only planet whose name in English is not derived from a Greco-Roman God.
The highest place on Earth, and closest to space, is Mount Chimborazo in the Andes.
There are about 22,000 manmade objects orbiting around planet Earth.
As passengers on Earth, we are all carried around the sun at a mean velocity of 66,600 mph (107,182 km/h).
Between 100 to 300 tonnes of cosmic dust enter the Earth's atmosphere each day.
There are about 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of them cause damage.
The southern most active volcano on Earth is in Antarctica. It spews crystals and is very close to the U.S. Research Center.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball in Space, then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
The Soviet Union had transferred over 150 nuclear weapons to Cuba by the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
5%of Cubans actually have access to the open Internet.
Only two countries in the world are not allowed to sell Coca-Cola officially: North Korea and Cuba.
JFK bought 1,200 cuban cigars just hours before signing the embargo against Cuba.
When Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, he immediately ordered all game sets of Monopoly to be destroyed.
A man left Havana in a hot air balloon in 1856, and has been missing ever since.
The U.S. pays Cuba US$4,085 a month in rent for Guantanamo Bay, but Cuba refuses to cash the checks.
Brazil is the 5th largest country in the world.
Brazil has the 2nd highest number of airports in the world, after the U.S.
In 1958, a rhinoceros was a candidate in the city council elections in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Apple's iPhone is almost twice more expensive in Brazil than in the U.S.
Rio de Janeiro means "January River" and it was called that by mistake. A portuguese explorer thought the bay was the mouth of a river.
There's an underground river 4 KM (2.4 mi) beneath the Amazon River in Brazil, that might be as long, but hundreds of times wider.
There's a colony in Brazil founded by 2,000 to 4,000 Confederate refugees who left the U.S. after losing the Civil War.
Kissing someone for one minute burns about 2 calories.
When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.
Kissing can cause tooth decay.

The average person spends two weeks of its life Kissing.
Two thirds of people tilt their head to the right when they kiss.

New Yorkers bite 10 times morepeople than sharks do worldwide.
Sharks can be introverts or extroverts.
Signs that a circling shark will attack: it will hunch its back, lower its pectoral fins and swim in zigzag motions.
A lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world, a study suggests.
Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.
Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.

Exercise, like walking, can reduce breast cancer risk by 25%.
A Father's Diet Before Conception Plays a Crucial Role in a Child's Health.
Chicken contains 266% more fat than it did 40 years ago.
On average, people who complain live longer. Releasing the tension increases immunity and boosts their health.
Human pollution has caused the average length of polar bears' penises to shrink .
Almost a third of San Francisco's air pollution comes from China.
Nearly 700 million Chinese people drink contaminated water.
Lake Karachay in Russia is the most radioactive and polluted lake in the world.
Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles per hour. Each one takes 500 years to decompose.
Fish in polluted lakes lose their sense of smell.
In his lifetime, a man spends almost six months shaving.
Men with attractive wives report higher levels of satisfaction with their marriages, a study says.
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.
Women blink 19 times per minute, compared to 11 for men.
Smoking can lead to impotence in men.
Men were the first to wear high heels around the 1600s. Women began wearing them to look more masculine.
By 2020, China could have between 30 million and 40 million men who cannot find wives.
A man walks about 7% slower when with wives or girlfriends, and speeds up when with other men.
The Eiffel Tower was going to be demolished in 1909, but was saved because it was repurposed as a giant radio antenna.
1,665 steps are needed to climb all the way to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
There are 20,000 light bulbs on the Eiffel Tower.
Couples who are in love synchronize their heart rates after gazing into each others' eyes for three minutes.
Cuddling triggers the same neurological reaction as taking painkillers.
The heart symbol was first used to denote love in the 1250. Prior to that, it represented foliage.
Romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Philophobia is the fear of falling in love.
2% of couples have fallen in love in a supermarket, according to a survey.
Marriage started shifting from arranged to love-based marriages in the 18th Century.
In 2014, a prisoner escaped a detention center in Arizona to spend Valentine's Day with his girlfriend.
In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at someone was done to declare one's love.
There are about 3 million first dates every day worldwide..

The founder of Victoria's Secret, Roy Raymond, committed suicide by leaping off the Golden Gate Bridge in 1993.
More U.S. soldiers committed suicide, than died in combat in 2012.
Many animals have been reported to commit suicide, including dogs, cows, bulls, and sheep.
The Golden Gate Bridge is the #1 suicide site in the world.
Suicide attempts were punished as crimes in England and Wales until 1961.
The world consumes close to 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day.
Energy drinks still don't have as much caffeine as a Starbucks coffee.
In Korea and Japan, there is a Cat Cafe where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.
Starbucks spends more money on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans.
Drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee significantly improves blood flow.
New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the US.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The word "coffee" comes from the Arabic for "wine of the bean".
20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal bacteria.
The beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun, an average-sized star.
Six ten-billionths of the Sun is gold.
Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun.
The Sun is thought to have completed about 20 orbits during its lifetime and just 1/1250th of an orbit since the origin of humans.
As passengers on Earth, we are all carried around the sun at a mean velocity of 66,600 mph (107,182 km/h).
Your eyes can get sunburned.
The Sun is 400 times further away from Earth than the Moon is.
A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
To our eyes, in space, the sun would appear white, not yellow.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball in Space, then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
Nearly 1 billion people will go to bed hungry tonight.
If you earn more than US$21,000 a year, you are part of the richest 4% on the planet.
Picasso burned most of his early work to keep his apartment warm because he was poor.
In China, over 35 million people still live in caves.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
If you have a pizza with radius Z and thickness A, its volume is = Pi*Z*Z*A
1089 x 9 = 9801.
Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That's why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
2,520 is the smallest number that can be exactly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.
There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie, according to mathematicians.
In 1900, all the world's mathematical knowledge could be written in about 80 books; today it would fill more than 100,000 books.
The birthday paradox says that in a group of just 23 people, there's a 50% chance that at least two will have the same birthday.
Newton invented/discovered calculus in about the same amount of time the average student learns it.
Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life.
The key to happiness is spending your money on experiences rather than possessions, according to studies.
Romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Phobias may be memories passed down through generations in DNA, according to a new research.
30%of pregnant women crave nonfood items, an eating disorder called pica.
Researchers are debating on adding Internet addiction to the list of mental disorders.
The Truman Syndrome is a psychological disorder in which patients believe they're living in a reality TV show.
The brain treats rejection like physical pain, according to scientists.
The Jerusalem syndrome is a group of psychological phenomena triggered by a visit to Jerusalem.
No one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia.
The concept behind the word "cool" might come from the African word "itutu", brought to America by slavery.
The pyramids were built by paid laborers. Not slaves. That's a myth by Herodotus, the Greek historian.
China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.
30,000 web sites are hacked every day.
There's high speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest.
A U.S. journalist faces 105 years in jail for posting a link on the web.
1 in 10 Americans think HTML --the language of web pages-- is a sexually transmitted disease.
Researchers are debating on adding Internet addiction to the list of mental disorders.
9 million adults in Britain have never used the internet.
50% of Internet users will quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds.
UK's Internet Porn Filter Architect was Arrested On Child Porn Offences.
China has more internet users on mobile devices than on PCs.
One third of Italians have never used the Internet.
The "Fi" in "WiFi" doesn't mean anything. The creators just called it that because it rhymed with "HiFi".
By the end of 1993, there were only 623 websites on the World Wide Web.
6%of the world's population has an Internet addiction.
The city of Melbourne, Australia, used to be called Batmania.
Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach everyday for over 27 years.
10% of Britons think Australia is further away than the Moon, a survey found in 2013.
Australia's Highway 1 is the world's longest national highway. With about 14,500 km, (9,000 mi), it circumnavigates the entire country.
Prostitution is legal in Canada. Buying the services of a prostitute is not.
Canada's lowest recorded temperature was -81.4 degrees Fahrenheit (-63 C) in 1947.
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world's lakes combined.
The first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan war were from an American pilot bombing a training exercise.
Licence plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
With 1,896 km (1,178 mi), the Yonge Street in Canada, is the longest street in the world.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII, Canada declared war on Japan before the U.S. did.
Canada's official phone number is 1-800-O-CANADA.
Gold has been discovered on every continent on earth.
Gold is edible.
Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood.
Earthquakes turn water into gold.
More gold is recoverable from a ton of personal computers than from 17 tons of gold ore.
3 Olympic swimming pools can hold all the gold ever mined in the world.
Six ten-billionths of the Sun is gold.
Over 6 milligrams of gold are lost every year from a Wedding Ring just by wearing it.
The world's oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold.
Nearly all of the gold on Earth came from meteorites that bombarded the planet over 200 million years after it formed.
Carat weight can be 10, 12, 14, 18, 22, or 24. The higher the number, the greater the purity.
Movie trailers used to play after the film.
The Movie "Paranormal Activity" cost less than $15,000 to make but grossed over $193,000,000.
The budget for the Movie "Titanic" was higher than the Titanic itself.
Bruce Lee was so fast, they actually had to run his films slower so you can see his moves.
Nigeria makes more movies every year than the US.
The movie Gravity was more expensive than the Indian Mars mission.
The production of Disney's film Tangled was more expensive than Avatar's production.
Before being an actor, Bruce Willis worked as a private investigator.
Two actors have died playing Judas in live Biblical productions by accidentally hanging themselves for real during his death scene.
Scarlett Johansson voiced Mandy in the Spongebob Movie.
Yoda, from Star Wars, was modeled after the appearance of Albert Einstein.
The movie "Little Miss Sunshine" was partially inspired by a quote from Arnold Schwarzenegger saying: "If there's one thing in this world I despise, it's losers."

According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal and welding fumes.
Astronauts on the International Space Station witness around 15 sunrises and 15 sunsets every day.
The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built, at US$150 billion.
In 1977, we received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. We still don't know how or where it came from.
Most astronauts become two inches taller in space.
There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean.
On the International Space Station, urine passes through a special water treatment plant that turns it into drinking water.
Inside an astronaut's helmet there is a velcro patch that serves as a scratcher.
NASA scientists have discovered stars that are cool enough to touch.
Saturn's rings are not solid. They are made up of bits of ice, dust and rock.
Floating cities above the clouds of Venus may be our best bet for becoming a two-planet species. Conditions there are so similar to Earth a human wouldn't need a pressurized suit, the gravity is similar and transit times are shorter than to Mars.
Humans can live unprotected in space for about 30 seconds if they don't hold their breath.
To our eyes, in space, the sun would appear white, not yellow.
The first man-made object in space was the German V2 rocket.
North Korea's space agency is called "NADA", which in Spanish means "nothing."
It is impossible to whistle in a Spacesuit.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball in Space, then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans.
Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.
The Statue of Liberty was intended for Egypt.
The pyramids were built by paid laborers. Not slaves. That's a myth by Herodotus, the Greek historian.
The lost Egyptian city of Heracleion was found after 1200 years under the sea.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stones.
The world's largest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
There are still unexplored passageways in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
Egypt is the most populated country in Middle East and has the world's largest Arab population.
The Musicians of the Titanic kept playing music for hours as the ship sank.
The budget for the Movie "Titanic" was higher than the Titanic itself.
After hitting the iceberg, it took the Titanic 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink.
Chocolate magnate Milton Hershey canceled his reservations for the Titanic due to last minute business matters.
Four forward compartments could flood without risk of the Titanic sinking. Six did.
Nearly a dozen couples were celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.
Ships today are more likely to encounter an iceberg than the Titanic was.
Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, brother of his father's killer, John Wilkes Booth.
Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, all of them had no college degree.
A full day on the moon, from one sunrise to the next, lasts about 29.5 Earth days on average.
The moon is moving away from us by 3.78 cm (1.48 in) a year.
The original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing were erased and re-used by mistake.
Your mobile phone has more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
It would take less than 6 months to get to the Moon by car at 60mph (95km/h).
The beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, they honored soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin by leaving behind one of his medals.
People experience better sleep during the new moon and worse sleep during a full moon, a study found.
Your weight on the moon is 16.5% of your weight on earth.
If there are two full moons in the same month, the second one is called blue moon.
Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon.
Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: 10 years and $100 billion.
The Earth, seen from the moon, also goes through phases.
Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.
There is high speed Internet on the moon: 19 MBPS.
There's only one STOP sign in the entire city of Paris.
Louis XIX was King of France for just 20 minutes.
The Mosque of Paris helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs during WWII.
King John I of France was proclaimed king five months before he was born. He only lived for five days.
Polar bears are the largest land predators on earth, standing over 11' high and weighting over 1,700 lbs.
Licence plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
All polar bears alive today can trace their ancestry back to one female brown bear who lived in Ireland 50,000 years ago.
Under their fur, polar bears have black skin.
 Humans can't handle that much vitamin A.
Polar bears can smell its prey on the ice 20 miles (32 km) away.
Human pollution has caused the average length of polar bears' penises to shrink .
Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales.
Many Fish can taste without even opening their mouths.
Herrings communicate through farts.

One Puffer Fish contains enough poison to kill 30 people.
80% of the biomass of fish in the world's oceans has been lost in the past 100 years.
Fish can drown in water.
Fish cough.
"Rain of fish" is an annual weather event in which hundreds of fish rain from the sky onto the city Yoro in Honduras.
Fish in polluted lakes lose their sense of smell.
When Anglerfish mate, they melt into each other and share their bodies forever.
Cats are America's most popular pets: there are 88 million cats compared to 74 million dogs.
Some cats have survived falls from over 32 stories (320 meters) onto concrete, due largely to their “righting reflex.”
Cats have 32 muscles that control the outer ear, while humans have only 6.
Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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.
A pound of grasshoppers is almost as nutritious as a pound of beef.
Bart Simpsons' voice is played by a woman.
The jewelry store Tiffany and Co. was founded before Italy was a country.
Bananas are slightly radioactive.
Lobsters are thought to be capable of living over 100 years.
Nigeria has more English speakers than the United Kingdom.

Pregnant women, at a healthy weight, only need to eat an extra 300 calories per day.
More people are killed each year from bees than snakes.
The average toll to pass through the Panama Canal is US$54,000.
Over 90% of American movies made before 1929 are lost, no copies are known to exist.
French author Michel Thaler published a 233-page novel which has no verbs.
15%15%of American adults do not use the Internet.
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.
Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
10% of all the photographs in the world were taken in the last 12 months.
In 2013, soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo opened a museum dedicated to himself.
The paint on the Eiffel Tower weighs as much as 10 elephants.
Schwarzenegger was paid approximately US$21,429 for every word he said in Terminator 2.
Norway introduced Salmon Sushi to the Japanese in the 80s.
Brass door knobs automatically disinfect themselves after 8 hours.
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."
The oldest video of cats on YouTube dates from 1894.
Owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third, researchers found.
The CIA spent US$20 million in the 60s training cats to spy on the Soviets. The first spy cat was hit by a taxi.
In Korea and Japan, there is a Cat Cafe where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
Cats have three eyelids.
A cat called "Dusty" produced 420 kittens during her breeding life, a world record.
India is the world's largest democracy, with 1.2 billion people.
100 million people come to India's Kumbh Mela Festival, the world's biggest gathering of humans.
The world's biggest family lives together in India: a man with 39 wives and 94 children.
Police officers in one state in India are given a slight pay upgrade for having a moustache.
India has the world's lowest meat consumption per person.
Children's Day is celebrated in India on November 14th, 9 months after Valentine's Day.
In West Bengal, India, cows must have a Photo ID Card.
To earn enough to buy a Big Mac, the average person in India has to work almost 6 hours.
In India, a polling station is setup in a forest for a lone voter in every election since 2004.
Computer Keyboards can carry more than 200 times as many bacteria as a toilet seat.
Americans spend 5 cents per day by flushing their toilets.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
Some women can have a genetic mutation which causes them to see millions of more colors.
People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.
All blue eyed people can be traced back to one person who lived near the Black Sea almost 10,000 years ago.
We spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking.
An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Researched have successfully used the game TETRIS to treat "lazy eye" in adults.
Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe box in NYC.
Your eyes can get sunburned.
Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.
Blue eyes tend to be more sensitive to light.
Humans and dogs are the only two species known to seek visual cues from another's eyes. And dogs only do it with humans.
Cats have three eyelids.
Ommatophobia is the fear of eyes.
Night vision goggles are green because the human eye can differentiate more shades of green than any other color.
The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.
It takes approximately 400 cacao beans to make one pound (450 gr.) of chocolate.
The World's Largest Chocolate Bar Weighed 5,792 kg (12,770 lb).
Chocolate magnate Milton Hershey canceled his reservations for the Titanic due to last minute business matters.
Eating dark chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart disease by one third.
Chocolate has an anti-bacterial effect on the mouth and protect against tooth decay.
A lethal dose of chocolate for a human being is about 22 lbs., or 40 Hershey bars.
1%of the World's Water Is Drinkable.
Nearly 700 million Chinese people drink contaminated water.
In the Middle Ages BEER was consumed more than water as the alcohol made it safer.
There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean.
Each foot contains about 250,000 sweat glands.
Water constitutes only 0.07% of the earth by mass, or 0.4% of the earth by volume.
It takes up to 2,900 gallons of water to make a single pair of jeans.
The expiration date on water bottles is for the bottle, not the water.
All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

The "smell of rain" is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.
Researchers found 1,458 new species of bacteria in belly buttons.
Chocolate has an anti-bacterial effect on the mouth and protect against tooth decay.
There's a breed of bacteria that lives in hair spray.
A dollar bill has 3,000 types of bacteria.
When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.
Most antibiotics are made from bacteria.
The strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
Offices with more male employees have far more bacteria.
In 2013, a bacteria was found in New Zealand that's resistant to every single antibiotic known.
Computer Keyboards can carry more than 200 times as many bacteria as a toilet seat.
20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal bacteria.
Babies are born with no bacteria in their bodies.
600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts every day.
You can change your language on Facebook to "Pirate."
Smartphone users check Facebook 14 times a day.
Several people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.
There are, on average, 3.74 degrees of separation between any one Facebook user and another.
A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the U.S. contained the word "Facebook."

The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up, according to data analyzed from Facebook.
Facebook is estimated to spend US$30 million a month on hosting alone.
The largest elephant on record weighed about 24,000 pounds (10,886 kg) with a height of 13 feet (3.96 m).
About 100 elephants are being killed every day for their ivory.
African elephants have the best sense of smell in the animal kingdom.
Africa is home to the world's largest living land animal, the African elephant , and the tallest, the Giraffe .
Elephants are the only mammals, besides humans, to have chins.
An adult elephant requires up to 300 kg of food and 160 litres of water per day.
96 elephants are killed every day in Africa.
African elephants can distinguish human languages, genders and ages associated with danger.
An elephant can smell water from 12 miles away.
Elephants can differentiate between men and women, and between different ethnicities, when they hear a voice.
You don't like the original version of a song because it's better. You like it because it's the one you heard first.
Warner Music collected over US$2 million in royalties in 2008 for public usage of the "Happy Birthday" song.
Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life.
None of The Beatles Could Read Music.
Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.
Elvis Presley didn't write any of his songs.
Musicians have the same life expectancy as Zimbabweans: the lowest on earth.
The Beatles used to be called Johnny and the Moondogs.
The world's longest concert goes so slow, it will last 639 years.
The original lyrics of the "Happy Birthday to You" song was "Good Morning to You".

In 1989, the U.S. military blared AC/DC music at General Noriega's compound in Panama for 2 continuous days. The dictator surrendered.
Jimi Hendrix couldn't read or write music.
There are 100 divorces every hour in the U.S.
A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the U.S. contained the word "Facebook."
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.
Divorce is illegal in the Philippines.
75%of people who marry partners from an affair eventually divorce.
People who endure more than 45-minute commute are 40% more likely to divorce.
Phil Collins divorced his second wife by fax.
Couples who spend more money on their wedding have higher divorce rates, a study found.
Chicken contains 266% more fat than it did 40 years ago.
CARROTS were originally PURPLE
Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
An average person in the U.S. eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.
Fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom. They were invented in early 1900 in San Francisco.
Dynamite is made with peanuts.
Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease from 20 to 50 percent.
Eating fast food regularly has the same impact on the liver as hepatitis.
India has the world's lowest meat consumption per person.
Over 20,000 people die of Cancer every day.
There are more than 100 types of cancers; any part of the body can be affected.
Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.
There are 28 million cancer survivors worldwide.
Exercise, like walking, can reduce breast cancer risk by 25%.
A single cigarette contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
Multivitamins increase the risk of cancer and heart disease, according to recent studies.
Cancer mortality rate has fallen from 215 deaths per 100,000 people in 1991 to 172 deaths per 100,000 people in 2010.
Prediabetes increases cancer risk by 15%.
Pilots and flight attendants are twice as likely to get skin cancer melanoma from higher exposure to UV rays.
Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.
About 100 billion people have died in all human history.

About 153,000 people will die on your birthday.
Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually.