Interesting Facts

Tags: Eye, Vision, Sight, Eyesight, Love, Hate, Interesting, Weird, Human, Strange

Fact Page: When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
Date Added: 2011-01-26 13:21:22
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Donkey, Aeroplane, Plane, Plane Crash, Death, Strange, Weird, Interesting, Useless

Fact Page: Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Date Added: 2011-02-08 17:17:46
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Tags: Fingernails, Growth, Winter, Weird, Interesting, Human

Fact Page: Your fingernails grow faster in winter.
Date Added: 2011-01-27 09:45:18
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Rabbi Yaacov Deyo of Los Angeles invented speed dating as a way to get busy Jewish singles to meet each other. The concept quickly spread, and the rest, they say, is history.

Tags: Speed Dating, Dating, Love, Romance, Rabbi, Jewish, Los Angeles

Fact Page: Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
Date Added: 2013-03-05 13:38:35
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Tags: Valentine's Day, Love, Romance, Festive, Card, Valentine

Fact Page: Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
Date Added: 2013-02-14 11:48:05
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Tags: Gold, Tennis, Tennis Court, Size, Interesting, Fascinating, Metal

Fact Page: A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
Date Added: 2012-10-04 11:14:26
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Tags: Money, Weight, Dollar

Fact Page: A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
Date Added: 2012-07-19 07:22:26
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Tags: Bank, Cash Machine, Cash, Money, Hygiene, Cleanliness, Bacteria, Toilet, Dirt

Fact Page: Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.
Date Added: 2012-04-02 10:51:16
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Tags: Pencil, Lead, Drawing, Interesting, Stationery

Fact Page: A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
Date Added: 2012-03-28 14:41:24
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Although the time is not readily identifiable to the naked eye, it can be seen when examined with 20-fold magnification. There are no records explaining why that particular time was chosen.

Tags: Money, Dollar, Clock, Interesting

Fact Page: The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.
Date Added: 2012-03-27 20:34:17
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Tags: Car, Horn, Tone, Sound

Fact Page: American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Date Added: 2012-03-27 20:12:06
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Tags: Monopoly, Board Game, Game, Cool, Interesting, Character

Fact Page: In Monopoly, the character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
Date Added: 2012-03-20 10:52:32
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Tags: Play-Doh, Wallpaper, Cleaning, Manufacturing, Interesting, Toy

Fact Page: Play-Doh was first manufactured as a wallpaper cleaner.
Date Added: 2012-03-07 17:31:38
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Tags: Escalator, London, Subway, Equivalent, Interesting, Fascinating, UK, United Kingdom, England

Fact Page: The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
Date Added: 2011-10-02 20:45:57
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Tags: Love, Romance, Interesting, Relationship

Fact Page: One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
Date Added: 2011-08-27 10:43:27
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Tags: Love, Romance, Personality, Psychology, Interesting

Fact Page: Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
Date Added: 2011-08-25 12:59:24
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Tags: Dust, Bed, Particle, Dirt, Disgusting, Gross, Funny, Interesting

Fact Page: Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
Date Added: 2011-08-15 15:43:58
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Tags: Glass, Speed

Fact Page: When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
Date Added: 2011-05-01 17:14:03
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Tags: Sex, World, Worldwide, Statistic

Fact Page: Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.
Date Added: 2011-04-27 12:28:49
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Tags: University, Indiana, Library, Engineering, Building, Book, Weight

Fact Page: The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Date Added: 2011-04-18 14:09:40
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Tags: Pencil, Pencil Sharpener, Sharpener, Aluminium, Office, Work

Fact Page: You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
Date Added: 2011-04-08 23:35:52
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Tags: Birthmark

Fact Page: If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
Date Added: 2011-03-30 07:06:14
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Another study showed that human subjects - after receiving 100 milligrams of caffeine - had increased activity in brain regions located in the frontal lobe, where a part of the working memory network is located, and the anterior cingulate cortex, a part of the brain that controls attention. The caffeinated subjects also performed better on the memory tasks.

Tags: Memory, Brain, Caffeine, Coffee, Tea, Interesting

Fact Page: Caffeine boosts memory.
Date Added: 2011-02-26 09:18:32
Fact Category: Interesting Fact