Interesting Facts

Tags: Strange, Weird, Funny, Interesting, Drinking, Straw

Fact Page: If you put two straws in your mouth, one inside a drink and one outside it, you won't be able to drink through either straw.
Date Added: 2012-05-15 11:07:18
Fact Category: Weird Fact

Tags: Heart, Lifespan, Mammal, Health, Interesting, Longevity

Fact Page: The lifespan of mammals is about 1 and a half billion heartbeats.
Date Added: 2012-05-08 04:32:41
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Alcohol, Tolerance, Blue Eyes, Eyes, Blue, Interesting, People, Health, Strange

Fact Page: Blue-eyed people have a higher alcohol tolerance.
Date Added: 2012-04-29 02:11:12
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: United Nations, Human Rights, Internet, Interesting

Fact Page: The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
Date Added: 2012-04-23 08:50:24
Fact Category: Law and Crime Fact

Tags: Water, Heat, Cold, Freezing, Temperature, Strange, Weird, Interesting

Fact Page: Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
Date Added: 2012-04-16 05:42:58
Fact Category: Science Fact

The USA doesn't have an official language, but English is the de facto language.

Tags: Language, English, United States, USA, America, Interesting

Fact Page: The United States does not have an official language.
Date Added: 2012-04-12 03:23:36
Fact Category: Language Fact

Tags: UN, United Nations, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Language, Interesting, World

Fact Page: The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Date Added: 2012-04-03 20:55:19
Fact Category: Language Fact

Tags: Apple, Adam and Eve, Bible, Religion, Interesting, Christianity

Fact Page: There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
Date Added: 2012-04-02 07:54:41
Fact Category: Religion Fact

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1979752

Tags: Pig, Denmark, Interesting, Weird, Strange, Animal, Country, Population

Fact Page: Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
Date Added: 2012-04-01 19:53:50
Fact Category: Country Fact

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
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

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
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Bird, Parrot, Animal, Interesting, Name, Parent

Fact Page: Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
Date Added: 2012-03-27 12:23:17
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Death, Albert Einstein, German, Fascinating, Interesting

Fact Page: No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
Date Added: 2012-03-24 19:17:24
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Canada, United States, USA, America, War, Maine, State, New Brunswick, United Kingdom, UK, Interesting

Fact Page: The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
Date Added: 2012-03-21 03:31:53
Fact Category: Historical Fact

Tags: Coffee, Caffeine, Interesting, Drink, Beverage

Fact Page: Decaffeinated coffee is not 100% caffeine free. When coffee is being decaffeinated, 2% of the caffeine still remains in it.
Date Added: 2012-03-20 14:19:41
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

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
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Tidal, Tide, Sea, Ocean, Earth, Moon, Space, Interesting

Fact Page: Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
Date Added: 2012-03-19 08:48:38
Fact Category: Space Fact

Tags: Cheerios, Cereal, Breakfast, Food, Interesting, History

Fact Page: 50 years ago Cheerios were called Cheerioats.
Date Added: 2012-03-07 00:47:30
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

Tags: Garage, HP, Google, Microsoft, Apple, IT, Computer, Business, Company, Interesting

Fact Page: HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
Date Added: 2012-03-06 01:02:05
Fact Category: Computer Fact

Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone. The famous poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, woke one morning having had a fantastic dream (likely opium induced) – he put pen to paper and began to describe his “vision in a dream” in what has become one of English’s most famous poems: Kubla Khan. Part way through (54 lines in fact) he was interrupted by a “Person from Porlock“. Coleridge returned to his poem but could not remember the rest of his dream. The poem was never completed.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
[...]

Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming. Wikipedia has more on that here. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was also the brainchild of a dream.

Tags: Dream, Sleep, Interesting, Fascinating, Human

Fact Page: You forget 90% of your dreams.
Date Added: 2012-02-29 14:32:29
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: Stress, Heart, Love, Romance, Interesting, Fascinating, Health, Relationship

Fact Page: It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
Date Added: 2012-02-22 12:29:42
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Flower, Rose, Valentine's Day, Valentine, Love, Romance, Festive, US, United States, Interesting

Fact Page: Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
Date Added: 2012-02-14 05:02:21
Fact Category: Country Fact

Tags: Love, Romance, Romantic, Secret, Valentine's Day, Valentine, Festive, Interesting, Phenylethylamine

Fact Page: Studies show that the risk of a “secret love” being revealed heightens romantic feelings for the partners, thanks to increased levels of phenylethylamine (PEA).
Date Added: 2012-02-14 04:55:52
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: Valentine's Day, Valentine, Love, Festive, Marriage, People, Interesting, Statistic, Statistical

Fact Page: Two in five people in the world marry their first love.
Date Added: 2012-02-14 01:29:27
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: Valentine's Day, Valentine, Parent, Love, Interesting, Strange, Weird, Festive

Fact Page: Parents receive 1 out of every 5 Valentines.
Date Added: 2012-02-13 20:56:25
Fact Category: Weird Fact

Tags: Alaska, Keyboard, Computer, QWERTY, State, USA, Interesting

Fact Page: Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
Date Added: 2012-02-05 02:19:53
Fact Category: Computer Fact

Tags: Yawn, Contagious, Relationship, Human, Human Body, Interesting, Strange

Fact Page: Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
Date Added: 2012-02-04 15:54:29
Fact Category: People Fact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoreum

Tags: Vanilla, Flavor, Food, Ingredient, Beaver, Pee, Animal, Interesting, Weird, Strange

Fact Page: Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
Date Added: 2012-02-03 10:30:25
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

Tags: Elbow, Pain, Body, Human Body, Human, Interesting, Strange, Weird

Fact Page: For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
Date Added: 2012-01-25 10:14:58
Fact Category: Weird Fact

Tags: Native American, Tribe, Tribal, South Dakota, USA, American, America, Bank, Banking, Bottle, Bottle Cap, Currency, Money, Interesting

Fact Page: A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
Date Added: 2012-01-18 04:59:03
Fact Category: Weird Fact

Tags: Pig, Speed, Interesting, Animal, Livestock, Farm

Fact Page: Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
Date Added: 2011-12-26 06:31:25
Fact Category: Animal Fact

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Tags: English, Language, Literature, Word, Interesting

Fact Page: The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
Date Added: 2011-11-23 05:48:10
Fact Category: Language Fact

Tags: Dream, Sleep, Cow, Agriculture, Interesting, Fascinating, Animal

Fact Page: Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
Date Added: 2011-11-22 12:19:15
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Antarctica, Sea, Ice Sheet, Ocean, Interesting, Science

Fact Page: If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
Date Added: 2011-11-21 15:00:42
Fact Category: Geographical Fact

Tags: Cow, Milk, Agriculture, Lifetime, Interesting, Fascinating, Dairy, Animal, Farm

Fact Page: A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
Date Added: 2011-10-20 10:18:17
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Speed, Cat, Animal, Interesting, Feline

Fact Page: A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
Date Added: 2011-10-20 09:46:38
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Animal, Deer, Car, Driving, Scary, Interesting, Hunting

Fact Page: Drivers kill more deer than hunters.
Date Added: 2011-10-13 20:54:56
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Sloth, Animal, Digestion, Food, Interesting, Strange

Fact Page: Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
Date Added: 2011-10-11 05:08:47
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Chocolate, Kissing, Kiss, Passion, Heart, Brain, Health, Food, Interesting

Fact Page: Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was simliar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
Date Added: 2011-10-05 10:56:22
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

Tags: Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Heart Disease, Heart, Health, Flavonoids, Food, Interesting

Fact Page: Quality dark chocolate contains flavonoids which help reduced the risk of heart disease.
Date Added: 2011-10-05 10:54:31
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

Tags: Boiling, Body, Average, Heat, Interesting, Temperature, Human

Fact Page: In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
Date Added: 2011-10-01 17:34:09
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Shark, Human, Bone, Eye, Transplant, Cornea, Bone Marrow, Animal, Interesting, Science, Health

Fact Page: Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
Date Added: 2011-09-30 07:23:32
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Random, Casual, Strange, Interesting, Humming, Nose

Fact Page: It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.
Date Added: 2011-09-18 09:50:56
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Tiger, Animal, Roar, Interesting

Fact Page: The sound of a tiger's roar can travel a distance of up to 2 miles (~3 km).
Date Added: 2011-09-08 09:19:55
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Atlantic, Ocean, Sea, Geography, Interesting, Earth

Fact Page: The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
Date Added: 2011-09-07 09:45:39
Fact Category: Geographical Fact

Tags: Love, Romance, Relationship, Brain, Interesting, Craving

Fact Page: Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate - the part of the brain involving cravings.
Date Added: 2011-08-31 13:37:34
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Love, Romance, Personality, Psychology, Interesting, Brain

Fact Page: When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
Date Added: 2011-08-25 13:11:46
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Kissing, Love, Romance, Life Span, Life, Longevity, Interesting, Strange

Fact Page: Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
Date Added: 2011-08-25 11:54:21
Fact Category: Funny Fact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania

Tags: Sex, Interesting, Strange, Funny, Pennsylvania, Town

Fact Page: There is a town in Pennsylvania named Intercourse.
Date Added: 2011-08-15 15:45:52
Fact Category: Funny Fact

Tags: Summer, Season, Uranus, Space, Interesting, Planet

Fact Page: Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
Date Added: 2011-07-22 02:15:47
Fact Category: Space Fact

Tags: Balloon, Animal, Blue Whale, Whale, Breathe, Interesting, Strange

Fact Page: It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
Date Added: 2011-07-15 20:15:25
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Technology, Game Boy, Gaming, Computer, Power, Moon, Space, Interesting

Fact Page: The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
Date Added: 2011-07-14 23:01:19
Fact Category: Technology Fact

Tags: Advertising, Dell, Computers, Business, Entrepreneur, Interesting

Fact Page: Dell's first advertisement was made on the back of a pizza box.
Date Added: 2011-07-08 13:42:49
Fact Category: Business Fact

Tags: China, Reproduction, Population, Interesting, Useless

Fact Page: If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Date Added: 2011-06-29 02:51:02
Fact Category: Weird Fact

The copper in their blood gives their blood a bluish tint. It is much like how iron in our blood causes our blood to be red.

Haemoglobin is a red pigment in blood that makes the blood red when it comes out into oxygen (that why when we bleed, our blood is red.) some animals do not have haemoglobin in blood, for example LOBSTERS! So this is why their blood is blue.

Tags: Lobster, Blood, Animal, Weird, Strange, Interesting

Fact Page: Lobsters have blue blood.
Date Added: 2011-06-10 08:30:47
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Carrot, Orange, Skin, Weird, Strange, Interesting, Funny

Fact Page: If you eat lots of carrots, you'll start to turn orange.
Date Added: 2011-05-02 10:30:27
Fact Category: Weird Fact

Tags: Sex, Kissing, Human, Interesting, Statistic, Average

Fact Page: On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
Date Added: 2011-04-27 09:32:20
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: Fatigue, Sleep, Tiredness, Water, Interesting, Health

Fact Page: Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
Date Added: 2011-04-19 02:41:04
Fact Category: Health Fact