Natural pearls melt in vinegar
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
Buttermilk does not contain any butter
Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen
The earth is about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons in weight
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds. I was corrected on that by a friend who stated that : The goldfish has a memory of 3-months instead of 3 seconds. Also provided: Goldfish "can be trained to memorize mazes for up to one month, and can be trained to press levers for food, even at a specific time of day. The sale of fishbowls (due to their inability to provide sufficient oxygen and the possibility that they may stunt growth) have been banned in some countries"
There are 86,400 seconds in day
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515
Ants never sleep
The human brain is 80% water
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. I was corrected about "orange" by a friend: ((taken from an episode of Stephen Fry’s QI show) Blorange – is a place in Wales. Also: Gorringe – is a common English surname of many, amongst whom there was Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, the guy who brought Cleopatra’s Needle to NY Central Park!
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. She actually had a normal set of 10. The mistake was caused by a clump of sand on her feet during a photo shoot when she was known as Norma Jeane.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
‘Jedi’ is an official religion in Australia with over 70,000 followers
Church of England has apologized to Charles Darwin 200 years after his birth
Chewing gum while peeling onions will reduce your tears
Dalmatians are born without spots
There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess
Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right while women’s shirts have the buttons on the left
Roosters have to extend their necks in order to crow
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex
In 2009 one of eight newly married couples in the US met online
There are about 540,000 words in the English language and growing
Gamblers mostly don’t see any clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew food on your right side. If you are left handed, you likely to chew food on your left side
The bedroom is the most common place for sex and the car is second
Humans and bonobo monkeys (pygmy chimpanzee) are the only species who have face-to-face sex
Everyday, 15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide
Hugo Boss designed some of the Nazi SS uniforms
Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension
A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly
Worldwide, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day
Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
The French tickler was invented by a Tibetan monk
Studies have proven that it is harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive
Soccer players run on average as many as 6 miles during the course of a game
Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles
One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed (paw).
Polar bears with transparent, fluffy fur actually have black skin
The largest hummus dish was prepared in Lebanon. It weighed 10,452 Kg.
Some kinds of sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world; most other kinds of sharks give live birth.
The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away
The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for plumbers in the US
The eyes of the chameleon can move independently. It can see in two different directions at the same time
The total weight of skin for an average adult human is 6 pounds.
The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours ( ~11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump
Cold showers stimulate your sex drive
Registered in 1985, symbolics.com is the first ever internet domain registered
Coffee beans aren’t beans; they are fruit pits
It is not allowed to have living US presidents featured on US currency
Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell
A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of raw potatoes
Lima beans contain cyanide
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