- There is a tree that is so poisonous; rainwater dripping of it will burn your skin. It’s called Manchineel.
- If you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same.
- The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley’s gum.
- Niger has the youngest population of any country. 50% are below 15 years old.
- You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.
- You burn more calories eating celery than it contains.
- Frogs don’t drink; they absorb water through their skin.
- The most expensive coffee in the world is brewed from beans partially digested and defecated by the Asian palm civet.
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
- Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
- The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.
- Turtles have lived on earth even before the dinosaurs.
- Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
- The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
- Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.
- Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg. It’s actually the shell.
- Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
- In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes were a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.
- Every single possible 3 character .com domain has been registered.
- Bulls are color blind. The color red does not make bulls go crazy.
- Peru has more pyramids than Egypt
- Coffee beans aren't beans, but seeds.
- The first domain name ever registered was symbolics.com
- Seashell fossils have been found high in the Himalayan Mountains, suggesting that the land was once underwater.
- If the only thing you have to fear is fear itself, you could be suffering from phobophobia: the fear of phobias.
- Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.
Monday 6 January 2014
25 Amazing Facts Probably you didn’t Know
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