Facts of the day

Here you'll find five new interesting facts everyday...

9th Jan:
  1. The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes
  2. Sixteen percent fewer girls than boys reported ever talking to their parents about science and technology issues
  3. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere
  4. Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy
  5. The first movie to use sound was "The Jazz Singer," released in 1927: the first words, spoken by Al Jolson, were: "Wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet."


8th Jan:
  1. The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."
  2. Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories
  3. A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs
  4. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes
  5. In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries



7th Jan:
  1. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
  2. Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined
  3. 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents
  4. "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you"
  5. The original title of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was First Impression


6th Jan:
  1. Hippo milk is pink
  2. There are around 200 corpses on Mount Everest
  3. Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa
  4. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'.
  5. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.



5th Jan:
  1. starfish do not have brains
  2. Turtles can breathe through their anus
  3. A snail can sleep for three years
  4. 'Typewriter'is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard
  5. Some lions mate over fifty times a day

4th Jan:
  1. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
  2. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying
  3. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly
  4. The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan
  5. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.

3rd Jan:
  1. The word Eskimo literally means 'raw meat eater'
  2. A lion's roar can be heard from more than five miles away
  3. In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed
  4. Some breed of chicken lay coloured eggs
  5. There was no punctuation until the 15th century
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2nd Jan:
  1. Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek
  2. Eggplants aren`t vegtables they`re really fruits
  3. There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States
  4. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
  5. It was illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces
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1st Jan:
  1. The amount of people who are shot dead in Japan in an entire years equals to the same amount as those who get shot in America in just one weekend
  2. The first music video to be played when MTV first lauched in 1979 was "video killed the radio star- The buggles"
  3. Antibiotics means "against life" in greek
  4. It was only twenty nine years after basketball had been invented that someone thought of the idea to put a hole in the bottom of the basket. Before that people used to use a ladder to help get the ball out when someone scored.
  5. Female Kangaroos have two vaginas
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18th Oct:

  1. A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs
  2. Instead of a Birthday Cake, many Russian children are given a Birthday Pie
  3. One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples
  4. China has more English speakers than the United States
  5. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses


17th Oct:

  1. As a precaution, Prince William and Prince Charles never fly traval on the same aeroplane incase it crashes.
  2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off
  3. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing! (S, left hand, K, right hand, E, left hand..and so on)
  4. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
  5. Eating an apple in the morning is more likely to keep you awake than having caffeine.

16th Oct:

  1.  In the 2002 Iraqi Elections, Saddam Hussien has Whitney Huston's "I will always love you" as his campaign song 
  2. Jim Henson said he made the first Kermit out of his mum’s old coat and used Ping-Pong balls for eyes.
  3. contrary to popular belief cows do not have four stomachs, they actually have four chambers in their one large stomach
  4. Cashew nuts are always sold without their shells because it contains a oil which can cause a rash silmilar to poison ivy
  5. South Korea is home to the biggest starbucks in the world; it is five stories high


15th Oct:

  1. The official name of Italy is the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana)
  2. The moon is not round—it is shaped like an egg
  3. During the first two years of a baby’s life, new parents will miss six months of sleep on average.
  4. The word “husband” is from the Old Norse husbondi or “master of the house” (literally, hus “house” + bondi “householder, dweller”).
  5. The word “wife” is likely from the Proto-Indo-European root weip (“to turn, twist, wrap”) or ghwibh, which has a root meaning “shame” or “pudenda."


14th Oct:

  1. Some dolphins can understand as many as 60 words, which can make up 2000 sentences. They also show signs of self-awareness
  2. The popular line “Beam me up, Scotty,” was never said exactly in this way in the Star Trek series or film
  3. Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire (U.S. dollars) by writing books
  4. The English chocolate company Cadbury made the first chocolate bar in the world in 1842
  5. The insulting slang “kiss my ass” dates back at least to 1705


13th Oct:

  1. The London Eye can carry 800 passengers per revolution, that's equivalent to 11 London doubled-decker buses.
  2. Some individuals who claim never to have felt romantic love suffer from hypopituitarism, a rare disease that doesn’t allow a person to feel the rapture of love
  3. The word “suicide” comes from two Latin roots, sui (“of oneself”) and cidium (“killing” or “slaying”)
  4. The condom company Durex reports that condom sales are 20-30% higher around Valentine’s Day
  5. Facebook has over 350 million active users. More than 35 million users update their status each day, with more than 55 million status updates each day


12th Oct:

  1. The first product have a bar code is wrigley's gum
  2. A ducks quack doesn't echo and scientist do not know why
  3. Months that begin on a sunday always have a "Friday the 13th"
  4. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on the time 4:20
  5. No words in the English language rhymes with the words month, orange, silver, purple


11th Oct:

  1. In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
  2. Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
  3. The can opener was invented forty-eight years after the can.
  4. More than fifty percent of people in the world have never made or received a telephone call
  5. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood


10th Oct:

  1. The only letter which is not on the periodic table is "J"
  2. Gasoline never freezes, no matter how cold it gets
  3. Europe is the only continent without a desert
  4. Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
  5. Car airbags kill one person for every twenty two that they save


09th Oct:

  1. It is considered rude to tip a waiter/waitress in Japan
  2. When someone is snoring, they are not dreaming
  3. The glue on israeli stamp is certified as kosher
  4. There are no clocks in Las Vages Casinos
  5. Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, there is a duck watching you


08th Oct:
  1. All windmills turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland
  2. If you were to have you picture taken by the worlds first camera, you would have to sit still for eight hours.
  3. The technology contrained in a single gameboy in 2000 was greater than all the computing power that was used to put the first man on the moon in 1969
  4. In france it is legal to marry a dead person
  5. Walt Disney, the creator of the famous Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.

07th Oct:
  1. Lions can mate up to fifty times a day.
  2. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
  3. Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.
  4. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
  5. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.


06th Oct:
  1. In Asia, the digit 4 never appears in any Nokia handset model number, because 4 is considered unlucky in many parts of Southeast/East Asia.
  2. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  3. Every person has a unique tongue print
  4. People who have been blind from birth have dreams that are formed from their other senses (e.g., touch, smell, sound).
  5. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
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