152 Interesting Facts
HERE IS 152 INTERESTING FACTS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND.
#1. The Walking Dead is the most profitable scripted series on television. Costing around $2.75 million to produce an episode, it brings in a whopping $11 million in commercial revenues for a healthy profit of $8 million dollars an episode.
#2. Jackie Chan's mother was a drug smuggler and his father was a spy. That fact, that's how they met, when his father arrested his mother for smuggling opium.
#3. The world's biggest family is located in the Indian state of Mizoram, and belongs to a man named Ziona Chana, with a total of 39 wifes, 94 children, 14 daughter in laws, and 33 grandchildren, all living under the same roof.
#4. George Lucas originally wanted Tupac to play the role of Jedi Mace Windu in Star Wars Episode 1,
#5. The Phantom Menace in 1996, but he was killed before his audition and the part was given to Samuel L. Jackson.
#6. Japanese police are notorious for declaring murders that they cannot solve as suicides in order to save face and keep crime statistics artificially low.
#7. Scorpions can hold their breath underwater for up to six days.
#8. The Mangalitza pig, also known as the curly-haired hog is a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
#9. Ethiopia has 13 months in its calendar, is currently in the year 2006, and will celebrate New Years Day 2007 on September 11th.
#10. The City of New York paid $5 million in 1853 for the land that is now Central Park. Today that property is worth $530 billion.
That's a pretty good investment.
#11. The oldest musical instruments in the world are a pair of flutes made out of birdbone and mammoth ivory that date back 42 to 43,000 years ago.
#12. In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
#13. High school students today have the same anxiety levels as insane asylum mental patients in the 1950s.
#14. The longest prison sentence ever given was 384,912 years to a 22 year old postman named Gabriel Grandos for failing to deliver over 72,000 letters.
#15. A city called Masdar City is being built right now in the United Arab Emirates that will rely entirely on solar and other renewable energy sources with a sustainable zero carbon, zero waste ecology.
#16. A study by the National Bureau for Economic Research concluded that firstborn children have higher IQs than their younger siblings.
#17. Studies have shown that people with creative minds have a harder time falling asleep at night, and prefer to stay up later.
#18. The world's smallest poisonous frog is only 10 millimeters in length and secretes a toxic poison out of its skin as a defense mechanism.
#19. There is a natural gas vent in Iraq that is known as the Eternal Fire that has been burning for over 4,000 years and has been mentioned by ancient Greek author Herodotus, and in the Old Testament's Book of Daniel.
#20. Farting helps to reduce blood pressure, and is good for your overall health.
#21. In the 1990s, the US Air Force did research on creating a gay bomb which is a non-lethal bomb containing very strong pheromones that would make the enemy's forces attracted to each other.
#22. The artificial sweetener Splenda also known as sucralose, was discovered when a researcher misheard a command to test this chemical as, taste this chemical.
#23. Before Sylvester Stallone sold the script for Rocky, he was broke and was forced to sell his dog for $50. A week later he sold the script and bought his pooch back for a whopping $3,000.
#24. The Department for Homeland Security released a manual to help people prepare for a zombie apocalypse, after they discovered a brain parasite that has the potential to hijack the host's nervous system, effectively turning them into a walking zombie.
#25. Chinese soldiers stick needles in their shirt collars in order to keep ideal postures during military parades.
#26. Reed Hastings was inspired to start Netflix after accumulating $40 in late fees on a VHS copy of Apollo 13. 36 armed dolphins trained by the US Navy to kill terrorists have been missing in the Gulf of Mexico since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. They carry toxic dart guns capable of killing a man with one shot.
#27. A Dutch artist discovered a way to create clouds in the middle of a room by carefully balancing temperature, humidity and lighting. In fact, he regularly uses those clouds in his artwork.
#28. The biggest cemetery in the world is the Wadi Al-Salaam Cemetery located in the Shia holy city of Najaf, Iraq. It's six square kilometers in size, and holds so many bodies that the exact number is unknown, but it's estimated to be in the millions with half a million added every year.
#29. Only 8% of the world's money exists in physical form, the rest is in computers.
#30. Before Scar from the Lion King got the scar on his face, his real name was Taka, which means garbage in Swahili.
#31. The pollution in Beijing China can be so severe that spending one day breathing the air there can be the equivalent of smoking 21 cigarettes.
#32. Benjamin Franklin wasn't trusted to write the US Declaration of Independence, because it was feared that he would conceal a joke within it.
#33. The app Candy Crush makes a whopping $956,000 a day. Not bad for a free app.
#34. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of school.
#35. Famous torrent website The Pirate Bay once tried to purchase an island in hopes of making it their own country with no copyright laws.
#36. There is a rare type of tree called the dragon blood tree that contains red sap, and appears to bleed when it's cut down.
#37. The smallest park in the world is located in downtown Portland, Oregon in the United States, and measures just two feet in diameter.
#38. Samsung is a full-time weapons manufacturer.
#39. The 1953 painting by abstract expressionist Barnett Newman sold at auction for a whopping $43.8 million. It just looks like blue paint to me, but whatever.
#40. All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light but it's passively filtered through our lens.
#41. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can see the ultraviolet light.
#42. The Filipino flag is flown with red stripe up in times of war, and blue stripe up in times of peace.
#43. License plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
#44. Crows are able to recognize human faces and even hold grudges against ones that they don't like.
#44. Jaguars in the wild are known for frequently getting high by eating hallucinogenic roots which also increases their senses for hunting.
#46. Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.
#47. Located in Brussels, Belgium, Nemo 33 is the deepest indoor swimming pool in the world, at 108 feet deep.
#48. The Goblet of Fire is much longer than the first three books in the Harry Potter series because author JK Rowling accidentally created a giant plot hole that she spent the rest of the book trying to fix.
#49. Cherries contain two compounds that inhibit tumor growth and even cause cancer cells to self-destruct without damaging healthy cells. It snows metal on the planet venus.
#50. The United Nations has declared access to the internet a human right.
#51. One single teaspoon of honey represents the life's work of 12 bees.
#52. About 50 thousand years ago, horse-sized ducks called dromornithidae once roamed where is now Australia.
#53. There are gold pills you can buy online for $425 each that promise to make your poop glitter gold.
#54. Nomophobia is the fear of being away from your cellphone.
#55. The first ever modern toilet was made by Thomas Crapper, hence the origin of the phrase, "to take a crap."
#56. The University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, offers a course in the science of Batman. It uses the caped crusader to explain the human condition in the limitations of the human mind and body.
#57. The Philippine island of Luzon contains a lake that contains an island that contains a lake that contains another island.
#58. The Hudson Bay area of Canada has less gravity that the rest of the earth.
#59. Scientists don't know exactly why, but they hypothesize that it could have something to do with convection occurring in the earth's mantle.
#60. Only 1-2% of the entire world's population are natural red heads.
#61. There is a real sport called Bonzai skydiving, which involves throwing a parachute out of an airplane, and jumping out after it.
#62. There is a swing at the edge of a cliff in Ecuador that has no safety measures, that's hanging from a treehouse overlooking an active volcano, called The Swing at the End of the World.
#63. Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste. Their stems and leaves absorb and store pollutants. This is also why the sunflower is the international symbol for nuclear disarmament.
#64. The Titanic 2 is a real ship being built right now that is set for sail in the year 2016. Let's hope this one does a little better.
#65. Sloppy handwriting of doctors kills more than 7,000 people and injures more than 1.5 million people annually due to getting the wrong medication.
#66. Putting sugar on a wound or cut will greatly reduce pain and speed up the healing process. Just make sure you wash it first, baby, 'cause that's nasty.
#67. Real diamonds do not show up in x-rays.
#68. German doctors were the first to identify the link between smoking and lung cancer.
#69. In fact, Hitler led the first ever anti-smoking campaign in history.
#70. Fredric Baur, the creator of Pringles, had his ashes stored in a Pringles can after he died.
#71. Due to World War II rationing, cocoa was scarce in Italy, so a baker came up with an alternative chocolate spread, that would later be renamed Nutella.
#72. In 1996, DC and Marvel Comics published a crossover series where Wolverine and Batman were made into one character called Dark Claw, or Logan Wayne.
#73. The Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat, also known as the bumble bee bat, is the world's smallest bat.
#74. Naturally black roses are incredibly rare, and exist only in Halfeti, Turkey.
#75. Due to extreme pressure and weather conditions, it literally rains diamonds on Neptune and Uranus.
#76. Sweden recycles so well that it actually has to import garbage from Norway in order to fuel its waste to power energy plants.
#77. There are seven different types of twins: Identical, fraternal, half-identical, mirror image, mixed chromosome, superfetation, and superfecundation.
#78. The longest Facebook comment thread in the world belongs to Dawar Kazi, who, with the help of his friends, commented a total of 584,444 times on a single status.
#79. The underwater waterfall, found off the island of Mauritius in the Indian ocean, and is caused by water and sand falling off the coastal shell.
#80. You can buy a completely street legal, Tron Legacy light cycle replica bike right now for $55,000.
#81. Pluto is actually smaller than Russia.
#82. There exists a Pizza Hut perfume that smells like a fresh box of Pizza Hut pizza being opened when you spray it on yourself. That's one way to impress a date.
#83. An elephant weighs less than a blue whale's tongue.
#84. If Finding Nemo was real, when Nemo's mother and siblings died, either Nemo or his father would have had to have become female in order to form a breeding pair, because clownfish are sequential hermaphrodites, which is how they perpetuate the species. Yeah, childhood ruined.
#85. Dolphins do not drink sea water. Like humans, it would make them ill or possibly kill them. Instead, they get all of their liquids from the foods that they eat.
#86. Kurt Cobain got married to Courtney Love in his pajamas. Classy.
#87. Giant hornets exist in Japan whose venom is so strong, that it can melt human skin.
#88. A company called Terrafugia has created the world's first fully autonomous flying car called the TFX, which will be available starting 2015.
#89. Before the 17th century, carrots were actually purple. They didn't turn orange until a mutation occurred.
#90. Diet soda destroys tooth enamel just as badly as meth and crack cocaine.
#91. Japan's Okinawa island has more than 450 people living above the age of 100, and is known as the healthiest place on earth.
#92. Skittles and jelly beans contain insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine known as shellac. Yummy!
#93. Coca leaves are still used by Coca-cola to this day. The Stepan company in New Jersey extracts the cocaine from the leaves, and gives the spent leaves to Coca-Cola to put in their drinks.
#94. The skin of a honey badger is so thick that it can withstand machete blows, arrows, and spears.
#95. The only sure way to kill one is to use a club or gun. And now you know why honey badgers don't give a (beep).
#96. If the sun were scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way would be the size of the Continental United States.
#97. Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome is a form of OCD in which sufferers feel the need to correct every grammatical error that they see.
#98. Every single year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to Canada to thank them for their help in the second World War.
#99. The chocolate cosmos is an inedible flower that smells like chocolate. This is a real Adidas shoe store in Amsterdam.
#100. And finally, Ben and Jerry's has a real graveyard where they bury all of their discontinued flavors of ice cream.
#101. There is a massive water vapor that's floating in space that's at least 140 trillion times larger than all the water in the Earth's oceans combined. And 100 thousand times larger than that of the sun.
#102. Contrary to popular belief, cracking your knuckles does not hurt your bones nor cause arthritis.
#103. The sound that you here is simply gas bubbles bursting. However, if you do it too much it can cause tissue damage.
#104. The First Lady of the United States is actually a position. Not just an honorary title. And can be filled by the president's niece, daughter or sister. Not just his wife.
#105. The reason that Lego men have holes in the tops of their heads is to allow air to pass through in case a child ever gets one stuck in their throat.
#106. If the human eye were a digital camera, it would have a resolution of about 576 megapixels.
#107. Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have discovered a deep azure blue planet 63 light years away that rains glass sideways.
#108. Every year tourists throw about 1.1 million euro into the Trevi fountain in Rome.
Which the city uses to fund a supermarket for the poor.
#109. There's a mattress called the Cuddle Mattress that's specifically designed to give you a place to put your arm while spooning or cuddling.
#110. A leopon is a hybrid animal resulting from the crossing of a male leopard with a lioness.
#111. Sand tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother's womb until there's one survivor. And that is the shark that gets to be born.
#112. This is the assassin bug. It's an insect that wears its victims' corpses as armor.
#113. There is a skyscraper in New York City, with no windows.
#114. It's an extreme example of the brutalist architectural style and is located at 33 Thomas street.
#115. There is a woman named Veronica Seider that had vision 20 times better than the average person. She's able to identify people at a distance of 1.6 kilometers away. In fact, she holds the Guiness world record for it.
#116. One tablespoon of the average cake frosting has less fat, calories and sugar than one tablespoon of Nutella.
#117. The word font only refers to things like bold, size and italics. The actual style of the lettering is called a typeface.
#118. The jaw of a grizzly bear is so strong, that its bite could crush a bowling ball.
#119. The Lord of Rings is not a trilogy. It's in fact a single work that was divided into and published in three volumes between 1954 and 1955 for economic reasons.
#120. In the town of Churchill Manitoba, Canada, it's illegal to lock your car in case somebody needs to escape one of the 950 polar bears in the area.
#121. A Baobab is a genus of tree that exists in Madagascar whose trunk can hold upto 120 thousand liters of water.
#122. There's a 49 year old man named Dalton Geddy, who's been making pencil tip artwork for 25 years.
#123. The panda is the national animal of China. In fact, every panda in the world is owned by China. If you happen to see one outside of the country, that's because it's simply on loan.
#124. Using paper towels to dry your hands after washing them decreases bacterial count by 45% to 60%. However, using a warm air dryer actually increases bacterial count by an average of 255%. As bacteria grow quickly in a warm, moist environment.
#125. A company called Neurowear sells what they call Mico headphones that read your brainwaves and selects music based off your state of mind.
#126. Before Nazis used the salute that we commonly know now as the Hitler salute, it was called the Bellamy salute. And it was used by Americans to salute the flag. Until it was replaced in 1942 by the hand over heart salute.
#127. Indian homes, specifically Indian women, hold about 18,000 tons of gold and jewelry. To put that into perspective, that's more than double the gold that's in the US Federal Reserve, and 11% of the entire world's gold.
#128. Fire whirls, also known as fire tornadoes, are whirlwinds of flame that occur in countries where it gets sufficiently hot enough.
#129. Such as Australia. Your nose is connected to the memory center of your brain. That's why smells trigger some of the most powerful memories.
#130. Clinomania is the excessive desire to stay in bed all day.
#131. Blind people smile despite never having seen someone else smile because it's a natural human reaction.
#132. This is a ship shipping ship, that is shipping, shipping ships. I'll let you think about that for a minute.
#133. The poplar Canadian beer, Molson Canadian, scattered beer fridges across Europe that only opened for Canadians by simply scanning their passports. In fact, they made those same beer fridges available at this year's Sochi Winter Olympics.
#134. Norway allows any student from anywhere in the world to study at their public universities completely free of charge.
#135. In the state of Nevada, public intoxication is not only explicitly legal, it's illegal for any city or town to pass a law making it illegal.
#136. The Mary River turtle. Better known as a punk rock turtle. The green stuff is actually algae growing on its head.
#137. There's a company called True Mirror that makes non reversing mirrors that show you how you actually appear to other people.
#138. This is a painting within a painting being painted by the painter, painting the painting who's also painting himself. Again, I'll let you think about that one.
#139. Only two percent of the Australian population lives within the yellow area. In fact, the vast majority of the population lives within only 50 km of the coastline.
#140. The four ghosts in the game Pacman, are each programmed to act differently. Blinky the red ghost, chases you. Pinky the pink ghost, simply tries to position herself in front of Pacman. Inky, the blue ghost, tries to position himself in the same way. And Clyde, the orange ghost, moves randomly.
#141. The smallest cat in the world was a Himilayan persian cat named Tinkertoy. That measured only 7cm tall and 19 cm long. At that size, he was six years old and fully grown.
#142. There are tiny, eight legged arachnids that are closely related to spiders, living in the pores of your facial skin called demodex. That crawl about your face in the dark to mate.
#143. celand has no army and has been recognized as the most peaceful country in the world for over six years. In comparison, as of 2013, Canada was number eight, the United Kingdom was number 44, and the United States was number 100.
#144. Actor Ken Jong originally wanted to become a doctor, but was told by his wife to pursue his dream of becoming a comedian after she was diagnosed with cancer. So he did.
#145. Fluffy cows exist as a result of breeding various high quality breeds.
#146. The human range for hearing is about 20 to 20,000 hertz. Any lower than 20 and we'd be able to hear our own muscles move.
#147. Contrary to popular belief, washing your hands in warm water does not kill bacteria any better than washing them in cold water. That's because water has to be boiling in order to kill bacteria.
#148. There is a cup of Starbucks visible in almost every single scene in the movie Fight Club.
#149. Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgot why you went in there in the first place? Well there's a scientific term for that. Which is called an event boundary.
#150. There's a flower located in the rainforest of central and South America, that look like set of hooker's lips. That are actually called, Hooker's Lips.
#151. There are so many restaurants in New York City, that you could eat at a different place everyday for 12 years and never visit the same place twice.
#152. And finally, the English word orange was the name for the fruit for a few hundred years before the color was later named after the fruit. Before that, what we now know as the color orange, was called yee-o-ler-eed. Which means red-yellow.
Very interesting facts. keep it up.
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