Best Amazing facts to know
There's a phenomenon thatoccurs in the Mekong River in Thailand where red fireballscalled "Naga Fireballs" randomly shoot into the air andnobody knows why it happens.
If you search the world "askew" in Google, the page will tilt slightly clockwise.
The reason that peopletraditionally put wedding rings on the left ring finger isbecause before medical science discovered how thecirculatory system functioned, people used to believe thatthere was a vein that ran directly from the fourth finger on the left hand to the heart.
The word "vodka" in Russian translates to "little water" in English. Your cell phone carries upto 10 times more bacteria than a toilet seat. Bleh.
Humans and bananas shareabout 50% of the same DNA. In other words, half of what makes you you is identical to a banana.
An adult giraffe's tongue isapproximately 21 inches long. Today's gold medals are only 1.3% gold.
The last time a solid gold medal was given was at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. It would take over 51 millionballoons to lift the average 2,000 square foot house off theground like in the movie Up.
Mark Zuckerberg is red- green color blind. That's why he made Facebook blue, because that's the colorthat he can see best.
There's a book that exists called "Everything Men Know AboutWomen" that has 100 pages, all of which are blank.
A male honeybee's orgasm is sopowerful that its sex organs actually explode, shortlyafter which it dies. It's a beautiful death.
The Kevlar bulletproof vest wasinvented by a pizza delivery guy named Richard Davis afterbeing shot twice on the job.
If you left Tokyo by plane at 7am you would arrive in Honolulu at approximately 8pm the previous day due to the 19 hour gap in time zones.
Time Travel! There are only 12 people in the word with a condition called "hyperthymesia" thatcauses them to remember every single detail of their lives.
All characters in the movie Toy Story only blink one eye at a time. Fashion companies Chanel and Louis Vuitton both burn their leftover productsat the end of each season in order to prevent them frombeing sold at a discount.
Ghostsingles.com is a realdating website for ghosts. Apple, Google, HP, Amazon,Disney, Harley Davidson and Microsoft all started in garages.
It's possible to see arainbow as a complete circle from an airplane.
There's a hand sanitizer named, "Maybe You Touched Your Genitals."
The creators of Adidas and Puma, brothers Adolf Dassler and Rudolf Dassler, were both part of the Nazi Party. The youngest mother in medical history was Lina Medina of Peru who gavebirth at the age of five.
Ants go to war just like humans. In fact, they're even ableto strategize by doing things like sending the weakerants out to fight first. If you're taller that 6'2",you can't be an astronaut.
Author JK Rowling of theHarry Potter universe was a billionaire until shegave away so much of her wealth to charity that shelost her billionaire status.
Jackie Chan is actuallya pop star in Asia.
Not only has he released20 albums since 1984, but he often sings the themesongs to his own movies.
Coca-Cola was inventedby an American pharmacist named John Pemberton who advertised it as a nerve tonic that couldcure headaches and fatigue.
Statistically, you are morelikely to die on the way to buying a lottery ticket than you are to win the lottery itself. We know more about what existson the surface of the moon than we know about whatexists in the Earth's oceans.
The word "checkmate" comesfrom the Arabic "Shah Mat", which means, "The King is dead." "Voldemort" in Frenchliterally translates to "flight of death." To this day, Japan andRussia still have not signed a peace treaty to end World War II.
Humans have lesschromosomes than a potato.
There is a lake in theUnited States called "Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg" that's often sited as the longest place name in the United States.
Yeah, try saying that three times fast. In the United Kingdom, thequeen cannot be arrested no matter what crime she commits.
This is because the crownitself is the prosecuting force in the UK, thus you cannot havethe crown versus the crown. This immunity is notshared by other members of the Royal Family.
In 2011, Barrack Obamabecame the first president to have ever brewedbeer in the White House. In fact, the beer itself iscalled "White House Honey Ale."
The pinky swear originatedin Japan where it indicated that if somebody breaks a promise, they must cut off their pinky finger.
Steve Jobs' final words were,"Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow." The novel Twilight was rejected 14 times before it was finally published.
A "Googol" is actuallya mathematical term for a very large number equal toone followed by 100 zeros. Although it might sound counter-intuitive, hot water freezes faster than cold water.
This is known as the "Mpemba effect." There's a phobia called "Jonah complex" which causes a person tofear their own success, preventing them from reachingtheir full potential.
In the movie Terminator 2,Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid 15 million dollars and onlyspoke 700 words of dialogue.
If you break down that cost by word, that means that his famousline, "Hasta la vista, baby," cost $85,714.
The Snuggery is a servicewhere you can hire somebody and pay them 60 dollars an hour to have them come and snuggle with you.
You must be very lonely. The animal in the Firefoxlogo is not a fox.
It's actually an animalknown as a red panda, a species that's closerto the raccoon family.
The China National Highway 110 traffic jam is considered the longesttraffic jam in history.
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