100 Interesting Facts (Fakte interesante)

1.      It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it. 

2.      Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

3.      Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

4.      Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

5.      Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

6.      The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

7.      In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

8.      You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

9.      12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

10.  A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

11.  A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

12.  A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

13.  A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

14.  A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.

15.  America once issued a 5-cent bill.

16.  Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

17.  In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

18.  More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

19.  More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

20.  Mosquitoes have teeth.

21.  Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

22.  Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

23.  Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

24.  Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.

25.  The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

26.  The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

27.  The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

28.  The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

29.  The only nation whose name begins with an “A” but doesn’t end in an “A” is Afghanistan.

30.  The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

31.  There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

32.  There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.

33.  There are more chickens than people in the world.

34.  There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

35.  There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

36.  When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

37.  You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.

38.  You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.

39.  Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

40.  The state of Florida is bigger than England.

41.  The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

42.  The Neanderthal’s brain was bigger than yours is.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

43.  The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

44.  The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”

45.  The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

46.  The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

47.  The condom – made originally of linen – was invented in the early 1500s.

48.  The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

49.  The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

50.  The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump.