- Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
- 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.
- 200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.
- There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com.
- China is the source of 70% of the worlds pirated goods.
- People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
- Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
- The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side
- The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
- Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
- In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
- In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
- Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. - In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
- Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials.
- It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.
- Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.
- McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.
- The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.
- Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
- The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man.
- The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
- US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.
- 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
- Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
- Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.
- The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.
- 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
- The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic languages. Every such country is in the top 20.
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3 comments:
You got a good collection of amazing facts here dude..
he's right, this is a nice collection of facts.
Interesting! I did not know most of them.
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