Top 40 Amazing
Facts in the World
Fact No-1: A pencil has the potential to draw a
line 38 miles long.
Fact No-2: There is a species of jellyfish that
is immortal (turritopsis nutricula).
Fact No-3: Did you know a Mosquito has 47 teeth?
Fact No-4: Wearing headphones for just an hour
will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Fact No-5: When a male bee climaxes, their
testicles explode then they die.
Fact No-6: In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for
59 seconds. 38 years later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. 28 years after
that, we landed on the moon.
Fact No-7: All of the gold mined in the history
of the world would more or less fit into a 20x20x20 meter cube.
Fact No-8: The adult human has two to nine
pounds of bacteria in his or her body.
Fact No-9: If there was no space between any of
its atoms, Earth would be the size of a baseball.
Fact No-10: Velociraptors were just slightly
bigger than chickens.
Fact no-11: A crocodile can’t move its tongue
and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel
nail.
Fact No-12: A person can live without food for
about a month, but only a week without water. If the amount of water in your
body is reduced by just 1%, you’ll feel thirsty. If it’s reduced by 10%, you
will die.
Fact No-13: Tea is said to have been discovered
in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a
pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of
New York.
Fact No-14: If you keep going North, you will
eventually go south. If you keep going East, you will never go West.
Fact No-15: Once Charlie Chaplin entered a
contest for “Charlie Chaplin look-alikes” and he came third.
Fact No-16: A banana is actually a berry. A
strawberry isn’t.
Fact No-17: Turtles can breathe out of their
butts.
Fact No-18: On average, dogs have better eyesight
than humans, although not as colorful.
Fact No-19: Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen
hours per day.
Fact No-20: Donald Duck comics were banned from
Finland because he doesn’t wear any pants.
Fact No-21: Leonardo da Vinci could write with
one hand and draw with other at the same time.
Fact No-22: 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.
Fact No-23: A cockroach will live for weeks
without its head before it starves to death.
Fact No-24: The human heart creates enough
pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Fact No-25: The word “queue” is the only word in
the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four
letters are removed.
Fact No-26: Human thing bones are stronger than
concrete.
Fact No-27: Beetles taste like apples, wasps
like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Fact No-28: Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
Fact No-29: The flea can jump 350 times its body
length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.
Fact No-30: Sterling silver is not pure silver.
Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with
copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.
Fact No-31: Ostriches are often not taken
seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Fact No-32: More than 50% of the people in the
world have never made or received a telephone call.
Fact No-33: Your stomach produces a new layer of
mucus every two weeks – otherwise it will digest itself.
Fact No-34: Rats and horses can’t vomit.
Fact No-35: Butterflies taste with their feet.
Fact No-36: Hot water is heavier than cold.
Fact No-37: Did you know that like a zebra
crossing, there is something called a tiger crossing? It’s painted yellow and
black!!
Fact No-38: Honey is actually bee vomit.
Fact No-39: A young blue whale is the size of a
small car!
Fact No-40: NASA (an agency of the United States
government, responsible for the nation’s public space programme) can build
planes as small as insects!