A little blog that gives you an interesting fact every day. So you really will learn something new every day.
Wednesday 31 August 2011
Tuesday 30 August 2011
Fact No.305
If you broke the Great pyramid into slabs 30 cm thick you could build up a wall 1 metre high that would stretch all the way around France! If you had a little more time you could cut it into rods about 6cm 2 - join them together and it would be enough to reach a quarter of the way to the moon!
Monday 29 August 2011
Sunday 28 August 2011
Fact No.303
The world's largest potato chip was produced by the Pringle's Company in Jackson, TN in 1990. It measures 23" x 14.5"
Saturday 27 August 2011
Friday 26 August 2011
Fact No.301
Recent studies have shown that drinking between one and two cups of tea per day may promote fertility by stopping abnormalities in our chromosomes. In a recent test 250 women drank as little as half a cup of tea per day and their pregnancy rates were twice as high as those who did not.
Thursday 25 August 2011
Fact No.300
There is a cloud of alcohol in outer space with enough alcohol to make four trillion-trillion drinks. It's free for the taking. . . but it's 10,000 light years away from Earth.
Wednesday 24 August 2011
Fact No.299
In 1475, a Turkish law was enacted that made it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he failed to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.
Tuesday 23 August 2011
Monday 22 August 2011
Fact No.297
An estimated 80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface and the oceans contain 99% of the living space on the planet.
Sunday 21 August 2011
Fact No.296
US citizens watch the most TV. By age 65, an American would have watched the equivalent of 9 years uninterrupted screening, viewing more than 20,000 TV commercials per year.
Saturday 20 August 2011
Fact No.295
Beethoven was the first composer who never had an official court position, thus the first known freelance musician. Born in 1770, he grew up poor, but published his first work at age 12. By age 20 he was famous. He often sold the same score to six or seven different publishers simultaneously, and demanded unreasonably large fees for the simplest work. He was short, stocky, dressed badly, didn't like to bath, lived in squalor, used crude language, openly conducted affairs with married women, and had syphilis. Beethoven was deaf when he composed his Ninth Symphony.
Friday 19 August 2011
Thursday 18 August 2011
Wednesday 17 August 2011
Tuesday 16 August 2011
Monday 15 August 2011
Sunday 14 August 2011
Saturday 13 August 2011
Friday 12 August 2011
Thursday 11 August 2011
Wednesday 10 August 2011
Fact No.285
Clothes dried outside smell better than those that aren't due to photolysis, which is the sunlight breaking down compounds in the laundry that cause odour, such as perspiration and body oils.
Tuesday 9 August 2011
Fact No.284
The acceleration rate of a flea's jump is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
Monday 8 August 2011
Fact No.283
Each day the earth grows in mass by several tonnes as meteoric dust settles on the surface.
Sunday 7 August 2011
Fact No.282
Thunder is created when lightning rapidly heats the air around it to create a loud explosion.
Saturday 6 August 2011
Friday 5 August 2011
Thursday 4 August 2011
Wednesday 3 August 2011
Fact No.278
Some women may be able to detect up to a hundred times as many colours as everyone else.
Tuesday 2 August 2011
Monday 1 August 2011
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