Note Of Absence

Through 29th Dec 2010-2nd Jan 2011 I will be on holiday in Scotland, I will try to update daily however I apologize in advance if there are days without a new interesting fact. Thank you for your cooperation.

Fact No.67

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Fact No.66

Lasers could eventually be used to create all the worlds electricity needs through the process of nuclear fusion.

Fact No.65

Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

Fact No.64

Christmas is not a christian celebration of the birth of Jesus, it is a pagan celebation.

Fact No.63

A definition of a white Christmas is when a single snowflake falls during the 24 hours of 25 December. The last official white Christmas was in 2004.

Fact No.62

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

Fact No.61

In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who in a town could fart the loudest and longest. Winners were awarded many prizes and received great recognition.

Fact No.60

Today (21st December) Is the first day of winter.

Fact No.59

The highest populated city in the world is Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan with 33,200,000 people.

Fact No.58

Potatoes are not vegetables, they are carbohydrates/tubers.

Fact No.57

They use sweat and urine to create water on the ISS (International Space Station).

Fact No.56

KFC's Colonel Sanders was a real person.

Fact No.55

The most powerful man in the world is deemed to be Hu Jintao, the president of China.

Fact No.54

This year boxing day will not be the day after christmas.

Fact No.53

You can't take a good quality picture of the moon with a regular camera.

Fact No.52

Valentine’s Day originates from the ancient Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia, which was celebrated on 15 February in honor of the gods Lupercus and Faunus, as well as the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. During the festival, young men would draw the names of women from a box, and each couple would be paired until next year’s celebration. Often they would fall in love and marry.

Fact No.51

You spend on average 24 years of your life asleep.

Fact No.50

Birds are living descendents of the dinosaur.

Fact No.49

The shape of the universe is unknown.

Fact No.48

Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.

Fact No.47

Approximately 6800 people die each year due to tea cosies.

Fact No.46

One inch (2.5cm) of rain is equal to 10 inches (25cm) of snow.

Fact No.45

There are 100,000,000,000,000 bacteria living inside you.

Fact No.44

Today (5th December) is Morgan Freeman's Birthday.

Fact No.43

The surface area of your lungs is about the size of a tennis court.

Fact No.42

You are made out of dying stars called supernovas (suprenovae).

Fact No.41

The hydrogen atoms in your water are over 14 billion years old.

Fact No.40

A strawberry is not a berry.

Fact No.39

Toady is St. Andrews day (Scotland's National Day).

Fact No.38

If you stood on Jupiter you would feel the equivalent weight of 6 of you sitting on top of your head.

Fact No.37

The hardest parts of your body are your teeth.

Fact No.36

It is thought that the largest ever noise made was the Tunguska Meteor.

Fact No.35

The welsh for microwave is popty-ping.

Fact No.34

It is possible to mathematically prove that 1+1=0.

Fact No.33

There are most likley 11 dimensions.

Fact No.32

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

Fact No.31

The largest living organism is The Great Barrier Reef.

Fact No.30

On average there are only 185 plane crashes each year, compared to the billions of flights each year.

Fact No.29

Children laugh about 400 times a day, whilst adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

Fact No.28

If the universe is infinitely big, then there are an infinite amount of chances for every outcome. Or if the universe is infinitely big then everything that could happen does happen (somewhere).

Fact No.27

The shortest complete sentence in the english language is: I am.

Fact No.26

Polar bears can run about 25mph and jump about 6ft high.

Fact No.25

Albert Einstien never wore socks.

Fact No.24

The most populated country in the world is China with over 1 billion people.

Fact No.23

Saturn has 61 moons.

Fact No.22

The average lifespan for a fly is 20-30 days.

Fact No.21

Nasa are planning to send humans to mars by the year 2020.

Fact No.20

Today (11th Novemeber) is Leonardo Dicaprio's birthday.

Fact No.19

The sun makes noise.

Fact No.18

Your heart beats 101,000 times a day. During your lifetime it will beat about 3 billion times and pump about 378 million litres of blood. A normal heart beats 70 to 80 times a minute.

Fact No.17

All of the faces you see in your dreams have been seen by you in real life.

Fact No.16

A peanut is not actually a nut.

Fact No.15

You have 4 nostrils.

Fact No.14

The elephant is the only living animal that is unable to jump.

Fact No.13

The moon will eventually fly off and leave the earth on its own.

Fact No.12

A year actually lasts 365.24 days.

Fact No.11

1st November is international vegan day.

Fact No.10

The alphabet song tune is the same as twinkle twinkle little star.

Fact No.9

The largest desert in the World is Antarctica.

Fact No.8

Wellington boots were originally made in Scotland.

Fact No.7

A camel stores fat in its humps not water.

Fact No.6

The shortest distance between two points on a spherical surface is not always a straight line.

Fact No.5

You are taller first thing in the morning, than in any other part of the day.

Fact No.4

The smallest country in the world is the vatican city (where the pope lives).

Fact No.3

The biggest, best brand in the world is Google.

Fact No.2

The Earth is not a perfect sphere (it is squashed at the poles).

Fact No.1

Today (17th october) is Eminem's Birthday

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