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.