Fact No.214

Today (31st May) is World No Tobacco Day.

Fact No.213

The trees of a tropical rainforest are so densely packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground.

Fact No.212

The green colouring in Haribo comes from chlorophyll, the substance that makes plants green.

Fact No.211

The world's largest cookie was made from 30,000 eggs, 6,500 pounds of butter and 6,000 pounds of chocolate and when all was mixed and baked the cookie weighed 37,000 pounds and measured 102 feet in diameter.

Fact No.210

Almost four hundred years after Shakespeare's death there are 15 million pages referring to him on Google. There are 132 million for God, 2.7 million for Elvis Presley, and coming up on Shakespeare's heels, George W Bush with 14.7 million.

Fact No.209

Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female lot.

Fact No.208

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

Fact No.207

25% of all the bones in the human body are in the feet.

Fact No.206

The world’s most obese country is the USA with 30.6%, then in 2nd it's Mexico with 24.4% then in 3rd the UK with 23%.

Fact No.205

75% of the earths land surface has been altered by the human race.

Fact No.204

There are an average of 70,000 reported UFO sightings every year, worldwide. That's an average of 192 per day.

Fact No.203

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F"

Fact No.202

There are more stars in the universe, than there are grains of sand on planet earth.

Fact No.201

More than 10 people per year are killed by vending machines.

Fact No.200

Around four in 10 British women buy shoes knowing they do not fit, and nearly two out of 10 men do the same.

Fact No.199

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

Fact No.198

On this day (15th May) in 1940  McDonald's opened its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

Fact No.197

You could fit approximately 20 sextillion people inside the sun, that's 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 people, or 3 trillion (3,000,000,000) times the population of the earth.

Fact No.196

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

Fact No.195

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

Fact No.194

Volkswagen (VW) is the only German car company not to have apologised for siding with the Nazis in WW2.

Fact No.193

The universe is estimated to be approximatley, at least 150 billion light years across, traveling at the speed of the space shutle this would take 5,587,899,543,378,995 years.

Fact No.192

'Meet the press' an American news show is the longest running TV program, airing since 1947 until today.

Fact No.191

The average bottle of wine in the UK costs £4.08. Taxes account for most of that, but for bigger brands of wine marketing adds a pound. The actual wine only costs around 30p.

Fact No.190

The most happy country in the world is Denmark.

Fact No.189

The average household income in the UK is US$25,168,
and in the USA it is US$31,111.

Fact No.188

In the UK there are roughly 1.2 mobile phones per person.
In the USA it is roughly 0.8 mobile phones per person.

Fact No.187

A string of spider's web silk of pencil thickness could tow an ocean liner and stop a Boeing 747 at full thrust.

Fact No.186

The UK is the only country in the world that allows people under the age of 16 to drink alcohol.

Fact No.185

If you were to put a truck behind a 747 at take-off thrust, the truck would be blown to pieces almost half a km away.

Fact No.184

The world’s biggest pancake was cooked in Rochdale in 1994. It was 15 metres in diameter, weighed a whopping three tonnes and had an estimated two million calories.