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Friday 18 December 2015

List of interesting facts you probably didn't know


Fact
: Every Apple iPhone ad displays the time as 9:41 AM, the time Steve Jobs unveiled it in 2007.
Fact: When the first prototype of Apple’s iPod was shown to Steve Jobs, he dropped it in an aquarium and used the air bubbles to prove there was empty space and it could be made smaller.
Fact: A marijuana-derived compound forces cancer cells to freeze and prevents them from spreading.
Fact: The ‘Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew’ Temple in Thailand was constructed with 1 million bottles of Heineken and a local beer.
Fact: Apple’s iPhone consumes US $0.25 worth of electricity per year if it’s fully charged once a day.
Fact: Rastafarians are legally allowed to possess marijuana in Italy due to it being a ‘Sacrament’ to the religion.
Fact: Rastafarians are legally allowed to possess marijuana in Italy due to it being a ‘Sacrament’ to the religion.
Fact: At 17 years old, Malala Yousafzai is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize since its inception in 1901.
Fact: Women can fly airplanes in Saudi Arabia, but can’t drive cars.
Fact: Isaac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” contained a simple calculation error that went unnoticed for 300 years.
Fact: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, India ranks third behind the USA and the UK in the number of records claimed each year.
Fact: Scientists have discovered that monkeys are susceptible to optical illusions, just like humans.
Fact: The Labrador dog is from Newfoundland and the Newfoundland dog is from Labrador.
Fact: Hours before his death, Einstein was still attempting to prove his Theory of Everything.
Fact: The word “Infant’ comes from the latin word “infans”, meaning  - unable to speak or speechless.
Fact: The term “ZIP” in “ZIP CODE” is an acronym for “Zone Improvement Plan.”
Fact: A single lego brick can take 432 kg (950 lbs) of pressure before it cracks.
Fact: On August 10, 2015, NASA astronauts ate food that had been grown in space for the first time.
Fact: Over 30 of Paul Walker’s cars were stolen from a warehouse within 24 hours of his tragic death.
Fact: The world record for most claps in one minute is 1,020.
Fact: If you die in Amsterdam without any friends or family left to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
Fact: Susan Wojcicki, the woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google, later became the CEO of Youtube.
Fact: The last movie rented from Blockbuster before it closed its doors nationwide was ironically called “This is the End.”
Fact: Hundreds of prisoners were left to die in their cells during hurricane Katrina as officials abandoned Orleans Parish Prison.
Fact: Due to his internet popularity, the child from the “Success Kid” meme made enough money to fund his dad’s kidney transplant.
Fact: The poverty line in America was designed assuming every family had a housewife who was  a skilful cook.
Fact: Bananas have more trade regulations than AK-47s.
Fact: The longest plank (a form of exercise) ever was held for 5 hours and 15 minutes.
Fact: Sharks can see up to 10 times better than humans in clear water.
Fact: Snakes use their tongues to smell.
Fact: Anne Frank wrote most of her diary in the form of letters to a person named “Kitty”.
Fact: “Tinku” is a festival in Bolivia where people beat each other for 2 or 3 days straight.
Fact: “Alexithymia” is the inability of people to identify and describe their own emotions.
Fact: If we could jump proportionally as high as a locust, we would be able to jump 18m (59 ft).
Fact: A flock of starlings is called a “murmuration.”
Fact: Bubble wrap was originally designed as an easy-to-clean textured wallpaper.
Fact: 44% of the people who didn’t evacuate for hurricane Katrina stayed because they didn’t want to abandon their pets.
Fact: A baby is born on its predicted due date just 4% of the time.

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