100 Best Amazing facts

1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to

28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.

2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will

have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was invol
ved.

3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 milli

on miles.

4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the

nearest star to earth.

5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, bu

t not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No o
ne knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.

6. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a

brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,
000 miles down.

7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.

8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.

9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go o

ff.

10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.

12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.

13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Ve

nice.

14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.

15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their cor
rect order.

16. Eskimoes have hundreds of words for snow but none for hell
o.

17. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English langu
age.

18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeatin
g its letters is uncopyrightable.

19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.

20. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest
tongue-twister.

21. The longest English word without a vowel is twyndyllyngs wh

ich means "twins".

22. 1 x 8 + 1 = 9; 12 x 8 + 2 = 98; 123 x 8 + 3 = 987; 1234

x 8 + 4 = 9876; 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765; 123456 x 8 + 6 = 9876
54; 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543; 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432;
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

23. The word "dreamt" is the only common word in the English l
anguage that ends in "mt".

24. Albert Einstein never wore any socks.

25. The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their li
fetime.

26. In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.

27. Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backward
s.

28. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

29. Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before the
y starve to death.

30. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

31. The lighter was invented before the match.

32. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.

33. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

34. Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that ra

in drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger bu
ns.

35. The first Internet domain name ever registered was Symbo
lics.com on March 15, 1985.

36. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in

1876, only six phones were sold in the first month.

37. Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.

38. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name so

ld: for $7.5 million.

39. In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were
Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.

40. In Canada, the most productive day of the working week is

Tuesday.

41. In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was con

cluded that the easiest colour to spot is yellow. This is why J
ohn Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked
cabs to be yellow.

42. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for th

e average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

43. On average a business document is copied 19 times.

44. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway syst
em in India, employing over 1.6 million people.

45. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song "Happ
y Birthday." They make over $1 million in royalties every yea
r from the commercial use of the song.

46. All babies are colour-blind when they are born.

47. Children grow faster in the springtime than any other seaso
n during the year.
48. Each nostril of a human being registers smells in a differ
ent way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more
pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more a
ccurately when made by the left nostril.

49. Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, however whe
n a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This o
ccurs because many of them join together to make a single bon
e.

50. May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies b
orn in other months.

51. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwar

ds.

52. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.

53. Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of

the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United S
tates ever had.

54. Rolling Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year

-old model Mandy Smith in 1988. At the same time Wyman's so
n was engaged to Mandy Smith's mother. If his son had marri
ed Smith's mother, Wyman would have been the step grandfath
er to his own wife.

55. There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.

56. There are about 6,800 languages in the world.

57. There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

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

59. The coconut is the largest seed in the world.

60. There is cyanide in apple pips.

61. If you were to take 1 lb. of spiders web and stretch it out
it would circle the whole way around the world!
62. If every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at
the same time...it would knock the earth off its axis!

63. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

64. The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar i

n 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.

65. The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in

London that sold seashells.

66. The symbols + (addition) and – (subtraction) came into gener

al use in 1489.

67. If you save one penny and double it every successive day, (
day two you have 2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, an
d so on), by the end of 30 days you’ll have $5,368,708! (or £’s
or whatever currency).

68. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part

of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to
tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resu
lting sensation.

69. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon.
This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

70. The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five mil
es long.

71. Due to precipitation, for a few weeks, K2 is taller than Mt.

Everest.

72. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

73. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy
having billions of stars.

74. The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a
tennis court.

75. A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the
faintest sounds that a person can hear. If a person can just h
ear a noise that is coming from 10 feet away, a dog could hear
that same noise from 100 feet away.

76. If a sole (a type of fish) lays upon a chessboard it can ch

ange the colouring of its body to match the pattern of the ches
s board. The sole takes about 4 minutes to make the change.

77. Of all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed t

o the deaths of more people than any other animal.

78. In the courts of the Roman Empire, instead of swearing an o

ath on a bible, men swore to the truth on their statements whil
e holding their genitals. Hence the word 'testify', from 'testi
cles'.

79. The first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Per
borate and Silicate - hence its brand name, Persil.

80. If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of p

recisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaini
ng the same, there would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from th
e Americas and 8 Africans. Only 1 would own a computer.

81. All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of th

eir foot is made up of all fat and no bone.

82. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
and ears never stop growing.

83. Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States.

84. Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type

blood.

85. It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun
to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it ac
tually went out 8 minutes ago.

86. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

87. An octopus has 3 hearts.

88. If the population of China walked past you in single file, t

he line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

89. The hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflec
t light, so they appear white.

90. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer tha

n left-handed people do.

91. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in 9 different w

ays; Read this: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful plou
ghman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after fallin
g into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

92. The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its b
lood vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it.

93. A left-handed person finds it easier to open a jar than a

right-handed person because they can supply a stronger anticlo
ckwise turning force than a right-handed person. However a rig
ht-handed person will find it easier to tighten the jar up aft
erwards.

94. The orbit of the Moon about the Earth would fit easily insi
de the Sun.

95. A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the sam
e time.

96. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using
one row on the keyboard.

97. Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farth
er to the west than to the east.

98. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter th
at they start with.

99. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

100. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (euro, po
und).