1. Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.
2. There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne (pictured at home in 2010) sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.
3. Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
4. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93.
5. You can't see as many colors as a chicken. You'll also never see all the beautiful colors of a rainbow (They actually have over a million colors!)
6. The weight of the ants on earth is just about the weight of humans on earth (At least used to be, around 100–200 years ago)
7. On an average, someone in the United States is killed every 45 minutes by a drunk driver.
8. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts and worms like fried bacon (Yuck!!!)
9. A person will create enough saliva to fill out two swimming pools during his/her lifetime.
10. People say 'bless you' when you sneeze because this used to be one of the first symptoms of the bubonic plague, so Pope Gregory I suggested saying 'bless you' when someone sneezes in the hopes that the prayer would protect them from an otherwise certain death.
11. A portion of water that you drink has already been drunk by someone, maybe several times over! (Ew!)
12. Marie Currie's notebooks are still radioactive, researchers who want to view them must sign a disclaimer.
13. Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid approximately $21,429 for every one of the 700 words he said in 'Terminator 2:The Judgement Day'.
14. For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
15. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
16. There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
17. A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds.
18. Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.
19. A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.
20. Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.
21. Blueberries will not ripen until they are picked.
22. About 150 people per year are killed by coconuts.
23. About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
24. Chewing gum burns about 11 calories per hour.
25. Prisoners in Canadian war camps during WWII were treated so well, that a lot of them didn’t’ want to leave when the war was over.
26. In New York it is illegal to sell a haunted house without telling the buyer.
27. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
28. A waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down.
29. A Church in the Czech Republic has a chandelier made entirely of human bones.
30. The male ostrich can roar just like a lion.
31. Mountain lions can whistle.
32. In the last 3,000 years, there have only been 240 years of peace in the world.
33. In ancient Egypt, servants were covered in honey so as to attract flies away from pharaoh.
34. The average amount of time a woman can keep a secret is 47 hours and 15 minutes. (No offence meant.)
35. In 86AD the Colosseum was filled with water to stage a full naval battle.
36. Slovakia and Slovenia are mistaken to be each other so often that they meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mails.
37. The stripes on each tiger are unique, like human fingerprints.
38. Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.
39. Bananas are slightly radioactive.
40. An experiment in 1998 found that a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock.
41. There's high-speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest.
42. On Mars, sunsets are blue.
43. The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.
44. Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
45. Mice and Human DNA are 97.5% similar.
46. There's a hotel in Bolivia made almost entirely of salt, complete with salt beds and chairs.
47. In Belarus, it is illegal to applaud in public.
48. NASA scientists have discovered stars that are cool enough to touch.
49. A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
50. A chinese man sued his wife for being
too ugly...
and the Court agreed awarding him US $115,000.
51. Only female mosquitoes drink blood.
Males are vegetarians.
52. In the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald.
53. Only about 15% of the Sahara Desert is covered in sand.
54. "Tinku" is a festival in Bolivia where people beat each other for 2 or 3 days straight.
55. Egyptian Pyramid workers were paid with beer: 1 gallon (4L) per day.
56. A man named Robert Lane named
his two sons "Winner" and "Loser"....
Winner grew up to be a criminal,
and Loser became a detective.
57. It's illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on in North Dakota.
58. Samoa is 24 hours ahead of American Samoa, even though they are just 70 km (43 mi) apart.
59. Iran arrested 14 squirrels for spying in 2007.
60. Two actors have died playing Judas in live Biblical productions by accidentally hanging themselves for real during his death scene.
61. When Louis Pasteur was working on the rabies vaccine, if he or his assistants got infected, they were to be shot in the head.
62. In 2009, Nigerian Police arrested a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.
63. Charles Darwin ate every animal he discovered.
64. Alexander the Great,Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler, all suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
65. In 2011, a monkey was arrested in Pakistan for crossing the border with India.
66. Dreams get weirder as the night wears only.
67. In Ancient Rome, the punishment for killing one's father was the death penalty, consisting of being sewn up in a sack along with a viper, a dog, and a cock.
68. A cat has been the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for 15 years.
69. Holding a vibrator against a person's throat relaxes the vocal muscles, there by improving their voice quality.
70. Gold is edible.
71. During the 18th century, you could pay your admission ticket to the zoo in London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions.
72. In older versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl and the wolf eat grandma together.
73. The Mimic Octopus can impersonate up to15 marine species, including Sea Snakes, Stingrays, Lionfishes, and Jellyfishes.
74. Animals avoid power lines because they see frightening ultraviolet flashes that are invisible to humans.
75. Before trees were common, the Earth was covered with giant mushrooms.
76. Red Wine Kills Cancer Cells.
77. Goats have rectangular pupils.
78. Baby Chicks are smarter than Baby Humans .
79. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you might rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
80. There's a Spa in Jakarta using pythons to massage clients.
81. Before the mid-19th century,dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers.
82.
Lake Hillier in Australia is a bright pink color and scientists aren't sure why.
83. Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe box in NYC.
84. A porcupine can fight off a pride of lions.
85. Dynamite is made with peanuts.
86. Every piece of plastic ever made still exists.
87. Women can fly airplanes in Saudi Arabia, but can't drive cars.
88. The common basilisk is also known as the"Jesus Christ Lizard" for its ability to run on the surface of water.
89. In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.
90. Being annoying was against the law in Grand Rapids, Michigan, until 2014.
91. 37% of Americans think global warming is a hoax.
92. Scientists want to introduce global warming on Mars to make life habitable for colonization.
93. Despite Global Warming, we're still technically in an Ice Age.
94. At least 1 in 25 people sentenced to the death penalty in the U.S. are innocent.
95. Iran sentences its citizens to the death penalty if they decide to change their religion from Islam.
96. Possessing Bibles and watching South Korean movies may be punished with death in North Korea.
97. If you have a pizza with radius Z and thickness A, its volume is =
Pi*Z*Z*A
98. Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That's why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
99. 123 - 45 - 67 + 89 = 100.
123 + 4 - 5 + 67 - 89 = 100.
123 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 + 8 - 9 = 100.
1 + 23 - 4 + 5 + 6 + 78 - 9 = 100.
100. There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie, according to mathematicians.
101. Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica contained a simple calculation error that went unnoticed for 300 years.
102. Mathematician Paul Erdos could calculate in his head, given a person's age, how many seconds they had lived, when he was just 4 years old.
103. Newton invented/discovered calculus in about the same amount of time the average student learns it.
104. If you announce your goals to others, you are less likely to make them happen because you lose motivation, studies confirmed.
105. Phobias may be memories passed down through generations in DNA, according to a new research.
106. Einstein's great breakthroughs came from visual experiments performed in his head rather than the lab.
107. Einstein was famous
for having a bad memory. He could not remember names, dates and phone numbers.
108. Scientists finally concluded that
the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is produced by hens.
Note: Technically speaking, the egg came first. Eggs were around since much before chickens, this is directed specifically at chicken eggs.
109. A 10-Year-Old Accidentally Created in 2012 a New Molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.
110. Four Japanese scientists measured the amount of friction between a shoe, a banana skin and the floor: it's 0.07.
111. Earthquakes turn water into gold.
Edit: A little clarification on this since it’s a bit misleading by itself: When an earthquake strikes, it moves along a rupture in the ground — a fracture called a fault. During an earthquake, the fault jog suddenly opens wider. It's like pulling the lid off a pressure cooker: The water inside the void instantly vaporizes, flashing to steam and forcing silica, which forms the mineral quartz, and gold out of the fluids and onto nearby surfaces.
Unfortunately it’s not as miraculous as the one sentence seems to claim, but interesting nevertheless.
112. A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
113. Rain contains vitamin B12.
114. During photosynthesis, plants emit light, called fluorescence, that humans can't see.
115. If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, it's thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.
116. The Big Bang Theory was actually first theorized by a Catholic priest.
117. Ice melting in Antarctica has caused a small shift in gravity in the region.
118. Bees can be trained to detect bombs.
119. The earth's deepest known point equals to 24.5 Empire State Buildings end to end.
120. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
121. 100,000,000,000 solar neutrinos pass through every square centimeter of your body every second.
122. If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.
123. Due to the new discovery of many brain parasites, scientist now think a Zombie Apocalypse is actually possible.
124. The "Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge" is offered to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. In 40 years, no one ever won.
125. In 2013, two physicist managed to "tie" water into knots.
126. The WW1 ended at 11 o'clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
127. After World War I, there were so few men in Germany that only 1 in 3 women would find a husband.
128. During First World War, a British soldier spared the life of a wounded German: Adolf Hitler.
129. During WW1, the King of England, the Tsar of Russia, and the Emperor of Germany were all first cousins.
130. WW1 allied soldiers would fire thousands of rounds at random over the German trenches to boil the water in their machine guns to make tea.
131. In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
132. During the Cold War, the U.S. seriously considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to show off its military superiority.
133. The atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshima was generated by matter weighing no more than a paper clip.
134. Russia has over 8400 nuclear weapons, more than any other country.
135. Laughing 100 times is equivalent to 15 minutes of exercise on a stationary bicycle.
136. On average, people who complain live longer. Releasing the tension increases immunity and boosts their health.
137. Bill Gates' Foundation spends more on global health each year than the World Health Organization of the United Nations.
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