What are some particularly astonishing or surprising facts?

 

• The “World War 1” ended at 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918

• Iceland is the only country without mosquitoes, snakes or other reptiles.

• Iceland has one of the largest gun ownership rates in the world and lowest crime rates as well.

• Researchers testing insects repellents used Victoria Secret’s Bombshell perfume as a standard and accidentally discovered that it repels mosquitoes better than any repellents in the market.

• Bruce Lee was so fast, they actually had to run his films slower so that you can see his moves.

• A tiger’s roar can be heard as far as 1.8 miles (3 km) away.

• The first colgate toothpaste – Colgate’s Antiseptic dental powder.

• The world’s deepest, darkest, oldest and quietest model room is 220 feet underground, at Grand Canyon Caverns, in a 65 million-year-old cave.

• This is how baby elephants drink water. They don’t know how to use their trunks to drink until they are nine months.

• Harry Potter was first rejected by 12 different book publishers.