What are some interesting & amazing facts that most people don't know?

 

1. 10% of all the photographs in the world have been taken in the last 12 months.
2. The words written in Twitter everyday would fill a 10 million page book.
3. More than 50% of NASA employees are dyslexic, hired for their superior problem solving and spatial awareness skills.
4. Italy’s biggest business is the Mafia. It turns over $178 billion a year, and accounts for 7% of GDP.
5. George W Bush & Saddam Hussein had their shoes hand made by the same Italian Cobbler.
6. The designer of Saddam Hussein’s bunker was the grandson of the woman who built Hitler’s bunker.
7. When the famous painting Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, one of the suspects was Picasso.
8. In Japan, Only 2% of adoptions are of children, 98% are of adult males aged 25 to 30.
9. 10% of total US electricity is made from dismantled Soviet atomic bombs.
10. China is the world’s largest supplier of Bibles. One factory in Nanjing prints a million Bibles in a month.
11. The dialing code of Russia is 007.
12. Caffeine is made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen: the same as cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin.
13. Heroin and Aspirin have been invented by the same person in the same year: Felix Hoffman, 1897.
14. The United States of America maintains a military presence in 148 of the 192 United Nations countries.
15. Fred Baur (1918–2002), the designer of the Pringles can, had his ashes buried in one.
16. Mongolia’s largest airport is named after Genghis Khan. He had over 500 wives and a vast number of children: 1 in 10 people in Central Asia today are his direct descendants.
17. No scientific experiment has ever been done (or could be done) to prove that time exists.
18. After two weeks of wear a pair of jeans will have grown a 1000 strong colony of bacteria on the front, 1500–2500 on the back and 10,000 on the crotch.
19. A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, equivalent to the combined capacity of 62 MacBook Pro laptops.
20. An orange is a berry but a strawberry isn’t.
21. The word ambisinistrous is the opposite of ambidextrous: it means “No good with either hand”.
22. A “Knot” is something tied in a single piece of rope or line. Something that joins two ropes together is a “Bend”.
23. There are thought to be 1,00,000 uncharted mountains under the sea, only 1000 or so have been mapped so far.
24. Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 Billion.
25. Every electron in the universe knows about the state of every other electron.