What are some of the awesome facts you believe very few people know?

 

• The shark from Jaws has a name; The production company named him “Bruce” after Steven Spielberg’s lawyer.

• Up to more than 6,000,000 Internet applications/websites have been blocked so far in China including Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Scribed, Chinese Wikipedia, Pornhub, Google, TIME, WhatsApp and Tumblr.

• The name of the blue bird used in the Twitter logo is Larry the Bird.

• Snails don’t have noses; rather they have four tentacles to perform sensory functions.

• Bird excrement is white poop because they don't produce urine. Instead, they excrete nitrogenous wastes in the form of uric acid, which emerges as a white paste.

• The Bible is both the world’s most sold and shoplifted book.

• Queen ants can live up to 30 years old.

• During his younger years, George W. Bush served as his high school’s head cheerleader.

• The female spotted hyena has the largest clitoris of all mammals.

• The word “feminism” was coined by a Frenchman named Charles Fourier.

• Google was originally called “BackRub”.

• Elmo is the only non-human to testify before Congress.

• Snow White is the first fictional female character to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is also the only Disney Princess to be given one.

What are some awesome pictures of Earth that will leave you speechless?

 Source: around the world in photos

These images are unreal. Check thhem out.

Chartreuse Arch, French Alps.

2. Atlantic-Norway Ocean Highway.

3. The Great Wall of China.

4. Highest mountains in the world - Himalayas. On the photo is Mardi Khola valley and beautiful Milky Way above it.

5. Île de Ré cross waves, France.

6. Niagra Falls, Canada.

7. Speedtrain in China.

8. The Corinth Canal (Greece) is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea.

9. A Canadian Pacific Railway train moving through the avalanche debris in Glacier National Park (Canada) after the tracks have been cleared.

10. Banagil Cave, Algarve, Portugal.

11. Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park, California. Every year, in the month of February, the sun's angle is such that it lights up the waterfall as if it were on fire.

12. Jann-Berghaus-Brücke in Leer/Germany. The ships which are built in the Meyer-Werft (Ship Yard) must be transferred from Papenburg down the river Ems to the North Sea. Every time a new cruise liner is ready built, this transfer is a great event in the area and thousands watch it along the journey to the north sea. See the video (that bridge at 2:20).

13. Mountain biking on Cliffs of Moher, Ireland.

14. As dawn breaks on top of a mountain near the China-Vietnam border, hundreds of water-filled rice terraces reveal themselves, clinging to the mountainside in geometric patterns in every direction. Light through the morning mist, reflecting off the water, brings some sense of mystery for the terraces. Photo and caption by Wu Hujun.

15. The Landwasser Viaduct is a single track six-arched curved limestone railway viaduct. It spans the Landwasser River between Schmitten and Filisur, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.

16. World’s highest Tennis court: Andre Agassi and Roger Federer playing atop of Burj Al Arab helipad.

17. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE.

18. Border of Saudi Arabia and UAE.