Wednesday, December 24, 2025

What are the most interesting facts you know?

 30 feet underwater there is no red light, so blood appears green.


In November 2008, Zimbabwean $ 50 million = US $ 1 due to hyperinflation.

RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE has introduced $ 500 million bearer cheques (or currency notes) for the public, and $ 5 billion, $ 25 billion, $ 50 billion agro-cheques for farmers.

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A 15-kg bag of potatoes cost Zimbabwean $260 million.


Colombian drug lord Pablo Emilio Escobar made so much money, he spent 1000 $ per week purchasing rubber bands to wrap the stacks of cash storing most of it in his warehouse. 10% had to be written off because of “spoilage” by rats that crept in at night and nibbled on the 100 dollar bills.

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Frane Selak is called the world’s luckiest man. This man cheated death seven times. He’s been in a train wreck, an airplane crash, a bus crash, his car blew up a few times, he was hit by a city bus, and his car was forced off a cliff by a truck.

In 2003, he won $ 1,000,000 dollars in the Croatian lottery.

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If you put a piece of pineapple somewhere in your mouth for some time, it will start eating you. It has proteins that degrade meat.

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Bananas are slightly radioactive because they contain potassium and potassium decays.

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8 Sieverts will result in death.


On 21/07/2013, burglars stole computers from an office building. When they realized the computers they’d stolen were from a non-profit group that helps victims of sexual violence, they returned them – along with an apology note.


A Civil Engineering fact to satisfy my soul :

Concrete is the most used man made material in the world. Also, it's the second most used material in the world after water.

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