Tuesday, January 27, 2026

What are the most amazing and interesting facts you know?

 This list is presented after a search, of things I read:

  • On 15th April 2017, Italian Emma Morano, last living human to born in 1800s, died.
  • Only 8% of the world’s currency is actual physical money. Its a digital world.
  • Eighty six is a verb. In American English, eighty-six, eighty-sixed, 86, 86ed, or 86'd, is slang for getting rid of something, ejecting someone, or refusing service.
  • India's euthanasia (the consented painless killing of a patient) laws changed due to Aruna Shanbaug's 42 year old coma. She was a nurse in her mid-20s at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial Hospital in 1973 when a fellow hospital worker strangled her with a dog chain during a brutal rape that blinded her, caused irreversible brain damage, and left her in a coma.
  • If you meet 100 new people every day from the day you were born, you will have met only 0.052% of the world by the time you’re 100 years old.
  • 94% of bills are contaminated with bacteria.
  • Jupiter does NOT orbit the sun. With 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets in the solar system combined, it's big enough that the center of gravity between Jupiter and the sun doesn't actually reside inside the sun - rather, at a point in space just above the sun's surface.
  • Every 255 by 255 image contains a picture of you, Madonna, Messi, any person, thing you name.

A greyscale image has a byte of storage for every pixel, so every pixel can range in value from 0 (being completely black) to 255 (being completely white), totally 256 values. There are 256×256 = 65536 pixels in a 255 × 255 image, and since every pixel can have 256 different values, there are totally 256^65536 possible images, from all black, to all white.

256^65536, i.e, 157,827 long digit is an enormous number (Compare the figure with 1093 words or 6132 characters which constitute this answer) and most of these images would look like noise. However, hidden somewhere would be a picture of you when you were born, a picture of you now, a picture of you when you’ll be old. There would be picture which shows how the universe began and how it will end, picture of every equation that is yet to be discovered.

  • Russia is bigger than Pluto. Pluto's surface area is about 16,650,000 sq. km. and Russia is 17,075,400 sq. km.
  • About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in the U.S. everyday.
  • Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

…is an actual legitimate sentence. It uses 3 distinct meanings of the word ‘buffalo’

  1. the city of Buffalo, New York;
    1. the verb (uncommon in usage) to buffalo, meaning "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and
    2. the animal, bison (often called buffalo in North America).

If you didn't got it, its explained at the end.

  • First cousins may marry in Utah, but only after they’re 65 years old.
  • The Sicily flag is characterized by the presence of the triskelion in its middle, the (winged) head of Medusa and three wheat ears.
  • On October 10, 2012, Amanda Michelle Todd, a 15-year-old Canadian girl, committed suicide at her home in Canada. Prior to her death, Todd had posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of flash cards to tell her experience of being blackmailed into exposing her breasts via webcam and of being bullied and physically assaulted. The video went viral after her death, resulting in international media attention. The video has had more than 20 million views as of June 2017.
  • IPv6 can assign one address to every square meter of the disc of the Milky Way galaxywhile IPv4 can’t get anywhere near assigning one address to every living human. IPv6 supports more than ten billion billion billion times as many addresses as IPv4 supported. In a different perspective, this is 252 addresses for every star in the known universe.
  • An average healthy man can ejaculate enough sperms in two weeks to impregnate every woman in the world.
  • Eiffel Tower is taller than Leaning tower of Pisa, Ben Clock, Taj Mahal, Qutub minar combined.
  • It has been found that one gram of human DNA is sufficient to store all of Facebook & Google data! In other words, there is enough DNA in an average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times!
  • In Morrisville, Pennsylvania, it is illegal for a woman to wear cosmetics without a permit.
  • The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
  • If 33 million people held hands, they could make it all the way around the equator.
  • Cerenkov Radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted by particles moving in a medium at speeds faster than that of light in the same medium.
  • Subway ticket machine in Moscow accepts 30 squats as its payment.
  • It can take a photon 10000 to 170000 years(depending upon the number of collisions) to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
  • Panagram is a sentence containing all alphabet. You remember, The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
  • If you have pizza with radius z and thickness a then its volume is =pi*z*z*a
  • 2520 is the smallest number that can be divided by all numbers from 1–10. Try it !!
  • Movie Social Network has more VFX shoots than Lord of Rings, Godzilla, or Transformers.
  • If you divide 1 by 998001 then you will get a complete sequence from 000 to 999 in order. Try it if you want.!!
  • Did you know the Facebook notification globe looks different depending on where you are in the world?

The default icon portays the America and while other side of globe represents Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia (Oceania).

  • Start with a dollar. Double it every day. In 48 days you’ll own every financial asset that exists on the planet — about $200 trillion.
  • A113 is Pixar's favorite number because its the number of the animation classroom at the California Institute of the Arts where many of Pixar and Disney animators studied.
  • Eminem’s actual name is Marshall Mathers. The initials are M & M. If you pronounce them fast, they sound like ‘Eminem’, hence the name. And he actually went by M&M before being professional, they say.
  • If a Google employee passes away, their surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50% of their salary every year for the next decade.

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As promised, here's the explanation:

"Buffalo from Buffalo that are intimidated by buffalo from Buffalo intimidate buffalo from Buffalo.