Facts are always interesting & sometimes it goes beyond curious about it.
- English astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet in 1781 during a telescopic survey of the zodiac. He promptly named it the Georgium Sidus (the Georgian Planet) in honor of his patron, King George III.
- A writer predicted how the Titanic would sink in 1898, 13 years before it was even built.
- "She sells seashells by the seashore" was written about an actual person named Mary Anning.
- The United States technically has no official language. Although English is the most commonly spoken language, there is actually no official language in the United States at the federal level.
- Is estimated that about 2000 different kinds of musical instruments exist in the world. There are four main categories woodwind, brass, string and percussion, with hundreds of instruments in each category.
- Studies show that traffic and air pollution are to blame for 12% of heart attacks worldwide.
- If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene , can manage only .002% of that.
- You have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan.
- More people in the world currently suffer from obesity than from hunger.
- Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
- When adjusted for inflation, John D. Rockefeller is the richest man in the history of the world with a net worth between 4 and10 times more than Bill Gates. An estimated, it could’ve been more than $350 billion in today's dollars.
- Two-thirds of the people on Earth have never seen snow.
- It would take over 1,000 years (merely a maths cal.) to watch every video on YouTube.
- The words written on Twitter every day would fill a book of 10 million pages.
- Before colonial rule Africa comprised up to 10,000 different states and autonomous groups with distinct languages and customs.