What are 10 curiosities that I almost certainly don't know?

 

1. Pringles aren't potato chips. That's not stated anywhere on the packaging. In fact, they're dehydrated, compacted potato flakes.
2. Around the world, the word "sneeze" is pronounced differently in each country.
3. The first bank robber in American history robbed the Bank of Philadelphia. He was caught because he deposited the stolen money in the same bank.
4. The human eye can distinguish 500 shades of gray.
5. In 1965, there were approximately 180,000 nuns in the United States. Today, there are fewer than fifty thousand.
6. In Germany, approximately 2,000 tons of unexploded bombs are discovered every year.
7. It was only in 2013 that the United States government confirmed the existence of Area 51.
8. 99.9% of all species that have ever lived on Earth have become extinct. We therefore belong to the 0.1% of "remaining" species.
9. The silver-backed gorilla is capable of lifting 1 ton.

10. BIC pen caps have holes in the tip so you don't lose your breath if you accidentally swallow them.

What are some curiosities that few people know?

 Here are some:

• In the case of a double rainbow, the second one always has the reversed colors compared to the first one.

• On average, people fear spiders more than they fear death.

• More than 50% of the world's population has never made or received a telephone call

• In Calama, a city in the Atacama Desert in Chile, it has never rained.

• You can lead a cow up, but not down.

• The gas lighter was invented before the match

• Most of the dust in your home is actually dead skin.

• More than 40% of brain diseases can be prevented by playing brain training games regularly.

• It's impossible to mumble with a blocked nose

• At any given time, there are 1,800 lightning storms going on in the Earth's atmosphere.

• Bats' leg bones are so thin that they make it impossible for them to walk.

• Americans eat an average of 7 acres of pizza every day.

• One in five people in the world lives on less than 1 euro a day.

• Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

• Women blink about twice as often as men

• Popsicles were invented by an 11-year-old boy by accident.

• Vending machines kill 4 times more people each year than sharks.

• Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins

• National Geographic estimates that the oceans contain 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic with 269,000 tons floating on the surface.