150 Random Facts That Will Blow Your Mind | Legacy Facts

# Scientists at Cornell University have created a functioning guitar about the size of a human blood cell.

# The first webcam was used at Cambridge University. Its purpose was to monitor a coffee maker so that trips to an empty pot didn't go waste.

# Every 5 years the average woman uses her height in lipstick.

# During the lifetime the average person walks the equivalent of 5 laps around the world.

# Some kangaroos that lived 12,000 years ago were around the size of rhinoceros.

# The urine of a cat glows under the black light.

# The Nazis were the first people ever to start an anti-smoking and tobacco movement in modern history.

# The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

# A single cornflake in the shape of a U.S. state of Illinois sold for $1,350 at an online auction.

# The only animals that can fly backward are Hummingbirds.

# In an auction the most money ever paid for a cow was $1.3 million.

# An eight-week course of meditation will cause the amygdala, associated with fear and other emotions, to shrink while the prefrontal cortex, associated with awareness, concentration, and decision making, will thicken.

# Eating mince pies on Christmas Day is illegal in the UK.

# When dissolved in water, Viagra can make cut-flowers remain erect for up to a week longer than they would normally have. Try it!

# "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

# The chills you get while listening to music are due to the release of dopamine in your brain, a neurotransmitter that triggers pleasure.

# When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

# The catfish has more than 27,000 taste buds.

# Flying from London to New York by Concord, you will arrive 2 hours before you depart because of the time zones crossed.

# Nightshades are often thought to be very poisonous plants but tomatoes, eggplants, and potatoes are all part of the family of nightshades.

# In Germany more board games are sold than any other place on Earth.

# The average lightning bolt contains enough energy to toast about 100,000 pieces of bread.

# Sonic the Hedgehog has recorded for being the fastest gaming character ever in Guinness Book of World Records.

# In Japanese karaoke means "empty orchestra."

# A British research study found that watching a horror film before seeing abstract art increases most people's enjoyment of the art.

# Human babies cannot taste salt until they are four months old.

# Polar bears are left-handed.

# Sorry, parents. According to the NASA FAQ page "There are no plans to send children into space at this time."

# The Baby Ruth candy bar was in fact named after Ruth, the baby daughter of Grover Cleveland.

# Officially, May 29th is "Put a pillow on Fridge Day."

# In China, 2013, scientists were able to use stem cells taken from urine to grow a human tooth from scratch.

# The person who invented the Frisbee, after he died, was cremated and made into frisbees.

# People are more likely to agree with a Baskerville-written statement than any other font.

# When a male penguin falls in love with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the right pebble to present to her.

# In the Roman alphabet the only capital letter with exactly one endpoint is P.

# Male pandas do a handstand to mark trees while peeing.

# Researchers at the Heidelberg University Hospital have determined it takes alcohol 6 minutes to affect human brain cells.

# On September 27th World Tourist Day is observed.

# Bananas are more effective in electrolyte replenishments than Gatorade. They do have dopamine and serotonin — chemicals that help you feel happy.

# Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.

# George Washington loved exploring caves.

# The New York Times predicted in 1939 that the television would fail as the average American family would not have enough time to sit around watching it.

# Two-thirds of the eggplant in the world is grown in New Jersey.

# Brown eyes underneath are blue and you can actually get a surgery to turn brown eyes to blue eyes.

# Cheese is the most commonly shoplifted food in the world, according to the Centre for Retail Research.

# Across Antarctica, there are about 400 lakes under the ice, including one with an area almost as big as Lake Ontario in North America.

# Whenever a pregnant woman suffers from organ damage such as heart attack, the fetus sends stem cells to the organ helping it to repair.

# It takes less than 1 minute for blood to travel all around your body.

# The least dense substance in the world is hydrogen gas, at 0.08988g / cc.

# Only 2 percent of the population around the world have green eyes.

# A 1000 gallon inflatable swimming pool was stolen from someone's back-garden in 2007 without having a single drop of water being found.

# Toni Morrison became the first woman African-American to receive a Nobel Prize. It was in recognition of her literature and poetic contributions.

# A car that manually shifts gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

# The average person's left-hand does 56 percent of the typing.

# On Father's Day the most popular gift is a necktie.

# The top speed of the first American car race is 7 mph in 1895.

# The first company of Bill Gates was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines that recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

# Pablo Picasso carried a revolver loaded with blanks that would be fired to anyone who asked him what his work "meant."

# Your hair still grows for several months after you die.

# An apple, onion, and potato all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

# Table tennis balls are known to travel at speeds of up to 160 km / h off the paddle.

# If an American Olympians win a silver or gold in the games, they get taxed on their medals.

# "Hirple" is the only word that rhymes with "purple," which means "to limp awkwardly." Nothing rhymes with "woman."

# Mark Twain invented a board game called Mark Twain's Memory Builder: A Game to Acquire and Retain Facts and Dates of All Sorts.

# Chocolate affects the heart and nervous system of a dog; a few ounces will kill a dog of small size.

# Climbing trees is illegal in Oshawa, a town in Ontario, Canada.

# A lightning bolt is six times hotter than the sun.

# Some of the first flags were red on pirate ships, not black.

# The first written instance of "OMG," of which we know, was in 1917 in a letter to Winston Churchill.

# Only about 100 people are fluent in speaking Latin.

# Hearing is the fastest human sense. A person can recognize a sound in just 0.05 seconds.

# Every person in the United States has two credit cards.

# Hot water is heavier than cold.

# The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "Go."

# Laughing boosts the immune system, burns calories, and reduces stress hormones, making it an activity that is very healthy.

# In the springtime, the children grow faster.

# Nintendo Was Founded as a Trading Card Company in 1889.

# Leonardo da Vinci was able to write with one hand and at the same time draw with another.

# When a person cries and the first drop of tears come from the right eye, its happiness. if it from the left eye, it’s pain.

# Sarcasm makes you more creative.

# The shark is the only fish which can blink with both eyes.

# In China, the three best known western names are Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

# At the same time, you can not snore and dream.

# The word "lethologica" describes the state of being unable to remember the word you want.

# The orbital axis of the Uranus is tilted at 97 degrees.

# The most popular color for highlighters is yellow because when photocopied, it does not leave a shadow on the page.

# Talking to yourself makes your brain work more efficiently.

# India's "Go Air" airline hires only female flight attendants because they are lighter, ultimately saving up to US$ 500,000 in fuel a year.

# Priests in ancient Egypt plucked every hair out of their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

# Bob Marley gave Vincent Ford, a friend who ran a soup kitchen, credit for "No Woman, No Cry" to ensure the checks on royalties would keep it open.

# As the most intelligent animal on the planet, the porpoise is second to man.

# Pineapples have enzymes in them that eat flesh, which is why your mouth stings when you consume them.

# The Tyrannosaurus rex probably didn't roar, as contrary to its portrayal in Jurassic Park. Scientists believe it has either hissed or rattled, like a rattlesnake.

# The glue is certified as kosher on Israeli postage stamps.

# When Mary Stuart was just six days old she became Queen of Scotland.

# Around 98 percent of the atoms in your body are replaced every year.

# Uranus has just 2 seasons-winter and summer. Each one lasts 42 Earth years.

# If injected intravenously Nutmeg is extremely poisonous.

# Mosquitoes can smell which type of blood you are.

# 29,000 rubber ducks lost at sea in 1992, and are still being found in unexpected places.

# Parents started naming their kids after the Instagram filters. Lux was the most popular filter name but even a few Kelvins were there.

# Crocodile dung was the first known contraceptive, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

# There is a device that uses sound waves to put out the fire.

# A hurricane releases more energy in 10 minutes than all the nuclear weapons in the world combined.

# Tokelau, a group of remote Pacific Ocean islands, receives 100 percent of their electricity from solar energy.

# Americanium-241 is the radioactive substance used in many smoke detectors.

# Cats can not taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.

# The Earth's Moon volume is the same as Pacific Ocean volume.

# Deer can’t eat hay.

# The reason peppers taste so hot is because they contain a chemical compound called capsaicin that "tricks" the sensory nerves into thinking they are burned by fire.

# It will take nearly 4,575 years for a snail to circle the Earth.

# President Kennedy was the world's fastest random speaker, at more than 350 words per minute.

# The American Film Institute cited the best movie quote of all time from 1939's Gone With the Wind, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

# "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

# Starfish do not have brains.

# Actually there are Two North Poles: Magnetic and Terrestrial.

# Clouds cover about 60 percent of Earth at every moment.

# In 1849 the first organized baseball game was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A.

# A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.

# Smearing on an insect bite a small amount of dog feces will relieve the itching and swelling.

# Researchers in Canada have found Einstein's brain was 15 percent wider than normal.

# On Earth, two billion people eat insects as part of their regular diet.

# The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby."

# Every year the average person makes about 1,140 phone calls.

# The sun would be the size of an orange if Earth were the size of a grain of sand.

# The average air molecule at room temperature travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.

# A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

# In ancient Rome, being born with a crooked nose was thought to be a symbol of leadership.

# Every two weeks, the stomach produces a new layer of mucus-otherwise it will digest itself.

# The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

# In ancient Egypt, all cats were considered sacred. You could be sentenced to death if you kill a cat.

# Fifty-six percent of internet users googled themselves.

# Chewing gum while onions peeling will prevent you from crying.

# Scientists believe that in real life, people who dream about an activity will actually get better at it.

# A single tooth of an elephant can weigh up to 9 lbs.

# The time shown on a watch is 10:10, in most advertisements.

# Sometimes the black bears hibernate in the tops of trees.

# Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, held a secret transistor demonstration on 23 December 1947 that marked the foundation of modern electronics.

# Blood makes more than 1,000 loops around your body every day.

# The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of pickles varieties the company once had.

# The only English word ends with the letters "mt" is "Dreamt."

# The elephant is the only four-kneaded animal.

# A study on the loss of teaspoons at the workplace was published by an Australian research institute in 2005.

# The plastic stuff at the end of the shoelaces is called aglets.

# Rabbits and guinea pigs can not sweat.

# Locals in the town of Ireland that Viagra is manufactured in a claim that factory fumes affect men in the area, with one barmaid saying, "One whiff and you're stiff."

# All 50 states are listed on the back of the $5 bill over the top of the Lincoln Memorial.

# During World War II, the very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

# In Ancient Greece it was believed that consuming human flesh could turn a person into a werewolf.

# It took six years for Leo Tolstoy to write "War & Peace."

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