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# The world's hottest chili pepper is so spicy it can kill you. Its name is Dragon’s breath chili pepper.

# German Chocolate Cake is named after Samuel German, an American baker.

# Sunflowers can help in cleaning radioactive soil. Japan is rehabilitating Fukashima using this. Nearly 10,000 sunflower seed packets were sold to the citizens.

# The only species that have sex for pleasure are humans and dolphins.

# Indonesia is home to some of the world's shortest people.

# Two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere.

# The autograph of Julius Caesar is worth around $2,000,000.

# Only three countries in the world don't use the metric system. Those countries are the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar.

# Beetles taste like apples, wasps taste like pine nut and worms taste like fried bacon.

# The smallest mammal in the world, a Bumblebee Bat, weighs around the same as a U.S. dime. Those bats, originally from Myanmar and Thailand, and are endangered.

# Michigan was the first state to have picnic tables along the roadside.

# Every second, four babies are born.

# In every continent there is a city called Rome.

# Facebook has more users than the total population of the United States, China, and Brazil.

# One in every four Americans appeared on TV.

# There are only two countries with names that start with "The" in the world: Which are The Gambia and The Bahamas.

# Bruce Lee was so fast they really had to slow down the film so you could see his moves.

# The oceans contain about 200,000 different types of viruses.

# Every President of the United States has worn glasses (not always in public).

# There are more pets per household in New Zealand than any other country.

# One out of every four cranes worldwide is in Dubai.

# Butterflies can not fly when their body temperature is below 86 degrees Celsius.

# Tokyo is the largest city in the world, with a population of 37 million people.

# The male seahorse carries the eggs instead of the female until they hatch.

# Canadians say "sorry" so much that in 2009 a law was passed stating that an apology can not be used as proof of admission of guilt.

# Dogs are able to understand up to 250 words and gestures. The average dog is as smart as a two-year-old child.

# If you cut a cactus in Arizona, you will be penalized in prison for up to 25 years. Similar to cutting down a protected species of tree.

# Once in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest Charlie Chaplin won third prize.

# For Giant Anteater the scientific name is Myrmecophaga Tridactyla. This means "ant-eating with three fingers."

# The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

# Jupiter consists of 69 moons. A few are with a diameter of 12-37 miles, but most are in the size of barely 1 mile. Jupiter itself is 317 times the Earth's mass.

# When refrigerated, the rubber bands last longer.

# Around 90 percent of the rural population in the world live in Africa and Asia.

# The longest snake in the world (by reliable documentation) is the reticulated python, with a maximum length of 30 feet.

# IKEA is an acronym for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, which is the name of the founder, the farm where he grew up, and his hometown.

# Elephants will comfort each other when times get tough by stroking loved ones with their trunks and emitting small chirps.

# In Papua New Guinea, which has more than 820 indigenous languages, 12 percent of the total languages in the world are found there. This island has more languages than any other country.

# Just one hour of wearing headphones will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

# The world's largest stadium is North Korea's Rungrado 1st May Stadium. It can accommodate as many as 114,000 spectators. It covers 51 acres and is 197 feet tall.

# An episode of Peppa Pig has been pulled from Australian TV to teach children not to fear spiders.

# In 1911, Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre which attracted more tourists than the actual painting to see the empty space.

# If you add the numbers to a roulette wheel, you'll get 666.

# The only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit are Venus and Uranus.

# The Leaning Tower of Piza is tilted due to the soft soil on which it is constructed – which has also protected it from at least 4 powerful earthquakes.

# The hashtag symbol is theoretically called an octothorpe.

# The oranges were not orange in the first.

# A double rainbow occurs only when the sunlight inside a raindrop is reflected twice. If you look closely you can see the secondary rainbow colors appearing in reverse order.

# You can thank the Greeks for calling Christmas “Xmas”.

# All Dolphins have names and have unique names and each Dolphin responds to its own name.

# When tomatoes were introduced to Europeans, they were scared to eat them.

# The eyes of a reindeer change color through the seasons. They’re gold during the summer and blue in the winter.

# The script for the Terminator sold for $1.

# The British Empire was the largest empire in the history of the world.

# Penicillin was first called "mold juice."

# Copenhagen is the world's most bike-friendly city.

# A Harvard University study finds that having no friends can be as deadly as smoking. Both effect levels of a blood-clotting protein.

# The reason you love cat videos is Thomas Edison.

# Honey does not spoil. You can feasibly eat honey from 3000 years ago.

# Disney considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful before settling on the Seven Dwarfs we know today.

# Mageirocophobia is known as the fear of cooking and is a phobia that is recognized.

# Harrison Schmitt, an astronaut from Apollo 17, was allergic to moon dust.

# The tall hat of the chef is called a toque.

# You will be weighing slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

# The swan has more than 25,000 feathers on its body.

# The "sixth sick sheik 's sixth sheep's sick" is considered to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

# A person can be killed by carbon monoxide in less than 15 minutes.

# By the tender age of 15, Albert Einstein had mastered calculus.

# The birds that can not walk are the hummingbird, the kingfisher, the loon, the grebe, and the swift.

# Canada consumes more macaroni and cheese than any other country in the world.

# The tail of a cat comprises nearly 10 percent of all the bones in its body.

# All air on Earth has an overall weight of 11 quintillion pounds.

# Earth is the only planet that is not named after a god.

# At 22 months, elephants have the longest recorded pregnancy in the animal kingdom. The longest recorded human pregnancy is of 17 months, 11 days.

# Peanuts are among the ingredients required to make dynamite.

# Intelligent people's hair contains more zinc and copper.

# The world's largest living organism is a fungus, it is in Oregon, occupying an area of 2,200 acres and is still growing.

# Space has a distinct odor: a bouquet of diesel fumes, gunpowder, and barbecue. The aroma is produced mostly by dying stars.

# The world's smallest country takes up .2 square miles, it's the Vatican City.

# During early pregnancy, the neurons multiply at a rate of 250,000 neurons per minute.

# When you're cold your fingernails grow faster.

# In 2009, Google officially rented a herd of goats to mow grass fields at its headquarters in Mountain View, California.

# You can cut a pie into eight pieces, only with three cuts.

# A tsunami can travel almost as fast as a jet plane.

# Every baby is born with blue eyes.

# Around 75 percent of the human brain is water.

# Fish living more than 800 meters below the surface of the ocean don't have eyes.

# The Earth's ozone layer will make a full recovery in 50 years.

# Stephen Hawking was born precisely 300 years after the death of Galileo.

# Mexico City sinks annually by around 10 inches.

# The most popular name in the world is Muhammad.

# There's a 1 in 4 chance New York receives a white Christmas.

# Warren Buffett eats every single morning at McDonald's, and orders just one of three items. It doesn't cost him more than $3.17.

# A pregnant goldfish is known as a twit.

# PayPal was voted as one of the top ten worst business ideas in 1999.

# If you keep a goldfish in the darkroom, it ends up turning white.

# The original name of Times Square was Longacre Square until it was changed in 1904 after The New York Times relocated its headquarters to the newly constructed Times Building.

# The Indian word "Canada" means "Big Village."

# The Australian Brown Snake's venom is so powerful only 1/14,000th of an ounce is enough to kill a person.

# The Ancient Greeks invented the spiked dog collar in order to protect their dogs from wolf attacks.

# Elephants only sleep 2 hours a day.

# The average American child gets $3.70 per tooth that falls out.

# The only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag is Nepal.

# Japan is the most prone country to the earthquake in the world.

# Dolphins can look with each eye in multiple directions. They are able to sleep with one eye open.

# Before finally being accepted, J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter pitch was rejected by 12 publishers.

# Women blink about twice as much as men do.

# South Sudan represents the world's youngest country. South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011.

# A Moose is involved in 0.3 percent of all road accidents in Canada.

# The color red does not really make bulls angry; they are color-blind.

# The banana Latin name is "Musa sapientum," which translates into the fruit of the wise men.

# In public speaking Martin Luther King Jr. received a C.

# The Wright Brothers first flew in 1903. 66 years later, in 1969, man landed at the Moon.

# Every year, Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike than all the factory employees in Malaysia combined.

# Over a million people live in nuclear bunkers beneath the streets of Beijing.

# Prairie dogs use kisses to say hello.

# Every decade, brain fibers lose 10 percent of their total length. Under acute stress, they will shrink even more.

# In Mount Vernon, George Washington served visitors an eggnog-like drink. Rye whiskey, rum, and sherry were part of his recipe.

# Diet soda cans float in water, but regular soda cans sink.

# The number of possible arrangements is approximately 8x1067 while shuffling a deck of cards. The number of stars in the observable universe is more than that.

# Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

# You can't smell anything when you're sleeping, even bad or potent smells.

# Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

Spades - King David,

Clubs - Alexander the Great,

Hearts - Charlemagne,

Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

# The Egyptians, the Sumerians, the Chinese and the Mayans invented the written language independently.

# A stick is the oldest toy in the world.

# More people visit France than any other country and Spain is the second most frequently visited country.

# The lyrebird can mimic almost every sound it hears — including chainsaws.

# The PNG image file format creators wanted it to be pronounced as "ping."

# Population of the entire world could fit inside Los Angeles.

# A female's heart is around 25 percent smaller than males. Because of this, to pump the right amount of blood throughout the body, the female heart has to beat about six times faster than the male heart.

# English as a second language is spoken four times more people than native ones.

# A "beefalo" is considered as a cow-bison hybrid.

# Firefighters are using wetting agents to make water wetter.

# Portland was named after the flip of a coin. Had the coin landed the other way, Boston, Oregon would be the city.

# Originally, the coca-cola was green.

# "Rhythm" is the longest word in English without a vowel.

# Snails take the longest naps, some of which last as long as 3 years.

# A spider's web is not a home but a food trap. They 're as individual as snowflakes and no two are ever the same. Some tropical spiders built webs more than eighteen feet long.

# A quack from a duck doesn't echo and nobody knows why.

# There's a 50 percent chance in a room with 23 other people that two of the people in the room will share a birthday.

# Looking up into the sky is physically impossible for pigs.

# Continental plates drift as fast as fingernails grow.

# We always inhale more air from one nostril when we breathe through our nose than from the other — and that changes every 15 minutes.

# The "birthday" of the blue jeans is May 20, 1873.

# Every year the moon moves away from the Earth at a tiny pace, although measurable. It orbited Earth about 35 feet from the planet's surface about 85 million years ago.

# It's never rained at Calama, a town in Chile's Atacama Desert.

# In India, the biggest family in the world lives together: a guy with 39 wives and 94 children.

# The first hard disk drive was made in 1979, and only 5 MB of data could be stored.

# Samsung started out as a small trading company in Su-dong (now Ingyo-dong), with Forty employees. It dealt with dried-fish, locally-grown groceries, and noodles.

# Big Bang Theory proponents believe that the Universe forming Big Bang happened around 13.7 billion years ago.

# In 1537, King Henry VII of England officially declared St. Valentine's Day holiday on Feb.14.

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