LATEST FACTS (FACTS OF THE DAY)||FABULOUS FACTS

 

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   LATEST FACTS (FACTS OF DAY)


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1.👉 A British teacher in Sudan was arrested because she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear "Muhammad".


2.👉 Mawsynram, a village on the Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, receives the highest recorded average rainfall in the world. Cherrapunji, also a part of Meghalaya, holds the record for the most rainfall in the calendar year of 1861.


3.👉 Mr Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV.


The stage before frostbite is called frostnip.


Donkey Kong got his name because his creator believed donkey meant stupid in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a Stupid Ape.


Japan is facing a ninja shortage. There is a high demand for ninja shows, but it is a dying tradition and companies have trouble time finding properly trained ninjas.


In 2015, a silver coin with Superman on the heads side was made which is legal tender in Canada. There was only 350,000 produced.


If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin, and no friends or family to prepare funeral or mourn over the body, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.


In 2014, Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data!


The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.


The collars on mens dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently.


Crystal the monkey from The Hangover 2 and Night at the Museum has her own IMDB page!


Magpies are considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world, and the only non-mammal species able to recognize itself in a mirror test.


Before the term bloopers was coined, out-takes were called boners.


Rowan Atkinson  also known as Mr. Bean is the voice of Zazu in The Lion King.


The small indents in the bottom of frozen pizzas are there to prevent air bubbles forming inside the dough.


The term footage comes from films being measured in feet, when being edited in the early days of film making.


In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg unsuccessfully tried to sell Facebook for $75 million. Back then it was called The Facebook.

If you sneeze while traveling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.


There is an opposite of albino animals, which arent white, but black. These are known as Melanistic animals.


It took the creator of the Rubiks Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after he created it; as of June 2018 the world record is 4.22 seconds.

Most toilet paper sold for home use in France is pink.


Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.


Some areas in Scotland and Japan switched to blue street lights at night, and saw a decrease in crime suicide rates.


Digging a hole to China is theoretically possible if you start in Argentina.


There is a McDonalds in every continent except Antartica.




The Im Feeling Lucky feature in Google search actually cost Google $110 million a year, as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising.


Both Nicholas Cage and Michael Jackson shared the same wife, Elvis Presleys daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.


There are cells in human body called Faggot cells which cause leukaemia.



lbs comes form the Latin word libra which means pound.



Sonic the Hedgehogs full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.


Elephants make friends, bury their dead, travel for funerals, speak to each other, and show extreme intelligence.


The dark region on the north pole of Plutos moon, Charon, is called Mordor.

Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other.

The Boston Marathon didnt allow female runners until 1972.


The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ke-chiap.

James Blunt recorded his first album while living with Carrie Fisher. Goodbye My Lover was recorded in her bathroom!


A small population of Mammoths survived on the Wrangel Island until 1650 BC, about 900 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza were completed.

Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) in London is leaning over so much it can now be seen with the naked eye. In 4,000 years it will be at the same angle as the tower in Pisa is now.


As of 1998, over 50% of Icelands population believed in the existence of elves.


A duel between three people is actually called a truel.


In October 2015, United Airlines made a man with Cerebral Palsy crawl off one of its flights. The flight attendants just watched as he struggled.

Iguanas have three eyes. Two normal eyes and a third eye on top of their head that only perceives brightness.


Shoe shops used X-Ray machines to measure shoe sizes in the 1940s before the risks of X-Rays were fully understood.


Although Australia is home to the largest number of venomous snakes in the world, it averages only one fatal snake bite per year.


In South Korea there is an emergency number (113) to report spies.


Restaurants can sing Happy Birthday now because the copyrights claims are now invalid. Judge George H. King ruled that a copyright filed in 1935, granted only the rights to specific piano arrangements of the music, not the song itself.


The first film with a $100 million budget was True Lies, which was made in 1994.


The man who found the 5,000 year old corpse Ötzi the Iceman in 1991 (Oldest natural European mummy) was also found dead frozen in ice in 2004.


In September 2007, a guy named Kevin Shelley broke 46 wooden toilet seats with his head in one minute to create a world record.

If you were to write out every number (one, two, three, etc.), you would not use the letter b until you reached one billion.


The first film ever shown in the White House was The Birth of a Nation, a pro-white supremacy silent film that the KKK also used as a recruiting tool.


The process by which bread toasts is called the Maillard Reaction.

Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Trivago, Travelocity, and Orbitz are all owned by the same company, Expedia Inc.


When watermelons are grilled or baked, they lose their granular texture and can even be used as meat substitute, a watermelon steak.


February used to be the last month of the year, which is why it has the shortest number of days.

In 1945 the first atomic bomb was created, and was nicknamed The Gadget.


Cards against Humanity bought an island in Maine to preserve wildlife. It is called Hawaii 2.


Before the term bloopers was coined, out-takes were called boners.


All dogs are banned from Antarctica since April 1994. This ban was made because of concern that dogs might spread diseases to seals.


In 2005, a fortune cookie company called Wonton Food Inc. correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation. No fraud was involved.


The brain is our fattiest organ, being composed of nearly 60% fat.

The word Jurassic, which we so often associate with dinosaurs, comes from the Celtic word for forest.


In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.


Strawberries can also be white or yellow, and some can even taste like pineapples!


The most popular item at Walmart is bananas. They sell more bananas than any other single item they have in stock.


Japanese square watermelons are ornamental plants and are not edible.

In 2013 Toy Story was remade shot-for-shot with real toys and real people and can be found on YouTube.


If you made $1 every second, it would take you 2,921 years to have more money than Bill Gates (over $92.1 billion dollars).



Some cat breeds (called puppy cats) are bred specifically to exhibit dog-like behavior.

The two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.


There are 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) insects alive at any time.


People dont sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.


Even though Froot Loops are different colors, they all have exactly the same flavor.

The name for the shape of Pringles is called a Hyperbolic Paraboloid.


As of 2016, the site MySpace still gets 50 million visitors a month!


In Japan, you are equally likely to die from being struck by lightning as you are from being shot by a gun.


Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was not a man in a suit, it was actually a giant puppet.


In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password eh. At the time it was called the most widespread security incident in the history of the web.


Banks have therapists known as wealth psychologist who help ultra-rich clients, who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.


In Slovakia they have Christmas Carp that live in the family bathtub for a few days before they are eaten.

People can suffer from a psychological disorder called Boanthropy that makes them believe that they are a cow. They try to live their life as a cow.






Snails have 14,000 teeth and some can even kill you!

The University of Minnesota is older than Minnesota the state itself!

The Flintstones was the most profitable network cartoon franchise for 30 years, thats before The Simpsons came along.

For every child born in Wales since April 2014, the Welsh Government have donated a fruit tree to Ugandan families, to celebrate the birth or adoption of every child.

Hart Island is the final burial place to over a million of New York Citys unclaimed bodies, and thought to be the largest government sponsored mass grave on the earth.

Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway  just like the wireless technology united computers and cell phones.


Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway  just like the wireless technology united computers and cell phones.


Samuel Jackson has a clause in his film contracts that allows him to play golf during film shoots whenever he wants.


The Burj Khalifa is so tall you can see two sunsets from it in one day.


Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.

The medical name for a butt crack is intergluteal cleft.


The state of Ohio gives out different colored license plates for those convicted of DUI.


A small population of Mammoths survived on the Wrangel Island until 1650 BC, about 900 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza were completed.


James Blunt recorded his first album while living with Carrie Fisher. Goodbye My Lover was recorded in her bathroom!


Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ke-chiap.


The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

The Boston Marathon didnt allow female runners until 1972.


Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other.


The dark region on the north pole of Plutos moon, Charon, is called Mordor.


Elephants make friends, bury their dead, travel for funerals, speak to each other, and show extreme intelligence.


Sonic the Hedgehogs full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.


lbs comes form the Latin word libra which means pound.


There are cells in human body called Faggot cells which cause leukaemia.


Both Nicholas Cage and Michael Jackson shared the same wife, Elvis Presleys daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.


The Im Feeling Lucky feature in Google search actually cost Google $110 million a year, as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising.

There is a McDonalds in every continent except Antartica.



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