Strange facts

Here are some of the strange which you didn't even know they exist.

1.If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

2. 315 words in the 1996 Webster’s dictionary were misspelled.

3. Toilets in Australia flush counter clockwise.

4. George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory.

5.LSD is made from Lysergic Acid, which is found in Ergot, a type of fungus.

6.Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.

7.There are no public toilets in Peru.

8.Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

9.Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system.

10.Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels.                            11. The word ‘checkmate’ in chess comes from the Persian phrase ‘Shah Mat’, which means, The King Is Dead.

12.'Vodka' is Russian for 'Little Water'.

13.Rice and other grains contain chemicals that can actually enhance brain functions.

14.Nine U.S. Presidents never went to college: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, and Harry Truman.

15.Synthetic Diamonds can be made from human ashes after cremation. Using chemical and physical methods, Algordanza, a swiss firm, separates out the carbon, which produces up to 4 Diamonds from a persons cremated ashes.

16.The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

17.Turtles can breathe through their butts.

18.The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every one hundred years.

19.When Hillary Clinton visited Iraq, the Army officer in charge assigned the Blackhawk used to transport her the code name of ‘Broomstick’.

20.In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. But four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee.

21.President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins.

22.Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.

23.Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

24.On average, each American consumes approximately two hundred and sixty pounds of meat in a year.

25.If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.

26.Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death by tilting a vending machine towards them in the hopes of a free soda can.

27.There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

28.The moon actually has mirrors on it. They were left there by astronauts who wanted to bounce laser beams off them, so that the distance to the moon can be measured.

29.You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

30.All polar bears are left handed.

31.Andrew Johnson was drunk when he took the vice-presidential oath of office in 1865.

32.In the months before he died, Elvis Presley ate an average of about 65,000 calories each day. That’s the equivalent if the maximum recommended daily caloric intake of 26 adult men or 108 Big Macs.

33.Picasso carried a revolver loaded with blanks, which he would fire at people who asked him what his work “meant”.

34.A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

35.Lima beans contain cyanide.

36.Watermelons are a popular gift to bring to a host in China or Japan.

37.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. 

38.An ostrich egg would take four hours to boil.

39.Draftsmen have to make 27,000 drawings for the manufacturing of a new car.

40.The chemical name of caffeine is 1,3,7 trimethylantihine.

41.The reason most mosquito bites itch is because mosquitos inject saliva into the persons skin before he suck your blood. The saliva has an anti coagulant agent to stop clotting and hence is an irritant to the skin.

42.Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat while playing baseball, and he used to change it every two innings.

43.Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

44.An olive tree can live to 1500 years old.

45.US presidents who were survived by there fathers: John F. Kennedy and Warren Harding.

46.Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA.

47.Banana oil never came from a banana; it’s made from petroleum. 

48.A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.

49.Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book Historia de duobos amantibus in 1444.

50.Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth’s gravitational pull.

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