Best Interesting Facts

This page displays the best interesting facts in our database, which have been voted by visitors to this website.

No. Fact
1.Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk'.
2.Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
3.One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
4.The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
5.A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
6.Sharon Stone is allergic to caffeine.
7.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
8.A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
9.A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
10.A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
11.About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
12.Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
13.Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
14.Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
15.All babies are color blind when they are born.
16.Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
17.An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
18.An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.
19.An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
20.Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
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