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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