Worst Interesting Facts

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

No. Fact
1.A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
2.Insure.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $16 million.
3.Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
4.In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
5.Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
6.Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
7.A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
8.Butterflies taste with their feet.
9.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
10.A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
11.A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
12.About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
13.Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
14.Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
15.Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
16.All babies are color blind when they are born.
17.Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
18.An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
19.An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.
20.An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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