What is an interesting fact?

Question

What is an interesting fact?

Answer 1

Beluga whales only sleep in a section of their brain at a time.

Answer 2

super glue was invented by accident and was suppose to be plastic for the cockpit of a plane!!!

Answer 3

Tetris was invented in Russia and the real maker did not get all the recognition he deserved. The russian gov took most of his royalities. They believed that anything made in Russia belonged to them. Not only that but Nintendo already had copies!

Answer 4

MALE SEAHORSES GIVE BIRTH TO THEIR BABIES!!!

so they get pregnant xDD

Answer 5

PLEASE READ ALL 44, THEY ARE AWESOME!!!

~beans give you gas

~asparagus makes your urine smell weird

~a sneeze is as powerful as a category 5 hurricane

~it takes more muscles to frown than to smile

~your second toe is supposed to be longer than the big toe

~"the" is the most commonly used word in the English language

~in Alabama, bear wrestling matches are outlawed

~an albatross can sleep while it flies up to 25 mph

~the Roman emperor Domitian liked to spend hours catching flies

~pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers

~in Utah, it is illeagal to cause a catastrophy

~skin is the body's heaviest and biggest organ

~Thomas Edison was affraid of the dark

~the U.K.'s MP's aren't allowed to wear armor in Parliament

~there aren't any words in the English dictionary to rhyme with silver and orange

~in Washington, it's illeagal to pretend ones parents are rich

~peanuts can be used as an ingredient in dynamite

~Queen Elizabeth 1 bathed aboout 4 times a year

~"uncopyrightable" and "dermatologyphics" are the longest words in English that don't repeat any letters

~in Galveston Texas, you can't land an airplane on the beach

~Antarctica has no trees

~an arthquake in 1811 caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards

~apocolocynposis is the fear of turning into a pumpkin

~in Brookfield, Wisconsin it's illeagal to make a prank call on another person's phone

~a lump of pure gold the size of your thumbnail can be spread out into the size of a tennis court

~during the gold rush, people paid $100 for a cup of water

~somnambulist is a sleepwalker

~in Acworth, Georgia all citizens must own a rake

~arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

~Saturn is the only planet that can float

~Pope John Paul ll was an honorary Harlem Globetrotter

~octophobia is the fear of the figure 8

~in Tennessee, it's illeagal to catch a fish with a lasso

~all tounge prints are different

~Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 68 years

~in 2002 the Greek government passed a flawed law that accidentally banned all electronic games

~"rats live on no evil star" is the same forwards and backwords

~in Cheyenne, Wyoming, it's illeagal to spit on school stairs

~chewing gum while handling onions will keep you from cryig

~Larry Walters tied 45 weather balloons to a lawn chair and rose 16,000feet in the air

~"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet

~in Michigan, the last Sunday in June is "log cabin day"

~most human heads are covered with approximently 100,000 hairs   = ]

Answer 6

Bromine is a liquid at room temp too...

A cockroach's favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.

Answer 7

Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

update: bromine is not a metal

http://www.webelements.com/webelements/e...

Answer 8

Rhode Island can fit 483 times in Alaska! and Honey is the only food that never expires!

Answer 9

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.

Answer 10

The American president during World War I [WWI] was WOODRO [WWI] LSON (Woodrow Wilson)

Answer 11

amanaplanacanalpanama

read like

a man a plan a canal panama

is the read the same forewards and backwards... (forgot wat they're called)

amanap  lanac  a  nalp a  nam  a

hehre nice ehh!!

=bd

Answer 12

it is possible to sneeze with your eyes open. mythbusters did it.

the painting  Mona Lisa doesn't have any eyebrows, it was fashionable to shave them off.

a quarter has 119 groves on its edge, a dime has 118

slugs have 4 noses

Answer 13

1) a crocodile's tongue is attached to the bottom of its mouth.

2) if a mother crocodile senses danger to her young, she can protect them by putting them in the gular pouch inside her mouth.

3) crocodiles keep growing all their lives.

4) crocodiles store fat in their tails, so they can go for quite a while without eating if necessary—as long as two years for some big adults.

5) cheetahs are the only cats that, while sprinting, can turn in midair to follow their prey.

6) giraffes can moo, hiss, roar, and whistle.

7) hyenas have been on earth for 24 million years.

8) zebras are attracted to black-and-white stripes. even if stripes are painted on a wall, a zebra will tend to go stand next to it.

9) elephants have been relentlessly hunted for their tusks, even though the tusks are made of dentine–the same as our teeth.

10) elephants use their trunks to drink, but the water doesn’t go all the way up the trunk like a straw. instead, the elephant sucks water part way up the trunk, curls it toward its mouth, tilts its head up, and lets the water pour in.

11) A mother bat can locate her pup by its scent and sound out of millions in a roost.