Interesting Facts for General Knowledge

 Interesting Facts for General Knowledge

• The busiest airport in the world is Chicago International Airport.

• The largest country in the world is Russia.

• The smallest country in the world is Vatican.

• The most populous country in the world is China.

• The deepest ocean in the world is The Pacific.

• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

• Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

• China was the first country to use paper money.

• There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.

• Every day, 26,000 couples get married in China.

• Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work.

•There are more than ten billion web pages on the internet.

Some Interesting Facts

Some Interesting Facts

 -  A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.

-  People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more.

-  When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop … even your heart!

-  40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

-  Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6 years old.

-  The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

-  The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

-  The average housefly lives for one month

-  40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

-  A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

-  The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

-  Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

-  The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

-  The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.

-  Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

-  In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

World`s 40 Interesting Facts

 World`s 40 Interesting Facts

1. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

2. Kangaroos can not walk backwards.

3. ‘Jedi’ is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

4. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

5. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

6. Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

7. Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

8. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

9. The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.

10. On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

11. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

12. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

13. Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

14. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline.

15. When a giraffe’s baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

16. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.