- The iPhone, the Harry Potter books, and the Rubik’s Cube are the top 3 most sold products in human history.
- Besides the senses that we all know, such as smell and touch, a person also has another sense: proprioception (being aware of the position of one’s body parts).
- The blue bird from the Twitter logo has a name: Larry. The creators of the social network named the bird after basketball player Larry Bird.
- Only 5% of the population of Brazil lives in the Rio Grande state. However, this is the place where 70% of all Brazilian models are from.
- The Pokemon characters Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan were named after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
- When you gain or lose weight, your fat cells don’t disappear – they just change their size.
- The last words that Albert Einstein spoke are unknown because he said them in German to a nurse who didn’t understand the language.
- When you take a hot bath, you burn as many calories as you would if you went for a 30-minute walk.
- Animals avoid power lines because they are scared of ultraviolet flashes that the human eye can’t see. By the way, of all the mammals in the world, only humans and apes can’t see ultraviolet rays.
- Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000-year-old honey.
- Every time a baby girl is born in the Indian village of Piplantri, the villagers come together to plant 111 trees in her honor.
- Ant takes rest for only around 8 Minutes in 12 hour period.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
- If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
- Do you know, what do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? The answer is – All invented by women.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class!
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- The world’s quietest room is located at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The lab room measures a background noise of -20.35 dBA, which is 20 decibels below the threshold of human hearing, and breaks previous records for spaces that were deemed the planet’s quietest places.
- The system of democracy was introduced 2500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.
