Interesting Facts

• The Mona Lisa doesn’t have eyebrows or eyelashes.
• Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil. To make 1 pound of honey, bees would have to visit over 2 million flowers.
• The Oilbird (oil bird) is the loudest bird with it’s high pitched clicking sounds.
• According to a new study, next day soreness after hard work or exercising can be greatly reduced by drinking watermelon juice prior. Watermelon juice is rich in amino acid.
• It takes about 7 strawberries to equal the amount of vitamin C in one orange about 3 inches in diameter.
• The very first food eaten by a U.S astronaut in outer space was applesauce.
• Did you know that the very first lemon seeds were brought to the Americas by Christopher Columbus?
• Thanks to you and other readers in various corners all around the world, our Interesting Facts pages have now been viewed over 2.5 million times. That’s awesome!
• If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
• 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
• In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
• Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
• A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
• Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.
• The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.