Random things that we often see on our everyday lives have their own origin, we don't need to know all of them in one day but some useful facts that are indeed interesting will surely make a statement that you are on top of your game compared to your friends.
Share the following facts or just one or two of the facts listed below with your friends and they will look at you as an extra-ordinary genius individual.
Here are Some of the World's Most Interesting Facts:
1. An average person spends two weeks of their lives waiting at traffic lights.
2. Pencils have enough graphite in them to draw a line 35 miles long.
3. Nobody knows exactly who holds the patent for the fire hydrant because the patent officethat held the records burned down.
4. There are 177,000 ways to tie a tie, but most people only know One.
5. You can't hold a reglar sheet of paper in half more than 7 times. But if you cold fold it just 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach
the moon.
6. Oreos are actually a rip off of the Hydrox cookie
7. If you stacked every Oreo ever made, they would reach the moon and back over 5 times.
8. Movie trailers used to play after the movie, hence the name.
9. The first webcam was set up to check the level of a coffee pot at Cambridge University without getting up.
10. It takes 27,000 trees a day to keep up with the world's toilet papers demand.
11. The variety of Banana that we all eat is the Cavendish. They are all clones of a single Banana and are Genetically the same.
12. The current United States Flag was designed by then 17-year-old Robert G. Theft, as part of a school project. He received a grade of B-.
13. Nutella was created during WWII when the supply of cocoa was short and hazelnuts were mixed in to chocolates so it would last longer.
14. Lighters were invented before matches.
15. Buttermilk doesn't even have butter in it.
16. Tonic Water glows in Blacklight.
17. A Strawberry isn't a berry, but Avocados and Bananas are.
18. The Legos produced in 2012 would wrap around the world more than 18 times.
19. The Signature Line on Checks is not really a Line. It just the words "AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE" Printed really Small.
20. All of the gold humans have mined would fit into four olympic sized pools.
21. Also, 99% of Earth's Gold is in its Core and Unobtainable. If we could mine it, we would be able to coat the entire planet in a 1.5 foot layer gold.
22. Recycling one Aluminum can saves enough energy to watch TV for three hours.
23. Most People know Honey is the only food that doesn't go bad, but did you know that out of 20,000 species of bees only four of them make honey.
24. Japanese company YKK makes over 90% of all the zippers in the world.
25. A 747 Jet would cost you a lot to fill up because it holds over 63,000 galloons of fuel.
26. A Full Head of Human Hair is strong enough to support 12 tons of weight.
27. There are more fake plastic flamingos than real ones.
28. Adding Salt to Pineapples will actually make them Sweeter. And this is How they Grow.
29. Barbies Full Name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
30. Over 400 Million M&Ms are Produced Everyday.
31. If you wanted to buy the parts to make an iPhone in 1991, it would have cost about $3.5 million.
32. The first product ot have a Bar Cod was a pack of Wrigley's Gum.
33. All of the Batteries in the World can Only store 10 Minutes of the world's energy needs.
34. It takes about 850 Peanuts to make a Jar of Peanut Butter, and peanuts are actually legumes not nuts.
35. Chainsaws were originally invented to help with childbirth.
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