Amazing Facts

• On Nov 2 in 1920, the first commercial radio station began broadcasting.
• The Arctic Tern is a bird that flies the circumference of the Earth every year.
• On Nov 15 in 1971, Intel Corporation released world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor.
• The Earth weighs about 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons (1 metric ton = 2,204.6 pounds).
• A neural condition called Synesthesia tangles the senses so that people hear colors and taste words.
• Ireland is the only place where windmills turn clockwise.
• During World War I, France built a fake Paris to fool Germany.
• On Dec 23 in 1947, scientists at Bells Labs first demoed the transistor, the building block of electronics.
• Uranus was originally called George’s Star, named after King George III.
• There are more species of beetles on Earth than of any other creature.
• Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it.
• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
• 85% of plant life is found in the ocean.
• ELEVEN PLUS TWO is an anagram of TWELVE PLUS ONE.
• It has been estimated that the construction of Stonehenge required more than thirty million hours of labor.
• Even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not actually feel pain. Also, the amazing computational power of your brain only requires about 10 watts of power to operate!
• Mudpuppies spend their entire lives underwater and are distinguished as the only salamanders that make sound—a dog-like barking.
• On Jan 18 in 1911, the 1st landing of an airplane onto a ship took place. It happened on the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor.
• Horses run on their toes.
• Palm trees grew at the North Pole about 55 million years ago.
• A light-year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year. It's approx. 5,878,625,373,183.6 miles.
• Saturn's rings are not solid. They consist of ice, dust & rock particles that range in size from grains of sand to skyscrapers. And the largest gap between rings is just over 2900 miles wide.
• All of the blood in your body travels through your heart once a minute.
• Kangaroos can’t jump backward.
• Human thigh-bones are stronger than concrete.
• On Feb 23 in 1455, the first book was published using a printing press - the Gutenberg Bible.
• The world's biggest rock, Uluru in Australia, is taller than a 114-story building.
• Some people can hear their eyeballs moving.
• The Earth gets 100kg heavier every day due to cosmic dust.