RANDOM Interesting FACTS
1. 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day. 2. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. 3. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119. 4. A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine. 5. A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size. 6. A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven. 7. A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50km into the atmosphere. 8. About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light. 9. Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density. 10. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. 11. All babies are color blind when they are born. 12. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. 13. An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. 14. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards. 15. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ''Crash Course''. 16. At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel. 17. Babies start dreaming even before they're born. 18. During Australia’s gold rush in 1850, only a few miners ever became rich. Instead, merchants and shopkeepers were the ones who really got rich. 19. During his lifetime, Herman Melville's Moby Dick sold only 50 copies. 20. Every person has a unique tongue print. 21. Focus group information compiled by CalComp revealed that 50 percent of computer users do not like using a mouse. 22. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill. 23. Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream. 24. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros. 25. Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries. 26. Heineken beer is designed to 'foam' for exactly five minutes. 27. Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette. 28. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. 29. In the early 1960''s, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors. 30. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. 31. It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal. 32. Jupiter is two-and-a-half times larger than all the other planets, satellites, asteroids, and comets of our solar system combined. 33. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. 34. Like fingerprints, everyone''s tongue print is different. 35. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." 36. One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs! 37. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 38. Ralph Lauren's original name is Ralph Lifshitz. 39. The 1912 Olympics was the last time gold medals were made entirely of gold. 40. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. 41. The average spider can travel up to 1.17 miles per hour. 42. The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927. 43. The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m. 44. The oldest multicellular fossils date from over 700 million years ago. 45. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. 46. The Sears Tower contains enough phone wire to wrap around the earth 1.75 times and enough electrical wiring to run a power line from Chicago to Los Angeles. 47. The success rate of A.A. is estimated to be 5%. 48. Tokyo was once known as Edo. 49. X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo, under the final portrait.