funny facts

Most People think that The Canary Islands get their name from the birds canaries. Actually The Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean are named after dogs. Surprised :-)(The latin word for dog is "canis")

Did you know that the Thirty Years War lasted 30 years and theHundred Years War lasted 116 years.( Probably historicans have some problems with mathematics):-))

Russian people normally celebrate the October Revolution in November. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it. Also The Titanic was the very first ship to use the SOS signal.

Famous Panama Hats produced in Ecuador and The official language of Brazil is Portuguese.

Did you know that Hair brush for camels is made of squirrel fur.

Batsalways turn left when exiting a cave and Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

Did you know thatDalmatians are born without black spots.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Smokers need to sleed 1 hour longer than non smokers. (Hey, don't spent extra 1/23 of your life in bed. It's good reason togive up smoking!) 

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Napoleon Bonaparte constructed most of his battle plans in a sandbox.

Diring one period of extreme political instability in Mexico, 3 men were president in one day!

Eskimos complained of a heatwavewhen the temperature in the Arctic about 19 degreese Centigrate. Do you think their igloos start melting?

More than 40,000 people in the United States get injured in toileteach year. Surprised? It's because the average person spends three years of his/her life on a toilet.

Approximately 22% of all photocopier faults in the world caused by stupid people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

Did you know that Cockroaches can live for more that one week without head. They die due to starvation.

In Cleveland (Ohio, United States of America) it is illegal to kill mice without a hunting license.

Did you know that over 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked human body?

Every year more monopoly money printed, than real money printed worldwide!

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". And Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula".

Animal Facts

Discover a few animal facts for kids that You May Not Know.
Did you know that dolphins always sleep with one eye open? The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant. Were you aware that in a fight between abear and a lion, the bear would win.



If you will keep a goldfish in the room without light for a long time, it will naturally turn white. Also you should know that dry fish food can make your favorite goldfish constipated.

A house fly lives about 14 days.

Chickens unable to swallow food while they are upside down.

Duck's quack doesn't echo, and nobody knows why.

Most stupid domestic animal is the turkey.

Snakes hear through their jaws.

No two zebras have the same pattern of stripes.

Did you know that all bulls are color blind.

Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite humans. They also have 47 teeth.

A dog was the first in space and a roosterand a duck were the first "pilots" in a air balloon.

Amaging Animals

Looking for amazing animal facts? All listed below... If not, let us know :-)

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of 3 meters, normally without being hurt.

Cockroaches have a high tolerance to radiation and are the most likely creature to survive a nuclear war.

Pigs and Humans are the only creatures that get sunburnt.

Fleas can jump 80 times their own height and 150 times their own length.

Did you know that The shark is immune to all known diseases? And shark's skellington is made o cartilage - it has no bones.

The average slug can stretch itself out to 11 times its body length.

Snails can sleep for three years without eating. Also snakes hear through their jaws.

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

An albatross can fly all day and not flap its wings once.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and nobody knows why.

Rabbits have been known to reach a speed of 44 mph.

A chamois goat can balance on a point of rock the size of small coin.

Cows and horses sleep standing up.

All domestic cats hate lemons, or any citrus scent of any kind.

Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blads.

Stroking a cat or dog can lower your blood pressure and heart rate and helps reduce the risk of illnesses like heartdisease.

Armadillos give birth to quadruplets of the same sex.

The terrac, a Madagascan insectivore, has 22 to 24 nipples.

The biggest frog in the world unusually has a human name. Dubbed Keith Baxter, he lives under a slab in Yeovil, Somerset.

Strange Animal Facts

Discover a few interesting that You May Not Know. Unbelievable fact: A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. Did you know that most cows produce more milk when they listen to classical music? Were you aware that Queen bees lay nearly 1500 eggs a day and live for up to 2 years?

The lion has the smallest heart of all beasts of prey.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit inside 2 little boys.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

The cockroach is the fastest animal on six legs - covering a metre a second.

The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Were you aware that when a female fish sees a male fish blowing bubbles, it means he's ready for breeding?

It takes a lobster six to seven years to reach a weight of 500 grams.

The frog's tongue grows from the front of itsmouth, which makes it easier to catch flies.

Human Body Facts

Looking for interesting facts? It's the right place to find more cool facts about humans.

More people alive today, than have ever died.

Only one in 2 billion people will live to be 116 or older.

In 1 year the our heart pumps approximately 1,500,00 gallons of blood through the human body.

Human eyes are the same from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

If people had the same mortality rate as in the 1900s, then over half the people in the world would not be alive.

The average adult can read 150 - 200 words per minute and the vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 - 7,000 words.

Our hair on head grows at a rate of 0,35 millimentes per day and our nailsnormally grow at a rate of 0,1 mm per day. It will take about 3 months to replace an entire fingernail.

30,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells while you read this web page.

The longest bone in the human body is the femur.

The lowest section of the average person's arm - between the elbow and the wrist - is exactly the same lenght as their feet.

Most adults have between 2 and 4 colds a year.

Mouth ulcers are caused by brushing your teeth too vigorously, bitting your mouth or burning it with hot drinks. It can also be caused by stress.
Doctors have noticed that most people who stutter rarely do so when they alone or when talking to pets.
A little bit over 6% of the human population donates blood.

The reason you don't laugh when you tickle yourself is because your brain anticipates and disregards your own touch so it can focus on anticipation unexpected sensations.

Kissing Facts

Interesting facts about Kissing: The average person spends his whole life to kiss 2 weeks. How about YOU?Eskimos, Polynesians do not kiss each other in the mouth. They rub noses. Try it! It is very nice. During a kiss from one person to another is transmitted 278 different bacterial cultures. Fortunately, 95 percent of them are not dangerous. Remember to rest! According to estimates of the journal Scientific American, the most kisses happen on Valentine's Day, with 65 percent of kissing her head tilted to the right. The habit of tilting your head in a certain direction is formed even during fetal development. Kiss of sufficient duration is much better than chewing gum, it normalizes the acidity in the mouth. Kissing after every meal, you can greatly reduce the risk of caries. This passionate kiss causes in the brain the same chemical reaction that parachuting and shooting a pistol. Make love, not war. More interestingfacts about kissing: Lips person hundreds of times more sensitive than the fingertips. This increases the pulse of a kiss to the frequency of 100 or more beats per minute. Innocent Kiss "Smack-Smack" burns 5 calories. Increasing the intensity of kissing, you can burn up to 30 calories for one kiss. For comparison: the minutes of brisk walking burns only 4-5 calories! More facts about kissing: In Japan, is considered very impolite to kiss in front of witnesses. It is for this reason that you almost never see a kiss in a Japanese movie. The fact that the world is called "Japanese," kiss, like this: the stand at a distance of one step apart, bend forward and. stretched lips, touch their partner's lips. Do not open your mouth!Every tenth young man starts to kiss "really" not yet reached the age of 10. By the age of fourteen years for 50 percent of the people of both sexes know what is the "kissing passionately." Factors that kill women desire to kiss: in the first place - bad breath, in second place - the smell of sweat, on the third - a short chin at the man. The average woman kisses a 7.9 men, before entering into marriage.

Interesting Fact About Left Handed People

Looking for interesting fact about left handed people? It's the right place to get more useful information about it. Feel free to add own comments to the topic. :-)

More left handed people alive today, than have ever died.
Actually more men than women are lefthanded and the percentage of left handed people risef from 5% to 10% for period of last 100 years.
Left handed person likely to die on average 9 years earlier than right handed counterparts.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand whilst drawing with the other. If you not impressed, then try it for yourself.

Left handed people are more likely to be creative geniuses. Take a look at list of famouse left handed people:

Albert Einstein

Isaac Newton

Leonardo Da Vinci

Pablo Picasso

Alexander the Great

Julius Caesar

Napoléon Bonaparte

Henry Ford

Lewis Carroll

Ringo Starr

Bobby Fisher And many other famous left handed people...

Interesting Facts About Food

Discover a few interesting facts that You May Not Know.

Did you know that the herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

A can of spam is opened every 6 seconds. Before Internet age, spam wasn't unsolicated email, it was of course a luncheon meat. It is so resistant to spoilage that, if kept in the closed can, it may well outlast eternity and will certainly live longer than human.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

Grape explode when you put them in the microwave.

Carrots were first grown as a medicine (not a food). The ancient Greekscalled carrots "Karoto".

If you add half a glass of lemonade to a vase of flowers, the bubbles prolong the life of the flowers by up to a week. In Great Britain alcoholic lemonade is outselling premium bottled lagers.

In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like popcorn.

Flamingo tongues were a common delicacy at Roman feasts.

If you add half a glass of lemonade to a vase of flowers, the bubbles prolong the life of the flowers by up to a week. In Great Britain alcoholic lemonade is outselling premium bottled lagers.

In South Africa, termites and ants are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like popcorn.

Cool Facts About Chocolate

Looking for interesting and facts about chocolate? You've come to the right place to get more useful information about Chocolate.The earliest recorded using of choocolate is attributed to tribes of Southern Mexico (100 B.C.) The Olmecs used it as a drink.People use cacao beans to produce chocolate. Cacao pods and beans grows on "Theobroma cacao" tree. Most scients consider that cocao trees have been domesticated about 4000 years ago in South America.

In 1528 Famous Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez brought cocao beans from South America as a gift to Spanish royal family. Soon all Spanish Nobles got hooked on hot chocolate with spices.

The first time chocolate bar was made in Mexico about 300 years ago. Much later, Cadbury (British company) start to produce edible chocolate in the 1840's and it's become famouse worldwide.

Did you know that Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.

Interesting Facts About Earth

Do you know any interesting facts? I guess some general things from school like it's the only planetthat we know have life. It's time to discover that you may know, or may not. :-) Well, Most people don't know that the Earth really not round, it's actually slightly pear-shaped and weighs about 6,588,000,000,000 million tons. The Earth is always traveling around the Sun with speed 10,6216 kilometre-per-hour. Earth also rotate pretty fast at 1600 kilometr-per-hour. Its orbit around the Sun approximatelly 938,891,289 km. You probably know that Earth has 1 moon, but do you know that our plante has also 2 co-orbital satellites (asteroids). Scientiest call them 2002 AA29 and 3753 Cruithne. Our planet is like a great magnet that have poles at the top and bottom, located near geographic poles. It create a powerful magnetic field called "the magnetosphere". It protect the Earth from big amount of solar winds and radiation. So we should be really gratefull for such protection. Actually it doesn’t take 24 hours to Earth rotate on its axis. The real amount of time is 23 hours, 56 mun and 4 sec. That mean that our day is actually 4 minutes shorter that we normally think it is. And a year on our planet isn't 365 days, but actually365.25 days. Here's the reason why we add on an extra day in February.70% of the Earth’s surface is covered with oceans. When soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin went into the space, he looked at the Earth and called our home "The Blue Planet".

Interesting Facts About Neptune

What interesting facts do we know? You can't see it with a naked eye in the sky and it's hard to see Neptune in the telescope, because it fur away from the Earth.
It's the planet number 8 in the solar system, because of the distance from the sun. Neptune's average distance from the Sun is 4,5 billion km and it four time bigger than the Earth(49500 kilometers in diameter).

Like Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter, Neptune is a gas giant. It is, actually, the smallest gas giant in the Solar System.

Neptune is the name of God of the Sea in the Roman Mythology.

The atmosphere of Neptune consist of methane, helium, hydrogen and water.

As the gas giant, Neptune have rings made up of tiny and dark parts of rock. The most of this parts have size of a small car.

More interesting facts about Neptune: 
Because of absorption of red light by methane gas the Neptune looks blue in color.

It will take 165 years for it to turn around the Sun. Neptune hasn't yet completed a full orbit since if first was discovered in 1846.

It's very interesting that because of it's orbit Neptune will be closer to the Sun than Pluto in 220 years and then in reverse position for next 20 years.

Neptune has the strongest wind flow amongst all 8 planet in our solar system. The speed of wind can be at 2,000 km per hour.

The cloud known as "The Scooter" moves all round Neptune every 16 hours.

Triton (Neptune's moon) has orbit in the opposite direction to planets  direction. It's the only large moon in our solar system that move opposite to the direction of it's planet. Also Triton has the coldest temperature inour Solar System ( -230 degrees celsius ).

Most scientist consider that Triton is slowly getting closer to surface of Neptune and finally will get so close to it that triton will be destroyed by gravity. Also Neptune has 12 more known satellites, but Triton is the largest one.

Neptune has some dark spots that can disappear and reappear on different sides of the planet.

Interesting Facts About Saturn

Discover a few Interesting Facts that You May Not Know.
Planet Saturn was named after the Roman God of Agriculture (Saturnus). It also havealternative name - Kronos, (Greek god).Saturn is the second largest planet in our Solar System, the first largest is Jupiter.Saturn is so huge that you can see it's rings even with a small telescope.

Saturn is the gas giant that has more rings than other planets in SolarSystem. Also Saturn has over 30 moons, no one know exact numbers. The largest Saturn's moon called "Titan" and it is larger than planets Pluto and Mercury.

Saturn consist primarily of helium and hydrogen. That's why Saturn is very different from Earth. Our Earth has a solid foundation, but Saturn is composed of 96% of gas with only a small solid center.

The diameter of Saturn approximately 120000 kilometers and it's mass 95 times bigger than the mass of Earth.

Normal Saturn day is only 10 hours and 14 minutes and 1 year on Saturn equal to almost 30 years on Earth.

Winds on Saturn can reach 2000 kilometers per hour (500 metters per second) at his equators, this make Saturn the windiest planet in SolarSystem.

Saturn is similar to Earth when it comes to seasonal changes because it possesses near to the same tilt.

Interesting Science Facts

Discover a few interesting facts that You May Not Know.

Famous scientist Isaac Newton invented the cat flap.

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, a Russian dramatist who died in 1883, possessed the heaviest human brain on record.

A novel written in 1892 by Jack McCullough, entitled "Golf In The Year 2000", referred to digital watches, bullet trains and golf carts that can drive without driver.

Research shows that professors who smoke are twice as likely to write a book as those who do not.

Tide gauge in Portsmouth and Aberdeen's weather center were the only reported victims of the Millennium Bug in United Kingdom.
Did you know that electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
Water expands by about 10% as it freezes.