• On the average a fart is composed of about 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, 9% carbon dioxide, 7% methane, and 4% oxygen. Less than 1% is what makes them stink.
• Queen Isabella of Spain was the first woman to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp. (1893)
• The name Reebok was named after the African Gazelle.
• Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality.
• A quality, fully-faceted round brilliant diamond has at least 58 facets. These are important for the maximum sparkle and brilliance of the stone.
• A shark must keep moving forward to stay alive.
• The average rainfall around the world is 40 inches per year.
• There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
• Leonardo da Vinci spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
• "Hallow" is an old word meaning holy, while "e'en" is Scottish for evening.
• On February 17, 1959, Vanguard II was the first satellite to send weather information back to Earth.
• Orange and black became Halloween colors because orange is associated with harvests and black is associated with death.
• The full name of the Titanic ship is R.M.S. Titanic, which stands for Royal Mail Steamship.
• It takes about five years for an oyster to produce a medium-sized pearl.
• The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.
• The average diameter of a one-carat diamond is 6.42 mm
• The real name of the Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III.
• "Peladophobia" is the fear of becoming bald.
• The white part of your fingernail is called the Lunula.
• It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
• The note with the most zeros is a Yugoslavia 500,000,000,000 Dinara, issued in 1993 with 11 zeros
*Bombay Duck is not actually duck at all, but dried fish called bummalo.
• One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying.
• Dogs only see shades of grey and most of them are short-sighted.
• In the early days of motion pictures, movies were the people who worked on films.
• A woman's arthritic pain will almost always disappear as soon as she becomes pregnant.
• A puff of smoke, such as that produced when someone smokes a pipe, is called a "lunt."
• Most oysters are ambisexual. They begin life as males, then become females, and change back and forth many times.
• The metal cesium will melt in your hand and catch fire due to the temperature of your skin.
• The first man to die during construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction.
• With few exceptions, birds do not sing while on the ground. They sing during flight or while sitting on an object off the ground.
• The first competition in the world's first Olympic games, 776 B.C., was a foot race. The participants were all males, and ran in the nude.
• Roulette was invented by French mathematician Blaise Pascal. The popular game of chance was a byproduct of his experiments with perpetual motion.
• The average 60-minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it.
• Only men were allowed to eat at the first self-service restaurant, the Exchange Buffet in New York, opened in 1885.
• In 200 BC, when the Greek city of Sparta was at the height of its power there were 20 slaves for every citizen.
• If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in celcius degrees.
• The standard escalator moves 120 feet per minute.
• The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross.
• A rainbow can only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
• The heart of a peanut, that little nub that holds the two halves together, contains a high amount of a chemical that is know to cause migraine headaches in some people.
Termite queens are fertilized regularly by the same mate for life, unlike bee and ant queens, whose male partners die after the first and only mating.
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