Nim's Blog: Fun facts

JUST FOR FUN :P

Tom Hanks checks into hotels using the name of Scottish music hall singer Harry Lauder as an alias.

Saying "Thank You" makes you happier.

Traffic in central London moves at the same speed as Horse-drawn carriages a century ago.
The average person laughs 10 times a day!

Jennifer Aniston is laughing :)

The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm.

I am a fan of Supernatural.

In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.

"A duck's quack doesn't echo" is a much-quoted scientific myth. The truth is that a duck's quack does, in fact, echo; however, it may be difficult to hear.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If you put Saturn in water, it would float.

Mico headphones read your brainwaves and select music based on your state of mind.

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Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo, because his pregnant mom was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked. Read more

There was a woman name Veronica Seider, who had vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile away.

Making of an atomic bomb isn’t as easy as it seems. If one wishes to make a natural atomic bomb then he shall have to fart continuously for 6 years and 9 months, so as to produce enough gas to create the energy of an atomic bomb. When the world energy resources go extinct superpowers are going to have a tough time threatening each other.

The brain consumes 20% of body's energy, despite it accounts for only 2% of a persons weight or about 1.4 kilogram.

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The upside down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.

If humans were able to hear below 20 Hz, we would be able to hear our muscles moving.

The man who once had the longest beard in the world died when he broke his neck after accidentally stepping on it.

Creative people have a short attention span, are easily distracted and tend to talk to themselves more often.

Yellow - Orange

You realize that Orange juice is actually yellow and not orange.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people more awake in the mornings.

Google was initially called "BackRub".

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Girls love having fun!--> hell yeah.

There is a genetic disease that results in short stature, longer life expectancy, and immunity to diabetics and cancer. People with this condition actually look like Hobbits.

One cocoa tree produces about 50 pods twice a year. Each pod has enough cocoa for about eight bars of milk chocolate or four bars of dark. So each tree gives 400-800 bars of chocolate a year.

The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.

Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as Edible currency in Siberia.

More chocolate facts here.

There are 1792 steps to the top of Eiffel tower.

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not.