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Anyway, this site is a great place for amazing facts you never knew existed.
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Flies die if they sit on suede leather.
Goats do not possess the sense of taste.
A CD will play better quality music if you coat its edge with a dab of grease.
The word SPAM is an acronym for: “Superfluous Piece of Anonymous Mail”.
A frog will stop croaking if it is placed on oily surfaces.
Brylcreem was originally sold as a cure for hairloss.
Lemon juice repels rats. It’s intolerable for them.
China has the world’s largest population of sheep.
A bullfrog cannot extend its tongue.
Augustus Caesar could write with both hands.
Marylin Monroe’s real name was Elizabeth Downey Monroe.
The radiations of the Hiroshima atom bomb have enveloped the entire globe and are 28% responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer.
Cats’ teeth are sharper than its claws.
The ancient Greeks knew about today’s principles of aviation and basic flight, but obviously couldn’t develop it.
Moon dust stuck on the Apollo rockets used to fall into the Atlantic ocean every time they used to return. Crewmembers of a ship once gathered a sample. It fetched $ 33 million at an auction.
Sotheby’s auction house almost went bankrupt in 1938.
The amount of money generated in the world per second is $ 5500.
Scooby Doo was originally coloured grey, but that was changed, as it didn’t show up well in the early days.
Butter is poisonous for fish and turtles.
Sharks never stop swimming, or they’ll drown.
Pencil-lead can be used to fix faulty spark plugs.
Ducks can get blisters from tree leaves.
The first message ever to be radioed was, “Twinkle Twinkle little star, can my voice go this far?”
The total amount of money with the richest person the world exceeds the Gross Domestic Product of the poorest country in the world.
Hydroelectricity cannot be generated from the Angel Falls. No one knows why.
Rats and Hippos share 83% of their genetic makeup.
Cats hate grass so much that they’ll run in circles endlessly if you put them in it.
The ‘@’ in email addresses was suggested by Queen Elizabeth II when the inventor of the email asked her to suggest a letter that will separate the username and the domain name.
Lionesses’ milk is bluish in colour and is poisonous to humans.
In Kentucky state, there is an annual “Bullhead soccer” competition where they play the game with the head of a freshly butchered bull.
Cows can run as fast as dogs.
The long and unnecessary flight route from Pittsburgh to Cape Town has never changed in the last sixty years due to a local Cape Town superstition that along the shorter route, there reside creatures, which have supernatural powers.
Scrabble was originally named “Shabble”.
The first pornographic movie to be released in theatres dates back to 1933. It raised such a large outcry that reels of the movie were burnt on the streets of Los Angeles.
There has never been a left-handed person to become King or Queen of England.
The brand name NIKE is an acronym for “Newest Ingenuity in Kinetic Execution”. It dates back to 1958.
Nobody except the aboriginal natives are allowed inside the central australian town of Carondalia, spread over 30000 square miles.
Baseball was invented by a woman. She was the wife of the person who is said to be the inventor.
