671. Fact

The "black box" everyone is looking for after a plane crash is not black - it's orange, making it easier to find. Besides, there's not only one box, but two. One is used for recording all conversations and sounds in the cockpit and the other to save all data from the flight.

672. Fact

When you take a nap for an hour you burn as much energy as it takes to boil water for seven cups of tea.

673. Fact

The shortest war in world history was fought between great britain and zanzibar, the 27th of august, 1896. It lasted only 38 minutes.

674. Fact

If your heart muscle was required to work filling beer bottles in a brewery, it would be able to fill 1,600 crates of beer daily with 30 bottles each. And it would work, without requiring any repairs, for 70 years.

675. Fact

If you multiply the number of inhabitants in the usa by 2, you'll get the number of credit cards used in that country.

676. Fact

Adolf hitler had only one testicle.

677. Fact

A five-month-old fetus has more hair on its back than an adult gorilla.

678. Fact

Not so long ago, when a prisoner escaped from the alamos prison in mexico, the responsible guard was sentenced to serving the remaining time on the prisoner's sentence.

679. Fact

Air force pilots have more daughters (determined by the x-chromosome) than sons (determined by the y-chromosome) because the x-chromosome tolerates the more stressful effects of gravity better than the y-chromosome does.

680. Fact

On average, a human being has eighteen blemishes on his or her body.

681. Fact

A vulture's stomach is so acidic that it can dissolve a nail after just a couple of hours.

682. Fact

For each human being on earth, there are more than half a million insects.

683. Fact

One single tree can be home to 20 million lice.

684. Fact

Sperm are created in the male testicles. The testicles are constructed so they build pipe-formed structures. In every testicle these pipes are more than 400 yards long.

685. Fact

A single thread in a spider's web is as strong as a steel cable of the same size.

686. Fact

The division of blood groups varies between different people in different countries. The only group of people who have the same blood group are american natives - 0.

687. Fact

In india, where hinduism is the major religion, they worship over 300 million gods. Almost every little village has its own local god.

688. Fact

Every single second, your marrow produces about 3 million red blood corpuscles. During that time, the same amount die. The daily production is more than 200 billion corpsucles.

689. Fact

On average, there are 94 girls born for every 100 boys, but among quadruplets, 156 girls are born for every 100 boys.

690. Fact

It has been proven that taller people score better on intelligence tests.

691. Fact

About 1,000 down feathers can be pressed into a thimble. Once removed, they will soon regain their original volume.

692. Fact

The first nose transplants were performed in india as early as 750 b.c. the noses were taken from unfaithful wives.

693. Fact

The acidity in the human stomach is so strong that it has to be diluted about 400 times to reach the same grade of sourness as coca-cola.

694. Fact

Radium-224 is the most poisonous element in the world. This naturally occurring isotope is 17,000 times more poisonous than plutonium-239.

695. Fact

When ian fleming wrote his first book casino royale, he got the name james bond from a writer of a book about caribbean birds.

696. Fact

Mel blanc, the man who gave voice to bugs bunny, was allergic to carrots.

697. Fact

Bulletproof vests, fire ladders, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

698. Fact

The three wise men were named caspar, melchior and balthazar.

699. Fact

Thieves often listen at doors and in some cases this has gotten them convicted. The police are not only interested in fingerprints but ear prints as well, which are unique for every human being.

700. Fact

In india, more than 140 main languages are spoken with 845 accents.

701. Fact

New species can be found in the strangest places. A new ant specie was found in a flower pot on the sixteenth floor of a german office building.

702. Fact

51,000 people can fit onto a football field if they stand really close together.

703. Fact

If you are afraid of animals in general, you suffer from zoophobia.

704. Fact

The cape of good hope is not the most southern part of africa. It is cap agulha, which is located about 90 miles south-east of the cape of good hope.

705. Fact

On average every year, you will consume 12 pubic hairs while eating in restaurants.

706. Fact

The national anthem of the european union (eu) is an der freude from the ninth symphony by ludvig von beethoven.

707. Fact

John wilkes booth, the man who shot abraham lincoln, the 16th president of the usa, was an actor.

708. Fact

One of the elements in dynamite is peanuts.

709. Fact

The five different colored rings, on the olympic flag, symbolize the union of the five continents and that the olymic games shall be a meeting place for athletes from around the world. At least one color of each ring can be found on every world flag.

710. Fact

Sean connery, the first james bond, won the mr. Universe contest before he became an actor.

711. Fact

A cat has thirty-two muscles in each ear.

712. Fact

Did you think that the monkeys in the zoo were picking fleas off each other? Wrong; they are in fact grooming for salty skin dander.

713. Fact

When you're using the computer keyboard, your left hand does 56% of the typing.

714. Fact

The actual meaning of the word turkey is "cock from calicut".

715. Fact

The zipper would not have become the success it did if it hadn't been for world war one. Originally, it wasn't used on clothing but on money belts that the amercian solders brought to europe.

716. Fact

Many hamsters blink only one eye at a time.

717. Fact

The pacemaker was invented in the 1950's by sweden's rune elmqvist at the pacesetter company.

718. Fact

The chance of surviving a plane crash is better in seats found in the back of a plane where you have the best protection during take offs and landings. This is when the risk of an accident is at its greatest.

719. Fact

If barbie had been a real human being, her measurements would have been 97-58-97.

720. Fact

It's often warmer in cities than in the countryside. The reason being asphalt absorbs more energy from the sun than grass, trees and plants do.

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