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.

721. Fact

The longest border between two states in europe is the border between sweden and norway. It's 1,000 miles long.

722. Fact

John rhys-davies, who played gimli the dwarf in the three lord of the rings movies had a tough time during filming. His armament weighed 66 pounds and he was also allergic to the prosthetic glue.

723. Fact

At first, cinderella's shoes were made of leather but when the folktale was written down in the 16th century, the french words "vair" and "verre" were mixed up. The first means skin and the latter means glass.

724. Fact

On average, a hurricane produces more energy than all of the world's power plants put together.

725. Fact

In 1899, the eiffel tower was built by gustave eiffel for the paris exhibition and was suppose to be demolished afterwards.

726. Fact

One day - the time it takes our planet to rotate around its axis - would take only 9 hours and 55 minutes on the planet jupiter.

727. Fact

The african ostrich is not only the largest bird in the worldit also lays the largest eggs. On average, one egg weighs 2 to 4 pounds. That's equivalent to the weight of 45 normal-sized eggs.

728. Fact

If you never cut your hair and lived to be 77-years old, your hair could grow 690 miles long.

729. Fact

A newborn kangaroo weighs approximately one gram (0.035 ounces).

730. Fact

Hurricanes are always given names in order to make them easier to track. Their names always start with an "a" at the beginning of each year. In 1979, the women's movement pressured meteorologists to use both male and female names instead of just female names. Today, boy names are used on even numbered years and girl names on uneven ones.

731. Fact

Volvo means "i am rolling" in latin.

732. Fact

Production suffered a severe catastrophe one-day while filming diamonds are forever. Unexpectedly, all of the tropical fish in the aquarium died. The solution was to freeze the fish and suspend them in the tank from invisible thread that could be moved; making them appear alive.

733. Fact

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

734. Fact

An ice cream headache occurs when the coldness of the ice cream comes in contact with a spider-shaped web of nerves on the roof of the mouth. When the temperature of these nerves cools down, the brain believes that it's about to freeze and unnecessarily sends warm blood to the area. Instead of warming the area, it causes a headache.

735. Fact

The face of the alien e.t in the film with the same name, was modelled after the poet carl sandburg, the physicist albert einstein and a pug.

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