841. Fact

In 1999; the danish movie festen received a peculiar film award in germany for the worst dubbed movie.

842. Fact

If you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for nine more days until it starves to death.

843. Fact

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

844. Fact

During a flight, the concorde gets 7 to 8-inches longer. The heat from the friction causes the metal to expand.

845. Fact

There are more than 30,000 different kinds of roses.

846. Fact

The german friedrich sertner, when he managed to isolate the active substance from opium in 1806, gave the substance the name "morphine" after the greek god of sleep.

847. Fact

The koala is loved by children all over the world. But did you know that it's one of the sleepiest animals in the fauna? The koala spends 22 hours every day sleeping.

848. Fact

The shortest known alphabet is new guinea's rotokas. It has only 11 letters - a, b, e, g, i, k, o, p, r, t and u.

849. Fact

Dr. Alexander woods invented the hypodermic syringe in 1882.

850. Fact

In japanese, the words for "four" and "dead" are pronounced exactly the same. This is also true for "nine" and "pain". This explains why no hotel rooms in japan have the numbers 4 or 9.

851. Fact

If you fill a cone-shaped dram glass halfway, it's actually only filled 12 - 13%.

852. Fact

Have you ever tried to lick your own elbow? Even if you try, you will never succeed. It's physically impossible to do.

853. Fact

Phrenology is an old science that advocates that one can understand the characteristics of a person by the shape of their skull.

854. Fact

The african ostrich lays the largest eggs in the world. The shell is 1.5 millimeters thick and is strong enough to hold the weight of an adult man.

855. Fact

Another rare phobia is lutraphobia; - a deathly fear of otters.

856. Fact

The tallest picasso statue in the world can be found in kristinehamn, sweden.

857. Fact

The quartz crystal in a digital watch vibrates 32,768 times every second.

858. Fact

Steven spielberg didn't accept any money for the film schindler's list. He felt it would be blood money.

859. Fact

The seven beams in the crown of the statue of liberty represent the seven seas and seven continents.

860. Fact

Money contains cotton as well as paper. That's why it can survive a tumble through the washing machine.

861. Fact

Sharks are the only fish that can blink both eyes simultaneously.

862. Fact

A shark's skeleton is not made of bone like other fish and vertebrates. Instead, it is made-up of cartilage.

863. Fact

The actor dolph lundgren has a university degree from the royal technical university of stockholm.

864. Fact

The tutsis in congo, africa, are the tallest people in the world. Many are 7 feet tall. They live next to the pygmies who are the shortest people in the world.

865. Fact

Rhinoceros' horns are made up of compressed hair.

866. Fact

Originally, coca-cola was sold as a prescription to cure melancholy, hysteria and migraines.

867. Fact

The soho area of new york city is named soho because it is located south of houston street.

868. Fact

The national anthem of greece contains 158 verses.

869. Fact

The pig is the only animal that, like humans, can get a suntan.

870. Fact

The world's longest city name has 167 characters. Krungthepmahanakornamornrattanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnoparatrjathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkatattiyavisanukamprasit. It translates into: the great city of angels, the supreme unconquerable land of the great immortal divinity, the royal capital of nine noble gems, the pleasant city, with plenty of grand royal palaces, and divine paradises for the reincarnated deity, given by indra and created by the god of crafting. It is known to the rest of the world as bangkok, thailand.

871. Fact

Bruce willis is left-handed. To get a better camera angle, in the film sixth sense, he wrote with his right hand in one scene.

872. Fact

Grampus, a playful, black and white dolphin, can live to the ripe old age of 80 to 90 years.

873. Fact

It takes 240 million years for our solar system to travel around the center of our galaxy, the milky way. This is known as a cosmic year.

874. Fact

Some of the larger battle scenes in the film braveheart had to be done twice, because many people with walk-on parts could be seen wearing watches and sunglasses.

875. Fact

Antoine saint-exupry, the french author who wrote the little prince, died when his small plane crashed on july 31, 1944. Why the plane crashed is still unknown.

876. Fact

A mule is the spawn of a donkey and a mare.

877. Fact

Coulfophobia is the technical term for a fear of clowns.

878. Fact

Star trek, the famous tv series, was not a hit when if first started. After only two seasons, the tv network wanted to cancel it.

879. Fact

Wrigley's, the american chewing gum, was the first product in the world with a bar code.

880. Fact

If you suffer from polydactyl, you were born with more than 10 fingers and toes.

881. Fact

The nobel prizewinner marie curie was the first woman allowed to teach at the university of sorbonne in paris.

882. Fact

A lightning bolt will heat up the air around it to about 3,000272c (5432 degrees fahrenheit).

883. Fact

In an earlier version of the script for the film alien, ripley was supposed to be played by a man.

884. Fact

During the first world war, josef stalin got out of serving his military service because of his deformed feet. He had two toes that were grown together.

885. Fact

A dragonfly can fly backwards as fast as it can fly forwards.

886. Fact

The pitohuis, a group of birds in new guinea, have poisonous feathers and skin. When predators catch one of these birds, they instinctively spit it out.

887. Fact

If you love coffee and drink 100 cups in four hours,you will probably die from caffeine poisoning.

888. Fact

Before michael caine and cher changed their names, they answered to maurice micklewhite and cherilyn sarkisian la piere.

889. Fact

Only two of your mouth muscles are required for creating a smile unless you consider the many muscles around your eyes as well.

890. Fact

Men and women button their shirts differently. A practice that comes from olden times when royal men dressed themselves but the women used chambermaids who buttoned their blouses for them from the front.

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