896. Fact

On a flight from antwerp to london in 1997, 21 of the passengers were 100 years old.

897. Fact

Most fish stay awake most of their lives. However, there are fish that sleep. They lean against a rock or stand vertically in the water.

898. Fact

A snail can sleep for three years.

899. Fact

Mosquitoes can track people up to 110 yards away by the substances in their breath.

900. Fact

The largest painting in the world is the battle at gettysburg, created by the american paul phillipoteaux and 16 of his assistants. It stands 68.8-feet high and is 410-feet wide.

901. Fact

The tyrannosaurus rex suffered from gout.

902. Fact

There are 336 dimples in a golf ball.

903. Fact

The most widely used language in the world is mandarin-chinese, the mother tongue for almost 900 million people. Only 332 million people have english as their mother tongue.

904. Fact

To produce 1 single gram of serum, you need poison from 150 cobra bites.

905. Fact

Alfred nobel's brother emil, died in an explosion in the laboratory where both brothers were performing experiments with explosive oils, the forerunner to dynamite.

906. Fact

If all the rain in our atmosphere fell at the same time, it would cover the earth with a one-inch thick layer of water.

907. Fact

The centre of the sun is 15 million degrees celsius. The surface is only 5,800 degrees celcius (10472 degrees fahrenheit).

908. Fact

The salt in your tears comes from the food you eat. It's transported via the blood circulation to the lacrimal gland near your eyes where tears are produced.

909. Fact

If you suffer from dentophobia, you have an extreme fear of dentists.

910. Fact

Jonathan frakes refused to shave his back in the love scene with martina martis in the film star trek: nemesis. The hair had to be digitally removed.

911. Fact

The black and white lines found on a bar code, symbolize different numbers. Together they form a long code that contains all necessary data for a product.

912. Fact

The biggest difference between an "ebb" and a "flood" was measured in nova scotia, canada's bay of fundy. The difference was 52 feet.

913. Fact

Ichthyosaurs, sea dwelling dinosaurs, lived during the jurasic period and had eyes 9-inches wide.

914. Fact

Barbie's full name is barbara millicent roberts.

915. Fact

The song of a humpback whale can reach 190 db. That's equivalent to the sound of a boeing 747 at takeoff.

916. Fact

Before josef stalin became a revolutionist, he considered a career as a priest. He was thrown out of seminary, though, because of his drinking and aggressive behaviour.

917. Fact

Walt disney was afraid of mice.

918. Fact

Twenty percent of the world's population has a genetic disorder that causes the lack of wisdom teeth.

919. Fact

Coco water, the fluid in young, tiny coconuts, can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

920. Fact

The largest known shark is the great white shark. It can become 46 feet long.

921. Fact

The average car stands still 23 hours of the day.

922. Fact

50% of all bank robberies are done on fridays.

923. Fact

200 children are born every minute.

924. Fact

Alexander graham bell, who invented the telephone, could never talk to his mother or wife on it. They were both deaf.

925. Fact

Alfred hitchcock had no belly button.

926. Fact

A shrimp's heart is located in its head.

927. Fact

In an 80-year-long study on 200,000 ostriches, not a single case was reported where an ostrich buried its head in the ground.

928. Fact

It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky.

929. Fact

More than 50% of the world's population has never made or received a telephone call.

930. Fact

Horses can't throw up.

931. Fact

The most difficult words to say fast in english are "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick".

932. Fact

Rats can breed so fast that after only eighteen months they can produce more than a million off-spring.

933. Fact

If you use earphones for one hour, you will increase the amount of bacteria in your ears by 700%.

934. Fact

23% of all copy machine breakdowns come from people sitting on them to make copies of their own butts.

935. Fact

Nearly all lipsticks contain fish scales.

936. Fact

No paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

937. Fact

In one year, american airlines saved $40,000 by decreasing the number of olives by just one on each first-class salad.

938. Fact

You burn more calories sleeping than watching tv.

939. Fact

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

940. Fact

Most of the dust in your home comes from your own dead skin cells.

941. Fact

In one year basketball icon, michael jordan, earned more money from his sponsor, nike, than all of the employees put together at the malaysia nike factory.

942. Fact

Richard milhouse nixon was the first american president whose name included all the letters in the word "criminal".

943. Fact

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

944. Fact

According to the oxford english dictionary, the longest english word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. The forty-five-letter word is the name of a special form of silicosis caused by ultramicroscopic particles of silica volcanic dust...

945. Fact

Ingrown nails are hereditary.

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