15452. World Record Facts

Charles Osbourne, from Iowa, USA, hiccupped every 1.5 seconds for 69 years and then suddenly stopped.

3146. Fact

The original name for basketball, as invented by Dr. James Naismith, was indoor rugby. It was one of the game's first players that started calling it basketball because of the peach baskets that acted as the original goals.

10759. Fact

The Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell are the most widely reproduced and distributed paintings in history.

8530. Fact

Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size

2762. Fact

Yasir Arafat is addicted to watching television cartoons

3525. Fact

If all the gold in the ocean were mined, every person on Earth would get about 20 kgs of gold each.

5610. Fact

The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6 billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900 million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100 million+).

13446. Name and Location

Name and Location : urmia, iran
Area : 6,001.00 sq. km.

5029. Fact

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

8248. Fact

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older

6916. Fact

The chemical n-acetyl-cysteine found in raw eggs is proven to help hangovers.

14966. Sobriquet

Primary name : belgtade, yugoslavia
Sobriquet : white city.

8294. Animal Facts

Body lice love dirty places – they were very common in the old days when people didn't wash much, and they often infested soldiers who had to live in dirty conditions. They are most likely to live on your tummy or your bottom.

3720. Fact

The name for the sign & which represents the world and is ampersand

10189. Fact

The study of twins is known as gemellology

15486. World Record Facts

The record for spitting a mouthful of tobacco is 16.23 metres (53 feet 3 inches), set in 1997.

1172. Body Facts

All the bacteria living inside your body would fill six teaspoons.

1323. Fact

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.

5623. Fact

In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds.

12699. History Facts

The earliest cosmetic surgery was practised by doctors in India who made fake noses for criminals who had their noses cut off as a punishment for their crimes.

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