Did You Know?
There are so many facts to learn, surprise and ponder, a lifetime is not enough to absorb let alone remember them. Some are trivial, some are profound. Others are well - why don’t you decide? Here is a list of surprising and unusual facts. Do any of them surprise you?
- The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of “F”?
- The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
- 99% of the solar system’s mass is concentrated in the Sun?
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
- The average speed of a common housefly is 4 1/2 miles-per-hour
- The hydrogen molecules in a glass of water are at least 14 billion years old!
- Grasshoppers have white blood
- A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
- 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road
- Earth’s atmosphere is, proportionally, thinner than the skin of an apple.
- A quarter has 119 ridges on its edge
- Most lipstick contains fish scales!
- New York’s Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
- One billion seconds is about 37 years
- No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
