Monday, June 22, 2015

Interesting Facts Of The Day

It takes a sloth two weeks to digest the food it eats.

2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth everyday.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London


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Monday, June 15, 2015

Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.

Andorra, a tiny country between France & Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.

All porcupines float in water.

Ever wonder where the phrase two bits came from? Some coins used in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War were Spanish dollars, which could be cut into pieces, or bits. Since two pieces equaled one-fourth dollar, the expression two bits came into being as a name for 25 cents.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th, which occurs one to three times a year.


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Monday, June 8, 2015

Interesting Facts Of The Day

All the swans in England are property of the Queen.

The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.

Cleveland spelled backwards is DNA level C.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.

A normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles per hour.


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