Interesting Facts
A soccer ball consists of 32 panels - 12 black pentagons and 20 white hexagons.
Green tea has more vitamin C than black tea.
In the USA peanuts is used in making dynamite and in Russia they use soya.
The black box in a plane is bright orange.
The cost of Rolls Royce statuette on the bumper is 5000 $.
The fastest time to pop 100 balloons by a dog is 44.49 sec by Anastasia (Terrier) owned by Doree Sitterly (USA) according to rhe result of competition in Los Angeles on 24 February 2008.
Urine was once used to wash clothes.
biology
A blue tit feeds its babies as much as 1000 times a day.
A cow gives nearly 200000 glasses of milk in its lifetime.
A grasshopper has white blood and a lobster has blue blood.
Adult whale for 2 seconds inhales 2400 litres of air.
An iguana can stay underwater for 28 minutes.
Baby beavers are called kits, or kittens.
Brown hens lay brown eggs and white hens lay white eggs.
During her life, one female cat could have more than 100 kittens.
French people call pigeon a "flying rat".
Human hair is thicker than a soap film approximately in 5000 times.
Humans are the only animals able to draw straight lines.
Humans spend a third of their life sleeping (about 25 years or more).
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Rats appeared on earth 48 million years earlier than people.
The octopus has square-shaped pupils.
The smallest dog living is Chihuahua called Boo Boo, who measured 10.16 cm tall on 12 May 2007.
Throughout its lifetime, one honey bee makes about 1/12 teaspoon of honey.
geography
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas.
More than 20% of all the world's trees are Siberian larches.
The biggest hailstone fell down in Coffeyville (Kansas state, USA). Its weight was almost 700 g.
The world's highest waterfall is Angel Fall in Venezuela (979 m).
history
On February 16, 1568, a sentence of the Spanish Inquisition condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands to death.
Sigmund Freud was afraid of ferns.
The first public house was opened in Moscow in 1533.
The million inhabitant of Moscow was born in 1897.
mathematics
A good biro can write up to 50000 words.
The biggest number is called "centillion". It hast the 1 with 600 zeros. It was recorded in 1852.
There are 31 557 600 seconds in one year.
soсiology
90% of New York City's cab drivers are immigrants.
In 1995 the Japanese, the first time in history, ate more meat than rice.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
Men are considered dwarfs in height below 130 cm, women below 120 cm.
The Eskimo language has more than 20 wordsfor different types of snow.
Green tea has more vitamin C than black tea.
In the USA peanuts is used in making dynamite and in Russia they use soya.
The black box in a plane is bright orange.
The cost of Rolls Royce statuette on the bumper is 5000 $.
The fastest time to pop 100 balloons by a dog is 44.49 sec by Anastasia (Terrier) owned by Doree Sitterly (USA) according to rhe result of competition in Los Angeles on 24 February 2008.
Urine was once used to wash clothes.
biology
A blue tit feeds its babies as much as 1000 times a day.
A cow gives nearly 200000 glasses of milk in its lifetime.
A grasshopper has white blood and a lobster has blue blood.
Adult whale for 2 seconds inhales 2400 litres of air.
An iguana can stay underwater for 28 minutes.
Baby beavers are called kits, or kittens.
Brown hens lay brown eggs and white hens lay white eggs.
During her life, one female cat could have more than 100 kittens.
French people call pigeon a "flying rat".
Human hair is thicker than a soap film approximately in 5000 times.
Humans are the only animals able to draw straight lines.
Humans spend a third of their life sleeping (about 25 years or more).
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Rats appeared on earth 48 million years earlier than people.
The octopus has square-shaped pupils.
The smallest dog living is Chihuahua called Boo Boo, who measured 10.16 cm tall on 12 May 2007.
Throughout its lifetime, one honey bee makes about 1/12 teaspoon of honey.
geography
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas.
More than 20% of all the world's trees are Siberian larches.
The biggest hailstone fell down in Coffeyville (Kansas state, USA). Its weight was almost 700 g.
The world's highest waterfall is Angel Fall in Venezuela (979 m).
history
On February 16, 1568, a sentence of the Spanish Inquisition condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands to death.
Sigmund Freud was afraid of ferns.
The first public house was opened in Moscow in 1533.
The million inhabitant of Moscow was born in 1897.
mathematics
A good biro can write up to 50000 words.
The biggest number is called "centillion". It hast the 1 with 600 zeros. It was recorded in 1852.
There are 31 557 600 seconds in one year.
soсiology
90% of New York City's cab drivers are immigrants.
In 1995 the Japanese, the first time in history, ate more meat than rice.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
Men are considered dwarfs in height below 130 cm, women below 120 cm.
The Eskimo language has more than 20 wordsfor different types of snow.