Amazing Facts About Anything Thread

[LionDen]

Amazing Facts Thread

Feel free to post your amazing facts here!

[LionDen]

Wettest place on Earth:

Mawsynram, located in the Meghalaya State in India, is the wettest place in the world. It receives an annual rainfall of 11,871 millimeters.

[Smartmark]

The Aerosol Spray Can
The cheese slicer
Nitrogen fertilizer
TheOoutboard engine
The franking machine
The gas turbine
Contrast dye
Automatic machine for recirculation of bottles
The modern handgranade

and

The Onepiece

Are all Norwegian inventions

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North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can’t buy Coca-Cola.

Why?
Cuba: Coca-Cola opened one of its first bottling plants in Cuba in 1906, but pulled production in 1962 because of a trade embargo, not long after Fidel Castro took over the country.

North Korea: Since 1950, North Koreans haven’t been able to buy Coke either, thanks to the Korean War breaking out that same year.

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A cockroach can live a few weeks without its head. It will eventually die of hunger.

Cockroaches are infamous for their tenacity, and are often cited as the most likely survivors of a nuclear war. Some even claim that they can live without their heads. It turns out that these armchair exterminators (and their professional brethren) are right. Headless roaches are capable of living for weeks. After the cockroach loses its head, very often their necks would seal off just by clotting, There's no uncontrolled bleeding. On the other hand, you cut a humans head off, the human will die of blood loss.

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On many zippers, you find the letters YKK.

Those letters stand for "Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha" which, from Japanese, roughly translates to "Yoshida Company Limited." It's a zipper manufacturer named after Tadao Yoshida, who founded it in 1934. By one estimate, the company makes half the zippers on Earth, which is more than 7 billion zippers each year.

[LionDen]

Bananas have a curved shape because they reach for the sunlight when they grow.

[Smartmark]

^^ Not to mention that banana trees cannot be grown in a straight line, because banana trees actually move! :O

[LionDen]

Guinness estimates that 93,000 liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone. lol

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Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient times

In ancient Greece and Rome, doctors used spider webs to make bandages for their patients. Spider webs supposedly have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent infection. It's also said that spider webs are rich in vitamin K, which helps promote clotting. So, next time you're out of Band-Aids, just head to your attic and grab some "webicillin."

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You're more likely to get a computer virus from visiting religious sites than porn sites. lol

According to research from security firm Symantec, religious websites carry three times more malware threats than pornography sites. Symantec found that the average number of security threats on religious sites was around 115, compared to adult content sites which carried around 25. In fact, only 2.4 percent of adult sites were infected with malware. The researchers hypothesized that's because porn sites need to generate a profit, so there's a financial incentive to keeping them virus-free to encourage repeat business.

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A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.

Clouds are not as light and fluffy as they appear. In fact, researchers have found that a single cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds. How do they know? Well, that number is calculated by taking the water density of a cloud and multiplying it by its volume. Fortunately, the cloud can still "float" at that weight because the air below it is even heavier.

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The longest single-word name of a place in the whole world is in New Zealand and is named; Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters)

One of the shortest names of a place in the whole world is Å in Norway.

[LionDen]

The longest single-word name of a place in the whole world is in New Zealand and is named; Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters)

One of the shortest names of a place in the whole world is Å in Norway.

lol WOW!


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According to Switzerland's law, social animals like guinea pigs must have a buddy with them. Owning only one is considered animal abuse and is illegal.

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It is considered rude to write in red ink in Portugal.

[Smartmark]

The Ballpoint-Pen was invented by the Hungarian journalist László Bíró.

[TKO]

The world wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year.

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The loudest animal in the world is a mere 2cm long, prawn. The Pistol Shrimp is capable of snapping it’s claw shut so rapidly, that it creates a bubble which collapses to produce a sonic blast, louder than a Corncode’s sonic boom.

The shock wave can reach 230 decibels, louder than the sound of a gunshot. The imploding bubble for split seconds also generates temperates of 4,400C, nearly as hot as the sun, killing it’s prey.

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Boring, Oregon and Dull, Scotland have been sister cities since 2012. In 2017, they added Bland Shire, Australia to their "League of Extraordinary Communities." lol

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During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes." The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.