Interesting Facts of the Day | Saturday, 4th May, 2013

It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Daylight Saving Time is not observed in most of the state of Arizona and parts of Indiana.

Ants closely resemble human manners:  When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee’s head and 2 larger ones in front.

Interesting Facts of the Day | Friday, 3rd May, 2013

Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.

There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world.

 Most collect calls are made on father’s day.

Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, most of it paper.

Women manage the money and pay the bills in  75% of all Americans households.

Interesting Facts of the Day | Thursday, 2nd May, 2013

Right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people.

Ten percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale of vodka.

In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.  

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.

 Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.

Interesting Facts of the Day | Wednesday, 1st May, 2013

The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.

Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920′s.

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

Seattle’s Fremont Bridge rises up and down more than any drawbridge in the world.

Interesting Facts of the Day | Tuesday, 30th April, 2013

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.

A ‘jiffy’ is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A whale’s penis is called a dork.

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

Interesting Facts of the Day | Sunday, 28th April, 2013

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; ’7′ was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and ‘UP’ for the direction of the bubbles.

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs – it will let you go instantly.

Interesting Facts of the Day | Friday, 26th April, 2013

The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1.

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

Elephants can’t jump.  Every other mammal can.