Interesting Facts - Page One


 * Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
 * The last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, promised his daughter he’d write her initials on the moon. He did, and her initials, “TDC,” will probably be on the moon for tens of thousands of years.
 * The Mimic Octopus can not only change colours, but will mimic the shapes of other animals, like the flounder, lionfish, and sea snakes.
 * Twenty percent of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter.
 * If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
 * In the 1960s, the CIA tried to spy on the Kremlin and Russian embassies by turning cats into listening devices. The program, called Acoustic Kitty, involved surgically implanting batteries, microphones and antennae inside cats.
 * The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
 * A traffic jam lasted lasted for more than 10 days, with cars only moving 0.6 miles a day.
 * Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
 * Caterpillars completely liquify as they transform into moths.
 * There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as way points for climbers.
 * When adjusted for inflation, John D. Rockefeller is the richest man in the history of the world with a net worth 10 times more than Bill Gates.
 * All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck at 4:20.
 * Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" to win a bet against his publisher who thought that he could not complete a book with only 50 words.
 * A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.

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