Surprising Facts
1. Flag of Alaska was created by a 13-year-old boy.

2. A military honor isn’t given by the left hand in any country.

3. International dialing code of Antarctica is – 672.

4. Captain Cook was the first man, who set foot on all continents of the Earth, except Antarctica.

5. West African tribe “mats” play football with a human skull.

6. Australian fifty cent coin initially contained silver worth two dollars.

7. Guinness Book of Records is mostly stolen in British libraries.

8. National Orchestra of Monaco is more than its army.

9. In the Sahara Desert once – February 18, 1979 – it was snowing.

10. Canada has an area bigger than China, and China has more than the U.S..

11. The only country where in 1983 had not a single birth – the Vatican.

12. Nile froze twice – in IX and XI centuries.

13. In Sienna, Italy, can not be a prostitute, if your name is Maria.

14. In ancient Rome, a man taking the oath or giving an oath, put his hand on the scrotum.

15. Itching was banned by law in some countries of the ancient East, as it was considered sinful exciting occupation.

16. In casinos in Las Vegas there are no clocks.

17. In the language of the Inuit , for snow there are more than 20 words.

18. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than Canadians in Canada.

19. In France the law prohibits selling dolls with a inhuman face, for example, “aliens”.

20. Canada 4 times over the past 5 years was declared a UN best for living country.

21. In ancient Rome, if the patient died during surgery, doctor’s hands were being cut off.

22. As shown by X-ray, known to us under the “Mona Lisa” has three of its original version.

23. On the creation of the song “I am the walrus” John Lennon was inspired by the sounds of police sirens.

24. The most frequently sung song in the world – «Happy birthday to you» – is protected by copyright.

25. There is only one western, shot by a woman.

26. Toilet seat of George Harrison sang «Lusy in the sky with diamonds».

27. During the Second World War in order to save metal statuettes Oscars were made out of wood.

28. Original title “Gone with the Wind” – “baa-baa black sheep”.

29. In Cameron’s “Titanic” the most frequently spoken word – “Rose”.

30. The cat falling from 12-floor, has more chance of surviving than a cat that falls from the 7 Th.

31. When Europeans first saw the giraffe, they called it “camelopard”, thinking that it is a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.

32. The animal with the largest brains relative to body – an ant.

33. About 70 percent of Earth’s creatures are bacterias.

34. In his youth, the Black Sea perch mostly girls, but by 5 years, they radically change the gender!

35. Elephant – the only animal with 4 knees.

36. Zoo in Tokyo every year close for 2 months, so the animals could rest from visitors.

37. Anteater does not prefer to eat ants but termites.

38. When a giraffe is giving birth, her baby falls from a height of five feet.

39. Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.

40. Female dogs bite more often than male dogs.

41. Each year from bee stings more people die than from snakebites.

42. Sharks have an immunity to cancer.

43. Starfish can twist it’s stomach inside out.

44. The animal, that can drink the longest time is  a rat.

45. The only animals suffering from leprosy, but man – armadillos.

46. Behemoths are born under water.

47. Orangutans warn of aggression with a loud taunt.

48. Mole can dig a tunnel length of 76 meters in a night.

49. A snail has 25 000 teeth.

50. Black spider female can eat up to 20 spiders a day.

51. With a lack of food tapeworm can eat up to 95 percent of the weight of his body – and nothing happens to him!

52. Crocodiles are responsible for more than 1000 deaths on the banks of the Nile a year.

53. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at the table.

54. St. Bernard’s, famous rescue climbers did not carry a flask of brandy around their neck.

55. It takes 4 hours to cook hard-boiled ostrich egg.

56. Inside the Lion’s Pride 9 / 10 production in the “family” supply lionesses.

57. Sloth spend 75% of living in a dream.

58. Hummingbirds can not walk.

59. Moths do not have a stomach.

60. Europeans arrived in Australia, they asked the Aborigines: “What are those strange leaping beasts?” Aborigines replied: “Kangaroo” – which meant: “I do not understand!”

61. The easiest way to distinguish the animal-vegetarian from a predator: a predator’s eyes are on the front of the muzzle, to see the victim. Vegetarians – on both sides of the head to see the enemy.

62. Bat – the only mammal that can fly.

63. 99% of living beings on Earth became extinct.

64. To make a kilogram of honey, bee should fly over 2 million flowers.

65. Blood of the grasshopper is white and lobster’s is blue.

66. The only animals who have sex for pleasure – people and dolphins.

67. Over the past 4000 years there have been no new domesticated animals.

68. Penguins can jump in the height of more than a half meter.

69. The only domestic animal that is not mentioned in the Bible – a cat.

70. Chimpanzees – the only animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror.

71. The word “orangutan” means in some languages of Africa “a man of the jungle”

72. EMU in Portuguese means “ostrich”.

73. Elephants and people – the only mammals that can stand on it’s head.

74. Crocodiles swallow stones to a dive deeper.

75. Polar bears can run at speeds of 40 km / h.

76. Dogs have elbows.

77. “The Thinker” by Rodin – a portrait of the Italian poet Dante.

78. Singer Nick Cave was born with a tail.

79. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day – April 23, 1616.

80. English novelist Virginia Woolf wrote most of his books while standing.

81. Sarah Bernhardt played the 13-year-old Juliet in 70 years.

82. When Walt Disney was a child, he tortured an owl. Since then, he decided to revive the animals in cartoons.

83. Beethoven was once arrested for vagrancy.

84. Buzz Aldrin – one of astronauts who went to the moon, his mother’s maiden name was Muhu (Moon).

85. When Einstein died, his final words died with him: the nurse did not understand German.

86. Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to hide his bald spot starts.

87. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

88. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, never phoned his mother and wife: they were both deaf.

89. Saint Patrick, the patron of the Irish was not Irish.

90. Leonardo DA Vinci invented an alarm clock, which ter sleeping feet.

91. Napoleon suffered aelurophobia – fear of cats.

92. The nose is growing throughout life.

93. Only one child out of 20 is born on the day prescribed by the doctor.

94. The ancient Greeks believed that boys grow in the right side of the stomach, and the girls – on the left.

95. If you remove the space from all the atoms of the human body, then what is left will be able to clime through the eye of a needle.

96. In the Middle Ages in the darker spots of the moon people saw the figure of Cain, carrying an armful of firewood.

97. Sperm – the smallest single cell in the body. Ovum – largest.

98. If a real woman had the proportions of a Barbie doll, she could only move 4 limbs.

99. White beards grow faster than the dark.

100.Russian and English languages have no word for the name for the back of the knee.

101. In the XV century people believed that red heals. Patients wore the red and surrounded themselves with red things.

102. Prints of the languages of all people are unique.

103. When you blush, your stomach turns red too.

104. In the human body there is enough body fat for 7 pieces of soap.

105. 80% of the heat of the human body goes out of his head.

106. Humans have less muscle than the caterpillar.

107. At the time of the death of Lenin’s brain was a quarter of normal size.

108. The highest rate in the world on standard IQ tests belong to two women.

109. Most people lose 50% of taste sensations by 60 years.

110. Home dust is 70% dropped out of the skin.

111. Tooth – the only part of a person’s body that lacks the ability to regenerate itself.

112. The brain is made 80% from the water.

113. The body of one man lived more living organisms than people on Earth.

114. One hair can withstand the weight of 3 kg.

115. Average human head weighs 3.6 kg.

116. Throughout life people produce so much saliva that it would be enough for 2 large swimming pools

117. Repellents do not ward off mosquitoes – they hide you. Substances contained in the repellent, to block the receptors with which mosquitoes find their prey.

118. Dentists recommend keeping a toothbrush at a distance of not less than two meters from the toilet.

119. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.

120. Every year on the ground Donkeys kill more people than people die in air crashes.

121. In the dream, you burn more calories than while watching TV.

122. The first product with barcode was chewing gum Wrigley’s.

123. Wingspan 747 more than the distance of the first flight of the Wright brothers.

124. American Airlines saved $ 40 000, by removing just one olive from salads, given to the first class passengers.

125. Venus is the only planet in the solar system, rotating counterclockwise.

126. Apples help better than coffee to wake up in the morning.

127. Plastic things on the ends of laces called aiguillettes.

128. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

129. Michael Jordan has received more money from Nike than all workers in the factories of this company in Malaysia.

130. Marilyn Monroe had six fingers on her feet.

131. All U.S. presidents wore glasses. Just some did not like to show them in public.

132.Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.

133. Pearls melt in vinegar.

134. Among the people who publish marriage ads, 35 percent have been married or unmarried.

135. Three of the most expensive brand names on earth – a Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.

136. Cow can get up the stairs, but can not get down.

137. Duck quacking does not echo, no one knows why.

138. Reason at which U.S. fire brigade have spiral staircases, refers to the time when the pumps and other gravity raised horses. The horses were crowded below, unable to understand how to climb the stairs to direct overflights.

139. Richard Nixon (Richard Millhouse Nixon) was the first U.S. president whose name contained all the letters of the word “criminal” (the offender).

140. The second was Bill Clinton (William Jefferson Clinton).

141. On average of 100 people each year die choking on a ballpoint pen.

142. 90 percent of New York taxi drivers – are immigrants.

143. Elephant – the only animal who can not jump.

144. Chance to live to 116 years is one person in two million.

145. Women, on average, blink twice as more as men.

146. Licking your own elbow is anatomically impossible.

147. The building of the main library at Indiana University provides an annual draw-down of one inch, because the construction engineers failed to take into account the weight of the books contained in it.

148. Snails can sleep up to three years.

149. Crocodiles can not stick out tongue.

150. A lighter was invented before matches.

151. Daily U.S. residents eat 18 acres of pizza.

152. Almost all who read this text, tried to lick their elbow.