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Did You Know? Facts and Trivia

Published by Amazingwriter in Random
May 13, 2009

This tells you interesting facts about various subjects that you might have not known.

  • The guy on the 10 dollar bill aka Alexander Hamilton was shot and killed by the Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr.

  • In 1930, the Academy Awards were held twice: on 3 April and on 5 November. No ceremony was held in 1933.

  • India produces the most movies than our very own Hollywood.
  • One in ten people on earth live on an island
  • There are 2,700 Languages spoken in the world today.
  • The British Royal Family changed it’s last name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor in 1917, that’s a mouth full. 
  • A fresh egg will sink in water a rotten one will float.
  • Peter the Great of Russia used to tax people with beards
  • A person will spend about 5 years eating in their lifetime.
  • Only one book has been distributed in more copies then the Bible; The IKEA catalog.
  • Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because Donald doesn’t wear pants.
  • The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  • 40 percent of McDonald’s revenue comes from their Happy Meal sales.
  • Coca Cola was orignally green colored.
  • It is impossible to lick your elbow.
  • The only domestic animal not mentioned in the bible is a cat.
  • Louis IV of France’s stomach was the size of two regular stomachs
  • Nothing rhymes with orange.
  • The human brain is 80% water.
  • Half a billion dollars is spent every year in North America on chewing gum.
  • Your right lung takes in more air than your left
  • Ants never sleep
  • Singapore has only 1 train station
  • No President of the U.S. was an only child.
  • The ABC Song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same tune.
  • Pinocchio is italian for “Pine Head”
  • Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered and insult.
  • You can’t breathe and swallow at the same time

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