• Glaciers and pack ice contain approximately 75% of the world’s fresh water: more than all lakes and rivers, groundwater and water in the atmosphere, combined!


• A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is decapitated.


• On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left- handed counterparts.


• We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quick sand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.


• “Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.” - On a child sized Superman costume.


• The IKEA Catalog is the 3rd most printed publication in the world after the Bible and Harry Potter.


• Next to nothing is known about the mating habits of great white sharks, but we do know they give birth to five to 10 pups at a time and nobody knows how long great white sharks live. The best guess is 40 years.


• The sun is visible 24 hours a day during the summer months in Reykjavik, Iceland.


• The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C. London, England reached the mark in 1810 and New York, USA made it in 1875. Today, there are over 300 cities in the world that boast a population in excess of 1 million.


• The state of Florida is bigger than England!


• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression “to get fired.”


• A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!


• Drone bees, the boys, have no stingers, and do no work, only mating.


• Honeybees are more dangerous than snakes. Bees kill more people each year than all the poisonous snakes combined.


• Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.


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STRANGE facts!


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