- Snakes can't bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise).
- Female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- EMI awards stands for 'Electrical and Musical Instruments'.
- Instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962.
- The word racecar can be spelled the same way backwards.
- The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines.
- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet.
- There are 2.5 million times more ants on earth than people (20 quadrillion of them).
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
|
reload more facts