Random Facts

Interesting Random Facts

• The Bengal tiger is India’s national animal. It was once ubiquitous throughout the country, but now there are fewer than 1,500 wild tigers left.
• In Cleveland, Ohio, it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
• The combined internal surface area of a pair of human lungs is equal to about the area of a tennis court.
• Over 7,000 objects floating in space are being tracked from earth; only five percent are satellites.  
• The harmless whale shark holds the title of largest fish, with the record being a 59 footer captured in Thailand in 1919.
• Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
• Leonardo da Vinci is said to have invented scissors.
• A cockroach can live for 9 days after its head has been cut off. And even after that it dies of starvation and nothing else.
• Crystals grow by reproducing themselves. They come the nearest to being "alive" of all members of the mineral kingdom.
• Both male and female reindeers grow antlers in the summer each year but the male drops the antlers during winter.
• The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
• Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.
• “Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
• A cat's urine glows under a black light.
• When commercial telephone service was introduced between New York and London in 1927, the first three minutes of a call would cost $75.00.
• Flight must be exciting for hummingbirds as they can fly backwards as well.
• If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36), the total is the mystical number 666, often associated with the Devil.
• Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and Hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the longest anagrams.
• A car traveling at 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
• In Japan, there was a time when a wife being left-handed was ground for a divorce. Today the prejudice against lefties has lessened.
• Pablo Picasso's full name was "Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso." Phew!
• Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Early Romans used porcupine quills as toothpicks. Yikes!
• Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.