• The city of St. Petersburg, Russia, was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, hence the name, St. Petersburg. But it wasn't always that simple. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Russian leaders felt that Petersburg was too German-sounding. So they changed the name of the city to Petrograd -- to make it more Russian-sounding. Then, in 1924, the country's Soviet Communist leaders wanted to honor the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir I. Lenin. The city of Petrograd became Leningrad and was known as Leningrad until 1991 when the new Russian legislators -- no longer Soviet Communists -- wanted the city to reflect their change of government, so they changed the name back to St. Petersburg.
  
• April Fools Day started in France after the adoption of a reformed calender by Charles IX in 1564. Up till that time, New Year celebration began March 21 and ended April 1. When New Year's was changed, some people still celebrated on April 1. These people became known as "April Fools."
  
• The army's jeep was not always called that. Instead it was called a general purpose vehicle. It was then shortened to GP (jeep), and the car company just started to manufacture the general purposes vehicles under the name "Jeep."
  
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  
• 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."
  
• Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
  
• The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
  
• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
  
• Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
  
• The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation. Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).
  
• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
  
• Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from.
  
• The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
  
• Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
  
• The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used
  
• The Quetzal is the national bird of Guatamala and is also their currency.(not the bird)
  
• Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
  
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  
• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
  
• Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)
  
• Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
  
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  
• More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
  
• The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is flown in war time.
  
• Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
  
• If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
  
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  
• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
  
• The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
  
• Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
  
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
  
• Marvin Stone of Washington, D.C., patented the drinking straw on January 3, 1888.
  
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
  
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
  
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
  
• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
  
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
  
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  
• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
  
• In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!

The name of the first presidential airplane was the Sacred Cow.

The parachute was invented more than 100 years before the airplane.

Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond adventure novels, also wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Between 1840 and 1960, every president elected in a year ending in 0 died while in office.

German chocolate cake was created in America.


The domestic currency of Vietnam is the dong.

French toast was known as German toast until World War One.

Sea Monkeys breathe through their feet.

Hat makers were known as mad hatters because the mercury used in making hats gave them tremors and slurred speech.

Tomatoes are the world's most popular fruit.

Mud throwing and greased pole climbing were official events at the 1904 Olympics, and Tug of War was an official event until 1920.

The 27th amendment (dealing with pay raises for Congress), was proposed in 1789, and ratified in 1992.

A nuclear bomb was accidentally dropped on a desert in New Mexico in 1957, but did not detonate.

The animal responsible for the most deaths worldwide is the mosquito. And all of those deaths are due to female mosquitoes. Male mosquitoes do not suck blood.


The creator of the Simpsons, Matt Groening, has a dad named Homer, a mom named Marge, and sisters named Lisa and Maggie.

"Gone With the Wind" was the only book Margaret Mitchell ever had published.

The heat a lightning bolt produces is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.


Vincent Van Gogh sold one painting during his lifetime, "The Red Vineyard".


Olympic Gold Medals are made primarily of silver.

A billion in the US and a billion in England are two different numbers. (A billion in England is a trillion in the US.)

American Express issues a special black card to the ultrawealthy, which cannot be applied for and is brought to the house by a security guard.


Ostriches can run at speeds of up to 45 mph.

There are no recorded instances of humans being killed by falling meteors..

Switzerland is the soft drink capital of the world.

The flag of Italy was designed by Napolean Bonaparte.

The black box on an airplane is orange.

St. Augustine, FL, not Jamestown, is the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the U.S.

When you sleep, your brain is more active than when you watch TV.

The bodies largest organ is the skin.

In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated in October.

The U.S. does not issue any bills higher than a $100 bill.

People with low IQs tend to laugh more than people with high IQs.

Early vacuum cleaners ran on gasoline.

The tallest man ever was over seven feet taller than the shortest man ever. Robert Wadlow of Alton, Illinois, was 8'11". Gul Mohammed of New Delhi, India was 1'10.5".

A group of crows is called a murder.

Bicycles in the 1840's and '50's were built with wooden wheels.

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Egyptian pharaohs were sealed in their tombs-with living servants.

The largest pearl ever found weighed 14 pounds.

The only states spelled with only one consonant are Ohio and Iowa.


The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the U.S.

St. Augustine, Florida, not Jamestown, is the oldest permanent European settlement in the U.S. St. Augustine was settled by the Spanish in 1545.


Pigs are the only mammals other than man who can get sunburned.

To conserve metal, the Oscars given out during WW II were made of wood.

The 100 years war lasted 116 years.

Queen Elizabeth I of England was bald as an adult.

English muffins were not invented in England.

The male duck billed platypus is venomous.

Jupiter is larger than all the other planets put together.


In 17th century England, one could buy a pipeful of tobacco from a primitive vending machine.

There is no lead in lead pencils and never has been.

The modern toilet was invented by a man named Thomas Crapper.

The California prison system holds more inmates in its jails and prisons than France, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan combined.

At their closest point, the U.S. and Russia are 2 miles apart.

The son of the man who invented Lifesavers candy killed himself: by jumping off a ship.

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• Fingerprints of koala bears are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
  
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
  
• Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".
• As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
• Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
• The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
• Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
• The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.
• Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history.
• Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
• Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
  
• As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.
• More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
• The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
  
• Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life.
• For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006)
• Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children
• Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.
• The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is to control in the air.
• Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.
• The egg came first.
• Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.
• In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags.
• The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.
• Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.
• Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.
• The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.
• The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
• The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.
• A "lost world" exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species.
• The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.
• All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
  
• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
  
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
  
• The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
  
• The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
  
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
  
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people)
  
• Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.

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• Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
  
• The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
  
• During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
  
• The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
  
• The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
  
• Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
  
• Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
  
• The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
  
• The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
  
• There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
  
• Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
  
  
• A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
  
• Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
  
• The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
  
• The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
  
• 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
  
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
  
  
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
  
  
• The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
  
• The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
  
• Pinocchio was made of pine.
  
• Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
  
• A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
  
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  
• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
  
• Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
  
• New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
  
• There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
  
• The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
  
• Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
  
• Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
  
• Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
  
• The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
  
• "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
  
• On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
  
  
• 2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.
  
• Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
  
• On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
  
• Blue and white are the most common school colors.
  
• Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
  
  
• The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
  
• The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
  
• The doorbell was invented in 1831.
  
• The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
  
• Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
  
• There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
  
• Napoleon was terrified of cats.
  
• The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
  
• The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
  
• Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
  
• The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
  
• The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
  
• France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
  
• The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
  
• The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
  
• George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
  
• Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
  
• The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
  
• Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
  
• The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
  
• The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
  
• Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
  
• Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
  
• If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
  
  
• The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
  
• The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
  
  
• When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.

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• The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
  
• You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
  
• Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names.
  
• In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.
  
• The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
  
• More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
  
• A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
  
• Whales die if their echo system fails.
  
• Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.
  
• It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
  
• Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.
  
• In deep space most lubricants will disappear.
  
• The average person can live 11 days without water.
  
• In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.
  
• There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
  
• In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.
  
• More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
  
• It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
  
• King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.
  
• Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
  
• Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.
  
• The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
  
• More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
  
• The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
  
• The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
  
• There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
  
• During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
  
  
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
  
• Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

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• The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
  
• City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
  
• State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
  
• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.
  
  
• The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."
  
  
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
  
• First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."
  
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved wrong by the TV show "Mythbusters")
  
• The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
  
• Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
  
• The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles
  
• Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem
  
• Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
  
• The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep
• Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
  
• In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose
  
• It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
  
• The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.
  
• Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century
  
• During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
  
• Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
  
• Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
  
• Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.

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@Aarwaa
great work...........
thanx for sharing........

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