Facts can be real, fictitious or strange. Nobody knows what to believe and not what not to unless an individual experiences the reality of any particular fact. There are many strange facts that can be true or untrue.
Believe it or not, following are some strange but true facts :
- In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
- It takes 3,000 cows to supply the leather for a year's supply of footballs.
- There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
- The ratio of termites and human in the world is 10:1.
- The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
- The summer of 2003 in Europe killed 35,000 people.
- Staphylococcus aureus lives harmlessly on human skin.
- Average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime.
- Earth is not round but an ellipse.
- Pregnant women tend to eat more if they carry a baby boy.
- Sirius, a dwarf star, is the brightest star in the night sky.
- Babies are born with 300 bones but in adulthood we have 206 bones.
- Each square inch of human skin comprises of 19 million cells, 60 hairs, 90 oil glands, 19 feet of blood vessels, 625 sweat glands, 19,000 sensory cells and thousand and millions of bacteria.
- Tomatoes are the most popular food world wide with a production of 60 million tons per year.
- Mt. Everest, at 8848 meters and 29,028 feet, is the tallest mountain in the world.
- Less than 2% of the water is fresh.
- A person at rest generates as heat equal to 100 watt light bulb.
- Depleted uranium has been used by western military powers as an anti-tank weapon.
- About 70% of living organisms are bacteria.
- An estimate of 300 million cells dies in human body every minute.
- The real name of Albert Brook is Albert Einstein.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- One pound fat equals to 4000 calories.
- There are about 100,000 to 150,000 hairs on an average person’s head.
- The largest organ of a human body is skin, weighing about 4 kg in a normal adult.
- The weight of bacteria is one trillionth of a gram.