Strange Interesting Facts

Here are some of the strange interesting facts that we are unaware of :

  • Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
  • By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
  • Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute.
  • Lobsters have blue blood.
  • A man says average 4850 words in 24 hours.
  • The thumb nail grows the slowest and the middle nail the fastest.
  • Chocolates can kill dogs.
  • Ketchup was earlier sold as medicine.
  • The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.
  • A person generates 100 pound of red blood cells in his lifetime.
  • Rubber bands last longer in refrigerator.
  • There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  • Dreamt is the only word ending with ‘mt’.
  • Intelligent people are with more zinc and copper in their hair.
  • 69% Americans use Internet and only 5.5% of Indians.
  • Plastics take 500 years to break down.
  • America has 30.30% airports of the world & India has only 0.70%.
  • The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.
  • The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.
  • The world’s population has increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years.
  • 180 millions of Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually.
  • 4% of the total population drinks cold drink daily.
  • It’s impossible to sneeze with eyes open.
  • In Bangladesh, kids are punished and jailed for cheating in final exams.
  • It takes yard of sugarcane to make one sugar cube.
  • Half gallon water is required to cook macaroni.
  • Traffic lights were used even before the invention of cars.
  • A normal person laughs five times a day.
  • Every year in India, an approximate of 300 million tickets are sold.