Fact #60

The Black Box found in aircraft is orange in color.

Fact #59

Cats have three eyelids. Their sense of smell is 14 times stronger than that of humans.

Fact #58

Synesthesia is a rare condition in which the senses get cross-wired. Stimulation of one sense causes stimulation of another. If you have synesthesia, you may see colours when you hear a sound, or you can taste words!

Fact #57

Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive. People wishing to read them have to sign a disclaimer that they are doing so at their own risk.

Fact #56

When someone sleeps through winter (like bears), it’s called hibernation. When someone sleeps through summers, it is called aestivation. Many animals — both in water and land — aestivate to avoid damage from high temperatures and dehydration.

Fact #55

When Leonardo da Vinci died, King of France, Francis I, used the Mona Lisa to decorate his bathroom.

Fact #54

Ice-cream headache, also called brain freeze, cold-rush or Iceberger’s syndrome, is the headache you experience after eating something extremely cold. The phenomenon has a medical name: sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia

Fact #53

If you begin to count from one and spell out all the numbers as you go, you won’t get to use the letter “A” until you have reached 1,000.

Fact #52

The present 50-star American flag was designed by a 17-year-old Ohio high-school student Robert G Heft for a class project. His teacher gave him a B– for his work.

Fact #51

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was the only person in the world to have survived two nuclear blasts. He was present in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the nukes were dropped. He died in 2010, aged 93.

Fact #50

In 1972, Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant, fell 33,000 feet in an aircraft explosion and survived. She now holds the Guinness world record for the highest free-fall without a parachute.

Fact #49

If you weighed all the electrons used to store the information on the Internet, they would weigh less than a chicken’s egg.

Fact #48

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Fact #47

In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered!

Fact #46

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.

Fact #45

The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah-Mat,” which means “the king is dead

Fact #44

Each nostril of a human being registers smell in a different way. Those by the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.

Fact #43

Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time, as they sleep with one eye open.

Fact #42

The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair.

Fact #41

Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.

Fact #40

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Fact #39

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Fact #38

The markings that are found on dice are called “pips.”

Fact #37

The hair of some cancer patients treated with chemotherapy can grow back in a different color, and sometimes even be curly or straight.

Fact #36

Watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.

Fact #35

The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.

Fact #34

The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements.

Fact #33

It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.

Fact #32

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Fact #31

It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey.