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There are more cells of bacteria in your body than human cells

It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface.

111,111,111 × 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321.

There’s a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila that contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.

The world’s oceans contain 20 million tons of gold

The dates 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, and 12/12 all fall on the same day of the week during any one year.

In 1938, Adolf Hitler was Time magazine’s Man of the Year and in 1939, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

A “dancing plague” killed people in Strasbourg in 1518.
A “dancing mania” began in July 1518, when a woman began to dance fervently in a street for about four to six days. Eventually she was joined by about 400 dancers. There aren't any concrete statistics on fatalities, but some of these people eventually died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

Marilyn Monroe had a higher IQ (163) than that of Albert Einstein (160).

The bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are the same, just coloured differently.

All my posted facts within my posts are verified as genuine but feel free to check. I cannot speak for any other people's posts within the thread.
Half of all humans who have ever lived, died from malaria.

Once Charlie Chaplin entered a contest for “Charlie Chaplin look-alikes” and he came in third.

Fold over a piece of paper 42 times and it will reach the moon

54 million people alive right now will be dead within 12 months.

A tree is the opposite of your lungs. Physically and functionally.

If you put all the earth’s ants in one pile, and all the earth’s humans in another pile, the pile made of ants would be bigger (have more mass).

The population of Ireland is still 2 million less than it was before the potato famine, 160 years ago.

Napoleon was not unusually short. The French inch was longer than the British inch, so while he was thought to be 5’2” by most of the world, in reality he was closer to 5’7”, an average height for a Frenchman. (still pretty short though!)

There is a rubbish swirl in the ocean the size of Texas.

Black HP printer ink costs roughly 1,400 times as much as crude oil, gallon for gallon.

Humans have the genetic capability to hibernate.

All mammals are equipped with the genetic mechanisms for hibernation, which can be used as an extreme survival tactic. Read more about the actual science here.

Wombat poo is square.

President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car and used to drive guests into the lake to scare them, screaming about brake failure.

A shamanic group in Mexico worships Coca-Cola as a healing drug

The Mongolian Navy at one point consisted of a tugboat and seven men.
 
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Leonard Nimoy was so associated with his character that he was once invited to the California Institute of Technology to review work on several projects. He later admitted not knowing a single word of what they were saying.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Dreamt is the only word in the english language the ends in "mt".

Thinking of word which end in "gry", "Angry" and "Hungry" are two examples. There are three words in the English language. What is the third?

For the average person, 56% of typing is done with the left hand.

Chickens outnumber humans, vastly.

Masturbating more than 21 times a month can actually decrease your chance of getting prostate cancer. This was discovered after testing to see if masturbation was linked to an increase in prostate cancer.

There is a Japanese inn that opened in 718, that has been managed by 46 generations of the Houshi family. The inn has been operating for 1,300 years!

Gene Roddenberry was once in a plane crash in a desert in Syria. With two broken ribs, he repeatedly went back into the burning plane to evacuate passengers and then organised a search for civilisation.

Fats Waller was kidnapped to be the surprise guest at Al Capone's birthday party at gunpoint. He left 3 days later intoxicated with thousands of dollars in tips.

Google hired a Camel to map a desert for StreetView.

George Foreman has five sons called George: George Jr., George III, George IV, George V and George VI. Plus a daughter called Georgetta.

20% of the planet's total trees are in Russia

The Bible mentions unicorns 9 times.

In 1994, a 75 pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crime watch meeting.

A mammal over 3KG, regardless of it's size, will take approximately 21 seconds to empty it's bladder.
 
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Humans, chimps and koala bears all have almost identical finger prints.

Corn flakes were originally invented by a fanatically religious doctor as a way to stop people from masturbating. (he filled the mattress with them!)

Cornflakes were indeed meant as a sexual suppressant but not in that way! The creator, John Harvey Kellogg, thought that if men release man juice, it would somehow take something away from his vitality and fitness. He intended the food to suppress sexual desire. Not quite sure how, maybe because it was so dull tasting. It is an example of Holistic medicine.
 
Some Korea facts for you tonight.

Meth is offered as casually as a cup of tea in North Korea. There is little stigma attached to meth use - some take t to treat colds or boost their energy; students take it to work late. The drug also helps to curb appetites in a country where food is scarce.

All teacher is North Korea in the 1990s were required to play the accordion and that you needed to pass as accordion test before qualifying as a teacher.

Every North Korean home and business is outfitted with a government controlled radio which cannot be turned off, only down.

Idolatry in North Korea is such that it is 2nd nature for ordinary citizen to rescue portraits of Kim Il Sung before all else in the case of a house fire.

It is not 2016 in North Korea. The year is 105, because North Korea marks years from the birth of Kim Il-sung and not Jesus.

Literacy in North Korea is defined by the ability to write Kim Il-Sung.

North Korea holds elections every year in which the ballots list only one candidate.

In North Korea, the number of internet users is only 605. (0.00%)

In North Korea, you are forced to choose one of 28 government-approved haircuts.

There is a "three generations of punishment" sentence in North Korea. This means a person would be sent to the camp along with that person's entire family and two subsequent generations of family members would be born in prison and live there entire lives there.

A six day working week and another day of enforced "volunteer" work, ensures that the average citizen has virtually no free time.



China has banned monks from re-incarnating.


Camelopard is the original name for a Giraffe

Sackbut is the old name for Saxophone

Brad's Drink is the old name for Pepsi

Gay-Related Immune Deficiency was the first name discussed for AIDS

Buffy was the original name for Yoda

Batmania was one of the original names for Melbourne.

David And Jerry’s Guide To The World Wide Web was the original name for Yahoo

A kid born in Sweden in 1991 was named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116. His parents said it was pronounced "Albin." Although later it was blocked.

A sock full of cat litter kept under the seat of your car will stop the screen from steaming up in the mornings.

At ANY SECOND of the day there are somewhere around 30 million people watching porn.

Adding zipties to your bike tires will create some great winter tires.

The 80 richest people in the world have more assets than the bottom 3.5 billion
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In 2013, a Chinese father hired gamers to kill his son ingame repeatedly to stop his addiction to gaming.

Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) was required to be accompanied by crewmembers who wore brightly coloured vests while in the forests of the Pacific Northwest filming scenes set on Endor, so as not to be mistaken for Bigfoot and shot.

The Mosquito alarm was used in some places to reple young people by emitting a high frequency sound that was only audible to youngsters. But teenagers started using the sound as a ringtone to avoid it being heard by teachers.

The longest tank-to-tank kill in history occurred when a Challenger tank destroyed an Iraqi T-62 at a range of 5100 meters (over three miles).

In 1858, a massive brawl between more than 50 US representatives ended when a missed punch between two rep knocked the wig off of Representative Barksdale's head. The embarrassed Barksdale replaced the wig backwards, causing both sides to erupt in spontaneous laughter.

Male chicks are of no use to the egg industry, so they are either suffocated in rubbish bags with waste or shovelled together by the hundreds and conveyed into a grinder to be torn apart while still alive.

Mars is the only planet inhabited completely by robots.

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An adopted man named Steve Flaig searched for his birth mother for four years before finding out that she working in the same shop as he did. Neither of them knew.

It took the radio 38 year to reach 50 million people, 20 years for the phone, 13 years for TV, 3.6 years for Facebook and it took Google Plus 88 days.

Ford was going to buy Ferrari in the 60's but the pulled out at the last minute. It enraged Ford so much, that they built the GT40 to beat Ferrari at Le Mans. It went on to win 4 consecutive times.

The Wang Dong cave in Chongquing province if China is so massive that it has its own weather system, complete with clouds, pools, rivers and waterfalls.

In 2003 Madonna uploaded songs from her album American Life to kazaa.com. All the songs were a recorded loop of her saying "What the **** do you think you're doing?" In retort, a hacker defaced her website with direct download links for all the songs saying "This is what the **** I think I am doing"

Actor Sean Bean was once punched in the eye and stabbed with a broken glass at a bar defending a former playboy model. He refused an ambulance and then ordered another drink.

The Mir open pit diamond mine of Siberia is so large that helicopter traffic over it is prohibited due to several incidents in which they were sucked in due to air temp differences and unexpected currents.

Snoop Dogg once tried to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for a video shoot and the main reason they said no was because he didn't give enough notice. Anyone can rent Liechtenstein for $70,000 (in 2011) a night, which includes customised street signs and temporary currency and accommodation for 150.

Dr Ruth, America's well known sex therapist, with a height of just 4'7" served as a sniper with the Israeli Defence Force from 1944-48.

In the late 1800s a baboon names Jack was employed the the railroad as a signalman in Cape Town. He never once made a mistake and worked for the rail company until his death.

According to a book on New Zealand dairy sector,Moscow offered to give them a nuclear sub, Mig jets and tanks to help settle Russia's debt for dairy products in the mid 90s. When told that New Zealand had a nuclear free policy, Moscow's responce was "tie it up in some port and connect it to the national grid".
 
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In the early 1940s, Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted only of little pasta swastikas.

The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.

For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects

If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.

In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.
 
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The French have twice tried to decimalise time with 10 hour days, 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute.

There's a team of NASA scientists who've been pretending they are on Mars for nearly a year. They live and work in a dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano and only go out in spacesuits.

In 1894, London and New York were drowning in horse excrement. It was estimated that within 50 years the streets would be buried in 9 feet of poo. Fortunately, the car was invented.

There's a beer called "*** fully star out swear words please *** Hell". It's named after a town in Austria (F) and the German word for light lager (Hell).

Oxford University is home to a battery powered bell that's been ringing since 1840. Nobody knows what the battery is made of and no one want to risk taking it apart to find out.
 
In 1875 an Octopus at the Brighton Aquarium would escape its tank when guards weren't around, eat the lump fish in another tank and go back to its own tank before the aquarium opened.

The extra weight of fat people costs airlines around £200 million per year.

On the Japanese island of Yakushima, monkeys are known to ride deer for transport. In return the monkeys groom the deer and share food with them.

By law, a pregnant woman can wee anywhere she wants to, even if she chooses to go in a policeman's helmet.

The game Twister was denounced by critics as "sex in a box".

2/3 of the population of the world have never seen show.

men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Around 20% of coffee mugs contain faecal matter.

When you buy a bottle of Laphroaig Scotch, the company gives you a 1 sq foot piece of land in Scotland.

The large holes in buildings in Hong Kong are called Dragon Windows. They are designed not to hinder or block dragons passage from the hills to the sea.

1 out 10 babies born in Europe were conceived in an Ikea bed.

There are more vacant homes than homeless people on the US.

Elvis got a C in music

Russia didn't consider Beer to be alcohol until 2011. Previously it was classed as a soft drink.

Hundreds of radioactive wild boars are causing havoc in towns near Fukushima power plant, cause 10 million pounds in damages.

The pangolin is the only mammal with scales and is alos the most illegally traded wild mammal. It is in danger of being eaten to extinction.

The city of Medellin, Columbia reduced motorcycle assassinations by 39% when it banned male passengers from riding on the back.

Bill Gates net worth is four and a half times as large as North Korea's GDP.

When William Leonard Pickard was arrested, the world's LSD supply decreased by 90%.

A girls had to have her stomach removed after drinking shots of Jager mixed with Liquid nitrogen. The bar was fined £100,000.

A gymnast at the Rio Olympics named Marisa Dick created a new move for the balance beam and was the first to use it in a competition. A "change-leg leap to free-cross split sit" is now known as The Dick Move.

Bob Marley's final words were, "money cant buy life."

D-Day fighting was so intense that 4% of Normandy's beach is still shrapnel.
 
Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no mavity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

The chance that you will die on the way to buy your lottery ticket is greater than the chance of you winning the big prize in most lotteries.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest.

An average of 100 people choke to death on ball point pens each year.

The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

Toto was paid $125 per week while filming the “Wizard of Oz”.

All polar bears are left handed.

Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
 
The Katzenklavier (Cat Piano) was a musical instrument made out of cats. Invented in the 17th century by noted nasty person Athanasius Kircher, it consisted of several cats in a row with different pitches of voice. It could be played by driving a nail into the desired cat's tail.

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In 18th century London, an accepted payment method for admission at London Zoo was providing a dog or cat to be fed to the lions.

In a failed attempt to prolong his life, President Andrew Garfield was force fed for 80 days by his Dr, rectally.
 
Breathing the air in Beijing is equivalent to smoking 1.5 cigarettes an hour.
Sir Isaac Newton believed that the menstrual blood of prostitutes contained magical properties.
In 2015, the Catholic Church performed an exorcism on the entire nation of Mexico due to the high murder rate.
American school children used to use the Nazis salute during the ceremony of the pledge of allegiance.
Robert Emmet Odlum was the first person to jump off Brooklyn Bridge, in an attempt to show that falling through the air doesn't kill a human. He was right, it was the impact with the water that killed him.
"Aka Manto" is a Japanese spirit that will stab to death anyone who uses the 4th bathroom stall.
Holding your alarm keyfob up to your chin will increase the range.
 
New facts for today:

In 2015 a Russian cat in Barnal Siberia, won a mayoral race with more than 90% of the vote. His name was Barsik and his campaign slogan was "Only mice don't vote for Barsik!"". He was sadly not allowed to take office.

There was an overdue library book that was returned 288 years late.

In 2007, a Bosnian couple had divorced after they discovered that they were having an online affair with each other under fake names.

Shakira was rejected from her school choir because she sounded like a goat.

There is a species of fish known as "Slippery Dick"

In Norway, Odd and Even are popular names for males.

The word "Pencil" comes from the Latin word that means "Small Penis"

When Australia ran a competition asking Sydney to name a new ferry this year, the most votes went to the name Boaty McBoatface. They did not name the ferry that, because there is a vessel called that and went with another popular option. The ferry is now Ferry McFerryface.

Mimas, Saturn's moon, looks like the Death Star.

The word "esposas" means both "wife" and "handcuffs" in Spanish

There are ancient Japanese scrolls that show illustrations of "Fart Battles" in which people would fart at each other in a fight.

In Japan, Ronald McDonald is known as Donald McDonald because of the lack of hard "r" sound in Japanese.

The first part of a human for form is the bottom ring. At some point, we are all bottom holes.

Kirk Douglas is 101 years old.

Pro video game player is a real profession in China.

Willem Dafoe was expelled from school for filming a porno.
 
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