- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The minarets ofthe Taj Mahal in India are angled at 88 degrees outwards so that they would not collapse into the structure should an earthquake occur. Read more after the break...
- The model of King Kong used in the original movie was only 18 inches tall.
- The mola mola or ocean sunfish lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
- The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.
- The most common street name in the United States is Second Street. First Street isn't first because many times the designation is replaced with the name Main Street.
- The most expensive book or manuscript ever sold at an auction was The Codex Hammer, a notebook belonging to Leonardo da Vinci. It sold for $30.8 million.
- The most expensive movie memorabilia ever sold at an auction was Clark Gable's Academy Award for It Happened One Night. It sold for$607,500 on December 15, 1996.
- The most searched thing on yahoo.com every year is p0rn.
- The most snow accumulation in a one-day period was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake, Colorado, in April 1921.
- The most used line in the movies is "Lets get out of here."
- The name "Uncle Sam" for the U.S. came from a person known as Uncle Sam Wilson of Troy, NY, who supplied food for the U.S. army in the war of 1812.
- The name for the middle part of the nose (the part that separates the nostrils) is called a chaffanu.
- The name 'Intel' stems from the company's former name, 'Integrated Electronics'.
- The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
- The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
- The nearest relative of the hippopotamus is the common pig.
- The Netherlands is the lowest country in the world. An estimated 40% of its land is below sea level.
- The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II .. and none after.
- The number 111,111,111 multiplied by itself will result in the number 12,345,678,987,654,321.
- The number 2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover.
- The number 37 will wholly divide (no decimals) into 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999.
- The number of atoms in a pound of iron is nearly five trillion trillion: 4,891,500,000,000,000,000,000,000.
- The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
- The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
- The only bird that can fly backwards is the hummingbird.
- The only bird that cannot fly is the penguin.
- The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.
- The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
- The only difference between brown eyes and every other colored eyes is that brown eyes have more pigment.
- The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.
- The only painting by Leonardo da Vinci on permanent display in the United States hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. It's a portrait of Ginevra di Benci, the wife of a politician in Florence.
- The only rock that floats in water is pumice.
- The only state allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag is Texas.
- The only three non-Presidents pictured on U.S. paper money are: Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill, and Salmon Chase on the $10,000 bill.
“Necessity, who is the mother of invention.”
