Facts

• The “World War 1” ended at 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918

• Iceland is the only country without mosquitoes, snakes or other reptiles.

• Iceland has one of the largest gun ownership rates in the world and lowest crime rates as well.

• Researchers testing insects repellents used Victoria Secret’s Bombshell perfume as a standard and accidentally discovered that it repels mosquitoes better than any repellents in the market.

• Bruce Lee was so fast, they actually had to run his films slower so that you can see his moves.

• A tiger’s roar can be heard as far as 1.8 miles (3 km) away.

• The first Colgate toothpaste – Colgate’s Antiseptic dental powder.

• The world’s deepest, darkest, oldest and quietest model room is 220 feet underground, at Grand Canyon Caverns, in a 65 million-year-old cave.

• This is how baby elephants drink water. They don’t know how to use their trunks to drink until they are nine months.

• Harry Potter was first rejected by 12 different book publishers.

• Germany’s passport is the world’s most powerful. It grants visa-free access to 158 countries out of 218.

• The first Apple computer – Apple I

• The Lamborghini Gallardo is capable of going from 0-45 mph in 2.8 seconds. A cheetah can do it in 2 seconds flat.

• Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler, all suffered from acrophobia, the fear of cats.

• About 90% of Chinese teenagers and adults suffer from Myopia.

• The Large Hadrian Collider was turned off in 2009 due to a piece of bread dropped in it by a bird.

• In 2010,a group of 15 monkeys escaped from a Japanese research institute by using the trees to catapult themselves over a 17 ft high electric fence.
• The place where Hitler killed himself is now a playground.
• “Cacao” plants are expected to disappear before 2050 due to global warming.(Cacao plants are used to make cocoa powder).

• Netflix show “Black Mirror” derives it name from the reflection that we see in a switched off screen or monitor.

• Modern movies have an invisible watermark that can track any person filming at the theater illegally.
• There's a strip club in Ontario,Canada that doubles as a Church on Sundays.
• Riding a roller coaster can help patients to expel their kidney “stones”.

• Netflix monitor's illegal downloads to decide which shows to purchase.
• The U.S Embassy in Kathmandu has guidelines on what to do if a Yeti is found.

• China gets a new “billionaire” every 5 days.
• Serbia is home to the World’s Testicle Cooking Championships.
• Vladimir Putin’s grandfather worked as “chef” for Stalin and Lenin.

• At the current rate,by 2020 ,“Bitcoin” will consume more power than the world does today.

• Camels gave humans the common cold.

• Older fish live longer if fed the faces of younger fish.
• The word “Hundred” derives from “Hundra” in Old Norse,which originally meant 120.
• “Testosterone” evolved 500 million years ago from “Estrogen”.
• Only 11% of Japanese people are willing to fight for their country,the lowest in the world.
• The electricity required for a single Bitcoin trade could power a house for a whole month.
• For the Rio Olympics, 70,000 families were displaced.

• There are more than 40 airports in Antarctica.

• The brightest things in the universe are “Quasars”, which can be 429 trillion times brighter than our sun.

• Tokyo is the city with the most millionaires in the world but London has the most multi-millionaires and New York the most billionaires.
• Mars has no magnetic field.

• More Africans have access to cell phone service than piped water and electricity.

• Only deceased people can appear on U.S. currency.

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