50 interesting littleknown facts you may not have heard of
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A student once asked Bruce Lee, "You teach me how to fight, but you talk about peace. How do you reconcile the two?" Bruce Lee replied, "It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war."
In 2012, a farmer in Nepal was bitten by a cobra while walking in a rice paddy. In response, he chased after the cobra that had bitten him and bit it back. The cobra eventually died, and he survived.
Albert Einstein once said, "I do not know what weapons will be used, but the Fourth World War will be fought with clubs and stones."
The German parliament building has a glass dome that citizens can walk through. This is a reminder to politicians that the government should always be transparent and that the people are always above them.
Mark Zuckerberg has a virtual assistant at home named Jarvis, voiced by Morgan Freeman.
A carousel in the UK rotates clockwise. A carousel in the US rotates counterclockwise.
If a vulture loses a feather, it will shed the same feather on the other side of its body to maintain perfect balance in flight.
Fanta was created by the Coca-Cola Company for the Germans during World War II. The United States banned all exports to Germany when it declared war, so Coca-Cola created Fanta, using only locally sourced German products to replicate the taste of cola.
Manatees have claws on their webbed feet.
In the 15th century, Europeans bought mummies, ground them up, and used them as pigments.
In 2007, a woman was trapped in a cumulonimbus cloud for 40 minutes while paragliding and managed to survive.
In 1956, a man landed an airplane on a street in New York.
A penguin at a Japanese zoo once fell in love with an anime paper cutout.
A French postman created a statue using a stone he found while working.
A seal at the Boston Aquarium once learned how to mimic human speech.
A man in San Francisco has been scaring people from behind some eucalyptus tree branches for nearly 40 years.
The International Space Station orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes.
The best-preserved armored dinosaur ever discovered.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is empty.
Pandas may fake pregnancy to obtain more food from humans.
On May 16, 2010, Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon formed a smiley face.
Diamonds are not visible on X-rays.
McDonald's is the world's largest toy distributor. They distribute more than 1.5 billion toys every year.
An office desk is 400 times dirtier than a toilet.
Termites are among the longest-living insects, with some living up to 100 years.
Kitchen sponges contain more than 10,000,000 fecal bacteria.
The Romans used urine as a mouthwash.
75% of the world's menus consist of only 12 plants and 5 animals.
16% of the world’s population has limited or no access to electricity (1.2 billion people).
Potato chips are more likely to cause weight gain than any other food.
My boyfriend does far more housework than my husband.
Elvis Presley was born with blonde hair; he simply dyed it black.
Bananas are actually berries, just like watermelons, eggplants, and peppers.
People who take frequent naps are about 37% less likely to die from heart disease.
More than 1,000 years after the pyramids were built, mammoths went extinct.
A 10-second kiss can transmit more than 80 million bacteria between two mouths.
20% of office coffee cups contain a certain amount of feces.
Pan Lian, a native of Hainan, was rescued after drifting at sea alone for 133 days and is known as "China's Robinson Crusoe".
The first person in history whose name we know was Cushing, an accountant.
In Japan, houses are considered depreciating assets. All houses are demolished and rebuilt after 38 years.
Before alarm clocks existed, people were hired to shoot peas dry with air guns at people's windows to wake them up in the morning.
The Kingdom of Bhutan has only one international airport, and only a small number of pilots are certified to land there.
Between 2011 and 2013, McDonald's opened one restaurant every day in China.
Globally, approximately 444,000 people die each year from the direct cause of preventable medical errors.
Statistically speaking, a heart attack is most likely to occur on Monday.
Camel racing is a popular sport in the Middle East, and they now use robotic jockeys in the competition!
The Guinness World Record for stacking six M&M's is!
There is a museum dedicated to instant noodles in Osaka, Japan.
Spider-Man, Thor, and the Hulk all first appeared in comics in 1962!
In Finland, newborn babies are taken home in a box containing 60 essential items, including clothes, blankets, toys, books, and bedding. The box itself can also serve as the baby's first crib.
