There is an site called learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk in which an image with a interesting fact is published every day. The purpose of the site dedicated to graphic design is to share information and interesting facts sent by some of its readers. Below are some of the images and fun facts from the site.
An average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
The * prevents the flowers from wilting.
Kinder Surprise eggs are illegal in the U.S.
Humans “stink” more than other animals.
The ashes of Pluto’s discoverer are on their way to Pluto.
Justin Bieber can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 2 minutes.
Anne Frank’s sister also kept a diary.
There are cities in France where it is illegal to die.
Flies are deaf.
Rabbits can see behind them without turning around.
The rain in the movie “Singin’ in the Rain” is milk.
The sharks are reassured when they listen to AC/DC.
To take a picture with the first camera, you had to stand still for 8 hours.
Tarantulas can survive for more than two years without food.
Only 1% of humans are redheads.
Marlon Brando turned down the Oscar for best actor in The Godfather.
The 100 billionth Crayon was blue.
Tom Hanks’ brother plays the voice of Woody in all computer games.
The color red makes you feel hungry.
The size of the stegosaurus’ brain was the size of a ping pong ball.
Michael Keatons’ real name is Michael Douglas.
Whale milk has 50% more fat.
Pelé’s real name is Edson Arantes Do Nascimento.
Sheryl Crow’s two front teeth are fake.
Wearing tight pants can lead to impotence in men.
Yahoo was originally called “Jerry’s Guide to the WWW.”
Smelling green apples can help you lose weight.
It takes a week to make a “Jelly Bean.”
Hitler was once nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In Uruguay there is a principle called “freedom”.
Second part of “facts you are not taught in school”.
Ukulele translates to “jumping flea.”
Continuing with the monthly compilation of curiosities in images of the site learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk we present the curiosities and facts of the month of July.
Apple has more money than the U.S. government.
Scraunched is the longest monosyllable word in English.
Woody Harrelson’s father was a hitman.
The oldest bookstore is in Portugal.
McDonals fries contain beef.
Ned Flanders is 60 years old.
Elephants walk on the balls of their feet.
Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin a year.
Astronauts can’t cry in space.
Otters sleep holding hands.
Apple Computees was founded on April Fools’ Day.
Mark Zuckerberg has the most followers on Google+
NASA invented baby food.
The human eye detects 10 million different colors.
Kissing is healthier than shaking hands.
Ants can survive if they fall from a skyscraper.
The ringtone for receiving messages on a Nokia is ‘SMS’ in Morse code.
Da Vinci invented the parachute.
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Cows have lesser friends.
The shark in Jaws is named Bruce.
Every time an orange appears in “The Godfather,” someone dies.
Baby eyes are called Kittens.
Norway is the only football team that has never lost to Brazil.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
The first “written” smile was in 1982
A group of beavers is called a “business.”
Heart disease is less common in religious people.
The chocolate milkshake is the ideal post-workout drink.
Astronauts get sick on trips.
Facts You Are Not Taught in School Part Three.
The percentage of people dreaming in black and white began to decline after the advent of color TV.
Well guys, August 2011 is part of history and like every month we have the Facts that they don’t teach you in school. Curious and surprising facts represented in fun graphics.
The Ramones took the name Paul McCartney nicknamed Paul Ramon.
Pablo Picasso was accused of stealing the Mona Lisa.
An African bat can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking on the sand at a distance of almost two meters.
Your ears produce more earwax when you’re scared.
Only humans shed tears of emotion.
Fidel Castro has slept with more than 35,000 women.
If a diver’s bomb were to fail in the depths of the ocean, the only thing left in his suit would be his skeleton.
No one has ever been killed by a shark in Bermuda.
In the past Hugo Boss made uniforms for the Nazis.
Banging your head against a wall consumes 150 calories in an hour.
Monkeys peel bananas upside down.
Mountains can’t grow higher than 49,000 feet.
Honey bees have hair on their eyes.
The leg bones of bats are so thin that they can’t walk.
The energy released by the sun is equivalent to 368 trillion trillion megawatts.
Some beetles taste like apples.
Fungi have a closer relationship with animals than with plants.
Cats can’t see under their own noses.
Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1889.
Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved fish.
Bill Gates’ house was designed using a MAC.
“Wife” in Spanish, apart from meaning spouse, also means to wife.
100 people die of asphyxiation with a pen every year.
Dead people fart right after they die.
Nick Clegg’s hero is Samuel Beckett.
The smallest bird in Britain is the wren, weighing the same as a teaspoon of sugar.
The umbrella was originally invented to protect people from the sun.
The plate cap is worn by the working class and the upper class.
Greece has the highest percentage of smokers.
You burn more calories when you sleep than when you watch TV.
Fun Facts You Don’t Get Taught in School, Part Four.
To clarify, the monthly collection of “Facts that they don’t teach you in school” that we started in June of this year stopped publishing because the site stopped publishing the posters, in view of the success they enjoyed they decided to adapt a business model by canceling their daily publications to sell them in the form of a book. T-shirts and posters. Therefore, the collection of these curious facts that we publish from now on are from past years.
Elephants are trained to swim 20 miles per day.
The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in their lifetime.
The center of some golf balls contains honey.
The world’s largest Christmas Cracker was 207 feet long and 4 meters in diameter.
A bee can travel at 15 MPH.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a crescent.
Mistletoe is toxic to people.
The Bible never says that Three Wise Men visited Jesus.
One man remained awake without stimulants for 12 days.
The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.
Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes underwater.
The Statue of Liberty wears size 876 sandals.
The banana is a berry, while the strawberry is not.
Your brain operates in the same energy range as a 10-watt light bulb.
A Venus flytrap can digest a cheeseburger.
In 1859 24 rabbits were released in Australia, 6 years later there were 2 million.
When the moon is directly above you, your weight decreases.
Unlike cats, tigers love to swim.
The Bootleg Beatles have been around for three times as long as the Beatles.
2520 is the smallest number divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.
It can take more than 70 years for a banana peel to completely decompose in Antarctica
Statistics show that British women have the largest breasts.
The largest cupcake measured 1.25 m by 1.2 m. It weighed more than 150 kg.
Ostriches don’t put their heads in the sand.
America (United States) does not have an official language.
Google’s first server was made of legos.
Florida is bigger than all of England.
The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
There are about 120 corpses on Mount Everest.
A Spanish woman is legally the owner of the sun.
The first cloned cat was called “Carbon Copy”.
Take away the last part of things that you are not taught in school.
Again an installment of the “Facts That Don’t Teach You in School”.
Jesus was not born on Christmas, December 25 was chosen by the Christian church to rival the solstice celebrations.
In the 1970s, a Barbie doll was released that could grow breasts.
By the time an average American child finishes school, they’ve seen 40,000 murders on television.
Apollo 11 had 20 seconds of fuel remaining when it landed.
If Saturn were put in water, it would float.
The strongest beer contains 55% alcohol.
George Bush’s IQ is 91.
Cursing relieves the pain.
The Statue of Liberty was destined for Egypt.
Alcohol does not kill neurons.
Michelangelo hated painting.
Flowers grow faster listening to music.
The biggest meal on a menu is stuffed camel.
Hong Kong has self-freezing bottles for Coca.
Velociraptors are less than 0.6 meters (hip-length).
There are more dogs in Paris than there are people.
Kissing can cause cavities.
Saturn’s rings are made of ice.
Dean Gould licked and pasted 450 stickers in 4 minutes.
Leeches have up to 34 brains.
The male bee dies after mating.
Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
Buzz Lightyear was originally called Lunar Larry.
A cat in Boston was summoned to serve as a juror.
In the sun, walnuts get a tan.
Jack Nicholson discovered that his sister was actually his mother when he was 37.
The nude drawing of Kate Winslet in the movie Titanic was done by James Cameron, the director.
The average human is 28 years old, a dexterous Chinese man with a cell phone and no bank account.
The Sun is 93 million miles from Earth.
The Beatles used to be called Johnny & The Moondogs.