15 Fun facts about women

1) An average woman eats about 2-3 kilos of lipstick in her lifetime.

2) Women blink about 2 times more often than men. Interesting why? 

3) A woman will more easily trust somebody who hugs her for at least 15 seconds.

4) 80% of women’s wrinkles are caused by excessive sun exposure.

5) Women usually tie the belt of a dressing gown higher than their belly button, while men tie it lower.

6) A woman doesn’t like it when her hands are free, this is why she is likely to carry with her a purse, gloves, a book or…something else…

7) The first computer programmer was a woman. Her name is Ada Lovelace.

8) According to researches, an average woman spends about 120 hours a year looking at herself in the mirror, which is approximately 5 entire days a year!

9) After making love, women don’t feel like sleeping. They feel like talking and kissing.

10) While turning to the call, a woman usually just turns her head, while a man will turn his entire body. It’s because women have more flexible neck.

11) While making love, a woman worries about whether she looks pretty.

12) A woman opens beer bottles with a beer bottle opener.

13) Ladies close their ears with fingers, while men – with hands.

14) When you ask a woman to give you a lightener, she won’t test the speed of your reaction, she will just give it to you.

15) A woman prefers that her man reads her desires in her eyes…this is why communication between the two genders often gets complicated.

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 LOVE starts with a SMILE , grows with a KISS , and ends with a TEAR. 
DON'T cry over anyone who won't cry over you. 

Good FRIENDS are hard to find, harder to leave, and                  impossible to forget. 

You can only go as far as you push. 

ACTIONS speak louder than words. 

The HARDEST thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else. 

DON'T let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff. 

LIFE'S SHORT. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it. 

A BEST FRIEND is like a four leaf clover, HARD TO FIND and LUCKY TO HAVE. 

Some people make the world SPECIAL just by being in it. 

BEST FRIENDS are the siblings God forgot to give us. 

When it HURTS to look back, and you're SCARED to look ahead,     you can look beside you and your BEST FRIEND will be there. 

TRUE FRIENDSHIP "NEVER" ENDS. Friends are FOREVER. 

Good friends are like STARS    You don't always see them, but you know they are ALWAYS THERE. 

DON'T  frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile. 

What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry? 

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them. 

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end. 

Most people walk in and out of your life, but only FRIENDS leave       footprints in your heart. 

Send this on to everyone special in your life, even the people who really make you MAD sometimes and to the people whose lives you want to be in!!! 

And send it back to the person who sent it to you if they mean something to you!!

Remember, every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted. 

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Johnny Depp is blind in one eye !

The versatile and rebellious actor Johnny Depp has recently revealed to Rolling Stone that he is blind in his left eye. Depp has been struggling with his vision all his life. He is near sighted in his right eye and has never had proper vision.

He wears glasses when not on set, because without them he can only see a few feet in front of him. Being one of Hollywood’s most versatile actors, one would never notice that he is battling to see while he is portraying his more-often-than-not deep, dark or sinister characters.

The fact that he is blind in his one eye may even be one of the reasons the actor adopted Golden Eye, the one-eyed Andalusian horse who played Gunpowder in Sleepy Hollow, thereby saving the horse from a horrible fate.

Battling his challenges with sight seems nothing compared to the "Edward Scissorhands" star’s battle for normalcy. He is quoted as having one desire: “Going somewhere where you don’t have to be on the run or sneak in through the kitchen or the underground labyrinth of the hotel,” he said. “At a certain point, when you get old enough or get a few brain cells back, you realize that, on some level, you lived a life of a fugitive.”

According to scientists, 'night owls' are brighter than early risers and make more money on average than 'morning people'

Research on teenagers suggests that night owls are in fact not lazy, sluggish, or undisciplined; and that they may indeed be brighter than the early risers, who are usually seen in a better light.

The internal clocks of some people make them evening types. They stay up late and sleep in later in the mornings. The morning types go to bed early and are at their peak early in the mornings.

The research conducted at the University of Madrid included tests that measured school performance and individual intelligence. Evening types scored higher on inductive reasoning, which is considered to be a good estimate of general intelligence. Inductive reasoning is also linked to innovative thinking, more prestigious jobs and a tendency to earn higher incomes.

The study found that night owls’ school achievement was rated lower than morning larks’ by about 8 per cent. Researchers believe that this suggests that night owls are disadvantaged by early morning school schedules.

Professor Jim Horn of Loughborough University says that evening types tend to be more social and more people-orientated. He suggests they will probably be good at cryptic crosswords, whereas the morning types will probably rather attempt the logical ones.

Famous larks: George W Bush (reportedly always in bed by 10), Napoleon, Condoleezza Rice (always awake by 4:30), and Ernest Hemmingway, to name but a few. Some of the famous night owls include President Obama, Charles Darwin, Keith Richards and Marcel Proust.

Han Solo was supposed to die in Return of the Jedi, but he was saved by toys! Yes, toys.

   Everyone knows that Star Wars is one of the biggest movie franchises in history, but few are aware that the story is much different than it was initially planned to be.

   A New Hope was intended to be a standalone movie, but the studios insisted on at least one sequel.

   Intending for it to be “bittersweet and poignant”, Return of the Jedi was supposed to be much darker. Han Solo, one of the film's most popular and enduring characters, was supposed to die halfway through the movie, which would end with Luke Skywalker walking off alone “like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns”, according to former Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz.

Are you afraid of germs? You might not want to know how many fungi are living on your feet!

   If you have a fear of germs and all things dirty please prepare yourself—this article will mortify you. In fact, even if you aren't afraid of germs, this article will probably mortify. Let's start off by stating something relatively known all around the world; there are different types of fungus living all over the human body. As it turns out, heels and under toenails are fungi's favourite place to live.

   A team of researchers led by the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda sequenced the DNA of fungi living in 14 different regions on the bodies of 10 healthy people.They found that the human foot is home to around 180 different types of fungi!

   To get a little more specific, there were 60 different types of fungi found in toenail clippings, 40 types in between toes, and 80 different types on the heel.

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35 Interesting Facts about Women

1. Adam and Eve? An August 2013 Journal of Science DNA analysis reports that the the origin of the first woman and man can be traced back to 1 woman and 1 man that lived on earth about 135,000 years ago.
2. On average, women blink nearly twice as much as men.
3. On average, women get hiccups less than men.
4. The average woman is nearly  a full 5 inches shorter than an average sized man.
5. On average, women’s hearts beat slower than mens.
6. On August 25th 1932 Amelia Earhart became 1st woman to fly non-stop across North America solo at a record breaking pace of 19 Hours 5 Minutes.
7. Over 50 years ago Valentina Tereshkova was the 1st woman to enter outer space on June 16th 1963.
8. On June 18 1983 scientist and astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman to enter into outer space.
9. Woman swallows $5000 diamond! 400 glasses filled with champagne during an April 2013 charity event in Florida each contained a diamond but only 1 diamond was real, at 1st it came up missing. An 80 year old woman accidentally swallowed it and although embarrassed she eventually told the event makers she had swallowed it while talking and laughing with other women at the table. The diamond was recovered by colonoscopy 2 days later.
10. According to recent census data in March 2013, about 6% of U.S families In 1976 had a woman as the sole income provider. That same census shows that 23% of U.S households today have a woman as the sole income provider.
11. A Duke University study says that women wake up far more grumpier than men. It also says that women need much more sleep than men and can have problems such as heart disease and psychological issues from not getting the adequate amount of sleep needed.
12. International Women’s Day is recognized on March 8th each year. Some countries recognize it as an official holiday.
13. For the first time in the history of the Olympics, the 2012 U.S Olympic team had more women than men. 269 women and 261 men.
14. As of July 2012, Marissa Ann Mayer (age 37)  is the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Yahoo appointed her as their new Chief Executive Officer on July 16th 2012 which took effect the following day on July 17th 2012. Woman Power!
15. There are more women in the United States than men.
16. Wyoming was the first U.S state to grant a woman the right to vote.
17. Cleopatra had 2 younger brothers and she married them both.
18. Cleopatra first married at age 11.
19. Approximately 2 of every 100 (2%) women in the world have a supernumerary nipple which is a 3rd nipple. Be proud of what ya got.
20. Archeological researchers have made a recent claim to have found evidence that the Queen of Sheba did in fact rule over Southern Arabia which was then known as the capital of the Kingdom of Sheba.
21. Although highly unlikely to succeed in a Sharia court, in Saudi Arabia an old law still in effect says that if a husband doesn’t give his wife coffee that the woman can divorce him.
22. The origin of the word “woman” is thought to be wyfman, a term from Middle English which means wife of man.
23. There was a woman who was pregnant for 17 months 11 days and is recorded as the longest human pregnancy ever.
24. We debated about whether or not to post this one and I personally have a strong doubt it’s a fact (which means absolutely nothing) but here’s what at least a couple of the most popular informational sources in the world today have written (in a nutshell) and in the interesting facts website own words. One woman gave birth to 69 children (not at one time of course) which is the current record. She lived in Russia and 67 of the children lived beyond infancy. It’s said there were 7 sets of triplets, twins at a whopping 16 pairs and 4 of her pregnancies yielded quadruplets. Now if this is true, it’s absolutely amazing! This one was corrected from the original posting at which we had a much lower number of children but thanks to an intelligent visitor to the site which informed us of the cold hard facts and asked if we could change it, after some research it’s now 69 children. Unfortunately the visitor didn’t leave a return email for us to personally thank them.
25. The female sex sign is represented by a small cross with a circle on top. There’s a pink one on this page and this sign actually is the same one which represents planet Venus.
26. There are many moons and stars which have female names, but from our solar system’s planets only Venus is named after a female goddess.
27. Human women’s breasts are bigger from a proportional point of view than the other female mammals.
28. Originally, the differentiation between women at different ages was done in the English language with the help of the terms maiden, mother and crone. The maiden was the young girl which wasn’t married yet. The mother was the female in the years where she could bear children. The crone was the woman in the post-menopause period.
29. The average U.S. woman has a height of 5 feet and 4 inches. As for the weight, the average is about 165 pounds. This is 35 or more pounds overweight for the height and build of the average North American women and gender plays a large roll. This number will vary a lot in the world, thanks to the many differences in prenatal care and nutrition.
30. Almost everywhere in the world, women have a higher life expectancy than men do.
31. Worldwide, there are more males than females (100 men vs approx 98.6 women). In the US, women out number men by an average of about 4 million. As for the people which have more than 85 years, women are about twice as many as men and that increases with age.
32. 27% of the female deaths are caused by heart disease and 22% is caused by cancer.
33. Thanks to the fact that women live longer than men, they are two times more likely to be either visually impaired or blind.
34. NFL history was made when Shannon Easton became the first woman to ever work as a line judge official in an NFL preseason game. She was a replacement official in the 2012 preseason game for the Green Bay Packers VS  San Diego Chargers. The hat and whistle she used to officiate the game were kept by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Museum and will be displayed.
35. Katy Hayes of Texas is going down in history as the very first person in the U.S to have a double arm transplant attempted on them. Katy says she wants to hug her children and husband and to be able to wipe her own behind.

Facts From You

     Now that we’ve got that out of the way. Here are some of the emails we’ve received from people through our contact us form including some testimonials which are always welcome and sometimes even inspiring.

     “Approximately 1 out of every 50,000 people who visit this website send us an email about interesting facts. We enjoy reading them and sometimes use them, thank you” Hi. my name is guy and i’m a 15 year old from israel. I just wanted to tell you that your website is very interesting and i feel much more enlightened after reading all the *interesting facts* and surfing through the website.

thank you and keep up with the good work. you’re amazing!

     “These facts are fun to read to kill time on the smart phone. My girlfriend and I never have to waste any more time standing in lines, waiting for dinner in a restaurant, or waiting on each other! Keep expanding this, as it’s an enjoyable read!“

“really interesting website, amusing. well done!”

      ” YOUR SITE IS AMAZING! I was really bored while sitting on my pc and thought of doing something interesting and useful. Then i googled interesting facts and got your site. Trust me i read each and every fact and nothing seemed boring to me. Got a lot of information. Please upload some more. Thank you for making my time useful and interesting. “

     “Site expansion: I really love this website, and I’ve gone through each and every fact. So, I’m wondering if you’re going to expand the number of facts? I really hope you do!
Thanks!”

“Hi, was just wondering what your favorite interesting fact of all time was  ?”  My answer is that I’ve never thought about it until I read the email. When I did take a moment to think about it, I realized, wow! that’s deep and I need some time on that one because I really enjoy so many. After more thought, I don’t believe I really have a favorite fact to single out.

     “Hi, I have studies just 2-3 topics on your site, and it was neatly presented. When I was really bored, I searched for some interesting facts in internet, and I have visited 4 – 5 sites, where it contains full of images which is quite annoying. Finally I reached your website, where you can see very decent pictures, and really amazing facts. Only one thing you have to change is that, the right side topics you have listed is not properly aligned. So this is the review of your site from my side. You are doing a wonderful job !!!. I hope I’m the one out of 50,000 now LOL!!! Keep going.”

“ Elephants haven’t got four knees. They have two. The “knees” at the front are elbows. Fact! “

     I’m sorry but fact 48 is not true. There are no animals (not even the elephant) that have four knees.
The joints of the front legs, that are perceived as ‘knees’, are in fact wrists. This is a common misunderstanding due to the belief that a leg joint that bends between the foot and the body must be a knee. The main difference between us and the elephants is that our foot bones and hand bones are separate, whereas those of the elephant are one in the same, and have evolved to suit this four-legged mammal.

1 if you accidently get gum on you hair rinse it with coca cola it easily comes off
2 “coca cola is the second most recognized word in the world after “ok”
3 The dot above a lower case i and j is called the “tittle.
4 your nose is the same size length as your thumb
5 your foot is the same length as your forearm..
6 Your lip is the same length as your index finger
7 YOUR WEBSITE IS AWESOME!!!!! 

Did you know that all the numbers of a roulette wheel add up to 666?

     “Humanity today generates more data in two days than it produced in all of history up until the year 2003, and is projected to continue to grow exponentially into the future.”

     From the editor: Believe it or not we do work hard at making Interesting Facts a reliable trustworthy site. We’re not perfect but we do try. Once in a while we get an email from someone that believes differently. We do take constructive criticism seriously and work to build a better Interesting Facts site using your suggestions and thoughts so feel free to let us know how we’re doing.

     Got this email from someone in Snohomish County Washington. It was pasted here just as it was sent to us….

☆ Email Subject:  This website is not a reliable one

     ” As I was browsing this website I found a few things that made me question strongly its reliability. The first thing was that on one of the facts, it said, “Did you know that your brain has no pain receptors or pain fibers and the brain it’s self can not feel?”. The part of this that jumped at me was the huge grammar mistake. It instead should have said, “… the brain itself can not feel?”. The word ‘it’s’ is a compound of ‘it’ and ‘is’. Even without the apostrophe, though, it would have still been grammatically incorrect. The second thing was you had a ‘fact’ that stated, “The color of a hen’s earlobe will usually determine the color of the egg shell. Farmers know hens with red or darker colored earlobes are most likely to lay brown eggs and hens with lighter colored or white earlobes will usually lay white eggs.” This is incorrect in many ways. For one, hen’s do not even have earlobes! If you were referring to the comb on top of their heads then that is alarming because if a hen has a white comb that does not effect the color of her eggs but it does show that she could be very sick. Secondly, the color of a hen’s egg is determined by the amount of calcium in her diet. The more calcium she is getting, the browner the shells of the eggs she produces. (A browner the egg shell also means the thicker the egg shell.) After that incredibly untrue fact, I was not sure I could trust any more of the so-called facts on this website. If you want your website to have a better reputation, please assure that everything you put on it is actually true. Thank you. “


Okay, Now back to more interesting facts from you.

[Interesting Facts] Thomas Edison “Thomas Edison was a telagraph operator and the inventor of the quadraplex telegraph. Using a telegraph reqires morse code which is a series of dots and dashes, hence his children’s names, or rather nicknames.”

[interesting facts] Wrong date entered found “In that page ‘funny interesting facts’, please see fact 54 and 55. Those mentioned facts are refering 43 in it. But i believe it should refer fact 53..Please have a view in to it.”
Thanks and Regards,
Sajeev

Sounds alike but different words In Funny Interesting Facts #47 the word they’re should be their.

Hi, in the “interesting facts” section of this site there is a fact that says all the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20. However, in the coffee scene there is a clock in the background that is set to 8:20.

You should have some facts about men too. Not just women because men are just as interesting. Kbye.

      Reading through your ‘funny facts’ I came across ‘fact’#60. The rule of thumb phrase comes from the English law which in the past said that a man could not beat his wife with something that was wider than a thumb. This is completely untrue as such a law has never existed! The origin of this phrase is actually unknow though most likely comes from using the thumb as a rough measuring guide.

Your facts are very intresting, and im truly 1 out of 50,000 woop xoxoxox.

     I found this website really interesting! However, I found some of it confusing to read due to the grammatical errors. “It’s” is a contraction of “It is”. If you wouldn’t say the words “it is”, then it’s just its. Also, their means beloning to them. “It’s their wedding.” There means a placement of something. “It’s over there.” And they’re is a contraction of they are. “They’re going to the zoo.” Please don’t take offense to my corrections; I just think it would be easier for people to understand if it was grammatically correct. Loved the facts!

     Lobsters have blue blood. A stegosaurus was said to have a brain the size of a walnut. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Your ears never stop growing. Women blink almost twice as much as men. I hope these helped. 

Gallium and Cesium are two metals that will melt if you keep them on your palm.

     An interesting fact: I don’t know if this fact is on the list as I did not get a chance to read all the way through the list; nevertheless this fact has always amazed me: There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth.

     I thought that I would help you out and illustrate a grammatical error in one of your facts. On #7, your use of the word “worst” is incorrect. The tense of bad that should be used in the instance in worse. I just thought it would make your site seem more reliable if the grammar was correct, since the whole basis of your site is to convey and spread knowledge.

Hi, I really enjoyed reading the interesting facts. But I actually noticed one mistake. In point 76 you say the elephant has the longest pregnancy term, but it’s actually the frilled shark(chlamydoselachus anguineus) with a pregnancy term of 42 months.

If the brain can’t feel pain, what is brain freeze?

     I have read your interesting facts about women and i have to say it is interesting but there is a problem. As the subject refers to it concerns the word women and it’s plural. In your list facts the word woman is often mistaken for it’s plural word women and used blatantly as if nothing is wrong with it. I find that disturbing. Please fix it. Regards.

Female geese are deaf.

     Bangalore has the richest people in India. The line of poverty is the least of all
cities of the world.

     Water expands by 9%, not 10% and fire travels faster uphill because heat rises. Thats not a fact, its just common sense.

1. Some believe that the first time the name ‘Wendy’ was used was in Peter Pan. Peter Pan only made the name Wendy more popular, it was not the first time it had been used but was a rare name before the existence of Peter Pan.

2. Every 7 years the average body regenerates itself completely (meaning we have an entirely new body!)

3. Giraffes can’t cough

3. The oldest word in the English language is “town”

4. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon with his left foot first.

5. We have an interesting fact that every state in the US has at least 3 vowels in its name.  (Another user writes back) 5. We have an interesting fact that every state in the US has at least 3 vowels in its name. This is not true Texas and utah both only have two and those are just off the top of my head.

6. The rabbit’s penis is behind the scrotum.

7. India was the home to the first martial art and the monks copied it, went to China and made the more famous martial art, karate and other martial arts

8. Thank u for creating this site. really these r interesting fatcs .And one fact was very interesting for me .It was ” Approximately 1 out of every 50,000 people who visit this website send us an email about interesting facts. “.I stiil can’t stop laughing ))).really thanks

9. In the state of Florida, it is illegal for a single, divorced, or widowed woman to go parachuting on a Sunday evening.

10. the only place on your skin were you can’t grow hair is on the palms of your hands and bottom of feet.

11. Chicken skin gloves were the hight of fashion around the 18th century in london

12. The average chocolate bar contains 6-8 insect legs in it  And there is absolutly no reason for you to make me do math I I V.

13. On a average second 1.7 people die and 1.0 are born.

14. Babies born in May are usually heavier at birth than other babies.

15. It takes 8 drops of household bleach to purify 1 gallon of dirty water, the same idea of using bleach to get safe drinking water is used by most water treatment plants.  (Put this on you websight if you want to, and make any changes if needed.)

16. Mickey Mouse was first called Mortimer Mouse.

17. Did you know an average shower uses 30 litres of water every 5 minutes?

18. Breast feeding reduces chances of getting pregnant.

19. Tigers are still stripey, even under their fur. They have stripey skin. So if u waxed a tiger (good luck) you would not ruin her camouflage.

20.  On the fact you have.”You cannot think of an english word to rhyme with the word month because there isn’t one.”  Month rhymes with uneath (a very obscure and now archaic word meaning ‘difficult’ or ‘not easily (borne, or done)’.

21. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny   – I had to be that 1 in 500,000 person 

22. There is a fruit grown in Africa called miracle fruit which has the ability to temporarily change a human’s taste buds.

     A protein in this miracle fruit is called miraculin, it also has other names. Its effect can change the taste of wine into molasses, fruits to the maximum sweet juicy fruit. Sour will be sweet and bitterness will be delicious. The effects are said to last about an hour after taken.

     One thing to know about miraculin is that the fda does not approve of  it and does not allow this item to be sold in the usa because if it was, the candy factories and other companies selling sweets could lose business.

     It doesn’t appear to be illegal to have this in possession and use the miracle fruit. When the FDA did not approve it back in the 1970′s, the documents explaining the reasons why were almost all completely blacked out and could not be read.

Miraculin is readily available in Japan.

23. Did you know the United States Postal Service cannot ship any other poisonous creature other than the scorpion? The container the scorpions are shipped in have to be marked “Live Scorpions” and can only be shipped if they are being used for some type of medical use.

24. Some of the strongest venom known can be found in the Box Jellyfish, since 1954 the Box Jellyfish has killed nearly 5,600 people.

25. It’s estimated that about 50% of all orangutans have at some point in their life fallen out of a tree and fractured a bone.

26. You’ve just read at least 25 more  interesting facts from you.

27. Here are some facts that should be added to your website:
A. A donkey can sink in quicksand, but a mule cannot.
B. Windmills only turn counterclockwise.
C. Albert Einstein never wore any socks.
D. All babies are colored-blind when they are born

28. Subject- [Interesting Facts] ” No English word rhymes with month? hey, i just thought of one, how about triumpth?  xx great site by the way ”

29.- real boobs float and fake boobs do not - poop that floats is fat and if it sinks it is protein - you can actually freeze a fart.

Interesting Facts about The Queen

     At birth her father Albert Fredrick Arthur George was 31 years old and he was King George V second son. In 1920 her father Albert was honored with the noble title Duke of York. Being the 2nd son of King George V he wasn’t expected to ever become king and young Elizabeth wasn’t second in line to the throne at birth but 3rd in line after her uncle and her father so she was certainly never expected to become queen.

     Just a few months before Elizabeth’s 11th birthday her grandfather King George V passed away and the oldest son Edward (who was Elizabeth’s uncle) by right of birth for being the first son of King George the 5th ascended the throne as king Edward VIII.

     To tell you how even more remarkable it is that young Elizabeth became queen, at her fathers birth he was 4th in line to ever have a chance at becoming king. As destiny would have it the cards just seemed to fall into place.

     When uncle Edward became king Edward VIII this made young Elizabeth 2nd in line to the throne only after her father. Edward had been having an affair with a prominent married American lady named Wallis Warfield Simpson which his father King George V strongly apposed. King George also knew this wasn’t Edward’s first affair with a married woman.

     At the time of the affair Mrs. Simpson was in her 2nd marriage and in the midst of her second divorce. Even knowing it would have been strongly against his deceased fathers wishes and that it would have harsh consequences, King Edward VIII fell more in love with Wallis Simpson. Just months after becoming king he proposed to her.

     Not only the people, but the church of England and prime ministers were all very resistant to the idea of such a woman being their queen and just as resistant to the idea of their king (which was also head of the church) being in such conflict with the church’s beliefs so Simpson was deemed an unsuitable bride.

     After days of speculation in the newspaper, on December 10th 1936 on a television appearance King Edward the 8th renounced his accession to the throne (retired as king) so he could marry Simpson and during his abdication speech he was quoted as saying ” I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help of the woman I love ”  He was resigned the following day of December 11th 1936 at which time his brother (Elizabeth’s father) Albert became king George the sixth.

     King George VI remained king until his death on February 6th 1952 in which he was said to have died peacefully in his sleep after a long battle with a lung problem. Shock and grief took hold throughout the developed world in respect for the kings death. Not only were all types of sports events, theaters, cinemas, regularly scheduled programs and the house of commons ceased but in the United States, president Harry Truman paid tribute to the king and a vote quickly took effect throughout the U.S government even closing the United States senate and house of representatives.

     The death of Elizabeth’s father King George VI immediately made her Queen Elizabeth II, she was 25 years old, not in London on the day of his death and a thunderstorm delayed her flight until the next day at which time she took the royal oath and sealed her accession to the throne.

20 Interesting Facts about Dreams

Fact-1: You can’t read while dreaming, or tell the time

If you are unsure whether you are dreaming or not, try reading something. The vast majority of people are incapable of reading in their dreams. The same goes for clocks: each time you look at a clock it will tell a different time and the hands on the clock won’t appear to be moving as reported by lucid dreamers.

Fact-2: Lucid dreaming
There is a whole subculture of people practicing what is called lucid or conscious dreaming. Using various techniques, these people have supposedly learned to assume control of their dreams and do amazing things like flying, passing through walls, and traveling to different dimensions or even back in time.

Fact-3: Inventions inspired by dreams
Dreams are responsible for many of the greatest inventions of mankind. A few examples include:

The idea for Google -Larry Page
Alternating current generator -Tesla
DNA’s double helix spiral form -James Watson
The sewing machine -Elias Howe
Periodic table -Dimitri Mendeleyev
…and many, many more.

Fact-4: Premonition dreams
There are some astounding cases where people actually dreamt about things which happened to them later, in the exact same ways they dreamed about. You could say they got a glimpse of the future, or it might have just been coincidence. The fact remains that this is some seriously interesting and bizarre phenomena. Some of the most famous premonition dreams include:

Abraham Lincoln dreamt of His Assassination
Many of the victims of 9/11 had dreams warning them about the catastrophe
Mark Twain’s dream of his brother’s demise
19 verified precognitive dreams about the Titanic catastrophe

Fact-5: Sleep paralysis
Hell is real and it is called sleep paralysis. It’s the stuff of true nightmares. I’ve been a sleep paralysis sufferer as a kid and I can attest to how truly horrible it is. Two characteristics of sleep paralysis are the inability to move (hence paralysis) and a sense of an extremely evil presence in the room with you. It doesn’t feel like a dream, but 100% real. Studies show that during an attack, sleep paralysis sufferers show an overwhelming amygdala activity. The amygdala is responsible for the “fight or flight” instinct and the emotions of fear, terror and anxiety. Enough said!

Fact-6: REM sleep disorder
In the state of REM (rapid-eye-movement) stage of your sleep your body is normally paralyzed. In rare cases, however, people act out their dreams. These have resulted in broken arms, legs, broken furniture, and in at least one reported case, a house burnt down.

Fact-7: Sexual dreams
The very scientifically-named “nocturnal penile tumescence” is a very well documented phenomena. In laymen’s term it simply means that you get a stiffy while you sleep. Actually, studies indicate that men get up to 20 erections per dream.

Fact-8: Unbelievable Sleepwalkers
Sleepwalking is a very rare and potentially dangerous sleep disorder. It is an extreme form of REM sleep disorder, and these people don’t just act out their dreams, but go on real adventures at night.

Lee Hadwin is a nurse by profession, but in his dreams he is an artist. Literally. He “sleepdraws” gorgeous portraits, of which he has no recollection afterwards. Strange sleepwalking “adventures” include:

A woman having sex with strangers while sleepwalking
A man who drove 22 miles and killed his cousin while sleepwalking (how is this even possible?)
A sleepwalker who walked out of the window from the third floor, and barely survived

Fact-9: Dream drug
There are actually people who like dreaming and dreams so much that they never want to wake up. They want to continue on dreaming even during the day, so they take an illegal and extremely potent hallucinogenic drug called Dimethyltryptamine. It is actually only an isolated and synthetic form of the chemical our brains produce naturally during dreaming.

Fact-10: Dream-catcher
The dream-catcher is one of the most well-known Native American symbols. It is a loose web or webs woven around a hoop and decorated with sacred objects meant to protect against nightmares.



Fact-11: Increased brain activity
You would associate sleeping with peace and quiet, but actually our brains are more active during sleep than during the day.

Fact-12: Creativity and dreams
As we mentioned before, dreams are responsible for inventions, great artworks and are generally just incredibly interesting. They are also “recharging” our creativity. In rare cases of REM disorder, people actually don’t dream at all. These people suffer from significantly decreased creativity and perform badly at tasks requiring creative problem solving.

Fact-13: Pets dream too
Our animal companions dream as well. Watch a dog or a cat sleep and you can see that they are moving their paws and making noises like they were chasing something. Go get ‘em Buddy!

Fact-14: You always dream—you just don’t remember it
Many people claim that they don’t dream at all, but that’s not true: we all dream, but up to 60% of people don’t remember their dreams at all.

Fact-15: Blind people dream too
Blind people who were not born blind see images in their dreams but people who were born blind don’t see anything at all. They still dream, and their dreams are just as intense and interesting, but they involve the other senses beside sight.

Fact-16: In our dreams we only see faces that we already know
It is proven that in dreams we can only see faces that we have seen in real life before. So beware: that scary-looking old lady next to you on the bus might as well be in your next nightmare.

Fact-17: Dreams tend to be negative
Surprisingly, dreams are more often negative than positive. The three most widely reported emotions felt during dreaming are anger, sadness and fear.

Fact-18: Multiple dreams per night
You can have up to seven different dreams per night depending on how many REM cycles you have. We only dream during the REM period of sleep, and the average person dreams one to two hours every night.

Fact-19: Gender differences
Interestingly, 70% of all the characters in a man’s dream are other men, but women’s dream contain an equal amount of women and men. Also men’s dreams contain a lot more aggression. Both women and men dream about sexual themes equally often.

Fact-20: Not everyone dreams in color
As much as 12% of people only dream in black and white.

This Chinese man has saved more than 144 lives—and he's not a doctor!

     Chen Si is a Chinese good samaritan who has stopped more than 144 people from jumping off of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China.

     Since 2003, Chen Si has spent every weekend on the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, a notorious spot from which to commit suicide. Si patrols the bridge on foot and on his motorbike, looking for people who might be contemplating suicide.

     To Si, these are people "who look depressed, those whose psychological pressure is great" and whose "way of walking is very passive with no spirit, or no direction." He then approaches them and tries to talk to them. Occasionally they are already over the railing, and he has to grab them and pull them back over.

If we had more people like Si, the world would be a much better place.

Interesting Facts about Technology

Here some more interesting facts about technology:

• The coat hanger was invented by Thomas Jefferson.
• Designed in 1897, the steam turbine was meant to be a new and improved engine. The first turbine powered an experimental British ship called the Turbinia that reached speeds of nearly 40 MPH and shattered world speed records.
• The first patent for rolled toilet paper was made in 1883. Some of the things used to wipe before toilet paper was put into mass-production included mussel shells, corn cobs, wool, leaves, the left hand, moss, snow and even sticks.
• The bread slicer was 1st patented by American Otto Frederick Rohwedder the same year the 1st loaf of sliced bread was sold, 1928.
• The 1st patent on the automatic popup toaster was in 1919.
• The highest a human has flown from the earth upward by balloon is approximately 128,097 feet which is over 23 miles (39 kilometers) above sea level and it was done by Felix Baumgartner of Austria. The balloon was 55 stories tall, helium filled and strung to a capsule that Felix sat in. Baumgartner was wearing a full body, high technology, oxygen supplied, fully pressurized and heated suit with helmet.
• Felix Baumgartner is the only human to break the sound barrier in a free fall surrounded by only a suit without the aid of any type of vessel protecting him while falling. Baumgartner’s world record free fall speed is recorded at 833.9 miles per hour at mach 1.24 and since he was traveling at a speed faster than the speed of sound he didn’t hear the sonic boom. The planning of this mission took over 5 years with a total of about 300 people including 70 engineers, scientists and physicians.
• Did you know that the awesome sounding crack of a bullwhip in the air is a supersonic boom? The crack of the whip occurs when the sound barrier is broken.
• Six astronauts have driven a lunar rover on the moon.
• If you’ve ever wondered how fast the earth orbits through space, we travel at an average of about 67,000 miles per hour every day and night on earth.
• The international space station is traveling at an astonishing 17,500 miles per hour.
• Is it true Windmills all over the world go counterclockwise but the ones in Ireland go clockwise. It is true and that’s a fact.
• It’s true, the match was invented after the cigarette lighter. Interesting and kinda strange!
• Using the U.S numeral system, if you started at the number one and spelled out each numeral in order like one, two, three, four etc. you’d be all the way to the number one thousand before your first encounter the letter “a”.
• The first emails could only be sent to someone using the same local host with two computers literally side by side. In late 1971 Raymond S Tomlinson sent the first useful email to a user separated from the same host by simply implementing a minor addition to the protocol that was being used and chose to use the @ sign in the email address which we still use today. When asked why he chose the @ sign, he said the @ sign just made sense.
• Thomas Edison nicknamed his first two sons Dot and Dash and maybe it had something to do with the unexplained tattoo of dots on his left forearm. I read that his tattoo of dots were shaped like the 5 dots or pips seen on dice. This is not an unusual tattoo to see on people who’ve been in prison and gang members. It can have various meanings, his reason for the tattoo is unexplained.
• Some of you are wondering who is Thomas Edison? He’s probably best known to many as the inventor of the light bulb, known then as electric lamps. What he actually did was took the already invented electric lamp and made improvements for a more durable, practical, commercial grade bulb. He then filed an improvement claim and sold the bulbs through Edison Electric Light Company.
• Who did Apple Inc replace Steve Jobs with? After the death of Steve Jobs on October 5th 2011, Apple Inc. appointed  Arther Levinson it’s non-executive chairman.
• Benjamin Franklin invented flippers for swimming in the year 1717 and was inducted into the international swimming hall of fame for the invention. They were originally wooden swim fins shaped like a lily pad and went on the hands. They were about 10 inches (250mm) long and 6 inches (150mm) wide and helped people to swim faster.
• Who was Benjamin Franklin? If your thinking he invented more than swimming flippers your correct. Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States, inventor and much more, we could have a whole page just dedicated to him. A few of his most notable inventions were the Franklin Stove in the year 1742, bifocals invented sometime between 1764 – 1784 and the lightning rod in the year 1749. Yes, someone actually invented the lightning rod.
• You see barcodes on a lot of merchandise being sold these days but have you ever wondered what the very first item scanned and sold with a barcode was? it was a pack of Wrigley gum.
• The first photo camera took 8 hours to take a photo, during which you would need to remain still.
• At least 1300 inventions were patented by Thomas Edison during his entire lifetime.
• Automobile transmissions used whale oil up until 1973.
• At the time of writing this in August 2012, the world has only fourteen operating blimps.
• Watches and clocks are often times lubricated by jewelers with a pure silicone watch oil which can fetch a price of around $3,100 or more per gallon. It’s usually purchased in much smaller quantities.
• The first patent for the life boat goes back to 1845.
• The well known credit card company Mastercard was at first called Master Charge.
• The Apple II had a hard drive of only 5 megabytes when it was launched.
• A dentist is the inventor of the electric chair.
• The ball at the top of a flagpole has a name, the ball often times seen at the top of a flagpole is known as a truck.
• It may not sound very comfortable but Ancient Egyptians actually slept on hard pillows they called head rests made of stone pottery, wood and other uncomfortable materials.
• Th AAA Motor Club and travel organization was created initially so that it could warn traveling motorists about police speed traps around the country.
• The US uses more steel to create bottle caps than it does to make bodies for cars.
• The Kleenex tissue was initially a filter for gas masks.
• NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
• NASA’s main headquarters is located in Washington DC.
• Nasa’s space station Skylab launched off in 1973 and crashed on earth in July 1979 in western Australia. The town of Esperance fined NASA $400.00 for littering. The fine was never paid.

Interesting Facts About Stonehenge

     Stonehenge is found in the centre of a huge complex of monuments and near a few hundred burial mounds which date back to sometime between the Bronze and Neolithic ages.


     Here are a few interesting facts about Stonehenge which might make you want to visit this great monument.

• How old is Stonehenge? Radiocarbon dating measured it to an age of about 5,100 years old with construction beginning in 3100 B.C, 300 years before the Egyptians are thought to have built the first pyramids.
• The Olympic torch was ran almost 8,000 miles in 2012. The torch is an Olympic symbol. On July 12, 2012 at sunrise during the torches 2012 route, Gold Medalist ex-olympian Michael Johnson (one of the worlds greatest athletes ever) ran the torch around Stonehenge before passing it off to another athlete. Michael Johnson told reporters “it was amazing, It was a great experience to carry the torch around the iconic Stonehenge” Stonehenge can be found to the SW of London at about 137 km from it.
• It isn’t documented as a known archaeological fact right now who exactly the builders of Stonehenge are. Whoever erected it is suspected to have had a highly sophisticated level of mathematics such as geometry as well as a deep knowledge of astrology. Some of the theories which are discussed include Aliens, the Windmill Hill People, druids and the Greeks. Until recently, the closest known associates to stonehenge were believed to be the druids which were priests of the ancient Britons but carbon dating suggests stonehenge was completed around 1500 years before the druids were in the region. Today it’s thought that the first people to have most likely started work on stonehenge were the Neolithic Agrarians also known as the Windmill Hill People.
• In 1986, Stonehenge became a World Heritage Site of UNESCO which is protected as an ancient monument. English Heritage are the ones which manage it and the rights of ownership of the monument is held by the British Crown.
• Stonehenge is considered by many archeologists and astrologists as a flawless design from a geometrical and mathematical point of view. It’s design was extremely precise in it’s day, marking the alignment of the moon and the sun as well as certain weather periods.
• The stones used in the construction vary from a couple of tons on up to over 40 tons. They were brought from distances which varied between a couple of miles and two hundred and forty miles away.
• In total, over 900 stone rings can be found in the British Isles. Stonehenge is the most known and the most impressive but it’s not the only one.
• It’s likely that thousands of people would have been needed to work on the construction of Stonehenge over the years and that it would have taken over a million man hours of labor to complete.
• Check back soon for more interesting facts about stonehenge.
• I saw the facts about Stonehenge and thought I would share this one: I am from Washington State and we have the only full size replica of Stonehenge in the world. It is located in Maryhill, WA in Klickitat County, and was built in 1929 by a business man named Sam Hill as a memorial to those who died in WWI. It was the first monument built in the US to honor those who died in WWI. Sam Hill was also responsible for building the Peace Arch which is located on the Interstate 5 US/Canada border and symbolizes the peaceful, open border relation between the two countries.

Answer some of our questions:

1. How do you think the bluestones were transported from Wales to their current position
2. What do you think was the purpose of the monument? (Religious or practical)
3. How have the theories about the monument´s origin changed over the years?
4. Do you think the location of the monument has a relevance?
5. How do you think the monument was built?
6. Do you think that similar Scandinavian stone monuments (such as “Ale´s Stones”) have any connection to Stonehenge?

Interesting Facts about The Great Depression

     The United States president in rule when the Great depression started was Herbert Hoover, a Republican. In 1930 he declared that the economy would soon fix itself, because the worst had passed. That was only the beginning though, and the depression would last for another nine years.


     A lot of people lost their houses during the Great Depression. These people ended up in shanty towns, which were also called Hoovervilles after the name of the president. Other terms named after the president at that time were Hoover wagons (cars which used mules to pull them because they were broken), Hoover hogs (food which consisted of jack rabbits), Hoover blankets (people used newspapers as blankets) and Hoover stew (the food which was available at soup kitchens).

     One of the most well known people of that period, Al Capone, tried to improve his public figure by opening a soup kitchen. A lot of people survived only because of the food offered by soup kitchens all over the country.

     Some of the causes are thought to be the stock market crash of 1929, banking system which was weak, the overproduction, the credit bubble, the policies of the government and the fact that the boost of the 1920’s didn’t help industrial workers and farmers.

     A lot of people committed suicide after the crash in the financial district of New York. It apparently became so bad that one hotel’s clerks were asking the guests if they wanted to rent a room for jumping or for sleeping.

• Coalition For the Homeless reported in March 2013 that one of every 100 New York city children are now staying in homeless shelters and that the number of homeless people overall staying in New York city homeless shelters has surpassed 50,000 per night and these numbers do not include the number of people displaced by hurricane Sandy. As of March 2013 we have more children, adults and families in New York city homeless shelters than any time since the great depression. 50,000 people homeless every night in one city of the United States is a scary fact.

• The height of the great depression is thought to have peaked between 1932-1933.

• At the height of the great depression the unemployment rate was documented at more than 20% and family income averaged half what they were making in 1929.

• By 1940 the unemployment rate was still just above 15% but between 1941-1942 dropped to just above 1% employment.

• During the peak of the depression, the stock market was down 75%.

• By mid 1932 an estimated 10,000 banks have closed since 1929.

• In 1930 there was an estimated 6,000 street vendors in New York trying to sell apples for 5¢ each.

• In 1933 for U.S  citizens in the United States under a newly implemented executive order, executive order 6102 stated that U.S citizens could no longer own more than 5 troy ounces or $100 worth of gold. Gold at the time was worth about $20 per ounce and the U.S government told everyone they would buy their gold from them for $20.67. If you were tried and convicted of owning more than the the allowed maximum you could be fined $10,000.00 and or up to ten years in prison. Some citizens were exempt from executive order 6102 if their profession required the use of more than the maximum amount of gold allowed.

• During the great depression, soup or stew was nicknamed Hoover stew and the slum towns were often called Hoovervilles and were often just makeshift shacks made of cardboard. Both of course named after Herbert Hoover.

• Hoover Dam, Known then as Boulder dam was built between 1931-1936 during the great depression with putting people back to work in mind and eventually with much debate named after Herbert Hoover.

• World war 2 began in 1939 which created millions of much needed full time jobs putting tens of millions of people back to work and putting the United States back on top as an industrial power. Unemployment would drop to all time lows by 1944 to a low 1.2% with only 670,000 unemployed documented.

Interesting Facts about Solar Energy

Solar energy is the main source of clean energy for all of earths life forms.


    Although a small amount of pollution can be created when solar panels are manufactured, transported and installed, it’s nothing compared to the larger amounts of pollution created in processing and using fossil fuels and nuclear energy.

Do Solar Panels Need Maintenance?

     Once solar panels are installed maintenance is generally very low and usually only consists of inspecting and cleaning off any debris or objects that block the panel from collecting solar energy from the sun.

What’s the Life expectancy of Solar Panels?

     Most outdoor solar panels used today are going to be weatherproof, are expected to endure a wide variety of weather conditions and will have a life expectancy of between 20-40 years. As a rule of thumb the manufacturer may warranty the solar panel from 3 to 25 years. As with other products, the warranties, power output and life expectancy can vary greatly so do your homework.

Do Solar Panels Create Pollution?

     Once the solar panel is setup and working, the panel it’s self no longer creates any type of pollution which helps us to see how any pollution made in the manufacturing and transportation process is dismal compared to other sources of energy which continue to create pollution throughout the energy creating process.

     If your using solar energy panels to create electric then you’re taking an important step in helping the environment.

Photovoltaic Solar Panel Price

     The cost for of photovoltaic solar panels have dropped approximately 80% over the past 5 years. In the 3rd quarter of 2012 the cost for residential photovoltaic solar panel installation averaged $5.21 per watt and the cost for commercial solar panel installation averaged $4.18 per watt. We’ve seen prices offered as low as $2.50 per watt for residential rooftop solar panel installation.

Be sure to check the most recent solar incentive programs and federal tax credits.

     In some areas, any excess energy produced can be transferred to a grid and purchased from you by the local energy company. As of the first quarter of 2013 we saw a price of 7.5 cents per kilowatt offered by TXU Energy of Texas.

Below are some interesting facts about solar energy:

• Solar energy can be used in many ways, from cooking food to heating or cooling houses, powering automobiles, aircraft and providing energy to buildings.
• With the use of micro inverters you can track the power output of each solar panel.
• One megawatt of energy can power 1000 average U.S homes for about one hour.
• In July 2012 the first ever intercontinental round trip of a solar powered plane completed it’s 4,000 mile project to raise public awareness that solar energy can be a reliable source of energy.
• In July 2012 the United States Bureau of Land Management announced that 285,000 acres across 6 of the nations states were prime areas for solar energy development and plans to move forward.
• The largest solar plant in the world can be found in the Mojave desert and can create approximately 354 megawatts and it covers a total of about 1,000 acres,with 9 solar thermal plants.
• Solar energy can only be produced during daylight to make electricity. That energy has to be used during the night but the production stops when the sun goes down.
• Solar panels which are also known as photovoltaic panels are made mostly from silicon.
• Researchers are working on a solar window film that could eventually be used on the windows of homes to reduce energy costs. Researchers say it could possibly even be sprayed on one day.
• Even though you have to invest more initially to buy the solar panels, with  solar panel costs dropping, you should now be able to save money.
• Robots that install solar panels around the clock and in all types of weather are current being developed and tested.
• Solar power history dates back to at least 700 BC, when the sun rays were used to create fire, with the help of magnifying glasses.
• Passive solar designs were used for the first time by Romans and Greeks. Their buildings were facing south, so the sun could light and heat the indoor areas.
• The year when the first solar panels were released was 1956. Two years later space programs began using them and they remained an important source of energy ever since. One example is the International Space Station, which uses solar energy.
• We’re working to grow the interesting facts about solar energy page so be sure to remember to come back.

In order to land safely, a pilot had to shoot his own fuel tank!

     LCol. A.J. D’Amariotook his plane to Korea in 1952. Immediately after takeoff, he felt that something was not right with his plane.


     Afraid it might fall off and rupture during landing, potentially melting asphalt on the runway, the tower wouldn’t let him land with a full tank.

     He was not able to get rid of the tank by moving switches and not even manually, so he decided to shoot his tank in order to create holes that would help his fuel go out. Luckily, he did not set up his tank on fire and was able to land safely.

Interesting Facts about Earth

1. In the state of Alaska there are more Caribou than there are people.
2. Can you believe the whole Atlantic ocean has fewer species of fish than the Amazon river?
3. The very middle or core of the sun is believed to be about 27 million degrees fahrenheit.
4. Toothpicks injure nearly 9,000 people every year.
5. Approximately 25% of The Republic of Costa Rica is designated as a protected wildlife habitat. Costa Rica translates to (Rich Coast) it was ranked (greenest country in the world) by the NEF. San José is the capital of Costa Rica.
6. Scientific dating estimates the Earth to be around 4.54 billion years old with a 1% margin of error.
7. Oxygen forms approximately 47% of the crust of the Earth.
8. Earth has poles at the bottom and the top of the planet called the north and south poles which makes it a huge magnet.
9. An Earth day is not 24 hours long. It’s actually 23h, 56m, 4s which is the time that the planet needs to rotate on its own axis.
10. Earth is the only planet from the solar system which has water in all the matter states: gas (as clouds), liquid (rain, sea, etc) and solid (ice).
11. Scientists say that an Earth day had around 20 hours a few million years ago and that a million years from now it will have 27 hours.
12. The coldest place on Earth is Vostok (in Antarctica) and the hottest area is El Azizia (in Libya). That’s interesting!
13. Did you know that on July 21st 1983, the coldest temperature ever on the planet earth was recorded at a frightening 128.6 degrees fahrenheit below zero (-89.2  ºC) in Antarctica by Soviet scientist at the Vostok expedition station? Thats one cool fact!
14. The Earth’s year has 365.2564 days. Thanks to this extra .2564, every four years, the leap year appears, which has an extra day.
15. The oldest tree on Earth is estimated to be about 4600 years old and it’s a bristlecone pine from California. That’s an amazing fact!
16. Mumbai (once known as Bombay) is the most densely populated city in India inside the state of Maharashtra. The main city district of Mumbai is largely in the southern portion and is often referred to as Island City which is about 68 square kilometers. The whole city of Mumbai is right at 603 square kilometers in size.