Soldiers in the German Military Forces are allowed to diso

Elvis Presley’s first TV appearance was on 9 Septemb

A flatworm called planarian can fully regenerate from a 1/

 Esther de Figueiredo Ferraz became the first female

The Russky Bridge in Vladivostok, Russia, is the world&rsq

The founder of the automotive company Honda, Soichiro Hond

 45% of Russia is covered with forests. These forests

The vast majority of children under the age of six dream a

 The Goliath Frog – the largest one on Earth &n

 Two out of every three US soldiers who served in Vie

Luxembourg is planning to mine asteroids. Many asteroids a

 Charles Dickens coined the word “boredom&rdquo

The blue whale cannot swallow anything bigger than a grape

In many cases, toddlers recognise companies' logos bef

Three-quarters of the Swiss voters rejected UN membership

  In 2016, Granit and Taulant Xhaka became the f

Switzerland has four official languages. As a compromise,

35,000 Americans buy an insurance covering the risk of &ld

The ozone actually smells like geranium.

 The Dutch police use eagles to catch drones flying i

The drink Fanta originated in Nazi Germany during WWII. Lo

 The Soviet pilot, Ivan Chisov, survived a fall from

 During WWII, the US Army used code-talkers to transm

 Right after WWI, Germany made bicycles “tyres&

 The encircled “U” sign on food labels me

Nobody climbed Everest in 2015.

The Ford Pinto car was not a success in Brazil as “P

The US state with the most numerous plane flyovers is Virg

 The city of Shanghai hosts the first Disneyland in C

Each year, more than 80 million tourists visit France. The

Lew Wallace wrote “Ben Hur”. Did you know that

 A study found out that people who use their integrat

Norway is building the world’s first underwater floa

The construction of a 3-km pipeline from a brewery to the

Jelly bears are quite effective in stopping bullets.

Deaf Americans will be better understood in France than in

Orthodox Christians observe on average 200 days of fasting

 The largest rodent to ever exist was Josephoartigasi

The company Goodyear is now known for producing tyres. Dec

To date (early 2018), the most bananas peeled and eaten in

 In Italy, the number 17 is considered unlucky.

Worldwide, 1.8 million Ikea meatballs are sold every day.

Finland became the first country in the world to launch it

The word “bistro” comes from Russian, where it

 There are no reptiles in Antarctica.

The Philippines remains the only UN-member state without l

Italy only legalised divorce in 1970.

Elephants give birth after about two years of pregnancy.

The Palace of the Parliament in Romania is the heaviest an

 Pope Benedict IX was elected pope at the tender age

The B52 bomber entered in service in 1955 and is expected

China’s “one family-one child” policy la

There is more information about the Virgin Mary in the Qur

The tiny country of Luxembourg is the largest investment f

Hyperloop, Elon Musk’s project for a levitating trai

 Sweaty people and pregnant women have a greater chan

Theoretically, a female mosquito can produce about 150 mil

Male mosquitos have large, feather-like antennas and can b

Multiple studies show that men are more likely to marry an

Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake was inspired by

A UK Paralympic swimmer was disqualified from the IPC Euro

Up to 10% of all paper towels in the gym are used to wipe

In Lichtenstein, prison inmates with sentences over two ye

In 2009, the Brazilian environment group SOS Mata Atlantic

Figs are one of the oldest fruits grown by humans.<

A UK filmmaker shot a movie that shows just a freshly pain

Sri Lanka was known by the name of Ceylon until 1948.

 Jupiter’s moon Io is so volcanically active th

The spacecraft Voyager was initially named Mariner Jupiter

 Empty batteries bounce when dropped, charged ones do

There are registered cases of dying of laughter.

Pistachios can combust spontaneously.

 In 2012, a Belgian man filed for divorce after 19 ye

The engine oil of Aston Martin Vulcan can be changed in le

Jupiter and Saturn radiate more energy than they absorb fr

The foods your mother ate while pregnant with you are like

In parts of Germany, it is illegal to wash your car on Sun

 Saudi Arabia only switched to the “Western&rdq

Built by the Nazis between 1936 and 1939, the German beach

Australia has not experienced a recession for the last 25

Bullfighting is not an ancient tradition at all. It starte

So far, only two Popes have visited Sweden.<

 In Japan, 10 October 2006 was declared “Tom Cr

Tom Cruise was the first actor to have five back-to-back h

Up until the early 19th century, the conductor of a musica

Barra Airport, Scotland, is the only airport in the world

The female hyena has a pseudo-penis, which is larger than

 Andorra welcomes almost 2.5 million tourists every y

The airport in Stuttgart, Germany, was named after the loc

Norway planned to give Finland a mountain peak as a gift f

Japan and Russia did not sign a peace treaty after WWII, m

 The last Japanese combatant from WWII, Lt. Hiroo Ona

The Latvian soldier, Janis Pinups, deserted from the Red A

Deep Purple, the rock band, were inspired to write their h

The hagfish is the only living animal to have a skull but

Asphalt was first used as a road building material in Baby

Since 2016, one in three landline phone calls in the USA i

In 1848, Bern and Zurich were both striving to become the

Retailers did the math – a more lenient return polic

In 2016, endohedral fullerene was the most expensive mater

South Korea grants exemption from military service, which

Samsung provides free smartphones for a period of up to fi

The Mediterranean island of Mallorca (Spain) has the oldes

The shootout scene of the movie “Heat” is show

Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar.

The IBM ThinkPad was the first laptop with a DVD-ROM reade

People in Iceland suffer twice less often from seasonal af

75% of children eat the ears of chocolate bunnies first.

In the English language, no sovereign state in the world (

 Women are more likely to cheat on their partner in t

Finland has the world’s highest coffee consumption p

There are many “volcanoes” on Triton (Neptune&

 Uruguay produces almost 100% of its electricity out

A Canadian company sells canned air to China.

 There are no ants in Iceland, Greenland and Antarcti

Airplane tickets are statistically the most expensive to b

In Liechtenstein, the gender ratio at birth is 126 males f

  In a lifetime, a human would spend three years

On average, we blink four million times every year.

Astronauts lose their sense of smell in space.

Hair loss increases in autumn.

Grinding your teeth is a condition known as bruxism.

Cambodia, Malaysia and Vatican City are the only existent

Eyebrows have on average 550 hairs.

 Van Halen, Whitesnake, Motley Crew, U2 and other roc

In the period 1941 - 1945, hamburgers in the USA were re-n

 Cat’s eyes (the retroreflective road safety de

  There are freshwater sharks in Lake Nicaragua,

 10 kg (22.5 pounds) of eggplant contain the nicotine

Bangladesh used to be called East Pakistan until 1971.

Lobsters can grow new eyeballs.

At Kuala Lumpur’s airport, Malaysia, someone abandon

Two out of every three US citizens do not have a passport.

 Myspace refused to buy Facebook on two occasions.

Astronauts avoid eating beans as a single episode of flatu

Astronauts use diapers during take-off and landing and whi

In the 19th century, scientists observed the fast evolutio

Jehovah’s Witnesses is one of the few religions that

In the 1960s, during the Cold War, the USA and the Soviet

 In 1943, Project Habakkuk was discussed in detail by

On the Faroe Islands, they fit cameras on the back of shee

  The assault rifle, AK-47, appears on the flag

The nine species of moa were the only wingless (do not mis

The automotive brand Rolls Royce offers cars in 44,000 col

Torpedoes have two propellers turning in opposite directio

Paper comes to printing houses on huge rolls. A single rol

Every Halloween, people in the USA spend more than two bil

  Ironically enough, the very same lawyers whom

Amidst the 2016 US presidential race, a guest at a Donald

 The former US President, Barack Obama, left his succ

 All mammals, except for sloths and manatees, have se

On the island of La Gomera (one of the Canary Islands, Spa

On the island of La Gomera (one of the Canary Islands, Spa

 Diocletian was the only Roman emperor to abdicate vo

 During her freshman year at Wellesley College in 196

Hillary Clinton won a Grammy Award in 1997. Her audiobook

Madrid, Spain, is farther north from the equator than Wash

 Cockatoos sometimes eat so much that they lose the a

Macaques never eat an entire fruit if there is another fru

Grey whales travel a distance equal to half the length of

The Nile catfish swims upside down.

 Cockroaches run at top speed of 1 m/s (3 ft/s).

Reindeer have 1,500 hairs per cm2 (over 10,000 per sq in).

In early 2016, a 150-year-old mousetrap caught a mouse in

 Sometimes wallabies get high after breaking into opi

 The male platypus’s venom can kill a dog. Luck

 Kangaroos are capable of living for several months w

  If a kangaroo is chased by a dog close to a la

 In 1989, the USSR gave Pepsico seventeen submarines,

Jupiter is the fastest rotating planet in the Solar System

The video game Tetris was first released in the Soviet Uni

Most Dutch people believe that reheating spinach is very d

The closest distance between Russia and the United States

  Across the majority of the Western nations, th

 The congested traffic in Moscow, Russia, has led som

  In many countries in Central and Eastern Europ

 In 1908, the Russian Olympic team arrived in London,

A bird’s beak grows constantly, just like human nail

Ants have the highest brain to body size ratio of any anim

The billionaire and founder of Alibaba Corporation, Jack M

Trees in the rainforest grow year-round and therefore have

Native tribes in Central America invented wheeled toys tho

A woman from Perth, Australia, is able to smell Parkinson&

During the 1948 US Presidential Election, everyone was so

Celluloid billiard balls can literally explode on impact.<

 The book “Everything men know about women&rdqu

Table tennis (aka ping-pong) was prohibited in the Soviet

 It is technically possible to be born more than once

At birth, a kangaroo is only one centimetre long (half an

 The male Australian lyrebird can imitate the calls o

Leeches have 32 brains.

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A US environmentalist, John Francis, voluntarily spent sev

The town of Lauscher, Germany, produced the entire world&r

Alligators change up to 3,000 teeth in their lifetime.

Hawaii is the only US state without a straight line on its

Skin accounts for a quarter of a hippopotamus’s weig

Theoretically, we can “breathe” a liquid enric

Pigeons are the only bird that can suck up water.

The French poodle dog breed in fact originated in Germany.

Alan Smithee is the fictional name given to a director who

Alexander the Great introduced sugar, bananas, cotton and

Koalas almost never drink water. Their name actually means

Feng shui sprang from the art of choosing an appropriate p

Banana plants can move sideways up to 40 centimetres (more

No single case of schizophrenia has ever been reported amo

Eucalyptus oil is highly flammable, which means that gum t

A Eucalyptus tree can grow as much as 10 metres in a year.

 According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the

The axolotl, although colloquially known as a “walki

The worse a pregnant woman experiences morning sickness, t

Some amphibious animals use their nostrils to smell and no

 Honeybees can recognise human faces. <

Bees are very sensitive to magnetism. They also use the Su

In computer animation, 1/100 of a second is called a &ldqu

 Almonds belong to the peach family.

-40 degrees Fahrenheit and -40 degrees Celsius is exactly

 In 2015, Bugatti (a car brand presently owned by Vol

Chicken tikka masala was not invented in India. The dish o

The streets of Chesham’s town centre (UK) feature Sm

 The fox has the largest habitat among all carnivorou

The smallest town in the world is Hum, Croatia. It has onl

The Japanese company Yamaha has developed a robot capable

The term “mulatto” did not vanish entirely fro

Good news for the vegans: the Irish beer brand Guinness wi

New-born bear cubs weigh on average 300 g (0.7 pound). The

Languages originating in warm areas with a dense tree cove

Haiti became the first independent “black” sta

1954 was the year when the most numerous sightings of the

Baby rabbits are referred to as “kittens”.

Slinky, the toy that can travel down a flight of steps end

Chinese steel production increased twelvefold in the perio

 Habitually, male gorillas sleep on the ground in a n

   Laura Hall became the first person to be

Violet Jessop, dubbed “Miss Unsinkable”, survi

Only the US Congress can declare a war. This power is not

14% of the world population do not have the wrist muscle c

In the course of the last 150 years, Russia has been ruled

Each astronaut on the International Space Station can only

  On the International Space Station, Sunday is

Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, was considered “

 In case you wondered, Easter Island figures (called

 A 2HB pencil can draw a continuous line of roughly 5

  There are almost 2,000 species of fleas.

The coconut crab literally climbs trees to pick up coconut

 Termite mounds in Australia are the tallest non-man-

  Soldiers and workers termites can be either ma

 A queen termite is 100 times larger than other termi

 Playing the didgeridoo (a wind instrument developed

    Miniature elephants used to live a

Some shopping centres and restaurants play classical music

Bundanoon, Australia, became the first town in the world t

The holes in pen caps are there to save people from chokin

As of 2017, half of the new cars registered in Norway are

  According to the ancient Israeli Sanhedrin cou

 The world’s longest standing alliance was rati

Madison was barely used as a girl’s name before 1985

Coca-Cola was invented by Dr. John S. Pemberton as an alte

In the period between 1850 and 1916, all soldiers in the B

The melody of the national anthem of the United Kingdom, &

Killing or harming a badger is an offence in England and c

 Female badgers can delay the implantation of embryos

 Catholics were barred from becoming teachers, doctor

  An 85-year-old Austrian woman single handedly

There are insects named after Robert Redford, Che Guevara,

   Photoshop prevents you from working on f

The US Congress’s Metric Conversion Act, passed in 1

 The metric system was introduced in 1875. Today, onl

The budget of the movie “Titanic” (1997) was i

 After the Fukushima earthquake, the islands of Japan

 In 2015, top Chinese actress and model Angelababy ha

Since 2016 and as of writing, one salmon fish costs more t

Genetically modified salmon has already been approved for

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On any given day, women lose almost twice as many hairs as

China has grown more maize (corn) than rice since 2011.

The zone that controls the eyes, the occipital lobe, cover

When Marco Polo first saw rhinos, he thought they were uni

  Norwegians use the word “Texas” as

The earliest copy of the masterpiece Mona Lisa was painted

  Cabernet Sauvignon is the most consumed type o

 Theophilus Van Kannel patented the world’s fir

Milunka Savic is a Serbian war hero. She took the place of

 Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent &

The first Barbie doll was sold in 1959.

 Pheasants are the birds with the longest feathers.

 In the Greek language, “symposium” rough

When observed from an airplane, rainbows sometimes look li

 Scuba divers cannot fart at depths of more than 10 m

The Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci became the first athle

Walt Disney was the first to use the marketing approach ca

Etorphine is 3,000 times stronger than morphine. Less than

  In Japan, you should never place your chopstic

In Japan, many people hide their thumbs from hearses (fune

Out of superstition, the Japanese avoid whistling or cutti

 Twelve publishing houses rejected J. K. Rowling&rsqu

  Young ostriches grow at a rate of 1 cm (half a

Ostriches have the smallest eggs relative to size in the a

 Ostriches need to raise their head in order to swall

Taste tester of pet food is an actual job.

New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, is the world&rsqu

In a freezer, a cup of hot water without a lid sometimes f

Oceans cover 70% of Earth’s surface. Yet, rather cou

Panophobia means “fear of everything”.<

In 2008, a Canadian man replaced his fake eye with a bioni

Mount Everest (in the Himalayas) was formed millions of ye

Saint Joseph of Cupertino is the patron saint of astronaut

100,000 tons of chewing gum are produced each year.

 White candy cotton is 100% sugar.

Peanuts used to be a key ingredient in dynamite

Okay, OK, refers to an actual town in Oklahoma, USA.

Belize is the only English-speaking country in Central Ame

The first hybrid car was built one century earlier than yo

Birmingham, United Kingdom, is often referred to as the ci

The word “democracy” is not found in the Const

Bulgaria had more military airplanes than the USA until 19

The South Korean automotive brand Hyundai carried out a pu

Because they contain “hidden non-edible pieces&rdquo

The founder of KFC, Colonel Sanders, practiced law without

Japanese eat Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) for Christmas. I

Nutella was invented during WWII because there was a short

As a young soldier, Hitler used to have a normal-sized mou

Adolf Hitler objected to the use of poison gas on the batt

During WWI, France built a “fake Paris” near t

 Initially, battle tanks were categorised into &ldquo

Julius Wagner-Jauregg received a Nobel Prize in 1927 for h

The Hague is the third biggest inhabited locality in the N

In Japan, ladies cover their mouths when laughing because

In 1989, the USSR gave Pepsico seventeen submarines, a cru

Jupiter is the fastest rotating planet in the Solar System

The video game Tetris was first released in the Soviet Uni

Most Dutch people believe that reheating spinach is very d

The closest distance between Russia and the United States

Across the majority of the Western nations, the higher the

The congested traffic in Moscow, Russia, has led some weal

In many countries in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria,

In 1908, the Russian Olympic team arrived in London, UK, t

A bird’s beak grows constantly, just like human nail

Ants have the highest brain to body size ratio of any anim

The billionaire and founder of Alibaba Corporation, Jack M

A woman from Perth, Australia, is able to smell Parkinson&

Celluloid billiard balls can literally explode on impact.<

The book “Everything men know about women” has

Table tennis (aka ping-pong) was prohibited in the Soviet

It is illegal to stand within 90 metres of the Queen without socks on

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Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year. The majority of regulation baseballs are stitched by hand. 

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During the Apollo 17 mission, Harrison Schmitt suffered from a severe allergic reaction to the dust found on the surface of the moon. He landed on

French stores must either compost their food or donate it to charity. They cannot be thrown away into the trash. The law also states that any

This championship has been held annually since the year 2000 in Finland. The sport is judged based on the participant’s length of throw and h

Here’s one of the amazing facts about a particular statue located in Silicon Valley. This statue of Nikola Tesla not only provides free Wi-Fi

Depending on the size and brand of the lollipop, it may take fewer or more licks to reach the center of the candy. Over 20 people were gathered to

Naismith was also credited with designing the first football helmet. The game of basketball was invented because Naismith needed a game that could

The word ampersand is a combination of the phrase ‘and per se and’ which was generally accepted as just ‘and’. This symbol

The scientific term is sphenopalatine ganglion neuralgia, but it is also better known as the brain freeze. It is often caused by the rapid constric

At the time, women were not allowed to vote. After being charged a fine of $100, Anthony ignored this and never paid it. 

Unicorns were also another name choice for the team. The name was decided on in 1946 by the team owner Walter Brown. 

Some of these roads include Peachtree lane and Peachtree Creek road. This name is used to honor the memory of the Civil War Battle of Peachtree Cre

If you want to take the train across Russia, you'll need to set aside seven days for a direct route that doesn't stop, crossing through all

The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest place on the surface of Earth, with a small depression called the Challenger Deep

Kentucky's cave system, Mammoth Cave, is nearly 400 miles in length — and that's just what's been explored! Scientists

You may have thought Jerusalem or Athens was the oldest city in the world, but that honor goes to Damascus, Syria. Continuously inhabited sinc

Despite its name, Mount Augustus is not a mountain, but one very large rock. Located in the Australian Outback, the rock stands more than 2,300 fee

Egypt's Pyramids of Giza may be considered one of the wonders of the world, but Sudan has nearly twice the number of pyramids. Sudan touts 

Looking at a map, it may seem Russia can swallow China whole. However, both countries border 14 countries.

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The Archipelago of the Philippines is made up of 7,641 islands — several hundred more than the 7,107 islands scientists previously believed t

Russia has 11 times zones (of just 24 total in the world!). So when a Russian on one side of the country is awaking at 7 a.m., another on

As North America and South America are move more westward, the Pacific Ocean is shrinking. Every year, Asia and North America get closer

Iceland, divided by the North American and European tectonic plates, is growing by nearly 5 centimeters per year as the plates grow wider

Mount Everest may be the tallest mountain above sea level, but when it comes to the tallest mountain on earth, that honor goes to Mauna Kea.

This allows the tire to have a much more consistent rate of expansion and contraction compared to air. Half a pound of pressure is enough to signif

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All three major sports teams from this city all make use of the colors black and yellow. These colors are based on the ones of William Pitt’s

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The first Olympic race took place in 776 BC and was won by a chef named Corubus. Moments after receiving his first paycheck, he hired a cook and an

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If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!

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We exercise at least 36 muscles when we smile.

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Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. Their surface area is large enough to cover one side of a tennis

Our eyes can distinguish up to ten million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.

Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey per day.

Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day or about 30 million times in a year.

A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).

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The dimples on a golf ball are designed to make it more aerodynamic, allowing it to travel further in the air. There are no official rules about ho

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The prestigious Nobel Prizes are awarded for the first time. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, l

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There are certain metals – including potassium, sodium, lithium, rubidium and caesium – that are so reactive that they oxidise (or tarn

Our atmosphere is made up of roughly 78 per cent nitrogen and 21 per cent oxygen, with various other gases present in small amounts. The vast major

When a substance is heated up, its particles move more and it takes up a larger volume – this is known as thermal expansion. Conversely, a dr

Babies have about 300 bones at birth, with cartilage between many of them. This extra flexibility helps them pass through the birth canal and

Exercise will give you more energy, even when you’re tired.

Your skin works hard. Not only is it the largest organ in the body, but it regulates your temperature and defends against disease and infection.

Laughing is good for the heart and can increase blood flow by 20 percent.

1. Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite is the national motto

The country’s national motto Liberte, Egalite, Franernite ("Liberty, E

1. Italy is one of Western Europe's youngest countries

Did you know how old Italy is as a country? Italy has only been a country si

Germany is known for a lot of things.

Free-tuition universities, high-quality education, and cultural diversity are

Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States, and the second to be impeached. He oversaw the country's longest peacetime economic e

Entrepreneur Bill Gates founded the world's largest software business, Microsoft, with Paul Allen, and subsequently became one of the richest m

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak. Under Jobs' guidance, the company pioneered a series of revolutionary technologies, i