Top 20 Most Amazing and Interesting Facts

1. Your weight on the moon is 16.5% of your weight on earth.
2. Neptune has the strongest winds in the Solar System: 2,100 km/hour 
3. Vin Diesel named his daughter Pauline in honor of his late Fast and Furious co-star Paul Walker.
4. Panama is the only place in the world where one can see the sun rise on the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic.
5. All the air in potato chip bags we complain about is actually Nitrogen and preserves crispiness and provides cushion during shipping.
6. Norway will be the first country to turn off FM radio in 2017 and switch completely to digital.
7. Scientists accept that we can bring dinosaurs back into the world using bird DNA.
8. Giant water lilies in the Amazon can grow over 6 feet in diameter.
9. Around 75% of the volcanoes on Earth are found in the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area around the Pacific Ocean where tectonic plates meet.
10. Adolf Hitler was one of the people that was responsible in the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle. He came up with the idea of producing a car that was cheap enough for the average German working man to afford.
11. The 1912, a wrestling match in Stockholm between Finn Alfred Asikainen and Russian Martin Klein lasted more than 11 hours. Klein eventually won, but was to tired to participate in the championship match.
12. The Chinese politician Mao Zedong refused to ever brush his teeth and instead just washed his mouth with tea.
13. In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar.
14. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
15. In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
16. Native Americans used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees after their children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and Running Water.
17. 41 new species are discovered by scientists every single day !
18. In many cultures no 13 is considered unlucky, well,there are many myths around it .One is that In some ancient European religions, there were 12 good gods and one evil god; the evil god was called the 13th god.Other is superstition goes back to the Last Supper. There were 13 people at the meal, including Jesus Christ, and Judas was thought to be the 13th guest.
19. Do you know the magic of no. nine (9)? Multiply any number with nine (9 ) and then sum all individual digits of the result (product) to make it single digit, the sum of all these individual digits would always be nine (9).
20. 82% teens don’t ring the doorbell. They text or call to say they’re outside.

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