3424. Fact

The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.

8483. Fact

Sugar Bear (the mascot for Golden Crisps cereal) was born in 1963

7800. Fact

There are more recreational golfers per capita in Canada than any other country in the world

7777. Fact

A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.

8386. Fact

Until 1967 it wasn't illegal for Olympic athletes to use drugs to enhance their performance during competition.

1796. Body Facts

A smelly fart contains the same gas that makes rotten eggs stink – hydrogen sulphide.

4902. Fact

Each year 50,000 earthquakes take place on this planet.

7863. Fact

A company, Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.

9515. Fact

The longest railway in the world is the Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad, built 1891-1916, a network of railways connecting European Russia with Russian Far East provinces. It is 9,288.2 kilometres (5,787 miles) long and spans 8 time zones.

8728. Fact

The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet

1398. Fact

Butterflies taste with their feet.

1084. Fact

5,840 people with pillow-related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992!

6508. Fact

At its center, the sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a temperature of 10-20 million degrees Celsius.

13042. Invention

Invention : celluloid
Year : 1869
Inventor : john wesley hyatt
Country : us.

1557. Body Facts

Urine doesn't smell until it hits the air. Then a chemical in it called urea starts to break down into ammonia and the smell begins…

11952. Book

Book : rubaiyat-i-omar khayyam
Author : edward fitzgerald.

7163. Animal Facts

Eye gnats are attracted to the moisture produced by your eyes and nose. In the USA, they are a common nuisance on hot summer evenings. They lay their eggs in rotting vegetable matter or animal faeces.

3199. Fact

The first triple jump in figure skating competition was performed by Dick Button in 1952.

15258. Unit

Unit : karat gold (kt)
Formula : 24-Jan
in si : 0.0416667
si unit : 1
in cgs : 4.16667
cgs unit : %
Category : percentage.

1823. Fact

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

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