892. Fact

Raw asparagus is slightly poisonous.

893. Fact

Arnold schwarzenegger received a cool 15 million dollars for his part in terminator 2, where he only spoke 700 words. That's $21,429 per word. The classic phrase "hasta la vista, baby" earned him $85,716.

894. Fact

Ghandi's full name wasn't mahatma gandhi. His real name was mohandas karamchand gandhi. Mahatma was a title of honour which means large spirit.

895. Fact

The tools that were used to fix up jack napier (jack nicholson) after his chemical bath in batman are the same tools used by the sadistic dentist, orin scrivello (steve martin), in the 1986 film little shop of horrors.

896. Fact

On a flight from antwerp to london in 1997, 21 of the passengers were 100 years old.

897. Fact

Most fish stay awake most of their lives. However, there are fish that sleep. They lean against a rock or stand vertically in the water.

898. Fact

A snail can sleep for three years.

899. Fact

Mosquitoes can track people up to 110 yards away by the substances in their breath.

900. Fact

The largest painting in the world is the battle at gettysburg, created by the american paul phillipoteaux and 16 of his assistants. It stands 68.8-feet high and is 410-feet wide.

901. Fact

The tyrannosaurus rex suffered from gout.

902. Fact

There are 336 dimples in a golf ball.

903. Fact

The most widely used language in the world is mandarin-chinese, the mother tongue for almost 900 million people. Only 332 million people have english as their mother tongue.

904. Fact

To produce 1 single gram of serum, you need poison from 150 cobra bites.

905. Fact

Alfred nobel's brother emil, died in an explosion in the laboratory where both brothers were performing experiments with explosive oils, the forerunner to dynamite.

906. Fact

If all the rain in our atmosphere fell at the same time, it would cover the earth with a one-inch thick layer of water.

907. Fact

The centre of the sun is 15 million degrees celsius. The surface is only 5,800 degrees celcius (10472 degrees fahrenheit).

908. Fact

The salt in your tears comes from the food you eat. It's transported via the blood circulation to the lacrimal gland near your eyes where tears are produced.

909. Fact

If you suffer from dentophobia, you have an extreme fear of dentists.

910. Fact

Jonathan frakes refused to shave his back in the love scene with martina martis in the film star trek: nemesis. The hair had to be digitally removed.

911. Fact

The black and white lines found on a bar code, symbolize different numbers. Together they form a long code that contains all necessary data for a product.

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