1. Scallops have hundred eyes
2. The Praying mantis has only one ear, which is between its leg
3. Until the 19th century, the English word for actors was “Hypocrites”
4. The Japanese for “handbag” is handubagu
5. Since 1915, Belgium has paid the Duke of wellington’s family more than $46 million as a reward for winning the battle of waterloo
6. The First World War officially ended on October 3, 2010
7. Wars kill more civilians than soldiers: in a war, the safest place to be is the army.
8. 35 years after leaving school, the majority of people can still identify 90% of their classmates.
9. The last two speakers of the Mexican language Zoque are both in their seventies and refuse to speak to each other.
10. Italy’s biggest business is the Mafia.it turns over $178 billion a year and accounts for 7% of GDP.
11. The designer of Saddam’s bunker was the grandson of the woman who built Hitler’s bunker
12. People earning $24,000 a year are the richest 4% on the planet.
13. The dialling code for Russia is 007.
14. Digestive biscuits have no particular digestive qualities. In the USA, it is illegal to sell them under that name.
15. Caffeine is made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen the same as cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT, and heroin.
16. In 2012, Apple Inc. had more cash in the bank than the U.S Government
17. Fred Baur (1918-2002) the designer of the Pringles can had his ashes buried in one.
18. The second largest lake in Bolivia is called Lake Poopo. It’s not a freshwater lake.
19. The King James Bible has inspired the lyrics of more pop songs than any other book.
20. A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, equivalent to the capacity of 62 MacBook Pro laptops.

21. The citizens of Kuwait celebrated the first Gulf War by firing weapons in the air. 20 Kuwaitis died as a result of bullets falling from the sky.
22. In ancient Greek, the word ‘’Idiot” meant anyone who wasn’t a politician.
23. The second man to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, survived the fall but later died as a result of slipping on a piece of orange peel.
24. Jack Bauer, the lead character in the TV series 24, killed 112 people in the first five seasons of the show.
25. In 1915, Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest in San Francisco. Not only did he not win, he failed to make the final.
26. Nomophobia the fear of being out of cellphone contact
27. Kanye North and Kanye South (but not Kanye West) are parliamentary constituencies in Botswana.
28. The CIA reads more than 5 million tweets a day.
29. Taking cocaine increases the chance of having a heart attack within the hour by 2,400%
30. In 2012, the population of Facebook passed 1 billion. If it were a country, it would be the 3rd-largest in the world.
31. The Nigerian navy has four warships whose names all mean “hippopotamus” but in different languages: NNS Erinomi (hippo in Yoruba), NNS Enyimiri (hippo in Igbo), NNS Dorina (hippo in Hausa), and NNS Otobo (hippo in Idoma, Ijaw, Ibani and Kalabari)
32. Whenever the King of Swaziland rises from his seat, he must be greeted with cheers and gasps of astonished admiration.
33. Nigeria makes more movies every year than the U.S
34. Sudan is the only country that still has crucifixion as a form of capital punishment.
35. There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.

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36. When Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, he ordered all Monopoly sets be destroyed.
37. Nelson Mandela was not removed from the US terror watch list until 2008.
38. It is impossible to block Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook.
39. Manchester United is the most hated brand in Britain and the 7th in the world.
40. Sitting in a 15 minutes meeting uses more energy than Usain Bolt expends over three 100-meter sprints.
41. Almost any domestic cat can run faster than Usain Bolt.
42. Cow’s hooves are used to make fire extinguishers.
43. In 1976, one person in the USA was killed by an outbreak of swine flu, but the vaccine introduced to combat it killed 25.
44. Bacteria can get viruses.
45. Viruses can get viruses. A new one recently discovered in a French cooling tower was found to be infected by another, smaller one.

Wow!