Can anyone give me 10 interesting facts of the world?

Question

Please give me some interesting facts about the world and quote their sources.

eg:Buildings,Health,People,History.

Answer 1

1. the antarctica holds 90% of the worlds ice and 70% of fresh water.
2. Breast cancer is on the increase in men!
3.There are over 8000 pores on an egg to allow the chick to breath.
4. The kangaroo and emu cannot walk backwards.
5. Sir Winston Churchill won a Nobel prize for literature in 1953.
6. There are 34 bathrooms in the whitehouse.
7. 120 drops of water fill a teaspoon.
8. The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps
9. Your brain is more active sleeping than it is watching tv.
10 A 2 hour motion picture uses around 3.3km of film

Answer 2

Fact #1 Elephants are the only animal with four forward facing knees.
Fact #2 Tomatoes are considered fruit.
Fact #3 For every pound of human flesh on the planet there are 10 lbs of termites.
Fact #4 Peter Gabriel was the original drummer for Genesis.
Fact #5 Pink Floyd was considering naming the band Megadeath before they settled with their current and famous moniker.
Fact #6 Iran is not considered an Arab state they are Persian.
Fact #7 Jet fuel is actually Kerosene mixed with water.
Fact #8 Coca Cola had real Cocaine in it when it was first introduced.
Fact #9 Sherlock Holmes was addicted to Cocaine.
Fact #10 Honey is Bee vomit.

Answer 3

The son of Heli was the legendary first-century-BCE founder of London.

Silas is a fictional character from Highlander: The Series, portrayed by actor Richard Ridings.

The Blue Monkey is a species of guenon native to various parts of east, central and southern Africa.

Palanzano is a municipality in the Province of Parma in Italy.

Nauru was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a team consisiting purely of weight-lifters.

Colonel James Lowther was a British soldier and Tory politician.

Vernon is an unincorporated town and a U.S. Post Office located in Yuma County, Colorado, United States.

Peter Andreas Hansen was a Danish astronomer.

The SS Clara Barton (Hull Number 636) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.

Jeremy Wafer (b. 1953) is a South African sculptor.