What are some intersting facts?

Question

It doesn't matter what its about just an interesting fact

Answer 1

A group of crows is called a "Murder of Crows"

First wildflower of the year: the skunk cabbage, which starts blooming in February.

What do you expect? When groundhogs predict the start of spring, they’re wrong 72% of the time.

According to florists, America’s favorite flower is the rose. Second place: the daisy.

Q. Who invented Daylight Savings Time? A. Benjamin Franklin.

The odors of gardenia and orange blossoms, combined together, have no smell.

Butterflies don’t spin cocoons; moths spin cocoons.

Not fast enough for us: Spring travels north at a rate of 30 miles a day.

Stiff as a board: Wood frogs freeze solid in winter and thaw back to life in spring.

If you plant bamboo today, it may not sprout flowers and produce seeds for 100 years.

The Aztecs restricted the smelling of certain flowers to the upper classes.

Largest Rattlesnake Roundup in the world? It’s in Sweetwater, near Abilene, each March.

What do you get when you cross a four-leaf clover with poison ivy? A rash of good luck.

St. Patrick wasn’t Irish. He was a Brit kidnapped by Irish pirates.

Americans buy 129 million eggs per week on average—and 206 million the week before Easter.

Apollo 13 was launched at 13:13, military time, and was aborted on Friday, April 13.

Q: What, in 1952, did Einstein call “the most difficult thing to understand?” A: Income taxes.

Persians first began using colored eggs to celebrate spring in 3000 B.C.

Bittersweet: Ancient Romans paid their taxes with honey.

The flowers of Africa’s baobab tree open only in the moonlight. They are pollinated by bats.

90% of Americans thought income taxes were fair in 1944; only 45% agreed in 1999.

The longest sand castle was built on South Padre Island by kids on spring break in 1987. It was 2 miles long.

Artichokes are flowers.

The average American works 24,000 hours in their lifetime earning money to pay taxes.

Some Alaskan natives are allowed to pay their income taxes in walrus ivory.

April 21, 1970, is the first celebration of Earth Day.

Garden rule of thumb: Plants with blue or purple flowers attract bees and butterflies; plants with red flowers are more often pollinated by birds.

IRS fact: 20 million taxpayers a year wait until April to begin filling out their tax returns.

What do foxes and bees have in common? They both pollinate plants.

The month of May is named for Maia, the Greek goddess of spring.

What do Sailors, Paper Kites, and Great Egg Flies have in common? They’re all butterflies.

It takes nectar from around 22 million flowers to make one pound (.5 kg) of honey.

Nothing to sneeze at: Pollen lasts forever.

Some butterflies’ tongues are twice as long as their bodies.

If you take a plant with you on a long airplane flight, it, too, will suffer from jet lag.

Every thousand years, spring gets two-thirds of a day shorter.

Answer 2

Go to Snapple.com and click on 'real facts'. They are all very interesting. Here is a sample:

There are more doughnut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.

It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of the Mona Lisa.

The Basenji is the only type of dog that doesn't bark.

Los Angeles has 3X more automobiles than people.

No word in the English language rhymes with month. 'Way' is the most frequently used noun in English.

In 1895 the speed limit in NYC was 8 mph. If you put all of NYC streets in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.

1956, The first VCR was the size of a piano.

Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick every year.

"Arachibutlphobia" is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

Googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.

Eyes expand up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.

Answer 3

-Croissants are worse for you then doughnuts (calorie and fat wise.)

-Giraffes don't make any noise.

-Pineapples take two years to grow.

-In Europe, the tip is included with the bill.

-When Slovakia Czech Republic split up, Czech Republic stole the flag...and now Slovakia hates them for it.

-Journey went through 19 band members

-The lead singer Judas Priest is gay.

-The lead singer of Queen died of aids.

-In Hollywood, people feel that the pigeon population is growing too rapidly, so they're putting some on birth control.

-When producers create a scene filmed in the rain, they're really using milk instead of water because water doesn't show up on the camera.

-On milk commercials, they use glue instead of real milk because milk turns up blue on the camera.

-In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

-The most common name in the world is Mohammad.

-The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

-Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

-American car horns beep in the tone of F.

-Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

-Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

-The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

-The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

-Fish don't have eyelids and they sleep with their eyes open.

-A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

-The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan".
There was never a recorded Wendy before

-Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

I hope this entertains you for awhile. :)

Answer 4

Albatross can sleep whilst cruising at 25 mph. A peregrine falcon can make a dive up to 290 mph in speed and pull away instantaneously without blacking out. Horned lizards shoot blood out of their eyes. Some animal facts for you--I find nothing's more interesting than Nature.

Answer 5

-A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
-Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
-Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.
-The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
-Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
-People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
-Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
-Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
-In the U.S., for every dollar you spend on gasoline 27 cents of it is in taxes.
-Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.

These are just some of the things I got from google for typing in interesting facts. In the first link it will show you facts. quotes, and people that were born on your birth day. The other links are just facts but it is really cool stuff.

Here are some more-
1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

(Hardly seems worth it)

2. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Answer 6

OK, the Doomsday Book was commissioned by William the Conquerer in 1086. It's purpose was to list all the property and wealthy land owners in England so William could assess taxes on the assets to fund his war efforts. One scribe took all the information and wrote it into 2 large books totaling more than 800 pages and did it in one years time. It was called the Doomsday Book because it was similar to the "End of Times" mentioned in the Bible.

Answer 7

The horseshoe crab is the largest creature on earth with copper based blood rather than iron based....H2O (water) is the ONLY substance that expands when it goes to solid form (ice) rather than contracts (and if it didn't, when it turned to ice it would sink to the bottom of the ocean and pretty soon the oceans would all be ice located at the north and south poles!)
....dragonflies eat up to 200 mosquitos per hour...duckbilled platypuses (australia) are one of only three mammels on earth that are venomous....in their rear feet they have a poisonous claw or spur.

Answer 8

Drew Barrymore did illlegal drugs @ like 10, and was molested, there's a save a spider day, the hummingbird is the only bird that flies backwards.

Answer 9

Interesting fact #1: it's interesting, not intersting.

Answer 10

Hydrogen is an explosive gas. Oxygen supports combustion. Yet when these are combined it is water which is used to put out fires.