Four babies are born every second! 40 interesting facts that you have not heard before

2022-10-17 19:17:28Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Four babies are born every second! 40 interesting facts that you have not heard
40 interesting facts that you have not heard before

Read some unusual curiosities and facts that you may not have heard before.

1- More people in the world currently suffer from obesity than from hunger.

2- In a poll, 58% of British teenagers thought that Sherlock Holmes was a real person, while 23% thought that Winston Churchill was a fictional character.

3- The Canary Islands are named after dogs, not birds.

4- The "most typical person" writes with his right hand, earns less than $12,000 a year, has a cell phone and does not have a bank account.

5- Michael Jordan earns more money from Nike each year than all the workers at the Nike factory in Malaysia.

6- Along with the 5 traditional senses of hearing, sight, touch, smell and taste, humans also have 15 "other senses". These include balance, temperature, pain, time, as well as internal senses such as suffocation, thirst or satiety.

7- You replace every particle in your body every 7 years. Practically, you are not 'at all' the same person you were 7 years ago.

8- The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

9- The world throws away about 1 billion tons of food every year.

10- All the ants on earth weigh the same as all the people.

11- Goats have rectangular pupils.

13- A 4-year-old child asks an average of 300 questions a day.

14- The average person has 1 to 3 kilograms of bacteria in his body.

15- The English word with more definitions is "set".

16- You are more likely to become President than to win the lottery.

17- If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand trillion operations per second. The world's most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can only manage 0.002% of that.

18- Tokyo is the largest city in the world with 37 million inhabitants.

19- More people visit France than any other country in the world.

20- Muhammad is thought to be the most popular name in the world.

21- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

22- The quietest room in the world is located at the headquarters of Microsoft in the state of Washington.

23- There is a garbage eddy in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas.

24- The Blue Whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle and big enough to swim through its arteries.

25-90% of the world's population lives in the northern hemisphere.

26- Four babies are born every second.

27- Two-thirds of Africa is in the northern hemisphere.

28- Only two countries use purple in their national flags.

29- Pigeons can tell the difference between a painting by Monet and a Picasso.

30- Dolphins have names for each other and can call each other specifically.

31- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69% of fresh water on the planet.

32- The entire population of the world can fit inside Los Angeles.

33- The coldest temperature ever recorded was -144 degrees Fahrenheit. (-98 degrees Celsius)

34- Heads on Easter Island have bodies.

35- Humans are the only "animals" that blush.

36- People who are currently alive represent about 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived.

27- People aged 60 and over make up 12.3% of the global population.

38- The oceans contain almost 200,000 different viruses.

39- The moon suffers lunar earthquakes.

40- Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first man landing on the moon than to the construction of the Great Pyramid and she was Greek, not Egyptian.


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