Facts that will blow your mind

• Women are subconsciously more attracted to men with brown eyes and have a natural preference for them. 
• Jails in Brazil reduce the sentences of their prisoners by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
•  Using your roommates or friend’s Netflix account to watch movies is actually a federal crime.
• The abandoned island in the movie “Skyfall” really exists off the coast of Japan.
•  Mozart once composed a piano piece that required the player to use both hands and their nose.

Stuff that you don't want to miss

1. The farther back you sit in an airplane, the greater your odds of survival in the event of a crash.
2. 1 out of every 100 people are psychopaths and they look just like everybody else.
3. If you sneeze while driving at 70mph, you will have traveled about 300 feet with your eyes closed.
4. Humpback whales have been known to form lifelong friendships and visit their pals each year.
5. If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you’ll lose more energy than you’ll gain from actually eating it.
6. It snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes on the 18th February 1979.
7. In Hungary the groom drinks a toast to his bride out of her wedding slipper.
8. A person who is unable to take a straight shot of liquor, or makes a disgusted face after doing so, is often called a "paper-belly."
9. There's a Japanese word for that "we could fall in love" feeling you sometimes get when first meeting a person -- It's "Koi No Yokan".
10. Panama is the only place in the world where one can see the sun rise on the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic.        

Shocking Facts

1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.

2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.

3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.

4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.

5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.

6. If you dug a well to the center of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.

7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.

8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.

9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off.

10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.

12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.

13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.

14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.

15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.

16. Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.

17. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.

18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.

19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.

20. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.