"False Awakening" is the state in which a person dreams that they're waking up, while they are really in deep sleep.
Before he was famous, Brad Pitt's first job was as a chicken mascot for El Pollo Loco. He would dress up in a chicken suit and wave at passing cars.
"Negaholics" are people who become addicted to self-doubt and negativity. They find the bad in most things and are hardly ever satisfied.
It would take approximately 81.4 years to sleep in every room for one night in Walt Disney World's Onsite Hotels.
About 1.2 million songs are illegally downloaded everyday.
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Facts about:[Winnie,titanic,inception,tupac]
- Winnie-The-Pooh characters all represent some type of mental disorder. (Eeyore - Depression, Pooh - Addiction, Tiger - ADHD, Owl - OCD)
- 14 years before the Titanic sank, a book named "Wreck of the Titan" talked about an ocean liner Titan, which crashed into an iceberg and sank.
- A software company buried a $1,000 prize deep in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. After 5 months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize.
- If you arrange the first letters of each of the main character’s names in "Inception" -- You would get DREAMS.
- When Tupac was in prison, Jim Carrey used to write him funny letters to help him smile and laugh.
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Facts about Sports,Ronaldo,Beckham,Hitler
·
Chocolate
Milk is more beneficial for sportsmen than any other sports drink.
·
In
1938, Adolf Hitler was Time magazine's man of the year and in 1939, he was
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
·
When
Ronaldo 13 years old his football club won a match with a score of 23-0 and all
the goals were scored by him.
·
More
than 1 in every 365 people die on their birthday.
· David
Beckham's legs are insured for 70 million dollars.
Monday, 18 February 2013
Facts about NASA, MIT, WW2, USA
- If all of the world’s 7 billion people consumed as much as an average American, it would take the resources of over five Earths to sustainably support all of them.
- An official biography on the North Korean state run website claimed that Kim Jong-Il, the former dictator, did not defecate.
- Operation DoubleCross was so successful for the British during WW2 that every spy the Nazis sent to Britain was successfully turned into a double agent.
- A MIT students figured out how to beat the state lottery and won over 8 million dollars.
- In 2006 NASA admitted that they no longer had the original video tapes of the moon landing because they recorded over them.
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Facts that you don't know
40 percent people said that they would ignore and avoid anyone in real life who unfriended them on Facebook.
In South Korea, those who did not receive any gift on Valentine's day go to a restaurant on 14th April (Black day) to eat black noodles.
Eating a small amount of chocolate in the morning can help you easier burn calories and lose weight through out the day.
If trained correctly, humans can run at top speeds of 40 mph - Today’s fastest runner Usain Bolt has a top speed of 28 mph.
In Japan, women give men chocolates on Valentine’s Day. Men are supposed to return the favor a month later on White Day, March 14th.
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Unknown facts
- 99% people backspaces their whole password when they just mess up one letter.
- You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac.
- Both Hitler and Osama Bin Laden were Announced Dead on May 1.
- You can’t tickle yourself because your brain distinguished between unexpected external touch and your own touch.
- If you wanted to say "HELLO" to everyone on the planet, you would have to learn at least 2,796 languages and greet at least 7,000,000,000 people.
- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
- James bond has killed 150 men and slept with 44 women since Dr.No in 1962.
- By the time the American child reaches 14, on an average they have seen around 11,000 murders on television.
- You can marry a dead person in France.
- Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931.
- There was once a traffic jam that lasted over a week in China.
- "Knock" is the world's shortest horror story with only 2 sentences. "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door".
Friday, 18 January 2013
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.
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Stuff that you don't want to miss
- The farther back you sit in an airplane, the greater your odds of survival in the event of a crash.
- 1 out of every 100 people are psychopaths and they look just like everybody else.
- If you sneeze while driving at 70mph, you will have traveled about 300 feet with your eyes closed.
- Humpback whales have been known to form lifelong friendships and visit their pals each year.
- If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you’ll lose more energy than you’ll gain from actually eating it.
- It snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes on the 18th February 1979.
- In Hungary the groom drinks a toast to his bride out of her wedding slipper.
- 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."
- 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".
- Panama is the only place in the world where one can see the sun rise on the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic.
Monday, 14 January 2013
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.
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.
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Least Known facts
1. Russia and Japan are still technically at war because both countries still haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II.
2. Alice in Wonderland was banned in China because the government believed the idea of talking animals was an insult to humans.
3. The original Macintosh had the signatures of the 47 top members of the Mac team engraved on the inside.
4. George Washington used to grow cannabis in his garden and he was the owner of the largest whiskey distillery in the U.S.
5. There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
6. In Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, oil is cheaper than water.
7. In Sweden, it is illegal for you to name your child 'Ikea'.
8. Babies start learning language from their mothers while in the womb.
9. If you could stack all the beer cans consumed in the U.S. each year, it would reach the moon 20 times.
10. If you are 6 feet 2 inches tall, then you are taller than 94% of the world.
2. Alice in Wonderland was banned in China because the government believed the idea of talking animals was an insult to humans.
3. The original Macintosh had the signatures of the 47 top members of the Mac team engraved on the inside.
4. George Washington used to grow cannabis in his garden and he was the owner of the largest whiskey distillery in the U.S.
5. There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
6. In Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, oil is cheaper than water.
7. In Sweden, it is illegal for you to name your child 'Ikea'.
8. Babies start learning language from their mothers while in the womb.
9. If you could stack all the beer cans consumed in the U.S. each year, it would reach the moon 20 times.
10. If you are 6 feet 2 inches tall, then you are taller than 94% of the world.
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