Facts about NASA, MIT, WW2, USA

1. 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.
2. An official biography on the North Korean state run website claimed that Kim Jong-Il, the former dictator, did not defecate.
3. 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.
4. A MIT students figured out how to beat the state lottery and won over 8 million dollars.
5. In 2006 NASA admitted that they no longer had the original video tapes of the moon landing because they recorded over them.   

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.

Unknown facts

1. 99% people backspaces their whole password when they just mess up one letter.
2. You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac.
3. Both Hitler and Osama Bin Laden were Announced Dead on May 1.
4. You can’t tickle yourself because your brain distinguished between unexpected external touch and your own touch.
5. 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.
6. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
7. James bond has killed 150 men and slept with 44 women since Dr.No in 1962.
8.  By the time the American child reaches 14, on an average they have seen around 11,000 murders on television.
9.  You can marry a dead person in France.
10. Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931.
11.  There was once a traffic jam that lasted over a week in China.
12. "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". 

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.

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.

Facts about Adolf Hitler

1. Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria on April 20, 1889. 
2. Adolf Hitler was a painter and was deeply interested in art. He had made hundreds of drawings and paintings.
3. Hitler endured and survived four years in World War I. During this time, he was awarded two Iron Crosses for bravery. 
4. In 1932, Hitler was granted German citizenship. 
5. Hitler was vegetarian.
   

Facts About The Rock

1.  The rock's Full Name is Dwayne Johnson
2.  He was born into a professional wrestling family in 1972.
3. Dwayne Douglas Johnson was born on May 2, 1972 in Hayward, California.
4. The Rock has won the WWF Heavyweight title six times and the WWF Tag Team championships five times.
5. Outside the ring, The Rock has made appearances in several films, including 2001's The Mummy Returns, 2002's The Scorpion King, 2005's Be Cool, and 2007's The Game Plan.
6. He married his high school sweetheart, Dany Garcia, in 1997 (divorced in 2007); they have one daughter, Simone Alexandra.
7.  The name Rocky Maivia was combination of his father's wrestling name, Rocky Johnson, and his grandfather's wrestling name, Peter Maivia.

Facts About Harry Potter

1. The actress who played Moaning Myrtle was 37 years old at the time “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” was filmed. She is the oldest actress to ever portray a Hogwarts student.

2. Ron Weasley’s character originally swore a lot, but Rowling’s publisher wouldn’t let her use that sort of language because it would’ve been inappropriate for young readers.

3. Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double through the first six films, David Holmes, was paralyzed from the waist down during the sixth film while practicing a flying scene that included an explosion.

4. So many people had trouble pronouncing Hermione’s name that Rowling had her sound it out for Viktor Krum in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

5. J.K Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire by writing a book.

6. Harry’s birthday is July 31, 1980. Rowling’s birthday is also July 31.

7. Only Alan Rickman, the actor who played Professor Snape, knew his character’s fate before the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” because Rowling told him.

8. Tom Felton auditioned for the roles of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, but was chosen to play Draco Malfoy instead.

9. Dementors, the deadly phantoms that guard Azkaban Prison, represent depression and were based on Rowling’s struggle with the disease.

10. Over 400 million Harry Potter books in 67 languages have been sold worldwide as of 2008.

11. In order to become acquainted with the films’ three main stars, director Alfonso Cuaron had each of them write an essay about their characters. True to their characters, Emma Watson wrote a 16-page essay; Daniel Radcliffe wrote a simple, one-page paper; and Rupert Grint never even turned his in.

12. In 2008, J. K. Rowling made £5 every second.

13. The name "Harry Potter" is mentioned 18,956 times throughout the entire Harry Potter book series.