26 signs that you have a GREAT GIRLFRIEND!

October 31, 2017 facts about celebs , 0 Comments
You have a girlfriend? Yes? Ah! Good, good my friend, but it's she worth calling a GREAT GIRLFRIEND? You don't know? Well chill let's Check this 26 signs out together, if she matches all then you're a lucky guy blessed with an angel!

 1. She likes what you like.
You both like going to the movies, swimming, and you have pretty similar views on which people should be locked up. Not that you agree on everything, of course, but at least you are on the same track 90% of the time.

2. She never interferes with your work.
Yoko Ono (John Lennon’s second wife) once remarked in an interview, “In a way both John and I ruined our careers by getting together.” 

3. She tells you why she is in a bad mood.
Nobody can be a in a good mood all the time. She tells you why something is wrong, what happened at work to make her mad and why she is in a foul temper. Some people call that real communication.

4. She loves you for who you are, not for what you do.
Lots of famous people attract others because of their stardom. Tim Tebow makes it very clear that he wants a kind and sweet girl who is not dazzled by his fame.

5. She Loves You.
 A woman who does not try changing you into what she wants is hard to find. If you have a woman who loves and accepts you for whom you are – both your strengths and weaknesses – and not what you try to be, she loves you.
Of course, some of your habits may be annoying, but she will cope with them if she really loves you. The way she looks at you or treats you on a daily basis can tell if she really loves you or not. She lights up when you surprise her with a phone call or visit at the office.

6. She has no problems with her own body image.
She is not trying to change her body all the time. She is not obsessed with dieting or going to the gym. She is perfectly at ease with herself.

7. She Let's You Be The Man.
 A woman who bullies you to quit watching football with your buddies or tries to get you to eat vegetables and fruits for breakfast, is not a great girlfriend and you should not get involved with her. This can also make you dislike her even more. If she lets you watch football with your friends and brings you a couple of beers and sandwiches, she is a great girlfriend.

8. She shares your values.
You both “click” on how people should be treated. You have definite views on what education is and how important honesty is. Above all, you have very clear ideas on money and how it should be spent. It doesn’t matter whether you are a cheapskate or a big spender, as long as you are both in the same category!

9. She is open with you.
You know about her childhood and the problems she had because she has talked openly about these things. You know all about her worries and her little obsessions. You know about them because she wants a friend who loves her not only for all her brilliant qualities but her defects as well.

10. She is a good listener.
She wants to know what went wrong with that project at work or why you got mad with your boss. She is not afraid to ask for details. Her questions are focused on where you are coming from. She offers advice when asked for it.

11. She is such fun to be with.
You laugh at the same things. You enjoy lots of things together. You appreciate each others’ silly jokes, cartoon characters, stupid songs and crazy things on Facebook.

12. Gets Along With Family and Friends.
 If she is the type that helps your mom with the dishes or folding the laundry, listens to your dad’s ‘boring’ stories, and your friends don’t roll their eyes when she’s around, she is a great girlfriend. She will not make you dump your friends and will make an effort to know and love the most significant people in your life.

13. She never asks for advice about clothes.
She never asks you to help her choose clothes and would never dream of asking you whether a certain color suits her. She does not need that kind of advice because she is perfectly confident and poised.

14. She knows how to surprise you.
She knows how to spring a surprise on you. That can be anything from a different outing, a sudden change of plans or anything else which breaks the routine. Too much routine turns into boredom.

15. She never nags you.
She is the one who can let the small things go so that you can feel perfectly at ease in her company. You are both relieved that there is no nit-picking or nagging. You have both moved on and upgraded. You are now on a journey of personal growth and mutual self improvement.

16. She makes you a better man.
 A great girlfriend will make you want to be a better man without knowing. She will not ask you to change your bad behaviors, but you will find yourself wanting to be a good boy.

17. She respect's you.
 Most men complain that their girlfriends do not respect them. If your girlfriend listens to you, doesn’t belittle or demean you in any way, she respects you. However, sometimes she will not agree with you, but this does not mean she is being disrespectful. She will not make a scene in front of your family or friends or in public, and will always discuss things in private.

18. She's independent.
Who doesn’t want an independent woman? No man wants to babysit her girlfriend or tell her what to do. However, once in a while let her cry on your shoulder, but if she can’t seem to function without you, it is a total turn off. If she can stand on her own – both financially and emotionally, and has her own opinions and personality, and she’s able to enjoy time without you, she is a great girlfriend.

19. She's intelligent.
Although this may not be as important to some men, but others find a complete turn-on dating women they can meet at an intellectual level. You won’t feel like the only one in control here because an intelligent woman will keep you trying to figure out what she is really thinking.

20. She's beautiful.
This may not be important to some men, but a great girlfriend is one that takes care of herself for you and her too. She will not put on a skinny top and jeans or pantyhose for a dinner party at your parents place or your office. However, if you find that her heart or kindness is beautiful and don’t mind what she wears or how she looks on the outside, she is a good deal.

21. She's a good cook.
They say, ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.’ While some men can’t attest this, others claim that as long a woman can cook good food, it doesn’t matter what other traits she possesses. If your girlfriend is the type that can work the cooker and make good food, she is a great girlfriend – the type that you don’t want your friends to find her at home alone!
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36 Interesting Health FACTS about Bananas!

October 31, 2017 facts about fruits , 0 Comments
Banana has been one of those fruits in most people's list of favorite fruits, what else do we know about this fruit aside from it's taste and color?  Well, let's find out together in this 36 interesting health facts about bananas!
1. People have almost entirely bred the seeds out of bananas.
2. In 2016, China passed a new law that banned people from seductively eating bananas on live stream.
3. In the Philippines, bananas are used in place of tomatoes to make the popular banana ketchup.
4. Bananas ripen significantly ripped faster when attached to a bunch.
5. A thief in Mumbai was forced to eat 48 bananas so that the gold chain he had swallowed when he was arrested would leave his body.
6. Bananas are curved because they grow upside down towards the sun.
7. The so-called "banana tree" is not a tree at all. In fact, it is the world's largest herb.
8. Walmart sells more bananas than any other item.
9. Banana fibers can be used to purify water.
10. There are more trade restrictions on bananas than on AK-47s.
11. In the 1960s, people started smoking banana peels in an attempt to get high.
12. A bunch of bananas is called a "hand," and an individual banana is called a "finger".
13. Banana fibers are frequently used to make ropes and tea bags.
14. Some ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs show humans with bananas.
15. The Washington Banana Museum is dedicated entirely to banana paraphernalia.
16. The inside of a banana peel is sometimes used to polish shoes.
17. The world record for most bananas peeled and eaten in a minute is eight.
18. In parts of Africa, bananas are used to make wine and beer.
19. Twinkies were originally banana flavored.
20. A zoo in the UK stopped permitting monkeys to eat bananas because they are too sugary and can cause teeth to rot.
21. Bananas give off radiation.
22. The Banana Equivalent Dose is a unit of measurement of radiation.
23. Slipping on banana peels became a comedic staple after banana peels were deemed a threat to public safety in the late 1800s.
24. Banana peels can make bug bites stop itching.
25. Bananas floats in water.
26. The average American eats 27 pounds of bananas each year.
27. Banana peels can be used to white teeth.
28. Humans share roughly 60% of their DNA with bananas.
29. Despite frequently being portrayed in a sexual way, the most common strain of bananas are completely sterile.
30. If you are having troubles sleeping, eat bananas. They are rich in vitamin B6 that naturally helps a person to sleep.
31. If your muscles are causing trouble and too stressed out, go for bananas! They have magnesium – a natural muscle relaxant. When muscles relax, body slips into sleeping mode. Happy sleeping!
32. Feeling blue and depressed? Nom nom! Eat bananas. They will help elevate your mood because they are rich in tryptophan. This tryptophan is processed by the body and converted into serotonin – a neurotransmitter that helps to elevate mood. So, get yellow for your blues!
33. Bananas are low on calcium but still good for your bone health (unlike milk which is high on calcium but is super unhealthy for bones). The reason is a bit complex but here is a simple explanation – bananas have fructooligosaccharides. It is actually a carbohydrate that our body cannot digest but it is known for encouraging probiotics that in turn increases the ability of our body to absorb calcium. Additionally, there is magnesium in bananas that also helps to absorb calcium.
34. Okay, carrots are amazing for your eyes but hey, bananas are good too! They have vitamin A in small amounts. Vitamin A improves night vision and maintains normal vision.
35. Not just that, the vitamin A is actually an element found in proteins in our body that is responsible for bringing light straight to our corneas. Moreover, there is a compound present in vitamin A which is responsible for preserving the membranes that sit around our eyes. So remember, bananas for eye health!
36. Got potty issues? Well, in case you are not regular, consider eating bananas because they are really high on fiber and help to regularize your bowel movements.
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36 Insane FACTS About Jackie Chan!

October 30, 2017 facts about celebs , 0 Comments
Either you're looking for a reason to like Chan the more or just wanted to find out more about him, then this 36 facts will do!
Jackie Chan was born on April 7 1954.
1. His birth name is Chan Kong-sang.
2. Jackie is not just an actor but a martial artist, film director, producer, singer stunt director and performer.
3. He started acting at the age of five.
4. His father Charles was a spy for Chinese Nationalist government.His mother Lee-Lee was a stage performer who sold opium on the side. Because he was an energetic child he was nicknames Pao-pao which means Cannonball.Chan failed his first year in primary school.
5. Jackie once spent two days after a fight trying to push his bone back into his fist but later realized it was the other guy's tooth. He won a Guinness World record for "Most stunts by a living actor".
6. During 'Armour of God' he was in an accident and has permanent plastic plug in his skull.
7. He got the name 'Jackie' while he was working as a construction worker in Canberra, Australia.
8. He once broke twelve concrete blocks with his hand, while keeping the egg he was holding intact.
9. He never really liked the Rush Hour series but did it because he was paid a very irresistible sum of money.
10. He carried multiple guns and even a grenade to protect himself and his other artists from the Triad in the 80s and 90s.
11. Jackie sang "I'll make a man out of you" from Mulan in Chinese.
12. He speaks 7 languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, English, German, Korean, Japanese and Thai and also American sign-language.
13. He is a big supporter of China's communist party and thinks the Taiwanese democracy is "the biggest joke in the world".
14. Nosebleed was a 2001 movie (starring Jackie) about a window washer at the World Trade Center, who stops a terrorist attack but was cancelled when the attacks actually happened.
15. Guinness awarded Jackie the record for the most film credits in movie 'Chinese Zodiac' where he was the writer, director, lead actor, producer, executive producer, cinematographer, art director, unit production manager, stunt coordinator, prop man, gaffer, stuntman, composer, theme song vocalist, and catering coordinator.
16. He has broken his nose thrice, injured his knees, dislocated both his shoulders, his pelvis and sternum and crushed his thighs between two vehicles.
17. He has built a stuntmen association named 'Sing Kar Pan' with trusted and well trained men.
18. Chan began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films, Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon.
19. Jackie Chan taught a catfish tricks in Mandarin and English.
20. In one scene IT took Jackie 2900 separate takes in the movie Dragon Lord because it was so complex.
21. He actually didn't do the voice acting for his character in Jackie Chan Adventures series of cartoons.
22. In Jackie Chan Adventures, the character of his niece was voiced by Stacie Chan, his real niece.
23. He has his own stunt fighters that communicate when they attack him by very specific grunting noises.
24. He once actually jumped out of a plane and landed on top of a hot air balloon.
25. He loves giving thumbs up.
26. Chan always plays the good guy roles aside from Rumble in Hong Kong.
27. He keeps trying to get a hand on the failed stunts and accidents until he succeed.
28. He married Lin Feng-jiao, a Taiwanese actress in 1982.
29. He has a son Jaycee Chan with his wife Lin and a daughter as a result of an extra-marital affair with Elaine Ng Yi-Lei.
30. He loves football and supports Hong Kong National football team, England National football team and Manchester City.
31. He once did a comedic adult film in 1975 'All in the family'.
32. Jackie's stage name was 'Become the Dragon' for a while.
33. The only two things scare him are needles and public speaking.
34. He was awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to entertainment in 1989.
35. He is a big fan of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.
36. A girl once committed suicide when she found out that Jackie Chan was married.
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So you think you know Ariana Grande?

October 30, 2017 facts about celebs , 0 Comments
Ariana Grande-Butera (born June 26, 1993), better known as Ariana Grande, is an American singer and actress. Below are FACTS you didn't know about Ariana Grande!

1.Her full name is Ariana Grande-Butera. She is of Italian descent and is half Sicilian and half Abruzzese. She was born on June 26, 1993.

2. Her name was originally inspired by Princess Oriana from Felix the Cat (1959)

3. She has an older half-brother, Frankie Grande, who is an actor, dancer, and producer.

4. Ariana Grande is close with her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Grande.

5. Ariana Grande was raised a Roman Catholic but abandoned Catholicism during the reign of Pope Benedict citing opposition to the church’s stance on homosexuality noting that her brother, Frankie is gay.

6. She has followed Kabbalah teachings since the age of twelve or earlier, along with Frankie  believing “the basis lies in the idea that if you’re kind to others, good things will happen to you.”

7. At the age of ten Grande co-founded the South Florida youth singing group Kids Who Care, which performed for charitable fund-raising events and raised over $500,000 for charities in 2007 alone.

8. In the summer of 2009, as a member of the charitable organization Broadway in South Africa, Grande, along with her brother Frankie, performed and taught music and dance to children in Gugulethu, South Africa.

9. After watching Blackfish, she urged fans to stop supporting SeaWorld and has become a vegan.

10. Ariana Grande, who has adopted several rescue dogs as pets, promoted pet adoption and paid the adoption fees of 35 rescue dogs in connection with her concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City and American Airlines Arena in Miami in March 2015.

11. In early 2016, she launched, with MAC Cosmetics, a line of lip shades called “Ariana Grande’s MAC Viva Glam”. All of the profits will benefit people affected by HIV and AIDS.

12. Grande’s music is generally pop and R&B, and has elements of funk, dance and hip hop.

13. Ariana Grande said she grew up mainly listening to urban pop and 90s music.

14. Ariana Grande has cited Cuban-American star Gloria Estefan as the person who inspired her to pursue a career in the music industry, after Estefan complimented a performance she saw Grande give on a cruise ship when she was eight years old.

15. Grande cites Whitney Houston as a major influence on her career, stating that Houston has inspired her “endlessly” since she was a child.

16. She has also cited Madonna, Destiny’s Child, Fergie, Christina Aguilera, India.Arie and Amy Winehouse as influences.

17. She named Keys, Carey and Beyoncé as female artists she tried to channel during the three years it took to create the record.

18. Ariana Grande described Imogen Heap as one of her influences, noting Heap’s “intricate” song structure. She also cites India.Arie as an influence, calling Arie’s voice “heaven” and praising her lyrics.

19. She has described actress and singer Judy Garland as being one of her childhood influences, stating that she grew up watching and listening to Garland, admiring her ability to tell “a story when she sings.

20. Ariana Grande has stated that Big Sean, whom she dated from 2014 to 2015, is her favorite rapper and collaborator.

21. Ariana Grande possesses a four-octave and a semitone soprano vocal range, and the whistle register.

22. With the release of her debut album, Yours Truly (2013), Grande was deemed the “mini Mariah Carey” and the “new Mariah Carey” by some critics because of her wide vocal range, sound and musical material.

23. Ariana Grande’s modest look early in her career was described as “age appropriate” compared with other pop stars who grew up in the public eye.

24. She has experienced hypoglycemia.

25. Ariana Grande’s mother moved with her father from New York to Florida when she was pregnant with her. She has stated that her parents separated when she was around 8 or 9 years old.

26. As a child, Grande performed with the Fort Lauderdale Children’s Theater.

27. Her first role ever was Annie.

28. At the age of 8, she performed at a karaoke lounge on a cruise ship, in various orchestras such as South Florida’s Philharmonic, Florida Sunshine Pops and Symphonic Orchestras, and made her national television debut singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” for the Florida Panthers.

29. She attended Pine Crest School and North Broward Preparatory School.

30. By age 13, she became serious about pursuing a music career, though she still concentrated on theater.

31. Then she first arrived in Los Angeles to meet with her managers, she expressed a desire to record an R&B album when she was 14: “I was like, ‘I want to make an R&B album,’ They were like ‘Um, that’s a helluva goal! Who is going to buy a 14-year-old’s R&B album?!'”

32. In 2008, Grande was cast in the supporting role of cheerleader Charlotte in the musical 13 on Broadway for which she won a National Youth Theatre Association Award.

33. When she joined the musical, Grande left her high school, North Broward Preparatory School, but continued to be enrolled. The school sent materials to her so she could study with tutors.

34. She also sang various times at the New York City Jazz club Birdland.

35. Grande auditioned for the Nickelodeon television show Victorious in New York along with 13 co-star Elizabeth Gillies in 2009.

36. Grande had to dye her hair red every other week for the role because the executive producer, Dan Schneider, did not want all cast members to be brunettes, and the red hair was also a feature that the network felt would fit the personality of Cat.

37. The show began filming in October 2009 and premiered on March 27, 2010 to the second largest audience for a live-action series in Nickelodeon history with 5.7 million viewers

38. The role helped propel Grande to teen idol status, but she was more interested in a music career stating that acting is “fun, but music has always been first and foremost with me.

39. Her character was compared to “Brittany Murphy’s performance as the hapless Tai in Clueless” (1995) and described as being “very impressionable and easily swayed” but “generally sweet.

40. Season two premiered on April 2, 2011 to 6.2 million viewers, becoming the highest rated episode of Victorious.

41. After the first season of Victorious wrapped, Grande wanted to focus on her music career and began working on her debut album in August 2010.

42. To strengthen her vocal range, she began working with vocal coach Eric Vetro.

43. She made her first musical appearance on the track “Give It Up” on the soundtrack Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show in August 2011.

44. While filmingVictorious, Grande made several recordings of herself singing covers of songs by Adele, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, and she uploaded them to YouTube.

45. A friend of Monte Lipman, CEO of Republic Records, came across one of Grande’s videos. Impressed by her vocals, he sent the links to Lipman, who signed her to a recording contract.

46. She released her first single, “Put Your Hearts Up”, in December 2011, which was recorded for a teen-oriented pop album that was not issued.

47. She later disowned the track for its bubblegum pop sound, saying that she had no interest in recording music of that genre.

48. Also in 2011, she voiced the fairy, Princess Diaspro, in 13 episodes of the Nickelodeon animated television series Winx Club and appeared in Greyson Chance’s music video for a song called “Unfriend You” from his album Hold On ’til the Night, portraying Chance’s ex-girlfriend.

49. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon created an iCarly and Victorious spin-off starring Jennette McCurdy and Grande. The buddy sitcom, titled Sam & Cat, paired Grande and McCurdy as roommates who form an after-school babysitting business, reprising their respective roles as Cat Valentine from Victorious and Sam Puckett from iCarly. The pilot aired on June 8, 2013, and the show was immediately picked up by the network. Despite its success in the ratings, the series was canceled.

50. Ariana Grande recorded her debut album, Yours Truly, over a three-year period.

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28 Interesting facts about LEFT-HANDERS!

October 27, 2017 facts , 0 Comments
There are some facts you probably didn't know about left-hand users (south paws)  the shocking one is at 28! Here are just the few details I could get about left-handers


1. Make up roughly 12% of the population.

2. More likely to have allergies.

3. More prone to migraines.

4.More likely to be insomniacs.

5.Use the right side of the brain the most.

6.Three times more likely to become alcoholics – the right side of the brain has a lower tolerance to alcohol!

7.More likely to be on extreme poles of the intelligence scale.

8.Tend to reach puberty 4 to 5 months later than right handers.

9.More likely to suffer stuttering and dyslexia.

10. Twice as likely to be a manBetter at 3D perception and thinking.

11.Better at multi-tasking.

12.Live on average 9 years less than right handed people.

13. 39% more likely to be homosexual.
Who knew!?Make especially good baseball players, tennis players, swimmers, boxers and fencers (almost 40% of the top tennis players are lefties)Celebrate left handed day once a year – August 13th – international left-handers day. 

14. Draw figures facing to the right.

15.Recover from strokes faster.

16.More likely to pursue creative careers.

17.Of the eight most recent U.S Presidents, 4 have been left handedLeft handed college graduates go on to become 26% richer than right handed graduates.

18. On a QWERTY keyboard there are 1447 English words typed solely with the left hand, whilst only 187 are typed with the right hand.

19. Adjust to seeing underwater quicker.

20.Less able to roll their tongue than a righty.

21.Nails grow faster on the left hand than the right.

22. In the Talmud, the Chief of Satans or Prince of Demons is named Samael, which is associated with the Hebrew word for left side, se’mol. The angel Michael sits on God’s right-hand side, while Samael is on his left-hand side. This attribution of evil to the left and good to the right appears in various forms throughout the world.

23. Research has shown a link between trauma during gestation or during birth with an increased chance of being left-handed.

Stressed mothers are more likely to have a left-handed child

24. The word “dexterity” shows a right-handed bias. The term dexter means “right” and refers to being “right-handed” on both sides. The Incas thought left-handers were capable of healing and that they possessed magical abilities.

25. The North American Zuni tribe believed left-handedness signified good luck.cHerbert Hoover is believed to be the first left-handed president, though James Garfield could write Greek with the left hand and Latin with the right.

26. Many artistic representations of the devil show him to be left-handed.In witchcraft texts in medieval Europe, it was the left hand that was used to harm or curse another person. To affect a curse, witches were instructed to silently touch the recipient with the left hand, which would convey the curse. Additionally, the devil supposedly gives the gathering a benediction with the left hand, as opposed to the right-handed blessing of the Christian church. He would also baptize or anoint with his left hand.

27. During the Spanish Inquisition, lefties were more likely to be tortured.
28. Lefties are natural maths wizard.

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10 Deep FACTS about DOGS!

October 26, 2017 facts about animals , 0 Comments

1. All dogs can be traced back 40 million years ago to a weasel-like animal called the Miacis which dwelled in trees and dens. The Miacis later evolved into the Tomarctus, a direct forbear of the genus Canis, which includes the wolf and jackal as well as the dog.Small quantities of grapes and raisins can cause renal failure in dogs. Chocolate, macadamia nuts, cooked onions, or anything with caffeine can also be harmful.Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws.In 2003, Dr. Roger Mugford invented the “wagometer,” a device that claims to interpret a dog’s exact mood by measuring the wag of its tail.Ancient Egyptians revered their dogs. When a pet dog would die, the owners shaved off their eyebrows, smeared mud in their hair, and mourned aloud for days.


The ancient Egyptian word for dog was "iwiw," which referred to the dog's bark.


2. Dogs have three eyelids. The third lid, called a nictitating membrane or “haw,” keeps the eye lubricated and protected. A dog’s shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of the skeleton to allow greater flexibility for running. Puppies are sometimes rejected by their mother if they are born by cesarean and cleaned up before being given back to her. The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in seventeenth-century England. During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals would drown and float down the streets, giving the appearance that it had actually rained cats and dogs. During the Middle Ages, Great Danes and Mastiffs were sometimes suited with armor and spiked collars to enter a battle or to defend supply caravans. Pekingese and Japanese Chins were so important in the ancient Far East that they had their own servants and were carried around trade routes as gifts for kings and emperors. Pekingese were even worshipped in the temples of China for centuries. After the fall of Rome, human survival often became more important than breeding and training dogs. Legends of werewolves emerged during this time as abandoned dogs traveling in packs commonly roamed streets and terrified villagers.


The word “werewolf” derives from Old English compound “were” (meaning “man”) and “wulf” (meaning “wolf”)

3.The most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kublai Khan.The American Kennel Club, the most influential dog club in the United States, was founded in 1884.The most popular male dog names are Max and Jake. The most popular female dog names are Maggie and Molly.Weird dog laws include allowing police offers in Palding, Ohio, to bite a dog to quiet it. In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.The first dog chapel was established in 2001. It was built in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, by Stephan Huneck, a children’s book author whose five dogs helped him recuperate from a serious illness.Those born under the sign of the dog in Chinese astrology are considered to be loyal and discreet, though slightly temperamental.In Iran, it is against the law to own a dog as a pet. However, if an owner can prove the dog is a guard or hunting dog, this restriction doesn’t apply. Muslim reticence concerning dogs is perhaps due to the fact that rabies has always been endemic in the Middle East.The Mayans and Aztecs symbolized every tenth day with the dog, and those born under this sign were believed to have outstanding leadership skills.The shape of a dog’s face suggests how long it will live. Dogs with sharp, pointed faces that look more like wolves typically live longer. Dogs with very flat faces, such as bulldogs, often have shorter lives.


Dogs with flatter faces typically don't live as long as dogs with longer faces.


4. The ancient Mbaya Indians of the Gran Chaco in South America believed that humans originally lived underground until dogs dug them up.French poodles did not originate in France but in Germany (“poodle” comes from the German pudel or pudelhund, meaning “splashing dog”). Some scholars speculate the poodle’s puffs of hair evolved when hunters shaved the poodle for more efficient swimming, while leaving the pom-poms around the major joints to keep them warm.The name of the dog on the Cracker Jacks box is Bingo. The Taco Bell Chihuahua is a rescued dog named Gidget. The first dogs were self-domesticated wolves which, at least 12,000 years ago, became attracted to the first sites of permanent human habitation. Dachshunds were bred to fight badgers in their dens. 


Plato once said that “a dog has the soul of a philosopher.”
Dogs are more than just our best friends.


5. Laika, a Russian stray, was the first living mammal to orbit the Earth, in the Soviet Sputnik spacecraft in 1957. Though she died in space, her daughter Pushnika had four puppies with President John F. Kennedy’s terrier, Charlie.Dalmatians are completely white at birth.The term “dog days of summer” was coined by the ancient Greeks and Romans to describe the hottest days of summer that coincided with the rising of the Dog Star, Sirius.Alexander the Great is said to have founded and named a city Peritas, in memory of his dog.In ancient Greece, kennels of dogs were kept at the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus. Dogs were frequently sacrificed there because they were plentiful, inexpensive, and easy to control. During the July 25 celebration of the kunophontis (“the massacre of dogs”), dog sacrifices were performed to appease the ancestors of Apollo’s son, Linos, who was devoured by dogs.Dog trainers in ancient China were held in high esteem. A great deal of dog domestication also took place in China, especially dwarfing and miniaturization. The ancient religion Zoroastrianism includes in its religious text titled the Zend Avesta a section devoted to the care and breeding of dogs. The earliest European images of dogs are found in cave paintings dating back 12,000 years ago in Spain. The dog was frequently depicted in Greek art, including Cerberus, the three-headed hound guarding the entrance to the underworld, and the hunting dogs which accompanied the virgin goddess of the chase, Diana. During the Renaissance, detailed portraits of the dog as a symbol of fidelity and loyalty appeared in mythological, allegorical, and religious art throughout Europe, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Diego Velázquez, Jan van Eyck, and Albrecht Durer. Rock star Ozzy Osborne saved his wife Sharon’s Pomeranian from a coyote by tackling and wresting the coyote until it released the dog.


6. A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless. The Basenji is the world’s only barkless dog. A dog most likely interprets a smiling person as baring their teeth, which is an act of aggression. The origin of amputating a dog’s tail may go back to the Roman writer Lucius Columella’s (A.D. 4-70) assertion that tail docking prevented rabies. One of Shakespeare’s most mischievous characters is Crab, the dog belonging to Launce in the Two Gentlemen of Verona. The word “watchdog” is first found in The Tempest. President Franklin Roosevelt created a minor international incident when he claimed he sent a destroyer to the Aleutian Islands just to pick up his Scottish Terrier, Fala, who had been left behind. Within hours of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, specially trained dogs were on the scene, including German Shepherds, Labs, and even a few little Dachshunds. It costs approximately $10,000 to train a federally certified search and rescue dog. The smallest dog on record was a matchbox-size Yorkshire Terrier. It was 2.5" tall at the shoulder, 3.5" from nose tip to tail, and weighed only 4 ounces. Hollywood’s first and arguably best canine superstar was Rin Tin Tin, a five-day-old German Shepherd found wounded in battle in WWI France and adopted by an American soldier, Lee Duncan. He would sign his own contracts with his paw print. During the Middle Ages, mixed breeds of peasants’ dogs were required to wear blocks around their necks to keep them from breeding with noble hunting dogs. Purebred dogs were very expensive and hunting became the province of the rich.


In the Middle Ages, the leisured class often kept dogs as pets, while the rest of the population mainly used them for protection and herding


7. At the end of WWI, the German government trained the first guide dogs for war-blinded soldiers. A dog can locate the source of a sound in 1/600 of a second and can hear sounds four times farther away than a human can.Touch is the first sense the dog develops. The entire body, including the paws, is covered with touch-sensitive nerve endings. Eighteen muscles or more can move a dog’s ear. The names of 77 ancient Egyptian dogs have been recorded. The names refer to color and character, such as Blackie, Ebony, Good Herdsman, Reliable, and Brave One.In Egypt, a person bitten by a rabid dog was encouraged to eat the roasted liver of a dog infected with rabies to avoid contracting the disease. The tooth of a dog infected with rabies would also be put in a band tied to the arm of the person bitten. The menstrual blood of a female dog was used for hair removal, while dog genitals were used for preventing the whitening of hair. In early Christian tradition, Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travelers, is sometimes depicted with a dog’s head. The oldest known dog bones were found in Asia and date as far back as 10,000 B.C. The first identifiable dog breed appeared about 9000 B.C. and was probably a type of Greyhound dog used for hunting. There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world. The U.S. has the highest dog population in the world. France has the second highest. Scholars have argued over the metaphysical interpretation of Dorothy’s pooch, Toto, in the Wizard of Oz. One theory postulates that Toto represents Anubis, the dog-headed Egyptian god of death, because Toto consistently keeps Dorothy from safely returning home.


Toto reportedly earned $125 per week of filming, but each Munchkin actor earned just $50


8. Dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can be used to identify them. Bloodhound dogs have a keen sense of smell and have been used since the Middle Ages to track criminals. It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.Dogs in a pack are more likely to chase and hunt than a single dog on its own. Two dogs are enough to form a pack.Dogs can see in color, though they most likely see colors similar to a color-blind human. They can see better when the light is low. Dogs have lived with humans for over 14,000 years. Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years. Zorba, an English mastiff, is the biggest dog ever recorded. He weighed 343 pounds and measured 8’ 3" from his nose to his tail. The average dog can run about 19 mph. Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on Earth and can run at speeds of 45 mph. One female dog and her female children could produce 4,372 puppies in seven years. The most popular dog breed in Canada, U.S., and Great Britain is the Labrador retriever. Petting dogs is proven to lower blood pressure of dog owners.


Sometimes dogs are just nicer to be with than people


9. Greyhounds appear to be the most ancient dog breed. “Greyhound” comes from a mistake in translating the early German name Greishund, which means “old (or ancient) dog,” not from the color gray.The oldest dog on record was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey who lived 29 years and 5 months. In human years, that is more than 160 years old. Most experts believe humans domesticated dogs before donkeys, horses, sheep, goats, cattle, cats, or chickens. A person standing still 300 yards away is almost invisible to a dog. But a dog can easily identify its owner standing a mile away if the owner is waving his arms. Dogs with big, square heads and large ears (like the Saint Bernard) are the best at hearing subsonic sounds. In Croatia, scientists discovered that lampposts were falling down because a chemical in the urine of male dogs was rotting the metal.

10. Dogs can smell about 1,000-10,000 times better than humans. While humans have 5 million smell-detecting cells, dogs have more than 220 million. The part of the brain that interprets smell is also four times larger in dogs than in humans. Some dogs can smell dead bodies under water, where termites are hiding, and natural gas buried under 40 feet of dirt. They can even detect cancer that is too small to be detected by a doctor and can find lung cancer by sniffing a person’s breath. Dogs have a wet nose to collect more of the tiny droplets of smelling chemicals in the air. Dogs like sweets a lot more than cats do. While cats have around only 473 taste buds, dogs have about 1,700 taste buds. Humans have approximately 9,000. Different smells in the a dog’s urine can tell other dogs whether the dog leaving the message is female or male, old or young, sick or healthy, happy or angry.Male dogs will raise their legs while urinating to aim higher on a tree or lamppost because they want to leave a message that they are tall and intimidating. Some wild dogs in Africa try to run up tree trunks while they are urinating to appear to be very large. Countess Karlotta Libenstein of Germany left approximately $106 million to her Alsatin, Gunther III, when she died in 1992. A lost Dachshund was found swallowed whole in the stomach of a giant catfish in Berlin on July 2003. A person should never kick a dog facing him or her. Some dogs can bite 10 times before a human can respond.
Almost 1 in 5 people bitten by dogs require medical attention. A group of pugs is called a "grumble."

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Crazy but true facts about CATS!

October 26, 2017 facts about animals , 0 Comments
This facts would make you love your cat even more than you used to! 
1. Cats are the most popular pet in the United States: There are over 88 million pet cats and 74 million dogs.
2. Most cats who can survive a  fall from over 32 stories (320 meters) onto concrete, pretty impressive huh? 
3. "Clowder" refers to a group of cats. 
4. Cats have over 20 muscles that control their ears. 
5. Cats sleep 70% of their lives, lol 100% laziness indeed. 
6. A cat has been mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, for 15 years. His name is Stubbs.
7. And one ran for mayor of Mexico City in 2013. "Candigato" that's the cat's name! 
8. In tigers and tabbies, the middle of the tongue is covered in backward-pointing spines, used for breaking off and gripping meat.
9. When cats grimace, they are usually "taste-scenting." They have an extra organ that, with some breathing control, allows the cats to taste-sense the air.
10. Did you know that Cats can't taste  sweetness.
11. Owning a cat can reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack by a third.
12. Wikipedia has a recording of a cat meowing.
13. The world's largest cat measured 48.5 inches long.
14. Evidence suggests domesticated cats have been around since 3600 B.C., 2,000 years before Egypt's pharaohs.
15. A cat's purr may be a form of self-healing, as it can be a sign of nervousness as well as contentment.
16. Similarly, the frequency of a domestic cat's purr is the same at which muscles and bones repair themselves.
17. Adult cats only meow to communicate with humans.
18. The world's richest cat is worth $13 million after his human passed away and left her fortune to him.
19. Your cat recognizes your voice but just acts too cool to care (probably because they are).
20. I know this sounds crazy buy Cats are often lactose intolerant, so quit givin' them milk!
21. Basically all cartoon cats lied to us: Raw fish is off the table for cats as well.
22. The oldest cat video on YouTube dates back to 1894.
23. In the 1960s, the CIA tried to turn a cat into a bonafide spy by implanting a microphone into her ear and a radio transmitter at the base of her skull. She somehow survived the surgery but got hit by a taxi on her first mission.
24. The technical term for "hairball" is "bezoar"
25. Female cats are typically right-pawed while male cats are typically left-pawed.
26. Cats make more than 100 different sounds whereas dogs make around 10.
27. A cat's brain is 90% similar to a human's — more similar than to a dog's.
28. Cats and humans have nearly identical sections of the brain that control emotion.
29. A cat's cerebral cortex (the part of the brain in charge of cognitive information processing) has 300 million neurons, compared with a dog's 160 million.
30. Cats have a longer-term memory than dogs, especially when they learn by actually doing rather than simply seeing.
31. Basically, cats have a lower social IQ than dogs but can solve more difficult cognitive problems when they feel like it.
32. Cats have 1,000 times more data storage than an iPad. 
33. It was illegal to slay cats in ancient Egypt, in large part because they provided the great service of controlling the rat population.
34. In the 15th century, Pope Innocent VIII began ordering the killing of cats, pronouncing them demonic.
35. A cat has five toes on his front paws, and four on the back, unless he's a polydactyl.
36. Polydactyl cats are also referred to as "Hemingway Cats" because the author was so fond of them.
37. There are 45 Hemingway Cats living at the author's former home in Key West, Fla.
38. Original kitty litter was made out of sand but it was replaced by more absorbent clay in 1948.
39. Abraham Lincoln kept four cats in the White House.
40. When asked if her husband had any hobbies, Mary Todd Lincoln is said to have replied "cats."
41. Isaac Newton is credited with inventing the cat door.
42. One legend claims that cats were created when a lion on Noah's Ark sneezed and two kittens came out.
43. A cat can jump up to six times its length.
44. A house cat is faster than Usain Bolt.
45. When cats leave their poop uncovered, it is a sign of aggression to let you know they don't fear you.
46. Cats can change their meow to manipulate a human. They often imitate a human baby when they need food.
47. Cats use their whiskers to detect if they can fit through a space(so stop cutting the poor whiskers!).
48. Cats only sweat through their foot pads.
49. The first cat in space was French. She was named Felicitte, or "Astrocat." She survived the trip.
50. Cats have free-floating clavicle bones that attach their shoulders to their forelimbs, which allows them to squeeze through very small spaces.
51. Hearing is the strongest of cat's senses: They can hear sounds as high as 64 kHz — compared with humans, who can hear only as high as 20 kHz.
52. Cats can move their ears 180 degrees.
53. They can also move their ears separately.
54. A cat has detected his human's breast cancer.
55. A cat's nose is ridge with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.
56. Cats have scent glands along their tail, their forehead, lips, chin, and the underside of their front paws.
57. A cat rubs against people to mark its territory.
58. Cats lick themselves to get your scent off.
59. When a family cat died in ancient Egypt, family members would shave off their eyebrows as they mourned.
60. They also had elaborate memorials that included mummyfying the cat and either burying it in a family tomb or pet cemetery.
61. Cats were mythic symbols of divinity in ancient Egypt.
62. Black cats are said to be bad luck in the United States, but they are good luck in the United Kingdom and Australia.
63. Most cats don't like water because their coats do not insulate them well enough.
64. However, a cat called the Turkish Van does not have that insulation problem and LOVES it.
65. The Egyptian Mau is the oldest breed of cat.
66. This breed is also the fastest pedigreed cat.
67. The Egyptian word for cat is, in fact "Mau".
68. Only 10.5% of people consider themselves "cat people."
69. Cat people are also 11% more likely to be introverted.
70. Still, cat people are more open to new experiences than typical "dog people."
71. Male cat owners who are male tend to be luckier in love, as they are perceived as more sensitive.
72. A cat's carbon footprints is similar to that of a VW Bug, whereas a dog's is more like a Hummer.
73. When your cat brings home a dead mouse or bird, it may do so to show you that you are lame at hunting.
74. Cats have inferior daytime sight, but during the night they need seven times less light than humans to see.
75. The largest litter of kittens produced 19 kittens.
76. Eighty-eight percent of cats in the U.S. are spayed or neutered.
77. Only 24% of cats who enter animal shelters are adopted.
78. Cats are really cool.
79. They are also very soft.

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Real Strange Facts! Must Read!

October 26, 2017 facts , 0 Comments
1. Baked beans are actually not baked, but stewed.

2. The medical name for a butt crack is “intergluteal cleft”.

3. People can suffer from a psychological disorder called Boanthropy that makes them believe that they are a cow. They try to live their life as a cow.

4. The name for the shape of Pringles is called a ‘Hyperbolic Paraboloid’.

5. There is a McDonald’s in every continent except Antartica.

6. Mr Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV.

7. A duel between three people is actually called a truel.

8. The stage before frostbite is called “frostnip”.

9. The two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.

10. In South Korea there is an emergency number (113) to report spies.

11. There are no bridges over the Amazon River.

12. The process by which bread toasts is called the ‘Maillard Reaction’.

13. Snails have 14,000 teeth and some can even kill you!

14. Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was not a man in a suit, it was actually a giant puppet.

15. Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.

16. Even though Froot Loops are different colors, they all have exactly the same flavor.

17. George Clooney did the voice for ‘Sparky’ – a gay dog in South Park.

18. Most toilet paper sold for home use in France is pink.

19. Marmite was one of most confiscated items at airports from the UK – to overcome this issue, Marmite made smaller ones for travelling.

20. The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

21. Cards against Humanity bought an island in Maine to preserve wildlife. It is called
Hawaii 2 .

22. Daddy longlegs have penises, which technically makes them not a spider.

23. The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.

24. Bullfrogs do not sleep.

25. The dark region on the north pole of Pluto’s moon, Charon, is called Mordor.

26. Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas .

27. In 2015, a silver coin with Superman on the heads side was made which is legal tender in Canada. There was only 350,000 produced.

28. It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube , Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after he created it; the current world record is 5.55 seconds.

29. Japanese square watermelons are ornamental plants and are not edible.

30. Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.

31. Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ‘ke-chiap’

32. In Morse Code -.- means k .

33. In 2005, a fortune cookie company called Wonton Food Inc correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation. No fraud was involved.

34. Two PlayStation 1 games, FIFA 2001 and
Gran Turismo 2 , has scratch & sniff discs. The FIFA 2001 smelled like a soccer field, while Gran Turismo 2 smelled like car tires.

35. If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin, and no friends or family to prepare funeral or mourn over the body, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.

36. The Himalayan Honey Bee -largest of the honey bees – makes a hallucinogenic honey that tribes collect.

37. Rowan Atkinson – also known as Mr. Bean – is the voice of Zazu in The Lion King .

38. The collars on men’s dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently.

39. The man who found the 5,000 year old corpse Ötzi the Iceman in 1991 (Oldest natural European mummy) was also found dead frozen in ice in 2004.

40. In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.

41. If you sneeze while travelling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.

42. Both Nicholas Cage and Michael Jackson shared the same wife, Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.

43. Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other.

44. Crystal – the monkey from The Hangover 2 and Night at the Museum has her own
IMDB page !

45. The “I’m Feeling Lucky” feature in Google search actually cost Google $110 million a year, as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising.

46. Magpies are considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world, and the only non-mammal species able to recognize itself in a mirror test.

47. Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Trivago, Travelocity, and Orbitz are all owned by the same company, Expedia Inc.

48. Before the term “bloopers” was coined, ‘out-takes’ were called ‘boners’.

49. Donkey Kong got his name because his creator believed ‘donkey’ meant ‘stupid’ in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a “Stupid Ape”.

50. In 2014, Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data!

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Funny Facts about celebrities!

October 23, 2017 facts about celebs , 0 Comments
Here are 50 facts that will interest you!
1. Harry Styles and Justin Bieber can juggle.
2. Lady Gaga wrote Born This Way in 10 minutes.
3. Nicki Minaj is acrophobic, meaning she is afraid of heights.
4. As a child, Johnny Depp was allergic to chocolate.
5. Chuck Norris’ first name is actually Carlos.
6. Frank Oz was the voice for Yoda , Miss Piggy and Cookie Monster.
7. Daniel Craig is the first actor to play James Bond that was born after the series began.
8. Susan Boyle’s Britain’s Got Talent audition has received almost 50 million views on YouTube.
9. One Direction member, Louis Tomlinsion , hates baked beans.
10. Cher Lloyd’s sister (Josie) does not like Cher’s song ‘Swagger Jagger’.
11. As a child, Conor Maynard , his brother and next door neighbour would ride their bicycles in their gardens, pretending to catch Pokémon.
12. Ed Sheeran auditioned for the ITV series
Britannia High.
13. Rowan Atkinson has a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
14. Zayn Malik didn’t have a passport before he was on X Factor.
15. P!nk’s real name is Alecia Beth Moore.
16. On 9th August 2012, Max George from The Wanted swam with sharks in Australia.
17. Kelly Clarkson appeared as an extra on
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch a couple of months before auditioning for American Idol.
18. Bruno Mars‘ real name is Peter Gene Hernandez.
19. Demi Moore was cross-eyed as a child and wore an eye patch until her vision was corrected after two operations.
20. Kim Kardashian posed nude in the December 2007 issue of Playboy magazine.
21. Robert Downey Jr. claims that Burger King saved his life from his drug addiction.
22. Wayne Rooney was only sixteen years old when he first played for Everton.
23. Liam Payne from One Direction has a fear of spoons.
24. Colin Farrell auditioned in front of Louis Walsh to appear in Boyzone.
25. Nathan Sykes from The Wanted used to have a rabbit called Pikachu when he was younger.
26. Kim Kardashian starred in the 2008 film spoof Disaster Movie as Lisa.
27. Brad Pitt is a supporter of same-sex marriage.
28. Angelina Jolie performed her own stunts whilst filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider .
29. Jessie J’s full name is Jessica Ellen Cornish.
30. Chris Brown has appeared on an episode of Sesame Street.
31. Nicki Minaj’s full name is Onika Tanya Maraj.
32. Elvis Presley was a natural blonde.
33. Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was also the voice of Shredder from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
34. Ke$ha is terrified of ghosts.
35. “Mraz” means frost in Czech. Jason says he likes it because it means he is always cool.
36. Pixie Lott was voted as No. 31 of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World by FHM.
37. Britney Spears loves vanilla candles.
38. Johnny Depp has a fear of clowns and
spiders.
39. Orlando Bloom has swinophobia, which is a fear of pigs!
40. Tobey Maguire who played the character Spiderman, had a fear of heights!
41. Tom Hanks had an asteroid named after him which was called “12818 tomhanks”.
42. Taylor Swift started playing the guitar at age 12.
43. George Lucas originally wanted to be a race car driver, but an accident just before his high school graduation changed his mind.
44. Niall Horan from One Direction admits to masturbating on the tour bus. He describes it as ‘relieving tour bus boredom’.
45. Tom Cruise earned $75 Million for his role in Mission Impossible 2 .
46. Jennifer Lopez was the first actress to have a movie and an album hit number one in the same week.
47. Niall Horan is a big fan of Justin Bieber, he screamed when Justin followed him on Twitter.
48. Cameron Diaz broke her nose in a surfing accident in Hawaii on her birthday in 2003.
49. Bob Dylan took his stage name from Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
50. Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd) removed the "E" from the weekend, first reason, for copyright sake.
Second reason, he has no END!
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30 Mind blowing FACTS that you should know!

October 22, 2017 facts , 2 Comments
Here are 30 MIND BLOWING FACTS that could knock you off your chair! 😱

1. The reason the taste of artificial banana flavouring and artificial banana flavoured products doesn’t taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.
2. Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach everyday for over 27 years!
3. It was Nicholas Cage who first advised
Johnny Depp to pursue a career in acting, during the mid 1980’s.
4. The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.
5. The directors of the film Despicable Me actually wrote their own language for the Minions called Minionise.
6. The mayor of the Alaskan town, Talkeetna, is called Stubbs and has been mayor of the town since July 1997. Stubbs is a cat.
7. The Nazis were the first ever people in modern history to start an anti-smoking and tobacco movement.
8. Due to the humid and moist conditions that a sloth lives in, moss and other similar plants will sometimes grow in its hair. Sloth’s also have very bad eyesight. These two factors can sometimes culminate in a sloth grabbing its own arm, whilst thinking it is a branch, and falling to its death!
9. Every year in June a bizarre festival takes place in the village of Castrillo de Murcia near Burgos in Spain during which men dress up like the devil and then jump over babies born in the previous twelve months of the year! Known as El Colacho, this strange custom is part of the country-wide Corpus Christi celebrations yet only happens in this small village.
10. Viagra, when dissolved in water, can make cut-flowers stay erect for up to a week longer than they usually would. Try it!
11. There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
12. Catnip is ten-times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the main substance used in insect repellents.
13. If eaten in one meal, 30 to 90 grams of
polar bear liver is enough to kill a human being.
14. American microbiologist Maurice Ralph Hilleman is accredited with developing 8 of the 14 routine vaccinations used today, these being; Measles, Mumps, Hepatitis A & B, Chickenpox, Meningitis, Pneumonia, and Hemophilia influenza. He also discovered that Chlamydia was not a virus as it was previously thought to be.
15. In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years.
16. American college, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, deems certain students who take courses in Pistol Marksmanship, Archery, Sailing and Fencing as certified ‘Pirates’.
17. It is predicted that the reason why night insects, such as moths, are attracted to lights is because they mistake them for the light of the moon, which they used to navigate the Earth before mankind made artificial lights.
18. Justin Bieber once held up a sign from his hotel room window saying “Go to McDonald’s and get me a Big Mac”. He got his Big Mac.
19. In the early 1900’s, Lobster was considered the “cockroach of the ocean” and was synonymous with the poor – often eaten regularly by the homeless, slaves and prisoners. It wasn’t until after World War II that lobster became considered a delicacy and a food associated with the aristocratic classes.
20. Hares are born with fur and can see whilst rabbits are born ‘naked’ and blind.
21. In the 16 th Century, it was a common belief amongst people that the Mandrake Plant grew only where the ejaculated semen of a dead hanged man touched the ground.
22. Film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg revived
The Walt Disney Studios by producing some of their biggest hits: The Little Mermaid , The Lion King , Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin . After these he requested a promotion, and was then abruptly fired by them. He then swore revenge against Disney and founded
DreamWorks Studios .
23. On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity was removed from being on sale and replaced with a “Bullsh*t” box, on sale for $6. This box contained “literal feces, from an actual bull,” as the description stated on their site. This was to protest to the Black Friday shopping craziness where shoppers will literally buy anything on sale. This special Black Friday edition of Cards Against Humanity sold over 30,000 copies, where all buyers actually received a box of bull poo.
24. Through the use of optogenetics, scientists were able to create a false memory within a mouse’s brain. This was done by marking the neurons that fired in the mouse’s brain when in one environment, transferring the mouse to a second environment and making these neurons fire whilst shocking the mouse’s feet, then transferring the mouse back to the first environment. This made the mouse believe it had had an unpleasant experience in the first environment when in fact it hadn’t.
25. On one of the islands off the West-Coast of Australia lies Lake Hillier. A bright, bubble-gum pink lake! Despite not being the only colored lake in the world, it is unique because it is the only colored lake where scientists have not yet determined what causes it to be such a bright pink.
26. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to draw a portrait of Monalisa!
27. Sarcastic people tends to have a creative mind!
28. Laika the Dog was the first animal that ever flew to space!
29. There is no sound in space!
30. The song Despacito is currently the most viewed video on YouTube having about 4.1 billion viewers!
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