HS Lifter said:
Now tell us something we dont know.
1. The healthiest city in the Netherlands, judging by the publics bodyfat percentage and stamina, is Enschede, near the German-Dutch border, neither north or south.
2. In a survey taken on a shopping street in the USA, 25% of Americans failed to point out the USA on a world map, in a multiple choice question choosing from India, Australia, the USA and Greenland.
3. The greatest species of penguin can grow up to 20 kilograms, about 44 lbs in size.
4. Around 37 million kilograms of dynamite in total were used to dig the Panama canal.
5. The fattest man in Britain, nicknamed 'Big Barry from Birmingham" holds the world beer drinking record. In a 2 hour period he managed to drink and hold down 60 pints of beer. A British pint is about 0.553 litres.
6. The precise conversion from lbs to kg is that one lbs = 0.453592 kg
7. The oldest living human ever was a French female who lived to be 123 years old.
8. People in Iceland are known to have extraordinary genetics for strength.
9. The total number of different words used in Shakespeare's work is several times greater than the complete vocabulary of the average Englishman or American.
10. Recent historical analysis using new data suggests that the number of people who fell victim to the Holocaust of Nazi Germany actually lies closer to 5 million than to 6 million.
11. The direction in which the water spins when it runs through the sink is not actually dependant on which side of the Equator you are on.
12. Equador is the only nation in which you could throw a natural snowball over the equator, should you want to, for whatever reason.
13. English women have the largest breasts out of all European women.
14. Most humans have enough jaw muscle strength to crack their own teeth simply by pushing them together. The nerves in the pulpa, the live, active part in the center of the tooth, will make us feel pain that keeps up from applying more force than the teeth can bear.
15. The human body contains 203 bones, of which the femur is the longest.
16. The flying ability of the bumblebee was a scientific mystery for a long time, until the exact path of the wings in flight was discovered, which was slightly more efficient than the physicists had been able to think of.
17. Children who have never been comforted when they were young do not cry when they get hurt.
18. A traditional sumo wrestling band-outfit is nearly impossible to put on without help.
19. A psychological survey amongst centenarians revealed that the main common trait in their personalities was an almost irrational optimism.
20. In some African tribes women with extremely large labia minora are sought after and girls will purposely stretch them to be as big as possible.