Interesting Facts [Just for fun]

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Tom and Jerry were originally called Jasper and Jinx.

You share your birthday with 9 million others (and counting)

The City name of Chicago is named after Garlic
'Chicagaoua' was the indian name for wild Garlic.

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in Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. ...

Snakes can help predict earthquakes. ..

Light doesn't necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we've ever recorded light moving at is 38 mph.

Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that contains live maggots. The maggots can jump up to five inches out of cheese while you're eating it, so it's a good idea to shield it with your hand to stop them jumping into your eyes.

The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale who has been calling out for a mate for over two decades — but whose high-pitched voice is so different to other whales that they never respond.

During World War II, the crew of the British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from the Russians).

The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg, in which hundreds of people danced for about a month for no apparent reason. Several of them danced themselves to death.


The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no roads; its buildings are connected entirely by canals and footbridges.

family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates of Troublesome Creek are thought to have gained their blue skin through combination of inbreeding and a rare genetic condition known as methemoglobinemia.


There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like the ice is bleeding. (It's actually oxidised salty water.)


In 2008 scientists discovered a new species of bacteria that lives in hairspray.


A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot in 1983.

The longest musical performance in history is currently taking place in the church of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt, Germany. The performance of John Cage's "Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)" started on Sept. 5, 2001, and is set to finish in 2640. The last time the note changed was October 2013; the next change isn't due until 2020.


There's an opera house on the U.S.–Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.


The largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches across.


There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they'd stretch around the world more than twice. But, seriously, don't do that either.