Some interesting facts

Day 1,565, 12:00 • Published in Ireland South Africa • by Domagoj 93



Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.

Everton FC used to be called St Domingo's FC!

At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!






People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.



The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.

The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"

The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing.




85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting!



A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

Bill Gates designed a traffic control system for Seattle when he was only 15!

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

Every Alaskan citizen over the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend check of about $1000 per year!




Muhammad is the most common name in the world.

Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.


In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!



SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.
The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.

Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on earth.

Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.

88% of all humans are right handed.

Almost 40% of the top tennis pros are left-handed.


Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller

It is said that most left handed people are deeper thinkers and more creative.

The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.

The famous quote 'History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon' belongs to Napoleon.




The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.


It took about ten years for Leonardo da Vinci to paint Mona Lisa's lips.



Leonardo da Vinci invented the bicycle 300 years before it appeared on the road.

Leonardo da Vinci sketched the first parachute, first helicopter, first aeroplane, first tank, first repeating rifle, swinging bridge, paddleboat and the first motorcar.