1. In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards) & Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
2. 2 billion videos are watched per day on YouTube. Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube, or about 200,000 videos per day. It will take a person more than 400 years to watch all the videos on YouTube.
3. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
4. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
5. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
6. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
7. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
8. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
9. Dalmatians are born without spots.
10. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
11. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
12. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
13. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
14. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
15. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
16. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
17. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
18. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
19. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
20. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
21. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Irish Facts:
ReplyDelete1. The longest place name in Ireland is Muckanaghederdauhaulia, in County Galway.
2. The last witch in Ireland was supposedly Dame Alice Kytler, born in Kilkenny in 1280. All four of her husbands died, and she was accused of poisioning them. Today you can dine at Kytler's Inn in Kilkenny, which operates in her old home.
3. The original seven “Celtic Nations” are: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Brittany (in France) and Galicia (in Spain).
4. Bram Stoker was working as a civil servant in Dublin when he wrote “Dracula” in 1897.
5. “Gulliver’s Travels” writer Jonathan Swift is buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.
6. In 1800, the population of Ireland was almost twice as large as that of the United States. By 2000, America’s population was about 60 times that of Ireland.
7. Ireland is the third largest island in Europe and the twenty sixth largest island in the world.
8. “Tallaght” in Dublin is an old name that means “The Plague cemetery.”
9. Ireland’s 15 principal railway stations are named after the leaders of the 1916 uprising.
10. Shannon became the worlds first duty free airport in 1947
Very Interesting Facts Stonebabies. Thank you for the contribution!
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