Amazing Facts

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Amazing Miscellaneous Facts 1

The favorite color of mosquitoes is blue........THX Margie
The most common last name in the world is Wong .
An oyster can change its sex once every seven days.
The longest kebab was 324.9m.

A polar bear's kidneys are poisonous.

Pure carbon can exist in only three forms

The modern horse has evolved over 60 million years from a creature no bigger than a domestic cat.

The highest ever amount paid out in a life insurance claim was $18,000,000 to Linda Mullendore.

The first nightclub was "Le Bak des Anglais", it opened in 1843.

Adolf Hitler was addicted to speed.

The dioxin 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin is 150,000 times deadlier than cyanide.

It is said that when Black Beard the Pirate was beheaded his headless body danced around for eight minutes.

The Western Deep Mine, Carlentonville, RSA, is the deepest gold mine in the world.
The largest discovered prime number in equal to 2 to the power of 859433 minus 1.
The world's largest restaurant chain is McDonald's.
A camel does not sweat until its body is at 40 degrees C.
An ounce of wild ginseng root has been sold for as high a price as $23,000.
The most common name for a pub in England is 'The Red Lion'.
Jesus lived only 66 generations ago.
If a tennis ball was bounced against a wall once a second and each time it hit its atomic structure changed randomly, onceevery five suns' lifetimes it would pass through the wall.
The tallest structure in the world is the KTHI-TV Mast, Fargo, Dakota, USA, at 629m.
The quickest boxing match in history was 10.5 seconds, this included the 10 second count.
The longest banana split was 7.32km.
If you randomly select 23 people the chance of two people sharing a birthday is 0.5.