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-Russia's coastline is 23 000 miles (37 015 kilometers for those who use kilometers), if tu stretched out all of your blood vessels, it would be 93 00 miles (1 496 69 kilometers)

-In Iceland your last name is your fathers first name and son o duter added to the end. Leif Erikson? Leif Erik's son

-The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the lincoln Memorial

-In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator

-Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese

-Rhode Island is the smallest state; yet it has the longest name. On official documents it is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations"

-When tu die your hair still grows for a couple of months

-Isaac Asimov is the only autor to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category

-It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on parte superior, arriba of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point

-It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace"

-The Main biblioteca at Indiana universidad sinks over an inch every año because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the libros that would occupy the building

-The sound of E.T. walking was made por someone squishing her hands in jelly

-1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue

-There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum)

-The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672

-American car horns beep in the tone of F

-Police perros are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but más recently Hungarian

-The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic

-Mary Stuart became queen of Scotland when she was only six days old

-Flying from Londres to New York por Concord, due to the time zones crossed, tu can arrive 2 hours before tu leave

-Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal

-The roar that we hear when we place a seashell siguiente to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect

-The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado

-Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights

-George Washington grew marihuana in his garden

-In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes

-Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards (When I first learned how to write, I wrote mirror; tu had to hold it up to a mirror to read it correctly!)

-Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined

-An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards

-Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen

-If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in The air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in The air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the Horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes

-315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

-On the average, 12 newborns will be dado to the wrong parents daily.

-It took da Vinci 10 years to complete Mona Lisa's lips

-Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so tu could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

-Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

-Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it por her doctor.

-In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off"

-The average four year-old child asks over four hundred preguntas a day

-Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

-Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.

-The sentence "the quick brown zorro, fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.

-China has más English speakers than the United States.

-If tu sneeze too hard, tu can fracture a rib. If tu try to suppress a sneeze, tu can rupture a blood vessel in your head o neck and die.

-The electric chair was invented por a dentist

-The smallest country in the world is Vatican City. It is 1/4 square mile, and there's a garden that takes up más than half of it

-There is a fear of gravity; Barophobia
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