Really Interesting Stuff You Don't Need to Know: 1,500 Fascinating Facts by David Fickes

Author:David Fickes [Fickes, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

Facts 751-1000

751) The Who is the only band to play at both Woodstock and Live Aid.

752) Denmark has the world’s oldest operating amusement park; it started in 1583.

753) The Canary Islands are named after dogs. When the first Europeans arrived, they found large dogs on Grand Canary; canaria is the Latin word for dog.

754) In Victorian London, people were paid to collect dog poop for use in tanning leather.

755) The largest national park in the world is in Greenland. The Northeast Greenland National Park is 375,000 square miles; it is about 100 times bigger than Yellowstone National Park and only has about 500 visitors per year.

756) A day on Mars is 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth.

757) Japan and Russia still haven’t officially signed a peace treaty between them ending WWII; they have a dispute over the Kuril Islands.

758) Plato first wrote about the lost civilization of Atlantis in 360 BC.

759) A blue moon is defined as the second full moon in a calendar month. It happens about every three years giving the expression “once in a blue moon” for something that doesn’t occur very often.

760) The Italian word vermicelli literally means little worms.

761) During WWI, the British tried to train seagulls to poop on the periscopes of enemy submarines.

762) The ancient Romans threw walnuts at weddings; they signified hoped for fertility of the bride.

763) In terms of production volume, tomatoes are the most popular fruit in the world.

764) Prior to the 20th century, lobster was considered a mark of poverty and used for fertilizer and fed to slaves. Its reputation changed when modern transportation allowed shipping live lobsters to urban centers.

765) At President Andrew Jackson’s funeral in 1845, his pet parrot was removed for swearing.

766) The fastest human sense in terms of how long it takes to process the input is hearing; it takes as little as 0.05 seconds to process.

767) When Lord Byron became a student at Cambridge, dogs were prohibited, so he got a bear as a pet. The bear stayed in his lodgings, and Byron would take him for walks around the grounds.

768) At 5,525 miles, the United States and Canada share the longest land border in the world.

769) Sapphire is the second hardest gem after diamond.

770) As originally written, Aladdin is Chinese.

771) The Volkswagen Beetle debuted in 1938. Its concept and functional objectives were formulated by Adolf Hitler, and it was designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

772) Kopi Luwak is a very expensive type of coffee known as civet coffee; it is made from partially digested coffee cherries eaten and defecated by civet cats.

773) The seahorse and pipefish are the only two species of fish where the male gives birth.

774) A blue whale’s pulse is 8-10 beats per minute.

775) Green is the first color mentioned in the Bible. Genesis 1:30 states, “To every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”

776) Italy has won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar the most times of any country.

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