Really Interesting Stuff You Don't Need to Know Mega Edition: Over 3,000 Fascinating Facts by David Fickes

Author:David Fickes [Fickes, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

Facts 1801-2100

1801) Mexico City has more American emigrants than any other city in the world.

1802) The original constitution of the United States included an open invitation for Canada to join the United States. Ratified in 1781, the Articles of Confederation were the original constitution of the United States which were replaced by the U.S. Constitution in 1789; there was a clause stating if Canada agreed to become a member of the United States, they would automatically be accepted without the consent of the other states.

1803) Mexico has the most emigrants, people living in other countries.

1804) Forty percent of schizophrenics are left-handed; only 10% of the total population is left-handed.

1805) Fantasia in 1940 has the first appearance of Mickey Mouse in a Disney animated feature.

1806) A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope.

1807) The arrector pili muscles, located near the root of human hair follicles, are responsible for goosebumps.

1808) About 99.9% of all commercially grown artichokes come from California.

1809) A lethal dose of chocolate for a human would be about 22 pounds. Theobromine is a powerful stimulant in chocolate and can cause death in high enough doses.

1810) Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages spoken of any country; it has about 850 languages, one for every 8,000 citizens.

1811) In terms of percent of its land that is forests, Suriname is the most heavily forested country in the world.

1812) The V-shaped formation of a flock of geese is called a skein.

1813) Pregnancy tests have existed for about 3,400 years. Ancient Egyptian women urinated on a bag of barley and a bag of wheat; if the grain in either bag sprouted, she was pregnant. If the barley sprouted first, it would be a boy; if the wheat sprouted first, it would be a girl. A test done in 1963 found that the method was accurate about 70% of the time in determining pregnancy but wasn’t accurate in determining the baby’s gender.

1814) Gene Autry is the only person with a star in each of the five categories (movies, television, music, radio, live performance) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1815) The Harlem Globetrotters are the only sports team to play on all seven continents.

1816) The first 3D movie was shown in 1922. The film The Power of Love premiered at the Ambassador Hotel Theater in Los Angeles on September 27, 1922. It could be shown with a single projector, but it required special glasses for viewing.

1817) Wallace’s giant bee is the largest species of bee in the world; it is native to Indonesia and was thought to be extinct for over a century until it was rediscovered 1981. It is the largest of the over 20,000 known bee species including bumblebees; the females have a 2.5-inch wingspan and a body length of about 1.5 inches; the males are 0.9 inches long.

1818) Fruit flies produce the largest sperm of any animal. Their sperm is coiled up and unspools to about 2.3 inches which is 20 times the length of their body and about 1,000 times bigger than human sperm.

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