Random facts 13


The death penalty was outlawed in the UK partly because a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter in 1950.

In 2007, a man faked his own death to get out of a cell phone contract.


We only taste 20% of the salt on potato chips, so Lay's created a new shape of salt with the same taste but 25% less salt.


Human life expectancy has increased more in the last 50 years than in the previous 200,000 years of human existence.

A natural predator of the Moose is the Killer Whale. They have been known to prey on moose swimming around America's Northwest Coast.
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When Charlie Chaplin received his honorary Oscar, he got a 12-minute standing ovation, the longest in Oscar history.

The Sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.


The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.

The beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.

Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.( see neutrinos here==>

The American flags placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the sun.

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