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In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family US$16 million for the film of JFK's assassination

Leonardo Da Vinci was the first to explain why the sky is blue.

The Apollo 11 had about 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed.


Leo Da Vinci was ambidextrous meaning he could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.


Author J. K. Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in 1990, 7 years before the release of the first book.



The stripes on each tiger are unique, like human fingerprints.

Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.


It snowed in the Sahara Desert in 1979.


Some chickens are half male, half female.


An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.


When the "Elephant Whisperer" Lawrence Anthony died, a herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him.


Bananas are slightly radioactive.

A blue whale's heart can be as large as a car.

Edison electrocuted an elephant in 1903 to prove Tesla's AC current was dangerous.

Elephants are pregnant for 2 years.

Britney Spears' used pregnancy test was sold on eBay for $5,001.

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Leeches have 32 brains.

Kissing can cause tooth decay.

It's impossible to sneeze while sleeping.

Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood.

There's high-speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest.


Listerine was invented in 1879 as a surgical antiseptic and later sold as a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea.

The longest pregnancy in humans on record is 375 days (12.5 months). Source http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,797153,00.html You never see anything. Come to 9ja first

There's a blue planet where it rains glass.


In France, you can marry a dead person.

Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a Unique Tongue Print.

Castration was used in the Middle Ages as a "cure" for hernia, epilepsy, and leprosy.

Besides sucking our blood, mosquitoes urinate on our skin.

Only two countries in the world are not allowed to sell Coca-Cola officially: North Korea and Cuba.

The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.


Drinking grapefruit while taking medication can cause instant overdose and death.


When a person dies, his sense of hearing is the last to go.

Einstein, Darwin, Allan Poe & Saddam Hussein, all married their first cousins.

Mice and Human DNA are 97.5% similar.

A russian woman in the 1700s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man.



In 1945, a rooster named Mike, lived 18 months without a head.

Elephants and chimpanzees can display behavior patterns similar to post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

Chewing gum is banned in Singapore.

A man married a dog in India as atonement.A man married a dog in India as atonement.

The Nazis tried to teach dogs to talk and read.

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347,000 Tweets are sent every minute.


Twitter is more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol,according to a study.


"Friendstalker" was one of the early names considered for Twitter.

The FBI has a Twitter slang dictionary.


The official Twitter account of @Sweden is given to a random citizen every week to manage.

In 2013, a fake tweet temporarily wiped out US$130 billion off the stock market.

In 2014, there are about 350,000 tweets and 382,000 Facebook likes every minute.

A day's worth of Twitter posts would fill a 10-million-page book.

Justin Bieber has more followers on Twitter than Spain has people.


Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.


44% of registered Twitter users have never tweeted.

After Michael Jackson's death hit the news, he was mentioned in a rate of 5,000 tweets per minute.


Twitter's bird is called Larry.


In 2011, Twitter users tweeted the equivalent of 8,163 copies of "War and Peace" every day.

According to the Vatican, you can reduce the time you spend in purgatory by following the pope on Twitter.

Around 50% of Justin Bieber's followers on Twitter are fake, a report found.

There's a Twitter account that narrates WWII in "real-time."


Twitter bought Vine for US$30 million several months before it was even officially released.

In April, 2013, someone hacked Associated Press' Twitter account and tweeted that 2 bombs had exploded at the White House. The stock market crashed within seconds.


90% of the world's Internet Users Don't Use Twitter.


In 2012, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez rewarded his 3,000,000th Twitter follower, a 19-year old girl, with a new home.