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Random and Interesting Facts About Our World

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I came across this list while browsing the internet one evening and found a lot of the facts very eye catching! Thus, I decided to share my wonder with all of you!

You can find the rest of the facts at: http://all-that-is-interesting.com/interesting-fac...

Here we gooo!

- There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.

- Otters sleep holding hangs.

- OJ Simpson was originally cast as the Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would see him as a remorseless killer.

- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.

- The last man to walk on the moon, named Gene Cernan, promised his daughter that he would write her initials on the moon and now there are three letters, TDC, that will probably be on the moon for tens of thousand of years.

- The Mimic Octopus can not only change colors, but can mimic the shape of other animals. Animals they can mimic are: the flounder, lionfish and sea snakes.

- If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on the earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.

- In the 1960s, the CIA tried to spy on the Kremlin and Russian embassies by turning cats into listening devices. The program, properly known as Acoustic Kitty, involved surgically implanting batteries, microphones and antennae inside the cats.

- A traffic jam once lasted for more than 10 days with the vehicles only moving 0.6 miles per day.

- There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they're used as way points form climbers.

- All of the clocks in the movie entitled "Pulp Fiction" are stuck at 4:20.

- Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" to win a bet against his publisher who thought that he could not complete a book while using only fifty words.

- There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.

- Russia didn't consider beer an alcoholic beverage until the year 2011. It was previously considered a soft drink.

- Two-thirds of the people on this planet have never seen snow in the flesh.

- In Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 movie entitled "Psycho," the sound effects for the infamous shower scene were made by actually stabbing a casaba melon repeatedly.

- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

- There are more vacant homes than there are homeless people in the US.

- The woolly mammoth was around when the Egyptian pyramids were being constructed.

- When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

- A jellyfish is 95% water.

- You are 1% shorter in the evening than you are in the morning.

- It would take over 1000 years to watch every video on YouTube.

- After racking up $40 in late fees for a VHS, Reed Hastings was inspired to start Netflix.

- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four foot tall child inside.

- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

- The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

- Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

- A giraffe can clean its own ears with its 21 inch long tongue.

- Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

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