On June 26th, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco. (The text of the charter was in five languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)
The San Diego Zoo in California has the largest collection of animals in the world.
Despite the break up of the USSR, Russia is still the largest country in the world. It�s almost twice the size of Canada, which ranks second.
In the Spanish Pyrenees, when a beekeeper dies, each of his bees is splashed with a drop of Black Ink.
The most common disease in the world is tooth - decay.
The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's pet name for JFK Jr. was "Mouse."
In the US, Delaware, Virginia and Michigan rank as the top three states for Ritalin use, and most of the prescriptions are for elementary and middle school age children. Doctors in these states prescribe at least 33 grams for every 1,000 residents, 56 percent more than the national average, according to figures compiled by the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency.
The furthest point from any ocean would be in China.
Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.thanx kim (Now dont you feel more contented each night before you go to sleep ALONE)
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14, 1900.
The average child will eat 1,500 PB sandwiches by high school graduation.
The final score in the game that Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points was Warriors 169 Knicks 147.
Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
The Sahara desert is larger as Europe and large then the combined areas of next largest 9 deserts.
England and the American colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on September 14th, 1752. 11 days disappeared.
Sharks are immune to cancer.
The only bird that can fly backwards is the hummingbird.
Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchise owner in Uniontown, PA, invented the Big Mac in 1968. He originally named it the Big Mac Super Sandwich. The following year McDonald's sold it nationwide.
Women say that the part of a man's body that they admire the most is his buttocks.
A peanut is not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.
Sunday, July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, Edwin Aldrin was the second. They were members of Apollo 11, and landed in the Sea of Tranquility. The Lunar Excursion Module was named the "Eagle." Michael Collins stayed onboard the mother ship, "Columbia."
In 1931, Charleston, SC was the first city in the United States to pass legislation establishing a historical district. The city has more than 1,000 buildings that predate the Civil War.
In Idaho walking along the street with a red-tipped cane is strictly prohibited.
Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
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New York City has 570 miles of shoreline.
Dill seeds are so small that approximately 10,000 dill seeds would be required to make an ounce.
Man O' War lost only one race in his career. It happened in 1919 to a horse named Upset.
Larger Stingrays have the power to drive their stingers or tail-spines through the hulls of wooden boats
Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name is Obsession
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Pearls melt in vinegar.
Vincent van Gogh didn't start to draw until he was 27 years old.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
The temperature of the earth's interior increases by one degree every 60 feet down.
The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
La Pax, Bolivia is a virtually fireproof city. At an altitude of about 12,000 feet above sea level, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere is barely able to support fire.
Sea water, loaded with mineral salts, weighs about a pound and a half more per cubit foot than fresh water at the same temperature.
Prostitution is legal in Canada, however running a brothel is not.
Until 1967 it wasn't illegal for Olympic athletes to use drugs to enhance their performance during competition.
Cows, like my grannie, do not have upper teeth.
William Fox, the founder of 20th Century Fox, was bankrupt a few years after selling his studio, and served a prison sentence in Pennsylvania for bribing a judge.
Ferris wheels are names after George W. Ferris who built the first one in Chicago in 1893.
The full name of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is actually Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.
The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
Except for 2 and 3, every prime number will eventually become divisible by 6 if you either add or subtract 1 from the number. For example, the number 17, plus 1, is divisible by 6. The number 19, minus 1, is also divisible by 6
Bananas are actually herbs. Bananas die after fruiting, like all herbs do.
The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television. "Chachi" is Korean for "penis."
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
It's strange that a city with a two letter abreviation (LA) was named after a river called "EL RIO DE SENORA LA REYNA DE LOS ANGELES DE PORCIUNCULA".
Vincent van Gogh is known to have sold only one painting during his lifetime.
A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its ass.
The first suburban shopping mall was opened in 1922 by National Department Stores in Saint Louis.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
For a typical lovemaking session, the man will thrust an average of 60 to 120 times.
That white, powdery stuff on the wings of moths is actually the way moths dispose of waste.
In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.
Rutherford Hayes became U.S. President by one vote.
After six months at the off-Broadway New York Shakespeare Festival Theater, Hair opened at the Biltmore Theater in New York, in 1968. It was the first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.
A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
In Ohio women are forbidden from wearing patent leather shoes, lest men see reflections of their underwear
It is impossible to land on planet Jupiter, because, scientists believe that below all the gases and liguid there is a center [core] which is made up of small ball of pressurized iron, but it is impossible to tell for sutre.
Flies jump backwards when they take off.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated.
Smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.