What are the most interesting facts you know?

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Friends,

Please share most interesting facts you know in each of the area seperately please.

PhysicalSciences

1.      A day on theplanet Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

2.     On Saturn's moonTitan, the gravity is low enough and the atmosphere thick enough, that byattaching small wings to your arms, you could fly like a bird

3.     Since itsdiscovery to its declassification as a planet, Pluto never made a full orbitaround the Sun.

4.     There are more moleculesin one glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the earth's oceanscombined.

5.     The realtrajectories of spacecraft are complicated ellipses

6.    The “Pillars of Creation” Have Been, Are Being, and Will Be Destroyed

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1.        Biology

1.        You have more bacterial cells living in and on your body than you have human cells.
2.        The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans.
3.        New Zealand rose from the ocean, and it's animal life is interesting because of that
4.        Tardigrades, also called 'water bears' can survive freezing, boiling and irradiation.
5.        The time difference between when Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus lived is greater than the time difference between Tyrannosaurus and now.

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Business and Politics

1.        The president of Uruguay donates around 90 percent of his $12,000 (£7,500)  monthly salary to charities.
2.        10 corporations control almost everything you buy
3.        The tiny island-nation of Tuvalu receives $4M a year from .tv domain name sales.
4.        China has more US dollars than the US.
5.        One share of Coca-Cola purchased for $40 at the company's IPO is now worth over $10,000,000 (200)

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Cultural Facts


1.        After dropping out in 1968, Steven Spielberg graduated college in 2002 to show gratitude to his parents for giving him the opportunity for an education and a career.
2.        Almost all Wikipedia articles link you through to the article on "Philosophy" eventually.
3.        A can of regular Coke sinks in water, whereas a can of diet Coke does not.
4.        Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost
5.        Indian housewives hold 11% of the World's gold.
6.        Honey is the only food item which never rots.
7.        Neil Armstrong had to fill an immigration form while coming back to the earth from the moon
8.        We don't know for sure who invented the fire hydrant because the patent for it was lost in the fire at patent office in Washington DC in 1836
9.        Cement is the most widely produced material today, but for ~1300 years we forgot the recipe.
10.        A Japanese officer didn't surrender in 1945, and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know the war was over.
11.        There was a book written about the sinking of the Titanic, 14 years before it actually sank.
12.        Vulcan Point is an island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island.
13.        Niels Bohr was given a free, direct tap to the Carlsberg brewery
14.        Scotland's national animal is the Unicorn.
15.        Austro-Hungarian man Adam Rainer was the only person in recorded world history to be both a giant and a dwarf.
16.        There Is A Starbucks Cup Visible In Every Scene In Fight Club.
17.        The world's quietest room is -9 decibels, quite enough to hear your blood flowing.
18.        There is mobile phone reception from the summit of Mount Everest.
19.        Burj Khalifa is so tall that, from it, you can actually watch the same sun set or rise twice in a day.
20.        Each of the main characters in Spongebob Squarepants was inspired by one of the seven deadly sins.
21.        One in ten Icelanders will become a published author in their lifetime. The guy on the "Anonymous Answer" silhouette in Quora is actually Charlie Cheever.
22.        The Curie family received 5 Nobel Prizes.
23.        After reading the entirety of a royal gift, Fath Ali Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia, extended his title to include "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
24.        The un-contacted people.
25.        English Nursery Rhymes have some dark stories associated with them