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Some Intresting Facts
General Knowledge & Miscellaneous:
1. 100 pennies make one dollar.
2. 100 years is a century.
3. 100 centimeters is one meter.
4. 100% means all answers are correct.
5. A person who lives to be 100 is called a centenarian.
6. C is the Roman numeral for 100.
7. An American football field is 100 yards long.
8. 10 ten dollar bills equal 100 dollars.
9. Hot water can turn into ice faster than cold water.
10. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
11. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
12. Ants rest for about 8 minutes in a 12-hour period.
13. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
14. The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes.
15. The Great Wall of China is over 13,000 miles long.
16. Ancient Egyptians used honey as a wound treatment.
17. The Eiffel Tower can grow taller in summer due to heat.
18. Paper was invented in China over 2,000 years ago.
19. Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
20. Your body has more bacteria than human cells.
21. A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
22. Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.
23. Clouds can weigh over a million pounds.
24. The strongest muscle in your body by size is the jaw.
25. Plants can communicate with each other.
26. The world's largest living organism is a fungus.
27. Alaska is the only US state whose name is typed on one keyboard row.
28. Queen Elizabeth II was a trained mechanic.
29. Peanuts are used to make dynamite.
30. The chicken came before the egg.
31. Earth isn't perfectly round.
32. Coral reefs are the Earth's largest living structure.
33. Antarctica has the largest ice sheet on Earth.
34. The moon is drifting away from Earth.
35. The Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth.
36. Earth's magnetic north pole is moving westward.
37. A continent on Earth is wider than the moon.
38. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius at sea level.
39. There are 100 Senators in the United States Senate.
Science & Nature:
1. A chameleon's tongue can be twice the length of its body.
2. There are more stars in space than grains of sand on Earth.
3. A group of owls is called a parliament.
4. The smell of rain is called petrichor.
5. The Earth's rotation is slowing down very slightly.
6. The Earth's core is hotter than the surface of the sun.
7. The Great Barrier Reef is visible from space.
8. The tallest mountain on Earth, measured from base to peak, is Mauna Kea.
9. A blue whale's heart is so big, a human could swim through its arteries.
10. Octopus have three hearts and blue blood.
11. Honeybees can recognize human faces.
12. A group of crows is called a murder.
13. Venus rotates on its axis backward compared to most planets.
14. The Earth's magnetic field protects us from harmful solar radiation.
15. Some fungi can glow in the dark.
16. There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.
History & Culture:
