- If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.
- If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors.
- Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
- Albert Einstein didn’t wear socks.
- Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had.
- The coconut is the largest seed in the world.
- The first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and Silicate – hence its brand name, Persil.
- Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west than to the east.
- The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
- Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.
Courtesy of 99facts.com