Mind blowing facts

  • The world’s oceans contain 20 million tons of gold.
  • During the ice age, 32,000 years ago, a squirrel buried a seed. Now the seed has been used to grow a flower.
  • There are more bacteria inhabiting our body than there are human cells.
  • A giraffe can clean its own ears with its 21-inch tongue.
  • Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
  • Adolf Hitler was nominated for the nobel peace prize in 1939.
  • As a fundraiser, Justin's Bieber's BABY has been played in a chicago high school and students had to pay to stop it. The campaign raised $1000 in 3 days.
  • MDIF, a non-profit organisation is planning to beam free wifi to entire world from space.
  • In 2006, a woman was found in her london apartment, skeletonized after 3 years of being dead.
  • There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as way points for climbers.
  • Whenever we talk of richest person on Earth, we either think of Bill Gates or John D. Rockefeller. But they are not. Please meet Mansa Musa 1 of Mali. (worth is $400 billion)
  • Forbes estimated in 2011 that Scrooge McDuck was worth $44.1 billion.
  • It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
  • In Egypt, actors were not allowed to testify in the court because they were seen as professional liars.
  • A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.