Interesting Facts #2

2) Astronaut Buzz Aldrin was the first person to pee on the moon.
3) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match stick.
4) Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Psyche, was the first film in history to show a toilet being flushed on-camera.
5) If you remove all the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on Earth, the entire population would fit in an apple.
6) The small percentage of static you see on “dead” channels are actually residual radiation from the Big Bang.
7) More than fifty percent of the world’s population haven’t made or received a phone call.
8) There are more possible iterations in a game of chess than there are atoms in the entire observable universe.
9) The China Highway 110 traffic jam lasted more than 10 days.
10) It’s not impossible to watch every video on YouTube. Every minute you spend watching a video, 100 more hours of footage are uploaded to YouTube.
11) There are over 200 dead bodies on Mount Everest.
12) 315 entries in the Webster’s 1996 English dictionary were misspelled
13) The world’s oldest chewing gum is 5,000 years old.
14) The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale, and it’s so lonely that it hasn’t had any response to it’s mating call for decades.
15) The average lead pencil can be used to write around 50,000 English words.
16) The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.
17) Pigs can’t look up at the sky.
18) A glass ball can bounce higher than a rubber ball, as long as it doesn’t break.
19) The first condom was made in the 16th century.
20) The kangaroo mouse never needs to drink water.
21) Spending a few months in Antarctica can shrink your brain.
22) A couple once tried to name their child Brfxxccxxmnpccccll-lmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, pronounced "Albin."
23) A parking spot in Hong Kong sold for almost 1 million dollars.
24) Clams have feet.
25) Oxford University is older than the Aztecs.
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