Fact #134

Classic Monopoly = Atlantic City

Advertisements

Fact #132

Since its introduction in February 1935, more than two hundred million Monopoly board games have been sold worldwide.

24 Amazing Facts!

1. The shrimp’s heart is in its head.
2. You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.
3. Famous actor Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
4. In general, a man’s heart beats slower than a woman’s.
5. The country with highest divorce rate in the world is United States.
6. Cats are capable to hear ultrasound.
7. Dutch, on average are the tallest people in the world.
8. Natural pearls melt in vinegar.
9. An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.
10. There is no butter in buttermilk.
11. The earth is estimated to weigh approximately 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
12. There are 86,400 seconds in day.
13. Ants never sleep and that’s a fact.
14. The human brain is 80% water and 20% grey material.
15. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law that stated you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
16. While peeling onions, you can chew gums to reduce your tears.
17. There are no less than 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess. Perhaps that’s why they call it a true mind game.
18. There are about 540,000 words in the English language and growing.
19. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew food on your right side. If you are left handed, you are likely to chew food on your left side.
20. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
21. The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day
22. One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet.
23. The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away.
24. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV

Taken From WOGK Blog

Fact #101

Only 18 out of every MILLION Lego blocks don’t pass the quality test.