Fascinating Facts and Trivia

“The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330. (It's amazing anyone bothers to count them)

“Duff” is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.

The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.

Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).

In France, there’s a place called Y.

Lobsters taste with their feet

Tiny bristles inside a lobster’s little pincers are their equivalent to human taste buds.

Meanwhile, lobsters’ teeth are in one of their three stomachs.

Tim Berners-Lee, who created the main software of the World Wide Web, admitted he regrets one thing: Adding “//” after “https:” in a web address.

It was standard for programming but didn’t serve any real purpose, and when looking back in 2009, he said leaving it out would have saved time and space.

The world’s largest waterfall is underwater

Yes, there are waterfalls under the ocean.

At the Denmark Straight, the cold water from the Nordic Sea is denser than the Irminger Sea’s warm water, making it drop almost two miles down at 123 million cubic feet per second.

Mort Bailey the US cartoonist who created Beetle Bailey came up with some words to describe things:
waftarom - the three wavy lines that are show food smells good
indotherm- wavy lines coming off tea or coffee to show it is hot
solrads - lines around the sun suggesting it is emitting heat.

British Prime Minister James Callaghan is the only person to hold all 4 major offices of State:
Chancellor(1964-67, Home Secretary(1967-70), Foreign Secretary(1974-76) and Prime Minister(1976-70)

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.

Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.

People say “bless you” when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.

US gold coins used to say “In Gold We Trust”.

2,167 people died between 1999 and 2014 due to "Constipation."

The pioneers of hot-air balloon travel were not brave men but a rooster, sheep, and a duck that were sent up in the innovative contraption invented by brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier at the end of the 1700s.

They were placed in a cage suspended beneath the balloon and after eight minutes ended up landing about two miles from where they took off—but all were alive and well.

When Star Wars' special effects artists Stuart Freeborn considered what kind of appearance he wanted to give his sage Jedi mentor, yoda, he got inspiration from a guy generally associated with being smart, Albert Einstein.

A photo of the theoretical physicist hung on his office wall, and his eyes and wrinkles gave Freeborn just the finishing touches he was looking for.