Fascinating Facts and Trivia

There's a 107-acre forest made up of a single tree.

The "Trembling Giant" in Utah's Fishlake National Forest includes over 47,000 quaking aspen trees that share the same root system.

Some scientists estimate it's close to a million years old.

Pop group Crowded House had a novel way of promoting their single Weather With You. In that song there is a line that mentions a place "at 57 Mount Pleasant Street" and so they decided to send a copy of their single to everywhere in the world that had a 57 Mount Pleasant Street.

In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.

A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

“Lassie” was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.

Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag.

Just now I'm watching the film A Thousand Heroes, a made for television film from 1992 that's not really that good.
However it is a true story and concerns the crash of United 232 at Sioux City on the 20th of July 1989.
Unlike so many, this aircrash programme eschews reconstructions in favour of contemporary interviews, the relevant section starting at about fifteen minutes.

Kleenex Tissues Were Invented for for gas masks.

During World War I, there was a cotton shortage and the thin tissue was created to place inside gas mask as a filter.

The Indent on the Bottom of Wine Bottles is called a punt.

The punt makes the wine bottles stronger when the pressure is put in by the cork.

That way, your after-hours drink doesn’t explode all over the place.

Duct tape can eliminate eyesores from your home but it’s also really good at getting rid of eyesores on your body like warts.

According to a study published in “Archives of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine,” duct tape proved more effective at treating warts than having them frozen off.

Two Scottish doctors developed the prototype of the chainsaw to assist in cutting out diseased bone, as well as dividing cartilage in the pelvis to assist with childbirth

Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.

There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are even more numerous: about 140,000 species of them were counted all over the world.

Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
The Land of Nod is mentioned in the Bible.

Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.

Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House.

God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.

You cannot smell when you are sleeping, as your olfactory sense shuts down.