28 lesser-known facts

The world can be full of surprises. All continents discovered all secrets of the earth have been revealed all mountains concurred. Well… if you think you have seen and heard them all, hold up! Here comes the internet with some crazy facts. 

28 lesser-known facts. It’s never too late to learn!

1. Charles Darwin was the first person to fix wheels to his office chair in order to move around quickly.

2. The electricity you use to charge your smartphone is so little. The annual cost will not exceed more than 1 Dollar.

3. Most of the animals avoid power lines due to the ultraviolet rays they see. Only humans and apes cannot see these rays.

4. 21% of the population of China has the names Van, Lee & Zhang. These are the most popular names in the world.

5. The Ice cubes made with tap water are white in color whereas the ones made with boiled water are transparent.

6. American Pianist Earl Wild did the first concert to broadcast live in 1939. It was the same online live concert broadcast on the internet 58 years later.

7. You need to click a Mouse button 10 million times to burn one calorie.

8. Salvador Dali’s Mustache was the same as when he died when his body was exhumed in 2017.

9. North Korea has donated 500,000 dollars to Japan in 2011 when affected by an earthquake.

10. A hot water bath burns as many calories as a 30 minutes walk.

11. Queen Elizabeth II is related to Vlad Tepes, the famous prototype for Dracula.

12. A paper cut never bleeds. But, is more painful than a regular cut as the wound is open to the air which irritates it.

13. The last uttered words by Albert Einstein were in German. Unfortunately, the nurse did not speak the language and did not understand a word he said.

14. 99% of Microbes living in the human body are unknown.

15. Some traffic lights in Japan have a Blue light instead of a Green. Historically both colors have had the same name.

16. The fat cells in your body don’t disappear when you lose weight, they resize.

17. There are bees in Nepal as big as 1.1 inches. They produce special honey that can cause hallucinations if consumed.

18. “Esposas” in Spanish means both Handcuffs and Wife.

19. The Pokemon Characters Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan were named after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

20. In Radio chats “Mayday” is the word used instead of “SOS”.

21. 70% of the Brazilian models are from Rio Grand State where only 5% of Brazil’s population lives.

22. Proprioception is the sense of knowing where your body parts are. This is a sense that the human body has besides the senses of smells and touches.

23. The Bombay Phenotype is a mixed-blood type caused by some missing elements in the blood. Only 0.0004% of people in the world have this type. There is special storage of this blood type for these people. The person who has this blood type can transfer blood to anyone with regular blood types.

24. The Mona Lisa’s portrait was in Napoleon Bonaparte’s bedroom for few years.

25. The top three most sold products in recent history are I Phones, Rubik Cubes, and Harry Potter books.

26. Galileo Galilei’s middle finger is kept in a museum of science in Florence.

27. A cockroach can live up to 7 days without its head. It only dies in hunger.

28. To recognize a real and fake diamond you need to breathe on it. The fake one will become foggy whereas the real one stays clear.