← FACTSlides → Random Facts Page #142

From bottom to top, Mount Everest is not the world's tallest mountain. Mauna Kea in Hawaii is about 1 km (3280 feet) taller.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

William Bullock, inventor of the web rotary press, was killed by his own invention.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Just HALF of women surveyed in the UK could locate the vagina on a diagram of the female reproductive system.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Recovering from a break-up is like a kicking an addiction to a drug, researchers found from looking at the brain scans of the broken-hearted.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

The average Facebook user has 155 friends but would turn to just 4 for help, a survey found.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Detroit
was the most dangerous U.S. city in 2015, with a violent crime rate of 1,988.63 per 100,000 people.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Handwriting has declined so much that 1 in 3 respondents to a UK survey said they had not written anything by hand in the previous 6 months.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

The average single male in the UK changes his sheets just four times a year, a survey found.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Karl Marx last words were "Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!".

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Cats enjoy music that uses similar frequencies to those used to communicate with other felines.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Somniphobia is the fear of falling asleep.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Up to a third

of women

are affected by

urinary incontinence.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Moderate exercise can not only treat but actually prevent episodes of depression in the long term.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Music
can help severely
brain-injured
patients recall personal memories.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

11.5 million animals were used in experiments in 2011 in the European Union alone.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

The German airforce was outnumbered 30:1 on D-Day and didn't shoot down a single allied plane in air-to-air combat.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

1.2 billion people
play games
worldwide, 700 million of them online, a 2013 study found.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Ombrophobia
is the fear of rain, which can cause severe anxiety attacks.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Hoverboards are illegal in New York City since 2015.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Often referred to as the "love molecule", oxytocin is typically associated with helping couples establish a greater sense of intimacy and attachment.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

High School students perform better on tests if they are in a classroom with a view of a green landscape, a research found.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Canada and Denmark have been fighting over an uninhabited island by leaving each other bottles of alcohol and changing their flags since the 1930s.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

One Hookah Tobacco Smoking Session Delivers 25 Times the Tar of a Single Cigarette.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Steve Jobs last words were "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Farmers in India use Coca-Cola and Pepsi as cheap pesticides, according to the BBC.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Giving up Alcohol for just one month can improve liver function, decrease blood pressure and reduce the risk of liver disease and diabetes.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

The Pentagon was constructed so that no point in the building is more than a seven-minute walk from any other point.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

In the UK, if you name the person your spouse was unfaithful with on your divorce papers, they will get copies of the paperwork.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

Finland celebrates "National Sleepy Head Day," where the last person in the house to wake up is thrown into water by the early risers.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE

It would take you 10 years to view all the photos shared on Snapchat in the last hour.

♦ SOURCE

♺ SHARE