Curious Mind Blowing Facts - 9
will make you say "No Way"
Fortune cookies were invented in Japan and introduced to the US by the Japanese. In China, they are considered American, and are rare.
A 2013 research study says that there is no such thing as ‘right-brained’ or ‘left-brained.’
Australia is wider than the moon.
James Monaghan sold his share in DomiNick’s — precursor to pizza chain Dominos — to his brother Tom for a Volkswagen Beetle. Today, Dominos Pizza has a market cap of 15.5 Billion dollars. It is the largest pizza chain in the world. In 2021 the Dominos chain accounted for 42% of pizza sales in the US.
People do not use only 10% of their brains. While it is true that a small minority of neurons in the brain are actively firing at any one time, a healthy human will normally use most of their brain over the course of a day, and the inactive neurons are important as well.
Houseflies have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 days, not 24 hours.
Nuclear power is one of the safest sources of energy, resulting in orders of magnitude fewer deaths than conventional power sources per unit of energy produced.
96.6% of all websites get NO traffic from Google Search.
The least common job in the U.S. is fabric mender, the data shows. Fabric menders repair defects in fabrics and fix tears, clean stains and install grommets.
In May 2013 there were only 800 fabric menders in the U.S.
Bamboo bottles are a great alternative to plastic bottles and are biodegradable too.
Unlike other English speaking countries the U.S. pronounces Z as ‘zee’, not ‘zed’ as us Canucks do.
71% of Canadians want to leave their jobs this year and look for better opportunities.
In 2015, Rajveer Meena set the Guinness World Record by memorizing 70,000 decimal places of Pi.
Abraham Lincoln was a skilled wrestler and was honored with an award from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1992.
Rank of the United States among countries whose permanent residents feel safest : 52
Rank of Tajikistan : 1… But Tajikistan remains the poorest economy in Europe and Central Asia by GNI per capita (Gross National Income), which stood at USD $1,150 in 2021.
The bearded vulture is the only known animal who's diet is almost exclusively bone.
Russia and the United States, at their closest points, are about 2.4 miles apart.
The blue Nelson lake in New Zealand has the clearest body of water known to man with visibility in the lake of up to 260 feet.
14 % of U.S. doctors have used Ozempic to lose weight.
Noah, the Shepherd from the Bible and the Ark builder, was 950 years old when he died.
Vanilla Sky has been the only movie ever that got permission to shut down entire Times Square for any amount of time to film a movie scene. They got 3 hours on a Sunday morning to film Tom Cruise do a running sequence there.
Genghis Khan created one of the first international postal systems in the world.
In Denmark, it is the law to check under your vehicle to see if somebody is lying there before setting off – no, not bodies, but children who might be sleeping or hiding there.
Sylvester Stallone was so poor, he had to sell his dog for $25. A week later, he sold the script for Rocky and bought him back for $15,000.
Study says: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old. (https://www.earth.com/news/dark-matter-does-not-exist-universe-27-billion-years-old-study/)
Steve Jobs would lease a new Mercedes every six months to avoid using license plates. California law did not require new cars less than six months old to have license plates at the time.
In 2022, more than half of the world’s population lived in Asia. (India and China)
In 1963 a Turkish man was renovating his home. After knocking down a wall in his basement he found a tunnel. He followed the tunnel and discovered an ancient underground city called Derinkuyu which once had a population of 20,000 people.
Who owns what car brand?
Acura: Honda Motor Company
Afeela: Sony Honda Mobility
Alfa Romeo: Stellantis
Audi: Volkswagen Group
BMW: BMW Group
Bentley: Volkswagen Group
Buick: General Motors
Cadillac: General Motors
Chevrolet: General Motors
Chrysler: Stellantis
Defender: JLR/Tata Motors
Discovery: JLR/Tata Motors
Dodge: Stellantis
Fiat: Stellantis
Fisker: Fisker Inc.
Ford: Ford Motor Co.
GMC: General Motors
Genesis: Hyundai Motor Group
Honda: Honda Motor Co.
Hyundai: Hyundai Motor Group
Infiniti: Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance
Jaguar: JLR/Tata Motors
Jeep: Stellantis
Kia: Hyundai Motor Group
Land Rover (retired): Tata Motors
Lexus: Toyota Motor Corp.
Lincoln: Ford Motor Co.
Lotus: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group
Lucid: Lucid Motors
Maserati: Stellantis
Mazda: Mazda Motor Corp.
Mercedes-Benz: Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Mercury*: Ford Motor Co.
Mini: BMW Group
Mitsubishi: Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance
Nissan: Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance
Polestar: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group
Pontiac*: General Motors
Porsche: Volkswagen Group
Ram: Stellantis
Range Rover: JLR/Tata Motors
Rivian: Rivian Automotive, with investments from Amazon and Ford, among others.
Rolls-Royce: BMW Group
Saab*: Brand owned by Saab AB; assets owned by National Electric Vehicle Sweden
Saturn*: General Motors
Scion*: Toyota Motor Corp.
Scout: Volkswagen AG.
Smart*: Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Subaru: Subaru Corp.
Suzuki*: Suzuki Motor Corp. Owns a small stake in Toyota.
Tesla: Tesla Inc.
Toyota: Toyota Motor Corp.
VinFast: VinGroup
Volkswagen: Volkswagen AG.
Volvo: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group
*Retired brand, but many are still sold as used cars.
Top 5 Most Visited Cities in the World in 2023:
1: Hong Kong, China with 26.6 million visitors
2: Bangkok, Thailand with 21.2 million visitors
3: London, United Kingdom with 19.2 million visitors
4: Singapore with 16.6 million visitors
5: Macau, China with 15.4 million visitors
Do you use coloring books? Many adults nowadays are hooked on the art of coloring. As a matter of fact, it's become a growing trend over the last several years.
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