Interesting facts

  1. On average, Americans’ favorite smell is banana.
  2. If one spells out numbers, they would have to count to One Thousand before coming across the letter “A”.
  3. Honey is the only food which does not spoil.
  4. Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
  5. The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.
  6. Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13.  He died at 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.
  7. Einstein couldn’t speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.
  8. The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
  9. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  10. The scene where Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark was Harrison Ford’s idea so that he could take a bathroom break.
  11. All polar bears are left-handed.
  12. China has more English speakers than the United States.