J’ai toujours été un grand fan des faits divers, ceux-ci étant souvent de nature étonnante. En voici quelques-un :
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
- American car horns beep in the tone of F.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
- There are 240 white dots on a Pac-man video game.
- Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
- In 1982, Englishman William Hall committed suicide by drilling holes into his head with a power drill…it took 8 holes!
- A ‘Jiffy’ is actually a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
- Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.
- The Atlantic Ocean is Saltier then the Pacific Ocean.
- The right lung takes in more air then the left
- Polar bears are left handed.
- The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China.
- It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
