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Einstein retarded?

Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.

Invention of the microwave oven

The microwave oven was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Cuttle fish blood

The colour of cuttle fish blood is blue and it has 3 hearts.

Libya's flag

Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag, it's green.

Caesar superstar

Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.

Domestication

In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.

Hyoid bone

The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.

Hot Lightning

The heat a lightning bolt produces is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

Pearls vs Vinegar

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Atomic fart

If a man farted non-stop for six years and nine months and then lit it he would produce an explosion equal to the power of the first atomic bomb.

Muscles

A caterpillar has 2000 muscles, as compared to man who has only 656 muscles.

Cockroaches vs glue

Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps.

Toast and War

French toast was known as German toast until World War One.

Giraffe's baby

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of 2 meters, normally without being hurt.

Earth quakes and lightning

The Earth experiences 150 earth quakes each day and is hit by lightning 100 times a second.

Blue whale

A blue whale needs 3 tonnes of food everyday.

PageRank

The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank™, and assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that's not why it's called PageRank. It's actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.

All eyes on you

The butterfly has 1200 eyes. These are compound eyes consisting of thousands of hexagonal shaped omatidea. Each omatidea, or miniscule sensor, is directed at a slightly different angle from the others. Collectively they are directed in every direction -- up, down, forwards, backwards, left and right. Because of this, butterflies are able to see in virtually every direction simultaneously.

Albania maps

Until 1994, world maps and globes sold in Albania only had Albania on them.

Busy bees

Bees have to suck about 4 million flowers to produce 1kg of honey.

Bladder size

The bladder of an average person can hold 350 ml to 550 ml of urine. Generally, a person feels like they need to urinate when approximately 200 ml of urine fills up in the bladder.

Google's start

Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively (a combined 47 years old).

The Guinness Book holds a record of its own

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.