Facts Submitted by Users (11):

• You cannot fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times!
  Submitted by Edward (Canada)
  
  
• A mathematical wonder: 12345679 x 18 = 222222222
  Submitted by Laurent Pierson (Belgium)
  
  
• Let's say you were looking to hire someone, and I told you that I would work for a month if you would pay me 1 penny the first day and double that amount each day after that for a month, and that would be my pay. Would you hire me? Do the math!
  Submitted by Wade Warren (USA)
  
  
• A mathematical wonder with the number 142857... 142857 x 1 = 142857 | 142857 x 2 = 285714 | 142857 x 3 = 428571 | 142857 x 4 = 571428 | 142857 x 5 = 714285 | 142857 x 6 = 857142.
  Submitted by Ali Adams (UK)
  
  
• If computers were cars, we would all be walking.
  Submitted by John Sand (USA)
  
  
• All the gold that has been mined by every known civilisation in history could fit into a cube 18 metres tall, wide and deep.
  Submitted by Alan Stockwell (USA)
  
  
• A bullet fired parallel across flat land will strike the ground at thesame time as if it simply dropped out of the barrel.
  Submitted by Scott Ross (USA)
  
  
• A mathematical wonder: 12345679x8 = 98765432
  Submitted by Peter D'Hoye (Belgium)
  
  
• A mule's eyes are positioned so that it can see all four feet at once.
  Submitted by William Espenschied (USA)
  
  
• There have been more dollars lost from fire, than there have been seconds in time.
  Submitted by Dave Decker (USA)
  
  
• Did you know that the computer named "HAL" from the movie "2001" - The letters H - A - L are just one letter off from the letters - I B M !
  Submitted by Dave Decker (USA)

Our amazing facts (20):

• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
• During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur" a small red car can be seen in the distance.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• A mathematical wonder: 111.111.111 multiplied by 111.111.111 gives the result 12.345.678.987.654.321.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
• Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• Sherlock Holmes never did say "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.