1. Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.
2. Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.
3. In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg unsuccessfully tried to sell Facebook for $75 million. Back then it was called TheFacebook.

4. Some areas in Scotland and Japan switched to blue street lights at night, and saw a decrease in crime & suicide rates.
5. Elephants make friends, bury their dead, travel for ‘funerals’, speak to each other, and show extreme intelligence.

6. “Bluetooth” technology was named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway – just like the wireless technology united computers and cell phones.
7. In Japan, you are equally likely to die from being struck by lightning as you are from being shot by a gun.
8. If you made $1 every second, it would take you 2,921 years to have more money than Bill Gates (over $92.1 billion dollars).
9. February used to be the last month of the year, which is why it has the shortest number of days.
10. Shoe shops used X-Ray machines to measure shoe sizes in the 1940’s before the risks of X-Rays were fully understood.
11. The Nazis were the first ever people in modern history to start an anti-smoking and tobacco movement.
12. There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
13. In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years.
14. Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.
15. Approximately 1,000,000 dogs in the U.S. are named as the heirs of their owners’ wills.
16. In 2012, an Afghan Taliban Commander Mohammed Ashan turned himself in to local authorities, trying to claim the $100 reward prize he had seen on a poster for his arrest.
Courtesy: Factsite.com
