The Information World

Here are some interesting and funny infos that you might don’t know. More to come in Part II Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S. The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete. The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of […]

More Random fun facts  (Part II) Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster. Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million. Buttermilk does not contain any butter. By partially […]

Some random fun facts (Part I) that you might not know before. Read out and increase your knowledge Ants never sleep. No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with “MONTH”. The human brain is 80% water. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum. The parachute […]

If you look at the sun RIGHT NOW, you are technically looking back in time. It takes eight minutes for light from the sun to reach Earth. Therefore, the image of the sun in the sky outside your window at this moment is actually what the sun looked like about eight minutes ago.

For a period, starting in the 15th century, French playing-card manufacturers assigned to each of the court cards names taken from history or mythology. The most common names for the kings were: * King of Spades: David (a biblical king)* King of Hearts: Charles (presumably after Charlemagne)* King of Diamonds: Caesar (Julius Caesar)* King of Clubs: […]

The word ”buffalo” in the sentence has three meanings: the animal, the city in New York and the act of ”buffaloing” which is another word for teasing or bullying. Here is another way of looking at the sentence: THE buffalo FROM Buffalo WHO ARE buffaloed BY buffalo FROM Buffalo ALSO buffalo THE buffalo FROM Buffalo.”

In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people’s clothes. The cameras had special lenses that use infrared light (IR) to see through some types of clothing. It primarily works on dark colored, thin clothing – like swimsuits. The main factor is how well the fabric absorbs IR light waves. […]

Due to the lack of gravity in space, astronauts have been known to grow up to an additional two inches taller! For this reason, space suits are fitted to each astronaut with two inches of room to grow.  This weightlessness can also cause astronauts to lose bone mass! The lack of gravity prevents the compression of […]