True Facts That Will Shock You

The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.

Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.

If you make ice cubes with tap water, they will be white; if you use boiled water, they will be transparent.

Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the keyboard.

The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it.

About 11% of the people in the world are left-handed.

There is McDonald's in every continent except Antartica.

The calcium in our bones and the iron in our blood come from ancient explosions of giant stars.

Scientists say that the best time to take a nap is between 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. because that's when a dip in body temperature makes us feel sleepy.

The tv remote is the dirtiest item in a typical household, hospital, or hotel room.

There's a basketball court above the Supreme Court. It's known as the Highest Court in the Land.

This is a scientific fact that one can’t lick his own elbow and the considerable thing is this that most of the people must have tried to lick their elbow after reading this fact and must have been failed to do so!

To tell a real diamond from a fake, you need to breathe on it: a fake one will become foggy, and a genuine one will stay clear.

When you gain or lose weight, your fat cells don’t disappear — they just change their size.

The hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.