Daily Facts

The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.

The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

Greenland is the largest island in the world.

The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there`s no air pressure.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.  More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each...

During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, “Red Vineyard at Arles”.

Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.

“Canada” is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, re...

Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when exposed to light.

Eating the heart of a male Partridge was the cure for impotence in ancient Babylon.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

1 in 5 of the world's doctors are Russian.