Fatti Strani :

• You cannot fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times!
  
  
  

• A mathematical wonder: 12345679 x 18 = 222222222
  
  
  

• 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!
  
  
  

• 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.
  
  
  

• If computers were cars, we would all be walking.
  
  
  

• All the gold that has been mined by every known civilisation in history could fit into a cube 18 metres tall, wide and deep.
  
  
  

• A bullet fired parallel across flat land will strike the ground at thesame time as if it simply dropped out of the barrel.
  
  
  

• A mathematical wonder: 12345679x8 = 98765432
  
  
  

• A mule's eyes are positioned so that it can see all four feet at once.
  
  
  

• There have been more dollars lost from fire, than there have been seconds in time.
  
  
  

• 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 !
  
  

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.