20 incredible facts that will amaze and astound you.

1. AMAZING
BUT TRUE

2. European babies is conceived in an
One in ten
IKEA bed.

3. pumps enough blood in a lifetime to fill
The human heart
3 supertankers

4. of all the
photographs
in the world
were taken
in the last
10%
12 months

5. The world’s population collectively spends
500,000 hours a day
typing Internet security codes.

6. was stolen from the Louvre in 1911,
one of the suspects was
The Mona Lisa
Pablo Picasso

7. had more cash
in the bank
than the
In 2012,
Apple Inc.
US
government

8. Worldwide sales of
cocaine
earn more than
Microsoft, McDonald’s
and Kellogg’s
combined.

9. You are
14%
more likely to
die on your
birthday
than any other day

10. More than
1 in 20
football injuries
are caused by
celebrating
goals
on the pitch.

11. In 2010,
the Catholic
Church
had an
income of
$97 billion

12. The UK retail
industry makes
£250 million
a year from
gift cards
that no one redeems

13. Cows eat only grass
but have
25,000
taste buds:
two and a half times
as many as humans.

14. 40%
of all
bottled water
sold in the world
is bottled
tap water.

15. More than twice
as many people
are killed by
vending
machines
as by sharks.

16. The word
‘döner’
in döner kebab
is Turkish for
‘rotating’

17. Buzz
Aldrin’s
mother’s
maiden name
was
“Moon”

18. Humans and elephants
are the only animals with chins.

19. Since 1700,
new beetle species
have been discovered
at the rate of one every
six hours.

20. Gary Kremen,
the founder of match.com,
lost his girlfriend
to a man she met on
match.com.

21. If everyone in
the world
washed their
hands properly,
a million lives
could be saved
every year.

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