Mind Blowing Facts

• If you start meeting a new person for one second from the moment you are born and continue to do so without sleeping, resting, and eating for one hundred years, you would not have met even half of world population at the end of one hundred years. Here is the math.

• Breathing in Beijing air on a bad day is equivalent to smoking 25 cigarettes per day. On average day it’s 4 cigarettes per day. Source.

• All the countries of the world collective have 30 military bases outside their borders. United States has approximately 800 military installments outside their borders. These includes permanent military bases, semi permanent military bases, small air strips, drones launching sites, military advisors.
• Coca-Cola was invented in late nineteen century by John Pemberton who was an American pharmacist. When Pemberton initially started selling coca-cola, its label said “brain tonic and a cure for all nervous afflictions.” as it contained Kola nuts and Coca(its products include cocaine). Coca-cola was named after these two ingredients.

• Churchill’s mother, Jennie Jerome, had more than 200 lovers some of them even younger than her son.

Squid brains are doughnut shaped, and their esophagus runs through it. If a squid eats something too big it can get brain damage.

Each pineapple takes 1.5-3 years to grow.

When the Pope dies, it's tradition to confirm the death ceremonially by gently tapping the pope's head thrice with a silver hammer, calling his birth name each time.

NASA didn't spend millions on a space pen while the Russians used a pencil.
It was made by an inventor named Paul Fisher and he sold it to NASA for $6 a piece. And the reason they wanted a pen instead of a pencil is because graphite shards can be destructive in a space station.

Alux Mullen held 9 memory world records and 12 American records. He is the first person to memorize the order of a deck of playing cards in under 20 seconds at an official competition. He is also the first to memorize more than 3,000 decimal digits in one hour. Here is his amazing website.