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1. In 1938, Time Magazine chose Adolf Hitler for man of the year.
2. Twelve people have walked on the moon.
3. Other than the Earth, the moon is the only other known natural astrological object ever walked on.
4. Scientists voiced concern in 2012 about how radiation may be affecting humans after a recent finding of mutant butterflies in Japan with abnormal legs, eyes, wings and other mutations were discovered. The mutations were caused by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident which was triggered by a major tsunami in March 2011. The tsunami was a direct effect of an earthquake.
5. Humans and giraffes both have seven vertebrae bones in the neck. It’s not unusual for a mammal to have 7 vertebra bones in the neck but it’s interesting that the long neck of a full grown giraffe has the same amount.
6. The active ingredient in most toothpastes is called sodium fluoride. Sodium fluoride can be lethal, young children using regular toothpaste with this ingredient should be monitored. Even swallowing small amounts can cause stomach problems or worst.
7. Over 3 million people globally every month search for something online with the words interesting facts in it according to the most popular search engine.
8. There are no land snakes in New Zealand. It’s part of New Zealand’s bio security to keep all snakes out and if a person is aware of a snake, by law it must be reported.
9. New Zealand is free of heartworm disease and rabies.
10. Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
11. Did you know Disneyland does not sell chewing gum? Walt Disney did not want guests inconvenienced by stepping on gum purchased in the park.
12. Each year Disneyland uses over 5,000 gallons of paint to maintain the clean appearance of the park.
13. George Washington died on December 14, 1799.
14. Giraffes can go without water longer than a camel. That’s wild!
15. The person reading this is intelligent, interesting and unique. Flattery is alright as long as we don’t inhale!
16. January 30, 1933 was the day the words Hi yo silver! Away! were first heard as the lone ranger debuts on radio channel WXYZ of Detroit.
17. Many people who read the word yawn or yawning begin to feel the urge to yawn.
18. The 2nd president of the United States (John Adams) and 3rd president of the United States (Thomas Jefferson) both died within just a few hours apart of each other on the same exact day of July 4th 1826. They are the only two presidents to die on the same day of the same year. It’s true!
19. When the Titanic departed from port it was documented to have carried approximately 1000 loaves of bread, 86,000 pounds of meat, 40,000 eggs and 36,000 apples to feed the passengers and crew on the 7 day voyage. Now those are some interesting facts!
20. Dogs can have a fatal reaction to eating chocolate. Chocolate contains a bitter alkaloid called Theobromine also known as Xantheose and that’s the active ingredient that’s bad for the dog. If you’ve read all the interesting facts to this point you’re awesome!
21. For a butterfly to fly it must have a body temperature of no less than 86 degrees fahrenheit or 30 degrees celsius.
22. The largest milk producing country by volume in the whole world is India.
23. It is a fact that the first game of chess has been traced back to have originated in northern India. Like other 1,000+ year old games, it would have been played differently than todays rules. It’s thought that todays rules have been around since sometime in the 1400′s A.D.
24. In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service has an employees handbook for the collections division unit. Here’s the interesting part, in it are instructions which guide employees on how to collect taxes after a nuclear war. Kinda scary!
25. If you are severely scared of going to the dentist or having dental work, you may actually have a phobia called odontophobia.
26. Almonds are members of the rose flower family or rosaceae family. The peach is also a member of the rose family.
27. The tallest girl in the world ever recorded was 8 feet 2 inches tall and died at the young age of 17.
28. The average human with a full head of hair contains between 85,000 to 150,000 hairs.
29. Jupiter is the largest planet in the earths solar system. I should’ve known that one.
30. Squirrels forget where about 50% of the nuts they’ve hidden are. Useless, Hahaha.
31. Did you know the first bullet proof vest and windshield wiper blades were both invented by women? Cool!
32. Cold weather makes fingernails grow faster. Weird!
33. Only humans cry because of feelings. Awesome!
34. Mohammad is the most common birth name in the world. There’s only 51 moreinteresting facts on this page.
35. It takes about 7 minutes for the average person to fall asleep. If you’ve read all the interesting facts to this point you’re amazing!
36. You can give change for a dollar in 293 different coin variations. Good luck!
37. About 1 out of every 2 million people will die by falling out of bed. Be careful, not funny. Most who will die this way are either very young children or elderly people.
38. The construction on the Parisian Notre Dame Cathedral began in 1015 A.D and it took over 400 years to complete, It was completed in 1439 A.D. It’s a well known historic Roman catholic church in Paris.
39. If the human stomach doesn’t produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks it will totally digest it’s self. Weird!
40. 75% of the world’s population wash themselves in the shower from the top to the bottom. Head first, feet last people.
41. There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. A leap year has 31,622,400 seconds. Amazing!
42. Approximately one fifth of all the publications from Japan are comic books.
43. Did you know a slug has not only one nose but four? What a lot of people call a nose on a slug is actually a breathing pore called a pneumostome.
44. Four out of five people over 100 years old are women. Interesting!
45. The price of the Titanic cost about $7 million to build and the price of the Titanic movie was about $200 million to make. Unbelievable!
46. It’s true! There is only one metal that’s in liquid form at room temperature and that’s Mercury.
47. When water freezes it expands by 10%.
48. The only animal with four knees is the elephant.
49. Birth control pills designed for humans will also work for a gorilla. Now that’s Strange!
50. If you have a deep genuine fear of the number 13, you may have Paraskevidekatriaphobia also called Friggatriskaidekaphobia or Triskaidekaphobia.
51. A mid-sized car launched today generates only an estimated 5% of the pollution which was generated by a car from fifty years ago. Awesome!
52. Stopping a supertanker which is fully loaded and travels at a normal speed needs about 20 minutes to stop completely.
53. A cat’s ear has a total of thirty two muscles.
54. The average person laughs 15 times per day. Hahaha!
55. The eye of an ostrich is larger than it’s brain.
56. A person eats around 60,000 pounds worth of food during his life which is the equivalent of six elephants. Incredible!
57. Ants can pull about 30 times their own weight and lift about 50 times their own weight.
58. A lion can mate more than 50 times in one day. Huh!
59. Did you know,  you cannot fold a 8.5″ x 11″ or smaller piece of paper in half more than 7 times. Try it! The MythBusters guys on the Discovery channel folded a piece of paper more than 7 times but it was a really large sheet of paper.
60. Oh no, there’s only 25 more interesting facts to go on this page.
61. More people are killed from donkeys in a year than planes.
62. Most snowflakes form with 6 tips or branches. Generally, the colder it is when the snowflake is formed the sharper and more defined the tips will be.
63. Lung cancer was how the cigarette company Marlboro’s first owner died. Hmmm
64. Snails can sleep for up to 3 years.
65. You cannot think of an English word to rhyme with the word month because there isn’t one.
66. If an infant becomes blind soon after they’re born they will still almost always see images in their dreams, but infants born with blindness will most likely never have dreams with images. People who were born blind do still have very emotionally intense dreams which include hearing, smells, feeling and taste. Now that’s an interesting fact about dreams.
67. It is against the law in the state of Kentucky to marry a man more than 3 times.
68. In the state of Kentucky it is against the law to carry an ice cream in your back pocket.
69. On December 16th 1811 the mighty Mississippi river began to flow backwards due to a powerful earthquake.
70. Fires in the forest have been documented to move much faster up hill than down hill.
71. Did you know that your brain has no pain receptors or pain fibers and the brain it’s self cannot feel? Your brain cannot even feel pain. Although headaches are still not all the way understood, one reason it’s believed you feel headaches is because the skull is surrounded by what’s called meninges or blood vessels which do have pain receptors.
72. Human brains are estimated to be 70 – 75% h2o.
73. Approximately 1 out of every 50,000 people who visit this website send us an email about interesting facts. We enjoy reading them and sometimes use them, thank you.
74. Most people shed between 50 to 100 hairs every day. The question is, where do they go?
75. No other animal has a longer pregnancy term than that of the elephant which is documented at an average of 22 months.
76. During world war 2 the Oscar award given out by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was made of wood because most common metals were very scarce.
77. Breast fed babies score slightly higher on mental development tests than ones on formula.
78. People who apply sunscreen to themselves generally apply 50-75% less than the recommended amount according to the Archives of Dermatology.
79. The color of a hens earlobes will usually determine the color of the egg shell. Farmers know hens with red or darker colored earlobes are most likely to lay brown eggs and hens with lighter colored or white earlobes will usually lay white eggs.
80. There are 722 miles of subway track in New York city.
81. Hartsdale New York has a pet cemetery with more than 12,000 pets buried.
82. Abraham Lincoln died at age 56.
83. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th in the year 1809.
84. Only one state in the United States contains only one syllable, the state of Maine.
85. Everyone knows the dog in the movie “Wizard of Oz” as Toto, the dogs actual name given to it by it’s master was Terry.
86. This concludes the 86th fact on your home page of interesting facts but don’t stop now, read a couple more pages if you can. There’s a lot of cool stuff to learn.

Funny Interesting Facts

Even though they may seem unbelievable to many, our world is just filled with things which are amusing and weird as well as true.

Below are some funny interesting factswhich you will probably enjoy.

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1. Most Orange juice is yellow in color not orange.
2. At one time Ringling Bros Circus advertised having Big Bingo a 2 story elephant, the biggest brute that breathes.
3. If you spelled out every one of the states in the United States the only letter you would never use is the letter Q.
4. Pabst Blue Ribbon beer was originally called Best beer.
5. People often have their tonsils removed. Did you know that if they’re dropped they can bounce as strongly as a bouncy ball?
6. Topolino is the Italian name for Mickey Mouse.
7. A turtle can breathe through it’s butt. Hahaha, Funny!
8. In the North Pole, penguins do not exist.
9. Major League Baseball requires that all the umpires working in the league must wear black underwear at every game.
10. Moles have to eat every few hours or will starve to death.
11. The Pileated Woodpecker is about the size of a crow, it pecks an average of about 12,000 times per day, it can peck away at about 20 times in one second and closes it’s eyes every time it pecks.
12. Their were once restrictions against showing toilets on television.
13. The old American sitcom television program Leave It To Beaver which originally aired from 1957-1963  is said to have been the very first TV program to show a toilet and even then they only got approved to show the top of the toilet tank, not the actual toilet bowl.
14. All In The Family was another TV program popular in the United States in the 1970′s, it originally aired from 1971 to 1979 and was the very first TV program to air the sound of a flushing toilet.
15. The Brady Bunch which was a show about a mother and father raising 6 children originally aired from 1969-1974. The whole family shared one bathroom which was shown often but it contained no toilet. Okay, enough about toilets on the funny interesting facts segment.
16. In the Republic of Albania shaking your head no means yes and nodding your head yes means no. It’s a fact.
17. Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States between 1923-1929, He played the harmonica and it’s said he enjoyed having vaseline rubbed into his scalp and forehead while eating breakfast in bed.
18. Walt Disney was scared of mice. That’s funny!
19. Before he was named Bugs Bunny, he was known as Happy Rabbit.
20. Long ago in Japan they held contests to see who could fart the longest and loudest. The winner received gifts and high honors, and no, matches were not given out.
21. A nicer way of speaking about Farting may be to say passing gas or flatulence.
22. There was a court case where a surfer sued another surfer for stealing his wave. It was thrown out of court because the court said they didn’t know how to put a price on any pain and suffering damages received by the complainant who had to watch the other surfer ride away on his wave. Funny!
23. Have you ever watched the movie Pulp Fiction? If yes, you may have noticed all the clocks in the movie were set to the time of 4:20.
24. The comedian actor Charlie Chapman once entered a Charlie Chapman look alike contest and lost. That’s funny!
25. Charlie Browns father was a barber. Charlie didn’t have enough hair to cut lol.
26. As funny as it seems to some people, the old folklore of elephants being afraid of mice is only folklore. MythBusters did a segment on this theory and although the elephant turned when it saw the mouse, there were other factors that could have played a part in the elephants decision to turn away. If you’ve made it this far, you’re a funny interesting facts reading machine.
27. The voice of Donald Fauntleroy Duck is the most recognized in all of cartoon characters. Yes Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy lol.
28. Less than 2 % of all the people in the world can lick their elbow.
29. If you exclude the words North and South, each of the 7 continents begins with the same letter it ends with and besides Europe, they would all begin and end with the letter “A”. Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Australia, and Europe.
30. Because they’re made of cartilage it’s said that a persons ears and nose continues to grow throughout their lifetime. Because of the debates surrounding wether this is a myth or a fact we almost didn’t put this one on here but there is some scientific study claiming evidence and suggesting it is indeed fact.
31. The most correct terminology for a pregnant goldfish is twit.
32. 2 turtles that lived together and paired for approximately 115 years all the sudden can’t stand to look at each other. In June 2012 Bibi the female bit Poldi the male on the shell and ripped a piece off. It seems Bibi all the sudden wants to be single and live without Poldi.
33. The Elf Owl is the smallest owl with many documented as weighing just under one ounce.
34. Squirrels have thumbs. That just seems funny.
35. Owls in a group are most widely known as a parliament, not a flock.
36. In cards, the only king without a mustache is the king of hearts.
37. You cannot lead a cow downstairs, but you can lead one upstairs. Mooo
38. A starfish has no brain but a complex nervous system.
39. Not only the fur of a tiger is striped, the skin is striped too.
40. No two lions have the same whisker pattern.
41. A gold fish can remember something for about 3 seconds. Reminds me of someone I know.
42. Waynes World was filmed in two weeks. Interesting!
43. Approximately 90% of all New York cities cab drivers are immigrants.
44. The only animal that cannot jump with all legs off the ground is the elephant. At 8,000 to 27,000 pounds, no wonder.
45. It was a dentist who invented the electric chair. That’s more scary than funny.
46. Mickey Mouse was the first animated figure to win an oscar. Mickey is adorable and funny.
47. Crocodiles cannot stick their tongues out.
48. A butterfly tastes things with it’s feet or tarsi.
49. Folding a standard rule or college rule piece of paper or smaller in half more than seven times is impossible. Try it!
50. The wingspan of a 747 jet is longer than the wright brothers first flight flew in the air.
51. Did you know the plastic pieces on the tips of shoe laces are called aglets.
52. Most folks take only 7 minutes to fall asleep.
53. If you squeeze your nose together where no air goes in or out, you can’t hum. Try it!
54. For those of you that just tried the humming test on fact 53, you’re clever.
55. Some of you just smiled thinking about fact number 53.
56. You could use up to approximately 150 calories in one hour of head banging. Do not try it, you could get whiplash.
57. The pressure created by a heart is sufficient to squirt the blood to a distance of up to 9 meters. That’s 27 feet.
58. The soldiers of Alexander the Great were obligated to be clean shaven so that their enemies were not able to grab their beards and be defeated.
59. In a year, the regular person makes over 1100 phone calls.
60. The rule of thumb phrase comes from the English law which in the past said that a man could not beat his wife with something that was wider than a thumb.
61. If China’s population would walk past someone in a single line, the rate of reproduction is high enough to keep the line going forever.
62. If a woman’s name is Mary it is against the law to be a prostitute in the city of Siena Italy. Otherwise, it’s perfectly legal as long as the brothel stays within the laws and rules of the government.
63. Over 50% of all women would rather get a gift in the form of a trip instead of lingerie or jewelry.
64. On average, the hearing of women is better than that of men but men are usually capable of reading smaller print.
65. It’s said that the owners of over 90% of indoor dogs say their dog curls up beside them or at their feet while they watch TV.
66. A whales penis is commonly called a dork.
67. The speaker of the house of commons is not really there to speak, the speaker can call on others to speak their opinion and ensures rules are enforced but may not speak his own opinion and must remain politically impartial at all times.
68. Did you know that Ketchup sometimes spelled catsup was sold as a (cure everything) type of medicine back in the 1830′s? Since tomatoes do contain antioxidants it makes some sense.
69. If you’ve enjoyed these funny interesting facts, be sure to read another page. There’s a lot of interesting stuff to learn around here.

10 Interesting Facts

Earth is a very interesting planet that we’re living on. Even though around 70% of it has water, the planet’s life form which is most advanced can be found on land.

Below are 10 interesting facts about Earthwhich show you just how interesting our planet really is.

1. Scientific dating estimates the Earth to be around 4.54 billion years old with a 1% margin of error.
2. Oxygen forms approximately 47% of the crust of the Earth.
3. Earth has poles at the bottom and the top of the planet called the north and south poles which makes it a huge magnet.
4. An Earth day is not 24 hours long. It’s actually 23h, 56m, 4s which is the time that the planet needs to rotate on its own axis.
5. This is the only planet from the solar system which has water in all the matter states: gas (as clouds), liquid (rain, sea, etc) and solid (ice).
6. Scientists say that an Earth day had around 20 hours a few million years ago and that a million years from now it will have 27 hours.
7. The coldest place on Earth is Vostok (in Antarctica) and the hottest area is El Azizia (in Libya). That’s interesting!
8. Did you know that on July 21st 1983, the coldest temperature ever on the planet earth was recorded at a frightening 128.6 degrees fahrenheit below zero (-89.2  ºC) in Antarctica by Soviet scientist at the Vostok expedition station? Thats one cool fact!
9. The Earth’s year has 365.2564 days. Thanks to this extra .2564, every four years, the leap year appears, which has an extra day.
10. The oldest tree from Earth is estimated to be about 4600 years old and it’s a bristlecone pine from California. That’s an amazing fact!

Above you can see 10 interesting facts about planet Earth, which show you just how special our planet is and how much is worth protecting it.

Interesting Facts About Great Depression

The Great Depression was an economic depression which took place worldwide during the decade before World War II started. This economic depression started at the end of the 1920’s and lasted for over a decade.

The Great Depression started in the United States where stock prices fell in September 1929. On October 29, 1929, the stock market crash took place and that day got the name of Black Tuesday. The depression spread all over the world after that.

Below are a some interesting facts about the Great Depression.

The United States president in rule when the depression started was Herbert Hoover, a Republican. In 1930 he declared that the economy would soon fix itself, because the worst had passed. That was only the beginning though, and the depression would last for another nine years.

A lot of people lost their houses during the Great Depression. These people ended up in shanty towns, which were also called Hoovervilles after the name of the president. Other terms named after the president at that time were Hoover wagons (cars which used mules to pull them because they were broken), Hoover hogs (food which consisted of jack rabbits), Hoover blankets (people used newspapers as blankets) and Hoover stew (the food which was available at soup kitchens).

One of the most well known people of that period, Al Capone, tried to improve his public figure by opening a soup kitchen. A lot of people survived only because of the food offered by soup kitchens all over the country.

Some of the causes are thought to be the stock market crash of 1929, banking system which was weak, the overproduction, the credit bubble, the policies of the government and the fact that the boost of the 1920’s didn’t help industrial workers and farmers.

A lot of people committed suicide after the crash in the financial district of New York. It apparently became so bad that one hotel’s clerks were asking the guests if they wanted to rent a room for jumping or for sleeping.

• The height of the great depression is thought to have peaked between 1932-1933.

• At the height of the great depression the unemployment rate was documented at more than 20% and family income averaged half what they were making in 1929.

• By 1940 the unemployment rate was still just above 15% but between 1941-1942 dropped to just above 1% employment.

• During the peak of the depression, the stock market was down 75%.

• By mid 1932 an estimated 10,000 banks have closed since 1929.

• In 1930 there was an estimated 6,000 street vendors in New York trying to sell apples for 5¢ each.

• In 1933 for U.S  citizens in the United States under a newly implemented executive order, executive order 6102 stated that U.S citizens could no longer own more than 5 troy ounces or $100 worth of gold. Gold at the time was worth about $20 per ounce and the U.S government told everyone they would buy their gold from them for $20.67. If you were tried and convicted of owning more than the the allowed maximum you could be fined $10,000.00 and or up to ten years in prison. Some citizens were exempt from executive order 6102 if their profession required the use of more than the maximum amount of gold allowed.

• During the great depression, soup or stew was nicknamed Hoover stew and the slum towns were often called Hoovervilles and were often just makeshift shacks made of cardboard. Both of course named after Herbert Hoover.

• Hoover Dam, Known then as Boulder dam was built between 1931-1936 during thegreat depression with putting people back to work in mind and eventually with much debate named after Herbert Hoover.

• World war 2 began in 1939 which created millions of much needed full time jobs putting tens of millions of people back to work and putting the United States back on top as an industrial power. Unemployment would drop to all time lows by 1944 to a low 1.2% with only 670,000 unemployed documented.

Interesting Facts About Mars

Below are some interesting facts about the planet Mars that maybe you’ve forgotten or simply never knew.

While the focus is on mars, we’ve also added some facts about earth, the sun and other areas of our solar system we believe you’ll find interesting to read and can help extend your knowledge base.

The closest planet to the sun is Mercuryfollowed by Venus, Earth, the earths moon then Mars. The earth’s moon is not a planet, so the fourth planet from our sun is Mars. Continuing past Mars is something called Ceres, we say something because we’re not sure what to call it since astronomers actually have an ongoing debate on the classification of Ceres and it’s classification has been changed on more than one occasion. Some will tell you Ceres is a dwarf planet while others say it’s nothing more than the largest asteroid in the inner solar system.

Where does Mars get it’s name from?

The planet Mars gets it’s name from Mars, the Roman war god, but it’s also often called the Red Planet, because it has a red appearance which is caused by the iron oxide which is found on the planet’s surface.

Since ancient times and with various cultures, some of the names the planet Mars has been associated with are war, fire, anger, storms, violence, bloodshed, blood, celibacy, rebel and even fertility.

How big is Mars?

The total surface area of Mars is almost 144.8 million square km, which is just a bit over 28% of that of Earth.

What is it like on Mars?

While Mars is rough, rocky, mountainous, cold and has wild weather which makes it pretty down right uninviting to humans, Mars is also a planet which is similar to Earth in many regards, though it has a thin atmosphere and quite a few impact craters. You can find deserts, polar ice caps, valleys and volcanoes there which when combined don’t offer the friendliest environment.

There are two moons also known as satellites on the orbit of Mars named Deimos and Phobos. Phobos rises in the west and sets in the east every 11 hours while Deimos is much slower.

More interesting facts about Mars:

• In August 2012, a planetary geologist and professor at the University of California (An Yin) made the discovery that Mars does have tectonic plates. It was previously believed that earth was the only planet with plate tectonics and that Mars was too small and too cold below surface to have tectonic plates. Professor Yen has referred to the 2 tectonic plates he discovered as Valles Marineris North and Valles Marineris South.
• Now that we know Mars has plate tectonics, in can be concluded that it also has marsquakes similar to earthquakes on earth which could explain why large boulders have recently moved on mars seen by satellite imagery.
• After traveling approximately 352 million miles and more than 8 months at approximately 12,000 miles per hour, Nasa’s $2.5 billion Curiosity Rover landed on Mars on August 5th, 2012 and is expected to be in operation for about 2 earth years at 23 months or one Mars year.
• Mars hosts the largest volcano in our solar system called Olympus Mons which is approximately 22 kilometers “14 miles” high also making it taller than any mountain in the solar system. Almost 3 times the height of Mount Everest.
• Mars hosts the deepest known canyon in our solar system which is named Melas Chasma.
• The approximate diameter of mars is 4,220 miles. For comparison reasons, the approximate diameter of the earth is 7,926 miles.
• A year on Mars is 687 days long. A year on earth is 365.25 days long.
• A day on Mars is 24 hours 37 minutes long.
• The average temperature on Mars is minus 81 degrees fahrenheit. The average temperature of the earth is 57 degrees fahrenheit.
• The distance varies by the second due to constant movement but the approximate average distance Mars is from the sun is 142 million miles away while the approximate average distance of the earth from the sun is 93 million miles.
• A ship that tries to escape this planet’s gravity needs to have a 5 km/s escape velocity.
• In 1976 the United States landed two probes on Mars named Viking 1 and Viking 2 which sent back the very first color photos from Mars to earth.
• The famous face on Mars picture was taken on 7-25-1976 by the United States probe Viking 1.
• While it’s the fourth planet from the Sun, Mars is the seventh planet as far as size is concerned in our Solar System
• 1965 was the year when the first Mars mission which was successful took place. Mariner 4 was the probe which reached the Red Planet and it sent to Earth a total of 22 photos.
• The first country which managed to land successfully was the USSR which is now The Russian Federation, the probes were named Mars 2 and 3 landed in 1971 and and worked through a portion of 1972. Mars 2 and 3 sent back what was considered a large amount of data at that time which consisted of around 60 pictures or images.
• There are currently a total of three spacecraft which orbit the planet and on the surface there are two probes.
• You can see some wonderful pictures and get additional information about the planet Mars at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/allaboutmars/
• This concludes our interesting facts about Mars. Stick around and read another page or two.

Interesting Facts About Recycling

Interesting facts about recycling teaches how the process of recycling works when reusing glass, plastic and other waste materials. Learn what plastic drinking bottles you should never refill and reuse to drink from and why you may want to stay away from styrofoam.

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In general, when a material or product is recycled fewer fresh materials are needed than when a product is manufactured for the first time, less energy is used and pollution to our air and water is reduced. Recycling is important to a cleaner environment.

You’ve seen the triangle with arrows ( the recycle symbol ) on plastic containers a thousand times but did you ever notice a number inside the symbol? Look at the water bottle sitting next to you or in your fridge, look for the recycle symbol and notice what number is inside it (The symbol is usually near the bottom of the bottle and sometimes on the very bottom). The number inside the triangle is probably a 1 or a 2 and is an important number to know. Below we explain what the most common numbers mean and the dangers involved, it’s simple but something we (including our children) should all know.

Important! Be sure to read below, why to never reuse a #1 plastic water bottle to drink out of. The #1 water bottle is your typical store bought drinking water bottle.

Instead of tossing something recyclable into the trash, you should do your part to make sure it gets recycled. Often times there’s designated areas to drop off recyclables. If you have a garbage collector at your home or office, ask them if they have a special container for you to put your recyclables in.

Below are some interesting facts about recycling:

• Using the average 12 ounce soda or beer can it would take about 33 empty aluminum cans to equal one pound.
• The average disposable diaper sold today could easily last well over one hundred years in a local landfill and the average baby will need at least 7500 diapers from birth until potty/toilet trained.
• Glass is 100% recyclable, it doesn’t lose quality, durability or purity during the recycling process.
• The international agency for research on cancer has said that styrene ( what styrofoam comes from – polystyrene  or polystyrene foam from the styrene monomer) is a probable carcinogen and the EPA says it’s a suspected toxin to some of the bodies organs. The National Toxicology Program has deemed it an anticipated human carcinogen. When you use a Styrofoam cup, remember they have a long lifespan in a landfill and are very unlikely to ever be recycled. Styrofoam is also known to be a choking hazard for a lot of animals.
• Have you heard of fog harvesting? There’s a net (sometimes referred to as a fog harvesting fence or fog harvesting tower) that with the help of wind can take fog and turn it into clean drinking water and they are improving peoples lives in some areas of the world where water is scarce.
• What the number inside the recycle symbol on most plastics means. It’s usually on or near the bottom of every plastic container. If your drinking out of one right now it most likely has a 1 or 2 on it. Recycled #2 plastics are heavier plastics than #1 plastics. The #2 plastic would be a typical milk jug, some juice bottles and even detergent jugs. The # 1 is what an average water bottle sold in the local grocery by the pack would most likely have on it. You may notice the #1 plastic is probably very clear and thinner than the #2 container. Different grades of plastics are recycled into different products.
• #1 plastics or (PET plastics) are often times recycled into products using fleece, jackets, carpet, backpacks, sleeping bags etc.
• #2 plastics can be recycled into heavier more durable products than #1 plastics like plastic crates, outdoor plastic furniture, play sets for children, toys, buckets, and even back into drinking and food grade containers and more.
• Plastics #2, #4 and #5 are the plastics that can be made safest for foods and drinking.
• Notice we didn’t mention #1 plastic in the safest for foods and drinking?While #1 is considered safe enough by the FDA to drink the contents once, most health advocates agree that manufactures should not recycle the #1 plastic back into a drinking bottle again because of bacteria and chemical breakdown concerns.
• #1 grade plastic water bottles. Do not reuse #1 grade plastic bottles, think of the 1 as (one time use) because they are not manufactured or safe for repeated use. Repeated use of a #1 plastic container for drinking or eating can release unwanted and unhealthy chemicals in your food and drink, washing it does not help, washing it does not make it safer and can actually release more  chemicals into your food or drink. I’m guilty, I’ve done it but not any more.
• The battery pack on some hybrid drive vehicles manufactured today like the Toyota Prius can contain a whopping 20+ pounds of a rare earth metal called lanthanum. 90-95% of the earths lanthanum has been coming from China for years. China has recently made claims that they will scale back mining and exporting it, those are the facts so In theory by the time the battery on your new Toyota Prius goes bad (probably 10+ years) it could be a valuable recyclable.
• Did you know food scraps can be recycled into an excellent compost for gardening? Breads, vegetables, fruit peels, coffee grounds and even eggshells are just a few of the ingredients that can be used to strengthen your soil’s fertility.
• We all use bottles and jars either directly or indirectly, Americans discard about 28 billion of them each year.
• Buenos Aires is home to about 3 million people which accumulate about 6 thousand tons of trash per day. It’s estimated that around 90% of their trash isn’t being recycled which is overloading their landfills and making garbage disposal a growing concern.
• The most used metal in the world today is iron.
• The second most used metal in the world today is aluminum followed by copper.
• The typical can made in America has about 25% recycled steel in it.
• Upcycling is when a material is recycled or transitioned into a more purposeful and valuable item than it was originally. For example, recycled bottles are used to make fleece which is used to make clothes.
• Some strange things I’ve seen upcycled into other things are: A teapot and pan upcycled into a cool lamp, wood coat hangers combined with a bicycle rim upcycled into a unique chandelier and thousands of prescription lenses used to make a dazzling and glimmering chandelier ball.
• What is Repurposing? Repurposing is when a tool or item is simply used for something other than what the manufacturer created it for. For example, people often use car tires to protect boats when docking.
• Statistics say that about 80% of everything which is thrown by Americans can be recycled. The reality is that less than 30% is being recycled. There is a lot of room for improvement.
• All the jars and glass bottles thrown away during one month by Americans could fill a huge skyscraper, the size of the Empire State Building. All these glass containers could be recycled instead.
• It’s estimated that millions of creatures from the sea have been killed by plastic garbage and bags which are thrown in the oceans.
• There is a huge patch of garbage on the ocean and that’s a fact. It’s called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and is an enormous cesspool of various chemicals with a high reading of plastic pollutants. what we’re unclear on is it’s actual size which is now estimated to be larger than all of the United States.
• If a ton of paper is recycled, around 17 trees are saved, as well as two oil barrels, 4100 energy kilowatts, 60 pounds worth of pollution and over 3 cubic yards in the landfills. If you’ve read all of the interesting facts about recyclingto this point, you’re incredible!

Interesting Facts About Solar Energy

Solar energy has been gathered by people and used for all kinds of purposes for over 2000 years. Interesting facts about solar energy is dedicated to teaching you about the past, present and future of this great source of renewable energy which only a small percentage of us are using to it’s current potential.

Solar energy is the main source of clean energy for all of earths life forms.

Although a small amount of pollution can be created when solar panels are manufactured, transported and installed, it’s nothing compared to the larger amounts of pollution created in processing and using fossil fuels and nuclear energy.

Do Solar Panels Need Maintenance?

Once solar panels are installed maintenance is generally very low and usually only consists of inspecting and cleaning off any debris or objects that block the panel from collecting solar energy from the sun.

What’s the Life expectancy of Solar Panels?

Most outdoor solar panels used today are going to be weatherproof, are expected to endure a wide variety of weather conditions and will have a life expectancy of between 20-40 years. As a rule of thumb the manufacturer may warranty the solar panel from 3 to 25 years. As with other products, the warranties, power output and life expectancy can vary greatly so do your homework.

Do Solar Panels Create Pollution

Once the solar panel is setup and working, the panel it’s self no longer creates any type of pollution which helps us to see how any pollution made in the manufacturing and transportation process is dismal compared to other sources of energy which continue to create pollution throughout the energy creating process.

If your using solar energy panels to create electric then you’re taking an important step in helping the environment.

Below are some interesting facts about solar energy:

• Solar energy can be used in many ways, from cooking food to heating or cooling houses, powering automobiles, aircraft and providing energy to buildings.
• One megawatt of energy can power 1000 average U.S homes for about one hour.
• In July 2012 the first ever intercontinental round trip of a solar powered plane completed it’s 4,000 mile project to raise public awareness that solar energy can be a reliable source of energy.
• In July 2012 the United States Bureau of Land Management announced that 285,000 acres across 6 of the nations states were prime areas for solar energy development and plans to move forward.
• The largest solar plant in the world can be found in the Mojave desert and can create approximately 354 megawatts and it covers a total of about 1,000 acres,with 9 solar thermal plants.
• Solar energy can only be produced during daylight to make electricity. That energy has to be used during the night but the production stops when the sun goes down.
• Solar panels which are also known as photovoltaic panels are made mostly from silicon.
• Researchers are working on a solar window film that could eventually be used on the windows of homes to reduce energy costs. Researchers say it could possibly even be sprayed on one day.
• Even though you have to invest more initially to buy the solar panels, with  solar panel costs dropping, you should now be able to save money.
• Robots that install solar panels around the clock and in all types of weather are current being developed and tested.
• Solar power history dates back to at least 700 BC, when the sun rays were used to create fire, with the help of magnifying glasses.
• Passive solar designs were used for the first time by Romans and Greeks. Their buildings were facing south, so the sun could light and heat the indoor areas.
• The year when the first solar panels were released was 1956. Two years later space programs began using them and they remained an important source of energy ever since. One example is the International Space Station, which uses solar energy.
• We’re working to grow the interesting facts about solar energy page so be sure to remember to come back.