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Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head. -
Walter Cavanagh has 1,497 valid credit cards - all of which amount to a $1.7 million line of credit.
Currently, he holds the record for the most credit cards and for the world's longest wallet, which stretches 250 feet, weighs about 38 pounds and can hold 800 cards. But he keeps most of them in bank safe-deposit boxes.
The "Guinness Book of World Records" gave him the title "Mr. Plastic Fantastic," and he has been in the book every year since 1971. -
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other. -
Reindeer milk has three times the protein of cow milk. -
![Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.]()
Upload to Facebook Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. -
Gravity is weaker in North America than it is in Europe, East Asia, Australia, and North Africa. This is because Earth is not a perfect sphere, and its interior mass is not evenly distributed. There are slight variations of gravitational pull depending on where on Earth's surface you are.
In fact, you can now check to see which points on the Earth's surface have the strongest and weakest gravitational pulls with a "gravity map", available at BBC.com. -
There are giant hornets in Japan whose venom can melt human flesh. -
The first drop of tear coming from a right eye signals happiness; and when the first drop comes from the left, it's pain. -
Nomophobia (no-mobile-phone phobia) is the fear of being without your cellphone or losing your signal. -
Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest ruling British monarch in September 2015!
