FACT OF THE DAY

December 27 2020


The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people.


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Animals
Bees actually have knees. The expression comes from the fact that they store large build ups of pollen in hairy baskets on their knees.
April 10 2022
Nature
Tornadoes, hurricanes, and flooding can devastate entire towns at once, but the weather condition that proves deadliest to humans is actually heat.
April 9 2022
Celebrities
Steve Jobs became a vegan because he believed it would stop him having body odor, reducing his need to shower.
April 8 2022
United States
Women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of all Americans households.
April 7 2022
Psychology
Narcissistic and psychopathic people are not as good at manipulating others online as they are in person, research shows.
April 6 2022
United States
The worst air polluter in the entire state of Washington is Mount St. Helens.
April 5 2022
History
In 1986, a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa burped a C02 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in minutes.
April 4 2022
Psychology
People are more likely to store information in their long-term memory if they've been tested on the information (the more, the better) than if they just study and don't need to remember it right away.
April 3 2022
World
Hungary is home to many famous foods, inventors, scientists and mathematicians.
April 2 2022
Language
The oldest word in the English language is "town".
April 1 2022
History
All British tanks since 1945 have included equipment to make tea.
March 31 2022
Sports
Today there is no single video of the first Super Bowl. CBS and NBC television networks that had this record deleted it at the time, referring to the lack of interest in the match, as well as its low historical value. By that time they didn't know that American Football would become very popular.
March 30 2022
Sports
The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continually held sports event in the United States (1875), with the second being the Westminster Kennel Club Dog show (1876).
March 29 2022
World
Despite enormous heat outside, the temperature level in Pyramids relatively remains constant that is around 20 degrees Celsius.
March 28 2022
Language
German is the most spoken language in Europe. Four countries have it as their official language.
March 27 2022
Technology
Google pays Mozilla millions of dollars a year as Firefox web Browser uses Google as the default search engine.
March 26 2022
Sports
Astronaut Alan Shepard played golf on the Moon after he smuggled a golf ball and club on to the NASA Apollo 14 mission to the Moon in 1971.
March 25 2022
Human Body
The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
March 24 2022
History
In older versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl and the wolf eat grandma together.
March 23 2022
World
Russian scientists have developed a new drug that prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication.
March 22 2022