Inspiring People: Random Interesting Facts

Coca Cola was invented by John Pemerton in 1886. It used to be made from coca leaves and could contain traces of cocaine (from 0.1% to 0.9% depending on where grown) Though it is no longer made with cocaine.
The Guinness World Record for holding the most Guinness Records is set by Ashrita Furman. Ashrita has set - 303 - official Guinness Records since 1979 and currently holds - 121 (sept 2010)
A googol is the large number 10100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros:
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover
It is unknown if odd perfect numbers exist
A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to itself such as 28: 1+2+4+7+14=28
5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisons population are held in the US.
If you walk outside George Orwell's old house in London you are now captured on surveillance cameras 33 times.
Approximately 105 million bicycles are made every year. This is double the number of motor cars made every year.
In Chinese the words for 'crisis' and 'opportunity' are the same.
The Netherlands has the highest rate of cycling with an average of 2.5 Km per day per person. In the US, this rate is 0.1 Km per person. In the UK 0.2Km (cycling facts)

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