Fun Facts :D

Fun Facts 

1. The oldest person ever to have lived (whose age could be authenticated), a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment, was 122 years old when she died in 1997.
(Guinness world record)

2.  The tallest living man is 37-year-old Sultan Kosen, from Turkey, who is 8 feet, 2.8 inches, who set the record in 2009. His growth is also due to a pituitary issue.
(Guinness world record)

3. The tallest man ever recorded was American giant Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), who stood 8 feet 11 inches. Wadlow’s size was the result of abnormally enlarged pituitary gland.
(Guinness world record)

4. The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros.

(About google)

5.The oldest-known living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who is 187 years old. He was born in 1832 and has lived on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean since 1882.

(Guinness world record)

6.The most common wild bird in the world isn’t the sparrow or blue jay—it’s the red-billed quelea, which live in Africa and have an estimated population of 1.5 billion.

(Audubon news)

7.Polar bears have black skin. And actually, their fur isn’t white—it’s see-through, so it appears white as it reflects light.

8.Psycho was the first movie to show a toilet flushing.
(npr.com)

9.The first footprints on the moon will remain there for a million years.
(nasa.gov)

10.The hottest temperature ever recorded occurred in Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California, at 134 degrees Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913
(public.wmo.int)