50o WeIrd fActS of EaRTh

  1. Did you knew rhino horns were made out of hair ?
  2. If you kiss and hug your wife or girlfriend every day the odds are you will live 5 years more !
  3. The first programer in the world was a woman called Agusta Ada Byron Countess of Lovelace, had a programing language named after her (ADA Language).
  4. The first calculator in the world was called the Pascaline after the french mathematichian Blaise Pascal.
  5. Did you knew that on the first days of may of the year 2000, five planets of the solar sistem will line up.
  6. Every day is named after one of the five planets seen easily from earth (plus the sun and moon): Monday (Moon), Tuesday (Mars "Martes" in spanish), Wednesday (Mercury "Miercoles" in spanish too), Thursday (Jupiter, "Jeudi" in french), Friday (Venus "Viernes" in spanish), Saturday (Saturn), Sunday (Sun).
  7. The number of people that have shaked hands can be proven to be a pair number.
  8. The circle has 360 degrees because a primitive civilization which thought the earth to be in the center of the universe, had a calendar which had 360 days and thought that every day the sun moved 1 degree.
  9. It is thought that there is a number (PHI)in which it lies the divine proportion. The tool "god" used to create the universe. Further info try Leonardo da Vinci.
  10. Several hundred years before the pyramids of Keops and others before a civilization in the Great Britain, built a gigantic tomb in which the sun enters only in the summer solistice.
  11. The Olympus Mons are the biggest rock formation in the universe, they are in mars!.
  12. Americans plan to have people living in Mars by the 2020ths!. The journey to mars is about 900 days in space, 500 in mars.
  13. While people are dying in third world countries, americans spend millions of dollars in makeup!
  14. There are rumors that a spacecraft is hidden in the mountains of Tibet!

    15. Pleas help to construct the monumental 500 facts. See below.

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