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Telephone numbering plan - WikipediaA telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints.[1]Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, reachable by a system of destination code routing. Telephone numbering plans are defined in each of administrative regions of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and they are also present in private telephone networks. For public number systems, geographic location plays a role in the sequence of numbers assigned to each telephone subscriber.Numbering plans may follow a variety of design strategies which have often arisen from the historical evolution of individual telephone networks and local requirements. A broad division is commonly recognized, distinguishing open numbering plans and closed numbering plans.[discuss]Many numbering plans subdivide their territory of service into geographic regions designated by a prefix, often called an area code or city code, which is a set of digits forming the most-significant part of the dialing sequence to reach a telephone subscriber.The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has established a comprehensive numbering plan, designated E.164, for uniform interoperability of the networks of its member state or regional administrations. It is an open numbering plan, however, imposing a maximum length of 15 digits to telephone numbers. The standard defines a country calling code (country code) for each state or region which is prefixed to each national numbering plan telephone number for international destination routing.Private numbering plans exist in telephone networks that are privately operated in an enterprise or organizational campus. Such systems may be supported by a private branch exchange (PBX), which provides a central access point to the PSTN and also controls internal calls between telephone extensions.In contrast to numbering plans, which determine telephone numbers assigned to subscriber stations, dialing plans establish the customer dialing procedures, i.e. the sequence of digits required to reach a destination. Even in closed numbering plans, it is not always necessary to dial all digits of a number. For example, an area code may often be omitted when the destination is in the same area as the calling station.Contents1Number structure2Country code3Area code4Subscriber dialing procedures4.1Variable-length dialing4.2Full-number dialing5International numbering plan5.1Satellite telephone systems5.2Special services6Numbering plan indicator7Private numbering plan8See also9References10External linksNumber structure[edit source]Most national telephone administrations have enacted numbering plans that conform to the international standard E.164. E.164 conformant telephone numbers consist of a country calling code and a national telephone number. National telephone numbers are defined by national or regional numbering plans, such as the European Telephony Numbering Space, the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), or the UK number plan.Within the national numbering plan, a complete destination telephone number is composed of an area code and a subscriber telephone number. The subscriber number is the number assigned to a line connected to customer equipment. The first few digits of the subscriber number may indicate smaller geographical areas or individual telephone exchanges. In mobile networks they may indicate the network provider. Callers in a given area or country sometimes do not need to include the particular area prefixes when dialing within the same area. Devices that dial telephone numbers automatically may include the full number with area and access codes.Country code[edit source]Country codes are necessary only when dialing telephone numbers in other countries than the originating telephone. These are dialed before the national telephone number. By convention, international telephone numbers are indicated in listings by prefixing the country code with a plus sign (+). This reminds the subscriber to dial the international dialing prefix in the country from which the call is placed. For example, the international dialing prefix or access code in all NANP countries is 011, while it is 00 in most European countries. In some GSM networks, it may be possible to dial +, which may be recognized automatically by the network carrier in place of the international access code.Area code[edit source]Many telephone numbering plans are structured based on divisions into geographic areas of the service territory. Each area identified in the plan is assigned a numeric routing code. This concept was first developed for Operator Toll Dialing of the Bell System in the early 1940s, which preceded the North American Numbering Plan of 1947.[2]The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) divided the North American service territories into numbering plan areas (NPAs), and assigned to each NPA a unique numerical prefix, the numbering plan area code, which became known in short-form as area code. The area code is prefixed to each telephone number issued in its service area.National telecommunication authorities use various formats and dialing rules for area codes. The size of area code prefixes may either be fixed or variable. Area codes in the NANP have three digits, while two digits are used in Brazil, one digit in Australia and New Zealand. Variable-length formats exist in multiple countries including: Argentina, Austria (1 to 4), Germany (2 to 5 digits), Japan (1 to 5), Mexico (2 or 3 digits), Peru (1 or 2), Syria (1 or 2) and the United Kingdom. In addition to digit count, the format may be restricted to certain digit patterns. For example, the NANP had at times specific restrictions on the range of digits for the three positions, and required assignment to geographical areas avoiding nearby areas receiving similar area codes to avoid confusion and misdialing.Some countries, such as Uruguay, have merged variable-length area codes and telephone numbers into fixed-length numbers that must always be dialed independently of location. In such administrations, the area code is not distinguished formally in the telephone number.In the UK, area codes were first known as subscriber trunk dialling (STD) codes. Depending on local dialing plans, they are often necessary only when dialed from outside the code area or from mobile phones. In North America ten-digit dialing is required in areas with overlay plans.The strict correlation of a telephone to a geographical area has been broken by technical advances, such as local number portability and Voice over IP service.[3]When dialing a telephone number, the area code may be preceded by a trunk prefix (national access code), the international access code and country code.Area codes are often quoted by including the national access code. For example, a number in London may be listed as 020 7946 0321. Users must correctly interpret 020 as the code for London. If they call from another station within London, they may merely dial 7946 0321, or if dialing from another country, the initial 0 should be omitted after the country code.Subscriber dialing procedures[edit source]A dial plan establishes the expected sequence of digits dialed on subscriber premises equipment, such as telephones, in private branch exchange (PBX) systems, or in other telephone switches to effect access to the telephone networks for the routing of telephone calls, or to effect or activate specific service features by the local telephone company, such as 311 or 411 service.A variety of dial plans may exist within a numbering plan and these often depend on the network architecture of the local telephone operating company.Variable-length dialing[edit source]Within the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), the administration defines standard and permissive dialing plans, specifying the number of mandatory digits to be dialed for local calls within the area code, as well as alternate, optional sequences, such as adding the prefix 1 before the telephone number.Despite the closed numbering plan in the NANP, different dialing procedures exist in many of the territories for local and long distance telephone calls. This means that to call another number within the same city or area, callers need to dial only a subset of the full telephone number. For example, in the NANP, only the 7-digit number may need to be dialed, but for calls outside the local numbering plan area, the full number including the area code is required. In these situations, ITU-T Recommendation E.123 suggests to list the area code in parentheses, signifying that in some cases the area code is optional or may not be required.Internationally, an area code is typically prefixed by a domestic trunk access code (usually 0) when dialing from inside a country, but is not necessary when calling from other countries; there are exceptions, such as for Italian land lines.To call a number in Sydney, Australia, for example:xxxx xxxx (within Sydney and other locations within New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory - no area code required)(02) xxxx xxxx (outside New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, but still within Australia - the area code is required)+61 2 xxxx xxxx (outside Australia)The plus character (+) in the markup signifies that the following digits are the country code, in this case 61. Some phones, especially mobile telephones, allow the + to be entered directly. For other devices the user must replace the + with the international access code for their current location. In the United States, most carriers require the caller to dial 011 before the destination country code.[4]New Zealand has a special-case dial plan. While most nations require the area code to be dialed only if it is different, in New Zealand, one needs to dial the area code if the phone is outside the local calling area. For example, the town of Waikouaiti is in the Dunedin City Council jurisdiction, and has phone numbers (03) 465 7xxx. To call the city council in central Dunedin (03) 477 4000, residents must dial the number in full including the area code even though the area code is the same, as Waikouaiti and Dunedin lie in different local calling areas (Palmerston and Dunedin, respectively.)[5]In many areas of the NANP, the domestic trunk code (long distance access code) must also be dialed along with the area code for long distance calls even within the same numbering plan area. For example, to call a number in Regina in area code 306 (Regina and the rest of the province of Saskatchewan are also served by the overlay code 639):306 xxx xxxx — within Regina, Lumsden and other local areas1 306 xxx xxxx — within Saskatchewan, but not within the Regina local calling area, e.g., Saskatoon1 306 xxx xxxx — anywhere within the NANP outside SaskatchewanIn many parts of North America, especially where a new area code overlays an older area code, dialing the area code, or 1 and the area code, is required even for local calls. Dialing from mobile phones is different in the U.S., as the trunk code is not necessary, although it is still necessary for calling all long distance numbers from a mobile phone in Canada. Most mobile phones from recent years automatically add their own line's native area code as a prefix to outbound calls, allowing calls within the desired area to be dialed by the user as seven-digit numbers, though sent by the phone as ten-digit numbers. For instance a mobile subscriber whose line begins with area code 216 can simply dial xxx-xxxx to reach another 216 number (with the mobile phone/mobile carrier automatically apending the 216); however, some carriers only allow this omission while within the same physical location (e.g., if the mobile device is physically located in the 330 area code at time of calling, the call may require 216 to be entered even though the subscriber already is assigned 216).In some parts of the United States, especially northeastern states such as Pennsylvania served by Verizon Communications, the ten-digit number must be dialed. If the call is not local, the call fails unless the dialed number is preceded by digit 1. Thus:610 xxx xxxx — local calls within the 610 area code and its overlay (484), as well as calls to or from the neighboring 215 area code and its overlay, 267. Area code is required; one of two completion options for mobile phones within the U.S.1 610 xxx xxxx — calls from numbers outside the 610/484 and 215/267 area codes; second of two completion options for mobile phones within the U.S.In California and New York, because of the existence of both overlay area codes (where an area code must be dialed for every call) and non-overlay area codes (where an area code is dialed only for calls outside the subscriber's home area code), "permissive home area code dialing" of 1 + the area code within the same area code, even if no area code is required, has been permitted since the mid-2000s. For example, in the 559 area code (a non-overlay area code), calls may be dialed as 7 digits (XXX-XXXX) or 1-559 + 7 digits. The manner in which a call is dialed does not affect the billing of the call. This "permissive home area code dialing" helps maintain uniformity and eliminates confusion given the different types of area code relief that has made California the nation's most "area code" intensive State. Unlike other states with overlay area codes (Texas, Maryland, Florida and Pennsylvania and others), the California Public Utilities Commission and the New York State Public Service Commission maintain two different dial plans: Landlines must dial 1 + area code whenever an Area Code is part of the dialed digits while cellphone users can omit the "1" and just dial 10 digits.Many organizations have private branch exchange systems which permit dialing the access digit(s) for an outside line (usually 9 or 8), a "1" and finally the local area code and xxx xxxx in areas without overlays. This aspect is unintentionally helpful for employees who reside in one area code and work in an area code with one, two, or three adjacent area codes. 1+ dialing to any area code by an employee can be done quickly, with all exceptions processed by the private branch exchange and passed onto the public switched telephone network.Full-number dialing[edit source]In small countries or areas, the full telephone number is used for all calls, even in the same area. This has traditionally been the case in small countries and territories where area codes have not been required. However, there has been a trend in many countries towards making all numbers a standard length, and incorporating the area code into the subscriber's number. This usually makes the use of a trunk code obsolete. For example, to call someone in Oslo in Norway before 1992, it was necessary to dial:xxx xxx (within Oslo - no area code required)(02) xxx xxx (within Norway - outside Oslo)+47 2 xxx xxx (outside Norway)After 1992, this changed to a closed eight-digit numbering plan, e.g.:22xx xxxx (within Norway - including Oslo)+47 22xx xxxx (outside Norway)However, in other countries, such as France, Belgium, Japan, Switzerland, South Africa and some parts of North America, the trunk code is retained for domestic calls, whether local or national, e.g.,Paris 01 xx xx xx xx (outside France +33 1 xxxx xxxx)Brussels 02 xxx xxxx (outside Belgium +32 2 xxx xxxx)Geneva 022 xxx xxxx (outside Switzerland +41 22 xxx xxxx)Cape Town 021 xxx xxxx (outside South Africa +27 21 xxx xxxx)New York 1 212 xxx xxxx (outside the North American Numbering Plan +1 212 xxx xxxx)Fukuoka 092 xxx xxxx (outside the Japanese Numbering Plan +81 92 xxx xxxx)India "0-10 Digit Number" (Outside the India it's +91 XXXXXXXXXX) In India due multiple operators availability the metro city's having short code which are from 2 to 8 digit.while some, like Italy, require the initial zero to be dialed, even for calls from outside the country, e.g.,Rome 06 xxxxxxxx (outside Italy +39 06 xxxxxxxx)While dialing of full national numbers takes longer than a local number without the area code, the increased use of phones that can store numbers means that this is of decreasing importance. It also makes it easier to display numbers in the international format, as no trunk code is required—hence a number in Prague, Czech Republic, can now be displayed as:2xx xxx xxx (inside Czech Republic)+420 2xx xxx xxx (outside Czech Republic)as opposed to before September 21, 2002:[6]02 / xx xx xx xx (inside Czech Republic)+420 2 / xx xx xx xx (outside Czech Republic)Some countries already switched, but trunk prefix re-added with the closed dialing plan, for example in Bangkok, Thailand before 1997:xxx-xxxx (inside Bangkok)02-xxx-xxxx (inside Thailand)+66 2-xxx-xxxx (outside Thailand)This was changed in 1997:2-xxx-xxxx (inside Thailand)+66 2-xxx-xxxx (outside Thailand)Trunk prefix was re-added in 200102-xxx-xxxx (inside Thailand)+66 2-xxx-xxxx (outside Thailand)International numbering plan[edit source]The E.164 standard of the International Telecommunications Union is an international numbering plan and establishes a country calling code (country code) for each member organization. Country codes are prefixes to national telephone numbers that denote call routing to the network of a subordinate number plan administration, typically a country, or group of countries with a uniform numbering plan, such as the NANP. E.164 permits a maximum length of 15 digits for the complete international phone number consisting of the country code, the national routing code (area code), and the subscriber number. E.164 does not define regional numbering plans, however, it does provide recommendations for new implementations and uniform representation of all telephone numbers.Within the system of country calling codes, the ITU has defined certain prefixes for special services and assigns such codes for independent international networks, such as satellite systems, spanning beyond the scope of regional authorities.Satellite telephone systems[edit source]Satellite phones are usually issued with numbers with a special country calling code. For example, Inmarsat satellite phones are issued with code +870, while Global Mobile Satellite System providers, such as Iridium, issue numbers in country code +881 ("Global Mobile Satellite System") or +882 ("International Networks"). Some satellite phones are issued with ordinary phone numbers, such as Globalstar satellite phones issued with NANP telephone numbers.Inmarsat: +870: SNAC (Single Network Access Code)ICO Global: +881 0, +881 1Ellipso: +881 2, +881 3Iridium: +881 6, +881 7Globalstar: +881 8, +881 9Emsat: +882 13Thuraya: +882 16ACeS: +882 20+ 88184Special services[edit source]Some country calling codes are issued for special services, or for international/inter regional zones.+388 5 – shared code for groups of nations+388 3 – European Telephony Numbering Space – Europe-wide services (discontinued)+800 – International Freephone (UIFN)+808 – reserved for Shared Cost Services+878 – Universal Personal Telecommunications services+881 – Global Mobile Satellite System+882 and +883 – International Networks+888 - international disaster relief operations+979 – International Premium Rate Service+991 – International Telecommunications Public Correspondence Service trial (ITPCS)+999 – reserved for future global serviceNumbering plan indicator[edit source]The numbering plan indicator (NPI) is a number which is defined in the ITU standard Q.713, paragraph 3.4.2.3.3, indicating the numbering plan of the attached telephone number. NPIs can be found in Signalling Connection Control Part (SCCP) and short message service (SMS) messages. As of 2004, the following numbering plans and their respective numbering plan indicator values have been defined:NPIDescriptionStandard0unknown1ISDN TelephonyE.1642generic3dataX.1214telexF695maritime mobileE.210 and E.2116land mobileE.2127ISDN/mobileE.214Private numbering plan[edit source]Like a public telecommunications network, a private telephone network in an enterprise or within an organizational campus may implement a private numbering plan for the installed base of telephones for internal communication. Such networks operate a private switching system or a private branch exchange (PBX) within the network. The internal numbers assigned are often called extension numbers, as the internal numbering plan extends an official, published main access number for the entire network. A caller from within the network only dials the extension number assigned to another internal destination telephone.A private numbering plan provides the convenience of mapping station telephone numbers to other commonly used numbering schemes in an enterprise. For example, station numbers may be assigned as the room number of a hotel or hospital. Station numbers may also be strategically mapped to certain keywords composed from the letters on the telephone dial, such as 4357 (help) to reach a help desk.The internal number assignments may be independent of any direct inward dialing (DID) services provided by external telecommunication vendors. For numbers without DID access, the internal switch relays externally originated calls via an operator, an automated attendant or an electronic interactive voice response system. Telephone numbers for users within such systems are often published by suffixing the official telephone number with the extension number, e.g., 1-800-555-0001 x2055.Some systems may automatically map a large block of DID numbers (differing only in a trailing sequence of digits) to a corresponding block of individual internal stations, allowing each of them to be reached directly from the public switched telephone network. In some of these cases, a special shorter dial-in number can be used to reach an operator who can be asked for general information, e.g. help looking up or connecting to internal numbers. For example, individual extensions at Universität des Saarlandes can be dialed directly from outside via their four-digit internal extension +49-681-302-xxxx, whereas the university's official main number is +49-681-302-0[7](49 is the country code for Germany, 681 is the area code for Saarbrücken, 302 the prefix for the university).Callers within a private numbering plan often dial a trunk prefix to reach a national or international destination (outside line) or to access a leased line (or tie-line) to another location within the same enterprise. A large manufacturer with factories and offices in multiple cities may use a prefix (such as '8') followed by an internal routing code to indicate a city or location, then an individual four- or five-digit extension number at the destination site. A common trunk prefix for an outside line on North American systems is the digit 9, followed by the outside destination number.Additional dial plan customisations, such as single-digit access to a hotel front desk or room service from an individual room, are available at the sole discretion of the PBX owner.

It's an interesting process, but time-consuming. There are a lot of variables to keep in mind.First and foremost, aircraft wreckage is evidence -- evidence for safety investigators, evidence for criminal investigators (in many countries under Napoleonic Code-based laws, an appointed judicial official's investigation takes primacy over all others), evidence to be considered by coroners in determining individual causes of death, and evidence for both plaintiffs and defendants in the civil litigation that inevitably follows a major accident. So, it's essential to document the exact condition and location of every piece of wreckage, inside and out, before moving anything even an inch. That means thousands of photographs and hours of video from all possible angles. Surveyors need to precisely locate all major components, ground scars, etc., too, before the scene gets any messier than it had to during the initial response.Once it's actually time to start moving metal, there are a variety of tools for doing so, depending on the size of the pieces that have to be moved. Ideally, you want to keep the aircraft as intact as possible; if it simply landed gear-up, the aircraft often can be jacked up, the landing gear dropped into position, and the aircraft towed out of the way. If underside damage precludes jacking, massive airbags can be inflated under the aircraft to try to get it high enough to place on its gear or specialized flatbed trailers. Whatever the process, the investigators will keep photographing it -- it's critical to be able to distinguish pre-existing damage (i.e., from before the crash) from damage that occurred during the crash sequence (from first impact through full stop) from post-crash damage (fire, etc.) from damage incurred during repositioning.Most major international airports' accident plans include provisions for obtaining any heavy equipment they may need and its sources, as well as a place on the airport (ideally a hangar, but sometimes just open ground) where wreckage can be moved to. That'll be the interim destination for pretty much everything that came off or out of the aircraft, and it may sit there for a LONG time if lawsuits start flying (pun not intended, but still a good groaner).At some point, everybody who wants anything from the wreckage will finish up with it. At that point, it becomes mostly expensive and hard-to-dispose-of scrap. Usually, the only components retained for extended periods of time are those associated with specific causes of the accident -- broken control cables, a corroded bulkhead, malfunctioning instruments and the like. In rare and extraordinary cases, major parts of the entire aircraft may be reassembled on a massive skeleton of wood, metal and chicken wire if it's necessary to document how an aircraft broke up in flight, how certain parts can be associated with catastrophic damage, etc. The fuselage of the Boeing 747 that crashed off Long Island in 1996 -- TWA 800 -- was given this treatment to see if any trace of an external impact and penetration could be seen, and to zero in on the part of the aircraft that shows evidence of explosion from inside out. That reconstructed wreckage was moved to the NTSB Academy in northern Virginia about a decade ago.Finally, a part of the clean-up and disposal process a lot of people forget about is the environmental dimension. LOTS of contaminated soil will have to be disposed of, and there is a lot of material used in aircraft construction that needs to be handled responsibly when it's damaged as well. This is a specialty area I know exists but know little about, but it's also one that I'm grateful to others for handling once the tin-kicking is done.To see how all of this comes together, here's a link to the final report on the 2008 British Airways Boeing 777 accident: Page on Aaib.Now, on the extremely remote chance you might have developed this question based on the recent accident at SFO, here are a few observations and educated guesses regarding that specific accident scene:1. SFO needs/needed to get that runway open for business as soon as possible. That's a not inconsiderable source of pressure on investigators and airport management alike. The investigation takes precedence; however, once all useful evidence can be obtained from the runway and its clear zone (the protected area around it), and assuming the main wreckage is far enough off the runway, the runway possibly could be opened long before the main wreckage needs to be moved. (Not a pretty sight for nervous flyers, and enough bad publicity that airlines used to routinely swarm over wreckage to paint out its colors and logo within hours of a major accident.)2. Just because talking heads have already written 90% of what they think the report will say doesn't mean the pros are done -- not by a long shot. To me, one of the big issues that may need to be addressed will be what happened to the aircraft as it struck the seawall. A lot of passengers experienced significant spinal injuries; by the same token, damned near everybody got out alive. Both are unusual enough in this kind of accident that, at the very least, the entire floor and all of the seats may need to be pulled out, reassembled, and evaluated individually. That kind of attention to detail in the past is how airplane seats got as safe as they are today; more attention may offer new lessons.3. Boeing 777s are huge aircraft. That size alone creates a tremendous logistical challenge regarding how to move it and where to put it. Figuring that out -- especially if investigators need to spend a lot of time inside the passenger cabin as I suggested above -- will take some time and agreement on the part of a lot of interested parties.

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Hayes, James Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur.Before colonial rule Africa comprised up to 10,000 different states and autonomous groups with distinct languages and customs.In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. My question would be how the pig killed the child.Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.For years, the pharmaceutical company Bayer held the trademark for the word “heroin” and sold the drug as a cough and headache remedy.Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will cover up their black nose with their paws.In an average NFL football game, there are only about 12 minutes of actual play time.It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking at once, to completely drain the average human of blood.Approximately 2,500 left handed people die a year as a result of using equipment designed for right handed people.If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day. That’s one hardworking mother.In a statue dedicated to a person, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. I never knew that.The biggest tapeworm found inside a human body was 35 meters long.Dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures, and have demonstrated the ability to do simple mathematical calculations.Blue Whale fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse.Louis Armstrong played the trumpet so much that he got callouses on his lips. He cut them off with a razor blade.The longest jellyfish on record measured 160 feet.Due to breathing, your ribs move about five million times a year.Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.Since 1945, all British tanks come with tea making equipment. That’s the most British thing ever.Most toilets flush in E flat.A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch.The Vatican City is the country that drinks the most wine per capita at 74 liters per citizen per year.Approximately 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.If a female ferret does not have sex for a year, she will die.Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.“Almost” is the longest word in English with all the letters in alphabetical order.Sean Connery wore a toupee in all his James Bond movies.Nicholas Cage bought a pet octopus once because he sincerely thought it might help this his acting.Nicholas Cage also once did magic mushrooms with his cat.It actually takes 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie pop.1% of all women can achieve full orgasm just by stimulating their breasts.You’ll eat more than 35,000 cookies in your lifetime (probably).Steve Jobs relieved stress by soaking his feet in Apple’s company toilets.Fredric Baur was the man who invented the iconic “Pringles” can. When he died, his ashes were buried in one.Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes responded by calling into work “sick,” saying they “felt gay.”There is enough sperm in one single man to impregnate every woman on earth.It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.There is a town in Canada called “Dildo.”Human birth control pills actually work on gorillas.France was still executing people by guillotine when the first Star Wars movie came out.All swans in England belong to the queen.No piece of square paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.The US Treasury once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!The hashtag key on your keyboard is actually called an octotroph.The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.Alaska law says that you can’t look at a moose from an airplane.A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and nobody can figure out why.In 1993, the entire city of San Francisco voted about whether a police officer was allowed to carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty while on patrol. He was.What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine. Apparently it works?Minnie Mouse full name is Minerva Mouse.In Georgia, it is against the law to slap a man on the back or front.There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!At any one time about 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary were misspelled.There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.Crocodile poop used to be used as contraception.Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.Sherlock Holmes NEVER actually said, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”Glassdoor discovered that roughly 10% of people had had sex at work.Deer can’t eat hay. Why? No idea.King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.For every non-porn webpage, there are five porn pages.Post-death, Napoléon Bonaparte’s penis was removed from body during autopsy, displayed on a museum, and sold for $2,700 in the 1970s.The Falkland Isles has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).M&M’s actually stands for “Mars & Murrie’s,” the last names of the candy’s founders.There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.In 1907, an ad campaign for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes offered a free box of cereal to any woman who would wink at her grocer.Male students enrolled at Brigham Young University need a doctor’s note to grow a beard.A man will ejaculate 18 quarts of semen in his lifetime.It is estimated that millions of trees are planted by forgetful squirrels that buried their nuts.The Vatican Bank is the world’s only bank that allows ATM users to perform transactions in Latin.Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beef.Andy’s evil neighbor Sid from Toy Story returns briefly as the garbage man in Toy Story 3.The international telephone area code for Antarctica is 672.Studies show that men actually experience more emotional pain post-breakup than women.Some people experience the same feeling of arousal when thinking about food as when having sex.The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital fired some workers for betting on when patients would die.You can’t say happiness without saying penis.There are five calories in a teaspoon of semen.A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongueIn ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.The average sexual experience lasts 37 minutes.A Canadian farmer in 1984 tried renting advertising space on his cows.Ginger stimulates the feelings of excitement associated with sex.Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their cousins.Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.More monopoly money is printed each year than real US currency.It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted)A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.A shrimp's heart is in it's head.People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.Rats and horses can't vomit.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.Most lipstick contains fish scales.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations has increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5") for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios. In 1970 George C. Scott refused the Best Actor Oscar for Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the Oscar for his role in The Godfather.The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.According to a study by the Economic Research Service, 27% of all food production in Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion people are underfed - the same number of people who are overweight.Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will not have a hump.In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by the Beatles.Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.Hot water is heavier than cold.Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm.Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb.At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.The first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter, happened in 1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth).Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at that time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this was the closest perigee of the Moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. In places where the weather was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous.According to security equipment specialists, security systems that utilize motion detectors won't function properly if walls and floors are too hot. When an infrared beam is used in a motion detector, it will pick up a person's body temperature of 98.6 degrees compared to the cooler walls and floor.If the room is too hot, the motion detector won't register a change in the radiated heat of that person's body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home's safety might be compromised if you turn your air conditioning off or set the thermostat too high while on summer vacation.Western Electric successfully brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone.On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three), relights the wick.Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.The pet food company Ralston Purina recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting, which is popular in many areas of the world.According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.Deer can't eat hay.Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.Human birth control pills work on gorillas.Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods. And after searching it up, he accidentally shot one.A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task.The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.(removed, duplicated)The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.(removed, duplicated)315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.(removed, duplicated)Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions!What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order."Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child(removed, duplicated)Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.You can’t kill yourself by holding your breathThere is a city called Rome on every continent.It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of LondonRight handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed peopleYour ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!(removed, duplicated)The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young manFingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute.More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.Earth is the only planet not named after a god.It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!Dolphins sleep with one eye open!It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes openThe worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 secondsQueen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or notSlugs have 4 noses.Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!The average person laughs 10 times a day!An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brainIf you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.The human heart! creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.A cockroach will live for weeks without its head before it starves to deathBanging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hourThe male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.Some lions mate over 50 times a day.Butterflies taste with their feet.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.A cat's urine glows under a black light.(removed, duplicated)Starfish have no brains.Polar bears are left-handed.Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.In France, it is legal to marry a dead personAnd now for some mind-blowing coincidences that will definitely shock you!1 In 2013, Rajkumar Rao acted in a movie called Shahid. A few days later, Shahid Kapoor starred in the film R. Rajkumar.2. Arvind Kejriwal recently won the Delhi elections and will take the oath of office on 14th February, 2015. A year ago, he resigned on Valentines Day. Which basically means: He had resigned on February 14, 2014. He will take oath again on February 14, 2015.3. The sad demise of the Ebbin brothers.Neville and Erskine Ebbin both died at the age of 17 in an accident with a taxi. Here's the weird part. They both died a year apart while riding the same moped. So so much of a coincidence. But here's where it gets weirder. Both brothers were killed by the same taxi, which was being driven by the same driver and it was carrying the same passenger. Don't believe us? Here's a clipping from 1975 reporting the incident.4. Mark Twain's prediction.In 1909, the author of Tom Sawyer was quoted saying, "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.5. The former and present stars of Indian cricket have more than extraordinary talent in common.On December 28, 1999, Sachin Tendulkar scored a total of 1000 runs versus Australia in the 5th test on Melbourne Cricket Ground in the 19th innings. Exactly 15 years later, Virat Kohli also scored a total of 1000 runs versus Australia in the 5th test in the 19th innings at MCG. They were both 26 years old at their respective times of setting this milestone.6. Did the cartoonists of Johnny Bravo know?An episode of Johnny Bravo that aired on Cartoon Network in April 2001 featured a movie poster with an image of a burning building with the label 'Coming Soon'. Five months later 9/11 happened.7. A weird pattern of the hosts and winners of the T20 World Cup since 2009.a. 2009- Host was England- The winner was Pakistanb. 2010- Host was West Indies- The winner was Englandc. 2012- Host was Sri Lanka- The winner was West Indiesd. 2014- The host was Bangladesh- The winner was Sri LankaSo will Bangladesh be the next winner? Nope, Australia was the winner. And hey hosted the competition this time.8. Licence to pass (or fail).In 1990, a 15-year-old student from Argoed High School in the UK sat for his GCSE examinations. His name was Bond...James Bond and his paper reference number was 007 ;)9. Alastair + Michael = SachinBefore you get freaked out by our disturbing equation, let me explain.Sachin Tendulkar's stats, i.e. 200 matches, 15921 runs and 51 centuries, is the sum of Alastair Cook and Michael Clarke's stats.10. Identical twins who were separated at birth, lived identical lives.Jim Springer and Jim Lewis who were separated at birth were reunited at the age of 39. They discovered that they were both married to women named Linda, divorced, and remarried to women named Betty. One of them had a son named James Allan while the other named his son James Alan. They both had dogs named Toy.11. Dennis the Menace across the Atlantic.The famous comic strip "Denace the Menace" existed in both the US and the UK. However they were completely different entities created by two different cartoonists. Hank Ketcham's Dennis the menace (the boy with the golden hair and a dog named Ruff) in the USA released the same time as David Law's entirely different comic under the same name in the UK. Both comics were about a little boy who liked wreaking havoc, although Law's version was dirtier and grittier.We are more familiar with the US comic as it appears on the newspaper daily and was made into a movie in 1993.12. A bullet is not lost until it serves its purpose (well at least for this guy).Henry Ziegland, a resident of Texas, dumped his girlfriend, which made her commit suicide. Her brother shot Ziegland and hurriedly took his own life. Ziegland had survived the shot as the bullet touched his face and got lodged in a nearby tree. Years later, when he was trying to cut the tree down, he used dynamite. The explosion caused the bullet to fly through and hit his head. R.I.P Mr. Ziegland.13. Stupid computer or simply confused computer?A computer error gave two women in America called Patricia the same social security number. When the two women were brought together in an office to rectify the blunder they discovered that:- They had both been born with the names Patricia Ann Campbell- Both of their fathers were called Robert Campbell- Their birthdays were on 13th March 1941- They had both married military men in the year 1959 (within eleven days of each other)- They each had two children aged 19 and 21- They both had an interest in oil painting- Both had studied cosmetics- Both had worked as book-keepers14. Divine Wind or Divine Intervention?The Mongolians tried to conquer Japan in the 13th century but were prevented from doing so after a typhoon broke out upon their arrival at the Japanese port of Hakata. They retreated and returned the following year in summer where they were once again greeted by a typhoon at Hakata. Being superstitious, the Mongols decided never to invade the country again. The weird coincidence? Typhoons don't occur in summer.15. Old Mc Donald had a farm.Mr Mc Donald, a farmer in Canada, has a postal address EIEIO.16. This one about Enzo Ferrari's death, and footballer Ozil's birth. They were both born in 1988.Hidden Meanings in Company Logos1 In case you weren't craving ice cream yet today, let's chat about Baskin Robbins! This beloved ice cream chain offers 31 flavors of ice cream so that customers can come in each day of the month and try a new flavor. If you look at the Baskin Robbins logo, you can see the number 31 accentuated in pink.2. Wendy'sWhen you think of Wendy's, do you think of home-cooked, comfort food? Probably not (although we can't knock their Frosties). But the creators of Wendy's logo decided to incorporate the word "MOM" into the fast food chain's logo to subliminally suggest that you can find some great home cooked meals at Wendy's. Take a second to see if you can find "MOM" in this logo.Found it? If you haven't, here's a hint: Take a peek at Wendy's collar.3. RoxyRoxy is the female counterpart of the surf-inspired clothing line Quiksilver. At first glance, Roxy's logo resembles a heart, but upon closer inspection, you can see that this heart-shaped logo was created by putting two Quiksilver logos together.4. GoodwillDonating your clothes to Goodwill and shopping at Goodwill helps bring smiles to people's faces... at least that's what the logo seems to insinuate. If you look a bit closer, though, you'll see that what looks like half of a smiling face is actually just a larger version of the "g" in the word "goodwill" below.5. TostitosTostitos are a necessity for any fiesta, right? Of course they are! Just look at the two "Ts" in the middle of the word — they've been designed to look like two people sharing a chip over a bowl of salsa. And when people come together to share tortilla chips, you know it's a party.6. FedExFedEx wants to be known for speed and efficiency, which is why they hid an arrow in their logo.7. Chick-fil-AChick-fil-A wants you to "Eat More Chikin," which is why they made the "C" in their logo resemble a chicken. If only that chicken knew what was coming...8. PinterestEven if you're an avid pinner, you might not have noticed this subtlety about Pinterest's logo — the stem of the "P" is a pin. Clever! (As if you could expect anything else from the site where you can find a million and one craft ideas!)9. ToyotaDid you know that if you disassembled the Toyota logo you could actually spell out Toyota? Take a look below... how cool is that?!10. AmazonAmazon makes everyone very, very happy. After all, going to the physical store and interacting with humans is so overrated. But this overwhelming sense of happiness can be found in Amazon's logo, which has an arrow that resembles a smile stretching from the "a" to the "z." The logo also illustrates that Amazon has all types of products available, from a to z.11. McDonald'sEverybody recognizes the Golden Arches. Like, literally everybody. This iconic logo looks like an "M," as in an M for McDonald's, but psychologist Louis Cheskin believed there was something else at work with those supple arches.He believed that customers unconsciously associated the Golden Arches with "a pair of nourishing breasts.THANK YOU FOR READING!Facts:1–98 = 100 Interesting Facts About The World To Blow Your Mind99–173 = 75 Super Obscure Facts That Everyone Will Think You’re A Hilarious Genius For Knowing174–367= 194 Funny and Interesting FactsCoincidences:https://www.indiatimes.com/lifestyle/self/15-great-coincidences-in-human-history-bound-to-make-your-jaw-drop-230152.htmlHidden Meanings in Company Logos = http://guff.com/these-11-company-logos-have-hidden-meanings-you-wont-believe-you-never-noticed