1.The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts, from Willows, Wisconsin. Her birthday is March 9, 1959, when she was first displayed at the New York Toy Fair.
2.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 an abnormally enlarged pituitary gland.
✓1 foot- 30,48 cms
✓1 inch- 2,54 cms
3.The oldest person ever lived (whose age could be authenticated), a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment, was 122 years old when she died in 1997.
4.The first college football game was played on November 6, 1869, between Rutgers and Princeton (then known as the College of New Jersey) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers won.
5.Experiments in universities have actually been carried out to figure out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, both with machine and human lickers (because this is important scientific knowledge!). The results ranged from 252 to 411. Tootsie Pop- is a hard candy lollipop filled with the chocolate-flavored chewy Tootsie Roll candy.
6.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.
7.There are no muscles in your fingers: Their function is controlled by muscles in your palms and arms.
8. It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose (just try it!).
9.The longest fingernails ever were over 42 feet in total and belonged to American Diana Armstrong, recognized as the new record holder in March 2022. The previous record was held by American Lee Redmond, with fingernails over 28 feet in total.
10.The word “strengths” is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.
