Dialy Facts #3 : The 10 History and Unknown Facts

1. If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go, you won't use the letter "A" until you reach 1,000.
2. In order to make a bottle of wine, you will need to have approximately 600 grapes on hand.
3. Viruses can get viruses.
4. Despite their walnut-sized brain, octopuses are highly intelligent, possibly more so than any other order of invertebrates.
5. Oxford University Is Older Than the Aztecs.
6. Movie trailers used to play after the film.
7. There are 300 lakes beneath Antarctica that are kept from freezing by the warmth of Earth's core.
8. Put together, all of China’s railways lines could loop around earth twice.
9. The government of Hungary printed the highest denomination ever created in 1946. It printed a bank note worth 100 quintillion pengoes. A hundred quintillion looks like this: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000.
10. The biggest volcanic eruption ever recorded by humans was the explosion of Mount Tambora on Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, in 1815. It ranked a 7 (or "super-colossal) on the Volcanic Explosivity Index the second-highest rating in the index."