Saoirse Ronan Biography, Boyfriend, Awards, Age, Movies & more

Oscar chosen one Saoirse Ronan is an Irish-American performing artist best known for her jobs in such movies as 'Amends,' 'The Lovely Bones,' 'Hanna' and 'Woman Bird.'

Who Is Saoirse Ronan?

Saoirse Ronan is an Irish-American performer conceived on April 12, 1994, in New York City. She started her vocation on the Irish TV programs The Clinic and Proof, before diving into movies in Hollywood. Ronan was highlighted in the 2007 films I Could Never Be Your Woman and Atonement, the last earning her an Oscar designation for best supporting performing artist. Different jobs pursued, incorporating the lead in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones and the main character of the activity flick Hanna (2011). She got her second Oscar designation for her lead job in the 2015 show Brooklyn, and won a Golden Globe for her execution in the transitioning story Lady Bird (2017).

Early Acclaim

Saoirse Una Ronan was conceived in New York City on April 12, 1994, to Irish guardians, performing artist Paul Ronan and his better half, Monica. Ronan's family moved back to Ireland amid her adolescence. She in the long run showed up on the TV arrangement The Clinic and Proof before coming back to America and breaking into Hollywood. Ronan appeared on the extra large screen in a supporting job in 2007's I Could Never Be Your Woman, featuring Michelle Pfeiffer.

Notice

That equivalent year, Ronan showed up in the honor winning dramatization Atonement, a film adjusted from the Ian McEwan tale that likewise featured Keira Knightley. For her execution as 13-year-old Briony Tallis, Ronan got Academy Award and Golden Globe assignments for best supporting performer.

Oscar Nod for 'Brooklyn'

The gifted youthful performing artist pursued with a job in The Lovely Bones (2009), Peter Jackson's wide screen adjustment of Alice Sebold's acclaimed novel. Ronan filled the role of Susie Salmon, a young lady who is mercilessly assaulted and killed and after that watches her family adapt from paradise.
Ronan went up against the main job in the 2011 activity film Hanna, and the next year she featured in the vampire flick Byzantium. Demonstrating her capacity to adjust to a wide scope of types, she joined the group cast of Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and she later earned Golden Globe and Oscar selections for her execution in the film celebration most loved Brooklyn (2015).

'Woman Bird'

In late 2017, Ronan earned a Golden Globe designation for her lead job in Greta Gerwig's exceptionally acclaimed Lady Bird, a transitioning story about a secondary school understudy's association with her mother and companions. She commenced 2018 by demolishing solid rivalry from any semblance of Judi Dench and Helen Mirren for the main Golden Globe win of her vocation, and later wound up among the Oscar chosen people for Best Actress.

USA FACTS

• The United States of America is also called the USA, US, United States or sometimes America.
• On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was issued, establishing the United States of America.
• The US is the 4th largest country in the world by land area and 3rd by population.
• On February 25, 2013, the estimated population of the US was 315,568,000.
• The US is a diverse country with a multicultural society.
• The US has the world's largest economy.
• The US developed the first nuclear weapons, using them on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki near the end of World War 2.
• The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers combine to form the longest river system in the US and the fourth longest in the world.
• The tallest mountain the US is Mt McKinley, located in the state of Alaska it reaches 20,320 ft (6,194 m) above sea level.
• Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867 and is the largest state in the US by land area.
• Hawaii is the most recent of the 50 states in the US (joining in 1959) and is the only one made up entirely of islands.
• Most of the world's tornadoes occur in the Midwest region of the US known as Tornado Alley.
• The most populated city in the US is New York City, followed by Los Angeles and Chicago.
• English is the most commonly spoken language in the US, followed by Spanish.
• The first man to walk on the moon was American Neil Armstrong (July 21, 1969).
• The US was the leading force behind the development of the Internet.
• The US consumes more petroleum than any other country in the world.
• The most popular team sports in the US are American football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey.
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CANADA FACTS

• Canada has ten provinces and three territories.
• Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world at 243,977 kilometres – 151,600 miles.
• Montreal is the world’s second largest French speaking city after Paris.
• Six cities in Canada have a population of over 1 million: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa.
• Canada is lucky to have 9% of the world’s renewable water supply!
• The largest non-polar ice field in the world can be found in the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory. It covers an area of 40,570 square kilometres of which 16,900 square kilometres are located in Canada, the remainder being in Alaska.
• Canada has six time zones.
• The longest highway in the world is the Trans-Canada Highway which is over 7,604 kilometres (4,725 miles) in length.
• The world’s most northerly sand dunes are in Athabasca Provincial Park in northwest Saskatchewan. They are 30 metres high.
• Half of the country is covered with forests, which should come as no surprise considering one-tenth of the world’s forests are here.
• The highest mountain in Canada is Mount Logan, Yukon Territory, 5959 metres (19,551 feet).
• Wasaga beach is the longest fresh water beach in the world.
• Despite being a huge country, Canada has the fourth lowest population density in the world, with only three people living per square kilometre! Almost half of the population in Canada were born in other countries.
• The coldest temperature ever recorded in Canada was -63C (-81.4F) on February 3, 1957 in Snag, Yukon.
• Alert, in Nunavut Territory, is the northernmost permanent settlement in the world.
• The highest waterfall in Canada is Della Falls, British Columbia, 440 metres high (1,444 feet).
• The border between Canada and the United States is officially known as the International Boundary. It is 5,525 miles long, including the 1,538 miles between Canada and Alaska. It’s the world’s longest unprotected border.
• Ocean Falls, British Columbia has on average 330 days of rain per year. Yuck!
• Estevan, Saskatchewan is reportedly the sunniest place in Canada with 2,537 hours of sunshine per year.
• Nakwakto Rapids, Port Hardy’s legendary dive destination, boasts the strongest current in the world – with speeds of up to 18.4 miles per hour.
• Three of Canada’s islands make the top ten for size in the world – Baffin, Ellesmere and Victoria.
• Manitoulin Island is the largest freshwater island in the world.
• Two of the largest lakes in the world are found in the Northwest Territories – Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake.
• Nunavut takes up one fifth of Canada’s total land area.
• Calgary is famous for its’ Chinooks – a weather phenomenon that can raise the temperature by 10 degrees in a matter of minutes.

Indian facts

8) Every 12 years, a religious gathering called the Kumbh Mela occurs in India. It is the world's largest gathering of people.
9) The gathering is so large that the Kumbh Mela is visible from the space.


Kumbh Mela from Space.

10) Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
11) India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.
12) And the third largest Muslim population in the world.
13) Takshila is said to be the first every university in the world; it started around 700 BC.



14) Today, India has the world's largest school in terms of students, the City Montessori School in Lucknow. It has more than 45 thousand students!
15) Indian Railways employs more than 1.3 million people. That's more than the population of many nations.
16) More than 54 crore people voted in the 2014 General Election – more people than the population of USA, UK, Australia and Japan combined.
17) Number of births in India every year is more than the total population of Australia, and many other nations.
18) India has the largest English speaking population in the world.
19) At an estimate, 25% of the total workforce of the world's population will be from India in the next year or so.

India facts

1) Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island.
2) India's name is derived from the "Indus" river.
3) Indus Valley Civilisation is the world's oldest civilisation.
4) India, hence, is the world's oldest, most advanced and continuous civilisation.
5) India has been the largest troop contributor to the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions since its inception.
6) India has the world's third largest active army, after China and USA.
7) The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.

71.According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
72.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.
73.The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
74.Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
75.Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
76.Deer can't eat hay.
77.Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
78.On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
79.The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
80.The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
81.North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
82.Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
83.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.
84.Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
85.A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.
86.There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
87.Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
88.The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

89.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.
90.A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
91.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.
92.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.
93.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.
94.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.
95.You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
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97.The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.
98.Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
99.The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
100.A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
101.Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
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103.315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
104.On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
105.During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
106.Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
107.Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
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109.Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.
110.Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
111.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.
112.Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
113.Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
114.There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
115.The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
116.There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
117.Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
118.A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
119.The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
120.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.
121.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!
122.Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
123.The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
124.Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
125.Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
126.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.
127.Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
128.Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
129.What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
130."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
131."Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
132.In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
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134.Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
135.You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
136.There is a city called Rome on every continent.
137.It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
138.Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
139.Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
140.The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
141.Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
142.Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
143.The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
144.One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
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146.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 man
147.Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
148.Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
149.The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
150.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
151.Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
152.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.
153.Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
154.Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it.
155.On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
156.More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
157.The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
158.More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
159.Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
160.The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
161.The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
162.Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
163.It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
164.You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
165.Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
166.Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
167.It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
168.The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
169.The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
170.Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
171.Slugs have 4 noses.
172.Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
173.A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
174.A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
175.The average person laughs 10 times a day!
176.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
177.If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
178.If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
179.The human heart! creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
180.A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
181.A cockroach will live for weeks without its head before it starves to death
182.Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
183.The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
184.The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
185.The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
186.Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
187.Butterflies taste with their feet.
188.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
189.A cat's urine glows under a black light.
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191.Starfish have no brains.
192.Polar bears are left-handed.
193.Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
194.In France, it is legal to marry a dead person

39.Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.
40.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.
41.Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
42.The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by the Beatles.
43.Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.
44.Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
45.Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
46.Hot water is heavier than cold.
47.Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.
48.If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
49.The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
50.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.
51.Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
52.On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
53.Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
54.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.
55.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.
56.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.
57.A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
58.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.
59.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.
60.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.
61.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.
62.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.
63.Western Electric successfully brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone.
64.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.
65.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.
66.Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
67.Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.

68.Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
69.Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
70.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.

crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
3. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
4. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
5. 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.
6. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
7. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (busted?)
8. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
9. Rats and horses can't vomit.
10. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

11. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
12. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
13. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
14. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
15. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
16. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
17. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
18. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
19. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
20. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

21. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
22. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
23. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
24.A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
25.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.
26.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.
27.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.
28.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.
29.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.
30.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.
31.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.
32.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.
33.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.
34.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.
35.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.

36.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.
37.Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
38.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.

25. A family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates of Troublesome Creek are thought to have gained their blue skin through combination of inbreeding and a rare genetic condition known as methemoglobinemia.

26. Powerful earthquakes can permanently shorten the length of Earth's day, by moving the spin of the Earth's axis. The 2011 Japan earthquake knocked 1.8 microseconds off our days. The 2004 Sumatra quake cost us around 6.8 microseconds.

27. The first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

28. Melting glaciers and icebergs make a distinctive fizzing noise known as "bergy seltzer".

29. There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like the ice is bleeding. (It's actually oxidised salty water.)

30. In 2008 scientists discovered a new species of bacteria that lives in hairspray.

31. The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 7 inches.

17. Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to getting drunk — but only if they have an inactive version of a gene scientists have named "happyhour".

18. Experiments show that male rhesus macaque monkeys will pay to look at pictures of female rhesus macaques' bottoms.

19. In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.

20. The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg, in which hundreds of people danced for about a month for no apparent reason. Several of them danced themselves to death.

21. Vladimir Nabokov nearly invented the smiley.

22. In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan O'Smarty. He was.

23. Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he had beheaded several hours earlier. He'd tied the man's head to his horse's saddle, but while riding home one of its protruding teeth grazed his leg. He died from the infection.

24. The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no roads; its buildings are connected entirely by canals and footbridges.

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9. It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.

10. Light doesn't necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we've ever recorded light moving at is 38 mph.

11. Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that contains live maggots. The maggots can jump up to five inches out of cheese while you're eating it, so it's a good idea to shield it with your hand to stop them jumping into your eyes.

12. The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale who has been calling out for a mate for over two decades — but whose high-pitched voice is so different to other whales that they never respond.

13. The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus' tail are known among paleontologists as the "thagomizer" — a term coined by cartoonist Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side drawing.

14. During World War II, the crew of the British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from the Russians).

15. The northern leopard frog swallows its prey using its eyes — it uses them to help push food down its throat by retracting them into its head.

16. The first man to urinate on the moon was Buzz Aldrin, shortly after stepping onto the lunar surface.

1. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.

2. The world's deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in Japan. It's 10 metres underwater.

3. In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone contract without paying a fee. It didn't work.

4. The oldest condoms ever found date back to the 1640s (they were found in a cesspit at Dudley Castle), and were made from animal and fish intestines.

5. In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

6. Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints.

7. Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because most Muppeteers are right-handed, so they operate the head with their favoured hand.)

8. Female kangaroos have three vaginas

. If your dog's feet smell like corn chips, you're not alone. The term "Frito Feet" was coined to describe the scent.

27. The female G-spot was nearly named the Whipple Tickle, after professor Beverly Whipple.

28. In Iceland, it’s hard to come up with a creative name for a newborn. A government committee prevents parents from giving babies names it deems too weird.

29. The committee’s name? Mannanafnanefnd.

30. Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are was initially pitched as Where the Wild Horses Are.

31. His editor loved the title, but Sendak couldn’t draw horses.

32. The wild things he ended up drawing are caricatures of his relatives.

33. In the original stage version of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s companion isn’t Toto, but a cow named Imogene.

34. It was easier to fit a human into a cow costume than a dog one.

35. Swiss designers are working on a milk carton that changes color as its contents nears expiration.

Amazing Global Facts

Top Ten : Most Intelligent Breeds of Dogs :
1. Border Collie
2. Poodle
3. German Shepherd
4. Golden Retriever
5. Doberman Pinscher
6. Shetland Sheepdog
7. Labrador Retriever
8. Papillon
9. Rottweller
10. Australian Cattle Dog

Contries with the Most Number of Cows (Indication in Million Cattle)
1. India
2. Brazil
3. China
4. USA
5. Argentina
6. Sudan
7. Ethiopia
8. Mexico
9. Australia
10. Russia

Higest Ice Cream Consumers (Points per capita)
1. Australia
2. New Zealand
3. USA
4. Sweden
5. Canada
6. Ireland
7. Norvery
8. Finland
9. Denmark
10. Germnay

Coffee Drinking Nations
1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Norway
4. Belgium
5. Sweden
6. Austria
7. Switzerland
8. Germany
9. Netherlands
10. France

Chocolate Consumers
1. Switzerland
2. UK
3. Belgium
4. Germany
5. Ireland
6. Denmark
7. Norway
8. Austraia
9. Poland
10. USA

The most common causes of accidental death (Deaths per year)
1. Motor vehicle crashes - 43,200
2. Falls - 14,900
3. Poisoning - 8,600
4. Drowning - 4,000
5. Fires and burns - 3,700
6. Suffocation - 3,300

Best Selling Cars
1. Ford F-Series
2. Chevrolet Silverdo
3. Toyota Camry
4. Dodge Ram
5. Honda Accord
6. Honda Civic
7. Ford Explorer
8. Nissan Altima
9. Dodge Caravan
10. GMC Sierra

Top Ten Expensive Restaurants
1. Aragawa, Tokio
2. Arpege, Paris
3. Elgensinn Farm, Toronto
4. Sketch - Lecure Room & Library, London
5. Petermann's Kunstastuben, Zurich
6. Tetsuya's Restaurant, Sydney
7. Vitrum, Berlin
8. Steirereck, Viena
9. Yamazato, Amsterdam
10. Zalacain, Madrid

Top Ten Popular Dream Cruises
1. The Caribbean
2. Alaska
3. South America
4. The Baltic Sea
5. Panama Canal
6. Hawaii
7. Mediterraneam
8. The Galapagos Islands
9. The Disney Experience
10. Tahiti, Australia, Asia & New Zealand

Top Ten Best Honeymoon Destinations
1. Paris, France
2. ROme, Italy
3. Venice, Italy
4. Bahamas
5. Florence, Italy
6. Sydney, Australia
7. London, England
8. Tahiti
9. French Riviera
10. Fiji

Top Ten Best European Cities to Visit
1. Rome
2. Florence
3. Istanbul
4. Prague
5. Venice
6. Paris
7. Barcelona
8. Salzburg
9. Vieena
10. Krakow

Top Ten Cleanest Countries
1. Finland
2. Norway
3. Canada
4. Sweden
5. Switzerland
6. New Zealand
7. Australia
8. Austria
9. Iceland
10. Denmark

The World's Largest Lakes
1. Caspian Sea
2. Michigan & Huron
3. Superior
4. Victoria
5. Aral Sea
6. Tangayika
7. Baikal
8. Great Bear
9. Malawi
10. Great Slave

The Longest Rivers in the World (Length in Kilometers)
1. Nile - 6693
2. Amazon - 6436
3. Yangtze - 6378
4. Huang He - 5463
5. Ob=Irtysh - 5410
6. Amur - 4415
7. Lena - 4399
8. Congo - 4373
9. Mackenzie - 4241
10. Mekong - 4183

Deepest Oceans and Seas
1. Pacific Ocean
2. Indian Ocean
3. Atlantic Ocean
4. Caribian Sea
5. Sea of Japan
6. Gulf of Mexico
7. Mediteranian Sea
8. Bering Sea
9. South China Sea
10. Black Sea

Top 10 tallest buildings in the world

1. Burj Khalifa (formerly Burj Dubai), Dubai, The United Arab Emirates
2. Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
3. World Financial Center, Shanghai, China
4. Petronas Tower 1, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
5. Petronas Tower 2, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
6. Greenland Financial Center, Nanjing, China
7. Sears Tower, Chicago
8. Guangzhou West Tower, Guangzhou, China
9. Jin Mao Building, Shanghai, China
10. Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong

LARGEST DESERTS OF THE WORLD

(SUBTROPICAL)
Sahara, North Africa 3,320,000 sq. miles
Arabian, Middle East 900,000 sq. miles
Kalahari, Southern Africa 360,000 sq. miles
Great Victoria, Australia 250,000 sq. miles
Syrian, Syria, Jordan, Iraq 200,000 sq. miles
Chihuahuan, Mexico, U.S. 175,000 sq. miles
Great Sandy, Australia 150,000 sq. miles
Sonoran, Mexico, U,S, 120,000 sq. miles
Thar, India, Pakistan 77,000 sq. miles
Gibson, Australia 60,000 sq. miles
Simpson, Australia 56,000 sq. miles
Mohave, S,W, USA 25,000 sq. miles

(COOL COASTAL)
Atacama, Chile SA 54,000 sq. miles
Namib, S.W. Africa 31,000 sq. miles

(COLD WINTER)
Gobi, China, Mongolia 500,000 sq. miles
Patagonian, Argentina 260,000 sq. miles
Great Basin, S.W. USA 190,000 sq. miles
Karakum, Turkmenistan 135,000 sq. miles
Colorado Plateau, Western USA 130,000 sq. miles
Kyzyl Kum, West Asia 115,000 sq. miles
Taklamakan, China 105,000 sq. miles
Dasht-e Kavir, Iran 30,000 sq. miles

(POLAR)
Antarctic 5,339,000 sq. miles
Arctic 5,300,000 sq. miles

WETTEST INHABITED PLACES

 
(Rain fall in inches per year)
Buenaventira, Colombia 267"
Monrovia, Liberia 202"
Pagp Pago, American Samoa 198"
Moulein, Burma (Myanmar 192"
Lae, Papua New Guinea 183"
Baguio, Philippines180"
Sylhet, Bangladesh 178"

DRIEST INHABITED PLACES

(Rain fall in inches per year)
Aswan, Egypt 0.02"
Luxor, Egypt 0.03"
Arica Desert, Chile 0.04"
Ica, Peru 0.1"
Antofagasta, Chile 0.2"
El Minya, Egypt 0.2"
Asyut, Egypt 0.2"

HIGHEST/LOWEST SURFACE POINTS

(Below Sea Level, On Each Continent)
Dead Sea, Asia -409 meters
Lake Assal, Africa -156 meters
Death Valley, North America -86 meters
Valdés Peninsula, South America -40 meters
Caspian Sea, Europe -28 meters
Lake Eyre, Australia -16 meters
Antarctica (ice covered) -2,538 meters

LARGEST METRO AREAS IN THE WORLD

Numbers shown are the population within the immediate surrounding area of the established border of the city, and also include the city limit population figures. Revised (05/11)
Toyko, Japan 35.6 million
Chingqing (Chungking), China 31.4 million
New York City - Philadelphia area, USA 30.1 million
Mexico City, Mexico 21.5 million
Seoul, South Korea 20.15 million
Sao Paulo, Brazil 19.9 million
Jakarta, Indonesia 18.2 million
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto, Japan 17.6 million
New Delhi, India 17.36 million
Mumbai, India (Bombay) 17.34 million
Los Angeles, USA 16.7 million
Cairo, Egypt 15.86 million
Calcutta, India 14.3 million
Manila, Philippines 14.1 million
Shanghai, China 13.9 million
Buenos Aires, Argentina 13.2 million
Moscow, Russian Fed. 12.2 million