A Spanish woman has claimed ownership of the Sun.

Angeles Duran was inspired when she heard about an American man who had claimed ownership over the moon and many of the planets in the solar system. Her justification is that, while no country is allowed to claim any planet or star, there's no such rule against an individual doing so. 

She's already filed the necessary paperwork to claim ownership of the sun. Next, she's going to try to implement a fee for people who want to use the sun. But don't worry, she says most of the money will go to charity.

An Olympic gold medal is almost 99% silver.

The first-place medal is actually 550 grams of silver covered with a thin layer of gold (6 grams)! A silver medal is far more authentic - 509 grams of silver and 41 grams of copper. The bronze medal is composed of mostly copper, with some zinc and tin mixed in. And approximately how much are all these precious medals worth, you ask? The gold - $494, the silver - $260, and the bronze...$3!

A man survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.

Unfortunately, this remarkable individual passed away earlier this year at the age of 93. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only individual to be recognized as having survived both atomic bombs during World War II. Back in 1945, Yamaguchi was on a business trip to Hiroshima when the first bomb dropped on August 6th. The blast caused him to go blind and deaf temporarily, and had serious burns across his body.

He returned home to Nagasaki three days later to a second atomic bomb less than 2 miles from his house! The explosions caused him to go completely deaf in his left ear. In later years, he suffered from complications such as leukemia, cataracts, and other bomb and radiation-related illnesses. Yamaguchi was one of 200,000 Japanese citizens recognized as having been affected by either of the bombs.

In the 1950s, the United States planned to drop a nuclear bomb on the moon

At the time, the US was lagging behind the Soviet Union in the space race (For example, they sent a man into space before the US did.) Exploding a nuclear weapon on the moon was a way to one-up the Soviet Union. They planned on nuking the moon as a PR stunt, and they wanted to make sure the explosion could be seen from Earth!

This was part of a top-secret Air Force project, "Project A119" which was called "A Study of Lunar Research Flights". Details of the 1958 plan were made public in 2000 by Dr. Leonard Reiffel, the physicist who ran the project. He had worked on the project with famous astronomer Carl Sagan.
Sagan may have also disclosed some of this top-secret information when he applied for the prestigious Miller Institute graduate fellowship to Berkeley. At the time, Sagan thought that a nuclear explosion could reveal whether there was life on the moon.
The explosion likely would have ruined the face of the "man on the moon". Thankfully, years later they decided to send Neil Armstrong to the moon, and not a nuclear bomb.

In England the dates between the 2nd and 14th of September, 1752 did NOT exist!

After an act of Parliament in 1750, England and its colonies had to change calendars. England was using the Julian calendar which was 11 days behind the Gregorian calendar used in the rest of Europe. To do this, they skipped September 3rd-September 13th. In the Julian Calendar, New Years was on March 25. So December 31, 1750 was followed by January 1, 1750 and March 24, 1750 was followed by March 25, 1751.

North Korea hired Chinese actors to show up to the World Cup and cheer for their team in the stands!

Most North Koreans wouldn't be able to go anyway. They either couldn't afford to go to South Africa, or they weren't allowed to get a visa to leave North Korea. Instead, North Korea brought over a group 1,000 Chinese fans, including a group of actors and musicians to cheer for their team.

The biggest sandal!

Now this fact is seriously going to take your breath away! Do you know? The Statue of Liberty wears a sandal of size 879!!

So, how do you feel after knowing this amazing and mind boggling fact? Do send us your comments!

If Facebook were a country, it would be the THIRD LARGEST country in the WORLD!

If Facebook were a country, it would be the THIRD LARGEST country in the world, BIGGER than the U.S. and Indonesia.

In 2009, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had 200 million users, which (if Facebook was a country) would make it the fifth largest in the world.
That was back then. Now, Facebook's statistics page claims that there are more than 400 million active users (twice as many as last year!). This means that there are more Facebook users than people living in the United States (309 million) or Indonesia (231 million). The only countries with bigger populations than Facebook are China and India.