Knowledge Box

Questions and facts given to you to excite curiosity, promote deep thought, and create that certain sound, "hmmmmm".

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

Those damn insects: Mosquitos have 47 teeth and ants never sleep.

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

To all you coffee lovers out there: Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you're left handed, you will tend to chew on your left side.

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

The temperature of the tip of a lit cigarette is 1292 Fahrenheit (700 celsius) when the smoker inhales. It is cooler between puffs.

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

Yahoo the complex internet organism has a complicated name. The word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

You won the lottery of $1,000,000. During a TV interview, a dying child asks you to pay for his surgery. It costs $1,000,000. What do you do

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

If a smoker goes in to a coma for long enough, do they wake up without a craving to smoke?

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

If your death saved strangers' lives, how many lives would need to be saved before you considered your death worth it? 2? 100? 1,000,000?

[Knowledge Box @KnowledgeBox]

Why is water not sold to consumers in a can? Juices, sodas, beer, along with many other liquids is available in a can. Why not water?