Top 20 Amazing Facts You Didn't Knew — But Now You Will Know Them All

Best of Top 20 Amazing General Knowledge Facts That I am Sure You Didn't Knew. Let's begin.

1. War pigs were used in ancient Roman warfare to counter against war elephants, which created the pigs and their squeals and would bolt. To enhance this effect, the pigs were at times lit on fire.

2. Portland, a town in Oregon, USA, was named by flipping a coin. Had the coin landed the other way, the city would be named as Boston.

3. The Sun and the moon appear to be the same in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence- the moon is 400 times smaller, but 400 times closer as well.

4. The glass winged butterfly lacks coloured scales, which makes its wings transparent and helps it avoid predators. But you know what, it looks amazing.

5. Foreign accent syndrome is a side effect of brain trauma. Those affected speak their native language in a foreign accent or dialect.

6. The term astronaut is derived from two Greek words, which when put together mean star sailor.

7. Similar to Scotland, North Korea also has a mythical animal as it's national emblem- the winged horse Chollima.

8. A solar powered, self filling water bottle has been invented for bike riders. It condenses atmospheric moisture to automatically to fill the bottle with safe drinking water.

9. The are about 60,000 miles of blood vessels in a child's body. It you take them all out, and laid them end to end, they would wrap around the Earth more than two times.

10. In medieval Germany, some believed that kissing a donkey was a perfect remedy for a toothache.

11. What happens when you tickle a gorilla? They laugh just like human beings! They have funny bones like us as well.

12. The world's largest cattle station, Anna Creek Station in South Australia is larger than many countries like Belgium!

13. Scotland's National animal is a mythical creature- a unicorn.

14. A small cumulus cloud can weigh as much as two elephants and two scientists.

15. There are only few words in the English language which end in 'dous', tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, hazardous and the Zoological term apodous.