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I have collected a few site links where you can get fascinating and interesting facts. I hope that you would enjoy these links and the facts, stories, news etc.

1-Did you know provides with you amazing stories and fascinating facts about the world around you. The site has a variety of topics where you can go for more pages.

An example of a page about Around the world tells us who was the first around the world? –sailing, driving, flying, walking, cycling, swimming.
Few interesting pages:
- Fascinating facts and interesting stories
- Kids only
- Witty Quotes

2- Strange Stories, Jokes and Quotes has 3 main sections:
- Strange Stories
-Jokes for all ages and funny stories
- Quotes made by famous people

3- Fascinating Facts at dimaggio.org

4- Download FREE “The Mystery Investigator” magazine here.
The contents of the April 2005 issue:
- What in the World?
- Just How Bad is The BAD Astronomer?
- Your STARS for April
- Call me RATBAG!
- Book Review : Merchants of Deception
- Talking with the Dead?
- Lynne Kelly Master of Tauromancy
- Book Review : Inside the mind of a Mind Hunter
- Mystery Investigators LIVE
- Berzerkeley Psychics
- Ask for AUST R
- Yellow Bamboozled
Note: You can download more issues at the same link.

5- Fascinating facts at Paramount Zone.com
From a long list of more than 100 facts, I have selected only few:
- President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian Shoemaker.
- The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.
- . A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Note: You can also contribute at the site, by sending fascinating facts and adding your name at the end of the fact.

6- Fascinating Facts About Your Brain at “Thethinking business.co.uk” deals in facts about your brain. I quote few:

- Your brain uses approximately 20% of the total oxygen pumping around your body! –and about 750ml of blood pumps through your brain every minute!
- The brain represents about 2% of your total body weight. It is roughly 140mm wide, 167mm long and 93mm high.

These are some facts about our brain, but site provides you to navigate through many useful pages like as:
-The tour of your brain
- Brain food
- Brain fun stuff-games

7- Useless and trivial fact at “Jayp.net”
There are many topics to choose from and there are a lot of interesting facts you might find useful. As in general catagory there is a long list of informative facts like as:
- The yo-yo originated in the Philippines, where it was used as a weapon in hunting.
- The average sixty minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it.
- The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.
- Pepsi originally contained pepsin, therefore the name!
- If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Note: You can also contribute your facts at the site. And you can subscribe by submitting your e-mail.

Hope you enjoy this visit to some of the fascinating fact sites. There may be more with interesting stuff.
I would appreciate if my visitors suggest me any more links.