Find out who is Santa’s granddaughter, what was the very first Christmas postcard and other fun and interesting facts about Christmas holiday, X-mas tree and Santa Claus.
Mental health charity Mind help an online poll where more than hundred people shared their thoughts on Christmas depression, stress and anxiety about repaying their holiday spending.
Check out interesting facts about the most popular video sharing website YouTube.
Let’s go back in history to 17-18th centuries and learn about ten interesting facts about Rhode Island when it was a Colony of the United States
1. On May 4, 1776 Rhode Island was the first colony to renounce allegiance to Great Britain and declare independence, two months before any other state did it.
List of 33 interesting facts about blood will help you to learn about blood and why it so important for our bodies.
1. Blood is the bodily fluid that performs many important functions within the human body.
2. The color of blood is dark red
3. How much blood is in the human body? Human body contains approx 6 quarts (or 5.6 liters) of blood. A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in his body.
4. In one day, blood travels nearly 12,000 miles.
5. Human heart beats around 35 million times per year.
6. Heart pumps a million barrels of blood during the average lifetime – enough to fill three largest tankers
Interesting facts about digestive system
What is a digestive system?
Check out the biggest list of the most amazing interesting facts about calcium.
What Is Calcium?
Obesity can have a severe impact on people’s health, increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes, some cancers, and heart and liver disease. Obesity statistics are horrifying!
Obesity in USA
Over two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese, and over one-third are obese (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003–2006 and 2007–2008)
Shocking statistics about overweight in the United States:
Why do we celebrate Halloween?
We celebrate Halloween on October 31st. Thought this is the one night of the year when ghosts, witches, and fairies are especially active. The truth is that no one really knows the origins of Halloween.
Halloween is on the eve of a major Catholic festival, All Saints (1st November) and the eve of the pagan Celtic festival Samhain.
Where does the name Halloween originate from?
Halloween comes from All Hallow Even, the eve (night before) All Hallows day. Therefore, Halloween is the eve of All Saints Day.
Fun Halloween facts for kids
- The official Orange and Black colors of Halloween came from orange being associated with fall harvest and black symbolizing darkness and death.
- Pumpkins not only orange, they also come in white, blue and green.
- If you see a spider on Halloween, it’s believed to be the spirit of a loved on watching over you.
- The number one candy of choice for Halloween is Snickers
First law that legalized medical marijuana
In 1978, the federal government was forced to allow some patients access to medical marijuana after a “medical necessity” defense was recognized in court, creating the Investigational New Drug (IND) compassionate access program.
Medical marijuana by states
Thirteen states have medical marijuana research laws, and only fifteen states have never had a positive medical marijuana law.
Since 1996, fifteen states have enacted laws that allow the cultivation of medical marijuana and protect patients who possess medical marijuana (with their doctors’ recommendations or certifications) from criminal penalties: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Ten of the thirteen did so through the initiative process. Hawaii’s law was enacted by the legislature and signed by the governor in 2000; Vermont’s was enacted by the legislature and passed into law without the governor’s signature in 2004; Rhode Island’s was passed into law over the governor’s veto in 2006; New Mexico’s legislation was signed into law by Governor Bill Richardson in 2007; and on January 18, 2010, Governor Jon Corzine signed New Jersey’s bill into law. In mid-December 2009, the United States Senate passed an omnibus appropriations bill that removed restrictions on the implementation of a marijuana initiative passed by District of Columbia voters in 1998; President Obama subsequently signed this bill into law on December 13, 2009.