Interesting Facts Quotes

“I have lived with Muhammad my entire life: I was given his name the day I was born, yet for years knew nothing about him.”
― Mohamad Jebara, Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait

“The dandelion was long popularly known as the 'pissabed' because of its supposed diuretic properties, and other names in everyday use included 'mare's fart', 'naked ladies', 'twitch-ballock', 'hounds-piss', 'open arse', and 'bum-towel'.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Dying is Easy , its Living that's hard”
― Alden Bell, The Reapers are the Angels

“You certainly are a repository of useless information. How do you know all that?' David asked, with more amusement than admiration.

'I have a mind like a magpie's, easily distracted by interesting odds and ends,' Ramses admitted.”
― Elizabeth Peters, A River in the Sky

“Funny isn't it, that such a large percentage of people believe in the possibility of ghosts yet scoff at stories about then; whereas less than a fifth of one percent think there actually may be vampires, yet glamorize and romanticize them into millions of dollar of sales. Perhaps the real irony is that the thought of ghosts is just a little too close to people’s comfort level.”
― D.L. Koontz, Crossing Into The Mystic

“Did you know six minutes of reading can help reduce stress levels by up to sixty percent?"
... "That's sixty-eight percent better than listening to music, one hundred percent better than drinking tea, and three hundred percent better than going for a walk.”
― Emma Gannon, Olive

“Dumnezeu a plătit cu un deşert bunătatea de a fi necruţător.”
― Octavian Paler, Un om norocos

“I remember a story I read once, a soldier, was it at Shiloh? He was talking to me but not with his whole attention. Gettysburg? a soldier so mad with shock that he started burying birds and squirrels on the battlefield. You had lot of little things killed too, in the crossfire, little animals. Many tiny graves. p128”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Even when we cannot see parts of the moon, they are still physically there. During a new moon, when it is completely lit from behind, it appears only as a black, starless circle in the sky. For while we sometimes cannot see the moon, it is still there as a silhouette. Which is why I get upset when a crescent moon is shown with stars visible through the middle of it!”
― Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

“Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“There is a mountain range behind the town, called the Sierra de Sangre de Cristo. It means the 'Blood of Christ Mountains' in Spanish.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

“Tasmanya'nın Avrupalı kaşiflerce MS 1642 yılında ilk keşfedildiği zamanki taş teknolojisi,Yukarı Avrupa'nın on binlerce yıl önce Yontma Taş Çağı'ndaki teknolojisinden daha basitti.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“Forbidden zones were familiar to the point of institutionalisation in the Soviet System, but more than forty 'sensitive' cities remain shut off.”
― Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age

“There are three separate accounts of how this man died (M. Bormann)... but he was writing checks in his own name through Chase Manhattan Bank in Argentina in the 1970s.”
― Jason Reza Jorjani

“Nearly half the Turkmens in central Asia live outside of Turkmenistan, many of them in Afghanistan and Iran. there are more Tajiks in Afghanistan than in Tajikistan. In Samarkand and Bukhara, both in Uzbekistan, the main language is Tajik. The Uzbeks for their part, account for a sixth of the population of Kyrgyzstan and at least a fifth of the population of Tajikistan.”
― Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

“The Soviet cartographers did not have an easy task of creating order out of the Central Asian patchwork of different peoples, languages and clans. Until 1924, the Russians treated Central Asia as one big region which they called Turkestan - the land of the Turks - as most people who lived there spoke Turkic languages.”
― Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

“People did often not know which nationality they were. In the 1926 consensus, people could name their tribe and family, but could not always answer if they were Uzbek, Kyrgyz or Tajik.”
― Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

“Madness for something is interesting I mean much more interesting.”
― Santosh Kumar

“Some 120,000 girls were shipped into Minneapolis for last year’s Super Bowl, making it arguably the largest sex-trafficking event in the world.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“At the same time, animals that are very cognitively complex tend to have a slow development (although there are exceptions to this, such as the common octopus, whose life expectancy in the wild barely surpasses one year, and yet they are exceedingly smart).”
― Susana Monsó, Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death