In the first American automobile race, the winning car’s average speed was 7mph!

[OMG]. The first automobile race was in Chicago in 1895 and sponsored by the newspaper. Six cars took part in the race and Charles Duryea won. The first automobiles were only introduced two years prior to the race.

The race took place in order to promote the automobiles and boost newspaper sales. The winner received $5,000! That is roughly equal to $139,000 today. Eighty-three cars originally entered the race, but only six actually showed up for it. The cars either couldn’t make the trip to the race or weren’t ready in time for it. After over 7 hours of racing going 7mph, Duryea won.

In the 1950s, the United States planned to drop a nuclear bomb on the Moon.

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OMG Facts] At the time, the US was lagging behind the Soviet Union in the space race (For example, they sent a man into space before the US did.) Exploding a nuclear weapon on the moon was a way to one-up the Soviet Union. They planned on nuking the Moon as a PR stunt, and they wanted to make sure the explosion could be seen from Earth!

This was part of a top-secret Air Force project, "Project A119" which was called "A Study of Lunar Research Flights". Details of the 1958 plan were made public in 2000 by Dr. Leonard Reiffel, the physicist who ran the project. He had worked on the project with famous astronomer Carl Sagan.

Sagan may have also disclosed some of this top-secret information when he applied for the prestigious Miller Institute graduate fellowship to Berkeley. At the time, Sagan thought that a nuclear explosion could reveal whether there was life on the Moon.

The explosion likely would have ruined the face of the "Man on the Moon". Thankfully, years later they decided to send Neil Armstrong to the Moon, and not a nuclear bomb.

"Checkmate" in chess is actually "Shah Mat," Persian for "the king is defeated" or the "king is helpless".

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[OMG Facts] - Chess is a REALLY OLD GAME. The earliest evidence of chess dates back to the year 600 AD in Persia. "Shah" is the title of the royal Persian monarch, so naturally the King in chess was called the Shah. To win chess, you have to defeat the King, by attacking it and making it unable to move. This is called the "Checkmate" or "Shah Mat", literally, "The King is defeated". Mat is a Persian word for "defeated", "helpless", or "at a loss", all pretty good descriptions for a checkmated king.

Millions of chess enthusiasts wrongly assume that "Checkmate" actually means "The King is dead". Chess made its way from Persia to Europe through Arabia and "mat" is an Arab word for dead, so this is a likely source of the confusion. The King in chess can't be "killed" anyway, so "defeated" makes a lot more sense.

The Statue of Liberty was originally brown!

[OMG facts ] It's because of the copper the statue is made out of. Copper is initially brown, yet when it begins to oxidize, it changes color. The traditional green color we see today is extremely different from what we would have seen when it was initially built.  Since it was built right on the water however, it would have oxidized relatively quickly, and because it was built in 1886, we don't have any color photographs to show what it would have looked like. 

The reason the metal changes color is because of the moisture and elements it is subjected to. After arriving from France brown, the head of the statue of liberty would have begun to change as rain, salt, and moisture bombarded its copper exterior. As the copper interacts with these elements it slightly changes, forming a different form of basic copper consisting of a different color.

OMG Facts - Feeding hens certain dyes, their egg yolk color changes. Green eggs and ham, anyone?

 The Color of a chicken egg's yolk is dependent on the diet of the hen that lays the egg. Certain kinds of corn can make the yolk look more orange or yellow, and peppers can make the yolk look red. In the US, people expect their egg yolks to be lighter, but in parts of Europe, people expect the yolks to look more of a darker yellow.

If the yolks can't become yellow naturally through the hen's diet, farmers may use synthetic dies to change the color.

A Technical fact...........

mm.........very suitable exampe is the usage of  social media networks such as facebook, twitter , orkut...etc....Really a human fact.....

A real life....