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Spiders recycle their webbing. So a spider that gets stuck in its own web may eat its way out.

A dragonfly flaps its wings 20-40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times and a tiny gnat 1000 times.

A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination.

Some spiders have as many as 8 eyes.

An ant can survive for up to 2 weeks under water.Ants stretch when they wake up. They even yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

On an average day a queen bee lays about 1500 eggs per day.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

All female bees in the bee hive are sisters.

Female mosquitoes will obtain blood from humans and animals but only to nourish their eggs. Their food actually consists of nectar and other plant juices.

Certain fireflies emit light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood.

When a flood sweeps down tropical ants, they roll themselves into a huge living ball which drifts along the water with the young safe and dry at the core.

Scientists turn up as many as 10,000 new species of insects every year.

Worms can have up to 10 hearts.

A dragonfly has about 30,000 lenses covering the retina of its eye and thus sees many images where we see only one.

Flees can accelerate up to 50 times faster than the space shuttle.

Butterflies tastes with their hind feet.
Moths have no stomach.

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Rats can swim for a half a mile without resting and they can tread water for 3 days straight.

Every year about 98% of the atoms of your body are replaced.

Some species of dinosaurs were the size of a chicken.

If you went into space, you explode before you suffocated because there is no air pressure.

On an average half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

At a jet planes speed of 1,000kmph the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

Western electric successfully brought sound to motion and introduced systems of mobile communication which culminated into cellular telephone.

The leaves of the Victorian water lily are some times over 6 feet in diameter.

Orchids are grown from seeds so small that it would take 30,000 to weigh as much as one wheat.

The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows.

Bamboo can grow up to 3 feet in 24 hours period.

Oak trees do not have a corn until they are 50 years old or older.

There are an estimated 2,85,000 species of flowering plants on earth compared to 1,48,000 or all other plants.Of the 15,000 species of orchids in the world 3,000 can be found in Brazil.

The telegraph plant of Asia has leaves that flutter even there is no breeze.

No one knows why people blush.
Men have more blood than women.
You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill 85 pound flour bags.

Male lions can sleep up o 20hrs a day.

Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 2.5 miles away.

The dumbest domestic animal is Turkey.

You can cut up a starfish into pieces and each piece will grow into a completely new starfish.

The blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.

The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. She must be able to see another pigeon.

Dolphins can kill sharks by ramming them with their spout.

The electric eel has an average discharge of 400 volts.

Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every 2 weeks. That means one shark will grow through more than 24,000 new teeth in a year.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

Elephants are covered with a thin coat of light hair covering practically every part of their body.

Gorillas do not know how to swim.

A bird chews with its stomach. Since most birds do not have teeth. They routinely swallow pebbles and gravel which grind food as it passes through the digestive system.

A bird sees everything at once in total focus. Where as the human eye is globular and must adjust to varying distances, the bird's eye is flat and can take in everything at once in a single sight.

There are about a 5,000 species of coral known. Only about a half of them build reef.

Human have 3 colour receptors in their eyes, while goldfish have 4, mantis and shrimps have 10.

Studies have shown that pigs are one of the more intelligent animals. They are so smart, in fact, that they can be trained to do tricks like dog.

Birds do not sleep in their nests, although they may rest in them from time to time.

The average giraffe has a blood pressure 2 to 3 times that of the average human.

The giant pacific octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak.

More type of fishes live in one Amazon River tributary than in all the rivers in North America combined.

Penguins generally produce on egg per year.

The mango shark and the great white shark are the 2 of the few species of shark that are warm blooded.

The Opossum is a North American mammal about the size of a cat and looks much like a rat. It scares its predator by hissing and showing its teeth. Incase it fails, its muscles tighten up in fear and it faints.

The giant tortoise can live longer in capacity than any other animal.

The Pekingese is the royal dog of China.

Snakes don't bite in rivers and swamps because they would drown if they did.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.

Ostriches stick their head s in the sand to look for water.

The Kiwi cannot fly. It lives in a hole in the ground. It is almost blind and lays only one egg per year. Despite this, it survived for more than 10,000 years.

Your heart is about the same size as your fist.

The oyster is usually ambisexual. Through its it will change from male to female and back again numerous times.

In regions of India where the soil is red, Elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against insects.

The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan has enough venom in one bite to kill over 2,00,000 mice.

The biggest animal of the sea is the blue whale whose weight is equal to 30 elephants put together.

The atmosphere during the day prevents the earth from heat and harmful radiations of the sun. In the absence of atmosphere the temperature of earth would be increased by 200degrees C.
The total weight of all planets is less than half the suns weight.The diameter of the earth is 7,962 miles which is approximately 1/100 of the diameter of the sun that is 8,65,000 miles approximately.

The crop known as the white gold is cotton.

One dozen is 12; a baker's dozen is 13.

Dogs do not sweat by salivating; they sweat through the pads of their feet.

The leg bone of a bat is so thin that no bat can walk.

During World War II, American's trained bats to drop bombs.

The pupil of octopus's eye is rectangular.

The Javan rhinoceros ( a solitary single horned species) is the world's rarest large mammal. Only an estimated 50 to 70 of the animals remain.

Most cows give milk when the listen to music.

The largest order of mammals with about 1,700 species is the rodents. Bats are second with 950 species.

The bite of leech is painless due to its own anesthesia.

The black bear is not always black. It can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes bluish in colour.

Most tropical fishes can survive in tank filled with human blood.

Most of the snakes go on entire year without eating a single morsel of food.

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Rabbits never walk or trot but hop or leap.

Gorillas and cats sleep about 14 hours a day.

The flying snake of Java and Malaysia is able to flatten itself out lake a ribbon and sail like a glider from tree to tree.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the bible is the cat.

Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
All Elephants walk on tip toe because the back portion of their foot is made up of fat and no bone.

Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. But this plan failed because rats are nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.

Gene Sarazen, a golfer from several generations ago, set the record for the fastest golf drive- 120 mph.

Michael Sangster, who played in 1960's, set the record for the fastest tennis serve- 154 mph.

The African Lung Fish can live out of water for 4 years.

Every human being has lived half an hour as a single cell.

Australian Rules football were originally designed to give cricketers something during off season.

The attachment of human skin to muscles causes dimples.

Honey is used as center in golf balls in antifreeze mixture.

From the age of 30 humans gradually start shrinking in size.

A cow's sweat glands are in its nose.

3 executive strikes in bowling are called as a 'turkey

Canada beat Denmark 47-0 at the 1949 world hockey championship.

In U.S. there are more than 10,000 golf courses.

The English language alphabets originally had only 24 letters. One missing was 'J' which was later added. The other latecomer to the alphabet to come was 'U'

The ZIP code stands for 'Zone Improvement Plan'

Punctuation was not invented until 1500's.

Bill Gates first business was 'Tariff-O- Data'. A company that created machines which recorded the no. of cars passing a given point.

The age of earth is 4.6 billion years.

The distant between earth and the sun is 150 million km

The circumference of the earth measures up to 40,075 km.

The mass of earth is 5,998 billion billion tons.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

A jellyfish is made up of 95% water.

The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach upside down.

Polar bears are left-handed.

A mole can dig a tunnel about 90mlomg in just one night.

The giant squid has the largest eye.

A large swan of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day.

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A Zebra skin pattern can be as distinctive as a human finger print.

A lion can eat 40kg. of meat at one meal.

Theres an estimated 1,000,000 galaxies spread throughout the universe, each of these contains approximately 1,000,000 million stars.

The speed of light is 3 X 105 km/sec.

The biggest stars collapse to form black holes, which are so dense and have such powerful gravitational pulls that even light cannot escape.

Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun.

About 75% of world's fresh water is stored in ice caps and galaxies.

Dinosaurs mean 'Terrible Lizards'.

One gram of soil may contain 1,500,000 micro organisms.

The tallest living tree is in coast redwood National Park U.S.A. It soars 111.25m (365 ft) into air, as tall as an Apollo space rocket.
The oldest living trees on earth are 5,000 years old bristle cone pines from Arizona, U.S.A.

Up to 500 million hookworms may be found in a single human being.

A queen termite lays 440 million eggs per second for 14 years.

A bee must visit more than 4,000 flowers to make one table spoon of honey.

The crustacean is the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of almost 4m.

A swan has about 25,000 feathers.

There are 15 billion nerve cells in the brain, each cell is connected to 25,000 other cells.

Humans can detect 1,500 different tones and can identify about 3,000 different smells. And has an average of 600 million breaths in a 70 year life time.
If the lungs were opened out and laid flat, they would cover a tennis court.The lung contains 2,400 km of air ways.
The circulatory system contains about 1,500,000 km of blood vessels.

You might think that snails are very small for us, but a snail can have as much 25,000 teeth.

When Kangaroos are born they are about one inch in height.

An Albatross can glide for 6 days in mid air just by flapping its wings 2 times and it can take a nap while doing so.

Did you know that you share your birthday with about 9 million other people around the world?

A Tarantula can live for up two and a half years without food.

The Kiwi is about the size of a normal farm hen. But the egg it lays is about 8 times as big as a hen's egg.

A Humming bird beats its wings on an average of 55 strokes per second.

On average 2.5 million spiders live in one acre of average field. The length of web they spin in a day would stretch around the world and in 10 days it would reach the moon.

Whales can't swim backwards.

Imagine over 6,000 microscopes each with one lens. Now imagine a bee's eye has 6,300 lenses.

Octopuses have 3 hearts.

A shark's bone is not made of calcium but of gristle.

If you boil an ostrich egg for breakfast, it would take you 40 minutes to cook one.

If you wanted to count a thousand pound notes, one by one, it would take you 70 years to do it.

A crocodile is a protected creature. Its skin is made up of bony scales, which are so tough that they are almost bulletproof.

Baby hippo's are born under water.

The South American Tinamou Known as the Easter-Egg Bird lays multi-coloured eggs in blue, green, pink, yellow and purple.

Elephants often communicate at sound as low as 5Hz. This means if you flap your hands back and fourth faster than 5 sec, an elephant can actually hear the tone produced.

The only continent without reptiles is Antarctica.

Lobsters can move up to 25 ft/s under water.

In Whales there are more sheep than people.

The crocodile is a cannibal it will occasionally eat other crocodile.

The digestive juices of a crocodile contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved 6 inch steel hooks that they have swallowed.

Bats are insects devouring as many as 600 bugs per hour for 4-6 hours for a day.

The Great Pyramids of Giza contain over 2 million blocks. Each weighing between 2.5 and 15 tons.

Wars in Ancient Greece were stopped so that Olympic games could take place.

The oldest pottery was discovered in Japan dating back 2,100,000 B.C.

One fifth of the world's population lives in China.

The smallest country in the worlds is Vatican City which measures 0.4 sq. m.

Greenland is the world's biggest island. Actually, it is not one, but several islands which are welded together with a permanent cap of ice.

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The native people of North America spoke at least 300 different languages so they sometimes communicated with each other with sign language.

The mouth of Amazon is over 320km wide and contains the worlds largest fresh water island with an area of 48,000 sq. km.

Only 0.4% of Antarctica is not covered with ice.

Antarctica is the highest continent on earth.Antarctica is the coldest continent on earth.

When female bees emerge out of their eggs they fight amongst themselves and the one who survives is the queen.

Morocco was the first country to recognize U.S.A. in 1789.

The country if Costa Rica does not have any army.

Philippines has the plentiest amount of islands.

The house of Saudi Arabia has close to 10,000 princes and princesses.

Sound travels 15 times faster trough steel than through air.

A dog's mucus membrane is the size of 50 postage stamps.

The world camel population is about 1,096,270,000.190.

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns.

The giant Crab of Japan can be as large 12 feet.

A snapping turtle is used by police to find dead bodies in lakes, ponds and swamps.

The Alaskan Blackfish, found in Arctic region, freezes when winter comes. Months later when spring comes, the ice melts and the Blackfish comes back to life and goes on swimming.

Sharks never stop moving even when they sleep or rest.

The wooly mammoth, extinct since Ice Age, had tusks 16 feet high.

The King Crab walks diagonally.

There are 4,300 species of lady bugs in the world.

You are most likely to get stung by a bee in a windy day than any other weather.

62C is the minimum temperature required by a grasshopper to hop.

Cricket's don't chirp by rubbing their legs. They make the noise by rubbing their wings together.

Spiders have transparent blood.

There are more insects in one sq. mile of rural land than there are humans in the world.

When Eiffel tower was build in 1884, Parisians referred to it as "The Tragic Lamppost" and universally hated it.

South America produces 2/3 of the world's gold.

Ice-cream was originally made up of sugar and ice.

the only food that does not spoil is honey.

The average Mc Donald's big Mac bun has 198 sesame seeds.

There are more than 15,000 types of rice.

Rice is the main food for half of the people in the world

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Ketchup was sold in 1830's as medicine.

Goat milk is used to produce Roquefort cheese.

Carrots were grown as medicine not as food.

It takes more than 500 peanuts to make 12 ounces of peanut butter.

President Teddy Roosevelt died from an 'infected tooth'.

Roosevelt was the most superstitious president. He traveled continuously but never left on Friday. He would also not sit on the same table which held 13 other people.

George Washington was deathly afraid of being buried alive. After he died he wanted to be laid down for 3 days just to make sure he was dead.

Julius Caesar was self conscious about his receding hair line.

Theodore Roosevelt was blind in his left eye.

Insects make up 2/3 of known species.

Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bees head and 2 large one in the front.

Crickets hear through their knees.

The East Alligator River in Australia's Northern Territory, was misnamed, it contains Crocodiles not Alligators.

The Kinkajou's tail is twice as long as its body, every night it wraps itself up in its tail and it uses as a pillow.

The average minimal speed in order to remain aloft in a flight is reported to be about 16.5 feet/sec or about 11miles/hour.

Young birds such as ducks, geese and shore birds are born with their eyes open.

A large Kangaroo would make a great long distance jumper, covering more than 30ft with a single jump.

Lobsters are scared of Octopuses. The sight of one makes the Lobster freeze.

A Cats jaw cannot move side ways.

Dogs have about 100 different expressions, most of them made with their ears.

The heaviest dog on record is an Old English Mastiff named Zorba, who weighed 343 pounds and measured 8 feet and 3 inches from nose to tail.

In Vermont the ratio of cows to people is 10:1.

Chickens lay the most eggs when pop music is played than any other music.

The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

The Platypus can eat its weight in worm's everyday.

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61%.

A donkey will sink in quick sand but a Mule won't.237. If you feed a Sea-Gull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

Pigs can become alcoholic.

A blue whales tongue weighs more than an elephant.

The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce a human speech.

Blood is red only in the arteries after it has left the heart when it is full of oxygen. It is purplish blue in colour when its in the veins to the heart.
When your skin is cut your blood always appears red because it is instantly exposed to oxygen outside the body.

During his or her lifetime, the average human grows 590 miles of hair.

The average human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

Your thumb is the same length as the nose.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 terabyte.

The substance that human blood resembles most closely in terms of chemical composition is sea water.

The right lung takes in more air than the left.

A women's heart beats faster than man.

The brain requires 25% of all oxygen used by the body.

There are 10 trillion living cells in the human body.

Females have 500 more genes than males and because of this they are protected from things like colour-blindness and hemophilia.

The short term memory capacity of most people is between 5 to 9 items or digits.
This is one reason that phone number were kept to 7 digits for so long time.

If you combined all the muscles in an average human in to one muscle, the force it would be capable of producing is about 2000 tonnes.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

The lens of the eye continuously grows throughout the person's life.

It only takes 7 lbs of pressure to rip of your ears.

One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to IRS.

A new born baby breaths 5 times faster than an adult.

The age of the deer is determined by the amount of water in its teeth.

A single deer can consume 7-9 kg of foliage everyday.

Some female fawns are capable of reproducing at 7 or 8 months of age and give birth at 14 or 15 months of age.

New born fawns are licked clean by their mother after birth to keep them scent free.

Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surrounding by osmosis.

Squid have 3 hearts.

Of all forms of animal life that has ever inhabited the earth, only about 105 still exist today.

Flamingoes live remarkably long lives up to 80 years.

Snakes continue to grow until they die.

The domestic cat is the only specie able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally or tucked between their legs while walking.

The Penguins is the only bird that can swim but not fly. It is also the only bird that can walk up right.

When 2 Zebra's stand side by side, they usually face in opposite directions so they can keep an eye out for predators.

A typical day for a Gorilla is to get up early in the morning and eat. It eats until it gets hot, then it will nap. When it gets up from its nap it will resume eating until the sun goes down.

Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system, a few ounces are enough to kill a small sized dog.

A short time before Lincoln's assassination, he dreamed that he was going to die and he narrated his dream to Senate.

Charlie Chaplin was so popular during 1920's and 30's that he received over 7,300 letters in just 2 days of his visit to London.

George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.

Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an automobile, fly on a plane and go under water in a submarine.

Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle.

Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through hid telescope.

Mark Twain first learned to ride a bicycle at the age of 55.

Goofy actually started life as "Dippy Dawg" a combination of both Goofy and Pluto.

Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand draw with the other at the same time.

Charlie Chaplin once won the 3rd prize in Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

Mickey Mouse was the first non human to win an Oscar.

There are about 5,000,000 million stars in our galaxy-Milky Way.

Pluto is 5,914 million km away from the sun.

The oldest existing observatory was built in South Korea in 72 A.D.

The world's longest river is Nile which is 6,695 km in length.

Mangrooves are the only trees that can survive in water.

Great Grey slugs mate for 7-24, hanging from a trail of mucus.

Giant Clamps can live for more than 200 years.

Limpet's teeth are so strong that they leave scratch mark on the rocks.

A Peregrine Falcon (Falco Peregrines) can dive at 180 km/hour.

The Australian Duck Billed Platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs

Pygmy Shrews lose body heat quickly because of their small size, so they must eat 3 times their body weight of food per day to survive.

Elephants eat about 228 kg of vegetation everyday.

The Femur is the longest and the strongest bone.

A women's pelvic bones are shallower and wider than man's to allow child birth.

Muscles make up 40% of a persons total weight.

The skin is the body's largest organ.

In a normal life span the body sheds 18 kg of skin.

There are 15 billion nerve cells in the brain each connected to 25,000 other.

Nerve signals can travel at more than 400 km/hour.

The brain uses 25% of the body's blood supply.

Babies have taste buds all over the part inside of their mouth.

Human's can survive with only one fully working lung.

The wall of the stomach is protected by a lining of mucus so it cannot digest itself.

The kidneys clean 1.3 liters of blood a minute.

The hormone adrenalin can give short bursts of superhuman strength.

A fever is caused when white blood corpuscles release protein called pyrogen rising the body temperature.

Protons and Neutrons are 1,836 times heavier than electrons.

The smallest internal combustion engine is the 0.1 cc model aircraft.

A light year is equivalent to 9,455 billion km (5,875 billion miles), the distance that light travels in a year.

When you are cold the hair on your skin stands up. This traps air next to your skin, making you warm.

About 2.4 million skin cells would fit into a square of area 1sq. cm.

Your heart is about the same size as your fist.

Every day 170 liters of blood passes through your kidney.

The heart pumps about 6,500 liters of blood everyday.

If a mans leg could move as quickly as an ant's leg, he would run at a speed of more than 160 km/hr.

The human sense of smell is very weak. But the male emperor moth has a strong smell. It can detect a female at a distance of 11km.

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The giant squid has the largest eye ball in the animal kingdom it is about 38cm in diameter. The human eye ball is only about 25mm across.

Do you know how many metres of small large intestine are coiled in your body? It is about 650m.

There are more than 1,000,000 nerves in your retina. Light touches the nerves and? the nerves send messages about the light to your brain.

A dolphin can distinguish between 2 different meal coins under water in complete darkness and up to 2 miles away because, it has the most elegant SONAR(Sound Navigation and Ranging) ever made.

Radhey Shyam Prajapati stood motionless for 18hrs 5min 50sec at Gandhi Bavan, Bhopal, on 25-26 Jan 1996 in India.

Over fifteen months, ending on 9 March 1985 Jagdish Chander crawled, 1,400km (870 miles) from Aligarh to Jamma, India to appease the revered Hindu Goddess.

The longest recorded duration for balancing on one foot is 71hrs 40min by Amresh Kumar Jha at Bihar India. From 13-16 Sept 1995 in India.

Yogesh Sharma shook hand with 31,118 different people in 8hrs during the Gwalior Trade Fair at Gwalior, M.P., India, on 14 Jan 1996 in India.

Our Solar System consists of the Sun and the many objects that orbit around it,planets, over 60 moons, and countless asteroids and comets. The system occupies a disc-shaped volume of space more than 12,000 million km (7,458 million km) across. The Sun contains more than 99% of the system's mass.

The world's tallest man had a height of about 8 feet 11 inches.

The first living being to go in outer space was a dog.

Citizens from Texas are the only Americans allowed to vote from space,

Dragonflies have 6 legs, but can't walk.

When Bob Heft was a high school student in 1958, he designed a 50 star flag as a school project. He only earned a Grade of B, but 2 years later the design became the the official U.S. flag!

The Statue of Liberty was designed by French Sculptor Frederick Auguste Bartholdi and is gift from France commemorating the 1st centennial of US Independence from Britain.

An average peacock train consists of 200 feathers. The train is supported by 20 short feathers.

Ostriches can run faster than horses and the males can roar like lions.

Sloth's take 2 weeks to digest their food.

Guinea pigs and rabbits cannot sweat.

Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.

The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

Deer can't eat hay.

The life span of a squirrel is about nine years.

There are 50 different kinds of Kangaroos.

Jellyfish like sea water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normal salty water where they live.

The female lion does 90% of the hunting.

Most male horses have 40 teeth, females have 36.

Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have 2 eyes in the centre of their head and a third one on top of their heads.

Because porcupines have hollow quills, they are great swimmers.

Snakes who have the genetic mutation of having been born with 2 heads have a have a hard time eating, because the 2 heads generally fight over which gets the food?

Baby song birds seem to learn how to sing from the adult birds of their species, and if the are raised by other species, they don't sing the same as their ancestors.

Giraffes can't cough.

Elephant can smell water from as far away as 3 miles.

All shrimps are born males, but slowly grow into females as they mature.

The stomach acid in snake's stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.

Birds cannot go into outer space, because they use gravity to assist them in swallowing, so they'd quickly choke and die in a non gravity environment.

The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body.

Mother-of pearl is not always white. It can be pink, blue, purple, gray or even green. Nor is it produced only by the pearl oyster. The abalone and the pearl mussel both have shells that are lined with fine quality mother-of pearl.

Orcas, killer whales, kill sharks by torpedoing up into the sharks stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

Boredom can lead to madness in parrots.

As much as 40% of the entire world's varieties of fresh water fish are found in the Amazon River basin.

There are about 8,600 species of birds in the entire world, and more than half of them are found in Amazon River basin area.

The Portuguese jellyfish tentacles have been known to grow a mile in length, catching anything in its path stinging its prey.

There is 1/7 ounce of 4 grams of gold in every million tons of sea water.

At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about 4 ounces.

While there are hundreds of species of sharks, only 7 are marked and eaten with any regularity in the United States.

The largest seahorse measures 8 inches.

A camel can lose up to 30% of its body weight in perspiration and continue in desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12% of body weight.

The leech has 32 brains.

The blow of a whale has a strong foul odor.

Some house cats are clean their coats are dry and glossy, their fur easily charged with electricity. Sparks can be seen if their fur is rubbed in the dark.

The jackrabbit is not a rabbit, but a hare.

To see at night as well as an owl, you would need eyeballs as big as a grapefruit.

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one gram of it can kill 150 people. Just to handle the substance can put one in coma.

Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons.

For no apparent reason rocks up to 700 pounds each have moved in Death Valley leaving trails hundreds of feet long.

A crater on mars looks the same as a smiling face.

Only 4 players participated in every game during the 2004 major league baseball season. Almost assuring that Cal Ripken Jr's record of 2,632 consecutive games can't be beaten for 15 years.

Eating carrots won't improve your vision. In World War II, the British made up the story to cover up their use of a newly invented radar to shoot down German bombers at night.

A Happy face spider is native to Hawaii.

John Pemberton sold only $50 of Coca Cola in 1886- the year he invented it.

A study by a UK insurance company shows that people who sing while they drive have the least accidents!

Cockroaches can survive for up to 3 weeks even after the body is separated from the head.

An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1.7 million years.

On every continent there is city called Rome.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

There are more T.V. sets in the United states of America than there are people in United Kingdom.

To make 1 kilograms of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers traveling a distance equal 4 times around the earth.

The word listen contains the same letters as silent.

All planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus it is the only planet to rotate clockwise.

'Hippopotomonsrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.

A 'jiffy' is actual unit of time for 1/100 of a second.

The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

55% of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone yawn.

India has never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.

The brain of an Ostrich is smaller than its eye.

The parliament of Japan is known as Diet.

The largest prime number known was found by programming 700 computers, it is 9.1 million digits long, it is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457.

The impulses from the brain to any part of the body travel with a speed of 340kmph.

The sperm cell in a male travels 18cm in an hour if one would try running with the same speed he would cover a distance of 60km in an hour.

There are 60 trillion cells in an average in a adult human.

There are about 400 million cars and light trucks in the world, in 1950 there were 50 million.

The highest Kangaroo leap record is 10 feet and longest is 42 feet.

The most powerful electric eels are found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela and Peru which produces a shock about 400-650 volts.

The slowest land mammal is the three toed sloth which averages 6-8 feet per minute, even giant Tortoise moves twice as fast.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952 but he declined.

Babies are colour blind when they are born.

A Koala bear sleeps 22 hours a day.

A Flea can jump 350 times its body length that is like an average human jumping the length of football field.

Leonardo-Da-Vinci invented scissors.
Leonardo-Da-Vinci took 10 years to paint the lips of his great painting Mona Lisa.

The number 4 is the only number in the English language that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.

The name of all the continents end with same letter that they start with.

All totaled, the sunlight that strikes earth at any moment weighs as much as an ocean linear.

A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

A full moon always rises at sunset. This is because sun and moon are at nearly opposite positions in the sky on a full moon.

Acting was once considered evil and actors in the first English play to be performed in America were arrested.

The water inside a coconut is identical to human blood plasma. It is sometimes used as substitutes because it is sterile, does not pro duce heat, does not destroy red blood cells and is readily acceptable to the body.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contain them all: "a rough coat, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

The skin on the eye lid is one one-thousandth of an inch deep (the thinnest), the skin on the back is one-fifth of an inch (the thickest).

A ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

The ancient Romans dyed their hair with bird droppings.

A rat can go without water more than a camel can.

During his life time, the male eats 50 tons of food.

The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.

The 2 lines that connect the bottom of the nose to the lip are called the philtrum. The white part of the fingernail is called the lunula.

It takes 2,000,000 frowns ton create a permanent brown line.

Only pharaohs were allowed to eat mushrooms in ancient Egypt.

In ancient China, doctors received their fee only if the patients were kept healthy. If the patient's health failed, the doctors sometimes paid the patient.

Cows can be identified by nose print.

70% dust contains human skin.

A gold fish has memory span of 3 seconds.

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there has only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

A single drop of liquid contains as much as 50 million bacteria.

Nematomorph hairworm infect the brain of an grasshopper causing them to leap into water, which the worms need to breed u but causes the grasshopper to drown.

On July 5, 2005, Albert parker, a 73 year old farmer in Yorkshire, England, was swept up by a tornado and put down unharmed 30 feet away.

Fingernails and toe nails are dead cells.

Living cells lie under the nails arch-shaped area. They grow and pack together closely pushing the nail outwards.

Your finger nails are made from the same kind of material as the horses hoof.

The condition of the nails can indicate the general health of your whole body. If the nails have deep ridges or are misshaped, an illness may be present.

Humming bird is the only bird which can fly backwards.

Most honeybees die when they sting a person.

Astronauts grow taller in space.

A Giraffe can clean its ear with its 21-inch long tongue.

In the 1890's, French law enforcement officer and bio-metrics researcher, Alphonse Bertillion created anthropometry, the first scientific identification system based on physical measurements that would help the police identify criminals. The method, which was called Bertillionage, was eventually replaced by fingerprinting in later years.

In 1879 a drug was introduced to treat morphine addiction. The drug cocaine.

Until 1890, Vatican choirboys were castrated to keep their voices from deepening.

In medieval England beer was often served with break fast.

All the coal, oil, gas and wood on the earth would only keep the sun burning for a few days.

The longest recorded flight of chicken is 13 seconds.

It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

'Dreamt' is the only English word which ends in the letter's 'mt'.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

Before the 1800's there were no separately designed shoe for the left and right.

Steven Sasson the digital camera in 1975. The First one weighed 7 pounds and was able to record 10,000 - pixel black - and - white photos onto a cassette tape.

President Bush received a half - mile long letter in September, 2005, written by 4,000 school children from around the United States.

The U.S. mint produced 1.5 million pennies made from aluminum in 1974 - but never used any of them.

Several clothing companies in U.S. make socks from corn.

The 8 - foot long tooth of the Narwhal as many as 10 million nerve cells.

In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 meters of nose hair.

Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia In the 10th century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 1,17,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.

An eyelash lives about 5 months.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed and continue living.

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.

Clinophobia is the fear of beds.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

No piece of square dry paper in half more than 7 times.

A company in Taiwan makes dishware in wheat, so that you can eat your plate.

Kangaroo rats can survive without water throughout their lives.

When a frog eats something poisonous or bad tasting it can "throw up" its entire stomach. The stomach actually comes out of the frogs mouth and empties its contents.

The smallest mammal is the pygmy shrew which measures less than 2 inches (5cm) long minus its tail. The tiny shrew is an eating machine. It burns up food so fast that if it stopped eating for half a day it would die of starvation.

African elephants are the biggest mammals, which can grow up to 11ft (3.4m) and weigh 17,000pounds (7,727kg).

The puma can leap straight up to 20ft (6m) from standing.

An adult giant anteater can consume 30,000 termites in a day.

An average bat can devour 4,000 flying insects in a night.

The common mole eats nearly its weight in insects every day.

An elephant eats up to 50 tons of its grassy environment every year.

A platypus can eat 1,400 earthworms, 50 fresh water Cray fish and 40 tadpoles in one night.

Crocodiles eat rocks. Eating rocks may help their digestion or add weight to help them stay under water. About 20% of crocodile's weight might be rocks.

IT takes just 2 drops of black mamba snack to kill a human.

Crocodiles grow all their lives.

Titan is the only moon in the solar system which has a atmosphere.

Lightning strikes somewhere in the world about 100 times every minute.

It would take you 304 days to dig through the earth if you could progress at a rate of 1mile/hr (1.6km/hr) and if you could stand the heat.

A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish in contrast have been clocked at 68 miles per hour.

Minnows have teeth in their throat.

Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep through the winter. Sometimes 1,000 of them will coil together to keep warm.

There are 1,600 species of starfish in the world.

The Bateleur Eagle of Africa hunts over a territory of 250 square miles a day.

Honey bees navigate using the sun as the compass. Even when it is hidden behind clouds, they find it via the polarization of the ultraviolet light from areas of blue sky.

The silk worm moth has lost the ability of flight due to domestication.

Out of 20,000 species of bees, only 4 make honey.

Scientist have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.

There are 40,000 muscles and tendons in an elephant's trunk which makes it very strong and flexible, allowing an elephant to pluck a delicate flower or lift a huge log.

Sahara desert is expanding half a mile south every year.

970 - the number of operations Charles Jensen of USA underwent from 1954 to 1994 for removal of tumors.

The elephant uses its trunk for touching, grasping, sucking, spraying, smelling and striking.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in air.

No other animal gives us more by products than the hog. These byproducts include pig, suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk and insulation to name a few.

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

To escape the grip of crocodile's jaws, push your thumb into its eye balls. It will let you go instantly.

The ostrich egg yolk is biggest single cell in the world.

The bottled-nosed whale can dive to a depth of 3000ft in 2 minutes.

The brain has no nerves. Therefore, it has no sensation.

A wolves howls does not have an echo.

Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.

By the age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

If you lock your knees while standing long enough, you will pass out.

During a lifetime, one person generates more than 1000 pounds of red blood cells.

Devoid of its cells and proteins, human blood has the same general makeup as sea water.

Despite accounting for just one-fifth of body weight, the brain burns as much as one - fifth of our daily caloric intake.

Your jaw muscle is the most powerful muscle in your body.

Human blood travels 60,000 miles per day on its journey through the arteries, arterioles and capillaries and back through the venules and veins.

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

The only nation whose name begins with 'A' and does not end with an 'A' is Afghanistan.

46% of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic has 23.9%; the Indian Ocean has 20.3%; the Arctic Ocean has 3.7%.

The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending on the tide.

Despite a population of about over a billion, China has only 200 family names.

There are 3,900 islands in the country of Japan, the country of islands.

Norway contains the biggest ice fields in Europe.

In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.

A follicle that is more oval in shape will produce curlier hair, which, when viewed under microscope, is more 'flat' in appearance than straight hair, which is 'round'.

Brain surgery is done with the patient still awake. The brain has no nerves therefore it has no sensation. The person is put to sleep to open the skull but after that the person wakes up to see the operation be completed.

Depth of the world's deepest point known as Olkhon Crevice, in the worlds deepest lake - Lake Baikal- in Siberia, Russia is 1,637 m. Baikal is also the oldest freshwater lake on earth.

In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61%.

A 'gelotologist' is a person who studies laughter.

Ten or more bananas growing together are known as a 'hand' and individually they can be called fingers.

Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any group of mammals that exists - especially fruit bats.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13secs [which is pretty long if you actually count it out].

A bomb dropped during world war 2 killed every animal in the Berlin zoo except the elephant. When a Russian commander saw hungry Germans chasing the elephant trying to kill it, he ordered his troops to shoot any one he tried to kill it.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
- All invented by women.?

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.Cat's urine glows under a black light.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

Nokia

The name of the town of Nokia originated from the river which flowed through the town. The river itself, Nokianvirta, was named after the old Finnish word originally meaning sable, later pine marten. A species of this small, black-furred predatory animal was once found in the region, but it is now extinct."Special" tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for "SMS". Similarly, the "Ascending" SMS tone is Morse code for "Connecting People," Nokia's slogan. The "Standard" SMS tone is Morse code for "M" (Message).* The ringtone "Nokia tune" is actually based on a 19th century guitar work named "Gran Vals" by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega. The Nokia Tune was originally named "Grande Valse" on Nokia phones but was changed to "Nokia Tune" around 1998 when it became so well known that people referred to it as the "Nokia Tune."* Nokia is sometimes called aikon (Nokia backwards) by non-Nokia mobile phone users and by mobile software developers, because "aikon" is used in various SDK software packages, including Nokia's own Symbian S60 SDK.* Nokia sponsored several pan-European Alternate Reality Games from 1999 to 2005, under the name Nokia Game. These were used to promote their latest phones, as well as introducing the ARG format to Europe.* Nokia was listed as the 20th most admirable company worldwide in Fortune's list of 2006 (1st in network communications, 4th non-US company).[7]* Nokia is currently the world's largest digital camera manufacturer, as the sales of its camera-equipped mobile phones have exceeded those of any conventional camera manufacturer.* In the mobile phone market, Nokia is in direct competition with Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung Electronics, LG, Philips, Kyocera, SAGEM, among others.* The Nokia corporate font (typeface) is the AgfaMonotype Nokia Sans font, originally designed by Eric Spiekermann. Previously in advertising and in its mobile phone User's Guides Nokia mostly used the Agfa Rotis Sans font.- Since Mobira Senator car phone introduction in 1982 to the Nokia 2652 introduction today, Nokia has introduced around 400 phone models to all major analogue and digital standards.- Nokia's first iconic product, the Nokia 2100 series that was introduced in 1994, sold nearly 20 million units in its time.- The world's best-selling phone, the Nokia 3310 / 3330 sold 126 million units from its launch in 2000 until its "retirement" earlier this year. For comparison, the combined total of all Nokia phones sold between 1991 and 1998 is 100 million.- If all the Nokia 3310/3330 phones sold were laid end-to-end, the line would stretch from Helsinki, Finland to Santiago, Chile - over 13,500 kilometers.- In 1991 Nokia sold 800 000 phones. In 2004, it manufactured 207.7 million phones, which equals 6.5 phones per second.- Nokia consumes 100 billion components on annual level. On average, one phone includes up to 400 components.

Food


Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri Nestlé.An ounce of chocolate contains about 20 mg of caffeine.

Forks, mostly being two-tined, used to known as "split spoons.

"TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."

The world's oldest existing eatery opened in Kai-Feng, China in 1153.

Coffee is the seed of a cherry from the tree genus
CoffeaMelba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).

Three quarters of fish caught are eaten - the rest is used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.

The world's most expensive jam (jelly) is Confiture de groselles. It is a redcurrant jam (jelly) from a 14th century recipe made in the tiny French town of Bar-Le-Duc.

In September 1999 Dustin Philips of the US set a Guinness World Record by drinking a 400 ml (14-oz) bottle of tomato sauce through a straw in 33 seconds.

To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.
Bananas are the world's most popular fruit after tomatoes.
In western countries, they could account for 3% of a grocer's total sales.
Bananas consistently are the number one compliant of grocery shoppers.
Most people complain when bananas are overripe or even freckled. The fact is that spotted bananas are sweeter, with a sugar content of more than 20%, compared with 3% in a green banana.
Approximately 44 million tons of bananas are produced annually, compared to more than 60 million tomatoes. Apples are the third most popular (36 million tons), then oranges (34 million tons) and watermelons (22 million tons).

The scientific term for the common tomato is lycopersicon lycopersicum, which means "wolf peach." There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.

The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.

Over the last 40 years food production actually increased faster than population. The number of people who starved to death in the last 25 years of the 20th century is less than the number who starved to death in the last 25 years of the 19th century.

In the Middle Ages, sugar was a treasured luxury costing 9 times as much as milk. Of the more than $50 billion worth of diet products sold every year, almost $20 billion are spent on imitation fats and sugar substitutes.

Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.

In 1994, Chicago artist Dwight Kalb sent David Letterman a statue of Madonna, made of 180lb of ham.

Wine is sold in tinted bottles because wine spoils when exposed to light.

Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.

Vitamin A is known to prevent "night blindness," and carrots are loaded with Vitamin A. One carrot provides more than 200% of recommended daily intake of Vitamin A.Carrots have zero fat content.

Maria Ann Smith introduced the Granny Smith apple in 1838.

Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

The first European to encounter tea was the Portuguese Jesuit Jasper de Cruz in 1560.
Ice tea was introduced in 1904 at the World's Fair in St. Louis.
The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.

In the 1950's some 80% of chickens in Europe and the US were free-ranging. By 1980, it was only 1%. Today, about 13% of chickens in the West are free-ranging.

An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell.

Americans eat twice as much meat as Europeans, gobbling up some 50kg (110 lb) per capita.

The tall chef's hat is called a toque.

The term "soda water" was coined in 1798.The soda fountain was patented by Samuel Fahnestock in 1819, with the first bottled soda water available in 1835.

The first ice-cream soda was sold in 1874 in the US.

The first cola-flavoured beverage was introduced in 1881.
Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr. John S. Pemberton in 1886.
Pepsi-Cola was invented by Caleb Bradham in 1890 as "Brad's Drink" as a digestive aid and energy booster. It was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1989.

In 1929, the Howdy Company introduced its "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Sodas," which became 7 Up. 7 Up was invented by Charles Leiper Grigg.

The first diet soft drink, called the "No-Cal Beverage" was launched in 1952.

Aluminum cans were introduced in 1957 and two years later the first diet cola was sold.
The pull-ring tab was invented in 1962 and the re-sealable top in 1965.
Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970.

The Polyethylene Terephthalate bottle was introduced in 1973.
The stay-on tab was invented in 1974.

China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year. 25 million trees are chopped down to make 'em sticks.

Chocolate is the number one foodstuff flavour in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1.

Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30%.

Amazing. Thanks author.:clap:

Money


The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.

If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.

A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 10 kg (22 lb).
One million dollars' worth of once-cent coins (100 million coins) weigh 246 tons.

TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."
The term "Blue Chip" comes from the colour of the poker chip with the highest value, blue.

Nessie, the Loch Ness monster is protected by the 1912 Protection of Animals Acts of Scotland. With good reason - Nessie is worth $40 million annually to Scottish tourism.

Of the more than $50 billion worth of diet products sold every year, almost $20 billion are spent on imitation fats and sugar substitutes.

Annual global spending on education is $80 billion.US and European expenditure on pet food is $17 billion per year.

The global expenditure on healthcare and nutrition is $13 billion.

Money notes are not made from paper, it is made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen.
In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period. The wood notes came in $1, $5 and $10 values.

The world's largest coins, in size and standard value, were copper plates used in Alaska around 1850. They were about a metre (3 ft) long, half-a-metre (about 2 ft) wide, weighed 40 kg (90 lb), and were worth $2,500.

The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
About 30% of consumers use their credit card as their main means of buying Christmas goodies, 70% do not save to buy Christmas gifts and 86% of consumers do their Christmas shopping during December.
Excessive use of credit is cited as a major cause of non-business bankruptcy, second only to unemployment.

Statistics show that people with high, medium and low income groups spend about the same amount on Christmas gifts.

In the 1400s, global income rose only 0,1% per year; today it often tops 5%.

The average age of Forbes's 400 wealthiest individuals is 63.

In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap.

In 2001 the richest woman was Liliane Bettencourt, the daughter of L'Oreal's founder. She has a net worth of $14 billion (depending on how the stock market did today).In 2000, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is the second wealthiest woman, with $5,2 billion.

Queen Elizabeth II is one of the 10th wealthiest women in the world.

The $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock.

The term "smart money" refers to gamblers who have inside information or have arranged a fix, the gambling term for insuring the outcome of an event by illegal methods.

Small-time gamblers who place small bet in order to prolong the excitement of a game are called "dead fish" by game operators because the longer the playing time, the greater the chances of losing.

In gambling language, for a gambling house a "sure-thing" is a wager that a player has little chance of winning; "easy money" is their profit from an inexperienced bettor, an unlucky player is called a "stiff."

Australians are the heaviest gamblers in the world; an estimated 82% of Australians bet. That is twice as much per capita as Europeans or Americans. Yet, Australia, with less than 1% of the world population, has 20% of the world's poker machines.

There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world.80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.

In 1900, the price of gold was less than $40 per ounce. It reached $600 in 1930, now struggling to reach $400 per ounce.

If Los Angeles County was a country, it would be the 19th largest economy in the world.

If California was a country, it would be the 5th largest economy in the world.

Tobacco is a $200 billion industry, producing six trillion cigarettes a year - about 1,000 cigarettes for each person on earth.

In 1965, CEOs earned on average 44 times more than factory workers.
In 1998, CEOs earned on average 326 times more than factory workers and in 1999, they earned 419 times more than factory workers.

The income gap between the richest fifth of the world's people and the poorest measured by average national income per head increased from 30 to one in 1960, to 74 to one in 1998.

A third of the world's people live on less than $2 a day, with 1,2 billion people living on less than $1 a day.

In the 17th century, wool fabrics accounted for about two-thirds of England's foreign trade. Today, the leading wool producers are Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and China.The NASDAQ stock exchange was totally disabled in on day in December 1987 when a squirrel burrowed through a telephone line.

In 1990, the word "recession" appeared in 1,583 articles in The Wall Street Journal.

Global sales of pre-recorded music total more than $40 billion.

Tourism is the world's biggest industry, affecting 240 million jobs.

In 1865, Frederik Idestam founded a wood-pulp mill in southern Finland, naming it Nokia. It rapidly gained worldwide recognition, attracting a large number of workforce and the town Nokia was born. In 1898, the Finnish Rubber Works company opened in Nokia, taking on the town name in the 1920s. After WWII, the rubber company took a majority shareholding in the Finnish Cable Work. In 1967, the companies consolidated to become the Nokia Group. The recession of the 1990s led the group to focus on the mobile phone market.

History


Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agency in the world, was founded in 1850.

The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors.

A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.

Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

Beer was the first trademarked product - British beer Bass Pale Ale received its trademark in 1876.

Playing-cards were known in Persia and India as far back as the 12th century. A pack then consisted of 48 instead of 52 cards.

Excavations from Egyptian tombs dating to 5,000 BC show that the ancient Egyptian kids played with toy hedgehogs.

Accounts from Holland and Spain suggest that during the 1500s and 1600s urine was commonly used as a tooth-cleaning agent.

Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.

The first mention of soap was on Sumerian clay tablets dating about 2,500 BC. The soap was made of water, alkali and cassia oil.

The first animal in space was the female Samoyed husky named Laika, launched by the Soviets in 1957.

In 1958 the US sent two mice called Laska and Benjy into space.

In 1969 the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.

In 1963 the French launched a cat called Feliette into space.

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps, on 1 May 1840.

Hence, UK stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

Napoleon's christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte. He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property. As a boy, Napoleon hated the French.

John Rolfe married Pocahontas the Red Indian Princess in 1613.

Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The first parachute jump from an airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1912.

On 21 June 1913, over Los Angeles, Georgia Broadwick became the first women to parachute from an airplane.

The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD.

The world's first skyscraper was the 10-storey Home Insurance office, built in Chicago in 1885. (During Roman times buildings were up to 8 storeys high.)

In ancient times, it was believed that certain colours could combat the evil spirits that lingered over nurseries. Because blue was associated with the heavenly spirits, boys were clothed in that colour, boys then being considered the most valuable resource to parents.
Although baby girls did not have a colour associated with them, they were mostly clothed in black.
It was only in the Middle Ages when pink became associated with baby girls.

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Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1,7 million years.

A fathom is 1,8 metres (6 feet).

There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.

Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language.
The singular female reference was the word "heo", which also was the plural of all genders. The word "she" appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. "She" probably derived from the Old English feminine "seo", the Viking word for feminine reference.


There are no letters assigned to the numbers 1 and 0 on a phone keypad.
These numbers remain unassigned because they are so-called "flag" numbers, kept for special purposes such as emergency or operator services.


After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the merchant was promptly executed.


For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp.
Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper.
The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

The word malaria comes from the words mal and aria, which means bad air. This derives from the old days when it was thought that all diseases are caused by bad, or dirty air.

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
On every continent there is a city called Rome.

The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria.

The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was London.

The most populated city in the world - when major urban areas are included - is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.

Tokyo was once known as Edo.

The pin that holds a hinge together is called a pintle.

The Vatican is the world's smallest country, at 0,44 square km (0,16 square miles).

The US flag displays 13 stripes - for the original 13 states.
To most Americans, the orient is China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam; to Europeans it is the area of India and Pakistan.

The words "electronic mail" might sound new but was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge.
More at creditcardsNeil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.


Women make up 49% of the world population.

About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
This is called propinquity.

The pleasant feeling of eating chocolate is caused by a chemical called anadamide, a neurotransmitter which also is produced naturally in the brain.


From the Middle Ages until the 18th century the local barber's duties included dentistry, blood letting, minor operations and bone-setting.

The barber's striped red pole originates from when patients would grip the pole during an operation.

The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.

The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.

Midday refers to the moment the sun crosses the local meridian.

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.

It is not true that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure that can be viewed from space - many man-made objects, including the Dutch polders, can be viewed from space.

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153 MIND BLOWING FACTS


1. Turtles have no teeth.

2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.

3. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.

4. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they'recrying.

5. Helium is a colourless, odourless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.

6. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest thingswill rise to the top.

7. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest thingswill rise to the top.

8. Camels can spit.

9. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).

10. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.

11. Dinosaurs didn't eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.

12. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).

13. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steelnail, Glass pieces, etc

14. Sharks are immune to disease i.e they do not suffer from any Disease.

15. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.

16. Paris, France has more dogs than people.

17. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.

18. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.

19. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.

20. There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.

21. A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.

22. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years

23. The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey

24. The name `India' is derived from the River Indus

25. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.

26. Chess was invented in India.

27. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

28. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game representedvirtues and the snakes indicated vices.

29. India has the most post offices in the world

30. 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH

31. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.

32. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world

33. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

34. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

35. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

36. Twenty-Four- Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with thehands.

37. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

38. The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along

39. The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.

40. A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).

41. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'

42. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

43. Ants don't sleep.

44. Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.

45. Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time

46. A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time

47. Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".

48. Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.

49. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.

50. Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

51. Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.

52. Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.

53. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.

54. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in theirhair.

55. Earth weighs 5,972,000,000, 000,000,000, 000 tons

56. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

57. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere

58. Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy

59. The average woman uses about her height in lipstickevery five years.

60. The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25,

61. AD 336 in Rome.

62. A Cockroach will live nine days without itshead, before it starves to death.

63. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't

64. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can

65. About 10% of the world's population is left-handed

66. Dolphins sleep with one eye open

67. Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of thesnake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.

68. Many spiders have eight eyes.

69. The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in twopits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.

70. Birds don't sweat

71. The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft

72. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts

73. The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz

74. The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

75. The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert

76. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

77. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

78. Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue -- more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue

79. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess with them

80. An elephant can smell water three miles away

81. If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds

82. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man

83. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history

84. The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).

85. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

86. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

87. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.

88. The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of theirshells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

89. Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint

90. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.

91. 90 % of all the ice in the world is on Antarctica

92. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert

93. Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter

94. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, butat night it gets down to -300 degrees.

95. Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature onJupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.

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96. Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it wouldfloat. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.

97. Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.

98. Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big Spot like Jupiter. Winds onNeptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour! Neptune has 8 moons.

99. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made ofrock and ice.

100. Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the United States have a least one radio. Most families have several radios.

101. Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching, baseball games, plays,advertisements- these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they reach your radio and your ears.

102. At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is weakand can't travel very far, so it's sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves arethen sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the signal, and the radio'samplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up the vibrations and your brain translates them intothe voice of the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the places the announcer's voice travels

103. Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you want your antenna to "catch."

104. Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. It's scientific name is Felis concolor, whichmeans "cat of one color." At one time, mountain lions were very common!

105. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss,scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar.

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106. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!

107. Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like ahouse cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time! That's equivalent to 40 quarter-pounderhamburgers!

108. Queen ants can live to be 30 years old

109. Dragonflies can flap their wings 28 times per second and they can fly up to 60 miles per hour

110. As fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster... they can flap their wings 435 times per second

111. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

112. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

113. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day

114. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

115. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

116. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

117. Women blink nearly twice as much as men

118. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible

119. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it.

120. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

121. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

122. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

123. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

124. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

125. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

126. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

127. Slugs have 4 noses.

128. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

129. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end

130. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.

131. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

132. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot

133. After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.

134. Penguins are not found in the North Pole

135. A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

136. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound

137. Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf

138. Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

139. Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks

140. Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

141. 259200 people die every day.

142. 11% of the world is left-handed

143. 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day

144. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

145. The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That's bigger than your hand!

146. A full-grown male mountain lion may be 9 feet long, including his tail!

147. There are two kinds of radio stations: AM and FM. That's why there are two dials on your radio. AM is used mostly for stations that specialize in talking,such as Christian stations that have Bible stories and sermons; sports stations that broadcast live baseball and football games; and stations that specializein news programs and "talk shows," where listeners call the station and discuss various topics. FM is used mostly for stations that specialize in music.

148. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil

149. The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.

150. The worst industrial disaster in India, occurred in 1984 in Bhopal the capital of Madhya Pradesh. A deadly chemical, methly isocyanate leaked out of theUnion Carbide factory killing more than 2500 and leaving thousands sick. In fact the effects of this gas tragedy is being felt even today.

151. Mars is nicknamed the "Red Planet," because it looks reddish in the night sky. Mars has 2 moons.

152. Venus is nicknamed the "Jewel of the Sky." Because of the greenhouse effect, it is hotter than Mercury, even though it's not as close to the sun. Venusdoes not have a moon but it does have clouds of sulfuric acid! If you're gonna visit Venus, pack your gas mask!

153. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world, fight in a harmless battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoesare thrown in the streets.

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-kung bakit Lady GaGa ang screen name ni Lady GaGa?
Kasi.. Fav group nya ang Queen and fav song naman nya yung kanta na Radio Gaga

Queen = Lady
Radio Gaga = GaGa
Queen + Radio Gaga = Lady GaGa

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-ang nata de coco ay nilalagyan ng preservatives na nilalagay rin sa mga patay?

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-na Venustraphobia ang tawag sa taong takot sa magagandang babae

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-na Lighter was invented first kesa sa posporo?

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-na kapag naglakad sa gabi, there's a 30% chance your body will be heavier because some spirits ride at your back?

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In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the rule of thumb'.

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.
When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... 'goodnight, sleep tight.'

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.

Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden'...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All were invented by women.

Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey

Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day

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