Fun Facts
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.
Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
In the middle ages, people would pin the name of their sweetheart to their sleeve on Valentine's Day and keep it there for a week, hence 'wearing their heart on their sleeve'.
It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United States. Was sold as "Dr.Miles Compound Extract of Tomato"
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red
Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury
The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
Shoe sizes were standardized in Britain in 1885
The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
There are at least 40 known carcinogens in cigarettes.
The earliest British expeditions tackling Everest wore tweed jackets, woolen underwear, and leather boots.
The amniotic fluid that surrounds a baby in the womb is completely replaced every three hours.
During World War II, twice as many fighter pilots were killed during training than combat
In 1962 an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika lasted for six months and caused schools to be closed
A nautical mile measures 6,080 feet while a land or statute mile is 5,280 feet
No one can drown in the Dead Sea. It is 25 percent salt, which makes the water very heavy
Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water
Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water
Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.
The bird flu virus could evolve into a form that is easily spread between people, resulting in a highly contagious and lethal disease.
The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Astronauts can't belch- there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!
Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve," which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song, "Auld Lang Syne" is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F
The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density
Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces
The University of Alaska spans four time zones
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
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).
Warner Comm. paid $28 million for the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun
The "Swine flu" vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight
Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and... the crossroads
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams
It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters
Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down
The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements
Snake venom is ninety percent protein
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature
Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day
Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer
Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes
A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon
If all of the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles
If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court
Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints
Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call
Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders
Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour
In 1643, the British Parliament officially abolished the celebration of Christmas
Santa's Reindeers are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen
In 1875 the director of the US patent office resigned. He said that there was nothing left to invent
The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year
The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name
On average, a person has two million sweat glands
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
97% of the earth's water is undrinkable
The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it
All babies are color blind when they are born
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old
14 million people were killed in World War I, 20 million died in flu epidemic in the years that followed
There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script
Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses
On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat
There are no public toilets in Peru
Urine and tears have the same basic ingredients
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize
The motto of M-G-M movie studios is Art for Art's Sake
The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named "Volney"
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it
The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world
X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one
The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27,359 km/hour
Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil
Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982
Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears
Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.
Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time
Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains
Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet
The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent
To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe
Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4ºF
The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas
Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years
Bone China is so called because powdered animal bone is mixed with the clay to give it translucency and whiteness
The original reason for tablecloths was as a towel to wipe one's fingers and hands on after eating
Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year
Mickey Mouse has four fingers on each hand
The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds four Terra bytes
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west
In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia
After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by 33 percent in the US
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon
At 40° Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing
Most gemstones contain several elements. Except the diamond it's all carbon
Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world
Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles
The "crack" from a whip is actually the tip of the whip traveling faster than the speed of sound, emitting a small sonic boom
If the information contained in the DNA could be written down, it would fill a 1000 volume encyclopedia
It would take 13 years and eight months to stay one night in every room at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas
Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit
The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting
If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, (including the uninhabitable areas) everyone would get roughly 100sqft
Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee
Pearls melt in vinegar
There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history
Human hair and finger nails continue to grow after death
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland
Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars
Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil
Mango is the number one selling fruit in the World. India is the biggest producer of mangoes in the World
The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air
No nation has ever won the Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International Pageant in the same year?
About 85% of the plant life on earth is in the oceans
In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and make it look like it's smiling
If a person counted at the rate of 100 numbers a minute and kept counting for 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week, it would take a little over 4 weeks to count to one million and just over 80 years to reach a billion
An average person perspires a gut-wrenching 278 gallons of sweat each year
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made out of wood
A banana is about 75% water. They grow on a rhizome, not a tree. You are more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.
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Geography:
Iceland is the world's oldest functioning democracy
Mongolia is the largest landlocked country
Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the Sun
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained
The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China
Birth-control campaigns in Egypt in the late 1970s failed because village women ended up wearing the pills in lockets, as talismans
Niagara Falls has moved about ten miles upstream in the last 10,000 years. The falls are eroding at the rate of 5 feet per year
The Sahara desert is expanding half a mile south every year
The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year
The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending on the tide.
There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200 people
The Australian term for extras in cricket are 'sundries'
In early Rome, March 1 was New Year's Day. Later, the ancient Romans made January 1 the beginning of the year
Ancient Persians gave New Year's gifts of eggs, symbolizing productivity
Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 is bigger than Mt Everest
Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins
Canada declared national beauty contests canceled as of 1992, claiming they were degrading to women
There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world
Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979
Australia's national anthem is called Advance Australia Fair
The only nation whose name begins with an A, but doesn't end in an A is Afghanistan
The Atlantic Ocean gets wider by a little more than one inch every year
The world's only city whose name consists solely of vowels is Aiea, in Hawaii, USA.
Soldiers in the Netherlands are not required to salute officers
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" . In English this means 'The City of Angels'
The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea. If it wasn't for these walls, 40% of the country would be flooded.
Big Ben is actually the name of the largest bell inside the London clock tower, not of the clock itself.
In 1867 the United States paid Russia only $7.2 million (2 cents an acre) for Alaska
Every year in France there is a "Thieves Fair" where people are encouraged to try to steal things from the stalls
The world's longest street is in Canada. Toronto's Yonge Street runs 1,190 miles
In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day
Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, was born in the ancient southeastern Turkish town of Lycia early in the fourth century
Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films
The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles without a tree.
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country
Australia is the only continent on earth without an active volcano.
In Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people.
There are no public toilets in Peru
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
The oldest national flag still in existence, that of Denmark, dates back to the 13th century
Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular or square flag
In 1949, the temperature in part of Portugal soared to 158 degrees F for a couple of minutes. No one knows why
Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland
In 1980, Bhutan was the only country in the world with no telephones
There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
The longest fence in the world is in Australia and it runs for over 3,436 miles (5,530 km)
In Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 P.M. if you live in an apartment.
Holland is the lowest country in the world. It is estimated that 40 percent of the land is below sea level.
Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting
Netherlands, most densely populated country in the world, followed by Belgium, then Japan
Perth, Australia, is the most isolated city on the planet..200 miles across impenetrable desert from the next city of any size.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina delos Angeles de Porciuncula" . It means the City of Angels.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
In Thailand, it is illegal to leave your house if you are not wearing underwear
In Israel, picking your nose is illegal.
In Sweden, while prostitution is legal, it is illegal for anyone to use the services of a prostitute.
On every continent there is a city called Rome.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
China has only about 200 family names.
The country with the most Post offices is India with over 152,792 compared with just over 38,000 in the United States.
Colombia produces the most emeralds of any country in South America.
The world's largest gold mine is in Juneau, Alaska
Namibia, Africa, supplies the most valuable diamonds of the 18 countries in southern Africa rich with diamonds.
Switzerland attracts the most suicide tourists.
India has no rabbits in the wild – only hares
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis, Missouri!
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain churches in Omaha, Nebraska!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
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People:
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded
In 1935, Jesse Owens broke 4 world records in 45 minutes
Mother Teresa's real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
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
St Francis of Assisi introduced Christmas Carols to formal church services
The quickest ascent of Everest, in 10 hours, 56 minutes, was achieved by Sherpa Lhakpa Gelu
Abraham Lincoln held a liquor license and operated several taverns
Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper editor for lack of imagination
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
Alexander the Great was an epileptic
Mozart wrote the music for the song Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star when he was just five years old.
Thomas Edison's total school education consisted of three months
Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, was born in the ancient southeastern Turkish town of Lycia early in the fourth century
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The Most/ Longest/ Shortest/ Tallest/ Smallest/ Biggest/ Fastest:
The oldest national flag still in existence, that of Denmark, dates back to the 13th century
The longest movie made lasts 85 hours and is fittingly titled "The Cure for Insomnia.
The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail (HP), India, 2444 mts above sea level.
The most common disease in the world is tooth decay
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
The quickest ascent of Everest, in 10 hours, 56 minutes, was achieved by Sherpa Lhakpa Gelu
The longest fence in the world is in Australia and it runs for over 3,436 miles (5,530 km)
The country with the most Post offices is India with over 152,792 compared with just over 38,000 in the United States.
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The First/The Last:
The first Valentine's Day card was sent by the imprisoned Duke of Orlean to his wife in 1415.
Richard Cadbury invented the first Valentine's Day candy box in the late 1800s.
The first novel, called The story of Genji, was written in 1007 by Japanese noble woman, Murasaki Shikibu.
The first company that Bill Gates ever ran created machines that would record the number of cars passing a given point on a street.
The first personal computer was called the Altair and was made by a company called MITS in 1974. It came in a kit and had to be assembled by the user.
The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. Conceived as a real estate ad, it originally read Hollywoodland.
The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago.
26 December, Boxing day, was traditionally known as St. Stephen's Day, after the first Christian martyr.
The first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531.
Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps, and they're the only nation today that doesn't use a national name on their stamps.
The Chinese first invented the system of zoos, and called them Parks of Intelligence.
The first striptease dance was performed in Paris, France on March 13, 1894.
The first time the color khaki was used for uniforms in a war was in 1880, during the Afghan War.
Butter was the first food product allowed by law to have artificial coloring.
The term skyscraper was first used in 1888, to describe 11-story building.
Benjamin Franklin was America's first newspaper cartoonist.
When tennis was first invented in 1874, it was called sphairistike.
When volleyball was first invented in 1895, it was called mintonette.
The first animal in space was a female dog named "Laika".
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes.
China was the first country to introduce paper money (in 812).
The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
The first Academy Awards (or Oscar's) were presented on 16 May 1929.
Australia's first police force was a band of 12 of the most well behaved Convicts.
In 1937, the first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria.
The first recorded reference to cricket dates back to 1272.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com in Mar 85.
The first music video was aired on August 1, 1981 "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Bugles on MTV.
The first police force was established in Paris 1667.
The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.
France became the first reigning World Cup champions who fail to win a match.
Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada's independence.
The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811.
Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.
King Charles VII, assassinated in 1167, was the first Swedish king with the name of Charles. Charles I, II, III, IV, V, never existed.
The value of "pi" was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
The World's first university was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
The first place in the western world to give women the right to vote was an island known as "Man".
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
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The Phobias:
If you are afraid you might die laughing, you are suffering from cherophobia
Someone with an irrational fear of meat is called a carnophobic.
Unatractiphobia is the fear of ugliness or ugly people.
If you are a 'scoptophobic' , you have an intense fear of being seen.
'Mageiricophobia' is the intense fear of having to cook.
Syngenesophobia is the fear of relatives
Automatonophobia is a fear of ventriloquist' s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues or anything that falsly represents a sentient being
Paedophobia is a fear of children
Clinophobia is the fear of beds
"Hippopotomonstrose squippedaliophob ia" is the fear of long words
Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias
Lyssophobia is a morbid fear of insanity
Hypnophobia is a morbid fear of sleep and falling asleep
Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses
Arachibutyrophobia is a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia! ..
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
Acrophobia is the fear of heights
Claustrophobia is the fear of being closed in.
Arachnophobia is the Fear Of Spiders
Hemophobia is the fear of blood.
Hydrophobia/ Aquaphobia is the fear of water.
Fear of Beautiful women is Caligynephobia.
Fear of Men is Androphobia.
Fear of Kissing is Philemaphobia or Philematophobia
Fear of Love, sexual love is Erotophobia.
Fear of falling in Love, or being in Love is Philophobia
Fear of Love play is Malaxophobia or Sarmassophobia.
Words:
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,and month
The real name of Jesus was Yeshua. Jesus is the Greek version of the name.
A "funambulist" is a tight-rope walker.
Ernest Vincent Wright's novel Gadsby has 50,110 words, none of which contains the letter "E".
The word encyclopaedia comes from two Greek words meaning "a circle of learning."
Carol comes from the Greek word Choraulein which referred to a dance accompanied by a flute.
The word Christmas comes from the English phrase, Christes Masse, literally Christ's mass.
The word 'puppy' comes from the French poupee', meaning doll.
When two words are combined to form a single word (motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau" .
The term "hooch" for liquor comes from the Hoochinoo Indians, known for their ability to make liquor so strong it could knock someone out.
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a Korean word meaning "capital".
The word "tattoo" comes from the Tahitian word "tattau," which means "to mark".
The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The word "novel" originally derived from the Latin novus, meaning "new".
The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means "to exercise naked".
The word Karate means, empty hand.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The word salary came from the word salt in Roman times. Salt was used as a trading medium - money.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Someone who is "pauciloquent" uses as few words as possible when speaking.
Poliosis is the graying of the hair. It comes from polios, the Greek word for "gray".
The word 'denim' comes from 'de Nimes', Nimes being the town.
The largest crossword puzzle ever published had 2631 clues across and 2922 clues down. It took up 16 sq. feet of space.
The phrase "honeymoon" came from the Greeks. It was customary for the bride's family to supply the groom with a month (or full moon cycle) of the wedding wine, which tasted like honey.
The word "Oral-B" is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better.
Graffito is the little-used singular of the much used plural word graffiti.
Orange and black became Halloween colors because orange is associated with harvests and black is associated with death "Hallow" is an old word meaning holy, while "e'en" is Scottish for evening.
The word "alphabet" Comes from the first 2 letters of the Greek alphabet, Alpha and Beta.
Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
The word 'Checkmate' in chess comes from the Persian phrase 'Shah Mat,' which means 'the king is dead'.
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
First newspaper crossword puzzle was published in a Sunday supplement to the New York World in 1913
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable" .
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
Did you know that the words 'lakh' and 'crore' do not exist in the English language? The two words are only used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and are derivatives of the Hindi words laakh and karod.
The scientific term for nose-picking is "rhinotillexonamia" .
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
Know what Mafia means? "Morte Allafrancia Italia Anela "Death to the French is Italy's cry!"
A fireplace is called a mantelpiece because, at one time, people hung their coats over the fireplace to dry them.
The "left bank" of a river is the left side as you look downstream
The Rx sign that pharmacists use was originally the astrological sign for Jupiter
Taresthesia is what you call it when your foot falls asleep
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
Women who wink at men are known as "nictitating" women
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots
Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays
A "pogonip" is a heavy winter fog containing ice crystals
The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail
The forward slash character on your keyboard is also known as a slant, virgule or solidus
In the Chinese written language, the ideograph for "trouble" represents two women under one roof
A misomaniac is someone who hates everything
The infinite sign is called a Lemniscate
Priests in Australia advise you to say Happy Christmas, not Merry Christmas, because Merry has connotations of getting drunk.
The act of yawning and stretching is called "pandiculation. "
A group of crows is called a murder
A "clue" originally meant a ball of thread. This is why one is said to unravel the clues of a mystery
In circus parlance, a "Joey" is a clown with at least five years of experience.
'Smithee' is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don't want their names to appear in the credits.
A collector who attempts to collect an example of every item in a particular field is called a 'completist' .
Mummies, are so called because of the wax (or 'mum' ) which is smeared on to the bandages for waterproofing
The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of"
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle
A 'bibliophile' is one who collects rare books.
A 'bibliopole' is a seller of rare books.
A nihilist believes in nothing
The little bits of paper left over when holes are punched in data cards or tape are called "chad"
The name "piano" is an abbreviation of Cristofori's original name for the instrument: piano et forte, or soft and loud
The loop on a belt that holds the loose-end is called a "keeper"
Blype is the skin that peels off after a bad sunburn
The relationship of a godparent to the real parent of a child is called 'compaternity'
A 'nullipara' is a woman who has never given birth to a child.
"Whirly Girls" is the name of the International Association of Women Helicopter Pilots.
Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania
Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan
The chef's tall hat is called a "toque".
A building in which silence is enforced, like a library or school room, is referred to as a "silentium"
Fiat stands for Fabbrica Italiana Automobile Torino, the name of the Italian manufacturer
"Steatopygia" means an accumulation of fat in the buttocks
The little bumps on the surface of a table tennis paddle are called pips
A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip
The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings)
The ZIP in Zip-code stands for Zoning Improvement Plan
In genealogy, the female side of the family is called the distaff side the male side is the spear side.
If you are taking a class in pistology, you are not studying pistols, but rather, faith.
The science of determining characteristic traits by examining a person's shoes is scarpology
The study of stupidity is called 'monology'
The search for the existence of ghosts is Eidology
The study of word origins is called etymology
Synesthesia is a rare condition in which the senses are combined.
Synesthetes see words, taste colors and shapes and feel flavors.
Groaking is to watch people eating food hoping they'll offer you some.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P
The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator"
The 'You are here' arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.
The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
A person who collects teddy bears is called an archtophilist.
The term karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
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Sports/Games:
Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
Holes in a golf course must be 4.25 inches in diameter, and at least 4 inches deep.
In tennis, zero points is referred to as love, which is possibly derived from the French word for egg, l'oeuf, referring to the physical appearance of the number zero.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
The sport with the most number of officials with relation to players is tennis. There are 13 officials for two players.
The spots on dice are called "pips."
If you add up all the number on a roulette wheel, that is 1through 36, you get '666', the biblical number of fallen man.
The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail (HP), India, 2444 mt above sea level
The Australian term for extras in cricket are 'sundries'
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games
In 1935, Jesse Owens broke 4 world records in 45 minutes
The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock device
Sunbeams that shine down through clouds are called crepuscular rays
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Animal Kingdom:
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Sharks have no air bladders, so they must swim constantly or they'll sink.
Cockroaches can go without eating for three months, as long as they have water.
Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chillies, as they are not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
"Mako sharks" show cannibalistic tendencies while still in mother's womb; older embryos will eat the younger embryos and eggs.
Dalmatians are born without spots.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
"Sanguinary ants" raid the nests of other ant tribes, kill the queen, and kidnap many of the workers
Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin.
Humans, Ants and Chimpanzees are the only organisms that wage organized warfare.
The penguin is the only bird that can swim but can't fly.
Kiwis are the only birds that hunt by smell.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
The elephant is the only mammal with four knees.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people.
Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs.
Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
Male and female giraffes tend to eat from different parts of a tree to ensure that the sexes do not compete for food.
The albatross can glide on air currents for several days and can even sleep while in flight.
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.
Bulls are colorblind, it is the motion of the cape which angers them.
Giraffes rarely sleep more than 20 minutes a day
Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years.
Honeybees navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds
An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
Eel-skin wallets have been known to demagnetize credit cards
In the magic world of seahorses it is the male who gets pregnant and has the babies.
A blind Chameleon is still able to change colours to match its environment.
Spiders inject their victims with a chemical that dissolves them. Then the spiders drink their lunch with their mouths which are soda straw-like.
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
If you cut the head off a cockroach, it will continue to live for up to many more weeks.
Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only female bites.
A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 2 seconds
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
Sharks never get sick, as far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer
Sharks will eat anything. The only exception, is that they will not eat anything in the vicinity of where they give birth. This is because they are so stupid, this is the only way nature protects them from accidentally eating their own babies
If a drop of liquor gets on a scorpion, it will immediately commit suicide with its own stinger
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight
Female black widow spiders eat their husbands after mating. That's how they got that name
All shrimp are born male, but slowly grow into females as they mature
Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis
About 70% of all organisms in the world are Bacteria
Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes
Tiger Snake of Australia is the most poisonous snake in the world. 1 mg of its venom is enough to kill a man
The common silkworm has eleven brains. It only uses five of them.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot
Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet
A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs but suckles its young on milk once they have hatched
Flamingos get their pink color from the shrimp they eat. The more shrimp they eat the deeper pink they become
Water based mammals like dolphins and whales swish their tails up and down. Only fish move them sideways
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music
Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it
Ostriches stick their heads into the sand to find underground drinking water
Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice, either coz their stomach can't handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
To make just one pound of honey, bees must collect nectar from over two million seperate flowers
Cuban bee hummingbird is the smallest hummingbird, only 57 mm (2¼ in) long and half of this is tail and bill. It weighs less than 2 g and is the smallest warm-blooded animal
The color white in the animal kingdom means 'danger' or 'caution'. On safari in Africa it is recommended not to wear white because it can scare away the animals
Cockroach can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom
The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second
The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot
Did you know that a giraffe can kill a lion with one kick
A sea urchin walks on the tips of its teeth
Humans are the only animals to sleep on their backs
Perfume is frequently made from - among other things- a slippery, musky substance called Ambergris which is vomited up by certain species of whales from time to time
The female angler-fish weights up to half a ton. The male, however, is only a few millimeters long, and spends his whole life attached to her nose
The Panda bear is expected to become extinct by about 2040, barring a drastic change of events
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die
The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born
A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
Giraffes are unable to cough
Dolphins swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators. After a certain amount of time they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with the opposite eye open
A newborn turkey chick has to be taught to eat, or it will starve
Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
It would take 27,000 spiders, each spinning a single web, to produce a pound of web
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second
Ants don't sleep
Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves
Camel milk does not curdle.
Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dogs.
Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound
No two spider webs are the same
It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
Swans are the only birds with penises
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
The dachshund is one of the oldest dog breeds in history (dating back to ancient Egypt.) The name comes from one of its earliest uses - hunting badgers. In German, Dachs means "badger," Hund is "hound."
A zebra is white with black stripes
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin
The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny
When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone
When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source
If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms.
Insects consume 10% of the world's food supply every year
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Over 10000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
The Puffer Fish contains a poison that is 500 times deadlier than cyanide, yet it's a delicacy in Japan.
India has no rabbits in the wild – only hares
It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.
Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
In the middle ages, people would pin the name of their sweetheart to their sleeve on Valentine's Day and keep it there for a week, hence 'wearing their heart on their sleeve'.
It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United States. Was sold as "Dr.Miles Compound Extract of Tomato"
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red
Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury
The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
Shoe sizes were standardized in Britain in 1885
The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
There are at least 40 known carcinogens in cigarettes.
The earliest British expeditions tackling Everest wore tweed jackets, woolen underwear, and leather boots.
The amniotic fluid that surrounds a baby in the womb is completely replaced every three hours.
During World War II, twice as many fighter pilots were killed during training than combat
In 1962 an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika lasted for six months and caused schools to be closed
A nautical mile measures 6,080 feet while a land or statute mile is 5,280 feet
No one can drown in the Dead Sea. It is 25 percent salt, which makes the water very heavy
Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water
Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water
Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.
The bird flu virus could evolve into a form that is easily spread between people, resulting in a highly contagious and lethal disease.
The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Astronauts can't belch- there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!
Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve," which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song, "Auld Lang Syne" is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F
The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density
Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces
The University of Alaska spans four time zones
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
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).
Warner Comm. paid $28 million for the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun
The "Swine flu" vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight
Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and... the crossroads
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams
It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters
Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down
The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements
Snake venom is ninety percent protein
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature
Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day
Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer
Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes
A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon
If all of the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles
If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court
Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints
Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call
Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders
Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour
In 1643, the British Parliament officially abolished the celebration of Christmas
Santa's Reindeers are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen
In 1875 the director of the US patent office resigned. He said that there was nothing left to invent
The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year
The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name
On average, a person has two million sweat glands
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
97% of the earth's water is undrinkable
The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it
All babies are color blind when they are born
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old
14 million people were killed in World War I, 20 million died in flu epidemic in the years that followed
There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script
Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses
On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat
There are no public toilets in Peru
Urine and tears have the same basic ingredients
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize
The motto of M-G-M movie studios is Art for Art's Sake
The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named "Volney"
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it
The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world
X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one
The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27,359 km/hour
Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil
Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982
Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears
Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.
Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time
Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains
Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet
The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent
To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe
Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4ºF
The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas
Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years
Bone China is so called because powdered animal bone is mixed with the clay to give it translucency and whiteness
The original reason for tablecloths was as a towel to wipe one's fingers and hands on after eating
Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year
Mickey Mouse has four fingers on each hand
The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds four Terra bytes
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west
In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia
After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by 33 percent in the US
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon
At 40° Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing
Most gemstones contain several elements. Except the diamond it's all carbon
Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world
Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles
The "crack" from a whip is actually the tip of the whip traveling faster than the speed of sound, emitting a small sonic boom
If the information contained in the DNA could be written down, it would fill a 1000 volume encyclopedia
It would take 13 years and eight months to stay one night in every room at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas
Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit
The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting
If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, (including the uninhabitable areas) everyone would get roughly 100sqft
Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee
Pearls melt in vinegar
There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history
Human hair and finger nails continue to grow after death
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland
Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars
Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil
Mango is the number one selling fruit in the World. India is the biggest producer of mangoes in the World
The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air
No nation has ever won the Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International Pageant in the same year?
About 85% of the plant life on earth is in the oceans
In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and make it look like it's smiling
If a person counted at the rate of 100 numbers a minute and kept counting for 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week, it would take a little over 4 weeks to count to one million and just over 80 years to reach a billion
An average person perspires a gut-wrenching 278 gallons of sweat each year
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made out of wood
A banana is about 75% water. They grow on a rhizome, not a tree. You are more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.
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Geography:
Iceland is the world's oldest functioning democracy
Mongolia is the largest landlocked country
Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the Sun
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained
The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China
Birth-control campaigns in Egypt in the late 1970s failed because village women ended up wearing the pills in lockets, as talismans
Niagara Falls has moved about ten miles upstream in the last 10,000 years. The falls are eroding at the rate of 5 feet per year
The Sahara desert is expanding half a mile south every year
The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year
The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending on the tide.
There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200 people
The Australian term for extras in cricket are 'sundries'
In early Rome, March 1 was New Year's Day. Later, the ancient Romans made January 1 the beginning of the year
Ancient Persians gave New Year's gifts of eggs, symbolizing productivity
Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 is bigger than Mt Everest
Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins
Canada declared national beauty contests canceled as of 1992, claiming they were degrading to women
There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world
Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979
Australia's national anthem is called Advance Australia Fair
The only nation whose name begins with an A, but doesn't end in an A is Afghanistan
The Atlantic Ocean gets wider by a little more than one inch every year
The world's only city whose name consists solely of vowels is Aiea, in Hawaii, USA.
Soldiers in the Netherlands are not required to salute officers
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" . In English this means 'The City of Angels'
The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea. If it wasn't for these walls, 40% of the country would be flooded.
Big Ben is actually the name of the largest bell inside the London clock tower, not of the clock itself.
In 1867 the United States paid Russia only $7.2 million (2 cents an acre) for Alaska
Every year in France there is a "Thieves Fair" where people are encouraged to try to steal things from the stalls
The world's longest street is in Canada. Toronto's Yonge Street runs 1,190 miles
In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day
Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, was born in the ancient southeastern Turkish town of Lycia early in the fourth century
Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films
The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles without a tree.
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country
Australia is the only continent on earth without an active volcano.
In Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people.
There are no public toilets in Peru
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
The oldest national flag still in existence, that of Denmark, dates back to the 13th century
Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular or square flag
In 1949, the temperature in part of Portugal soared to 158 degrees F for a couple of minutes. No one knows why
Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland
In 1980, Bhutan was the only country in the world with no telephones
There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
The longest fence in the world is in Australia and it runs for over 3,436 miles (5,530 km)
In Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 P.M. if you live in an apartment.
Holland is the lowest country in the world. It is estimated that 40 percent of the land is below sea level.
Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting
Netherlands, most densely populated country in the world, followed by Belgium, then Japan
Perth, Australia, is the most isolated city on the planet..200 miles across impenetrable desert from the next city of any size.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina delos Angeles de Porciuncula" . It means the City of Angels.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
In Thailand, it is illegal to leave your house if you are not wearing underwear
In Israel, picking your nose is illegal.
In Sweden, while prostitution is legal, it is illegal for anyone to use the services of a prostitute.
On every continent there is a city called Rome.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
China has only about 200 family names.
The country with the most Post offices is India with over 152,792 compared with just over 38,000 in the United States.
Colombia produces the most emeralds of any country in South America.
The world's largest gold mine is in Juneau, Alaska
Namibia, Africa, supplies the most valuable diamonds of the 18 countries in southern Africa rich with diamonds.
Switzerland attracts the most suicide tourists.
India has no rabbits in the wild – only hares
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis, Missouri!
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain churches in Omaha, Nebraska!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
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People:
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded
In 1935, Jesse Owens broke 4 world records in 45 minutes
Mother Teresa's real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
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
St Francis of Assisi introduced Christmas Carols to formal church services
The quickest ascent of Everest, in 10 hours, 56 minutes, was achieved by Sherpa Lhakpa Gelu
Abraham Lincoln held a liquor license and operated several taverns
Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper editor for lack of imagination
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
Alexander the Great was an epileptic
Mozart wrote the music for the song Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star when he was just five years old.
Thomas Edison's total school education consisted of three months
Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, was born in the ancient southeastern Turkish town of Lycia early in the fourth century
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The Most/ Longest/ Shortest/ Tallest/ Smallest/ Biggest/ Fastest:
The oldest national flag still in existence, that of Denmark, dates back to the 13th century
The longest movie made lasts 85 hours and is fittingly titled "The Cure for Insomnia.
The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail (HP), India, 2444 mts above sea level.
The most common disease in the world is tooth decay
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
The quickest ascent of Everest, in 10 hours, 56 minutes, was achieved by Sherpa Lhakpa Gelu
The longest fence in the world is in Australia and it runs for over 3,436 miles (5,530 km)
The country with the most Post offices is India with over 152,792 compared with just over 38,000 in the United States.
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The First/The Last:
The first Valentine's Day card was sent by the imprisoned Duke of Orlean to his wife in 1415.
Richard Cadbury invented the first Valentine's Day candy box in the late 1800s.
The first novel, called The story of Genji, was written in 1007 by Japanese noble woman, Murasaki Shikibu.
The first company that Bill Gates ever ran created machines that would record the number of cars passing a given point on a street.
The first personal computer was called the Altair and was made by a company called MITS in 1974. It came in a kit and had to be assembled by the user.
The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. Conceived as a real estate ad, it originally read Hollywoodland.
The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago.
26 December, Boxing day, was traditionally known as St. Stephen's Day, after the first Christian martyr.
The first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531.
Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps, and they're the only nation today that doesn't use a national name on their stamps.
The Chinese first invented the system of zoos, and called them Parks of Intelligence.
The first striptease dance was performed in Paris, France on March 13, 1894.
The first time the color khaki was used for uniforms in a war was in 1880, during the Afghan War.
Butter was the first food product allowed by law to have artificial coloring.
The term skyscraper was first used in 1888, to describe 11-story building.
Benjamin Franklin was America's first newspaper cartoonist.
When tennis was first invented in 1874, it was called sphairistike.
When volleyball was first invented in 1895, it was called mintonette.
The first animal in space was a female dog named "Laika".
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes.
China was the first country to introduce paper money (in 812).
The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
The first Academy Awards (or Oscar's) were presented on 16 May 1929.
Australia's first police force was a band of 12 of the most well behaved Convicts.
In 1937, the first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria.
The first recorded reference to cricket dates back to 1272.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com in Mar 85.
The first music video was aired on August 1, 1981 "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Bugles on MTV.
The first police force was established in Paris 1667.
The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.
France became the first reigning World Cup champions who fail to win a match.
Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada's independence.
The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811.
Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.
King Charles VII, assassinated in 1167, was the first Swedish king with the name of Charles. Charles I, II, III, IV, V, never existed.
The value of "pi" was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
The World's first university was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
The first place in the western world to give women the right to vote was an island known as "Man".
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
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The Phobias:
If you are afraid you might die laughing, you are suffering from cherophobia
Someone with an irrational fear of meat is called a carnophobic.
Unatractiphobia is the fear of ugliness or ugly people.
If you are a 'scoptophobic' , you have an intense fear of being seen.
'Mageiricophobia' is the intense fear of having to cook.
Syngenesophobia is the fear of relatives
Automatonophobia is a fear of ventriloquist' s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues or anything that falsly represents a sentient being
Paedophobia is a fear of children
Clinophobia is the fear of beds
"Hippopotomonstrose squippedaliophob ia" is the fear of long words
Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias
Lyssophobia is a morbid fear of insanity
Hypnophobia is a morbid fear of sleep and falling asleep
Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses
Arachibutyrophobia is a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia! ..
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
Acrophobia is the fear of heights
Claustrophobia is the fear of being closed in.
Arachnophobia is the Fear Of Spiders
Hemophobia is the fear of blood.
Hydrophobia/ Aquaphobia is the fear of water.
Fear of Beautiful women is Caligynephobia.
Fear of Men is Androphobia.
Fear of Kissing is Philemaphobia or Philematophobia
Fear of Love, sexual love is Erotophobia.
Fear of falling in Love, or being in Love is Philophobia
Fear of Love play is Malaxophobia or Sarmassophobia.
Words:
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,and month
The real name of Jesus was Yeshua. Jesus is the Greek version of the name.
A "funambulist" is a tight-rope walker.
Ernest Vincent Wright's novel Gadsby has 50,110 words, none of which contains the letter "E".
The word encyclopaedia comes from two Greek words meaning "a circle of learning."
Carol comes from the Greek word Choraulein which referred to a dance accompanied by a flute.
The word Christmas comes from the English phrase, Christes Masse, literally Christ's mass.
The word 'puppy' comes from the French poupee', meaning doll.
When two words are combined to form a single word (motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau" .
The term "hooch" for liquor comes from the Hoochinoo Indians, known for their ability to make liquor so strong it could knock someone out.
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a Korean word meaning "capital".
The word "tattoo" comes from the Tahitian word "tattau," which means "to mark".
The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The word "novel" originally derived from the Latin novus, meaning "new".
The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means "to exercise naked".
The word Karate means, empty hand.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The word salary came from the word salt in Roman times. Salt was used as a trading medium - money.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Someone who is "pauciloquent" uses as few words as possible when speaking.
Poliosis is the graying of the hair. It comes from polios, the Greek word for "gray".
The word 'denim' comes from 'de Nimes', Nimes being the town.
The largest crossword puzzle ever published had 2631 clues across and 2922 clues down. It took up 16 sq. feet of space.
The phrase "honeymoon" came from the Greeks. It was customary for the bride's family to supply the groom with a month (or full moon cycle) of the wedding wine, which tasted like honey.
The word "Oral-B" is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better.
Graffito is the little-used singular of the much used plural word graffiti.
Orange and black became Halloween colors because orange is associated with harvests and black is associated with death "Hallow" is an old word meaning holy, while "e'en" is Scottish for evening.
The word "alphabet" Comes from the first 2 letters of the Greek alphabet, Alpha and Beta.
Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
The word 'Checkmate' in chess comes from the Persian phrase 'Shah Mat,' which means 'the king is dead'.
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
First newspaper crossword puzzle was published in a Sunday supplement to the New York World in 1913
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable" .
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
Did you know that the words 'lakh' and 'crore' do not exist in the English language? The two words are only used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and are derivatives of the Hindi words laakh and karod.
The scientific term for nose-picking is "rhinotillexonamia" .
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
Know what Mafia means? "Morte Allafrancia Italia Anela "Death to the French is Italy's cry!"
A fireplace is called a mantelpiece because, at one time, people hung their coats over the fireplace to dry them.
The "left bank" of a river is the left side as you look downstream
The Rx sign that pharmacists use was originally the astrological sign for Jupiter
Taresthesia is what you call it when your foot falls asleep
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
Women who wink at men are known as "nictitating" women
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots
Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays
A "pogonip" is a heavy winter fog containing ice crystals
The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail
The forward slash character on your keyboard is also known as a slant, virgule or solidus
In the Chinese written language, the ideograph for "trouble" represents two women under one roof
A misomaniac is someone who hates everything
The infinite sign is called a Lemniscate
Priests in Australia advise you to say Happy Christmas, not Merry Christmas, because Merry has connotations of getting drunk.
The act of yawning and stretching is called "pandiculation. "
A group of crows is called a murder
A "clue" originally meant a ball of thread. This is why one is said to unravel the clues of a mystery
In circus parlance, a "Joey" is a clown with at least five years of experience.
'Smithee' is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don't want their names to appear in the credits.
A collector who attempts to collect an example of every item in a particular field is called a 'completist' .
Mummies, are so called because of the wax (or 'mum' ) which is smeared on to the bandages for waterproofing
The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of"
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle
A 'bibliophile' is one who collects rare books.
A 'bibliopole' is a seller of rare books.
A nihilist believes in nothing
The little bits of paper left over when holes are punched in data cards or tape are called "chad"
The name "piano" is an abbreviation of Cristofori's original name for the instrument: piano et forte, or soft and loud
The loop on a belt that holds the loose-end is called a "keeper"
Blype is the skin that peels off after a bad sunburn
The relationship of a godparent to the real parent of a child is called 'compaternity'
A 'nullipara' is a woman who has never given birth to a child.
"Whirly Girls" is the name of the International Association of Women Helicopter Pilots.
Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania
Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan
The chef's tall hat is called a "toque".
A building in which silence is enforced, like a library or school room, is referred to as a "silentium"
Fiat stands for Fabbrica Italiana Automobile Torino, the name of the Italian manufacturer
"Steatopygia" means an accumulation of fat in the buttocks
The little bumps on the surface of a table tennis paddle are called pips
A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip
The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings)
The ZIP in Zip-code stands for Zoning Improvement Plan
In genealogy, the female side of the family is called the distaff side the male side is the spear side.
If you are taking a class in pistology, you are not studying pistols, but rather, faith.
The science of determining characteristic traits by examining a person's shoes is scarpology
The study of stupidity is called 'monology'
The search for the existence of ghosts is Eidology
The study of word origins is called etymology
Synesthesia is a rare condition in which the senses are combined.
Synesthetes see words, taste colors and shapes and feel flavors.
Groaking is to watch people eating food hoping they'll offer you some.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P
The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator"
The 'You are here' arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.
The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
A person who collects teddy bears is called an archtophilist.
The term karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
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Sports/Games:
Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
Holes in a golf course must be 4.25 inches in diameter, and at least 4 inches deep.
In tennis, zero points is referred to as love, which is possibly derived from the French word for egg, l'oeuf, referring to the physical appearance of the number zero.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
The sport with the most number of officials with relation to players is tennis. There are 13 officials for two players.
The spots on dice are called "pips."
If you add up all the number on a roulette wheel, that is 1through 36, you get '666', the biblical number of fallen man.
The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail (HP), India, 2444 mt above sea level
The Australian term for extras in cricket are 'sundries'
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games
In 1935, Jesse Owens broke 4 world records in 45 minutes
The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock device
Sunbeams that shine down through clouds are called crepuscular rays
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Animal Kingdom:
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Sharks have no air bladders, so they must swim constantly or they'll sink.
Cockroaches can go without eating for three months, as long as they have water.
Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chillies, as they are not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
"Mako sharks" show cannibalistic tendencies while still in mother's womb; older embryos will eat the younger embryos and eggs.
Dalmatians are born without spots.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
"Sanguinary ants" raid the nests of other ant tribes, kill the queen, and kidnap many of the workers
Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin.
Humans, Ants and Chimpanzees are the only organisms that wage organized warfare.
The penguin is the only bird that can swim but can't fly.
Kiwis are the only birds that hunt by smell.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
The elephant is the only mammal with four knees.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people.
Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs.
Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
Male and female giraffes tend to eat from different parts of a tree to ensure that the sexes do not compete for food.
The albatross can glide on air currents for several days and can even sleep while in flight.
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.
Bulls are colorblind, it is the motion of the cape which angers them.
Giraffes rarely sleep more than 20 minutes a day
Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years.
Honeybees navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds
An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
Eel-skin wallets have been known to demagnetize credit cards
In the magic world of seahorses it is the male who gets pregnant and has the babies.
A blind Chameleon is still able to change colours to match its environment.
Spiders inject their victims with a chemical that dissolves them. Then the spiders drink their lunch with their mouths which are soda straw-like.
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
If you cut the head off a cockroach, it will continue to live for up to many more weeks.
Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only female bites.
A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 2 seconds
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
Sharks never get sick, as far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer
Sharks will eat anything. The only exception, is that they will not eat anything in the vicinity of where they give birth. This is because they are so stupid, this is the only way nature protects them from accidentally eating their own babies
If a drop of liquor gets on a scorpion, it will immediately commit suicide with its own stinger
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight
Female black widow spiders eat their husbands after mating. That's how they got that name
All shrimp are born male, but slowly grow into females as they mature
Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis
About 70% of all organisms in the world are Bacteria
Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes
Tiger Snake of Australia is the most poisonous snake in the world. 1 mg of its venom is enough to kill a man
The common silkworm has eleven brains. It only uses five of them.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot
Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet
A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs but suckles its young on milk once they have hatched
Flamingos get their pink color from the shrimp they eat. The more shrimp they eat the deeper pink they become
Water based mammals like dolphins and whales swish their tails up and down. Only fish move them sideways
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music
Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it
Ostriches stick their heads into the sand to find underground drinking water
Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice, either coz their stomach can't handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
To make just one pound of honey, bees must collect nectar from over two million seperate flowers
Cuban bee hummingbird is the smallest hummingbird, only 57 mm (2¼ in) long and half of this is tail and bill. It weighs less than 2 g and is the smallest warm-blooded animal
The color white in the animal kingdom means 'danger' or 'caution'. On safari in Africa it is recommended not to wear white because it can scare away the animals
Cockroach can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom
The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second
The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot
Did you know that a giraffe can kill a lion with one kick
A sea urchin walks on the tips of its teeth
Humans are the only animals to sleep on their backs
Perfume is frequently made from - among other things- a slippery, musky substance called Ambergris which is vomited up by certain species of whales from time to time
The female angler-fish weights up to half a ton. The male, however, is only a few millimeters long, and spends his whole life attached to her nose
The Panda bear is expected to become extinct by about 2040, barring a drastic change of events
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die
The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born
A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
Giraffes are unable to cough
Dolphins swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators. After a certain amount of time they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with the opposite eye open
A newborn turkey chick has to be taught to eat, or it will starve
Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
It would take 27,000 spiders, each spinning a single web, to produce a pound of web
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second
Ants don't sleep
Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves
Camel milk does not curdle.
Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dogs.
Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound
No two spider webs are the same
It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
Swans are the only birds with penises
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
The dachshund is one of the oldest dog breeds in history (dating back to ancient Egypt.) The name comes from one of its earliest uses - hunting badgers. In German, Dachs means "badger," Hund is "hound."
A zebra is white with black stripes
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin
The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny
When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone
When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source
If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms.
Insects consume 10% of the world's food supply every year
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Over 10000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
The Puffer Fish contains a poison that is 500 times deadlier than cyanide, yet it's a delicacy in Japan.
India has no rabbits in the wild – only hares
Magic of Nine...
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
> 12 x 8 + 2 = 98
> 123 x 8 + 3 = 987
> 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
> 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
> 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
> 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
> 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
> 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
>
> 1 x 9 + 2 = 11
> 12 x 9 + 3 = 111
> 123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
> 1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
> 12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
> 123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
> 1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
> 12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
> 123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111
>
> 9 x 9 + 7 = 88
> 98 x 9 + 6 = 888
> 987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
> 9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
> 98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
> 987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
> 9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
> 98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888
>
> Brilliant, isn't it?
>
> And finally, take a look at this symmetry:
>
> 1 x 1 = 1
> 11 x 11 = 121
> 111 x 111 = 12321
> 1111 x 1111 = 1234321
> 11111 x 11111 = 123454321
> 111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
> 1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
> 11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
> 111111111 x 111111111=123456789 87654321
> 12 x 8 + 2 = 98
> 123 x 8 + 3 = 987
> 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
> 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
> 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
> 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
> 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
> 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
>
> 1 x 9 + 2 = 11
> 12 x 9 + 3 = 111
> 123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
> 1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
> 12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
> 123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
> 1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
> 12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
> 123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111
>
> 9 x 9 + 7 = 88
> 98 x 9 + 6 = 888
> 987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
> 9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
> 98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
> 987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
> 9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
> 98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888
>
> Brilliant, isn't it?
>
> And finally, take a look at this symmetry:
>
> 1 x 1 = 1
> 11 x 11 = 121
> 111 x 111 = 12321
> 1111 x 1111 = 1234321
> 11111 x 11111 = 123454321
> 111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
> 1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
> 11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
> 111111111 x 111111111=123456789 87654321
Sardarji Jokes... good ones...
Once a sardar was looking at a WANTED poster & was wondering -
Saala wanted tha to photo kheenchne ke baad use jaane kyon diya ?
Sardar car ki battery change karwane gaya ...
Mechanic - Sahab, Exide ki daal doon ?
Sardar - Nahin yaar, dono side ki daal de, warna phir problem hogi.
A sardar on an interview for the post of detective was asked a question -
Interviewer - Who killed Gandhiji ?
Sardar - Thanks for giving me the job, I will investigate.
A Sardar was fond of detective novels, he always read from the middle, why ?
Its double interesting. It builds curiosity not only about its end but also its beginning !
Sardar returns book to library, bangs it on table & says - What a shit ? "I read the whole book, too many character, no story at all" ?.
Librarian : So, you are the one who took the Telephone Directory....
2 Days of Powercut in India made life miserable. Worst affected was Amritsar
where all the SARDARS were stuck for 48 hrs. on Escalaters.....
Two Sardars are driving a Car, one puts on the indicator and asks the other to check whether it is working. He puts his head out and says - YES..NO..YES..NO..YES..NO
Sardarji, tell me ...., what is the meaning of SMS ?
Sardar angrily said, i know - it means....
S - Sardaron ke
M - Mazak udane ki
S - Service
Banta : Oye to har SMS ko do baar kyom bhej raha hai ?
Santa : Kyunki tujhe agar ek forward karna ho to dusra tere paas rahe !!!.
Sardar goes to a shop to buy underwear -
After selecting one, the shopkeeper tells it costs Rs 150.
Sardar - Arre bhai, Daily wear dikhao, Party wear nahi chahiye...
Saala wanted tha to photo kheenchne ke baad use jaane kyon diya ?
Sardar car ki battery change karwane gaya ...
Mechanic - Sahab, Exide ki daal doon ?
Sardar - Nahin yaar, dono side ki daal de, warna phir problem hogi.
A sardar on an interview for the post of detective was asked a question -
Interviewer - Who killed Gandhiji ?
Sardar - Thanks for giving me the job, I will investigate.
A Sardar was fond of detective novels, he always read from the middle, why ?
Its double interesting. It builds curiosity not only about its end but also its beginning !
Sardar returns book to library, bangs it on table & says - What a shit ? "I read the whole book, too many character, no story at all" ?.
Librarian : So, you are the one who took the Telephone Directory....
2 Days of Powercut in India made life miserable. Worst affected was Amritsar
where all the SARDARS were stuck for 48 hrs. on Escalaters.....
Two Sardars are driving a Car, one puts on the indicator and asks the other to check whether it is working. He puts his head out and says - YES..NO..YES..NO..YES..NO
Sardarji, tell me ...., what is the meaning of SMS ?
Sardar angrily said, i know - it means....
S - Sardaron ke
M - Mazak udane ki
S - Service
Banta : Oye to har SMS ko do baar kyom bhej raha hai ?
Santa : Kyunki tujhe agar ek forward karna ho to dusra tere paas rahe !!!.
Sardar goes to a shop to buy underwear -
After selecting one, the shopkeeper tells it costs Rs 150.
Sardar - Arre bhai, Daily wear dikhao, Party wear nahi chahiye...
Nice Q/As
1.John: Dad can u write in the dark? Dad: I think so. What is it u want me 2 write. John:
Ur signature on this report card
2.What did the postcard say to the stamp?
Stick with me and we'll go places.
3.How can you help a starving cannibal?
Give him a hand!
4.What happened at the cannibal's wedding party?
They toasted the bride and groom.
5.Why did the turkey cross the road?
To prove he wasn't chicken
6.Was Dracula ever married?
No, he was a bat-chelor!
7.Who is a vampire likely to fall in love with?
The girl necks door!
8.What's an igloo?
An Eskimo's house without a loo.
9.Hear about the terrorist that hijacked a 747 full of lawyers?
He threatened to release one every hour if his demands weren't met.
10.Why was the lawyer skimming the Bible right before he died?
He was looking for loopholes!
11.How can you tell that an attorney is about to lie?
His lips begin to move.
12.If you see a lawyer on a bicycle, why don't you swerve to hit him?
It might be your bicycle.
13.What's the definition of mixed emotions?
Watching your Mother-in-Law fall from terrace over your new Ferrari.
14.Why were ancient Egyptian children confused?
Because their daddies were mummies.
15.What did the water say to the boat?
Nothing, it just waved.
16.What did the spider do on the computer?
Made a website!
17.What happens to cows during an earthquake?
They give milk shakes!
18.Why did the traffic light turn red?
You would too if you had to change in the middle of the street!
Ur signature on this report card
2.What did the postcard say to the stamp?
Stick with me and we'll go places.
3.How can you help a starving cannibal?
Give him a hand!
4.What happened at the cannibal's wedding party?
They toasted the bride and groom.
5.Why did the turkey cross the road?
To prove he wasn't chicken
6.Was Dracula ever married?
No, he was a bat-chelor!
7.Who is a vampire likely to fall in love with?
The girl necks door!
8.What's an igloo?
An Eskimo's house without a loo.
9.Hear about the terrorist that hijacked a 747 full of lawyers?
He threatened to release one every hour if his demands weren't met.
10.Why was the lawyer skimming the Bible right before he died?
He was looking for loopholes!
11.How can you tell that an attorney is about to lie?
His lips begin to move.
12.If you see a lawyer on a bicycle, why don't you swerve to hit him?
It might be your bicycle.
13.What's the definition of mixed emotions?
Watching your Mother-in-Law fall from terrace over your new Ferrari.
14.Why were ancient Egyptian children confused?
Because their daddies were mummies.
15.What did the water say to the boat?
Nothing, it just waved.
16.What did the spider do on the computer?
Made a website!
17.What happens to cows during an earthquake?
They give milk shakes!
18.Why did the traffic light turn red?
You would too if you had to change in the middle of the street!
Similarities / Dis-Similarities...
Hey Friends,
Got a nice Pic from net... Find out similarities / dis-similarities between the two..
nJOY
JOKE...
IT was the day after India's Independence Day. A
thoughtful Tony Blair who had watched the celebrations
on TV got onto the phone with his friend Bush:
"India!" shouted Blair.
"What about India?" asked a startled Bush.
"We English made a mistake George," said Blair, "I
need to get India back as a colony!"
"You serious Tony?" asked a still more startled Bush.
"Yeah this is not the India we let go some sixty years
ago," said Blair, "this is a colony we would be proud
to have now."
"So whatcha plannin' to do?" asked Bush.
"Why George what we did to Saddam. Attack them."
"You sayin' we? You not hoping I'm goin' to join you
are you?"
"I helped you in Iraq George, you forgettin' or
sometin'?"
"Yeah but we had an excuse there Tony, we were lookin'
for weapons of mass destruction, you remember?"
"So we do the same thing here George. We tell the
Indians to give up their weapons of mass destruction!"
"I don't know whether we are doing the right thing
Tony, India's a democracy you know?"
"I lied for you in Iraq George. Nearly lost the
elections for you. I'm sure you could do this lil'
favour for me. With India back as my colony, we'll be
back as a world power! Britain rules the world! You
heard that phrase George?"
"I thought it was America who was doin' the rulin'
Tony."
"We'll do the rulin' together George. You and me will
be equal partners once I get my India back. Come on
George talk to that Manmohan feller, tell him to give
up his weapons of mass destruction, or else..!"
"Okay Tony since you insist. Can call me back in five
minutes."
"Shall I get my ships ready?"
"For what?" asked a surprised Bush.
"For war dammit," shouted Tony as he put the phone
down and waited for Bush to talk to the Indian Prime
Minister.
He walked over to a little globe he had on
his office table and circled India gleefully.
The phone rang and he ran to pick it up.
"Tony it's me," said George, "how many ships you got
ready?"
"Aye aye sir, the Royal Navy is ready for action!"
said Tony, standing at attention.
"You can send them to India," said Bush.
"To fight?" asked Blair happily."
"No to pick up their weapons of mass destruction."
"Whatcha talkin' about?" asked a confused Blair.
"Manmohan said you would know 'cause it's your people
who made them," said Bush.
"What weapons of mass destruction?" whispered Blair
uncertainly.
"Their politicians, their MP's, their MLA's," said
Bush happily, "Manmohan said you could take them all
back to England where they were trained years ago by
yer people to divide and rule..!"
thoughtful Tony Blair who had watched the celebrations
on TV got onto the phone with his friend Bush:
"India!" shouted Blair.
"What about India?" asked a startled Bush.
"We English made a mistake George," said Blair, "I
need to get India back as a colony!"
"You serious Tony?" asked a still more startled Bush.
"Yeah this is not the India we let go some sixty years
ago," said Blair, "this is a colony we would be proud
to have now."
"So whatcha plannin' to do?" asked Bush.
"Why George what we did to Saddam. Attack them."
"You sayin' we? You not hoping I'm goin' to join you
are you?"
"I helped you in Iraq George, you forgettin' or
sometin'?"
"Yeah but we had an excuse there Tony, we were lookin'
for weapons of mass destruction, you remember?"
"So we do the same thing here George. We tell the
Indians to give up their weapons of mass destruction!"
"I don't know whether we are doing the right thing
Tony, India's a democracy you know?"
"I lied for you in Iraq George. Nearly lost the
elections for you. I'm sure you could do this lil'
favour for me. With India back as my colony, we'll be
back as a world power! Britain rules the world! You
heard that phrase George?"
"I thought it was America who was doin' the rulin'
Tony."
"We'll do the rulin' together George. You and me will
be equal partners once I get my India back. Come on
George talk to that Manmohan feller, tell him to give
up his weapons of mass destruction, or else..!"
"Okay Tony since you insist. Can call me back in five
minutes."
"Shall I get my ships ready?"
"For what?" asked a surprised Bush.
"For war dammit," shouted Tony as he put the phone
down and waited for Bush to talk to the Indian Prime
Minister.
He walked over to a little globe he had on
his office table and circled India gleefully.
The phone rang and he ran to pick it up.
"Tony it's me," said George, "how many ships you got
ready?"
"Aye aye sir, the Royal Navy is ready for action!"
said Tony, standing at attention.
"You can send them to India," said Bush.
"To fight?" asked Blair happily."
"No to pick up their weapons of mass destruction."
"Whatcha talkin' about?" asked a confused Blair.
"Manmohan said you would know 'cause it's your people
who made them," said Bush.
"What weapons of mass destruction?" whispered Blair
uncertainly.
"Their politicians, their MP's, their MLA's," said
Bush happily, "Manmohan said you could take them all
back to England where they were trained years ago by
yer people to divide and rule..!"
FACTS TO MAKE EVERY Indian PROUD !!!!!
Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp) ?
A. Rajiv Gupta
Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6 th position now.
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli
Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
Q. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America , even faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,
38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are! Indians.
Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA .
1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.
5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridhara charya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10 6 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53.
10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communicat ion was Pr! ofessor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13. Chess was invented in India
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India .
15. When many cultures in t he world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilisation).
16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
Quotes about India
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.
Mark Twain.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India
French scholar Romain Rolland.
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA )
ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.
BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.
I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA
Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN
A. Rajiv Gupta
Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6 th position now.
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli
Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
Q. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America , even faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,
38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are! Indians.
Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA .
1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.
5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridhara charya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10 6 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53.
10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communicat ion was Pr! ofessor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13. Chess was invented in India
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India .
15. When many cultures in t he world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilisation).
16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
Quotes about India
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.
Mark Twain.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India
French scholar Romain Rolland.
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA )
ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.
BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.
I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA
Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN
Funny Things
ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.
SEND THIS TO A SMART WOMAN WHO NEEDS A LAUGH AND TO THE SMART GUYS YOU KNOW CAN HANDLE IT.
if u like the replay........
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.
SEND THIS TO A SMART WOMAN WHO NEEDS A LAUGH AND TO THE SMART GUYS YOU KNOW CAN HANDLE IT.
if u like the replay........
Silly Questions.... Hard to Answer
1.If all the nations in the world are in debt(am not joking. even US has got debts), where did all the money go?
2.When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
3.What is the speed of darkness?
4.If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
5.Who copyrighted the copyright symbol?
6.Can you cry under water?
7.Why do people say, "you've been working like a dog" when dogs just sit around all day?
8.Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed?
9.Do fish ever get thirsty?
10.Can you get cornered in a round room?
11.What does OK actually mean?
12.Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep?
13.What came first, the fruit or the color orange?
14.If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
15.What should one call a male ladybird?
16.If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot?
17.Can you blow a balloon up under water?
18.Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?
19.If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it?
20.If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? 21.Why is it called a TV set when theres only one?
22.If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth? 23.Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?
2.When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
3.What is the speed of darkness?
4.If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
5.Who copyrighted the copyright symbol?
6.Can you cry under water?
7.Why do people say, "you've been working like a dog" when dogs just sit around all day?
8.Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed?
9.Do fish ever get thirsty?
10.Can you get cornered in a round room?
11.What does OK actually mean?
12.Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep?
13.What came first, the fruit or the color orange?
14.If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
15.What should one call a male ladybird?
16.If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot?
17.Can you blow a balloon up under water?
18.Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?
19.If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it?
20.If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? 21.Why is it called a TV set when theres only one?
22.If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth? 23.Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?
Amazing Facts..
Interesting Facts.........
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stopproducingtears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at thesametime. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write theirownname.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wideangle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it soundshollowthen it is ripe.
7.Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showingtheirown photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximatelysix toeight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly thanplantswatered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria inyourear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are calledphosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and earsnever stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay inthegut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour bybreathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuiltevery year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world thatwalkrightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than rightfoot,left foot.
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a atty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually thesound ofnitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stopproducingtears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at thesametime. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write theirownname.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wideangle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it soundshollowthen it is ripe.
7.Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showingtheirown photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximatelysix toeight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly thanplantswatered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria inyourear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are calledphosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and earsnever stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay inthegut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour bybreathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuiltevery year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world thatwalkrightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than rightfoot,left foot.
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a atty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually thesound ofnitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
9/11 Story - A Coincidence
Do you know that the flight number of one OF the planes that hit One ofthe two WTC towers on 9/11 was Q33N.
In MS-WORD, type in the flight number i.e Q33N; Increase the font size to72; Change the font to "Wingdings" ......u will be amazed by theFindings!!!.......................Itself tells the story of destruction of twin tower !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IS IT A COINCIDENCE ?????????????????
In MS-WORD, type in the flight number i.e Q33N; Increase the font size to72; Change the font to "Wingdings" ......u will be amazed by theFindings!!!.......................Itself tells the story of destruction of twin tower !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IS IT A COINCIDENCE ?????????????????
SOME AMAZING FACTS.........
1/ The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second - that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
2/ It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.
3/ October 12th, 1999 was declared "The Day of Six Billion" based on United Nations projections.
4/ 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
5/ The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
6/ Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
7/ When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.
8/ The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
9/ Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
10/ Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
11/ In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
12/ If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
13/ Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
14/ The Earth is 4.56 billion years old...the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
15/ The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
16/ Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
17/ When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
18/ Every 7th person in the world is an indian.
19/ If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
20/ The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
21/ Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
22/ The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
23/ One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a ...pea.
24/ DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
25/ The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
26/ The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
27/ The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
28/ Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
29/ Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
30/ Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
31/ The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
32/ Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.
33/ The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
34/ An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
35/ 'Wireless' communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
36/ The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
37/ The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
38/ In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
39/ Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts - not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
40/ A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
41/ Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
42/ Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
43/ There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
44/ An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
45/ Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
46/ On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
47/ The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
48/ The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
49/ A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
50/ Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
51/ At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
52/ The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.
53/ The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
54/ Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
55/ More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
56/ The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
57/ The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
58/ A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.
59/ A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
60/ Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
61/ The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
62/ If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
63/ It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
64/ There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
65/ The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
66/ Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
67/ Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
68/...and now they are already past the Moon.
69/ Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.
70/ Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.
71/ The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.
72/ Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
73/ Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
74/ Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second - 86 million each day.
75/ Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.
76/ One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
77/ Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
78/ Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
79/ Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
80/ The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.
81/ At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
82/ A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
83/ The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.
84/ The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.
85/ The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
86/ The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.
87/ The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
88/ The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
89/ The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
90/ The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.
91/ The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
92/ In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
93/ A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
94/ A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
95/ 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
96/ To escape the Earth's gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
97/ If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.
98/ Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.
99/ Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.
100/ Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.
2/ It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.
3/ October 12th, 1999 was declared "The Day of Six Billion" based on United Nations projections.
4/ 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
5/ The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
6/ Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
7/ When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.
8/ The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
9/ Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
10/ Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
11/ In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
12/ If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
13/ Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
14/ The Earth is 4.56 billion years old...the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
15/ The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
16/ Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
17/ When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
18/ Every 7th person in the world is an indian.
19/ If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
20/ The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
21/ Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
22/ The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
23/ One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a ...pea.
24/ DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
25/ The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
26/ The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
27/ The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
28/ Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
29/ Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
30/ Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
31/ The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
32/ Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.
33/ The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
34/ An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
35/ 'Wireless' communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
36/ The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
37/ The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
38/ In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
39/ Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts - not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
40/ A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
41/ Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
42/ Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
43/ There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
44/ An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
45/ Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
46/ On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
47/ The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
48/ The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
49/ A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
50/ Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
51/ At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
52/ The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.
53/ The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
54/ Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
55/ More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
56/ The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
57/ The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
58/ A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.
59/ A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
60/ Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
61/ The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
62/ If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
63/ It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
64/ There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
65/ The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
66/ Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
67/ Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
68/...and now they are already past the Moon.
69/ Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.
70/ Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.
71/ The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.
72/ Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
73/ Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
74/ Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second - 86 million each day.
75/ Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.
76/ One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
77/ Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
78/ Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
79/ Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
80/ The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.
81/ At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
82/ A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
83/ The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.
84/ The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.
85/ The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
86/ The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.
87/ The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
88/ The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
89/ The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
90/ The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.
91/ The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
92/ In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
93/ A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
94/ A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
95/ 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
96/ To escape the Earth's gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
97/ If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.
98/ Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.
99/ Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.
100/ Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.
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