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BLOOD GROUPS


Blood type is inherited, just like eye color.

* Certain blood types are more common in certain countries. In China, over 99% of the
population has Rh+ blood.

* Different kinds of animals have different kinds of blood. Dogs have 4 blood types; cats have
11; cows have about 800.

* Some people think blood type tells about personality. Legend has it that Type A is calm and
trustworthy; Type B is creative and excitable; Type AB is thoughtful and emotional; and Type O
is a confident leader.

* In Japan, the idea of blood type as personality type is so popular that Japanese ask What's
your blood type? about as often as Americans ask What's your sign?

LANGUAGES
There are more than 2,700 languages in the world. In addition, there are more than 7,000
dialects. A dialect is a regional variety of a language that has a different pronunciation,
vocabulary, or meaning.
The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in northwestern Spain
and southwestern France. It is not related to any other language in the world. It has an
extremely complicated word structure and vocabulary.
All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English.
Somalia is the only African country in which the entire population speaks the same
language, Somali.
The language in which a government conducts business is the official language of that
country.
More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
Many languages in Africa include a click sound that is pronounced at the same time as
other sounds. You must learn these languages in childhood to do it properly


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ENGLISH VOVELS AND ALPHABETS
Euouae, a medieval music term, is the longest word in English that contains only vowels.
Its also the word with the most consecutive vowels.
Screeched, which means to make a harsh sound, is the longest one-syllable word in
English.
Unprosperousness, meaning not wealthy or profitable, is the longest word in English in
which each letter is used at least two times.
The words facetiously, abstemiously, and abstemiously each contain all six vowels
(including y) in alphabetical order. The word duo literal contains all five vowels (not
including y) in reverse alphabetical order.
At 45 letters, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, which refers to a lung
disease, is often considered the longest word in English.
Feedback is the shortest word in English that has the letters a, b, c, d, e, and f.
Floccinaucinihilipilification, is the longest word in English that does not contain letter
e
No words in English rhyme with: month, orange, silver, or purple
Q is the only letter that does not occur in any of the U.S. state names.
Maine is the only U.S. state whose name is just one syllable.
Bookkeeper is the only English word that has three consecutive double letters.
The word therein contains only seven letters, but it contains 10 words that can be
formed using consecutive letters: the, there, I, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, herein.
The sentence The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog is a pangram, which is a
sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet.
United Arab Emirates, a small country in the Middle East, is made up of alternating
vowels and consonants. It is the longest name of a country whose letters do that.
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1. All polar bears are left-handed.

2. The Empire State Building in New York City, New York of the country United States, has
6,400 windows.

3. 1961 was the most recent year that could also be read upside down. The next one is 6009.

4. All hospitals in Singapore use Pampers diapers.

5. The only KNOWN creature to have been hit by a meteor that crashed earth is an unlucky dog
named Nakhla at Egypt in 1911.

6. There are 336 dimples on a regular golf ball.

7. Bats always turn left when flying out of a cave.

8. Charles Dickens, author of Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and A Christmas Carol,
always faced north when writing stories and sleeping. He believed this helped him tap into his
dreams and to have better writing charactersitics.

9. The tallest lighthouse in the world is a steel tower at Yamashita Park, Yokohama. It stands 106
meters (348 feet) high.

10. J. Sterling Morton, a U.S. Secretary of Agriculture started Arbor Day in 1885.

11. A baseball has exactly 108 stitches.

12. The first e-mail sent was in 1971 from Ray Tomlinson (U.S.A.), an engineer at computer
company Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., which was the letters
"QWERTYUIOP".

13. Pablo Picasso's first word was the Spanish word for pencil. He also could draw before he
could walk.

14. The fortune cookie was actually invented in America by Charles Jung in 1918.

15. Judo was devised by Dr. Jigoro Kano in Japan in 1882.

16. Another word for garlic is allium sativum.

17. The Bank of Vernal, in Vernal, Utah is the only bank in the world that was built from bricks
sent through the mail. Way back in 1919 the builders realized that it was cheaper to send the
bricks through the United States Postal System (seven bricks to a package) than to have them
shipped commercially from Salt Lake City.

18. There are 296 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in its stairway.
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19. The world's first stone lighthouse was the Smeaton Eddystone, built just south of Plymouth,
England in 1756 by John Smeaton, the "Father of Civil Engineering." It was lit with only 24
candles.

20. The average lifespan of a cow is 7 years. The oldest cow ever recorded was Big Bertha. She
reached 48 in 1993. She also holds the record for producing 39 calves.

21. In nine months, a housefly could lay enough eggs to produce a layer of flies that would cover
all of Germany to a depth of 47 feet (14 meters).

22. There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.

23. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

24. In 1841, Oberlin College in the U.S. state of Ohio became the first U.S. College to award
degrees to women.

25. The stegosaurus had a brain that weighed two ounces and was no bigger than a walnut.

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

27. The highest known score for a single word in competition Scrabble is 392. In 1982, Dr.
Saladin Khoshnaw achieved this score for the word "caziques," which means an Indian chief.

28. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age, and was named Fred.

29. Donald Duck comics were banned from libraries in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
(Finland is a country in Europe).

30. Benjamin Franklin signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with his left
hand.

31. The word "electric" was first used in 1600 by William Gilbert, a doctor to Queen Elizabeth I.

32. Albert Einstein's last words were in German. Since the attending nurse did not understand
German, his last words will never be known.

33. When the first U.S. Congress set the president's pay at $25,000 per year, they also established
the vice president's salary at $5,000.

34. If you were to drop a snowflake from the top of tall buildings such as the World Trade Center
when it was up before September 11th, Empire State Building, Sears Tower, etc. (over 1,000
feet), it will take more than 10 minutes for it to hit the ground.

35. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
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36. Volleyball was started by William G. Morgan in 1895 at Holyoke, Massachusetts. It became
an international sport in 1947 and was recognized as an Olympic sport in 1964.

37. The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, 'Mary had a little
lamb'.

38. Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeers.

39. If all the "Coca-Cola" ever produced were to erupt from "Old Faithful" at a rate of 15,000
gallons per hour, this geyser would flow continually for over 1,577 years.

40. The first 4-wheel drive car was made by Panhard in 1901.

41. Earmuffs were invented in 1873 in Maine by Chester Greenwood.

42. The sport volleyball was actually invented by William Morgan, a Y.M.C.A. instructor in
Holyoke, Massachussets, in 1895. He originally called it mintonette.

43. Mocha, considered by many to be the best coffee in the world, comes from Yemen. The
coffee was originally grown on the hillsides along the Red Sea.

44. The modern day yo-yo was invented by Pedro Flores of the Philippines.

45. Denmark was the first European country to legalize same-sex marriages and to offer gay
couples/lesbian couples the same rights as heterosexual couples.

46. The only deceased jockey to win a horse race was Frank Hayes in 1923. Frank Hayes
suffered from a heart attack in the duration of the race, and died while riding the horse.
Nevertheless, his horse, Sweet Kiss, was the first horse to cross the finish line.

47. Tennis champion Charlotte Cooper became the first woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal
in 1900.

48. The world's largest chimney is the number two stack of the Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, power
plant at 1,378 feet (420 meters) tall.

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

50. It takes about 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

51. The tallest building in the world in 1900 was the Park Row Building, in New York City,
U.S.A., standing 391 feet high with 30 floors.

52. Austin is home to North Americas largest urban bat population. Up to 1.5 million Mexican
free-tail bats fly at there at night.
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53. Rainbow Bridge in Rainbow Bridge National monument is the largest known natural arch in
the world. It is 290 feet high and spans 275 feet over the waters of Bridge Creek.

54. Baltimore was home of the first U.S. umbrella factory (1828) and the first ice cream freezer
(1848).

55. Egypts Great Pyramid of Giza ranked as the tallest human-built structure on Earth for more
than 43 centuries. Its original height was 481 feet.

56. The sweet potato originated in South America, where native Americans called it batata.

57. Tulips had been introduced into Europe from Turkey shortly after 1550. The craze, known as
the Tulip Mania, reached its peak in Holland in 1633 - 1637.

58. The first color photograph was made in 1861 by James Maxwell. He photographed a tartan
ribbon.

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

60. Big (1988) was the first film by a female director (Penny Marshall), to earn more than 100
million dollars at the box office.

61. The first orangutans to be raised in a zoo were Hella and Bruno, born on February 2, 1969 in
Hellabru, the zoo in Munich, West Germany.

62. The electric chair was invented by American dentist Dr. Albert Southwick in 1881.

63. The first person to have been killed by an electric chair is William Lelmer, who murdered his
lover Matilda with an ax.

64. The total length of wire used in the two main cables that support the Golden Gate Bridge is
equal to approximately 80,000 miles.

65. The first person to fly an airplane over Antarctica was Sir George Hubert Wilkins (Australia)
in 1928.

66. The first street lights appeared in Philadelphia in 1757.

67. Queen Liliuokalani of the Hawaiian Islands was America's only queen.

68. Chess was invented in northwest India around 570.

69. Fox hunting developed in England around 1420.

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70. Greek writer Julius Pollux describes the game apodidraskinda at around the year 150, later
commonly known as hide-and-seek.

71. The earliest known mental hospitals were established in Baghdad and Cairo, in 918.

72. Electric eels can deliver electric shocks with voltages as high as 1,000 volts, enough to jolt a
human.

73. The first mango introduction to Florida in 1833 failed, but the second attempt in 1861 was
successful.

74. Pineapples spread to India in 1548, the Philippines in Spanish galleons in 1558, and to South
Africa in 1660.
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1. Turtles have no teeth.

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

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

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

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

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


7. Camels can spit.

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

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

10. Dinosaurs didn`t eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.

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

12. A crocodile`s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but
its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc.
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13. Sharks are immune to disease i.e. they do not suffer from any Disease.

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

15. Paris, France has more dogs than people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. The name "India" is derived from the River Indus

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

25. The "place value system" and the "decimal system" were developed in 100 BC in India.

26. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was
originally called "Mokshapat". The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes
indicated vices.

27. India has the most post offices in the world

28. "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH

29. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word "Nou".

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

31. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

32. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
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33. Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it.
Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

34. Electricity doesn`t move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

35. The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn`t have any pedals? People
walked it along.

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

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

38. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby"

39. Ants don`t sleep.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

47. Dragonfly Eye contains 30,000 lenses.

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

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

50. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

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

52. Like fingerprints, everyone`s tongue print is different.
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53. A duck`s quack doesn`t echo anywhere

54. Man is the only animal who`ll eat with an enemy

55. The average woman uses about her height in lipstick every five years.

56. The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, AD 336 in Rome.

57. A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

58. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can`t.

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

60. About 10% of the world`s population is left-handed.

61. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

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

63. Many spiders have eight eyes.

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

64. Birds don`t sweat.

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

66. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

73. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don`t Mess with them.

74. An elephant can smell water three miles away.

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

76. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

85. 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica.

86. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert

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

88. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn`t have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin
that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300
degrees.
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89. Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is
made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is
actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen
moons orbit Jupiter.

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

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

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

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

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


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

96. At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The microphone changes the
sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is weak and can`t travel very far, so it`s
sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some strong radio signals called
carrier waves. These waves are then sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light!
They reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the signal, and the radio`s
amplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears
pick up the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of the radio announcer back
at the station. When you consider all the places the announcer`s voice travels.

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

98. Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar,
painter and puma. Its scientific name is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one
time, mountain lions were very common!

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99. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and
African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot
roar. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence
to keep a mountain lion out! Their favorite food is deer, but they`ll eat other critters as well.
They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat
sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one
time!

100. Queen ants can live to be 30 years old

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

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

103. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

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

105. The elephant is the only mammal that can`t jump!

106. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

107. Women blink nearly twice as much as men

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

109. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren`t added to it.

110. More people are allergic to cow`s milk than any other food.

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

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

113. Its against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

114. Some worms will eat themselves if they can`t find any food.

115. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

116. Slugs have 4 noses.

117. Owls are the only birds that can see the blue colour.
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118. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.


119. Penguins are not found in the North Pole.

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

121. Alexander Graham Bell`s wife and mother were both deaf.

122. Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

123. Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks

124. 1.7 liters of saliva is produced each day.

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

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

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

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

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

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

131. Venus is nicknamed the "Jewel of the Sky." Because of the greenhouse effect, it is hotter
than Mercury, even though it`s not as close to the sun. Venus does not have a moon but it does
have clouds of sulfuric acid.

132. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world, fight in a harmless battle
where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.
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1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by
taste, smell and touch.


2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.

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3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne
cork than by a spider.


4. 4. Alexander`s funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon
was built to carry his body.


5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying
breath in a bottle.


6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed
people.


7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we
eat these days.


8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for
1,130 years.


9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket
and buried in space.

10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in
July, 1981, in a car plant.
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World Population Facts

1. The world's population hit one billion people in the year 1804. The world hit 2 billion people
only 123 years later (1927). Today's world population minus one billion people was only a bit
more than a decade ago. Now that's 3 facts for just number 1.

2.According to the World Overpopulation Awareness, there are twice as many people alive as
there were in 1960.

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3.According to the Houston Chronicle, 3 day's worth of babies born around the world is
equivalent to the entire land area of San Francisco, a city in the U.S. state of Califronia. So every
baby born around the world can have a spot in San Francisco up to 3 days, or the city will be full.

4.Since the first human being, there has been an estimate of over 100 billion people born on this
Earth up to 1995. So people like Aristotle, Beethoven, and Leonardo da Vinci are a part of this
100 billion people, because they are humans that have been born on this Earth since the
beginning of time.

5.Since the first man was born on Earth, till today, you get about 100 billion people right? Well
of all the human beings that have been born on this Earth, what percent of them is alive? 6%. So
from the beginning of time, 6% of every human that has been born is alive today. This includes
Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and King Henry VIII. You see, back in the old times, there
were times where only a thousand people lived on the Earth, and times where only a million
people live on this Earth. The city of Chicago itself today is has a population greater than that,
but as of today, 6 billion people are alive in the year 1999.

6.Every second 3 people are born and 2 people die, a net gain of 3 people.

7.At the beginning of the year 1000, (second millenium), there were 400 million people. There
was 800 million people in the year 1750. That's when the population began to speed up,
immensely.

8.One out of 10 people live on an island (600 million).

9.According to Zero Population Growth, the planet contained 32 acres of land per living human
being. Today there are fewer than 5 acres.

10.In the year 1, there is an estimated 200 to 300 million people.

11.Of the world's estimated population of 6.157 bilion at midyear 2001, 38.9%, or some 2.393
billion, were 19 years old or younger.

12.The world's population hit 4 billion in 1874 and 5 billion in 1987.

13.World population increased from 48% from 1975 to 2000, compared with 64% from 1950 to
1975.

14.The world's population hit 500 million by 1650.
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Literature


1.In 1961, Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat) hung upside-down for 2 months in the Museum of
Modern Art, New York (none of the 116,000 visitors had noticed).

2.The first history book, the Great Universal History, was published by Rashid-Eddin of Persia
in 1311.

3.The first novel, called The story of Genji, was written in 1007 by Japanese noble woman,
Murasaki Shikibu.

4.The world's longest nonfiction work is The Yongle Dadian, a 10,000-volume encyclopaedia
produced by 5,000 scholars during the Ming Dynasty in China 500 years ago.

5.The first novel sold through a vending machine
(at the Paris Metro) was Murder on the Orient Express.

6.Jean-Dominique Bauby, a French journalist suffering from "locked-in" syndrome, wrote the
book "The Driving Bell and the Butterfly" by blinking his left eyelid, the only part of his body
that could move.

7.Vincent van Gogh, a valued painter, sold only one painting in his whole entire life. It was to his
brother who owned an art gallery. The painting was "Red Vineyards at Arles."

8.Ernest Vincent Wright's 1939 novel Gadsby has 50,110 words, none of which contains the
letter "e."

9.The first English dictionary was written by Samuel Johnson in 1755.

10.In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's attempt to give his famous detective character an outlandish first
name, Sherlock Holmes was almost called Sherrinford Holmes. Ultimately, Doyle named him
after the Yorkshire bowler whom he played cricket against, Mordecai Sherlock.

11.Rembrandt van Rijn painted about 700 pictures.

12.Reportedly, Louisa May Alcott didn't want to write her classic novel, Little Women. She
despised young girls and wrote the bestseller for the money.

13.Life on the Mississippi, written by Mark Twain in 1883, was the first novel ever to be written
on a typewriter. Some of you may have thought Tom Sawyer, but good o Mark Twain
remembered it wrong, since careful research by Twain historians has proven otherwise.

14.The name for Oz in the "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum,
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looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."

15.The largest book in the world is known to be "The Golden Book of Cleveland," measuring
five feet by seven feet, containing 6,000 pages for signatures and weighs about 2 and a half tons.

16.The author who wrote the most novels is a woman named Barbara Cartland, who wrote 723
novels.

17.The first children's book that was published in the United States was called Spiritual Milk for
Boston Babes in wither England Drawn from the Breast of Both Testaments for Their Soul's
Nourishment.

18.When the Titanic sank, the book that went down with it was "A gem encrusted copy," by
Omar Khayyam.

19.The first American novel is The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph Founded in Truth,
printed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1798, written by William Hill Brown.

20.The world's largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Visitors would have to walk 15 miles to see the 322 galleries which house nearly 3 million works
of art.

21.The first American novel to sell one million copies was Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle
Tom's Cabin," published in March 20, 1852.

22.A grand piano can be played faster than an upright piano.

23.Music notes come from Greek signs called neumes.

24.Peter Pan was first played as a play in London, England in December 27, 1904.

25.Bambi was first published in 1923 in Germany by Siegmund Salzmann written under the pen
name of Felix Salten.

26.The world's smallest guitar is around 10 micrometers long, or about the length of a human
cell. It has 6 strings about 50 nanometers wide, and when plucked, it would make a sound,
unable to be heard with the human ear. It was made out of crystalline silicon in 1997 at Cornell
University by Professor Harold Craighead and graduate student Dustin Carr.

27.A grand piano can open it's top in varying heights depending on the props. The highest top of
a grand piano held open by props makes an angle of 57 degrees.

28.The fourth book in the popular series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" holds the world
record for the largest first-run printing at 4.8 million copies.

29.Before publishing Robert Louis Stevenson's story "Treasure Island", he orginally called it
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"The Sea Cook."

30.The oldest bookstore in the U.S. is thought to be the Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, found in 1745. It occupies around 14,000 square feet and conatins roughly
between 10,000 to 15,000 books.

31.Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) wrote a total of 46 childrens' books. His first book, "And to
Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" (1937) was rejected 28 times before finding a publisher
at Random House.

32.The first piano patent was granted to James Sylvanus McLean of New Jersey on May 27,
1796, for an "improvement in piano fortes."

33.The first American-born composer was Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, who graduated in 1757 from the College of Philadelphia.

34.The first book for the blind was the Gospel of St. Mark, published in 1833 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind.

35.Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa on a piece of pinewood, 77 centimeter x 53
centimeter (30 inches x 20 7/8 inches) in the year 1506. It took him 4 years to finish it.

36.In 1473, just a few decades after the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg,
the first mechanically printed music, the Constance Gradual, is published in southern Germany.

37.John Calvin once ordered all organs (the musical instrument) to be removed from churches in
the city of Geneva in 1536.

38.You all would know that the inventor of the grand piano is Bartolomeo Cristofori in the early
1700s, but it wasn't to around 1800 that Philadelphia instrument-maker John Isaac Hawkins
invented the upright piano.

39.The first book auction in record was held in the Netherlands in 1599.

40.The first encyclopedic dictionary was the Lexicon Technicum, published in 1704.

41.The highest painting sold (at an auction) was The Portrait of Dr. Gachet, an oil paiting by
Dutch Impressionist Vincent van Gogh, which was sold to Ryaei Saito at a Christie's auction in
1990 for $82.5 million.

42.The fairy story "The Sleeping Beauty" was wrote by French poet Charles Perrault in 1697,
and was originally called "La Belle au bois dormant."

43.The largest collection of incunabula is in the Huntington Library in San Marinos, California,
U.S.A.

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44.A total of 23.3 million Harry Potter books were sold in the U.S. in the year 2000.

45.Grandma Moses, whose real name was Anna Mary Robertson, started painting in her late 70s.
She was 80 years old when her first solo public show, at a New York City gallery, launched her
career as a major artist. She died at age 101.

46.It has been speculated that when King James I of Englang hired 54 of the best writers and
scholars in the country for a new English version of the Bible in 1604, William Shakespeare may
have been among them. Although there is no conclusive evidence for participation in the project,
it is nevertheless intriguing that the 46th word of the 46th psalm is "shake," and the 46th word
from the end of the Psalm is "spear." Shakespeare, who was fond of cryptograms, was 46 years
old at the time the version was completed. Either way, this is probably pure coincidence.

47.Yamaha, established in 1887, was the first piano manfacturer in Japan.

48.The worlds largest piano is a Challen Concert Grand, made by Challen. This piano is 11 foot
8 inch long, has a total string tension of over 30 tons, and weighs more than a ton.

49.The four strings of a violin, from left to right (thickist string to thinnest) is G, D, A, and E.

50.There are over 10 million pianos in American homes, businesses, and institutions.

51.The first violin was created by Andrea Amati in Cremona, Italy, around 1564.

52. The most expensive paintings ever stolen happened on April 14, 1991, in which 20 paintings,
estimated to be worth $500 million dollars, were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 35 minutes later, they were found in an abandoned car not far
from the museum.

53.The oldest known bible is the Codex Vaticanus, written in Greek ante 350 A.D. and is
preserved in the Vatican Museum, Rome.

54.Chopin's famous Waltz No. 3 in F Major is said to have been inspired by a cat walking over
piano keys.

55.Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, there is a sentence that contains 823 words, containing 93
commas, 51 semicolons and 4 dashes.

56.Benjamin Disraeli, one of England's most influential prime ministers, wrote his first novel
Vivian Grey in 1826 in order to pay off large debts he incurred in the stock market.

57.In China, the first printed book, a copy of the Buddhist Diamond Sutra is produced using
carved wooden blocks to print the text on paper.

58.The first book on deaf education, by Juan Pablo Bonet, is published in 1620, inaugurating the
field of special education.
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59.Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote "Crossing The Bar" while crossing to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight,
from Lymington, Dorset, jotting down the 16 lines (almost unchanged in the final version) on an
old envelope.

60.The fastest time in which a book has been published is 46.5 hours from receipt of manuscript
to finished copies, titled Miracle on Ice, by the staff of the New York Times from Feburary 17 to
February 29 of 1980. The book is 96 pages and published by Bantam Books.

61.Pablo Picasso's 78 year career had finished 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and engravings,
34,000 book illustrations, and 300 sculptures and ceramics.

62.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's last 3 major symphonic works were the Symphony No. 39 in E
flat major, the Symphony in G minor, and the 'Jupiter' Symphony in C, were written in 6 weeks
flat in 1788.

63.A French literary paper "Le Constitutionel" managed in 1844-1845 had increased its
readership from 3,000 to 40,000, an arise that seems to have been brought out by the serialisation
of Eugene Sue's novel Juif Errant.

64.The longest encyclopedia was written by China's Yu-Hai, published in 1738 at 240 volumes.

65.When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 13, he heard the secret song of the Sistine Choir and
copied it out from memory.

66.The first American dictionary was Noah Webster's A Compendious Dictionary of the English
Language, at 408 pagesm published in 1806 at New Haven, Connecticut by Sidney's press for
Hudson and Goodwin.

67.The first dictionary compiled by a woman was The Language of Fashion, edited by Mary
Brooks Picken, published February 2, 1940, in New York City, containing 8,000 term and 600
illustrations relating to wearing apparel.

68.The first novel written by a black was William Wells Brown's Clotel, or the President's
Daughter, a Narrative of Slave Life in the United States, published in London, England, in 1853,
at 403 pages and sold for ten cents.
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1.The world's tallest living tree to date is the Mendocino Tree (Sequoia sempervirens), which is
367 feet and 6 inches tall (112.014 meters), located at the Montgomery Woods State Reserve, in
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California, U.S.A. It has a diameter of 10.3 feet, or 3.139 meters.

2.The first Welwitschia plant was discovered by Austrian botanist Friedrich Welwitsch in 1860
in the Namib desert in the southern part of Angola.

3.One molecule of sucrose is actually one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose
bonded together (covalently linked). So one glucose and one fructose combined makes one
sucrose.

4.The poinsettia flower is named after a
19th-century ambassador, Joel Roberts Poinsett, who first brought the poinsettia plant to
America.

5.There is a fish that can climb trees, called the mudskipper. It spends about 3/4th of its time out
of water. Malaysian mudskippers live in swamps where they climb among tangled stem roots,
and sometimes into branches.

6.The world's oldest living plant is estimated to be the Tasmanian king's holly, Loamtia
tasmanica, a member of the Proteaceae family, which has survived for about 43,600 years.

7.A single corn plant has been estimated to transpire about 54 gallons (245 liters) of water in one
growing season.

8.The family Marantaceae (Arrowroot Family) was named after Bartolomeo Maranta, an Italian
botanist.

9.In the poison ivy plant, an oil called urushiol, found in the leaves, vines, and even the roots of
the plant, causes the poison ivy rash. (As little as one nanogram of urushiol [billionth of a gram],
causes the rash).

10.Frogs can jump up to 20 times their body length. The longest jump on record is 33 feet 5.5
inch.

11.Dolphins can empty and refill their lungs in less than 0.2 seconds (one fifth of a second).

12.The family Pontederiaceae (Water Hyacinth Family) was named after Giulio Pontedera.

13.There are two types of poison ivy: a climbing plant (toxicodendron radicans) and a shrub
(toxicodendron rydbergii). Don't bother trying to tell them apart since they look similar and often
grow in the same place.

14.The sacred lotus Nelumbo nucifera heats up when it is ready for pollination. For up to four
days it maintains steamy temperatures of 86-95 degrees Fahrenheit (30-35 degrees Celsius) to
attract insects and encourage them to move from one flower to another.

15.The country believe to have the most amount of plant species is Brazil, around or over
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56,000.

16.The Compositae (Asteraceae) have more species than any other family of flowering plants
with over 20,000 species recognized, mostly in the tropics.

17.Another word for fructose is laevulose.

18.When at 200 degrees Celsius, sucrose will melt into caramel.

19.One molecule of glucose with one molecule of galactose makes one molecule of lactose.

20.The first enzyme to be discovered was diastase (amylase), discovered by French chemist
Anselme Payen.

21.Food storage in seeds occurs either in the cotyledon or the endosperm.

22.Lysosomes contain enzymes for breaking down macromolecules (lysozymes).

23.The animal kingdom is the largest kingdoms in terms of number of species.

24.The main function of water in photophosphorylation is to provide electrons which are
energized by light energy.

25.Members of the phylum Cnidaria, whichs contains hydrozoans, jellyfish, and sea anemones,
have radial symmetry.

26.Nematodes don't have a true coelom, but a psudocoelom.

27.Glucagon is a hormone secreted by the pancreas that stimulates the liver to break down
glycogen into glucose (glycogen hydrolysis) and to release glucose into the blood.

28.The xylem contains many cells including fibers called schlerenchyma.

29.In most cells, the cytoplasm is divided into two parts: the ectoplasm (plasmagel), and the
endoplasm (plasmasol).

30.A newly discovered frog species is so tiny that it can sit comfortably on the human fingernail.
The frog, Psyllophryne didactyla, was discovered in Cuba in 1996.

31.A handful of soil contains up to 5,000 different species of bacteria.

32.Earthworms produce nitrous oxide as a by-product from digesting soil nitrates and nitrites.
Soil with earthworms contains five times as much nitrous oxide as soil without.

33.The slowest-growing tree is a white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) located in Canada. After 155
years, it grew to a height of 4 inches (10.2 centimeters), and weighed only 0.6 ounces (17
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grams).

34.Psilocybin (C12H17N2O4P), a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, are obtained from the
mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.

35.Glycolysis is a subdivision of cellular respiration in which glucose molecules are broken
down to form pyruvic acid molecules.

36.The amino acid tryptophan was discovered by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins in 1901.

37.The amino acid histine was discovered by Albrecht Kossel.

38.The most powerful health-promoting compounds in blueberries are anthocyanins, and have
been proven to improve brain power, especially with rats.

39.The monera kingdom is the smallest kingdom in terms fo number of species.

40.The Miocene ape (Proconsul africanus) was discovered by Kenyan anthropologist Louis
Leakey in 1948, a possible ancestor of both monkeys and apes.

41.Scottish botanist Robert Brown discovered the nucleus in plant cells, in 1831.

42.The first textbook on botany was written by U.S. botanist Asa Gray "Elements of Botany" in
1836.

43.All mushrooms are classified under the phylum Basidiomycota (kingdom Fungi).

44.There are around 65,000 different species of protists.

45.All protists are eukaryotes.

46.There are 4,765 different species of frogs.

47.The species with the most known pair of chromosomes is the Ophioglossum reticulatum, a
species of fern, with more than 630 pairs (1,260 total).

48.An old, still healthy, mature oak tree is estimated to have approximately 250,000 leaves (one
fourth of a million).

49.The birds appeared on the Earth a little more than 60 million years ago.

50.The rate at which glycolysis occurs in a cell is stimulated by the concentration of adenosine
diphosphate (ADP). (The control of the rate of glycolysis depends upon the activity of the
allosteric enzyme, phosphofructokinase. The enzyme is activated by adenosine diphosphate and
inhibited by adenosine triphosphate (ATP)).

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51.Carotenoids that do not contain oxygen are called carotenes and are deep orange in color.
Carotenoids that do contain oxygen are called xanthophylls, and are yellow in color.

52.Phytochromes are the pigments in plants that allows the plant to discern whether or not it's at
day or night (more specifically light or dark).

53.Ferredoxin is an iron containing protein that functions in capturing energy rich electrons from
excited chlorophyll molecules.

54.The three different kinds of kidneys found in vertebrates are the pronephros, mesonephros,
and metanephros.

55.A 14-leafed red clover (the clover with the most leaves known to date)
(Trifolium pratense) was reported by Paul Haizlip, located in Bellevue, Washington, U.S.A., on
June 22,1987. There is also a 14-leafed white clover (Trifolium repens), found by Randy Farland
near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, U.S.A., on June 16, 1975.

56.The highest chlorophyll content found in a plant is in the Kirin Chlorella M-207A7 (Chlorella
vulgaris), a type of algae. It has been measured on a dry weight basis to be 6.7%. This percentage
rate was discovered by Dr. Kouichi Nakanishi of Kirin Brewery Company Ltd., Japan.

57.The world's heaviest cabbage was grown by Bernard Lavery of Llanharry, Rhondda Cynon
Taff, Wales, in 1989. It weighed 124 pounds (56.24 kilograms).

58.There are two types of cells, prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Prokaryotes are more simpler than
eukaryotes, but they both posses a plasma membrane and cytoplasm.

59.The world's oldest vine, the Old Vine, in Maribor, Slovenia, is around 400 years old. A
scientific measurement of the vine carried out in 1972 established that it was between 350 and
400 years old. Now it is rougly 380 to 480 years old, and produces about 100 bottles of wine, or
35 to 55 kilograms of grapes, yearly.

60.The world's tallest sunflower, grown in 1986 by Martien Heijms in Oirschot, The
Netherlands, grew to be 25 foot 5 inches (7.76 meters).

61.The four stomachs of a cow are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum.

62.The neck of a giraffe has 7 vertebras.

63.There are around less than 10,000 different species of monera.

64.There are around 500,000 different species of plants.

65.There are around 100,000 different species of fungi.

66.There are around less than 795,000 different species of animals.
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67.The producer of penicillin is Penicillium, an organism in the class Ascomycetes of the
phylum Eumocyta, of the Fungi kingdom.

68.The zylem of a plant conducts water and transports minerals upwards from the roots.

69.The phloem transports sugars and other nutrients from the leaves to the other parts of the
plant.

70.The plant hormone abscisic acid (C15H20O4) inhibits the growth of leaves and germinating
seeds.

71.Red blood cells are the only cells in the human body that do not have a nucelus.

72.The first animal to be successfully cloned was a frog, done by British molecular biologist
John B. Gurdon in 1933.

73.The first mammal to be successfully cloned was an ewe named Dolly, born in July of 1996,
led by Ian Wilmut.

74.If the deoxyribonucleic acid in a single human cell were stretched out and laid end to end, it
would measure approximately 6.5 feet (2 meters).

75.The amino acid asparagine was discovered by French chemist Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin in
1806.

76.The bacteria Epulopiscium fishelsoni, which lives in the gut of surgeonfish, was first
identified in 1985 and mistakenly classified as a protozoan, but was measured to be overly huge,
at 0.015 inches (0.38 millimeters) in diameter.

77.The study of fungi is called mycology.

78.The upper shell (back) of a turtle is the dorsal carapace. The lower shell (front) of a turtle is
the ventral plastron.

79.The cell walls of archaebacteria lack peptidoglycans.

80.Red algae contain red accessory pigments called phycobilins.

81.The largest group of living seedless vascular plants are the ferns, at about 12,000 different
species, in which around 2/3rd are tropical.

82.The first plant patent was issued to Henry F. Bosenberg, a landscape gardener, who received
U.S. Plant Patent 1 on August 18, 1931 for a climbing or trailing rose.

83.The earliest vertebrate, Anatolepsis, was a jawless fish from China that lived at least 500
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million years ago.

84.The earliest bird, Archaeopteryx, was a pigeon sized bird with a long tail, toothed beak, and
real feathers, that appeared about 160 million years ago.

85.Mycoplasma genitalium has the smallest number of genes of any organism yet known on
Earth. Sequenced in 1995, it has 480 genes.

86.Two molecules of glucose bonded together makes one molecule of maltose.

87.The four nitrogen bases in deoxyribonucleic acid nuleotides are adenine, cytosine, guanine,
and thymine.

88.Ribosomes assemble amino acids into proteins in the cytoplasm.

89.The source of electrons used in making a molecule of glucose is photolysis, which splits H2O
to provide the electrons for photophosphorylation, which are incorporated in nicotinamide
adenine dinucleotide phosphate hydrogen.

90.The world's oldest known tree is a bristlecone pine named Methuselah, located in Californoa's
White Mountains at just over 4,760 years old.

91.The first trees that lived were the scale trees, that grew during the Devonian period.

92.The smallest flowering plant in the world belong to the genus Wolffia of the Duckweed
family, at between .3 to .5 millimeters in diameter.

93.Sharks have to keep swimming in order to survive. The great white shark must swim
constantly at 2.2 miles per hour (3.5 kilometers per hour) to ensure oxygen reaches its
bloodstream.

94.The sensors on the feet of a red admiral butterfly are 200 times more sensitive to sugar than
the human tongue.

95.Common frogs can live for about six years but only 1 in 10,000 will successfully evade
predators and disease to live to 6.

96.The deep-sea fish Malecosteus niger has chlorophyll in the retina of its eye. This is the only
known instance of chlorophyll being found in an organism that is not a plant or bacteria.

97.The tallest tree ever measured was an Australian eucalyptus (Eucalyptus regnans), reported in
1872 at 435 feet (132 meters) high.

98.The world's smallest winged insect is smaller than the eye of a house fly. It is the Tanzanian
parasitic wasp, which has a wingspan of 0.008 inch (0.2 millimeter).

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99.The bark tree of the cork tree (Quercus suber, a type of oak tree) is made up of many unique
cells. Each cell has 14 sides, and, in a cubic centimeter of cork tree bark, there are about 40
million of them. Cork cells are separated from each other by a layer of air. All the air in this
intercellular space is what makes cork float.
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HUMAN BODY
1. Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.

2. Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in more information than
the largest telescope known to man.

3. Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. They are large
enough to cover a tennis court.

4. Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different
sounds.

5. Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.

6. Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve
cells.

7. We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.

8. When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.

9. We have over 600 muscles.

10. We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.

11. We are about 70 percent water.

12. We make one liter of saliva a day.

13. Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system ; it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters
impurities.

14. In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000
nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.

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1. Coca-Cola was originally green.

2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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

4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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

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

7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

8. You can`t kill yourself by holding your breath.

9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in
battle.

17. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in
battle.

18. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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

20. This is the only food that doesn`t spoil. What is this? It is Honey.

21. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

22. A snail can sleep for three years.

23. All polar bears are left handed.

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

25. Butterflies taste with their feet.

26. Elephants are the only animals that can`t jump.

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

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

29. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump".

30. Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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

32. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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

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

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

36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

37. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
38. Like fingerprints, everyone`s tongue print is different

39. There is a Butterfly in Brazil which has the color of chocolates and also smells like
chocolate.

40. Giraffee can clean there ears with their tongue.

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1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left
handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is
dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is "Das Beste oder Nichts" meaning "the best or nothing".

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something
pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep at night.

9. Laughing lower levels of stress hormones and strengthen the immune system. Six-year-olds
laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. 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.


11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The "V" in the name of a court case does not stand for "versus", but for "and" (in civil
proceedings) or &#39against&#39 (in criminal proceedings).
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14. Men`s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women`s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower
eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it`s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.


21. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each
other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a
carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of
Japan.

28.. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas
bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. 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.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. 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 is smiling).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate
translates into the command "go hang yourself.

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

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. 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).

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a
slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken
fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

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

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
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In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over
Europe.

About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea.

A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river
above.

Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.

Beaver Lake, in Yellowstone Park, USA, was artificially created by beaver damming.

Off the coast of Florida there is an underwater hotel. Guests have to dive to the entrance.

Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the
water.

The Ancient Egyptians worshipped a sky goddess called Nut.

The world`s windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica.

In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire , USA.

American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times.

The desert baobab tree can store up to 1000 litres of water in its trunk.

The oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name "Methuselah". It is about 4600 years
old. The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in California. It is 84 meters tall and
measures 29 meters round the trunk. The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus. It can grow 10
meters a year.

The Antartic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish
freezing in icy sea.

The USA uses 29% of the world`s petrol and 33% of the world`s electricity.

The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death because its
pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby.

Tibet is the highest country in the world. Its average height above sea level is 4500 meters.

Some of the oldest mountains in the world are the Highlands in Scotland . They are estimated to
be about 400 million years old.

Fresh water from the River Amazon can be found up to 180 km out to sea.
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The White Sea, in Russia, has the lowest temperature, only -2 degrees centigrade. The Persian
Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.

There is no land at all at the North Pole, only ice on top of sea. The Arctic Ocean has about 12
million sq km of floating ice and has the coldest winter temperature of -34 degrees centigrade.

The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -
70 degrees centigrade.

Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel
made from sugar cane.
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1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by
taste, smell and touch.

2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.

3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne
cork than by a spider.

4. Alexander`s funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was
built to carry his body.

5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying
breath in a bottle.

6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed
people.

7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we
eat these days.

8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for
1,130 years.

9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket
and buried in space.

10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in
July, 1981, in a car plan.
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1 -Coca-Cola was originally green.

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2 -The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

3 -The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with ?

4 -The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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

5 -Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

6 -You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

7 -It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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

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

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

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

12 -Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

i)Spades - King David

ii)Clubs - Alexander the Great,

iii)Hearts - Charlemagne

iv)Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

13 -If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.

14 -If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle

15 -If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.

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16 -What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?

Ans. - All invented by women.

17 -A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

18 -A snail can sleep for three years.

19 -All polar bears are left handed.

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

21 -Butterflies taste with their feet.

22 -Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

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

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

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

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

28 -The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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

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

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

32 -The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

33 -Most lipstick contains fish scales.

34 -Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

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35 -And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their
elbow!~!!!
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

The number of people alive on Earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that
have died ever.

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

There was one a town in west Virginia called "6"

Ten tons of space dust falls on Earth every day.

A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

Russia has the most movie theatres in the world.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

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

At 40 degrees centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

There are more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy
to heat one cup of coffee.
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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated
that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is
an American flag.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or
purple.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

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

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis'
middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
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The order of the planets, starting closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

The one place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, and does not get
saluted, is the moon.
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Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than
the South Pole radius.

A green diamond is the rarest diamond.

The ozone layer averages about 3 millimeters (1/8 inch) thick.

A diamond will break if you hit it with a hammer.

The crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h
(2 mph).

Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years - but so does winter.

The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.

Oceanography, the study of oceans, is a mixture of biology, physics, geology and chemistry.

More than 70% of earth's dryland is affected by desertification.

The US has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialised world, with more than 2
million fires reported each year.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

The largest iceberg ever recorded was 335km (208 miles) long and 97km (60 miles) wide.

Luke Howard used Latin words to categorize clouds in 1803.

Hurricanes, tornadoes and bigger bodies of water always go clockwise in the Southern
Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. This directional
spinning has to do with the rotation of the earth and is called the Coriolis force.

Winds that blow toward the equator curve west.

Organist William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 with the first reflecting
telescope that he built. He named it Georgium Sidium in honour of King George III of
England but in 1850 it was renamed Uranus in accordance with the tradition of naming
planets for Roman gods.

Planets, meaning wanderers, are named after Roman deities: Mercury, messenger of the
gods; Venus, the god of love and beauty; Mars, the god of war; Jupiter, king of the gods;
and Saturn, father of Jupiter and god of agriculture; Neptune, god of the sea.

During a total solar eclipse the temperature can drop by 6 degrees Celsius (about 20
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degrees Fahrenheit).

The tallest waterfalls in the world are Angel Falls in Venezuela. At 979 m (3,212 ft), they
are 19 times taller than the Niagara Falls, or 3 times taller than the Empire State Building.

Although the Angel Falls are much taller than the Niagara Falls, the latter are much wider,
and they both pour about the same amount of water over their edges - about 2,8 billion
litres (748 million gallons) per second.

There are 1040 islands around Britain, one of which is the smallest island in the world:
Bishop's Rock.

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet
that rotates clockwise.

Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not named after a god.

Earth orbits the sun at an average speed of 29.79 km/s (18.51 miles/sec), or about 107 000
km/h (about 67,000 miles/hour).

One year on earth is 365.26 days long. One day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds long.
The extra day in a leap year was introduced to compensate for the discrepancy in the
Georgian calendar.

Plates carrying the continents migrate over the earth's surface a few centimetres (inches)
per year, about the same speed that a fingernail grows.

On average, 13,000 earthquakes are located each year.

The magnetic north pole is near Ellef Ringes Island in northern Canada.

The magnetic south pole was discovered off the coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica.

There is zero gravity at the centre of earth.
the deepest mine in the world is Western Deep Levels near Charletonville, South Africa. It
is 4,2km (2.6 miles) deep.

The deepest point in the sea: the Mariana Trench off Guam in the Pacific Ocean; it is 10,9
km (6.77 miles) below sea level.

Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.

The tail of the Great Comet of 1843 was 330 million km long. (It will return in 2356.)

There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth.

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About 500 small meteorites fall to earth every year but most fall in the sea and in
unpopulated areas.

There is no record of a person being killed by a meteorite but animals are occasionally hit.

The Dead Sea is 365 m (1,200 ft) below sea level.

A storm officially becomes a hurricane when cyclone winds reach 119 km/h (74 mph).

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General Knowledge

*Automobiles didn't have radios until 1923.

*After English and Spanish, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the United States.

*The word 'wedding,' when people 'pledge' to marry each other stems from the same Germanic
root as the modern word 'wager,' meaning 'a gamble.'

*Americans eat 1.2 billion pounds of potato chips a year - more than any other snack food.

* Fairview is the most common place name in the United States.

*Skiing isn't new. A four-thousand-year-old rock found in Norway far north of the Arctic Circle
depicts a hunter on skis.

*The first practical, mechanical cash register, invented in 1883, was nicknamed the
Incorruptible Cashier.

*Kool-Aid is Nebraska's official soft drink.


*In 1894, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a school for deaf people, originated the
football huddle to keep opposing teams from reading their hand signals.


*Tobacco smoke contains more than four thousand chemicals.


* An average of nine million people share the same birthday.

*The character Mother Goose was inspired by the mother of Charlemagne, the 8th Century
Queen Goosefoot.

*Ahead of its time: in 1968, Canada Dry produced the flop caffeine-free soda Sport-Cola.

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*The name of the mad computer HAL in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey is one letter down
from IBM.

*When it was discovered that Dr. Buntings Remedy knocked eczema, it was renamed
Noxema.

*Despite the success of the Harry Potter series and The Da Vinci Code, the best-selling author of
all time is still mystery writer Agatha Christie, with over two billion novels sold.

*The best-selling single record of all-time is White Christmas. The Bing Crosby recording has
sold fifty million copies.

*Though thought to have been inspired by the German word for water -- wasser -- the name
Vaseline comes from the number of vases used to store the ingredients used in its development.

*Superstar Barry Manilow began his career writing jingles for McDonalds and State Farm
Insurance.

*In pop culture mythology, the Green Hornet Britt Reid is the son of Dan Reid who is the
nephew of John Reid the Lone Ranger.

*Though he is usually played by an Englishman, the character Captain Nemo in Jules Vernes
novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is actually the son of an Indian rajah.

*The man traditionally referred to as Buddha was actually named Siddhartha Guatama (circa 563
410 B.C.).

*Norman Rockwell was just nineteen when he became the art editor of Boys Life Magazine.

*By profession, author Arthur Conan Doyle creator of Sherlock Holmes was originally an
ophthalmologist
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Ants don't sleep.
* Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their
eyes.
* A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
* The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
* A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
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* A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
* The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a
breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
* There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
* A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
* Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
* A baby bat is called a pup.
* German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
* A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
* 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.
* The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
* The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina,
who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
* Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
* A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits
on the floor.
* Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
* Snakes are immune to their own poison.
* An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
* Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
* The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240
kilograms).
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million
descendants.
* Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
* A shrimp's heart is in their head.
* A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
* A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
* The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
* A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
* It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
* Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
* Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid
wolf ever attacked a human.
* There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.
* Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
* Cat's urine glows under a black light.
* The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
* It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the
course of a summer.
* Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-
shaped pupils.
* It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
* Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep
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dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.
* Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
* Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles
away.
* A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
* The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
* There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard,
but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black
leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.
* The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a
guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
* The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
* The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that
cannot walk.
* The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
* A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
* Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
* The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is
blue.
* Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The
sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
* The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year
with new growth.
* The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
* Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to
keep the air cool.
* The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
* To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
* 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.
* Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.
* The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.
* A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
* Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
* The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
* Ants can live up to 16 years.
* In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
* The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.
* Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay
crunchy for up to three weeks.
* Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row
of the keyboard.
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* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for
a millisecond.
* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the
English language.
* If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can
rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
* Spades - King David
* Clubs - Alexander the Great,
* Hearts - Charlemagne
* Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
* 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321
* If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person
died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of
natural causes.
* What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in
common?
* Ans. - All invented by women.
* Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
* Ans. - Honey.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad
served in first-class.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood
30 feet.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700
times.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

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These are really interesting:

1. Money isnt made out of paper, its made out of cotton.

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

3. The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from
the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

6. 40% of McDonalds profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Websters 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The spot on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

9. On average,12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dogs heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

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

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesnt wear pants.

15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

16. Upper and lower case letters are named upper and lower because in the time when all
original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on
top of the case that stored the smaller, lower case letters.

17. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
hence, multi-tasking was invented.)

18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
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20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy
before!

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisas lips.

23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was a Captain Kirks mask
painted white.

25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the
largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)

26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cant sink in quicksand (and you
thought this list was completely useless.)

27. The phrase rule of thumb is derived from an old English law,which stated that you couldnt
beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles At that
time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has
in it to begin with. Its the same with apples!

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public
Libraries.

33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a
space suit damages it.

34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart . Boy, I feel a lot safer now that shes
behind bars. O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but
they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and haul her
butt off to jail.
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Food:

Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri
Nestl.

An ounce of chocolate contains about 20 mg of caffeine.

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

TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."

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

Coffee is the seed of a cherry from the tree genus Coffea

Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).

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

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

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

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

Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.

Bananas are the world's most popular fruit after tomatoes. In western countries, they could
account for 3% of a grocer's total sales.

Bananas consistently are the number one compliant of grocery shoppers. Most people
complain when bananas are overripe or even freckled. The fact is that spotted bananas are
sweeter, with a sugar content of more than 20%, compared with 3% in a green banana.

Approximately 44 million tons of bananas are produced annually, compared to more than
60 million tomatoes. Apples are the third most popular (36 million tons), then oranges (34
million tons) and watermelons (22 million tons).

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

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

Over the last 40 years food production actually increased faster than population.

The number of people who starved to death in the last 25 years of the 20th century is less
than the number who starved to death in the last 25 years of the 19th century.

In the Middle Ages, sugar was a treasured luxury costing 9 times as much as milk.

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

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

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

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

Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.

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

Carrots have zero fat content.

Maria Ann Smith introduced the Granny Smith apple in 1838.

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

The first European to encounter tea was the Portuguese Jesuit Jasper de Cruz in 1560.

Ice tea was introduced in 1904 at the World's Fair in St. Louis.

The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.

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

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

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

The tall chef's hat is called a toque.

The term "soda water" was coined in 1798.

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

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

The first cola-flavoured beverage was introduced in 1881.

Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr. John S. Pemberton in 1886.

Pepsi-Cola was invented by Caleb Bradham in 1890 as "Brad's Drink" as a digestive aid
and energy booster. In was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1898.

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

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

Aluminum cans were introduced in 1957 and two years later the first diet cola was sold.

The pull-ring tab was invented in 1962 and the re-sealable top in 1965.

Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970.

The Polyethylene Terephthalate bottle was introduced in 1973.

The stay-on tab was invented in 1974.

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

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

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

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

Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.

A square piece of dry paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.

Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.

Liquid air looks like water with a bluish tint.

A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivelant used by two hour light
bulbs, to operate.

The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.

Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a broadcast voice can be heard
sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it originated.

A US ton is equivalent to 900 kg (2000 pounds). A British ton is 1008 kg (2240 pounds),
called a gross ton.

Industrial hemp contains less than 1% of THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana.

Since space is essentially empty it cannot carry sound. Therefor there is no sound in space,
at least not the sort of sound that we are used to.

The Space Shuttle always rolls over after launch to alleviate structural loading, allowing
the shuttle to carry more mass into orbit.

The word "biology" was coined in 1805 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

Most of the air is about 78% nitrogen gas. Only 21% consists of oxygen. The remaining 1%
consists of carbon dioxide, argon, neon, helium, krypton, hydrogen, xenon and ozone.

Argon is used to fill the space in most light bulbs. Neon is used in fluorescent signs.
Fluorescent lights are filled with mercury gas.

Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world.

Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.

The surface of hot water freezes faster than cold water but the rest of the water will remain
liquid longer than in a cold sample.
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The smallest transistor is 50-nanometres wide - roughly 1/2000 the width of a human hair.

A compass does not point to the geographical North or South Pole, but to the magnetic
poles.

The double-helix structure of DNA was discovered in 1953 by James Watson and Francis
Crick. The length of a single human DNA molecule, when extended, is 1.7 metres (5 ft 5 in).

In a desert, a mirage is caused when air near the ground is hotter than air higher up. As
light from the sun passes from cooler to warmer air, it speeds up and is refracted upward,
creating the image of water.

The typical bolt of lightning heats the atmosphere to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

An electric oven uses one kilowatt-hour of electricity in about 20 minutes, but one kilowatt-
hour will power a TV for 3 hours, run a 100-watt bulb for 12 hours, and keep an electric
clock ticking for 3 months.

In the 6th century BC Greek mathematician Pythagoras said that earth is round - but few
agreed with him.

Greek astronomer Aristarchos said in the 3rd century BC that earth revolves around the
sun - but the idea was not accepted.

In the 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Erastosthenes accurately measured the distance
around the earth at about 40,000 km (24,860 miles) - but nobody believed him.

In the 2nd century AD Greek astronomer Ptolemy stated that earth was the centre of the
universe - most people believed him for the next 1,400 years.
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The Majority of muslims do not live in the middle East. The most populous muslim country is
I ndonesia, the 4th largest country in the world with 184 million muslims

There are more muslims in I ndia than the combined population of Syria, I raq, J ordan,
Palestine and the whole of the Arabian Peninsula.

The following English words are borrowed from Arabic: Algebra, Zero, Cotton, Sofa, Rice,
Candy, Safron, Balcony. And even 'alchohol' derives from Arabic : al-kuhl meaning powder.
These are just a few mentioned here.

The first treatise on smallpox and measles was written by Abu Bakr alrazi (c.864-925,known
to Europe as Rhazes). (Due to this) I noculation agianst smallpox became a common practise
in muslim lands. Despite this , Scientific text book credit the invention of a smallpox vaccine to
Edward J enner.(1749-1823).
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Early Oxbridge students studied books written by muslims on mathematics, medicine,
chemistry, optics and astronomy.

Adelard of Bath (a city in the UK) was a leading scholar of the middle ages. what made him
famous was translating the word of muslim scientists from Arabic to latin!

The 1860 city records of Cardiff (UK) show a masjid in operation in a converted building at 2
Glynrhondda St. Yemani sea men on their trips between Aden (in Yemen) and Cardiff founded
this masjid.

The first purpose built masjid is claimed to be in Woking (South of England) with money
provided by the ruler of Bhopal, in I ndia (the Shah J ehan masjid was built in 1889).

The I slamic calender is based on the phases of the moon, with it being approximately 11 days
shorter than the 365 days of the year in the J ulien calender. Hence, the dates of our festivals
move through the year.

The grand doors of our prophets (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) masjid in Medina weigh 2 and
half tonnes each! Enormous quantities of "sag wood" was gathered from all over the world
and shipped to the united kingdom to be dryed in computerised furnaces (the traditional
drying process would have taken many years!). Even then , it took 5 months to dry the wood!
the wood was then shipped to Barcelona (Spain), Where the main body of the doors where
made. And finally the French even paid their little part, as the brass ornamentation was
carried out in the city of Roi (France). Next time you visit the holy masjid, keep this entire in
mind!

I t was only in 1932 the Kiswah (cloth of the Ka'bah) was wholly made by Saudis (citizens of
Saudi Arabia).

The roof top of our prophet's (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) masjid in Madina is designed to be
strong enough to carry addtional floors in the future.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
1. Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was
invented.

2. Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.

3. A square piece of dry paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.

4. Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.

5. Liquid air looks like water with a bluish tint.

6. A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivelant used by two hour light
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bulbs, to operate.

7. The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.

8. Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a broadcast voice can be heard
sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it originated.

9. A US ton is equivalent to 900 kg (2000 pounds). A British ton is 1008 kg (2240 pounds),
called a gross ton.

10. Industrial hemp contains less than 1% of THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana.

11. Since space is essentially empty it cannot carry sound. Therefor there is no sound in space, at
least not the sort of sound that we are used to.

12. The Space Shuttle always rolls over after launch to alleviate structural loading, allowing the
shuttle to carry more mass into orbit.

13. The word "biology" was coined in 1805 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

14. Most of the air is about 78% nitrogen gas. Only 21% consists of oxygen. The remaining 1%
consists of carbon dioxide, argon, neon, helium, krypton, hydrogen, xenon and ozone.

15. Argon is used to fill the space in most light bulbs. Neon is used in fluorescent signs.
Fluorescent lights are filled with mercury gas.

16. Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world.

17. Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.

18. The surface of hot water freezes faster than cold water but the rest of the water will remain
liquid longer than in a cold sample.

19. The smallest transistor is 50-nanometres wide - roughly 1/2000 the width of a human hair.

20. A compass does not point to the geographical North or South Pole, but to the magnetic poles.

21. The double-helix structure of DNA was discovered in 1953 by James Watson and Francis
Crick. The length of a single human DNA molecule, when extended, is 1.7 metres (5 ft 5 in).

22. In a desert, a mirage is caused when air near the ground is hotter than air higher up. As light
from the sun passes from cooler to warmer air, it speeds up and is refracted upward, creating the
image of water.

23. The typical bolt of lightning heats the atmosphere to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

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24. An electric oven uses one kilowatt-hour of electricity in about 20 minutes, but one kilowatt-
hour will power a TV for 3 hours, run a 100-watt bulb for 12 hours, and keep an electric clock
ticking for 3 months.

25. In the 6th century BC Greek mathematician Pythagoras said that earth is round - but few
agreed with him.

26. Greek astronomer Aristarchos said in the 3rd century BC that earth revolves around the sun -
but the idea was not accepted.

27. In the 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Erastosthenes accurately measured the distance
around the earth at about 40,000 km (24,860 miles) - but nobody believed him.

28. In the 2nd century AD Greek astronomer Ptolemy stated that earth was the centre of the
universe - most people believed him for the next 1,400 years.


29. In 1750 there were about 800 million people in the world. In 1850 there were a billion more,
and by 1950, another billion. Then it took just 50 years to double to 6 billion.

30. Half the world's population earns about 5% of the world's wealth.

31. There are more than 600 million telephone lines, yet almost half the world's population has
never made a phone call on a land line. However, more than half the world's population has
made a cell phone call. There are more than 2 billion cell phones in use.

32. More personal telephone calls are made on Mother's Day in the USA than on any other day
in any other country.

33. One in ten people in the world live on an island.

34. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

35. In the US, murder is committed most frequently in August and least frequently in February.

36. In 1870 there were more Irish living in London than in Dublin.

37. In 1870 there also were more Catholics living in London than in Rome.

38. The chance of being born on Leap Day is about 684 out of a million, or 1 in 1461. Less than
5 million people have their birthday on Leap Day.

39. The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.

40. About 27% of food in developed countries are wasted each year. It's simply thrown away.

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41. Almost 1,2 billion people are underfed - the same number of people that are overweight to
the point of obesity.

42. The world average of egg consumption per capita is 230.

43. In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations.

44. Half the world's population is under 25 years of age.

45. On average in the West, people move house every 7 years.

46. US Post Office handles 43% of the world's mail. Its nearest competitor is Japan with 6%.

47. In the developed countries, the proportion of adults married has declined from 72% in 1970
to 60% in 1996. The chance of a first marriage ending in divorce is between 50% and 67%. The
chance that a second marriage will end in divorce is about 10% higher than for the first marriage.

48. The world's average school year is 200 days per year. In the US, it is 180 days; in Sweden
170 days, in Japan it is 243 days.

49. Since 1972, some 64 million tons of aluminum cans (about 3 trillion cans) have been
produced. Placed end-to-end, they could stretch to the moon about a thousand times. Cans
represent less than 1% of solid waste material.

50. More than a billion transistors are manufactured... every second.

51. 92% of Chinese belong to the Han nationality, which has been China's largest nationality for
centuries. The rest of the nation consists of about 55 minority groups.

52. According to the US Census Bureau, 19% of US children live in poverty. (1999)


53. According to the US Weather Service, their one day forecasts are accurate more than 75% of
the time. They send out 2 million forecasts a year.

54. There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people.

55. New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
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01. Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agency in the world, was founded in 1850.

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

03. A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in
a hot air balloon.
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04. Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the
phone was invented.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps, on 1 May 1840.
Hence, UK stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the
country of origin.

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

16. John Rolfe married Pocahontas the Red Indian Princess in 1613.

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

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

19. On 21 June 1913, over Los Angeles, Georgia Broadwick became the first
women to parachute from an airplane.
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20. The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in
565AD.

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

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


23. In the West the most popular male names are James and John. The most
popular female name is Mary.

24. The name Wendy was first used in JM Barrie's Peter Pan.

25. There are about 5,000 prince and princesses in each Saudi Arabian royal.

26. Lady Peseshet of Ancient Egypt (2600-2100 BC) is the world's first known
female physician.

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

28. Adriaan van der Donck was the first and only lawyer in New York City in
1653.

29. A Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince.

30. The British royal family changed their surname (last name) from Saxe-
Coburg-Gotha to Windsor, the name of their castle, in 1917.

31. Before writing 007 novels, Ian Fleming studied languages at Munich and
Geneva universities, worked with Reuters in Moscow, and then became a banker
and stockbroker.

32. Julius Caesar was known as a great swimmer.

33. There are more than 600 million telephone lines today, yet almost half the
world's population has never made a phone call.

34. When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served
by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.
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35. The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers.

36. Orville Wright numbered the eggs that his chickens produced so he could eat
them in the order they were laid.

37. On New Year's Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,513
people.

38. The oldest person on record is Methuselah (969 years old).

39. An exocannibal eats only enemies. An indocannibal eats only friends.

40. Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were
deaf.

41. Burt Reynold's father was the chief of police in West Palm Beach, Florida.

42. On 5th October 1974, four years, three months and sixteen days after Dave
Kunste set out from Minnesota, he became the first man to walk around the world,
having taken more than 20 million steps.

43. English sailors came to be called Limeys after using lime juice to combat
scurvy.

44. English soldiers were called Tommies because the example name on the
soldier forms was Thomas Atkins. (The example name on US forms is John
Smith.)

45. The word "Machiavellian" is named after Niccolo Machiavelli, who was
friends with Leonardo da Vinci.

46. Queen Isabella of Castile, who dispatched Christopher Columbus to find the
Americas, boasted that she had only two baths in her life - at her birth and before
she got married.

47. Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other
simultaneously.

48. Until he was 18, Woody Allen read virtually nothing but comic books but did
show his writing skills. He sold one-liners for ten cents each to gossip columnists.

49. In the 18th century Dr Monsey of Chelsea, England tied a piece of catgut
around a patient's tooth, threaded the other through a hole drilled in a bullet,
loaded the bullet into his revolver and pulled the trigger.

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50. Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph without mentioning that he was US
President.

51. Winston Churchill was a stutterer. As a child, one of his teachers warned,
"Because of his stuttering he should be discouraged from following in his father's
political footsteps."

52. The 17th-century French Cardinal Mazarin never traveled without his
personal chocolate-maker.

53. King Louis XIV of France established in his court the position of "Royal
Chocolate Maker to the King."

54. Napoleon reportedly carried chocolate on all his military campaigns.

55. The word "electric" was first used in 1600 by William Gilbert, a doctor to
Queen Elizabeth I.

56. In 1973, Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was buried in a
coffin made entirely of chocolate.
02. .German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog
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Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.



1.The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.

2.Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

3.A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.

4.Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The Wright brother's
invented the airplane.

5.There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.

6.One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

7.The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have
four noses.

8.Sharks can live up to 100 years.

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9.Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.

10.Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

11.About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.

12.The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch*wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in
1887.

13.The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.

14.Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.

15.Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.

16.There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.

17.It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.

18.The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.

19.Octopus have three hearts.

20.If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.

21.The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

22.1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.

23.The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.

24.Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.

25.Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.

26.Most cats are left pawed.

27.250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

28.A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

29.You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!

30.Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.

31.An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!


Essential info (must read)

1. The largest museum in the world is the American Museum of Natural History.
2. The lowest mountain range in the world is the Buena Bhaile.
3. The country known as the Land of Cakes is Scotland.
4. The place known as the Garden of England is Kent.
5. The tallest tower in the world is the C. N. Tower, Toronto, Canada.
6. The country famous for its fish catch is Japan.
7. The old name of Taiwan was Farmosa.
8. Montreal is situated on the bank of River Ottawa.
9. The city of Bonn is situated in Germany.
10. The literal meaning of Renaissance is Revival.
11. Julius Caesar was killed by Brutus.
12. The title of Desert Fox was given to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
13. The largest airport in the world is the King Khalid International Airport, Saudi
Arabia.
14. The city in Russia which faced an earthquake in the year 1998 was Armenia.
15. The largest bay in the world is Hudson Bay, Canada.
16. The largest church in the world is Basilica of St. Peter, Vatican City, Rome.
17. The largest peninsula in the world is Arabia.
18. The largest gulf in the world is Gulf of Mexico.
19. The tallest statue in the world is the Motherland, Volgograd Russia.
20. The largest railway tunnel in the world is the Oshimizu Tunnel, Japan.
21. The world's loneliest island is the Tristan da cunha.
22. The word 'Quiz' was coined by Jim Daly Irishman.
23. The original meaning of 'Quiz' was Trick.
24. The busiest shopping centre of London is Oxford Street.
25. The residence of the Queen in London is Buckingham Palace.
26. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria.
27. The country whose National Anthem has only music but no words is Bahrain.
28. The largest cinema in the world is the Fox theatre, Detroit, USA.
29. The country where there are no Cinema theatres is Saudi Arabia.
30. The world's tallest office building is the Sears Tower, Chicago.
31. In the year 1811, Paraguay became independent from Spain.
32. The cross word puzzle was invented by Arthur Wynne.
33. The city which was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire was Persepolis.
34. WHO stands for World Health Organization.
35. WHO (World Health Organization) is located at Geneva.
36. FAO stands for Food and Agriculture Organization.
37. FAO is located at Rome and London.
38. UNIDO stands for United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
39. UNIDO is located at Vienna.
40. WMO stands for World Meteorological Organization.
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41. WMO is located at Geneva.
42. International Civil Aviation Organization is located at Montreal.
43. The Angel Falls is located in Venezuela.
44. The Victoria Falls is located in Rhodesia.
45. Ice Cream was discovered by Gerald Tisyum.
46. The number regarded as lucky number in Italy is thirteen.
47. Napoleon suffered from alurophobia which means Fear of cats.
48. The aero planes were used in war for the first time by Italians. (14 Oct.1911)
49. Slavery in America was abolished by Abraham Lincoln.
50. The Headquarters of textile manufacturing in England is Manchester.
51. The famous Island located at the mouth of the Hudson River is Manhattan.
52. The founder of plastic industry was Leo Hendrik Baekeland.
53. The country where military service is compulsory for women is Israel.
54. The country which has more than 10,000 golf courses is USA.
55. The famous painting 'Mona Lisa' is displayed at Louvre museum, Paris.
56. The earlier name for tomato was Love apple.
57. The first President of USA was George Washington.
58. The famous words 'Veni Vidi Vici' were said by Julius Caesar.
59. The practice of sterilization of surgical instruments was introduced by Joseph
Lister.
60. The number of countries which participated in the first Olympic Games held
at Athens was nine.
61. Mercury is also known as Quick Silver.
62. Disneyland is located in California, USA.
63. Pakistan conducted five nuclear tests on May 28, 1998
64. Sewing Machine was invented by Isaac M. Singer.
65. Adding Machine was invented by Aldrin.
66. The national emblem of Spain is Eagle.
67. Archimedes was born in Sicily.
68. The total area of Vatican City is 0.272 square kilometers.
69. The largest temple in the world is Angkor Wat in Kampuchea.
70. The largest dome in the world is Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, USA.
71. The largest strait in the world is Tartar Strait.
72. The Mohenjo-Daro ruins are found in Larkand District of Sind, Pakistan.
73. The largest city of Africa is Cairo.
74. The founder of KODAK Company was Eastman.
75. The Cape of Good Hope is located in South Africa.
76. The Heathrow Airport is located in London.
77. The neon lamp was invented by Georges Claude.
78. The last letter of the Greek alphabet is Omega.
79. The place known as the land of Lincoln is Illinois.
80. The US state Utah is also known as Beehive state.
81. The Kalahari Desert is located in Africa.
82. The Patagonian desert is located in Argentina.
83. The person known as the father of aeronautics is Sir George Cayley.
84. The most densely populated Island in the world is Honshu.
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85. The two nations Haiti and the Dominion Republic together form the Island of
Hispaniola.
86. The largest auto producer in the USA is General Motors.
87. The largest auto producing nation is Japan.
88. The famous General Motors company was founded by William Durant.
89. The country that brings out the FIAT is Italy.
90. The first actor to win an Oscar was Emil Jannings.
91. The first animated colour cartoon of full feature length was Snow White and
Seven Dwarfs.
92. The first demonstration of a motion picture was held at Paris.
93. The first country to issue stamps was Britain.
94. The actor who is considered as the biggest cowboy star of the silent movies is
Tom Mix.
95. The Pentagon is located at Washington DC.
96. The world's largest car manufacturing company is General Motors, USA.
97. K-2, the second highest mountain peak in the world, is also known as Godwin
Austen. It is 28,250 ft (8611 m) high, and is located in the Karakorum range in
Pakistan.
98. The world's oldest underground railway is at London.
99. The White House was painted white to hide fire damage.
100. The largest oil producing nation in Africa is Nigeria.
101. The longest river in Russia and Europe is Volga River.
102. The first Emperor of Germany was Wilhelm.
103. The last French Monarch was Louis Napoleon III.
104. "History is Bunk" was said by Henry Ford.
105. The term 'astrology' literally means Star Speech.
106. Togo is situated in Africa.
107. Coal is also known as Black Diamond.
108. The first Boxer to win 3 gold medals in Olympics was Laszlo Papp.
109. The first ruler who started war games for his soldiers was Genghis Khan.
110. The first cross word puzzle in the world was published in 1924 by London
Sunday Express.
111. The lightest known metal is Lithium.
2. There is no record of a person being killed by a meteorite but animals are
occasionally hit.

The Dead Sea is 365 m (1,200 ft) below sea level.




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MAZEDAR
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try
it next time you chop onions.

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed
convenient!

3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos
on each stamp.

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered
with cold water.

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear 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 called phosphenes.

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

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will
pass through the system and be excreted.

17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

19. 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.
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20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas
bubbles bursting.
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01 The first Prime minister of Bangladesh was Mujibur Rehman
02 The longest river in the world is the Nile
03 The longest highway in the world is the Trans-Canada
04 The longest highway in the world has a length of About 8000 km
05 The highest mountain in the world is the Everest
06 The country that accounts for nearly one third of the total teak production of the world is
Myanmar
07 The biggest desert in the world is the Sahara desert
08 The largest coffee growing country in the world is Brazil
09 The country also known as "country of Copper" is Zambia
10 The name given to the border which separates Pakistan and Afghanistan is Durand line
11 The river Volga flows out into the Caspian sea
12 The coldest place on the earth is Verkoyansk in Siberia
13 The country which ranks second in terms of land area is Canada
14 The largest Island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily
15 The river Jordan flows out into the Dead sea
16 The biggest delta in the world is the Ganges Delta
17 The capital city that stands on the river Danube is Belgrade
18 The Japanese call their country as Nippon
19 The length of the English channel is 564 kilometres
20 The world's oldest known city is Damascus
21 The city which is also known as the City of Canals is Venice
22 The country in which river Wangchu flows is Myanmar
23 The biggest island of the world is Greenland
24 The city which is the biggest centre for manufacture of automobiles in the world is Detroit,
USA
25 The country which is the largest producer of manganese in the world is China & South Africa
26 The country which is the largest producer of rubber in the world is Malaysia
27 The country which is the largest producer of tin in the world is China
28 The river which carries maximum quantity of water into the sea is the Amazon River
29 The city which was once called the `Forbidden City' was Peking
30 The country called the Land of Rising Sun is Japan


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1. The Kuwaiti Dinar is the world's highest valued currency. One Kuwaiti
Dinar exchanged for 3.61 US Dollars as of November 2007.


2. The highest volcanic eruption ever measured in the solar system was
witnessed on August 6, 2001 when Nasa's Galileo spacecraft observed a
volcanic plume on Jupiter's moon Io, that reached a height of 310 miles (500
km).

3. The highest ocean temperature ever recorded was 759 degrees Fahrenheit
(404 degrees Celcius). It was measured above a hydrothermal vent 300 miles
(480 km) off the American West Coast in 1985.



Drinking water on empty stomach in early morning

Japanese Medical Society suggests the use of water on empty stomach cures from:
Headache
Body ache
Diabetes
Constipation
All eye diseases
Ear,nose,throat disorders
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Defeat is not when you fall down, it is when you refuse to get up. So keep getting up when you
have a fall.
1. What is the expansion ( Full Form ) of YAHOO?


Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle


2. What is the expansion ( Full Form ) of ADIDAS?


ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports


3. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?


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Satellite Television Asian Region


4. What is expansion of "ICICI?"


Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India


5. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot -
INDIA 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?


That match was abandoned after people heard
The news of Indira Gandhi being killed.


6. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems
For two different countries?


Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different
Countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for
BANGLADESH-( Amar Sonar* *Bangla )

7. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?


Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.


8. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?


Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa


9. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?


South Korea


10. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?


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Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR ,
As it was known during the cold war)


11. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?


Geoffrey Boycott


12. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned
From international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?

John Traicos

13. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by
Only one country (other than Vatican )?


LESOTHO Surrounded from all sides by South Africa ..


14. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?


Polo
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jab bhi kaam aaya mera PARVARIGAAR kaam aaya

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the
rabbit and the parrot.

Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of copper in it.
Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
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Mind Blowing General Knowledge Facts

Mind Blowing General Knowledge Facts
1. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

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

3. Many spiders have eight eyes.

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

5. Birds don't sweat

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

7. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts

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

9. The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up
to 95 miles per hour.
10. The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the
flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert

11. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese
emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of
boiling water.
12. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a
week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced
by just 1%, one will feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, one
will die.
13. Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue --
more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears
with its 21-inch tongue
14. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't
Mess with them
15. An elephant can smell water three miles away
16. If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds
17. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
18. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history
19. The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The
giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).
20. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
21. The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning
its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

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

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

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

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

26. 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica
27. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert
28. Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the
winter

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

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

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

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

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

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34. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such
an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than
Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.
35. Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the
United States have a least one radio. Most families have several
radios.

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

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

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

39. Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including
panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. Its scientific name
is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one time,
mountain lions were very common!

40. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those
that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr.
Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot
roar. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15
feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!
Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as
well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on
their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one
slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time!
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1. A mango tree can live and bear fruit up to 300 years.
2. Chocolate doesn't cause pimples and teeth decay.
3. An ostrich's eyes are bigger than its brain.
4. The number of moles on your body increases through exposure to sunlight.
5. Rubber is used to make bubble gum.
6. Water melon is not a fruit but a vegetable from the cucumber family.
7. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.
8. One out of 20 people has an extra rib.
9. When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to
three times of your body weight.
10. A kangaroo can't jump if its tail is off the ground.
11. In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
12. All polar bears are left-handed.
13. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and nobody knows why.






When a person cries and the first drop of tears comes from the right eye, It's happiness, when it's
from the left, It's pain.

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

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

The colder the room you sleep in, the more chance that you'll have a bad dream.

The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."

Four is the only number that has the same amount of letters as its actual value.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

When water freezes it expands by 10%.

The longest English word, at 45 letters, is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'.

The total weight of all the ants on Earth is about the same as the weight of all the humans on the
earth.

Grapes EXPLODE when you put them in the microwave!

2% of Earth's people have red hair.
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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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The power that signals success is the power of your mind.