Saturday, April 18, 2009

AMAZING FACTS

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

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


* No piece of square dry paper can be folded more
than 7 times in half.


    * A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.


    * The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can
pull 30 times its   own weight and always falls over
on its right side when intoxicated.

    * Starfishes haven't got brains.

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

    * More people are killed annually by donkeys than
die in air crashes.

    * A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

    * Every year some 50million cars are added to the
world's roads. Car making is now the largest
manufacturing industry in the world.

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

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

    * Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of
the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in
the world

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

    * Did you know that 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? Amazing fact! Now imagine an eraser that could
match it !!!

Weird Information

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

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

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

* China has more English speakers than the United
States.

* A cockroach will live nine days without its head,
before it starves to death.

* Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the
only animals that can't jump.

* There are more chickens than people in the world.

* A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

* A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked
by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his
pocket.

* There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball


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