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7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces
is enough to kill a small sized dog.
10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas g@mbling casin0s.
13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his
moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so
they don't know you're there.
18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid
airborne particles resulting from the flush.
19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
20. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers
in Malaysia combined.
25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you
go instantly.
27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345,
678, 987, 654, 321.
28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "s ub c ont in ent
al".
50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
*Belive it or not.......
1. Guys like their gadgets & bikes more than a girl.
Guys don't actually look after good-looking girls. They prefer neat and
presentable girls.
5. When a guy really likes you, he'll disregard all your bad
characteristics.
10. You have to tell a guy what you really want before he gets
the message clearly.
12. A guy would sacrifice his money for lunch just to get you a
couple of roses.
13. A guy often thinks about the girl who likes him. But this
doesn't mean that the guy likes her.
14. You can never understand him unless you listen to him.
16. Beware. Guys can make gossips scatter through half of the
face of the earth faster than girls can.
17. Like Eve, girls are guys' weaknesses.
19. It's good to test a guy first before you believe him. But don't
let him wait that long.
20. Guys hate it when their clothes get dirty. Even a small dot.
21. Guys really admire girls that they like even if they're not that
much pretty.
22. If a guy tells you about his problems, he just needs someone
to listen to him. You don't need to give advice ... very true.
23. A usual act that proves that the guy likes you is when he
teases you.
27. Girls' height doesn't really matter to a guy but her weight
does! ... very true.
28. Guys tend to get serious with their relationship and become
too possessive. So watch out girls!!!
29. Guys are more talkative than girls are especially when the
topic is about girls.
30. You can truly say that a guy has good intentions if you see
him praying sometimes.
33. Guys love you more than you love them IF they are serious
in your relationships.
Doesn't this all make sense?
HUMAN
The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 200
matches, enough fat for seven bars of soap, and enough iron to make one
nail.
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up,
down, or backward!
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe
are all birds that cannot walk.
The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was
serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a
celebration in Philadelphia . He ran out of cream and substituted ice
cream.
The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining
village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency
operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome , Alaska following a
diphtheria epidemic.
The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of
almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of
Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).
The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von
Richthofen.
The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same
size as a football field.
The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.
The Kama Sutra was written by Mallanga Vatsyayana, who was rumored to
be celibate.
The kangaroo and the emu are shown supporting the shield on Australia
's coat of arms.
The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It
can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at
the peak of its jump.
The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.
The kiwi has nostrils near the tip of its bill that allows it to
sniff the ground for food.
The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make
sexual advances rather than the boy in order to help the men avoid
upsetting the girl's parents.
The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a
dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided
into a dollar).
The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female
blue whale.
The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge . It was sold and
moved Lake Havasu City , AZ in 1971.
The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolokol in the Kremlin in
Moscow . It's 20' 2" high and 21' 8" in diameter. Cast in 1735, it
weighs 222.56 tons and has never been wrung...it cracked before it was
installed.
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 largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell.
It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body
is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much
as a single egg cell.
The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell,
the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
The largest coffee importer center in the U.S. is located in the city
of New Orleans, LA.
The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.
The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and
weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick
in 1930.
The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in
a person weighing 150 pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an
organ, in which case skin would be the largest organ at 384 ounces.
The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25
squar
Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not
have known.
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4-A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's
first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
10-Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other
color.
13-The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It
fell in Montana in 1887
16-Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
18-It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery
had in it to begin with.
22-The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light
to change.
27- 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Facts
Facts:
1) BOOK WITHOUT LETTER 'e':
GADFY , written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book,
which doesn't contain a single word with ' e ' in it
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll
squeeze these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"
Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there... I'm gonna
eat the next thing that comes outta it's bum."
Why does your Obstetrician, Gynaecologist leave the room when you get
undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're
both dogs?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from
vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same
tune?
Stop singing and read on...
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at
you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?
Do you ever wonder why you gave me your e-mail address in the first place?
1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The
Very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion
Amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor
Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health
Scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract,
Fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in
Ancient India.
15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers
Over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley
(Indus Valley Civilisation) .
16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no
Worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the
Mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of
Tradition.
Mark Twain.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men
Have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of
Existence, it is India.
French scholar Romain Rolland.
In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3
million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels. :
The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same. : :The
world's first test-tube twins were born in June 1981. :
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.In a year, a person`s heart beats
40,000,000 times.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of :blood vessels. : :Nerve impulses to
and from the brain travel as fast as 170 :miles per hour.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for :your heart.
You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year. :
The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
The average human's heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime. The average human will
pump 48 million gallons of blood in :their lifetime. : :You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.
The average human body contains enough: Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to
make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire :a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to
make :2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
:Among the first known "dentists" of the world were the Etruscans. :In 700 BC they carved false
teeth from the teeth of various :mammals :and produced partial bridgework good enough to eat
with.
Ophthalmic surgery was one of the most advanced areas of medicine in the ancient world.
Detailed descriptions of delicate cataract surgery with sophisticated needle syringes is contained
in the medical writings of Celsus (A.D.14-37)
If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from :the microorganisms on your
body. According to the World Health Organization, there are :approximately 100 million acts of
sexual intercourse each day.
Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life. :
When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk's
calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's
telephones put together. THE TYANA TABLOID : 2 APRIL 2000
We have a a whole pharmacy within us. We can create any drug inside us.
Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly - we ,make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin
every month. We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!
Isn't it strange how a 20 rupee note seems like such a large amount when you
donate it to temple, but such a small amount when you go shopping?
Isn't it strange how 2 hours seem so long when you're at Temple, and how short
they seem when you're watching a good movie?
Isn't it strange that you can't find a word to say when you're praying, but you have
no trouble thinking what to talk about with a friend?
Isn't it strange how difficult and boring it is to read one chapter of the Bhagwad
Gita, but how easy it is to read 100 pages of a popular novel ?
Isn't it strange how we need to know about an event for Temple 2-3 weeks before
the day so we can include it in our agenda, but we can adjust it for other events
in the last minute?
Isn't it strange how difficult it is to learn a fact about God to share it with others,
but how easy it is to learn, understand, extend and repeat gossip?
Isn't it strange how we believe everything that magazines and newspapers say,
but we question the words in the Bhagwad Gita?
Isn't it strange how everyone wants a place in heaven, but they don't want to
believe, do, or say anything to get there?
Isn't it strange how we send jokes in e-mails and they are forwarded right away,
but when we are going to send Messages about God, we think about it twice
before we share it with others?
24. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be
able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after
such a large amount. (Common Sense)
23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, did the voice of
Shredder in the TMNT cartoon.
21. The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone
just knows the first one.
20. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to
manage their death/concentration camps.
19. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier
than the weight of the human population.
18. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil
war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who
thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people
die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of
people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now,
than before you finished reading this.
15. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the
number of all the people that have died. Ever.
14. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and
eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
13. The Kamp Krusty episode of the Simpson's was originally meant to
be made as the Simpsons movie.
10. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to
human beings and animals than to other plants.
7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
6. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.
Long Beach, WA.
2. 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.
1. The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas
5) Crocodile:
Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating.
They are
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1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without
food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp
teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the
body of the animal.
8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger
like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say DADDY': LIPS
2) What goes up & never comes down:AGE
3) Patches over patches but no stitches:CABBAGE
4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you: FUTURE
5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves: ROAD
6) You can never wet it:SHADOW
7) What belongs to You, but used by your friends more often you do: YOUR NAME
F1 car engines last only for about 2 hours of racing mostly before
blowing up on the other hand we expect our engines to last us for a
decent 20yrs on an average and they quite faithfully DO....thats the
extent to which the engines r pushed to perform...
In a street course race like the Monaco grand prix, the down force
provides enough suction to lift manhole covers. Before the race all of
the manhole covers on the streets have to be welded down to prevent
this from happening!
Normal tyres last 60 000 - 100 000 km. Racing tyres are designed
to last 90 - 120 km.
Hitler loved animals, and was quite merciful towards them. History's most feared man was also a strict
vegetarian.
Pictured here in his judo gear, Putin was originally turned down by his judo instructors. The teachers didn't
think that 14-year-old Vladimir was tall enough.
But young Vladimir didn't lose hope. Today, Russian President Putin has a black belt in judo!
Late Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was deeply interested in politics, so
much so that it took him seven years to graduate!
Not without a sense of humor, Yasser is known to have guests wait so he can watch his favorite television
show, Tom & Jerry!
At age four, the Dalai Lama was named the Supreme head of Tibet!
Having authored over 500 books, his primary hobby still remains collecting and repairing watches!
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back
of the $5 bill.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never
end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average
of 6 months waiting at red lights.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.
"Stewardesses " is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of die! Sel that
it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the l! Azy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read
left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row of the keyboard.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition
For the executives of the Decca Recording Company.
The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians,
One executive said, " We don't like! Their sound. Groups of guitars are
On the way out."
The group was called
The Beatles.
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Marilyn Monroe.
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When
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb,
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In the 1940s, another young inventor named
Chester Carlson
Took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in
The country.
They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections,
He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid Company,
To purchase the rights to his invention--an electrostatic
Paper-copying process.
Haloid became
Xerox Corporation.
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At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on
And began to
Walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk,
Which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner.
She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every
Race she entered,
She came in last.
Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she
Actually won a race.
And then another. >From then on she won every race she entered.
Eventually this little girl--
Albert Einstein
MORAL:
WINNERS NEVER QUIT...QUITTERS NEVER WIN
Interesting Facts:
13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los
Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, L.A.
14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was
sewn up after surgery.
17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.
21. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
23. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words
without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her,
here, ere, therein, herein.
24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
27. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
28. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
30. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
31. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left
hand.
33. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the
following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful
ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a
slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
34. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is
uncopyrightable.
35. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as
does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
36. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal
for that reason.
37. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
38. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat,"
which means "the king is dead."
39. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when
the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor
and figured out how to walk up straight staircases
7. Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go
until
you could find the letter (alphabet) 'A' ?
A. One thousAnd.
11. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a
month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his
son-in-law
with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because
their
calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or
what
we know today as "the *honeymoon*".
12. Last but not least: In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was
entitled Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden and thus the word *GOLF*
entered into the English language.
PEARLS MELT
IN VINEGAR!
[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 a
night.
[9] Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune
system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.
Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
[10] Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "It takes a strong man to make a
tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to
make a chicken affectionate."
[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
[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
[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
[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
[33] It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body
[34] The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
[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
[40] The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its
head are the rabbit and the parrot
[41] Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
[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)
[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!!
Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
Every second, 8000 Coca-Cola Company products are consumed in the world.
In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia for only five cents
a glass. A pharmacist named John Pemberton created the formula for Coca-cola.
In 1929, the Coca-Cola slogan was "The Pause That Refreshes."
Pepsi got its name from the ingredient pepsin, which is said to aid in digestion, however,
it is not known.
The Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages.
The citrus soda "7 UP" was created in 1929. The original name of the popular drink was
"Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", but it got changed to "7 UP."
The oldest major soft drink in America is Dr. Pepper, which originated in Waco, Texas in
1885.
The original name for the soft drink Pepsi was "Brad's Drink."
The reason the soft drink Dr Pepper is called that is because the inventor Wade Morrison
named it after Dr. Charles Pepper who had given him his first job.
When Coca-Cola was invented, American tourists that visited Spain were surprised to see
that Coke was three times as expensive as a glass of brandy.
1. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
2. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
3. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
6. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
7. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
9. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the
system
and be excreted.
10. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
11. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
12. 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.
14. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles
bursting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles
bursting.
1. Bangalore has the impeccable record of highest growth within a span of 20 Years
4. Bangalore has the highest number of software companies in India-212, followed by Hyderabad - 108,
Pune - 97. Hence called the Silicon Valley of India
5. Bangalore has 21 engineering colleges, which is highest in the world in a given city. Bangalore
University has 57 Engineering colleges affiliated to it, which is highest in the world.
6. Bangalore is the only city in the world to have commercial and defense Airport operating from the same
strip.
7. Bangalore has highest number of public sectors and government Organizations in India.
8. Bangalore university has highest number of students going abroad for higher studies taking the first
place from IIT-Kanpur.
9. Bangalore has only 48% of local population (i.e.Kannadigas) .Hence a true cosmopolitan with around
25% Tamilians, 14% Telugites, 10% Keralites, 8% Europeans, and 6% a mixture of all races.
10. Bangalore police has the reputation of being second best in India after Delhi.
15. Bangalore has produced the maximum international sportsmen in India for all sports ahead of even
Mumbai & Delhi.
16. Bangalore has produced the maximum number of scientists considered for Nobel Prize nominations.
17. Bangalore has produced the highest number of professionals in USA almost 60% of the Indian
population abroad is from Bangalore (except Gulf).
18. Bangalore is famous for THREE: Software Professionals, Girls and Dogs.
19. Bangalore is famous for its dog bites, an average of 12 people are bitten by stray dogs per MINUTE
somewhere in Bangalore!!! !!!!!