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Interesting and amazing facts
Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known. I hope that you will read this articles and tell to your friends, with best regard Bisnar.
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Of all the words in the English language, the word ''set'' has the most definitions!
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
You can''t kill yourself by holding your breath
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
It''s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Horatio Nelson, one of England''s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
The elephant is the only mammal that can''t jump!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone''s tongue print is different!
The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
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.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring werent added to it.
On average a hedgehog''s heart beats 300 times a minute.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
More people are allergic to cow''s milk than any other food.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The placement of a donkey''s eyes in its'' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
It''s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
You''re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
Some worms will eat themselves if they can''t find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
Slugs have 4 noses.
Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
The average person laughs 10 times a day!
An ostrich''s eye is bigger than its brain
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One of these amazing, but useless facts is false. Do you know which
one?
1. The Bible, the world''s best-selling book, is also the world''s most shoplifted book.
2. Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film ''Some Like It Hot''.
3. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
4. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
5. In the U.S.A over eleven thousand people (up until the end of 2003) have visited a tortilla chip that appears to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it?
6. A kiss lasting one minute can burn more than 100 calories.
7. Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.
8. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
9. Abraham Lincoln''s mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
10. After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
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. A 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
8. Slugs have four noses
9. Sharks can live up to 100 years
10. Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
11. Kangaroos can''t walk backwards
12. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday
13. The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887
14. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
15. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency
16. Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
17. There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
18. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
19. The world''s largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002
20. Octopus have three hearts
21. If you ate too many carrots, you''d turn orange
22. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
23. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old
24. The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
25. Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs
26. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother''s womb. The survivor is born.
27. Most cats are left pawed
28. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
29. A Blue whale''s tongue weighs more than an elephant
30. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
31. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours
32. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
33. Bone is five times stronger than steel.
Did You know - The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.
A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that''s really fast! The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).
a cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
A Zipper joins two pieces of material together.A zipper is used everywhere, on clothing, pencil cases, boots and suitcases, wallets, and a zillion other things. Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn''t get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure".
Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES
The original name for the butterfly was ''flutterby''!
(Picture of a grizzly bear)
Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallest species of bears is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world''s largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)
(frog)
The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as ''eggs'' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.
There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.
No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.
How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? Most animals dont eat moss. Its hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why? The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezingmuch as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter
Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases. If you dig in your backyard, dont worry about running into the earths core. Youd have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
-A chameleon''s tongue is twice the length of its body.
-A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can''t.
-A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
-About 10% of the world''s population is left-handed.
-A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
-A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet
-A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
-A zebra is white with black stripes.
- Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using "echolocation". The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.
- The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.
-A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
The world''s largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
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 world''s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
-- How the wind blows. As the sun warms the earths surface, the atmosphere warms too. Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air is what makes the wind blow.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
--Why do we might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one? . Dark colors absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. When light shines on your dark jacket, the jacket fabric absorbs light energy. The absorbed light energy causes electrons in the atoms of the jacket to vibrate. This activity releases heat energy, which makes the jacketand youwarmer. That''s why we like to wear more dark colors in winter and more light colors in summer.
-While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.
-At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
--A flute made of bone is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. Its a flute carved from a birds wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China.
- The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago
-- Glue dates back to prehistoric times. Artists once mixed colorings with raw eggs, dried blood, and plant juices to make sticky paints for cave murals. Later, ancient Egyptians and other people learned to make stronger glues by boiling animal bones and hides. Today companies make glues using synthetic substances.
-A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
-A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
-A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.
-The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!
- The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
- At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
-You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
- Of all the words in the English language, the word '' set '' has the most definitions!
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!-
- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-A cat''s jaws cannot move sideways.
-More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
- "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
- No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
- An ostrich''s eye is bigger than its brain.
-An ostrich''s eye is bigger than its brain.
The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
- All polar bears are left handed.
-Ants don''t sleep.
The word "racecar", "kayak", and "radar" are the same
whether they are read left to right or right to left.
"a man a plan a canal panama"
spelled backwards is still
"a man a plan a canal panama"
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