Showing posts with label Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facts. Show all posts

Friday, May 8, 2009

Interesting Facts Eight

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1. Snakes smell with their tongue.
2. Brain has no sensation even when it is cut.
3. Humming bird can fly backwards without a stop for some 800 kilometers.
4. The biggest flower in the world is Rafflesia. Its diameter is about one meter and weighs around 11kgs.
5. Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
6. Ten tonnes of earth dust falls on Earth everyday.
7. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons on an average.
8. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to move around the whole body.
9. Every year the moon moves 3.92cm away from the earth.
10. If you keep a gold fish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

SMS Facts and Quotes

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I am not exactly sure if this is true or not but any I got a message to my mobile that said the following facts:
An F1 car is made up of 80,000 components. If it were arranged 99.9% correctly, there are at least some 80 things to go wrong.
An F1 driver on an average loses 4kg after every race due to prolonged exposure of high gravitational forces and temperatures in one hour.
An F1 car's electrical system consists of nearly 2.5 km of wires.
An F1 steering wheel alone costs around 15,000 Euros which is entirely made up of carbon fibre.

Never allow a girl to talk too much to you,
Else,
later, she will make you talk a lot alone... - Bernard Shaw.

Winning isn't everything,
but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi.

Last lines of broken heart to the lover:
Should I forget to wish you every morning or Should I wish to forget you every morning...

I got these two as mokkai(poor joke) of the day.
A guy in a town was taking care of a crow. That crow was very soft it seems. And that guy wanted to keep a name for that crow. So what do u think would that name be????
Answer: "MI CRO SOFT"...

What would you call a person who is leaving India??
Answer: "HINDUSTAN LEVER"....

Monday, December 8, 2008

Interesting Facts Seven

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  • Two rats can produce one lakh rats in 18 months.
  • 111111111*111111111=12345678987654321. Is it not great magic with these numbers???
  • Elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.
  • The most fleshy part in our body is the tongue.
  • Our heart does not beat when we sneeze.
  • Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
  • The first owner of Marlboro cigarette company died due to lung cancer.
  • Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of telephone, never called his wife nor his mother because they both were deaf.
  • I am is the shortest complete sentence in English.
  • The world's thinnest book has only one word written in it: "Everything" and the book is titled: "What A Human Wants".

Monday, December 1, 2008

Facts About Kashmir

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I came to know few facts about Kashmir from my friends which I would like to share. Those are as follows.
  • It is the only that has two capitals.
  • People living in Kashmir have two citizenships.
  • Outsiders cannot buy a single feet of land in Kashmir.
  • If a girl living in Kashmir marries an outsider, then she loses her identity immediately.
  • This is the only state in India that has its own flag.
  • There is no land tax or property tax for the people in Kashmir.
  • The price of rice,wheat,sugar and oil are the same for the past 50 years and due to this there is a loss of 1000 crores every year for India.
But what ever may be the loss or rules over there it is the paradise for India.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Interesting Facts Six

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  • The name of all the continents start and end with the same letter.
  • The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
  • Wearing a head phone for just an hour will increase the bacteria content in your ears by 700 times.
  • It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
  • Like the finger prints, everyone's tongue prints are also unique.
  • It snowed in Sahara desert on February 18,1979.
  • A lion's roar can be heard from 5 miles away.
  • It is now possible to print human skin with an ink jet printer.
  • Chennai is the only city in India that was attacked during the first world war.
  • According to Bible a person lived for 969 years.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Interesting Facts Five

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  • A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  • In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
  • It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  • Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  • A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
  • Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand in a keyboard.
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
  • 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 lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
  • Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Interesting Facts Four

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  • Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  • Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials and would test their property by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the Cyano-Acrylite, he couldn't get the prism apart.
  • Only a checkered flag is waved to indicate the end of a race as the car passes the finish line.
  • The most venomous of all snakes is the Inland Taipan, which has enough venom in one bite to kill more than 200,000 mice.
  • There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
  • The poison arrow frog South and Central America is the most poisonous animal in the world.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Interesting Facts Three

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  • The largest bowling center in the world is the Tokyo World Lanes Bowling Center with 252 bowling lanes.
  • The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1680 hours long,that's 70 straight days.
  • A tennis ball was volleyed back and forth 2001 times by Howard Kinsey and Mrs. R. Roark.
  • One of the longest sentences is in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. 823 words without a period.
  • The biggest swimming pool in the world opened in Toronto,Ontario in 1925. It is 300 by 75 feet that can hold 2000 swimmers and is still in operation.
  • On an average, gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
  • A sloth can take two weeks to digest its food.
  • Sharks and ray s are the only animals that don't get any form of cancer. Scientists believe that it is because they don't have bones, only cartilage.
  • The duck-billed platypus stored as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
  • Skunks known for their smelly defense, can accurately spray the fluid as far as ten feet.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Interesting Facts Two

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  • The word DREAMT is the only common word in the English language that ends with letters "MT".
  • Albert Einstein never wore socks.
  • In space astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.
  • The lighter was invented before match sticks.
  • An average person has over 1460 dreams a year.
  • The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system employing over 1.6 million people.
  • All babies are color blind when they are born.
  • Children grow faster in spring time than in any other time in the year.
  • Babies born on may are, on an average, 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.
  • There was no punctuation until the 15th Century.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Interesting Facts One

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

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

11. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

12. A duck’s quack does not echo and no one knows why.

13. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

14. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “Go Hang Yourself”.

15. Most alcoholic beverages contain all the 13 minerals necessary to sustain the human life.

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