J.SURIYAN
Thursday 16 January 2014
Sunday 22 December 2013
INTERESTING FACTS
1.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue
out.
2.
A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
3.
People say "Bless you"
when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a milli-second.
4.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over
a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its
head in the sand.
5.
It is physically impossible for pigs
to look up into the sky.
6.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
7.
More than 50% of the people in the
world have never made or received a telephone call.
8.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
9.
If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib.
10.
If you try to suppress a sneeze, you
can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
11.
If you keep your eyes open by force
when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
12.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,
two rats could have over a million descendants.
13.
Wearing headphones for just an hour
will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
14.
In every episode of Seinfeld there
is a Superman somewhere.
15.
The cigarette lighter was invented
before the match.
16.
Thirty-five percent of the people
who use personal ads for dating are already married.
17.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no
one knows why.
18.
23% of all photocopier faults
worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
19.
In the course of an average lifetime
you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
20.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
21.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue
print is different.
22.
Over 75% of people who read this
will try to lick their elbow.
23.
A crocodile can't move its tongue
and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel
nail.
24.
Money notes are not made from paper,
they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a
shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of
wood for a brief period.
25.
The Grammy Awards were introduced to
counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record
executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering
it a threat to "quality" music.
26.
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.
27.
Over the last 150 years the average
height of people in industrialised nations has increased 10 cm (about 4
inches). In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world,
averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m
(5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5")
for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.
28.
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.
29.
Joseph Niepce developed the world's
first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced
the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was
made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp
to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.
30.
In 1935 a writer named Dudley
Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the
Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios. In 1970 George C. Scott
refused the Best Actor Oscar for Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the
Oscar for his role in The Godfather.
31.
The system of democracy was
introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing
body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.
32.
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.
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.
33.
According to a study by the Economic
Research Service, 27% of all food production in Western nations ends up in
garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion people are underfed - the same number of people
who are overweight.
34.
Camels are called "ships of the
desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport
capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps.
The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will not have
a hump.
35.
In the Durango desert, in Mexico,
there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." You can't pick up
clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the
sky.
36.
Ethernet is a registered trademark
of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
37.
Bill Gates' first business was
Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars
passing a given point on a road.
38.
Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90
degrees.
39.
The final resting-place for Dr.
Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer,
trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr.
Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical
problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before
it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the
moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
40.
Outside the USA, Ireland is the
largest software producing country in the world.
41.
The first fossilized specimen of
Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite
song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by the Beatles.
42.
Figlet, an ASCII font converter
program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.
43.
Every human spent about half an hour
as a single cell.
44.
Every year about 98% of atoms in
your body are replaced.
45.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
46.
Plutonium - first weighed on August
20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his
colleagues - was the first man-made element.
47.
If you went out into space, you
would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
48.
The radioactive substance, Americanium
- 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
49.
The original IBM-PCs, that had hard
drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the
fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of
course, a Winchester firearm.
50.
Sound travels 15 times faster
through steel than through the air.
51.
On average, half of all false teeth
have some form of radioactivity.
52.
Only one satellite has been ever
been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
53.
Starch is used as a binder in the
production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink
penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this
is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.
54.
Sterling silver is not pure silver.
Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with
copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.
55.
A ball of glass will bounce higher
than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made
entirely of glass.
56.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch
square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a
city block.
57.
An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic
reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves
nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb.
58.
At a glance, the Celsius scale makes
more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its
creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his
scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No
one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died
to change the scale.
59.
At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km
(620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its
original length.
60.
The first full moon to occur on the
winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter, happened in
1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a
lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon
appeared about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical
orbit that is farthest from the Earth).
Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at that time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this was the closest perigee of the Moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. In places where the weather was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous.
Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at that time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this was the closest perigee of the Moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. In places where the weather was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous.
61.
According to security equipment
specialists, security systems that utilize motion detectors won't function
properly if walls and floors are too hot. When an infrared beam is used in a
motion detector, it will pick up a person's body temperature of 98.6 degrees
compared to the cooler walls and floor.
If the room is too hot, the motion detector won't register a change in the radiated heat of that person's body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home's safety might be compromised if you turn your air conditioning off or set the thermostat too high while on summer vacation.
If the room is too hot, the motion detector won't register a change in the radiated heat of that person's body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home's safety might be compromised if you turn your air conditioning off or set the thermostat too high while on summer vacation.
62.
Western Electric successfully
brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile
communications which culminated in the cellular telephone.
63.
On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone
Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the
transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.
64.
The wick of a trick candle has small
amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting
the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside
the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three),
relights the wick.
65.
Ostriches are often not taken
seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
66.
Seals used for their fur get
extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
67.
Sloths take two weeks to digest
their food.
68.
Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
69.
The pet food company Ralston Purina
recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed
designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting, which is popular in
many areas of the world.
70.
According to the Wall Street
Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million
roosters used for exactly that.
71.
Sharks and rays are the only animals
known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do
with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
72.
The porpoise is second to man as the
most intelligent animal on the planet.
73.
Young beavers stay with their
parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
74.
Skunks can accurately spray their
smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
75.
Deer can't eat hay.
76.
Gopher snakes in Arizona are not
poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like
rattlesnakes.
77.
On average, dogs have better
eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
78.
The duckbill platypus can store as
many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
79.
The lifespan of a squirrel is about
nine years.
80.
North American oysters do not make
pearls of any value.
81.
Human birth control pills work on
gorillas.
82.
Many sharks lay eggs, but
hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of
their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of
their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.
83.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen
hours per day.
84.
A biological reserve has been made
for golden toads because they are so rare.
85.
There are more than fifty different
kinds of kangaroos.
86.
Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy
season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into
normally salty waters where they live.
87.
The female lion does ninety percent
of the hunting.
88.
The odds of seeing three albino deer
at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction,
Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
89.
A group of twelve or more cows is
called a flink.
90.
Cats often rub up against people and
furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as
opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
91.
Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a
day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and
wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
92.
Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an
herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone,
it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain
functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made,
using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up
the plants before they could be put to their intended task.
93.
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they
usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes
into a comatose state that can last for two or more months. The human
equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.
94.
You can tell the sex of a horse by
its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
95.
Money isn't made out of paper; it's
made out of cotton.
96.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle
represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.
97.
Your stomach produces a new layer of
mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
98.
The Declaration of Independence was
written on hemp paper.
99.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh
champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to
the top.
100.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of
Phyllis Diller.
101.
Every person has a unique tongue
print as well as fingerprints.
102.
315 entries in Webster's 1996
Dictionary were misspelled.
103.
On average, 12 newborns will be
given to the wrong parents daily.
104.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben
Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
105.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine
are brother and sister.
106.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by
torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to
explode.
107.
(removed, duplicated)
108.
Donald Duck comics were banned from
Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.
109.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as
medicine.
110.
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.
111.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with
one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
112.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars
given out during World War II were made of wood.
113.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas
gambling casinos.
114.
The name Wendy was made up for the
book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
115.
There are no words in the dictionary
that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
116.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
117.
A tiny amount of liquor on a
scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
118.
The mask used by Michael Myers in
the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
119.
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.
120.
Celery has negative calories! It
takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin
with. It's the same with apples!
121.
Chewing gum while peeling onions
will keep you from crying!
122.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps
is certified kosher.
123.
Guinness Book of Records holds the
record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
124.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat
beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages
them.
125.
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.
126.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps
like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
127.
Of all the words in the English
language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions!
128.
What is called a "French
kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English
kiss" in France.
129.
"Almost" is the longest
word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
130.
"Rhythm" is the longest
English word without a vowel.
131.
In 1386, a pig in France was
executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
132.
A cockroach can live several weeks
with its head cut off.
133.
Human thigh bones are stronger than
concrete.
134.
You can’t kill yourself by holding
your breath
135.
There is a city called Rome on every
continent.
136.
It’s against the law to have a pet
dog in Iceland.
137.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times
a day.
138.
Horatio Nelson, one of England’s
most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure
for his sea-sickness.
139.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is
present at all important meetings of the University of London
140.
Right handed people live, on
average, nine years longer than left-handed people
141.
Your ribs move about 5 million times
a year, everytime you breathe!
142.
The elephant is the only mammal that
can’t jump!
143.
One quarter of the bones in your
body, are in your feet!
144.
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue
print is different!
145.
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
146.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times
faster than toenails!
147.
Most dust particles in your house
are made from dead skin!
148.
The present population of 5 billion
plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
149.
Women blink nearly twice as much as
men.
150.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and
had only ONE testicle.
151.
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.
152.
Months that begin on a Sunday will
always have a "Friday the 13th."
153.
Coca-Cola would be green if
colouring weren’t added to it.
154.
On average a hedgehog’s heart beats
300 times a minute.
155.
More people are killed each year
from bees than from snakes.
156.
The average lead pencil will draw a
line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
157.
More people are allergic to cow’s
milk than any other food.
158.
Camels have three eyelids to protect
themselves from blowing sand.
159.
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in
its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
160.
The six official languages of the
United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
161.
Earth is the only planet not named
after a god.
162.
It’s against the law to burp, or
sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
163.
You’re born with 300 bones, but by
the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
164.
Some worms will eat themselves if
they can’t find any food!
165.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
166.
It is impossible to sneeze with your
eyes open
167.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing
gum is 9000 years old!
168.
The longest recorded flight of a
chicken is 13 seconds
169.
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
170.
Slugs have 4 noses.
171.
Owls are the only birds who can see
the colour blue.
172.
A man named Charles Osborne had the
hiccups for 69 years!
173.
A giraffe can clean its ears with
its 21-inch tongue!
174.
The average person laughs 10 times a
day!
175.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its
brain
176.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months
and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of
coffee.
177.
If you farted consistently for 6
years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic
bomb.
178.
The human heart! creates enough
pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
179.
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
180.
A cockroach will live nine days
without its head before it starves to death!
181.
Banging your head against a wall
uses 150 calories a hour
182.
The flea can jump 350 times its body
length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
183.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste
buds.
184.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
185.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
186.
The strongest muscle in the body is
the tongue.
187.
A cat's urine glows under a black
light.
188.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its
brain.
189.
Starfish have no brains.
190.
Polar bears are left-handed.
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