Strange but True Facts

In 1783, an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.

About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea.

A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.

Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.

Beaver Lake, in Yellowstone Park, USA, was artificially created by beaver damming.

Off the coast of Florida there is an underwater hotel. Guests have to dive to the entrance.

Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.

The Ancient Egyptians worshiped a sky goddess called Nut.

The world's windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica.

In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA.

American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times.

The desert baobab tree can store up to 1000 litres of water in its trunk.

The oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name 'Methuselah'. It is about 4600 years old.

The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in California. It is 84 meters tall and measures 29 meters round the trunk.

The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus. It can grow 10 meters a year.

The Antartic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea.

The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.

The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death because its pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby.

Tibet is the highest country in the world. Its average height above sea level is 4500 meters.

Fresh water from the River Amazon can be found up to 180 km out to sea.

The White Sea, in Russia, has the lowest temperature, only -2 degrees centigrade. The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.

There is no land at all at the North Pole, only ice on top of sea. The Arctic Ocean has about 12 million sq km of floating ice and has the coldest winter temperature of -34 degrees centigrade.

The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.

Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.

Maths Miracle

111/(1+1+1) = 37

222/(2+2+2) = 37

333/(3+3+3) = 37

444/(4+4+4) = 37

555/(5+5+5) = 37

666/(6+6+6) = 37

777/(7+7+7) = 37

888/(8+8+8) = 37

999/(9+9+9) = 37

Twenty Five More Facts

1. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously
from the bottom of the glass to the top.

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

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.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

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. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK?
It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

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.

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

Know some facts about your Body

-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.

-You use 200 muscles to take one step.

-The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.

-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

-Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.

-A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.

-The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.

-The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

-It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

-The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.

-At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.

-There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

-Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.

-Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.

-Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.

Ten Interesting Informations

-> The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

-> Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

-> The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

-> The youngest pope was 11 years old.

-> Thomas Alva Edison's autobiography is 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'.

-> Ruth Handler is the inventor of Barbie Doll.

-> The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

-> Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

-> The first dog of US is Miss Beazley.

-> Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented.
It was ruled "Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden" and thus the word "GOLF"
entered into the English language.

General Facts

* Most cats are left pawed.

* 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

* A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

* You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!

* The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

* The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and 

a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

* Shape of the backbone is important to have sufficient breathing.

* Tortoise has very sharp teeth it can rip open the stomach of whale with its teeth.

* The words 'racecar,' 'kayak', 'malayalam' and 'level' are the same whether they are 

read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

* There are more chickens than people in the world.

* There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.

* Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

* Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.

* Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.

* An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.

* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand and

"lollipop" with your right hand.

* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on

one row of the keyboard.

Thity Nine Interesting Facts

1. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

2. Kangaroos can not walk backwards.

3. 'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

4. Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.

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

6. Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

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

8. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

9. The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.

10. On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

11. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

12. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

13. Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

14. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline.

15. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

16. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

17. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

18. How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.

19. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

20. In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!

21. The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

22. During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.

23. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.

24. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

25. There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.

26. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

27. More than 2 million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.

28. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

29. Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!

30. According to a recent survey, more than half of British adults have had sex in a public place!

31. The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!

32. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

33. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die!

34. The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.

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

36. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

37. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

38. Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.

39. One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.

What Are They

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 to You, but used by your friends more often you do:
*-* YOUR NAME

Fifty Facts

1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK?
It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously
from the bottom of the glass to the top.

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

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.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

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 gambling 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.

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was
talked out of it by her doctor.

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.

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.

40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in
Sri Lanka.

46. There are more chickens than people in the world.

47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

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.

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Wonderfully Described Definitions

definition of cigarette
CIGARETTE:
A pinch of tobacco
rolled in paper
with fire at one end
and a fool at the other!


definition of marriage
MARRIAGE:
It's an agreement
wherein
a man loses his bachelor degree
and a woman gains her master

definition of lecture
LECTURE:
An art of transmitting Information
from the notes of the lecturer
to the notes of students
without passing through the minds
of either
definition of conference
CONFERENCE:
The confusion of one man
multiplied by the
number present

definition of compromise
COMPROMISE:
The art of dividing
a cake in such a way that
everybody believes
he got the biggest piece

definition of TEARS
TEARS:
The hydraulic force by which
masculine will power is
defeated by feminine water-power!

definition of dictionary
DICTIONARY:
A place where divorce comes
before marriage

definition of conference room
CONFERENCE ROOM:
A place where everybody talks,
nobody listens
and everybody disagrees later on

definition of ecstasy
ECSTASY:
A feeling when you feel
you are going to feel
a feeling
you have never felt before

definition of classic
CLASSIC:
A book
which people praise,
but never read

definition of smile
SMILE:
A curve
that can set
a lot of things straight!

definition of office
OFFICE:
A place
where you can relax
after your strenuous
home life
definition of yawn
YAWN:
The only time
when some married men
ever get to open
their mouth

definition of etc
ETC:
A sign
to make others believe
that you know
more than
you actually do

definition of committee
COMMITTEE:
Individuals
who can do
nothing individually
and sit to decide
that nothing can be done
together

definition of experience
EXPERIENCE:
The name
men give
to their
Mistakes

definition of atom bomb
ATOM BOMB:
An invention
to bring an end
to all
inventions

definition of philosopher
PHILOSOPHER:
A fool
who torments himself
during life,
to be spoken of
when dead
definition of diplomat
DIPLOMAT:
A person
who tells you
to go to hell
in such a way
that you actually look forward
to the trip

definition of opportunist
OPPORTUNIST:
A person
who starts taking bath
if he
accidentally falls
into a river

definition of optimist
OPTIMIST:
A person
who while falling
from EIFFEL TOWER
says in midway
"SEE I AM NOT INJURED YET!"

definition of pessimist
PESSIMIST:
A person
who says that
O is the last letter
in ZERO,
Instead of the first letter
in OPPORTUNITY

definition of miser
MISER:
A person
who lives poor
so that
he can die RICH!

definition of father
FATHER:
A banker
provided by
nature

definition of criminal
CRIMINAL:
A guy
no different
from the other,
unless he gets caught

definition of boss
BOSS:
Someone
who is early
when you are late
and late
when you are early

definition of politician
POLITICIAN:
One who
shakes your hand
before elections
and your Confidence
Later

definition of doctor
DOCTOR:
A person
who kills
your ills
by pills,
and kills you
by his bills!

Amazing Facts

# Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
# It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
# Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
# Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
# The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
#Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
# Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
# To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow Then it is ripe.
# Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a Person from stop producing tears.
# Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
# Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
# Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears Never stop growing.
# Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
# Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
# Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.

Interesting Amazing Facts

Read this ....Its amazing !!!

Interestingly Amazing Facts and never heard before!

1. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

2. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

3. The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab Fisherman.

4. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.

5. An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

6. All babies are color blind when they are born.

7. There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!

8. A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

9. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

10. SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.

Twenty More Facts

1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK?

It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha,

the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2. A raising dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down

continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

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.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

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 gambling 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.

Interesting Facts

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word.

A flight that starts from Japan (Tokyo) today at 6:00 am will reach
Canada yesterday at 5:30 pm.

World's shortest horror story by Martin Garner contains only the following lines:
"When the world's last man was alone in his room, the door was knocked".

Do you know why July and August have 31 days continuously?
All months are named after GREEK emperors.
Julius and Augastius, were lovable friends.
So Julius (July) gave equal importance to his friend Augastius (August).
So both have 31 days.

The letters 'A','B','C','D' do not appear in the spellings of 1 to 99.
The letter 'D' appears 1st time in HUNDRED,
The letter 'A' appears 1st time in THOUSAND,
The letter 'B' appears 1st time in BILLION,
The letter 'C' appears 1st time in CRORE.

Awesome Informations

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.









The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.








Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toe nails!








Early Romans used to used porcupine quills as toothpicks.







Walt Disney had originally suggested using
the name Mortimer Mouse instead of
Mickey Mouse.









When Queen Elizabeth I of England died she owned over 3,000 gowns.








The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.









Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world.

Excellence of Mathematics

Here is an interesting and lovely way to look at the beauty of Mathematics.













1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 987 65
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn’t it?

And look at this symmetry:
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

Some Interesting Informations

*Dancing MahaRaja is the japanese version of the Tamil feature film Muthu

and it's second part is Dancing Maharaja 2 which is the dubbing of Yejamaan.

Both the movies are Rajinikanth's.

*Name of Four queens in Playing Cards are Juno, Judith, Rachel and Pallas Anthena.

*The series is 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211,13112221. Description of previous

number in the series (....one occurence of 3, one occurence of one).

*It is impossible to lick your elbow.

*Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented.

It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF

entered into the English language.

*Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

*Ruth Handler is the inventor of Barbie Doll.

*The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

*Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades - King David

Hearts - Charlemagne

Clubs -Alexander, the Great

Diamonds - Julius Caesar

*The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

Easy Difficult

Easy to occupy a place in the telephone directory.

Difficult to occupy the heart of somebody

Easy to judge the errors of others.

Difficult to recognize our own errors.

Easy to hurt those whom we love.

Difficult to heal those wounds.

Easy to forgive others.

Difficult to ask for forgiveness.

Easy to exhibit victory.

Difficult to assume defeat with dignity.

Easy to dream every night.

Difficult to fight for a dream.

Easy to pray every night.

Difficult to find God in the smallest of things.

Easy to say we love.

Difficult to demonstrate it every day.

Easy to criticize everybody.

Difficult to better / perfect ourselves.

Easy to think of improving.

Difficult to stop thinking & really do it.

Easy to receive.

Difficult to give.

Interesting Facts

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known:

* The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.

* Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

* A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.

* Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The Wright brother's invented the airplane.

* There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.

* One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

* The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language;
192 Slugs have four noses.

* Sharks can live up to 100 years.

* Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb.
The survivor is born.

* Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

* About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.

* The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick.
It fell in Montana in 1887.

* The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.

* Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.

* Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.

* There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.

* It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.

* The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.

* Octopus have three hearts.

* If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.

* The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

* 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.

* The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.

* Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.

* Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.