Some Interesting Facts

 
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  • China has more English speakers than the United States!
  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
  • The first known newspaper was 'Acte Diurna' (Daily Happenings) in Ancient Rome, published from 59 BC to AD 222!
  • Did you know that you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world!
  • "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language!
  • Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs have only 10!
  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing!
  • If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck!
  • A cockroach can live for nine days without its head, before it starves to death!
  • Butterflies taste with their feet!
  • Elephants are the only animals that can't jump!
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain! Starfish does not have brains!
  • The coccyx, a small triangular bone at the end of the spine, is the most useless bone that is hardly of any purpose!
  • A starfish has an eye on the end of each arm. So some starfish has five eyes, while some have as many as twenty eyes!
  • On an average, a normal person's eye muscles move about 100,000 to 150,000 times in one day!
  • The epic 'Mahabharatha' has 100,000 couplets and is the longest poem ever written!
  • The letter 'O' is the most ancient letter in the modern Roman alphabet, the only one that had remained unchanged since its invention about 3300 years ago!

 

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