| Did You Know? * Giant Panda Bears give birth to a 4 ounce Baby Panda. * If you cut a ?V? shape into your toe nails, you can prevent ?in-grown? toe nails. * Strawberries have more vitamin C than oranges. * A broken clock is always right twice a day. * Your skin is actually an organ. * An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet. * Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this. * A lion?s roar can be heard from more than five miles away. * Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead. Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen. * By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors. * Common pesticides such as roach, termite, and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans. * In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people?s clothes. * No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times. * According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the ?floor?. * The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for ?To Insure Prompt Service?. * X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait. * Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes. * A million dollars? worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds. * The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft. * Bananas aren?t fruit! They are a type of herb. * Albert Einstein never wore any socks. * A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court. * An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer. * The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field. * Cashew nut shells contain oil that is extremely irritating to human skin. * By law, in Bourbon, Miss., one small onion must be served with each glass of water in a restaurant. * Dragonflies can travel up to 60 mph * The first cell phone was invented in 1924. * Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas. * All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator. * You weigh less at the top of a mountain than at sea level. * During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water. * Males sweat 40% more than females. * The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap. * The cost to build the Empire State Building was $40,948,900. * For the 1939 movie ?Gone With the Wind? 1,400 actresses were interviewed to play the part of Scarlett O?Hara. * Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids. * Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 US states. * The average height of an NBA basketball player is 6 feet 7 inches. * The fastest running bird is the Ostrich, which has been clocked at 97.5 kilometers per hour. * The 1912 Olympics was the last Olympics that gave out gold medals that were made entirely out of gold. * The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels. * Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side. * Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic {one who has difficulty in reading & in spellings}, and he often wrote backwards. * Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don?t. * Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand. * President George W Bush is related to all other US Presidents. * According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women. * Originally, Du Pont, Inc was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey. * Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males. * Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow. * The Earth?s atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons. * In Japan, condoms are commonly sold ?door to door?. * About 1 in 30 people in the US are in jail, on probation, or on parole. * Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work. * Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood. * The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation. * One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tattooed. * If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones will rise to the top. * There are 11 towns in the US named Moscow. * The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922. * Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks. * The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap. * The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined. * Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains. * When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight. * Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food. * The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001. * Nearly 50% of the world?s scientists are assigned to military projects. * Cashew nut shells contain oil that is extremely irritating to human skin. * Approximately one-third of the people can?t snap their fingers. * Stilts were invented by French shepherds, who needed a way to get around in wet marshes. * A chameleon?s tongue is twice the length of its body. * The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion. * Black Whales are born white. * If you?re over 100 years old, there?s an 80% chance you?re a woman. * On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth. * The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side. * Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores. * A snail can sleep for three years. * Turtles can breathe through their butts. * It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth. * Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa. * Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable. * Until the 1960?s men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland. * If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off. * In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited. * America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation. * You?re 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA as in France. * For every ?normal? webpage, there are five porn pages. * Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam. * First four countries to have television: England, the US, the USSR and Brazil. * More popcorn is eaten at scary movies than non-scary movies. * Cat urine glows under a black light. * Apples not Caffeine are more efficient in waking you up in the morning. * Mouse sex only lasts five seconds. * Three of every 4 creatures on Earth are insects. * Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world?s food supply each year. * The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. * 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world?s widest road. * Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight. * Alaska has a sand desert with dunes over 100 feet high. * No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man. * An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet. * So that?s how they cheat - a micro-waved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball. * 10 percent of the Russian government?s income comes from the sale of vodka. * The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats. * A comet?s tail always points away from the sun. * The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person?s life. * The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation. * A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume. * The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man. * Goat?s milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow?s milk. * The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard. * A hedgehog?s heart beats 300 times a minute on average. * Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone. * Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater. * One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes. * The best diamonds are colored blue-white. * When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. * Cold water weighs more than hot water. * Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women. * In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi. * Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting. * The first McDonald?s restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich. * Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays. * Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them. * You can start a fire with ice. * An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet. * An average home creates more pollution than does the average car. * Approximately 10.5 gallons of water are used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water. * One of Hewlett Packard?s first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher. * As you age, your eye color gets lighter. * There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India. * The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows. * The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. * The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. * The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. * There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows). * The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year. * It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest. * Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years. * The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime. * Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else. * Astronauts get taller when they are in space. * The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. * The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger. * The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain. * After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp. * Butterflies taste with their feet. * An ostrich?s eye is bigger than it?s brain. * 66% of home based businesses are owned by women. * There are 293 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. * Iguanas can recognize their human handlers and greet them differently, compared with strangers. * Krispy Kreme make five million doughnut a day. ***** more tid-bits will be added soon ***** |
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