- The farther back you sit in an airplane, the greater your odds of survival in the event of a crash.
- 1 out of every 100 people are psychopaths and they look just like everybody else.
- If you sneeze while driving at 70mph, you will have traveled about 300 feet with your eyes closed.
- Humpback whales have been known to form lifelong friendships and visit their pals each year.
- If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you’ll lose more energy than you’ll gain from actually eating it.
- It snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes on the 18th February 1979.
- In Hungary the groom drinks a toast to his bride out of her wedding slipper.
- A person who is unable to take a straight shot of liquor, or makes a disgusted face after doing so, is often called a "paper-belly."
- There's a Japanese word for that "we could fall in love" feeling you sometimes get when first meeting a person -- It's "Koi No Yokan".
- Panama is the only place in the world where one can see the sun rise on the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic.
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Stuff that you don't want to miss
Monday, 14 January 2013
Shocking Facts
1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.
2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.
3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.
4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.
5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.
6. If you dug a well to the center of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.
7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.
8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.
9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off.
10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.
12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.
13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.
14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.
15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.
16. Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.
17. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.
18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.
19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
20. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.
2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.
3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.
4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.
5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.
6. If you dug a well to the center of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.
7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.
8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.
9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off.
10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.
12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.
13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.
14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.
15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.
16. Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.
17. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.
18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.
19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
20. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Least Known facts
1. Russia and Japan are still technically at war because both countries still haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II.
2. Alice in Wonderland was banned in China because the government believed the idea of talking animals was an insult to humans.
3. The original Macintosh had the signatures of the 47 top members of the Mac team engraved on the inside.
4. George Washington used to grow cannabis in his garden and he was the owner of the largest whiskey distillery in the U.S.
5. There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
6. In Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, oil is cheaper than water.
7. In Sweden, it is illegal for you to name your child 'Ikea'.
8. Babies start learning language from their mothers while in the womb.
9. If you could stack all the beer cans consumed in the U.S. each year, it would reach the moon 20 times.
10. If you are 6 feet 2 inches tall, then you are taller than 94% of the world.
2. Alice in Wonderland was banned in China because the government believed the idea of talking animals was an insult to humans.
3. The original Macintosh had the signatures of the 47 top members of the Mac team engraved on the inside.
4. George Washington used to grow cannabis in his garden and he was the owner of the largest whiskey distillery in the U.S.
5. There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
6. In Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, oil is cheaper than water.
7. In Sweden, it is illegal for you to name your child 'Ikea'.
8. Babies start learning language from their mothers while in the womb.
9. If you could stack all the beer cans consumed in the U.S. each year, it would reach the moon 20 times.
10. If you are 6 feet 2 inches tall, then you are taller than 94% of the world.
Thursday, 3 January 2013
Facts about Adolf Hitler
- Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria on April 20, 1889.
- Adolf Hitler was a painter and was deeply interested in art. He had made hundreds of drawings and paintings.
- Hitler endured and survived four years in World War I. During this time, he was awarded two Iron Crosses for bravery.
- In 1932, Hitler was granted German citizenship.
- Hitler was vegetarian.
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Facts About The Rock
- The rock's Full Name is Dwayne Johnson
- He was born into a professional wrestling family in 1972.
- Dwayne Douglas Johnson was born on May 2, 1972 in Hayward, California.
- The Rock has won the WWF Heavyweight title six times and the WWF Tag Team championships five times.
- Outside the ring, The Rock has made appearances in several films, including 2001's The Mummy Returns, 2002's The Scorpion King, 2005's Be Cool, and 2007's The Game Plan.
- He married his high school sweetheart, Dany Garcia, in 1997 (divorced in 2007); they have one daughter, Simone Alexandra.
- The name Rocky Maivia was combination of his father's wrestling name, Rocky Johnson, and his grandfather's wrestling name, Peter Maivia.
Facts About Harry Potter
1. The actress who played Moaning Myrtle was 37 years old at the time
“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” was filmed. She is the oldest
actress to ever portray a Hogwarts student.2. Ron Weasley’s character originally swore a lot, but Rowling’s publisher wouldn’t let her use that sort of language because it would’ve been inappropriate for young readers.
3. Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double through the first six films, David Holmes, was paralyzed from the waist down during the sixth film while practicing a flying scene that included an explosion.
4. So many people had trouble pronouncing Hermione’s name that Rowling had her sound it out for Viktor Krum in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
5. J.K Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire by writing a book.
6. Harry’s birthday is July 31, 1980. Rowling’s birthday is also July 31.
7. Only Alan Rickman, the actor who played Professor Snape, knew his character’s fate before the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” because Rowling told him.
9. Dementors, the deadly phantoms that guard Azkaban Prison, represent depression and were based on Rowling’s struggle with the disease.
10. Over 400 million Harry Potter books in 67 languages have been sold worldwide as of 2008.
11. In order to become acquainted with the films’ three main stars, director Alfonso Cuaron had each of them write an essay about their characters. True to their characters, Emma Watson wrote a 16-page essay; Daniel Radcliffe wrote a simple, one-page paper; and Rupert Grint never even turned his in.
12. In 2008, J. K. Rowling made £5 every second.
13. The name "Harry Potter" is mentioned 18,956 times throughout the entire Harry Potter book series.
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Facts about Brock Lesnar
1. His childhood nickname was Broccoli.
2. He was recruited by WWE hall of famer Gerald Brisco
3. In January 2001, when Lesnar was just just 23 years old, he was arrested for receiving large amounts of what was alleged to be steroids.
4.When Brock Lesnar was released from his contract with the WWE, part of the agreement he signed was that he would have a no-compete clause.
5. Brock Lesnar was born on July 12, 1977 in Webster, South Dakota.
6. In the year 2000, Brock Lesnar won the NCAA heavyweight championship with the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
7. Paul Heyman was the first manager of Brock and was at his side at all times as his manager for about the first two years of Brock's WWE career.
Facts about mars
- Mars’ red color is due to iron oxide, also known as rust, and has the consistency of talcum powder. Literally, the metallic rocks on Mars are rusting.
- The atmosphere (mostly made up of carbon dioxide) on Mars is so thin that water cannot exist in liquid form—it can exist only as water vapor or ice. Liquid water is considered for many scientists to be the “holy grail” of Mars.
- No human could survive the low pressure of Mars. If you went to Mars without an appropriate space suit, the oxygen in your blood would literally turn into bubbles, causing immediate death.
- If you were driving 60 mph in a car, it would take 271 years and 221 days to get to Mars from Earth.
Monday, 12 November 2012
Facts about diwali
- Deepavli is a Sanskrit work which means row of lights.
- Diwali is the largest and most famous holiday celebrated in India.
- Diwali is associated with the worship of Goddess Lakshmi, the Hindu Goddess of wealth and prosperity.
- In Hinduism, Diwali is celebrated to mark the return of Lord Rama after a 14 year exile according to North Indian traditions but down south, the death of the evil Narakasura at the hands of Lord Krishna is the main reason behind celebrating Diwali.
- In Malaysia, Diwali is celebrated as ‘Hari Diwali’ in the month of Aswayuja.
Amazing facts
- Camel's milk does not curdle.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
- Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
- Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
- Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
- Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
- Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
- David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
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