Amazing Facts

The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet longRain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in ChileA 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.A 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 pen

# In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.# The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.# The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerb

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.Spades - King DavidClubs - Alexander the Great,Hearts - CharlemagneDiamonds - Julius Caesar.111,111,111 x 111,111,111

Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.A squid has 10 tentacles.A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.A s

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driv

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland.If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out of his territory.Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. (He once said that he didn't have anything intelligent to say!)In Los

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 Webs

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.7. Forty people

This is the last part of amazing facts series about computers and internet.These amazing facts series post brought a nice traffic to my site.Hope you will like this post too. It took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users- it took the Internet less than 4 years.As of now, there are over 260 million people with Internet access worldwide.1 out of 6 people used the Internet in North Americ

This is our latest on amazing facts series Telnet is one of the oldest forms of Internet connections. Today, it is used primarily to access online databases. Domain names can be really sell at high prices! The most expensive domain name was 'business.com', which was bought by eCompanies for $7.5 million in 1999. The first ever ISP was CompuServe. It sti

This is our latest on amazing facts seriesTelnet is one of the oldest forms of Internet connections. Today, it is used primarily to access online databases.Domain names can be really sell at high prices! The most expensive domain name was 'business.com', which was bought by eCompanies for $7.5 million in 1999.The first ever ISP was CompuServe. It still exists, under AOL Time Warner.On an average,

A little trivia for you guys...What do these three animals have in common (besides the fact that they are all farm animals)?Answer:I'll reveal it tomorrow...nah, just kidding!Real answer:They were the first passengers in a hot air balloon (strange huh!)Up...up....and away!!!!Credits: Express News Issue No. 64, eDigg.com (for the cliparts)

Truly the human body is a complex and amazing system. To get you a feel for it, here's a list of some amazing facts about our human body. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single

In the month of June this is our first amazing facts series post.Hope you will find it as interesting as previous ones.So over to you..The French Culture Ministry has banned the word 'e-mail' in all government ministries, documents, publications and Web sites, because 'e-mail' is an English word. They prefer to use the term 'courriel'.The German police sell used patrol cars over the Internet, beca

In the month of June this is our first amazing facts series post.Hope you will find it as interesting as previous ones.So over to you..The French Culture Ministry has banned the word 'e-mail' in all government ministries, documents, publications and Web sites, because 'e-mail' is an English word. They prefer to use the term 'courriel'.The German police sell used patrol cars over the Internet, beca

As i promised in the previous amazing facts post that i will post amazing facts series regularly.So here is the third one.Did you know that Domain registration was free until an announcement by the National Science Foundation on 14th September, 1995, changed it?The Internet was initially called the 'Galactic network' in memos written by MIT's J C R Licklider in 1962.Shokyu Ishiko, a doctorate in a

This amazing facts series is coming after so many days but after this post i will try to be consistent in writing amazing fact series.Archie is an information system offering an electronic directory service for locating information residing on anonymous FTP sites.On the Internet, a 'bastion host' is the only host computer that a company allows to be addressed directly from the public network.'Carn

Amazing Facts on MortgagesBy: Daniel Spivey Mortgage is a kind of loan specifically designed to fund the property to be purchased. This is a method of using property as security for the performance of an obligation that is payment of a debt. The main aspects of a mortgage are principal or capital and interest on the capital or the sum borrowed.Under a mortgage the property purchased is kept as collateral by the lending institution. Mortgages are available such as first mortgage, re-mortgage, pari passu charge mortgage etc. With the increase in property value the bankers and lenders are offering longer repayment periods. Mortgage is a charge created on the property in favor of the lender / banker as a security for money lent. Mortgage home loans are normally offered for 15 ye

Amazing Facts on MortgagesBy: Daniel Spivey Mortgage is a kind of loan specifically designed to fund the property to be purchased. This is a method of using property as security for the performance of an obligation that is payment of a debt. The main aspects of a mortgage are principal or capital and interest on the capital or the sum borrowed.Under a mortgage the property purchased is kept as collateral by the lending institution. Mortgages are available such as first mortgage, re-mortgage, pari passu charge mortgage etc. With the increase in property value the bankers and lenders are offering longer repayment periods. Mortgage is a charge created on the property in favor of the lender / banker as a security for money lent. Mortgage home loans are normally offered for 15 ye

1. Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.2. Google’s Home Page Has 63 Validation Errors. Don’t believe it?: Check Google Validation3. The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day.4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.5. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they replied “We are waiting for the rest of it”. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted

By looking at the response to our previous post of amazing facts,we are now expanding this feature and planning to do more posts in this section.So this is kind of series pattern.I will publish more articles on amazing facts.Yahoo! derived its name from the word Yahoo coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. A Yahoo is a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human!Researchers consider that the first search engine was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.Marc Andreessen founded Netscape. In 1993, he had already developed Mosaic, the first Web browser with a GUI.It was once considered a letter in the English language. The Chinese call it a little mouse, Danes and Swedes call it 'elephant's trunk', Germans a

1. Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.2. Google’s Home Page Has 63 Validation Errors. Don’t believe me?: Check Google Validation3. The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day.4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.5. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they replied “We are waiting for the rest of it”. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted

The first Internet connection was made in 1960 and so those of you (including myself) who thought the Internet was relatively new, it will actually be 50 years old in two years time ! Not that new anymore, hey! So now let's get down to business!The Internet took five years to reach 50 million people. Television, by comparison took 13 years and radio, 38! The Internet has grown amazingly fast!Google had indexed an estimated 25 billion web pages at the start of 2007 and even Google can't index the whole web with millions more pages being added each day the web is huge beyond belief.The average Internet user spends about 25 hours a month surfing the web in sessions lasting approximately 50 minutes while visiting over 1,100 pages.In the US, more women use the Internet than men: 97 million wome

1 It takes 24 hours for a sperm to enter and fertilize an egg to get your pregnancy under way. 2 Non- identical twins run in families, while identical twins appear to be at random. Two % of pregnancies result in twins. 3 A four week old embryo is the size of a poppy [...]

Mortgage is a kind of loan specifically designed to fund the property to be purchased. This is a method of using property as security for the performance of an obligation that is payment of a debt. The main aspects of a mortgage are principal or capital and interest on the capital or the sum borrowed.Under a mortgage the property purchased is kept as collateral by the lending institution. Mortgages are available such as first mortgage, re-mortgage, pari passu charge mortgage etc. With the increase in property value the bankers and lenders are offering longer repayment periods. Mortgage is a charge created on the property in favor of the lender / banker as a security for money lent. Mortgage home loans are normally offered for 15 years, 20 years or 30 years. Negotiating skills play an impor

Watch Video The International Space Station is the largest and most complex international scientific project in history. And when it is complete just after the turn of the century, the the station will represent a move of unprecedented scale off the home planet. Led by the United States, the International Space Station draws upon the [...]

  TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness." Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf. To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth. Bananas are the world's most popular fruit after tomatoes. Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Your heart beats 101,000 times a day. During your lifetime it will beat about 3 billion times and pump about 400 million litres (800 million pints) of blood. Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day. On average, people can hold their breath for one minute. The world record is seven-and-a-half minutes. Einstein's brain was of averag

via The List Universe"This afternoon I had a (very rare) nap. During that nap I had a lucid dream (most of which I no longer remember). As I was waking up, I was thinking about my dream and thought that it would be a great idea to write a list about dreams for the site. So, here are the top 10 amazing facts about dreams."

  Do time rotate & pass differently in heaven, than it do on earth?                                                                                                                               Check     Ps 90: 4    2 Pet 3:8                                                                                                                                                                         Yes, the circumference of the Earth at the equator is 25,000 miles. The Earth rotates in about 24 hours. Therefore, if you were to hang above the surface of the Earth at the equator without moving, you would see 25,000 miles pass by in 24 hours, at a speed of 25000/24 or (1,007mph) just over 1000 mile

Chocolate is made from beans derived from the cacao tree. These beans are very bitter, so the cocoa solids and the cocoa butter has sugar added to it, along with some other ingredients in order to make the chocolate that is available to the general public.Chocolate is particularly popular at certain times of the year, such as Easter, Valentines Day and Christmas. As such, chocolate shaped gifts are popular. Hearts for Valentines day and cute bunnies at Easter are two high up on the gift selection list. Here are 10 interesting facts about chocolate:1. Chocolate is lower in caffeine than tea, coffee and coca cola. A one ounce bar of chocolate contains about 6mg of caffeine, whereas a five ounce cup of regular coffee contains over 40mg.2. Chocolate was regarded as an aphrodisiac by Aztec Indians.3. Chocolate contains antioxidants which may help prevent cancer and heart disease.4. Chocolate is the favourite flavour in the United States Of America.5. The shelf life of a bar of chocolate is

I've always seen pigeons as high-browed seagulls. The only thing that sets them apart from their lesser feathered friends is....well, actually I'm not sure there is anything. They turn up in mobs, poo everywhere with amazing efficiency and shade the sun when they decide to leave. I've had the pleasure - though I'm using the world 'pleasure' with abandoned wastefulness - of seeing friends encourage these birds into their gardens and feed them relentlessly. The pigeons don't seem to mind though and they reward their food source with molted feathers and gooey manure. They take up their posts on the neighbour's fence - for which they're eternally grateful - and loiter like truant children who've run out of things to do. But, this is just my opinion. Apparently, some guy loves them and wrote this post 21 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know About Pigeons. So there you have it. They're officially amazing...officially amazing pests, that is.

INDIA FACTS : The official Sanskrit name for India is Bharat. INDIA has been called Bharat even in Satya yuga ( Golden Age ) More INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT India The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero. Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software. ( a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987 ). Chess was invented in India. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India. The firs

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Did you know the largest fish ever caught was the Whale Shark? It was 59ft long. These fish can weigh up to 15 tons.HUMAN BODY your body is made up of trillions of cells? Different parts of your body are made of different kinds of cells. ...your brain is like a computer, and controls your entire body? ...your heart beats about 70 times a minute, and each time it beats, it pumps about about a cupful of blood? ...an adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces and beats over 100,000 times a day? ...there are 206 bones in your skeleton? ...about half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet? ...everyone has thirty-two teeth? ...your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight? ...if you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds? ...about 70 percent of your body weight is water? ...physics includes the study of light, m

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The first kind of PENCIL was a bunch of GRAPHITE sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick. JOSEPH RECHENDORFER was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes. Did you know that the average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil? Amazing fact! Now imagine an eraser that could match it !!!____________________________________________________________________ This is what an old airplane looked like. The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.____________________________________________________________________Did you know the first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People

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1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.11. The average housefly lives for one month.12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.17. The REAL reason ostri

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A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times in one second or over 5000 times a minute. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground. A lions roar can be heard from five miles away. A mockingbird has been known to change its tune 87 times over a span minute span. Alligators can live for more than 100 years. "One thousand" contains

38% of Americans eat breakfast everyday. The "naked recreation and travel" industry has grown by 233% in the past decade. In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times. Despite being over 27 times smaller, Norway's total coastline is longer than the USA's. Toronto

* Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producingtears.* Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the sametime.* Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their ownname.* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite. * The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wideangle.* To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollowthen it is ripe.* Canadians can send letters with personalised postage stamps showing theirown photos on each stamp.* Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six toeight weeks old.* It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.* Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plantswatered with cold water.* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in yourear by 700 times.* Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.* Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are calle

AMAZING FACTS:=============Coca-Cola was originally green.The most common name in the world is Mohammed.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they startwith ?The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only onone row of the keyboard.Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.It is impossible to lick your elbow.People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heartstops for a millisecond.It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be thetoughest tongue twister in the English language.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.Spades - King DavidClubs - Alexander the Great,Hearts - Charlemag