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Interesting Facts About Moon 2008-05-28 08:00:32 Distance from earth: 384'467 km (~364 397 km at perigee, ~406 731 km at apogee) Traveling by car: 130 days Traveling by rocket:13 hours Traveling by light speed:1.52 secFor centuries, many people used to believe that the moon was a perfect sphere that had been created by the gods. In 1610, the Itali
Interesting Facts About Swimming 2008-05-27 08:04:53 Swimming started in the 1st century.Over 50% of world-class swimmers suffer from shoulder pain.Swimming has been a part of the Olympics since 1896.Some people think swimming started when a person fell into the water and panicking, he started to swim in a way we call today dog paddle.Egyptians made a picture or symbol for swimming as far back as 2500 A.Peanuts are a source of energy for swimmers.Dr Read more:Swimming
Interesting Facts About pi 2008-05-26 14:13:50 Pi is the number of times a circle's diameter will fit around its circumference.Most people would say that a circle has no corners, but it is more accurate to say that it has an infinite number of corners.The sequence of digits in Pi so far passed all known tests for randomness.The fraction (22 / 7) is a well used number for Pi. It is accurate to 0.04025%.Another fraction used as an approximation
Interesting Facts About Paper Recycling & Paper Industry 2008-05-26 08:15:07 To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.Recycling
a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year! If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of
Interesting Facts About Antarctica 2008-05-25 10:13:45 Antarctica
is the coldest continent on earth, as the lowest temperature recorded here was -89o C. On an average, it is 17 degrees colder than Arctic in the north. It is the driest continent on earth, as it hardly receives 2 inches of rainfall annually. The ‘Dry valley’ region on the continent is supposed to be bereft of rainfall since 2 million years. The continent of Antarctica is
Interesting Facts about Grant Theft Auto 2008-05-23 07:19:21 More than 70 million GTA games have been sold to date, over double the sales of the Beatles Sgt Pepper album.It has taken a team of 150 people three and a half years to develop GTA 4The game is expected to make £210 Million in the first week, Compared to the biggest movie of 2008 Horton Hears a Who which made £22 million in its first week.In GTA 4 your character can visit bars, clubs and even at Read more:Grant
Interesting Facts About Coca Cola 2008-05-22 09:44:57 Coca-Cola's original formula included extracts of the African kola nut and coca leaves, both strong stimulants. It was one of those patent medicines sold in the 1800's that actually contained traces of cocaine. By 1903, the use of cocaine was so controversial that the Coca-Cola Company decided to only use "spent coca leaves". It also stopped advertising Coca-Cola as a cure for headaches and other
Interesting Facts About Honey Bee 2008-05-21 00:27:08 A bee sting is well known as a cure for rheumatism.Bees never sleep.The queen bee has a smaller brain than a worker bee.Honey bees' wings beat 11,400 times per minute.Bees' flight speed averages only 15 miles per hour.Bees possess five eyes.Honeybees can perceive movements that are separated by 1/300th of a second. Humans can only sense movements separated by 1/50th of a second. Were a bee to ente
Interesting Facts About Nails 2008-05-20 03:25:07 Nails grow faster in the summer than in the winter. Men’s nails grow faster than women’s (except during pregnancy and later in life when growth increases). The nails on the hand you write with grow faster. The longer the finger, the faster your nail grows. After an illness, your nail growth increases. Malnutrition, crash dieting or eating disorders can affect your nail
Interesting Facts About Pizza 2008-05-20 03:18:48 The word pizza was originally spelt as “pitsa"Americans eat billions of slices of pizza every year; in fact the annual per capita pizza consumption is 23 pounds!Saturday night is traditionally the biggest night of the week for eating pizza.America's favourite pizza topping is pepperoni.America's least favourite pizza topping is anchovies.Americans eat 90 to 100 acres of pizza per day.During TV n Read more:Pizza
Interesting Facts About Sun 2008-05-19 23:22:14 The Sun's mass is 2 x 1027 tonnes About 75% of the Sun is hydrogen, the rest is mostly helium. Gravity holds the Sun together. The weight of the outer layers of the Sun causes the density and temperature to increase inwards, until at the centre the temperature is 15 million degrees Celsius and the density is 160 times that of water!! At the centre of the Sun, hydrogen nuclei
Interesting Facts About Dogs 2008-05-16 01:56:12 Dogs can register sounds of 35,000 vibrations a second where as a human can only hear 20,000 vibrations.The oldest age recorded for a dog is 29 years and 5 months.Canis Familiaris is the Latin name for dog.Nearly all but two breeds of dogs have pink tongues. The two exceptions? The Chow Chow and the Shar-pei, both with black tongues.The Poodle haircut was originally meant to improve the dog's swim
Interesting Facts About Coffee 2008-05-15 10:50:49 Pope Clement VIII loved coffee and authorised its use. A coffee tree has a lifespan of about 50 to 70 years. The coffee cherries turn from yellow to orange and then bright red, 6 - 8 months after flowering. When it is in bloom, the coffee tree is covered with 30,000 white flowers which begin to develop into fruit after 24 - 36 hours.A coffee tree can flower eight times in any one year - depending Read more:Coffee
Interesting Facts About Mars 2008-05-15 10:30:02 Interesting Facts About Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system. Mars is referred to as the Red Planet, due to its red soil made up of iron oxide, more commonly known as rust. Mars is named after
Interesting Facts About Butterflies 2008-05-15 10:20:00 1. The name 'Butterfly' was first coined to describe the Yellow Brimstone Butterfly, a variety commonly seen across Europe. It was actually known as 'Butter-colored Fly' and that later became 'Butterfly'.2. There are about 28,000 known Butterfly species throughout the world.3. Butterflies - and moths - belong to the order Leptidoptera. This is derived from the Greek term for 'scale-wing'.4. The wi
Interesting Facts about Starfish 2008-05-15 10:14:23 Starfish are also known as sea stars and are not really fish despite the name been given to them. These are echinoderms, which are found abundant in the deep blue seas and shallow waters as well.The characteristic feature of the starfish is the 5 (or even more) arms. The surface of these arms is often spiky in appearance.If you have ever encountered a starfish and turned it over, you will find pro Read more:Starfish
Interesting facts about India 2008-05-15 03:23:04 India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)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.T Read more:facts
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Interesting Facts about Sleep 2008-05-15 03:06:34 1. The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses. 2. It's impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware Read more:Sleep
Interesting facts about Snakes 2008-05-15 03:01:41 King Cobras make nests.King cobras eat other snakes.Snakes
can survive without eating food for several daysSnakes are cold blooded.Pit vipers use a thermal sensitive nasal pit to detect pray.Snake’s tongue is used to sense the surroundings.Young snakes break out of their egg with the help of special “teeth”.Most snakes can climb treesSnakes shed skin on a regular basis and it is a part of it Read more:facts
Interesting Facts about Humans 2008-04-01 10:09:34 Women blink twice as many times as men do.Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit
Interesting Facts about Rainbows 2008-02-25 04:38:56 When you see a rainbow...it is after rain. The sun is always behind you and the rain in front of you when a rainbow appears, so the center of the rainbow's arc is directly opposite the sun.Most people think...the only colors of a rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, but a rainbow is actually made up of an entire continuum of colors—even colors the eye can't see!We ar Read more:Rainbows
Interesting Facts about Apples 2008-02-24 13:54:42 1. Apples
are a member of the rose family! 2. Apples are available year-round. 3. Apples are ripe when picked. 4. In 1996, Washington state produced 133 million boxes of apples. 5. Apples are high in fiber.One apple has 5 grams of fiber, supplying about 20% of the daily recommended dietary needs 6. There are more than 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the world. 7. The mos
Interesting Facts about Dreams 2008-02-22 13:17:04 * You would be amazed to know that usually children watch nightmares. The usual age group is 3 and it continues up to 8. * Blind people also view dreams. Their images are in accordance of the time when they got blind. * Good news for those who snore a lot. You cannot dream while snoring. * If you are giving up smoking then get ready for some long and intense dreams. * Kids up to the ag Read more:Dreams
Interesting Facts About Sugar 2008-05-29 06:00:41 sugar was one of the first pharmaceutical ingredients used, as it still is today, to mask the bitter taste of medicinesIn 1899, the very first carton was used to pack sugar? This revolutionized the sugar business, greatly improving upon the crude wooden barrels from which sugar was originally scooped for customers.In the late 16th Century, a mere teaspoon of sugar cost the equivalent of five dolla Read more:Sugar
Interesting Facts About Phoenix Bird 2008-06-05 01:33:48 The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death. In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, it is associated with the sun god.According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well.Only one phoenix exists at a time. When the bird f Read more:Phoenix
Interesting Facts about Barack Obama 2008-06-05 11:03:27 Barack Obama
was born in Hawaii, raised there (and, for a few years, in Jakarta, Indonesia), and moved to New York to attend Columbia University. In addition to his Columbia degree, he also earned a law degree from Harvard, where he was the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review.First African-American President of the Harvard Law ReviewObama's parents met in Hawaii Read more:Barack
Interesting Facts About Hydrogen 2008-06-17 04:48:33 Hydrogen was discovered in 1766 by English physicist and chemist Henry Cavendish.The name Hydrogen comes from the Greek words Hydro and Gen which mean water generator.The element Hydrogen is colorless, odorless, gaseous, nonmetallic element. The relative atomic mass of Hydrogen is 1.00797 making Hydrogen the lightest of all the elements. When combined with Oxygen, Hydrogen forms water.Hydrogen is
Interesting facts About Maria Sharapova 2008-06-26 06:36:59 In 2003, Maria
was named one of the "coolest girls" in America by YM magazine.Maria signed with IMG Models in November 2003. At 17 years and two months, Maria was the youngest Wimbledon finalist since Martina Hingis, who was 16 years and nine months when she won in 1997. Maria collected $1 million and a Porsche Cayenne for her season-ending victory in the 2004 WTA Championship. She donated the car Read more:facts
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