Monday, November 16, 2009

Fascinating Facts

- The luckiest number in Italy is 13.

- The sphinx was carved from one piece of stone.

- Every tenth egg is larger than the preceding nine.

- When a piece of glass cracks, the cracks move at a speed of over 4,800 kms per hour.

- The most talkative parrot on record, an African grey parrot belonging to a London family, had a vocabulary of almost 1000 words.

- Most people move about forty times in their sleep during the night. Insomniacs may move as many as seventy times.

- The camel has no gall bladder.

- The famous Egyptian sphinx is in fact a statue of the goddess Armachis.

- Abraham Lincoln had a dream on the eve of his first election as President. In a large mirror, he noticed two distinct images of himself, one imposed on the other. One image was much paler than the other. Lincoln told his wife about the dream and she interpreted it to mean that he would be elected to a second term but would not live through it.

- While it was the deepest secret in the world, the atomic bomb was publicly described with considerable accuracy by Cleve Cartmill – a year and half before it was announced officially. The description was included in a science-fiction story called “Deadline” in the March, 1944 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, so virtually no one paid any attention.



- In the Tahiti botanical gardens, there is a bamboo plant standing 140 feet high.

- Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.

- The complete root system of the pumpkin plant would stretch for 24 kilometers, if every root was laid end to end.

- In 1695, two scientists obtained a diamond from a rich patron and heated it by using a lens to focus light on it. The diamond disappeared. Diamond is made of carbon, and it burns just as coal will when it is heated strongly enough.

- The social instinct among monkeys is so strong that if one of a group is ill, the others will forego their food etc. for him.

- A mole can dig a tunnel 100 yards long in a single night.

- The chameleon’s tongue, which always hits its prey, can be extended more than twice the length of its body.

- The average electrical eel produce a shock of 400 volts, though some larger ones have been known to generate much larger shocks of 650 volts, powerful enough to kill a man.

- Hens in the USA lay over 13, 80,000 eggs every minute.

- Blind people who have been blind from birth can not dream sights but they dream sounds instead.

- Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

- The JEEP got its name from its original initials G.P. which stood for GENERAL PURPOSE VEHICLE.

- 14622047999 divided by 10 leaves a remainder of 9, Divided by 9 leaves a remainder of 8, Divided by 7 leaves a remainder of 6 and so on.

- Chemically the substance that is closest to human blood is sea water.
-Luminous bacteria that have the ability to give off light have been cooled to a temperature of -190 Deg. C and found to be alive when they were warmed up.

- An albatross can fly all day and not flip its wings once.

- The only animal that sleeps on its back is man.

- Mosquitoes prefer to bite blondes.

- It takes over ten years for a cork tree to grow one layer of cork.

- Soya beans are used in the manufacture of glue, paint, plastics and explosives.

- Some stars in the Milky Way are 80,000 light years from the earth.

- The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.

- Petrol and paraffin extinguish fires in bales of cotton more efficiently than water.

- Grasshoppers have white blood.

- Christian Heinrich of Lubeck was able to talk when he was eight weeks old and he knew pieces from the Pentateuch and the Bible at the age of thirteen months.

- An Alsatian’s sense of smell is a million times better than a man’s.

- The Great White Shark is the only creature living in the sea that has no natural enemies even killer whales avoid it.

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