1. Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.

2. Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.

3. Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.

4. Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.

5. Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.

6. Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.

7. We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.

8. When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.

9. We have over 600 muscles.

10. We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.

11. We are about 70 percent water.

12. We make one liter of saliva a day.

13. Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system ; it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.

14. In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.

2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

3. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

8. You can`t kill yourself by holding your breath.

9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

12. The "sixth sick sheik`s sixth sheep`s sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

13. 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.

14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

17. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

18. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

19. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? They are all invented by women.

20. This is the only food that doesn`t spoil. What is this? It is Honey.

21. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

22. A snail can sleep for three years.

23. All polar bears are left handed.

24. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

25. Butterflies taste with their feet.

26. Elephants are the only animals that can`t jump.

27. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

28. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

29. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump".

30. Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.

31. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

32. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

33. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

34. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

35. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

37. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
38. Like fingerprints, everyone`s tongue print is different

39. There is a Butterfly in Brazil which has the color of chocolates and also smells like chocolate.

40. Giraffee can clean there ears with their tongue.

41. Both Humans and Giraffee have the same number of bones in the neck.

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1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is "Das Beste oder Nichts" meaning "the best or nothing".

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep at night.

9. Laughing lower levels of stress hormones and strengthen the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.


11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The "V" in the name of a court case does not stand for "versus", but for "and" (in civil proceedings) or &#39against&#39 (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men`s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women`s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it`s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.


21. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28.. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself.”

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.

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In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.

About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea.

A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.

Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.

Beaver Lake, in Yellowstone Park, USA, was artificially created by beaver damming.

Off the coast of Florida there is an underwater hotel. Guests have to dive to the entrance.

Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.

The Ancient Egyptians worshipped a sky goddess called Nut.

The world`s windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica.

In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire , USA.

American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times.

The desert baobab tree can store up to 1000 litres of water in its trunk.

The oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name "Methuselah". It is about 4600 years old. The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in California. It is 84 meters tall and measures 29 meters round the trunk. The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus. It can grow 10 meters a year.

The Antartic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea.

The USA uses 29% of the world`s petrol and 33% of the world`s electricity.

The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death because its pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby.

Tibet is the highest country in the world. Its average height above sea level is 4500 meters.

Some of the oldest mountains in the world are the Highlands in Scotland . They are estimated to be about 400 million years old.

Fresh water from the River Amazon can be found up to 180 km out to sea.

The White Sea, in Russia, has the lowest temperature, only -2 degrees centigrade. The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.

There is no land at all at the North Pole, only ice on top of sea. The Arctic Ocean has about 12 million sq km of floating ice and has the coldest winter temperature of -34 degrees centigrade.

The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.

Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.

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1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch.

2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.

3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.

4. Alexander`s funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body.

5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.

6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people.

7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days.

8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years.

9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and buried in space.

10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plan.

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AMAZING...DON'T MISS THE LAST ONE

1 -Coca-Cola was originally green.

2 -The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

3 -The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with ?

4 -The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

5 -TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.

5 -Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

6 -You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

7 -It is impossible to lick your elbow.

8 -People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.

9 -It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

10 -The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.

11 -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.

12 -Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

i)Spades - King David

ii)Clubs - Alexander the Great,

iii)Hearts - Charlemagne

iv)Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

13 -If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.

14 -If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle

15 -If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.

16 -What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?

Ans. - All invented by women.

17 -A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

18 -A snail can sleep for three years.

19 -All polar bears are left handed.

20 -American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first-class.

21 -Butterflies taste with their feet.

22 -Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

23 -In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

24 -On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

25 -Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

26 -Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

27 -The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

28 -The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

29 -The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.

30 -Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.

31 -Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.

32 -The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

33 -Most lipstick contains fish scales.

34 -Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

35 -And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their
elbow!~!!!

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"Amazing Facts"

· Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

· Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

· The number of people alive on Earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died ever.

· Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than
caffeine.

· There was one a town in west Virginia called "6"

· Ten tons of space dust falls on Earth every day.

· A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

· Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

· Russia has the most movie theatres in the world.

· The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

· Right-handed people live on; average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

· At 40 degrees centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

· More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

· Pearls melt in vinegar.

· There are more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

· If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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· 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

· The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated
that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

· Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

· If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

· Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

· The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

· The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

· It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

· The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

· In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

· The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

· On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is
an American flag.

· No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or
purple.

· Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

· Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

· The youngest pope was 11 years old.

· The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

· China has more English speakers than the United States.

· The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

· A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

· Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis'
middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.

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The order of the planets, starting closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

The one place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, and does not get saluted, is the moon.

Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.

A green diamond is the rarest diamond.

The ozone layer averages about 3 millimeters (1/8 inch) thick.

A diamond will break if you hit it with a hammer.

The crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h (2 mph).

Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years - but so does winter.

The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.

Oceanography, the study of oceans, is a mixture of biology, physics, geology and chemistry.

More than 70% of earth's dryland is affected by desertification.

The US has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialised world, with more than 2 million fires reported each year.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

The largest iceberg ever recorded was 335km (208 miles) long and 97km (60 miles) wide.

Luke Howard used Latin words to categorize clouds in 1803.

Hurricanes, tornadoes and bigger bodies of water always go clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. This directional
spinning has to do with the rotation of the earth and is called the Coriolis force.

Winds that blow toward the equator curve west.

Organist William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 with the first reflecting telescope that he built. He named it Georgium Sidium in honour of King George III of England but in 1850 it was renamed Uranus in accordance with the tradition of naming planets for Roman gods.

Planets, meaning wanderers, are named after Roman deities: Mercury, messenger of the gods; Venus, the god of love and beauty; Mars, the god of war; Jupiter, king of the gods; and Saturn, father of Jupiter and god of agriculture; Neptune, god of the sea.

During a total solar eclipse the temperature can drop by 6 degrees Celsius (about 20 degrees Fahrenheit).

The tallest waterfalls in the world are Angel Falls in Venezuela. At 979 m (3,212 ft), they are 19 times taller than the Niagara Falls, or 3 times taller than the Empire State Building.

Although the Angel Falls are much taller than the Niagara Falls, the latter are much wider, and they both pour about the same amount of water over their edges - about 2,8 billion litres (748 million gallons) per second.

There are 1040 islands around Britain, one of which is the smallest island in the world: Bishop's Rock.

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not named after a god.

Earth orbits the sun at an average speed of 29.79 km/s (18.51 miles/sec), or about 107 000 km/h (about 67,000 miles/hour).

One year on earth is 365.26 days long. One day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds long. The extra day in a leap year was introduced to compensate for the discrepancy in the Georgian calendar.

Plates carrying the continents migrate over the earth's surface a few centimetres (inches) per year, about the same speed that a fingernail grows.

On average, 13,000 earthquakes are located each year.

The magnetic north pole is near Ellef Ringes Island in northern Canada.

The magnetic south pole was discovered off the coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica.

There is zero gravity at the centre of earth.
the deepest mine in the world is Western Deep Levels near Charletonville, South Africa. It is 4,2km (2.6 miles) deep.

The deepest point in the sea: the Mariana Trench off Guam in the Pacific Ocean; it is 10,9 km (6.77 miles) below sea level.

Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.

The tail of the Great Comet of 1843 was 330 million km long. (It will return in 2356.)

There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth.

About 500 small meteorites fall to earth every year but most fall in the sea and in unpopulated areas.

There is no record of a person being killed by a meteorite but animals are occasionally hit.

The Dead Sea is 365 m (1,200 ft) below sea level.

A storm officially becomes a hurricane when cyclone winds reach 119 km/h (74 mph).

*Automobiles didn't have radios until 1923.

*After English and Spanish, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the United States.

*The word 'wedding,' when people 'pledge' to marry each other stems from the same Germanic root as the modern word 'wager,' meaning 'a gamble.'

*Americans eat 1.2 billion pounds of potato chips a year - more than any other snack food.

* Fairview is the most common place name in the United States.

*Skiing isn't new. A four-thousand-year-old rock found in Norway far north of the Arctic Circle depicts a hunter on skis.

*The first practical, mechanical cash register, invented in 1883, was nicknamed the “Incorruptible Cashier.”

*Kool-Aid is Nebraska's official soft drink.


*In 1894, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a school for deaf people, originated the football huddle to keep opposing teams from reading their hand signals.


*Tobacco smoke contains more than four thousand chemicals.


* An average of nine million people share the same birthday.

*The character Mother Goose was inspired by the mother of Charlemagne, the 8th Century Queen Goosefoot.

*Ahead of its time: in 1968, Canada Dry produced the flop caffeine-free soda Sport-Cola.

*The name of the mad computer HAL in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey is one letter down from IBM.

*When it was discovered that Dr. Bunting’s Remedy “knocked eczema,” it was renamed Noxema.

*Despite the success of the Harry Potter series and The Da Vinci Code, the best-selling author of all time is still mystery writer Agatha Christie, with over two billion novels sold.

*The best-selling single record of all-time is “White Christmas.” The Bing Crosby recording has sold fifty million copies.

*Though thought to have been inspired by the German word for ‘water’ -- wasser -- the name Vaseline comes from the number of vases used to store the ingredients used in its development.

*Superstar Barry Manilow began his career writing jingles for McDonald’s and State Farm Insurance.

*In pop culture mythology, the Green Hornet – Britt Reid – is the son of Dan Reid who is the nephew of John Reid – the Lone Ranger.

*Though he is usually played by an Englishman, the character Captain Nemo in Jules Verne’s novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is actually the son of an Indian rajah.

*The man traditionally referred to as Buddha was actually named Siddhartha Guatama (circa 563 – 410 B.C.).

*Norman Rockwell was just nineteen when he became the art editor of Boy’s Life Magazine.

*By profession, author Arthur Conan Doyle – creator of Sherlock Holmes – was originally an ophthalmologist

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