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Sureshlasi · #11 Friday, May 11, 2007

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Aarwaa · #12 Friday, May 11, 2007

@ sureshlasi
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Aarwaa · #13 Friday, May 11, 2007

No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.

Aarwaa · #14 Friday, May 11, 2007

In ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a girl was a way to propose for marriage.. If the girl caught it, that would mean she accepts.
he Ancient Greek women made a type of cheek blush by painting their cheeks with herbal pastes which was made out of crushed berries and seeds.
The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'
The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England.
Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters

Aarwaa · #15 Friday, May 11, 2007

Romans, in the third century, believed that the lemon was an antidote for all poisons
California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
Kangaroos can not walk backwards.
'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.
Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.
Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.
The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.
Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.
In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!
There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!
Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.
The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

Aarwaa · #16 Friday, May 11, 2007

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