| Hamjayega |
Posted
on 10-Jan-03 03:56 AM
Hi! Folkz..
Just came across this and wanted to share it with you all. REMEMBER!! You hv the right to Disagree..Correct and Comment ofcourse.
Enjoy!!
The first television show to show a flushing toilet was "Leave It to Beaver".
Pinocchio was made of pine.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Chickens can't swallow while they are upside-down.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
The US Patent Office received over one hundred patent entries for Perpetual Motion Machines each year.
The British Patent Office will not except patents for Perpetual Motion Machines.
A novel with 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter E was written by Ernest Wright.
Mark Twain's book Tom Sawyer (1876) was the first novel to ever be written on a typewriter.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every major category of the Dewey decimal system.
Cranberry Jell-O is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The Paramount logo contains 22 stars.
After the Mayflower was no longer needed, it was dismantled, and rebuilt as a barn.
The letters of the alphabet in order of frequency of use are:
ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
You consume one tenth (0.1) calories when you lick a stamp.
Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.
The pound sign () is called an anoctothorpe.
There was once a town named 6 in West Virginia.
A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
Eating lots of carrots will turn the pigment in your skin orange. (Carotene is the same substance that makes leaves turn orange in the fall).
The earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Every day the sun loses about 360 million tons.
The first word spoken on the moon was Okay.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot.
Popeye was five feet, six inches.
The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
The most common name for a gold fish is Jaws.
The most common (human) name in the world is Mohammed.
The longest name in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) is Malhershalahashbaz.
The shortest verse in the Bible is Jesus Wept. (John 11:35)
The word ``and'' appears 46,277 times in the Bible.
There are 17 steps to the apartment of Sherlock Holmes.
In an average day, a four-year-old child will ask 437 questions.
The Eiffel Tower has 2.5 million rivets.
The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps.
More people are alive today than have ever died.
A typist fingers travel over twelve and a half miles in an average day.
2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
Einstein didnt like to wear socks.
Einstein was a bad student, and dropped out of school.
Galileo's last name was Galilei, his first name was Galileo. (Earth revolved around the sun theory)
The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990s.
In Michelangelo's ceiling painting of the Sistine Chapel, Pope Julius II pressured him to finish the giant painting on time.
For this, Michelangelo didn't like the Pope, and placed him, and others he didn't like, in hell when he painted the Judgment Day scene.
In the Dark, Middle, and Mediaeval ages, the Pope was the true ruler of Europe, because disobedient kings were threatened with eternal damnation.
The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
Elvis Presley was named a Special Federal Narcotics Agent by Richard Nixon.
The electric shaver was patented on the 6th of November, 1928.
The telephone's US patent number is 174465
The first Life Savers was peppermint flavoured.
Life Savers candy was produced by a chocolate maker, to make up for the low chocolate sales in the summer.
The shell makes up 12% of an eggs total mass.
The Statue of Liberty's crown has seven points.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The world's most common non-contagious disease is tooth decay The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
Until the mid-1800s, only the Dutch were allowed to trade with Japan.
The British launched a war with Japan, because Japan would not let the British import the addictive drug opium. (Japan suffered a great defeat at sea)
A quasicrystal is the only crystal to not have a repeating structure.
A quasicrystal is the only crystal with five-fold symmetry.
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 2,000 years.
A baby born in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny.
If you don't want to figure that out, it's these words combined; True will laughing life bucky boomer manifestdestiny. (manifestdestiny: n. a belief in the 1800s that the United States destiny is to span from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.)
The only words in the English language to contain two ``Us'' back to back are: vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
The shortest sentence in the English language is, I am.
The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A, B, C, D, E and F is: Feedback
The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
An Oscar weighs seven pounds.
India has 50 million monkeys.
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
Pigs can run a mile in seven minutes.
The mother of Mike Nesmith, a member of the rock group The Monkeys, invented liquid paper.
The parking meter was invented in 1935 by C.C. Magee.
After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
The oldest vegetable is the pea.
Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit of Pi is 9
IBM made a computer in 1961 which calculated Pi to 100,265 digits. IBM started out as a typewriter manufacturer.
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| surya |
Posted
on 10-Jan-03 04:13 PM
Hamjaega: cool facts, the most that jumped out personally were:
Laughter is a proven way to lose weight. (does hysteria count?)
In an average day, a four-year-old child will ask 437 questions. (are you sure it is not 1000?:)
More people are alive today than have ever died. (eeek!!)
2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers. (that is sad!! bloody learn to use your right hand lefties!)
Einstein was a bad student, and dropped out of school. (yes but all HS dropouts are not Einstein:)
For this, Michelangelo didn't like the Pope, and placed him, and others he didn't like, in hell when he painted the Judgment Day scene. (artistic freedom, baby!)
Elvis Presley was named a Special Federal Narcotics Agent by Richard Nixon. (this has to be a joke)
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 2,000 years. (thats cool!)
The shortest sentence in the English language is, I am. (how about "I is." as Rastaman would say? :)
India has 50 million monkeys. (not 1 billion? :P)
After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp. (okay, it all comes down to eating less.)
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