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Bruce Lee was so fast
that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his
moves. That's the opposite of the norm. |
- Bone
is five times stronger than steel.
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Longest
officially recognized place name is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has 85
letters. It's the name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close
to Porangahau, New Zealand.
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Tiger
shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor
is born.
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111,111,111
x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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You
grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but
shrink to your former height the following day.
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"Bookkeeper"
is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double
letters.
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When
glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per
hour.
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Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
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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If
you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.
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250
people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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There
are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
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315
entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
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Sharks
can live up to 100 years.
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
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Bamboo
can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
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Due
to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is
directly overhead.
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A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
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The world's first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
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According
to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday
than any other day of the week.
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About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.
All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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If
you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon
dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Google,
with a brand value of $86 billion, is the world's most powerful
brand.
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40
percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
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Our
eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
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The
creosote bush, which grows in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan
deserts, has been shown by radiocarbon dating to have lived since
the birth of Christ. Some of these plants may endure 10,000 years,
scientists say. If only they could talk.
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The most beautiful and incredible gift of love is the monument Taj Mahal in India. Built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan as a memorial to his wife it stands as the emblem of the eternal love story. Work on the Taj Mahal began in 1634 and continued for almost 22 years and required the labor of 20,000 workers from all over India and Central Asia.
The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
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Cat's
urine glows under a black light.
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The
word "listen" contains the same letters as the word
"silent".
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Indians
have been biting into juicy mangoes for 3,000 years. But the western
world came to know about it only 300 years ago!
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The
only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head
are the rabbit and the parrot.
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The 73% of people who buy Valentine's Day flowers are men, while only 27 percent are women.
Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of painted plaster for three years. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for gold-plated metal ones.
The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
