Some Interesting facts

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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.

2. Bone is five times stronger than steel.
   
3. 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.
   
4. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
   
5. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
   
6. You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.
   
7. "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
   
8. When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
   
9. 
   

   Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

10. 
    Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.
    
11. If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.
    
12. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
    
13. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
    
14. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
    
15. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
    
16. 
    

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

17. 
    It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
    
18. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
    
19. Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
    
20. 
    

    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.
    
22. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
    
23. 
    

    About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.

24. 
    All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
    
25. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
    
26. Google, with a brand value of $86 billion, is the world's most powerful brand.
    
27. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
    
28. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
    
29. 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.

31. 
    The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
    
32. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
    
33. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
    
34. Indians have been biting into juicy mangoes for 3,000 years. But the western world came to know about it only 300 years ago!
    
35. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
    
36. 
    

    The 73% of people who buy Valentine's Day flowers are men, while only 27 percent are women.

37. 
    

    Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

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    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.

39. 
    The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
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