You are reading Interesting Facts

Interesting Facts

  • Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known:

    * The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.

    * Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

    * A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.

    * Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
    The Wright brother's invented the airplane.

    * There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.

    * One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

    * The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language;
    192 Slugs have four noses.

    * Sharks can live up to 100 years.

    * Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb.
    The survivor is born.

    * Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

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

    * The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick.
    It fell in Montana in 1887.

    * The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.

    * Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.

    * Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.

    * There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.

    * It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.

    * The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.

    * Octopus have three hearts.

    * If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.

    * The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

    * 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.

    * The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.

    * Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.

    * Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.

    0 comments:

    Post a Comment

    Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
    Copyright 2010 GURURAJ.N.