RANDOM FACTS 9

On August 7 , 2009
At 12hr 34 minutes and 56 seconds
on the 7th of August this year, the
time and date will be
12:34:56 07/08/09
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This will never happen in your life
again??!!!!
Zero was invented in India by Indian mathematicians dating as early
as 5th century. They widely used it in calculations, astronomy and astrology.
Zero was spread by Arabians to the Europe and there on it was spread all
over. Before this, all Europeans used roman numerical which were difficult to
calculate on as they were in the form of Symbols, lengthy and had limits.
New Math Multiplication Method
Saturday mail delivery, in Canada, was eliminated, by Canada Post, on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car; for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane; as
a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache, on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine, in Las Vegas, for every eight inhabitants!
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion, in Renaissance Florence, to shave them off!
Every day, 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe
their hands and faces, after eating!
Tourists, visiting Iceland, should know that tipping, at a restaurant, is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen, last year!
The names of Popeye’s four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money; in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men, with their hands on each other’s
shoulders!
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a
camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas, when idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the
average automobile!
The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million “junk” telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or
programmed machine, were made, every day, in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be
recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers, in the world, are published in the United States and Canada!
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.
A 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.
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.
The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in 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’d 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.
Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The
survivor is born.
Most cats are left pawed.
250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
A Blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.
You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!.
Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
Building Spins 360 Degrees?
Company in Brazil (Suite Vollard) constructed a building in which each floor can rotate 360
degrees. Each building has 11 apartments and each apartment can spin individually in any direction.
One rotation takes a full hour, but apartment owner can set rotation speed through apartment control
panel. Facades are made of three different types of glass which give wonderful effects when building
spins during the sunset. Cost of each apartment is $US 300,000.00.