Learning never exhausts your mind AMAZING FACTS
Learning never exhausts your mind
AMAZING
FACTS
If you trace your family tree back 25
Generations, you will have over 33 Million Direct
ancestors assuming no incest was involved.
It would take a Modern Spaceship 70,000 Years
to get to the nearest star of the Earth.
Eskimos have hundreds of
words for Snow but not
even one for Hallo.
In 1907, a study
by the
University of
Chicago showed
that the
easiest colour
to spot is
Yellow. This is
why John Hertz
decided to pick
the Yellow
colour for all
his Cabs of his
company –The
Yellow Cab Co.
It takes about 63,000 Trees to make the Newsprint
for the average Sunday edition of New York Times.
A study by FAO shows that
about 1.3 billion tonnes of food
are wasted every year and 1.5
million children die every year
out of hunger.
It you search ‘askew’ on Google, your page will be Tilted.
It you take 1 lb. of Spider’s web and stretch it out, it
would circle the whole way around the World.
A typical lead pencil can draw 35 miles long line
or approximately 50,000 English words.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey
found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been
tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Due to precipitation, for a few weeks,
K2 is taller than Mt. Everest.
Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a
ball further to the west than to the east.
Mosquitos have caused more human deaths,
Than any other animals of the world.
Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They
Actually, they hide you.
The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors
So they don’t know you’re there.
The Porpoise is second to man as the most
intelligent animal on the planet.
The Average person has
about 1460 dreams a year.
In the course of average lifetime you will ,
while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and
10 spiders.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
But our nose & ears never stop growing.
The strongest muscle is the tongue.
One quarter of the bones in your body,
are in your feet.
Human thigh bones
are stronger than
concrete.
The human nose can
recall more than 50,000
different smells.
People say “Bless
You” when you
sneeze because
when you sneeze,
your heart stops
for a millisecond.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will
increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Chewing gum while peeling onions
will keep you from crying.
“QUEUE” is the only English word that is still pronounced the
same way when the last four letters are removed.
If you start counting at One and spell out the numbers as
you go, you won’t use the letter “a” until you reach 1000.
In the courts of ancient Rome, men needed to
Swore to the truths holding their testicles.
Hence it is called “testify” .
More than 50% of
the people in the
World have never
made or received a
telephone call.
There are more possible iterations of a game of
chess than are atoms in the known world.
“Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick”
is the hardest tongue-twister
Right handed people live, on an average, nine
years longer than left-handed people .
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand
and draw with the other at the same time.
Albert Einstein
never wore Socks.
Bill Gates’ first
business was “Traff-
O-Data”which he co-
founded along with
Paul Allen and Paul
Gilbert.
Both Hitler and Osama bin Laden was
announced dead on may 1.
…
Charlie Chaplin once took part in a Charlie Chaplin
lookalike contest at a San Francisco theatre…
... He lost and came third!