Facts To Consider

1. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.
2. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
3. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
4. JEEP was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.
5. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to 7!
6. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
SPADES - King David, CLUBS - Alexander the Great, HEARTS– Charlemagne, DIAMONDS- Julius Caesar.
7. Horse Statue in a Park…
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
8. Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand!
9. The word checkmate in chess comes from the Persian phrase shah mat which means the king is dead!
10. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card!








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Unknown, Unbelievable Facts

 James Bond was Associated with the Number 007; Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia.

Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar! 

 The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Linda Wolfe is the most married woman in the world. She married 23 men! 

MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling. 

POLO is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed. 

 The Sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth!

 In Tibet, it is considered good manners to stick out your tongue at someone!

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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Wonderful Facts

• Rabindranath Tagore is only person in the world who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is India's National anthem (Jana Gana Mana)and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar Bangla)
• Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.
• The first ever alarm clock could only ring at 4 AM!
• To have your picture taken by the very first camera, you would've had to sit still for 8 hours!
• The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964, and it was made of wood!
• "The value of pi (The Mathematical Term) was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have officially published in 1999 that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians."
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
• "Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest."
• "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
• 'TIPS' is a short from of 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
• What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.

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Animals are Interesting !!

 

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

 

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

 

A snail can sleep for three years.

 

All polar bears are left handed.

 

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

 

If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will turn white!

 

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

 

Butterflies taste with their feet.

 

A fish's memory span is only of 3 seconds.

 

An Octopus has 3 Hearts

 In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are sleeping!

 

The shrimp's heart is in its head!

 

Jaguars are frightened by common dogs!

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Know your Facts..

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.


Honeybees fly at 15 miles per hour!


Dolphins sleep with one eye open.


Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.


Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.


An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.


The skeleton continues to grow until age 35 and then it starts to shrink!


Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.


Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death!

Can You Belive It?

• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
• It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
• It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
• Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
• Men get hiccups more often than women!

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Facts You Will Enjoy

• There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

• The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

• The average cat sleeps about 2/3 of the day!

• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

• The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

• The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

• Humans blink 25 times per minute!

• Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans can't taste water!

• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

• One quarter of the man's bones in the body, are in man's feet.

• The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body!

• Humans have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!

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Strange Facts

• Man can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

• The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

• The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.

• There are more bacteria in our mouth than there are people in the world!

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More Animal Facts

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.


A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.


A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.


A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.


A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.


A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.


A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.


A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.


A jellyfish is made of 95 percent water.


A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

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Interesting Facts

• "The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education." 

 

• A 'GOOGOL' is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner supposedly asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to suggest a name for the number, and he came up with this word.
• A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.

 

 

• 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, It is the world's widest road.
• The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink, Fanta!
• The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum!
• Man is born with 300 bones, but when he becomes an adult, he only has 206.
• Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous!
• The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life!
• The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet!

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Facts about Animals

• Humans and bonobo monkeys are the only species who have face-to-face sex.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why!
• A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly!
• "A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away."
• Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed!
• The blue whale produces the loudest sound of any animal at 188 decibels!
• Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump!

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Unusual Facts

• The world’s first postage stamps were issued in England. Since English were the first to issue postage stamps, England is the only country in the world that does not mention the country’s name on the stamps.
• "Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying."
• "According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software."

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Animal Facts

•  If NASA sends birds into space, they would soon die. They need gravity to swallow!

•  A cat's jaws cannot move sideways!

•  A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.

•  A Cheetah at full speed takes strides of 8 meters.

•  Honeybees never sleep!

• The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito! 

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