Unbelievable Amazing Facts

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• The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
• The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!
• The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.
• The kiwi has nostrils near the tip of its bill that allows it to sniff the ground for food.
• The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
• The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make sexual advances rather than the boy in order to help the men avoid upsetting the girl's parents.
• The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
• The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.
• The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge. It was sold and moved Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1971.
• The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
• The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.
• The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.
• The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.
• The Kama Sutra was written by Mallanga Vatsyayana, who was rumored to be celibate.
• The kangaroo and the emu are shown supporting the shield on Australia's coat of arms.
• The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.
• The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
• The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
• The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
• The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
• The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.
• The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.
• The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.
• The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).
• The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.
• The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.
• The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.

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1) A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

2) The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!

3) The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

4) Polar bears are left handed.

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The Great Pyramid of Giza

Since the earliest of times the "Great Pyramid" of Giza (Arab. Al Jizah ) along with its 2 other main pyramids have been considered one of the wonders of the world. The Great Pyramid is still among the world's largest structures, standing almost as tall as a 50 story skyscraper. The 3 main pyramids were built as tombs for 3 Egyptian Pharaohs who were considered to be gods on earth. The first and largest pyramid, known as the Great Pyramid was a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops to the Greeks), who ruled the 4th dynasty around 2575 BC, which would have been centuries before Abraham, the first Hebrew. But the real marvel of this Great Pyramid was its massive size.

Size and Description

The true pyramid exists only in Egypt, though the term has also been applied to similar structures in other countries. The Great Pyramid stands 480 feet tall with a base of 750 feet in each direction forming a square at the bottom. The pyramid contains around 2,300,000 individual blocks of stones each weighing over 2.5 tons on the average, with some weighing over 16 tons and the granite roof slabs of Khufu's burial chamber weigh over 50 tons. The stones form a giant staircase with each step being waist high. The foundation below the pyramid is solid rock. Today the city of Cairo is extended out very close to the pyramids but in ancient times it stood out in the desert. Originally the stones were incased in brilliant white polished limestone which gave it a glittering appearance.



What Archaeologists Have Found

Archaeologists have been trying to solve the puzzle of where the possibly 100,000 laborers who built the pyramids lived. Once they find the workers' living area, they can learn more about the workforce, their daily lives, and perhaps where they came from. Thus the settlement of the camps have been discovered, Bakeries have been found to feed the workers, as well as cemetaries, tools, hieroglyphical inscriptions, names of the craftsmen, overseers, inspectors, 25 unique new titles, and more. They even found 600 skeletons of Egyptians, some of which had emergency medical treatment having been injured while working on the pyramid. There is also evidence that these workers worked all year round, seeing that, according to their beliefs, they were assured a certain place in the afterlife. Their hard labor for their king and Pharaoh would also benefit the future and prosperity of Egypt as a whole.

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

"ADD THIS ALSO" this is onne i heard from my teacher

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The Afghan capital Kabul has a cyber cafe

Accordingly to Google Zeitgeist the top search in India June 2007 is the phrase reliance data card

Google offers its employees free lunch

BBC has 43 different translations of its website

Google's employees get free haircuts

Google receives more than 1000 resumes a day

About 47 million laptops where shipped worldwide 2006

Over 2.7 billion searches are made on Google search engine each month

1 of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online

If myspace was a country it would be the 11th largest

Google can be queried in 36 languages (2007)

Google uses over 10,000 networked computers to crawl the web

Google has 2007 surpassed Microsoft as the world's most-visited site

Google have won 2007 most powerful brand by a British research company

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute

The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the worlds population

Google staff are known as Googlers

The founders of Google didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface, thats one of the main reason why the home page is so bare

The name "Google" comes from a spelling mistake, the founders intendent to write "Googol"

Google launched their search site in 1998

The Google function "I feel lucky" is nearly never used, well compared to the high number of users

Google comes from the word googol, which is 1 followed by a hundred zeros

Wikipedia has a page devoted to toilet roll holders

Atari sold 400000 VCS consoles in 1979

The Atari 2600 only has 128 bytes of RAM

In Sweden the @ is called "snabel-a" wich means a "trunk with an a"

The floppy disk was patents in 1946 by Alan Shugart

If you type in failure in google, and select "I'm feeling lucky", you will be redirected to the White House web page

Yahoo stands for Yet Another 'Hierarchical Organizational Oracle'

PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page

The oldest surviving computer in the world is called CSIRAC and is located in Melbourne

The word maps is often in the top 10 search words submitted to search engines

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ya i have heard and also learned abt great pyramid in many books and i was stunned by the energy that it produces and the drasticall changes it makes

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The Great Pyramid of Giza

Since the earliest of times the "Great Pyramid" of Giza (Arab. Al Jizah ) along with its 2 other main pyramids have been considered one of the wonders of the world. The Great Pyramid is still among the world's largest structures, standing almost as tall as a 50 story skyscraper. The 3 main pyramids were built as tombs for 3 Egyptian Pharaohs who were considered to be gods on earth. The first and largest pyramid, known as the Great Pyramid was a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops to the Greeks), who ruled the 4th dynasty around 2575 BC, which would have been centuries before Abraham, the first Hebrew. But the real marvel of this Great Pyramid was its massive size.

Size and Description

The true pyramid exists only in Egypt, though the term has also been applied to similar structures in other countries. The Great Pyramid stands 480 feet tall with a base of 750 feet in each direction forming a square at the bottom. The pyramid contains around 2,300,000 individual blocks of stones each weighing over 2.5 tons on the average, with some weighing over 16 tons and the granite roof slabs of Khufu's burial chamber weigh over 50 tons. The stones form a giant staircase with each step being waist high. The foundation below the pyramid is solid rock. Today the city of Cairo is extended out very close to the pyramids but in ancient times it stood out in the desert. Originally the stones were incased in brilliant white polished limestone which gave it a glittering appearance.



What Archaeologists Have Found

Archaeologists have been trying to solve the puzzle of where the possibly 100,000 laborers who built the pyramids lived. Once they find the workers' living area, they can learn more about the workforce, their daily lives, and perhaps where they came from. Thus the settlement of the camps have been discovered, Bakeries have been found to feed the workers, as well as cemetaries, tools, hieroglyphical inscriptions, names of the craftsmen, overseers, inspectors, 25 unique new titles, and more. They even found 600 skeletons of Egyptians, some of which had emergency medical treatment having been injured while working on the pyramid. There is also evidence that these workers worked all year round, seeing that, according to their beliefs, they were assured a certain place in the afterlife. Their hard labor for their king and Pharaoh would also benefit the future and prosperity of Egypt as a whole.