Unbelievable Amazing Facts

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Amazing facts :

1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
2. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
3. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
5. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
6. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
7. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
8. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
9. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
10. The act of snapping one's fingers is called a "fillip".
11. The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
12. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
13. Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it -- 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25 etc.
14. A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
15. The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
16. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
17. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
18. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
19. 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.
20. Polar bears are left handed.
21. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
22. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24. It is impossible to sneeze and keep ones eye's open at the same time.
25. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. ( thankfully !!)
26. A cat's urine glows under a black light.
27. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
28. Cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, making them the most nimble animals known.
29. Mosquitoes do not bite. They stab. A mosquito has no jaws, hence when attacking a victim, it pierces it with its long proboscis and sucks the blood up through it's nasal tube.
30. Starfishes haven't got brains.
31. Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years.
32. Some breeds of vultures can fly at altitudes as high as 36,900 feet.
33. The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearms, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch on them.
34. The most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die from malaria every year
35. A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers.
A light nanosecond is the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second and is 1 foot or about 30 cm.
36. INTERCHANGEABILITY contains the words THREE, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, THIRTEEN, THIRTY, THIRTY-NINE, EIGHTY, EIGHTY-NINE, NINETY, and NINETY-EIGHT
37. One thousand contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
39. Some words with horizontal symmetry (they reflect themselves across a horizontal line) are: BEDECKED, BOOHOOED, CEBID (a type of monkey), CHECKBOOK, CHOICE, CODEBOOK, COOKBOOK, DECIDED, DIOXIDE, DOBCHICK, EXCEEDED, HIDE, HOODOOED, ICEBOX, KEBOBBED, OBOE, OKEECHOBEE.
40. Some words with vertical symmetry are MOM, WOW, OTTO, MAAM, MA'AM, TOOT, AHA, AA, AHA, AIA, AMA, AVA, AWA, HAH, HOH, HUH, MAM, MIM, MM, MUM, OHO, OO, OXO, TAT, TIT, TOT, TUT, UTU, VAV, WAW.
41. R.S.V.P. comes from the French phrase, 'répondez, s'il vous plaît,' which means 'please reply.' According to western etiquette, you should reply promptly if you receive a formal invitation.
42. A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.
43. A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10-9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory
44. INTESTINES has each of its letters occurring twice. Some other such words: APPEASES, ARRAIGNING, BERIBERI, BILABIAL, CAUCASUS, CHOWCHOW, CONCISIONS, COUSCOUS, ESOPHAGOGRAPHERS, FROUFROU, GENSENGS, GREEGREE, GUITGUIT, HAPPENCHANCE, HORSESHOER, HOTSHOTS, JIPIJAPA, MAHIMAHI, MESOSOME, MILLIEME, MIMETITE, RAPPAREE, REAPPEAR, SCINTILLESCENT, SHAMMASH, SHANGHAIINGS, TEAMMATE, UNSUFFICIENCES, VETITIVE
45. There are three sets of letters on the standard typewriter and computer keyboards which are in alphabetical order, reading left to right. They are f-g-h, j-k-l, and o-p.

[rameshxavier]

1) Longest English Word :

Praetertranssubstan tiationalistical ly has 37 letters.

2) Book Without Letter "e":

GADFY , written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a
single word with ' e' in it

3) Word without Vowel :

Rhythm

Sky

Fry

Cry

4) Human Brain :

Organ of body which has no sensation when cut.

5) Crocodile:

Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating.

6) No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS:

They are
** **B* Bee *
** **C* Sea*
** **G** * Zee*
** ** I* Eye *
** ** Q* Queue*
** ** R* Are *
** ** S* Yes *
** **T* Tea* **
** ** U* You *
** ** Y* Why

Fascinating Animals, Birds, Trees:

1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp
teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

What are They :

1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say DADDY':

LIPS
2) What goes up & never comes down:
AGE
3) Patches over patches but no stitches:
CABBAGE
4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you:

FUTURE
5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves:

ROAD
6) You can never wet it:
SHADOW
7) What belongs to You, but used by your friends more often you do:

YOUR NAME

In 24 Hours Average Human :

1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD .
8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR .
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT .
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS .
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times

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