Unbelievable Amazing Facts

**Friendz** · 08-22-2008, 10:47 AM

Amazing Facts These are facts you probably have never realized.

The word "racecar", "kayak", and "radar" are the same
whether they are read left to right or right to left.

"a man a plan a canal panama"spelled backwards is still
"a man a plan a canal panama"

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the
line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, but
dogs only have about ten.

No word in the English language rhymes with "month".

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left
hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

All polar bears are left handed.

The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.

Flies can acclerate 1000 times faster than rocket

The Espiscopl palace of king Philip 2 of spain of 16th century had 1200!!!! doors

The length from the wrist to the elbow is the same as the length of the foot
An average person will drink 75000 litres of water in his lifetime

13%people on the earth are left handed

On an average human breathes 23000 times a day

It used to be illegal to swim by daylight

most peoples hair stops growing at 3 ft 91 cm

One human hair can support 3kg

Blondes have more hair than dark haired people

The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb

The human brain is 85% water

Children grow faster in the springtime

The japaneese make square shaped watermelons.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other

Leonardo wrote backwards, so that the only way to properly read his writing was to hold it up to a mirror

After studying it for 47 days, the New York Museum of Modern Art discovered that the Matisse painting Le Bateau was hanging upside down

On average, coconut's kill more people per year then sharks do.

Lions and tigers can mate and produce offspring called ligers

In texas, one person is killed every year painting stripes on the states highways!

Americans spend more than ?365million on golf balls in a year

The venus fly trap takes half a second to shut on its prey

The smallest unit of time is a yoctosecond, it is one septillionth of a second!

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Polar bears are left-handed.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

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

Starfish haven't got brains.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

The youngest pope was 11 years old

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.

Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie

**Friendz** · 08-22-2008, 10:51 AM

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but mens noses and ears never stop growing.

Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

**Friendz** · 08-22-2008, 10:54 AM

Facetious, abstemious, abstentious, arsenious, and arteriosus are the only five words in the English language that contain the vowels a, e, i, o, and u in their proper order.
The word "four" has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
The word monsoon is derived from the Arabic word mausim, meaning "season." It was first used by Arab sailors to describe the seasonal winds that blow across the Arabian Sea.
The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a "tittle." Tittle is Latin for something very small.
The only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
Mother In the vast majority of the world's languages, the word for "mother" begins with the letter M.
The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable - it has three.
The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was "J," which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was "U."

**Friendz** · 08-22-2008, 10:58 AM

Ø Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair

Ø The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Ø Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.

Ø You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

Ø A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.

Ø Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

Ø Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Ø The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Ø When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

Ø Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his Wife or mother because they were both deaf.

Ø "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

Ø Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

Ø The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond

Ø Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

Ø "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters

Ø Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do

Ø The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language

Ø If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

Ø China has more English speakers than the United States

Ø Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Ø Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

Ø The longest place name still in use is:

Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe nuakitanatahu- a New Zealand hill

Ø If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US) at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

**Friendz** · 08-22-2008, 11:03 AM

Amazing facts about “Chewing Gum”!!

Amazing facts about “Chewing Gum”

Most of us do have our very own favourite chewing gum, sometimes taken to soothe up relaxation, strengthen up concentration, after-meal take, etc. Ranging from Extras to Big Red… We love them especially with a touch of flavor like mint, cinnamon, strawberry, etc. Well, do you know what a chewing gum can do other than that?

“Chewing Gum after a meal can prevent heartburn!!”

I’m sure you’re surprised as I was the first time when I read about this. So here’s the reason to this amazing fact:

The list of ideas for easing heartburn is long and filled with home remedies, many unproved. But one of the simplest, chewing gum may be among the most effective.

"Heartburn results from digestive fluids traveling from stomach to esophagus in a process known as gastro esophageal reflux."

When scientists set out to study whether this could be countered by chewing gum, they assumed the answer would be no.
Instead they found that the saliva stimulated by chewing seemed to neutralize acid and help force fluids back to the stomach.
“In a study published in The journal of dental research, researchers had 31 people eat heartburn-inducing meals and then asked random subjects to chew sugar-free gum for 30 minutes. Acid levels after the meals were significantly lower when the participants chewed gum.”

The bottom line:
Studies show that chewing gum after a meal can significantly reduce the severity of heartburn.

**Friendz** · 08-22-2008, 11:11 AM

Top 10 Most amazing facts about the Earth

1. Gravity is not the same over the surface of the Earth

It turns out that in some places you will feel slightly heavier than others. A low spot can be seen just off the coast of India, while a relative high occurs in the South Pacific Ocean. The cause of these irregularities is unknown since present surface features do not appear dominant. NASA's GRACE twin satellites, launched in March 2002, are making detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field which will lead to discoveries about gravity and Earth's natural systems.

2. Atmosphere 'escapes'

Due to thermal energy, some of the molecules at the outer edge of the Earth's atmosphere have their velocity increased to the point where they can escape from the planet's gravity. This results in a slow but steady leakage of the atmosphere into space. Because unfixed hydrogen has a low molecular weight, it can achieve escape velocity more readily and it leaks into outer space at a greater rate.[61] For this reason, the Earth's current environment is oxidizing, rather than reducing, with consequences for the chemical nature of life which developed on the planet. The oxygen-rich atmosphere also preserves much of the surviving hydrogen by locking it up in water molecules.

3. The Earth is slowing down

As a result of variation in gravitational forces due to the moon, the sun and other planets in the solar system, displacements of matter in different in different parts of the planets and other excitation mechanisms, the rotational speed of the Earth about it's axis varies in time. Recently, days have been getting shorter by hundredths of a second, which implies that the angular velocity of the Earth has been increasing. The factors causing this increasing in the Earth's rotational velocity have not been determined. The rotation data shows oscillations over several different timescales. The one with the largest variation is seasonal: Earth slows down in January and February.

4. Van Allen radiation belt

The Van Allen Radiation Belt is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's magnetic field. Apollo astronauts who traveled to the moon spent very little time in the belts but probably have a slightly higher risk of cancer during their. NASA said that they deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimize the radiation. Besides, there have been nuclear tests in space that have caused artificial radiation belts. Starfish Prime, a high altitude nuclear test created an artificial radiation belt that damaged or destroyed as many as one third of the satellites in low earth orbit at the time.

5. Moon is moving away from Earth

The reasons why have to do with tides and conservation of energy and angular momentum. Measurements have been collected now for over 25 years, and it is clear that the Moon's orbit is slowly growing larger and that the Moon is moving away from the Earth. The net result is that the Moon is receding from the Earth at about 4 centimeters a year. However, astronomers have predicted that when the Sun enters the red giant phase in around 5 billion years - during the red giant phase of the Sun - both Earth and Moon will be affected by the Sun's extended atmosphere and will aproach again. Then the Moon will swing ever closer to Earth until it reaches a point 11,470 miles (18,470 kilometers) above our planet, a point termed the Roche limit. The result: Moon will be torn to pieces and will be scattered to form a spectacular 23,000-mile-diameter (37,000-kilometer) Saturn-like ring of debris above Earth's equator.

6. Moon has a tidal effect on the atmosphere

The Moon have a tidal effect on the atmosphere as well as the oceans. Theory predicts stronger lunar pressure oscillations in the tropics but their amplitude rarely exceeds 100 microbars or 0.01 percent of the average surface pressure. Detection of such a tiny signal masked by much larger pressure variations associated with weather phenomena required the development of special statistical techniques and the accumulation of a long series of regular observations. It is common for atmospheric waves to grow in amplitude with height as the air becomes thinner. The lunar tide, however, remains weak compared to the solar tide in the upper atmosphere.

7. The Chandler wobble

The Chandler wobble is a small variation in Earth's axis of rotation, discovered by American astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler in 1891. It amounts to 0.7 arcseconds over a period of 433 days. In other words, Earth's poles move in an irregular circle of 3 to 15 metres in diameter, in an oscillation. The cause is unknown. On 18 July 2000, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that "the principal cause of the Chandler wobble is fluctuating pressure on the bottom of the ocean, caused by temperature and salinity changes and wind-driven changes in the circulation of the oceans. However, on janauary-february 2006 scientist noticed the Chandler wobble had stopped and there was a near six week period in which a significant pause occurred. This anomaly has been of great interest in gaining a better understanding, but it is not yet known if this has or will cause any catastrophic changes in the overall rotation axis of the planet.

8. Earth electric charge

Since 1917 scientists have known that the earth's surface is charged with negative electricity, but no one knew for sure what keeps it charged. In areas of fair weather, an electric current flows between the earth and the air in a direction which would tend to dissipate the charge. It is not much of a current: only about 1,500 amperes, not much more for the entire earth than flows in a few power lines. But the electricity taken from the earth must be restored somehow or the earth's electric charge would soon drain away. An obvious guess is that thunderstorms somehow restore the lost charge, but no one had proved it. Three years ago the institution borrowed airplanes from the Air Force and began to measure electrical stirring in the still air above active thunderheads. Sure enough, the instruments showed a current moving in the opposite direction to the current in fair-weather areas. The scientists figured that all the thunderstorms going on at one time generate a net current of about 1,500 amperes, just enough to balance the drain and keep the earth's charge constant.

9. Tons of interplanetary dust reaches Earth every year

According to space.com, about 30,000 tons of interplanetary dust reaches Earth's surface every year. Most asteroids roam around the Sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. The fragments of their collisions, and the dust, can be drawn toward the inner solar system and sometimes approach Earth. Dust and rocks moving fast in relation to Earth frequently slam into the atmosphere and burn up, generating shooting stars. Stuff moving more slowly relative to Earth can be captured by the planet's gravity and survive the plunge.

10. Earth's magnetic poles change places

The poles on the Earth have changed places - many times! We can tell this has happened because the magnetic moment of the rocks that make up the ocean floor have an alternating direction. Which direction they exhibit depends on which way the poles were oriented when the rocks were being formed at the mid-ocean ridge. During a reversal, which can take thousands of years, the magnetic poles start to wander away from the region around the spin poles, and eventually end up switched around. Sometimes this wandering is slow and steady, and other times it occurs in several jumps.

**Friendz** · 08-22-2008, 11:13 AM

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY

Our heart beats around 100,000 times a day.
Our blood is on a 60,000 mile journey.
Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
Our lungs inhales over 2,000,000 litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
Our hearing is so sensitive that it can distingush between hundreds of different sounds.
Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells. We give birth to 100 billion red blood cells every day.
When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124mph.
We have over 600 muscles. By walking, we exercise over 250 muscles.
We exercise over 30 muscles when we smile.
We are about 70% water.
We make one litre of saliva every day.
Our nose is our personal air conditioning system; it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 30 hairs, 13 yards of nerves, 9,000 nerve endings 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, magnesium, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.

**PETER.PHIL** · 01-01-2011, 09:03 AM

The universe does not go on forever. There is an edge, and it is expanding at the speed of light. Energy density is slowly decreasing, and eventually the universe will become cold and dark, though not for many billions of years.