Strange Facts

[vareen]

dimaag ki batti jalaao....!! ;)
lets share sum facts of life with each other nd increase our knowledge...sum may even b unbelievable....but true!! so i begin wid the first step 2wards xpanding our knowledge...wat say??
so here r sum strange but interesting facts!!:eek:

-Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.

-Bart Simpson's voice on the Simpsons is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.

-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

-The first e-mail was sent over the internet in 1972.

-By the time he died in 1910, the king of Siam had fathered 370 children.

-The fine for leaving a public toilet unflushed in Singapore is $150.

-There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.

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[animateash]

hey cool ones vareen

[divyaashimix]

hey seriously strange facts yarrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[animateash]

hey can soem1 psot mroe i eraly loev erdaing it

lvu ash

[vareen]

thx 4 thyt..i thought nobodys interested..will find sum more soon..!!

[animateash]

thx 4 thyt..i thought nobodys interested..will find sum more soon..!!
hey who sai dnobody inetrested main hoon na actuallyd si therad was way back so iw a sbrowsinga n found it inetresting pzl do post mroe loevs read

luv ash

[vareen]

some more strange facts----->

1]Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

2]The longest jail sentence passed was in the United States - 10,000 years for a triple murder.

3]Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

4]If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

5]Cat urine glows under a black-light!

6]The world's largest recorded gathering of people was at a Hindu religious festival in India in 1989. It was attended by about 15 million people.

7]It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Try it!

[KA ROKS]

wow really STRANGE

[animateash]

hey avreen reallys tarnge an di loevd redaing

lvu ash

[DGSandhu]

Hey Vareen I liked the facts you had posted.
so strange, yet true.

[vareen]

thx a lot ppl 4 the compliments..gud u guys r lovin it...even u ppl can contribute strange facts tht u hav cum across!!

[divyaashimix]

thx a lot ppl 4 the compliments..gud u guys r lovin it...even u ppl can contribute strange facts tht u hav cum across!!
I'll soon contribut the facts as soon as I come across dem........:)

[vareen]

here's ur dose of sum more strange but true facts!!

1]The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years! :eek:

2]Hans Langseth had the longest beard at a record length of 17 1/2 feet long! When he died, his beard was given to the Smithsonian Institute.

3]It is said that when England is in danger a drum owned by Francis Drake rolls by itself.

4]If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles. :rolleyes:

5]The Amazon rain forest supplies one-fifth of the world’s oxygen! :cool:

6]Scientist believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus. The heart of these planets may be a layer of diamonds hundreds of miles thick :D

7]If you could live on the planet Mercury, a year would only last 88 days.

[animateash]

thx a lot ppl 4 the compliments..gud u guys r lovin it...even u ppl can contribute strange facts tht u hav cum across!!
hey i will contribute i ahev soem but i ahev 2 find ver i ahev saved it

lvu ash

[animateash]

here's ur dose of sum more strange but true facts!!

1]The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years! :eek:

2]Hans Langseth had the longest beard at a record length of 17 1/2 feet long! When he died, his beard was given to the Smithsonian Institute.

3]It is said that when England is in danger a drum owned by Francis Drake rolls by itself.

4]If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles. :rolleyes:

5]The Amazon rain forest supplies one-fifth of the world’s oxygen! :cool:

6]Scientist believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus. The heart of these planets may be a layer of diamonds hundreds of miles thick :D

7]If you could live on the planet Mercury, a year would only last 88 days.

hey awesoe i eral;;y love redaings uch kind of facts

[animateash]

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

[vareen]

gud going ash..these were a load of facts!!

[animateash]

gud going ash..these were a load of facts!!
tahxna lto vareen i have mroe will psots un

lvua sh

[ghu1007]

can u tell 100 words which do not contain the letter A-

one,two,three------hundred:)

[ghu1007]

here r some more facts-

At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.

13 people each year are killed by Vending Machine's falling on them.

More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.

[animateash]

ghuoongroo awesome

[divyaashimix]

here's ur dose of sum more strange but true facts!!

1]The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years! :eek:

2]Hans Langseth had the longest beard at a record length of 17 1/2 feet long! When he died, his beard was given to the Smithsonian Institute.

3]It is said that when England is in danger a drum owned by Francis Drake rolls by itself.

4]If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles. :rolleyes:

5]The Amazon rain forest supplies one-fifth of the world’s oxygen! :cool:

6]Scientist believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus. The heart of these planets may be a layer of diamonds hundreds of miles thick :D

7]If you could live on the planet Mercury, a year would only last 88 days.

hey bhaggu !
that was indeed very starange !!!!!!

[divyaashimix]

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

kool one thakur........

[animateash]

kool one thakur........
thanx alot
luv ash

[vareen]

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.

Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result!

Pearls melt in vinegar.

There is a city called Rome on every continent

[animateash]

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.

Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result!

Pearls melt in vinegar.

There is a city called Rome on every continent



hey 2 cool

lvu ash