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1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.
2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.
3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.
4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.
5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.
6. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.
7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.
8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.
9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off.
10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.
12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.
13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.
14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.
15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.
16. Eskimoes have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.
17. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.
18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.
19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
20. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.
21. The longest English word without a vowel is twyndyllyngs which means "twins".
22. 1 x 8 + 1 = 9; 12 x 8 + 2 = 98; 123 x 8 + 3 = 987; 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876; 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765; 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654; 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543; 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432; 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
23. The word "dreamt" is the only common word in the English language that ends in "mt".
24. Albert Einstein never wore any socks.
25. The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime.
26. In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.
27. Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backwards.
28. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
29. Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before they starve to death.
30. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
31. The lighter was invented before the match.
32. The average left-handed person lives 7 years LESS than a right-handed person.
33. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
34. Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.
35. The first Internet domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
36. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six phones were sold in the first month.
37. Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.
38. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5 million.
39. In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.
40. In Canada, the most productive day of the working week is Tuesday.
41. In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest colour to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.
42. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
43. On average a business document is copied 19 times.
44. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.
45. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday." They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
46. All babies are color-blind when they are born.
47. Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
48. Each nostril of a human being registers smells in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril.
49. Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
50. May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.
51. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
52. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
53. Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had.
54. Rolling Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year-old model Mandy Smith in 1988. At the same time Wyman's son was engaged to Mandy Smith's mother. If his son had married Smith's mother, Wyman would have been the step grandfather to his own wife.
55. There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.
56. There are about 6,800 languages in the world.
57. There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
58. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
59. The coconut is the largest seed in the world.
60. There is cyanide in apple pips.
61. If you were to take 1 lb. of spiders web and stretch it out it would circle the whole way around the world!
62. If every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at the same time...it would knock the earth off its axis!
63. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
64. The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.
65. The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells.
66. The symbols + (addition) and – (subtraction) came into general use in 1489.
67. If you save one penny and double it every successive day, (day two you have 2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, and so on), by the end of 30 days you’ll have $5,368,708! (or ?’s or whatever currency).
68. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
69. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
70. The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five miles long.
71. Due to precipitation, for a few weeks, K2 is taller than Mt. Everest.
72. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
73. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.
74. The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.
75. A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds that a person can hear. If a person can just hear a noise that is coming from 10 feet away, a dog could hear that same noise from 100 feet away.
76. If a sole (a type of fish) lays upon a chessboard it can change the colouring of its body to match the pattern of the chess board. The sole takes about 4 minutes to make the change.
77. Of all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed to the deaths of more people than any other animal.
78. In the courts of the Roman Empire, instead of swearing an oath on a bible, men swore to the truth on their statements while holding their genitals. Hence the word 'testify', from 'testicles'.
79. The first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and Silicate - hence its brand name, Persil.
80. If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans. Only 1 would own a computer.
81. All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
82. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
83. Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States.
84. Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood.
85. It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago.
86. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
87. An octopus has 3 hearts.
88. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
89. The hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.
90. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
91. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in 9 different ways; Read this: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
92. The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it.
93. A left-handed person finds it easier to open a jar than a right-handed person because they can supply a stronger anticlockwise turning force than a right-handed person. However a right-handed person will find it easier to tighten the jar up afterwards.
94. The orbit of the Moon about the Earth would fit easily inside the Sun.
95. A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
96. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the keyboard.
97. Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west than to the east.
98. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
99. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
100. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (euro, pound).
1.    Singapore is the most expensive place on earth to own a car?
2.    Singapore is one of two cities in the world with a tropical rainforest?
3.    A day on Mars is about half an hour longer than a day on Earth?
4.    Russia's president Putin has worked in the KGB's foreign intelligence service?
5.    A rollercoaster has no engine?
6.    About 10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment?
7.    One in every foru Americans Has appeared on Television?
8.    About 80% of women wear the wrong size bra?
9.    Sri Lanka has the highest number of snakebite deaths in the world?
10.    Ethiopia will be celebrating millennium in September 2007?
11.    The first print ad for Johnnie Walker appeared in 1883?
12.    A puma has about 75% killing efficiency?
13.    Uganda has the source of River Nile?
14.    About 80% of your poo is water?
15.    Sri Lanka has the world's highest number of public holidays?
16.    70% of all Land Rovers ever made are estimated to still be on the road?
17.    The Pima tribe in Arizona has the highest rate of diabetes in the world?
18.    It takes around 10 litres of milk to make 1kg of cheese?
19.    More people get killed by dogs than by sharks?
20.    You swallow about a quart of snot everyday?
21.    Every year we produce more transistors than grains of rice?
22.    The first hot-air balloon was launched from Versailles in 1783?
23.    The unit 'foot' was originally the length of a human foot(12 inches)?
24.    A piece of paper can not be folded in half more than seven times
25.    In Fahrenheit scale and the Celsius scale 40 degrees below zero is the same?
26.    The first 3-Wheeler accident took place in 1769?
27.    At the same thickness hair is strong as a wire of iron?
28.    Every year a huge icehotel of about 4 000 m2 is built in the village Jukkasjaervi in Sweden?
29.    The first popcorn machine was invented by Charlie Cretors in 1885?
30.    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines?
31.    The inch represents the width of a thumb?
32.    The opposite sides of a die always add up to seven?
33.    Broken clocks are right twice a day?
34.    VHS stands for Video Home System?
35.    The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer?
36.    A dentist, William Semple, invented chewing gum to exercise his jaws?
37.    It was a Swede in 1892 who invented the adjustable spanner?
38.    Cigarette lighter was invented before the matches where invented?
39.    The temperature in a flame is lower close to the source and highest near the top?
40.    Golden Gate Bridge took about four years to build?
41.    The electric toothbrush was invented in 1939?
42.    Most lubricants will disappear in space?
43.    Cotton is heavier than water?
44.    The maximum speed of Titanic was 23 knots?
45.    BMW made the first jet engine?
46.    Porsche also build tractors?
47.    The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight?
48.    Hacky sack was invented in Turkey?
49.    A DVD has a about 100 year life span?
50.    A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts?
51.    The screwdriver was invented before the screw?
52.    The billionth digit of pi is 9?
53.    The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight?
54.    The second most used metal in the world is copper?
55.    It took over four years to build Golden Gate Bridge?
56.    Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented?
57.    The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter?
58.    Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark?
59.    The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps?
60.    The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year. The reason? When it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books?
61.    There is a house in Rockport Massachusetts made of Boston newspapers. Mechanical Engineer Mr. Elis Stenman built the house as a hobby for 20 years?
62.    The Library of Congress is the world's largest library with more than 120 million items?
63.    Vernal Bank in Utah was built from bricks sent through mail?
64.    No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times?
65.    Bologna, just like Pisa, has a leaning tower and it is called the Garisenda tower?
66.    Plastic is made out of 50% seaweed?
67.    The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 2673 doors?
68.    The first subway system in America was built 1897 in Boston, Massachusetts?
69.    Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon?
70.    The Netherlands has built about 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea?
71.    Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg?
72.    The longest flight by a paper aircraft indoors is 20.9 seconds?
73.    It is estimated that there are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building?
74.    The first U.S. coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914?
75.    Thomas Crapper was the inventor of the flushing toilet?
76.    Taj Mahal, built between 1632 and 1654, in India is made entirely out of marble?
77.    A depth of 2 fathoms (3,6 metres) is called a Mark Twain?
78.    The electric chair was invented by a dentist?
79.    The Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour in 8 minutes?
80.    The World Trade Center towers had two different zip codes, 10047 and 10048. One for each building?
81.    A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel?
82.    The parking meter was invented in North Dakota?
83.    Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door?
84.    The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second?
85.    Construction workers hard hats was invented in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933?
86.    TV antennas were invented in 1898 but TV's were not invented until the year 1935?
87.    Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world?
88.    The largest manufacturing industry in the world is the Automobile building?
89.    A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second?
90.    Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women?
91.    There are about 400 million cars and light trucks in the world today?
92.    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth about 150 times?
93.    Central air conditioners use about 98% more energy than ceiling fans?
94.    Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for about three hours?
95.    The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along?
96.    1 cubic yard of air weighs 2 pounds at sea level?
97.    In 1943, Thomas Watson (the chairman of IBM ), predicted that the future market for computers shold be only five computers?
98.    Planet earth is not round?
99.    Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth?
100.    Space shuttles travel at approximately 17000 miles per hour?
101.    Antarctica is one of the best place in the world to find meteorites. Dark meteorites show in the snow and dont get covered by vegetation?
102.    When you see a full moon you will see the same side every time?
103.    The longest possible eclipse of the Sun is 7.31 minutes?
104.    Sweden has only one astronaut, Christer Fuglesang?
105.    Marc Garneau was the first Canadian astronaut to fly in space?
106.    Pluto is no longer considered as a planet?
107.    Halley's comet nears the earth every 76 years? Halley's comet is next scheduled to return in 2062?
108.    There is no sound in space?
109.    Every year the sun loses 360 million tons?
110.    A year on Mars is almost twice as long as on Earth?
111.    Earth is not round, it is slightly pear-shaped?
112.    Gravity is so much greater on the sun that a man weighing 150 pounds on the earth would weigh about 2 tons on the sun?
113.    If the sun suddenly stopped shining it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of it?
114.    The distance between the earth and moon is increasing over 30 cm each year?
115.    The first spacecraft to reach the Moon was in 1959?
116.    Our earth is also a magnet?
117.    Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate?
118.    More than 1 million Earths could fit inside the sun. The Sun is by far the largest object in our solar system?
119.    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise?
120.    Mars is home to the largest known volcano in the Solar System?
121.    The coldest place in our solar system is Neptune's moon Triton?
122.    Comets are a mixture of ice and dust that failed to come together as a planet. Some people called them "dirty snowballs"?
123.    All planets in our solar system orbit the sun in the same direction?
124.    The tallest astronaut ever in space was Jim Wetherbee, standing 1.93 m tall?
125.    Astronauts grow in space?
126.    The Great Comet in 1843 had a tail that was over 300 kilometres long?
127.    US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds at lift off?
128.    Mars looks red because it's covered by rust?
129.    Astronauts cant burp in space. A burp would need gravity to separate the liquid from the gas in their stomach?
130.    The only satellite ever to be destroyed by a satellite was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993?
131.    The Sun has a mass of about 2 x 1030 kg?
132.    About 1000 tons of material enters the atmosphere each year and land on the earths surface?
133.    The earth has a mass of about 5.98 x 1024 kg?
134.    Mercury is closest to the sun but the planet Venus is the hottest planet?
135.    The only month in history not to have a full moon is February 1865?
136.    One calendar year can contain a maximum of seven eclipses of the Sun and Moon?
137.    The moon reflects only 6% of all light which falls upon it?
138.    Some of the moons in our solar system are larger than some of the planets?
139.    Of all planets, only Mercury and Venus do not have any moons?
140.    The first geologist on the moon was Harrison Schmitt?
141.    In average a woman smiles more often than a man?
142.    Of all the foreigner who travel to the UK about 50% visit London?
143.    You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world?
144.    Only 12 people have ever set foot on the Moon?
145.    25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused?
146.    Only 10 people out of every 3 million in the world get the opportunity to see a volcanic eruption in their lifetime?
147.    If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom?
148.    If you fart constantly for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb?
149.    The average person falls asleep in seven minutes?
150.    40% of all people at a party snoop in your medicine cabinet?
151.    Chickens out populate humans 1:4, for every human there are 4 chickens?
152.    Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts?
153.    Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married?
154.    The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime?
155.    22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so?
156.    On average, people move house every 7 years?
157.    There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK?
158.    According to Gillette, around 70% of women who remove hair, do so by shaving?
159.    Women blink nearly twice as much as men?
160.    The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year?
161.    26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats?
162.    There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year?
163.    More than 50% of the world's population lives in Asia?
164.    A poll by an American Animal Hospital Association revealed that 33 percent of dog owners admitted to talking to their dogs on phone or leaving an answering machine message when away?
165.    A cow farts about 600 litres of metangas every day. That is enough to fyll up 40 party ballons?
166.    Conception occurs more often in December than any other month?
167.    On average, a person laughs about 15 times each day?
168.    A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch?
169.    The average person walks about 65,000 miles in a lifetime?
170.    More than six billion hot dogs are consumed annually in the US?
171.    The smallest book in the Library of Congress is Old King Cole measuring just 1/25 inch by 1/25 inch, or about the size of a period at the end of this sentence?
172.    You breathe about ten million times a year?
173.    A supertanker can carry as much as 747,000 tons of oil?
174.    A 1997 survey showed that 75% of women made their bed every day, whilst only 45% of men admitted to performing this daily chore?
175.    The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil?
176.    Sweden was the first country in the world to keep population statistics?
177.    There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year?
178.    The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1?
179.    The number of twin births have more than doubled since the early 1970s?
180.    In excess of 20 percent of men and 10 percent of women have stated that at least once they've forgotten their wedding anniversary?
181.    There are over 60 towns in USA where the word turkey appears in the name?
182.    22 percent of twins are left-handed? In the non-twin population the number is just under 10 percent?
183.    If you attempted to count to stars in our galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all?
184.    Rougly 75% of a living tree is composed of water?
185.    Rats destroy an estimated 33% of the world's food supply each year?
186.    Drivers kill more deer than hunters?
187.    Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants?
188.    If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people?
189.    Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials?
190.    The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City?
191.    The average criminal sentence length is 137 years in Colombia?
192.    Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day?
193.    The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic?
194.    The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees?
195.    72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day?
196.    Elderly Dutch and Swedish are the most likely to live in old-age homes. Elderly Japanese are the most likely to live with their children?
197.    Women make up 49% of the world population?
198.    Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals?
199.    Nearly a quarter of people in Monaco are over 65?
200.    The top six countries for percentage of houses with five rooms or more are all English-speaking?
201.    Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes?
202.    The ten most generous countries are all in Europe?
203.    China's labor force stands at 706 million people, almost three times that of Europe and twice that of North and South America combined?
204.    Sri Lanka has lowest divorce rate in the world - and the highest rate of female suicide?
If the history of the Earth were to be measured in proportion to one year, man did not appear until 8.30pm on 31 December.
If the ice caps melted completely, the sea level across the world would rise by around 250ft – enough to put Big Ben under water.
There are over 500,000 earthquakes in the world every year. Of these, 100,000 can be felt and 1000 cause damage.
The Pacific Ocean covers nearly a third of the globe. It contains more water then all the world’s other oceans and seas put together.
 
       
 
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   When an earthquake shook Lisbon in 1755, the shock waves could be felt as far away as Loch Ness.
More than 25 per cent of the world’s forests are in Siberia.
Over 800 different languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Every day, 8.5 million tons of water evaporate from the Dead Sea.
The shoreline of the Dead Sea is the lowest place on Earth. If the Empire State Building were situated on the shore of the Dead Sea , only the top of its mast would actually be above sea level.
Bird droppings are the chief export of the Pacific island of Nauru.
Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. Its government offices are all in the Yaren District but no single place has been declared the capital.
The first municipal dump in the world was in Athens, around 500 BC.
New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote, in 1893.
The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 10,000 square miles without a single tree.
In the Falkland Islands , there are 350 sheep for every person.
The city of Istanbul straddles two continents – Europe and Asia.
Tonga once issued a postage stamp in the shape of a banana.
Roads on the Pacific island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand, all the “sand” on the beaches being ground coral. So this coral sand is used for mixing concrete rather than going to the expense of importing real sand from other countries.
Only around 35 per cent of Iraqi women are literate.
The St Gotthard road tunnel under the Swiss Alps is almost twice as long as the height of Mt Everest.
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as people.
Bath water in Australia flows around the plug-gole in an anti-cloaackwise direction.
Mount Everest is 1ft higher than it was in 1900.
There is a law still on the books in Milan which requires citizens to smile at all times in public or risk a hefty fine. Exemptions include visiting patients in hospital or attending funerals.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Australia is the fifth largest country in the world but its population is smaller than that of Seiul, the capital of South Korea.
More capital cities begin with B than any other letter.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have access to a bomb shelter.
There is only one tractor in the entire country of Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean.
As recently as 1974, more people went to East Germany for their holidays than to Greece.
The average depth of the North Sea is only 180 ft. The average depth of the Pacific is nearly 14,000ft.
An undersea river, the Cromwell Current, flows eastwards beneath the Pacific for 4000 miles along the equator. It is 190 miles wide and is 1300 ft deep in places. Its volume is 1,000 times that of the Mississippi.
The Berlin bunker where Hitler committed suicide is now a car park.
The principality of Monaco is smaller than New York City ’s Central Park.
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
There are more post offices in India than anywhere else in the world.
You don’t have to pay to past letter in Andorra.
There are 158 verses in the Greek national anthem.
A gold nugget found in Australia in 1869 weighed over 150lb – as much as a grown man.
Internet access in Burma is restricted by anti-modem laws. Illegal possession of a modem can lead to a prison term.
The Canary Islands were named after dogs, not birds. In Roman times, the islands were known for the wild dogs which roamed there. The Latin word for “dog” is “canis” and so they were christened the Canary Islands. When explorers visited the islands in the 16 th century, they brought home pretty little singing birds which they had found there and which they duly named “canaries”.
A church in the Czech republic houses a chandelier made of human bones.
An estimated 120 million cubic feet of snow fell in an avalanche in the Italian Alps in 1885.
In Bhutan , all citizens become a year older on new year’s Day.
Six million years ago, the Mediterranean was a desert. But then the Atlantic Ocean burst through the strip of land connecting Europe and Africa to form the new sea.
There are nearly 850 different dialects in India. Of the population of over 850 million, only around 160 million understand Hindi.
The first letter of every continent’s name is the sames as the last – Africa , America , Antartica, Asia , Australasia and Europe.
The only two countries, whose names start with an “A” but don’t end with an “A” are Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
There are more Maltese people in Melbourne , Australia , than there are in Malta.
In Bangladesh , pupils as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating in exams.
The smallest island in the world to have country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia. The main island measures just 1.75 sq miles.
New Zealand has more pipe bands per head than any other country in the world.
There are no turkeys in Turkey.
As a result of movement in the Continental plates, Iceland is getting bigger each year. And it’s estimated than in a million years’ time, the Atlantic will be 25 miles wider than it is today.
Until 1984 Belgians had to choose their children’s names from an official list of 1500 drawn up in the days on Napoleon.
The Maldives has the highest marriage rate per head in the world.
In most countries, if you nod your head it mean “yes”. But in Bulgaria and Albania it means “no”.
Estonia has more accidents per head than any other country.
New Zealand ins the only country which has every climate in the world.
In Turkey the colour if mourning is violet, not black.
There is a place in Norway called A… one in Japan called O … and one in France called Y.
There is also a town in Norway called Hell … and one is Newfoundland called Dildo.
Canada banned national beauty contests in 1992, saying they were degrading to women.
No woman or female animal is permitted to set foot on Mount Athos in Macedonian Greece.
Women in Iceland don’t change their surname when they get married.
The people of Liechtenstein once held a referendum to decide where a public toilet should be situated.
Chasing a chicken through town naked used to be the punishment for a Frenchwoman who had committed adultery.
For 2000 years, the distance a cow’s moo travelled was used as a unit of measurement in India.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.     
         
A Manchester City fan was banned in 1995 from bringing dead chickens into City’s Maine Road ground. He used to celebrate City goals by swinging the birds around his head.
In 1957, the Salisbury and District FA of Rhodesia officially approved the payment of ?10 to hire a witch doctor. Salisbury had lost every match the previous season.
Striker Elisha Banda, who played for Zimbabwe airforce team Cone Textiles, was kidnapped, drugged and tortured for eight days by team-mates angry that he’d signed for civilian team.. He was found bound and gagged on scrubland outside Harare.
There are only two football teams in the Isles of Scilly – The Gunners and the Wanderers. They play each other every week in the league, the only break being when they meet in the Cup.
In 1973, the entire Galilee team spent the night in jail for kicking their opponents during an Israeli League game.
Stopping off en route to Iceland , the Albanian national team were thrown out of England in 1990 after going on a shopping spree at Heathrow. They had thought “duty free” meant help yourself.
Italian referee Marcello Donadini was taken to hospital in 1973 after being bitten in the back by a player who didn’t agree with a decision.
Barcelona ’s Hristo Stoichkov was banned for six months in 1990 for stamping on the referee’s foot after being sent off in a Cup tie against Real Madrid.
The Liberia team escaped imprisonment by holding Gambia to a goalless draw in 1980. The Liberian Head of State, Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, had threatened to jail them it they lost.
West Ham defender Alvin Martin scored a hat-trick against three different goalkeepers in the 8-1 win over Newcastle in 1986. The injured Martin Thomas was replaced in the Newcastle goal first by Chris Hedworth, then by Peter Beardsley.
A referee at a friendly match in Brazil drew a revolver and shot dead a player who disputed a penalty decision. The referee escaped in horseback.
Hollingsworth Juniors football team from Manchester fell victim to an own gull in a match with Stalybridge Celtic Colts in 1999. Colts were leading 2-1 when 13-year-old striker Danny Worthington tried a speculative shot from 25 yards. The ball was sailing way over the bar until it hit a passing seagull on the head, spun over the Hollingsworth goalkeeper and landed in the net. Despite protests, the goal was allowed to stand. Realizing they were up against 12 men, demoralized Hollingsworth went on to lose 7-1.
The Scottish Cup tie between Falkirk and Inverness Thistle in 1979 was postponed no fewer than 29 times because of bad weather.
The first Littlewoods Pools coupon attracted the interest of just 35 punters.
The Sampdoria team and 200 players walked 20 miles to a mountain sanctuary near Genoa in 1969 to thank the Madonna for helping them stave off relegation.
In 1990, the Football League banned Scarborough from wearing shirts advertising Black Death vodka on the grounds of bad taste.
Everton used to play at Anfield.
In 1998, The Macclesfield mascot, was sent off for making obscene gestures during a players’ brawl in the match with Lincoln City.
Cash-strapped Portsmouth cancelled their weekly order of new jockstraps in 1999, a move which would save ?112. Administrator Tom Burton ordered the club to wash them instead of buying new ones.
When England entertained Malta in 1971, the match was so one-sided that the ball didn’t cross the England goal-line once in the entire 90 minutes. And Gordon Banks in the England goal didn’t have a shot to save.
Visitors Kilmarnock had to take the same penalty seven time during a fixture at Partick in 1945. The spot-kick was eventually saved and Partick went on to win 5-3.
Bury players refused to do any more promotional work for the club in 1997 as a protest at the lack of nappy-changing facilities at Gigg Lane for their wives.
In an attempt to boost gates, Bristol City staged a chimps’ tea-party before the 1976 game with West Ham.
Plymouth Argyle striker Dwight Marshall was accidentally injured by one of hi own fans after scoring at Chester in 1999.
In 1993, HFS Loans League team Congleton were forced to call off a minute’s silence to mourn the death of the club’s oldest fan...when he walked into the ground.
Referee Henning Erikstrup was about to blow full-time with Norager leading Ebeltoft 4-3 in a Danish league match when his dentures suddenly fell out. While he scrambled around looking for them, Ebeltoft equalised. Despite vehement protests from Ebeltoft, Mr Erikstup disallowed the goal, replaced his false teeth and promptly blew the final whistle.
A Tanzanian soccer match was postponed in 1978 after the referee was arrested on the pitch and accused of smoking marijuana just before the kick-off.
In the space of five minutes at Sunderland in November 1998, Barnsley striker Ashley Ward scored, missed a penalty and was sent off.
Leicester City went through an entire FA Cup tie with Northampton Town in 1997 without committing a single foul. Leicester won 4-0.
In 1999, a Manchester City fan threw an asthma inhaler on to the pitch during a disappointing home draw against Northampton.
Dundee United’s Premier Reserve League game against Dunfermline at Arbroath in 1998 was abandoned after just 90 seconds because of high winds.
At the age of 52, Pedro Gatica cycled from his home in Argentina to Mexico for the 1986 World Cup, only to find on arrival that he couldn’t afford to get in. While he was trying to haggle for a ticket, thieves stole his bike.
Giuseppe Lorenzo of Bologna was sent off after just ten seconds of the Italian League match with Parma in 1990 for striking an opponent.
Romanian midfielder Ion Radu was sold by Second Division Jiul Petrosani to Valcea in 1998 for 500kg of pork (Worth about ?1750).
A 1984 match between Sheffield United and Oldham was postponed when a war-time bomb as found near Bramall Lane.
Fans at Gillingham were subjected to celery searches in 1996. a craze had started for waving sticks of celery while chanting an obscene song. So anyone caught in possession of the vegetable was threatened with a life ban.
The average person has 1,460 dreams a year.
You experience an average of four dreams a night, and in the course of that, your dreams become progressively longer. Your first dream of the night may only last around ten minutes, but your final dream will invariably last as long as 45 minutes.
David Booth, a Cincinnati office manager, phoned American Airlines after having nightmares on ten successive nights about a DC-10 crash. Three days later, on 25 May 1070, an American DC-10 crashed at Chicago, killing 273 people.
King Wilhelm I of Württemberg complete the building of Rosenstein Castle in 1829, but didn’t move in for another 35 years because a gypsy had predicted that the king would die there. He finally thought it safe to take up residence in the castle in 1864 and died five days later.
Italian composer and violinist Giuseppe Tartini dreamed the music for his finest work, “The Devil’s Sonata”.
Julia Grant, wife of US General Ulysses S. grant, wok on the morning of 14 April 1865 with a strong feeling that she and her husband should get out of Washington as quickly as possible. General Grant had been due to attend the theatre with President Lincoln that night, but his wife insisted that he pulled out. Leaving the city, the Grants, passed John Wilkes Booth on his way to assassinate Lincoln at the theatre. General Grant was also found to be on Booth’s hit list.
The design for the Taj Mahal appeared to Emperor Shah Jehan in a dream. An architect hired to draw up plans for the building was given a drug so that he too would experience a vision of the building before starting work.
Mid-way through a financial meeting just before 5pm on 7 October 1571, Pope Pius V suddenly announced that there had been a Christian victory. Two weeks later on 21 October, a messenger form Venice rode into Rome with news that a Christian fleet had vanquished the Turks at Lepanto. The official report of the battle stated that victory had been confirmed shortly before 5pm on 7 October.
In May 1812 a Cornish innkeeper had a dream on three successive nights about the shooting of a leading politician in the House of Commons. He had no idea of the identity of the man in his dream but a friend said the description matched that of the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval. Several days later, news reached Cornwall that Perceval had been shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons.
1.    Enamel is the hardest substance in your body?
2.    The skin is the largest organ in Your body?
3.    About half of your body's heat is lost through your head?
4.    In only 1 minute a human body will produce about 100000 kilometres of DNA?
5.    About 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced each year?
6.    Stape bone is the smallest bone in the human body?
7.    The human body has about 2.5 million sweat glands?
8.    Humans babies are born without Kneecaps?
9.    Humans have about 30 000 genes?
10.    Humans have only two times more genes than a fruit fly?
11.    The human brain is 80% water?
12.    The human head contains 22 bones?
13.    The human body contains 4.5 litres of blood?
14.    Humans has about five million hairs on the whole body?
15.    Girls and boys cries just as much up to the year 12?
16.    There are 205 bones in the human body?
17.    Humans are radioactive?
18.    Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime?
19.    Humans can grow up to 3 times as much during the month mars to juli than during winter?
20.    Humans take about 23000 breaths every day?
21.    Humans share about 50% of their DNA with bananas?
22.    Humans might be the only animal that throw snowballs?
23.    Humans nose can identify over 10000 different odors?
24.    Humans are the only animals that chew gum?
25.    Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second?
26.    Only 10% of the nerves in your body are pain nerves?
27.    The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue?
28.    The Afghan capital Kabul has a cyber cafe?
29.    Accordingly to Google Zeitgeist the top search in India June 2007 is the phrase reliance data card?
30.    Google offers its employees free lunch?
31.    BBC has 43 different translations of its website?
32.    Google's employees get free haircuts?
33.    Google receives more than 1000 resumes a day?
34.    About 47 million laptops where shipped worldwide 2006?
35.    Over 2.7 billion searches are made on Google search engine each month?
36.    1 of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online?
37.    If myspace was a country it would be the 11th largest?
38.    Google can be queried in 36 languages (2007)?
39.    Google uses over 10,000 networked computers to crawl the web?
40.    Google has 2007 surpassed Microsoft as the world's most-visited site?
41.    Google have won 2007 most powerful brand by a British research company?
42.    The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute?
43.    The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the worlds population?
44.    Google staff are known as Googlers?
45.    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?
46.    The name "Google" comes from a spelling mistake, the founders intendent to write "Googol"?
47.    Google launched their search site in 1998?
48.    The Google function "I feel lucky" is nearly never used, well compared to the high number of users?
49.    Google comes from the word googol, which is 1 followed by a hundred zeros?
50.    Wikipedia has a page devoted to toilet roll holders? ?Read more
51.    Atari sold 400000 VCS consoles in 1979?
52.    The Atari 2600 only has 128 bytes of RAM?
53.    In Sweden the @ is called "snabel-a" wich means a "trunk with an a"?
54.    The floppy disk was patents in 1946 by Alan Shugart?
55.    If you type in failure in google, and select "I'm feeling lucky", you will be redirected to the White House web page?
56.    Yahoo stands for Yet Another 'Hierarchical Organizational Oracle'?
57.    PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page?
58.    The oldest surviving computer in the world is called CSIRAC and is located in Melbourne?
59.    The word maps is often in the top 10 search words submitted to search engines?
60.    The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com?
61.    Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13?
62.    Google receives about 200 million search queries each day. More than half of which come from outside the United States. During the heviest traffic more than 2,000 search queries are answered each second?
63.    More than 80% of home pages on the Web are in English. German has only 4.5% and Japanese 3.1%?
64.    The percentage of email messages in English is estimates to vary between 60% and 85%?
65.    The words "electronic mail" was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976?
66.    Sweden has the most affordable broadband internet access in Europe?
67.    The highest amount of money paid for a domain name is for business.com, $7.5 million?
68.    The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutters on backwards?
69.    Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear assault"?
70.    Every single possible 3 character.com domain has been registered?
71.    Internet advertising is the fastest growing advertising medium?
72.    Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer?
73.    All domain names in Slovakia are free?
74.    88% of websites have no discernible traffic?
75.    Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month?
76.    28% of IBM employees are Indians?
77.    Each day an average American depends on about 250 computers?
78.    Microsoft is the biggest developer of Mac software outside Apple?
79.    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes?
80.    Maps are often among the top words submitted to Internet search engines?
81.    The most popular non-HTML format files return from Google is PDF-format?
82.    Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste is the owner of over 200,000 domain names?
83.    The top searchwords in Google where September 19, 2005 "hurricane rita"?
84.    Only 10% of all the pages on the Internet make it to the search engines?
85.    In 1982 Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year"?
86.    Microsoft writes the code for autopilot systems in all major airplanes?
87.    Internet is one of the fastest growing forms of advertising?
88.    In computer language, wysiwyg is an acronym for "what you see is what you get"?
89.    About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated?
90.    In the early days of computers, black and white monitors were thought sufficient to satisfy all future data processing needs?
91.    The original game of monopol was circular?
92.    The Chevrolet Cavalier, Honda Civic and Honda Accord where the top 3 selling cars in Canada in 1991?
93.    681 cars were imported from the UK to Canada in 1939?
94.    Gasoline in US cost about $.33 per gallon in 1967?
95.    Turkey has about 60 companies that manufacturing chewing gum?
96.    Krispy Kreme dont spend money on advertising?
97.    Mesothelioma lawyers, consolidate loans and refinancing mortgage are three of Google's most expensive keywords?
98.    The best production year for Corvette's was 1979?
99.    A US Postage Stamp cost 10 cents in 1974?
100.    IBM's motto is Think?
101.    The Aztecs and Mayans used cacao beans as currency?
102.    Mercedes cars are named after an Austrian girl?
103.    Hilton was the first international hotel chain?
104.    Mozambique was the world's largest producer of cashew nuts during the 1970s?
105.    eBay is the Worlds Largest Online Auction?
106.    An angry Newcastle United fan once put the star player Kieron Dyer for sale on eBay?
107.    When other countries than the United States use the U.S. dollar as their currency is called dollarization?
108.    The BBC own the Fawlty Towers trade mark?
109.    Henry Ford was the first billionaire in the US?
110.    Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland?
111.    There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar?
112.    Monopoly game is considered to be the most played board game in the world?
113.    Liverpool had its own currency between 1793 - 1796?
114.    Travel is the worlds largest industry?
115.    The average items for sale on EBAY is about 18,000,000 at any time?
116.    Sweden is one of few countries where Coca-Cola sales drop a lot during Christmas? The reason is that most Swedes drink something called Julmust instead?
117.    The first penny had the motto Mind your own business?
118.    The most expensive teabag in the world was sold at auction for 7,500 pounds. The bag was filled with 280 diamonds?
119.    Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars?
120.    Dollar is the most common currency followed by franc, pound, dinar, peso, and rupee?
121.    Each year over $2,000,000,000 worth of Halloween candy is sold?
122.    American Airlines saved $40 000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class?
123.    On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag over the Parliament Building is an American flag?
124.    Al Capone made about $60 million dollars per year during the prohibition?
125.    18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation?
126.    The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument?
127.    96% of all candles being sold are purchased by women?
128.    The life span of 1 dollar bill is calculated for only 18 months?
129.    After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the punishment was execution?
130.    The three most valuable brand names on earth are Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order?
131.    The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer?
132.    66% of home based businesses in the U.S. are owned by women?
133.    The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is about $6 400?
134.    Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury?
135.    Green color was chosen for the paper currency in the U.S. because green pigment was available at that time?
136.    Married men tip better than unmarried men?
137.    The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses about $21.6 billion annually?
138.    Yamaha is the Japan's largest maker of musical instruments?
139.    7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world?
140.    Each day the Bureau of Engraving and Printing makes about 37 million notes?
141.    On average, about 40% of all hotel rooms in the U.S. remain empty every night?
142.    The average person changes their career every 13 years?
143.    There are about 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States?
144.    The two-cent coin was the first to have the phrase "In God We Trust"?
145.    There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica?
146.    Every 30 seconds there is a lawsuit in the U.S?
147.    America once issued a 5-cent bill?
148.    In 1915 a telephone call from San Francisco to New York would cost $20.70 for three minutes?
149.    More than 100 billion Tampax tampons have been sold since 1936?
150.    Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royces per capita in the world?
151.    Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost?
152.    The worlds most successful logo is MICHELIN?
153.    Paper currency is made of 75% cotton and 25% linen?
154.    55% of men wash their hands after using the restroom?
155.    55% of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize?
156.    The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy?
157.    Travel and Tourism is a $1.3 trillion industry in the United States?
158.    Approximately 2.6 million hotels rooms are rented each day in the United States?
159.    The most expensive music video ever made was by Michael and Janet Jackson? In 1995 "Scream" was released and the cost was an amazing $7 million?
160.    Iced tea was first served at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. A British businessman wanted to increase tea sales in America?
161.    Travel and Tourism generates $100 billion in tax revenue for local, state, and federal governments? If you place 100 billion dollar bills end-to-end, they would circle the world 397 times?
162.    Travel and Tourism industry is one of the US's largest employers with 7.3 million jobs?
163.    The average one-dollar bill wears out in less than two years?
164.    Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest growing marketing online today?
165.    Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday"?
166.    There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar?
167.    Shopping in US is the most popular domestic trip activity, and is included in 30% of all domestic trips?
168.    Travel and tourism industry is one of America's largest service exports. $94 billion spent by international visitors, 88 billion spent outside the U.S. by domestic travelers. The surplus for U.S. is $6 billion?
169.    Americans spend more than 40% of their food dollars each year eating out?
170.    Americans spend approximately $30 billion a year trying to lose weight?
171.    72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day?
172.    The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum?
173.    Fill a matchbox with gold and it can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court?
174.    The Most Expensive Suit in the world is a space suit worn by Astronauts? It costs more than $3.5 Million?
175.    About 2,4 billion CDs are sold annually. The number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold has been about equal?
176.    The Matrix Reloaded is banned in Egypt because of its content?
177.    James Bond code number 007 temporarily become 7777 in You Only Live Twice?
178.    James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, was a spy for the British Navy during World War II?
179.    Lost is the most expensive television show ever filmed?
180.    Lost was filmed in Hawaii?
181.    Bruce Lee had to slow down his movements so the camera could catch the action?
182.    Steve McQueen was considered to play the lead role for Dirty Harry?
183.    The movie "American Werewolf in Paris" was filmed in Luxembourg?
184.    Kirk Douglas and Samuel L. Jackson used to be cheerleaders in their childhood?
185.    The first Oscar for Special Effects was awarded in 1940?
186.    The film Mary Poppins was shot entirely indoors?
187.    Sylvester Stallone earned $23,000 for the film Rocky in 1976?
188.    The badge-number of Dirty Harry is 2211?
189.    The Hollywood sign cost $21,000 to build?
190.    Oprah Winfrey was the first African American woman to win the title Miss Fire Prevention in Nashville, 1971?
191.    Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies?
192.    The actor George Clooney is very scared of earthquakes?
193.    Bruce Lee was born in the U.S. but he was raised in Hong Kong?
194.    The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone?
195.    John Wayne's neck was 18 inches long?
196.    Jennifer Aniston lived in Greece for a year during childhood?
197.    Tom Cruise given name at birth was Thomas Cruise Mapother IV?
198.    Cary Grant never said, "Judy, Judy, Judy" in any movie?
199.    Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton?
200.    Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey are left-handed?
201.    Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot?
202.    Bruce Willis was born in Germany?
203.    Walt Disney was afraid of mice?
204.    Harrods has a dress code. Kate Winslet was once refused to enter Harrods department store?
205.    Tom Hanks collects old typewriters?
206.    David Letterman's suits are all custom made?
207.    In 1991 Tom Berenger appeared in a Japanese commercial for Lark cigarettes?
208.    Bruce Lee invented his own style of martial art, jeet kwun do?
209.    Oprah Winfrey was the first billionaire among African-American woman?
210.    Marilyn Monroe appeared on the first cover of Playboy in 1953?
211.    Tom Berenger has worked as a flight steward for Eastern Airlines?
212.    Audrey Hepburn loved to eat sour apples?
213.    Tom Berenger is fluent in Spanish?
214.    Charles Bronson is a very good painter?
215.    Sean Connery has worked as a milkman?