Monday, June 6, 2011
Is it?
i) A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
ii) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
iii) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
iv) Bone is five times stronger than steel.
v) Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
vi) 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
vii) You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.
viii) When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
ix) About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.
x) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
xi) Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.
xii) It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
xiii) 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
xiv) There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
xv) If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
xvi) Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has 85 letters. It's the name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, New Zealand.
xvii) "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
xviii) Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
xix) A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
xx) During the 2,475,576,000 seconds of the average length life, averagely we speak 123,205,750 words, have sex 4,239 times, shed 121 pints of tears.
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