Sunday, May 30, 2010

Each day is a new adventure(:

While surfing through facebook I found this. It’s quite interesting, take a look!

  • It’s almost impossible to lick your elbow.
  • The ancient Japanese believed that earthquakes were caused by giant spiders.
  • If we put side by side all the Barbie dolls that were sold since its creation we could give 2 rounds to the earth.
  • A drop of petrol is able to make non potable 25 liters of water.
  • Microsoft spends more answering calls from users with problems
  • than making programs.
  • If by some reason the sun stopped producing light, it would take 8 minutes to realize that here on earth.
  • The most known image in earth is the one of Che Guevara, with his hat with a star, looking toward the horizon.
  • Finland banned Donald Duck comics because it didn’t have pants on
  • Taking 100 cups of coffee in 4 hours technically can produce death.
  • There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.
  • When a month starts on Sunday, it has a Friday 13 and each month that starts on Thursday has a Tuesday 13.
  • In average, a person laughs 15 times a day.
  • 20 hours of video are uploaded each minute on YouTube.
  • The official name of Bangkok is "Krung Thep MahaNakhon Amon PhoP Mahadilok Rattanakosin Noppharat Mahinthara Ratchathani Ayuthaya Amon Piman Udomratchaniwet Burirom Mahasathan Sathit Awata Witsanukam Sakkathattiya Prasit " which makes it the city with the longest name in the world.
  • Hexakoisiohexekontahexefobia is the fear to 666.
  • A 56.645 sided polygon is called pentakismyriohexakisquilioletracosiohexacontapentagonalis.
  • Hipopomonstrosesquipedalifobia is the fear for long words.
  • The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
  • The memory of a goldfish lasts 3 seconds.
  • The dolphins sleep with an open eye.
  • In 1997, American Airlines saved $ 40,000 just by eliminating an olive from each salad.
  • Elephants are among the few animals that can’t jump.
  • The salt has more than 10,000 applications.
  • The J is the only letter that doesn’t appear in the periodic table.
  • 111 111 111 111 111 111 x 75 is 12,345,678,987,654,321.
  • A ducks quacking doesn’t produce echo and nobody knows why.
  • The giraffes are the only mammals that don’t have any vocal cords.
  • 80% of body’s heat escapes through the head.
  • The fastest muscle of the human body is the eye lid.
  • According to the Times Magazine, the man of the year in 1938 was Hitler.
  • A koala can live its entire life without drinking water.
  • The Bulgarians say "yes", shaking their head side to side and they say
  • "No" moving it up and down.
  • An adult blinks about 23,000 times a day.
  • The Vatican has enough money to end with world’s poverty and even then it has money left.
  • Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare considered
  • the greatest exponents of Hispanic and English literature died on April 23, 1616.
  • If you shout for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days nonstop you can generate energy to heat a cup of coffee.
  • The chimpanzees, orangutans, dolphins, elephants and humans,
  • are the only species able to recognize themselves in a mirror.
  • Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of
  • darkness.
  • World’s most common name is Mohamed.
  • The highest temperature recorded in the world has been in El Azizia,
  • Libya, on September 3, 1922 the thermometer came to 136.4
  • Fahrenheit. (58 º C)
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  • Since we are born our eyes are always the same size.
  • The first palm trees grew in the north pole.

1 comment:

naga said...

how many of these things are true? do u know it?