Interesting Facts

In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

October 12th, 1999 was declared “The Day of Six Billion” based on United Nations projections.

It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second - that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).

Travelers to La Paz, Bolivia, often become ill the moment they arrive in the city, Why? La Paz is 11,900 feet above sea level, the highest metropolis in the world. People with ailing hearts or bronchial problems are warned to stay away, and even those in perfect health usually cannot avoid some illness resulting from the Altitude.

Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.

The states of Arizona and Hawaii have never adopted Daylight Savings Time, Neither has Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or American Samoa.

The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.

There is a city called Rome in every continent.

A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.

4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.

The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ locationthat sells hot dogs.

One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton

In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into spacebecause passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. (Not to mention the other drawbacks to farting in such a confined space....)

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There wasnever a recorded Wendy before

A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.

A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.

A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurone disease.

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

A person who is a specialist in wine making is called an oenologist.

A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food.

Inside the earth it gets 3 degrees hotter every 100m further down.

Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. That axis is what causes our seasons.

Switzerland is one of the only countries to have no mineral deposit in it.

The largest known uncut emerald is 5 cm long and 5 cm in diameter.

The largest lake in the world i.e. the Caspian sea measures about 980 km from North to South and 215 to 440 km in breadth, with an area of 371,800 sq.km.

I found new set of amazing facts for you, dear friends, here they are:

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

1. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

2. A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.

3. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

4. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

5. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

6. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

7. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

8. Horses can’t vomit.

9. Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

It staggers the mind.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca Cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Women can also smell better than men.

Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11: $6,400.

1. It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal.

2. It’s against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during sex.

3. Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.

4. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.

5. It’s illegal in Newcastle, WY to have sex in a butcher shop’s meat freezer.

6. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

7. Jaguars are frightened by dogs.

8. Holland has the densest population per square mile of any nation in the world.