Unbelievable Facts

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• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
• Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
• The oldest existing newspaper in India is Bombay Samachar.
• Traffic lights are being used before the invention of motor car.
• The largest quantity of fish in the world is produced by Japan & Russia.
• The world's first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
• 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.
• Female black cats can actually see their shadows at night.
• Ball point pens were invented by a Michigan scientist attempting to reduce the number of birds killed for their quills.
• Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
• Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
• Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
• When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.
• If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.
• A common misconception is that the term "salsa dancing" derives from the food condiment called salsa. Actually, the dance was invented in the 1930s by a dance teacher named Frankie Salsa.
• It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
• Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.

Unbelievable Facts of India

• India is the largest democracy in the world.
• The Kumbh Mela (or Grand Pitcher Festival) is a huge Hindu religious festival that takes place in India every 12 years. In 2001, 60 million people attended, breaking the record for the world’s biggest gathering. The mass of people was photographed from space by a satellite.
• To avoid polluting the elements (fire, earth, water, air), followers of Zoroastrianism in India don’t bury their dead, but instead leave bodies in buildings called “Towers of Silence” for the vultures to pick clean. After the bones dry, they are swept into a central well.
• India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.
• Many Indian wives will never say their husband’s name aloud, as it is a sign of disrespect. When addressing him, the wife will use several indirect references, such as “ji” or “look here” or “hello,” or even refer to him as the father of her child.
• India is the birthplace of chess. The original word for “chess” is the Sanskrit chaturanga, meaning “four members of an army”—which were mostly likely elephants, horses, chariots, and foot soldiers.
• The temples of Khajuraho are famous for their erotic sculptures and are one of the most popular tourist attractions in India. Scholars still debate the purpose of such explicit portrayals of sexual in*******se, which sometimes involve animals.
• India is the world’s largest producer of dried beans, such as kidney beans and chickpeas. It also leads the world in banana exports; Brazil is second.
• With 150,000 post offices, India has the largest postal network in the world. However, it is not unusual for a letter to take two weeks to travel just 30 miles.
• About 80% of Indians are Hindu. Muslims are the largest minority in India and form approximately 13% of the country’s population. In fact, India has the third largest population of Muslims in the world, after Indonesia and Pakistan.
• India has the world’s largest movie industry, based in the city of Mumbai (known as the “City of Dreams”). The B in “Bollywood” comes from Bombay, the former name for Mumbai. Almost all Bollywood movies are musicals.
• Mumbai (Bombay) is India’s largest city, with a population of 15 million. In 1661, British engineers built a causeway uniting all seven original islands of Bombay into a single landmass.
• The national fruit of India is the mango. The national bird is the peacock, which was initially bred for food.
• India’s pastoral communities are largely dependent on dairy and have made India the largest milk-producing country in the world.

Top 10 Facts:

• Colour of Facebook is BLUE because the Mark Zukerberg (founder of facebook) is suffering of colour blindness.

• The word google is derived from word googol that means 1 followed by hundred zeroes.
• 80% of students misspell world vacuum as vaccum.
• Longest word that can be made from a single row keys by your keyboard is typewriter.
• The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
• The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.7 million people.
• You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
• The most liked word by a person is his name.
• The White House has a movie theater, swimming pool, bowling lane, jogging track, and a tennis court.

Human Body

• Randy Gardner of San Diego is the longest person who has gone without sleep for 11 days in 1965. He broke the record of Peter Tripp of New York, who settled a record of 8.5 days without a wink.
• The fingernails grow faster on the hand you favor. If you are right-handed, your right fingernails will grow faster, and vice versa. The middle fingernail grows faster than any other nail.
• Usually right handed people utilize left side of brain for all their conscious, voluntary activities.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
• The women who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease than men.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
• If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• An average person eats 60,000 pounds of food in his lifetime.
• An average person spent 24 years of his life in sleeping.
• An average woman consumes 6 lbs. of lipstick in her lifetime.
• Sitting while talking on the phone for eight hours will burn 914 calories. Driving a car for eight hours will knock off around 1,219 calories. And standing in a casino for eight hours will burn about 1,402 calories.

Games & Sports

• There are 366 dimples on a golf ball.
• There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play first four moves, per side, in chess.
• Playing cards in India are in round shape.
• Boxing is the only sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the winner until the contest ends.
• The biggest badminton shuttle in the world can be found on the lawns of the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, in Kansas City. It is 48 times larger than the real thing. This shuttle is 18 feet high and weighing 5,000 pounds.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

Foods & Drinks

• Coca-Cola was originally green because of fresh cocoa leaves.
• Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
• Strawberry is the only fruit with its seeds on the outside.
• All other vegetables must be replanted every year except two perennial vegetables; Asparagus and rhubarb that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons.

Animals, Birds & Insects.

• A snail can sleep for three years.
• Ants never sleep.
• Owls cannot move their eyes because their eyeballs tubular in shape.
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
• There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
• Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
• A baby bat is called a pup.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• German Shepherds (dog) bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
• The animal (insect) responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
• The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed 1,904 pounds in 1939.
• Snakes are immune to their own poison.
• Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• A shrimp's heart is in their head.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• Hydra - an aquatic creature is the only living creature that never dies. It regenerates, replacing its cells with fresh ones.
• In the animal kingdom, the animals that fart the most are the elephants.
• Lions, leopards, tigers, and jaguars are the only species of cats that can roar; but they can’t purr.
• Entomophagy is the scientific name for insect eating. There are more than 1,450 recorded species of edible insects. Many species of insects are lower in fat and higher in protein and have a better food-to-meat ratio than beef, lamb, pork, or chicken.

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