Guest guest Posted August 26, 2006 Report Posted August 26, 2006 Very Interesting . -Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. -The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. -Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing. -You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. -A 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. -Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. -The Mona has no eyebrows. -When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less. - Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf. -A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded - " I am. " is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. -Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command " go hang yourself. " -The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond. -Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. - " Bookkeeper " is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters. -The sentence " the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog " uses every letter in the English language. -If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction -China has more English speakers than the United States. -Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. -Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. -An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day. -Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies. -Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime. -According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg. -The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill. -If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day. -Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building. -Strange-but-true The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day. -The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning. -The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations. -The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer. Quote
Guest guest Posted August 27, 2006 Report Posted August 27, 2006 very iinteresting titbits... Malini With regards L/M Prasad (lp1960@...) <outbind://13/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/GIFS/floers/bouqet1.gif> Wish a very happy and cheerful day keep smiling Interesting Facts! Very Interesting . -Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. -The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. -Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing. -You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. -A 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. -Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. -The Mona has no eyebrows. -When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less. - Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf. -A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded - " I am. " is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. -Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command " go hang yourself. " -The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond. -Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. - " Bookkeeper " is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters. -The sentence " the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog " uses every letter in the English language. -If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction -China has more English speakers than the United States. -Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. -Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. -An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day. -Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies. -Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime. -According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg. -The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill. -If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day. -Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building. -Strange-but-true The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day. -The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning. -The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations. -The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer. Quote
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