FACTS
unbelievable
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=>>Leonardo
da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
=>>Nazi
leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
=>>Queen
Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian
Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had.
=>>Rolling
Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year-old model Mandy
Smith in 1988. At the same time Wyman's son was engaged to Mandy
Smith's mother. If his son had married Smith's mother, Wyman
would have been the step grandfather to his own wife.
=>>There
are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.
=>>There
are about 6,800 languages in the world.
=>>There
was no punctuation until the 15th century.
=>>
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on
average only 15 times a day.
=>>The
coconut is the largest seed in the world.
=>>There
is cyanide in apple pips.
=>>If
you were to take 1 lb. of spiders web and stretch it out it
would circle the whole way around the world!
=>>If
every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at the
same time...it would knock the earth off its axis!
=>>A
mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
=>>The
shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896,
lasted just 38 minutes.
=>>The
Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London
that sold seashells.
Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognise a mistake when you make it again. - F. P. Jones
=>>The
symbols + (addition) and – (subtraction) came into general use
in 1489.
=>>If
you save one penny and double it every successive day, (day two
you have 2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, and so on),
by the end of 30 days you’ll have $5,368,708! (or £’s or
whatever currency).
=>>It
is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of
the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to
tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the
resulting sensation.
=>>The
best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is
because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
=>>The
typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five miles
long.
=>>Due
to precipitation, for a few weeks, K2 is taller than Mt.
Everest.
=>>Astronauts
get taller when they are in space.
=>>There
are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having
billions of stars.
=>>The
surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis
court.
=>>A
dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest
sounds that a person can hear. If a person can just hear a noise
that is coming from 10 feet away, a dog could hear that same
noise from 100 feet away.