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Most Amazing Facts...
that never gets old

Categories
(arranged alphabetically)
Animals, Birds &
Insects
Foods & Drinks
Games & Sports
General
History
Human Body
Inventions & Discoveries
Language & Literature
World Records
Other History
Events to Remember



Animals, Birds & Insects
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A snail can sleep for three years.
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All polar bears are left handed.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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Ants never
sleep.
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Owls cannot move
their eyes because their eyeballs tubular in shape.
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A newborn
kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
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A cow gives
nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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There are 701
types of pure breed dogs.
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Tapeworms range
in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
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A baby bat is
called a pup.
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A pregnant
goldfish is called a twit.
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German Shepherds
(dog) bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
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A female
mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
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The animal
(insect) responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
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The biggest pig
in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was
weighed 1,904 pounds in 1939.
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Snakes are
immune to their own poison.
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Cats have more
than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
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Rats multiply so
quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
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A shrimp's heart
is in their head.
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It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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Hydra - an aquatic creature is the only
living creature that never die. It regenerates, replacing its cells with
fresh ones.
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Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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In the animal
kingdom, the animals that fart the most are the elephants.
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Lions, leopards,
tigers, and jaguars are the only species of cats that can roar; but they
can’t purr.
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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.
Foods
& Drinks
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Coca-Cola was originally green because of fresh cocoa leaves.
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Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
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Strawberry is
the only fruit with its seeds on the outside.
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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.
Games
& Sports
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There are 366
dimples on a golf ball.
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There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways
to play first four moves, per side, in chess.
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Playing cards in India are in round
shape.
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Boxing is the
only sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the
score or the winner until the contest ends.
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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.
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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.

General
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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start
with.
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Albert Einstein
never learned how to drive a car.
History
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If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.
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If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle.
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If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
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Mao Zedong of China never brush his
teeth in his lifetime.
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When Elizabeth-I of Russia died in 1762,
there were 15,000 dresses in her closets.
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During World
War II, the Japanese used shark liver oil in the engines of their fighter
planes.
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J. P
Blanchard, a Frenchman, is credited with having been the first person to
use a parachute. In 1785, from a balloon high in the air, he dropped a dog
in a basket to which a parachute was attached. Blanchard also claimed to
have descended from a balloon in a parachute in 1793.

Human Body
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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.
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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.
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Usually right handed people utilize left
side of brain for all their conscious, voluntary activities.
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The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
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The women who
snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular
disease than men.
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You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
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If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head
or neck and die.
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An average person eat 60,000 pounds of
food in his lifetime.
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An average person spent 24 years of his
life in sleeping.
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An average woman consume 6 lbs. of
lipstick in her lifetime.
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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.

Inventions & Discoveries
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Bullet
proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers are invented
by women.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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In 1932.
Engineer, Harry Jennings, built the first folding, tubular steel wheelchair.
The chair was built for a paraplegic friend of Jennings called Herbert
Everest. Together they founded Everest & Jennings, a company that
monopolized the wheelchair market for many years.
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Otto Frederick
Rohwedder is generally credited with inventing the first automatic bread
slicer in 1928.
Language & Literature
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Typewriter
is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of
the keyboard.
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Stewardesses
is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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E is the most frequently used letter in
English.
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Gadsby
is the only novel (267 pages, 50,000 words) written in 1939 by Ernest
Vincent Wright, without the use of letter "E".
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Tom
Sawyer
was the first novel written on a typewriter; by Mark Twain in 1876.
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Uncopyrightable
is the only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written
without repeating a letter.
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The word
Set
has 464 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. The word
Run
runs a distant second, with 396.
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The dot over the
i or
j is called a tittle.
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The word
queue
is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the whole for
its first letter.
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The sixth sick sheik's sixth
sheep's sick
is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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Mandarin is most-spoken language in the
world, spoken by 1.07 billion people, followed by English, spoken by 514
million.
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Papua New Guinea have the greatest
number of first languages. There are 869 separate languages - not
dialects.
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The world's first university was
established in Taxila
(comprised of cities Mohenjadaro and Harappa)
Pakistan in 700 BC.
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There are
fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar; Period, comma, colon,
semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point,
quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
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The only three
English words beginning with dw are; Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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There are currently 6,912 living
languages, defined as languages that people speak today.
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Letters
'a', '
b', 'c' & 'd'
do not appear
anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)
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Letters 'a',
' b' & 'c'
do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)
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Letters
'b' & 'c'
do not appear anywhere in the spellings of
1 to
999,999,999
(Letter 'b' only
comes for the first time in Billion)
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Letter
'c'
does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of
entire English Counting

World Records
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The war between England and Zanzibar in 1896
was the shortest war in history, lasted only 38 minutes.
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Monumental Axis in Brazil is the world's
widest road. 160 cars can drive side by side at the same time.
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The Central Railway in Peru is the world's
highest railway. It climbs to 15,694 feet in the Galera Tunnel.
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Australian $5 to $50 notes are made of
plastic.
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Other
History Events to Remember 
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30 Apr 1975 |
End of US-Vietnam war after 28 years |
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03 Jul 1975 |
Apollo-Soyuz joint venture in
the outer space |
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09 Nov 1989 |
Fall of 43 Km. long Berlin
Wall |
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24 Apr 1990 |
Hubble telescope launched in
the space |
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02 Oct 1990 |
East and West Germany united |
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17 Jan 1991 |
Gulf War (Kuwait & US Aliens
vs. Iraq) |
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25 Aug 1991 |
Fall of
CCCP in the USSR after 77 years |
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07 Dec 1992 |
Demolish of Babri Masjid at
Ajodhia, India |
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16 Nov 1995 |
Docking of US space shuttle
Atlantis with USSR space station Mir |
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30 Jun 1997 |
Hong Kong handed over to China
after 156 years of British regime |
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Amazing Facts
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Written by:
Muhammad Ajmal Beig Naz
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Follow
traffic rules; they are for your own safety on the road...
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Be a careful driver.
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Stop at traffic lights,
cross roads, and zebra crossings
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Check rear-view mirror and
give a signal (light indicator) before turning.
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Do not switch lanes
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Do not drive smoke
emitting vehicles
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Do not use mobile phone
while driving
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Show courtesy to others on
the road
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Remember; speed thrills
but kills
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Remember; the life that
you save, could be yours!
4 Cell Phone Secrets
Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself
out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an
Emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to
establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly, this number
112
can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
Locked your keys in the car?
If you lock your keys in the car, call someone at home on
their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot
from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock
button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will
unlock.
Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys
*3370#. Your cell phone will restart with its reserve power and the
instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get
charged when you charge your cell phone next time.
Disable a stolen mobile phone
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, press *#06#. A 15-digit code
will appear on the
screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it
somewhere safe.
When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give
them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if
the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You
probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever
stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there
would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
Interesting Facts
40% of school students are unable to
read English
60% of college students are unable
to understand English
70% of university students are
unable to speak English
85% of working professionals are
unable to give proper presentation
90% of applicants are unable to
write CVs and give interview
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