Mind Blowing Facts

[al-Madrasa-tus-Saifiya-tul-Burhaniyah Nasik]

SOME INTERESTING FACTS 

• Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

 

• In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

 

• There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

 

• Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

 

• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

 

• The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

 

• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos! 

 

• There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!  

 

• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!  

 

• Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

 

• The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

 

• Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

 

• Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

 

• One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year! 

 

• The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

 

• Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

 

• The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

 

• When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

 

• A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

 

• A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!  

 

• The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!  

 

• A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

 

• A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

 

• It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States! 

 

• It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

 

• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

 

• Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!   

 

• The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

 

• Most lipstick contains fish scales!

 

• Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

 

• One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

 

• It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!  

 

• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!  

 

• No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

 

• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

 

• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

 

• There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

 

• If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

 

• Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

 

• A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!   

 

• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

 

• Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

 

• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

 

• Porcupines float in water!

 

• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

 

• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

 

• The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

 

• The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!

 

• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

 

• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds! During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!

 

• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

 

• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

 

• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

 

• In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!