1. Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
2. Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
3. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card!
4. The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
5. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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1. The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
2. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
3. Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
4. Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
5. It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce…and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
6. The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
7. First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
8. To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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1. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice, in the movie ‘Hercules’, was dubbed.
2. The filming of the movie ‘Titanic’ cost more than the Titanic itself!
3. The names of Popeye’s four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
5. The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig.
6. The first video aired on MTV was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles in 1981.
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1. Rain contains vitamin B12.
2. Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
3. The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.
4. Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.
5. The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour.
6. The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!
7. In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined!
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1 If a mirror breaks itself, it is considered a very bad omen.
2. To dream of a lizard is a sign that you have a secret enemy.
3. A horseshoe hung in upright position at house gate will bring luck.
4. A white butterfly brings good luck if its the first one you had seen in an year.
5. Bring a new broom if you move to your new house, never ever carry your old one with you.
6. Cat’s or dog’s crying in your house at night means some one in your house will be terribly sick.
7. Pirates believed that piercing the ears with such precious metals as silver and gold improved one’s eyesight.
8. Catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn and it is believed that you will not catch a cold in that entire season.
9. If you blow all of the candles on your birthday cake with one breath, while making a silent wish, that wish will be fulfilled
10. Collect seven or nine different flowers on midsummer eve and place them under your pillow and it is said that you will dream of your future spouse.
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# The legendary Mark Twain was born in 1835 and died in 1910. He was born on a day when Halley’s Comet appeared and before his death he said, “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” And he did died in 1910 when Comet appeared.
# History repeats itself is what we all know, here is a classic example of it. On February 13, 1746, Jean Marie Dubarry was punished because he had murdered his father. Exactly after 100 years, on February 13, 1846 another person named Jean Marie Dubarry, was punished because he had killed his father.
# Major Summerford was hit by lightning continuously through out his life and even after. The first time he was hit was in 1918. Then in 1924 again lightning struck him and paralyzed his body. He recovered from it in few years but to again fall for lighting as in 1930 he was again struck by lightning leaving him permanently paralyzed. In 1932 he died but lightning had still not left chasing him as in 1936, lightning struck his tombstone and destroyed it.
# In 1899, lightning killed a person in Italy. In 1929 his son was killed again by lightning and to make matters worse in 1949 his grandson was killed and the killer was again- Lightning.
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The Beauty of Maths
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111
9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888
Brilliant, isn’t it?
And finally, take a look at this symmetry:
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321
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1. In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That’s where the phrase, “goodnight, sleep tight” came from.
2. The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Uses every letter in the alphabet.
(developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.)
3. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
4. The term “the whole 9 yards” came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the..50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got “the whole 9 yards.”
5. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon.
If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
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Birthday Facts
# More people celebrate their birthdays in August than in any other month. The two other months in which birthday rates are high is July and September.
# Close to two billion Birthday Cards are sent each year in the U.S. alone, accounting for nearly 58 percent of all cards sent.
# The world’s largest birthday cake was created in 1989 it weighed 128,238 pounds, 8 oz. and used 16,209 pounds of icing.
# Anne Frank’s world famous diary was given to her when she was thirteen years old.
# The most common birth date is October 5 and the least common is May 22 in U.S.A.
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# More babies are born in September than in any other month
# 53% of Americans think they are paid the right amount.
# About 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year.
# One in twelve Americans alphabetize their spice rack.
# 95% of the creatures on earth are smaller than a chicken egg.
# 57% of women would rather go on a shopping spree than have sex.
# 63% of pet owners sleep with their pets.
# There are twice as many billionares in the U.S. today as there were 10 years ago.
# 25% of the fish you eat are raised on fish farms.
# 1 in 4 people admit to searching in their host’s medicine cabinets.
# 48% of men think balding has a negative effect on business and social relationships.
# The average American dog will cost its owner $14,600 in its lifetime.
# The Ratio of people to T.V. in the world is 6 to 1.
# 58% of school kids say pizza is their favorite cafeteria food.
# 32% of singles polled think they will meet their future mate online.
# In 1948, 2.3% of American households had televisions. Today 99% do.
# In 1998, 58% of American adults were married and living with their spouses, an all time low.
# The top three products for coupon redemption are cold cereal, soap, and deodorant.
# One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
# 46% of violence on T.V. occurs in cartoons.
# Only about 5% of people dream in color.
# 80% of high school atheletes, male and female, say they have been hazed.
# 65% of American adolescents get acne.
# 1 in 6 employees say they got so mad at a co#worker last year that “they felt like hitting them but didn’t.”
# The average American drinks 3.4 cups of coffee a day.
# 85% of parents use child safety seats incorrectly.
# The average American kid catches 6 colds a year, the average kid in daycare catches 10.
# The average American male laughs 69 times a day where the average woman laughs 55 times a day.
# 85% of obscene calls are made by males.
# 5% of Americans never get married.
# 60% of the county of Leichtenstein’s GDP is generated from the sale of false teeth.
# If a girl owns one barbie, she most likely owns seven.
# 50% of American adults attended an arts activity in 1997.
# People aged 24#35 worry less than adults of other age groups.
# 5% of Americans say they “never” make their beds.
# The average person moves their residence 11 times in their life, about once every 6 years.
# 35% of people watching T.V. yell at it.
# One in seven Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a map.
# American office workers send an average of 36 e#mails per day.
# 23% of workers said they would work harder if their employer offered a “$1,000 shopping spree at a store of their choice.”
# Only 30% of U.S. adults actually have dandruff while 50% are “self consious about it.”
# 32% of women and 8% of men say they are better at doing laundry than their spouse.
# 13% of the letters in a given book are “e”.
# The average age kids begin to use a microwave is seven.
# The average American uses 730 crayons by the age of 10.
# 63% of American adults will rent at least 1 video this month.
# The average sleeper rolls over 12 times in bed per night.
# The Pentagon uses an average of 666 rolls of toilet paper each day.
# More babies are conceived in December than any other month.
# Your left hand does an average of 56% of your typing.
# It takes an average person seven minutes to fall asleap on an average night.
# About 8% of the students at the Dunkin Doughnuts training center fail the six week course.
# The avarage speed of a golf ball in flight during the PGA tour is 160 mph.
# 85% of phone calls are conducted in the English language.
# The Earth is turning to desert at a rate of 40 square miles per day.
# 99% of India’s truck drivers can’t read road signs.
# 80% of deaths in U.S. casinos are caused by sudden heart attacks.
# 12% of U.S. businessmen wear their ties so tight that they restrict the blood flow to their brain.
# 3% of all photos taken in the U.S. are taken at Disney Land or Disney World.
# Nearly 6% of all marriage proposals are made over the telephone.
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# The term “devil’s advocate” comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil’s advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
# If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
# There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
# When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, even your heart
# The average bed is home to more than six billion dust mites
# 5% of American men are now six feet or taller, compared to only 4% on 1900.
# Ice covers about 15% of the earth.
# In 1950, only 7% of Americans dyed their hair, now 75% do.
# 36% of the great lakes lie within Canadian territory.
# Only 6% of all coupons printed are ever redeemed.
# The world has been at peace only 8% of the time over the last 3,500 years.
# 11% of the planet is covered by glaciers.
# There is a 33% chance that a peanut grown in the U.S. will end up as peanut butter.
# In the densest jungle, only 1% of sunlight ever reaches the forest floor.
# 75% of all murder victims knew their killer.
# Only 6% of the land on Earth is sutible for growing crops.
# 72% of Americans don’t know the people who live next door.
# 25% of adults say online romances “don’t count as cheating.”
# 19% of men say they wouldn’t mind being stupid as long as they had the perfect body.
# 24% of commuters say that when stuck in traffic, they think “deep thoughts.”
# 1% of U.S. businesses allow their employees to take naps during working hours.
# 20% of men say that their TV has taught them more about life than their parents have.
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1.Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that’s about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!
2.If he drops a thousand dollars, he won’t even bother to pick it up bcoz the 4 seconds he picks it, he would’ve already earned it back.
3.The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.
4.He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.
5.Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn’t drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he’ll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates
is now.
6.If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.
7.If you change all of Bill Gate’s money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from the earth to moon, 14 times back and forth.! But you have to make that road non-stop for 1400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.
8.Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he goes to heaven.
To Conclude
If Microsoft Windows’ users can claim US$1 for every time their
computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt
in 3 years !!
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The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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