50 amazing Facts

[ulty]

Hey Friends lets have some fun while learning vocab....

50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW (or 50 Completely Useless Facts!)
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions! What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child A ####roach can live several weeks with its head cut off! Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath There is a city called Rome on every continent. It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland! Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe! The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.		Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it. On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. Earth is the only planet not named after a god. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food! Dolphins sleep with one eye open! It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old! The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not Slugs have 4 noses. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! The average person laughs 10 times a day! An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

[arunabha2003]

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[BINNY]

Great ! Facts ....thanx for the info

[faraz]

Good ulty.Another useless fact:The only word in the english dictionary with all vowels in alphabetical order>>>>>>ABSTEMIOUS

[anumodhc]

good work ulty and thanx .......

[meera]

Amazing facts .Keep sending

[SusmithaAK]

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[Spoorthi]

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[lekha]

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[trupti]

....heyi liked these amazing facts.........some of thm are fabulous

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[WISDOM]

the last one abt adolf hitler is interesting........................juts kiddin', all r interesting!

[VSPrasad]

55% of foreign doctors in USA are Indians.
65% of foreign computer programmers are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.

Indians own nearly 40% of all the small and mid-size hotels in the country.

Four out of 10 Silicon Valley startups are run by Indians.

One of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, Vinod Khosla, is an Indian. Creator of Pentium chip, Vinod Dahm, is an Indian. The founder and creator of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, is an Indian. The president of AT & T-Bell Labs is Arun Netravalli, an Indian.
The man responsible to solve the problems of Windows 2000 is Sanjay
Tejwrika, the Microsoft Testing Director.

Indians are the richest immigrant class in the US, with nearly 200,000 millionaires. From a sample of 2004 US Census based surveys, Asians are the highest earning subgroup with a median income of $57,518 compared to the national average of $44,389. They are the most educated and well-off among all the immigrant communities.

Indians account for 45% of H1-B visas issued by the US every year.

With about 800 movies per year, India's film industry overshadows Hollywood.

Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.

USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India.

The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India dating back to at least 100 BC.

The solar year was calculated as 365.25875684 days by Bhaskaracharya in the 5th century, hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. The value of pi was first calculated by Bodhayana, who also discovered the Pythagorean Theorem in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.

Gross Domestic Product of India is 4th in the world. Growing at 6%, Indian GDP on a PPP basis will be at the same level the US is at today in about 25 years.

Other than US and Japan, India is the only country to have built a super computer indigenously.

Of the Fortune 500 companies, 220 outsource their software-related work to India.

India has the second-largest pool of scientists and engineers in the world.

India has the third-largest investor base in the world.

The Indian city of Varanasi, also known as Benares, is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.

http://www.laloorabri.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=195

http://www.nriol.com/info/amazingindia.asp

http://www.woodrecords.com/modernindia/People

Among all countries in the world, India has inherited
the largest number of ancient manuscripts from time
immemorial. They were written on the widest range of
subjects known to humans.

Indians have traveled around the world in ships to
spread their knowledge since millenia. The oldest
universities of the world like Patali Putra and Taksha
Sila are located in India. Scholars from far east and
Europe came here for higher knowledge.

"The oldest University of the world was founded at
Taxila, where taught the great grammarian Panini."

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