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popular101

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just wanna share this awesome trivia and facts....


Did you know......... some interesting facts

A zebra is white with black stripes.

All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.

The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

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

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.

Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !!

It is impossible to lick your elbow. ( We know you gonna try this !!! )

A snail can sleep for 3 years. ( wow, lucky chap eh ? )

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say no evil ).

55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn.

Reference source: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.didyouknow.org">http://www.didyouknow.org</a>
 

tehexmen

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Hah nice. These facts are in fact funny :D
 

Zeroifrit

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Good facts only i never Yawn when i see someone yawn or read about it.
 

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In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.

green sun o_O kinda cool
 

George

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"A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.".

Is that really true?

Nice facts.
 

.D0T

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Nice facts to share, thanks. :)
Some nice household trivia, could come useful in pub quizzes. :p
 

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A zebra is white with black stripes.

i thought it was the other way round LOL
 

cris09

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Lol. I literally yawned reading the last line of your post. And mind you, I was not bored. On the contrary, I read it with much interest. :)
 

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A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

SO NOT TRUE

That fat lazy bastard can't run faster than Bolt :p
 

popular101

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another set

The fourth wise monkey is called Shizaru (Do no evil).

An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1,7 million years.

Barbie was introduced at the New York Toy Fair on 9 March 1959; her real name is Barbie Millicent Roberts and her parents are Ruth and Elliot Handler. Barbie has four sisters: Skipper (1964), Stacie (1992), Kelly (1995) and Krissy (1995).

Ken, Barbie�s boyfriend, debuted in 1961. Unfortunately, they split up on Valentine�s Day 2004.

World�s first travel agencies: Cox & Kings, founded in 1758, and Thomas Cook, founded in 1860.

A fathom is 6 feet (1,8 metres).

There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.

Before the year 1000, the word ââ?¬Å?sheââ?¬Â did not exist in the English language. The singular female reference was the word ââ?¬Å?heoââ?¬Â, which also was the plural of all genders. The word ââ?¬Å?sheââ?¬Â appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. ââ?¬Å?Sheââ?¬Â probably derived from the Old English feminine ââ?¬Å?seoââ?¬Â, the Viking word for feminine reference.

There are no letters assigned to the numbers 1 and 0 on a phone keypad. These numbers remain unassigned because they are so-called ââ?¬Å?flagââ?¬Â numbers, kept for special purposes such as emergency or operator services.

After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the merchant was
promptly executed.

For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world�s largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

The word malaria comes from the words mal and aria, which means bad air. This derives from the old days when it was thought that all diseases are caused by bad, or dirty air.

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.

On every continent there is a city called Rome.

The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria.

The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was Rome.

The most populated city in the world ââ?¬â?? when major urban areas are included ââ?¬â?? is Tokyo, with more than 37 million residents.

Tokyo was once known as Edo.

The pin that holds a hinge together is called a pintle.

The Vatican is the world�s smallest country, at 0,16 square miles (0,44 square km).

The US flag displays 13 stripes ââ?¬â?? for the original 13 states.

To most Americans, the orient is China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam; to Europeans it is the area of India and Pakistan.

Some 160 billion emails are sent daily ââ?¬â?? more than 2 million per second ââ?¬â?? by 1,2 billion email senders. 97% of it is spam.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge.

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

The sentence ââ?¬Å?The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogââ?¬Â uses every letter of the alphabet.

Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.

Women make up 49% of the world population.

About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. This is called propinquity.

The pleasant feeling of eating chocolate is caused by a chemical called anadamide, a neurotransmitter which also is produced naturally in the brain.

From the Middle Ages until the 18th century the local barber�s duties included dentistry, blood letting, minor operations and bone-setting. The barber�s striped red pole originates from when patients would grip the pole during an operation.

The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.

The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The European Union has banned more than 1,100 chemicals from cosmetics. The United States has banned just 10.

Midday refers to the moment the sun crosses the local meridian.

Due to earth�s gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 49 000 feet (15,000 metres).

It is not true that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure that can be viewed from space ââ?¬â?? many man-made objects, including the Dutch polders, can be viewed from space.


Reference source: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.didyouknow.org">http://www.didyouknow.org</a>
 

achoo

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a zebra is white with black strips o_O what is the proof of this? lol
And WTF the rabbits and parrots can see backwards :eek: i thought that flies can also see backwards as they fly away when i silently put my hands behind them lol
Good information you shared buddy :thumbs: Thanks ;)
 
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