Thursday, August 30, 2012

Strange but true facts...

  •      Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.    
  •      When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
  •      If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.
  •      Bone is five times stronger than steel.
  •      You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day
  •      Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.
  •      The 73% of people who buy Valentine's Day flowers are men, while only 27 percent are women.
  •      Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before they starve to death.
  •      If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
  •      Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
  •      Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
  •      It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
  •      Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
  •      The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
  •      The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
  •      Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying

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