Sunday, July 24, 2005

some fantastic facts_02

41- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, with the exception of North America.
42- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
43- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
44- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
45- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 byeliminating oneolive from each salad served in first-class.
46- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
47- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with apopulation of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
48- "Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the Englishlanguage.
49- No president of the United states was an only child.
And last and definitely most important:
50- The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it!
51-Butterflies taste with their feet.
52-A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
53-In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
54-On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
55-On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
56-Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
57-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 58-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
59-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
60-It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
61-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
62-The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to takeinto account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
63-A snail can sleep for three years.
64-No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
65-Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
66-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
67-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
68-All polar bears are left handed.
69-In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
70-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
71-TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
72-Go. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
73-If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.She would stand seven feet, two inches tall
74-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
75-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
76-Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fact #41 is obviously erroneous. What about South America and Oceania?

Do you mind telling us the source of your "facts"?

Amol Shah said...

i think they are a part of the continents.

for the sources, i am not able to recollect. actulally the file was there in my pc.