Friday, 18 July 2014

Did you know

A collection of awesome, interesting, weird and random stuff to tickle your brain. Here are some of the known facts:
  • India has the most post offices that any other country (Over 100,000).
  • India is home to over 200 million cows.
  • The Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble.
  • The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
  • In 1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
  • 11% of people are left handed.
  • Taj Mahal appears pink in the morning, white in the day and changes its color to golden in the moon light.
  • Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
  • Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. To make 1 pound of honey, bees would have to visit over 2 million flowers.
  • An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  • A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to Oxygen it turns blue.
  • The 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English.
  • The smallest bone in the human body is found in our eye.
  • When lighting strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees Celsius.
  • A Giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue.
  • If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively it totals 5050 (1+2+3...).
  • It's possible to lead a cow up stairs not down.
  • Humming birds are the only bird that can fly backwards.
  • In a deck of cards the king of hearts is the only king without mustache.
  • Apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee.
  • The thyroid bone in our body is the only bone in our body not attached to any other bone.
  • The oldest word in the English language is 'Town'.
  • 'Bookkeeper' and 'Bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
  • The Amazon rain-forest produces half the world's Oxygen supply.
  • China Manufactures 70% of the worlds toys.

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