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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