Monday 6 January 2014

25 Amazing Facts Probably you didn’t Know

  1. There is a tree that is so poisonous; rainwater dripping of it will burn your skin. It’s called Manchineel.
  2. If you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same.
  3. The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley’s gum.
  4. Niger has the youngest population of any country. 50% are below 15 years old.
  5. You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.
  6. You burn more calories eating celery than it contains.
  7. Frogs don’t drink; they absorb water through their skin.
  8. The most expensive coffee in the world is brewed from beans partially digested and defecated by the Asian palm civet.
  9. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
  10. Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
  11. The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.
  12. Turtles have lived on earth even before the dinosaurs.
  13. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  14. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
  15. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
  16. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.
  17. Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg. It’s actually the shell.
  18. Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
  19. In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes were a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.
  20. Every single possible 3 character .com domain has been registered.
  21. Bulls are color blind. The color red does not make bulls go crazy.
  22. Peru has more pyramids than Egypt
  23. Coffee beans aren't beans, but seeds.
  24. The first domain name ever registered was symbolics.com
  25. Seashell fossils have been found high in the Himalayan Mountains, suggesting that the land was once underwater.
  26. If the only thing you have to fear is fear itself, you could be suffering from phobophobia: the fear of phobias.
  27. Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.


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