[nukkad] [Info] Too Many Interesting Facts - Part 1

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Too Many Interesting Facts - Part 1

• Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module
landed on the moon.
• The 'You are here' arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.
• MTV first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was 'Video
Killed the Radio Star' by the Bugles.
• There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in
'-dous':tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous .
• The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the
population growth

• At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories  per hour by
breathing.
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
• There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been
mined in our entire history.
• Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in
Ireland.
• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
• The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most
likely to survive a nuclear war.
• In the southern hemisphere, water always swirl anti-clockwise down into a
pipe.
• About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the
same number are born each second.
• Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars.
• Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
• It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
• 35 meters of hair fiber is produced every day on the average adult scalp.
• Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone
marrow.
• Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell  themselves  to do
it.

•The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in
England.
• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
• Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the
soil.
• Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who
did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented
dynamite.
• Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before
becoming an actress..
• Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen
from Public Libraries.
• Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike
contest.
• Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated
for some time. Another story states that: Mickey mouse was not named after
Mickey Rooney he was made on a train ride from New York after Walt found out
he didn't actually own Oswald the lucky rabbit. The mouse Walt drew was
originally named Mortimor But his wife Lilly didn't like that name so she
suggested Mickey and the name stuck.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were
made out of wood.
• A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one
or both hands and feet.
• Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born
on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
• Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or
receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the
traditional Japanese greeting.

-- 
Regards,
Gurunath M.

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