Amazing Facts

> 1. Socrates became famous for asking questions about almost everything > !! > > 2. The mother of all European languages is Sanskrit, which is > considered the most suitable language for computer software. > 3. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 > degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun > > 4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest > star to earth > > 5. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million > miles. > > 6. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons. > > 7. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick > in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom - 4,000 miles > down. > > 8. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a > single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, > nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived. > > 9. In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity. > > 10. Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops > are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns. > > 11. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day. > > 12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second. > > 13. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn't go off. > > 14. The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their > lifetime. > > 15. The average left-handed person lives 7 years LESS than a > right-handed person. > > 16. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! > > 17. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at > the same time. Indeed convenient! > > 18. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write > their own name. > > 19. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide > angle. > > 20. Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost. > > 21. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have > 33,554,432 direct ancestors - assuming no incest was in > > 22. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop > producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions! > > 23. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can't. > > 24. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm. > > 25, Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. > > 26. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct > order. > > 27. Eskimoes have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello. > > 28. The word "set" has the most definitions in the English language. > > 29. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its > letters is uncopyrightable. > > 30. The "Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick" is the hardest > tongue-twister > > 31. The longest English word without a vowel is twyndyllyngs which > means "twins". > > 32. 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words. > > 33. 1 x 8 + 1 = 9; 12 x 8 + 2 = 98; 123 x 8 + 3 = 987; 1234 x 8 + 4 = > 9876; 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765; 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654; 1234567 x 8 + 7 > = 9876543; 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432; 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321 > > 34. The word "dreamt" is the only common word in the English language > that ends in "mt". > > 35. Albert Einstein never wore any socks. > > 36. The lighter was invented before the match. > > 37. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, > only six phones were sold in the first month. > > 38. Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backwards. > > 39. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. > > 40. Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before they starve > to death. > > 41. The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a > second. > > 42. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down. > > 43. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite. > > 44. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost > 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English. > > 45. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice. > > 46. The first Internet domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com > on March 15, 1985. > > 47. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for > $7.5 million. > > 48. In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were > Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia. > > 49. In Canada, the most productive day of the working week is Tuesday.