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If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side. 2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human b ody is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off. 3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin f ilm of bacteria on it. 5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is Das Beste oder Nichts meaning the best or nothing .

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. 7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at som ething pleasing. 8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. 9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 t imes a day. 10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the oc ean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. 11. Dalmatians are born without spots. 12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 13. The v in the name of a court case does not stand for proceedings) or against (in criminal proceedings). versus , but for and (in civil

14. Men s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women s shirts have the buttons on the left. 15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds r aise their lower eyelids. 16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it s already been digested by a bee. 17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks. 18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones. 19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die. 20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart. 21. The verb cleave is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate. 22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red. 24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato ca n for a carburetor. 25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney. 26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros. 27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, i nstead of flag of Japan. 28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a fil m about it. 29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples. 30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. 31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nit rogen gas bubbles bursting. 32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death. 33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body. 34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. 35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game. 36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air. 37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,00 0 people die. 38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 becaus e then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smilin g). 39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countrie s. Colgate translates into the command go hang yourself. 40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are t he rabbit and the parrot. 41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. 42. The average person laughs 13 times a day. 43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil ), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil) 44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog. 46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of s ound. 48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escape d through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death. 49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the ai r, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the per son died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four leg s on the ground, the person died of natural cause. 50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumpi --------------------------------------------------NEW: Funny facts about India There where no plastic bags in India before 1985? Over 1000 elephants were used during the construction of the Taj Mahal? The mobile users of India grows every month with about 2.5 million peopl e? There are over 1500 software companies in Bangalore India? The first reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra India ? The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the en tire population of Australia? The word mongoose comes from India? In India, Dutta Samant led a year-long strike in 1982 involved about 200 000 workers? Rusi Surti is the only Indian test cricketer to played Sheffield Shield cricket in Australia? The airline company Air Deccan was the first low-cost flight company in India? About 50% of the residents in India are under 25 years old? The highest cricket ground in the world is Chail in Himachal Pradesh, In dia? Indian Railways transport about five billion passengers annually? The longest station name on the Indian Railways is Venkatanarasimharajuv ariapeta? Indian Railways is the largest employer in the world, about 1.6 million people? The distance learning University IGNOU in India is short for Indira Gand hi National Open University? The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana in 800 BC, India? The world's first known University was established in Takshashila, India in 700BC? The only country in the world that has a Bill of Rights for Cows is Indi a? India is the world's largest mango producer? Calcutta is the only place in the world where you still can travel by ri ksha pulled by humans? India has more post offices than any other country? Hockey is the National Game of India? The Taj Mahal was in the 1830's scheduled to be torn down? In India nearly 1200 species of birds can be found? Taj Mahal in India is a gift of love? India produces more movies than any other country in the world and Bolly wood is the largest film industry in the world? Indians go out to the cinema about 3 billion times a year?

India has about 800 dialects and 15 major Languages? Algebra, Calculus, and Trigonometry comes from India? India has health laughing clubs where people get together and laugh? India is the largest tea producer in the world? In Takshashila, 700BC, the first university was established? The biggest ant in India is about an inch? India used sugar before any other country? 4 major religions has India as birthplace Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism an d Sikhism? India buys more gold than any other country? Curry powder gets its yellow color from a spice, turmeric? The number system and decimal system was invented in India? India is said to be the largest democracy in the world? India is also known as Hindustan or Bharat by natives? Before 1896 India was the only diamonds producing country in the world? Films made in Bollywood are often seen by people in South Africa? India is home to about 200 million cows? India is the world's number one producer of vegetarian cheese? The first bathrooms is said to have been built in India about 4500 years ago? India is home to about 1200 species of birds? India is the second most populated country in the world? Shampoo is derived word from Hindi? Taj Mahal is made entirely out of marble? --------------------------------------------------100 Unbelievable Facts Here are 100 good ones to start you off 1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Ce ntigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun. 2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 d irect ancestors assuming no incest was involved. 3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles. 4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to e arth. 5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single sp ecies of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodil es and tortoises survived. 6. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it w ould take 45 minutes to get to the bottom 4,000 miles down. 7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day. 8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons. 9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn t go off. 10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. 11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can t. 12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second. 13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.

14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm. 15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order. 16. Eskimoes have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello. 17. The word set has the most definitions in the English language.

18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable. 19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. 20. The Sixth Sick Sheik s Sixth Sheep s Sick is the hardest tongue-twister. twins .

21. The longest English word without a vowel is twyndyllyngs which means

22. 1 x 8 + 1 = 9; 12 x 8 + 2 = 98; 123 x 8 + 3 = 987; 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876; 1234 5 x 8 + 5 = 98765; 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654; 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543; 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432; 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321 23. The word dreamt is the only common word in the English language that ends in mt .

24. Albert Einstein never wore any socks. 25. The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime. 26. In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity. 27. Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backwards. 28. An ostrich s eye is bigger than its brain. 29. Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before they starve to death. 30. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down. 31. The lighter was invented before the match. 32. The average left-handed person lives 7 years LESS than a right-handed person . 33. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! 34. Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not t ear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns. 35. The first Internet domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15 , 1985. 36. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six pho nes were sold in the first month. 37. Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost. 38. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5 mill ion. 39. In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microso

ft, IBM, GE, and Nokia. 40. In Canada, the most productive day of the working week is Tuesday. 41. In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the e asiest colour to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of t he Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow. 42. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edi tion of The New York Times. 43. On average a business document is copied 19 times. 44. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, emp loying over 1.6 million people. 45. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song Happy Birthday. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song. 46. All babies are colour-blind when they are born. 47. Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year . 48. Each nostril of a human being registers smells in a different way. Smells th at are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, sme lls can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril. 49. Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join togeth er to make a single bone. 50. May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months . 51. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards. 52. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle. 53. Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islan ds. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had. 54. Rolling Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year-old model Mandy Smit h in 1988. At the same time Wyman s son was engaged to Mandy Smith s mother. If his son had married Smith s mother, Wyman would have been the step grandfather to his own wife. 55. There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem. 56. There are about 6,800 languages in the world. 57. There was no punctuation until the 15th century. 58. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day. 59. The coconut is the largest seed in the world. 60. There is cyanide in apple pips.

61. If you were to take 1 lb. of spiders web and stretch it out it would circle the whole way around the world! 62. If every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at the same time it w ould knock the earth off its axis! 63. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night! 64. The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted jus t 38 minutes. 65. The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells. 66. The symbols + (addition) and (subtraction) came into general use in 1489.

67. If you save one penny and double it every successive day, (day two you have 2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, and so on), by the end of 30 days yo u ll have $5,368,708! (or s or whatever currency). 68. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your br ain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation. 69. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time. 70. The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five miles long. 71. Due to precipitation, for a few weeks, K2 is taller than Mt. Everest. 72. Astronauts get taller when they are in space. 73. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars. 74. The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court. 75. A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds th at a person can hear. If a person can just hear a noise that is coming from 10 f eet away, a dog could hear that same noise from 100 feet away. 76. If a sole (a type of fish) lays upon a chessboard it can change the colourin g of its body to match the pattern of the chess board. The sole takes about 4 mi nutes to make the change. 77. Of all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed to the deaths of mo re people than any other animal. 78. In the courts of the Roman Empire, instead of swearing an oath on a bible, m en swore to the truth on their statements while holding their genitals. Hence th e word testify , from testicles . 79. The first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and Silicat e hence its brand name, Persil. 80. If we could shrink the earth s population to a village of precisely 100 people , with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be 57 Asian s, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans. Only 1 would own a compute r.

81. All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone. 82. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never st op growing. 83. Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States. 84. Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood. 85. It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, wh ich also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago. 86. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. 87. An octopus has 3 hearts. 88. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would ne ver end because of the rate of reproduction. 89. The hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflect light, so the y appear white. 90. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed peo ple do. 91. The combination ough can be pronounced in 9 different ways; Read this: A roughcoated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarboro ugh; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed. 92. The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is s o broad, that a person could swim through it. 93. A left-handed person finds it easier to open a jar than a right-handed perso n because they can supply a stronger anticlockwise turning force than a right-ha nded person. However a right-handed person will find it easier to tighten the ja r up afterwards. 94. The orbit of the Moon about the Earth would fit easily inside the Sun. 95. A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time. 96. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the ke yboard. 97. Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west th an to the east. 98. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start wit h. 99. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 100. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (euro, pound). --------------------------------------------------Animals, Birds & Insects A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed. Butterflies taste with their feet. Ants never sleep. Owls cannot move their eyes because their eyeballs tubular in shape. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs. Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length. A baby bat is called a pup. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. German Shepherds (dog) bite humans more than any other breed of dog. A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time. The animal (insect) responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito. The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Car olina, who was weighed 1,904 pounds in 1939. Snakes are immune to their own poison. Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten . Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a milli on descendants. A shrimp's heart is in their head. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. Hydra - an aquatic creature is the only living creature that never die. It r egenerates, replacing its cells with fresh ones. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. In the animal kingdom, the animals that fart the most are the elephants. Lions, leopards, tigers, and jaguars are the only species of cats that can r oar; but they can t purr. Entomophagy is the scientific name for insect eating. There are more than 1, 450 recorded species of edible insects. Many species of insects are lower in fat and higher in protein and have a better food-to-meat ratio than beef, lamb, por k, or chicken. Foods & Drinks Coca-Cola was originally green because of fresh cocoa leaves.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. Strawberry is the only fruit with its seeds on the outside. All other vegetables must be replanted every year except two perennial veget ables; Asparagus and rhubarb that can live to produce on their own for several g rowing seasons. Games & Sports There are 366 dimples on a golf ball. There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play first four moves, per side, in chess. Playing cards in India are in round shape. Boxing is the only sport in which neither the spectators nor the participant s know the score or the winner until the contest ends. The biggest badminton shuttle in the world can be found on the lawns of the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, in Kansas City. It is 48 times larger than the real th ing. This shuttle is 18 feet high and weighing 5,000 pounds. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spa des - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds Julius Caesar. General The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start wit h. Albert Einstein never learned how to drive a car. History If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the ai r, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wo unds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cau ses. Mao Zedong of China never brush his teeth in his lifetime. When Elizabeth-I of Russia died in 1762, there were 15,000 dresses in her cl osets. During World War II, the Japanese used shark liver oil in the engines of the ir fighter planes. J. P Blanchard, a Frenchman, is credited with having been the first person t o use a parachute. In 1785, from a balloon high in the air, he dropped a dog in a basket to which a parachute was attached. Blanchard also claimed to have desce

nded from a balloon in a parachute in 1793. Human Body Randy Gardner of San Diego is the longest person who has gone without sleep for 11 days in 1965. He broke the record of Peter Tripp of New York, who settled a record of 8.5 days without a wink. The fingernails grow faster on the hand you favor. If you are right-handed, your right fingernails will grow faster, and vice versa. The middle fingernail g rows faster than any other nail. Usually right handed people utilize left side of brain for all their conscio us, voluntary activities. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. Women blink nearly twice as much as men! The women who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and card iovascular disease than men. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. It is impossible to lick your elbow. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. An average person eat 60,000 pounds of food in his lifetime. An average person spent 24 years of his life in sleeping. An average woman consume 6 lbs. of lipstick in her lifetime. Sitting while talking on the phone for eight hours will burn 914 calories. D riving a car for eight hours will knock off around 1,219 calories. And standing in a casino for eight hours will burn about 1,402 calories. Inventions & Discoveries Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers are i nvented by women. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. In 1932. Engineer, Harry Jennings, built the first folding, tubular steel wh eelchair. The chair was built for a paraplegic friend of Jennings called Herbert Everest. Together they founded Everest & Jennings, a company that monopolized t he wheelchair market for many years. Otto Frederick Rohwedder is generally credited with inventing the first auto matic bread slicer in 1928.

Language & Literature Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on on e row of the keyboard. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. E is the most frequently used letter in English. Gadsby is the only novel (267 pages, 50,000 words) written in 1939 by Ernest Vincent Wright, without the use of letter "E". Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter; by Mark Twain in 187 6. Uncopyrightable is the only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter. The word Set has 464 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. The word Run runs a distant second, with 396. The dot over the i or j is called a tittle. The word queue is the only word in the English language that is pronounced t he whole for its first letter. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. Mandarin is most-spoken language in the world, spoken by 1.07 billion people , followed by English, spoken by 514 million. Papua New Guinea have the greatest number of first languages. There are 869 separate languages - not dialects. The world's first university was established in Taxila (comprised of cities Mohenjadaro and Harappa) Pakistan in 700 BC. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar; Period, comma, colo n, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotat ion marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. The only three English words beginning with dw are; Dwarf, dwell and dwindle . 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 There are currently 6,912 living languages, defined as languages that people speak today. Letters 'a', ' b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99 (Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred) Letters 'a', ' b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999 (Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand) Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,99 9

(Letter 'b' only comes for the first time in Billion) Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Co unting World Records The war between England and Zanzibar in 1896 was the shortest war in history , lasted only 38 minutes. Monumental Axis in Brazil is the world's widest road. 160 cars can drive sid e by side at the same time. The Central Railway in Peru is the world's highest railway. It climbs to 15, 694 feet in the Galera Tunnel. Australian $5 to $50 notes are made of plastic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------