Interesting Facts

[Plutost]

01. 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
02. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
03. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
04. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
05. The Mercedes-Benz motto is ?Das Beste oder Nichts? meaning ?the best or nothing?..
06. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
07. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
08. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
09. 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 times a day.
10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, 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 ?versus?, but for ?and? (in civil proceedings) or ?against? (in criminal proceedings)
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 raise 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 can 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, instead of flag of Japan
28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film 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 nitrogen 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 140,000 people die
38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).
39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command ?go hang yourself.?
40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the 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 sound
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, escaped 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 air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
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13 Interesting Facts About Google

1. Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.

2. Google?s Home Page Has 63 Validation Errors. Don?t believe me?: Check Google Validation

3. The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day.

4. The infamous ?I?m feeling lucky? button is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.

5. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ?Whats up?? to which they replied ?We are waiting for the rest of it?. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end of page marker.

6. The name ?Google? was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ?Googol?.

7. Google has the largest network of translators in the world.

8. Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

9. Google consists of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.

10. Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.

11. Google is a mathematical term 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasne.

12. Number of languages in which you can have the Google home page set up, including Urdu, Latin and Klingon: 88

13. Google translates billions of HTML web pages into a display format for WAP and i-mode phones and wireless handheld devices.

Plutost Reviewed by Plutost on 21st May 2009. Interesting Facts 01. 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 02. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off. 03. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 04. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it. 05. The Mercedes-Benz motto is ?Das Rating: 5

[Plutost]

• The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
• Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
• Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
• Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
• If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
• Singapore has only one train station.
• The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
• Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
• There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
• There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
• Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
• When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
• Only 7% of the population are lefties.
• The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot
• In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
• Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
• The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
• If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in
• "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head before it starves to death.
• Butterflies can taste with their feet.

[Curtis129]

thanks dude

[Webestrian]

LoL - so so so many ( I just assume they are good)

So ty

EDIT : Read the post - its really good (Specially i liked the facts about google)

[Plutost]

Never mind...

[pi0tr3k]

6. The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’.

^Is this true?

[zes]

Yep it's true as hell
I've a book that talks about googol
1 googol = 1.0 ? 10100


or

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

This is not spam LOL!
Googol was invented by Milton Sirotta

[Plutost]

lol
there are also many more Facts
Just use Google

[d3monic]

Good facts, but many of them are INCORRECT.

• There are only four words in the English language which end in
• "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

1. amadous
2. apodous
3. decapodous
4. hazardous
5. horrendous
6. iodous
7. nodous
8. nonhazardous
9. palladous
10. stupendous
11. tremendous
12. ultrahazardous
13. vanadous

[fanobliv]

/me Quick Copy's this and runs to ws