Do you know you are eating an ingredient of dynamite when you eat peanut?
It's hard to believe fact that "Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite"
Imagine a dynamite in your mouth :D
Posted by Naresh Khoinam on Amazing Facts
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Do you know you are eating an ingredient of dynamite when you eat peanut?
It's hard to believe fact that "Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite"
Imagine a dynamite in your mouth :D
Posted by Naresh Khoinam on Amazing Facts
A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it doesn't bite itself.
A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!
A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 grams.
A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
A magic potion or charm thought to arouse sexual love, especially toward a specific person, is known as a "philter."
A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in different years; one was born in 17th December'1952 and the other on 10th February'1953.
A Blue Whale can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
Indians have been biting into juicy mangoes for 3,000 years. But the western world came to know about it only 300 years ago!
Like a bat, dolphins use echolocation to navigate and hunt, bouncing high-pitched sounds off of objects, and listening for the echoes.
Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are!
After spending hours working on a computer (CRT Monitor), look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
The world's first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
Monarchs have been known to migrate over 3000km. In fact a Monarch tagged at Presqu'ile, here in southern Ontario, was recovered in Mexico and is on record as being the longest insect migration.
In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
The focusing/ciliary muscles of the eye move about 100,000 times a day. To give the leg muscles the same exercise would involve walking 80km (50 miles) a day.
In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.