If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.
Friday, 8 July 2011
One Loss
If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
Minute or Large Saving??
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Grow and Shrink Again
You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.
Sugar Power
Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.
Unfortunate Inventor
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf
Effect of the Moon
Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
Nightmare Name
Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has 85 letters. It's the name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, New Zealand.
Fighting Before Birth
Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
Transparent Hair, Black Body but still White
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
Sleep or Starvation
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
Leather Life
A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
A-Z
A panagram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. For example: Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs.
I Didn't Know That...
A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Exhaustive Flying
An insect exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much as a third of its total body weight.
First Song in Space
"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
Left Handeds
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
Da Vinci: A True Genius
Leonardo Da Vinci can draw with one hand and write with the other at the same time. A true Genius!!
Chocolate V/S Dog
Chocolate kills dogs!! True, chocolate affects dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounce (1 ounce=28.349523125 grams) is enough to kill a dog.
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