Some More Interesting Facts-I

[coolguy]

• Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
• There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous':tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous .
• At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
• Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
• The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.
• In the southern hemisphere, water always swirl anti-clockwise down into a pipe.

[seema]

hi coolguy,
cool facts
the best one i liked was:

Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite.

[paula]

no offence but that was long long post. can you arrange it a bit?

the facts are interesting atleats the ones i read but it looked so long i gave up mid way. maybe you can break your post in two or three parts?

[seema]

thats really sweet of u coolguy to divide the posts in 5!

[Abhishek]

yea. good job!

[symulhaque]

Nice and valuable information to share. I will share it with my friends also.