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Fun facts -3

Post by prasanna » Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:11 pm

The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.

The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world

X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27,359 km/hour

Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil

Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982

Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears

Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.

Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time

Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains

Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet

The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent

To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe

Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures

The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'

Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals

Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4ºF

The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds
surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas

Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years

Bone China is so called because powdered animal bone
is mixed with the clay to give it translucency and whiteness

Mickey Mouse has four fingers on each hand

The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees
The original reason for tablecloths was as a towel to wipe one's fingers and hands on after eating

Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year
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