Learning never exhausts your mind

AMAZING

FACTS

If you trace your family tree back 25

Generations, you will have over 33 Million Direct

ancestors assuming no incest was involved.

It would take a Modern Spaceship 70,000 Years

to get to the nearest star of the Earth.

Eskimos have hundreds of

words for Snow but not

even one for Hallo.

In 1907, a study

by the

University of

Chicago showed

that the

easiest colour

to spot is

Yellow. This is

why John Hertz

decided to pick

the Yellow

colour for all

his Cabs of his

company –The

Yellow Cab Co.

It takes about 63,000 Trees to make the Newsprint

for the average Sunday edition of New York Times.

A study by FAO shows that

about 1.3 billion tonnes of food

are wasted every year and 1.5

million children die every year

out of hunger.

It you search ‘askew’ on Google, your page will be Tilted.

It you take 1 lb. of Spider’s web and stretch it out, it

would circle the whole way around the World.

A typical lead pencil can draw 35 miles long line

or approximately 50,000 English words.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey

found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been

tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Due to precipitation, for a few weeks,

K2 is taller than Mt. Everest.

Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a

ball further to the west than to the east.

Mosquitos have caused more human deaths,

Than any other animals of the world.

Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They

Actually, they hide you.

The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors

So they don’t know you’re there.

The Porpoise is second to man as the most

intelligent animal on the planet.

The Average person has

about 1460 dreams a year.

In the course of average lifetime you will ,

while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and

10 spiders.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth,

But our nose & ears never stop growing.

The strongest muscle is the tongue.

One quarter of the bones in your body,

are in your feet.

Human thigh bones

are stronger than

concrete.

The human nose can

recall more than 50,000

different smells.

People say “Bless

You” when you

sneeze because

when you sneeze,

your heart stops

for a millisecond.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will

increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Chewing gum while peeling onions

will keep you from crying.

“QUEUE” is the only English word that is still pronounced the

same way when the last four letters are removed.

If you start counting at One and spell out the numbers as

you go, you won’t use the letter “a” until you reach 1000.

In the courts of ancient Rome, men needed to

Swore to the truths holding their testicles.

Hence it is called “testify” .

More than 50% of

the people in the

World have never

made or received a

telephone call.

There are more possible iterations of a game of

chess than are atoms in the known world.

“Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick”

is the hardest tongue-twister

Right handed people live, on an average, nine

years longer than left-handed people .

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand

and draw with the other at the same time.

Albert Einstein

never wore Socks.

Bill Gates’ first

business was “Traff-

O-Data”which he co-

founded along with

Paul Allen and Paul

Gilbert.

Both Hitler and Osama bin Laden was

announced dead on may 1.

…

Charlie Chaplin once took part in a Charlie Chaplin

lookalike contest at a San Francisco theatre…

... He lost and came third!