General Knowledge - Interesting Facts

Article ID : 72
Created on 2008-08-19 at 10:42 AM
Author : Rahul Bhanot [rahulbhanot@yahoo.com]

Online URL : http://www.knowledge-gallery.com/article-72.html

• LONGEST BRIDGE:

• BIGGEST PASSENGER-SHIP

MS Freedom of the Seas:4300 Pessengers

• BIGGEST BUS

• WORLD'S BIGGEST PLANE

• 3 MOST VALUABLE BRAND NAMES ON EARTH:

1. Marlboro
2. Coca-Cola
3. Budweiser

• Male sea lion may have more than 100 wives and sometimes go three months without eating.
• Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung.
• Christmas became a national holiday in the US in 1890.
• About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.
• Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
• A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
• The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.

• The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
• Disneyland opened in 1955.
• Donald Duck lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.
• Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
• Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.
• Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
• Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
• Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women’s feet.
• Evard Ericksen sculpted “The Little Mermaid” statue which is located in Copenhagen harbor.
• The Mona Lisa, by daVinci, is 2’6” by 1’9”.
• A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
• The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.
• The only rock that floats in water is pumice.
• Baseball's home plate is 17 inches wide.
• Most-visited presidential grave: John F. Kennedy's in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
• Colgate claims "Tooth Fairy" as a registered trademark.
• 84% of a raw apple is water.
• A pineapple is a berry.
• An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
• Bananas are America's #1 fruit.
• A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
• Ants don't sleep.
• Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
• No two spider webs are the same.
• Bats are the only mammal that can fly.
• Bats have only one baby a year.
• The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.
• Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
• Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
• A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.
• Approximate number of facial expressions dogs can make: 100.
• Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars.

• The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
• There are approximately 250,000 sweat glands in your feet.
• There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult.
• You need approximately 2,000 berries to make one pound of coffee.
• There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.
• Average length of a coat hanger when straightened: 44 inches.
• Average number of hummingbirds required to create the weight of 1 ounce: 18.
• Cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammal.
• Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
• On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
• The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.
• The average chicken lays about 260 eggs a year.
• The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

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