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Old 12th March 2008, 12:13 AM
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People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.

People with blue eyes see better in dark.

Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.

The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.

The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.

The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.

There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.

A male baboon can kill a leopard.

When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.

Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.

Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.

Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.

Some lions mates over 50 times a day.

American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.

The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.

In the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.

There’s a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.

Jimmy Carter is the first U.S.A. president to have born in hospital.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

Human birth control pill work on gorillas.

The right lung takes in more air than the left.

It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.

A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

Astronauts cannot burp in space.

The snowiest city in the U.S.A. is blue canyon, California Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

The great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having $ex.

No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.

SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.

A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.

DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.

A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.

The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.

The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.

DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.

CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.

The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.

OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.

POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.

KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.

ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.

OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
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Hey Hasa,

That was truly an informative bit. My kiddos enjoyed reading it.

Thankyou so much.

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Hi hasa,

That's a lenghty information. Quite amazing (as the title)

Thanks for sharing it.
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Great job hasa.

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Hi,

I must say i never knew half of it...thanks for the sharing this information...

warm wishes,

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Dear hasa,
That was excellent.You have given many facts.let me take a breath.

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Dear Hasa,

Lots of interesting facts in this compilation, thanks for the info! Enjoyed reading it and so did others and one has nominated it for the FP of the month. Nice going!!

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Wowwwwwwww

loads of informationnnnnnnn

thanks much hasa... I have copied it.. to read it leisurely :)
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Thanks for the info, dont know many of them :)
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Hi Hasa,

That was very informative...

Thanks for your efforts in sharing...
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