Amazing and Interesting Facts

The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.

A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22lb (10kg).

The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.

A house fly lives only 14 days.

A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.

Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.

A green diamond is the rarest diamond.

Traffic jams are nothing new. In 45 BC, Rome banned all vehicles from within the city - and in other cities vehicles, including horses, were allowed only at night... because of traffic jams.

Coffee is the seed of a cherry from the tree genus Coffea

A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.

On average, people can hold their breath for one minute. The world record is seven-and-a-half minutes.

A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.

A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivelant used by two hour light bulbs, to operate.

A kitchen bug can live nine days without his head, then he dies starving.

If you keep a gold fish in dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Boys hair grow faster than girls hair.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

It is possible to see stars during day from the bottom of a deep well.

Amongst the Arabs there are more than one thousand words for a camel.

John F Kennedy, President of USA used to read four newspapers in 20 minutes.

The tongue is the only muscle in the body which is attached at one end only.

Nylon was first produced in the USA in 1938. It was made by scientists from New York & London & was named after these cities (NYLON).

The human mouth produces about 1.5 liters of Saliva in one day.

We breathe more than 23,000 times a day.

Our heart beats more than 1 million times a day.

When infants cry, tears are not produced.

We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints get compressed during the day.

There are approximately 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.

The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

Our nose stops growing after the age of 12!