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« on: July 15, 2009, 02:53:59 AM »
   1. The longest regularly formed english word is "Praetertranssubstantiationalistically" which contains 37 letters.
   2. The word TIP is an abbreviation of 'To Insure Promptness'.
   3. Combodian language has some 72 alphabets,compared to other languages.
   4. Surprisingly,the cow has 4 stomachs.
   5. Man's Salivary gland secrete 1 to 1.5 litres of saliva everyday.
   6. Messages from the Brain to the different body parts are sent at a rate of 240 miles per hour.
   7. If pure oxygen is breathed at more than two & half times atmospheric pressure, it can act as a poison.
   8. Sea Horses has strange eyes, by which it can focus in two different directions at the same time.
   9. The royal wedding of Britain's prince of Wales & Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 was seen by 750 million viewers onT.V.
  10. The smallest independent country in the World is Vatican City with a zero birth rate.It has a population of barely 800 people.
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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2009, 02:55:25 AM »
Here are some more!!



    * Every year about 3,000 Americans die by choking on food,120 die in their bath tubs & 43,000 die in road accidents.
    * More than 2.5 billion people of the world{more than half of the world's people} are rice eaters.
    * eskimos use fridge to prevent their food from freezing.
    * At places of the lowest temperature like Siberia,people do not infect with cold because it is too cold for the bacteria to grow.
    * A drop of water contains 15,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 number of molecules.
    * Walt Disney's most popular cartoon figure Mickey Mouse had largest possible no. of fans.Mickey received 800,000 letters from the fans at an average of more than 2,000 a day.
    * A Python can swallow a bear of 90kg weight.
    * A single honey bee travels a distance of over 75,000km to make 500gm of honey.
    * Giraffe's neck is very long,but surprisingly it has only seven bones in it,the same as we do.
    * Every year about one thousand species of insects are discovered.
    * Insect blood has no colour.If it has red blood,it will be the blood of another animal on which it is feeding.
    * The Queen of the black garden ant feeds partly on its wings.
    * A Butterfly has 12,000 eyes.
    * Dolphins sleep with one of its eye open.
    * If gold fish is left in a dark room for along time,it turns white.
    * An Earthworm can pull ten times its own weight.
    * The Gopher can run backward almost as fast as forward.
    * Our eye muscles move about 1,00,000 times aday.
    * Our right foot is slightly longer than the left foot.
    * Tongue is the only muscle in our body that is attached at one end only.
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