Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Here are some facts which i find interesting...
"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways
"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
259200 people die every day.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
80% of animals on earth are insects.
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second
A 17 year old girl from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th June'66.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.
A fish's memory span is 3 seconds.
A Kentucky statute states, "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she is escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." Later, an amendment proposed: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses."
A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
Well...hope u found tis stuff interesting...you could also check out the site
www.greatfacts.comBut hey...i tot it would be easier if i juz got u the interestin stuff...
Signin of......Wise Crapper
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