You may come across many new things daily, which make you stun. You always use to find things which surprise you. Read following facts and realise that how much you know.

Quick Facts

 

1. A computer virus is a Software Programe that was written firstly by Rich Skrenta in 1982 who was 15 year old student.


2.Tomato is a world's most popular fruit.


3. First credit card issued in 1951.


4.Oskar Awards held twice in 1930.


5. Elephant is the only animal with all four knees bending in the same direction.


6. Birds have no teeth.


7. All polar bears are left handed they never use their right hand to attack or to defend.


8. Ostrich is a bird which cannot fly but can run faster than a lion.


9. If starfish is cut into different parts each part will grow to produce one complete starfish.


10. Snake never close their eyes as they have no eyelids.


11. Days and Nights are equal on 21st March and 23rd September.


12. Dolphin sleeps with one eye open of the two.


13. Lion has the smallest heart of all beasts of prey.


14. Pure gold is so soft that it can be moulded in hands.


15. Butterfly has 32000 ears.


16. In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar


17. The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long


18. Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone


19. Most lipstick contains fish scales


20. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language


21. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times


22. Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide


23. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people


24. China has more English speakers than the United States


25. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes


26. The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is "Salarymen."


27. The youngest pope was 11 years old


28. During the First World War, cigarettes were handed out to soldiers along with their rations


29. The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre


30. The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart


31. The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour


32. Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament


33. There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year


34. Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world


35. Around 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18


36. The only popcorn museum in the world is lcoated in Marion, Ohio, USA


37. Enamel is hardest substance in the human body


38. 70% of the poor people in the world are female


39. Goats do not have upper front teeth


40. Eating eight strawberries will provide you with more Vitamin C than an orange


41. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.


42.The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees C during the day, and, at night, reaches to minus 180 degrees centigrade


43.The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg


44.We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine


45.The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their eating habit of animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.


46.The fastest computer in the world is the CRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units


47.Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air


48.The only letter not present on the Periodic Table is the letter J.


49.A car traveling at 80 km/h speed uses around half its fuel to overcome wind resistance


50.Most gemstones contain several elements. The exception is diamond which is made up of carbon only


51.The United States consumes 25% of all the world’s energy


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