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Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system

The Gastric Flu can cause projectile vomiting

The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning "to build."

Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail

In 1894 the first big Coke sign was found on the side of a building located in Cartersville, Georgia, and still exists today

The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles

Orcas (killer whales), when traveling in groups, breathe in unison

The Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years

NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%

Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana

There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.

The first TONKA truck was made in 1947

In the U.S., over one million gallons of cosmetics, drinks, and lotions are sold that contain aloe in them per year

Sugar Bear (the mascot for Golden Crisps cereal) was born in 1963

The Tonle Sap River in Cambodia flows north for almost half the year and then south for the rest of the year

Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels

For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America

Baskin Robbins plain vanilla ice cream is the number one selling flavour and accounts for a quarter of their sales

Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else

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

The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."

Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers

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

The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour

In 1960 there were 16,067 gambling slots in Nevada. By 1999, this number rose to 205,726 slots which would be one slot for every 10 people residing there

It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivilent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit.

The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 100,000 pounds of jelly beans a day. this amounts to about 1,250,000 jelly beans an hour

Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour

The "naked recreation and travel" industry has grown by 233% in the past decade

The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916

Most lipstick contains fish scales

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

The expression cooked "al dente" means "to the tooth." What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender

Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouse

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

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

The first couple to be shown on a sitcom sleeping in the same bed was "Mary Kay and Johnny."

Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine

Throughout the South, peanuts were known as "Monkey Nuts," and "Goober peas," before the civil war

Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell

In 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can for preserving food

The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia

Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week

Colour is not an indicator for the taste or ripeness in cranberries

Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide

A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs

Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do

There is a restaurant in Stockholm that only offers all-garlic products. They even have a garlic cheesecake

Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas

Superman The Escape rollercoaster, located in California at Six Flags Magic Mountain, goes from 0 to 100 miles per hour in only 7 seconds

Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories

2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States

In 1836, Mexican General Santa Anna held an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg. updated

A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.

One gallon of pure maple syrup weighs 11 pounds

Instead of a Birthday Cake, many Russian children are given a Birthday Pie

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

The word "comet" comes from the Greek word "kometes" meaning long hair and referring to the tail

The average price for a major league baseball game in 2004 is $19.82

The hydra, which is related to the jellyfish, can grow its body back in a couple of days if it is cut in half

The deepest mine in the world is the East Rand mine, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 metres

Native Indians have been known to paint their doors blue, which they believe keeps the bad spirits out

Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.

It would take about fourteen and half million notes of currency to build a mile high stack

Chinese Crested dogs can get acne

It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

The cross bow was invented by the Chinese and records of its usage goes back to as far as the Three Kingdom Period (220 a.d.-280 a.d.).

It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world

One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples

The Flintstones cartoon was the first thirty-minute cartoon to be aired during prime time

The abbreviation Xmas for the word Christmas is of Greek origin. Since the word for Christ in the Greek language is Xristos, which starts with the letter "X," they started putting the X in place of Christ and came up with the short form for the word Christmas

Dipsomania refers to an insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages

China has more English speakers than the United States

Pitcher Darold Knowles once pitched all seven games of one World Series

In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring

The Ancient Greek women made a type of cheek blush by painting their cheeks with herbal pastes which was made out of crushed berries and seeds

Herbert Hoover, who was the 31st president of the United Stated, turned over all the Federal salary checks he received to charity during the 47 years he was in government

Macadamia nuts are not sold in their shells because it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell

Japan has approximately 200 volcanoes and is home to 10% of the active volcanoes in the world

Before 1928, yo-yos used to be called bandalores in the United States

The only South East Asian country that has never been colonized by a Western Power is Thailand

In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word "not" out of the seventh commandment, which then read, "Thou shalt commit adultery." This legendary book is now known as the "Wicked Bible."

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

Irish Wolfhound dogs have a short lifespan and live about 7-8 years

When Queen Elizabeth I of England died she owned over 3,000 gowns

Female alligators lay about 40 eggs that hatch in 60 - 70 days

The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is "Salarymen."

Emus cannot walk backwards

Some IPL trivia:

• The commissioner of the IPL: Lalit Modi
• Most expensive player in the IPL 2009: Kevin Pietersen ($1.55 million) - RCB
• The television network that got the rights to show the IPL matches in India: Sony television network
• The pair of brothers from Australia who played the IPL: David Hussey and Michael Hussey
• Opening ceremony of IPL in 2008 was held at: Bangalore
• The costliest team is: Mumbai Indians
• Bowler Who fetched the most at the IPL auctions of 2008: Ishant Sharma.$950,000
• Batsman who scored the fastest century of the IPL 2008: Adam Gilchrist. His 100 came off 42 balls against the Mumbai Indians.
• Highest runs ever scored by a batsman in a Twenty-20 match: 158 by Brendon McCullum of Kolkata Knight Riders
• The team with which United Breweries Group is associated with: Bangalore
• The former Indian wicketkeeper who was match refree in the infamous match where Harbhajan slapped Sreesanth: Farrokh Engineer
• Jai Mehta and his wife are associated with: Kolkata Knight Riders
• Mr. Lachlan Murdoch is associated with: Rajasthan Royals
• The Only player from Goa to feature in the IPL 2008: Swapnil Asnodkar
• Player who struck the winning runs for the Rajasthan royals in the IPL 2008 finals: Sohail Tanvir
• Number of wickets Sreesanth took in IPL 2008: 19 wickets - he was second in the list of the highest wicket-takers along with Shane Warne.
• Who are the Knight Riders: Kolkata's Team
• Team that did not win a single home game in the IPL 2008: Deccan Chargers
• Team that has as its colors, red and golden yellow: Bangalore Royal Challengers IPL team that has the suffix Royal Challengers: Bangalore
• IPL team that has the former Sri Lankan Coach Tom Moody as its coach: Punjab Kings
• The only team in the IPL having same player as coach and captain: Rajasthan Royals
• First match of IPL 2009 will be on: April 10, 2000
• First match of IPL 2009 will be between: Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Daredevils
• IPL 2009 final will be held at: May 24, 2009 at Mumbai
• The IPL team for which duo Vishal and Shekhar have composed the theme song: Kolkata Knight Riders
• Aksay Kumar is associated with: Delhi Daredevils
• Singer Usha Uthup has sung a song: Kolkata Knight Riders
• Music director of South G.V. Prakash has composed music for: Chennai Super Kings
• Actress Katrina Kaif is the brand ambassador of: Bangalore Royal Challengers
• Pacers Aavishkar Salvi and Murtuza Husain belong to: Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders
• U-19 wicketkeeper Shreevats Goswami played for: Royal Challengers Bangalore
• Matches that were tied in the IPL 2008: 0
• Highest run - Shaun Marsh (Kings XI Punjab)- 616
• Most catches - Suresh Raina (Chennai Super Kings)- 10
• Most sixes - Sanath Jayasuriya (Mumbai Indians)- 31
• Sohail Tanvir was the highest Wicket Taker in IPL 2008- 22

Amazing facts

 After a long break, some more facts !

In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.

The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.

Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by the Beatles.

Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.

The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm.

Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.

Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.

An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb.

At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.

At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

The first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter, happened in 1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth). Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at that time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this was the closest perigee of the Moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. In places where the weather was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous.

According to security equipment specialists, security systems that utilize motion detectors won't function properly if walls and floors are too hot. When an infrared beam is used in a motion detector, it will pick up a person's body temperature of 98.6 degrees compared to the cooler walls and floor. If the room is too hot, the motion detector won't register a change in the radiated heat of that person's body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home's safety might be compromised if you turn your air conditioning off or set the thermostat too high while on summer vacation.

Western Electric successfully brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone.

On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.

Some more trivia !

• The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a toilet in it.

• S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.

• Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"..and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language

• The shoestring was invented in England in 1790. Prior to this time, all shoes were fastened with buckles.

• A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white but actually clear.

• There are over 600 muscles in the body which account for 40% of the body's weight.

• Income tax was first introduced in India in 1860 by James Wilson, who became India's 1st finance member.

• Snakes that live or spend most of their time in trees are called Arboreal.

• In 1974, Lata Mangeshkar became the First Indian to have performed in the Royal Albert Hall, London.

• It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

• "Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged to one master.

• The average adult stands 0.4 inch taller in the morning than in the evening because the cartilage in the spine compresses during the day.

• Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails - about two hundredths of an inch per week.

• The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.

• The inventor of chewing gum, a dentist named William Semple, intended it mainly as a means of exercising the jaws.

• The rings of Saturn are made up of primarily water ice, with particles or rock.

• Air conditioning wasn’t invented to cool homes or offices. It was invented to control humidity in a printing plant.

• The Associated Press introduced the first system for routinely transmitting "wire photos" in 1934.

• Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges.

The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France.

• A large cumulonimbus cloud can hold enough water for 500,000 baths. Most of the water droplets in a cloud re-evaporate and never reach the ground, only one-fifth actually falling as rain.

• The first diamond engagement ring was presented in 1477 by Archduke Maximillian of Austria to Mary of Burgundy.

• Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

• The pound cake got its name from the pound of butter it contained.

• Neck ties were first worn in Croatia. That's why they were called cravats (CRO-vats).

• The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, from the USSR, in June 1963.

• When Albert Einstein left Germany in 1933, the Nazis put a price of 20,000 marks on his head.

• Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temperature of 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

• If you cut a redwood tree, its root system will create "angel rings" around the stump and as many as 100 trees will grow around it in a circle.

• The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly, lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind and lays only one egg each year. Yet it has survived for 70 million years.

• Levi Strauss made the first pair of blue jeans in 1850. They were intended as work trousers for American miners looking for gold.

• The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs. One stomach holds the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants.

• Kissing releases the same neurotransmitters as intense exercise, like parachuting or distance running. The heart beats faster and breathing becomes deep and irregular.

• If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

• The first manned spacecraft to be launched was the Soviet’s Vostok 1, which left Earth in 1961.

• As we get older the brain loses almost one gram per year because its nerve cells die and cannot be replaced.

• Agalmatophilia is an attractions to statues or mannequins.

• The world's tallest mountains, the Himalayas, are also the fastest growing. Their growth - about half an inch a year - is caused by the pressure exerted by two of Earth's continental plates (the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate) pushing against one another.

• Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art studio

The bow used by Olympic archers measures a max of 6ft for men, 5¼ ft for women. It is made of laminated wood, and is coated with graphite or fiberglass.

• According to scientific tests on cricketers the batsmen who are most likely to hit a cricket ball for six are those who watch it for the shortest period of time.

• Fat has nine calories per gram, while protein and carbohydrate have four, Alcohol has seven.

• Napoleon's christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte. He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property. As a boy, he hated the French.

• The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. They began as a religious festival, were held every four years and continued for a thousand years.

• The most sensitive parts of the body are the fingers and lips whilst the least sensitive part is the middle of the back.

New Facts !

• On the average a fart is composed of about 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, 9% carbon dioxide, 7% methane, and 4% oxygen. Less than 1% is what makes them stink.

• Queen Isabella of Spain was the first woman to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp. (1893)

• The name Reebok was named after the African Gazelle.

• Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality.

• A quality, fully-faceted round brilliant diamond has at least 58 facets. These are important for the maximum sparkle and brilliance of the stone.

• A shark must keep moving forward to stay alive.

• The average rainfall around the world is 40 inches per year.

• There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

• Leonardo da Vinci spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

• "Hallow" is an old word meaning holy, while "e'en" is Scottish for evening.

• On February 17, 1959, Vanguard II was the first satellite to send weather information back to Earth.

• Orange and black became Halloween colors because orange is associated with harvests and black is associated with death.

• The full name of the Titanic ship is R.M.S. Titanic, which stands for Royal Mail Steamship.

• It takes about five years for an oyster to produce a medium-sized pearl.

• The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.

• The average diameter of a one-carat diamond is 6.42 mm

• The real name of the Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III.

• "Peladophobia" is the fear of becoming bald.

• The white part of your fingernail is called the Lunula.


• It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.


• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.


• The note with the most zeros is a Yugoslavia 500,000,000,000 Dinara, issued in 1993 with 11 zeros

 *Bombay Duck is not actually duck at all, but dried fish called bummalo.

• One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying.

• Dogs only see shades of grey and most of them are short-sighted.

• In the early days of motion pictures, movies were the people who worked on films.

• A woman's arthritic pain will almost always disappear as soon as she becomes pregnant.

• A puff of smoke, such as that produced when someone smokes a pipe, is called a "lunt."

• Most oysters are ambisexual. They begin life as males, then become females, and change back and forth many times.

• The metal cesium will melt in your hand and catch fire due to the temperature of your skin.

• The first man to die during construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction.

• With few exceptions, birds do not sing while on the ground. They sing during flight or while sitting on an object off the ground.

• The first competition in the world's first Olympic games, 776 B.C., was a foot race. The participants were all males, and ran in the nude.

• Roulette was invented by French mathematician Blaise Pascal. The popular game of chance was a byproduct of his experiments with perpetual motion.

• The average 60-minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it.

• Only men were allowed to eat at the first self-service restaurant, the Exchange Buffet in New York, opened in 1885.

• In 200 BC, when the Greek city of Sparta was at the height of its power there were 20 slaves for every citizen.

• If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in celcius degrees.

• The standard escalator moves 120 feet per minute.

• The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross.

• A rainbow can only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

• The heart of a peanut, that little nub that holds the two halves together, contains a high amount of a chemical that is know to cause migraine headaches in some people.

Termite queens are fertilized regularly by the same mate for life, unlike bee and ant queens, whose male partners die after the first and only mating.

Some More Interesting Facts !

Continuing with some more amazing facts, collected from the net. Enjoy !

• In France, Christmas is called Noel.

• It is a British Christmas tradition that a wish made while mixing Christmas pudding will come true only if the ingredients are stirred clockwise.

• Christmas trees are grown much like any other agricultural crop. About 112,000 acres in the northwest United States are planted with about 11 million trees.

• Roulette was invented by French mathematician Blaise Pascal. The popular game of chance was a byproduct of his experiments with perpetual motion.

• "Hybristophilia" is arousal derived by having sex with people who have committed crimes.

• According to international definition, fog occurs when visibility is 600 feet (200m) or less.

• The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

• The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.

• The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a porcelator.

• The nest in which spiders or other insects deposit their eggs is called a ‘nidus’

• The word "toast," meaning a wish of good health, started in ancient Rome, where a piece of toasted bread was dropped into wine.

• Joseph Priestley, the English chemist, invented carbonated water. It was a by-product of his investigations into the chemistry of air.

* In 1935, Jesse Owens set six track and field world records in less than one hour.

• The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.

• Guinness is considered an aphrodisiac in some African countries, and is marketed under the slogan "a baby in every bottle."

• In ancient Egypt, the only person who was allowed to wear cotton was the High Priest.

• During World War II, Russians used dogs strapped with explosives to blow up German tanks. They trained the dogs to associate the tanks with food and ended up destroying about 25 German tanks using this method.

• The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet.

• A chemical (isothiocyanates) found in cabbages may lower the risk of lung cancer in smokers by as much as 38%.

• In fourth century Sparta, in Greece, males 20 years of age and over were required by law to eat 2 pounds of meat a day. It was believed to make one brave.

• The origins of the soldier term "G.I." is an abbreviation for "Government Issue," which was stamped on all government kits supplied to recruits in the US Army during World War II.

• In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. Thus the origin of the phrase “to wear your heart on your sleeve.”

• Limousines originally got their name because they were first built in the Limousin region of France.

• The reason most mosquito bites itch is because mosquitoes inject saliva into the persons skin before they suck your blood. They take it out once they are done, but if they are forced to fly away, they don't get a chance to draw the saliva out. And it is their saliva that causes the itch.

• Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep through the winter. Sometimes up to 1,000 of them will coil up together to keep warm.

Some interesting facts !

I am sharing some interesting facts , collected on the net. Enjoy!

Adobe - Came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server -– thus, the name Apache.

Apple Computers - Steve Jobs was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn’t get any better name for his new company. So one day he told to the staff: “If I’ll not get better name by 5 o’clock today, our company’s name will be anything he likes…” So at 5 o’clcok nobody come up with better name, and he was eating Apple that time… so he keep the name of the company ‘Apple Computers’.

CISCO - Its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.


Google - The name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders – Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page resented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’

Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett, and the winner was NOT Bill…the winner was Dave.

Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics = INTEL

Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘The Lotus Position’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft - Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-‘ was removed later on.

Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). Acronym for: One Real A****** Called Larry Ellison??

Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

SAP - “Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing”, formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the ‘Systems/Applications/Projects’ group of IBM.

Sony - From the Latin word ’sonus’ meaning sound, and ’sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN - Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say dry’ (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer‘ means dry.

Yahoo! - The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.


The Titanic's whistles could be heard from 11 miles away.
• A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip

• The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia.
• A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the Sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way, about 225 million years.

• The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
• Virga are streaks of water drops or ice particles falling out of a cloud and evaporating before reaching the ground.

• A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.
• "Jingle Bells" was originally written as a song for Thanksgiving