Amazing Facts

[Hyde]

I am going to post some interesting facts of the world in this thread. I have got one application installed in my mobile phone and it keeps my knowledge updated with interesting facts everyday. Others are most welcome to participate in this thread too.

1) The most populated city in the world is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.

2) Adjusting for inflation, Cleopatra 1963, is the most expensive movie ever made to date (mid-2002). Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to 280 million 2002 dollars.

3) Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.

4) Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless.

5) If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.

 

[Hyde]

6) Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.

7) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

8) Camel's mil, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk

9) The word "biology" was coined in 1805 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

10) The 1st kiss in a movie was between May Irwin and John Rice in "The widow Jones" in 1896.

 

[Hyde]

11) Due to its 2002 expansion, The Dallar Convention Center has the world's largest singular, column free exhibit hall in the world, at 203,000 square feet.

12) Karate actually orginated in India, but was developed further in China.

13) In Takshashila, 700BC, the first university was established

14) In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.

15) An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.

 

[Hyde]

16) Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.

17) 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man

17) A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

18) All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.

19) The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards

20) The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.

 

[Hyde]

21) The native way to say I love you in Lithanian is Ash miliu tave.

22) Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com.

23) A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or softboiled egg will not.

24) In 1908 soccer came into the Olympic games.

25) In 1985, the most popular waist size for men's pants was 32. In 2003, it's 36

 

[hecj]

8) Camel's mil, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iran than cow's milk

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[Prometheus]

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents(31)

 

[SpArK]

8) Camel's mil, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iran than cow's milk

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Thats why it is called amazing... Grow up dude..

 

[Hyde]

26) In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.

27) Lions are the only truly social cat species, and usually every female in a pride, ranging from 5 to 30 individuals is closely related

28) In 1972, a Swedish man balanced on one foot for over five hours, using nothing for support.

29) Every year we produce more transistors than grains of rice.

30) There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

 

[Prometheus]

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements(32)

 

[Hyde]

8) Camel's mil, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iran than cow's milk

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I am typing these facts myself and if you look at the pace of posting i am typing quite fast actually....Not reading again so the spelling mistakes are obvious

That was Iron...sorry

 

[xenia]

16)

18) All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 0 feet wide.

invisible gold..

5) If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born

 

[Hyde]

31 and 32 said by "Prometheus" so I skip to 33

33) The name of Internet's most popular directory, is an acronym. According to the company, the name "Yahoo" stands for "Yet Another Hierrarchical Officious Oracle".

34) All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).

35) The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. Conceived as a real estate ad it originally read Hollywoodland. The sign stands 50 feet tall, stretches 450 feet across, weighs 450,000 pounds.

 

[Hyde]

36) The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

37) No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.

38) Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history.

39) To make much noise when eating soup is a good thing in China.

40) The Great sphinx of Egypt, one of the wonders of ancient Egyptian architecture, adjoins the pyramids of Giza and has a length of 240 ft. Built in the fourth dynast, it is approximately 4,500 years old. A 10-year, $2.5 millon restoration project was completed in 1998.

 

[hecj]

40)kalmadi did most corruption in cwg happened ever.