Facts a Day

[indian_foxhound]

well I'll be posting some facts daily.
any type of contribution appreciated

In 1945 a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.


Coca-Cola sold bottling rights for their product to three men for one dollar in 1899, and in 1986 one of the men's grandson sold his family's bottling operations for $1.4 billion.

When Titanic was sinking not a single engineer tried to save himself, all of them stayed and kept the power on for other passengers.

 

[indian_foxhound]

The inventor of cell phone batteries, LCD-screens
and rewritable CDs, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, was self
taught and without formal college training.

Eating "fat-free" foods can actually cause a greater
gain in weight than eating regular high fat foods.

There's a fruit in japan whose extract is 300-times
as sweet as sugar, and is commonly used for
treating diabetes/obesity.

 

[indian_foxhound]

A study found that women were least attracted to
smiling, happy men, preferring those who looked
proud and powerful or moody and

Osama Bin Laden had a celebrity crush on Whitney
Houston.

8 women known or suspected to have had sxx
with Adolph Hitler, 5 either attempted suicide or
succeeded in killing themselves.

 

[indian_foxhound]

A MIT students figured out how to beat the state
lottery and won over 8 million dollars.

 

[indian_foxhound]

In 2006 NASA admitted that they no longer had the
original video tapes of the moon landing because
they recorded over them.

 

[indian_foxhound]

The most successful interrogator of WWII
preferred friendliness to torture. He would take
prisoners to the zoo and even arranged for one
prisoner to enjoy a flight in a German fighter plane.

 

[indian_foxhound]

North Korea's Kim Jong-Il claimed he finished a par
72 golf course in just 34 strokes, managing a
world record five holes-in-one, making him the
best golfer in the history of the world. It was also
the first time he has ever golfed.

If you have a pizza with radius z and thickness a,
its volume is Pi(z*z)a.

 

[Saleem]

North Korea's Kim Jong-Il claimed he finished a par
72 golf course in just 34 strokes, managing a
world record five holes-in-one, making him the
best golfer in the history of the world. It was also
the first time he has ever golfed.

If you have a pizza with radius z and thickness a,
its volume is Pi(z*z)a.

and he also claimed never to have had constipation....

 

[indian_foxhound]

and he also claimed never to have had constipation....

Yo true.......

 

[Kesang]

And your source is Facebook( wtf fact )? Right? @indian_foxhound

 

[indian_foxhound]

A Russian woman died of a heart attack after
waking up and realizing she was at her own
funeral.

And your source is Facebook? Right?

No..but a website and few books right now am posting it form site.

And your source is Facebook( wtf fact )? Right? @indian_foxhound

Yea their site...wtf site

 

[Kesang]

A Russian woman died of a heart attack after
waking up and realizing she was at her own
funeral.



No..but a website and few books right now am posting it form site.

I asked you because most of your fact i already read in FB. Not many days ago.

 

[indian_foxhound]

I asked you because most of your fact i already read in FB. Not many days ago.

Ya its thier site and i got few books about facts. As i love to read facts.
Hey dude why don't you contribute
That will be great

According to The American Medical Association,
more than 60% of all human illness and disease is
caused by stress.

 

[indian_foxhound]

Zimbabwe currently only has $217 in the bank

 

[Ayush]

nice thread mate.keep it up.