TOP 100 RANDOM MUST KNOW FACTS:
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
1.the longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)
2.the only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.
3.the Internet was originally called "ARPANet" (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense
4.Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day.
5.the average speed of a skydiver is 200kph (124mph).
6.the first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954.
7.all insects have 6 legs.
8.90% of an iceberg sits under water.
9.sound travels almost 5 times faster underwater than in air
10.Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine
11.Toilets uses 35% of indoor water use
12.The M&M's chocolate stands for the initials of its inventors "Mars and Murrie"
13.Tennessee is bordered by 8 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia - more than any other in the US
14.the most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
15.the least used letter in the alphabet is Q
16.the 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English.
17.dreamt is the only word that ends in mt.
18.the names of all continents both start and end with the same letter.
19.the first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON.
20.if you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same.
21.a cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
22.Perth is Australia's windiest city.
23.goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light.
24.the smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear.
25.cats spend 66% of their life asleep.
26.Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year.
27.money is the number one thing that couples argue about.
28.macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs.
29.when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit).
30.spiders are arachnids and not insects.
31.11% of people are left handed.
32.August has the highest percentage of births.
33.the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
34.a bear has 42 teeth.
35.birds need gravity to swallow.
36.the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.
37.no two corn flakes look the same.
38.lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
39.8% of people have an extra rib.
40.the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
41.armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex.
42.African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words.
43.a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue.
44.Australia was originally called New Holland.
45.the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet
46.all the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes.
47.your foot has 26 bones in it.
48.the average human brain contains around 78% water.
49.your brain uses between 20 - 25% of the oxygen your breathe.
50.if you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
51.sponges hold more cold water than hot.
52. lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute.
53.fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill.
54.cats have over 100 vocal chords.
54.frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
55.44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep .
56.Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining.
57.a crocodile can't move its tongue.
58.your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body.
59.frogs don?t drink (they absorb water through their skin).
60.hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.
61.pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians.
62.an average person will spend 25 years asleep.
63.hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal.
64.the Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world.
65.The most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression.
66.the word laser stands for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'.
67. enamel is the hardest substance in your body.
68.there are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
69.in a deck of cards the king of harts is the only king without a moustache.
70.black on yellow are the 2 colors with the strongest impact.
71.1 minute kiss burns 26 calories.
72.Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system .
73.The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning "to build." .
73.There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.
74.Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers.
75.Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
76.The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
77.Shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
78.There are more chickens than people in the world.
79.The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
80.No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
81.There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
82.It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
83.A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
84.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
85.Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
86.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
87.A snail can sleep for 3 years.
88.Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
89."I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
90.No president of the United states was an only child.
91.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.
92.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.
93.Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week.
94.It is impossible to create a computer program that decides whether another program has an infinite loop.
95.It is redundant to say "ATM machine" as ATM stands for automated teller machine.
96.The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is "Salarymen."
97.Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
98.Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations.
99.The most dangerous job in the United States is that of a fisherman, followed by logging and then an airline pilot.
And the last and definitely most important:
100. www.nairaland.com is the most Educating,entertaining and informative forum in Nigeria..\
I am proud to be a Nairalander!
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
1.the longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)
2.the only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.
3.the Internet was originally called "ARPANet" (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense
4.Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day.
5.the average speed of a skydiver is 200kph (124mph).
6.the first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954.
7.all insects have 6 legs.
8.90% of an iceberg sits under water.
9.sound travels almost 5 times faster underwater than in air
10.Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine
11.Toilets uses 35% of indoor water use
12.The M&M's chocolate stands for the initials of its inventors "Mars and Murrie"
13.Tennessee is bordered by 8 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia - more than any other in the US
14.the most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
15.the least used letter in the alphabet is Q
16.the 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English.
17.dreamt is the only word that ends in mt.
18.the names of all continents both start and end with the same letter.
19.the first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON.
20.if you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same.
21.a cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
22.Perth is Australia's windiest city.
23.goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light.
24.the smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear.
25.cats spend 66% of their life asleep.
26.Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year.
27.money is the number one thing that couples argue about.
28.macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs.
29.when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit).
30.spiders are arachnids and not insects.
31.11% of people are left handed.
32.August has the highest percentage of births.
33.the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
34.a bear has 42 teeth.
35.birds need gravity to swallow.
36.the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.
37.no two corn flakes look the same.
38.lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
39.8% of people have an extra rib.
40.the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
41.armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex.
42.African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words.
43.a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue.
44.Australia was originally called New Holland.
45.the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet
46.all the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes.
47.your foot has 26 bones in it.
48.the average human brain contains around 78% water.
49.your brain uses between 20 - 25% of the oxygen your breathe.
50.if you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
51.sponges hold more cold water than hot.
52. lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute.
53.fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill.
54.cats have over 100 vocal chords.
54.frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
55.44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep .
56.Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining.
57.a crocodile can't move its tongue.
58.your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body.
59.frogs don?t drink (they absorb water through their skin).
60.hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.
61.pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians.
62.an average person will spend 25 years asleep.
63.hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal.
64.the Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world.
65.The most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression.
66.the word laser stands for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'.
67. enamel is the hardest substance in your body.
68.there are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
69.in a deck of cards the king of harts is the only king without a moustache.
70.black on yellow are the 2 colors with the strongest impact.
71.1 minute kiss burns 26 calories.
72.Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system .
73.The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning "to build." .
73.There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.
74.Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers.
75.Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
76.The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
77.Shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
78.There are more chickens than people in the world.
79.The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
80.No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
81.There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
82.It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
83.A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
84.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
85.Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
86.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
87.A snail can sleep for 3 years.
88.Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
89."I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
90.No president of the United states was an only child.
91.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.
92.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.
93.Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week.
94.It is impossible to create a computer program that decides whether another program has an infinite loop.
95.It is redundant to say "ATM machine" as ATM stands for automated teller machine.
96.The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is "Salarymen."
97.Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
98.Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations.
99.The most dangerous job in the United States is that of a fisherman, followed by logging and then an airline pilot.
And the last and definitely most important:
100. www.nairaland.com is the most Educating,entertaining and informative forum in Nigeria..\
I am proud to be a Nairalander!
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