25 interesting facts:
1. A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood.
2. By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
3. Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms.
4. Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River.
5. The colors yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colors that stimulate hunger.
6. If all the salt were to be extracted from the Earth’s oceans, you would have enough salt to cover all of the continents five feet deep.
7. If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London.
8. Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
9. A leech has 32 brains.
10. Australia has had stamps that actually look like gems. In 1995 and 1996 they used a special technology to make the stamps look like diamonds and opals.
11. A lion’s roar is so loud that it can be heard five kilometers away.
12. There are five million scent receptors located in a human beings nose.
13. The most recycled product in the world is the automobile.
14. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
15. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
16. Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system.
17. The first modern toothbrush was invented in China. Its bristles came from hogs hair or the mane of a horse that were then put into ivory handles.
18. 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.
19. A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building.
20. In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British.
21. The slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger.
22. An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.
23. The word Spain means “the land of rabbits.”
24. When the Statue of Liberty was moved from France to the United States, 214 crates were used to transport it. The Statue was also reduced to 350 pieces.
25. According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive is Friday.
Compiled by: S. Umadevi, Chennai
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