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ad. creaminall (professional Advocate)     07 August 2010

amazing facts

1.Alexander the great discovered the banana in 327 B.C when he conquered INDIA

2.Inhabitants of KOREA eat 30,000 snakes per DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3.Americans today consume 17.3 billion quarts of popcorn each year!

the average American eats about 68 quarts

4 If u yelled for 8 years,7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

5 Botanically speaking the banana is an herb and tomato is a fruit.

6 To make one kilo of honey, bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

7. Tobacco is a $200 billion industry, producing six trillion cigarettes a year –about 1,000 cigarettes for each person on earth

8. The world's largest industry is tourism affecting 240 million jobs.

9. Ever visited "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu"????...............with the longest place name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10 The dot over the letter `i' is called a title.

11 Languages spoken in world ---3000

12. Movies released annually---800(approx.)

13. Most popular fruit---tomato

14 An adult human body contains approx. 639 muscles,over 100 joints,60,000 million of blood vessels and 13,000 million of nerve cells.

15. Candy was made and enjoyed in ancient Egypt over 4,000 years ago!Honey,figs and dates were the chief sweeteners!

16. The eye blinks about 25 times a minute .A woman blinks nearly twice as often as man.

17. Smelling (but not eating) fruits like the banana or the green apple can help a person lose weight.

18. The animal tht sleeps on its back is man.

19. The human memory stores more then 1000,000 times more information than a computer

20. On an average, a person generally consumes about 30,000 kgs of food in his/her lifetime—that's the weight of six adult elephants.

21.The phosphorus present in our body can make 3,200 match boxes

22. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair

23. The Karaya Indians of the Amazon valley in South America speak without moving their lips. as a result ,the sound comes out of their noses.

24. The average a person laughs is about 15 times a day

25. Our bones, gram by gram, are stronger than steel.

26. About 10 per-cent of the world's is left handed.

27. The Australians are among the earliest to go to bed, with 24 percent of them in bed by 10P.M.

28. A YAWN may be telling you tht your body needs more oxygen.

29. There is a hill in South Australia called Ayers rock tht changes its colour every day and in every season

30. Peanuts are not nuts .they are beans.

Source: copied from book.

 

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Adv Archana Deshmukh (Practicing Advocate)     07 August 2010

Interesting facts...

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Bhartiya No. 1 (Nationalist)     07 August 2010

Excellent information. Keep it up sir.

Banana is good food for the brain. Also it contains 5HT which helps in relieving pain, this may be reason, why a sportperson is given banana instantly, when get injured or in pain of muscle sprain.

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