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CokeZero

02-10-2006, 06:15 PM

I'll start you off with a few but you carry on:

1. What is the hottest place on Earth?
Count one wrong if you guessed Death Valley in California. True enough on many days. But El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 -- the hottest ever measured. In Death Valley, it got up to 134 Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.
2. And the coldest place around here?
Far and away, the coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.
3. What makes thunder?

If you thought, "Lightning!" then hats off to you. But I had a more illuminating answer in mind. The air around a lighting bolt is superheated to about five times the temperature of the Sun. This sudden heating causes the air to expand faster than the speed of sound, which compresses the air and forms a shock wave; we hear it as thunder.
4. Can rocks float?
In a volcanic eruption, the violent separation of gas from lava produces a "frothy" rock called pumice, loaded with gas bubbles. Some of it can float, geologists say. I've never seen this happen, and I'm thankful for that.
5. Can rocks grow?
Yes, but observing the process is less interesting than watching paint dry. Rocks called iron-manganese crusts grow on mountains under the sea. The crusts precipitate material slowly from seawater, growing about 1 millimeter every million years. Your fingernails grow about the same amount every two weeks.
6. How much space dust falls to Earth each year?
Estimates vary, but the USGS says at least 1,000 million grams, or roughly 1,000 tons of material enters the atmosphere every year and makes its way to Earths surface. One group of scientists claims microbes rain down from space, too, and that extraterrestrial organisms are responsible for flu out-breaks. There's been no proof of this, and I'm not holding my breath.
7. How far does regular dust blow in the wind?
A 1999 study showed that African dust finds its way to Florida and can help push parts of the state over the prescribed air quality limit for particulate matter set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The dust is kicked up by high winds in North Africa and carried as high as 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), where it's caught up in the trade winds and carried across the sea. Dust from China makes its way to North America, too.
8. Where is the worlds highest waterfall?
The water of Angel Falls in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
9. What two great American cities are destined to merge?
The San Andreas fault, which runs north-south, is slipping at a rate of about 2 inches (5 centimeters) per year, causing Los Angeles to move towards San Francisco. Scientists forecast LA will be a suburb of the City by the Bay in about 15 million years.
10. Is Earth a sphere?
Because the planet rotates and is more flexible than you might imagine, it bulges at the midsection, creating a sort of pumpkin shape. The bulge was lessening for centuries but now, suddenly, it is growing, a Recent study showed. Accelerated melting of Earth's glaciers is taking the blame for the gain in equatorial girth.
11. What would a 100-pound person weigh on Mars?
The gravity on Mars is 38 percent of that found on Earth at sea level. So a 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars. Based on NASA's present plans, it'll be decades before this assumption can be observationally proved, however.
12. How long is a Martian year?
It's a year long, if you're from Mars. To an earthling, it's nearly twice as long. The red planet takes 687 Earth-days to go around the Sun -- compared to 365 days for Earth. Taking into account Mars' different rotational time (see #13 below) calendars on Mars would be about 670 days long with some leap days needed to keep things square. If you find one, please mail it to me. I'm curious how they worked out the months, given they have two moons. [The initial publication of this fact mistakenly said a Mars calendar would have 687 days.]
13. How long is the average Martian day?
A Martian can sleep (or work) and extra half-hour every day compared to you. Mars days are 24 hours and 37 minutes long, compared to 23 hours, 56 minutes on Earth. A day on any planet in our solar system is determined by how long it takes the world to spin once on its axis, making the Sun appear to rise in the morning and sending it down in the evening.
14. What is the largest volcano?
The Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii holds the title here on Earth. It rises more than 50,000 feet (9.5 miles or 15.2 kilometers) above its base, which sits under the surface of the sea. But that's all volcanic chump change. Olympus Mons on Mars rises 16 miles (26 kilometers) into the Martian sky.
15. What was the deadliest known earthquake?
The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China. It struck a region where most people lived in caves carved from soft rock. The dwellings collapsed, killing an estimated 830,000 people. In 1976 another deadly temblor struck Tangshan, China. More than 250,000 people were killed.
16. What was the strongest earthquake in recent times?
A 1960 Chilean earthquake, which occurred off the coast, had a magnitude of 9.6 and broke a fault more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) long. An earthquake like that under a major city would challenge the best construction techniques.
17. Which earthquake was more catastrophic: Kobe, Japan or Northridge, California?
The 1994 Northridge earthquake had a magnitude of 6.7 was responsible for approximately 60 deaths, 9,000 injuries, and more than $40 billion in damage. The Kobe earthquake of 1995 was magnitude 6.8 and killed 5,530 people. There were some 37,000 injuries and more than $100 billion in economic loss.
18. How far is it to the center of the Earth?
The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is about 3,963 miles (6,378 kilometers). Much of Earth is fluid. The mostly solid skin of the planet is only 41 miles (66 kilometers) thick -- thinner than the skin of an apple, relatively speaking.
19. What is the highest mountain?
Climbers who brave Mt. Everest in the Nepal-Tibet section of the Himalayas reach 29,035 feet (nearly 9 kilometers) above sea level. Its height was revised upward by 7 feet based on measurements made in 1999 using the satellite-based Global Positioning System.
20. Has the Moon always been so close?
It used to be much closer! A billion years ago, the Moon was in a tighter orbit, taking just 20 days to go around us and make a month. A day on Earth back then was only 18 hours long. The Moon is still moving away -- about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) a year. Meanwhile, Earth's rotation is slowing down, lengthening our days. In the distant future, a day will be 960 hours long!
21. Where is the lowest dry point on Earth?
The shore of the Dead Sea in the Middle East is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) below sea level. Not even a close second is Bad Water in Death Valley, California, at a mere 282 feet below sea level.
22. Good thing California isn't sinking further, right?
Actually parts of it are, which is so interesting that I snuck this non-question onto the list. In a problem repeated elsewhere in the country, the pumping of natural underground water reservoirs in California is causing the ground to sink up to 4 inches(11 centimeters) per year in places. Water and sewage systems may soon be threatened.
23. What is the longest river?
The Nile River in Africa is 4,160 miles (6,695 kilometers) long.
24. What is the most earthquake-prone state in the United States?
Alaska experiences a magnitude 7 earthquake almost every year, and a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake on average every 14 years. Florida and North Dakota get the fewest earthquakes in the states, even fewer than New York.
25. What's the driest place on Earth?
A place called Arica, in Chile, gets just 0.03 inches (0.76 millimeters) of rain per year. At that rate, it would take a century to fill a coffee cup.
26. What causes a landslide?
Intense rainfall over a short period of time can trigger shallow, fast-moving mud and debris flows. Slow, steady rainfall over a long period of time may trigger deeper, slow-moving landslides. Different materials behave differently, too. Every year as much as $2 billion in landslide damage occurs in the United States. In a record-breaking storm in the San Francisco area in January 1982, some 18,000 debris flows were triggered during a single night! Property damage was over $66 million, and 25 people died.
27. How fast can mud flow?
Debris flows are like mud avalanches that can move at speeds in excess of 100 mph (160 kph).
28. Do things inside Earth flow?
You bet. In fact, scientists found in 1999 that molten material in and around Earth's core moves in Vorticies, swirling pockets whose dynamics are similar to tornadoes and hurricanes. And as you'll learn later in this list, the planet's core moves in other strange ways, too.
29. What is the wettest place on Earth?
Lloro, Colombia averages 523.6 inches of rainfall a year, or more than 40 feet (13 meters). That's about 10 times more than fairly wet major cities in Europe or the United States.
30. Does Earth go through phases, like the Moon?
From Mars, Earth would be seen to go through distinct phases (just as we see Venus change phases). Earth Is inside the orbit of Mars, and as the two planets travel around the Sun, sunlight would strike our home planet from different angles during the year.

so there i've given you 30 now you carry on

Wootzeh

02-10-2006, 06:32 PM

1 The 1st nuclear submarine was called the nortilus
2 A regulation golf ball has 336 dimples
3 The longest word that can be typed with only the left hand is stewardesses
4 Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
5 In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
6 Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer
7 A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
8 A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
9 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
10 The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
11 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
12 An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
13 A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
14 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
15 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
16 A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
17 There are more chickens than people in the world
18 Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey
19 In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
20 The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
21 The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
22 On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag
23 All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20
24 No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple
25 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
26 All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
27 Almonds are a member of the peach familyWinston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
28 Maine is the only American state whose name is just one syllable.
29 There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous"- tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
30 All golf balls have between 300 and 500 dimples
31 Banging your head against a brick wall use�s 150 calories an hour, that 2.5 calories a minute
32 The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body
33 A crocodile cannot stick it tongue out
34 If you shouted for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee
35 You cant kill yourself by holding your breath
36 All polar bears are left-handed
37 On average people fear spiders more than they do death
38 People eat an average of 6 spiders during their lifetime.
39 On average Americans consume 18 acres of pizza a day
40 A ****roach can live 9 days without its head
41 Every time you **** a stamp you are consuming one tenth of a calorie
42 You are more likely to be killed by a Champaign cork than a poisonous spider
43 Butterflies taste with there feet
44 Right-handed people, on average live 9 years longer than left handed people do
45 Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump
46 Starfish haven�t got brains
47 Earths core is made of iron
48 Cloning is illegal
49 It takes 3 IQ points to grunt
50 The liver is the largest organ in the body
51 There are approximately 10,000,000 bricks in the empire estate building
52 A pregnant gold fish is called a twit
53 Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
54 Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
55 To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
56 Reindeer like to eat bananas.
57 More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
58 A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
59 It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
60 The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
61 There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.
62 The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
63 More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
64 Feb 185 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.
65 The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
66 Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 11 or older.
67 The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only inches (15 cm) for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
68 You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
69 It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
70 The tip of a 1/3-inch long hour hand on a wris****ch travels at 0.00000275 miles per hour.
71 One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life!
72 A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.
73 hair is 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for 2 minutes.
74 Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.
75 It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
76 The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.
77 It took 1,175 animators working in Disney studios in Burbank, California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris,
78 France to complete the animated Tarzan. Because of the time differences, production was able to occur around the clock for more than three years
79 From 1840, every president elected in a year ending in the numeral "0" has been assassinated, died in office, or been severely wounded in an attempt on his life. Each event has taken place in an odd numbered year and each on an even numbered day. In each case, the number of terms the president was elected to has alternated between single and multiple (i.e. Harrison 1, Lincoln 2, Garfield 1, Mckinley 2, etc). Ronald Reagan was the first president who did not die because of this "curse." If this pattern continues, the person elected in 2000 will die in 2001 or 2003, or will be wounded in an assassination attempt. Let's hope that the "curse" was broken by Ronald Reagan's survival in 1981.
80 About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas.
81 The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
82 No president of the United States was an only child.
83 The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime
84 In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
85 It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.
86 You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
87 On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
88 There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
89 Odds of being killed by a dog - 1 in 700,000.
90 Odds of dying while in the bath tub - 1 in 1 million.
91 Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.
92 Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.
93 Odds of being killed by freezing - 1 in 3 million.
94 Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million.
95 Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000.
96 Odds of being killed in a tornado - 1 in 2 million.
97 Odds of being killed by falling out of bed - 1 in 2 million
98 Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
99 The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.
100 13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them.
101 There is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
102 About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight.
103 The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.
104 The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
105 The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.
106 Skin temperature does not go much above 95 degrees even on the hottest days.
107 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.
108 Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.
109 Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.
110 The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.
111 Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.
112 Driving 55 miles (88 km) per hour instead of 65 miles (105 km) per hour increases your car mileage by about 15%.
113 Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.
114 If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
115 1/3 of all cancers are sun related. The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime.
116 There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
117 It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.
118 The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
119 The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
120 Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.
121 A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
122 If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).
123 The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year
124 In a century's time, Islam had converted 1/3 of the world.
125 In 75% of Americans households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
126 The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
127 Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 166 or older.
128 The world record for rain boot tossing is 179.14 feet (54.60 m).
129 More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world.
130 1/4 of the bones in your body is in your feet.
131 Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
132 You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
133 There are 1,525,000,000 miles (2,453,725,000 km) of telephone wire strung across America.
134 Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.
135 If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
136 The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons.
137 The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
138 The average person laughs 15 times a day.
139 It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
140 The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
141 When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles (4827 km) per hour.
142 The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days. The reason for the differences is the calendar system that was in use during the milleniums.
143 Papaphobia is the fear of Popes
144 The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
145 Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards
146 The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
147 "Zorro" means "fox" in Spanish.
148 Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
149 The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin' good" came out as "eat your fingers off" in Chinese.
150 "Floccinaucinihilipilification" which means "the act of estimating as worthless" is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long.
151 Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.
152 In Chinese, the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same.
153 "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
154 "So long" came from the Arabic "salaam" and the Hebrew "shalom."
155 The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
156 The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
157 The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it.
158 "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
159 The letter "I" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
160 There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
161 "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed.
162 The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
163 The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
164 In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
165 "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
166 The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public
167 square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
168 "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using only the top row on the keyboard.
169 The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means, "the king is dead."
170 The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English language.
171 The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
172 Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
173 California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ."
174 The first McDonald's restaurant in Canada was in Richmond, British Columbia.
175 In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.
176 There are more donut shops in Canada per capita than any other country. 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.
177 In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
178 In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.
179 The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.
180 Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
181 More than 90% of the Nicaraguan people are Roman Catholic.
182 Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.
183 Jamaica has the most churches per square mile than any other country in the world.
184 Jamaica was the first country from the English speaking Caribbean to qualify for the Football World Cup.
185 Bolivia has two capitals.
186 The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.
187 Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the summer Olympic games while hosting the event.
188 The Amazon is the world's largest river, 3,890 miles (6,259 km) long.
189 The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.
190 A single sausage measuring 5,917 feet (1,804 m) in length was cooked in Barcelona, Spain on September 22, 1986.
191 There is a church in Spain that allows worshippers to make donations via a credit card terminal.
192 The people of France eat more cheese than any other country in the world.
193 There's a place called "Y" in France. King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.
194 The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi.
195 The Eiffel tower in France varies in height depending on the temperature, Sometimes by as much as six inches.
196 Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.
197 In ancient Greece "idiot" meant a private citizen or layman.
198 Bulgarians are known to be the biggest yogurt eaters in the world.
199 Czechs are the biggest consumers of beer per male in the world.
200 A Czech man, Jan Honza Zampa, holds the record for drinking one liter of beer in 4.11 seconds.
201 A national campaign against swearing has started in Holland. Railway stations have started to display signs that say, "Missed your train? Cursing doesn't help!"
202 Netherlands is the only country with a national dog.
203 When we think of Big Ben in London, we think of the clock. Actually, it's the bell.
204 King George I of England could not speak English; he was born and raised in Germany. He let his ministers run the country to get around this problem.
205 The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) was introduced in England in 1965.
206 Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.
207 In ancient Scotland, every leap year maidens were allowed to ask a man to be her husband, refusal cost him a pound.
208 Icelandic phone books sometimes contain people's occupations as well as their name. This is because so many people have the same name.
209 Icelanders consume more Coca-Cola per Capita than any other nation.
210 Until 1997, there were more pigs than people in Denmark.
211 Sweden has the lowest birth rate (1 in 100).
212 There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year
213 Sweden has the least number of murders annually.
214 Until 1965, driving in Sweden was done on the left-hand side of the road. The conversion was done on a weekday at 5:00 p.m. This was supposed to prevent people from waking up in the morning and forgetting which side of the road to drive on.
215 Donald Duck Comics were once banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
216 Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.
217 The country code for Russia is "007".
218 To buy a McDonald's extra value meal in Russia it would cost the average Russian worker 1 months pay.
219 Russians generally answer the phone by saying, "I'm listening".
220 The U.S. bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia.
221 1 in 5 of the world's doctors are Russian.
222 Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.
223 The people of Israel consume more turkeys per capita than any other country.
224 The daily commuter trains arriving and departing from Bombay, India are designed to carry 1,700 passengers but are regularly packed with over 7,000 passengers.
225 Nepal is the only country that has a non-rectangular flag. It is also asymmetrical.
226 The official name for the city of Bangkok, Thailand is "Krung thep mahanakhon bovorn ratanakosin mahintharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani burirom udomratchanivetma hasathan amornpiman avatarnsa thit sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit" or just "Krung thep" for short meaning "City of Angels."
227 1,800 cigarettes are smoked per person each year in China.
228 Respiratory Disease is China's leading cause of death.
229 There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script.
230 More people speak English in China than the United States.
231 There is a tea in China called "white tea" it is simply boiled water.
232 The Chinese built a battery that lasted 400 years.
233 The Chinese Lettered Goldfish has Chinese characters on it; it has been achieved though many years of cross breeding.
234 The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498.
235 Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.
236 Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
237 In Japan, watermelons are squared. It's easier to stack them that way.
238 98% of Japanese are cremated.
239 Out of the 23,000 Japanese soldiers that died on the Guadal-canal, only 10% died from bullets. The majority died from fever, malaria, and hunger.
240 The number "four" is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as "death".
241 The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of television a day.
242 There's a place in Japan called "O."
243 The Philippines has about 7,100 islands, of which only about 460 are more than 1 square mile (2.6 sq km) in area. Eleven islands have an area of more than 1,000 square miles (2590 sq km) each and contain the bulk of the population.
244 Yo-yos were used as weapons by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th century.
245 Australian soldiers used the song "We're Off to See the Wizard" as a marching song in WWII.
246 Australia is the only country to have monotremes. A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs but suckles its young on milk once they have hatched (e.g. the platypus).
247 The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
248 The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.
249 The Salvation Army in Australia made the worlds first full length feature movie in 1900.
250 Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
251 The longest place name still in use, which is 85 letters long, is "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipuka- kapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" which is a name of a hill in New Zealand.
252 Greenland is the largest island in the world
253 The Simpsons is the longest running animated series on TV.
254 The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
255 Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
256 The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
257 It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
258 The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
259 The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour
260 When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
261 Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
262 Children grow faster in the springtime.
263 It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.
264 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
265 Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.
266 There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
267 If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
268 The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.
269 Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
270 In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
271 An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
272 The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
273 Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
274 Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
275 Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
276 Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
277 The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).
278 A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.
279 The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).
280 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
281 The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.
282 The human body is comprised of 80% water.
283 The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
284 Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
285 The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
286 You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.
287 Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
288 Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
289 There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.
290 The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood
291 Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.
292 During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
293 Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
294 Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
295 While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85.
296 The actor who played Wedge in the original Star Wars trilogy has a famous nephew: actor Ewan
297 McGregor, who plays the young Obi-Wan in the new Star Wars film.
298 Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
299 Hitler was claustrophobic. The large elevator leading to his eagles nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open
300 Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."
301 Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
302 Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
303 Moon" was Buzz Aldrin's (second man on the moon) mother's maiden name.
304 There is a sea squirt found in the seas near Japan that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature, it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain. So, waste not want not, it eats it.
305 A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.
306 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
307 The brown myotis bats when born are equivalent to a woman giving birth to a 30 pound baby.
308 If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
309 A snail can sleep for 3 years.
310 Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
311 The housefly hums, middle octave, key of F.
312 A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.
313 The correct animal group terms:
A herd of donkey
A sloth of bear
A clutter or clowder of cat
A drove or herd of cattle
A clutch or brood of chicken
A herd of deer
A pack of dogs
A brace or herd of ducks
A herd of elephant
A shulk of fox
A tribe or trip of goat
A flock or gaggle of geese
A herd of horses
A pride of lion
A band or troop of monkeys
A flock or drove of sheep
A bevy of swans
A litter of swine or pigs
A gam or pod of whale
A pack of wolves

314 A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
315 Rats can't vomit. That's why rat poison works so well.
316 Giraffes have no vocal chords.
317 Cats can hear ultrasound.
318 A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
319 The largest known butterfly is Queen Alexandra's Birdwing from New Guinea, which has a wingspan of approximately 11 inches (28 cm).
320 The smallest butterfly, the Dwarf Blue from Africa, has a wingspan of only 1 / 2 inches (1 cm).
321 The distance between an alligators eyes in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator in feet
322 The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.
323 The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
324 The opening to the cave in which a bear hibernates is always on the North Slope.
325 The Hippopotamus does 80% of their vocalizations under water.
326 The cells that make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
327 Scientists in Brazil have reported the emergence of a species of super-flea; they are bigger than ****roaches and can jump 20 feet (6 m).
328 A hippo can run faster than a man can
329 A jellyfish is 95% water.
330 A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
331 A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
332 A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
333 A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
334 A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
335 Rodent's teeth never stop growing.
336 A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
337 A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
338 A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
339 Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
340 Slugs have 4 noses.
341 Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.
342 The penguin is the only bird that can swim but can't fly.
343 The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claws.
344 A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
345 Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards.
346 Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10.
347 A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet (91 m) long in just one night.
348 Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to one.
349 Sharkskin has tiny tooth-like scales all over.
350 Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.
351 Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.
352 Lacking a collarbone, the deer mouse can flatten its body so much it can squeeze into an opening one quarter of an inch high.
353 A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
354 The orca is the largest member of the dolphin family, and is not really a whale. Due to its size, however, the orca is frequently included in discussions of whales.
355 Flies jump backwards when they take off.
356 More than 20,000,000 seahorses are harvested each year for folk medicinal purposes. The world seahorse population has dropped 70% in the past 10 years.
357 The largest insects that ever lived on the earth were giant dragonflies with wingspans of over 3 feet (91 cm).
358 Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.
359 The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived, reaching 100 feet (30 m) in length and weighing 150 tons. The largest dinosaur, Argentinosaurus, was estimated to weigh 110 tons.
360 Cats, camels, and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.
361 Proportional to their size, cats have the largest eyes of all mammals.
362 Sailfish can leap out of the water and into the air at a speed of 50 miles (81 km) per hour.
363 The catfish has the most taste buds of all animals, having over 27,000 of them.
364 Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
365 To reach rivers and lakes where they spend most of their lives, many newborn eels swim for up to 3,000 miles (4,827 km) nonstop.
366 A male rabbit is called a "buck" and a female rabbit is called a "doe."
367 It's against the law to have a pet in Iceland.
368 In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
369 The snail mates only once in its entire life.
370 The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for 5 hours.
371 Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can.
372 The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
373 It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs
374 A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
375 Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it.
376 Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
377 A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
378 No other animal gives us more by-products than the pig. These by-products include pig suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk and insulation to name a few.
379 The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
380 A kangaroo can jump up to 10 feet (3 m) high and leap up to 26 feet (8 m).
381 The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day.
382 The ****roach's favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
383 Tuna swim at a steady rate of 9 miles (14 km) per hour until they die and they never stop moving. Some Scientists estimate that a 15-year-old tuna must have traveled 1,000,000 miles (1,609,000 km).
384 An adult hippo can bite a 12-foot (3.6 m) adult male crocodile in half.
385 The Australian Emu holds the land speed record for birds at 31 miles (50 km) per hour.
386 At full speed, a Cheetah takes strides of 26 feet (8 m).
387 Of the 4,000 species of mammals on the planet, the are 900 different species of bats.
388 Rabbits digest their food twice (if you know what I mean) for two reasons: they don't get all the nutrients the first time around and because they need a high bacterial count in their stomach, which they get from, that's right, poop.
389 The name "Kangaroo" came about when some of the first white settlers saw this strange animal hopping along and they asked the Aborigines what it was called. They replied with "Kanguru", which in their language means "I don't know".
390 Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg.
391 The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
392 Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles (299,274 km) per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles (1,126 km) per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles (20,917 km) away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.
393 Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
394 The bagpipe was originally made from the liver of a dead sheep.
395 Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
396 The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
397 In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
398 It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term "drowning" refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
399 Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832, left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
400 Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
401 Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
402 The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
403 The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
404 The world's largest McDonalds is located on I-44 at Vinita, Oklahoma. It goes from one side of the interstate to the other, passing over the interstate.
405 Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.
406 Dead Egyptian noblewomen were given the special treatment of being allowed a few days to ripen, so that the embalmers wouldn't find her too attractive.
407 Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil.
408 The 'rusticles' on the model of the sunken Titanic were Cheeto's and bran flakes painted with rust colored primer.
409 Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
410 Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished and corroded brass.
411 Raindrops aren't actually teardrop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.
412 One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth.
413 The first police force was established in Paris 1667.
414 Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
415 A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
416 American car horns beep in the tone of F.
417 Playing cards in India are round.
418 The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
419 Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of trash a day. Most of it is paper.
420 The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.
421 No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
422 Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 is bigger than Mt Everest
423 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
424 You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
425 The Pacific Ocean fills nearly a complete hemisphere of the earth's surface.
426 German chemists have made a replica of the football World Cup trophy that is the size of one molecule.
427 That is less than 100-millionth the size of the original. They were bored.
428 The first recording of the human voice, by Thomas Edison in 1877, was "Mary had a Little Lamb."
429 More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
430 Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
431 Most of the vitamin C in fruits is in the skin.
432 A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
433 The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
434 The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
435 A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
436 The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
437 American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
438 A jumbo uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
439 Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
440 The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
441 Children spend more time learning about life through media than any other manner.
442 The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is around the same amount of time they spend in school.
443 There is cyanide in apple pips.
444 Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
445 The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
446 If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.
447 The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
448 Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.
449 Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
450 The Volkswagen was originally called the "Strength through Joy Wagon".
451 Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
452 Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
453 Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the Building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
454 An average orange falls just as fast as a skydiver. It's hard to catch in free fall, though - the "burble" of disturbed air around the jumper pushes the orange away.
455 If you're going to eat fast food, the odds are 2 out of 5 you will buy it at McDonald's, 1 out of 5 you will choose Burger King, and 1 out of 10 for Hardee's and for Wendy's.
456 The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
457 The first person to ever survive the fall over Niagara Falls was in 1901 when Annie Edson Taylor, a 43 year-old widowed school teacher from Bay City, Michigan, survived the fall in a 260 pound oak barrel.
458 The deepest point in the deepest ocean is the Marianas Trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,837 feet (10,923 m) according to a recent hydrographic survey. This is close to 7 miles (11 km) down, 29 times the height of the Empire State Building.
459 According to the Guiness Book, the fastest restaurant in the world serves the client's food within 13 seconds after the order is made. The name of the restaurant is Karne Garibaldi and is located in Guadalajara, Mexico.
460 World's tallest freestanding indoor climbing structure is the Game Works climbing wall standing at 75 feet (23 m).
461 The fastest Pony Express ride was 7 days, 17 hours and was carrying Lincoln's inaugural address.
462 The fastest tectonic movement on Earth, 9.4 inches (24 cm) per year, is at the Tonga microplate near Samoa.
463 Pioneer 11's speed going past Jupiter was over 107,000 miles (172,163 km) per hour, the fastest speed ever traveled by a human-made object.
464 The fastest moving landmass on the planet, the Tongan Island of Niuatoputapu in the South Pacific, has recently been clocked at almost 10 inches (25.4 cm) per year.
465 The Bureau of Standards says that the electron is the fastest thing in the world.
466 The Steel Phantom in West Millen, Pennsylvania, is the fastest roller coaster in America, reaching speeds of 80 miles (129 km) per hour.
467 The fastest typist can type at 211 words per minute.
468 The world's fastest ship weighs 112 tons and travels at 102 miles (164 km) per hour.
469 President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
470 Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have plumbing installed in his house, in 1840.
471 The first female monster to appear on the big screen was Bride of Frankenstein.
472 The first ever TV commercial in the U.S. was for Bulova watches. It aired in 1941 on WNBT, New York, and cost Bulova 9 dollars.
473 Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.
474 The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.
475 Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be televised, on April 1939 at opening of the New York World's Fair.
476 The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811.
477 New Zealand was the first place in the world to allow women to vote.
478 The first television shows to have the characters take bathroom breaks were "All in the family" and "Married with children."
479 The first music video was aired on August 1, 1981 "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Bugles on MTV.
480 Most people have an IQ in the 90 - 109 range. You're considered a genius if your IQ is 132 or above. Chris Langan has an IQ of 195, the highest known IQ in the US. He started talking at 6 months and by age 4 could read and comprehend books. His IQ puts him in the same class as Sir Isaac Newton and Michelangelo. He's in his mid-forties, and he works as a part-time bouncer at a bar and lives in a one-room house on $6,000 a year.
481 William James Sidis had the highest ever known IQ estimated at between 250 and 300. At eighteen months he could read The New York Times, at two he taught himself Latin, at three he learned Greek. By the time he was an adult, he could speak more than 40 languages and dialects. He spent most of his life wandering from one menial job to another.
482 La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia, is the highest capital in the world at over 17,000 feet (5,181 m).
483 Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, at 3,212 feet (979 m).
484 The highest tide in the world is in the Bay of Fundy, Canada, where there is a rise of 53 feet (16 m).
485 The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.
486 The largest flower in the world, the Rufflesia, grows to over 10 feet (3 m) in diameter.
487 The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.
488 The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived, reaching 100 feet (30.4 m) in length and weighing 150 tons. The largest dinosaur, Argentinosaurus, was estimated to weigh 110 tons.
489 The largest living thing on earth is a tree named "The General Sherman Tree" in Sequoia National Park. It is 275 feet (84 m) tall and 37 feet (11 m) wide at the widest part of the base.
490 The largest ketchup bottle is a 170 feet (52 m) tall water tower.
491 The world's largest collection of preserved human brains is maintained in a WWII era bomb shelter beneath the Runwell Psychiatric Hospital in Essex, England. 8,000 brains collected over the past 40 years are available for researchers to study.
492 Olympus Mons, a volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in solar system. It is 370 miles (595 km) across and rises 15 miles (24 km).
493 Pencils write use iron pyrite, not lead as is commonly thought
494 Sharks cant get cancer
495 The only parts of a human that can cause disease if eaten is the brain
496 The only part of a tree that is living is the outer perimeter and bark, the inside of the tree is actually dead
497 It is possible to become addicted to chocolate, as the caffeine it contains is addictive
498 Lactose tolerance is when you are allergic to all dairy products
499 tonsafobia is fear of hair cuts
500 retrograde amnesia is complete loss of all memories

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