Did you Know ??
DID YOU KNOW !
Learn, Laugh or just Enjoy the facts which are hidden or unkonwn
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DID YOU KNOW !
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As the earth turns, the stars come back to the same place in the night sky every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. This is a sidereal day (star day).
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Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 100kg on earth would only weigh 38kg on the surface of Mars
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The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two miles away
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The full cost of a spacesuit is about $11 million although 70% of this is for the backpack and the control module
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more than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun
SPACE FACTS
WORLD FACTS
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All of the 20 richest women in the world --except for #17-- inherited their money from either their husband or their father.
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Monaco has the highest population concentration in the world.
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Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per yea
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Plastic surgery was invented because of the First World War.
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At any time 10% of earth's surface is under ice.
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All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
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Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.
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People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.
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Babies are born with no bacteria in their bodies.
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Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die
HUMAN BODY FACTS
ANIMAL FACTS
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Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
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All polar bears are left-handed.
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The average meat-eating person eats about 7,000 animalsin their lifetime
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There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India
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Charles Darwin ate a sample of any and every animal he discovered.
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"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the keys on only one row of the keyboard.
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Water can boil and freeze at the same time, it's called the 'triple point.
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"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the keys on only one row of the keyboard.
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Earthquakes turn water into gold
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more than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun
TECHNOLOGY FACTS
MATH FACTS
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2,520 is the smallest number that can be exactly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.
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Among all shapes with the same area circle has the shortest perimeter .
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There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie, according to mathematicians.
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In 1995 in Taipei, citizens were allowed to remove ‘4’ from street numbers because it sounded like ‘death’ in Chinese. Many Chinese hospitals do not have a 4th floor.
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What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.