Amazing Facts

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Amazing Facts

Great collection of amazing and interesting facts about any thing in the world.

Amazing Facts about animal, universe, weather, human body, language, insects, birds and many other amazing and funny facts.

• Tuesday is considered as the most productive day of the week.
  
• In human body the right lung takes in more air than the left one.
  
• The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
  
• Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer which is a brand of the microsoft’s rival company.
  
• Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
  
• In the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
  
• There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
  
• Jimmy Carter is the first USA president to have born in hospital.
  
• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
  
• Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
  
• It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
  
• Tru to spin an egg, Its strange that a hard-boiled egg will spin but an uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
  
• Astronauts cannot burp in space.
  
• People with blue eyes see better in dark.
  
• The snowiest city in the USA is Blue Canyon, California.
  
• Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
  
• Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
  
• The gasoline cannot freeze no matter how cold the temperature falls.
  
• Human stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
  
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
  
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
  
• A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.
  
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
  
• Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  
• The Polar Bear can can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
  
• Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
  
• Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
  
• Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

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How does electronic paper work?



Electronic paper, also known as e-paper or Electronic Paper Display (EPD) is a display which imitates the appearance of ordinary paper. Electronic paper is portable and reusable – it can be refreshed (electronically) and written upon millions of times.
Many different technologies are used for making e-paper. The most commonly used e-paper consists of millions of tiny plastic capsules which are sandwiched between two sheets of flexible plastic. Each capsule, which is as narrow as a human hair, contains several positively charged white beads and negatively charged black beads floating in a clear fluid.
When an electric voltage is applied to each of the capsules through the circuitry embedded underneath, the beads, due to their unlike charges, get separated and move to the opposite faces of the capsule. When white beads are on top, the upper face of the capsule appears white, thus making the display appear white at the point where the capsule is located. Similarly, when black beads are on top, the display appears black at the point. Thus, each capsule functions as a separate pixel allowing the black text or picture to be visible on the display.

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Who invented the yo-yo?

The yo-yo is an ancient toy, with the oldest surviving model dating back to 500BC. Ancient Greaks made the toy from wood, metal and terracotta. In the Philippines, hunters used yo-yos as retractable weapons – rocks were attached to 6.09m long thick ropes which were hurled at wild animals. The yo-yo derives its name from a native Filipino word meaning ‘come back’.
In the 18th and 19th century, the simple yet dynamic toy that worked on the principles of physics became very popular in Europe and was known by various names like bandelore, quiz and L’emigrette.
In 1928, a Filipino American named Pedro Flores opened a small toy factory in California, USA, becoming the first person I the world to mass-produce yo-yos. The yo-yos became such a rage that a businessman, Donald Duncan bought over Flores’ company. Doncan’s factory manufactured 3600 yo-yos in an hour, earning the town of Luck in Wisconsin, the epithet of ‘Yo-Yo Capital of the World’!
The yo-yo has undergone various innovations to make it spin faster and longer. Today, yo-yo competitions are held all over the world.

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What are barnacles?

If you have been to the sea coast you might have seen barnacles. Many a barefoot runner on the seashore finds his foot lacerated when he accidentally steps on a barnacle.
Barnacles, lie crabs and lobsters, their distant cousins, are members of the phylum Arthropoda, the largest and most diverse group of animals on earth. Barnacles alone account for more than 1200 known species. Some are fresh water inhabitants while a few live as parasites on other animals. Some of them, like the acorn barnacle, grow directly on a hard rocky surface while others like the goose barnacle attach to it by means of a stalk.
Life as a barnacle is not easy. A marine barnacle living in the inter-tidal area is alternately lashed by fierce waves one moment and roasted by the sun the next. When exposed to the sun, barnacles stop all activities and concentrate on keeping themselves moist. They live in shells made of calcium carbonate, (the substance found in marble and chalk) and rely on the tides to bring their food. Barnacles have six pairs of legs that form a type of net to filter plankton which is their food.

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Did you know?

• The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
• Of all the words in the English language, the word ‘set’ has the most definitions!
• “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
• “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
• The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Russian and Spanish.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
• Coco-Cola would be green if colour in weren’t added to it.
• The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
• The spiciness of a chilli is not determined by the colour of the chilli, but by the length. The smaller the chilli, the spicier it is.
• In Uzbekistan, samosa is known as “Samsa.”
• Samosas were first found in Persia and existed since the Mughal era.
• The staple diet of almost half of the world’s population is rice.
• The original curry powder was invented by the British.
• Saffron is made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus and is the most expensive spice.
• Onions, apples and potatoes have the same taste. The difference in taste is due to their smell.
• Cucumber originated from India. The core of the cucumber is 600oC lower than the temperature outside. Hence the slimily, “As cool as a cucumber.”
• Strawberries have more vitamin C than the animals.
• December 25th was celebrated as the birthday of Jesus only from 440 A.D.
• The only mammals that fly are bats.
• Mount Everest is growing. It is 12 inches higher now than it was a century ago and it is still growing.
• India has the world’s largest quantity of privately owned gold.
• An adult body has approximately 96,000 kilometres of blood vessels.
• We blink our eyes about 25 times a minute.
• A new born kangaroo is about 1 inch long.
• There are at least 100,000 million stars in our universe.
• Thomas Edison maintained a collection of 5,000 birds.
• A volcano has more power than a hurricane or earthquake.
• A single drop of liquid can contain 50 million bacteria.
• There are 60 trillion cells in the human body.
• A person’s hair cannot turn white overnight for any reason.
• An ostrich can lay more than 100 eggs in one nest.
• Your brain will stop growing in size when you are 15.

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Great dear Saed
thank you for these facts

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موضوع مميز من كليكما
ترجموا براحتكم
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I agree with you that they are amazing
really I enjoyed reading them
thanks
Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog

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مشكور
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[جمال جرار]

amazing and need much time since the topic is too long
l'll continue later
thanks