These cool facts from around the world are all very true and just show what a crazy world we live in:

• Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
  
  
• Bone is five times stronger than steel.
  
  
• Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
  
  
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  
  
• "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
  
  
• Sharks can live up to 100 years.
  
  
• You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.
  
  
• The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
  
  
• When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
  
  
• A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks
  
  
• If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
  
  
• All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
  
  
• Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
  
  
• During the 2,475,576,000 seconds of the average length life, averagely we speak 123,205,750 words, have sex 4,239 times, shed 121 pints of tears
  
  
• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
  
  
• The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
  
  
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  
  
• A normal person laughs five times in a day.
  
  
• The 73% of people who buy Valentine's Day flowers are men, while only 27 percent are women.
  
  
• The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
  
  
• The most beautiful and incredible gift of love is the monument Taj Mahal in India. Built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan as a memorial to his wife it stands as the emblem of the eternal love story. Work on the Taj Mahal began in 1634 and continued for almost 22 years and required the labor of 20,000 workers from all over India and Central Asia.
  
  
• Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of painted plaster for three years. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for gold-plated metal ones.
  
  
• Giraffes can not swim
  
  
• The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
  
  
• Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
  
  
• An average human move 25.4 times during sleep in a day
  
  
• In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
  
  
• 60% North Indians are pure vegetarian & in whole India 36%.
  
  
• An average human speak 4,800 words in 24 hours.
  
  
• An average human produce 1.43 pints sweat in a day.
  
  
• The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.
  
  
• The word 'set ' has the most number of definitions in the English language: 192.
  
  
• Girls however are slightly more likely than boys to use home computers for e-mail, word processing and completing school assignments than playing games.
  
  
• An average human's breathe 438 cubic feet AIR in 24 hours.
  
  
• The oldest existing newspaper in India is Bombay Samachar.
  
  
• After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
  
  
• A Blue Whale can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
  
  
• When you sneeze air rushes out your nose at a rate of 100 miles per hour.
  
  
• The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
  
  
• An average human's take of 3.25 pounds FOOD in a day.
  
  
• The height of Mt. Everest (29,035 feet) was revised upward by 7 feet based on measurements made in 1999 using the satellite-based Global Positioning System.
  
  
• Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are!
  
  
• Of the more than 600 million school-age children in the developing world, 120 million primary school-age children are not in school, 53 percent are girls.
  
  
• Children between ages 6 to 10 exchange more than 650 million Valentine's cards with teachers, classmates, and family members.
  
  
• An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
  
  
• Father's Day was first observed in Spokane, Washington, in 1910. Sonora Louise Smart Dodd,of Washington, first proposed the idea of a "father's day" in 1909.
  
  
• Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent across. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion
  
  
• Chocolate can be killed dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
  
  
• Butterflies are the second largest group of pollinators, next to bees.
  
  
• India's first television center was set up at Delhi.
  
  
• In Britain 70% mothers go for work.
  
  
• The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.
  
  
• Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine 6 to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
  
  
• An average human's take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids) in 24 hours.
  
  
• In the year 1935 the United States Congress announced the first Sunday of August as the National Friendship Day. It was initially declared a holiday in honor of friends.
  
  
• 4% people drink cold drink daily.
  
  
• Mass production of toothbrushes began in America around 1885. The first American to patent a toothbrush was H. N. Wadsworth, (patent number 18,653,) on Nov. 7, 1857.
  
  
• An average human Lose 85.60, body temperature in a day.
  

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