Facts and Fun

Facts that surrounds us:


* The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.

* The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

* India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.

* India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.

* India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.

*In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

*A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.



*The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

*An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.

*The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

*There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

*"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

*In Greene, new york, you cannot walk backwards and eat peanuts on the sidewalk during a concert.

*In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 cam be jailed for cheating on their finals.

*In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

*In the United States there is one birth every 8 seconds and one death every 14 seconds.

*In the White House, there are 13,092 Knives, forks, and spoons.

*Ireland is the only place where windmills turn clockwise.

*It take 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to the earth.

*It takes a yard of sugarcane to make one sugar cube.

*It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.

*Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one had and draw with the other at the same time.


*A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt lightbulb.


*Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.

*Alexander the Great was an epileptic.


*Less than 7% of the population donates blood.

*Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.

*Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China.

*Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Facts about some Creatures:


*Lobsters have blue blood.

*House flies have a lifespan of two weeks.

*Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.

*Starfish don't have brains.

*Shrimp's hearts are in their heads.

*Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

*A Crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

*A group of owls is called a parliament.

*A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.

*A group of toads is called a knot.

*A whales heart beats only nine times a minute.

*A zebra is white with black stripes.

*A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

*A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.