Some Amazing Facts

Really Amazing ...

1. Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before they starve to death.
2. The lighter was invented before the match.
3. All babies are colour-blind when they are born.
4. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
5. There is cyanide in apple pips.
6. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.
7. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
8. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
9. A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds that a person can hear. If a person can just hear a noise that is coming from 10 feet away, a dog could hear that same noise from 100 feet away.
10. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
11. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.
12. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.
13. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.
14. Eskimoes have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.
15. Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.
16. May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.
17.  If every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at the same time...it would knock the earth off its axis!
18.  The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

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