Amazing Facts

1. If your hair should suddenly stand on end for no apparent reason, there is a strong likelihood that you are about to be struck by lightning.

2.The most popular insects eaten by the people of different cultures around the world are grasshoppers, beetles, crickets, locusts, caterpillars, termites and ants.

3.Tomatoes were originally called ‘love apples’.


4.Women of the Asian Kirghiz tribe face instant divorce if they dare to mention their husband’s names.

5.Spain is named after the Carthaginian word meaning ‘land of rabbits’.

6.The dollar sign is a modified version of the figure eight which used to be stamped on the old
Spanish ‘pieces of eight’.

7. On the Caribbean island of Haiti the local buses are called ‘Tap-Taps’ because of the noise
made by their diesel engines.


8. Boxwood is one of the few woods that actually sink in water.

9. In Spain you must always place your right foot in a boat before your left. To step in the
other way is to incur almost certain disaster.

10. Oaks and Poplars are struck by lightning more frequently than any other trees in England.

11. Modern binoculars are more powerful than Galileo’s telescope.

12. A liter of vinegar is heavier in winter than in summer.

13. Although you may fell warmer drinking alcohol your body temperature actually falls as a
result of drinking it.

14. During your lifetime you might expect to breathe about two and a half time the amount of
air that would fill a large airship.

15. Shaving with an electric shaver in fact uses less energy than shaving with hand razor and
hot water.

16. One fifth of the oxygen we inhale is used by the cells in the brain.

17. At the age of ninety our hearts are pumping half the amount of blood they were pumping
when we were twenty.

18. Early Spaniards used to clean their teeth with urine.
19. Five tones of rock are required to yield a piece of gold the size of a trouser button.


20. The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and vice versa.


21. Denim material was first made in the city of Nimes, in France. Since the fabric came from
Nimes it was originally called ‘de Nimes’ or ‘denim’ in English.

22. Half the world’s wealth is owned by four countries whose total population is less than 15
per cent of the world’s total.

23. The world’s most popular hobby is stamp collection.

24. Saudi Arabia imports sand from Scotland and camels from North Africa.

25. Bungalows are named after the Hindi word ‘bangla’ which means ‘belonging to Bengal’.

26. When Eskimos buy refrigerators they often use them to stop their food from freezing.

27. There are more lakes in Canada than in the rest of the world put together.

28. Lord’s cricket ground was originally in Dorset Square.

29. Cyanide poisoning can be produced from the stones of plums, apricots and cherries, as well
as from apple pips.

30. Blind people who have been blind from birth cannot dream sights but they dream sounds
instead.

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32. Girls tend to sleep more soundly than boys.

33. Hot water pipes freezes more easily than pipes carrying cold water.

34. The Jeep got its name from its original initials G.P, which stood for General Purpose
vehicle.

35. The nail on your middle finger grows fastest. Your thumb nail is the slowest to grow.

36. There is a city in the Sahara called Tegazza which is built entirely of salt.

37. The rainbow trout makes its nest from pebbles which it carries in its mouth.

38. The pineapple is a berry and has nothing to do with pines or apples, except for its name.

39. There are claimed to be more ghosts per square kilometer in England than in any other
country on earth.
40. Soya beans are used in the manufacture of glue, paint, plastics and explosives.

41. A cow’s moo was used as a unit of distance for more than two thousand years in India.

42. We die more quickly from lack of sleep than from lack of food.

43. Man catches thirty different diseases transmitted by the common house fly.

44. Tongue prints are as unique as finger prints.

45. It is possible to mix oil and water. All you have to do is add a little soap.

46. Palm trees growing in the Seychelles Islands produce double coconuts that weight in
excess of 18 kilos.

47. The thirteenth day of the month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day of
the week.

48. Three 25 watt produce less light than one 75-watt bulb.

49. Abraham Lincoln was the first US President to be assassinated.

50. Benjamin Hall, the eighteenth century politician, weighed 158 kilograms, which explains
why the bell named after him is called Big Ben.