Friday, August 14, 2009

AMAZING FACTS !

An offtopic post, but real amazing :)

AMAZING FACTS !
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- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

- A person has a unique tongue print.

- Over 100 types of bacteria lives in your mouth.

- There is bacteria that lives all over your body that eats away at the flakes of dry skin. These bacteria are so small, that if you piled 30 000 of them, they would still be invisible to the naked eye.

- A full-grown pumpkin has 15 miles of roots.

- Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

- Alaska was purchased from Russia for 2 cents an acre.

- The state of Florida is bigger than England.

- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

- Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Mario de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.

- Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was retarded.

- Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

- The catfish has over 27 000 taste buds.

- An elephant's trunk contains more than 50 000 muscles.

- Grasshoppers have white blood.

- Polar bears are left-handed.

- Starfish have eight eyes, one at the end of each leg.

- Butterflies taste with their feet.

- Bats always turn left when they exit a cave.

- Horses and rabbits cannot vomit.

- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

- A flea can jump 350 times its own body length. That's like a human jumping 2 football fields.

- Dartboards are made out of horsehair.

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