Some Interesting Facts :)

*According to a research at Cambridge University, it deosn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid does not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe

*A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

*There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.

*Honeybees never sleep.

*The average IQ is 100, while 140 is the beginning of genius IQ.

*The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

*Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.

* Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.

*If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

*A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!

*The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

*The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

*A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

*Butterflies taste with their feet.

*Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

*Starfish don't have brains.

*Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating

*The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.

*The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

*"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

*111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

*Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

*Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

*Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t

digest itself.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

*In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.

*The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.