Science Facts

1. Your brain is 80% water.
2. Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
3. The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
4. Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
5. Most dust particles in your house are actually pieces of dead skin!
6. Iron weighs more after it rusts.
7. Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
8. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
9. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

Language Facts

1. WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
2. 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
3. Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
4. The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
5. The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
6. The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
7. 'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.

Computer Facts

• The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact.
•  The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
• The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
•  E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
•  The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
• MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico. Whereas, if Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest.

Food and Drink Facts Part-III

1. Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
2. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.
3. Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy.
4. Bananas aren't fruit! They are a type of herb. (here: check it out! http://www.marigoldlane.com/kitchen/banana.html)
5. Apples are actually part of the rose family.
6. An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

Food and Drink Facts Part-II

1. Pearls melt in vinegar.
2. Onions have no flavor, only a smell.
3. No 2 cornflakes are identical!
4. McDonald's salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!
5.  Lima beans contain cyanide!
6.  Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
7.  In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.
8. Heineken beer is designed to 'foam' for exactly five minutes.
9. Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts. (hahahah)
10. Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.

Food and Drink Facts Part-I

1. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles.
2. If the drink does not say natural sources, it probably contains a color or flavoring that is made from coal tars.
3. It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
4.  All 13 minerals necessary for human life can be found in alcohol beverages.
5. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
6. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
7. Coca Cola was originally green.
8.  The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.
9. Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.
10.  Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum.

More facts

• The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
•  An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
• Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
• In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
•  A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
• Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
• In France, there's a place called Y.
• 203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
•  Singapore has only one train station.
• The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
• The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.
• Switzerland has the highest per-capita consumption of soft drinks in the world.

Strange but True!

• Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to plants.
• There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of. (I'm not lying, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome)
• The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.(Again, see for yourself.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan)
• There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
• The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
• On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
• The snake can see through its transparent eye lids when they are closed.
• The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.

Funny but true..

• The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
• Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
• Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
• The US national anthem actually has four verses, but everyone just knows the first one.  When the whole anthem is sung, the third verse is usually omitted.
• Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
• The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
• A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet. 

More cool stuff..

1. The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours ( ~11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965 (Nevertheless; Michael Corke of Chicago suffered from rare genetic disease that affected his ability to sleep.   The disease, Fatal Familial Insomnia, led to his death in 1992 after going 6 months without sleep)
2. Registered in 1985, symbolics.com is the first ever internet domain registered
3. The people in Bali only have one of four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut
4. There are more pyramids in Peru than in Egypt
5. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king (shah) is dead (mat)."
6. Your thumb is the same length as your nose. (Yes, its true again. TRY IT!)
7. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like as if it's kissing the conveyor belt
8. The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum
9. As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
10. The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.

Some more interesting facts :D

1. Children's sense of smell is better than adults'.
2. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day. (How much do you laugh?)
3. The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
4. Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
5. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
6. A person will create enough saliva to fill two average size swimming pools during his lifetime. (YUCK!)
7. Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth. (scary..)
8. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
9. Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply. (:O)
10. When cats are happy or pleased, they squeeze their eyes shut
11. Just days before the World Cup of 1966 in England, the trophy was stolen and then later retrieved by a dog
12. Your foot is the same length as your forearm. (Now this is cool, do try it!)
13. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest
14. On average, a woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s heart
15. The skin of the average woman weighs 3 kilograms, while that of the average man weighs 5 kilograms
16. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
17. India never invaded any country in her history (Jai Hind!)
18. Buttermilk does not contain any butter
19. The human brain is 80% water 
20. Dalmatians are born without spots
21. Hugo Boss designed some of the Nazi SS uniforms
22. 2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover
23. All swans in England are the property of the queen or king
24. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
25. Chocolate contains an ingredient called “Theobromine” which can be toxic to dogs' central nervous system and cardiac muscles.

Weird, Interesting and Fun Facts

1. There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
2. The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
3. The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
4. An elephant can die from a broken heart.
5. The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
6. The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
7. The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop.
8. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
9. New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
10. It's estimated that millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
11. It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.
12. In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
13. Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.
14. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
15. Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
16. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
17. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
18. Pageant Models often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won't stick when smiling.
19. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
20. It is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer.
21. In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'.
22. A DAY is longer than a YEAR on Venus.
23. In Venezuela, fuel costs around $0.02.
24. The volume of the Earth's moon is close to the amount of the Pacific Ocean.

Emoticons and Other Facebook Tricks

In almost seven years, Facebook has captured over 600 million users and that number continues to grow. The ‘powers that be’ are constantly changing, updating and tweaking Facebook. While most people wait to see the new and exciting features from each update, you can read on for a few features you can try the next time you log in.

Bold Characters

Surround your text with stars to get bold text in the chat box. For example: * Hi! How are you? * will show up as Hi! How are you? 

Underlined Characters

Surround your text with underscores to get underlined text in the chat box. For example: _I’m doing well. How are you doing?_ will show up as I’m doing well. How are you doing.

Shapes

There are several different shapes you can use when chatting.

<(“) = penguin

(^^^) = shark

<3 = heart

:putnam:  = man’s head/face

The list of smiley faces you can use in chat is lengthy, but here are a few unique options:

8-) = glasses

:-* = lips

8-| = sunglasses

O:) = angel

:|] = robot

Cool Facts (found across the internet)

This is an interesting list of cool and weird facts:

• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
• By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
• Rats and horses can't vomit.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Cats urine glows under a black light.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
• The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. (Try it :)
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
• 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow. (Please dont try to!)
• A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
• A shrimp's heart is in their head.
• People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.