Improve your g.k. part - 3

CA Bhargav Nathwani (CA in Practice) (8307 Points)

23 May 2013  

Some Interesting Facts

 

01. "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

 

02. "THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.

 

03. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

 

04. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

 

05. 1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.

 

06. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.

 

07. 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart.

 

08. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

 

09. 10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria

 

10. 11% of the world is left-handed.

 

11. 111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321

 

Hope you gain something New today from this.

 

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