Little Known Interesting Facts !!

The Harshit Aggarwal (B.Com(H) ,CS Final) (5278 Points)

09 November 2009  

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

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2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

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3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

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4. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

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5. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

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6. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

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7. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

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8. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

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9. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

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10. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

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11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.

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12. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

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13. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

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14. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

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15. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike Contest.

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16. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

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17. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.