Interesting Fun Facts Of The Day-PART 1

FACTS:
1. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.
2. If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36)
the total is the mystical number 666. 3. Albert Einstein was offered
the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
4. Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
5. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
6. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
7. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
8. The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born
and after it's dead.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. There are three golf balls sitting on the Moon.
11. Morphine was given its name in 1803 by the discoverer, a 20 year
old German pharmacist named Friedrich Saturner. He named it after
Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.
12. Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
13. On average, women say 7,000 words per day while men manage just
over 2,000 words.
14. Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any
kind of life.
15. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
16. Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
17. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
18. In Tibet it is considered good manners to stick out your tongue at someone.
19. Pearls melt in vinegar.
20. If you leave a goldfish in a dark room for years, it will turn white.
21. The most expensive shoes was sold at Harrods in London for $1.6 million.
22. Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
23. A newborn baby sees the world upside down because it takes some
time for the baby's brain to learn to turn the image right-side up.
24. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
25. Brushing your teeth regularly has been shown to prevent heart disease.
26. Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting
vending machines towards them in the hope of a free can of soda.
27. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the
line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
28. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
29. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
30. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult,
you only have 206.
31. Chickens can't swallow when they are upside down.
32. Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.
33. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
34. There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
35. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
36. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by
Charles Jung.
37. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.
38. Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center
of golf balls.
39. All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.
40. You breathe about 10 million times a year.
41. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
42. When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The
first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and
touch.
43. The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a
hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year.
Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
44. The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498.
45. There has only been one satellite destroyed by a meteor, it was
the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
46. The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its
length without breaking.
47. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
48. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
49. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
50. In Europe coffee was once known as Arabian Wine.