Some Interesting Facts Compiled for You
   

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General Knowlede

  
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

The 1st product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum
Coca Cola was originally green.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

 

  
 

Science & Maths

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

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
Eleven plus two: When you rearrange the letters: Twelve plus one
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
     
 

English

  
“Typewriter” is the only ten letter word you can type on the top row of your keyboard.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Mother-in-law: When you rearrange the letters: Woman Hitler
"I am." ..(or "I do.") the shortest complete sentences in the English language.
A Decimal Point: When you rearrange the letters: I'm a Dot in Place
     
 

Human Beings

  
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
The world's youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
   
 

Animals

  
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Mosquito repellents don't repel, they hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito sensors so they don't know you're there.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
     
   

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  Contributed by: Gyan Shrivastava, Academics Head, Aptech Singrauli Network