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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by hatux: 9:27am On Jan 03, 2015
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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by omophunky(m): 9:28am On Jan 03, 2015
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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 9:37am On Jan 03, 2015
89. Halden Prison, Norway is the world’s most Humane Prison.


90. Alcatrez prison meal menu from 1946, one of the oldest menu in the world.

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 9:56am On Jan 03, 2015
91. The White House, Presidential Villa of the US is the most secured building in the world.

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 10:15am On Jan 03, 2015
92. Pacific is the world's deepest ocean and the deepest part is the Mariana trench. 11,035m (36,204ft).

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 10:19am On Jan 03, 2015
FP loading,bro which area are you in OD?
Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by chacoonder(m): 10:35am On Jan 03, 2015
Sile12:
1.Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already traveled past 100,000 stars


2. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.


3. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.


4. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.


5. Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.


6. When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.


7. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.


8. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.


9. Every year lightning kills about 1000 people.


10. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .


11. If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just an hour.


12. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.


13. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old the same age as the Moon and the Sun.


14. The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.


15. Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.


16. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.


17. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.


18. Astronauts cannot belch, there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.


19. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.


20. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.


21. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.


22. The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.


23. The thermometer was invented in1607 by Galileo.


24. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.


25. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.


26. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.


27. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.


28. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 the patient lived for 18 days.


29. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.


30. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.



31. ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.



32. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.



33. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.


34. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.


35. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.


36. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.


37. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.


38. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried, the entire US telephone system was shut down for1 minute in tribute.


39. Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.


40. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.


41. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.


42. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.


43. . There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than thereare humans on the surface of the earth.


44. Light would take13 seconds to travel around the Earth.


45. Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second 86 million each day.


46. One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.


47. Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.


48. Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.


49. A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.


50. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.


51. 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.


http://www.amazingandweird.com/facts/100-interesting-and-unknown-facts-about-the-world/
op,At what speed would no 11 be actualised.?
Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by devanz(m): 10:52am On Jan 03, 2015
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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by devanz(m): 10:53am On Jan 03, 2015
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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 11:08am On Jan 03, 2015
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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by okotv(m): 12:07pm On Jan 03, 2015
thank you do much op
Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by ibisko04: 2:17pm On Jan 03, 2015
Sile12:



Bros sometimes when you are making research, you don't pick them from the floor or in the bush. You mostly refer to existing research work to create new ones. People visits World Factbook to make research, and know more about the world's countries. Writing projects in school, we make research from the long existing ones sometimes, go online gather informations that are not yours, copy them, modify them and you make your references. With this haven't you copied and pasted? So its no big deal bro as long as its genuine, copy/paste existing since 3500BC.
Good observation, whatever you want to do was once done by somebody.

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by lyricalpontiff(m): 2:40pm On Jan 03, 2015
10nks for sharing
Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 4:40pm On Jan 03, 2015
93. Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.


94. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.



95. There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.



96. Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.


97. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.


98. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.



99. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.


100. There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.


101. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.


102. Every day 20 banks are robbed around the world. The average take is $2,500.


103. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.


104 Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.


104. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.



106. One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year.


107. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.


108. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.


109. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.


110. The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day.


111. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface.


112. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.


113. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.


114. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.


115. Almost half the newspapers in the world are published inthe United States and Canada.


116. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.


117. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food.


118. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.


119. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.


120. In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces.


121. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.


122. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.


123. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.


124. The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump.


125. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.


126. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear inthe name of any of the United States.


127. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.



128. There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S.


129. Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.


130. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.


131. Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.


132. There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.


133. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a million dollars on chewing gum.


134. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.



135. The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.


136. Dogs can hear sounds that you cant.


137. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.



138. It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.



139. At least 1 baby is sold each minute around the world.



140. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.


Check more here http://www.strangefacts.com/facts3.html

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 4:42pm On Jan 03, 2015
Dreamcome2ru:
FP loading,bro which area are you in OD?


Akure road bro.
Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 4:48pm On Jan 03, 2015
141. The Amazon river of South America gushes about a Billion gallons of fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean every minute. Which regulates the salinity.

Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 4:58pm On Jan 03, 2015
Sile12:



Akure road bro.
Hehehe,that's kinda far to where i am,whenever you're in ACE vicinity, i would like to meet u,are u on Fb?if yes,will like to chat you up
Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 4:59pm On Jan 03, 2015
142. The Russian Antonov An-225 Mriya is the largest plane in the world.

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by bsjay(m): 6:15pm On Jan 03, 2015
Of what benefit is this research to human beings? Does it guide man in any way into the Laws of God?
Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 6:51pm On Jan 03, 2015
on his deathbed, fela requested that weed/igbo should be served at his funeral.


weed/igbo is the only plant/ drug endorsed by the gods, that is why the whiteys frantically rebuffs its proliferation. If every african smokes weed, we will experience unparalleled peace and tranquility, unprecedented technological, economical and phylosophical advancement and we will threaten their superiority in every ramification, thereby militating against their imperialist agenda.


smoke weed today and emacipate yourself from mental slavery.





weed rules..

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 8:43pm On Jan 03, 2015
143. Shark sheds approximately 35,000 tooth and replaces them with thousands more throughout lifetime.

Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Minet16(m): 9:13pm On Jan 03, 2015
joeblac07:
13. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old the same
age as the Moon and the Sun.

The holy book of Christians say otherwise. The Bible posits that the earth is about 6,000 years old.

So are you gonna believe what the Bible says by faith or are you gonna belief what science has proved so clearly, by evidence.



thats since the recreation. after God created man, from the time of adam to moses is 2000 years, moses to Jesus 2000 years, this is 2015 b.c. btw before God created Adam the earth had been in existence, that was when satan fell from heaven. so keep your faith before you confuse people here

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 10:12pm On Jan 03, 2015
144. The 2014 World Cup will be the first World Cup ever with goal-line technology.


145. The First goalkeeper to win the Most valuable Player award was the German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn during the 2002 Fifa World Cup.


146. India withdrew from the World Cup competition in 1950 when they were not allowed to play barefoot.

147. The World Cup was not played in 1942 and 1946 because of World War II.

Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by joeblac07(m): 11:27pm On Jan 03, 2015
Minet16:




thats since the recreation. after God created man, from the time of adam to moses is 2000 years, moses to Jesus 2000 years, this is 2015 b.c. btw before God created Adam the earth had been in existence, that was when satan fell from heaven. so keep your faith before you confuse people here
Hi, from the Biblical account of earth's creation to Adams creation is 5 days. So a total of still about 6000 years. Compared to what science posits which is in billions of years. smh for u.

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by joeblac07(m): 11:31pm On Jan 03, 2015
bsjay:
Of what benefit is this research to human beings? Does it guide man in any way into the Laws of God?
SMH. Did you come here to find the laws of God??

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 11:47pm On Jan 03, 2015
Gabreal1:
I don't understand that No.11, is it with the opposing force of gravity?
ignoring gravity
Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Minet16(m): 10:31am On Jan 04, 2015
joeblac07:

Hi, from the Biblical account of earth's creation to Adams creation is 5 days. So a total of still about 6000 years. Compared to what science posits which is in billions of years. smh for u.


u'll be shaking it until it falls of. in the begining God created the heavens (and) the earth was without form and void. d word "and" there does not specify how long it took the earth to become formless and void. he made the angels and satan before it was formless. look here's my number 08071129778. call me and get more insight. I'll b glad 2 share mysteries with you

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Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by bsjay(m): 9:57pm On Jan 04, 2015
joeblac07:

SMH. Did you come here to find the laws of God??
You cannot arrive at any meaningful research without first of all having to recognise and adapt yourself to the existing Laws governing the Universe! Maybe you have to change your topic and use the designation "earth" cos when you say "the world", it makes the initiates to believe your research covers both the visible and invisible world. Say rather, (interesting things about the gross material earth).
Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 10:18pm On Jan 04, 2015
FACT!!!
Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by Nobody: 6:30am On Jan 05, 2015
148.

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