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| Did You Know? by Nobody: 10:57am On Oct 06, 2011 |
40 degrees Celsius is equal to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. - 7,000 new insect species are discovered every year. - 85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting! - 9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive! - A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber. - A bird 'chews' with its stomach. - A car operates at maximum economy, gas- wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour. - A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second. - A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted. - A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood! - Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies. - Actress Elizabeth Taylor wrote the children's book 'Nibbles & Me'. - An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. - An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet. - Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier. - Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession! - Austria was the first country to use postcards. - Bill Gates designed a traffic control system for Seattle when he was only 15! Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia. Buttermilk does not contain any butter. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours. C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars. Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts. Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century. Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'" Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct. El Salvador is the only Central American country without a coastline on the Caribbean. English is the only language that capitalises the first person singular, 'I'. Even Antarctica has an area code. It is 672. Every Alaskan citizen over the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend check of about $1000 per year! Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam. First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil. For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt. Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims. Identify a fake: The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves smoothly. In 1956, 80% of all U.S. households had a refrigerator, but only 8% of British households had one! In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds! In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined! In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.  |
| Re: Did You Know? by Dyt(f): 10:59am On Oct 06, 2011 |
now we know dozzes off |
| Re: Did You Know? by Nobody: 12:42pm On Oct 06, 2011 |
Dyt Berra be gr8ful Cos am teaching u what u never got to learn at Sokoto Central Polythecnic!  |
| Re: Did You Know? by TomFord: 12:46pm On Oct 06, 2011 |
Thanks to national geographic&discovery |
| Re: Did You Know? by Nobody: 12:55pm On Oct 06, 2011 |
^^ Give some Credit to the Man who's been compiling the List na  |
| Re: Did You Know? by Chrisplus(m): 1:30pm On Oct 06, 2011 |
i thought this is a joke section? Jst tell me wer d joke is in dis one, n i promise 2 laugh next time |
| Re: Did You Know? by mikuz(m): 7:59pm On Oct 06, 2011 |
^ seun said this section is "jokes etc" so? |
| Re: Did You Know? by freecocoa(f): 8:36pm On Oct 06, 2011 |
All this while my boss at my place of IT has been wearing a fake rolex and forming one thing one thing. Thank you jare OP. |
| Re: Did You Know? by TomFord: 9:53pm On Oct 06, 2011 |
Ok.take some credit,lets have more if you please |
| Re: Did You Know? by Nobody: 10:02pm On Oct 06, 2011 |
@-Mikuz, Bro thanks for clearing issues to the poster ahead of U @-FreeCocoa, Lol U can now go and laff at ur boss to have been posing with a fake! @-Tom, Thanks promise to post more and more!  |
| Re: Did You Know? by mikuz(m): 7:22am On Oct 07, 2011 |
Lol |
| Re: Did You Know? by Nobody: 8:46am On Oct 07, 2011 |
Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey- decimal category. Israel is one quarter the size of the state of Maine. Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level. Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents. It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world! It is possible to see a rainbow at night! It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times. Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old! Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off . La Scala is the worlds most famous Opera House. Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning. Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'. More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life. Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water! Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08! Muhammad is the most common name in the world. Native Indians have been known to paint their doors blue, which they believe keeps the bad spirits out. Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions! |
| Re: Did You Know? by sylve11: 11:04am On Oct 07, 2011 |
El Guapo: lol |
| Re: Did You Know? by Dyt(f): 11:05am On Oct 07, 2011 |
i know u na pushes d man above me |
| Re: Did You Know? by sylve11: 11:11am On Oct 07, 2011 |
Odeshi! |
| Re: Did You Know? by Dyt(f): 11:12am On Oct 07, 2011 |
odeshi afta u don fall lookin at him on d ground |
| Re: Did You Know? by sylve11: 11:15am On Oct 07, 2011 |
Take it easy mam', my daughter is watching |
| Re: Did You Know? by Dyt(f): 11:17am On Oct 07, 2011 |
mayb u ask cos i dont know mysef btw u still wear dose ur glasses? |
| Re: Did You Know? by sylve11: 11:32am On Oct 07, 2011 |
they are glued to my eyes |
| Re: Did You Know? by Dyt(f): 11:34am On Oct 07, 2011 |
oh i c pls excuse me i wan pass |
| Re: Did You Know? by sylve11: 11:43am On Oct 07, 2011 |
INIFIED guys don't excuse babes. . . |
| Re: Did You Know? by Dyt(f): 11:45am On Oct 07, 2011 |
hey dats my baby dont go dere |
| Re: Did You Know? by Nobody: 11:50am On Oct 07, 2011 |
So Sylve which of the facts amaze u the most? |
| Re: Did You Know? by sylve11: 11:55am On Oct 07, 2011 |
El guapool this El Guapo: |
| Re: Did You Know? by Nobody: 12:20pm On Oct 07, 2011 |
Sylve u need Pst Chris in ya Life, i swear |
| Re: Did You Know? by sylve11: 12:41pm On Oct 07, 2011 |
and who do u need in urs? the prophets of baal?  |
| Re: Did You Know? by Nobody: 12:52pm On Oct 07, 2011 |
I no get case na, u're the one the community is fighting to keep Ok. |
| Re: Did You Know? by TomFord: 1:35pm On Oct 07, 2011 |
Interesting facts.who says mohammed is the most common name?how can one see rainbow at night?63000trees!thats more than the trees in badagry.what do you expect from marie currie?she reaped where she sowed.that boy/girl delivery really can't be true. |
| Re: Did You Know? by sylve11: 2:16pm On Oct 07, 2011 |
El Guapo: lol! i dey do my thing my way jaire |
| Re: Did You Know? by TomFord: 12:52pm On Oct 08, 2011 |
Keep firing,you three much |
| Re: Did You Know? by Nobody: 2:10pm On Oct 08, 2011 |
Yeah Tom am doing this for the hommies who wanna go particpate in Who Wants to be a Millionaire! |
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