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1. "In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."— Confucius, Chinese teacher and philosopher

71. In a day 34,000 children die every day from causes that are related to poverty and hunger.

64. Chameleons can move their eyes independently. One eye can be looking forward and one eye backward at the same time.

65. Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That is the opposite of the norm.

66. Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish betweenan ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails.

67. Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.

68. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is"uncopyrightable."

69. In a year, an average person uses the toilet 2500 times a year.

70. A snail can crawl across a razor blade without getting injured. This is possible because they excrete a slime that protects them.

63. Adolf Hitler was one of the people that was responsible in the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle. He came up with the idea of producing a car that was cheap enough for the average German working man to afford.

62. The water inside of a coconut is identical to human blood plasma. Many lives in third world countries have been saved from coconut water fed through an IV.

61. There are over 200 parts in a typical phone.

53. A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood.

54. The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at adistance of thirty feet.

55. One billion seconds is about 32 years.

56. In a lifetime, an average driver will release approximately 912 pints of wind inside a car.

57. Women take three times longer than men when using the toilet.

58. Canada is an Indian word meaning "village" or "settlement."

59. The city of Seoul has been the capital city of Korea for more than 600 years

60. People who studies laughter are called a "gelotologists."

52. The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.

51. Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms.

On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving.

50. The reason why flamingos are pink is because they eat shrimp which have a red pigment.

magabounce:
@explorers I remember I did a presentation once when I was in charge of smm for a hotel where I used to work.
I must say I salute your in depth research, but I must say, you weren't explicit when you talked about linkedin
Although fairly used in Nigeria, but it has mind blowing potentials.
Keep up the good work

Thanks, will put more effort.

49. Alexandrea Owen "Cora in Titanic" then and now.

48. Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago.

47. Finland is also known as "the land of of the thousand lakes," because of the over 188,000 lakes found in this country.

In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.

35. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

36. On average, a person will spend about five years eating during their lifetime.

37. A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

38. The longest hiccups on record was by an American pig farmer whose hiccups persisted from 1922 to 1987.

39. In Albania, nodding your head means "no" and shaking your head means"yes."

40. Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older.

41. Urophobia is the fear of urine or urinating.

42. The word Thailand means "land of the free."

43. In 1391, China began producing toliet paper for use by its Emperors.

44. In the United States, the most frequent month for a tornado to occur is in May.

45. In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year.

46. A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times in a day. This is so the yolk does not stick to the shell.

nairalandbuzz:
You posted ur introduction pics some time back and now newborns... It is well o....

Lol..

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

34. A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

33. Close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18.

27. The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe.

28. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

29. Scatologists are experts who study feces. (aka. crap, dung, dookie, dumps, feces, excrement, etc.).

30. The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour.

31. The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897.

32. The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

Funjosh:
Canada is not just a country, but a Home

Not just home, but a paradise. Wish to have my way there bro.

26. Ramses II, a pharaoh of Egypt died in 1225 B.C. At the time of his death, he had fathered 96 sons and 60 daughters.

25. A fox in a frozen lake.

24. Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world.

23. The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.

16. Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

17. 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.

18. NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.

19. The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour.

20. Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouse.

21. The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia.

22. Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.

15. World's longest non stop flight.

An Airbus 380, the world's largest passenger plane, left Dubai and touched down in Auckland after traversing 14,200 kilometers. Taking 17 hours and 15 minutes on the stretch from Auckland back to Dubai. March, 2016.

3. You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.

4. Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them.

5. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all theletters in alphabetical order.

6. Of all the words in the English language, the word "SET" has themost definitions.

7. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

8. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have tovisit 2 million flowers.

9. James Fixx, the man who popularized jogging in America died of a heart attack while running.

10. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

11. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

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

13. A broken clock is right two times a day.

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

2. Size: Nigeria Vs the United states.