Funny,Interesting,True Facts

• Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
• Children's sense of smell is better than adults'.
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
• The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
• You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
• The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
• Cherophobia is a fear of fun.
• Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer. 
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 
• While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005
• Hewlett Packard(HP) was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.    
• If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.
• On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
• The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact.   
• The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
• Your brain is 80% water.(even mine :))
• Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
• The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".(Chemistry man)    
• The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
• The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
• The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
• Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
• No matter how cold it gets, gasoline(petrol) will not freeze.
• If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
• The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
• The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
• An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
• If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere(so try to stop global warming guys  )
• The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.(plant more trees)
• The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.(who would have named all these ? wired)
• Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.        
• Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
• There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, and only some 20 million people.
• China is the source of 70% of the worlds pirated goods.
• In France, there's a place called Y.
• There is a city called Rome on every continent.
• WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
• "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
• There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
• There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
• The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
• The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
• The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
• The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
• The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
• To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
• The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
• Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
• Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
• The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world.
• In a century's time Islam had converted one-third of the world.
• It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.         
• All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.