Monday, 31 January 2011

Fact No.96

The worlds largest continent is Asia with 17,139,445 square miles (44,391,162 square km).

Saturday, 29 January 2011

Friday, 28 January 2011

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Fact No.92

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Fact No.90

What is commonly referred to as a spiral staircase is actually a helictical staircase.

Monday, 24 January 2011

Fact No.89

There are 400 million dogs in the world, asia eats 16 million of them a year.

Sunday, 23 January 2011

Saturday, 22 January 2011

Fact No.87

Babies are born without kneecaps. 
They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. 

Friday, 21 January 2011

Fact No.86

A pineapple is not a fruit, it is a cluster of up to 200 fruitlets.

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Fact No.85

An American Billion = 1,000,000,000
An English Billion     = 1,000,000,000,000

An American Trillion= 1,000,000,000,000
An English Trillion    = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Fact No.84

You can tell if a 2/3 digit number is divisible by 11 if the outer numbers sum to the middle number (eg. 352 033).

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Monday, 17 January 2011

Fact No.82

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Sunday, 16 January 2011

Fact No.81

In homeopathy 30C dilution is one part of a substance in a perfect sphere that would fit between the earth and the sun.

Saturday, 15 January 2011

Fact No.80

4 cans of coke have enough sugar for your daily guideline allowance.

Friday, 14 January 2011

Fact No.79

The longest word in the english language to use only letters from one row of a QWERTY keyboard is: 'Typewriter'

Thursday, 13 January 2011

Fact No.78

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.' 

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Fact No.77

The sentance: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses all the letters of the alphabet.

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Fact No.76

There are 98 degrees C of difference between an ice cream and a cup of tea.

Monday, 10 January 2011

Sunday, 9 January 2011

Fact No.74

'Dreamt' is the only word in the english language that ends with the letters; 'mt'.

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Fact No.73

If you are attacked by a brown bear, you should play dead to get it to leave you alone, however if you aree attacked by a black bear, you would have to kill it as it will attack, even if you play dead.

Friday, 7 January 2011

Fact No.72

No word in the english lanuage ryhmes with; month, orange, silver and purple.

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Fact No.71

If you were to line up the population of China in rows, each with 8 people in it and get them to walk past you, the line would never stop (due to current birth rates in China).

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Fact No.70

Wrinkling occurs due to a loss of elasticity in the face as you get older.

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Fact No.69

The correct way to answer the question: How are you? Is: I am Well, Not: I am good.

Monday, 3 January 2011

Fact No.68

The smallest muscle in the human body is in the ear and is approximatly 1mm long.