· Human hair and finger nails continue to grow after death
· Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland
· Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars
· Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil
· Mango is the number one selling fruit in the World. India is the biggest producer of mangoes in the World
· The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air
· No nation has ever won the Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International Pageant in the same year?
· About 85% of the plant life on earth is in the oceans
· In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and make it look like it's smiling
· If a person counted at the rate of 100 numbers a minute and kept counting for 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week, it would take a little over 4 weeks to count to one million and just over 80 years to reach a billion
· An average person perspires a gut-wrenching 278 gallons of sweat each year
· Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made out of wood
· A banana is about 75% water. They grow on a rhizome, not a tree. You are more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.
· Iceland is the world's oldest functioning democracy
· Mongolia is the largest landlocked country
· Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the Sun
· There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower
· In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained
· The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China
· Birth-control campaigns in Egypt in the late 1970s failed because village women ended up wearing the pills in lockets, as talismans
· Niagara Falls has moved about ten miles upstream in the last 10,000 years. The falls are eroding at the rate of 5 feet per year
· The Sahara desert is expanding half a mile south every year
· The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year
· The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending on the tide.
· There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200 people
· The Australian term for extras in cricket are 'sundries'
· In early Rome, March 1 was New Year's Day. Later, the ancient Romans made January 1 the beginning of the year
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