Fascinating facts and one mythbuster to impress your friends, start conversations and save the world from itself

In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 8,00,000 fan letters.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice. Some consolation: he found them ‘sympathetic’.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Some turtles can breathe through their butts. Sea cucumbers can too. The latter can also disembowel themselves when disturbed: they eject the digestive tract and respiratory tract from the anus.

The innards crawl around by themselves for a while outside the animal, and as they are sticky they can also entangle an attacker. The sea cucumber then blithely crawls off to regenerate its digestive tract.


Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. And the parachute. And the first bicycle 300 years before it appeared on the roads.

The Jelly Belly company manufactures 'Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans', a favourite of Harry Potter The assortment contains more conventional flavours such as cherry, blueberry and green apple, you'd best choose carefully or you end up with one of the less appealing flavours — including black pepper, rotten egg, earthworm, soap, earwax, booger and vomit.

Mythbuster: If you swallow chewing gum, it takes seven years to get digested and pass out of your system

It's true that chewing gum is mostly indigestible. But it will still make its way through your digestive system at the same rate as anything else you consume.

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I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.

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The ancient Romans dyed their hair with bird droppings.

A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

During his life time, the average male eats 50 tons of food.

The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person’s life.

The two lines that connect the bottom of your nose to your lip are called the philtrum. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

It takes around 2,00,000 frowns to create a permanent brow line.

Only pharaohs were allowed to eat mushrooms in ancient Egypt.

In ancient China, doctors received their fees only if their patient were kept healthy. If the patient’s health failed, the doctor sometimes paid the patient.


Cows can be identified by nose prints.

70 per cent dust consists of human skin.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

A single drop of liquid contains as many as 50 million bacteria.


You share a birthday with at least nine other million people in the world.

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I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.

In your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill an average sized swimming pool, up to 8000 gallons.
Koala bears make really fussy eaters, they eat only eucalyptus leaves and only 6 of the 50 species of eucalyptus that exist.
The parasitic male anglerfish stays with his partner for life � literally. Once the tiny male attaches to the much larger female, his tissues fuse with hers, he loses his sight and smell and gets nourishment from her bloodstream.
Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
Chewing gum while peeling onions keeps you from crying.


If you are right-handed, you sweat more under your left arm. If you are left-handed, you sweat more under your right arm.
Tomatoes were once referred to as “love apples.� This is because there was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them.
The word Spain means “the land of rabbits�.
If your body’s natural defences failed, the bacteria in your gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you from the inside out.
Parasites count for 0.01 per cent of your body weight.


In Alabama, it is against the law to wear a fake moustache that could cause laughter in the church.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years

__________________
I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.

Pointless trivia
By: A Sunday Mid Day Correspondent
June 11, 2006
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If you have a tapeworm in your stomach it will come up when you are asleep to lick the salt off your lips!

Woodpeckers have tongues so long they can wrap them around their brain to cushion it when they are pecking.

Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ’n roll, considering it a threat to “quality� music.


***The fear of ageing is called gerascophobia.
In ancient Greece, women counted their age from the date they were married.

The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill.

A cheetah does not roar like a lion � it purrs like a cat (meow).

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.


Penguins are the only other animals that openly allow and participate in prostitution. While the males look after the eggs the females go off and sleep with other males who have more impressive nests. As payment they receive a stone from the males nest!

Graphics by Gynelle Alves

__________________
I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.

Some thing for advanced vocabulary.....


1. Cigarette : A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool at the other.
2. Love affairs : Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day test.
3. Marriage : It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master
4. Divorce : Future tense of marriage
5. Lecture : An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either".
6. Conference : The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
7. Compromise : The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
8. Tears : The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power ..
9. Dictionary : A place where divorce comes before marriage.
10. Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.
11. Ecstasy : A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.
12. Classic : A book which people praise, but do not read.
13. Smile : A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
14. Office : A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
15. Yawn : The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
16. e.t.c. : A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
17. Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
18. Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.
19. Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.
20. Philosopher : A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.
21. Diplomat : A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
22. Opportunist : A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.
23. Optimist : A person who while falling from Eiffel Tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet."
24. Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, Instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY
25. Miser : A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
26. Father : A banker provided by nature.
27. Criminal : A guy no different from the rest... except that he got caught.
28. Boss : Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
29. Politician : One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.
30. Doctor : A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.

__________________
I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.

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The average person will spend over two weeks of their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph.

The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It’s from England.

The saying ‘once in a blue moon’ refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month.

The E Coli bacterium propels itself with a ‘motor’ only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.


One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

Astronauts cannot burp - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.


In the 1400s a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick thicker than his thumb. Hence we have ‘the rule of thumb’.

__________________
I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.