Here are some of the strange interesting facts that we are unaware of :
- Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
- By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
- Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute.
- Lobsters have blue blood.
- A man says average 4850 words in 24 hours.
- The thumb nail grows the slowest and the middle nail the fastest.
- Chocolates can kill dogs.
- Ketchup was earlier sold as medicine.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
- Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.
- A person generates 100 pound of red blood cells in his lifetime.
- Rubber bands last longer in refrigerator.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- Dreamt is the only word ending with ‘mt’.
- Intelligent people are with more zinc and copper in their hair.
- 69% Americans use Internet and only 5.5% of Indians.
- Plastics take 500 years to break down.
- America has 30.30% airports of the world & India has only 0.70%.
- The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.
- The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.
- The world’s population has increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years.
- 180 millions of Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually.
- 4% of the total population drinks cold drink daily.
- It’s impossible to sneeze with eyes open.
- In Bangladesh, kids are punished and jailed for cheating in final exams.
- It takes yard of sugarcane to make one sugar cube.
- Half gallon water is required to cook macaroni.
- Traffic lights were used even before the invention of cars.
- A normal person laughs five times a day.
- Every year in India, an approximate of 300 million tickets are sold.