Sunday, January 17, 2010

:: DID YOU KNOW? ::

  • A snail can sleep for three years.
  • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
  • The major air-polluting industries are iron, steel and cement.
  • The shortest French word with all five vowels is oiseau meaning bird.
  • The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
  • More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
  • Every year more than 2500 left handed people are killed from using right handed products.
  • American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
  • The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
  • The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

p/s : aku jumpa ini sewaktu sibuk mencari bahan untuk Chapter 1. Actually, there's a lot more..huhu.. BTW, don't know bout its validity.

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