Saturday, January 28, 2006
Do we know this ? Some interesting facts !!
- 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did. Swan received a British patent for his device in 1878, about a year before Edison !
- Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand
The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the
actual queen.- If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
- Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
- Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
- On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
- 2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.
- On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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