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1. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
2. 180 million nos. of Valentine’s Day cards exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.
3. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
4. 3,467 Nos. of confectionery nut stores in the United States, they are among the best sources of sweets for Valentine’s Day.
5. 4% people drink cold drink daily.
6. 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 60% North Indians are pure vegetarian & in whole India 36%.
8. 8.7 million of United State residents who were born in Asia.
9. A Blue Whale can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
10. A Blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.
11. A Boeing 747′s wing span is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.(the Wright brother’s invented the airplane).
12. A camel’s hump is not used for water storage, but camels can go for long periods of time without water. They drink large amounts of water up to 20 gallons at a time. This water is stored in the animal’s bloodstream.
13. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
14. A ‘geep’ is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a goat.
15. A normal person laughs five times in a day.
16. About 40% Proportion of all Valentine card purchases which parents account for.
17. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
18. African Greys enter into a lifelong monogamous bond when sexually mature. Like macaws, they pick their mates carefully!
19. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
20. Alfred Southwick developed the idea of using electric current & Professionally he was a Dentist (MDS, DDS).
21. Alginates, derived from the cell walls of brown algae, are used in beer, frozen desserts, pickles, adhesives, boiler compounds, ceramics, explosives, paper and toys.
22. All domestic canaries available today originated from the Island Canary, Serinus canaria.
23. All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
24. An average human Lose 85.60, body temperature in a day.
25. An average human move 25.4 times during sleep in a day.
26. An average human produce 1.43 pints sweat in a day.
27. An average human speak 4,800 words in 24 hours.
28. An average human’s breathe 438 cubic feet AIR in 24 hours.
29. An average human’s take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids) in 24 hours.
30. An average human’s take of 3.25 pounds FOOD in a day.
31. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
32. An estimated 175,000 Real Christmas Trees are sold via e-commerce or catalogue and shipped mail-order.
33. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
34. At the deepest part of the ocean (35,813 feet/10,916 meters) in the Mariana Trench, that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.
35. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
36. Bananas grow pointing upwards.
37. Bill Clinton considered repealing the Twenty Second Constitutional Amendment, which limits presidents to two elected terms, in the event of a terrorist attack.
38. Bird Feeding: Do not feed avocado as it is toxic to birds!
39. Bone is five times stronger than steel.
40. Brahmi script were the edicts of Ashoka inscribed.
41. Buddha delivered his first sermon at Sarnath.
42. Butterflies are the second largest group of pollinators, next to bees.
43. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
44. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
45. Canaries were classified for by their shape and the geographic areas in which they were developed while others are named and classified for their plumage, song, or color. Different countries became known for the classification they bred, for example, the Germans bred for song while the English and French bred for coloration.
46. Canaries were introduced to Spain in 1478 when the Spaniards conquered the Canary Islands.
47. CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
48. Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
49. Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Greek mythology, guarded the gates to the underworld.
50. Chocolate can be killed dogs. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
51. Clinton’s Presidential Library, the largest in the United State, is located in Little Rock, Arkansas.
52. Cockatoos are one of the most long-lived parrots.
53. Cotton, rags and paper take 6 months to break down.
54. Debris flows are like mud avalanches that can move at speeds in excess of 100 mph (160 kph).
55. Dolphins are of the aquatic mammal family Delphinidae. It is estimated there are between 30 to 40 species of dolphins.
56. Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (TUS) [the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras] built the Raudat Tahera in Mumbai (India) over the qabr mubarak of his father. The mausoleum is the only one of its kind to have the entire Quran inscribed on its walls.
57. Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (TUS) [the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras] memorized the Quran at the age of 21 & built the Mahad uz Zahra, Surat (India) the first of its kind in the world for the study of the Quran.
58. Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (TUS)’s [the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras] voice at the age of 98 is so clear that a computer analysis in Germany interpreted it to be the voice of a 40 year old.
59. Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
60. During the 2,475,576,000 seconds of the average length life, averagely we speak 123,205,750 words, have sex 4,239 times, shed 121 pints of tears.
61. ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
62. Father’s Day was first observed in Spokane, Washington, in 1910. Sonora Louise Smart Dodd,of Washington, first proposed the idea of a "father’s day" in 1909.
63. First Stock Exchange of America was in Philadelphia & it was established in 1791.
64. For over 100 years, until the 16th century, the Spaniards maintained control of Canaries, selling only males to other European countries. Then, due to a shipping accident, a large cargo of canaries escaped and flew to the Island of Elba. They soon were sold all over Europe.
65. Giraffes can not swim.
66. Girls however are slightly more likely than boys to use home computers for e-mail, word processing and completing school assignments than playing games.
67. Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are!
68. Google, with a brand value of $86 billion, is the world’s most powerful brand.
69. Half of the world’s refugees and displaced people are women and girls. As refugees, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence while in flight, in refugee camps and during resettlement.
70. Harvester larvae are carnivorous. They feed on aphids not plants.
71. Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
72. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
73. Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
74. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
75. If you ate too many carrots, you’d turn orange.
76. If you could throw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall.
77. If you go blind in one eye, you’ll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
78. In 2004, Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren won a grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the Russian National Orchestra’s "Peter and the Wolf/Wolf Tracks."
79. In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
80. In a lifetime the marrow creates about half a tonne of red corpuscles.
81. In Britain 70% mothers go for work.
82. In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
83. In the year 1935 the United States Congress announced the first Sunday of August as the National Friendship Day. It was initially declared a holiday in honor of friends.
84. Indians have been biting into juicy mangoes for 3,000 years. But the western world came to know about it only 300 years ago!
85. India’s first television center was set up at Delhi.
86. Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
87. It can easily learn about any cat’s present state of mind by observing the posture of his tail.
88. It is said that Hatchetfish will break the surface of the water and "fly" after their prey using their large pectoral fins as "wings".
89. It takes 17 muscles to smile & 43 to frown.
90. It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
91. Kandla port has a free trade zone.
92. KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
93. Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine 6 to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
94. Like a bat, dolphins use echolocation to navigate and hunt, bouncing high-pitched sounds off of objects, and listening for the echoes.
95. Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu. It has 85 letters. It’s the name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, New Zealand.
96. Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.
97. Mass production of toothbrushes began in America around 1885. The first American to patent a toothbrush was H. N. Wadsworth, (patent number 18,653,) on Nov. 7, 1857.
98. Mini-lops were derived from German lops called "Kleine Widder" lops. Mini lops were recognized as their own breed in 1982.
99. Monarchs have been known to migrate over 3000km. In fact a Monarch tagged at Presqu’ile, here in southern Ontario, was recovered in Mexico and is on record as being the longest insect migration.
100. More artists live in California than any other state in the United States. There are 10,000 arts organizations in California.
101. More than 50 million Americans said they had a disability; for 32.5 million of them, the disability was severe.
102. North American Real Christmas Trees are grown in all 50 states and Canada. Eighty-five percent (85%) of artificial trees sold in the U.S. are manufactured in China.
103. Of the more than 600 million school-age children in the developing world, 120 million primary school-age children are not in school, 53 percent are girls.
104. Oils from the orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus, a deep-sea fish from New Zealand, are used in making shampoo. "The Boston Tea Party" took place in 1773, that was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company on ships in Boston Harbor.
105. OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
106. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
107. Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.
108. OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
109. POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
110. Polar bears have more problems with overheating than they do with cold. Even in very cold weather, they quickly overheat when they try to run.
111. Polar bears have two layers of fur for further protection from the cold.
112. Polar bears know how to pack on the fat, a single bear can consume 100 pounds of blubber at one sitting.
113. Russia is the largest country in area.
114. Self-employment, part-time and home-based work have expanded opportunities for women’s participation in the labor force but are characterized by lack of security, lack of benefits and low income.
115. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
116. Some butterflies, such as the Northern Pearly Eye, will fly at night.
117. Some scientists call Greenland an island, others say it’s a continent, but it’s only about one-third the size of Australia.
118. The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
119. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
120. The chemical pectin, found in ripe fruit, causes jam to set when cooling.
121. The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
122. The compound carotene gives the carrot its color.
123. The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.
124. The creosote bush, which grows in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts, has been shown by radiocarbon dating to have lived since the birth of Christ. Some of these plants may endure 10,000 years, scientists say. If only they could talk.
125. The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC – the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.
126. The focusing muscles of the eye move about 100,000 times a day. To give the leg muscles the same exercise would involve walking 80km (50 miles) a day.
127. The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).
128. The height of Mt. Everest (29,035 feet) was revised upward by 7 feet based on measurements made in 1999 using the satellite-based Global Positioning System.
129. The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.
130. The Jules Undersea Lodge is an underwater hotel in Key Largo, Florida and is the only such hotel in the United States. It is 30 feet (9 m) deep on the ocean floor and guests have to scuba dive to get to their rooms.
131. The largest quantity of fish in the world is produced by Japan & Russia.
132. The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
133. The most commonest English nouns are time, person, and year.
134. The most commonest English word in writing around the world is "the".
135. The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.
136. The most prominent topographic feature on Earth is the immense volcanic mountain chain that encircles the planet beneath the sea — the chain is more than 30,000 miles (48,000 kilometers) long and rises an average of 18,000 feet (5.5 kilometers) above the seafloor.
137. The most prominent topographic feature on Earth is the immense volcanic mountain chain that encircles the planet beneath the sea, the chain is more than 30,000 miles (48,000 kilometers) long and rises an average of 18,000 feet (5.5 kilometers) above the seafloor.
138. The oldest existing newspaper in India is Bombay Samachar.
139. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.
140. The polar bear’s compact ears and small tail also help prevent heat loss.
141. The retina inside the eye covers about 650mm2 (1 sq in) and contains 137 million light-sensitive cells: 130 million rod cells for black-and-white vision and 7 million cone cells for colour vision.
142. The Statue of Liberty’s index finger is eight feet and one inch long.
143. The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
144. The top selling Christmas Trees are: balsam fir, Douglas-fir, Fraser fir, noble fir, Scotch pine, Virginia pine and white pine.
145. The United Nations University is located in Tokyo.
146. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
147. The world’s first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
148. The world’s population has been increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years.
149. There are 292 species of butterflies in Canada. Most of which are found in British Columbia (176) and the fewest on Prince Edward Island (42). In Ontario we have 142 species.
150. There are approximately 30-35 million Real Christmas Trees sold in the U.S. every year.
151. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
152. There are roughly 4,000 known minerals, although only about 200 are of major importance.
153. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The survivor is born.
154. Traffic lights are being used before the invention of motor car.
155. Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.
156. Vitamin K is necessary for clotting of blood.
157. When a Norwegian scientist, Nils Oritsland, studied a polar bear on a treadmill, he found that his subject would move off for short periods of time at higher speeds and would sometimes lie down and refuse to walk at all!
158. When curled up in a ball, polar bears sometimes cover their muzzles – which radiate heat – with one of their thickly furred paws.
159. When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
160. When you sneeze air rushes out your nose at a rate of 100 miles per hour.
161. Women produce half the world’s food, but own only one percent of its farmland.
162. You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.

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