Striking facts.
-Dentists recommend that you should keep a toothbrush at a distance of
not less than two meters away from the toilet bowl.
-No one piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
-Every year on Earth there are more lives have been lost from donkeys
than are killed in plane crashes.
-Wingspan of Boeing-747 is more than the distance of the first flight of
Wright brothers.
-American Airlines saved $40,000, removing just one olive from the salad
served to first class passengers.
-To wake up in the morning the apples help better than coffee.
-Plastic things at the ends of shoelaces are called "aiguillette".
-Most of the dust in your house are the scaled off pieces of skin.
-Marilyn Monroe had six fingers per her feet.
-Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
-Among the people who publish marriage ads, there are 35% already
married.
-You can force a cow come upstairs, but it is impossible to get it down.
-On an average, 100 people are killed each year, suffocated with a
ballpoint pen.
-Elephant is the only animal that is not able to jump.
-Women blink twice as often as men do it.
-It is anatomically impossible to lick your own elbow.
-The building of the main library of the University of Indiana every year
has a drawdown of one inch, because the engineers failed to take into
account the weight of its books in the construction.
-Lighter was invented before matches.
-Every day, the residents of the U.S. eat up 18 hectares of pizza.
-American scientists, analyzing the statistics of combats with Japanese in
World War II, discovered that, despite the equality of forces, U.S. forces
won more often. The cause was found in the length of words in English
and Japanese. In English, the average length of a word is five letters, but
in Japanese it is thirteen. That is, while the Japanese have put a combat
mission, the Americans have already started to shoot. Thereafter in
American army there were put to practice the short names (nicknames)
for their military equipment and for enemy's technology as well. When it
came to the Russians, they also calculated the average length of the
word in the Russian language, which proved to be equal to seven letters.
Then how did they contrive to win the War? However, the real field
studies have shown: in the process of control of operations the
commander automatically turned the air blue (used the dirty language)
and the self-descriptiveness of the speech grew up to three times.
-Almost all who read this, has tried to lick his elbow, and to fold a sheet
of paper more than 7 times.
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