Amazing facts

• It took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users while it took the Internet less than 4 years.
• The US Navy run the second largest computer network on earth, second only to the internet.
• Ringtones now account for 10 percent of the worlds music market generating about $3billion
• The first product to have bar code was Wrigley's gum
• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes
• The first McDonald's restaurant was opened for business in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1952.
• Did you know that the original URL of Yahoo! was http://akebono.stanford.edu/?

Amazing facts

• The poison arrow frog of South and Central America is the most poisonous animal in thw world.
• There are no poisonous snakes in Maine
• The most venomous of all the snakes is the Inland Taipan,which has enough venom in one bite to kill more than 200 mice
• The venom of the king cobra, the world's largest poisonous snake, is strong enough to kill an elephant.
• The paradise tree-snake of South-east Asia can 'fly' through the air by flattening its body into an s-shaped ribbon.
• One species of fer-de-lance, a deadly viper, has been recorded swallowing prey that was 1.6 times its own body weight.

Amazing facts

• The rarest diamond in the world is the green diamond
• It is calculated that since the creation of man,about 60 billion people have died.
• The Great Comet,which appeared in 1843 had a tail that was 330 million km long.It will return in 2356.
• The Earth is slowing down.In a few million years there wont be a leap year
• The first trademarked product in the world was beer-British beer Bass Pale Ale received its trademark in 1876.

Amazing facts

• The Guinness Book of world records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
• In Italy,A man can be arrested if he wears a skirt in public
• There are 200 million privately owned guns in the US including 65 million handguns.
• Skepticism is the longest word that one can make using alternate hands while typing.
• The machine that takes a Space shuttle to the launching pad is called a crawler.It moves at 3Kmph.

Amazing facts

• Want to try your hand at some paper folding?A dry sheet of paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times
• A single bolt of lightning can heat up the atmosphere to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit
• A compass never points to the geographic north but to the magnetic north
• Ancient science? In the 2nd Century B.C Greek astronomer Erstosthenes accurately measured the distance around the earth at about 40,000 km but nobody believed him
• You do know that light travels faster than sound.But did you know that sound travels 3 times faster through water than through air?

Amazing facts

• 14 out of 45 vice presidents of the US have become Presidents!
• The world's oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland.It was established in 930 A.D
• The world's first democracy was introduced 2,500 years ago in Athens in Greece.Today,the world's largest democracy is India,with over 600 million voters.
• The United Nations organisation(UN) first came into being after the World War II,in 1945
• The shortest term as President was served by William Henry Harrison.He served for 32 days,from 4 March to 4 April 1841.