- Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
- Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
- Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.
- Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
- In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
- For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
- HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
- If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
- A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.
- Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 Billion.
- The only curse word used in a Harry Potter movie was "bitch."
- Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary.
- A 27 year old heir to a sausage empire was handed a ticket for 116,000 pounds for driving at 80 km/hr in a 40 km/hr zone. This is because the speeding tickets in Finland are based on how much money a person makes.
- Benjamin Franklin was an advocate of “air baths”, during which he would spend up to an hour reading or writing in his house completely naked.
- WORLD'S HIGHEST BRIDGE : BAILEY BRIDGE :-
Bailey bridge between the Suru River and Dras River in Ladakh, India is the highest bridge in the world at an altitude of 5,602 meters (18,379 ft) above sea level. It was built in August 1982 by the Indian Army.
- 20% of world's Cranes are in Dubai.
- Laughter helps increase memory and learning. Incorporating humor into education leads to higher test scores. Laughter also improves creativity and alertness.
- The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.
- Beer gives you a healthy daily level of silicon which helps in strengthening the bones and teeth.
- A buttload is equal to 126 gallons, A boatload is equal to 54,107, 280 gallons and a shitload is equal to .260 gallons.
- About 30% of American admit to talking to their dogs or leaving messages on their answering machines for their dogs while they are away.
- The closer people are to each other, the harder it is to lie. This is why it's so easy for people to lie on Twitter, Facebook and in emails.
- Angelina Jolie has collected knives ever since she was 12 and used to cut herself during sex to increase the pleasure of the experience.
- More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
- Daniel Radcliffe was paid 80 times more for the final Harry Potter film than he was for the first one.
- In China there is a website that lets you rent a girlfriend for as low as $31 for a week!
- Men start faltering and exhibit a decline in mental performance as soon as they anticipate interacting with women. Interestingly, though, women face no such problems.
- Paris Hilton, Lady Gaga and Brad Pitt, were all strippers at one point.
- In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.
- In 2011, the “Most Tweeted Phrase” on Twitter was “Beyonce’s Baby Bump".
- One of the greatest fears on Facebook is accidentally using the status update as the search bar.
