Showing posts with label Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facts. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Top 10 Facts about Facebook



  • 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook.
  • In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded.
  • In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted.
  • In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted.
  • In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered.
  • 48% of 18 to 34 year olds check Facebook right when they wake up.
  • People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
  • People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
  • Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 41 million fans.
  • The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which represents 23.6% of Facebook’s total users.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Strange coincidences & Amazing Facts between Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both of their wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both were shot in the head.
Both were shot with one bullet.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Both assassins were assassinated before their trials.

Lincoln's last child, Tad, had his funeral held on July 16, 1871. Later he was exhumed and moved to a different grave site.
Kennedy's son JFK Jr. was lost at sea on July 16, 1999. Later he was found, brought up, and then re-burried at sea.

Friday, October 19, 2012

VERY INTERESTING UNKNOWN FACTS


Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.








1. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
2. Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
3. A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
4. Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The Wright brother's invented the airplane.
5. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
6. One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
7. The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.
8. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
9. Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
10. Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
11. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.
12. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
13. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
14. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
15. Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
16. There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
17. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
18. The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
19. Octopus have three hearts.
20. If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
21. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
22. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
23. The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
24. Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
25. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
26. Most cats are left pawed.
27. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
28. A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
29. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
30. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
31. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.

10 Interesting Facts about Human Eyes!!


10 Interesting Facts about Human Eyes!!


1) Eyes are composed of more than 2 million working parts.
2) The average person blinks 12 times per minute – about 10,000 blinks in an average day.
3) Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
4) Only 1/6th of the eyeball is exposed to the outside world.
5) Eyelashes have an average life span of 5 months.