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Facts
Posted By:Mohamedris On 5/21/2009

 
The setting sun is redder than the rising sun because the air at the end of the day is generally dustier than it is at the beginning of the day.
 
The seven archangels are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Chamuel, Jophiel, and Zadkiel.
 
The Seven Deadly Sins are lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, avarice and gluttony.
 
The seven hills of Rome are the Palatine (on which the original city was built), the Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, and Aventine.
 
The seven virtues are prudence, courage, temperance, justice, faith, hope and charity.
 
The seven wonders of the ancient world werethe Egyptian Pyramids at Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Colossus of Rhodes or huge bronze statue near the Harbor of Rhodes that honored the sun god Helios, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Lighthouse at Alexandria
 
 The sewing machine was patented on August 12, 1851, by Isaac Singer of Pittstown, New York.
 
The sex of crocodiles is determined by the incubation temperature. Eggs incubated at temperatures below 85 degrees become females. Those incubated above 95 degrees become males. 2. Crocodiles are the closest living relatives to birds.
 
The shallowest sea is the sea of Azov.It is 13 meters at its deepest.
 
The shape of a plants' collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.
 
The shore of the Dead Sea in Israel-Jordan is 1312 feet (400 meter) below sea level.
 
The shortest "-ology" (study of) word is oology, the study of eggs.
 
The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4'9".
 
The shortest verse in the Bible consists of two words: "Jesus wept" (John 11:35).
 
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
 
The shortest word in the English language with all its letters in alphabetical order is the word "almost."
 
The side of a hammer is a cheek.
 
The silhouette on the MLB logo is Harmon Killebrew.
 
The silkworm consumes 86000 times its own weight in 56 days.
 
The single highest temperature ever recorded in U.S. history was 134 degrees Fahrenheit. It was recorded in Greenland Ranch, CA on July 10, 1913. The lowest recorded temperature was minus 80 degrees on January 23, 1971 in Prospect Creek, AK.
 
The six most dangerous occupations in America are; football player, firefighter, race-car driver, astrnaut, police officer, and fisherman.
 
The size of a newly born kangaroo is 2.5 cms.
 
The size of a raindrop is around 0.5 mm 2.5 mm, and they fall from the sky on average 21 feet per second.
 
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
 
The slanted line that divides dates, fractions, choices, etc. (6/1/04) is called a virgule.
 
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur
 
The sloth moves so slowly that it's fur offers a comfortable environment for algae to grow.
 
The slowest trainee on the SEALs obstacle course must wear a pink T-shirt that reads, "Always a Lady".
 
The smallest breed of dogs are the Chihuahuas.
 
The smallest fish in the world is the Trimattum Nanus of the Chagos Archipelago. It is only 0.33" long.
 
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 square miles.
 
The smallest known fish is the Pandaka Pygmea,about the size of an ant and almost transeparent.
 
The smallest number spelled with an "a" is one thousand.
 
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens. A smaller museum in Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells and claims to be the worlds only museum devoted solely to mollusks.
 
The smoke detector was invented in 1969.
 
The snail mates only once in it's entire life.
 
The soldiers of World War I were the first people to use the modern flushing toilet. The inventor: Thomas Crapper.
 
The song "Happy Birthday to You" was originally written by sisters Mildred and Patty Hill as "Good Morning to You." The words were changed and it was published in 1935.
 
The song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was written by George Graff, who was German, and was never in Ireland in his life.
 
The song Take Me Out to the Ballgame was written by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer.
 
The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.
 
The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.
 
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
 
The sound you hear when you macho people crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
 
The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.
 
The soundtrack to Oklahoma was the first album to sell one million copies on August 18, 1958.
 
The South Pole is covered with 8,850 feet of solid ice.
 
The South Pole was reached for the first time on 14 December 1911 by a team of explorers led by Roald Amundsen.
 
The Soviet Caucasus mountain actually moved a mile in 1972. Heavy rains swelled an underground river and the whole mountain salied away over the course of eight days.
 
The Sphinx ( famous pyramid) was carved from one piece of stone.
 
The standard blue U.S. Postal Service mailbox can hold approximately 4,000 letters at a time.
 
The Stanley Cup came from the Governor General of Canada from 1888 to 1893, Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley. Stanley was a fan of hockey and presented a trophy to be contested by the best amateur hockey team in Canada. The amateur HNA would later become to NHL in 1917.
 
The Star Trek theme actually has lyrics.
 
The starfish has an eye on the end of each arm.
 
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out. They also dont have brains. (See the connection?)
 
The state flower of Texas is the Bluebonnet; the state tree is a pecan.
 
The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub.
 
 The state of Florida is bigger than England! 
 
The state of Utah used to be submerged under water and to this day brine shrimp can still be found in rain-filled hollows under rocks and boulders.
 
The states of Washington and Montana still execute prisoners by hanging.
 
The states with the most presidential burial sites: Ohio and Virginia (tie).
 
The statue by Auguste Rodin that has come to be known as The Thinker wasn't meant to be a portrait of a man in thought. It's a portrait of Dante Aligheri.
 
The statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capital building is 19.5 feet tall and weighs 15,000 pounds. It was created in Rome, and the ship that brought it to America ran into a storm so severe that most of the cargo had to be tossed overboard. Before the ship reached the United States, it was condemned and sold in Bermuda, where the statue was put in storage. Two years later it reached Washington, but because of the Civil War the dome wasn't finished and the statue didn't get hoisted to its proper position for another two years.
 
The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City in 1885 aboard the French ship "Isere."
 
The Statue of Liberty weighs 225 tons.
 
The Statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide.
 
The stormtroopers in the original starwars are seen in many seen carrying long blasters. On closer inspection you can see that the blasters are actually WWII era German MG42 machine guns (modified slightly)
 
The strawberry is the only agricultural product that bears its seeds on the outside.
 
The striped billiard balls weight .1 ounces or so more than the solids
 
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Relative to size)
 
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)
 
The study of insects is called entomology.
 
The study of word origins is called etymology.
 
The Sudan is the largest country in Africa. It covers about 967,500 square miles of the continent.
 
The Sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies, the Siberian tiger has the least.
 
The sun is about three million miles closer to the earth on January 1st than it is on June 1st.
 
The sun weighs 330,000 times as much as the earth.
 
The sun's average period of rotation is 27 days.
 
The sun's total lifetime as a star capable of maintaining a life-bearing Earth is about 11 billion years. Nearly half that time has passed.
 
The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1, 1969.
 
The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.
 
The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.
 
The Swiss consume more chocolate per capita than any other nation on earth. That's 22 pounds each compared to 11 pounds per person in the United States.
 
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
 
The symbols used on playing cards were supposed to represent the four classes of men: hearts represented the clergy; spades (from the Spanish word espada, or sword) represented the warriors; clubs were originally leaves and represented the peasants; and citizens and merchants were recognized in the diamonds.
 
The table fork was introduced into England in 1601. Until then people would eat with their knives, spoons or fingers. When Queen Elizabeth first used a fork, the clergy went ballistic. They felt it was an insult to God not to touch meat with one's fingers.
 
The Taj Mahal in India is perfectly symetrical, except for one thing. The two tombs inside are not equal in size. This is because the male tomb has to be larger than the female tomb.
 
The Taj Mahal was actually built for use as a tomb.
 
The Taj Mahal was commissioned in 1630 by Shah Jehan to honor his wife Mumtaz, who died in childbirth.
 
The tallest monument built in the US, the Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, Missouri, is 630 feet tall.
 
The telescope at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, in California, also serves as a tomb. The 36-inch refracting telescope is mounted on a pillar that contains the remains of Jack Lick, who died in 1876. Lick was a wealthy financier and philanthropist who financed the construction of the observatory that bears his name.
 
The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles.
 
The temperature of the earth's interior increases by one degree every 60 feet down



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