Interesting Facts

Based on the victim-to-population ratio, an adult has a greater chance of being physically assaulted in the state of Arizona than anywhere else in the country. The state with the second highest rate of assault is North Carolina, third is New Mexico.

An embezzler in Thailand, sentenced to 865 years in jail, was lucky enough to get his sentenced reduced to just 576 years.

In 1924 a Ford automobile cost $265.

Most American automobile horns beep in the key of F.

The Buick, first automobile manufactured by the General Motors Corporation, was actually built by a man named David Buick. Buick, a plumber by trade, also invented a process whereby porcelain could be annealed onto iron, hence making possible the production of the white porcelain bathtub.

No two-cycle engines are allowed in Singapore. The license fee for a new car is low, about $5.00, but as the vehicle gets older, this fee increases. When the automoblie reaches 8 years old, it is no longer allowed on the streets. This is opposite of the license-fee structure in the U.S. While strict, Singapore's auto law has virtually wiped out air pollution in the country.

An Anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.

Mississippi Alligators have the most powerful bite force ever measured. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Zoology of London, these Alligators snap their strong jaws shut with an average force of 2,125 pounds, or with about as much force as a mid-size car falling on top of someone. One even bit as much as 2,960 pounds of force.

They have 42 teeth.

They commonly have 12,000 eyes.

According to the tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington D.C., cats & dogs, like people, are either right handed or left handed, that is, these animals favour either their right or left paws.

The Incas considered bridges to be so sacred that anyone who tampered with one was put to death Among the most impressive Inca bridges were the chacas, or rope bridges, that spanned great distances over gorges and rivers They were made of plaited grasses woven together into a single cable as thick as a man's body, and they sometimes extended for 175 feet It took as many as a thousand people to build such a bridge, and many of these remarkable structures lasted more than five hundred years

A bridge built in Lima, Peru around 1610 was made of mortar that was mixed not with water but with the whites of 10,000 eggs The bridge, appropriately called the Bridge of Eggs, is still standing today

The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.

There is a city called Rome in every continent.

A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.

4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.

The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ locationthat sells hot dogs.

One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton

In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.

Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food.

Inside the earth it gets 3 degrees hotter every 100m further down.

Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. That axis is what causes our seasons.

Switzerland is one of the only countries to have no mineral deposit in it.

The largest known uncut emerald is 5 cm long and 5 cm in diameter.

The largest lake in the world i.e. the Caspian sea measures about 980 km from North to South and 215 to 440 km in breadth, with an area of 371,800 sq.km.

I've gathered nice collection of facts about dogs, here they are:

That whole one year in a dog's life is the equivalent of 7 in a human's isn't exactly true. A more accurate calculation is as follows: At one year, a dog is the equivalent of 16 human years; at two dog years they are 24 human years; at 3 dog years, 30 human years; and for every dog year after that, add 4 human years.

Canis Familiaris is the Latin name for dog.

The largest dogs among all breeds, at least in terms of height, is the Irish Wolfhound.

I found new set of amazing facts for you, dear friends, here they are:

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

1. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

2. A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.

3. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

4. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

5. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

6. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

7. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

8. Horses can’t vomit.

9. Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Apple Computers

It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O’clock.

CISCO

It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.