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*******A cockroach will live ninedays without its head before it

starves to death.

******The flea can jump 350times its body length. Its like ahuman

jumping the length of a footballfield.

******The catfish has over27,000 taste buds.

******An ostrichs eye is biggerthan its brain.

******People say "Bless you"

when you sneeze because when

you sneeze,your heart stops for

a mili-second

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******Leonardo Da Vinci

invented scissors.

******Chewing gum whilepeeling onions will keep youfrom crying!

*******Rabbits can see behind

them without turning their

heads.

*****The shortest war in history

was between Zanzibar andEngland in 1896. Zanzibar

surrendered after 38 minutes

******"Dreamt" is the only

English word that ends in theletters "mt"*******A goldfish has a memoryspan of three seconds

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*******9 out of 10 people believeThomas Edison invented the

light bulb.This isn't true; JosephSwan did.******On average, a 4-year-oldchild asks 437 questions a day.*****The Eiffel Tower has 1792steps.*****Each king in a deck ofplaying cards represents a greatking from history. Spades--King

David, Clubs--Alexander theGreat, Hearts--Charlemagne andDiamonds--Julius Caesar.******Banging your head againsta wall uses 150 calories an hour.

21st CENTURY LIFELESSNESS..!!!

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Our communication - WirelessOur business - Cashless

Our telephone - CordlessOur cooking - FirelessOur youth - JoblessOur religion - CreedlessOur food - FatlessOur faith - GodlessOur labor - EffortlessOur conduct - WorthlessOur relation - Loveless

Our attitude - CarelessOur feelings - HeartlessOur politics - ShamelessOur education - ValuelessOur Follies - Countless

Our arguments - BaselessOur commitment - Aimless

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Our poor - VoicelessOur life - Meaningless

******** A Blue whale'stongue weighs more than anelephant********You use 14 musclesto smile and 43 to frown.Keep Smiling******** Bone is five timesstronger than steel.

********Chess was invented inIndia.*******According to theGeological Institute ofAmerica, up until 1896, India

was the only source ofdiamonds to the world.Kohinoor, the jewel in the

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crown of the Britishmonarch, is from India

********* The value of "pi" wasfirst calculated by the IndianMathematician Budhayana, andhe explained the concept ofwhat is known as thePythagorean Theorem. Hediscovered this in the 6thcentury, long before theEuropean mathematicians.

Martial Arts were first createdin India, and later spread toAsia by Buddhist missionaries.

Yoga has its origins in Indiaand has existed for over 5,000

yearsThe number system wasinvented by India.

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Aryabhatta was the scientistwho invented the digit zero.

Butterflies taste with their feet.You're born with 300 bones,but by the time you becomean adult, you only have 206

India has the most number ofmosques. It has 300,000mosques which is much morethan the Muslim world.

Buckingham Palace in

England has over sixhundred rooms

The longest word in the Englishlanguage, according to theOxford English Dictionary ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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The first word spoken on themoon was "okay."

The name of all the continentsend with the same letter thatthey start with.