3280. Fact

A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

3281. Fact

A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.

3282. Fact

Mass murderer Charles Manson recorded an album titled Lie.

3283. Fact

The human heart weighs less than a pound

3284. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : dr. b. c. roy
physician, politician, former chief minister of west bengal
Year : 1961
Region : west bengal.

3285. Fact

The average cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $6,400.

3286. Fact

The smallest will ever written was 3.8 cm in diameter. It had 40 words written on it and was signed by two witnesses

3287. Fact

A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.

3288. Fact

The tallest woman that ever lived was Zeng Jinlian who was 8 feet 2 inches tall of China. Shed died at the age of 17

3289. Fact

Bees kill more people a year than sharks do.

3290. Fact

The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.

3291. Fact

In Delaware it is illegal to get married on a dare.

3292. Fact

More pollution is emitted from the average home compared to the average car.

3293. Fact

Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959

3294. Fact

Planet Venus is the only planet to spin counter-clockwise.

3295. Fact

Austria was the first country to use postcards.

3296. Fact

In 1997, the record for the highest skydive by a dog at 4,572 feet was established by a dog named Brutus

3297. Fact

Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year

3298. Fact

Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.

3299. Fact

In New York City there are 6,374.6 miles of streets

3300. Fact

A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar

3301. Fact

In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.

3302. Fact

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, andchocolate.

3303. Fact

Glenn Miller was the first performer to earn a gold record. He got it for the Chattanooga Choo Choo on February 10, 1942.

3304. Fact

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

3305. Fact

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

3306. Fact

If you cut a 'V'shape into your toe nails, you can prevent 'in-grown'toe nails.

3307. Fact

The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.

3308. Fact

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

3309. Fact

A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell

3310. Fact

The nail of our middle finger grows the fastest and the nail of our thumb grows slowest.

3311. Fact

By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.

3312. Fact

The average life expectancy of geese is 25 years.

3313. Fact

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country

3314. Fact

99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.

3315. Fact

The largest fish in the world is the whale shark. It can weigh several tons and grow to more than fifty feet in length

3316. Fact

7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.

3317. Fact

Warner Brothers Corset Company created the bra cup sizing system, which is now used universally used by manufacturers

3318. Fact

A woman's breasts can swell up to 30% when she is aroused.

3319. Fact

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

3320. Fact

Mike Greenwell of the Boston Red Sox holds the major league record for the most RBIs that accounted for all of his team's runs. In 1996, he batted in nine runs in a game against the Seattle Mariners.

3321. Fact

The people in Bali only have one of four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut

3322. Fact

A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.

3323. Fact

Richard Nixon was the 1st US president to visit China in February, 1972.

3324. Fact

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language 823 words without a period.

3325. Fact

Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.

3326. Fact

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

3327. Fact

During the First World War, cigarettes were handed out to soldiers along with their rations

3328. Fact

A Singapore singing group by the name of The Oriental Singers, sang non-stop for 74 hours and five minutes

3329. Fact

On average, when asked for a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.

Element
Element : radon
Symbol : rn
Atomic no. : 86
Melting Point (deg c) : -71
Boiling Point (deg c) : -61.7
Discoverer : dorn (1900)      .. More >>