Saturday, 21 January 2012

some known but unknown knowledge


  • Three quaters of fish caught all through the world are eaten ,the rest are used to make things like glue,soap,margarine and fertilizer.
  • The word "chincherinchee" is the only known word that has one letter occuring once,two letters occuring twice and theree letters occuring thrice.
  • The femaale lion does more than 90%of hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.
  • There are more than 2,700 langusges spoken in the world.
  • The tomoto is the world's popular fruit,selling more than bananas and oranges!
  • The oldest encyclopaedia in existence was written in the 1st century by Roman scholar Pliny the Elder.His encyclopaedia, called Natural History has 37 volumes.
  • The  world's average egg consumption per capita is 230.
  • The world's first stone lighthouse was lit by only 24 candles!
  • About 800 movies are released annually in India,about twice the output of Hollywood.

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