- 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.
Saturday, 21 January 2012
some known but unknown knowledge
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