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Amazing Facts

Here is a collection of amazing and interesting facts about the world.

- Tuesday is considered as the most productive day of the week.

- In human body the right lung takes in the more air than the left one.

- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

- Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer which is a brand of the microsoft's rival company.

- Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.

- In the 1930s American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.

- There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.

- Jimmy Carter was the first USA president to have been born in hospital.

- Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

- Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

- It is illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.

- It's strange that a hard-boiled egg will spin but an uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

- People with blue eyes see better in the dark.

- The snowiest city in the USA is Blue Canyon, California.

- Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

- Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

- The gasoline cannot freeze no matter how cold the temperature falls.

- The human stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

- Every person has a unique tongue print.

- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

- A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.

- By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

- The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

- The Polar Bear can reach 25 miles per hour of speed.

- Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

- Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

- Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

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