Facts on Soccer

Here are some facts on the game of soccer:
1. Soccer's history dates back to 2500 B.C. Researchers have found remains of a soccer-like game in China.
2. From 1962 to 1996, the World Cup has been won alternately by South Americans & Europeans. Like once it goes to South Americans & the next time goes to the Europeans, though it's just a coincidence. AMAZING!
3. The World Cup is the biggest soccer tournament in the world. It is held every four years in a different country. Billions of people watch the televised games as the national teams from countries around the globe battle it out for soccer supremacy.
4. The 2002 World Cup was held in two places - Seoul, South Korea & Tokyo, Japan. Brazil won the World Cup 2002 & also has won the most World Cups (Five) since the tournament began in 1930.
5. The Women's World Cup was played in the United States in 1999 & again in 2003 & the U.S. won.

Fun Facts about India & the World

Here are some facts about India:
1. The famous board game "Chess" was invented in India.
2. In India's 100,000 years of history, it has never invaded any other country.
3. India is the 6th largest country in the world, the largest democracy & one of the oldest civilization.
4. India was one of the richest countries in the world before the British invasion in the 17th century.
5. The value of "pi" used in mathematics was first calculated by the Indian mathematician Budhayana in the 17th century.
6. India is one of the largest exporter of computer software products. It exports softwares to over 90 countries.
7. India has the world's largest pilgrimage destination called the Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupati. About an average of 30,000 people visit this temple donating about $6 million US dollars, everyday.
8. The origination of Yoga was done 5000 years ago in India.
9. India has the most number of  mosques. It has 300,000 mosques which is much more than the Muslim world.
10. Christians & Jews have been living in India since 52 A.D. and 200 B.C. respectively.

Fun Facts about the World:
11. Blueberry juice boosts memory.
12. When cats are happy or pleased, they squeeze their eyes shut.
13. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
14. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
15. We, as humans, forget 90% of our dreams.
16. During thinking, we use on about 35% of our brains.
17. The percentage of people dreaming in black & white started decreasing after the spread of color TV.
18. Just days before the World Cup of 1966 in England, the trophy was stolen & later retrieved by a dog.
19. Some Chinese believe that swinging the arms cures headaches.
20. The city of Portland in Oregon was named after a coin toss in 1844. Heads for Portland & Tails for Boston.
21. A queen bee lays 1500 eggs a day.
22. No President of the United States was an only child of his parents.
23. Laughter is a proven way to reduce weight.
24. The African Cicada fly spends 17 years sleeping, then wakes up for two weeks, mates & then dies.
25. Reno, Nevada has the highest rate of alcoholism in the U.S., Provo, Utah has the lowest.
26. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. Hemp doesn't contain THC & won't make you high.
27. 250-300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S.
28. A shrimp's heart is in his head.
29. George Washington didn't want his image on U.S. coins. He didn't want to imitate European monarchs.
30. In South Africa, it is a law that single ply toilet paper must have 500 sheets in the roll.
31. If you plug your nose, you can't hum. (Keep your mouth closed too.)
32. Diamonds are not that rare, De Beers creates an artificial scarcity by stockpiling mined diamonds and selling them in small amounts.
33. As of May, 2010, 1.2 billion people still defecate in the open.
34. The longest flight of a chicken is about 13 seconds.
35. On average, a woman's heart beats faster than a man's heart.
36. The United States holds the record for the highest divorce rate in the world.
37. Other than humans,  black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
38. Names in Iceland's phone books are listed alphabetically by first name & by last name.
39. Cats can hear ultrasound.
40. The skin of an average woman weighs 3 kilograms, while that of an average man weighs 5 kilograms.
41. Dutch, on average are the tallest people.
42. Jaguars are frightened by dogs.
43. Linda Wolfe is the most married woman in the world. She legally married 23 men one after the other; each marriage ending in a divorce of death of the husband.
44. There are no cemeteries in San Francisco, CA (excluding the federal National Cemetery at Lincoln Way).
45. Married men tip better than unmarried men.
46. A olive tree can live upto 1500 years.
47. The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".
48. Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
49. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
50. The earth is about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons in weight.
51. There are 86400 seconds in a day.
52. The parachute was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1515.
53. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually white.
54. "Jedi" is an official religion in Australia with over 70000 followers.
55. Church has apologized to Charles Darwin 200 years after his birth.
56. Chewing gum while peeling onions will reduce your tears.
57. Dalmatians are born without spots.
58. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves of chess.
59. Roosters have to extend their necks in order to crow.
60. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room.
61. Armadillos have four babies at a time & they are always of the same gender.
62. In 2009, one of eight newly married couples in the US met online.
63. There are about 540,000 words in the English language & growing.
64. You won't usually see clocks in casinos.

Some More Amazing & Unknown Facts

Here are some more amazing facts:
1. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose & ears never stop growing.
2. The Barbie doll's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
3. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
4. Ants never sleep!
5. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
6. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or his mother because they were both deaf.
7. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
8."I Am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
9. Babies are born without knee caps - actually, they're made of cartilage & the bone hardens between the ages of 2 to 6 years.
10. Happy Birthday (The Song) is copywrighted.
11. A 'Jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
12. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
13. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
14. -40 degrees Celsius is the same as -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
15. No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver, orange or purple.
16. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
17. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar & England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
18. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
19. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
20. Money isn't made out of paper. It is made out of cotton.
21. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
22. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
23. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why!!!!
24. The "spot" on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes - he was an albino. '7' was because the original containers were 7 ounces and 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles.
25. Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart & nervous system.
26. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
27. There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: Abstemious & Facetious.
28. If one places a tiny drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad & sting itself to death.
29. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
30. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
31. By raising your legs slowly & laying down on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
32. Dogs & Cats, like humans, are either right or left-handed.
33. Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
34. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
35. The Guiness Book of  Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
36. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
37. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, F is "feedback".
38. In England, the speaker of the house is not allowed to speak.
39. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends with the letters "mt".
40. Almonds are members of the peach family & Apples belong to the rose family.
41. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of Dynamite.
42. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
43. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
44. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
45. Alfred Nobel, in whose name the Nobel prizes are instituted, was the inventor of dynamite.
46. The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is the only planet that rotates clock wise.
47. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
48. Molecularly speaking, water is much drier than sand.
49. Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they have been removed.
50. US President John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist.
51. Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
52. Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg. It's actually the shell.
53. Nearly 3% of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
54. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.
55. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
56. No piece of normal - size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
57. The tongue is the only muscle that is attached from one end only.
58. Pumice is the only rock that floats in water.
59. Camel's milk does not curdle.
60. Your foot is of the same length as your forearm & your thumb is the same length as your nose. Also, the length of your lips is the same as your index finger.
61. Natural pearls melt in vinegar.
62. Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
63. The human brain is 80% water.
64. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right while women's shirts have the buttons on the left.
65. Human fingernails grow 4 times faster than toenails
66. The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
67. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
68. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age.
69. It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey.
70. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
71. It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
72. The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements.
73. The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space & placement of the heart.
74. Watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari desert in Africa.
75. The hair of some cancer patients treated with chemotherapy can grow back in a different color & sometimes can even be curly or straight.
76. The markings that are found on dice are called "pips".
77. Leonardo da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
78. The ampersand (&) was the last letter of the Latin alphabet.
79. The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan or grow hair.
80. Dolphins can swim & sleep at the same time and can sleep with one eye open.
81. Each nostril of a human being registers smell in a different way. Those by the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.
82. The longest single-syllable word in the English language is "screeched"
83. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah-Mat" which means "the king is dead".
84. In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars "Phobos" & "Deimos", giving their exact size & speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered!!!!!
85. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
86. Sharks can live upto 100 years.
87. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in the U.S. everyday.
88. Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

Interesting Unknown Facts

Here are some unknown facts I am going to tell you:
1. Coca-Cola, your favorite soft-drink was originally green.
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammad.
3. The names of all the continents end with the same letter they start with.
4. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
5. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
6. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
7. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
8. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
9. The longest muscle in the body is the tongue.
10. People say "Bless You" when you sneeze because when you sneeze , your heart stops for a milisecond.
11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
12. The "Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib & if you try to suppress a sneeze, you could rupture a blood vessel in the head or neck & die.
14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
i) Spades - King David
ii) Clubs - Alexander The Great
iii) Hearts - Charlemagne
iv) Diamonds - Julius Caesar
15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
16. i) If a statue of a person in a park on a horse has both front legs in air, the person died in a battle.
ii) If the horse has one front leg up in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
iii) If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died due to natural causes.
17. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers & laser printers have in common?
Ans.- They were all invented by women.
18. This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans.- Honey
19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
20. A snail can sleep for three years.
21. All polar bears are left-handed.
22. American Airlines saved $40000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
25. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
27. Shakespeare invented the words 'Assasination' & 'Bump'.
28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
29. The ant always falls on its right side when intoxicated.
30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
32. Rats multiply so quickly that  in 18 months, two rats could have over 2 million descendants.
33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
35. Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different as well as your ear print.
37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.