- December 31st, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
The flu was first described by Hippocrates in 412 BC
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
This 27 year-old guy performs one of the most growse-yet-cool stunts we’ve ever seen. He gets thin snakes through his nostrils and pulls them out through his mouth. Snake Manu, as he likes to be cal…
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- December 30th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska
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- December 29th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That's bigger than your hand!
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- December 28th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Haunted Hospital Seek Help Of ExorcistHospital managers have called in an exorcist after shaken workers complained they are being terrified by a ghost.Spooked staff at Derby's new Royal Hospital claim…
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
The colder the rooms you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
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- December 27th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas . It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.
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- December 26th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
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- December 25th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions.Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwat…
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Chitto's Musings
Recently, I read about old useful things like Rotary telephone, alarm clock (winding type), manual typewriters etc. which are almost extinct now, but were once very popular and in daily use. When we s…
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.
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- December 24th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Chilli is a black and white Fresian bull, weighing a whopping 1.25 tons and standing at 6 feet and 6 inches in height. Abandoned by its owner on the doorstep of the sanctuary he lives in today, when h…
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
The 'place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
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- December 23rd, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Alcohol. Estimated annual cost: $166 billion. Binge drinking hits the unemployed harder on a per capita basis -- 10.4%, vs. 8.4% of employed people. It is most prevalent in small metropolitan locales,…
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The nucleus of a skin cell taken from the ear of an adult male Afghan (left) was transferred into an egg cell of a yellow Labrador retriever (right). The altered egg was implanted in the Labrador. The…
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- December 22nd, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Chitto's Musings
During my growing years, I was to travel from Calcutta to Bombay with my elder brother. There was some occasion in our extended family which we were to attend. At the last moment, my brother could not…
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- December 21st, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
The Glass Balconies of the Sears Tower in ChicagoThe owners of the Sears Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the United States (Chicago), inaugurated four glass box viewing platforms. These balconies are…
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- December 20th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Myth 1: Sleep is a time when your body and brain shut down for rest and relaxationNo evidence shows that any major organ (including the brain) or regulatory system in the body shuts down during sleep.…
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- December 19th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Stephen Speilberg directed the first ever episode of Columbo.
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- December 18th, 2009
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Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson each grew up believing their mothers to be their sisters.
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing…
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- December 17th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
The blue whale is the largest mammal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.
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- December 16th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
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- December 15th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for: your heart.
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- December 14th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Plan to steal a phone in Somalia? Prepare to lose your limbsIt is a painful fact that should make headlines in the international news but it makes it here since it does have something, slightly techni…
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
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- December 13th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Amazing pictures of hailstorm - the size of tennis balls
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- December 12th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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- December 11th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
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Hanging Monastery stands at the foot of Mt. Hengshan, 5 kilometers (3 miles) south of Hunyuan County, and 65 kilometers (40 miles) from downtown Datong City. Since it hangs on the west cliff of Jinxia…
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- December 10th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Window washer in coma after falling 47 Stories woke up on Christmas day.Alcides Moreno, 37, fell 47 stories from a New York skyscraper when a freak accident sent his window-washing platform plunging t…
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc
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- December 9th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button as it was eliminated during surgery.
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- December 8th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Underground Fire in Centralia, PennsylvaniaCentralia is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, nited States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005 as a resul…
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Each king in a pack of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades-King David, Clubs-Alexander the Great ,Hearts-Charlamagne and Diamonds-Julius Caeser.
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- December 7th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
The jungle is eating into everything in its way: cars, planes, statues, temples, churches. Nothing seems safe from the clutches of nature.The At Prom temple complex in Angkor, Cambodia surely offers s…
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
Vincent Van Gogh's brain was destroyed by the mercury he took to counteract syphilis.
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- December 6th, 2009
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amazings has posted a new entry on: Interesting and Amazing Facts around the world
If you’re going to ride in a sidecar why not make it a really cool sidecar?I bet that’s what Francois Knorreck said to himself when he started working on this unique motorcycle-car, 10 years ago.…
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