Apr 29, 2011

Amazing Facts

^ Fingerprints of koala bears are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans 

^ Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up n the morning.

^ Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

^ Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.

^ Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year.

^ Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children.

^ Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.

^ Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%

^ The egg came first.

^ Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing "less problematic behavior "involving sex, drugs and drink.

^ Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab Countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.

^ The Cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

^ The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

^ Men can breastfeed babies

^ Right-handed people live, on average , nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people??)

^ Just about 3 People are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

Prateek Porwal
Batch 2006

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