Interesting Facts

1. People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.
2. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls –

It cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.

3. Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.
4. Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
5. If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
6. Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men.

The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.

7. Women blink twice as many times as men do.
8. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
9. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.

Layers of cartilage in the joints get compressed during the day.

10. There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
11. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
12. The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
13. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
14. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
15. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
16. Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.
17. Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
18. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
19. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
20. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
21. The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
22. A baby is born every seven seconds.
23. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
24. You breathe about 10 million times a year.
25. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
26. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
27. The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
28. The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
29. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
30. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
31. The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
32. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
33. A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
34. Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
35. There are more people alive today than have ever died.
36. The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
37. A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
38. A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
39. A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
40. Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
41. 4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
42. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
43. GADFY, written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a single word with 'e' in it
44. Honda- from the name of its founder, Soichiro Honda
45. Kawasaki- from the name of its founder, Shozo Kawasaki
46. Konica- it was earlier known as Konishiroku Kogaku. Konishiroku in turn is the short for Konishiya Rokubeiten which was the first name of the company established by Rokusaburo Sugiura in the 1850s.
47. Motorola- Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company (at the time, Galvin Manufacturing Company) started manufacturing radios for cars. Many audio equipment makers of the era used the " ola" ending for their products, most famously the "Victrola" phonograph made by the Victor Talking Machine Company. The name was meant to convey the idea of "sound" and "motion". The name became so recognized that the company later adopted it as the company name.
48. MRF- Madras Rubber Factory, founded by K M Mammen Mappillai in 1946. He started with a toy balloon-manufacturi ng unit at Tiruvottiyur, Chennai (then called Madras). In 1952, he began manufacturing tread-rubber, and in 1961, tyres.
49. Netscape- named by first marketing employee Greg Sands, in a panic when the University of Illinoisthreatened to sue the new company for its original name, Mosaic. Netscape then paid Landor $50,000 to design a logo.
50. Nike- named for the Greek goddess of victory.
51. Nokia- started as a wood-pulp mill, the company expanded into producing rubber products in the Finnish city of Nokia. The company later adopted the city's name.
52. Philips - Royal Philips Electronics was founded in 1891, by brothers Gerard (the engineer) and Anton (the entrepreneur) Philips.
53. Samsung- meaning three stars in Korean.
54. Sanyo- The Japanese translation is disputed, although the Chinese name is "??" (Literally, "Three Oceans")
55. Suzuki- from the name of its founder, Michio Suzuki
56. Toyota- from the founder's name Sakichi Toyoda. Initially called Toyeda, it was changed after a contest for a better-sounding name. The new name was written in katakana with eight strokes, a number that is considered lucky in Japan.
57. Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer' means dry.
58. Yahoo! - A "acronym" for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. The word Yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders David Filo and Jerry Yang selected the name because they jokingly considered themselves yahoos