Strange Interesting Facts

Bone is five times stronger than steel.

Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has 85 letters. It's the name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, New Zealand.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters. It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf. The world's first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday. All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".