Some Interesting Facts You Might not Know.
Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself !
Everyone's
Your Relative - Every human being has 99 percent
of their DNA in common.
A parent and child share 99.5 percent
of the same DNA, and you have 98 percent of your DNA in common with a
chimpanzee. When we say we share 98% of our genes with chimpanzees,
we mean that 98% of our alignable DNA sequence is identical. Thus,
chimps have some genes that we don't, and we have some genes that
chimps don't. A example is the gene MYH16.
The Usefulness of Spit
- Humans can't taste food without saliva. Chemoreceptors
in the taste buds of your tongue require a liquid medium for the
flavors to bind into the receptor molecules.
Excite was not excited
enough to buy Google on sale price -Google's founders were
willing to sell to Excite for
under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.
Apparently the word
queue could be shorter - The word “queue” is the only
word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way
when the last four letters are removed.
Almost and Rhythm are
word's for English nerds - “Almost” is the
longest word in the English language with all the letters in
alphabetical order and “Rhythm” is the longest English
word without a vowel.
A musician or poet's
headache - No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver and purple. If you
manage to proof it wrong let me know.
Did You Appreciate The
Truth About Letters? (valid only for the
English language don't try to translate this one.)
Letters 'a', 'b', 'c'
and 'd' do not appear if you spell any of the numbers between
1 and 99, funnily enough, letter 'd' comes for the
first time in Hundred. In addition, letters 'a', 'b'
and 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to
999, strange, but true, letter 'a' comes for the first
time in Thousand.
Neither letter 'b' nor 'c'
appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999, letter
'b' comes for the first time in Billion. Letter 'c' does
not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English counting.
No Dog's Allowed in
Reykjavik – Iceland - In 1924, the city of Reykjavik
banned keeping dogs as pets. The city’s residents aren’t all cat
people—rather, the measure was meant to prevent echinococcosis,
a type of tapeworm that can be passed from dogs to humans. In the
1880s, a full 20 percent of autopsies performed in Iceland revealed
the disease, which can cause blindness and severe complications. Even
now, the disease is hard to treat and has a mortality rate of up to
75 percent, though it is primarily contracted in Africa.
The future way to unlock of your electronic devices - Like fingerprints, everyone’s
tongue print is different!
Wanna try ancient food
? Better be honey - Honey is the only food that does not
spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted
by archaeologists and found edible.
This one is a classic,
needed to be in - A broken clock is right two times every
day.
If
you have the habit of stopping a sneeze, stop doing this
- If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die. Its average speed is 120 km per
hour.
If you have the
ambition of become a rich person - On Jupiter and Saturn
it rains diamonds. Did you know that? Why are we going to explore
Mars instead?
I somehow lost 94 bones
during my growth or not!!
- You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become
an adult, you only have 206. As babies grow into young adults, these
bones fuse together to become single bones. But why aren’t these
bones already fused together at birth? Well, most of these unfused
bones are located in the newborn’s skull. When a baby is born, it
has to squeeze itself through the mother’s birth canal.