Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.
Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.
A square piece of dry paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.
A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD.
About 27% of food in developed countries are wasted each year. It's simply thrown away.
The world's first skyscraper was the 10-story Home Insurance office, built in Chicago in 1885. (During Roman times buildings were up to 8 stories high.)
There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people.
New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
The name Wendy was first used in JM Barrie's Peter Pan.
Hiccups happen when the diaphragm, the muscle that controls our breathing, becomes irritated and start to spasm and contract uncontrollably. With each contraction, air is pulled into the lungs very quickly, passes through the voice box, and then the epiglottis closes behind the rush of air, shaking the vocal chords, causing the "hic" sound. The irritation can be caused by rapid eating, emotional stress and even some diseases. The best cure? Breathing into a paper bag. This calms the diaphragm by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in your bloodstream.
The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations increased by 10 cm (4 in).
Hair on the head grows for between two and six years before being replaced. In the case of baldness, the dormant hair was not replaced with new hair.
Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.
A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.
The first human sex change took place in 1950 when Danish doctor Christian Hamburger operated on New Yorker George Jargensen, who became Christine Jargensen.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
If all your DNA is stretched out, it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.
A diamond will break if you hit it with a hammer.
About 50 Bibles are sold every minute.
On average, 13,000 earthquakes are located each year.
The magnetic north pole is near Ellef Ringes Island in northern Canada.
The magnetic south pole was discovered off the coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica.
There is zero gravity at the centre of earth.
Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.
The tail of the Great Comet of 1843 was 330 million km long. (It will return in 2356.)
There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth.
About 500 small meteorites fall to earth every year but most fall in the sea and in unpopulated areas.
There is no record of a person being killed by a meteorite but animals are occasionally hit.
The Dead Sea is 365 m (1,200 ft) below sea level.
A storm officially becomes a hurricane when cyclone winds reach 119 km/h (74 mph).
Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias.
Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
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Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:13 pm
