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By : Sumona Das	Previous \| Next
Posted on : 03 May, 2006	Total Views : 721

Did you know that....

1. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

2. Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.

3. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.

4. The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

5. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

6. Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

7. The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

8. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

9. Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.

10. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.

11. Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.

12. Licking Tongue - Stephen Taylor of Coventry, England, has a tongue that measures 3.7 inches in length, the world's tongue longest!

13. Wheels - The Sumerians of the ancient world used wagons 5000 years before our time. The wagons had solid wooden wheels, leather tires, and were often pulled by wild asses.
Things have really changed, haven't they? We use metal wheels and rubber tires today. And the creatures that used to pull the load are sometimes even found in the driver's seat.

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