10118. Fact

The curvature of the earth is pretty close to eight inches every mile, or 66 feet every hundred miles.

10119. Fact

The word, tattoo originated from the Tahitain word tattau which means to mark.

10120. Fact

The whiskers on a catfish are called barbells.

10121. Alloy

Alloy : solder
Composition : sn(50-75%), pb (50-25%)
Use : soldering of metals.

10122. Fact

Pearl Jam's first album, 10, was named in tribute of basketball player Mookie Blaylock who's number is 10

10123. Fact

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

10124. Fact

The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs.

10125. Fact

In 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can for preserving food

10126. Fact

In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood

10127. Fact

Over 80% of the brain is water

10128. Fact

There are more pyramids in Peru than in Egypt

10129. Alloy

Alloy : gun metal
Composition : cu (85%), zn (10%), sn(5%)
Use : used for engineering purpose.

10130. Alloy

Alloy : bell metals
Composition : cu (80%), sn (20%)
Use : for making bells.

10131. Fact

The 1st kiss in a movie was between May Irwin and John Rice in The Widow Jones, in 1896.

10132. Fact

Whitcomb L. Judson, the inventor of the zipper, originally intended his invention to save people the trouble of buttoning and unbuttoning their shoes every day. He named it the Clasp locker and unlocker for shoes.

10133. Fact

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime

10134. Fact

There are more Subway restaurants in Canada than there are McDonald restaurants

10135. Fact

Two-thirds of college students have been in a "friends with benefits" relationship.

10136. Fact

It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

10137. Fact

Queen Elizabeth I always wore a necklace with a little perfume bottle attached everywhere she went

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