7926. Fact

The word set has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

7927. Fact

The CIA has made a disk camera that is as big as a quarter. This gadget can take many pictures at a time when the disk is opened.

7928. Fact

In Albany, New York, you cannot play golf in the streets.

7929. Fact

Four is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

7930. Fact

The most frequent season for most suicides to occur is in the spring. The winter months have the lowest number of suicides

7931. Fact

Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.

7932. Fact

In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.

7933. Fact

The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System'in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep.

7934. Fact

Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year

7935. Fact

Apparently, according to Playtex, the best selling bra sizes these days are 34B and 36B.

7936. Fact

A leech has 32 brains

7937. Fact

The Republic of Israel was established April 23, 1948.

7938. Fact

Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles

7939. Fact

Dutch, on average are the tallest people

7940. Fact

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies

7941. Fact

Many scholars believe that an earthquake caused the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, referred to in the Bible as the smoke of the country. Earthquakes produce massive clouds of dust that resemble billowing smoke.

7942. Fact

The # symbols is often referred to as a number sign or pound sign. Its actual name is an octothorpe

7943. Animal Facts

African dung beetles eat animal faeces. Five thousand beetles can eat a pound of faeces in 2 hours.

7944. Fact

Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

7945. Fact

The Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India, was actually built for use as a tomb by Mogul ruler Shah Jehan for his wife, Arjuman Banu Begum

Element
Element : antimony
Symbol : sb
Atomic no. : 51
Melting Point (deg c) : 630.63
Boiling Point (deg c) : 1587
Discoverer : early historic times      .. More >>