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Top 10 Interesting Facts About Barack Obama

1.) He won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Recording. It was for the audio version of his book Dreams From My Father.

2.) He and his wife bought a house in Chicago in 2005. Back then it cost $1.65 million. The house has 4 fireplaces.

3.) He doesn’t like ice-cream. He worked in Baskin-Robbins as a teenager. That’s where his distaste for ice-cream comes from.



4.) He loves playing Scrabble. He never commented on how good he is, though.

5.) He is bi-racial. He was born to a Kenyan father and a white American mother. In his book Dreams From 
My Father he writes that he barely noticed the racial difference between his mum and dad in his young age
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6.) He experimented with drugs. Back in his early years he tried marijuana and cocaine. According to his own words he is not proud of it and considers it a mistake as a young man.

7.) He smokes but wants to quit. After all, there is a non-smoking policy in the White House.

8.) He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but went to live in Indonesia with his mum when the parents divorced. There he was introduced to dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper
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9.) According to his wife Michelle he is very romantic. He is not a door opener but he remembers every anniversary and brings her flowers all the time
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10.) Every night when he is at home he reads the Harry Potter books to his oldest daughter Malia.

Interesting Facts

Most Peoplethink that The Canary Islands get their name from the birds canaries.Actually The Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean are named after dogs.Surprised :-) (The latin word for dog is "canis")

Did you knowthat the Thirty Years War lasted 30 years and the Hundred Years Warlasted 116

years.(Probably historicans have some problems with mathematics) :-))

Russianpeople normally celebrate the October Revolution in November

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It cost 7million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a filmabout it. Also The Titanic was the very first ship to use the SOS signal.

Famous PanamaHats produced in Ecuador and The official language of Brazil is Portuguese.

Did you knowthat Hair brush for camels is made of squirrel fur.

Batsalways turn left when exiting a caveand Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

Did you knowthat Dalmatians are born without black spots.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep youfrom crying.

Smokers needto sleed 1 hour longer than non smokers. (Hey, don't spent extra 1/23 of yourlife in bed. It's good reason to give up smoking!) 

Interesting Facts about India

• India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.
• When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
• The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
• The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name 'Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
• Chess was invented in India.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
• The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.
• The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
• India is the largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest Country in the world, and one of the most ancient civilizations.
• The game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat'. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. In time, the game underwent several modifications, but its meaning remained the same, i.e. good deeds take people to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
• The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
• India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
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• The largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
• The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
• India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
• The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'NAVGATIH'. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
• Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
• The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India.Quadratic Equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 (i.e. 10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C.during the Vedic period.Even today, the largest used number is Terra: 10*12(10 to the power of 12).
• Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
  (Source: Gemological Institute of America).
• The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
• Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
• Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
• India exports software to 90 countries.
• The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
• Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
• Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
• There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
• The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
• Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively
• The largest religious building in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century.
• The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
• Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.
• Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
• India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.
• His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, runs his government in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.
• Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
• Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.                                              

FULL OF FACTS

*Rats can survive without water longer than Camels

*The most widely cultivated fruit in the world is APPLE, next comes PEAR

*Neutron Bomb is a Nuclear weapon which kills people by Radiation even inside armoured vehicles but leaves  behind Buildings

*girls tend to sleep more soundly than boyz.

*if a liver ever stops working then the person tends to die in 8 to 24 hours.

*the human heart pumps 1.5millions gallons of blood per year.

*one psychological has revealed that women talk about men three times as often as men talk about women.

*your brain will stop growing in size when you are about 15years old,

*a full moon is 9 times brighter than half-moon.

*it takes about 48hours for our body to completely digest the food from one meal.

*the wprlds most popular hobby is STAMP COLLECTION.

*the luckiest number of italy is 13.

*the hair spring of  a watch was originally a pig's hair.

Animal world-Feeding the tigers in China

Amateur photographer Chris Geddes says that it all began peacefully. After a short walk to the zoo, where were the traditional cells and a few spacious enclosures, visitors were loaded into six buses. Began to tour the park. “On the way we saw lions and tigers, which are mostly sleeping in the shade of trees beside the road. But 20 minutes later buses formed a ring in the open field, we were joined by several jeeps of employees of the park. There was no doubt that this event was expected, because a group of five tigers immediately appeared from the bush. “Predators immediately threw live chickens and pheasants, and they quickly got rid of them. So what happened next, was very much scary. A feeding truck drove up and threw the tigers a live cow!

40 Interesting Facts

1. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

2. Kangaroos can not walk backwards.

3. 'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

4. According to a recent survey, more than half of British adults have had sex in a public place!

5. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

6. Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

7. Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

8. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

9. The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.

10. On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

11. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

12. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

13. Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

14. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline
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15. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt. 



16. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

17. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

18. How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.

19. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

20. In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!

21. The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

22. During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.

23. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.

24. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

25. There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.

26. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

27. More than 2 million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.

28. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

29. Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!

30. Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.

31. The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!

32. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

33. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die!

34. The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.

35. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

36. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

37. In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!

38. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

39. Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.

40. One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.  

human body facts

*More people alive today, than have ever died.

*Only one in 2 billion people will live to be 116 or older.

*In 1 year the our heart pumps approximately 1,500,00 gallons of bloodthrough the human body.

*Human eyes are the same from birth but our nose and ears never stopgrowing.

*If people had the same mortality rate as in the 1900s, then overhalf the people in the world would not be     alive.

*The average adult can read 150 - 200 words per minute and thevocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 - 7,000 words.

*Our hair on head grows at a rate of 0,35 millimentes per day and ournails normally grow at a rate of 0,1 mm per day. It will take about 3months to replace an entire fingernail.



*30,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with newcells while you read this web page.

*The longest bone in the human body is the femur.

*The lowest section of the average person's arm - between the elbowand the wrist - is exactly the same lenght as their feet.

*Most adults have between 2 and 4 colds a year.


*Mouth ulcers are caused by brushing your teeth too vigorously,bitting your mouth or burning it with hot drinks. It can also be caused bystress.

*Doctors have noticed that most people who stutter rarely do so whenthey alone or when talking to pets.

*A little bit over 6% of the human population donates blood.

*The reason you don't laugh when you tickle yourself is because yourbrain anticipates and disregards your                                          own touch so it can focus on anticipationunexpected sensations.

*if all the blood vessels of a human body are straitened out and placed end to end they would be 100,000 long,  long enough to go round the equator 4 times.........

facts about internet

• Accorting to latest researches only 17% of the worldwide population surf the internet and 19% of all internet users are from United States of America.

• Country with the highest percentage of internet users (75% of all population) is Sweden!

 • In Africa only 3% of people surf the web and the cost per megabyte is highest on the planet.

 • 6 countries still doesn’t have Internet connection at all.

 • Today Google’s index list contain over 8 billion of web pages. Did you know that Backrub was the original name for Google search engine!

 • The Internet online users are roughly 35% English speaking, 14% Chinese speaking and 51% speakers of all the other languages in the world.

 • Super-Affiliate is the best profession in the world! They are making very large incomes ($150,000+ per year) while working from home. They can spent most of their time with family.

 • According to the latest polls, 32% of American are thinking about starting own home-based online business. You are not alone

10 best intresting facts

1.Koala's have finger prints!!



2.Scallops have 35 blue eyes!!



3.Turtles can breath through their bums!!



4.Sloths spend 80% of their time sleeping!!



5.Lions can mate up to 50 times per day!!



6.Hippo's can stay under what for 30 minutes at a time!!



7.The smallest bird in the world is a humming bird!!



8.A new born kangaroo is only 1/2 an inch long!!



9.Male platypuses have venom that could kill a small dog or give excruciating
pain to humans!!



10.Wombats sleep with all four legs sticking up in the air!!