- The term rule of thumb comes from the old English law that men couldn't beat
their wives with anything wider than their thumb.
- Less than one percent of people who entered Germany's Auschwitz
concentration camp survived, after being liberated by the Russians in 1945.
- American poet Edgar Allan Poe was once thrown out of West Point Academy in
1831 after showing up for inspection stark naked.
- A monkey's skull wrapped in leather and paper was used as a soccer ball in
the very first World's Cup Soccer Championships in Uruguay.
- Ants never sleep in their wholelife.
- A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and
conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded
the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery
instead.
- The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
- Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a stage fright. He was so
nervous, that his legs would shake.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- A man was arrested and charged with the robbery—of vending machines. The man
posted bail, entirely in quarters.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row of the keyboard.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
- Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried
his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000
volumes.
- Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula"
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months
for at least 10 years.
- Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
- Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of
celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Man versus horse marathon has its
grounds in Llanwrtyd, Wales which is accounted as the smallest town in Britain.
It was in 1980 that there was a competition of two legs against four. A fellow
named Green while engrossed in a talk with his two friends in his own hotel
Neuadd Arms Hotel came up with a vague proposal that ended in Man versus horse
marathon. Since then the race has been run every year, passing through hills,
bogs, streams, fields and farms. With every passing year the amount of the prize
is increasing by the Canadian $ 2,011. Every year... 
Skype is a medium of voice
communication which can be used with the aid of the Internet. Skype has been
designed based on the Kazaa file sharing program. The headquarters of Skype is
in Luxembourg and France. It also has offices in many other parts of Europe,
Asia as well as the United States of America. In October 2005, Skype was taken
over by eBay. There are two main kinds of machines which will be used as a part
of the Skype network. One is known as the ordinary host or the Skype client
while the other is the super node or SN. Any normal person wh... 
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born
18 July in the year 1918. He was named Rolihlahla and got the name Mandela from
his grandfather. The name Nelson was given to him by his teacher Miss Mdingane.
He was born in Mveso, Umtata in the Cape Province. After the death of his father
he was looked after by his relative. He became the first child of Mandela family
to get education. He was an intelligent child and completed the Junior
certificate in two years instead of three. Nelson took admission in the
University of Fort Hare to do Bachelor's in Arts but was soo... 
