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Peoples Daily, Monday, january 12, 2015
Some Interesting Facts
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olling Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year-old model Mandy Smith in 1988. At the same time Wyman’s son was engaged to Mandy Smith’s mother. If his son had married Smith’s mother, Wyman would have been the step grandfather to his own wife. • There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem. • There are about 6,800 languages in the world. • There was no punctuation until the 15th century. • Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day. • The coconut is the largest seed in the world. • There is cyanide in apple pips. • If you were to take 1 lb. of spiders web and stretch it out it would circle the whole way around the world! • If every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at the same time...it would knock the earth off its axis! • A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night! • The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes. • The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells. • The symbols + (addition) and – (subtraction) came into general use in 1489.
• If you save one penny and double it every successive day, (day two you have 2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, and so on), by the end of 30 days you’ll have $5,368,708! (or £’s or
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whatever currency). • It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation. • The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY
Mrs Shumivloa said: ‘As a mum of two sons, we spend a lot of time on the farm, so I often shoot my boys with dogs, rabbits and ducks’