General Knowledge Facts - Part 2

1. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

2. Camels can drink 94 litres of water in less than 3 minutes.

3. There are over 7,000 different types of apples.

4. Ants can lift 50 times their own weight.

5. The pound key (#) on the Keyboard / Keypad is called an octothorpe.

6. Octopus have 3 hearts.

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1. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

2. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

3. Snakes are immune(protected) to their own poison.

4. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

5. Monumental Axis in Brazil is the world's widest road. 160 cars can drive side by side at the same time.

6. A female mackerel fish (Kanagnkelluthi in Tamil) lays about 1,000,000 eggs at a time.

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1. Avocados (Vennai-Pazham) have more protein than any other fruit.
(For picture: http://images.google.gr/images?hl=el&q=Avocados&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi)

2. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

3. The Central Railway in Peru is the world's highest railway. It climbs to 15,694 feet in the Galera Tunnel.

4. There are only 3 sets of letters on a keyboard which are in alphabetical order (f g h, j k l, and o p).

5. Chewing gum while peeling onions will reduce your tears.

6. Read this now:

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born! in 1839. I was corrected on this and he was born on 1838
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.

Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln.'
Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.

Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker...

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

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