Math Facts

Multiplication by 11 is easy! To multiply by a 2-digit number add the two digits and place the sum in between!

25 x 11 = 275
31 x 11 = 341
57 x 11 = 627 <-- you need to carry the 1!

What about a 3-digit number? Can you figure out what's going on here?

253 x 11 = 2783
117 x 11 = 1287
532 x 11 = 5852
267 x 11 = 2937

FACTs

• Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks -otherwise it will digest itself.
• 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

Fast Facts

• Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.
• A house fly lives only 14 days.
• There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.
• The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.
• Pea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.
• The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible
• Sheep are mentioned 45 times and goats 88 times in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times and lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue.
• Dolphins can reach 60 km/h (37 mph).
• Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
• The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.

Useless Facts

• The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.
• Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
• Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
• 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
• The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

Interesting but Completely Useless Facts!!!

• The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
• Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
• What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
• "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
• "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
• There is a city called Rome on every continent.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
• The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
• Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
• Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
• It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

Math Facts

• 12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100 and there exists at least one other representation of 100 with 9 digits in the right order and math operations in between
• In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2
• Everything you can do with a ruler and a compass you can do with the compass alone

There is something the dead eat but if the living eat it, they die.
Yes, indeed. Something = Nothing

What collectors are called

• The name for a teddy bear collector is archtophilist or arctophile.
• Collectors of dolls are called plangonologists.
• A collector of paper money, coins, tokens, and related objects is called a numismatist.
• A collector of paper money is called a notaphilist.
• A labeorphilist is a collector of beer bottles.
• A collector of butterflies is called a lepidopterist.
• A collector of matchbooks and matchbook covers is a phillumenist.
• A collector of antiques is an antiquarian.
• If you collect obsidian and syenite you are called a rock hound.
• A stamp collector is called a philatelist.
• A pernalogist is a collector of pearls.
• Cinephiles are film collectors.
• A bibiophilist collects books.
• A copoclephilist collects key rings.
• A deltiologist collects post cards.
• A collector of hi-fi equipment is called an audiophile
• Spermologist collect seeds
• A spermologer is one who collects Trivia (this from the original Trivial Pursuit game)
  

Strange Laws.

• Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.
• In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
• It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.
• In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.
• A barber is not to advertise prices in the State of Georgia.
• In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.
• In Florida, it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus.
• In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.
• In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples.

Facts

• Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
• Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
• The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
• The state of Florida is bigger than England!

Factiods

• A diamond will break if you hit it with a hammer.
• Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not named after a god.
• Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

Factiods

• Electric cars were introduced in 1896 and by the end of the century almost 50% of motorcars worldwide were electric.Yet, by 1905 80% of cars were petrol driven and by 1920 the electric car was, well, almost history.
• Hurricanes, tornadoes and bigger bodies of water always go clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
• All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
• The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

DYK - Facts about WATER.

Freshwater lakes and swamps account for a mere 0.29% of the Earth's freshwater. 20% of all freshwater is in one lake, Lake Baikal in Asia. Another 20% is stored in the Great Lakes, Huron, Michigan, and Superior. Rivers hold only about 0.006% of total freshwater reserves. Mankind essentially uses only a drop in the bucket of the total available water supply.

So where is all the water? Antarctica, which is thought to hold about 75% of the world's fresh water (and 90% of the world's ice). In fact, almost 10 percent of the world's land mass is currently covered with glaciers, mostly in Antarctica and Greenland.

DYK - Sep 10 2007

Companies named after people

1. BEA Systems : from the first initial of each of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang.
2. Horlicks : James Horlick and William Horlick who founded the company in Chicago in 1873
3. Wendy's : founder Dave Thomas' daughter Melinda "Wendy" Thomas
4. Mazda : Inspired by Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda.

Real names of famous people

1. Ashok Kumar: The old Hindi Actor his real name is Kumudlal Kanjilal Ganguly.
2. Charlie Sheen: The Hollywood actor's real name is Carlos Irwin Estevez.
3. Dharmendra: The Famous Hindi actor and MP, his real name is Dharam Singh Deol.
4. Dilip Kumar: The Famous Hindi actor , his real name is Yusuf Khan.
5. Elton John: The Famous musician, his real name is Reginald Kenneth Dwight.
6. Jamie Foxx: The Hollywood actor's real name is Eric Bishop.

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