Nuggets to nibble ...

* Various Sources (Started a long time ago : compiled from May 30 2011 onwards)


* Tall people (study performed on more than 1 million women) 'more likely to develop cancer' 
   [- For every four inches (10cm) above five feet a person was, the researchers said they had a 16% increased cancer risk.]

* Geometry skills are innate.

* A third of the world's smokers live in China.


* Humans stare longer at people with bad reputations.



* Only three states in the world do not allow divorce - the Vatican, the Philippines and Malta.

* Watermelons can explode. 


* Toasts to the Queen usually just contain the words "The Queen".

* Vuvuzelas spread disease.

* Parakeets are bullies.

*Reindeer have UV vision.

* It is illegal to sell moon rocks in the US. 

* The hardiest animal on Earth is called a Tardigrade, better known as "water bear". 

*  "Highly cheerful" people die younger. (I shall leave soon I guess !!! )

* Bees frighten elephants.

* There are only two beret factories left in France. (Awww !!! that is really sad !)

* Philtrum is the name of the groove on your top lip that lies just beneath your nose.
(You know we all came from the fishes ... and we are still manufactured that way !)

* Some bright brains said : The perfect nap lasts 26 minutes.
(!!!! 0_0 how they hell did you find *that* out ?)

* Marlon Brando, Liz Taylor and Michael Jackson shared a hire car on 9/11.

* Children in Cuba say "I want to be like Che" every day at school.

* French time used to be nine minutes ahead of GMT, based on the time in Paris.

* Sugar level in strawberries is calculated on the Brix scale.

* The hemlines of school skirts in South Korea have risen 10-15cm (4-6in) in the last decade.
(:D :D :D   Someone actually reported this ! What a fetish for hemlines .. hihihi! Reported : 12th May 2011)

*  Humans are naturally predisposed to believe in gods and life after death.
(Have you seen Gurinder Chaddha's *It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010)*? Check it out !)

* Bonobos share eating-out tips. (We *share* attitudes with/from our past ;))

* French police are currently allowed 25cl of wine or a small beer with their lunch while on duty. (! 0_0 !)

* Elephants can recognise their own reflection, something only before seen in humans, great apes and bottlenose dolphins.

* Where sun-tans became the fad : Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.

* (Looking for a job?) During World War II, MI5 invited Daily Telegraph crossword winners to work as code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

* A bdelloid rotifer is a pond-dwelling organism that has survived 80 million years without sex.

* Hitler received 1,000 letters a month of fan mail.

* Left-handed people are more fearful than right-handers.

* The first University that I heard about with the name of a nation was 'The University of West Indies' (!!! Imagine something like the University of India or Université de la France !!!)

* Origin of the word 'Defenestrated'. Two imperial regents and their secretary were thrown out of a window of the Prague Castle in a fight over religion. The men landed on a dung heap and survived. The Defenestration of Prague was a prelude to the Thirty Years' War.

* Recording Number Sequences on the calender :  [Time(hour: min: sec) Date (day/ month/ year)]
   01:23:45   6/7/89
   12:34.56   7/8/90
   01:02:03   4/5/06
   02:03:04   5/6/07
   03:04:05   6/7/08
   12:34:56   7/8/09
   05:06:07   8/9/10
   {Note how in 1990 & 2009 the time & date sequence is the same}
   11:11:11 11/11/11
   13:12:11 13/12/11