25 interesting facts & findings

i was meditating through the search engines and found out these cool facts from BBC NEWS..some of them are hilarious

1. Carrots used to be purple.
2. Both men and women find long legs in the opposite sex attractive,but not too long.
3. Brain tumours can be diagnosed by a handshake.
4. Short men are more likely to be jealous.
5. Men eat more Brussel sprouts and broccoli than women.
6. The Olympic torch is designed to withstand winds of up to 65km an hour and stay alight in rain up to 50mm an hour.
7. Rice was once considered so important in Japan that it was worshipped as a god.
8. About 86% of fathers attend the birth of their children.
9. A severed finger tip can grow back naturally.
10. Brain chemical oxytocin makes us trust strangers with money.
11. One of the earliest Mars Bars was pineapple-flavoured.
12. Syria has the world's largest restaurant, seating 6,014 diners.
13. Pigs can suffer from mysophobia, a fear of dirt.
14. A Volvo can accommodate 13 people.
15. Everton, Aston Villa and Fulham are among the football clubs that were created from Sunday schools.
16. Pears sink while apples float.
17. Faking one's death is known as pseudocide.
18. E-mail addresses beginning with "A", "M" or "S" get more spam than those starting with "Q" or "Z".
19. Kenyan women eat stones.
20. Henry the V invented passports.
21. Goats wear condoms,The olor is held in place by a rope or an elastic strap
22. The world's longest insect is 56cm long. the Phobaeticus chani (Chan's megastick)
23. The Sydney Opera House was inspired by a peeled orange.
24. The most common "combination craving" for a pregnant woman is pickles and peanut butter.
25. Barack Obama supports West Ham.

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