Random fun fact

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

2. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

3. Hot water is heavier than cold.

4. A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a           city block.

5. At a jet plane’s speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its             original length.

6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

8. Bandra-Worli Sealink in india has steel wires equal to the earth’s circumference.

9. Mahatma Gandhi is not the ‘Father of the nation’. It is not officially accorded by the government of India.

10. India has floating Post office.

11. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

12. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made                 entirely of glass.

13. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the               glass to the top.

14. Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.

15. Facebook and Twitter are banned in China.

16. The Twitter bird actually has a name – Larry.

17. An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

18. The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer.

19. 20% of Earth’s oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.

20. Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.

21. At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.

22. Water can boil and freeze at the same time.

23. A single solar flare can release the equivalent energy of millions of 100-megaton atomic bombs.