29 March 2014

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 208 (29/03/2014)





2071.            The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.

2072.            Grapes are grown around the world more than any other fruit.

2073.            The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man.

2074.            Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of
    which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are
    between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are
    answered a second.

2075.            There is a Hamburger hall of fame in Seymour, Wisconsin.

2076.            The Olympic torch weighs about 3 pounds.

2077.            The famous Christmas song "Jingle Bells" was written for a Thanksgiving program
    in 1857 by James Pierpont. At the time, the song was called "The One-Horse Open
    Sleigh."

2078.            The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

2079.            Initially golf balls were made out of wood. After that they were made out of leather
    which was stuffed with feathers.


2080.            Russian I.M. Chisov survived a 21,980 plunge out of a plane with no parachute. He
    landed on the steep side of a snow-covered mountain with only a fractured pelvis
    and slight concussion.



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