General Knowledge

1. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
2. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears ever stop growing.
3. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
4. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
5. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
6. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
7. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
8. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
9. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his Wife or mother because they were both deaf.
10. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
11. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
12. The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond
13. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
14. "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters
15. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do
16. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
17. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
18. China has more English speakers than the United States
19. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
20. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
21. The longest place name still in use is:Taumatawhakatangiha ngaoauauotametea turi-Pukakpikima ungahoronukupoka iwhenuakitanatahu- a New Zealand hill
22. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US)at approximately 4:30pm the previous day