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  Interesting Facts About Geography

  Posted: September 10th, 2007, 12:34pm EDT by neoguru

  img src=/files/files/geography.jpg width=280 height=186 alt= style=border:solid #DDD 1px;padding:2px;float:left;margin:10px;/ p Travelers to La Paz, Bolivia, often become ill the moment they arrive in the city, Why? La Paz is 11,900 feet above sea level, the highest metropolis in the world. People with ailing hearts or bronchial problems are warned to stay away, and even those in perfect health usually cannot avoid some illness resulting from the Altitude. /pp Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level. /pp The states of Arizona and Hawaii have never adopted Daylight Savings Time, Neither has Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or American Samoa. /ppa href=http://www.ioframe.com/interesting_facts_about_geographyread more/a/p
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  Interesting Facts About Gambling

  Posted: September 10th, 2007, 12:02pm EDT by neoguru

  img src=/files/files/mach2.jpg alt=Las Vegas style=border:solid #DDD 1px;padding:2px;float:left;margin:10px/ p In the 1970's, the typical age range of people who Gamble was 30-55. Today, it is age 17-70. /pp Bingo is still alive and well and played by all ages. Bingo may not be the fastest way to generate a win, but the jackpots are large and the cost to play is still low. Daily Jackpots are usually around $2500 but there are some places in Las Vegas that have Jackpots of $20,000. /pp Combinatorial mathematics tells us that a 52-card deck generates 2,598,960 unique five-card hands, of which 1,098,240 hands can make up any one pair. The probability of a single pair materializing is 42.26 percent. /ppa href=http://www.ioframe.com/interesting_facts_about_gamblingread more/a/p
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  Interesting Facts About Food and Diet

  Posted: September 10th, 2007, 11:54am EDT by neoguru

  img src=/files/files/FoodIrradiation_0001_0.jpg width=156 height=216 alt= style=border:solid #DDD 1px;padding:2px;float:left;margin:10px 10px 10px 0px; /p The staple food of the Kanembu, a tribe living on the shores of Lake Chad in Africa, is Algae. The Kanembu harvest a common variety known as Spirulina from the lake, dry it on the sand, mix it up into a spicy cake, and eat it with tomatoes and chili peppers. /pp According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Consumption of green and yellow vegetables has decreased 6.3 pounds a year per person since the late 1940s. The use of cereal and flour products has dropped about 30 pounds a year per person, and Consumption of noncitrus fruits has declined at about the same rate. The only fruits whose rate of consumption has increased since World War I are citrus fruits. /ppa href=http://www.ioframe.com/interesting_facts_about_food_and_dietread more/a/p
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  Interesting Facts About Fashion

  Posted: September 10th, 2007, 11:47am EDT by neoguru

  img src=/files/files/fashion.png width=133 height=197 alt= style=border:solid #DDD 1px;padding:2px;float:left;margin:10px 10px 10px 0px; / p In the eighteenth century the French Comte d'Artois owned a set of diamond buttons, each of which had a miniature clock encased inside it. /pp The French philosopher Voltaire owned eighty Canes His contemporary, Jean Jacques Rousseau, owned forty Canes in fact were in great vogue in eighteenth-century France, and women as well as men carried them. Women's Canes often came equipped with perfume bottles, music boxes, or romantic pictures hidden inside. /ppa href=http://www.ioframe.com/interesting_facts_about_fashionread more/a/p
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  Interesting Facts About Diseases

  Posted: September 10th, 2007, 11:41am EDT by neoguru

  img src=/images/disease-3.jpg alt= style=border:1px solid #EEE;padding:2px;float:left;margin:10px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;/ p Ninety percent of all teenagers suffer from some form of acne. /pp A woman's arthritic pains will almost always disappear as soon as she becomes pregnant. No one knows why. /pp A study at the Harvard School of Public Health revealed that women who drink one or more cups of coffee a day are two and a half times more likely to get bladder cancer than women who drink no coffee. /pp One cannot catch cold at the North Pole in winter. Neither can one contract the flu, nor most of the ailments transmitted viruses and germs. The winter temperature is so low in this part of the world that none of the standard disease causing Micro-organisms can survive. /ppa href=http://www.ioframe.com/interesting_facts_about_diseasesread more/a/p
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  Interesting Facts About Death

  Posted: September 10th, 2007, 11:15am EDT by neoguru

  img src=/files/files/death_dead_disposal.gif width=237 height=200 alt=Death style=border:1px solid #EEE;padding:4px;float:left;margin:10px;margin-left:0px;/ p After the great ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky died, doctors cut open and examined his feet. They wanted to find out whether his foot bones were different from those of ordinary men, thinking that his bone structure might account for his ability to perform the extraordinary leaps for which he had been famous. The autopsy, however, revealed nothing unusual. /pp When an Australian Bushman died, his body was lowered into a grave where a special kind of gravedigger awaited it. This person's job was to slice up the corpse and hand out bits of the flesh to the mourners. The order in which the relatives partook of the feast was strictly prescribed. A mother ate from her children, and children from their mother, A man could eat his sister's husband and his brother's wife. A father, however, could not eat his children, nor children their father. /ppa href=http://www.ioframe.com/interesting_facts_about_deathread more/a/p
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  Interesting Facts About Crime

  Posted: September 10th, 2007, 11:13am EDT by neoguru

  img src=/files/files/dfgsdf.png width=238 height=174 alt=Crime style=border:solid #DDD 1px;padding:2px;float:left;margin:10px;/p Based on the victim-to-population ratio, an adult has a greater chance of being physically assaulted in the state of Arizona than anywhere else in the country. The state with the second highest rate of assault is North Carolina, third is New Mexico. /pp An embezzler in Thailand, sentenced to 865 years in jail, was lucky enough to get his sentenced reduced to just 576 years. /ppa href=http://www.ioframe.com/interesting_facts_about_crimeread more/a/p
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  Interesting Facts About Cars

  Posted: September 10th, 2007, 8:21am EDT by neoguru

  img src=/files/files/22595199.jpg width=250 height=201 alt= style=border:1px solid #EEE;padding:4px;float:left;margin:10px 10px 10px 0px;/ p In 1924 a Ford automobile cost $265. /pp Most American automobile horns beep in the key of F. /pp The Buick, first automobile manufactured by the General Motors Corporation, was actually built by a man named David Buick. Buick, a plumber by trade, also invented a process whereby porcelain could be annealed onto iron, hence making possible the production of the white porcelain bathtub. /pp No two-cycle engines are allowed in Singapore. The license fee for a new car is low, about $5.00, but as the vehicle gets older, this fee increases. When the automoblie reaches 8 years old, it is no longer allowed on the streets. This is opposite of the license-fee structure in the U.S. While strict, Singapore's auto law has virtually wiped out air pollution in the country. /ppa href=http://www.ioframe.com/interesting_facts_about_carsread more/a/p
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  Interesting Facts About Animals 2

  Posted: September 10th, 2007, 8:19am EDT by neoguru

  p An Anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide. /pp Mississippi Alligators have the most powerful bite force ever measured. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Zoology of London, these Alligators snap their strong jaws shut with an average force of 2,125 pounds, or with about as much force as a mid-size car falling on top of someone. One even bit as much as 2,960 pounds of force. /pp They have 42 teeth. /pp They commonly have 12,000 eyes. /pp According to the tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington D.C., cats dogs, like people, are either right handed or left handed, that is, these animals favour either their right or left paws. /ppa href=http://www.ioframe.com/interesting_facts_about_animals_2read more/a/p
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  Interesting Facts About Architecture and Construction

  Posted: September 10th, 2007, 8:11am EDT by neoguru

  p The Incas considered bridges to be so sacred that anyone who tampered with one was put to death Among the most impressive Inca bridges were the chacas, or rope bridges, that spanned great distances over gorges and rivers They were made of plaited grasses woven together into a single cable as thick as a man's body, and they sometimes extended for 175 feet It took as many as a thousand people to build such a bridge, and many of these remarkable structures lasted more than five hundred years /pp A bridge built in Lima, Peru around 1610 was made of mortar that was mixed not with water but with the whites of 10,000 eggs The bridge, appropriately called the Bridge of Eggs, is still standing today /ppa href=http://www.ioframe.com/interesting_facts_about_architecture_and_constructionread more/a/p