Did YOU Know?

[Laila]

Lets post up interesting facts.......

13% of people are left handed (including myself)

[Laila]

The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant

[Fahd]

nice theard laila
i will start with ma name
fahd in arabic mean Cheetah
fahd take from fahd (Cheetah)

hahahaha

[Talal]

The Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste.

[AnGaaR]

Lets post up interesting facts.......

13% of people are left handed (including myself)

Me including and my 2 other brothers are left handed









No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

[amna.]

I am also left handed. Did you know a Cockroach can live a week without its head?

[Laila]

Wow i am surprised and glad to hear of more lefties i love being left handed lol


Your middle fingernail grows the fastest (i really did not know that, i thought it was your index fingernail)

Every person has a unique tongue print.

[Zayam]

The Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste.

Maybe this is true....but Talal I just want to say, your posts often take me surprise....in a good way!

[Talal]

35%
Increase in the global carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels since the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1992.

388.50 ppm
Average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in May 2008, a record high.

541 – 970 ppm
The projected concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by 2100 under a business as usual scenario where we don't dramatically reduce global warming emissions.

260 – 280 ppm
Average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere before industrial emissions.

50 – 200 years
Length of time carbon dioxide stays in the earth's atmosphere before it is absorbed into carbon sinks.

1000 years
Length of time changes in the earth's surface temperature, rainfall, and sea level will remain even after carbon dioxide emissions are completely stopped.

34%
Percentage that 2008's Arctic seasonal sea ice melt outpaced normal levels.

70%
Increase in the rate of Greenland's ice melt over the last five years.

1.7 days
Number of days earlier seasons are coming than 50 years ago.

1.5 million
Number of acres of forests in Colorado destroyed by the pine beetle, which is better able to survive warmer winters and is wrecking havoc in America's western forests.

$427 million
Amount spent by the oil and coal industries in the first six months of 2008 in political contributions, lobbying expenditures and advertising to oppose climate action.

0
Number of global warming bills passed by the Senate.

0
Number of global warming bills passed by the House.

[Fahd]

The Pashtuns are the world's largest (patriarchal) segmentary lineage ethnic group

[Fahd]

There are many conflicting theories about the origin of Pashtuns, some modern and others archaic, both among historians and the Pashtuns themselves. According to most historians and experts, the true origin of the Pashtuns is unknown
the origin of the Afghans is so obscure, that no one, even among the oldest and most clever of the tribe, can give satisfactory information on this point

i hate that info
dame most of pashtun in afg forgot they birthday and age

[Laila]

The one place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, and does not get saluted, is the moon.

The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second.

[kandahari ella]

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee

Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

One of the most famous “true vampires” was Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614) who was accused of biting the flesh of girls while torturing them and bathing in their blood to retain her youthful beauty. She was by all accounts a very attractive woman.

[khushal]

The Pashtuns are the world's largest (patriarchal) segmentary lineage ethnic group

Thank you Fahd, I was telling that to Wrayon, he thinks its the arabs.

The Khyber Pass is the population center of the world.

Pashtuns are the only people in the world who have never been governed

a recent poll: 1/3 of americans beleive US government was behind 911 attacks
Congress wants to pass law that bans people from saying anyting other than the official government report about 911

1832 china and india were the 2 largest economies in the world, and its expected to reach its former status in 2032

[Fahd]

^u r welcome ma bro
u can see that info in wikipideia
pashtun pepole