Classmate Facts # 91 - Get Crazy

1. The global average efficiency of vehicles is 5km to a litre, Japan and Western Europe manage an average of upto 11 km.

2. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

3. An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

Classmate Facts # 90 - All For a Fact...

1. Wine is sold in tinted bottles because wine spoils when expose to light.

2. Water, water everywhere! Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90% and bread 30%.

3. There are about 150 million sites on the web, with more than one billion web pages.'

4. The thin fine line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.

5. By age 65, an average American would have watched the equivalent of 9 years uninterrupted TV, viewing more than 20,000 TV commercials per year.

6. There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world.

Classmate Facts # 89 - Chattering Magpies?

1. Dieting? Carrots have zero fat content!

2. About 42,000 tennis balls are used at the Wimbledon championships, every year.

3. The very first bomg that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

4. In the 1950s some of the new words coined were aerospace, alphanumeric, brainstorming, car wash, cha-cha, digitize, do-it-yourself, ethno-history, in-house and meter maid!

5. The world's best selling musical instrument is the Harmonica.

6. Did you know that while Geese cackle, hippos bray and rhinos snort? and when its magpies that open their mouth, it's called 'Chatter!'

Classmate Facts # 88 - Gibber's and Coo's!!

1. Did you know that Elephants trumpet, Eagles scream and Apes gibber? The sounds made by Doves are Coos and Moans!

2. The word carat derives from the carob bean. Gem dealers balance their scales with carob beans because these beans all have the same weight!

3. Collective nouns anyone> A culture of bacteria, a quiver of cobras, a smack of jellyfish and a plague of locusts!

4. In 1913, the Russian airline became the first to introduce a toilet on board!

5. Botanically speaking, the banana is an herb and the tomato is a fruit!

6. In Seattle, a driver spends 59 hours per year in a traffic jam!

Classmate Facts # 87 - For the Record...

1. In september 1999 Dustin Phillips of US set a Guinness World Record by drinking a 400 ml (14-oz) bottle of tomato sauce through a straw in 33 seconds.

2. The world's largest industry is tourism affecting 240 million jobs.

3. Americans and Europeans spend over $ 17 billion per year on pet food!!

4. The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel 'Vivian Grey'.

5. Tobacco is a $ 200 Billion industry, producing six trillion cigarettes a year - about 1,000 cigarettes for each person on the earth.

6. To make one kilo of honey, bees have to visit 4 million flowers, travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

Classmate Facts # 86 - Titanic Tidbits!

1. On board the Titanic were 13 couples, celebrating their Honeymoon!

2. The Titanic used up 14,000 gallons of drinking water and 825 tons of coal every day!

3. The price of the finest first class suite on board the titanic in 912 was US $ 4,550 for the voyage! A third class ticket was just US$ 30!

4. Did you know that cats were often brought aboard ships as a sign of good luck? They also kept rats at bay. There were no cats on the Titanic!

5.To put the magnificent ship together more than 3 million rivets were used!

6. The Titanic carried 7,500 pounds of bacon and ham, 2,200 pounds of coffee, 11,000 pounds of fresh soda, 16,000 lemons, 40 tons of potatoes and 20,000 bottles of beer!

Classmate Facts # 85 - That's Entertainment!

1. The 1981 film “Raiders of the Lost Ark” features over 7,500 boas, cobras and pythons and over 50 tarantulas!

2. Ever watched the Simpsons? Well.. the writers of the series have never revealed what state Springfield is in.

3. In Seoul, South Korea, a theater manager felt that the "Sound of Music" was too long, so he shortened it by cutting out all the songs!

4. In "Rear Window", a movie made by Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart plays a character wearing a leg cast from the waist down. In one scene, the cast switches legs, and in the other, the signature on the cast is missing.

5. A motion picture which is 2 hours long uses 10,800 feet of film. That's not including the movie previews and the commercials!

6. The creator of Muppets, Jim Henson first made Kermit from his mother's coat and two halves of a ping-pong ball!