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50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW (or 50 Completely Useless Facts!)
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms  like fried bacon. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions! What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath There is a city called Rome on every continent. It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland! Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe! The elephant is the only mammal  that can't jump! One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.		Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it. On average a hedgehog's  heart beats 300 times a minute. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. Earth is the only planet not named after a god. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food! Dolphins sleep with one eye open! It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old! The longest recorded flight  of a chicken is 13 seconds Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not Slugs have 4 noses. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! The average person laughs 10 times a day! An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain ---------------------------------------------------

General characteristics
    * Crew: 2
    * Length: 21.935 m (72.97 ft)
    * Wingspan: 14.7 m (48.2 ft)
    * Height: 6.36 m (20.85 ft)
    * Wing area: 62.0 m² (667 ft²)
    * Empty weight: 18,400 kg [4] (40,565 lb)
    * Loaded weight: 24,900 kg (54,895 lb)
    * Max takeoff weight: 38,800 kg (85,600 lb)
    * Powerplant: 2× LyulkaAL-31FP turbofans with thrust vectoring,131 kN (27,557 lbf) each
Performance
    * Maximum speed: Mach 2.34 (2490 km/h) at 11,000 m (36,000 ft)
    * Range: 5,000 km (2,700 nmi) at altitude; (1,270 km, 690 nmi near ground level)
    * Endurance: 4.5 hrs (upto 10 hrs with in-flight refueling)
    * Service ceiling: 17,300 m (56,800 ft)
    * Rate of climb: >300 m/s (70,000 ft/min)
    * Wing loading: 401 kg/m² (98 lb/ft²)
    * Thrust/weight: 1.07 at loaded weight & 1.15 with 50% fuel

Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة‎ "Khalifa Tower"), formerly known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, UAE, and the Tallest man made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft).Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009.

World Records

At over 800 metres (2625 feet) and more than 160 stories, Burj Khalifa holds the following records:

1. Blivet
It appears to have three cylindrical prongs at one end which then mysteriously transform into two rectangular prongs at the other end.

2.Café Wall Illusion
The café wall illusion is an optical illusion, first described by Doctor Richard Gregory. He observed this curious effect in the tiles of the wall of a café at the bottom of St Michael’s Hill, Bristol. This optical illusion makes the parallel straight horizontal lines appear to be bent. To construct the illusion, alternating light and dark “bricks” are laid in staggered rows. It is essential for the illusion that each “brick” is surrounded by a layer of “mortar” (the grey in the image). This should ideally be of a color in between the dark and light color of the “bricks”.


3.Fraser Spiral Illusion
 The illusion is also known as the false spiral, or by its original name, the twisted cord illusion. The overlapping black arc segments appear to form a spiral; however, the arcs are a series of concentric circles.
  4.Hermann Grid Illusion
The Hermann grid illusion is an optical illusion reported by Ludimar Hermann in 1870 while, incidentally, reading John Tyndall’s Sound. The illusion is characterised by “ghostlike” grey blobs perceived at the intersections of a white (or light-colored) grid on a black background. The grey blobs disappear when looking directly at an intersection.
 5.Impossible Cube Illusion
The impossible cube or irrational cube is an impossible object that draws upon the ambiguity present in a Necker cube illustration. An impossible cube is usually rendered as a Necker cube in which the edges are apparently solid beams. This apparent solidity gives the impossible cube greater visual ambiguity than the Necker cube, which is less likely to be perceived as an impossible object. The illusion plays on the human eye’s interpretation of two-dimensional pictures as three-dimensional objects.

Here are some interesting facts about the Petronas Towers:
-combined the towers have 1,000,000m2 of floor space;
- at the 41st and 42nd level a skybridge connects the two towers 170m/558f above the ground.
- the towers have 32.000 windows.
- the building costs were US $ 1,2 billion.
- the whole complex was built on a former horse-racing track.
- the towers' complex includes an art gallery, an 840-seat concert hall, and an underground parking lot;
- the main occupant of the buildings is Petronas, the national oil-company;
- though completed in 1998, the buildings were officially opened on August 28th, 1999;