Facts about Wine N Alcohol

• The longest bar in the world is 684 feet(about 208.5 meters) long and is located at the New Bulldog in Rock Island, Illinois.
• Each molecule of alcohol is less than a billionth of a meter long and consists of a few atoms of oxygen, carbon and hydrogen.
• As the famous explorer Magellan prepared to sail around the world in 1519, he spent more on Sherry than on weapons.
• Vassar College was established and funded by a brewer.
•  The U.S. Marines’ first recruiting station was in a bar.

Icecream Related Facts

• Legend has it that the Roman emperor Nero used to send his slaves scurrying to the mountains to collect snow and ice to make flavored ices, the precursors to ice cream, in the first century.
• The first written mention of ice cream in this country can be found in a letter from the 1700s, which admiringly describes the ice cream and strawberry dessert a Maryland governor served at a dinner party. Initially, just a treat for the elite (including George Washington, who is said to have consumed enormous quantities), the first ice cream parlor in this country opened in New York City in 1776. In 1845, the hand-cranked freezer was invented, allowing Americans to make ice cream more easily at home.
• Americans consume the most ice cream in the world per capita, with Australians coming in second. In 1924, the average America ate eight pints a year. By 1997, the International Dairy Foods Association reported that the figure had jumped to 48 pints a year.

Christmas related Facts

• The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of Christ's Mass!
• The first president to decorate the white house Christmas tree in the United States was Franklin Pierce.
• Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.
• The first Christmas cards were vintage and invented in 1843, the Victorian Era.
• "It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than any other holiday movie.

Amazing Facts

• Tuesday is considered as the most productive day of the week.
• In human body the right lung takes in more air than the left one.
• The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
• Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer which is a brand of the microsoft’s rival company.
• Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.

Money Related Facts...

• The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.
• If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.
• A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 10 kg (22 lb).
• One million dollars' worth of once-cent coins (100 million coins) weigh 246 tons.
• TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."

Some Invention Facts

• Desperate to increase veggie intake among children in Britain, researchers have developed chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn and baked-bean-flavored peas.
• Thomas Edison was deaf, but it was not all because of his condition at birth. It is true that he was born partially deaf, but he actually became totally deaf when he was conducting an experiment on the back of a train caboose which caused the train’s conductor to become very upset. The conductor then “boxed” Edison’s ears, meaning that he hit both of Edison’s ears at the same time. This blow caused him to become totally deaf for the rest of his life.

Facts about Dreams

•  Most of our dreams last anywhere from five to 20 minutes.
• People don't only dream in black and white, as was once believed.
• Even though they may not remember them, everyone dreams several times a night. In fact, during a typical lifetime, we spend about six years dreaming.
• People who have been blind from birth have dreams that are formed from their other senses (e.g., touch, smell, sound).
• When people are snoring, they're not dreaming.

More Facts...

* Starfish have no brain.

* Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
* Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
* Bulls are color blind.
* A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
* Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
* Lip stick contains fish scales.

Some More Amazing Facts

-- Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.

-- The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.

-- Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.

Amazing Facts For Kids

Did you know there are two kinds of pandas? There is the Long-tailed Himalayan carnivore that looks like a raccoon and there is the Giant panda bear that lives in Western China.

Did you know there are two kinds of camels? One is the Arabian that lives in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It has one hump. And the second kind is called Bactrian which has two humps and lives in Mongolia and Chinese Turkistan.

The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.

Did you know fishes talk to each other? Some of them communicate by making noises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders to make sounds

Napoleon Bonaparte (15 Aug 1769 - 5 May 1821

Napoleon's christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte(OR Bonaparte). He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property. As a boy, Napoleon hated the French.

The brain of an average adult male weighs 1,375 gm (55 oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev weighed 2021 gm (81 oz), Bismark's weighed 1807 gm (72 oz), while that of French statesman Gambetta was only 1294 gm (51 oz). Einstein's brain was of average size.

The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White It can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.

The Blue Whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.

There are two kinds of elephants: the African that is taller and has larger ears and the Indian that is small and has smaller ears.