1. You have heard of whales. But have you ever heard about a man who could stay alive in a whale’s stomach? He is none other than James Bartley.
He was swallowed by a whale, when his ship was attacked in 1891. After having found the whale, the ship crew killed the whale and cut it open to find James’ dead body. To their amazement, James Bartley, thought to be dead, was found alive in the whale’s stomach.
As a result of the stomach acid of the whale, his face and arms had been bleached. Apart from that, he had lost his eyesight.
The first thing that you will lose in a whale’s stomach is your much loved skin. You are lucky if you can avoid its teeth because each tooth is around 20 centimeters long. Whales have four stomachs. After you get dropped into the first stomach you will find it hard to breathe for lack of oxygen. At that time, you will feel hydrochloric acid beginning to harm your skin. Next you will be tossed from the first stomach to the second one in which acid starts to break your bones until you become a bunch of broken bones being ejected from its anus.
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Are you a smoker? If you are a smoker, please try to get rid of your bad habit because the average lifespan of heavy smokers is 13 years shorter.
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Bill Gates, known as the unrivalled software developer in the world is monolingual. Gates had said that one of the biggest regrets in his life is the fact that he could not learn another language.
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The logo of facebook is blue. Did you know why? Zuckerberg has red-green colour blindness. The colour he can see well is blue. “ Blue is the richest color for me,” he had told one of the magazines. In addition, Zuckerberg, unlike Bill Gates, is multilingual.
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Have you ever met people who can speak several languages? An average person can speak two to four languages. But Ziad Fazah who was born in Liberia can speak 59 languages.
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British policemen are not equipped with guns.
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The world’s biggest library is the Library of Congress. Established in 1800, the library contains materials in over 450 languages, 164 million items and 1,350 kilometers of bookshelves.
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Oysters are alive even when you eat them.
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The average speed of copying is 40 letters per minute for an adult.
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Did you know the most poisonous flower in the floral world? Nerium Oleanderis is known to be the most poisonous flower in the world. This flower looks soothing with white, magenta and crimson colours.