NEW FACTS TO KNOW.

These are new facts

In Australia, a hurricane is called a willy-willy.

"Asthma" and "Isthmi" are the only 6-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels in between.

There are about 6,800 languages in the world.

Russia has by far the most tanks of any country in the world - over 21,000.

If a mosquito is biting you, and you flex that muscle, it will explode

China sells a soup made out of aborted human fetuses.

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SOME FACTS ABOUT THE NORTHERN NIGERIA

SEVEN FACTS ABOUT THE NORTHERN NIGERIA

(1) There are about 73 DIFFERENT languages in Taraba State alone, 48 in Plateau, 60 in Bauchi, 58 in Adamawa, 57 in Kaduna, 38 in Niger, 29 in Nasarawa and 28 in Borno.

(2) Apart from Sokoto and Zamfara State, EVERY other state in the north has indigenous Christian population.

(3) Except Benue, kogi, Plateau, Niger and Borno, the remaining 14 state's heads of traditional councils are all Fulanis.

(4) The sultan of Sokoto is the only traditional leader that occupy's the highest number of offices in Nigeria: head of Sokoto State traditional council, head of northern traditional council, chairman of the traditional council of Nigeria, head of Nigeria's Muslim umma (congregation) and co-chairman of Nigeria's inter faith council. He also functions in various offices common with Nigerian traditional and religious leaders.

(5) A traditional Tiv man allows his "special" visitor or relation to make love to his wife.

(6) After "sekin uku", i.e third divorce, a northern muslim can remarry his divorced wife only if she (a) marry's another man, (b) Be Intimate with him at-least once and (c) get a divorce from that man.

(7) Boko Haram was founded and being run by Kanuris (not Hausa/Fulanis)

ENGLISH (WORD) FACTS

THESE ARE FACTS!

Did U know that...

1. UNCOPYRIGHTABLE is d longest English word where no alphabet is used twice.

2. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using letters on one row of d
keyboard.

3. The word "CHECK MATE" in chess comes from the persian phrase "shah mat"
which means "D KING IS DEAD.

4. The sentence "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG" has all letters of
d alphabet.

5. Canada is an India word meaning "BIG VILLAGE".

6. In English "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as it's value.

7. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
"AMERICA, ASIA, AFRICA, EUROPE, ANTARCTICA, AUSTRIALIA.

8.The first word spoken on the moon was "OKAY".

9. "DREAMT" is the only English word that ends wit "MT"

Wow! Facts of Life...

Wearing yellow coloured clothes makes you look bigger on camera; while green, makes you smaller.
Humans usually start to lie at the age of 4.
You can rent a girlfriend in China for only $31 a week.
Falling in love is easy, staying in love is a challenge, letting go is hard, and moving on is the hardest.
Kissing is more hygienic and healthier than shaking hands.
Jackie Chan, Cameron Diaz, Carrie Fisher and Sylvester Stallone all starred in porn films at one point in their career.
Couples who sleep naked together tend to stay together longer and are closer than those who don't.
Alcohol causes over 2.5 million deaths a year and is legal. Marijuana causes 0 and is illegal.
People born in 1994-1999 have lived in three decades, two centuries, and two millenniums. And they're not even 18 yet. You guys are awesome.
Listening to the music that you love can boost your immune system.
Mosquitoes have actually killed more people than all the wars in history.
Barack Hussein Obama wears only two ties in his appearences blue and red.
While kissing for one minute, both partners burn about 2.6 calories.
75 seconds of laughing out loud each day reduces risk of heart disease.
There are enough diamonds in Russia to keep the Earth shining for 3,000 years.

WOW! what do you know?

FACTS TO PONDER ON!

74% of surveyed high school students admitted to cheating on an exam during the past year to get ahead.

Watching too much porn can actually cause depression, anxiety and erectile dysfunction.

Humans are the only animals that smile as an emotional response.

15 billion cigarettes are smoked every day worldwide.

Watching too much TV is just as dangerous as smoking and lack of exercise.

Ever since the independence of the U.S in 1776, the country's been at war for 214 years and at peace for only 21 years.

Carlos Slim, the world's richest man is also the world's cheapest man; apparently he does not believe in giving to the poor.

People with the biggest smiles live the longest.

Professional fart smeller is a real job in China that pays about US$50,000 per year.

Smiling slows down aging and prevents wrinkles.

The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.

Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Atlantic Ocean and set on the Pacific.

Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth, and it is growing two inches taller every year.


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