SRI VENKATESHWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
IEEE STUDENT BRANCH
Interesting Facts
- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
- Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh.
Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
- Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
- In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets
appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
- 55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn.
- A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
- If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.