Do You Know?!

It's always good to read and learn things. But we may not necessary to have time. At here, you need less than 1 minute to read a statement, but each of this statement will improve your knowledge bit by bit.



(The update of Do You Know?! is scheduled at least 10 every week. And the newest will always appear on top)

1.  2.72m, height tallest ever man recorded at year of 1940,by Robert Pershing Wadlow. 
2. 9.58s, fastest record for 100m race held by Usain Bolt. However, in a 150m race, he recorded 8.70 second for last 100m, fastest ever recorded time over a 100m distance.
3. Ostrich is huge and somehow they are the fastest bird that can run up to 70km/h.
4.  Housefly has a lifespan of... 14 days.
5.  Largest soft drink producer, Coca-cola earned more than 20 billion US dollar year 2010 equivalent to around 60 billion ringgit,however lose to profit before tax of Petronas at 67 billion ringgit same year.
6.  Malaysia has landmass of 329,847 square kilometers and a population over 27.5 million.
7.  Lighter is invented in 1816, while a modern match box is invented 1826. Before this, a match would have to ignite by external flame. Therefore, we have lighter before match box.
8.  There are several opinions on the origin of Sushi, but one thing that is sure sushi is not originated in Japan.
9.  According to an unofficial source, Malaysian's male recorded average height at 164.7cm and female at 153.3cm. As comparison, Netherland's male recorded 184.8cm and female's 168.7cm.
10.  In 2006, study show there are 14% of Malaysians are obese and this figure are expected to reach 30% by this year, approximately 8.1million Malaysians are facing obesity.
11.  Not all female Black  Widow Spider kill their male partner after mating, this phenomenon is somehow rare in nature.
12. Firefly has light, but do you know their light flashes in unique pattern to attract mate? And even scientist has no idea how they turn on and off the light.
13. Mummified crocodiles and crocodile eggs have been discovered in Egyptian tombs.
14. Bulls are actually have 2 kinds of colour receptors in their retina, but they are somehow red-green colour blind. It's not red colour that ignite their charges but the movements of the cape do the job.
15. Avatar in 2009 currently hold the highest 2.7 Billion US Dollar box office record worldwide since 1997's Titanic at 1.8 Billion.
16. King of Pop Michael Jackson's 1982 Thriller sales over 110million copy around the world and hence the best selling album of all time.
17. Killer whales made use of sound and echolocation to communicate and hunt, making sounds that travel underwater until they encounter objects, then bounce back, revealing their location, size, and shape.
18. Baby,” an ironically named Burmese python living at the Serpent Safari Park in Illinois, is 8.23 meters long and holds the record as the world’s heaviest living snake at 183 kilograms. 
19. Tu Malila, 188 years old turtle from Madagascar is considered as the longest-lived animal according to authenticated records. Tu' Malila was hatched in 1777 and died on May 19, 1965. As comparison, the world record recorded 122 years old of a French lady as the longest lifespan human.
20. Collective nouns for groups of animal: A pride of ostriches;A parliament of owls;A fling of oxbirds;A company of parrots. 

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