9+9 Amazing Facts Of The World: Part Deux

• It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
• 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
• An embezzler in Thailand, sentenced to 865 years in jail, was lucky enough to get his sentenced reduced to just 576 years.
• Most American automobile horns beep in the key of F.
• An Anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
• The Incas considered bridges to be so sacred that anyone who tampered with one was put to death.
• The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
• There is a city called Rome in every continent.
• A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
• The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ location that sells hot dogs.
• Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food.
• Switzerland is one of the only countries to have no mineral deposit in it.
• The largest lake in the world i.e. the Caspian sea measures about 980 km from North to South and 215 to 440 km in breadth, with an area of 371,800 sq.km.
• King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
• The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
• More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
• A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.
• A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.