Interesting facts about football

Soccer players run an average of six miles during every game.

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world.

Over one billion fans watch World Cup Soccer on television.

Every year except for two (1930 and 1950) European Teams have

reached every World Cup final.

India withdrew from the World Cup in 1950 because they weren’t

allowed to play barefoot.

Soccer facts reveal that only the United States and Canada actually

call soccer “soccer.”

Over 40 million watched on television as the U.S. Women’s Team

won the World Cup in 1999.

Also in 1999, Over 35,000 fans competed in the largest soccer

tournament ever in Bangkok.

There are 1000 activity changes in every soccer match.

The first soccer games may have originated in China.

The first black soccer player was Arthur Wharton in the 1800s.

Historical Soccer facts indicate The World's First Football Club was

the English Sheffield Football Club, founded in 1857 by Colonel Nathaniel

Cresswick and Major William Priest, two British Army officers.

Pele was the first to call soccer “the beautiful game.”

50 interesting facts

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Improve your general knowledge

No.	General Knowledge Question	Answer
1	The first President of Nepal was	Ram Baran Yadav
2	The longest river in the world is the	Nile
3	The longest highway in the world is the	Trans-Canada
4	The longest highway in the world has a length of	About 8000 km
5	The highest mountain in the world is the	Mount Everest
6	The country that accounts for nearly one third of the total teak production of the world is	Myanmar
7	The biggest desert in the world is the	Sahara desert
8	The largest coffee growing country in the world is	Brazil
9	The country also known as "country of copper" is	Zambia
10	The name given to the border which separates Pakistan and Afghanistan is	Durand line

Comet Lovejoy Plunges into the Sun and Survives

This morning, an armada of spacecraft witnessed something that many experts thought impossible. Comet Lovejoy flew through the hot atmosphere of the sun and emerged intact.

The comet's close encounter was recorded by at least five spacecraft: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and twin STEREO probes, Europe's Proba2 microsatellite, and the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The most dramatic footage so far comes from SDO, which saw the comet go in and then come back out again (below).