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In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA. The now second highest surface wind speed ever officially recorded is 372 km/h (231 mph; 103 m/s) at the Mount Washington (New Hampshire) Observatory : 6,288 ft -1917 metres above sea – level in the US on 12 April 1934, using a heated anemometer. …

It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. Quite a common story that gets brought up around airports or business meetings when someone wants to provide a famous example of small change for massive savings is the olive story. Apparently there was an airline that managed to save tens of thousands of …

A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

Indians have been biting into juicy mangoes for 3,000 years. But the western world came to know about it only 300 years ago!

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.

Bone is five times stronger than steel.

The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.