Ten Weird Facts you Find Hard to Believe

1. You can throw a ball farther to the west than to the east because of the rotation of the earth.
2. Chicken liver can be used to change blood type A to blood type O.
3. Mosquito has contributed to the deaths of more people than any other animal.
4. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
5. The arithmetic symbols + (addition) and – (subtraction) came into general use in 1489.
6. Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
7. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.
8. The lighter was invented before the matches.
9. The longest English word without a vowel is twyndyllyngs which means ‘twins’
10. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin everyday.