*The first ocean liner with a swimming pool is the Titanic.
*The two-piece bathing suit known as bikini got its name from Bikini Atoll, a US nuclear test site in the South Pacific.
*Actress Esther Williams popularized synchronized swimming when she starred in movies known as “aqua musicals” produced by MGM in the forties and fifties. Aqua musicals were about synchronized swimming.
*Over 50% of world-class swimmers suffer from shoulder pain.
* Elephants are capable of swimming twenty miles a day, using their trunks as natural snorkles. (Snickers)
*The five rings in the Olympic flag symbolize the five inhabited continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and America. It is believed the colours were chosen because at least one of them can be found in the flag of every nation. (Indianinfo)
*Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser startled the Japanese at Tokyo when she climbed the flagpole at the emperor's palace to take the flag as a souvenir! She paid a heavy price for this misdemeanor as she was banned for 10 years. The ban was later reduced to four years. (Indianinfo)
*On average, sardines live to be 14 years old. (Animal Trivia).
*The Olympic flame is lit at the ancient site of Olympia by natural rays of the Sun reflected off a curved mirror. Women dressed in robes, resembling those worn in ancient times, light the flame. (Indianinfo)
*In some volcanic areas such as Iceland, the temperature rises beneath the surface of the earth as high as 680 degrees F (360 degrees C) that engineers can tap the geothermal energy by piping hot water from underground to warm nearby homes, offices and factories. An outdoor swimming pool in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik is heated so effectively by this method that it remains open and in use all year round. Reader's Digest Book of Facts (Dishout)
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Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).
Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.