Rare coin fetches over £2.3 million in auction

A rare 1913 U.S. coin once owned by an Egyptian king and later featured in a famous U.S. TV detective series was sold for more than $3.7 million (2.3 million pounds) in a public auction in Florida, the auctioneers said on Friday.

The so-called Liberty Head nickel, one of only five known of that specific date and design, was sold "in spirited bidding" to a private East Coast coin collector in Orlando late on Thursday, said Greg Rohan, president of Dallas, Texas-based Heritage Auctions. The buyer wished to remain anonymous.

The $3,737,500 price for the five-cent coin included a 15 percent buyer's premium.

"It is probably the most famous United States rare coin," Rohan said in a statement.

Once part of the coin collection owned by Egypt's King Farouk, who was deposed in 1952, the Liberty nickel changed hands several times and featured as part of the plot in a 1973 episode of the well-known CBS TV series "Hawaii Five-O."

The value of the rare coin, which was made at the Philadelphia Mint with the Miss Liberty design, crossed the million dollar mark in 2003.

$AU140 million from a lottery ticket that was printed by mistake.

A Kentucky man has won $AU140 million from a lottery ticket that was printed by mistake.

Lottery officials said Rob Anderson and his wife were winners of the largest jackpot in the state's history.

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They've been buying tickets together for 12 years.

"We didn't hit it, that's not us," Rob Anderson said he told his wife after showing her the winning ticket the morning after the Dec. 26 drawing. "Something's not right!"

But they nearly didn't win the cash, as Mr Anderson revealed the winning ticket was a misprint that he decided to keep while buying stocking stuffers at a gas station. He wanted to buy $1 lottery tickets for three people, but the clerk goofed.

"The clerk ran the $3 Quick Pick but he put it all on one ticket, and I was like, doggone it, I needed three separate tickets," Anderson said.

The clerk asked him if he wanted to keep the ticket, which had three sets of random numbers.

"Yeah, I got a couple extra dollars," Anderson said, and he bought three more tickets to give as gifts.

When he arrived at home, he tossed the ticket on his dresser and didn't think about it until the Sunday morning after the drawing. When he remembered it, he checked the Powerball numbers and they matched one of the sets of numbers on the botched ticket.

Mr Anderson said he and his wife are grounded people.

"My wife taught me well, so to speak, to hang on to that dollar and see how far it gets you," he said. "We'll still clip coupons and still look for the clearance rack."

The couple said they haven't decided if they'll return to work.

GoodBye Kiss Puts International Airport on High Alert

A last-minute kiss goodbye was responsible for a massive security scare at Newark's airport in New Jersey, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Newark International went on high alert on Sunday, with huge delays for passengers, after an unidentified man was spotted in the "sterile" zone. He was not caught or even identified.

The Star-Ledger daily quoted security officials saying that videotape reveals the feared intruder was no more than a man wanting a last kiss from a departing woman.

He simply passed under a rope barrier and with the woman went "hand in hand toward the boarding area", the newspaper quotes the security officials and US Senator Frank Lautenberg as saying.

The embarrassing revelation follows the brief shutdown of Bakersfield airport in California on Tuesday when a passenger tried to bring five bottles on to the plane.

Explosives tests initially came back positive, police said, but in the end the substance turned out to be honey.

US airports are jittery following a Christmas Day incident in which a Nigerian man allegedly tried to set off an explosive device on a plane bound for Detroit.

President Barack Obama has called that a major national security breach.

PickPockets on Aeroplane!!!!!!!!!!!

French police are investigating whether a pickpocket stole thousands of euros from passengers as they slept on an Air France flight from Tokyo to Paris.

"There is an investigation under way," a spokesman for the border police at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris said when asked to confirm a report on the website of the Le Figaro.

The paper said around 4,000 euros ($5,744) appeared to have been stolen from five business class passengers as they slept on the overnight flight.

"On this flight, which takes off from Tokyo Narita at 10 p.m., passengers often sleep deeply before waking up shortly before arriving in Paris at around 4 a.m.," Le Figaro quoted one of the alleged victims as saying.

A woman alerted the cabin crew when she woke to find a large sum missing, the passenger said.

"This lady called staff to say that all the cash in her handbag had been stolen. Counting Swiss francs, euros and yen, there was apparently about 3,000 euros," the passenger said.

A spokeswoman for Air France said the pilot had alerted police who were waiting when the flight touched down.

"I would say that it is really extremely rare to have several passengers at once reporting thefts on board," she said.

She said that while the company was responsible for baggage carried in the hold, passengers had responsibility for possessions they had with them in the cabin.

Cow jumps six feet onto owner’s roof

London: A cow left its owners scratching their heads after jumping six feet onto the roof. The animal was caught standing on the sloping roof by neighbour William de Cothi, who couldn’t believe his eyes and quickly took a snap to prove he wasn’t making it up.

Cothi said: “I was looking out of my window when I saw the cow. At first I thought that it was an illusion and that it was in the background and not really on the roof. But after a closer look I could see it was actually on the roof.”

The house owner in Somerset, fearing a break-in, called police after returning home. Police said: “If it wasn’t for the photo we wouldn’t have known a cow was responsible.”

The photograph taken by neighbour William de Cothi, shows the cow on the roof with a couple of others below in the background

Beard on Fire.

Men lit sleeping train passenger's beard.

A British court has jailed two young men for setting fire to a stranger's beard as he slept on a train.

The judge on Wednesday condemned the "cowardly and callous actions" by Dean Hardy, 20, and Aedan Palmer, 19, in the attack last December that left 22-year-old Luke Kennedy with severe burns to his lips, ears and cheeks.

During the trial, the court had heard that Hardy and Palmer had each drunk about 10 cans of beer before they boarded the train with two younger boys and sat down opposite Kennedy, who was sleeping in his seat.

Prosecutors said they began abusing Kennedy from the outset and then Palmer put a lighter to his "significantly long" beard and set it alight.

Closed-circuit television footage showed the group "smiling and laughing" as smoke billowed from Kennedy's beard, before they got off at the next station and ran off.

Other passengers raised the alarm and Kennedy was rushed to hospital, where he remained for two days. His ears were permanently disfigured in the attack.

The attack received wide press coverage and two days later, Hardy handed himself in. The other three members of the group were arrested the next day.

Hardy was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm following a two-week trial at Chichester Crown Court in southern England last month, and was sentenced Wednesday to two years in a young offenders institution.

Palmer had already pleaded guilty and was ordered to serve 16 months. The two 14-year-old boys with them were cleared of all charges.

Judge Claudia Ackner told the defendants: "The travelling public are entitled to go about their lawful journeys without being subjected to wanton violence from people like you."

A 'princely' Rs.400 or $8 - for winning two golds, one bronze at Ipoh

When constable and sportswoman Anita Yadav went to meet a top Agra police official with her prized possessions - two golds and one bronze medal won at the November athletics championships in Malaysia - she could scarcely imagine what lay in store.

A 'princely' Rs.400 had been sanctioned as her reward by the police, says a bitter Anita. This was the response to her application informing the police department of the laurels she had won.

'No compliments, bouquets or encouraging words from any quarters. Even the media took no notice of my achievements,' Anita told IANS in an interview. 'Cricketers would have been honoured and recognised by everyone but athletes like us are cold shouldered.'

Anita's kitty of medals weighs several kilograms, having won them at state, national and international meets at regular intervals. But the cold indifference and lack of encouragement from people in general and her own department in particular has begun to hurt.

'When I returned after 15 days of hard gruelling competitions at the international level in Malaysia and applied for three days' leave, my boss said you have already had such a long outing and rest. Get back to work.

'With this kind of attitude how can sports flourish here?' Anita wonders.

At the Malaysian International Open Masters Athletics Championship held at Ipoh Nov 7 and 8, she was given the best woman athlete award.

She touched 5 m 40 cm in long jump, winning a gold. She clinched a gold in javelin throw and a bronze in the Medley relay race. She was the lone representative from Uttar Pradesh.

'At 35 plus, I had to compete with a 23-year-old girl,' she said.

As a constable attached to the Sadar police station in Agra, she finds it hard to combine her duties with sports.

'But I manage because my husband, Shanti Swarup, who is also in the police, takes care of my 11-year-old daughter and six-year-old son. He has never let me feel burdened with domestic chores and has been a great source of encouragement.

'I come from a very conservative background in Etawah and when I go to my in-laws, I still have to hide my face behind a veil despite my long international exposure.

'Even with 80 odd medals I have no future in sports. They give me nothing extra, no facilities, no allowances. My own salary is spent on my diet. I eat 85 almonds daily, two litres of milk and a very rich vegetarian diet of dal roti, plus lots of desi ghee and at least five glasses of fruit juice.

'I could win medals at Malaysia because I am fit and practise regularly, come what may.'

A post graduate in sociology from Jeevaji University, Gwalior, Anita is totally devoted to sports and has won medals not only in athletics but also judo, table tennis, weight-lifting.

She keeps a low profile. 'At the international meets I stay alone, don't mix around with people, keep a low profile and concentrate on my work because I am a fitness freak,' she says.

In fact, the poor efficiency and performance levels of the police she attributes to lack of interest in sports.

'Speaking for myself and my family, let me put it in bold letters: we do not accept a single penny from corrupt sources or as bribery. The whole department knows that. You know how difficult it is to stay away from the corrupting influences of the system you are part of, but I am proud of this fact,' Anita said.

'I have won all the shields and honours in police games for Agra and Uttar Pradesh in the past 12 years. But no one is proud of me. I feel so frustrated and feel like giving up because I cannot give anything to my family.

Lost driver finds himself in wrong state

Victorian police have helped an elderly NSW man find his way home after an epic nine-hour road trip that took him more than 600km off course and far into the wrong state.

The 80-year-old identified as Eric, from Pambula, near Merimbula on the NSW south coast, set off from a friend's house at Yass, on the Hume Highway southwest of Sydney, about 7.15am on Monday for the 613km trip home.

Police believe Eric took a wrong turn and stayed on the Hume Highway, taking him across the Victorian border at Albury-Wodonga and on towards Melbourne.

Constable Tom Windlow and Leading Senior Constable Clayton Smith of the police drug and alcohol section found Eric when they pulled into a roadhouse on the Princes Freeway at Lara, near Geelong, about 3.45pm (AEDT).

Eric was 630km west of Pambula, and 654km away from Yass, when his adventure ended.

"I was stretching my legs, waiting for Tom to come back to the car when this little old man came up to me saying he was lost," Sen Const Smith said.

"He handed me his mobile and asked if I could speak to his wife."

The man's wife was frantic with worry, telling police he had been on the road for nine hours.

"Believe me, we never expected for her to say he had driven from Yass," Sen Const Smith said.

The members took Eric to Sunshine police station to meet family friends, who drove from Mount Eliza to meet him.

"He was such nice gentleman, full of stories and very grateful for our help," Sen Const Smith said.

"Although we had to laugh. When we asked him why he hadn't stopped earlier he replied, "I just like to drive."

Eric, who suffers slight dementia, and his wife were reunited on Tuesday afternoon, police said.

Man killed wife 'during a dream'

Christine Thomas, 57, was killed in Aberporth, Ceredigion, in July 2008.

Swansea Crown Court heard Brian Thomas, 59, of Neath, accepts he killed her but says he has a sleep disorder which had been triggered by "boy racer activity".

Jurors have been told they can reach a verdict of not guilty or of not guilty by reason of insanity.

Prosecuting barrister Paul Thomas QC, in his opening words to the jury on Tuesday morning, described the case as "highly unusual".

He described how Mr Thomas killed his wife, his childhood sweetheart, because he had dreamt she was a man who had broken into their motor home.

The court was told Mr Thomas's disorder meant he was not in control of his actions when he strangled his partner of 40 years.

After commissioning evidence from sleep experts, the prosecution agreed his actions were involuntary and he could not be held responsible.

Prosecuting, Mr Thomas said the defendant was charged with the murder of his wife, whose death he accepted causing.

Act strangely

But the barrister said the prosecution did not seek a murder or manslaughter conviction.

Instead, he said the prosecution would be arguing for the "special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity".

The alternative, the jury was told, would be "a simple verdict of not guilty".

The jury was told that the couple, who have two grown-up daughters, enjoyed holidaying together in their camper van.

The daughters said their father had been prone to episodes of sleepwalking, during which he had been known sometimes to act strangely.

The court heard how Mr and Mrs Thomas had gone on holiday in their camper van in July 2008 and stayed the night at a vehicle park in Aberporth.

A group of younger people turned up at the car park after they had gone to bed, and the screeching of brakes and tyres - described in court as "boy racer activity" - disturbed the couple, who moved from the site's lower to its higher car park.

'Highly sceptical'

The prosecution said that at 0349 the next morning, Mr Thomas made a 999 call, which was later played to the court, in which he said he had killed his wife because he had mistaken her for an intruder in a dream.

He said he had dreamt he was fighting one of the boy racers.

The prosecution said the defendant had told the 999 operator: "I woke up fighting one of those boys but it wasn't a boy, it was Christine."

In police interviews, Mr Thomas repeated what he had told the 999 operator - that he had dreamt of a man crawling across the bed, putting him in a headlock, then waking to find his wife dead.

The prosecution told the jury that the police and CPS had been "highly sceptical" of his explanation and charged him with murder.

But because the defendant had raised the matter of his sleep disorder, both defence and prosecution commissioned experts to investigate it.

Tests were carried out on Mr Thomas as he slept and both sleep experts agreed he had killed his wife while affected by a sleep disorder, meaning his behaviour was "involuntary."

Spoke through tears

The barrister told the court Mr Thomas's behaviour was consistent with automatism, which meant at the time he killed his wife, his mind had no control over what his body was doing.

The jury was told that neither sleep expert would go into details about the condition because they did not want details of it made public in case of "copycat killings".

Later, the court was played a 10-minute excerpt of the call Mr Thomas had made to emergency services.

As it was played, the defendant broke down in tears, sobbing loudly and burying his face in his hands.

In the recording, Mr Thomas spoke through tears in a panicked-sounding voice: "I think I killed my wife. I killed her. Oh my God."

He explained he thought he had been fighting but then told the operator: "There was no boys, it was me. I must have been dreaming or something."

Later he was heard saying: "I love her. What have I done? She's my world."

The court also heard the couple had been sleeping together in the camper van in a change to their sleeping arrangements at home where they slept separately.

Mr Thomas said it was the prosecution's case that the defendant had suffered insane automatism caused by an internal condition.

He said the defence would argue it was non-insane automatism caused by external factors, particularly the stress caused by the boy racers.

The case was adjourned until Wednesday.

Choclate Theif

A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy has been charged with receiving a 70 cent Freddo Frog chocolate allegedly stolen from a supermarket in regional Western Australia.

Fairfax newspapers say the boy has no prior convictions.

He's been charged with receiving the chocolate, allegedly stolen by a friend, and faces a second charge involving the receipt of a novelty sign from another shop.

The boy will face Northam Children's Court, about 100km from Perth, on Monday.

His lawyer, Aboriginal Legal Service chief Peter Collins, has asked police to withdraw the charges but has not received a response.

"It's scandalous that a 12-year-old child should be subject to prosecution for a case of this type," he told Fairfax.

Mr Collins said the boy had missed an earlier court date because of a family misunderstanding and was apprehended at 8am on a school day and locked in a cell in "appalling" conditions for several hours.

A WA police spokesman said it's appropriate to have the court deal with the boy, because police have been forced to speak to him about other matters previously.

3 Year old Girl in coma wakes up singing Mamma Mia!

three-year-old girl fell into a coma after being struck down by meningitis, but stunned her family when she woke up five days later - singing Abba hit Mamma Mia.

Layla Towsey was so ill after getting the brain bug she had been put on a life support machine.

The little girl's family was told to give her a final kiss goodbye when she fell into coma.

However, it was far from the final curtain for Layla, who regain consciousness singing Abba tune.

"We had been preparing for bad news as the life support machine was keeping her alive. But on the Sunday I could hear her singing Mamma Mia quietly. I couldn't believe it. I knew then she would be OK," the Sun quoted Layla's mum Katy as saying.

Layla, from Gidea Park, East London, had learned the song after seeing the Mamma Mia! movie. She has now made a good recovery, with just scars on her legs from blood poisoning.

"It's one of her favourite songs - she loves it. She got as close to death as you can get. She's a miracle," Katy added.

Britain makes camera that "sees" under clothes

A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people's clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry.

The T5000 camera, created by a company called ThruVision, uses what it calls "passive imaging technology" to identify objects by the natural electromagnetic rays -- known as Terahertz or T-rays -- that they emit.

The high-powered camera can detect hidden objects from up to 80 feet away and is effective even when people are moving. It does not reveal physical body details and the screening is harmless, the company says.

The technology, which has military and civilian applications and could be used in crowded airports, shopping malls or sporting events, will be unveiled at a scientific development exhibition sponsored by Britain's Home Office on March 12-13.

"Acts of terrorism have shaken the world in recent years and security precautions have been tightened globally," said Clive Beattie, the chief executive of ThruVision.

"The ability to see both metallic and non-metallic items on people out to 25 meters is certainly a key capability that will enhance any comprehensive security system."

While the technology may enhance detection, it may also increase concerns that Britain is becoming a surveillance society, with hundreds of thousands of closed-circuit television cameras already monitoring people countrywide every day.

ThruVision came up with the technology for the T5000 in collaboration with the European Space Agency and from studying research by astronomers into dying stars.

The technology works on the basis that all people and objects emit low levels of electromagnetic radiation. Terahertz rays lie somewhere between infrared and microwaves on the electromagnetic spectrum and travel through clouds and walls.

Depending on the material, the signature of the wave is different, so that explosives can be distinguished from a block of clay and cocaine is different from a bag of flour.

Man takes car on 2,000 mile test drive

An Australian who took a new car on a 3,200 km (1,988 mile) six-day test drive from the city to the outback has been arrested, police said on Thursday.

The 30-year-old convinced a car dealer in the southeastern city of Melbourne to lend him a A$40,000 ($37,000) Honda Accord sedan last Friday and drove the equivalent of London to Istanbul before he was arrested near the town of Tennant Creek, deep in the outback of the Northern Territory.

"He drove from Melbourne to Adelaide to Alice Springs," Tennant Creek police Constable James Gray-Spence told Reuters.

He said the man was arrested without incident at a road block on his way north to Darwin after he failed to pay for fuel at a hamlet.

The test drive was the longest known to Australian police and topped a 500km theft on New Zealand's South Island in 2006.

"I think we've topped that with the 3,000 km mark," Gray-Spence said.

Melbourne car yard owner Ian McKenzie said the man would have had to have been in the car all day, every day to reach Tennant Creek.

"He seemed a legitimate gentleman. He stood at the desk right in front of a camera. He wasn't afraid of being photographed or videoed," McKenzie told the Herald Sun newspaper.

The man was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a motor vehicle and unlawful possession of property and will appear in court on Thursday.

Dead rodent stops operation

A patient was told there was no reason why he couldn't have surgery in a hospital, despite the smell caused by a dead rodent trapped in the building's ceiling.

Andrew Cowper was due to have an operation at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital in Hertfordshire when staff "were made aware of a dead rodent in the single storey unit's roof space," the hospital said in a statement.

The hospital said its experts concluded that the dead animal was outside the operating theater and posed no risk.

But "despite being told that the trust's infection control experts had stated that Mr Cowper was not being exposed to an infection risk, he decided not to proceed with the operation," it said.

Cowper, 19, told the Sun newspaper he had waited 11 months for the operation, and the doctor told him he could go ahead despite the stench.

"He said the smell didn't represent a health risk, but I was appalled," Cowper said. "I asked him: 'If you were me, would you have the operation?' He looked at me and said 'no', so I decided there and then I wasn't going to go ahead."

Fortune cookies help cops nab suspect

TULSA, Okla. - Two fortune cookies helped Tulsa police make an arrest after a pair of break-ins Chinese restaurants. Terrence Middleton, 30, was booked Friday on charges of second-degree burglary and attempted second-degree burglary after police responded to a burglar alarm to find him with more than $20 in coins and the cookies in his pockets, Officer Leland Ashley said.

Middleton was being held on $15,000 bond.

Ashley said police were able to link Middleton to the Asian Express that was robbed because he had possession of the same type of fortune cookies that were at the restaurant.

The alarm went off at the Asian Express about 14 minutes after one sounded at the Chinese Chef Restaurant down the street Thursday night, Ashley said.

When officers arrived, both restaurants had their front doors broken. At the second restaurant, the cash register had been pulled open.

Minutes later, officers stopped Middleton, who was walking down the street, and he dropped various coins and a prison identification card, Ashley said.

Ashley said it appeared there was nothing stolen from the first restaurant, and all that was missing from the second restaurant was $20 in change — and the fortune cookies.

Angry wife accused of burning 400 phones

BEIJING - A spurned Chinese wife set fire to more than 400 cell phones owned by her and her husband after he walked out on their marriage, a news agency reported Friday. The official Xinhua News Agency said the 37-year-old woman, identified only by her surname Wang, was arrested for arson.

The couple had owned a successful retail phone business in Weifang, the eastern province of Shandong. However, their shaky relationship hit rock bottom when her husband left her on March 3, the news agency reported, citing the local Qilu Evening News.

Overcome with despair, the woman gathered up their entire stock of more than 400 new mobile phones, reportedly valued at more than 300,000 yuan ($42,000), and set them on fire, before walking out of the house, the report said.

Neighbors who saw smoke coming from the house called firefighters, who quickly extinguished the blaze.

Cemetery full, mayor tells locals not to die

The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.

In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish."

It added: "Offenders will be severely punished."

The mayor said he was forced to take drastic action after an administrative court in the nearby town of Pau ruled in January that the acquisition of adjoining private land to extend the cemetery would not be justified.

Lalanne, who celebrated his 70th birthday on Wednesday and is standing for election to a seventh term in this month's local elections, said he was sorry that there had not been a positive outcome to the dilemma.

"It may be a laughing matter for some, but not for me," he said.

26	A man says average 4850 words in 24 hours.
27	The world's populaton is approximately 6.53 billion (2006), India & China represent 36.92% of the world's populations.
28	Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo kabushikigaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
29	40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
30	315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
31	Chocolate can be killed dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
32	Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
33	Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
34	Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
35	There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
36	Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
37	Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
38	The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
39	By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
40	Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
41	Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
42	The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
43	Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
44	Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
45	The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
46	To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
47	The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
48	The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
49	The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
50	Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Strange But True!!!

1	69% Americans use Internet & 5.5% Indians only.
2	El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 - the hottest ever measured.
3	Plastics take 500 years to break down.
4	America has 30.30% airports of the world & India has only 0.70%.
5	There are roughly 4,000 known minerals, although only about 200 are of major importance.
6	The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.
7	Crocodile only animal & reptile that sheds tear while eating.
8	The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed.
9	Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
10	The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.
11	8.7 million of United State residents who were born in Asia.
12	The world’s population has been increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years.
13	180 million nos. of Valentine’s Day cards exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.
14	3,467 Nos. of confectionery nut stores in the United States, they are among the best sources of sweets for Valentine’s Day.
15	4% people drink cold drink daily.
16	Traffic lights are being used before the invention of motor car.
17	More than 50 million Americans said they had a disability; for 32.5 million of them, the disability was severe.
18	About 40% Proportion of all Valentine card purchases which parents account for.
19	First Stock Exchange of America was in Philadelphia & it was established in 1791.
20	Girls however are slightly more likely than boys to use home computers for e-mail, word processing and completing school assignments than playing games.
21	A normal person laughs five times in a day.
22	Approximate 300 million film tickets are sold every year in India.
23	In Britain 70% mothers go for work.
24	More artists live in California than any other state in the United States. There are 10,000 arts organizations in California.
25	Alfred Southwick developed the idea of using electric current & Professionally he was a Dentist (MDS, DDS).