Do you know.....

* Dubai is the fastest growing city in the world. There is no income tax and there are no personal taxes either. In Dubai Emirates Mall you can ski indoors while shopping, measuring 400 meters and using 6000 tons of snow. Burj Dubai will become the world’s tallest building, along with the world’s tallest man-made structure when it is completed. Eighty percent of Dubai residents are foreigners.
* The fear of number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia and it was derived from treiskaideka, the Greek word for thirteen and phobia. In Formula 1, there is no car with the number 13.
* It is common mistake to say that The Great wall of China is visible from outer space. It is too thin to be noticed from such a great distance. Only two man made structures visible from space are: The Pyramids of Giza and the Hoover Dam.
* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
* The little lump of flesh just in front of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a ‘tragus’.
* Your stomach cells secrete hydrochloric acid, a corrosive compound that is used to treat metals in the industrial world. It can pickle steel, but the mucous lining around the stomach wall keeps this poisonous liquid safely in the digestive system.
* The fear that he might conceal a joke in it was one reason that Benjamin Franklin was not entrusted by his peers with the assignment of writing the Declaration of Independence.
* Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect.
* 100,000 Swiss francs or approximately $80,000 is needed to open a Swiss bank account.