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Largest Nuclear Power Plant On The Earth

01-worlds largest nuclear power plant-Kashiwazaki-Kariwa

According to the source  the largest power plant in the world is Kashiwazaki Kariwa, located in  Japan and  operated by TEPCO.There are seven unit In this plant , and the 6 & & are the world’s first  [ABWR ]-Advanced Boiling Water Reactors  System.Kashiwazaki Kariwa Plant Generate 8,212 megawatts per hour With the help of the seven nuclear reactors.

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  • Did you know more people are allergic to cows milk than any other food
  • Did you know more people are killed from bees than snakes
  • Did you know the average person laughs 10 times a day
  • Did you know the Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific
  • Did you know your mouth produces 1 litre of saliva a day
  • Did you know your head contains 22 bones
  • Did you know the coloured part of your eye is called the iris
  • Did you know you breathe 23,000 times a day
  • Did you know if your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times
  • Did you know everyone has a unique tongue print
  • Did you know you begin to feel thirsty when your body losses 1% of water
  • Did you know hiccups usually lasts for 5 minutes
  • Did you know not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks)
  • Did you know the life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days
  • Did you know a dolphins top speed is 60kmh (37mph)
  • Did you know the smallest dog is the Chihuahua
  • Did you know a sharks top speed is 70kmh (44mph)
  • Did you know there are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people)
  • Did you know sharks are immune to all known diseases
  • Did you know the worlds smallest bird is the 'bee hummingbird' found in Cuba

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  • Did you know there are more chickens than people
  • Did you know for every human there are 200 million insects
  • Did you know the average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites
  • Did you know an iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
  • Did you know emus can't walk backwards
  • Did you know the Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets
  • Did you know Americas top selling ice cream flavor is vanilla
  • Did you know the doorbell was invented in 1831
  • Did you know there are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty's crown
  • Did you know the oldest known vegetable is the pea
  • Did you know the most fatal car accidents occur on Saturdays
  • Did you know the average hen lays 228 eggs a year
  • Did you know the Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps
  • Did you know Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country
  • Did you know Oak trees don't produce acorns until they are 50 years old
  • Did you know the word 'almost' is the longest word spelt alphabetically
  • Did you know the word 'rhythm' is the longest word without a vowel
  • Did you know human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
  • Did you know Earth is the only planet not named after a god
  • Did you know months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th

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  • Did you know Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year
  • Did you know Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee
  • Did you know Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day
  • Did you know Einstein slept 10 hours a night
  • Did you know Germany borders 9 other countries
  • Did you know Peru has more pyramids than Egypt
  • Did you know Christmas trees originated from Germany
  • Did you know more people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks
  • Did you know the original design of Monopoly was circular
  • Did you know the Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second
  • Did you know over 2,500 left handed people are killed a year from using right handed products
  • Did you know gorillas sleep 14 hours a day
  • Did you know female lions complete 90% of the hunting in their herd
  • Did you know the lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
  • Did you know the stomach acids found in a snakes stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair
  • Did you know the word racecar can be spelled the same way backwards
  • Did you know a giraffe can go longer without water than a camel
  • Did you know you burn more calories sleeping than watching television
  • Did you know the word 'underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'
  • Did you know 56% of typing is completed by your left hand

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  • Did you know the longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes
  • Did you know Halley's comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062)
  • Did you know there is no sound in space
  • Did you know Mars appears red because it's covered in rust
  • Did you know tennis was originally played with bare hands
  • Did you know the Olympic flag was designed in 1913
  • Did you know a bowling pin will fall at a tilt of 7.5 degrees
  • Did you know there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year
  • Did you know a piece of paper cannot be folded more than 7 times
  • Did you know the opposite sides of a dice always adds up to 7
  • Did you know VHS stands for Video Home System
  • Did you know the WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer
  • Did you know the electric toothbrush was invented in 1939
  • Did you know Porsche also builds tractors
  • Did you know the Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps
  • Did you know Isaac Newton invented the cat door
  • Did you know the Titanic was built in Belfast
  • Did you know Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms
  • Did you know Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands
  • Did you know New York was the first capital of the United States

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  • Did you know Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13
  • Did you know every single possible 3 character .com domain has been registered
  • Did you know the word 'un-copyrightable' is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter
  • Did you know the word 'testify' derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles
  • Did you know the word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard
  • Did you know that you can spell the word 'level' the same backwards
  • Did you know Madonna and Michael Jackson were both born in 1958
  • Did you know almonds are members of the peach family
  • Did you know an egg contains every vitamin except vitamin C
  • Did you know duck eggs are the largest eggs in the world
  • Did you know owls can't move their eyes from side to side
  • Did you know flamingos can bend their knees backwards
  • Did you know you take over 23,000 breaths everyday
  • Did you know gold never erodes
  • Did you know scorpions glow under ultra violet light
  • Did you know when water freezes it expands by 9%
  • Did you know ants stretch when they wake up in the morning
  • Did you know your foot and your forearm are the same length
  • Did you know diamonds are the hardest natural substance
  • Did you know 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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  • Did you know there is no butter in buttermilk
  • Did you know giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels
  • Did you know the dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle
  • Did you know the electric chair was invented by a dentist
  • Did you know your more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
  • Did you know a crocodile can't stick out its tongue
  • Did you know rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated
  • Did you know women blink twice as much as men
  • Did you know ostriches don't bury their heads in sand
  • Did you know only female mosquitoes bite
  • Did you know Scotland has the most redheads
  • Did you know household dust is made of dead skin cells
  • Did you know the past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'
  • Did you know hummingbirds can't walk
  • Did you know wind doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object
  • Did you know the naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953
  • Did you know India has the most post offices than any other country (over 100,000)
  • Did you know India is home to over 200 million cows
  • Did you know the Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble
  • Did you know Bali has the worlds largest variety of flora

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  • Did you know Jamaica has 120 rivers
  • Did you know the only animals that purr are cats
  • Did you know a cats urine glows under a black light
  • Did you know white cats with blue eyes are usually deaf
  • Did you know cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees
  • Did you know small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds
  • Did you know domestic cats dislike citrus scents
  • Did you know cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length
  • Did you know China manufacturers 70% of the worlds toys
  • Did you know The Great Wall of China is approximately 6,430 Km long (3,995 miles)
  • Did you know paper originated from China
  • Did you know the wheelbarrow is invented in China
  • Did you know tree hugging is forbidden in china
  • Did you know the film 'Mary Poppins' was filmed entirely indoors
  • Did you know all of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20
  • Did you know instant coffee was invented in 1901
  • Did you know the human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold
  • Did you know rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population
  • Did you know Pearls melt in vinegar
  • Did you know a hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don’t)

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  • Did you know the average golf ball has 336 dimples
  • Did you know the word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel
  • Did you know the movie 'Wayne's World' was filmed in two weeks
  • Did you know the Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply
  • Did you know a group of frogs is called an army
  • Did you know a group of rhinos is called a crash
  • Did you know a group of kangaroos is called a mob
  • Did you know a group of whales is called a pod
  • Did you know a group of geese is called a gaggle
  • Did you know a group of owls is called a parliament
  • Did you know the first sailing boats were built in Egypt
  • Did you know Brazil is named after a tree
  • Did you know Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent
  • Did you know Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador
  • Did you know Hilton was the first international hotel chain
  • Did you know the brand Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland
  • Did you know Monopoly is the most played board game in the world
  • Did you know 96% of candles sold are purchased by women
  • Did you know 42% of men and women 25% don’t wash their hands after using a public toilet
  • Did you know if you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court

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  • Did you know there are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo
  • Did you know in a deck of cards the king of harts is the only king without a moustache
  • Did you know black on yellow are the 2 colors with the strongest impact
  • Did you know the safest car color is white
  • Did you know the most commonly forgotten item for travelers is their toothbrush
  • Did you know Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961
  • Did you know apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee
  • Did you know room temperature is defined as between 20 to 25°C (68 to 77°F)
  • Did you know an octopus pupil is rectangular
  • Did you know the hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other
  • Did you know the Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service
  • Did you know the movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor's salaries
  • Did you know there are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous)
  • Did you know the oldest word in the English language is 'town'
  • Did you know cats can't move their jaw sideways
  • Did you know grapes explode when you put them in the microwave
  • Did you know its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky
  • Did you know your most sensitive finger is your index finger (closest to your thumb)
  • Did you know 'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters
  • Did you know Venetian blinds were invented in Japan

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  • Did you know a strawberry is the only fruit which seeds grow on the outside
  • Did you know that the first MTV video played was 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles
  • Did you know in 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names
  • Did you know pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians
  • Did you know an average person will spend 25 years asleep
  • Did you know hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal
  • Did you know an elephants ears are used to regulate body temperature
  • Did you know the Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world
  • Did you know bats always turn left when exiting a cave
  • Did you know the most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression
  • Did you know the word laser stands for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'
  • Did you know crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure
  • Did you know reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube
  • Did you know your skin is the largest organ making up the human body
  • Did you know cows don't have upper front teeth
  • Did you know everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world
  • Did you know the coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity
  • Did you know French fries are originally from Belgium
  • Did you know enamel is the hardest substance in your body
  • Did you know there are 31,557,600 seconds in a year

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  • Did you know cats have over 100 vocal chords
  • Did you know camel's milk doesn't curdle
  • Did you know elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period
  • Did you know it's possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
  • Did you know frogs can't swallow with their eyes open
  • Did you know elephants are the only mammal that can't jump
  • Did you know a 1/4 of your bones are in your feet
  • Did you know your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body
  • Did you know a 'jiffy' is actually 1/100th of a second
  • Did you know on your birthday you share it with 9 million others
  • Did you know 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Did you know a 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories
  • Did you know you burn more calories sleeping than watching TV
  • Did you know frogs don’t drink (they absorb water through their skin)
  • Did you know at birth Dalmatians are always white
  • Did you know hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards
  • Did you know a duck can't walk without bobbing its head
  • Did you know a hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute
  • Did you know dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk
  • Did you know a crocodile can't move its tongue

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  • Did you know the first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954
  • Did you know all insects have 6 legs
  • Did you know that 90% of an iceberg sits under water
  • Did you know the croissant was invented in Austria
  • Did you know In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas
  • Did you know African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
  • Did you know a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
  • Did you know Australia was originally called New Holland
  • Did you know 'Lonely Planet' for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia
  • Did you know the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet
  • Did you know the Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs
  • Did you know all the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
  • Did you know your foot has 26 bones in it
  • Did you know the average human brain contains around 78% water
  • Did you know your brain uses between 20 - 25% of the oxygen your breathe
  • Did you know 1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph)
  • Did you know if you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050
  • Did you know sponges hold more cold water than hot
  • Did you know lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
  • Did you know fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill

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  • Did you know when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees Celsius (54,000 degrees Fahrenheit)
  • Did you know spiders are arachnids and not insects
  • Did you know each time you see a full moon you always see the same side
  • Did you know Tennessee is bordered by 8 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia - more than any other in the US
  • Did you know stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
  • Did you know there is no such thing as a naturally blue food
  • Did you know honey is the only natural food which never goes off
  • Did you know M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie
  • Did you know that you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)
  • Did you know the only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia
  • Did you know the longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)
  • Did you know about 90% of the worlds population kisses
  • Did you know Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine
  • Did you know in every episode of Seinfeld there is a reference to Superman
  • Did you know the Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense
  • Did you know sound travels almost 5 times faster underwater than in air
  • Did you know toilets use 35% of indoor water use
  • Did you know the fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco
  • Did you know Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
  • Did you know the average speed of a skydiver is 200kph (124mph)

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  • Did you know birds need gravity to swallow
  • Did you know the most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
  • Did you know the least used letter in the alphabet is Q
  • Did you know the 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English
  • Did you know 'I am.' is the shortest complete sentence
  • Did you know skiing is the only word with double i
  • Did you know dreamt is the only word that ends in mt
  • Did you know the names of all continents both start and end with the same letter
  • Did you know the first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON
  • Did you know if you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same
  • Did you know a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
  • Did you know Perth is Australia's windiest city
  • Did you know Elvis's middle name was Aron
  • Did you know the flag for Libya is unlike any other being a solid green color
  • Did you know goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
  • Did you know the smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear
  • Did you know cats spend 66% of their life asleep
  • Did you know Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
  • Did you know money is the number one thing that couples argue about
  • Did you know macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs

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  • Did you know11% of people are left handed
  • Did you know August has the highest percentage of births
  • Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
  • Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
  • Did you know a bear has 42 teeth
  • Did you know an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
  • Did you know most lipsticks contain fish scales
  • Did you know no two corn flakes look the same
  • Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
  • Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib
  • Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
  • Did you know no words in the English language rhyme with the words angel, angst, breadth, bulb, depth, eighth, month, ninth, orange, purple, scalp or twelfth
  • Did you know Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz
  • Did you know rabbits like licorice
  • Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
  • Did you know 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
  • Did you know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
  • Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
  • Did you know reindeer like bananas
  • Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds

Interesting Stuff’s | 50 Facts in Life

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1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. 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.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. 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).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!