AMAZING BUT TRUE!!(Delicious Facts about Chocolate)

-- A person can live

without food for about a

month, but only about a

week without water.

If the amount of water in

your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.

If it's reduced by 10%,

you'll die.



-- Money notes are not

made from paper, they are

made mostly from a

special blend of cotton

and linen. In 1932, when a

shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington,

USA, notes were made out

of wood for a brief

period.





-- Joseph Niepce

developed the world's

first photographic image

in 1827. Thomas Edison

and W K L Dickson

introduced the film camera in 1894. But the

first projection of an

image on a screen was

made by a German priest.

In 1646, Athanasius

Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-

painted images onto a

white screen.





--Did you know the first

bicycle that was made in

1817 by Baron von Drais

didn't have any pedals?

People walked it along.





--Gottlieb Daimler also built the world's first taxi in 1897. It was called the Daimler Victoria and had a taxi meter. On 16 June of that year the taxi was delivered to Stuttgart transportation entrepreneur Friedrich Greiner who used it to start the world's first motorized taxi company.