Facts
Some interesting facts
1.Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
2. Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying.
3.All polar bears are left-handed.
4.Butterflies taste with their feet.
5.A cockroach can live 9 days without its head. It only dies because it cannot eat.
6.A duck’s quack has no echo, and nobody knows why.
7.when the English settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal that jumped extremely high and far. They asked the aboriginal people using body language and signs trying to ask them about this animal. They responded with ’’Kan Ghu Ru’’ the English then adopted the word kangaroo. What the aboriginal people were really trying to say was ‘’we don’t understand you’’, ‘’ Kan Ghu Ru’’.
8.The energy saved by recycling one aluminum can will operate a T.V set for 3 hours.
9.1/70 of a teaspoon of mercury can contaminate 20 acres of a lake, making the fish unfit to eat.
10.If everyone in the world consumed as an average U.S.A citizen, we would need at least 4 more Earths.
11.every 20 minutes the world looses one or more species of animals or plants and at least 27000 species per year.
12.Every ton of recycled paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
13.About one third of the human diet come from insects pollinated plant.
14.The honeybees are responsible for 80 percent in it.
15.The bees have originated 100 million years ago.
16.There are more than 16000 species of bees.
17.To survive in winter these bears burn a thick layer of reserve fat some times is 10 inches thick. This helps these bears to survive at -40 degree.
18.Spider blood is transparent.
19.some species of worms can have up to ten hearts.
20.you will find more insects in one square mile than all humans on earth! in the country side.
21.The queen in an ant or termite hills live for almost 30 years.
22.The praying mantis (insects) can turn its head 360 degree.
23.The earth is slowing down – in a few million years there won’t be a leap year.
24.The favorite food of the giant cricket of Africa is human hair.
25.Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
26.Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
27.At 40 centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
28.The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
29.The only two animals that can see behind it without turning itself are rabbit and parrot.
30.The electricity does not move through the wire but through a field around the wire.
31.Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help person from stop producing tears.
32.Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before consumption.
33.our eyes are always the same size from birth our nose and ears never stop growing.
34.wearing headphones for just one hour will increase the bacteria in our eyes by 700 times.
35.there is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
36.Everyone`s tongue print is different like fingerprints.
37.The penguin is the only bird, which can swim but not fly.
38.Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
39.Crocodiles sleep with their mouth open.
40.Human teeth are almost as hard as rock.
41.Hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4-foot tall man.
42.The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
43.A Snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
46.Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks.
47.Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenail.
48.A hippo can run faster then a man.
49.Every dolphin has a distinct whistle.
50.96% of all the ice in the world is on Antarctica.
51.Queen ants can live so years old.
52.The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.
53.Starfish does not have a brain.
54.Alligators the powerful reptiles cannot move back.
55.Flamingo’s eat with their head upside down.
56.Earthworms have 4 pairs of hearts and blood.
57.Cocus have 4 stomachs.
58.Camels will not curd.
59.Tongue is the only attached at only one end.
60.Owls are the birds that can see the blue color.
61. Bararsingh turn saffron colored during their velvet antler period.
62. Siberian come only to keoledo ghana national park.
63. King Vulture`s eat king vulture`s.
64.Cheetal is the most beautiful of all deer.
65.Because of the antlers the tiger usually catches on the stags.
66.Gaur bull are much larger than cows.
67.The wild buffalo is the most useful animal to man.
68.Elephants feed on all plants even bamboos.
69.Sambar also feed submerged water plants.
70.Cheetal needs to drink twice a day
71. After our own Sun, the nearest star to earth is alpha proxima centauria.
72. Rainforests are being cut down or burned at an alarming rate. Scientists estimate that everyday a rainforest the size of New York city is lost
73. The largest marsh in the world is Florida Everglades. This marsh swamp combination is somewhat more than 3200 square km and is home to many extraordinary animals includings the very rare Florida Panther
74.People first looking at Mars through modern telescopes thought that it was covered with rivers or canals. Satellite photographs now suggest that parts of Mars once had flowing water. Water could have meant there was life on Mars
75.A disastrous flood in 1919 in Boston, Massachussetts ,US had nothing to do with water . A mollasses tank exploded, and over 7.5 million sticky litres poured out in a 4.5 metre high wave. 20 people died and for years Boston smelled of mollasses
76. In 1998 Christian Tallefer of France set a cyling speed of record. He rode down the face of a glacier on a bicycle and reached a speed of 212 km an hour .
77. The Aswan high dam waws built across the Nile in 1960 and ’70. Amazingly the entire ancient Egyptian temple centre of Abu Simbel was to keep it from being submerged.
78. Victoria falls is huge but another waterfalls takes the record for being the tallest . Angel falls in Venezuela dwarfs an at amazing 979 metres tall.
79. The great Niageria falls once stopped running. On the evening of 29 March 1848, ice blocked the Niageria river and the falls stopped for about 30 hours .
80. In geological terms the Ground canyon is fairly young, at about 6 million years old. But the rocks it cuts through date back as far as 2 billion to 2.5 billion years
81. The Mariana Trench near the island of guam. Has the deepest spot measured so far at nearly 11 km . The world’s highest mountain Mount Everest could sink in that spot and still have a mile of water above it
82. The Galapagos flinches all developed from tge same ancestor. But do share such a small area, different groups develpoed beaks suited to different feeding habits.
83. Though it isn’t truly a single structure , the 350,000 square km Great Barrier Reef is often reffered to as the largest structure ever built by living things. And people had no hand in it
84. Whales, the largest animals in the Pacific, have had a strange evolutionary journey.Their early ancestors were land mammals with legs but eventually came to live in the sae and became whales.
85.Some say that the chameleon’s eyes helped inspire the invention of the military turret a, revolving tower. You can see turrets today on the tops of tanks.
86. A female oppusum can carry about 13 babies in her pouch at one time.
87. A gorrila called koko has learned some basic American sign language.
88. A lion’s tongue is so rough that it could lick the skin of your body.
89. The reason Mars appears red is that the planet’s soil contains a lot of rusted iron.
90. During winters, thousands of snakes may sleep together in a hole under ground to keep each other warm. This is called a “snake pit”.
91. Jupiter has more than 50 known moons and Earth has only one. But that seems fair because Jupiter is 1,500 times bigger than Earth!
92. Saturn is more than ten times the size of the Earth. But the planet is so light that it could float on an ocean of water.
93. Saturn’s many rings are made of ice.
94. It’s more than just a little chilly on Neptune. The average temperature is -225 centigrate . By comparison, Antartica – the coldest place on Earth – has recorded a mere -90 centigrate at its coldest.
95. Walt disney’s dog character Pluto was named after the ninth planet. Pluto the dog first appeared in 1930, h the same year that the planet Pluto was discovered.
96. The story of Newton and the apple isn’t true , but it is a good way to remember something important about someone famous.
97. One story about Einstein has it that he once used a check for 1500 dollars as a bookmark – and lost it.
98. Because different planets have different gravities , an astronaut’ s weight would change from planet to planet. For example , an astrounat wieghing 75 kilos on Earth would weigh only 28 kilos on Mars but 177 kilos on Jupiter.
99. The Indian ocean is 5 half times as big as the United States.
100.Whales, the largest animals in the Pacific, have had a strange evolutionary journey. Their early ancestors were land mammals with legs but eventually came to live in the sea and became Whales.
101. The Pacific is the largest and the deepest of all the oceans.
102. Pasta is originated in the country China
103.The first raga taught to students of Carnatic music is Mayamalavagowla.
104.The Sun temple at Konark is also known as ‘Black Pagoda’.
105. The collective noun for a group of Owls is known as Parliament.
106. The name and capital of two states in West India begin with the same alphabet. They are: Maharashtra[ Mumbai] and Gujurat [Gandhi Nagar].
107. The latin name of Spinach is Spinacia Olearacea.
108. The Giraffe ,the African ruminant is also known as the ‘Camelopard’.
109. The great comet which appeared in 1843, had a tail of 330 million kilometre long. It will return in 2356
