Your voice is as distinctive as your fingerprints. No one else in the world has the same voice as yours.
A fat person, as compared to a skinny person, has lesser chance for drowning since the fat cells have tiny pockets of air in them and can therefore help to keep the person afloat.
According to science of body language, if an individual shifts while talking, it means he disagrees or wants to change sides.
As many as 900 pencils can be made with the amount of carbon present in our body.
The nail on your middle finger grows fastest. Your thumb nail is the slowest to grow.
A yawn may be telling you that your body needs more oxygen.
Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 years or older.
We lose the equivalent of a pint or more of water every day just breathing.
The thyroid bone in your throat is the only bone in the body that is not attached to another bone.
Children of busmen tribe living in the central parts of South Africa can follow the track of their own mother’s feet without any confusion.
The skin is the largest organ of the body and weighs twice as much as the brain.
It is physically impossible to lick your elbow.
Showing posts with label Fascinating Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fascinating Facts. Show all posts
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Friday, March 26, 2010
FASCINATING FACTS
-Man catches thirty different diseases transmitted by the common house fly.
-Tongue prints are as unique as fingerprints.
33 X 3367 = 111,111
66 X 3367 = 222,222
99 X 3367 = 333,333
132 X 3367 = 444,444
etc. until you reach
297 X 3367 = 999,999
-Louis XIV took three baths in his lifetime, none of them voluntarily.
-More than half of the world’s silver is used to manufacture chemicals used in photography and mirrors.
-The water at the bottom of the Niagara Falls is warmer than water at the top.
-The nests that termites build in mounds above ground have been known to reach 20 feet in height.
-We die more quickly from lack of sleep than from lack of food.
-A Zebra has white stripes not black ones.
-If the leaves of ten Maple trees were spread out ‘side by side’ they would cover an area of four hectares.
-Cows do not have upper front teeth.
-In Madagascar the silk from spider’s webs is woven into cloth.
-Moths cannot eat because they have neither mouths nor stomachs.
-The Boya bird which is found in the Philippines weaves fireflies into its nest causing it to glow in the dark.
-A medium sized swarm of locusts contains about one million insects and consumes about twenty tones of food a day.
-The deepest crater made by a meteorite is in Arizona(USA) and 1,200 metres wide.
-A kiwi’s beak is so sensitive that it can detect the presence of worms deep in the soil.
-Tongue prints are as unique as fingerprints.
33 X 3367 = 111,111
66 X 3367 = 222,222
99 X 3367 = 333,333
132 X 3367 = 444,444
etc. until you reach
297 X 3367 = 999,999
-Louis XIV took three baths in his lifetime, none of them voluntarily.
-More than half of the world’s silver is used to manufacture chemicals used in photography and mirrors.
-The water at the bottom of the Niagara Falls is warmer than water at the top.
-The nests that termites build in mounds above ground have been known to reach 20 feet in height.
-We die more quickly from lack of sleep than from lack of food.
-A Zebra has white stripes not black ones.
-If the leaves of ten Maple trees were spread out ‘side by side’ they would cover an area of four hectares.
-Cows do not have upper front teeth.
-In Madagascar the silk from spider’s webs is woven into cloth.
-Moths cannot eat because they have neither mouths nor stomachs.
-The Boya bird which is found in the Philippines weaves fireflies into its nest causing it to glow in the dark.
-A medium sized swarm of locusts contains about one million insects and consumes about twenty tones of food a day.
-The deepest crater made by a meteorite is in Arizona(USA) and 1,200 metres wide.
-A kiwi’s beak is so sensitive that it can detect the presence of worms deep in the soil.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
FASCINATING FACTS
-If all the blood vessels in your body were straightened out and placed end to end, they would be 100,000 miles long, or long enough to go round the equator four times.
-A kiss has been medically described as ‘the anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction’
-Sunlight does not penetrate more than 400 m into the sea.
-The Great Wall of China is one of the very few man-made objects that would be visible from the moon.
-America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who was the first to discover the American mainland in 1499.
-The newly hatched crocodile is three times larger than the egg from which it emerges.
-The lion has the smallest heart of all beasts of prey.
-Cyanide poisoning can be produced from the stones of plums apricots and cherries as well as from apple. pips.
-The so-called four elements earth, air, fire and water are not elements at all but compounds.
-The Danish flag, a white cross on a red ground, is the oldest national flag, and was introduced in 1219.
-An owl cannot see in total darkness.
-Cubes of ice insulated in glass-fibre have been baked in an oven at 190 Deg without melting.
-The silk used by spiders to weave their webs is stronger than steel drawn out to form a thread of the same diameter.
-A shark’s skeleton is made of cartilage, it has no bone.
-The elephant is the only animal with four knees.
-Cattle can be identified by their nose prints just as men can be identified by their fingerprints.
-The Cheetah is the fastest animal over a short distance. Up to 600 metres it can run at 113 kph.
-There is one type of ice that does not melt – dry ice. It evaporates.
-Elephants cannot jump.
-It is possible to mix oil and water. All you have to do is add a little soap.
-Fireflies are not flies and glow- worms are not worms. They are all beetles.
-A kiss has been medically described as ‘the anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction’
-Sunlight does not penetrate more than 400 m into the sea.
-The Great Wall of China is one of the very few man-made objects that would be visible from the moon.
-America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who was the first to discover the American mainland in 1499.
-The newly hatched crocodile is three times larger than the egg from which it emerges.
-The lion has the smallest heart of all beasts of prey.
-Cyanide poisoning can be produced from the stones of plums apricots and cherries as well as from apple. pips.
-The so-called four elements earth, air, fire and water are not elements at all but compounds.
-The Danish flag, a white cross on a red ground, is the oldest national flag, and was introduced in 1219.
-An owl cannot see in total darkness.
-Cubes of ice insulated in glass-fibre have been baked in an oven at 190 Deg without melting.
-The silk used by spiders to weave their webs is stronger than steel drawn out to form a thread of the same diameter.
-A shark’s skeleton is made of cartilage, it has no bone.
-The elephant is the only animal with four knees.
-Cattle can be identified by their nose prints just as men can be identified by their fingerprints.
-The Cheetah is the fastest animal over a short distance. Up to 600 metres it can run at 113 kph.
-There is one type of ice that does not melt – dry ice. It evaporates.
-Elephants cannot jump.
-It is possible to mix oil and water. All you have to do is add a little soap.
-Fireflies are not flies and glow- worms are not worms. They are all beetles.
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