Amazing Facts

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A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.

Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallest species of bears is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world’s largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)

The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as ‘eggs’ often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.

There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.

How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? Most animals don’t eat moss. It’s hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why? The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing—much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter

Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases. If you dig in your backyard, don’t worry about running into the earth’s core. You’d have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!

Did you know the largest fish ever caught was the Whale Shark? It was 59ft long. These fish can weigh up to 15 tons.

Did you know fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it?

A parrotfish makes its own sleeping bag to sleep in. It uses mucous (like spit) to make a see-through bag all around it’s body to protect it from attack by other creatures in the ocean.

The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and it’s tongue is as long as an elephant.

The pelican uses the funny looking pouch under its lower beak for catching fish. It does this by swooshing into the water and scooping up as many fish as possible.

The heaviest fish ever caught was the OCEAN SUNFISH. It weighed 4,928 lbs.

Did you know pearls are found in oysters? The largest pearl ever found was 620 carats.

The swordtail is the fastest swimmer of all the fish

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Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software. ( a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987

India is the world’s largest, oldest, continuous civilization.

India is the world’s Largest democracy.

India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indiansestablished Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)

There are 300,000 active mosques in India , more than in any other country, including the Muslim world

Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.

India is one of the few countries in the world, which gain independence without violence.

India has the second largest pool of Scientist and Engineers in the World.

India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.

India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indeigenously.

India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world

The largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways , employing over a million people

India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century.

Christopher Columbus, attracted by India’s wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.

The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982

The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world’s largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.

Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called “the Ancient City” when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.

Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.

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The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.

Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.

If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple’s Macintosh divison as of 1982.

Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.

On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles.

The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact.

The standard “QWERTY” keyboard was not designed with ease of typing in mind. Rather, it was designed to keep early typewriters from jamming. 130 years later, in the age of computers, people are still using this awkward, inefficient keyboard layout. Few know that there is a much faster, easier, more efficient, and more comfortable alternative: the Dvorak (pronounced “duh VOR ak”) keyboard. Unlike QWERTY, the Dvorak keyboard was scientifically designed for increased speed and accuracy. It is estimated to be 12 to 20 times more efficient than QWERTY. Dvorak is great for beginning and experienced typists alike. It’s the layout used by some of the world’s fastest typists.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

“Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women

In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.

The world’s first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.

By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.

Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’!

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1) LONGEST ENGLISH WORD: Praetertranssubstantiationalistically –> has 37 letters.

2) BOOK WITHOUT LETTER ‘e’:
GADFY,written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn’t contain a single word with ‘ e ‘ in it

3) WORD WITHOUT VOWEL:
RHYTHM

4) BRAIN: Organ of body which has no sensation when cut .

5) WHAT ARE THEY :
a) If we say ‘MUMMY’, they come together & go apart when we say ‘DADDY’: LIPS
What goes up & never comes down:AGE
c) Patches over patches but no stitches:CABBAGE
d) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you: FUTURE
e) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves:ROAD
f) You can never wet it:SHADOW
g) What belongs to to You, but used by your friends more often you do:YOUR NAME.

6) No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS: 10, They are
B Bee
C Sea
z Zee
I Eye
Q Queue
R Are
S Yes
T Tea
U You
Y Why

7) Praetertranssubstantiationalistically : It means act of surpassing the act of transubstantiation, referring specifically to the transformation of bread and wine into the blood and body of Christ during mass in the Roman Catholic faith.

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Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES

The rhino is a primitive-looking animal. They have looked the same for thousands of years. There are two species of rhino: the white (or square-lipped rhino) and the black (or hooked-lipped rhino). The black rhino has three toes on each foot. Both the black and white rhino have two horns.

The rhinoceros’s horn is made of the same stuff found in our hair and fingernails which is called keratin. It also contains something called gelatin.

Ancients Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by giants fighting underneath the ground. The Ancient Japanese thought there was a giant spider living under the earth, and each time it moved, it caused the earth to quake

There are over 900 different types of bats and they can all fly. The Vampire bat has less teeth than the other bats because it doesn’t chew its food. It lives on the blood of mammals. Bats do not need to see when they fly, they use sound to help them figure out where they are going. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Did you know there are two kinds of pandas? There is the Long-tailed Himalayan carnivore that looks like a raccoon and there is the Giant panda bear that lives in Western China.

The Blue Whale’s whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.

Did you know there are two kinds of camels? One is the Arabian that lives in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It has one hump. And the second kind is called Bactrian which has two humps and lives in Mongolia and Chinese Turkistan.

There are two kinds of elephants: the African that is taller and has larger ears and the Indian that is small and has smaller ears.

The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal – the dolphin – can swim up to 35 miles per hour.

The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.

Did you know fishes talk to each other? Some of them communicate by making noises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders to make sounds

The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White It can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

Napoleon’s christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte(OR Bonaparte). He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property. As a boy, Napoleon hated the French.

The brain of an average adult male weighs 1,375 gm (55 oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev weighed 2021 gm (81 oz), Bismark’s weighed 1807 gm (72 oz), while that of French statesman Gambetta was only 1294 gm (51 oz). Einstein’s brain was of average size.

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80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
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The Chinese politician Mao Zedong refused to ever brush his teeth and instead just washed his mouth with tea

The Super Bowl is broadcast to over 182 countries in the world

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

In 1884, Dr. Hervey D. Thatcher invented the milk bottle.

Some Ribbon worm will eat themselves if they cannot find food. This type of worm can still survive after eating up to 95% of its body weight

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable.”

Singer Chaka Khan came out with a line of chocolates called “Chakalates.”

In a day 34,000 children die every day from causes that are related to poverty and hunger

A mouse is so small compared to an elephant, that an elephant does not even know that there is a mouse close to it !!

The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

The elephant is the largest animal on land. But it is much smaller than the blue whale.

The SIBERIAN TIGER is the largest cat in the world. It weighs up to 300kg (660 lbs) and can eat 27,2 kg (60 lb) of meat at one mealtime.

Did you know moths are not really attracted to light? Moths fly towards the blackest point which is behind the light.