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Astonishing Facts:
I didn't know most of them. However, here it is...
1) LONGEST ENGLISH WORD: Praetertranssubstantiationalistically -- has 37 letters.
2) BOOK WITHOUT THE LETTER 'e': GADFY, written by Earnest Wright in 1939, is a 50,000+ word book that doesn't contain a single word with 'e' in it.
3) WORD WITHOUT A VOWEL: RHYTHM
4) BRAIN: The organ of the body which has no sensation when cut.
5) CROCODILE: The only animal and reptile which sheds tears while eating.
6) Number of Alphabets which SOUND LIKE WORDS: 10
B - Bee
C - Sea
G - Zee
I - Eye
Q - Queue
R - Are
S - Yes
T - Tea
U - You
Y - Why
FASCINATING ANIMALS, BIRDS, TREES:
1) SNAILS have 14,175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with one eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food every day, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 1,200,000 species of animals, 300,000 species of plants, and 100,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS, which had sixty long and sharp teeth, used to attack and eat other dinosaurs.
7) DIMETRODON was a mammal-like REPTILE with a sail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
8) CASSOWARY is one of the most dangerous BIRDS, capable of killing a man or animal by tearing with its dagger-like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers on its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to aid digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEARS may appear clumsy and slow, but during a chase on ice, they can reach speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.
12) KIWIS are the only birds that hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) An OWL is the only bird that can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
WHAT ARE THEY:
a) If we say 'MUMMY,' they come together and go apart when we say 'DADDY': LIPS
b) What goes up and never comes down: AGE
c) Patches over patches but no stitches: CABBAGE
d) What is it that we cannot see but is always before you: FUTURE
e) What goes up and down a hill but never moves: ROAD
f) You can never wet it: SHADOW
g) What belongs to you but is used by your friends more often than you do: YOUR NAME
DO YOU KNOW THAT IN 24 HOURS, AN AVERAGE HUMAN:
1) The HEART beats 103,689 times.
2) The LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) The BLOOD flows 16,800,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches.
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches.
6) Takes 2.9 pounds of WATER (including all liquids).
7) Takes in 3.25 pounds of FOOD.
8) Breathes 438 cubic feet of AIR.
9) Loses 85.60 in BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produces 1.43 pints of SWEAT.
11) Speaks 4,800 WORDS.
12) Moves 25.4 times during SLEEP.
Howzzzzzzzat...
Thanks,
Bala
From India, Madras
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21Astonishing Facts:
I didn't know most of them. However, here it is...
1) LONGEST ENGLISH WORD: Praetertranssubstantiationalistically -- has 37 letters.
2) BOOK WITHOUT THE LETTER 'e': GADFY, written by Earnest Wright in 1939, is a 50,000+ word book that doesn't contain a single word with 'e' in it.
3) WORD WITHOUT A VOWEL: RHYTHM
4) BRAIN: The organ of the body which has no sensation when cut.
5) CROCODILE: The only animal and reptile which sheds tears while eating.
6) Number of Alphabets which SOUND LIKE WORDS: 10
B - Bee
C - Sea
G - Zee
I - Eye
Q - Queue
R - Are
S - Yes
T - Tea
U - You
Y - Why
FASCINATING ANIMALS, BIRDS, TREES:
1) SNAILS have 14,175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with one eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food every day, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 1,200,000 species of animals, 300,000 species of plants, and 100,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS, which had sixty long and sharp teeth, used to attack and eat other dinosaurs.
7) DIMETRODON was a mammal-like REPTILE with a sail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
8) CASSOWARY is one of the most dangerous BIRDS, capable of killing a man or animal by tearing with its dagger-like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers on its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to aid digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEARS may appear clumsy and slow, but during a chase on ice, they can reach speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.
12) KIWIS are the only birds that hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) An OWL is the only bird that can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
WHAT ARE THEY:
a) If we say 'MUMMY,' they come together and go apart when we say 'DADDY': LIPS
b) What goes up and never comes down: AGE
c) Patches over patches but no stitches: CABBAGE
d) What is it that we cannot see but is always before you: FUTURE
e) What goes up and down a hill but never moves: ROAD
f) You can never wet it: SHADOW
g) What belongs to you but is used by your friends more often than you do: YOUR NAME
DO YOU KNOW THAT IN 24 HOURS, AN AVERAGE HUMAN:
1) The HEART beats 103,689 times.
2) The LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) The BLOOD flows 16,800,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches.
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches.
6) Takes 2.9 pounds of WATER (including all liquids).
7) Takes in 3.25 pounds of FOOD.
8) Breathes 438 cubic feet of AIR.
9) Loses 85.60 in BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produces 1.43 pints of SWEAT.
11) Speaks 4,800 WORDS.
12) Moves 25.4 times during SLEEP.
Howzzzzzzzat...
Thanks,
Bala
From India, Madras
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