Showing posts with label general facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label general facts. Show all posts

Sunday, April 10, 2011

facts break boundaries


ü A tiger can only expect a one in twenty success rate when bringing down prey.
                         
                           
ü Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
             

ü You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
                         
ü There is a city called Rome on every continent.
                

ü After the death of Albert Einstein his brail was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
                       

ü A kiss lasting 1 minute can burn more than 100 calories.
                     

ü An ant can lift fifty times of it’s own weight
          




Tuesday, April 5, 2011

experience the facts



ü Beware! Your bed at home could have more than 6 billion dust mites


ü An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.


ü Not everyone is ticklish! It just depends on how your brain interprets the signals. 


ü Hot water is heavier than cold water.
                 

ü The tail gives the tiger extra balance when running and is also used to communicate to other tigers. Three of the eight subspecies of tiger are now extinct.
                    

ü A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
                   

ü The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.


ü The word “listen” contains the same letters as the word “silent”.

                  
ü All citizens officially become a year older on New Year Day, regardless of their birthdays, in Bhutan.
                   
ü Ever wondered how big the sun is? Well....... only about 330,330 times larger than earth.
                         

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Mind blowing facts


ü Ever experienced a solar eclipse? Be sure to wear something warm! During a total solar eclipse the temperature can drop by 6 degree Celsius.


ü On Uranus, summer lasts for 21 years, and so does winter.

                
ü The fastest growing plant is the bamboo. Some varieties can grow up to three feet in a day.

                  
ü Tiger can spend up to eighteen hours sleeping.

                    

ü Earth is the only planet not named after a God

      

ü Tigers will occasionally eat vegetation for dietary fibre.
                        


ü The great plague of Europe (542 A.D- 593 A.D) killed half the population of  Europe.

                      

ü Dolphin’s sleep with one eye open.
                 
ü In a poll conducted by Animal planet, the tiger was voted the world’s favourite animal, narrowly beating the dog.Tigers received 21% of the votes and dogs 20%.

    ü The six official languages of the United Nation are English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.



Friday, March 25, 2011

Some facts are shocking.



 ü  The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
  


  ü  One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs! 


   ü  The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.




                      
ü  Finger nails grow nearly 4 times faster than toe nails!


   





üSome worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!



ü  The original English language alphabet had only 24 letters “J” and “v” joined the alphabet much later.


ü  Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only one testicle.






ü If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.


ü  Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!

üDonald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.


ü One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!


    


Thursday, March 24, 2011

Facts are true

 ü  55 percent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn.




 ü  The average person laughs 10 times a day.


   
 ü  The world’s most popular sport is soccer! Soccer games are      attended or watched by more people than any other sport.




ü  France,   a country of about 60 million people has 60 million tourists every year.


   ü  Every day and average human being spends about 1 hour on travel.


ü  There are no poisonous snakes in Maine, USA.




ü  Women blink nearly twice as much as men.




ü  If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.




ü  More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.





ü  The world’s best-selling book is the Bible! It is also the most shop-lifted book in the world.