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Monday, August 9, 2010

Strange but true

A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. 


Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.

 
 
 
The compound carotene gives the carrot its color.

Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.


It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.

Sharks can live up to 100 years.


"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.

A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.



The world's population has been increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years. 

ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.


Bone is five times stronger than steel.

60% North Indians are pure vegetarian & in whole India 36%.

The most beautiful and incredible gift of love is the monument Taj Mahal in India. Built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan as a memorial to his wife it stands as the emblem of the eternal love story. Work on the Taj Mahal began in 1634 and continued for almost 22 years and required the labor of 20,000 workers from all over India and Central Asia.


Polar bears have more problems with overheating than they do with cold. Even in very cold weather, they quickly overheat when they try to run.

The 73% of people who buy Valentine's Day flowers are men, while only 27 percent are women. 

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


OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent across. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.

The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.

Polar bears have two layers of fur for further protection from the cold.

A Blue Whale can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.


The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.


Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine 6 to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.


Some butterflies, such as the Northern Pearly Eye, will fly at night.


Butterflies are the second largest group of pollinators, next to bees.


Cockatoos are one of the most long-lived parrots.  


Russia is the largest country in area.


Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.


Some scientists call Greenland an island, others say it's a continent, but it's only about one-third the size of Australia.       

                

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