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A-PDF Watermark DEMO: Purchase from www.A-PDF.com to remove the watermark INTERESTING FACTS Tuesday is considered as the most productive day of the week. In human body the right lung takes in more air than the left one. The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth. Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer which is a brand of the microsoft’s rival company. Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass. In the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living. There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing. Jimmy Carter is the first USA president to have born in hospital. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. Cleopatra married two of her brothers. It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china. Tru to spin an egg, Its strange that a hard-boiled egg will spin but an uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not. Astronauts cannot burp in space. People with blue eyes see better in dark. The snowiest city in the USA is Blue Canyon, California. Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks. Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand. The gasoline cannot freeze no matter how cold the temperature falls. Human stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. Every person has a unique tongue print. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. The Polar Bear can can reach 25 miles / hr of speed. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog. Most lipsticks contain fish scales. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Russian and Spanish. © SwAmI PrazolAnandA © Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.” Coco-Cola would be green if colour in weren’t added to it. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. The spiciness of a chilli is not determined by the colour of the chilli, but by the length. The smaller the chilli, the spicier it is. In Uzbekistan, samosa is known as “Samsa.” Samosas were first found in Persia and existed since the Mughal era. The staple diet of almost half of the world’s population is rice. The original curry powder was invented by the British. Saffron is made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus and is the most expensive spice. Onions, apples and potatoes have the same taste. The difference in taste is due to their smell. Cucumber originated from India. The core of the cucumber is 600oC lower than the temperature outside. Hence the slimily, “As cool as a cucumber.” Strawberries have more vitamin C than the animals. December 25th was celebrated as the birthday of Jesus only from 440 A.D. The only mammals that fly are bats. Mount Everest is growing. It is 12 inches higher now than it was a century ago and it is still growing. India has the world’s largest quantity of privately owned gold. An adult body has approximately 96,000 kilometres of blood vessels. We blink our eyes about 25 times a minute. A new born kangaroo is about 1 inch long. There are at least 100,000 million stars in our universe. Thomas Edison maintained a collection of 5,000 birds. A volcano has more power than a hurricane or earthquake. A single drop of liquid can contain 50 million bacteria. There are 60 trillion cells in the human body. A person’s hair cannot turn white overnight for any reason. An ostrich can lay more than 100 eggs in one nest. Your brain will stop growing in size when you are 15. Over a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body and by the time you finish reading this sentence, they are already raced past the Moon. Quasars emit more energy than hundred giant galaxies. The Universe contains over hundred billion galaxies. The Universe expands by nearly billion miles in all directions each hour. The largest galaxies contain over a million, million stars. Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over hundred million tons. © SwAmI PrazolAnandA © Assuming that the size of the Sun was equivalent to that of a beach ball, then the largest planet Jupiter’s size in comparison would be equivalent to that of a golf ball, and our planet in comparison would be equivalent to that of a pea. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang. It would take a minimum of two million years to reach the Andromeda galaxy, if you were travelling at the speed of light. The Saturn V rocket had a power that was equivalent of fifty 747 jets. Light takes about 0.13 seconds to travel around the Earth. The Earth’s circumference is 24,901 miles. The speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms, it is around 299,792,458 meters per second, which equates to 186,287.49 miles per second. If every star in the Milky Way were a grain of salt, they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool. The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Vredefort, South Africa, and in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The risk factor of being hit by a falling meteorite for a human is once in about 9,300 years. A rocket needs to travel at a minimum speed of seven miles per second, to escape the gravitational pull of the Earth. The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over one hundred feet long and weighed up to eighty tons. The giant squid has the largest eyes on the planet and which are over 15 inches. The Tanzanian wasp is the world’s tiniest winged insect. It is even smaller than the eye of the common housefly. The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year. The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only twelve days. The African Elephant gestates for twenty-two months. If bitten by a black mamba, the chances of survival are five percent. Inbreeding causes three out of every ten Dalmatian dogs to suffer from hearing disability. A dog’s sense of smell is thousand times more sensitive than humans. Koalas sleep an average of twenty-two hours a day, two hours more than the sloth. The Almbert glacier in Antarctica, which is considered the world’s longest glazier, is about 250 miles long and about 40 miles wide. The time required for a heavy object to sink to the deepest part (about 6.75 miles) of the ocean, would be over an hour. The fastest speed that a falling raindrop can hit you is about eighteen miles per hour. Ninety percent of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one-megaton bombs. The lowest recorded temperatures in Antarctica have been as low as minus 95 degrees Celsius. The annual average rainfall in Aswan, Egypt is 0.02 inches. The deepest part of the ocean is 36,200 feet deep and is known as the Challenger Deep. It is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean and at the southern end of the Mariana Trench. © SwAmI PrazolAnandA © The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert and has a surface area of about 3.6 million miles. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest living structure and is over 2,000 kilometers long. Surprisingly, wounds, which are contaminated with maggots, tend to heal quickly and block the spread of gangrene and other infections. The number of living organisms on the human skin is more than the entire global human population . It is funny that less amount of germs are spread through kissing when compared with handshakes. In the 14th century, the plague killed over 75 million people. Fleas on the black rat carried the virus. A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million hemoglobin molecules. One in every two thousand babies is born with a tooth. Microorganisms have been extracted after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years. Microbes can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor. COOL FACTS FOR KIDS The Mona Lisa has no eye brows. Ketchup used to be as thick as medicine. Babies yawn before they are born. More than 480 million people have played Monopoly. Your heart is about the same size as your fist. Dust from Africa can travel all the way to Florida The longest recoreded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.