Facts!

[gaurav_indian]

FABULOUS & ASTONISHING FACTS OF NATURE & CREATION

ASTONISHING FACTS :
1) LONGEST ENGLISH WORD: Praetertranssubstantiationalist ically --> 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) CROCODILE: Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating .


6) No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS: 10, They are
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 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tounge.

2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.

3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.

4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.

5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.

6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TRYNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.

7) DIMETRODON was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.

8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.

9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.

10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.

11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.

12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.

13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.

14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
WHAT ARE THEY :

1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say 'DADDY': LIPS

2) What goes up & never comes down: AGE

3) Patches over patches but no stitches: CABBAGE

4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you:
FUTURE

5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves: ROAD

6) You can never wet it: SHADOW

7) What belongs to to You, but used by your friends more often you do: YOUR NAME

IN 24 HOURS AVERAGE HUMAN :

1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.
8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times

 

[Third Eye]

Nice post

 

[prateek_san]

nice dude .....

 

[pannaguma]

nice, but wats the source?

 

[gaurav_indian]

nice, but wats the source?

Yeh koi news hai jo source du?

 

[zyberboy]

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

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

WOW!

 

[NIGHTMARE]

nice one

 

[pannaguma]

Yeh koi news hai jo source du?

i mean where ever u found this there may be more info of this kind, tats why i asked.

 

[gaurav_indian]

i mean where ever u found this there may be more info of this kind, tats why i asked.

I have stolen this from another forum. Sadly there was no source there.

 

[pannaguma]

I have stolen this from another forum. Sadly there was no source there.

u dont need to use the word STOLEN here, coz we all can share stuff only of which we come across somewhere.

 

[dd_wingrider]

nice post!! informative

 

[hemant_mathur]

Nice info

 

[gaurav_indian]

u dont need to use the word STOLEN here, coz we all can share stuff only of which we come across somewhere.

Chill.I was joking.

 

[pannaguma]

^^ im cool

 

[Quiz_Master]

Here I know some of trivia facts. I use these to make Quizzes for my friends in college. (I am known as Quiz Master in my offline life too.)

1.) It is impossible to lick your elbow.

2.) The word "queue" is the only word in english that is still pronounced the same waywhen the last four letters are removed.

3.) The elephant is the only mammel that can't jump.

4.) Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and had only one testicle.

5.) Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.

6.) Salt is the only Rock human can eat.

7.) The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.

8.) Over 80% people who have readed my fact no. 1 will try to lick their elbow.

9.) An estimated 1 million dogs in US have been named the primary beneficiary in their owner's will. (Rich dogs ah... )

10.) A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

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Wait for more.

 

[freshseasons]

Something More

# In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

# The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

# The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

# Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

# Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.

# Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

# The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

# The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

# The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

# Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.

# Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

# SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

# Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

# Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

# Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

# The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

# The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

# You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

# Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

# Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

# The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

# The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

# A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

# The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

# The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

# King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

# Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

# In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

# Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

# Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

# Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

# Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

# Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

# You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

# To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

# Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

# A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

# A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

# Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

# Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

# At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

# Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

# If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

# Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

# Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

# Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

# When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

# Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

# Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

# If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

# When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

# In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.

# Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

# Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

# The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

# Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

# In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

# It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

# The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

# The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

# The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

Source



Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).



Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

*Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

*Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

*A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

*A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

*A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

*A snail can sleep for three years.

*An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

*In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

*A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

*111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = >> 12,345,678,987,654,321

*February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

*The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

*If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand

*The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

*Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

*It is impossible to lick your elbow.

*Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Source here

 

[virus_killer]

Great man, good posts

 

[cynosure]

4.) Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and had only one testicle.

What exactly is the relation between being a vegetarian and having one testi??

 

[praka123]

^_^Vegans!do keep note of above

 

[gxsaurav]

7.) The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.

True, very true. I faced it 4 days ago. Thought of taking a quick nap before coaching & fell in deep sleep.

# Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

Time to paint the room blue

*Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

So this is the reason for my intel-igence-