Amazing Facts!!!
The gobie is the tiniest fish in the world.25 gobies together would weigh 1 gram.
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A bird called the Spine-tailed swift is the fastest living thing.It can fly at a speed of 170 Kms in an hour.
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.....that Koals don't have to drink water because they get all the moisture they need from the Eucalypts leaves they eat.
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A honey bee makes about a tea spoon of honey in its life time.
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The world's largest palace is the Imperial Palace in the heart of Peking,which covers an area of 178 acres.
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Salt was once a very precious commodity,so much so that many people were paid their wages in salt hence the word 'Salary'.
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The lion has the smallest heart of all breasts of prey.
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In the lower depths of the oceans the water pressure is so great that a bottle dropped from the surface would be broken before it reached the bottom.
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The humming bird can fly backwards,sideways,forwards and hover motionless upto an hour.
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Did you know ?
*1302 people lost when "Titanic" sank ; 868 saved*
*India produces films than any other country in the world*
*Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicines known to humans*
*The oldest cricket match was played between the U.S.A and Canada in 1844*
*Draftsmen have to make 27,000 drawings for the manufacture of a new car*
*In ancient Greece the symbol for a happy marriage was the triangle*
*We blink our eyes once every six seconds i.e. in the course of a lifetime we blink about 250 million times*
*The centre of the earth is almost 4000 miles beneath our feet*
*Every year more than 50,000 earthquakes take place on earth.Of these most are too slight to be noticeable to man*
*The first olympics were held in Athens in 1896,with nine nations competing*
*America is named after Amerigo Vespucci,an Italian explorer who was the first to discover the American mainland in 1499*
*The great Mathematician Archimedes was killed by a soldier of Marcellus when he was busy solving a geometricial problem*
*Two normal kidneys contain 2 million tiny blood filters which filter 50 gallons of blood everyday!*
Mind Teasers
*The number of eggs in a basket doubles every minute.The basket is full of eggs in an hour.When was the basket half full?*
In 59 minutes.If the basket is full in 60 minutes it was half full a minute earlier or at the end of 59 minutes.
*A car has three digit number which is the square of some number.The other car also has a three digit number.But the first digit of the number of first car has become the last digit of the second car.What are the numbers of these cars?*
196 and 961 or 144 and 441