interesting facts

Interesting facts:
Some caterpillars feed on plants that are poisonous to enemies who prey on them!

Blue whales, which breathe through their lungs, can stay underwater for 40 minutes
Without coming up to the surface to breathe!

A housefly never goes beyond a few hundred feet from the place where it was born!

A crow can be tamed and taught to speak like parrots!

There are so many languages in India that there is a different language spoken every 20 kilometers!

The Maoris, the nature people of New Zealand greet each other by sticking out their tongue!

There is gold and silver present in the ocean. This is mined every year with many other metals like uranium. Approximately there is 2,240 tons of gold, 16,500 tons of silver and 41,000 tons of uranium mined every year. But there are 55,000 tons of gold, 4,70,000 of silver and 2.6 million tons of uranium yet to be mined!

Near Salt Lake City, Utah, is a salt body of water called the Great Salt Lake. This lake contains so much that you can float easily in it!

The brightness of sun measured in watts is 38000000000000000000000000 i.e. 38 followed by 24 zeros!

The population of Asia is more than the population of North America, Australia and Europe combined!

The first map drawn dates back to the Egyptian civilization!

Writings started 5600 years ago in the countries of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

The coldest day was August 24, 1960 at the Vostok station in U.S.S.R. the temperature dropped to –126.9 degrees F or -88.3 degrees C!

The hottest day was July 8 1921 at Basra in Iraq. The temperature was 137.8 degrees F or 58.8 degrees C!

The people of ancient India believed that sun moved around a mountain at the center of the world. They thought that the night came when the sun was on the other side of the mountain.

Some ancient people had different thoughts about the face of the moon. The Japanese thought that it was a rabbit making rice cakes. Some Europeans thought that it was a woman’s face while other Europeans thought that it looked like a crab!

If the sun did not exert a gravitational force on the earth, the earth would fly away in the space!

All the water in the rivers of the world is nothing but a drop of water when compared to all the world’s seas!

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system is so big that 330 earths could fit inside it1

Where do penguins lay their eggs?
Penguins as you know live in Antarctica most of which is covered by deep snow and ice. The nests are made up of stones. So you see, the penguins find a rocky area along the coast where deep snow is not a problem to lay their eggs!


Why is snow white?
Snow is actually frozen water, as we know ice has no colour. Why then is snow white? The reason is that each snowflake is made up of a large number of ice crystals. These crystals have many surfaces. And it is the reflection of light from all these surfaces that makes snow look white.


The “Boston Nation”, a newspaper that was published from Ohio during the mid nineteenth century had pages seven feet long and five & a half feet wide. It required two people to hold the paper in proper reading position.


Sara Winchester, a rich woman who lived in California added an extra room to her house every year. By the time she died, the house had 160 rooms and covered more than six acres! In that building stairways led nowhere and windows opened on to blank walls. It had 2 floors, 3 lifts, 48 fireplaces, 200 doors, 10,000 windows and long secret passageways and hallways.


Call it Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom or U.K. However if you purchase a stamp there you won’t find the country’s name on it. Britain was the first country in the world to issue postage stamps and the British are the only nation in the world today that do not use the nation’s name on their stamps.




Butterflies taste with their feet.


In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than the entire world’s nuclear weapons combined.


On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.


On average people fear spiders more than they do death.


Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.


Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 years or older.


It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.


Women blink nearly twice as much as men.


The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.


A snail can sleep for three years.


No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH.”


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


The electric chair was invented by a dentist.


All polar bears are left - handed.


An Ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.


TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.


“Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.


A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.


Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.


Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of Butterflies.


The original name for the butterfly was “Flutterby”.


A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.


A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21- inch tongue.


All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.


The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.


“Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia” is the fear of long words.


It is impossible to lick your elbow. (We know you’re gonna try this!)


55 percent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. (there….there!Yawn!!!!!)


The cigarette lighter was invented before the match stick.


If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.