23-02-2016
John Hetherington wore the first top hat in London Later, he was arrested for frightening the people with his hat
29-01-2016
Count Meral, an Italian, had so well-developed scalp muscles that he could part his without a comb
22-01-2016
Jack Marks invented the gumshield in 1902 for the boxers to protect their teeth
21-01-2016
Intelligent people have more Zinc and copper in their hair.
20-01-2016
Intelligent people have more Zinc and copper in their hair.
19-01-2016
The world’s noisiest land animals are the howler monkeys. When the male monkeys call, their gibbering can be heard 16 km away.
18-01-2016
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quick sand.
15-01-2016
Most people lose 50% of the taste buds by the age of 60.
14-01-2016
Lizards can grow new tails A lizard snaps its tail off when a predator grabs hold of it.
13-01-2016
The game of dice began with cube-shaped knuckle bones brought from the far east by the Romans.
12-01-2016
The game of dice began with cube-shaped knuckle bones brought from the far east by the Romans.
08-01-2016
If we could jump as a grasshopper in proportion to our size, we would be able to leap from the pavement on to the roof of an eight-storeyed building
06-01-2016
Squirrels can detect the smell of nuts covered by 50 cm of snow.
04-01-2016
Lifting finger prints for identifying criminals has been a practice in china since 700 AD.
30-12-2015
The first children’s book the ‘book of Courtesy’ was published by William Caxton in 1477. It taught how to behave in front of elders.
28-12–2015
The patron saint of wine Saint Vincent, never touched a drop of alcohol
24-12-2015
Hairs in the nose help clean the air we breath in as well as warm it
23-12-2015
The albatross has a wing span of 3 meters.
22-12-2015
The average person’s field of vision encompasses a 2000 wide angle.
21-12-2015
The sound we hear when we crack our knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
11-12-2015
Recent studies have proved that athletes, who took some honey before and after competing, recovered more quickly than those who did not.
10-12-2015
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
09-12-2015
You breathe in about 7 quarts of air every minute.
08-12-2015
The red blood cells make approximately 250, 000 round trips of the body before returning to the bone marrow, where they were born, to die.
07-12-2015
An adult’s stomach can hold approximately 3 pints of material.
04-12-2015
The boiling point of human saliva is 3 times more than that of water.
03-12-2015
Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
02-12-2015
Roosters would not be able to crow if they cannot extend their necks.
01-12-2015
A massive body, 100 km wide, travelling at over 512,00 km/hr, crashed into Mercury to form the Caloris Basin
30-11-2015
Muscles contract in waves to move the food down the esophagus. That’s why the food gets to a person’s stomach even when he eats standing upside down.
27-11-2015
The longest muscle in the body is the sartorius, from the outside of the hip to the inside of the knee. It rotates the thigh outward and bends the knee.
26-11-2015
Most bacteria and spores that land on the skin die quickly because the skin secretes antibacterial substances.
23-11-2015
Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
20-11-2015
Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
19-11-2015
A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think that day time is longer.
18-11-2015
A single brain can process work equivalent to that of 4.5 million transistors on a modern microprocessor.
16-11-2015
The average human body contains enough water to fill a ten gallon tank.
06-11-2015
If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds.
03-11-2015
It is normal to lose 100 hairs per day from the scalp.
02-11-2015
Leonardo da Vinci, was able to write a letter with one hand while drawing with the other.
30-10-2015
We sweat enough each day to fill up 6 soda cans.
29-10-2015
Our familiar birthday ckes with candles were invented by the Greeks.
28-10-2015
Hair is the fastest growing part of the body.
27-10-2015
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at the speed of 100 mph.
26-10-2015
The red blood cells are so flexible that they can squeeze though capillaries many thime thinner than them.
21-10-2015
The red blood cells are so flexible that they can squeeze though capillaries many thime thinner than them.
20-10-2015
The DNA of a single cell in the body contains the design of 206 bones, 600 muscles, 10,000 auditory muscles, 2 million otic neves 1100 billion neves cells, and 100 trillion cells.
19-10-2015
Our heart pumps about 43000 liters of blood per day.
16-10-2015
A person weighing 60 kg has 5 leters of blood in his body.
15-10-2015
A liver cell is specialized enough to perform more than 500 operations at a time
14-10-2015
The human heart beats approximately 100,000 time a day.
13-10-2015
Water makes up about 70% of the human body.
12-10-2015
Too much secretion of growth hormone in children makes their body excessively large, resulting in gigantism.
09-10-2015
The longest boxing match ever known took place in New Orleans in 1893. It lasted 7 hours 19 minutes and ended in draw.
08-10-2015
Our hearing is so sensitive that is can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
06-10-2015
The attachment of the human skin to muscles, causes dimples.
01-10-2015
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
30-09-2015
Finger nails are one of the strongest components of the human body. They contain keratin, which is also found in rhino horns, which refuses to erode after death.
29-09-2015
The average human body contains enough fat to make 7 bars of soap.
28-09-2015
There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of US and Canada if combined.
25-09-2015
Ine one square inch of our hand, we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors, and 75 pressure sensors.
24-09-2015
The longest bone is the femur, in the thigh. It makes up almost one quarter of the body’s total height.
23-09-2015
When Japanese General Nagoaka shaved off his 19 inch long moustache in 1933, it was given a special funeral service.
22-09-2015
The first parachute jump was made by a Frenchman, Andre Garnerin, who leapt from a balloon in 1797 and survived.
21-09-2015
One reason why churches have tall spires is that they served as landmarks for travellers. Many old churches lie in a straight line when plotted on a map.
18-09-2015
Platelets are manufactured at the rate of 200 billion per minute.
16-09-2015
When a porcupine turns its back on an enemy and shakes itself, loose quills may fly in the air, but it is only accidental.
15-09-2015
If a person has two-third of his liver removed from trauma or surgery, it will grow back to its original size in four weeks.
14-09-2015
The big toe is actually one of the most important elements within the body, as it balance the skeleton and enables the person to move forward.
11-09-2015
If the heart is taken out of the body, it will continue to beat.
10-09-2016
One of the earliest burglar-proof locks was made in 1787 and had 479,100,600 different combinations.
08-09-2015
The largest bone is pelvis..
07-09-2015
Most cats hate water but the cat from eastern Turkey, loves swimming.
04-09-2015
The thread of the Golden Orb Web spider is used for fishing
03-09-2015
Within a tiny drop of blood there are a million red blood cells, 300,000 platelets and 10,000 white blood cells.
02-09-2015
Almost every seven years your body replaces with an entirely new skeleton.
01-09-2015
People under 30 take in twice as much oxygen as people over 80
31-08-2015
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
-Philip Massinger
28-08-2015
Vultures use their keen eyesight to spot a dead animal far below on the ground.
27-08-2015
At birth, you have about 300 bones, but as you grow older, small bones join together. Adults end up with about 206 bones.
26-08-2015
Although it weigh only one-fifteenth of the total body weight, the human brain consumes one-fifth of the intake oxygen and one –fifth of the calories the body absorbs daily.
25-08-2015
A man was caught cheating a bus company in Virginia, USA. After getting off from the bus, he used to send his season ticket back home with his pet pigeon, so that he can use it again.
24-08-2015
There are 170 million sheep in Australia, which is three times the population of England.
21-08-2015
Until early 19th century shoes were made exactly the same for both the feet.
20-08-2015
Chameleon and Cuttle fish change pattern of their structure to blend instantly with the surrounding.
19-08-2015
A crocodile’s skin is made up of bony scales, which are very tough, almost bullet proof.
18-08-2015
In the middle ages, one could buy wearing glasses from peddlers and use them as ornaments.
17-08-2015
A snake may look boneless. But it has a sectioned backbone all the way down its body with more than 140 pairs or ribs.
14-08-2015
A cockle shell grows by just adding another layer to its outer shell. The age of the shell can be known by the number of rings on it.
13-08-2015
A chicken loses it feathers when it becomes stressed.
11-08-2015
The average human body contains enough carbon to make 900 pencils.
10-08-2015
Kangaroos are the largest living marsupials. They can jump up to 9 metres at a time, and race at a speed of 50 km/hr.
07-08-2015
It takes 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
06-08-2015
Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty a fatty meal.
05-08-2015
The Irish people consume more tea than any other nation in the world.
04-08-2015
Florence Nightingale, the lady with the lamp, carried a pet owl in her pocket wherever she went.
31-07-2015
The surface area of our lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.
29-07-2015
We lose half a litre of water a day through breathing. This is the water vapour we see when we breath on to glass
28-07-2015
Some ants keep heard of aphids, like greenfly and stroke their side with their front legs until they produce honey dew, which the ants eat.
27-07-2015
Some Lego can pass through the digestive tract of a four old.
24-07-2015
Camels can consume up to 130 liters of water (which is around one-third of their body weight) in almost 10 minutes.
23-07-2015
Britain has at least one amateur or professional botanist for every 1500 species of plants.
22-07-2015
The roar of a lion can be heard up to five miles away.
21-07-2015
Heating and air conditioning system in termite mounds are superior in terms of equipment and energy consumption to those made by human beings.
20-07-2015
When an athlete pole-vaults and lands on the ground, every square centimeter of his pelvis is exposed to a pressure of 1,400 kg.
17-07-2015
One B cell can pump out more than 10 million antibody molecules in an hour.
16-07-2015
There are over 2500 billion stars in the milky way.
15-07-2015
The nasal bones are specially structured that the air inhaled can go to the lungs only after circulating several times in the nose and then warming up
14-07-2015
Laughter lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. The six-years-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.
13-07-2015
Hummingbirds cross the Gulf of Mexico in less than 3 gms of fuel (They consume between 3 and 8 calories in a day and can fly up to 93 miles per hour).
10-07-2015
A survey says that 40% of the dog and cat owners carry pictures of their pets in their wallets.
09-07-2015
The world’s biggest flower is Rafflesia flower, which grows up to a metre across but is not at all pretty. It smells like rotten meat.
08-07-2015
The surface temperature on Venus reaches as high as 4500C, which is sufficient to melt lead.
07-07-2015
King John of Portugal bought a new throne in 1819. His servants had to speak into the arms of the throne. Their voices travelled along a tube, which the king held to his ear.
06-07-2015
The geckos can easily climb even on glass with the help of the suction caps on the tips of their toes.
03-07-2015
Light emitting algae combine various chemicals to illuminate their bodies.
02-07-2015
Every cloud contains thousands of tons of water in the form of vapour.
01-07-2015
Hermit crabs collect some plants with thorns and put them on top of their shells to protect themselves from octopuses and other enemies.
30-06-2015
The atmosphere projects the Earth from the freezing cold of space, which is about -2700C
28-06-2015
The life span of a red blood cell is about 120 days.
25-06-2015
Bananas contain a chemical, which can make a person happy. This chemicals is found in Prozac
24-06-2015
When giraffes bend down, the valves in their neck vessels are shut down. This prevents excess blood from flowing to the brain.
31-03-2015
Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
30-03-2015
When Hippos are upset their sweat turns red.
27-03-2015
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
26-03-2015
The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make worm dizzy. It will however make cats dizzy.
24-03-2015
The colour blue ha a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
23-03-2015
Every year, the amount of water, that evaporates and that falls back to the Earth in the form of rain, is constant.
20-03-2015
Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
19-03-2015
Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
18-03-2015
The sun has over 1,000000 ‘atom bombs’ exploding at any one time.
17-03-2015
Dalmatians are born without spots.
16-03-2015
The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep.
13-03-2015
The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing.
05-03-2015
Glass containers are 64% clear 23% brown and 13% green
04-03-2015
Human beings were not the first to enter outer space. A chimpanzee by name ‘Ham’ orbited Earth in 1961 to help test space travel for human astronauts.
03-03-2015
Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have buttons on the left.
02-03-2015
Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
27-02-2015
97% of currencies in the US contain trace of cocaine.
24-02-2015
Most glamorous Marilyn Monroe of yester-years had six toes.
23-02-2015
If the population of China walked past you in a single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
20-02-2015
The average human eats eight spiders in his lifetime at night.
19-02-2015
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
18-02-2015
The expression “three dog night” originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night, denoting that you have to bead down with three dogs to keep warm.
17-02-2015
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
16-02-2015
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
13-02-2015
The Prebles meadow jumping mouse can jump up to three feet and change its direction in the air.
12-02-2015
‘Four’ is the only number in English language, that has the same number of letter in its name as its meaning.
11-02-2015
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
10-02-2015
Your right lung takes more air than your left.
09-02-2015
An ant will always fall on its right side when drunk.
06-02-2015
Bruce Lee was so fast that his films needed to be slowed down so that we could see his movements.
05-02-2015
Dentists have recommended that a tooth brush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting in from the flush.
04-02-2015
When a frog swallows a meal, his bulging eyeballs close and go down his head in order to apply pressure and push the meal down his throat.
03-02-2015
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
02-02-2015
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is, 381,979,564,000.
30-01-2015
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is, 381,979,564,000.
27-01-2015
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
23-01-2015
The dot over “I” is called a tittle.
22-01-2015
As soon as an insect sits on a Picher plan, it gets stuck to the wax surface. The plant has chemicals that digests the insects that fall in.
21-01-2015
A 3-year-old child’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
20-01-2015
Coughing and laughing put more pressure on the spine than walking or standing.
19-01-2015
Astronauts have to have little fans in their capsules to blow the air around while they sleep, or else they would suffocate.
16-01-2015
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
15-01-2015
A chicken with red earlobes produces brown eggs, and chicken with white earlobe produce white eggs
14-01-2015
If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is strong enough to point all four walls of a 20 ft x 20 ft room.
13-01-2015
Whale shark is the largest living fish. It can grow up to 46 feet in length and 15 tons in weight. It has about 3000 rows of tiny hooked teeth
12-01-2015
Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.
09-01-2015
Beavers can close their lips behind their front teeth, so that they can gnaw wood under water without swallowing a drop.
08-01-2015
The world’s shortest women was 2 feet tall. But unlike midgets, she wasn’t fat. She was totally proportionate.
07-01-2015
American car horns beep in the tone of ‘F’.
06-01-2015
You are more prone to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
05-01-2015
Most of the Earth’s surface water is permanently frozen or salty.
02-01-2014
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
01-01-2015
The Teeth of a lobster are in its stomach.
23-12-2014
Sharks cannot eat puffer fish, because the puffer fish inflates like a balloon and pokes the shark’s mouth with its sharp needles.
22-12-2014
Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke and lots of it.
19-12-2014
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are 50 years of age or older.
18-12-2014
A six-year-old can start a fire with a flint rock.
17-12-2014
Apple seeds contain a small quantity of cyanide (amygdalin, a cyanide and sugar compound.) That’s why they taste quite bitter
11-12-2014
Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise in a moving car.
10-12-2014
A salmon fish can smell a drop of water from its home stream, mixed up in 250 gallons of seawater.
09-12-2014
84% of a raw apple is water.
08-12-2014
The spotted Hyena has the strongest jaws of any carnivore. It is capable of biting through the thigh bones.
05-12-2014
The leaves of Victoria Water Lily can be more than 2m (7ft) across. They are strong enough for a child to sit upon it without sinking.
04-12-2014
A magnifying glass can start a fire even on a overcast day.
03-12-2014
Insect can lift objects 52 times their own weight.
02-12-2014
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually, than all of Nike factory workers in Malaysia put together
01-12-2014
The Guinness book of world record holds the record for being most often stolen from public libraries.
28-11-2014
One pair of mice can develop into half a million mice in just over a year.
26-11-2014
Frogs eat so much of ‘fire file’ that they glow themselves.
25-11-2014
Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.
24-11-2014
The Australian Aborigines use the curved type of boomerang as a toy, and the straight one as a weapon.
21-11-2014
At the bell rock in Scotland, the lighthouse built by Robert Stevenson was for some time beneath the level of the high tide.
20-11-2014
A mole can dig a hole 300 feet deep in one night.
19-11-2014
A common custom in Spain is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 second of every New Year for good luck.
18-11-2014
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine
17-11-2014
Human kidney filters about 140 litres of blood everyday though one million small filtering units.
14-11-2014
Whenever the Orient Express passed through Bulgaria on its way to Turkey, King Boris III used to climb aboard and take the controls.
13-11-2014
If the information in DNA were put in the form of a book, these books, if piled up would reach 70m high.
12-11-2013
Bees, turtles and birds navigate spontaneously.
11-11-2014
Holly plants are dioecious, which means ‘two houses’. Essentially, this means there are male hollies and female hollies.
10-11-2014
North Carolina is the second lagest producer of Christmas trees in the United States, producing more than 6 million Christmas tree each year.
07-11-2014
The thigh bone of a man can bear weight up to one ton when perpendicular
06-11-2014
The largest flying animal ever was a prehistoric reptile, Quetzalcoallus Northropi, which lived 65 million years ago. It had a 12m wingspan, the width of a two-seater airplane
05-11-2014
The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia has been constructed by stony corals, over a period of 600 million years
03-11-2014
Less than 1 gram of gold can be beaten into a sheet of nearly 2 square meters.
31-10-2014
Almost all the houses in Shibam city in South Arabia are 10 or 20 storeyed structure
30-10-2014
Almost all the houses in Shibam city in South Arabia are 10 or 20 storeyed structure
29-10-2014
In Chinese meal, the chopsticks used are made of either ivory or bone. The chopsticks are about 9 inches long.
28-10-2014
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel and 4 time faster through water, than air.
27-10-2014
The value of “Pi” was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem.
22-10-2014
Many scientists say that the most effective sleeping position is the fetus position, as it gives the best blood circulation to the body.
21-10-2014
Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called “Phosphenes.”
20-10-2014
Guitars often have to be tuned on stage because strong light heats them up making them expand and become out of tune.
17-10-2014
Making a simple vase out of the precious stone ‘Jade’ may take more than 2 years of labour.
16-10-2014
The Sun is travelling at a speed of 720,000 km an hour.
15-10-2014
The most destructive earthquake occurred in September 1923 in Japan. 1, 43, 000 people lost their lives and the cost of damage was estimated at 1 billion pounds
14-10-2014
Rattlesnakes can sense heat, find and catch their prey even in the dark.
13-10-2014
A baby’s eyes do not produce tears until 6 to 8 weeks old.
10-10-2014
Switzerland has no mineral deposit in it.
09-10-2014
The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world ever constructed. Its length is 2694.4km, height 4.57 to 9.2 m with the wall thickness of 9.75m.
08-10-2014
Swifts fly nonstop in their first two or three years. They can event eat and drink while flying.
06-10-2014
Fish hear through their bodies.
01-10-2014
Tiny plants called plankton live in the sea and make nearly three quarters of the Earth’s oxygen.
30-09-2014
Inside the Earth, it gets 3oC hotter every 100 m deep down.
29-09-2014
Grasshoppers hear with their legs, waving them in the air to tell where a sound is coming from.
26-09-2014
The tallest tree is the giant redwood called the Founder’s tree, growing in the HUMBOLDT National forest California. It is over 110 mts tall.
25-09-2014
The first machine to carry people up in the air was a balloon. It was built by the Mongolfier brothers, and first flew in Paris in 1783.
24-09-2014
Coral reefs attract millions of visitor to beaches around the world each year, adding to a local tourism economy that makes up 10% of all the jobs world wide.
23-09-2014
If offered a new pen to write with, 97% of people write their own name first.
22-09-2014
Wearing headphones for just an hour will multiply the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
19-09-2014
The eyes of the chameleon can move independently. Therefore, it can see in two different directions at the same time.
18-09-2014
The world’s largest hovercraft can carry over 400 passengers and 60 cars, and can travel at a speed of 120 km/hr.
17-09-2014
The largest hailstone ever found was in Kansas USA. It was the size of a melon, 19cm wide and weighed 758 grams.
16-09-2014
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
15-09-2014
Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photographs on it.
12-09-2014
An adult male ostrich can cover a distance of 5 to 8 m in one stride
11-09-2014
Spleen is an organ, which can manufacture new red blood cells if the bone marrow is not working properly.
10-09-2014
Recent research has proved that brain cells, once destroyed can regenerate.
09-09-2014
To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it and if it sounds hollow, then it is ripe.
08-09-2014
Plants watered with tepid water grow faster than those watered with cold water.
23-08-2014
Kitchen dish clothes and sponges are notorious for harbouring bacteria, which can be sanitized by using a household microwave oven.
22-08-2014
Male mosquitoes are vegetarians, only females bite.
21-08-2014
The world’s largest crossword puzzle contained 82957 cells
20-08-2014
A piece of buttered toast contains about 315 KJ of energy. With that energy, you could jog for 6 minutes or cycle for 10 minutes.
19-08-2014
Beer is made by fermentation caused by bacteria feeding on the yeast cells then defecating. This bacterial excrement is called alcohol.
18-08-2014
Beer is made by fermentation caused by bacteria feeding on the yeast cells then defecating. This bacterial excrement is called alcohol.
14-08-2014
“Cadang Cadang” disease, which occurs in coconut trees is named after the noise the coconuts makes when they fall to the ground.
13-08-2014
A person who weighs 50 kg Earth will weigh 13,200 kg on Jupiter.
12-08-2014
When you are eating a fruit, you are eating a swollen ovary. It is the ovary of a flower.
11-08-2014
The sound energy of 200 pianos is equivalent to the electrical energy, needed to light up just one light bulb.
08-08-2014
A cat’s eyes shine at night because of the light reflected by the tapetum, a layer of cells forming a large part of the inner eyes.
07-08-2014
On a clear day, a beam of sunlight can be reflected from a mirror and seen 40 km away
06-08-2014
At 40 0 Centigrade, a person loses bout 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
05-08-2014
Flamingos that eat shrimp turn pink because of the beta carotene content in it. Those who do not eat shrimps, remain white.
04-08-2014
There is a hotel in Sweden, built entirely out of ice. It is rebuilt every year.
01-08-2014
Put a bee in a film canister for two hours, and it will go blind
31-07-2014
Acacia leaves are the staple food source of the giraffes. Same Acacia species produce a nauseating odour to drive other animals away.
30-07-2014
Rhythm is the longest English word without a vowel.
29-07-2014
The Air Force’s F-117 fighter flies in the same way as the bumblebees.
28-07-2014
Catfish are the only animals that naturally have odd number of whiskers.
25-07-2014
The cash register machine was invented by restaurant owner James Ritty, from Dayton, Ohio in 1879, to solve the problem of stealing by his staff.
24-07-2014
When you get goose pimples, the raised hair helps trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in you body heat.
23-07-2014
The compressed air used by scuba divers in their cylinders can occupy the same volume, if not compressed.
22-07-2014
In 1843, a Parisian street mine got stuck in his imaginary box and died of suffocation.
21-07-2014
Some harmless snakes avoid predators by copying the colours and patterns of venomous snakes.
18-07-2014
‘Calvin’ of the ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ comic strip was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
17-07-2014
Java is the most populous island on Earth with more than 120,000,000 human inhabitants.
16-07-2014
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
15-07-2014
The record for the deepest free dive is held by Jacques Mayol. He dived to an astounding depth of 282 feet without any breathing equipment
14-07-2014
Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadian will lose a tooth during a game.
11-07-2014
Coca-Cola was the favoured drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
10-07-2014
Every Labrador Retriever dreams about bananas
09-07-2014
At the first World Cup Championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls, wrapped in paper and leather.
08-07-2014
King Henry VIII used to sleep with a gigantic axe.
07-07-2014
Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
04-07-2014
Manatees have the ability to speak like humans, but they don’t do so because they have no ears to hear the sound
02-07-2014
A dragonfly’s eyes contain 30,000 lenses.
01-07-2014
Watching an hour long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game!.
30-06-2014
Napoleon’s favourite type of wood was Knotty Chestnut.
27-06-2014
The tallest mountain on Earth, Mauna Kea (on the island of Hawaii), is partly under water. It is 33,465 feet tall when measured form ocean floor to summit
26-06-2014
The sport of Jai Alai originated form a game played by Inca priests, who held cats by their tails and swung them to catch the leather balls.
25-06-2014
The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops, and fly back to its cave fully dry.
24-06-2014
A cat’s purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer, Barry White.
23-06-2014
The first McDonald’s restaurant opened for business in 1952 was in Edinburgh, Scotland. It featured the Mc Haggis Sandwich.
20-06-2014
If you keep the tap running down while brushing you teeth, you waste 4 gallons of water on an average.
19-06-2014
Flamingos’ tongues were a common delicacy at Roman Feasts.
07-06-2014
The world’s smartest pig owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, Wisconsin, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
06-06-2014
Elephants can hear even the low frequency sound waves called ‘ infrasound’, which the humans cannot hear.
30-05-2014
Among the small cage birds, the canary has the longest life. Sometimes lives as long as 30 years.
29-05-2014
The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down, provided the wings do not shear off when trying to roll.
28-05-2014
In normal lifetime, an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
27-05-2014
If a common housefly mated and all its descendants lived, in one season they would grow up to 5,598,720,000,000.
26-05-2014
Movie director james Cameron plummeted 12,378feet below the surface of the Atlantic to film the movie, Titanic.
23-05-2014
The thermocline (found 300 to 800 meters deep) blocks sonar, so it is the favourite hiding place for submarines.
21-05-2014
The great pyramid Giza, in Egypt is constructed with over 2,500,000 blocks of limestone.
20-05-2014
Scorpion spiders hang in the air, imitating a dead leaf to discourage predators.
19-05-2014
Birds don’t sweat.
16-05-2014
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
15-05-2014
Powdered tea was once used as snuff to stop a bleeding nose.
14-05-2014
Tree ferns can grow as tall as palm trees.
13-05-2014
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, F is ‘feedback’.
12-05-2014
When queen Hatsheput’s husband had died, she ruled in his place for about 20 years. Statues show her wearing the false beard of kingship.
09-05-2014
France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
08-05-2014
The wheelbarrow was invented by the Chinese.
07-05-2014
While training a snake, the snake charmer does not use a flute. Instead, he uses a large gourd with several bamboo stems attached to it.
06-05-2014
The world’s most expensive washroom is made out of gold and jewels (cost $ 3.5 million). It was built by Lam Sai-wing, a jeweler from China, who migrated to Hong Kong.
05-05-2014
It is illegal not to smile in Pocatello, Idaho.
02-05-2014
A Soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 972 stitches.
30-04-2014
Kangaroos can jump up to 9 metres at a time and race at a speed of 50 km/hr.
29-04-2014
An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
28-04-2014
Cranberry growers take their product by checking if it will bounce. If it doesn’t it is thrown away.
25-04-2014
Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
24-04-2014
Crabs in Fiji islands can climb trees.
23-04-2014
Russia launched the world’s first artificial satellite in 1957.
22-04-2014
93% of all kinds of greeting cards are purchased by women.
21-04-2014
Bill klem served the most seasons (37 years) as major league referee.
18-04-2014
Many lighthouses were simply lamps held in high windows by monks and hermits.
17-04-2014
Olympus Mons (on Mars) is the largest volcanic mountain in the solar system. It is 600 km across and 27 km high.
16-04-2014
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
15-04-2014
Due to the fact that water expands when heated, the Atlantic ocean increases in width by 3 cm every year.
14-04-2014
An average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
11-04-2014
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
10-04-2014
Sound at right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
09-04-2014
Lighthouse keepers used to catch fish by flying a kite from the balcony of the lighthouse.
08-04-2014
There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost in the sea.
07-04-2014
A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
04-04-2014
Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.
03-04-2014
The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
02-04-2014
In its ancient form the carrot was purple not orange.
01-04-2014
One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
31-03-2014
Tug-of-war was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
28-03-2014
Only one person in 2 billion will live up to 116 years.
27-03-2014
People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left.
26-03-2014
An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi river to flow backwards.
25-03-2014
Saturn has such a low density that it would float in water.
24-03-2014
Some rock found on the earth are actually pieces of Mars.
21-03-2014
The Us Army accidentally ordered an 82-year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.
20-03-2014
Once, some lighthouse keepers were forced to eat candles to survive when then were there in bad weather.
18-03-2014
The oldest continuous trophy is sport is the America’s Cup. It started in 1851 with Americans winning consecutively for 132 years until Australia lifted the cup in 1983.
14-03-2014
Apples contain 25% of air.
13-03-2014
Goat’s milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow’s milk.
12-03-2014
4,600 Approximate age in years, of a newly discovered pyramid in Egypt
11-03-2014
$284 billion
A mount the U.s. Treasury expects to borrow in the first quarter of the year, $19 billion more than it projected
10-03-2014
Coffee Beans in Brazil are thereat ended by dry weather, which could cause a price hike
07-03-2014
Tea Production in India rose 9% from April to December according to a new report
06-03-2014
275 Day a British man spent running across Canada for charity; the 500-mile (8,050 km) Journey raised more than $160,00
05-03-2014
1,700gal.
Amount of whisky (6,435 L) a Scottish distillery accidentally let spill into a river; the firm was fined roughly $20,000 for the Incident
04-03-2014
600
Number of travelers, out of about 3,000, affected by a gastrointestinal iliness that broke out on a Royal Caribbean International cruise
03-03-2014
Angry Birds was reportedly used by the NSA to gather data on players
28-02-2014
Minecraft Reached more than I million in sales for Play station3
27-02-2014
Onions have no flavour, only smell.
26-02-2014
Seaweed is used to thicken ice-cream
25-02-2014
80% of the body heat is vented through the head.
24-02-2014
Thomas Wedder, the English circus freak, had a nose that was 71/2 inches long.
21-02-2014
It takes six months to manufacture a Rolls Royce, and only 13 hrs for a Toyota.
20-02-2014
In 1562, a corpse was dug up six hours after his burial, after he had been seen breathing by someone at the funeral. He then lived for another 75 years.
19-02-2014
The Statue of Liberty is actually the light house.
18-02-2014
The Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.
17-02-2014
From the age of 30 humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
14-02-2014
In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.
13-02-2014
The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.
12-02-2014
In older people, memory is best early in the morning and then declines during the late afternoon.
11-02-2014
Ocean waves can travel as fast as a jet plane.
10-02-2014
85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
07-02-2014
Amazon Criticized for housing malware distributors on its cloud servers
06-02-2014
Overstock.com Praised for becoming the first major e-tailer to accept Bitcoin
05-02-2014
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called mantles) are radioactive, so much so that they will set of an alarm nuclear reactor.
31-01-2014
You are more prone to catch cold from a person by shaking hands with him than from his sneezing.
30-01-2014
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
29-01-2014
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back to origin.
28-01-2014
Bells made of bronze are ideal as they vibrate for a long time after being struck.
27-01-2014
A butterfly warms up its body up to 180 F before flying.
24-01-2014
Annually the amount of garbage dumped in the world’s ocean is three times the weight of fish that are caught from the ocean.
23-01-2014
In 1775, Joesphy Priestley who discovered oxygen, also invented soda water, using carbon dioxide.
22-01-2014
Penguins can desalinate salt water into fresh water.
21-01-2014
The iron disulphide (pyrite) is considered as ‘fool’s gold’ because it looks very similar to gold.
20-01-2014
The Egyptians used pillows made of stones.
17-01-2014
Rose require around 6 hrs of sunlight to grow properly.
16-01-2014
19,000
Expected dally visitors for Yuan Zai, the 6-month-old panda cub who recently mad her debut at the Taipel Zoo
15-01-2014
37
Pounds an lowa man lost (17 kg ) over a three-month span, even though he ate food only from McDonald’s. His secret: regular exercise
14-01-2014
$1 million
Estimated marijuana sales on Colorado’s first day of legalization
13-01-2014
Insects take advantage of surface tension to walk on water.
10-01-2014
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
09-01-2014
Travelling by air is the safest means of transportation.
08-01-2014
It is reckoned that the ancient Chinese were the first magnet makers.
07-01-2014
Clinophobia is fear of beds.
06-01-2014
Meteors have so far destroyed only satellites the European Space Olympus (in 1993).
03-01-2014
Construction workers’ hard hats were first designed and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
02-01-2014
African baobab tree’s circumference can reach 180 feet. If the trunk is hollow, 120 people would be able to fit inside it.
01-01-2014
At lift-off, Us space shuttle weighs about 4.5 million pounds.
31-12-2013
In USA, the most frequent month fo0r a tornado to occur is during May.
30-12-2013
Australia has had stamps that actually looked like gems. In 1995 and 1996, they used a special technology to make the stamps look like diamond and ruby.
27-12-2013
The first telephone directory was published in New Haven, Connecticut in 1878, with just 50 name in one page.
26-12-2013
In Johannesburg, on an average every car meets with an accident once every four years.
24-12-2013
There are six million parts in Boeing 747 – 400.
23-12-2013
If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person would get about 20 kg of gold.
19-12-2013
The largest diamond ever found was 3106 carats.
18-12-2013
A survey indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
17-12-2013
Musk is extracted from the bottom of a civet, and is used as an ingredient to make perfumes.
16-12-2013
The great comet of 1843 had a tail measuring over 300 km long.
13-12-2013
The flowers of the wild plant poinsettia reach a height of 12 feet and have leaves that spread to eight inches across.
12-12-2013
Diamonds were first discovered in the river beds of the Golconda region of India over 4000 years ago.
10-12-2013
The width of a tornado ranges from 10 yards to more than a mile.
09-12-2013
The United States Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.
06-12-2013
Natural gas does not have any odour. In order to detect a leak, gas companies add a chemical that smells like rotten eggs.
05-12-2013
In 1866, George W. McGill developed a stapling machine to fasten papers with brass fasteners.
04-12-2013
The first spacecraft launched to the planet Venus was Mariner 2 in 1962.
03-12-2013
The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles.
02-12-2013
The oldest pig in the world lived up to 68 years.
29-11-2013
Soccer is the most attended and watched sport in the world.
27-11-2013
Jean Genevieve Garnerin was the first female parachutist jumping from a hot air balloon in 1799.
26-11-2013
The creator of the Nike swoosh Symbol was paid only $35 for his design.
25-11-2013
Black whales are born white.
22-11-2013
The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world, built between the Dras and Suru in Ladakh by the Indian army in 1982.
21-11-2013
According to studies, men change their minds two to three time more often than women.
20-11-2013
Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed.
19-11-2013
There is more real lemon juice in Lemon pledge furniture polish than in country lime Lemonade.
18-11-2013
The Grand Canyon is the most voluminous dry canyon on the earth with a volume of 4,100,000,000,000 cubic metres (4.1 Tm3).
13-11-2013
Lake Baikal is the deepest lake on the earth with a maximum depth of 1741 metres and a mean depth of 730 metres.
12-11-2013
There are more than 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffee, of these only 26 have been tested and half caused cancer in rats.
11-11-2013
Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as any other colour.
08-11-2013
The normal static electricity shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts.
07-11-2013
You are more like to get attracted by a cow than by a shark.
06-11-2013
A temperature of – 89.2°C (-128.6°F) recorded on July 21, 1983, at the Vostok Station, Antarctica, is the lowest temperature ever recorded on the earth’s surface.
05-11-2013
Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.
01-11-2013
The Nile is the longest river on the earth with a total length pf 6,695 Kilometres.
31-10-2013
Salto Angel is the tallest waterfall on the earth with a total drop of 978 metres.
30-10-2013
Once aluminium was more valuable than gold.
29-10-2013
Temperature of 57.7°C (135.9°F) is the highest recorded temperature on the earth at AL-Aziziyah, Libya on September 13, 1922.
28-10-2013
An albatross can sleep while flying.
24-10-2013
Peanuts are one of the components in dynamite.
23-10-2013
Usage of anaesthesia and detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, physiology and genetics is found in many ancient Indian texts.
22-10-2013
The Dead sea is a salt lake and its surface is the lowest point on earth’s surface at about 412 metres below sea level.
21-10-2013
Mount Everest continues to rise at an average rate of about 40 millimetres per year.
18-10-2013
Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures.
17-10-2013
The world’s highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh, situated 2444 metres above sea level.
15-10-2013
Charaka, the father of Ayurveda medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
14-10-2013
The world’s first granite temple is the Brihadeswara temple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. Built from a single ’80-tonne’ piece of granite in five years time.
11-10-2013
The game of snakes and ladders, also called ‘Mokshapat’ was created by the 13th century poet saint, Gyandev. It is played with cowrie shells and dices.
10-10-2013
Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t locate your presence.
09-10-2013
Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg in 1894.
08-10-2013
In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership quality to be born with a crooked nose.
07-10-2013
Average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
04-10-2013
Even after the death Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher attended board meeting for 92 years with a wax mask and cloth covering his skeleton.
03-10-2013
The term ‘drowning’ refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not death caused by immersion.
01-10-2013
‘7’ in citrus soda 7 – up indicates the original size of the containers and ‘Up’ indicates the direction of the bubbles.
30-09-2013
Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ which later became the national anthem of England.
27-09-2013
Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
26-09-2013
Titanic was sailing at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg.
25-09-2013
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
24-09-2013
The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year.
23-09-2013
Each king in the pack represents a great king form history. Spades – king David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
20-09-2013
If the statue of person on a horse back with the animal’s front legs lifted up, it denotes that the person had got killed in action.
19-09-2013
At an average people airborne over the US at any given hour are 61,000.
18-09-2013
The Cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2 sails only nine inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
17-09-2013
Cost of raising a medium sized dog up to the age of 11 is $ 6,400.
16-09-2013
Alaska is the state with highest percentage of people who walk to work.
13-09-2013
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
12-09-2013
The bull’s-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches above the ground.
10-09-2013
George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
06-09-2013
The mongoose was barred entry into the U.S. in 1902.
05-09-2013
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
04-09-2013
The first Zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
03-09-2013
The oldest know vegetation is the pea.
02-09-2013
The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
30-08-2013
The avocado has the most calories than any other fruit.
29-08-2013
Whales would die if their echo system fails.
28-08-2013
You can make edible cheese form the milk of 24 different mammals.
27-08-2013
During World War II, a German submarine sank due to malfunctioning of the toilet.
26-08-2013
At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
23-08-2013
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
22-08-2013
The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
21-08-2013
If you see a rainbow then you must have your back to the sun.
20-08-2013
More American workers (18%) fall sick on Fridays than any other day in the week.
19-08-2013
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter “E”.
16-08-2013
The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
14-08-2013
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
13-08-2013
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
12-08-2013
Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second.
09-08-2013
The cigar lighter was invented before the match.
08-08-2013
It was Thomas Crapper who invented ‘flush out’ for the toilet.
07-08-2013
The great scientist Newton was an absent-minded genius. He seldom remembered the name of his own brothers.
05-08-2013
The wingspan of a 747 Boeing is being longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight.
02-08-2013
All the US Presidents have worm glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them on in public.
01-08-2013
From 1526-1707, India was ruled by the Mughal dynasty.
31-07-2013
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
30-07-2013
850 peanuts are required to make an 18oz jar of peanut butter.
29-07-2013
After chocolate and vanilla, orange is the most sought-after flavour in the world.
26-07-2013
Abdul Kassam Ismael, the grand vizier of Persia was a book worm. He had a mobile library of 1,17,000 volumes of books carried on the back of 400 camels.
25-07-2013
During the American Civil War acorns were used as a substitute for coffee powder.
24-07-2013
In the largest annual food festival called “Tomatino,” celebrated in Spain they have a unique ritual of hurling tomato on each other.
23-07-2013
After the U.S. Civil War about 33%-50% of all US paper currencies in circulation were counterfeits
22-07-2013
One Kilogram of sugar will have about 5 million grains.
19-07-2013
A beverage made of ground cocoa mixed with spices and corn is offered to the God by the Aztecs.
18-07-2013
During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a sample glass of water.
17-07-2013
The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturdays.
16-07-2013
The Indians of the Andes Mountains have bigger lungs, two quarts more blood in their systems and their hearts are 20% bigger.
15-07-2013
98.4% of the human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
12-07-2013
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
11-07-2013
A hard boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or spoiled egg will not
10-07-2013
In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut to make the raw materials for American pulp mills and paper.
09-07-2013
Spinac (Spinach) consumption in the US rose to 30% after the Popeye show comic strip in 1931.
08-07-2013
No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.
05-07-2013
Christopher Latham Sholes invented the first typewriter.
04-07-2013
Some asteroids have other asteroids rotating them.
03-07-2013
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than Pacific Ocean
02-07-2013
It was discovered on space that a frog can throw up.
01-07-2013
In ancient Greek children of royal families were dropped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their life.
28-06-2013
Polar Bear can eat 86 penguins in a single sitting.
27-06-2013
Ecuadorians natives hunt the large Arrau turtles of the Amazon basin with bow and arrow.
26-06-2013
Birds like the plover eat the leeches sticking on to the gums of the crocodiles mouth when it is open.
25-06-2013
The longest truck in the world the US army “overland train,” is 572 feet legs.
24-06-2013
When you skate on ice the ice melts for an instant as a result of the pressure and the heat it creates, makes really skating on a thin layer of water.
21-06-2013
The armadillo rolls itself in a ball and tucks its head and feet in arm which is the upper portion of the body when it is in danger.
20-06-2013
David Rich Atchisan did serve as President on Sunday March 4, 1849, only one day but slept through all the day.
19-06-2013
The Average house wife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her daily routine.
18-06-2013
The Earl of Sandwich ate roasted meat put between two slices of bread while he was gambling. That was the first sandwich
17-06-2013
Midgets and dwarfs are any adult human being smaller than the ordinary size. Where midgets have normal body proportion.
14-06-2013
Voluntary muscles are the muscles that we can control when we walk or bend over. Involuntary muscles are those over which we have no control.
13-06-2013
You can taste what you eat by selling because the sense of small is very closely related to the sense of taste.
12-06-2013
The salmon after its birth in a stream swims out into the ocean. And swims back to the stream during egg laying season.
11-06-2013
Going back to the 1600, thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury.
10-06-2013
People who have phobia after dirt are mysophobia.
07-06-2013
Physical traits inherited from parents apart from the build, skin colour, eyes colour, hair colour are the size of ears, nose, hands and feet.
06-06-2013
Trout – greed fish will go after any bait that moves. It got its name from Latin ‘trocta’ means, greedy fish.
05-06-2013
King Francis I of France bought the portrait of Mona Lisa only to hang in his palace bath room.
04-06-2013
A peasant woman in China gave birth to triplets on January 17, 1987. Their face are coloured red, back and white.
03-06-2013
The worst drink in the entire world is a wine name “mam” prepared by the Japanese from mashed up snakes.
31-05-2013
Elephants do not drink through their trunks. They just suck water to squirt it directly into their mouth.
30-05-2013
The worst smell in the world is said to be of ethyl mercaptan.
29-05-2013
The ten armed Squid escapes from its enemies by spurting out dark fluid from its ink sac creating a smoke screen.
28-05-2013
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth while sneezing as it can blow out your eye balls.
27-05-2013
The Stems and leaves of tomato and potato plants have poisonous compound.
24-05-2013
Though on elephant weighs about 14,000 pounds, its brain weighs only 11 pounds.
23-05-2013
The larvae of the caterpillars of moth get hungry and they eat whatever materials they rest on.
22-05-2013
There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos.
21-05-2013
The basenji, a breed of dog cannot bark. It can only make sounds like other dog cries, growls, whines.
20-05-2013
No two Zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.
17-05-2013
315 entries in website’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
16-05-2013
On an average 12 new born will be given to the wrong parents.
15-05-2013
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling place.
14-05-2013
Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
10-05-2013
Hypnotism is banned by public schools is Santiago.
09-05-2013
In 1982 a high school student from Los Angles unscrambled the Rubik’s cube in 22.95 seconds.
08-05-2013
As per US FDA standards one cup of orange juice can contain 10 fruit fly Eggs, but only two maggots.
07-05-2013
As per US FDA standards one cup of orange juice can contain 10 fruit fly Eggs, but only two maggots.
06-05-2013
Calculating DNA length for each person, it would stretch across the diameter of the solar system.
03-05-2013
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
02-05-2013
Pope Adrian VI Choked to death after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was taking a drink from a fountain.
30-04-2013
The offspring of a single pair of files could produce 90,000,000,000,000,000,000 files in four months.
29-04-2013
A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.
26-04-2013
Roy Tomlinson the father of E-mail sent the first e-mail in 1971 WRITEN ENTIRELY IN UPPER CASE.
25-04-2013
Baby elephants can drink over 80 litres of milk a day.
24-04-2013
Mauna kea Mountain in the Hawaiian Island is 230m taller than Everest. It is 4201m above water and 4877 underwater.
23-04-2013
A human’s scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog’s is about the size of a handkerchief.
22-04-2013
Thomas Alva Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
19-04-2013
A dragonfly can fly 25 mph.
18-04-2013
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
17-04-2013
It has been reported that some dogs are able to sniff out skin cancer.
16-04-2013
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
15-04-2013
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
12-04-2013
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long both parties are registered blood donors.
11-04-2013
Dominique Larrey, Napoleon’s chief surgeon, cloud amputate a leg in 13 seconds.
10-04-2013
Donald Duck comics were once banned in Finland because it didn’t wear pants.
09-04-2013
Laika the dog, was the first living thing sent to space.
08-04-2013
Eighty per cent of arrested criminals are male.
05-04-2013
Apparently on third of people with alarm clocks his the snooze button every morning.
03-04-2013
Australia has no native monkeys.
02-04-2013
Australia is a major exporter of camels.
01-04-2013
The gases emitted from a banana or an apple can help an orange ripen.
28-03-2013
Bananas are available all year-round. They are harvested every day of the year.
26-03-2013
Tarantula spiders cannot spin web.
25-03-2013
Hippopotami cannot swim.
22-03-2013
You have to be at least 58.5 inches to be an astronaut.
21-03-2013
On February 6, 1971 the first golf ball was hit on the moon by Alan Shepard.
20-03-2013
The first CD to be released in Untied States was Bruce Spring
Steen’s “Born in the USA”
Steen’s “Born in the USA”
19-03-2013
Hummingbirds can’t walk.
18-03-2013
The liquid inside coconuts can be used as blood plasma substitutes.
15-03-2013
Chocolate is potentially lethal to a dog as cocoa beans contain theobromine which can poison the animal.
14-03-2013
Coral can be used to replace bone grafts, because of the molecular architecture similar to human bones.
13-03-2013
Crocodiles can snap their jaws shut in 1 / 8th of a second and can use over 40 sets of teeth.
12-03-2013
An American cow called Fawn was twice swept by a tornado but survived and lived for 25 years.
11-03-2013
In the city of Carmel, they don’t have postmen. People go to the post office to collect their mail.
08-03-2013
The caterpillar has more than 2,000 taste buds.
07-03-2013
The light from your computer screen streams at you at almost 186,000 miles per second.
06-03-2013
If you chew a cabbage lettuce leaf properly, you’ll lose more energy than you’ll gain from actually eating it.
05-03-2013
Coffee beans can be mixed into B type blood, changing it into O type blood.
04-03-2013
Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.
01-02-2013
Cats sweat through the pads of their feet (especially when they hear a dog barking) and cannot taste sweet things.
28-02-2013
Colour blind people are used to detect camouflaged units in previous war-fare.
27-02-2013
Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
26-02-2013
The sculptor of the four presidents on Mount Rushmore, died a few months before the project was completed. It took him 14 years.
25-02-2013
The sculptor of the four presidents on Mount Rushmore, died a few months before the project was completed. It took him 14 years.
22-02-2013
The beaver is America’s largest rodent and can remain underwater for 20 minutes.
21-02-2013
If you put a piece of scotch tape on an inflated balloon, then stick it with a small pin or needle, it won’t pop.
20-02-2013
There is a misconception that bulls are attracted to the colour red.
19-02-2013
Birds are not sensitive to capsaicin found in chilies so they are unaffected by spicy things.
18-02-2013
Most honey bees die after it stings people because of the elasticity of our skin makes unsuitable for their stingers to penetrate.
15-02-2013
The barramundi fish, grows up as a male, but after 2 years or so, it turns into a female to breed.
14-02-2013
You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus.
13-02-2013
Bees can see ultraviolet light.
12-02-2013
The world’s largest lizard is the adult male Komodo dragon measuring up to 10 feet 2 inches long and weights almost 365 lbs.
11-02-2013
All reptiles are cold blooded animals.
08-02-2013
The world’s fastest reptile on land is the spiny-tailed iguana of Costa Rica. Moves at a speed of 21.7 mph.
07-02-2013
The world’s longest snake was the reticulated python that was 32 feet 9 1/2 inches long.
06-02-2013
The heavies snake on record is an Anaconda measuring 27 feet 9 inch long, 44 inch girth and weighing over 500lbs.
05-02-2013
Largest Crocodile… There are four protected estuaries crocodiles in a wildlife sanctuary in India that measure over 19 feet 8 inches. The largest of the four is 23 feet long.
04-02-2013
Kangaroos and emus are the only living things that can’t walk backwards.
01-02-2013
Elephants can smell water 3 miles away!
31-01-2013
The donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won’t.
30-01-2013
Did you know that the king cobra can be trained to dance to music.
29-01-2013
“Go” is the shortest complete sentence in English language.
28-01-2013
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
25-01-2013
Porpoises and Dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning and whistling.
24-01-2013
The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river.
23-01-2013
The grey hound is the fastest dog on earth and can reach speeds of up to 41.7 miles per hour.
22-01-2013
In china anyone revealing the truth about silk or mend silk – making was put to death as a traitor.
21-01-2013
The Galapagos turtle can weigh up to 500 pounds while the leather back turtle can weigh up to 1,000 pounds.
18-01-2013
South American natives use the Piranha’s sharp teeth as tips for their arrows.
17-01-2013
When the bad odour is removed from the skunk musk, it makes an excellent base for perfume.
16-01-2013
The ostrich’s lets are so powerful that one kick can kill a lion.
15-01-2013
The loudest snore recorded has been measured at 69 decibels as loud as a pneumatic drill.
14-01-2013
The trumpets blown in certain religious services by the Lamas of Bhutan are made from human thighbones.
11-01-2013
By audacity, great fears are concealed.
–Lucan
10-01-2013
The termite queen lives for over 20 years and can lay up to 30,000 eggs a day.
08-01-2013
A from empties its stomach by throwing its stomach out of its mouth. Digs out the contents with fore arms and swallows it back again.
07-01-2013
One type of bamboo has been found to grow 100 feet tall.
04-01-2013
Mushrooms are more closely related humans and animals than to other plants.
03-01-2013
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
02-01-2013
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
31-12-2012
In 1975 Tabei Junko from Japan became the first women to scale the top Everest.
28-12-2012
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet simultaneously.
27-12-2012
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing sand.
26-12-2012
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
24-12-2012
The first known transfusion of blood was performed by Jean Baptiste from a sheep to a young man in 1667.
21-12-2012
In 1386, a pig in France was hanged to death by the public for the murder of a child.
20-12-2012
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
19-12-2012
The cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off,
18-12-2012
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
17-12-2012
The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
14-12-2012
Unlike dogs, pigs and some other animals, humans cannot taste water.
13-12-2012
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
12-12-2012
The term cop comes from constable on patrol. It’s from England.
11-12-2012
People kiss the x’s put at the end of letters which signifies that they were faithful to God and their king.
10-12-2012
It would take 3,000 years to count all the stars in the galaxy at the rate of one per second.
7-12-2012
In 1993, Mickey Mouse an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 letters from the fans.
6-12-2012
Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.
5-12-2012
At 40 deg C a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
4-12-2012
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint was the fastest to dry.
3-12-2012
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds as a result of decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
30-11-2012
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
29-11-2012
Books made in olden days were hand written, copied by a scribe on to a parchment without any mistakes.
28-11-2012
In England in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word.
27-11-2012
The household wrench was invented by boxing heavy weight champion, Jack Johnson in 1922.
26-11-2012
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
24-11-2012
Even a small amount of alcohol poured on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
22-11-2012
A common flea can live for 22 months without food.
21-11-2012
The largest ‘eye’ of any animal, alive or extinct, belongs to the squid, having a diameter of up to 400 millimeters (16 inches).
20-11-2012
A Vampire bat can hear frequencies more than eight times greater than a human.
19-11-2012
The bite of a black bull frog ant, the world’s most dangerous ant can kill a human being within 15 minutes.
16-11-2012
One man survived an attack of 2,243 wild bees as he jumped into the river but his exposed face had 2000 stings removed from it.
12-11-2012
The Japanese puffer fish is the world’s most poisonous fish. Almost all of the fish is lethal poison.
09-11-2012
The common house fly has the shortest natural life of between 17 and 29 days compared to other insects.
08-11-2012
A golden eagle can spot a hare from the distance of 3.2 kilometres (2 miles) away.
07-11-2012
The greatest recorded distance covered by a migrating bird called, Arctic Tern is 22,400 kilometres.
06-11-2012
Bananas aren’t fruit, they are a type of herb.
05-11-2012
About 70 percent of your body weight is water.
02-11-2012
Out of 206 bones in a skeleton about half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet.
01-11-2012
The ancient Egyptians would remove all the organs in the body except heart while burying the corpse.
31-10-2012
The crocodile was the first animal to develop a four chambered heart like humans.
30-10-2012
An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.
29-10-2012
The force you put to squeeze a tennis ball with your fist is the same amount of force you heart uses every time to pump blood throughout your body.
26-10-2012
Left handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right handed individuals.
25-10-2012
Japan is the largest exporter of frogs’ legs.
23-10-2012
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
19-10-2012
On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles.
18-10-2012
It’s possible to walk a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
17-10-2012
Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
16-10-2012
Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
15-10-2012
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
12-10-2012
The plastic thing at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
11-10-2012
The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
10-10-2012
King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon – all suffered from ailurophobia – fear of cats.
09-10-2012
During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
08-10-2012
Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
05-10-2012
Any American citizen can give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
04-10-2012
Certain world-class players can put up to 9000 RPM spin with table tennis balls.
03-10-2012
A volcano has enough power to shoot as high as 50 km into the space.
01-10-2012
According to scientists’ studies a rat’s performance in maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.
28-9-2012
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
27-9-2012
Records reveal that the most ideal time for a bank robbery is on Fridays, between 9 and 11 am.
26-9-2012
The opposite sides of a dice always add up to seven.
25-9-2012
Most of the world’s people must walk at least three hours to fetch water.
24-9-2012
Unless you have a doctor’s note, it’s illegal to buy ice cream after 6 PM in New Jersey.
21-9-2012
Animals will not eat a dead animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
20-9-2012
The male platypus has poisonous spars in its legs.
19-9-2012
Elephants, lions and camels roamed Alaska 2000 years ago.
17-9-2012
In Salvador, drunken driving can be executed with a death penalty.
14-9-2012
More than 2500 left handed people get killed every year for using products made for the right handed.
13-9-2012
Children grow faster in the spring than any other season during the year.
12-9-2012
The lung fish can live out of water for three years in state of suspended animation.
11-9-2012
The tallest cacti are the grant saguaros. They grow up to 18m tall, about the height of a six storied building.
10-9-2012
Corn is a member of the grass family.
7-9-2012
The moon is actually drifting away from earth at a rate of1.5 inches per year.
6-9-2012
Pain travels through our body at 350 feet per second.
5-9-2012
Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand – an hour hand.
4-9-2012
At room temperature the average air molecules travel at the speed of a rifle bullet.
3-9-2012
Apples are actually part of the rose family.
31-8-2012
Pearls melt in wine.
30-8-2012
Because meta was scarce, the Oscars were given out during World War II were made of plaster.
29-8-2012
The largest species of Kangaroo stands nearly seven feet tall.
28-8-2012
Rice is the chief food for half the people in the world.
27-8-2012
The first bicycle was made in 1817 by Baron Van Drain didn’t have pedals. People sat astride and went kicking.
24-8-2012
The first kind of a pencil was a bunch of graphite sticks tied together by string.
23-8-2012
A rodents teeth never stop growing.
22-8-2012
The Chaw and the Chinese Shar Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues.
21-8-2012
Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don’t.
20-8-2012
Honey is the only food that will not get spoilt.
17-8-2012
In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than two tones of water through its leaves.
16-8-2012
The ancient Egyptians bought jewellery for their pet crocodiles.
14-8-2012
Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own tentacles.
13-8-2012
The New York stock exchange started as a coffee bar.
10-8-2012
Chess (Shatranga or Ashta Pada) was invented in India.
9-8-2012
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
8-8-2012
On an average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
7-8-2012
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
6-8-2012
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.
3-8-2012
All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except for Venus which rotates clockwise.
2-8-2012
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
1-8-2012
A jellyfish’s body contains 95 per cent water.
31-7-2012
The lioness does more than 90% of the hunting while the lion simply prefers to rest.
30-7-2012
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
27-7-2012
The king of hearts in the pack is the only king without a moustache.
26-7-2012
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
– Somerset Maugham
25-7-2012
An ant can lift 50 times its own weight, pull 30 times its own weight and always fall over on its right side when intoxicated.
24-7-2012
Butterflies taste with their feet.
23-7-2012
Americans on an average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
20-7-2012
Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump
19-7-2012
A zebra is white with black stripes.
18-7-2012
A cow gives nearly 2,00,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
17-7-2012
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
16-7-2012
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
13-7-2012
According to a study by the Economic Research Service, 27% of all food production in Western nations ends up in garbage cans.
12-7-2012
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth over 100 m.p.h.
11-7-2012
About 10% of the world’s population are left-handed.
10-7-2012
It is Volkswagen which is the world’s largest manufacturer of cars by volume. Not GM. Or Toyota
10-7-2012
Major contributor to Delhi’s air pollution are vehicles.
9-7-2012
The human body contains enough potassium to fire a toy cannon.
6-7-2012
In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs. Henry Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a metal box.
5-7-2012
Tea was discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally fell into a pot of boiling water.
4-7-2012
One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than that of the world’s telephones put together.
3-7-2012
In Hollywood, writer Dudley Nichols, actors George C. Scott and Marlon Brando have refused Oscar award once in their life time.
2-7-2012
Almost 66% of mangoes in the world comes from one country—— India!
2-7-2012
The average human body contains enough sulphur to kill all fleas on a dog.
29-6-2012
Our stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
28-6-2012
In 700 BC Etruscans, the first known dentists of the world carved false teeth from the teeth of various mammals and produced partial bridgework, good enough to munch food.
27-6-2012
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet length of blood vessels.
26-6-2012
To frown we use 45 muscles, but to smile we use only 7.
25-6-2012
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but not monkeys.
22-6-2012
A rat can last longer without water when compared with a camel.
21-6-2012
A crocodile can neither move its tongue nor chew.
20-6-2012
Every two thousand frowns create one wrinkle.
19-6-2012
A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
18-6-2012
Did you know how many people lost their lives in World War II ? A staggering 70 million.
18-6-2012
A recess of two hours between the intake of milk and meat is better, else the body would not absorb the calcium in the milk.
15-6-2012
Which country drinks the maximum coffee in the world? No, it’s not the US. It is Finland. Scandinavian countries dominate, like Norway and Denmark.
14-6-2012
Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley’s comet came into view. He died 75 years later when Halley’s commet returned.
14-6-2012
Heart generates energy. In an hour it energises one to lift a weight of one ton about a yard up.
13-6-2012
Our left lung is smaller than our right.
12-6-2012
Warren Buffett drinks 2 liters of coke daily. He also owns 8.6% of the Coca Cola corporation. Isn’t that investor loyalty?
11-6-2012
We have a whole pharmaceutical system within us and can create any drug inside it.
8-6-2012
The world’s first test tube twins were born in June 1981.
7-6-2012
The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
6-6-2012
Our ears and nose continue to grow throughout the life.
5-6-2012
Ants don’t sleep.
4-6-2012
The only tow species that can see behind without turning their head are rabbits and parrots.
1-6-2012
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch long tongue.
31-5-2012
Vultures of some breed can fly at an altitude of 36,900 feet.
30-5-2012
Finger nails grow nearly four times faster than toe nails.
29-5-2012
The Grizzly bear can run as fast as a horse.
28-5-2012
At an average a person laughs about 15 times a day.
25-5-2012
A person with an average life span walks equivalent to twice the distance around the world.
24-5-202
1 in 3 people in the USA who have sleepwalked at least once in their lives.
23-5-2012
A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year.
17-5-2012
An average lightning bolt is only half an inch wide, has a temperature almost five times hotter than the sun, and would take only one second to travel around the equator.
15-5-2012
No disputes; the chicken came before the egg.
15-5-2012
Why do we yawn? Not out of boredom or lack of sleep! Mostly yawning is simply a way for the body to compensate for less oxygen in the bloodstream.
14-5-2012
Modern pizza was born in 1889 when a tavern owner was asked to prepare a special dish in honor of the English queen’s visit to Naples. He created a pizza with ingredients that represented the red, white and green colors of the Italian flag: tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and basil.
11-05-2012
In a well-being survey of India conducted by Gallup, 56% of Indians are struggling, 31% are suffering and only 13% thriving.
10-5-2012
Did you know that seahorses are monogamous and stay with one partner for their entire lives? Every morning they perform a greeting dance to reaffirm their pledge to each other. The male seahorse becomes pregnant and nourishes the young until they are born.
7-5-2012
At USD 2.1 trillion crime is the world’s 20th largest economy.
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