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-A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both
hands and feet
- The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as
well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.
The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a
guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less
than a penny.
-- How the wind blows. As the sun warms the earth’s surface, the atmosphere
warms too. Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and
are always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder.
Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and
replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air is what makes the wind blow.
-At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by
any animal.
--A flute made of bone is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It’s
a flute carved from a bird’s wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was
discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China.
- The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour.
The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago
-- Glue dates back to prehistoric times. Artists once mixed colorings with raw
eggs, dried blood, and plant juices to make sticky paints for cave murals. Later,
ancient Egyptians and other people learned to make stronger glues by boiling
animal bones and hides. Today companies make glues using synthetic substances.
-A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum ,
a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
-A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers
act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
-A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has
fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing
something natural and instinctive.
- The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply
prefers to rest. !!
- At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
- Of all the words in the English language, the word ' set ' has the most
definitions!
- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
-More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
- A camel is supposed to last longer without water but Rat can last even longer without it.
- Those who love ice-cream should know that Eskimo Pie is the first chocolate-covered ice
cream bar and it was invented in Onawa, Iowa, USA in 1921.
- Do you know what is the name given to that little dot over “i”? It’s known as “tittle”.
- There are only few words in dictionary that don’t rhyme with any other words. These are
orange, silver and purple.
- Mount Rushmore is perhaps the most impressive rock formation carved by men. It was
made by Gutzon Borglum and took just 14 years to carve it.
- The famous Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the
same time.
- Like retina and finger print, every individual also has a unique tongue print.
- There are no less than 717 native languages in a small country known as Papua New
Guinea.
- This must be exciting for hummingbirds as they can fly backward as well.
- ENIAC was the name of world’s first electronic computer. It was produced in 1946 and its
size was humungous.
It is a sheer delight to know about some of the interesting facts, previously we were
unaware of. These interesting facts are spread across numerous facets like history, humans,
geography, politics, animal kingdom, psychology and what not! It’s imperative to remain
aware of these facts because they can make us aware of some fascinating, delightful and
interesting pieces of information. It’s a time of rapid change and rapid progress. What was
useful yesterday turns out to be irrelevant today. Reading interesting facts will make you
more exciting and will equip you with plenty of knowledge. These facts can also provide us
with new insights. They help us in exploring the world, thinking over events, marvelling over
nature...
Here are some facts :
- The flattest country in the world is Maldives with a maximum natural ground of just 2.3
meters.
- Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
- Any clue about shortest complete sentence in the English language? Its, “I Am.”
- How hard you try, you cannot fold any piece of paper more than 7 times.
- Bermuda Triangle houses the most notorious sea in the world known as Sargasso Sea.
- Refrain from using shades of blue colour because mosquitoes are attracted to this colour
twice as much as any other colour.