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Monday 11 July 2011

Dyanmite in Your Mouth

Do you know you are eating an ingredient of dynamite when you eat peanut?

It's hard to believe fact that "Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite"

Imagine a dynamite in your mouth :D


Posted by Naresh Khoinam on Amazing Facts

Friday 8 July 2011

Different Name During Preganancy

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

Insect Nutrition

A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.

Fresh Shoe Tip

A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.

A queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.

Champagne and Raisin Relation

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

The Ultimate Survivor

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

Rattlesnakes' Fangs

A rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it doesn't bite itself.

Hair or Horn??

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

Coffee Break Up

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

Coffee: My Fav Drink

A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!

Weight of the Human Soul

A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 grams.

Blood Detectors

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

Invincible Snails

A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.

Beware of Locusts

A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a single day.

Gold Wonders

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

Increase Your Vocabulary

A magic potion or charm thought to arouse sexual love, especially toward a specific person, is known as a "philter."

Attraction

A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.

Old is Gold

A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.

Chronic Hiccups

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years

Owner of Your Hair

A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.

The Digger

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Monkey in Court

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

Amazing Birth

A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in different years; one was born in 17th December'1952 and the other on 10th February'1953.

Dreams

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year but forget 90% of it before waking up!

What Appetite!

A Blue Whale can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.

Mango & India

Indians have been biting into juicy mangoes for 3,000 years. But the western world came to know about it only 300 years ago!

Ultrasonic Dolphins

Like a bat, dolphins use echolocation to navigate and hunt, bouncing high-pitched sounds off of objects, and listening for the echoes.

Smile

Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

Set

The word 'set ' has the most number of definitions in the English language: 192.

The Only Locator

Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are!

Most Common Word

The most most common English word while writing is "the".

Diminishing Taste

By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

CRT Monitor

After spending hours working on a computer (CRT Monitor), look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

Sinking Venice

Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.

Cardio Monday

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

Cardio Monday

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

Incredible !ndia

The world's first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

The Heaviest Brain

The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).

Longest Insect Migration

Monarchs have been known to migrate over 3000km. In fact a Monarch tagged at Presqu'ile, here in southern Ontario, was recovered in Mexico and is on record as being the longest insect migration.

Mummy Fuel

In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.

Oxygen or Carbon dioxide??

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

Hubble Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.

Digestive Pebbles

Ostrich eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.

Killing Tower of Pisa

250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Fatal Sneezing

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

Eye Exercise

The focusing/ciliary muscles of the eye move about 100,000 times a day. To give the leg muscles the same exercise would involve walking 80km (50 miles) a day.

Hairless Babies

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

Two Sex in One

The rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs

Growths

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