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Did you know?

The Industrial Revolution in Europe first saw the beginning of air pollution, whichgradually became a major global problem.

The major air-polluting industries are iron, steel and, cement.

Of the 35-40 million tonnes of flyash generated annually by thermal power plants inIndia, only 2-3 percent is productively utilized.

The worst industrial disaster in India, occurred in 1984 in Bhopal the capital of MadhyaPradesh. A deadly chemical, methly isocyanate leaked out of the Union Carbide factorykilling more than 2500 and leaving thousands sick. In fact the effects of this gas tragedyis being felt even today.

Every year some 50million cars are added to the worlds roads. Car making is now the

largest manufacturing industry in the world.

In India the number of motorized vehicles have increased from 0.2 million in 1947 to36.3 million in 1997.

The number of registered vehicles in Delhi is more than the sum total of registeredvehicles in Mumbai, Calcutta, and Chennai.

Major contributor to Delhi's air pollution are vehicles.

Nearly three-fourths of India's population, which is rural, bears 84% of the burden of

exposure to air pollution.

Growing population, poverty, and inadequate access to clean fuels in rural areas haveperpetuated the use of biomass, thereby condemning more than 90% of ruralhouseholds and more than 35% of urban hoseholds to high levels of indoor air pollution.

One of the most important measure to counter pollution is planting trees. With neemand peepal being the largest emitters of oxygen, planting them in the gardens purifiesthe surrounding air and helps in maintaining hygienic conditions. While champa, mograand chameli have better chances of surviving pollution in summer, bulbous varieties dobetter in winter. Courtesy http://edugreen.teri.res.in/

Did You know - The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is goingnowhere today - it is too lazy !.


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A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast! The fastesthuman beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).

a cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).

A Zipper joins two pieces of material together.A zipper is used everywhere, on clothing, pencilcases, boots and suitcases, wallets, and a zillion other things. Everyone thinks it was WhitcombJudson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing thesewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a"clothing closure".

Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are allnames of BUTTERFLIES

The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallestspecies of bears is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native tothe continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world's

largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)

The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or nearfresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals calledamphibians.

There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A groupof kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions.Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.

Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dustand gases. If you dig in your backyard, dont worry about running into the earths core. Youdhave to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!

How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? Most animals dont eat moss. Its hard to digest,and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why? The moss contains aspecial chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make theiryearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezingmuch asantifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

-A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

-A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

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

-About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.


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-A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

-A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet

-A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

-A zebra is white with black stripes.

- Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, andwhistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoisesand dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using "echolocation". The largestmember of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.

- The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though theyoung hippos do come up periodically for air.

-A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime

The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, itcan 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 earths surface, the atmosphere warms too. Someparts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other placesreceive 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 thewind blow.

- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

--Why do we might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one? . Darkcolors absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. When light shines on yourdark jacket, the jacket fabric absorbs light energy. The absorbed light energy causes electrons inthe atoms of the jacket to vibrate. This activity releases heat energy, which makes the jacketandyouwarmer. That's why we like to wear more dark colors in winter and more light colors insummer.

-While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.

-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. Its a flute carvedfrom a birds 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 wasknown 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 peoplelearned to make stronger glues by boiling animal bones and hides. Today companies make gluesusing synthetic substances.


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-A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extrareflecting cells which absorb light.

-A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act asantennae, 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 withanother cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural andinstinctive.

-The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!

- The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!

- A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

- At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

-You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!

- Of all the words in the English language, the word ' set ' has the most definitions!

- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!-

- 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!

- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

-A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

-More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

- "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.

- No word in the English language rhymes with "month".

- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

- All polar bears are left handed.


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-Ants don't sleep.

The word "racecar", "kayak", and "radar" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

"a man a plan a canal panama"

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"a man a plan a canal panama"

Did you know there are two kinds of pandas? There is the Long-tailedHimalayan carnivore that looks like a raccoon and there is the Giantpanda bear that lives in Western China.

Did you know there are two kinds of camels? One is the Arabian that

lives in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It has one hump. And thesecond kind is called Bactrian which has two humps and lives inMongolia and Chinese Turkistan.

The Blue Whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.

There are two kinds of elephants: the African that is taller and has largerears and the Indian that is small and has smaller ears.

The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest

mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.

The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.

Did you know fishes talk to each other? Some of them communicate by makingnoises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders tomake sounds

Did you know fishes talk to each other? Some of them communicate by makingnoises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders tomake sounds

Napoleon's christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte(OR Bonaparte).He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property.As a boy, Napoleon hated the French.

The brain of an average adult male weighs 1,375 gm (55 oz). The brain of Russiannovelist Turgenev weighed 2021 gm (81 oz), Bismark's weighed 1807 gm (72 oz),


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while that of French statesman Gambetta was only 1294 gm (51 oz). Einstein'sbrain was of average size.

The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubscalled creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.

-- A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew.Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blendof cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino,Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.

-- The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In thelate 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive successof rock n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.

-- Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor whensome tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag wasintroduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.

-- Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nationshas increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th century, American men were the

tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the average height forAmerican men is 1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78(5'8.5") for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.

-- In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left anestate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap.Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the10 wealthiest women in the world.

-- Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. ThomasEdison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the firstprojection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646,Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images ontoa white screen.


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- In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movieThe Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios.In 1970 George C. Scott refused the Best Actor Oscar for Patton. In 1972 MarlonBrando refused the Oscar for his role in The Godfather.

-- The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece.The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It wasestablished in 930 AD.

-- A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a weekwithout water.If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

-- According to a study by the Economic Research Service, 27% of all foodproduction in Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion peopleare underfed - the same number of people who are overweight.

-- Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, notbecause of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and aBactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, anundernourished camel will not have a hump.

Socrates was one of the wisest men in Greece? He became famous for askingquestions about almost everything.

Alexander the Great was one of the most famous generals in history? He conqueredmuch of the early civilized world, and introduced Greek ideas and ways to the people heconquered.

Hammurabi, a famous historical world leader, defeated the Sumerians about 3,000years ago, and created Hammurabi's Laws which stated that strong people should nothurt weak people?

The first Egyptian pharaoh was Menes? Pharaoh is another name for king.


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One of Egypt's most famous and powerful pharaohs was a woman names Hatshepsut?She sent ships to parts of the world to find treasures.

Confucius was one of China's greatest teachers?

Julius Caesar was a famous Roman dictator? He was responsible for conquering manynew lands for Rome.

Augustus Caesar became the first Roman emperor? He brought peace to the Romanempire.

Charlemagne was one of the greatest kings to rule during the Middle Ages? He believedthat people should learn as much as they could.

Martin Luther founded the Protestant religion?

King William of France conquered the English, and after his death, other kings built astrong government for England?

Henry II of England established laws for all of the people of England?

King John, who was considered unfair, was forced by English nobles to sign the MagaCarta which limited the powers of a king?

Under the rule of Queen Elizabeth I, England became one of the most powerful nationsin the world?


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Joseph Stalin, a leader of the Soviet Union, wanted all of Eastern Europe to becomecommunist?

Lech Walesa was a famous leader in Poland who received the Nobel Peace Prize in1983? He was the leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland which won freedom fromcommunist rule.

Mikhail Gorbachev, a famous leader of the Communist party, is known for bringingmany new ideas into the communist government?

One of the most famous leaders in Africa was Nelson Mandela? He fought againstapartheid (separation of whites and blacks)?

Mao Zedong, a Communist general, took control of China after World II ended andbegan to rebuild China?

The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost50,000 words in English .....

It is really bad to a smoke cigarette..

The Taj Mahal is one of the wonders of the world.

Chocolate kills dogs! . A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inchtongue!

The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

Socrates became famous for asking questions about almost everything !!

The mother of all European languages is Sanskrit, which is considered the most suitable language for

computer software - Amazing India facts

The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.

Cell Phone Etiquette

It is considered rude to talk aloud while on the cell-phone


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The greenhouse effect causes trouble by raising the temperature of the planet.

Did you know......... some interesting facts

A zebra is white with black stripes.

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

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects iscaused by rapidly moving their wings.

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.

The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

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

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.

Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !!

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

A snail can sleep for 3 years. ( wow, lucky chap eh ? )

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsetsappeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely puregold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.


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Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear noevil), and Mazaru (Say no evil ).

55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Readingabout yawning makes most people yawn. hello, zzzzz zzzz ?

Six out of seven Ancient Wonders did not survive to this present day. Humanimagination urged poets, writers, and historians to seek "replacements" for the fallenmonuments.

Some proposed a new list for the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Othersargued that Ancient civilizations which the Greeks did not know of, erected monumentsthat should have been included in the original list.

Wonders such as the Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal in Agra, and the Temple of Angkorin Cambodia are a few examples.

Like the ancient list, the new ones include fascinating monuments and structuresthat changed the existing landscape. However, no single list won unanimousapproval among historians, artists, and architects. Here is an alphabetical listing ofsome Forgotten, Modern, and Natural Wonders.

Ancient Seven Wonders of the world

Name Date Built History

Egyptian Pyramids More than4000 yearsago

Oldest of the ancient wonders and the only onesurviving today.Served as tombs for Egyptian pharoahs

Colossus of Rhodes 305-292 BC 32 meters (105 ft) high bronze statue of the sungod Helius.Destroyed by an earthquake in 224 BC

Hanging Gardens ofBabylon

6th centuryBC

Series of terraces of trees and flowers along thebanks of the Euphrates.Built by Nebuchadnezzar II.

Mausoleum atHalicarnassus, Asia

Minor

4th centuryBC

Tomb of Mausolus built by his widow. Destroyedby an earthquake before the 15th century.

Pharos of Alexandria 270 BC The world's first known lighthouse at the entranceof Alexandria harbour in Egypt. 122 meters (400 ft)high. In ruins by 15th century.

Statue of Zeus atOlympia

5th centuryBC

9 meter (30 ft) high wooden statue of Greek godZeus covered with gold and ivory. Designed byAthens sculptor Phidias. Destroyed by fire in 475AD.


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Temple of Arthemis atEphesus, Asia Minor

6th centuryBC

Marble temple in honor of goddess of hunting andthe moon. Rebuilt in 4th century BC but destroyedby Goths in 3rd century AD

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog'sheart and nervous system; a few ounces are enoughto kill a small dog.

At an estimated population of 40 million, there are more than twice asmany kangaroos as people in Australia. There are more than 50 differentkinds of kangaroos.

It is commonly known that the Giraffe is the tallest animal in the world,sometimes reaching a height in excess of 18 feet. Along with it's length neck, thegiraffe has a very long tongue -- more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe canclean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! Giraffes are the only animals born withhorns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead

The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs arefrom 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells,they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world'slargest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

The worlds fastest reptile (measured on land) is thespiny-tailed iguana of Costa Rica. It has been clockedat 21.7 mph.

- The shadow bird always builds a 3-room nest. Thethird section is the nursery; the second is a pantry;and in the first, the male parent stands guard againstintruders.

- Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess withthem !

- The reef heron, which feeds on shellfish on the Great Barrier Reef,daily flies 30 miles from the Australian mainland, and although the tidechanges vary by 45 minutes a day, the heron always arrives at the exacttime that the water recedes.


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- Because of their weight, which averages 22 pounds, Japanese cranesrequire a run of more than 30 feet to become airborne

An elephant can smell water three miles away.

-The breed of the Thoroughbred horse is only about 300 years old,although horse racing has been popular in England since Roman times,and can be traced back to Central Asia among prehistoric nomads.

- An adult crow needs 11 ounces of food each day.

- If the great horned owl were to be totally stripped of its feathers, thenaked bird would weigh less than its feathers

- A pair of nesting barn owls is capable of catching and eating nearly

3,000 rats a year.

A Joke :

Each evening bird lover Raju stood in his backyard, hooting like an owl -and one night, an owl finally called back to him.

For a year, the man and his feathered friend hooted back and forth. He

even kept a log of the "conversation."

Just as he thought he was on the verge of a breakthrough ininterspecies communication, his wife had a chat with her next doorneighbour.

"My husband spends his nights ... calling out to owls," she said.

"That's odd," the neighbor replied. "So does my husband."

Cell-phone etiquette is really just common courtesy. Most people today have a Mobile phone. In fact,many people can't imagine how they ever got along without a portable phone. However, many peoplealso complain about cell phone users. People complain about other people loudly discussing personalmatters in public places. They complain when cell phones ring in movie theaters and concert halls. Theycomplain about people driving too slow, and not paying attention to where they are going because theyare talking on a cell phone. And they complain about people walking around talking to people who aren'tthere.


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Whenever a new communications technology becomes popular, it changes the way society is organized.Society has to invent rules for the polite way to use the new devices. Our social etiquette, our rules ofpoliteness for cell phones, is still evolving.

Cell-phone etiquette apply to most public places. Always try to keep your phone ringer as low as possibleor put your mobile phone on vibrate, so it does not distract the people around you. A good time to leaveyour phone at home, or at least in the car, would be at a funeral, wedding or some event along those

lines.

Basic Cell phone etiquette rules include :

Switching it Off : Know when to turn it off or vibrate it. eg meetings, movies, worship, seminars, etc .Vibrate mode when in places where you can take a call, but don't want to disturb others.

Be Brief : When you get a call and you're with friends, keep the call short.

Permission : Often, it is correct etiquette to inform others at the beginning of the meeting that you areexpecting an important call and get their permission.

Be Polite : Don't scream : speak in a lower-than-normal voice, you will be heard by the caller, and notothers in the room

Don't Distract : Avoid talking where you may be distracting to others.

Driving : It is not only very dangerous, but also unlawful in most countries ( even India ) to drive & talk onyour cell Phone

Did you know the largest fish ever caught was the Whale Shark? It was59ft long. These fish can weigh up to 15 tons.

Did you know fishes cannot live in the Dead Seabecause the water has too much salt in it?

A parrotfish makes its own sleeping bag to sleep in. It uses mucous (likespit) to make a see-through bag all around it's body to protect it fromattack by other creatures in the ocean.


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The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as bigas a car, and it's tongue is as long as an elephant.

The pelican uses the funny looking pouch under its lower beak forcatching fish. It does this by swooshing into the water and scooping upas many fish as possible.

The heaviest fish ever caught was the OCEAN SUNFISH. It weighed4,928 lbs.

Did you know pearls are found in oysters? The largest pearl ever foundwas 620 carats.

The swordtail is the fastest swimmer of all the fishMost animals don't eat moss. It's hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value.But reindeer fill up with lots of moss, because the moss contains a specialchemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeermake their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps themfrom freezing-much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter.

A Cloud forest hosts huge numbers of plants and animals; the cloudforests of Monteverde, Costa Rica, host over 425 bird species and morevarieties of insects than anyone knows.

The Human Body

your body is made up of trillions of cells? Different parts of your body aremade of different kinds of cells.

...your brain is like a computer, and controls your entire body? ...your heart beats about 70 times a minute, and each time it beats, it

pumps about about a cupful of blood? ...an adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces and beats over 100,000

times a day?

...there are 206 bones in your skeleton? ...about half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and

feet? ...everyone has thirty-two teeth? ...your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight? ...if you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds? ...about 70 percent of your body weight is water?


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...physics includes the study of light, magnets, electricity, forms of energy,sound, mechanics (studying the action of forces on matter)?

...objects and people move and obey three basic laws of motion: inertia,mass and force, action and reaction?

...inertia, the first law of motion, states that objects that are at rest tend tostay at rest unless acted upon by some outside force? A ball will not moveunless someone kicks it.

...the second law of motion deals with the mass (the amount of matter in anobject) and force (the action on an object)? A ball does not speed up orslow down all by itself because it takes a force to move it or slow it down.How the ball moves depends upon the the object that is used to move it,the force used to move it, and the direction of the force.

...the third law of motion, action and reaction, states that for every actiontheir is an equal or opposite reaction? A person on a skateboard pushesback to accelerate, and his push back on the ground sends him forward onhis skateboard.

...Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion more than 300 years ago?

The giant who fought David in the Bible was 2.97m (9ft. 9in.) tall.

The oldest man to reach the Everest (8848 m), the world's highest peakis a venezuelan. He is Ramn Blanco and he did it in september 1993, hewas 60 years old.

Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers hold the title of the tallest buildings in the world. Both thetowers reach a total height of 1,483 feet (452 meters) measured from the ground to the tip of themasts. Is has 29 double-deck passenger elevators in each tower and a total of 76 lifts serve thetowers. Each tower has 2 million square feet of office area equal to 48 football fields.

The height of The Empire State Building in New York : 1,250 feet (381 m)Eiffel Tower, Paris : 984 feet (300 m)Statue of Liberty, New York : 310 feet (92 m)

World's Tallest Building: Who Holds The Title?The Petronas-Sears Controversy

Officially, the World's Tallest Buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1483 feet /452m) -- but put Petronas side by side with the former title holder, Sears Tower, and look again. Thecasual observer would say Sears Tower is tops, and by quite a wide margin!

The highest occupiable floor of Sears is more then 200 feet higher than the top floor in Petronas and itsantennas go even higher. So why are the Petronas Towers considered the World's Tallest Buildings?

Because, in the tradition and lore of tall building, spires count, antennas don't.


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Spires are architectural features and they have been traditionally counted in a building's height, aprecedent that dates to the Chrysler Building. Antennas are not normally considered architecturalfeatures.

So...based on the long and storied tradition of tall buildings, the winner by decision is the PetronasTowers.

Mountain heights...

Mount Everest : 29,028 feet (8,853 m)Aconcagua (South America) : 22,834 feet (6,960 m)McKinley / Denali (North America) : 20,320 feet ( m)Kilimanjaro, Africa : 19,340 feet (5,894m)Elbrus, Southern Europe : 18,510 feet (5,642 m)

The elephant is the largest animal on land. But it is much smaller than the bluewhale.Did you know moths are not really attracted to light? Moths fly towards the blackest point

which is behind the light.The rhino is a primitive-looking animal. They have looked the same for thousandsof years. There are two species of rhino: the white (or square-lipped rhino) andthe black (or hooked-lipped rhino). The black rhino has three toes on each foot.Both the black and white rhino have two horns.A mouse is so small compared to an elephant, that an elephant does not evenknow that there is a mouse close to it !!

The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill.A rat can last longer without water than a camel.The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.The SIBERIAN TIGER is the largest cat in the world. It weighs up to 300kg (660lbs) and can eat 27,2 kg (60 lb) of meat at one mealtime.

Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great EggFly are all names of BUTTERFLIES

The rhinoceros's horn is made of the same stuff found in our hair and fingernailswhich is called keratin. It also contains something called gelatin.

The rhino is a primitive-looking animal. They have looked the same for thousandsof years. There are two species of rhino: the white (or square-lipped rhino) andthe black (or hooked-lipped rhino). The black rhino has three toes on each foot.Both the black and white rhino have two horns.Ancients Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by giants fighting underneaththe ground. The Ancient Japanese thought there was a giant spider living underthe earth, and each time it moved, it caused the earth to quake


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Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of

our eyes.Hundreds of years ago, rockets were invented in China. The first rockets were shaped like

arrows and they were not very powerful. The power of early rockets came from gunpowder.

Do you know why people are hooked or addicted to cigarettes? TheANSWER is achemical calledNicotine (Pronounced as: nih-keh-teen)......This chemical is found

in stinky cigarettes and is the reason why people get hooked on the smoking

habit. Say no to cigaretes - YUCKS !! it's Horrible! Smoking gives you bad breath,

makes you cough, and is responsible for many diseases including cancer.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enoughsound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

--The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30feet.

--On average people fear spiders more than they do death.--The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.--It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.--Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.--Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than

by a poisonous spider?--Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed

people do.-In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their

eyebrows and eyelashes.-- The act of snapping one's fingers is called a "fillip".

-----The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

-- Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.---Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it-- 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25 etc.

--A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.

--The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other numberwhose number of letters is equal to its value.


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--The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.----No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

--A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.--The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and

always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.--Polar bears are left handed.--The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for

animal having the most taste buds.--The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the

length of a football field.--Butterflies taste with their feet.

--. It is impossible to sneeze and keep ones eye's open at the same time.--Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. ( thankfully !!)--A cat's urine glows under a black light.--An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

--Cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, makingthem the most nimble animals known.

--Mosquitoes do not bite. They stab. A mosquito has no jaws, hence whenattacking a victim, it pierces it with its long proboscis and sucks the blood upthrough it's nasal tube.

--Starfishes haven't got brains.- Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years.- Some breeds of vultures can fly at altitudes as high as 36,900 feet.--The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, whiledrier areas, such as the forearms, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inchon them.--The most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die frommalaria every year-A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers.A light nanosecond is the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second and is1 foot or about 30 cm.


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INTERCHANGEABILITY contains the words THREE, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, THIRTEEN,THIRTY, THIRTY-NINE, EIGHTY, EIGHTY-NINE, NINETY, and NINETY-EIGHTOne thousand contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to ninehundred ninety-nine has an A.FOUR has four letters; no other number has this property in English such that thenumber of letters in the name equals the number.

Some words with horizontal symmetry (they reflect themselves across ahorizontal line) are: BEDECKED, BOOHOOED, CEBID (a type of monkey),CHECKBOOK, CHOICE, CODEBOOK, COOKBOOK, DECIDED, DIOXIDE, DOBCHICK,EXCEEDED, HIDE, HOODOOED, ICEBOX, KEBOBBED, OBOE, OKEECHOBEE.

Some words with vertical symmetry are MOM, WOW, OTTO, MAAM, MA'AM, TOOT,AHA, AA, AHA, AIA, AMA, AVA, AWA, HAH, HOH, HUH, MAM, MIM, MM, MUM, OHO,OO, OXO, TAT, TIT, TOT, TUT, UTU, VAV, WAW.R.S.V.P. comes from the French phrase, 'rpondez, s'il vous plat,' which means'please reply.' According to western etiquette, you should reply promptly if youreceive a formal invitation.A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, anautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10-9) of a second and is a commonmeasurement of read or write access time to random access memory

INTESTINES has each of its letters occurring twice. Some other such words:APPEASES, ARRAIGNING, BERIBERI, BILABIAL, CAUCASUS, CHOWCHOW,CONCISIONS, COUSCOUS, ESOPHAGOGRAPHERS, FROUFROU, GENSENGS,GREEGREE, GUITGUIT, HAPPENCHANCE, HORSESHOER, HOTSHOTS, JIPIJAPA,MAHIMAHI, MESOSOME, MILLIEME, MIMETITE, RAPPAREE, REAPPEAR,SCINTILLESCENT, SHAMMASH, SHANGHAIINGS, TEAMMATE, UNSUFFICIENCES,VETITIVE

There are three sets of letters on the standard typewriter and computer keyboardswhich are in alphabetical order, reading left to right. They are f-g-h, j-k-l, and o-p.

Bird records

The largest bird in the world today is the Ostrich Struthio camelus. The North African

Ostrich subspecies is the tallest of all the Ostriches. Males can be 2.74 m tall. Thehead and neck can be 1.4 m long. The average height is around 2 m.

The smallest bird in the world is either the Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae fromCuba and the Isle of Pines or the Little WoodstarAcestrura bombus of Ecuador and


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northern Peru. The male hummingbird is 57 mm and weighs 1.6 g. Half of its lengthis taken up by the bill and the tail. Some experts think the Woodstar is even smaller.

The bird with the largest wingspan is the Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulanswhich lives in the southern oceans. Its wings average 2.54 - 3.51 m. The largest

recorded wingspan was of a very old male whose wings measured 3.63 m. The Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus has the longest bill of any bill

measuring 34 - 47 cm.

The bird with the longest bill to body size is the Sword-billed Hummingbird Ensifera

ensifera that lives in the high Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. Its bill is 10.2 cmlong, four times longer than the bird's body, not counting the tail.

Ostriches Struthio camelus have the longest legs. Their legs can be up to 1.3 m long.

A number of swifts have the shortest legs. Their family name Apodidae means'lacking legs'.

Jacanas (Jacanidae family) have the longest toes relative to body length. Some of

the larger Jacanas can have 'toespans' of at least 15 cm.

The Phoenix Fowl has the longest feathers. The upper tail can grow for six years andone measured 10.6 m. The Phoenix Fowl has been bred as an ornamental bird inJapan since the mid 17th century and is a breed of the Red Jungle Fowl Gallus gallus.

The longest feathers of a wild bird relative to body size, are the central tail feathers

of the male Ribbon-tailed Bird of ParadiseAsptrapia mayeri. It lives in the mountainrainforest of New Guinea.

The most feathers ever counted on one bird was 25 216 on the Tundra Swan Cygnus

columbianus. 80 per cent of feathers were on the bird's head. The least number of feathers ever counted was 940 on a Ruby-throated

HummingbirdArchilochus colubris. But this bird, relative to its body size, has more

feathers than most other birds. It measures only 9 cm.

The Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus is the fastest bird and fastest of any kind ofanimal. It can reach speeds of at least 200 km when diving for prey in the air.

Hummingbirds have the fastest wingbeat. The Horned Sungem Heliactin cornuta, in

tropical South America beats its wings at 90 beats per second. Hummingbirds, Family Trochilidae have been recorded in experiments, hovering for

50 minutes.

The Artic Tern Sterna paradisaea is believed to migrate the furthest. It flies from the

shores of the Arctic to the Antarctic. One banded Arctic Tern cover 22 530 km flyingfrom the White Sea Coast of Russia to Fremantle, Western Australia.

Relative to body size the Long Rufous Humingbird Selasphorus rufus makes thelongest migration. It measures 10 cm and flies from as far north as Alaska to Mexico

and back again - 10 000 km. The highest recorded altitude for any bird was 11 277 m for a Ruppell's Griffon

Vulture Gyps Rueppellii. It flew into a plane.

The largest bird egg is from the Ostrich Sturthio camelus. The egg measures 15 - 20cm long, 10 - 15 cm in diameter and weighs 1 - 1.78 kg.

The smallest known egg is the egg of the Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga minima ofJamacia and nearby islets. The egg is barely the size of a pea and measures less

than 10 mm in length and weighs 0.356 g. The largest nest was built by a pair of Bald Eagles Haliaeetus leucocephalus was 2.9

m wide and 6 m deep.

The Mallee Fowl Leipoa ocellata of Australia builds a mound for a nest. These moundshave been measured at 4.57 m high and 10.6 m long. A mound this size means thebird moved 250 cubic metres of vegetation and 300 tonnes of soil.

The Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata which measures 35 cm and nests on

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Emperor PenguinsAptenodytes forsterimake the deepest dive of any bird rangingfrom 444 - 483 m. They also stay under water the longest. The maximum dive timerecorded has been 18 minutes.

The fastest swimmer is probably the Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua at 27 km per

hour. The fastest runner is the Ostrich Struthio camelus. It can run up to 72 km per hour

over short distances.

The only poisonous birds known are the three species of Pitohui from Papua new

Guinea - the Hooded Pitohui Pitohui dichrous the Rusty Pitohui P. ferrugineus and theVariable Pitohui P. kirhocephalus. The Hooded Pitohui is the deadliest. The skin andfeathers contain almost the same homobatrachotoxin as the Poison Arrow Frogs.

The official Sanskrit name for India is Bharat. INDIA has been called Bharat even in Satya yuga (

Golden Age )

More INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT India

The name `India is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around whichwere the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the

river Indus as the Sindhu. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan

combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist

who invented the digit zero.

Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is becauseit is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computersoftware. ( a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987 ).

Chess was invented in India. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC

in India.

The first six Mogul Emperor's of India ruled in an unbroken succession fromfather to son for two hundred years, from 1526 to 1707.

The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur inTamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite.Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola

India is.......the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country inthe world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10,000 years old).

The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saintGyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the gamerepresented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played

with cowrie shells and dices. Later through time, the game underwentseveral modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us toheaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.

The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh.Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters abovesea level.

India has the most post offices in the world !


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The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employingover a million people !.

The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. TheUniversity of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatestachievements of ancient India in the field of education.

Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The father ofmedicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.

Although modern images & descriptions of India often show poverty, Indiawas one of the richest countries till the time of British in the early 17thCentury. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth and waslooking for route to India when he discovered America by mistake.

The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh 6000 overyears ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit wordNAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.

Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit thesun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was -Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days.

The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician

Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as thePythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which waslong before the European mathematicians.

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadraticequations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largestnumbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus usednumbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names asearly as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest usednumber is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).

Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. ( Source .Gemological Institute of America )

The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in theLadakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayanmountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.

Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years agoSushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract,artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgeryand brain surgeries.

Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailedknowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology,etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

India also celebrates the birthday of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former President and Vice-Presidentand great statesman, as "Teachers' Day".

Born on September 5, 1888, at Tiruttani, 40 miles to the north-east of Madras, Radhakrishnan grew

to become the most famous Indian teacher and philosopher of all times. In his honour, this day iscelebrated as Teacher's Day.

He was also the Vice-President of India from 1952-1962. He held the office of the Chancellor,University of Delhi, before taking over as the President of India in May 1962.

"What makes a nation, is the past, what justifies one nationagainst others is the past", says the noted historian EricHobsbawm.


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Hence, when talking of a nation, it becomes very imperativethat the past should also be talked about. And the past of Indiais as fascinating and interesting as it is momentous.

...the map is the most important tool of geography?

...the word MAP comes from the Latin word, "mappa", and meansnapkin, cloth, or sheet?

...a map is the representation of a geographic area, usually aportion of the earth's surface, drawn or printed on a flat surface?

...the earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300B.C.?

...the first map to represent the known world was created by

Anaximander, a Greek philosopher, in the 6th century B.C.?

...in 1507 Martin Waldseemuller, a German cartographer, was thefirst to add the Americas to a map he created?

...during the last two centuries, travelers, surveyors, explorers, andscientific observers have contributed valuable information aboutthe world's geography?

...the Chinese, Egyptians, and Phoenicians contributed to theworld's geography by making long journeys and recording theirobservations of new lands?

...a cartographer is a person who creates maps?

...there are many types of maps: topographic, special purpose,relief, political, geologic?

...a topographic map is a basic type of map that shows the naturaland artificial features of an area. It also shows the borders oftowns, states, or countries?

...navigational and aviation maps are special purpose maps usedby pilots and ship captains?

...a relief map is a 3-dimensional model of the terrain of an area. Itis usually made from clay or plaster of paris?


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...a political map shows towns without any land features?

...a geologic map shows land use, rainfall, population, and otherkinds of scientific data?

...the symbols used on a map are the map's legend?

...points on a map can be accurately defined by giving degrees,minutes, and seconds for both latitude and longitude?

...the earth is divided into two hemispheres, the northern andsouthern?

...the equator is the imaginary circle on the surface of the earth,which is equal distance between the north and south poles. It

divides the earth into two hemispheres?

...a map on a spherical surface is called a globe?

...even today, not all of the earth's surface has been surveyed indetail?

...satellites are helping to create new and more detailed maps ofthe earth's surface?

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