- The giraffes neck contains the same number of vetebrae as human.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and the chocolate bar in his pocket melted.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
- There are 10 million nerve cells in human brain.
- 1 kg of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
- The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
- The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
- When you run, only about 25 percent of chemical energy in your muscles changes into kinetice energy, the rest changes into heat energy.
- The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
- The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
- A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
- A new born kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
- Bulls can run faster uphill than thy can downhill, because of the bone structure of their legs.
- Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.
- Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.
- You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
- A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, bu monkeys can't.
- Knowledge is growing so fast that 90 percent of what we will know in 50 years time, will be discored in those 50 years. Wait and learn, my friend.
- The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree ramain viable for 300 to 400 years.
- A lobsters blood is colorless, but when exposed to oxygen, it develops a bluish color.
- One of the most interesting facts about seahorses is that the male, not the female,looks after the eggs until they hatch.
- Every year the sun loses 360 milliin tons.
- Helium almost has the same lifting power as hydorgen, but it cannot catch fire.
- The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
- Polar bear can look clumsy slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
- There are as many as two hundred acupuncture points on the outer ear.
- When the femal spider dies, she is eaten by her babies.
- Each year 30,000 person are seriouly injured by exercise equipment.
- A right-handed person's left thumb nail grows the slowest of all his nails and vice versa.
- A rat can live longer without water than a camel.
- The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
- The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
- The word racecar, kayak, level and radar remains the same whether they are read left to right or fight to left.
- 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.
- All the planets in our solar system rotate anti clockwise, except Venus. Venus, is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- The largest cave in the world is the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia, is is 701 meters long, 299 meters wide, and more than 70 meter high.
- The human head is a quarter of our total lenght at birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.
- The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has detected as far away as 530 miles.
- The silk that spiddrs produce to weave webs, is the strongestknown natureal fiber.
- When a person dies, the first sense lost is usually sight followed by taste, smell and touch, hearing is generally the last sense to go.
- Octopus have three hearts and are really very intelligent.
- A ducks quack doesn't echo. No one know the reason why it happens.
- Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females mosquitoes bite.
- To find our if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
- Most gemstones contain several elements, except diamond; it's all carbon.
- Usually a birds feathers weight more then it's skeleton.
- The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimeted surface temperature above 4000C, due to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
- A donkey is stronger than a horse but a horse can run faster then a donkey.
- The average life span of a shark is 25 years, but some sharks can live to be 100.
- Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hide them.
- Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, is would grow to nearly 30 feet long in the lifetime.
- A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes its there.
- Greece spends more money on conventional military imports then any country in the world except China and India.
- Cats have over on hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
- Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
- If all the gold in the ocean were mined, every person on Earth would get about 20 KG's of gold each.
- Generally, Ostriches are not take seriouly. But they can run faster then horses, and the males can roar like lions.
- Earth's atmosphere is, proportionally, thinner than the skin of an apple.
- Dirty snow melts faster then clean.
- The best working lifht-bulb a long time ago was a thread of sheeps wool coated the carbon.
- Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee.
- Almost is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
- A giraffe can celan its ears with its tongue which is 21-inch long.
- Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.
- The original name for the butterfly was flutterby.
- The fear of animals is called zoophobia and the fear of numbers is called arithmophobia.
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
- Most Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
- No two spider webs are the same.
- An electron microscope can enlarge an object up to one million times.
- A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
- An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.
- When a coffee seed is planted, it takes four to five years to yield consumable fruit.
- Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of womens feet.
- The plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.
- Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earths food crop.
- Sound travels 15 times faster through steel and four times faster through water than through air.
- The telegraph plant of Asia has leaves that flutter constantly, even when there is no breeze.
- It is good to know that the temperature at the centre of the Earth is estimated to be 5,500 degrees Celsius.
- The human eyes are so sensitive that i can see a lighted candle positioned 1.6 KM away in the dark.
- At least 75% of all the fresh water on Earth is deep-frozen inside glaciers.
- A sundew plant uses the sticky liquid on its leaves to trap insects. It uses the hairs on its leaves to hold the insect.
- Fungi are ancient organisms, dating back more than 1,000 million years.
- Bees do not have ears but they have an excellent sense of smell with sense organ in their antennae.
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
- The silk that spiders produce to weave webs, is the strongest known natural fibre.
- It is difficult to dive below the surface of the Dead because of its massive salt content.
- The maximum speed of the human heart is 220 beats per minute minus your age.
- It took 10,000 workers and over 20 years to build the great Pyramid of Cheops, located just outsie Cairo in Egypt. About 6.5 million tonnes of stone were used.
- A supersonic aircraft can fly faster than the speed of sound.
- The average person takes about two and half million steps in a year.
- Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms, this is equal to a 6-foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
- Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
- The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter J.
- A car travelling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
- According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.
- By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
- The ostrich is often credited with laying the largest eggs, but the latges egg (36 cm long) in the world was actually laid by a shark, in the Gulf of Mexico.
- There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
- The first virus was found 100 years ago, in plants and animalas both.
- The telegraph plant of Asia has leaves that flutter constantly, even when there is no breeze.
- It is good to know that the temperature at the centre of the Earth is estimated to be 5,500 degrees Celsius.
- A piece of buttered toast contains about 315 kilojoules. With that energy you could run a car for 1 minutes at the speed of 60 km/h.
- "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und".
- The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.
- The Earths equatorial circumgerence (40,075 km) is greater than its polar circumference (40,008 km).
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
- Due to gravitational effects, you weight slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
- Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.
- A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth. Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
- Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.
- The two foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand and likes to eat the stips of rubber aroung car windows.
- When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
- Plants watered with warm water grom larger and more quickly then plants watered with cold water.
- Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum does not stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
- Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
- The first virus was found 100 years ago, in plants and animals both.
- The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and parrot.
- Giraffes are the only animals with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
- The left lung in human body is smaller than the right lung to make toom for the heart.
- After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probalby appear pink.
- A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil. In fact, honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs is still edible.
- Dolphin carries their young inside their womb and gestation is about 12 month for a bottlenose Dolphin.
- The only river that flows both north and south of the equator ia the Congo. It crosses the equator twice.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball and its weights is estimated to be 1.62 oz.
- Milk is considered to be a food item and not a beverage.
- The brain is soft and gelarinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
- The word Checkmate in chess comes from the Persian phrase Shah Mat, which means the king is dead.
- Children spend more time learing about life through media than any other manner.
- Average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as muchtime as they spend in school.
- The most popular Disney cartoon, Donald Duck made his deut in the Silly Symphony cartoon. The Wise Little Hen on 09 June 1934, it's middle name is Fauntleroy.
- Cheese is the oldest of all man-made foods. It was first made in the Middle East when hunters became herders and realized that milk could solidify (sour milk).
- Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
- With over 3.5 billion fans Soccer is the most popular game in the world.
- There are four majour types of contests of the ice hockey slopestyle, rail jam, boarder cross and halfpipe.
- The National Football League use to be American Professional Football Association before June 1922.
- Wasim Akram of Pakistan was the first bowler to perform a hat-trick in both one days and test matches.
- Boris Becker, a German player, won Wimbledon tennis tournament at the ate of 17 in 1985.
- Jackie Robinson was the first baseball player to be named rookie of the year in 1947.
- Due to the Netual momentum of the ocean saltwater, fish cannot swim backwards.
- Queue is theeonly word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
- Beetles taste liike apples, wasps like pine nuts,and worms like fried bacon.
- All the words in the English language, the word SET has the most definitions.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
- The human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.
- It is against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
- Right handed people live on average of nine years longer than left handed people.
- Ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
- One quarter of the bones of human body are actually in his/her feet.
- Adolf Hitler was a vegertarian, and had only on testicle.
- Coca- Cola would be green if colouring was not added to it.
- On average the heart of a hedgehog beats 300 times a minute.
- More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
- The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 english words.
- The placement of the eyes of a donkey in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
- The six official languages of the United Narions are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
- Some ribbon worms eat themselves if they can not find any food.
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is claimed to be 90000 years old.
- A man named Charies Osborne has the hiccups for 69 years.
- The Bible is not only the best-selling book in the world, is also the most shoplifted book.
- More than 1000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
- During a lifetime, an average person walks 5 times the length of the equator and you though you did not walk to stay healthy.
- An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and midway between the poles. The Equator usually refers to the Earth's equator: an imaginary line on the Earth's surface equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole, dividing the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere. Other planets and astronomical bodies have equators similarly defined. The Equator is about 40,075 kilometres (24,901 mi) long; 78.7% is across water and 21.3% is over land.
- Babies eyes do not produce tears until the bay is approximately 6 to 8 weeks old.
- Most dust particles in your houseare made from dead skin.
- Sharks can live up to 100 years.
- The Statue of Liverty's index finger is eight feet long.
- A cockroaches favourite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
- Apples are more efficient than caffeine for waking you up in the morning.
- Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
- If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
- A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
- It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forge where they hid them.
- Cats can produe ove on hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
- Chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of tainting an environment free of dirt.
- You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown keep smiling.
- It is forbidden for aircraft to fly over the Taj Mahal.
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he does not wear pants.
- To Escape from elephants, tigers hide in the water.
- A Blue whales tongue weights more than an elephant.
- Cocaine was the first local anesthetic being used as such from about the year 1884 onwards.
- The mullet fish only turns red after death.
- Citrus fruits contain citric acid, a weak acid which give these fruits their sour taste.
- The mineral that the human body has in the greatest abundance, is calcium.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars.
- Octopus have three hearts and are really very intelligent, they can figure out mazes and puzzles.
- Chocolate dills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dogs heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
- Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
- The original name for the butterfly was flutterby.
- Mosquito repellents don't repel they hide you. THe spray blocks the mosquitos sensors so they don't know your're there.
- Dentists recommend that a tootbrush be kept atleast six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
- The average persons left hand does 56% of the typing.
- The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone, located in the middle ear. It is approximately 0.11 inches long.
- Snakes are true carnivorous becausse they do not eat any type of plant material but other animals only.
- The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
- The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violent light.
- Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day, can can walk under water.
- Libya is the only country with a single coloured flag.
- Blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
- 99% people backspace their whole password when they just mess up one letter.
- Ernest Hemingway, the iconic writer, lived through 2 plane crashes anthrax, pneumonia and dysentery before committing suicide.
- The planet Puto will complete it's first full orbit around the sun (since it's dicovery).
- The Philippines has had over 1200 political assassinations in the last decade.
- The human race has collectively spent over 200,000 years playing Angry Birds. It is the same amount of time that modern humans have existed.
- There are some myths claim that when you are born you are actually crying from your death in your past life.
*** The main causes of liver damage are ***
1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if thebody is very fit.
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- An Oregon man in US was jailed and fined USD 1500 for collecting rainwater. Rain is considered Property of the State.
- In one week, the average person will actually learn more from Google than 4 years of high school.
- The first Indian to win an Oscar was Bhanu Athaiya. She won the award for Best Costume Designer for the movie Gandhi in 1982.
- James Bond has killed 150 men and has slept with 44 women since the fist movie came out in 1962.
- In the 1994 movies Pulp Fiction directed byQuentin Tarantino, all the clocks picturised in the film has the same time of 4:20.
- Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated. Wonder which laxative would work on them.
- When you are happy,you enjoy the music. But, when you are sad, you understand the lyrics.
- Venezuela has a never ending lighting storm that has been going on since the year 1995.
- Asha Bhosle has sung more than 12,000 songs and as per Guinness Records she was awarded the most recorded artist in music history.
- Microsoft had filed a lasuit against Mike Rowe after he launched hs website known as MikeRoweSoft.com. Mike was only 17 at that time.
- Ocwe 2500 left-handed people are killed every year using products made for right-handed people.
- In a standard deck of cards, the king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
- The only time that India qualified for the FIFA World Cup was in 1950. But India refused to go since they really did not know much about it.
- Dolphins don't drink water - Sea water would mek them ill and possibly kill them. They get their liquid needs through the foods they eat.
- Throughot the movie - Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
- In all the three Godfather movies, whenever there was a scene showing oranges, there was a scene that showed a death or a closedeadly encounter.
- There are 60 crore more people in this world who own a mobile handset as compared to the number who won a toothbrush.
- Smoking and overeating affects ones hearing ability.
- The world record for maximum number of marriages is 29. It belongs to a Baptist minister from the US called Glynn Wolfe.
- The Mount Everst has 3G mobile coverage, do you can browse internet when you rach the top.
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----------------------------------------------- Contrary to popular belief, Napoleon was short - He stood at 5 feet 6 inches tall which was taller than the average French man of that time.
- All of the cash in the world cannot pay off the national debt of The United States of America.
- Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon,sued his barber of 20 years after he sold his hair to a collector for 3,000 dollars.
- India was the birthplace of Chess. It came from the word Chaturanga which means 4 army members - elephants, chariots, horses and soldiers.
- More than 1,000 tonnes of space debris rains down on our planet Earth every year as per the US Geological Survey.
- When you get goose pimples, the raised hair traps air and keeps you warmer by keeping in your body heat. So in cold winters to stay warm - watch horror movies.
- A piece of buttered toast contains about 315 calories. People take note, your calorie miles are getting added. Start jogging now.
- Wearing a headphone for an hour increases the bacteria count by 700 times in your ear. Wow, with great music comes free bacteria.
- Ferrari engines are musically engineered to sound perfect by urilizing 3rd and 6th harmonics on the air intake, like a flute or organ.
- Dr. Seuss, the US cartoonist, who wrote - The cat in the hat, proposed to his wife while she was on the back of his motorcycle. He crashed when she said yes.
- Drinking two cups of cold water on an empty stomach can boost metabolism by 30 percent.
- As a child, Hollywood actor, Jim Carrey, wrote tap shoes to bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.
- If all of the known stars in the universe were divided amongst everyone on Earth, we would each own about 44.2 trillion stars.
- Men change their minds two to three times more often than women. Beware girls, get to know them better before you start seeing them.
- If all the gold in the oceans and seas were mined, every person would get about 20 KGS of gold. To get rich, all you have to do is learn deep sea diving.
- Goats milk is used more widely in the world than Cows milk. It time to say goodbye to Vitamin D and calcium supplements and just milk the goat.
- People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left. Now, you know how to catch your boyfriend and girlfriend red-handed.
- More than 40 percent of the people in the world have not made or received a telephone call. Hey, whats the use of all these free talk time plans?
- An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet. Next time your boss calls you in his cabin for a meeting, make sure you use a sanitize.
- The population of the World crossed the 7 billion mark in 2011. It will take another 80 years or so before the World population stabilizes just above 10 billion.
- More than 18.7 cr computers have already been sold this year and everyday, the world is sending more than 2,50,000 cr emails. That a lot of communication.
- France has the highest consumption of cheese. No wonder the French are always so high on wine and cheese.
- Your brain waves change while watching TV. Watching too much TV can cause unfocused daydreaming and inability to concentrate.
- A man would traditionally walk with a woman on his left arm, so his right hand could be free for his sword in case of a duel.
- Bob Marley, the Jamaican singer know for reggae music, was the father of 3 children born to 3 different women in one month.
- Like humans, penguins have known to become depressed as well. When they are depressed they march away from their groups to die.
- Ray-Ban, Versace, Giorgio Armani, Burberry, Donna Karan and Vogue sunglasses are all manufactured by the same company, Luxottica Group.
- During pregnancy if a mother suffers organ damage, the baby in the womb send stem cells to repair the damaged organ.
- Dark Chocolate contains a chemical that our bodies convert into phenyl ehylamine - The same chemical secreted when we fall in love.
- Every time a new version of Mozilla Firefox is released, Microsoft sends them a cupcake.
- In 196, both DC and Marvel comics published a crossover series where Batman and Wolverine were made into one character named Dark Claw.
- 90 to 95 percent of mobile phones sold in Japan are waterproof because people are so fond of their phones, they use e them in the shower.
- The average persons left hand does 56% of the typing.
- The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone, located in the middle ear. It is approximately 0.11 inches long.
- Snakes are true carnivorous because they do not eat any type of plant material but other animals only.
- The cave temple of Ellora are the creations of 3 religions, Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
- Virat Kohli, the Indian cricketer, had lost his father on the same day his Ranji Trophy match was held. He played the match and scored 90 runs.
- The most expensive hotel room in India is the Shambu Prakash Suite at the Taj Lake Palace Hotel. The rent is Rs 10 lakh plus taxes for a night.
- The value of the treasure at the famous Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple is more than Rs 10 lakh crore.
- Shhid Balwa, promoter of the DB Group, is the youngest Indian to be featured in Forbes List. His net worth is estimated to be Rs 53 billion.
- Qutub Minar is the worlds largest brick minaret. The height of the minar is around 238 feet and ahs 379 steps to the top.
- Instagram, the free photo sharing app, was lauched on iPhone on October 6, 2010 and by December it has 1 million users. Twitter took 2 years to reach that.
- The largest selling motorcycle in the world is the Honda Super Cub. It produced its 60 millionth unit in April 2008.
- The term Poolroom now means a place where billiards is played, but in the 19th century a poolroom was a betting parlor for horse racing.
- The Ferrari logo, the prancing horse, pays homage to a fallen Italian World War 1 flying ace, Francesco Baracca, who used the prancing horse symbol on his plane.
- The most sought after car in the world is the 1962-64 Ferrari 250 GTO. Only 39 were produced in the world.
- Oreo is the most popular and the best selling cookie in the world. It is available in 100 countries.
- Workers at various iPad factories operate in conditions to horrible, they are force to sign anti-suicide pledges.
- The first one day match played by India was at Leeds against England in 1974. Ajit Wadekar was teh captain of the Indian team.
- Virendar Sehwag was the first Indian cricketer to score 300 runs in a test match. He scored it against Pakistan in 2004.
- Bruce Lee, the legendary martial artist, was so fast that his films often had to be slowed down in order for viewers to see his moves.
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The mullet fish only turns red after death.
The world record for maximum number of marriages is 29. It belongs to a Baptist minister from the US called Glynn Wolfe.
Contrary to popular belief, Napoleon was not short - He stoof at 5 feet 6 inches tall which was taller than the average French man of that time.
All the cash in the world cannot pay off the national debt of The United States of America.
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, sued his barber of 20yearsafter he sold his hair to a collector for 3,000 dollars.
India was the birthplace of Chess. It came from the word Chaturangawhichmeans 4 army members - elephants, chariots, horses and soldiers.
More than 1,000 tonnes of space debris rains down on our planet Earth every year as per the US Geological Survey.
The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter JJ.
The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.
The Earth's equatorial circumference (40,075 km) is greater than its polar circumfrernce (40,088km).
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Due to gravitaional effects, you weight slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
A giraffes neck contains the same number of vetebrae as a human.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and the chocolate bar in his pocket melted.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
There are 10 million nerve cells in human brain.
1 kg of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und".
One tree snake tries to swalloow another when its fighting.
A car traveling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball and its weight is estimated to be 1.62 oz.
Milk is considered to be a food item and not a beverage.
The brain is soft and gelationous - it's consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
The word Checkmate in chess comes from the Persian phrase Shah Mat, which means the king is dead.
Children spend more time learning about life through media than any other manner.
Average child spend approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school.
The most popular Disney cartoon, Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphony cartoon THe Wise Little Hen on June 9, 1934, It is middel name is Fauntleroy.
Cheese is the oldest of all man-made foods. It was first made in the Middle East when hunters became herders and realized that milk could solidify (sour milk).
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
Mark Twain (American Author) was born on a day in 1835 when Haleys Comet came into view the day he died in 1910; Haleys Comet came into view again.
With over 3.5 billion fans Soccer is the most popular game in the world.
There are four major types of contests of the ice hockey - slopestyle, rail jam, boarger cross and halfpipe.
The National Football League used to be American Professonal Football Asscociation before June 1922.
Wasim Akram of Pakistan was the first bowler to perform a hat-trick in both one days and test matches.
Boris Becker, a German player, won Wimbledon tennis tournament at the age of 17 in 1985.
Jackie Robinson was the first baseball player to be named rookie of the year in 1947.
Due to the natural momentum of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.
Queue is thee only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts and worms like fried bacon.
All the words in the English language, the word SET has the most definitions.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
The human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
You can not kill yourself by holding your breath.
It is against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
Right handed people live, on average, nine year longer than left handed people.
Human ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
One quarter of the bones in your body are actually in your feet.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and has only on testicle.
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring was not added to it.
On average the heart of ahedgehod beats 300 times a minute.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 english words.
The placement of the eyes of a donkey in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
The six official languages of the United Nations are - English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Some ribbon worms eat themselves if they can not find any food.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is claimed to be 9000 years old.
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The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
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In Kandy, Sri Lanka where Buddhists built a temple to honor Buddhas tooth. Every year great festivals are held here.
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10 Benefits Of Drinking Lemon Water
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Lemon water can be very helpful for your body, i.e. it can detoxify your body. There are many health benefits of lemons that have been known for centuries.
The two biggest are lemon’s strong antibacterial, antiviral, and immune-boosting powers and their use as a weight loss aid because lemon juice is a digestive aid and liver cleanser. Lemons contain many substances–notably citric acid, calcium, magnesium, vitamin C, bioflavonoids, pectin, and limonene–that promote immunity and fight infection.
Listed below are the amazing benefits that come along with drinking just one cup of hot lemon water each morning. It’s as simple as boiling a pot of water, and adding a slice of lemon!
1. Helps with weight loss - Lemons are rich in pectin fiber, which reduces hunger.
2. Better digestion – Lemon juice helps to discharge waste materials, by stimulating the liver to secrete acids needed for digestion.
3. Cleans the skin – Vitamin C reduces the pores and disadvantages of skin. Water with lemon cleans the toxins from the blood that affects on the skin to be healthy.
4. Improves the immune system – because of the vitamin C, which is excellent in fighting colds. Also contains potassium, which stimulates brain, nerves and blood pressure control.
5. Reduces respiratory problems – hot water with lemon to stop cough and will facilitate breathing, especially in people with asthma and allergies
6. Balances pH - Lemon has to be one of the most alkaline foods. If you want to reduce the acidity in your body you should drink lemon water. Although lemon contains citric acid that did not create acidity in the body.
7. An excellent diuretic – Lemon accelerates the excretion of urine and thereby cleans the body of toxins. The urinary tract is healthier when is regularly cleaned.
8. Due to the large amount of vitamin C, lemon water is used in the treatment of infections, wounds, allergies and sore throat.
9. Instead of coffee – Although no caffeine, is an excellent replacement for your morning coffee.
10.Refreshes your breath, relieves toothache and inflammation of gums – but beware! Citric acid erodes tooth enamel.
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- Norwaywill allow any student from anywhere in the world to study at their public universities completely free of charge.
- Cocaine was the first local anesthetic being used as such from about the year 1884 onwards.
- By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back you can sink in quicksand.
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
- The ostrich is often credited with laying the largest eggs, but the largest egg (34 cm long) in the world was actually laid bya shark, in the Gulf of Mexico.
- There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
- The first virus was found 100 years ago, in plants and animals both.
- The telegraph plant of Asia has leaves that flutter constantly, even when there is no breeze.
- It is good to know that the temperature at the centre of the Earth is estimated to be 5,500 degrees Celsius.
- A piece of buttered toast contains about 315 kilojoules: With that energy you could run a car for 1 minute at the speed of 60 km/h.
- The human eye is so sensitive that it can see a lighted candle positioned 1.6km away in the dark.
- Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.
- A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth, Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
- Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.
- The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand and like to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
- When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
- Plants watered with warm water grow larger and amore quickly then plants watered with cold water.
- Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum does not stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
- The first virus was found 100 years ago, in plants and animals both.
- Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
- The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and parrot.
- Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
- The left lung in our body is smaller than right lung to make room for the heart.
- After sepending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
- A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil. In fact honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs is still edible.
- Dolphin carries their young inside their womb and gestation is about 12 month for a bottlenose Dolphin.
- The only river that flows both north and south of the equator is the Congo. It crosees the equator twice.
