The blue whale is the largest animal on earth.The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car ,and it's tongue is as long as an elephant
Fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it.
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The blue whale is the largest animal on earth.The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car ,and it's tongue is as long as an elephant
Fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it.
Blue whales are the largest animals of all time. Females grow to a length of 79 to 89 feet, weighing well over 100 tons. The heaviest blue whale ever weighed was more than 190 tons, and the longest ever measured was more than 108 feet long.
but
I was reading several areas about the largest
(longest?) animal on earth.i just found this news "This was give as the blue whale. However,
at our class for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the head marine scientist
has stated that the largest animal on earth is a Sea Jelly (aka
jellyfish). I believe the length he gave was 126 feet, which is longer
than a Blue whale."
what about this??? :?: :?: :?:
The pelican uses the funny looking pouch under its lower beak for catching fish.It does this by swooshing in to the water and scooping up as many fish as possible.
The heaviest fish ever caught was the OCEAN SUNFISH. It weighed 4,928 lbs.
The swordtail is the fastest swimmer of all the fish
A parrotfish makes its own sleeping bag to sleep in. It uses mucous (like spit) to make a see-through bag all around it's body to protect it from attack by other creatures in the ocean.
The swordtail is the fastest swimmer of all the fish
A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.
There are only three animals with blue tongues: the black bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.
Camels have three eye lids.
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.
There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.A kangaroo can jump 45 feet!
A newborn kangaroo weighs approximately 0.03 ounces and is small enough to fit in a teaspoon. There is a certain species of kangaroo that is only 2.5 centimeters long when it is born.
In the 1800's cats were used to deliver mail. In 1879, in Belgium 37 cats were used to deliver mail to villages, however they found that the cats were not disciplined enough to do this.
The largest dog in the world is the Irish Wolfhound. The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan Hounds.
In 2002, dogs have killed more people in the U.S. than the Great White shark has killed in the past 100 years.
An adult lion's roar is so loud, it can be heard up to five miles away. ions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest, A lion feeds once every three to four days.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A beaver can hold it's breath for 45 minutes.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
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 larger ears and the Indian that is small and has smaller ears.
There are two kinds of camels. One is the Arabian that lives in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It has one hump. And the second kind is called Bactrian which has two humps and lives in Mongolia and Chinese Turkistan.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.
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 bird that can fly the fastest is called a White It can fly up to 95 miles
per hour.
Did you know fishes talk to each other? Some of them communicate by making noises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders to make sounds
The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering
shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert
The Afghan capital Kabul has a cyber cafe
Accordingly to Google Zeitgeist the top search in India June 2007 is the phrase reliance data card
Google offers its employees free lunch
BBC has 43 different translations of its website
Google's employees get free haircuts
Google receives more than 1000 resumes a day
About 47 million laptops where shipped worldwide 2006
Over 2.7 billion searches are made on Google search engine each month
1 of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online
If myspace was a country it would be the 11th largest
Google can be queried in 36 languages (2007)
Google uses over 10,000 networked computers to crawl the web
Google has 2007 surpassed Microsoft as the world's most-visited site
Google have won 2007 most powerful brand by a British research company
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute
The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the worlds population
Google staff are known as Googlers
The founders of Google didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface, thats one of the main reason why the home page is so bare
The name "Google" comes from a spelling mistake, the founders intendent to write "Googol"
Google launched their search site in 1998
The Google function "I feel lucky" is nearly never used, well compared to the high number of users
Google comes from the word googol, which is 1 followed by a hundred zeros
Wikipedia has a page devoted to toilet roll holders
Atari sold 400000 VCS consoles in 1979
The Atari 2600 only has 128 bytes of RAM
In Sweden the @ is called "snabel-a" wich means a "trunk with an a"
The floppy disk was patents in 1946 by Alan Shugart
If you type in failure in google, and select "I'm feeling lucky", you will be redirected to the White House web page
Yahoo stands for Yet Another 'Hierarchical Organizational Oracle'
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page
The oldest surviving computer in the world is called CSIRAC and is located in Melbourne
The word maps is often in the top 10 search words submitted to search engines
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com
Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13
Google receives about 200 million search queries each day. More than half of which come from outside the United States. During the heviest traffic more than 2,000 search queries are answered each second
More than 80% of home pages on the Web are in English. German has only 4.5% and Japanese 3.1%
The percentage of email messages in English is estimates to vary between 60% and 85%
The words "electronic mail" was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976
Sweden has the most affordable broadband internet access in Europe
The highest amount of money paid for a domain name is for business.com, $7.5 million
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutters on backwards
Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear assault"
Every single possible 3 character.com domain has been registered
Internet advertising is the fastest growing advertising medium
Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer
All domain names in Slovakia are free
88% of websites have no discernible traffic
Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month
28% of IBM employees are Indians
Each day an average American depends on about 250 computers
Microsoft is the biggest developer of Mac software outside Apple
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes
Maps are often among the top words submitted to Internet search engines
The most popular non-HTML format files return from Google is PDF-format
Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste is the owner of over 200,000 domain names
The top searchwords in Google where September 19, 2005 "hurricane rita"
Only 10% of all the pages on the Internet make it to the search engines
In 1982 Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year"
Microsoft writes the code for autopilot systems in all major airplanes
Internet is one of the fastest growing forms of advertising
In computer language, wysiwyg is an acronym for "what you see is what you get"
About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated
In the early days of computers, black and white monitors were thought sufficient to satisfy all future data processing needs
1. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
2. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
3. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
4. A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
5. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
6. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
7. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
8. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
9. According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
10. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
11. An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
12. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
13. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
14. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
15. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
16. 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.
17. Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
Wow, interesting facts. While I did know some of them, the majority of them were new to me. Thanks for sharing and I can't wait to read more!
A Water Strider can stand on water surface and its legs are designed to support up to 15 times its body weight. But a single mosquito leg alone can support 23 times the mosquito's body weight.
A young coconut can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. It was done during World War II when blood supplies were low. Coconut water is identical to human blood plasma which makes it the universal donor. By drinking coconuts we give ourselves an instant blood transfusion.
Amazing facts :
1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
2. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
3. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
5. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
6. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
7. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
8. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
9. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
10. The act of snapping one's fingers is called a "fillip".
11. The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
12. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
13. Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it -- 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25 etc.
14. A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
15. The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
16. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
17. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
18. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
19. 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.
20. Polar bears are left handed.
21. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
22. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24. It is impossible to sneeze and keep ones eye's open at the same time.
25. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. ( thankfully !!)
26. A cat's urine glows under a black light.
27. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
28. Cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, making them the most nimble animals known.
29. Mosquitoes do not bite. They stab. A mosquito has no jaws, hence when attacking a victim, it pierces it with its long proboscis and sucks the blood up through it's nasal tube.
30. Starfishes haven't got brains.
31. Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years.
32. Some breeds of vultures can fly at altitudes as high as 36,900 feet.
33. The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearms, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch on them.
34. The most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die from malaria every year
35. 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 is 1 foot or about 30 cm.
36. INTERCHANGEABILITY contains the words THREE, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, THIRTEEN, THIRTY, THIRTY-NINE, EIGHTY, EIGHTY-NINE, NINETY, and NINETY-EIGHT
37. One thousand contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
39. Some words with horizontal symmetry (they reflect themselves across a horizontal line) are: BEDECKED, BOOHOOED, CEBID (a type of monkey), CHECKBOOK, CHOICE, CODEBOOK, COOKBOOK, DECIDED, DIOXIDE, DOBCHICK, EXCEEDED, HIDE, HOODOOED, ICEBOX, KEBOBBED, OBOE, OKEECHOBEE.
40. 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.
41. R.S.V.P. comes from the French phrase, 'répondez, s'il vous plaît,' which means 'please reply.' According to western etiquette, you should reply promptly if you receive a formal invitation.
42. A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.
43. A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10-9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory
44. 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
45. There are three sets of letters on the standard typewriter and computer keyboards which are in alphabetical order, reading left to right. They are f-g-h, j-k-l, and o-p.
1) Longest English Word :
Praetertranssubstan tiationalistical ly has 37 letters.
2) Book Without Letter "e":
GADFY , written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a
single word with ' e' in it
3) Word without Vowel :
Rhythm
Sky
Fry
Cry
4) Human Brain :
Organ of body which has no sensation when cut.
5) Crocodile:
Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating.
6) No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS:
They are
** **B* Bee *
** **C* Sea*
** **G** * Zee*
** ** I* Eye *
** ** Q* Queue*
** ** R* Are *
** ** S* Yes *
** **T* Tea* **
** ** U* You *
** ** Y* Why
Fascinating Animals, Birds, Trees:
1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) 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.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp
teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
What are They :
1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say DADDY':
LIPS
2) What goes up & never comes down:
AGE
3) Patches over patches but no stitches:
CABBAGE
4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you:
FUTURE
5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves:
ROAD
6) You can never wet it:
SHADOW
7) What belongs to You, but used by your friends more often you do:
YOUR NAME
In 24 Hours Average Human :
1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD .
8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR .
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT .
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS .
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times
Amazing Facts These are facts you probably have never realized.
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"spelled backwards is still
"a man a plan a canal panama"
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the
line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, but
dogs only have about ten.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left
hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
All polar bears are left handed.
The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.
Flies can acclerate 1000 times faster than rocket
The Espiscopl palace of king Philip 2 of spain of 16th century had 1200!!!! doors
The length from the wrist to the elbow is the same as the length of the foot
An average person will drink 75000 litres of water in his lifetime
13%people on the earth are left handed
On an average human breathes 23000 times a day
It used to be illegal to swim by daylight
most peoples hair stops growing at 3 ft 91 cm
One human hair can support 3kg
Blondes have more hair than dark haired people
The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb
The human brain is 85% water
Children grow faster in the springtime
The japaneese make square shaped watermelons.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other
Leonardo wrote backwards, so that the only way to properly read his writing was to hold it up to a mirror
After studying it for 47 days, the New York Museum of Modern Art discovered that the Matisse painting Le Bateau was hanging upside down
On average, coconut's kill more people per year then sharks do.
Lions and tigers can mate and produce offspring called ligers
In texas, one person is killed every year painting stripes on the states highways!
Americans spend more than ?365million on golf balls in a year
The venus fly trap takes half a second to shut on its prey
The smallest unit of time is a yoctosecond, it is one septillionth of a second!
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Polar bears are left-handed.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Starfish haven't got brains.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
The youngest pope was 11 years old
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but mens noses and ears never stop growing.
Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
- Facetious, abstemious, abstentious, arsenious, and arteriosus are the only five words in the English language that contain the vowels a, e, i, o, and u in their proper order.
- The word "four" has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
- The word monsoon is derived from the Arabic word mausim, meaning "season." It was first used by Arab sailors to describe the seasonal winds that blow across the Arabian Sea.
- The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a "tittle." Tittle is Latin for something very small.
- The only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
- Mother In the vast majority of the world's languages, the word for "mother" begins with the letter M.
- The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable - it has three.
- The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was "J," which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was "U."
Ø Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
Ø The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Ø Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
Ø You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Ø A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
Ø Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
Ø Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Ø The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
Ø When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
Ø Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his Wife or mother because they were both deaf.
Ø "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
Ø Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
Ø The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond
Ø Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
Ø "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters
Ø Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do
Ø The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
Ø If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
Ø China has more English speakers than the United States
Ø Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Ø Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Ø The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe nuakitanatahu- a New Zealand hill
Ø If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US) at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
Amazing facts about “Chewing Gum”!!Amazing facts about “Chewing Gum”
Most of us do have our very own favourite chewing gum, sometimes taken to soothe up relaxation, strengthen up concentration, after-meal take, etc. Ranging from Extras to Big Red… We love them especially with a touch of flavor like mint, cinnamon, strawberry, etc. Well, do you know what a chewing gum can do other than that?
“Chewing Gum after a meal can prevent heartburn!!”
I’m sure you’re surprised as I was the first time when I read about this. So here’s the reason to this amazing fact:
The list of ideas for easing heartburn is long and filled with home remedies, many unproved. But one of the simplest, chewing gum may be among the most effective.
"Heartburn results from digestive fluids traveling from stomach to esophagus in a process known as gastro esophageal reflux."
When scientists set out to study whether this could be countered by chewing gum, they assumed the answer would be no.
Instead they found that the saliva stimulated by chewing seemed to neutralize acid and help force fluids back to the stomach.
“In a study published in The journal of dental research, researchers had 31 people eat heartburn-inducing meals and then asked random subjects to chew sugar-free gum for 30 minutes. Acid levels after the meals were significantly lower when the participants chewed gum.”
The bottom line:
Studies show that chewing gum after a meal can significantly reduce the severity of heartburn.
Top 10 Most amazing facts about the Earth
1. Gravity is not the same over the surface of the Earth
It turns out that in some places you will feel slightly heavier than others. A low spot can be seen just off the coast of India, while a relative high occurs in the South Pacific Ocean. The cause of these irregularities is unknown since present surface features do not appear dominant. NASA's GRACE twin satellites, launched in March 2002, are making detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field which will lead to discoveries about gravity and Earth's natural systems.
2. Atmosphere 'escapes'
Due to thermal energy, some of the molecules at the outer edge of the Earth's atmosphere have their velocity increased to the point where they can escape from the planet's gravity. This results in a slow but steady leakage of the atmosphere into space. Because unfixed hydrogen has a low molecular weight, it can achieve escape velocity more readily and it leaks into outer space at a greater rate.[61] For this reason, the Earth's current environment is oxidizing, rather than reducing, with consequences for the chemical nature of life which developed on the planet. The oxygen-rich atmosphere also preserves much of the surviving hydrogen by locking it up in water molecules.
3. The Earth is slowing down
As a result of variation in gravitational forces due to the moon, the sun and other planets in the solar system, displacements of matter in different in different parts of the planets and other excitation mechanisms, the rotational speed of the Earth about it's axis varies in time. Recently, days have been getting shorter by hundredths of a second, which implies that the angular velocity of the Earth has been increasing. The factors causing this increasing in the Earth's rotational velocity have not been determined. The rotation data shows oscillations over several different timescales. The one with the largest variation is seasonal: Earth slows down in January and February.
4. Van Allen radiation belt
The Van Allen Radiation Belt is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's magnetic field. Apollo astronauts who traveled to the moon spent very little time in the belts but probably have a slightly higher risk of cancer during their. NASA said that they deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimize the radiation. Besides, there have been nuclear tests in space that have caused artificial radiation belts. Starfish Prime, a high altitude nuclear test created an artificial radiation belt that damaged or destroyed as many as one third of the satellites in low earth orbit at the time.
5. Moon is moving away from Earth
The reasons why have to do with tides and conservation of energy and angular momentum. Measurements have been collected now for over 25 years, and it is clear that the Moon's orbit is slowly growing larger and that the Moon is moving away from the Earth. The net result is that the Moon is receding from the Earth at about 4 centimeters a year. However, astronomers have predicted that when the Sun enters the red giant phase in around 5 billion years - during the red giant phase of the Sun - both Earth and Moon will be affected by the Sun's extended atmosphere and will aproach again. Then the Moon will swing ever closer to Earth until it reaches a point 11,470 miles (18,470 kilometers) above our planet, a point termed the Roche limit. The result: Moon will be torn to pieces and will be scattered to form a spectacular 23,000-mile-diameter (37,000-kilometer) Saturn-like ring of debris above Earth's equator.
6. Moon has a tidal effect on the atmosphere
The Moon have a tidal effect on the atmosphere as well as the oceans. Theory predicts stronger lunar pressure oscillations in the tropics but their amplitude rarely exceeds 100 microbars or 0.01 percent of the average surface pressure. Detection of such a tiny signal masked by much larger pressure variations associated with weather phenomena required the development of special statistical techniques and the accumulation of a long series of regular observations. It is common for atmospheric waves to grow in amplitude with height as the air becomes thinner. The lunar tide, however, remains weak compared to the solar tide in the upper atmosphere.
7. The Chandler wobble
The Chandler wobble is a small variation in Earth's axis of rotation, discovered by American astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler in 1891. It amounts to 0.7 arcseconds over a period of 433 days. In other words, Earth's poles move in an irregular circle of 3 to 15 metres in diameter, in an oscillation. The cause is unknown. On 18 July 2000, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that "the principal cause of the Chandler wobble is fluctuating pressure on the bottom of the ocean, caused by temperature and salinity changes and wind-driven changes in the circulation of the oceans. However, on janauary-february 2006 scientist noticed the Chandler wobble had stopped and there was a near six week period in which a significant pause occurred. This anomaly has been of great interest in gaining a better understanding, but it is not yet known if this has or will cause any catastrophic changes in the overall rotation axis of the planet.
8. Earth electric charge
Since 1917 scientists have known that the earth's surface is charged with negative electricity, but no one knew for sure what keeps it charged. In areas of fair weather, an electric current flows between the earth and the air in a direction which would tend to dissipate the charge. It is not much of a current: only about 1,500 amperes, not much more for the entire earth than flows in a few power lines. But the electricity taken from the earth must be restored somehow or the earth's electric charge would soon drain away. An obvious guess is that thunderstorms somehow restore the lost charge, but no one had proved it. Three years ago the institution borrowed airplanes from the Air Force and began to measure electrical stirring in the still air above active thunderheads. Sure enough, the instruments showed a current moving in the opposite direction to the current in fair-weather areas. The scientists figured that all the thunderstorms going on at one time generate a net current of about 1,500 amperes, just enough to balance the drain and keep the earth's charge constant.
9. Tons of interplanetary dust reaches Earth every year
According to space.com, about 30,000 tons of interplanetary dust reaches Earth's surface every year. Most asteroids roam around the Sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. The fragments of their collisions, and the dust, can be drawn toward the inner solar system and sometimes approach Earth. Dust and rocks moving fast in relation to Earth frequently slam into the atmosphere and burn up, generating shooting stars. Stuff moving more slowly relative to Earth can be captured by the planet's gravity and survive the plunge.
10. Earth's magnetic poles change places
The poles on the Earth have changed places - many times! We can tell this has happened because the magnetic moment of the rocks that make up the ocean floor have an alternating direction. Which direction they exhibit depends on which way the poles were oriented when the rocks were being formed at the mid-ocean ridge. During a reversal, which can take thousands of years, the magnetic poles start to wander away from the region around the spin poles, and eventually end up switched around. Sometimes this wandering is slow and steady, and other times it occurs in several jumps.
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY
Our heart beats around 100,000 times a day.
Our blood is on a 60,000 mile journey.
Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
Our lungs inhales over 2,000,000 litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
Our hearing is so sensitive that it can distingush between hundreds of different sounds.
Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells. We give birth to 100 billion red blood cells every day.
When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124mph.
We have over 600 muscles. By walking, we exercise over 250 muscles.
We exercise over 30 muscles when we smile.
We are about 70% water.
We make one litre of saliva every day.
Our nose is our personal air conditioning system; it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 30 hairs, 13 yards of nerves, 9,000 nerve endings 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, magnesium, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.
Amazing Facts...
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite (suck blood) as they need protein to lay eggs.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow. Then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears. Never stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14. 4 calories per hour by Breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt. Every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot,left foot...
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
22. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch. And make it look=20 like it's smiling.
23. The color blue can have a calming affect on people.
24. Depending upon the shade, the brain may send up to 11 tranquilizing chemicals to calm the body
25. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Now we know why his pictures were exquisite!!
26. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
27. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and parrot.
28. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
29. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age
30. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
31. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
32. All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses; some of them just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.
33. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
34. Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before.
Knowledge is everything...
enjoy..
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Now it gets really weird.
Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Now hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln' made by 'Ford.'
Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the kicker...
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
Creepy huh? Send this to as many people as you can, cause: Hey, this is one history lesson people don't mind reading
What Was the Longest Letter Ever Written?
The record for the longest letter was established in 1952, during the Korean War.
A lady in Brooklyn, New York, wrote to her boyfriend, a private in the U.S. Army, serving in Korea.
Instead of using regular writing paper, this ingenious lady used the narrow tape that is found on adding machines, 3,200 feet of it! The letter took her one month to write.
What Was the Shortest Letter Ever Written?
For the record of the world's shortest letter, we have to travel back to 1862 in France. The noted writer Victor Hugo had just completed his latest novel, Les Miserables, and had gone away on a vacation. But he was most anxious to learn how the book was selling, so he wrote the following letter to his publisher:
“?”
The publisher was just as imaginative as Hugo and must share the record with him for the world's shortest letter, for his reply to the writer was:
“!”
A reply that obviously made Hugo very happy.
What is also fascinating is that Victor Hugo is credited with writing the longest sentence ever to appear in a novel, in that very same Les Miserables. That sentence contains 823 words, 93 commas, 51 semicolons, and 4 dashes, and fills up almost 3 pages before a period appears!
Why Do You Cup Your Hands Around Your Mouth To Call Someone Far Away?
When you speak or shout or sing or even whisper, the vibrations of your voice send sound waves through the air.
These sound waves travel out from your mouth in all directions, out straight, to the right, to the left, and to all the places in between.
But when you cup your hands around your mouth, you are pointing the sound waves in only one direction and keeping them from spreading out in all the others.
By doing this, you are giving your sound waves more energy and making them louder and stronger.
Why Do We Have Leap Year?
Even though we call 365 days a year, the earth does not revolve around the sun in 365 days. Rather, it takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds to do this.
The extra time is made up by adding one extra day to the end of February every four years, EXCEPT in those years which can be divided evenly by 100. Then that extra day is NOT added. However, in years divisible by 400, that extra day IS added.
What that means is simply this, the years 1200, 1600, and 2000 are divisible by 400, so they have the extra day added, making them Leap Years. However, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not divisible by 400, so they were not Leap Years.
Can Lie Detectors Really Detect Lies?
Lie detectors cannot actually identify lies; all they can do is detect certain activities of a person's body that are usually associated with lying: abnormal perspiration and flushing of the face, rapid breathing, increased heartbeat, and excessive swallowing.
Because this method does not actually guarantee the truth, the results are not generally accepted as evidence in court.
Although each of the body changes, alone, does not necessarily indicate a lie, when put together, they can provide an indication of one.
When a person is given a lie detector test, various parts of the machine are attached to his body, and a written record is made of his answers. Usually, three or four tests are given to be sure that the answers were not accidental.
Yet, amazingly enough, a lie detector can be fooled! There are some people who are truly unaware that they are lying. These people cannot be caught by a lie detector.
Why Do People Wear Lucky Charms?
Since the time of the ancient Egyptians, people have worn charms, or talismans, for two reasons, to ward off evil or disease, and to bring good fortune.
Not only were these charms worn by living Egyptians, but they were also placed inside the coffins of mummies to assure them a happy afterlife.
Among the most popular talismans around the world are the Egyptian ankh, a life symbol, the Chinese shy-ching, an ancient engraving, and the African elephant hair ring.
Some well known American charms are horseshoes, rabbits' feet, and four-leafed clovers.
Why Do Cannibals Eat People?
To civilized people, the practice of cannibalism, or eating human flesh, is a horrible thought! Yet it was practiced by many primitive tribes and may still be practiced in some parts of the world today.
These tribes didn't eat human flesh because they liked it; they did it because it was usually part of a religious observance or part of a sacred ceremony.
Ancient tribes of India ate their parents as a sign of respect and honor. Many primitive people believed that they could acquire the traits of people they admired or respected by eating them, just as they ate lions to become lionhearted; deer, so they could run fast; and foxes, to be cunning.
Nobody is certain how many cannibal tribes exist today. Some say none; others say that there are still several tribes on the South Pacific island of New Guinea practicing cannibalism.
The rarest disease in the world, called Kuru, or laughing sickness, affects only the cannibals of New Guinea and is believed to be caused by eating human brains!
What Is the Most Popular Board Game Played?
The real-estate game of Monopoly is the all-time best-seller among board games. Since it was introduced in 1935 and up through 1974, more than 80,000,000 sets have been sold!
The company that manufactures the game, Parker Brothers, prints $18,500,000,000,000 (181/4 trillion dollars) worth of play money for Monopoly every year. This is more than the total of real money printed in the entire world.
Why Do You Hear the Ocean Roar in a Seashell?
Have you ever picked up a large shell on the beach and held it to your ear? If so, you were probably amazed to hear sounds, like the roar of the ocean, reach your ear from inside the shell.
But how could that be? Well, it can't! This is simply an exciting idea created perhaps by someone with a vivid imagination. However, there is a perfectly logical scientific explanation for it.
The sounds you hear in a seashell are the exact same sounds that are always being made around you, although some may be so low that either you don't hear them or you don't pay attention to them.
However, when you put a seashell to your ear, something happens to those sounds. Inside the shell is a hollow, or "empty," area. This hollow area works like the hollow body of a guitar, to amplify sounds, or make them louder.
So the seashell's hollow body is actually picking up all the little noises around you and amplifying them, so that together they make the sounds that make you think of the ocean's roar.
Why Does the Leaning Tower of Pisa Lean?
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a marble bell tower at Pisa, Italy. Even though the tower has been leaning since it was under construction, it has stood for hundreds of years, despite the fact that it looks as if it might fall any minute.
The tower was begun over 800 years ago, in 1173, and after the first three of its eight stories were built, the ground started to sink, and the tower began to lean. It has continued leaning, a millimeter each year, and now leans 14 feet out of line.
Still, the lean does not stop thousands of tourists each year from climbing its 300 winding steps to the bell tower to view Pisa and the surrounding countryside.
Why Did People Put Gargoyles on Buildings?
Gargoyles are weird stone figures which are half human and half animal or half bird. They sit on edges of roofs of many old cathedrals, palaces, and other buildings. But these frightening figures are not there to frighten away passers-by; they serve a very useful purpose.
Gargoyles are actually waterspouts to catch the rain as it flows off the roof. This water is piped into the mouths of the gargoyles and is emptied into the street, instead of dripping down the sides of the building and damaging it.
Stoneworkers who created these gargoyles in medieval times are said to have represented their friends in the grotesque forms of these gargoyles.
Some people believe that gargoyles were named from the French word gargouiller, which means "to gargle." Perhaps this is true, since people do make strange and even grotesque faces when they gargle water in their throats.
- A frog can’t empty its stomach by vomiting.
- A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
- The lung fish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.
- The bark of an older red wood tree is fire proof.
- The average American consumes nine pounds of food additives every year.
- 7000 new insects species are discovered every year.
- The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap
- Barbie’s fill name is babra Millicent Roberts.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
- Pearls melt in vinegar
- It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs..
- Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
- Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
- "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
- Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
- POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
- KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
- ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
- OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
- German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
- A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
- The snowiest city in the U.S.A. is blue canyon, California Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
- Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
- The great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having $ex.
- No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.
- SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
- A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
- DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
- 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.
- The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
- The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
- DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
- CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
- The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
- Some lions mates over 50 times a day.
- American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.
- The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.
- In the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
- There’s a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
- Jimmy Carter is the first U.S.A. president to have born in hospital.
- Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
- Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
- Human birth control pill work on gorillas.
- The right lung takes in more air than the left.
- It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
- A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
- Astronauts cannot burp in space.
- People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
- Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.
- People with blue eyes see better in dark.
- Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
- The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.
- The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
- The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
- There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.
- A male baboon can kill a leopard.
- When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.
- Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.
- Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
- Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips ..
- A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death ..
- The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
- If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19 You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
- By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).
- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
- The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola
- Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
- Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
- Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator game..
- Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
- During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance ..
- Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
- Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
- Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
- Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
- Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
- Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
- There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple and silver!
- The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had.
- Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
- The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle".
- A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
- Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why.
- 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
- Every person has a unique tongue print
- 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
- The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
- The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolokol in the Kremlin in Moscow. It's 20' 2" high and 21' 8" in diameter. Cast in 1735, it weighs 222.56 tons and has never been wrung...it cracked before it was installed.
- The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil.
- The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.
- The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
- The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
- The largest coffee importer center in the U.S. is located in the city of New Orleans, LA.
- The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
- The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.
- The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
- The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter bigger than a basketball.
- The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150 pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest organ at 384 ounces.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
- The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!
- The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.
- The kiwi has nostrils near the tip of its bill that allows it to sniff the ground for food.
- The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
- The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make sexual advances rather than the boy in order to help the men avoid upsetting the girl's parents.
- The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
- The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.
- The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge. It was sold and moved Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1971.
- The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
- The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.
- The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.
- The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.
- The Kama Sutra was written by Mallanga Vatsyayana, who was rumored to be celibate.
- The kangaroo and the emu are shown supporting the shield on Australia's coat of arms.
- The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.
- The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
- The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
- The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
- The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
- The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.
- The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.
- The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.
- The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).
- The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.
- The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.
- The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.
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1) A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2) The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!
3) 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.
4) Polar bears are left handed.
The Great Pyramid of Giza
Since the earliest of times the "Great Pyramid" of Giza (Arab. Al Jizah ) along with its 2 other main pyramids have been considered one of the wonders of the world. The Great Pyramid is still among the world's largest structures, standing almost as tall as a 50 story skyscraper. The 3 main pyramids were built as tombs for 3 Egyptian Pharaohs who were considered to be gods on earth. The first and largest pyramid, known as the Great Pyramid was a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops to the Greeks), who ruled the 4th dynasty around 2575 BC, which would have been centuries before Abraham, the first Hebrew. But the real marvel of this Great Pyramid was its massive size.
Size and Description
The true pyramid exists only in Egypt, though the term has also been applied to similar structures in other countries. The Great Pyramid stands 480 feet tall with a base of 750 feet in each direction forming a square at the bottom. The pyramid contains around 2,300,000 individual blocks of stones each weighing over 2.5 tons on the average, with some weighing over 16 tons and the granite roof slabs of Khufu's burial chamber weigh over 50 tons. The stones form a giant staircase with each step being waist high. The foundation below the pyramid is solid rock. Today the city of Cairo is extended out very close to the pyramids but in ancient times it stood out in the desert. Originally the stones were incased in brilliant white polished limestone which gave it a glittering appearance.
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What Archaeologists Have Found
Archaeologists have been trying to solve the puzzle of where the possibly 100,000 laborers who built the pyramids lived. Once they find the workers' living area, they can learn more about the workforce, their daily lives, and perhaps where they came from. Thus the settlement of the camps have been discovered, Bakeries have been found to feed the workers, as well as cemetaries, tools, hieroglyphical inscriptions, names of the craftsmen, overseers, inspectors, 25 unique new titles, and more. They even found 600 skeletons of Egyptians, some of which had emergency medical treatment having been injured while working on the pyramid. There is also evidence that these workers worked all year round, seeing that, according to their beliefs, they were assured a certain place in the afterlife. Their hard labor for their king and Pharaoh would also benefit the future and prosperity of Egypt as a whole.
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ya i have heard and also learned abt great pyramid in many books and i was stunned by the energy that it produces and the drasticall changes it makes
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