Interesting facts on leaders and animals

    1. Roosevelt record: Theodor Roosevelt, the 20th president of America, expressed his New Year greetings and also personally made shake-hands with 8513 persons, on this day.       2. Movements of eye-lids: The most speedily movable part (muscle) in human body is eye-lid and we move it 5 times in a second that makes 15000 times in a day (the number is more in women).     3. Leonard Da- Vinci: He used one hand for writing and another hand for painting and drawing pictures. Indian star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar bats with right hand and he uses left hand for writing.  4. About Nokia: Nokia is a world number one cell-phone manufacturing company is located in Finland. In 1865, the company stared a paper mill with the name “Nokia” and within a short period, it earned good name and the area where the mill was also became popular with the name as “Nokia town”. The paper mill was established by “Frederic Ides Tam”. Later on, the paper mill was converted to “Rubber Company”. After the 2nd world war, Nokia purchased shares in a cable company and began to produce cables bud could not succeeded in that business as expected. From 1990 onwards, it started producing mobile phones and stood as “number one” in the world. 5. National flag of Mozambican: It contains the picture (figure) of AK-47. 6. The queen-house fly lays 1500 eggs per day, on an average. 7. Cat contains “2 pairs” of vocal cards (man contains only 1 pair). 8. The just born Giraffe is of 6 feet in length and the just born “panda’ weight is “4 ounces” only. 9. “Pepsi” was the first business product to be sold in Russia. 10. Michel Jordan, the ex- basket-ball –player of America: He used to shave his … [Read more...]

10 interesting animal facts

  10 Interesting trivia:  1. Owl is the only bird which could see the colour blue.  2. Parrots and rabbits could see their back as they also have eyes at their back.  3. Humming birds can also fly backwards.  4. Butter flies taste with their feet.  5. A male moth can identify a female moth easily even it is a mile away from it.  6. Snails have nearly 25,000 teeth.  7. Baby elephants can drink over a 80 litres of milk a day.  8. Lizards are the only livingbeing which does'nt drink water throughout it's life.  9. Dogs are very friendly with humans than with dogs themselves.  10. In africa termites are fried and eaten just like popcorn.  Facts are compiled by: S.Aishwarya, 9-B, Mahathma Gandhi Centenary Vidyalaya  Tennur,Trichy-17, Kerala   1. The disease, that occurred to the humans, due to the excretory waste of the birds is:  Answer: Psittacosis disease   2. The animal that can see it’s image in the mirror is:  Answer: Chimpanzee  3. “ZOONOTIC DAY” is celebrated every year on:  Answer: July 6th.  4. The bird that can fly equally either to front side or towards back is:  Humming Bird  5. The bacteria that causes “Anthrax “disease, lives in the form of spores(able to cause infection):  Answer: for 30—40 years.  6. The vitamin which helps the animals for early recovery from the wounds is:  Answer: Vitamin “A”.   7. “Emu” birds lives for:  Answer: 60 years. 8. … [Read more...]