25 interesting facts: 1. A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood. 2. By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours. 3. Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms. 4. Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River. 5. The colors yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colors that stimulate hunger. 6. If all the salt were to be extracted from the Earth's oceans, you would have enough salt to cover all of the continents five feet deep. 7. If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London. 8. Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day. 9. A leech has 32 brains. 10. Australia has had stamps that actually look like gems. In 1995 and 1996 they used a special technology to make the stamps look like diamonds and opals. 11. A lion's roar is so loud that it can be heard five kilometers away. 12. There are five million scent receptors located in a human beings nose. 13. The most recycled product in the world is the automobile. 14. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 15. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 16. Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system. 17. The first modern toothbrush was invented in China. Its bristles came from hogs hair or the mane of a horse that were then put into ivory … [Read more...]
15 Interesting scientific facts
Interesting facts about mosquitoes, animals, plants and chemicals: 1. Mosquitoes: A. Female mosquitoes are non- vegetarian in nature and continue their existence by taking the blood of human-beings and other animals. B. The male mosquitoes are vegetarians and live on eating the lives of the plants and the trees. Female mosquitoes are responsible for the spreading of the infectious diseases like – Malaria, Dengue fever and Chikungunia etc. 2. Tongue of the blue whale: Its tongue’s weight is equal to the total body weight of the elephant. 3. Middle finger of the hand: It grows more speedily in length, compared to the remaining four fingers of the hand. 4. Peculiar thing: Rats and horses can’t have the power of vomiting, which is why the rats can’t survive, even after taking the small quantity of zinc sulphate (rat-poisoning). 5. Age and pregnancy: Those who are pregnant after 35 years will have the 1 in 27 chance of giving delivery of twins. 6. Chips: Taking 1 chips pocket per day= taking 5 liters of oil in a year. 7. Tse-tse Fly: It is the causative organism for “over –sleeping (sleeping sickness)disease, in human-beings. 8. Bones in the human’s head : There are 29 bones present in our head. 9. T he oldest food plant is: Barley. 10. The superior quality products, manufactured for our daily use are called “White goods”. 11. Foolish seedling disease: This disease in paddy (rice) plants is caused by “Zibbarella Fusicory fungus”. In this disease, the stem of the plant grows extraordinarily in length. 12. Cooking soda: Chemically, it is “Sodium Bicarbonate”. 13. Washing soda: chemically it is … [Read more...]
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