HUMAN BODY INTERESTING FACTS

Did you than human nose can remember up to 50000 different types of scents .

Research suggests that Children tend to grow faster in spring season as compared
to any other time of the year !

Do you know that on average,men have larger noses than women !

Do you know that the enamel on the top surface of our tooth is the hardest part of
the entire body !

Food is either cooled or warmed to a suitable temperature in the mouth !

Hugging releases oxytocin,which helps to heal physical wounds,makes someone

trust you more !

Do you know that your Toe-prints are also unique , just like your finger prints !And
imagine even your tongue print is unique!

You know ,you have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!

You know ,you can see your nose all the time but somehow your brain always
ignores it!

We all blink after every few seconds, but do we know the purpose of blinking !
Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs.That keeps them clean and moist.

An average person has over 1,460 dreams a year which is about 4 dreams every
night!

On a clear night ,the human eye can see between 2000 to 3000 stars in the sky.

Do you know the similarity between human body and a banana? You will be
amazed to know that 50% of human DNA is same as in banana!

The human body has enough iron in it to make 3 inches long nail.

A human heart pumps enough blood to fill 100 swimming pools in an average
lifetime.In the same time it will beat almost three billion times

While sleeping, one person out of every eight snores, and one in ten grinds his
teeth

All babies are color blind when they are born ,so > they only see black & white.

People with dark color skin wrinkle later than the people having light color skins!

Guess how many muscles are working when you take a step! Well, about 200
muscles are used when we take a single step!

Weight of the eyeball ! The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
Do you know ,it is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open !

And do you know ,it is impossible to hum while your nose is plugged close !

Do you know 'rhinoplasty' is the name given to plastic surgery which involves nose !

Have you heard about Anosmia ,Dysosmia ,Hyperosmia? These all words are
related to sense of smelling. Anosmia means inability to smell and Dysosmia is a
condition where things don't smell like they should smell whereas Hyperosmia
means strong sense of smelling !

Here is one more trivia about nose :the technical term for sense of smell is
'olfaction' !

Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.

Here is an amazing fact about the brain,it uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood
in your body.

Do you know what is Uvula? It is the small piece of the small tissue dangling over
the tongue.

Now this is cool ,the tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

And did you know that our fingers don't have any muscles ? The muscles which
move our finger joints are located in the palm and up in the forearm.

An adult human body contains approximately 100 trillion cells!

Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.

Do you know ,your brain is 80% water?

No pain in the brain! Do you know our brain does not feel pain! Even though brain
processes pain signals,the brain itself actually does not feel pain.

Bones in an adult account for 14% of the body's total weight.

The tips of your fingers have enough strength to support the weight of your whole
body

When you are born with 300 bones in their body, but as an adult you only have 206
bones. This happens because many of them join together to make a single bone.
The outsides of a bone are hard, they are light and soft inside. They are about 75%
water.

The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!

The smallest bone in the human body is the staples bone which is located in the
ear,it is also called stirrup .
Men get hiccups more often than women.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 miles per hour.When a sneeze leaves your
body ,it is at such a high speed that you should avoid suppressing it.

It takes food only seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the
esophagus, pretty fast , right?

Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Women hearts beat faster than men. Also women blink more than men !

In one day ,your heart beats 100,000 times.

And do you know that breathing rate is faster in children and women than men !

The normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute.

Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.

Did you know that Blood is 6 times thicker than water?

Our kidneys filter about 1.3 liters of blood every minute & expel up to 1.4 liters of
urine in a day.

The capacity of an adult human bladder ranges from approximately 600 ml to 800
ml. The exact maximum capacity varies from person to person. But remember that
the urge to urinate is triggered when the bladder contains about 100 to 200 mls ,
much lower than full capacity. As the bladder fills with fluid, receptors in the bladder
wall get stretched.

Do you know a woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men
have 5.6 liters?

Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a
human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to
go around the world twice.

Did you know that, our heart (which is one of the main muscles ) is so powerful that
it can squirt the blood no less than 9 meters high? It's because its programmed to
deliver the blood even in the less accessible areas of the body, like the toes & the
fingertips, and therefore, in order to do this, its necessary for the heart to create
lots of pressure inside the veins.

People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.

The reason honey is so easy to digest is that its already been digested by a bee.
 The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes
in oxygen directly from the air.

The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen
gas bubbles bursting.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

Every drop of blood in your body is filtered by your body over 300 times a day.

Babies are born with pink lungs but they darken in color as we breathe in polluted
air.

Your right lung is bigger than left lung! The left lung is small so as to adjust heart in
that part !

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

You burn more calorie while sleeping than watching TV.

Almost half of total bones in human body are in hands & feet.

The Hyoid bone, in your throat ,is the only bone in your body which not attached to
other bone..

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Your skeleton keeps changing every 10 years, that means your bodies keep
renewing themselves so every 10 year you have a new skeleton.

The word Karate means, "empty hand.

The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot
tends to swell a bit around this time.

Do you know left hand side of your brain controls right -side of your body whereas
right-hand side controls left part of body .

Do you know everybody has a strong eye and one weak!

Pupils in eyes get their name because the picture they give is small ,like
schoolchildren !

Rods & Cons are the two types of light sensitive cells in your eyes.Rods tell about
brightness of color but Cones tell about what color it is. Cones don't work well in
night ,that is why colors look gray at night!

The brain grows quickest till the age of 5.!

And do you know that unlike other body cells ,brain cells can not regenerate . Once
brain cells are damaged ,they are not repaired !

A normal human being can survive for 20 days without eating but it can survive only
for 2 days without drinking!
Your blood carries food & oxygen to all of your body.!

Body fat is not particularly hazardous to health until the level of total body fat
reaches 35% for men & 40% for woman

About 90% of what we eat is assimilated in the small intestine.

Human Bones consist of 50% water & 50% solid material.

14 bones make up the human face.

It is considered that average quantity of blood in a man is 6.8 liters whereas it is

500 ml less in an average woman

Hair is made of protein and keratin & has no blood supply.And common belief that
shaving facial hair makes them grow faster or thicker is ,not true.

An average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5
inches (12.7 cm) every year.

There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) of blood vessels in each human.

The average adult can read 150 to 200 words per minute and the vocabulary of an
average person consists of only 5,000 - 7,000 words.

The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye.It takes
in oxygen directly from air.

The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood to 30 feet.
Ansmall trivia about human feet: The human feet have 500,000 sweat glands and
can produce more than a pint of sweat everyday.

An amazing fact :In an adult human body, there are about 60,000 miles of blood
vessels .

A mind-boggling fact:The ear in human body has over 25,000 tiny hair cells to help
us hear each and every sound!

Have you heard about 'Glabella' ! It is the space between your eyebrows!

Another interesting word 'Borborygmi' -it is the noise or sound which our stomach
makes when we are hungry!

A small important fact about human ears and sound:Ears convert sound waves into
nerve impulses that are sent to brain !

The only joint less bone in human body is Hyoid bone in the throat !
Do you know that if human eye was a digital camera , it would have 576
megapixels.

Another fact about blood :An average human adult has between 4.7 and 5 liters of
blood in their body. Blood accounts for about 7% per cent of our total body weight!

EARTH FACTS
Earth is referred to as the Blue Planet. Why? Because from space, the oceans
combined with our atmosphere make our planet look blue. .

It is the only planet whose name has not been derived from the Roman or Greek
mythology? The name has originated from the 8th century Anglo Saxon word- Erda.
This means ground or soil .

More than 80% of the earth's surface is volcanic.

The Sun is 333,000 times as large as our earth.

Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food. .

70% of the Earths surface is covered in water.

Planet Earth rotates around the Sun at approximately 1000 miles per hour.

The Earth is like a great big magnet,so it pulls everything towards it. This pulling
force of earth is called gravity. .

Earth doesnt take 24 hours to rotate on its axis.Its actually 23 hours, 56 minutes
and 4 seconds.

A year on Earth isnt 365 days .Its actually 365.2564 days. Its this extra .2564 days
that creates the need for leap years.

Earth has 1 moon and 2 co-orbital satellites .

Oceans occupy nearly 71 percent of the surface of earth .

Ten percent of the earth's surface is covered by ice .

The deepest part of the Earth is Pacific Ocean , it is called the Mariana Trench. It is
deeper than Mount Everest is high! .

Earth is the third planet from the Sun. This is also the fifth largest planet in the
entire solar system.Earth is the only planet known to have life. .

The air on earth consists of around 78 percent nitrogen with 21 percent oxygen.
This air also contains 1 percent of other ingredients.
The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.

Geology is the study of the rocks that form the planets surface. Geologists examine
rocks to find out about the history of the Earth and how Earth was formed.

Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth and its peak is 8848 meters above
sea level. And amazingly it is gaining height
April 22 ,every year is celebrated as Earth Day.April 22 is the first official day of
Spring in the Northern hemisphere and of Fall in the Southern hemisphere and was
chosen to be Earth Day for this reason

The Earths atmosphere is composed mainly of nitrogen (77%), oxygen (21%),

argon (.93%), and carbon dioxide (0.03%).

Earth has 3 layers,Crust (upper part),Mantle(middle part) & Core (inner-most

part),out of these Crust is the lightest.

Seismometer is the device with which earth-quackes is measured.Richter scale

shows intensity of earth-quake -that is how strong the waves are on seismometer.
Antartica is world's longest glacier.

The Earth's equatorial circumference (40,075 km) is greater than its polar
circumference (40,008 km..

The highest recorded temperature on Earth is 136F (58C) in Libya in 1922..

The lowest recorded temperature on Earth is -128.6F (-89.6C) in Antarctica in
1983.

One fifth of land surface is covered by deserts

Astronomy is study of outer space , a person who works in this field is known as
astronomer.

Nicolaus Coppenicus was ,the astronomer, who first realized that earth moves
round the sun.

Have you ever thought about floating ice in a glass of water, glaciers floating in
oceans? And ice is solid! From what we know about matter, a solid should sink in
liquid as solid molecules are denser than liquids, so why does not the ice, which is
solid form of water does not sink in its liquid form. This is a unique quality of water.
Its solid form is 9% less dense than its liquid form.

Although 70% of earths surface is covered by water ,but total water on the surface
of earth makes up just 0.025 % of earths total mass i.e. 25/100,000ths of the stuff
of the earth.
Pure water is so pure that one cant even drink it. It tastes very bland & due to its
solvent properties, it would absorb all the minerals from your tongue & your mouth
would feel dry So few minerals are added back to water by water-producing
companies so as to make it tastier & safe for your drinking.

The two-liter bottle of a cola requires five liters water to produce.

Water exists in almost every substance ,you eat or drink. Percentage of water in
few items Milk-90%,Bread-30%, Meat-75%,Egg-73%,Cucumber-95%,Lettuce
-95%,Tomato-95%,Potato-75%.
Water exists in a fourth form too, despite it being so vast & important, it is never
mentioned outside scientific circles .The vast quantity of water is locked in the rock
deep in the Earths mantle ,in a layer about 410 kilometers below your feet.

All the water on Earth came from space in exactly the form is in now i.e. H2O.
Every hour, the Earths oceans are evaporating 50 cubic kilometers of water into
the air (13 trillion gallons).

Just the leaves from a single acre of trees might send eight thousand gallons of
water up into the air in a day, which is enough to fill a normal swimming pool.

A normal toilet uses 6-8 liters of water for one time use, so if you flush five times a
day ,that means 30-40 liters of water being used by one person just for flushing
toilets in a day.

According to WHO, 1.8 million children die every year, either from lack of water or
from diseases they get from not-so-pure drinking water. That no. is too high, in
other words, it is 5000 children a day.

Agriculture, producing food for us, uses two thirds of all the water people use.
Do you know microwave cook/heat your food due to water only? Yes, water
molecules inside a cup of coffee or a potato, can spin 1 billion times a second, in
response to the microwaves. This spinning motion causes heat, which cooks the
surrounding food.

Popcorn in a microwave pops when the 14 % of each kernel that is water, inside a
corn grain, vaporizes into steam and expands the grain.

You can use internet, your computer, your iPhone because of water only. These all
are made by micro-chips, they are so tiny & pathways on them are of nano-size,
even a slight impurity wont let these microchips to function properly, so these
microchips are cleaned by using pure water as water takes away all the impurities
from path-ways due to its solvent properties.

1st about Universe & Space

The universe is probably 15 billion years old but the estimates vary.

Do you know that your spine stretches in space?With less gravitational force than
on Earth,there is less pressure on your spine so it will get a bit longer,effectively
making you about 2 inches taller!
There are more stars in the sky than all of the grains of sand on Earth.

The solar system has 8 planets,yes that's right,only 8 planets.Earlier it was

considered that solar system consisted of 9 planets but in 2006 scientists declared
that one of the planet (Pluto) was too small to be considered as a planet!

About 50 tonnes of space dust and rocks fall to Earth each day .In most cases ,the
pieces of rocks from space fall towards the earth and most of these are destroyed
on entry,leaving only fine dust down to Earth.
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.

A person of 60 kgs weight barely will weigh only 10 kg on Moon,but 1,680 kg on the
Sun.That means ,you would weigh 1/6th of your weight on Moon and 24 times more
on the surface of the Sun.This happens due to gravitational pull at different places.

Sirius (Dog star )is much brighter than the sun. In fact, no star is as bright as Sirius.

If you shouted in space even if someone was right next to you they wouldn't be able
to hear you as there is no air to carry your message .

It is impossible to snore while sleeping in the weightlessness of space.

A light year is the distance that light travels in a year .

Galileo was the first scientist to look at the night sky through a telescope.
What is Solar System ?
The Sun, its planets and all the objects moving around them collectively are called
Solar System.

If you are having problems remembering the planets in their correct order, just
remember this sentence "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Naan,"
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

Origin of some celestial words :Planet word comes from Greek word planasthai
;which means to wander, Satellite word comes from Latin word satelles ;which
means attendant, Solar also comes from a Latin word solaris meaning Sun

The solar system is in a galaxy known as "the milky way.

About 99.86 percent of the mass of the Solar System is made up of the Sun.

The Sun's strong gravitational pull holds Earth and the other planets in place.

The Solar System is entirely dependent on Sun & the Sun is the only member of
our solar system which is self- luminous i.e which has its own light.

Rest of the planets reflect the light received from Sun.

Although Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun but it is not the hottest planet.
Venus ,the second planet from the Sun,is the hottest planet in the Solar system.
The reason for this strange happening can be attributed to the fact that Mercury
does not have any atmosphere to maintain the Sun's heat whereas Venus is
surrounded by a thick atmosphere,which is 100 times thicker than atmosphere
around the Earth, which prevents Sun's energy to escape

There were nine planets, until Pluto was downgraded to dwarf planet status in
2006.(Do you know size of Pluto is even smaller than the USA!)

Facts - The Sun :Star of the Family

Sun is the heaviest among solar system.If we take total mass of whole solar system
,the Sun would be 99.86% of the total.

Sun is a ball of hot,burning gases.

Sun is the nearest star to the earth.

If we assume the Sun's diameter equal to the height of an average human adult
,then Jupiter will be about the size of its head and our Earth will be equivalent to the
iris of the eyeball.

Sun is the source of all energy for life on Earth.

About three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is
mostly helium.

On the Sun's surface ,there are dark patches known as sunspots. These are
patches of gas that looks dark since they are cooler than their surroundings.

The sun is considered to have four layers although there is no clear boundary
between these layers.These are Corona, Chromosphere, Photosphere and the
Core.

The light from the Sun takes approximately 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach the
Earth.

It takes about 1.25 seconds for moonlight to reach the Earth whereas sunlight
reaches the earth in 8 minutes 19 seconds,so you can judge how close moon is to
us & how far sun is from earth

At the surface of the sun,the temperature is about 6000 degree Celsius but near the
center of the sun ,the temperature is about 15 to 20 million degree Celsius.

Planets Facts :The Sun's Family

Planet word comes from Greek ,which means wandering star.

Planets are heavenly bodies ,which revolve around the Sun in elliptical orbits.
 All planets fall in 2 groups,inner planets and outer planets.Mercury , Venus, Mars
and Earth are called inner planets.Outer Planets: These are Jupiter , Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune.

Between Inner & Outer Planets,there is a ring of small bodies,which are made of
rock & metal,these are called Asteroids. They also keep moving around the Sun
.This ring is also called Asteroids Belt.

There is another way of grouping the planets:inferior and superior planets.Mercury

and Venus are called inferior planets as they lie closer to the Sun than the Earth.All
other planets which have their orbits outside the Earth's orbit are called superior
planets.
Mercury : Inner Most Planet
Mercury is named after messenger of the Roman gods.

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun.

Mercury has large variations of temperature during 24 hours.In day -time it is about
400 degree C whereas in the night time it falls down to -180 degree C.

Mercury is also the smallest planet,and its orbit is the most not fully circular.

Mercury does not have any satellite.

There is no water or atmosphere on Mercury.

Mercury can be seen with naked eyes.

Mercury is the swiftest planet. A year at Mercury is of 88 days as it takes Mercury

88 days to orbit the sun, so Mercury has shortest year among all planets

There are no seasons on Mercury's surface

Venus Facts: The Veiled Planet

Venus is surrounded by thick cloud cover ,that is why it is called "Veiled Planet.

Venus is brightest & hottest planet.It is the brightest object in the night sky after the
moon.

Venus is named after Roman goddess of love & beauty .Sometimes it is also
referred as a ' Planet of Romance.

Venus orbits the Sun once in about 225 Earth days.

Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after
sunset,so it is also known as the Morning Star or Evening Star.
 Venus is also known as "Sister " or "Twin" planet to earth because of its similar size
& mass to earth.

Venus is the brightest planet in our sky and can sometimes be seen with the naked
eye if you know where to look. It is also the brightest planet.

Venus is covered by thick clouds ,so it reflects lot of sunlight making it brightest
planet.Also it is the hottest planet of solar system

Although Venus is the 2nd planet from the sun,it is the hottest because it has a
dense atmosphere made up of so-called 'greenhouse gases'.The surface of Venus
is very hostile.If the heat did not get you ,then weight of the thick atmosphere would
crush you.And,if you survived that,you would be dissolved by sulfuric acid rain!

Venus rotates so slowly that its one typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days
(5,856 hours). It has the slowest rotation in solar system
Earth Facts The Blue Planet
It is also known as watery planet, because 70% of its surface is covered by water. .

It reflects about 1/3rd of sunlight it receives.The earths atmosphere scatters the

light & creates a blue effect, so it is also called Blue Planet. .

It is the only planet having life. .

It orbits the Sun once in about 365 Earth days. .

It rotates about its own axis, thus creating day & night. It takes 24 hours to do that. .

It revolves around sun, due to its tilt, seasons are created. .

Due to gravity, the layer of gases remains attached to it (which is known as

atmosphere), it prevents too much heat or UV rays from Sun reaching earth.
Moon is the only satellite of the Earth. .
Moon Earths Only Satellite

Its diameter of only 1/4th of the Earth.

It looks bigger to us as it is very close to us. .

The moon has no atmosphere ,so there is huge difference between day & night
temperature. (127 degree C in Day to -173 degree C in Night) .

The moon is drifting away from the earth at a speed of about 5 cm per year.

As there is no atmosphere, there is no weather, no rain, no wind or clouds. .

 Like everything else in Solar System, Moon also does not have its own light . It
shines due to Suns light. .

The Moon can be very hot during the day but very cold at night time. The average
surface temperature can go up to 107 degrees Celsius during the day and can
touch -153 degrees Celsius at night .

There is no water on its surface. .

Moons gravity is 1/6th of Earth, so your weight would be 1/6th of your weight on
the earth. .

The Moon is the only celestial body other than Earth on which humans have set
foot. .
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

When the moon is directly over your head, you weigh slightly less.

Like the Earth, there are mountains on moon's surface.Mons Huygens is the tallest
mountain on its surface, it is 4700 meters tall which is just over half the height of Mt
Everest (8848m).

Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon as the commander of
the American mission Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. .

Mars FactsThe Red Planet

Mars has approximately half the diameter of Earth.
It has two satellites.

The gravity of Mars is half of the earth .

The atmosphere of Mars consists of about 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen,1.6%

argon and contains some oxygen and water.

Mars also has the largest dust storms in the Solar System.

Mars is named after the Roman god of war.

Mars is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its
surface gives it a reddish appearance. Actually it's the rusting process on the
surface of the Mars .The dust on Mars's surface contains iron particles ,which
combine with the small amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.

Mars has approximately half the diameter of Earth.

It has two satellites.

The gravity of Mars is half of the earth .

 The atmosphere of Mars consists of about 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen,1.6%
argon and contains some oxygen and water.

Mars also has the largest dust storms in the Solar System.
Jupiter FactsThe Giant Planet
It is named after the Roman god Jupiter (ruler of Roman gods) .
Jupiter is the largest planet within the Solar System.

Let's compare the sizes of Sun ,Jupiter and the Earth if the Sun were the size of a
beach ball,then Jupiter would be a golf ball & the Earth would be like a pea!

It has a great Red Spot, it is rotating storm system inside the planet. This red spot
is also called 'The Eye of the Jupiter

Jupiter rotates faster than any other planet. .

It completes one rotation in 10 hours.

Jupiter has a faint ring system; these rings appear to be made of dust. .

Jupiter is also known as a stormy planet. There are many storms in its
atmosphere.Different types of storms and cloud formations in Jupiter's atmosphere
make it very colorful planet.

This is also a windy planet as the fast rotation causes high winds. .
It has 16 planets. .

Jupiter is so big that you could fit all the other planets in the solar system inside it.
Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets. Jupiter manages to make one turn in
9 hours and 55 minutes. It is because it has the fastest rotation speed in Solar
system

Jupiter is the solar system's vacuum cleaner, pulling in meteors,dust and comets.It
is because Jupiter has the strongest magnetic field and strongest gravitational pull
among all planets .That is why it pulls and sucks in meteorites,comets and
asteroids and thus earning a name ' vacuum cleaner of solar system.

On Jupiter ,one would weigh 2.4 times more as compared to earth because gravity
here is higher than the Earth,that means if you weigh 100 pounds on the Earth then
on Jupiter ,it would be 240 pounds .

Do you what are Gossamer, Main and Halo?These are the names of 3 rings ,which
are around Jupiter, but they are very faint and can be viewed only when Jupiter
passes in front of Sun.

Saturn FactsThe Jewel Planet

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar
System, after Jupiter.
 It is named after the Roman god Saturn

Saturn is classified as a gas giant planet

It has 22 known satellites.

It can be seen by naked eye

Saturn is 95 times heavier than earth

It takes Saturn 10,759 Earth days (or about 29 years), to finish one revolution
around the Sun.

Saturn is the furthest planet from Earth that can be seen without the help of a
telescope.

Saturn has such a low density that it would float if put in water!

Saturn is the second biggest planet, but it's also the lightest planet.

Saturn's rings are made of many pieces of rocks & ice.

Saturn has the greatest number of known moons of any planet in the solar system.
Uranus Facts A planet on its side
Uranus appears to lie on its side.

Uranus is named after the Roman god of the sky. .

Uranus is the only planet, which rotates on its axis from east to west. .

Uranus has at least ten thin uniform black rings, which are made of dust. .

Uranus has 27 known satellites.

Uranus is a very cold planet, it is also known as Ice Giant . it receives 370 times
less sunlight than Earth as it is far away from sun as compared to Earth.

Its core is very rocky.

Uranus has at least ten thin uniform black rings ,which are made of dust. .

It has 27 known satellites.

Uranus is a very cold planet ,it receives 370 times less sunlight than Earth as it is
far away from sun as compared to Earth. .

Uranus is tilted in such a way that a season lasts there for 20 years.

Uranus appears greenish in color,it happens because methane gas present on the
planet that absorbs the reddish colours from the sunlight .
Neptune Facts The Last Giant

Neptune can be seen with naked eye.

Neptune has 8 known satellites.

As Neptune is very far from Sun, it completes an orbit on average every 164.79
years.

The average distance between Neptune and the Sun is 4.50 billion km.

Neptune was the first planet found by mathematical prediction.

Neptune is known to be the coldest planet in Solar system, also it has slowest
revolution speed in solar system.

There is a large white cloud in Neptune's atmosphere, that moves around rather
quickly.It has been named Scooter due to its scooting around the atmosphere.
Neptune is very similar to Uranus although smaller,hence it can be considered as
its twin.

FACTSFestivals Interesting Facts

FACTS ABOUT FESTIVALS
April Fools' Day is celebrated in the Western world on April 1st of every year.
Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day. The origin is change of calendar in France
when earlier new year was celebrated on April 1st,but in 1582 ,it was changed to
January 1st.Few of the people refused to follow the same & still celebrated April 1st
as new year , they were referred as Fools by others.

Baisakhi is an ancient harvest festival of North India, in Sikhism, it is one of the

most significant holidays in the Sikh calendar, commemorating the establishment of
the Khalsa by the 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh.

Buddha Poornima, which falls on the full moon night in the month of Vaisakha
(either in April or May), commemorates the birth anniversary of Lord Buddha,
founder of Buddhism.

Carnival: Carnival is a festive season which occurs usually during February.

Carnival typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements
of a circus, mask and public street party. People often dress up or masquerade
during the celebrations, which mark an overturning of daily life.The Carnival in
Brazil is a big part of the Brazilian Culture, and it is sometimes referred to by the
Brazilians as the "Greatest Show on Earth".The most famous and iconic expression
of the Brazilian Carnival takes place in the Rio Carnival, with samba schools
parading in the Sambadrome. It's the largest Carnival event in this country,
considered to be the largest of the kind in the world
Chinese New Year : most important of the traditional Chinese Festival.Chinese new
year date is different than Western owing to the difference between Western and
traditional Chinese methods for computing the seasons.
Christmas :generally observed on December 25th by Christians to commemorate
the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity. Christmas said to be originated
from an old English word meaning Christs mass

Diwali popularly known as the "festival of lights", is an important five-day festival in

Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism, occurring between mid-October and mid-
November. The name "Diwali" is a contraction of "Deepavali" which translates into
"row of lamps. Diwali commemorates the return of Lord Rama (Hindu God) from
his fourteen-year-long exile and vanquishing the demon-king Ravana.

Easter is the most important festival in the Christian calendar. It celebrates the
resurrection from the dead of Jesus, three days after he was executed. According
to Christian scripture, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion.

Eid ul-Fitr, often abbreviated to Eid, is a Muslim festival that marks the end of
Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting .Eid is an Arabic word meaning
"festivity", while Fir means "conclusion of the fast".
Eid al-Adha or "Festival of Sacrifice" or "Greater Eid" is an important festival
celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham to
sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God, before God intervened to
provide him with a ram to sacrifice instead.

Good Friday, also known as Holy Friday, is a religious holiday observed primarily by
Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary.
Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which
commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties.It
is normally observed Christians.

Hinamatsuri is the Japanese Doll Festival.It is also known as Girls' Day.It is held on
March 3.Platforms covered with a red carpet are used to display a set of dolls
representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court
dress.

Holi, is a spring religious festival celebrated by Hindus and Sikhs in the month of
March.It is celebrated by people throwing coloured water at each other.It is also
known as Festivals of Color in India.It is in memory of the escape of a young
devotee Prahlad ,when a demoness called Holika, carried him into the fire. Holika
was burnt but Prahlad, a devotee of God , escaped without any injuries .
Passover is a mainly a Jewish festival. It commemorates the story of the Exodus, in
which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt.

Ramadan - is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and a time when Muslims
across the world will fast (do not eat) during the hours of daylight. The day
Ramadan begins is decided by the sighting of the new moon. Muslims believe that
the gates of Heaven are open and the gates of Hell are locked for the duration of
Ramadan.
 Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year festival.It commemorates the creation of
the world. Rosh Hashanah is also a judgement day, when Jews believe that God
balances a person's good deeds over the last year against their bad deeds, and
decides what the next year will be like for them.

Seijin Shiki :Coming of Age is a Japanese holiday held annually on the second
Monday of January. It is held in order to congratulate and encourage all those who
have reached the age of majority which is 20 in Japan.

Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day is an annual

commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between
intimate companions. The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs
named Valentine

Tanabata : (meaning "Evening of the seventh") is a Japanese star festival.It

celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair).According to
legend, the Milky Way, separates these friends, and they are allowed to meet only
once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month

Thanksgiving Day: It is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States

and Canada. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest.
Tomatina :.La Tomatina is a festival that is held in the Valencian town of Buol, a
town located in Spain in which participants throw tomatoes and get involved in this
tomato fight purely for fun. It is held on the last Wednesday of August.It started in
1945 when group of few young people wanted to show an act of fight in a main
square of the town. There were few vegetable vendors near the venue ,to show the
brawl ,these young people took vegetables from the vendors & started throwing on
each other. Next year, they repeated the same at same venue. Gradually it
converted into an annual fun event & only tomatoes were allowed to be used for
throwing.

Yam - A popular holiday in Ghana and Nigeria, the Yam Festival is named after the
most common food in many African countries. Yams are the first crops to be
harvested. People offer yams to gods and ancestors first before distributing them to
the villagers

Facts about Pacific OceanThe Largest ,The

Deepest:

The Pacific Ocean has approximately 1/3rd of the Earth's surface.

The Pacific ocean is larger than Earth's entire landmass.It is large enough for all the
continents to fit into it.

The Pacific ocean is also the deepest of all the oceans

.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of all the oceans.
 The area and volume of the Pacific Ocean are greater than the Atlantic and Indian
combined( taken together).

The Mariana Trench in the Pacific ocean is the deepest point in the world, reaching
a depth of 10,911 metres.

Its name was given by a Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan , Mar Pacifico in
Portuguese, meaning "peaceful sea.

The International Date Line passes through the Pacific Ocean .

Most of the world's fish is caught in the Pacific ocean.

There are more than 25,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean, more than count of total
islands in the rest of 4 oceans.Most of the islands of this ocean are of volcanic or
coral origin.

The Great Barrier Reef in Pacific Ocean, is the longest reef in the world.

Facts about Atlantic OceanThe Youngest ,Saltiest

& the Busiest:

Atlantic Ocean is the youngest among all the oceans and is still widening. It is
believed that it was formed during the Jurassic Period.

Atlantic ocean is one of the busiest sea routes in the Western and Eastern
Hemispheres.

The name 'Atlantic' is derived from the legendary island of 'Atlantis', as mentioned
by Plato, a great writer .

Atlantic Ocean was the 1ST ocean to be crossed by ship or an airplane.

The warm Gulf Stream of Atlantic Ocean keeps harbors in the Europe warm during
winter-time.

It is also believed that the name Atlantic comes from the Greek word Atlantikos
meaning of which is the Sea of Atlas.

The Atlantic Ocean is the world's saltiest ocean.

The Atlantic Ocean has the largest coastline.

Facts about Indian OceanThe Warmest

The only ocean which derives its name from the name of a country , which is India .

Indian Ocean is the warmest ocean in the world.

Indian Ocean was also known as 'Ratnakara' in the ancient Indian Sanskrit
literature.
Ratnakara means 'the maker (creator) of jewels' in ancient Sanskrit language.
Indian ocean has very less marine animal life which is due to its higher water
temperature.

Water in the Indian Ocean has one of the lowest oxygen content of the world owing
to greater evaporation rate in this ocean due to its higher water temperature.

Indian ocean is world's only closed ocean due to it being land locked to its north by
the continent of Asia.

It is about the size of the Pacific Ocean.

Scientists claim that the Indian Ocean is getting 20 cm wider every year.

Facts about Arctic OceanThe Smallest & the

Shallowest:

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest.

The Arctic ocean is also the coldest of all the oceans.

The North Pole is situated in the middle of the Arctic ocean , there is no land on at
the north pole, it is a floating raft of ice.

In past ,it was used to be called the Frozen Ocean,as the Arctic Ocean is covered
with ice throughout the year in most of its central and western areas.

The Arctic Ocean is roughly just 8% the size of the Pacific Ocean.

During winter-time the Arctic Ocean is almost completely covered in sea ice.

The Arctic ocean gets its name a Greek word 'Arctos', which means Bear,because
the Bear Constellation can be seen in the sky just above north pole.
Ocean Animals,Sea Creatures -Strange and
Funny Facts

Do you know that a lobster can live for 50 years?.

Oyster can change from one gender to another and back again.It is like you can
become a girl or a boy whenever you want!.

A Catfish,an ocean animal, has more than 100000 taste buds.

Many people eat shrimps, but do you know that Shrimps can only swim backwards!.

A blue whale's tongue is so large that 50 people can stand on it!.

You must have seen Dolphin jumping out of water! Do you know why it jumps out of
water so often? Dolphins jump out of water to save energy as it's easier to move
through the air than through the water.

Fish can't close their eyes ,they don't have eyelids.

The stout infantfish is the smallest fish in the sea. It lives in Great Barrier Reef in
Australia

Do you know there is a fish called Pufferfish ? They use air or water to puff
themselves when they are angry or scared .
Do you know how many fish are caught every year? The no. is appx. 120 million per
annum(per year)

Do you know natural pearls come from sea? Pearls are produced by oysters &
mussels in response to irritation.

Sea snails were used to make purple color/dye for royal clothes

Coral reefs are made by millions of small sea animals . When they die ,their
skeletons are left behind & this forms a reef slowly-slowly

Are Sea-horses really horses in the sea? Actually they are a type of fish & they look
like a horse,like on a chess-board.

Fish named Trouts are considered to be best warning against pollution in

rivers.Trouts fish need fresh & clean water with lot of oxygen.If they start
disappearing from a river,that means that water-body is polluted to a large extent

Fish name Salmon spend most of the time in oceans but they go back to the river
where they were born to lay eggs .A salmon remembers the smell of the river it
came from, it returns to the same river even it might be 1000 Kms away.
 What are crustaceans? These are kind of animals which have strong skeleton
outside their body.These skeletons are made of calcium. Crabs ,shrimps & lobsters
are crustaceans.

Jellyfish like salt water.

Octopuses have wonderful eyesight but however they are deaf.

Do you know Octopus's blood is blue in color? It is due to lack of hemoglobin so

there is no iron in an octopus blood.But his blue color blood helps the octopus to
survive in freezing temperatures!.

COO

COOL FACTS
Cuteness and softness inspires aggression which is why we often squeeze things
which we find cute or soft .Examples:Teddy bear,cheeks of a small baby .

The atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki ,Japan,by the United States on
9 August 1945 was code-named 'Fat Man.

Do you know why chocolates melt in your mouth? It is because melting point of a
chocolate is slightly below your body temperature so as soon as you put chocolate
in your mouth ,it reaches its melting point.

Do you know there is a world record even for the tennis balls held in a dog's mouth !
Current world record for the no. of tennis balls held in a dogs mouth is 5.

Did you have a piggy bank when you were small? Do you know the name Piggy
banks come from a clay called pygg from which jars were made for saving money in
old times.

Girls' favorite Barbie doll's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.

The most common wake-up call time is seven am.

Why do many girls prefer pink? The obvious answer can be that it is just a cultural
thing -baby girls are normally dressed in pink and the preference develops from
there. But recent research gives few interesting facts. It speculates that evolution
may have led females to prefer reddish colors ,this gives them edge in many areas
like selecting riper reddish fruits,to find healthy pink faces more attractive to choose
as a partner.

Whether plastic takes 500 years to decompose? But plastic bags have been around
only from 1957, then how we know the years it takes to decompose?Fact is
polythene can be easily degraded by UV rays but plastic bages are quickly buried &
they don't get UV light. Also the bacteria & fungi have harder time to digest these
,as they are yet to evolve to get used to this unnatural material.

It is said that Alexander the Great,Julius Caesar,Genghis Khan,Napolean,Mussolini

and Hitler all suffered from ailurophobia i.e.the fear of cats.

Hitler dreamed of becoming an artist .He applied twice to the Vienna Academy of
Art in 1907 and 1908 but was denied entrance.He left the school at age of 16 and
struggled to make living as a painter in Vienna.

The Chinese word for solar eclipse is shih ,meaning to eat.In ancient China ,people
used to beat drums during eclipse time to scare off the 'heavenly dog'which they
believed was about to eat the sun.

Science of kissing is called philematology. A kis uses 34 facial and 112 postural
muscles.Between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria are exchanged in one kiss.

The oceans cover almost three quarters of the earth .If all the ice in glaciers & ice
sheets melt, ,the sea level would rise by about 80 meters,about the height of a 26
story building

The term aeronautics originated in France,and was derived from Greek word for '
air' and to sail'.

Bhutan was the first country to introduce a silk stamp.

Wheat is the most widely grown cereal in the world.

The scientific name for rice is 'Oryza sativa.

The German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
Less than 3% of all water of earth is fresh water (usable for drinking) and of that
amount,more than two-thirds is locked up in ice caps and glaciers.

The paper used for U.S. bills (currency notes) is not made from trees.Rather these
contain 75% cotton & 25% linen.

South Africa is also called Rainbow Nation ,it has eleven official languages.

The word 'atom ' comes from the Greek word atomos ,which means indivisible'.

The Noisy serpent was the original name of vacuum cleaner.

The Velocipede - was the original name of bicycle

Did you know that Cherophobia is a fear of fun.

Coca Cola was originally green.

In 1681,the last dodo bird died

 In developed countries, a person spends two weeks of his life-time waiting at traffic
red-lights on an average.

There are more than 6 million parts in Boeing Jet 747-400

Blackheads are one of the common manifestations of acne vulgaris-a human skin
disease

There are 37 airports with paved runways and another 34 with unpaved runways in
Nigeria.

The Balley Bridge is the highest in the world .It is located in the Ladakh valley
between Dras and Surus rivers in the Himalayan mountains.

89% of avalanche victims are men and most are between the ages of 20 and 30.

FACTS ABOUT CONTINENTS

1st few General facts

The seven continents are the seven main land areas on the Earth. Some are joined
to each other, and some are completely surrounded by water. Some continents
have a lot of countries, but others have only a few.

Erin Ate Nine Sticky Apricots At Aprils. If you can remember this mnemonic device
called an acrostic then it is easy remember all Continents names as the first letter
of each word corresponds with the first letter of a continent. These continents are:
Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica, Africa!
Interestingly the names of all the continents end with the same letter with which
they start.

It is believed that in past ,all continents were joined, this land area was called
Pangaea .This area started to break up & got divided into 7 parts ,so today we have
7 continents .These continents are still moving away or moving close to each other.

This is called continental drift or plate tectonics theory. For example Europe & North
America are said to be moving 7 cm apart every year

Asia - Interesting Facts

It is the largest continent .It covers one-third of earths surface.

Also it is the biggest in terms of population in the world. Half of the world population
lives here. Worlds two most populous countries, China & India are in this continent.

It has 30% of world land area & 60% of population

It is the birth place of great religions Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity

It is also the place of great ancient civilizations- Chinese, Harrapan

According to one estimate 9 of 11 Global Growth Generators countries came from

Asia driven by population and income growth

It is the home of the 10 highest mountain peaks in the world. Mount Everest , the
highest mountain in the world is here only .

Major Animals of Asia - Reticulated Pythons,Tiger,Panda , Yaks, Indian

Rhinoceroses .
Africa Continent - Interesting Facts

It is the second largest continent.

It is also called Dark Continent as for long time not much was known about this
continent due to its difficult inhabitable terrain.
It is the home of the Nile ,the longest river in the world.
It is also the home of the Sahara, the largest desert in the world.
In the Sahara desert,the Tree of Tenere was the only tree around for 250 miles ,
until in 1973 ,a truck driver crashed into it and uprooted it.
The equator passes through the middle of Africa continent ,so it receives direct
sunlight throughout the year. So it has hot climate throughout the year. Worlds
hottest place Ethiopia is also in Africa continent.
Africa is very rich in minerals.Ninety five percent of the worldss diamonds and
more than 50% of the worlds gold comes from Africa.
Africa is said to be the place where 1st humans lived.
66% of world's chocolate comes from Africa.
Africa is considered to be the place where the first human lived and learned to use
tools.
Major Animals of Africa-Elephant, Addax ,Lion,Cheetah,Zebra,Giraffe,Egyptian
mongooses .

Australia - Interesting Facts

Australia is the largest island (island is a place which is surrounded by water from
all sides).It is also the smallest continent in the world. It is also known as island
continent.
 Australia continent has only one country ,which is Australia itself.It lies entirely
south of the equator and is called land down under.

The name Australia comes from the Latin word australis which means Southern, it
seems it was named as Southern place because it lies entirely south of equator.

Today the full official name of Australia is Commonwealth of Australia.

Two thirds of Australia is flat desert.

Australia is home of three unique animals: platypus ,mammal that lays eggs, the
kangaroo,which carries its young in a pouch,the emu ,a large bird that does not fly.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef,it is made up of coral
deposits & is about 2000 kilo meters long

Australia is also known for its various type of Eucalyptus trees.There are over 500
varieties.

Australia s sheep population is more than its human population. Its sheep
population is 14 times more than its human population.This is why Australia stands
first in the production & export of wool in the world.

Major Animals of Australia-Kangaroo, Koala ,Platypus, Emu

Antarctica - Interesting Facts

Do you know before 1840, the Antarctic was called as Terra Australis Incognita
(meaning the unknown southern land).

Do you know the area of Antarctica continent keeps changing as per seasons! It is
approximately 14.2 million square kilometers in summer, but during winter it almost
doubles because of large amount of sea ice that forms along its periphery .

Antarctica is a frozen land area around the South Pole.It is also called Frozen
Continent . Antarctica is the highest, driest, windiest, emptiest, coldest place on
earth.

Antarctica contains 75% of the ice in the world.It is estimated that ice is 4 km thick.
It looks all white, that is why it is also known as White Continent. Antarctica also
contains about 70% of the worlds fresh water

Antarctica is the windiest continent on earth.

The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot here.
The coldest natural temperature ever recorded in the world was in Antarctica. It was
as low as 89.2C (129F) .

Winters in Antarctica last from May through August.The average winter temperature
is -70 degree C in the interior and -30 degree C at the coast.December to February
are the summer months here, the average temperature is -35 degree C in the
interior and 2 degree C at the coasts.

Antarctica has no cities, villages or farms.The only permanent settlements are

research bases, where scientist from different countries come and reside & do
different types of research.

Most of the continent is dry .Few interior parts receive an average of 5 cm of rain on
annual basis.In a way,the Antarctica is a cold desert.

You would be surprised to know that in Antarctica ,time stands still - there are no
time zones!

During the winter period in South Pole (late March to late September) it is dark all
the time, means it is always night!

In the summer-time , it is light 24 hours a day !

Another interesting fact about this continent is that there are miles & miles of lakes
under its ice.These lakes have been untouched for millions of years and carry many
secrets about our planet formation, scientists are trying to uncover few of these
secrets.

The land animals are almost negligible on this continent.The largest land animal in
Antarctica is an insect, a wingless midge,known as Belgica Antarctica,it is less than
1.3 cm long.

Penguins are most often associated with Antarctica ,Adelie penguins are most
common kind of penguins found here.These are birds but can not fly.These are
very interesting animals, to know more about them click here

Europe - Interesting Facts

It is believed that Europe is named originally after Europa who was a Phoenician
Princess from Greek Mythology..

In Europe , there are no deserts.It is the only continent without any deserts.
Both world wars were largely focused in Europe.

Golf started in Scotland and Cricket was first played in Britain,both of these are
countries in Europe.Similarly piano and guitar are European inventions.
The Vatican city, the worlds smallest country is in Europe .

Most of the countries of Europe use a single currency called the Euro.
Germany is the most populous country in Europe whereas London and Paris are
most populous cities in this continent.

Industrial revolution is said to have originated in Europe only & from here it spread
to whole world.

One of the unusual festival of Europe is the Tomatina Festival ,it is celebrated in
Spain. In this ,every participant is involved in throwing tomatoes at each other.

Major Animals of Europe-European tree frogs, Wild boars,Blue tit,Hedge hog,Roe

Deer

North America - Interesting Facts

North America was named after the explorer Americo Vespucci.

North America is the only continent that has every kind of climate
North America has five time zones.

The population density is approximately 22.9 per square kilometer, which is the
largest for any continent in the world.

North America is around twice the size of Europe.

Lake Superior in North America is the largest fresh water lake in the world. It is
located on the border between the United States and Canada.

North America has the highest average income per person as compared to any
other continent and average food intake per person is also greater than that of any
other continents..

It is also known as New World

North America is the third-largest continent in area, following Asia and Africa, and
the fourth in population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.
The Mississippi ,the third longest river in the world is in North America.Its length is
3778 km.In the Native American language Mississippi means 'Great River

Moose is the tallest animal of North America whereas Elk is the 2nd tallest animal in
this continent

The Elf, the world's smallest owl in the world in also found in North America
Major Animals of North America-Brown Bears, bald Eagles, Hummingbirds,
Bullfrogs
 North America is the world's largest producer of maize,wheat & soybean.More than
half of world's maize is produced here whereas it is the largest exporter of wheat.
Cuba,a country in North America, is known as the 'sugar bowl of the world',it is the
world's largest exporter of sugar

North America produces about 25% of the world's total mild & dairy products.

Home of Google, FaceBook, Apple & many other world famous technology
companies.

USA ,worlds largest economy & most powerful nation is also in North America.

South America - Interesting Facts

Andes in South America, form the Second Highest Mountain System in the World
next to the Himalayas(in Asia). They are Young Fold Mountains. Mt. Aconcagua is
the Highest Peak (7,021 m) of The Andes.

The Angel Falls of South America ,is the Highest Waterfall in the World.

It also has the worlds largest river Amazon (by volume of water).The name
Amazon comes from Native American name for the river 'Amazunu' meaning 'big
wave'.In length ,it is the second longest river in the world (6440 km)

South America is also the home of anaconda,one of the world's largest snakes.
Mt. Chimborazo and Mt.Cotopaxi,the world's highest volcanoes are found in South
America.

Also the world's highest lake ,Lake Titicaca is located in South America.It is at the
height of 3800 meters.It is the largest lake in South America
.
Major languages spoken in South America are Spanish and Portuguese.
It also has the largest salt lake of the world: Salar de Uyuni (Uyuni salt flats).

Brazil, a country in South America, is the largest producer of coffee in the world.
Soccer is the dominant game in this continent.

FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH

Do you know word 'alphabet' comes from first two letters Greek alphabet - alpha
and beta ?

Here is a very simple sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet ,it is 'The
quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog ' !
Challenge your friends ! Ask them to find rhyming words for any of these five words
- Orange,Month,Silver, Angel & Bulb ! You will be surprised to try that these five
words don't have any rhyming word !

Do you know that if you really get excited on finding new words,learn this special
word for youself ! The word is logophile.It means 'lover of words' ! !

Do you know about 'crutch words' ?Crutch words are those words which we slip into
sentences to give us more time to think or emphasize on some point. We start using
them unconsciously but gradually they became part of our verbal tics.Few examples
of these words are -actually,obviously,like,honestly,basically etc.Most of the times
they don't add any value or meaning of a statement ,for example,'I actually was
absent that day.'So what is your crutch word?

Ok, here are 3 wacky words from 21st century- i) Coople - Inseparable couple so
satisfied with each other's company that they rarely socialize with others. ii)
Cancellelation-The joy felt by someone who frees up his schedule by cancelling an
appointment .iii) Droidian slip- It means confusion about which electronic device
does what for example answering an AC remote instead of the mobile phone etc.
Want to impress your friends? Remember, Scolionophobia It means to have fear of
School, hope you dont have it.

Talking of Phobias, you may get whole list of phobias on internet, but here is one
interesting phobia - PhobophobiaIt means fear (phobia) of having any phobia. So
you got a word for phobia of phobias.

The word 'swims' when turned upside down will still look like same i.e.'swims'.
The sentence 'Are you as bored as I am ' can be read backwards and would still
make sense!

Now test your friends, ask them to say the sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick.It is
known to be the toughest tongue twister in English language.

Do you know a funny fact about the word 'listen'? It contains the same letters as the
word silent'!

Do you know there used to be a word in the dictionary (from 1932 to 1940), which
did not have any meaning? The word was Dord.It happened due to some error,
this word was later known as Ghost word.

You would be surprised to know that Pronunciation is the most mispronounced

word.

The longest word in English is 45 letters long ! It is

'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'! It refers to a lung disease caused
by silica dust.
Do you know about a 5 letter word in English dictionary, which is pronounced in the
same way even when the last four letters are removed from it? Oh, you guessed it
right, it is queue.

Here is something more about Q, would like to tell you that it is the least used
letter in English language.

Do you there are few words in English language, which only exist in plural form?
Here are few glasses, scissors, trousers, jeans, pants etc.

Also you may be interested to know that one in every 6 persons in world knows or
speaks English language.

Also the first word spoken on the moon by a human was an English word! Do you
want to know what it was ? It was ok (well a small controversy exists here,few say
it was Houston ,others say it was Contact, anyway all the said word were in
English).

Dont be surprised if we tell you that English language has richest vocabulary as
compared to any other language in the world. Few of the dictionaries claim to have
6,00,000 words.

Going into history of dictionaries, would like to tell that first English dictionary was
printed in 1755.

There are many words in English, whose origin is very interesting .One of the word
originated from marbles game! Have you ever played marbles? If yes, you must be
knowing that sometimes players have to put their knuckles down on ground to take
best hit, so from this a word originated knuckle down which means to work very
hard.

Here is one more interesting history of origin another word trivia. It comes from a
Latin word trivium which means a place where 3 roads meet, a kind of people
square in old times. People would regularly gather there & would talk about all kind
of things, most of which were very small & mostly useless so the trivia word
originated which means interesting but useless things.

Do you know that origin of word 'sinister' is rooted to superstitions.Ancient Romans

were highly superstitious .One of the example is their fear for anything to do with
the left, which is why their words for left and left-handed were sinister and
sinstra , giving us the modern meaning of the word sinister meaning bad or
wicked.

Lets tell you about an unusual word. It is one of the few very last words in any
dictionary ,it is zyzzyva ,it is an insect which is very destructive for plants.
Here is one interesting fact about a word 'Bookkeeper'.It is the only word in English
language with three consecutive double letters!
 Flamboyance :We know that meaning of this word is ' richly colored'.But do you
know that a group of flamingos is called flamboyance ...also called flurry .On the
mythological side,a group of unicorns is called a blessing! !

Here is a strange fact about September . The word 'September' originates from
Latin word for 'seven' i.e. septem. THen why it is ninth month? September used to
be seventh month in original Roman calendar ,new year started in April in this
calendar thus making September as seventh month.But another Roman emperor
,Julius Caesar shifted the start of new year back two months. It resulted in
September being ninth month!

Same is true about October & November. These words originated from Latin words
octo & novem , meaning eight & nine , since these were the eighth & ninth months
in old Roman calender.Try to find out about December , see whether the same logic
applies!

Do you know that the adjective most often used to qualify the noun 'heart' is
broken'

WHEN HOW WHEN FACTS?

Why do we dance when we are controlling pee?
It happens to each one of us. Sometimes our bladder gets full & there is urgent need to
pee ,we sometimes are not able to go to washroom due to some reasons .Then we find
ourselves either humming or hoping from one foot to other .It happens because when
message of taking urgent action and the reality that situation does not allow us to do that -
goes to the brain ,it gets translated into several rhyming displacement behaviors. That
results into humming or some other amusing action. But do you know that remaining calm
& still can help you to control longer.
Why do mosquitoes bite some people not others ?
Mosquitoes (females) find their pray with help of sight & smell. A female mosquito
antennae has about 72 types of odor receptors, out of which 27 can recognize chemicals
found in human sweat. These chemicals are octenol, non-anal & carbon-dioxide. The
people having higher level of these chemicals in their sweat are bitten more by mosquitoes
as they can find the smell of these chemicals easily to which their receptors are tuned.
Why do we have leap years ?
The no. of days in a year are based on no. of days taken by the Earth to complete one
orbit around the Sun. It takes slightly more than 365 days, it is actually 365.256 .So it is
about 1/4th day more every year.To keep it simple , these quarter days are added & after
every 4 years ,we have one extra day in the year. These years re known as leap years.
Why do birds never crash into each other ?

Most of large birds fly in a V formation (also known as echelon) .It helps them to improve
efficiency and avoid collisions.In fact echelon are rarely perfect Vs and mostly are J
shapes.In ether shape,each bird of the flock gets the best possible view of the bird in front
so that it can maintain a safe distance.

Why do ears ring sometimes ?

Ringing of ears is also known as Tinnitus (Latin for ringing).Loud noises like music
,fireworks damages hair cells in the inner ear.The ends of these hair cells get broken due
to high level of noise.These hair cells are responsible for taking messages to the brain ,but
once they are damaged they false signals to the brain causing ringing sound.These
usually grow back in 24 hours.Tinnitus can also be caused by ear infections.

Why hair turns grey ?

The root of every hair is surrounded by a tube of tissue that is called hair follicle. This
follicle has a certain number of pigment cells,these cells keep producing a chemical called
melanin.This is responsible for giving color to the hair -be it black,black,blonde or
brown.As the age passes ,several of these pigment cells die Less pigment cells are not
sufficient to produce enough melanin .Due to less melanin ,hair become more transparent
in color like grey ,silver or white.

Believe It or Not Strange Unbelievable

BELIEVE IT OR NOT?
The US Secret Service,tasked with protecting the president as created by Abraham
Lincoln on the day he was assassinated !

The word Scientist was coined in 1833 ! Before this ,scientists used to call
themselves as nature's philosophers!

Until 1911, clocks at French railway stations were set 5 minutes fast so travelers
would not miss their trains !

You will be amused to know that in April 1910, in France ,kissing was banned on
railway platforms because it caused delays.

Do you know the upper limit of the speed at which Heinz tomato ketchup can drip
out of its bottle to 0.028mph (about 1 km/day). If it comes out any faster, it is
rejected.

The sandwich is named after John Montagu ,who was the 4th Earl of Sandwich,
who started a craze for eating of slice beef between 2 slices of toast.

Dolphins can develop diabetes !

The human brain runs on the same amount of power as a low-powered light bulb !
Rats laugh when tickled !

In 1925,a monkey was tried & convicted for smoking a cigarette in the US !

The National Anthem of Spain has no words !

High heels were originally made for men !

DOG TV is a new television channel created exclusively for digs to watch !

In Thailand,it is illegal to go in public without wearing an underwear !

 There are more than 1200 species of venomous fish -more than venomous snakes
and all other venomous vertebrates combined.

Tian Hao -a hair stylist from Xian Shaanxi,China,cuts his customers hair with his
eyes closed!
New born babies can see only in Black & White!

Footgolf is a new sport where players kick a soccer ball into holes on a golf course !

Betty Lou,85 years old of Mich ,USA and 76 years old Delores Viola ,reunited in
2012, discovering that they were sisters saparated by adoption 76 years earlier!

The BUSCH GARDENS,a theme park in Tampa,Fla,USA,allows its visitors to play a

tug-of-war match with a tiger!

THE SAME CAFE,in Denver ,Cola,USA ,has no fixed prices.All of its patrons are
allowed to decide to pay whatever they feel appropriate & affordable for them for
their cup of coffee!

Rope Climbing was an Olympic Sport until 1932 !

The total known population of Mountain Gorillas in the world is less than a
thousand!
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The cities of Windsor ,Ontario ,Canada and Datroit,USA celebrate each other's
National Holidays

James Simpson of Anna Maria Island,Fla,USA had his wallet returned to him in April
2011,48 years after he had lost it !

Have you heard about the Titanic,the ship? Do you know it took USD 7 million to
make the ship but to make the movie about it ,approximately USD 200 million was
spent !

On Feb 5,1958 , a nuclear bomb was dropped into the sea off the coast of
Georgia,USAafter a mid year collision of air planes ,and its location is still known
after so many years later!

Dolphins can develop diabetes !

Scientists disagree on the reasons of 'why we slip on the ice' !

FACTS ABOUT AMPHIBIANS

Amphibians can live both in land as well as in water. Their name comes from a
Greek word amphibios which means both lives. Frogs, salamanders and toads
are all amphibians.

Reptiles have many similarities with amphibians but there are lot of differences too.
Amphibians are mostly born in water & they have to live near water all the time so
that their skin does not dry out, both of these things are not there in case of reptiles.
Many of the amphibians also have gills along with lungs but reptiles breathe only
through lungs.

The scientific study of reptiles and amphibians is called Herpetology.

The world's largest amphibian is the Chinese Giant Salamander.It can grow up to 5
feet in length

Have you heard about a frog named Tomato? It has a funny way to respond to
dangers. It puffs its body with air so as to look bigger to its enemies.

You must have heard about raining frogs. Actually these events happen for real. It
happens when windstorms pass over ponds full of frogs. These storms pick them
up & throw them somewhere else.

The eyes and nose of a frog are on the top of its head so it can see and breathe
when almost all of its body is under the water!

The world's largest frog is the Goliath Frog ,it lives in western Africa!It can grow up
to 33 cms & can weigh 33 kg!

The world's smallest frog named 'Little Grass Frog' is smaller than the size of a
housefly!

Do you know that a species of frog named Panamanian Golden Frog does not have
ears,they listen with the help of their lungs .

One more trivia about a frog ,which does not croak.A frog named 'The Giant
Burrowing Frog' does not croak,it can only make a hooting sound like an owl!

Do you know Salamanders dont make any sound? They are voiceless animals!

The largest reptile is the saltwater crocodile; it can stretch up to six to seven meters.

The smallest reptile is the dwarf gecko, it is smaller than an average human thumb.

A crocodile can remain without food for two years!

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper !

These stones stay permanently in crocodiles bellies and are used as blast in
diving !

A crocodile can hold its breath for 8 hours in cold water!

Crocodiles can swim just with the help of their powerful tail with 40 km (25 miles)
per hour ,and can stand underwater for 2-3 hours.

A crocodile can not see inside water & also cant stick its tongue out.
 Did you know a tortoise can live up to 150 years. The Galpagos tortoise has a
potential life span of 200 years.

Do you know turtles don't have teeth!

Even when a snake eyes are closed ,it can still see through its eyelids.
Do you know a snake can swallow prey thrice its own size? They can do this
because of their highly elastic tendons.

Do you know why snakes dart out its fork-shaped tongue? It does so to pick up &
recognize its preys scent.

The worlds most poisonous snake is the Belchers sea snake .It is believed to be
100 times more venomous than the deadliest snake on the land!

Snakes don't have eyelids .Snakes also don't have ears,they are totally
deaf.However they are able to hear from the vibrations on the ground.

King Cobra is the only snake which builds nest.

King Cobra is the only snake which builds nest, but this nest is built on the ground.

The fastest moving snake on land is Black Mamba.

A female anaconda is 3-5 times bigger than an average male anaconda.

A chameleons sticky tongue is longer than its whole body.

A chameleon can focus its eyes separately to watch two objects at once.

1. Which is the largest animal in the world ?

Answer: Blue whale

2. Which is the largest animal on land ?

Answer: African elephant

3. Which is the smallest bird ?

Answer: Humming Bird

4. Which is the largest fish in the world ?

Answer: Whale shark

5. Which is the tallest animal on the earth ?

Answer: Giraffe

6. Which is the biggest bird in the world ?

Answer: Ostrich

7. Which is the biggest continent in the world ?

Answer: Asia

8. Which is the largest country (area) in the world ?

Answer: Russia
2nd place > Canada

9. Which is the most spoken language in the world ?

Answer: Mandarin (Chinese )
2nd place > Spanish

10. Which is the largest island in the world ?

Answer: Greenland
2nd place > New Guinea

11.Which is the longest river in the world ?

Answer: Nile

12. Which is the largest desert in the world ?

Answer: Sahara Desert

13. Which is the largest bone in human body ?

Answer: Femur (thighbone)

14. What is the smallest bone in the human body ?

Answer: Stapes

15. Which is the largest flower in the world ?

Answer: Rafflesia

16. Which is the largest ocean in the world ?

Answer: Pacific Ocean

17. Which is the largest plateau in the world ?

Answer: Tibetan Plateau

18. Which is the tallest waterfall in the world ?

Answer: Angel Falls

Top7FamousFirstsinHistory
1 TheFirstManmadeFire
2 1.2millionyearsagoArchaeologistshavefoundashfromthefirst
manmadefireinaSouthAfricancave.
3 TheFirstCircumnavigationoftheGlobe
4 1522FerdinandMagellansshipisthefirsttojourneyaroundthe
entireEarth.Magellandiedbeforehecouldcompletetheexpedition.
5 MansFirstFlight
6 1903TheWrightbrothers,OliverandWilburWright,builtthefirst
aeroplane.Theirfirstflightlastedjust12seconds.Themachine
lookedmorelikeaglider.
7 TheFirstAnimationFilm
8 1908FrenchdirectorEmileCohlmadethefirstcartoon,
Fantasmagorie.Itisabouttheadventuresofastickfigure.The
cartoonhad700drawings,butwasalittle
9 morethanaminuteinlength.
10 TheFirstVideoGame
11 1958PhysicistWillyHiginbothaminventedthefirstvideogame,
TennisforTwo.Playersturnedaknobtoadjusttheballsangle.
Theypushedabuttontohittheballtotheotherplayer.
12 TheFirstStepontheMoon
13 1969NeilArmstrongisthefirstmantowalkonthemoon.He
carriedapieceofwoodfromthefirstaeroplane,builtbytheWright
brothers.
14 TheFirstSmartphone
 15 1994Simon,theworldsfirstsmartphoneislaunched.Ithada
touchscreenandappslikeanalarmclock.Ithademail,butno
internet.Itweighedhalfakilo!

InterestingfactsaboutCars
NutsandBolts
1.165,000carsareproducedeveryday.
2.Therearemorethanthirtythousandpartsinacar.
3.Ataspeedof95km/hrinyourcar,youwouldreachthemooninsix
monthsandinanother150yearsyouwouldreachthesun.
4.Sugarcaneproducesthecarfuelethanol.
Firsts
5.Leverswerefirstusedtodriveacar,andnotsteeringwheels.
6.Thedashboardwasfirstbuiltonahorsecarriage,anditwouldprevent
thedriverfromgettingmuddybythehorsestrottingandsplashingmudall
over.
7.Thefirstsetofcartireswaswhite.
8.Roadswerefirstbuiltforcycliststouse.
9.JamshedjiTatawasthefirstIndiantobuyacar.
Records
10.ThelowestcaristheFlatmobileandisonly19incheshigh.
11.ThelongestcarisaCadillaclimousine,andis100feetlongandhas26
tires.
12.ThemostexpensivecarwastheBugattiRoyaleKellnerCoupeand
soldat$8.7million.
Didyouknow?
13.Awomanhadinventedwindshieldwipers.
14.Britishpolicemencarryteddybearswiththemtogivetokidsinvolved
incaraccidents.
15.TheSaabbrandofcarshasaninbuiltpingponggameinitscomputer
board.
16.AdolfHitler,whileservinghispunishmentinprison;hadrequestedfor
acarloantobuyaMercedescar.