Tuesday, September 8, 2009

General Informations

~ Birds don't sweat.

~ Many spiders have eight eyes.

~ Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

~ A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere.

~ Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.

~ Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy.

~ About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.

~ Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

~ Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

~ A Rat can last longer without Water than a Camel can.

~ Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts.

~ Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

~ The average woman uses about her height in lipstick every five years.

~ The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, AD 336 in Rome.

~ A Chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but, Monkeys can't.

~ A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

~ The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft.

~ The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.

~ The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

~ Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000
taste buds.

~ The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented
the digit zero.

~ The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called
creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.

~ Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea
leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

~ Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake
charmer". Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer
and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the
middle ear.

~ The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells
and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called
"Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell
and taste information to the brain.

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