Saturday, November 28, 2009

Interesting Facts

* A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, one will feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, one will die.

* Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue - more than a foot and
a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue

* Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess with them.

* An elephant can smell water three miles away

* If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds

* A hippopotamus can run faster than a man

* India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history

* The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow.
The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).

* The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

* The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning its head are
the rabbit and the parrot.

* The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big
as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.

* 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 average adult male ostrich,
the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

* Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins,
much like a human fingerprint

* The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at
birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.

* 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica

* Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert

* Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter.

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