Strange Facts

The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

Giraffes are unable to cough.

Sharks are immune to cancer.

Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.

Cheetah’s can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.

A giraffe’s neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.

The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.

On average, Elephants sleep for about 2 hours per day.

Lobsters have blue blood.

Shark’s teeth are literally as hard as steel.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.

Ants do not sleep.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.

Hummingbirds can’t walk.

Strange Facts

The largest flying animal was the pterosaur which lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a wing span of 36-39 feet (11-11.9 meters) and weighed 190-250 pounds (86-113.5 kilograms).

The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).

The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.

The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).

The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.

The largest cave in the world (the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia) is 2,300 feet (701 meters) long, 980 feet (299 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.

The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).

The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC – the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

Boron nitride (BN) is the second hardest substance known to man.

The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree remain viable for 300 to 400 years.

Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Strange Facts

Bone is five times stronger than steel.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

“Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

Sharks can live up to 100 years.

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.

Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

Polar Bear can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The Statue of Liberty’s index finger is eight feet and one inch long.

Giraffes can not swim.

Strange Facts

It takes 17 muscles to smile & 43 to frown
OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food
When you sneeze air rushes out your nose at a rate of 100 miles per hour
The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies
Owl is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees
Buddha delivered his first sermon at Sarnath
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards
A 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable
8.7 million of United State residents who were born in Asia.
KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
Cat’s urine glows under a black light
Bird Feeding: Do not feed avocado as it is toxic to birds
Vitamin K is necessary for clotting of blood
A Blue Whale can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months

Strange Facts

 

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

Mosquitoes have teeth.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

Strange Facts

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.

STRANGE FACTS

ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds

An average human move 25.4 times during sleep in a day

An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce

The oldest existing newspaper in India is Bombay Samachar

Vitamin K is necessary for clotting of blood

The largest quantity of fish in the world is produced by Japan & Russia

The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body

90% of the Vitamin C present in Brussel Sprouts are lost in cooking

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings

Chocolate can be killed dogs. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog

India’s first television center was set up at Delhi

The most commonest English word in writing around the world is “the”

Butterflies are the second largest group of pollinators, next to bees

The United Nations University is located in Tokyo

Some butterflies, such as the Northern Pearly Eye, will fly at night

Strange Facts

01. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times

02. At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth

03. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs

04. Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide

05. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg

06. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine

07. The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles

08. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet

09. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air

10. 60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor

11. Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur

12. The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life

13. A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground

14. The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees C during the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade

15. Butterflies taste with their hind feet, and their taste sensation works on touch – this allows them to determine whether a leaf is edible

Strange Facts

1. Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails

2. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

3. If you rub an onion on your foot – within 30 – 60 minutes you will be able to taste it – this is because it travels through the blood stream

4. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath (if you hold it until you go unconscious, you begin to breath normally as soon as you do)

5. On one square inch of human skin there are 20 million microscopic creatures

6. A snail can sleep for 3 – 4 years – during which period it does not need food

7. Giraffes can live longer without water than camels

8. The songs of humpback whales can change dramatically from year to year, yet each whale in an oceanwide population always sings the same song as the others

9. To test if a pearl is real, you can rub vinegar on it – the composition of the pearl will cause it to bubble furiously

10. Oysters can change between being female or male

Strange Facts

The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).

It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

Strange Facts

The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

Giraffes are unable to cough.

Sharks are immune to cancer.

Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.

Cheetah’s can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.

A giraffe’s neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.

The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.

On average, Elephants sleep for about 2 hours per day.

Lobsters have blue blood.

Shark’s teeth are literally as hard as steel.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.

Ants do not sleep.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.

Hummingbirds can’t walk.

Strange Facts – 10

The largest flying animal was the pterosaur which lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a wing span of 36-39 feet (11-11.9 meters) and weighed 190-250 pounds (86-113.5 kilograms).

The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).

The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.

The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).

The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.

The largest cave in the world (the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia) is 2,300 feet (701 meters) long, 980 feet (299 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.

The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).

The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC – the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

Boron nitride (BN) is the second hardest substance known to man.

The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree remain viable for 300 to 400 years.

Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.