FACTS
 

  1. One kilogram of honey is obtained from 4 million flowers by the bees.
  2. A blue whale can eat about 3 tons of food everyday but at the same time it can live without food for 6 months.
  4. Snails surprisingly can sleep for three to four years continuously.
  5. Some insects can live about a year after their heads have been separated.
  6. All cats born in Thailand are white in colour.
  7. Horses can sleep in standing posture.
  8. A small porcupine can kill a grown up lion.
  9. When a hippopotamus get excited, it sweat becomes red.
  10. Crow is the most clever of all birds.
  11. Dogs are descendants of wolves.
  12. A male horse has 40 teeth.
  13. A giraffe’s tongue is blue and is such that the animal can clean its ears with it.
  14. A house fly is having about 4000 tiny lenses.
  15. In Ontario, Canada, a cow was sold for $ 1.3 million.
  16.  Mammals give birth to young ones, but there are some like spiny ant-eater and platypus which lay eggs.
  17. Sloth is strange animal which spends it entire life hanging upside down from the branches of trees.
  18. Australian Kiwi is peculiar bird which has no wings. It cannot even jump 2 feet.
  19. Bats can hear sounds in the frequency range of 1000 to 120,000 Hz and produce sounds 10,000 to 120,000 Hz. 

    SOME MORE INTERESTING FACTS

    1. Dalmatians are born without spots.
    2. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it has already been digested by a bee.
    3. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cell dies.
    4. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
    5. The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea. It takes oxygen directly from the air.
    6. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
    7. It takes 8 minutes and 17 seconds for light to travel from the suns surface to the earth.
    8. 10 percent of all people ever born are alive at this very moment.
    9. The earth spins at 1000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67000 mph.
    10. Every year 1 million earthquakes shake the earth.
    11. When the Krakatau volcano erupted in 1883 its force was so great it could be heard 48000 kilometers away in Australia.
    12. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the earth.
    13. Every year lightening kills 1000 people.
    14. If you drive your car straight you would arrive in space just over an hour.
    15. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9 meters long.

     

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