Mind Blowing Facts For General Knowledge
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Mind Blowing Facts For General Knowledge :
Turtles have no teeth.
Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.
Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.
Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they‘re crying.
Helium is a colorless, odorless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.
Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.
Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.
Camels can spit.
An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
A crocodile‘s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc.
Sharks are immune to disease i.e. they do not suffer from any Disease.
Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.
Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.
There are 6 to 14 frog?s species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.
A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.
The longest life span of a frog was 40 years.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Electricity doesn‘t move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
A cheetah does not roar like a lion – it purrs like a cat (meow).
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby‘
An ostrich‘s eye is bigger than its brain.
Ants don‘t sleep.
Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.
Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time
A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time
Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its ―nose-leaf.
Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.
The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.
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Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.
Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
A duck‘s quack doesn‘t echo anywhere
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can
About 10% of the world‘s population is left-handed
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
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.
Many spiders have eight eyes.
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.
Birds don‘t sweat.
The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft.
Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts.
The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird.
The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.
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.
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
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
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.
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
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn‘t have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day.
the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300 degrees.
Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.
Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.
Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It‘s tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.
Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour! Neptune has 8 moons.
Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun… usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.
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Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. Its scientific name is Felis concolor, which means ―cat of one color.‖ At one time, mountain lions were very common!
The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out! Their favorite food is deer, but they‘ll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time!
Queen ants can live to be 30 years old.
Dragonflies can flap their wings 28 times per second and they can fly up to 60 miles per hour.
As fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster… they can flap their wings 435 times per second.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
The elephant is the only mammal that can‘t jump!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren‘t added to it.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Owls are the only birds that can see the blue colour.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
Penguins are not found in the North Pole.