Thursday, June 11, 2009

Interesting and amazing facts:

 The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.
 The Blue Whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.
 The brain of an average adult male weighs 1,375 gm (55 oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev weighed 2021 gm (81 oz), Bismark's weighed 1807 gm (72 oz), while that of French statesman Gambetta was only 1294 gm (51 oz). Einstein's brain was of average size.
 A person can live without foodstuff for about a month, but only about a week without water.If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel dry.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
 A mouse is so small compared to an elephant, that an elephant does not even know that there is a mouse close to it.
 Do you know that books can breathe? People visiting the British Museum complained of getting headaches. This was for the reason that books seem to absorb or "breathe" in air and "breathe" out smells of their own. There are so many old books in the Museum that there was no fresh air left which meant people got headaches from breathing in bad air
 Major Walter Clopton Wingfield invented land tennis in 1873, which later became the "tennis" we know today.
 The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
 The Sumerians invented writing.
 India is the world's largest consumer of gold. And, by year 2000 the Indian marketplace for gold will reach 1000 tons.
 Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.
 Chinese made the first wheelbarrow.
 India has 3.5 million professionals trained in medicine or other technical sciences. Ranking India as one of the ten largest emerging markets in the world .
 55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn.
 India is the biggest diamond-cutting center for small roughs. These diamonds are eventually sold in shops on Fifth Avenue.
 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. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
 The first toy balloon, made of vulcanized rubber, was thought of by someone in the J.G.Ingram Company in London, England in 1847.
 The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
 India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in100 BC. Albert Einstein said: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made".
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India.

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