Amazing Facts

Scientific Facts

  • The ideal dimension for ship stability is a length six times that of the width.
  • Female mosquitoes are non- vegetarian in nature and continue their existence by taking the blood of human-beings and other animals.
  • Only in the last century have we discovered that there are towering mountains and deep trenches in the depths of the sea.
  • Female mosquitoes are responsible for the spreading of the infectious diseases like Malaria, Dengue fever and Chikungunia etc.
  • Washing soda: chemically it is Hydrated Sodium Carbonate.
  • Chemically Cooking soda is Sodium Bicarbonate.
  • If  ornaments prepared with pure gold (24 carrots) does not give much brightness and also not so attractive, that is why, copper is added to the gold to prepare the ornaments (making it to 22 carrots), which are very shinning. These are more popular in India.
  • There are 29 bones present in our head.
  • Those who are pregnant after 35 years will have the 1 in 27 chance of giving delivery of twins.
  • Carbon Dioxide is used in fire-extinguish devices.
  • The male mosquitoes are vegetarians and live on eating the lives of the plants and the trees.
  • Tongue of the blue whale’s weight is equal to the total body weight of the elephant.
  • Rats and horses can’t have the power of vomiting, which is why the rats can’t survive, even after taking the small quantity of zinc sulphate(rat-poisoning).
  • Taking 1 chips pocket per day is equal to taking 5 liters of oil in a year.
  • 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.
  • Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.
  • Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
  • An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
  • One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

Science Facts

  • Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man.
  • Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%).
  • The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889.
  • No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
  • The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
  • Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass.
  • Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
  • There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.
  • The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).
  • The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
  • The Cerebrum, also called the forebrain, is responsible for our language, memory, movement and all. As you’re reading this and trying to understand it, you’re using your Cerebrum.
  • Each carbon nucleus (containing six protons and six neutrons) is made up from three nuclei of helium.
  • It was not until 1926 that Pneumatic tyres surpassed solid tyres in numbers used on vehicles.
  • The normal energy used by our brain is 0.1 calories per minute, and could go up to 1.5 during activities such as puzzle-solving.
  • The diamond is the mineral as found in nature. There is no known material of greater hardness on Earth, so in order to carve a diamond would have to use another diamond.
  • The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader.
  • The pistol of a flower is its only protections against insects.
  • H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water
  • Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
  • Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.

Indian Facts

  • India is the world’s largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
  • When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).
  • The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world’s population.
  • India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
  • India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.
  • The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
  • Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India’s wealth.
  • Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
  • The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
  • IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
  • The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
  • India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.
  • India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.
  • Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
  • Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12).
  • Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages.
  • The World’s first university was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
  • India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
  • Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
  • India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

Strange Facts

  • Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  • Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
  • Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
  • The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
  • About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
  • Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
  • Slugs have 4 noses!
  • Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
  • It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
  • Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
  • Americans consume almost half of the world’s annual chocolate products
  • Every Russian and American space voyage has included chocolate bars.
  • Chocolate is not particularly high in caffeine. You would have to eat ten chocolate bars to get the same amount of caffeine as you find in a single cup of coffee.
  • Chocolate is good for you — unfortunately, its additives aren’t! Pure cocoa powder is full of iron and antioxidants. Add sugar or butter, though, and the calories begin to mount.
  • In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
  • Human body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
  • More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
  • The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
  • Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
  • One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

Weird Facts

  • In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
  • 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
  • Dogs’ only sweat glands are between their paw pads
  • Dogs DO have better low-light vision than humans because of a special light-reflecting layer behind their retinas
  • Cat urine glows under a black-light!
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales!
  • The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’!
  • The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
  • The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
  • An average human heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
  • A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
  • According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
  • Albert Brooks’s real name is Albert Einstein.
  • Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
  • Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
  • Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
  • Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
  • Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.
  • Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
  • George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
  • Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
  • Hummingbirds can’t walk.
  • If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
  • In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  • It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original “PREDATOR” in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
  • Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
  • Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
  • Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
  • Polar bear fur is not white, it’s clear.
  • Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
  • Pearls melt in vinegar.
  • Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
  • The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  • The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ depicts two women living under one roof’.
  • The ‘Hundred Years War’ lasted 116 years.
  • The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
  • There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
  • While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
  • There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Did You Know

  • The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  • Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  • Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
  • If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
  • Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
  • Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
  • The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
  • After the invention of the transistor in 1947, several US electronics companies rejected the idea of a portable radio. Apparently it was thought nobody would want to carry a radio around. When Bell put the transistor on the market in 1952 they had few takers apart from a small japanese start-up called Sony. They introduced the transistor radio in 1954.
  • In 1954, a concert manager fired Elvis Presley, saying, “You ought to go back to driving a truck.” In 1962, Decca Records rejected the Beatles, “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”
  • That Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
  • That americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
  • That glass produced from recycled glass instead of raw materials reduces related air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
  • Although a cow has no upper front teeth, it grazes up to 8 hours a day, taking in about 45 kg (100 lb) of feed and the equivalent of a bath tub full of water. A healthy cow gives about 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
  • The average lifespan of a cow is 7 years. The oldest cow ever recorded was Big Bertha. She reached 48 in 1993. She also holds the record for producing 39 calves.
  • Cows release some 100 million tons of hydrocarbon annually - by releasing gas.
  • An elephant’s brain weighs 5000g (176oz or 11 lb), a whale’s 10000g (352oz or 22lb). In proportion to the body, the whale has a much smaller brain than man. This seem to give man the edge, until it was discovered that the dwarf monkey has 1g of brain per 27g (0.95oz) of body, and the capuchin monkey has 1g of brain per 17,5g body, whereas man has 1 gram of brain to 44g of body.
  • The human brains consists of more than 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) through which the brain’s commands are sent in the form of electric pulses. These pulses travel at more than 400 km/h (250 mph), creating enough electricity to power a lightbulb. The brain consumes more energy than any other organ, burning up a whopping one-fifth of the food we take in.