Amazing Facts

Happy Republic Day wishes to all Indians

2012-01-26T03:31:00.000-08:00

We all know that India celebrates Republic Day on 26th January every year. This day is one of the most important national events for India. The constitution of India came into existence on Republic Day and India became truly Sovereign, Democratic and Republic state.

Freedom in Mind,
Faith in Words,
Pride in our Heart,
Memories in our Souls.
Lets Salute the Nation on
REPUBLIC DAY.

WE WISH ALL INDIANS A VERY HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY

Most interesting facts

2012-01-11T09:29:00.000-08:00

Here is a collection of the most interesting facts. Read and enjoy them..

The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.
Tsunamis ( tidal waves) travel as fast as Jet planes.
Rubber bands last longer if they are refrigerated.
President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!
Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
The ice cream is a chinese food
The Hippo milk is in pink color
Alaska experiences more than 5,000 earth quakes per year!!
You are about 1 centi meter taller in the morning than in the evening
Do you know that Jupiter's magnetic field is so massive that it pours billions of watts into earth's magnetic field every day.
Smelling bananas or green apples can help you to reduce your weight. ( smelling only and not eating).

Some interesting and funny facts

2012-01-11T09:14:00.000-08:00

Here is a collection of funny and interesting facts. Enjoy the collection of funny facts.

9 victims out of 10 victims in lightning strike survive!
Do you know that a ball of glass will bounce more than a ball made out of rubber?
Do you know that a bird 'chews' with its stomach.?
An ounce of platinum can be stretched to a length of 10,000 feet!!
Do you know that butter milk does not contain any butter?
Every Alaskan citizen above the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend check of $1000 per year!!
Highly pressurized water can easily cut through a steel beam.
The seconds hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves smoothly. If it ticks, then you can say that the watch is a fake one and not Rolex.
Do you know that in the year 1956, 80% of US citizens had refrigerator in their houses, where as only 8% of British house holds had one!
Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.
Do you know that it is possible to see a rainbow at night times too..
The months that begins on sunday always have a "Friday the 13th".
Do you know that Muhammad is the most common name in the world.

2012-01-07T01:08:00.003-08:00

Step-By Step Guide On Creating A Blog And Making Your Money 1

Step-By Step Guide on Creating A Blog and making your money 1. You can create a blog by visiting a blog and clicking the “create blog” icon on it; or, you can log onto blogger.com and sign in. 2. Next, you will be required to create a Google account which you will use to access your blog and other operations related to it. 3. You choose a template. There so many templates to choose from depending on what you need. 4. You now go on to setting. Here fill in the required fields which will determine the look and feel of your blog. 5. Next is the “monetize” section where you set up your ad-sense and state how you want the adverts to be i.e. whether banner or not, whether they should be at the side bar or under each post or both. You will also state your contact detail, including how you will be paid. 6. Then you move to the “design” section. This is basically the section where you add the various features earlier mentioned. HOW TO ADD FEATURES ON YOUR BLOG To customize your blog with features, go to the “design” section and click. This will display all the gadgets in the blog. To add a feature, simply click on “Add gadget” and that will bring out a drop-down that displays all the features in blogger. Click on the one you want and when you are done with it, click on “Add” and it is done. Not only do you create these features, you can actually draw and pull them down and position them in the order in which you want them to appear on the side bar.

2012-01-07T01:08:00.001-08:00

Step-By Step Guide On Creating A Blog And Making Your Money 1

Amazing facts about Space, planets and universe

2011-12-17T06:05:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the most interesting and amazing facts about planets, universe and space. Read them and enjoy.

Do you know that our milky way galaxy is rotating very rapidly, spinning our sun and all other stars at around 100 million kilometers per hour.
The Milky Way galaxy that we live in is one of the BILLION galaxies in this universe.
Do you know that Sun takes around 200 million years to travel around the galaxy. The distance that sun travels is 100,000 light years.
It is estimated that universe is 15 billion years old.
The farthest galaxy in this universe is spreading away from us at a speed of more than 90% of the speed of light.
The matter that spirals into a black hole is torn apart and it glows so brightly that it creates the brightest objects in the universe - the Quasars.
The opposite of black holes are white holes which spray out matter and light like fountains.
One day on Mercury is equal to approximately 59 earth days.
Do you know that astronauts brought around 375 Kg. of Moon rock to earth.
Do you know that the brightest star in each constellation is called as Alpha and the next brightest as Beta and so on..
The first rockets were made around 1000 years in China.
The slowest planet in our solar system is Venus, which takes around 243 days to turn around itself.
Do you know that the fastest spinning objects in the universe are the neutron stars? they can rotate 500 times in one second.
The sun does not set for 20 years in summer on Uranus. The darkness lasts for 20 years in winter on Uranus. In autumn, the sun rises and sets every 9 hours on Uranus.
Solar flares has temperatures of nearly 10 million degrees celcius and their energy is equal to one million atom bombs.
The age of sun is about 5 billion years. The Sun may live for another 10 billion years.
The weight of Sun is 2,000 trillion trillion tonnes - which is about 3,00,000 times as much as the earth.

Interesting Science Facts

2011-12-11T02:10:00.000-08:00

Here is a list of fascinating and interesting science facts.

The highest speed ever achieved on a bycycle is 167 miles per hour by Fred Rompelberg.
It is possible to produce a laser light which is million times brighter than sun shine.
The oceans on our planet have enough salt in them to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.
Do you know that Dolphins and humans shared the same ancestor some 60 to 65 million years ago
There are 62000 miles of blood vessels in human body
The evaporation from a large oak tree is about 10 to 25 gallons in a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
The temperature on the surface of mercury is more than 430 degree celcius during day time and less than -180 degree celcius during night times,.
The total length of a finnish pine tree is around 30 miles.

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How big is the universe?

2011-12-11T01:44:00.000-08:00

Can any one guess how big is the universe? The answer to this question can only be guessed because no one can exactly tell how big is the universe.

Our earth is only a small and tiny dot in space which is revolving around another bright and larger dot, the Sun. The Sun revolves around the center of Milky Way galaxy. Milky Way is one of the billions of galaxies that exist in this universe. These galaxies form clusters and these clusters form super galactic clusters. In this way it goes on increasing and there is no end.

Does the universe has an end or it is going on expanding? As per Big Bang theory, the universe formed with a big bang and is now expanding.  There is no way to understand how big is the universe.  The only unit for measuring distance of objects far away is the light year which is the distance travelled by light in one year (Light travels at speed of 3,00,000 Kilometers per second). One light year is approximately equal to 9.45 trillion kilometers ( A trillion is 1000 billions or 1 followed by 12 zeroes).  The nearest galaxy is Andromeda galaxy is about 2,500,000 light years away from us.  

The only way we can understand how big is the universe is by observing the light from as far as we can.  The Hubble telescope is one eye that can see the farthest point from us.  Just by observing the light from a far off place is not enough.  We need to find a way in which we can estimate the distance from where the light started.  This is achieved by use of cosmic candles, which are objects for which astronomers have a calibrated relation between distance and the brightness.  By using such cosmic candles, the farthest points of our universe have been explored by scientists.  Even then we cannot say how big is the universe but we can safely assume that the diameter of universe is 93 billion light years!!.

Interesting facts about Stars

2011-12-10T16:50:00.000-08:00

The stars are huge balls of gas in outer space. These stars are made from Hydrogen, Helium and other elements. The star are very much far away from us and the sun is nearest star to us. Hence Sun looks like a huge glowing ball. Sun has planets revolving round it. Many stars also have planets revolving around them. Here are some of the interesting facts about stars.

There are huge number of stars in this universe. Astronomers guess that there are 1 septillion ( 1 followed by 24 zeroes) stars in this universe. But you can see around 3,000 stars with your naked eye.
Like animals and humans, stars also have their own life cycles. Stars pass through many phases and die. Stars explode when they die which is called as supernova. Very small percentage of stars explode. Some stars end their lives by cooling down to become white dwarfs.
A Galaxy is nothing but a group of hundreds of billions of stars which are relatively close to each other.
There are more than 100 billion galaxies and each galaxy has an average of 100 billion stars.
Stars are of different sizes. Some stars are smaller than our sun while some of very huge that sun is only a small dot when compared to them. Some stars called as super giants have radius of about thousand times that of our sun. Some stars are very small. These stars are called as neutron stars and has radius of only 6 to 10 kilometers.
Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the earth. It is located at 4.2 light years away. If you travel at speed of light ( 3 lakhs kilometers per second), it will take 50000 years to reach this nearest star.
The most biggest stars can be as much as 2 billion miles across. If one such massive star were in our solar system, it would cover upto 5 planets including our earth.
If you look at he Andromeda galaxy ( which is 2.3 million light years away), you are seeing the galaxy as it was 2.3 million years ago.
The stars with strong gravity become smaller and smaller with time and finally turn into black holes. Black holes have such a great gravity that even light cannot escape from them.
Hot stars give blue light while cool stars give red light.
Some of the stars are 6,00,000 times as bright as our sun.
The stars in out Milky Way Galaxy revolve around the center of the galaxy once in every 200 millions years.

Interesting and funny facts about horses

2011-11-27T07:21:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the interesting and funny facts about horses that I have collected.

Horses cannot vomit.
You should always be careful when you are in front or behind a horse because these are the blind spots for horse. A horse can easily kick you if you are in front or behind a horse.
The brain of a horse is of the size of a potato.
Horses existed since some 50 million years!
The kids of horses are born with legs of 90% of their adult length.
The oldest horse that ever lived till now is 62 years and died in year 1822.
Foals can stand one hour after they are born
There are 75 million horses in this world.
The smallest horse that was born was only 35 cms. tall and was named "Little Pumpkin".
The tallest horse recorded till now is 2.13 meters high and weight 1300 kilo grams.
Horses drink at least 25 gallons of water per day. It is more when the climate is hotter.
The ears of a horse point to where they are looking.
Do you know that the teeth of a horse never stop growing.
Horses have great long term memory.
The horses can see two different images with its two eyes.
A horse sleeps only 3 to 4 hours per day.
Horses have 7 blood types.
One front leg of a horse is smaller than the other one.
Horses live upto the age of 20 to 25 years

20 Amazing and interesting facts

2011-11-23T08:11:00.000-08:00

Here are some 50 interesting and amazing facts for all.

1. Do you know that chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you away from crying.
2. Do you know that if you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. This is because when human body is dehydrated, the thirst mechanism stops or shuts off.
3. You will tend to chew your food on your right side if you are right handed. Similar way you will tend to chew food on your left side if you are a left hander.
4. Do you know that your tongue is germ only if it is in pink color. If the tongue is white, then there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
5. Do you know that every time when you sneeze, some of your brain cells die.
6. Do you know that your left lung is smaller than right lung. This is to make room for your heart.
7. Do you know why honey is so sweet. The reason is that it is already digested by a bee.
8. Women's shirts have buttons on left side where as men's shirts have buttons on right.
9. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red in color.
10. Google is actually a common name for a number with million zeroes.
11. It costed 7 million dollars to build Titanic ship and 200 million dollars to make a film about Titanic.
12. There are 1,792 steps to the top of Eiffel tower.
13. The human hair and finger nails grow even after death.
14. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
15. Every day 1,40,000 people die in this world and 4,00,000 babies are born.
16. Rabbit and the parrot are the only animals that can see behind without turning their head.
17. The pupil of your eye expands 45% when you look at some thing interesting.
18. Bats always turn left when they come out of a cave.
19. It takes around 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
20. An average person laughs 13 times per day.

Aakash - World's cheapest Android tablet launched in India

2011-11-16T15:52:00.000-08:00

Lot of tablets are available now a days in the market. But the prices of the branded tablets are more than Rs.15000 or so. But the world's cheapest android based tablet was launched by Govt. of India recently in the month of October,2011. The tablet called as Aakash was developed by IIT Rajasthan. Union Minister Mr. Kapil Sibal has launched Aakash on 5th october,2011. 500 Aakash tablets were distributed to students free of cost on the occassion.

The Aakash tablet will be available to students at a discounted price of Rs.1500 and at a price of Rs.2990 for general public. In the initial phase around 3000 Aakash tablets were distributed to each state in India and later on millions of units would be available for purchasing by every one. To know more about this android based tablet, please read about the Aakash - World's cheapest Tablet computer.

The mysterious Nasca Lines

2011-11-13T15:44:00.000-08:00

Have you heard about the Nasca lines? These lines are also called as "Riddles in the sand" were discovered in 1927 and are the giant ground drawings etched across 30 miles of gravel covered desert near Peru's southern coast. No one knows who has made these giant drawings on the ground. It is definitely impossible for humans to make such drawings.

Nazca lines are the lines etched in the surface of the desert pampa sand.  Nearly 15000 figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes and pictures of animals and birds.  Their pattern is only visible clearly from the air. 

These Nazca lines are drawings of several kilometers in length and 0.4 to 1.1 kilometers in width drawn in different shapes like animals, geometric shapes and trapezoidal forms.  You can see the figures of spider, monkey, astronaut, the dog, small lizard, the humming bird etc.

The Nazca lines are declared as "Archaeological World heritage Site" by UNESCO in 1994.  These lines are located in Peru coastal plain some 400 Kms. from south of Lima.  These lines were drawn on the surface of the ground between 500 BC and 500 AD.  The lines can be clearly visible from an air plane in flight.  

The Nazca lines are really a great mystery and no one knows how these giant pictures were draw.  Some people believe that these lines are the signs left by some aliens or the landing strips for UFOs.   

Here is a video about the mysterious Nazca lines.

Amazing facts about Water

2011-11-12T07:16:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the funny and amazing facts about Water. We all know that Water is very important to life on earth. Read interesting facts about ice, snow, drinking water etc.

Water is essential for life on earth.
Water is made of two elements, hydrogen and oxygen.
Water has three different states, Solid, Liquid and Gas.
The word water refers to the water in liquid state. The solid form of water is called as ice and the gas state is known as steam or water vapor.
Sea water normally freezes at -2 °C (28.4 °F).
70% of the earth surface is covered by water.
Ocean tides are formed by the rotation of earth and gravitational pull of moon and sun.
Every kilo gram of sea water contains 3.5 gms. of salt in it.
The longest river in the world is Nile river.

Most Amazing Facts about Earth

2011-11-04T09:06:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the most amazing facts about the Earth.

The Earth is slowing down : The rotational speed of the earth about its axis is changing day by day. This is due to variation in gravitational forces due to the moon and the sun.
Moon is moving away from earth: The moon's orbit is slowly increasing and growing and moon is moving away from earth. The moon is receding from earth at a rate of 4 centimeters per year. But Astronomers predict that when Sun enters the red giant phase in about 5 billion years from now, both the earth and moon will try to come together. Then the moon will reach the closest point to earth which is around 11,470 miles away from us. This point is called as Roche limit. The result is that moon will be torn into pieces and will be scattered to form a 23,000 mile diameter saturn-like ring of debris above Earth's equator.
Atmosphere escapes out into space :

Amazing and unknown and funny facts

2011-11-03T09:11:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the coolest and funny facts which you may not know.

If you put a small amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will go mad immediately and sting itself to death.
The original name of butterfly was flutterby.
A rat can live longer than a camel without water.
the dot over the letter "i" is called Tittle.
The quack of a duck does not echo. The reason is not known.
12 new born children are given to wrong parents daily on an average. It is a true fact.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he does not wear pants.
The Oscar awards given during World War-II were made out of wood because of scarcity of metal during that time.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per each side in Chess is 3,18,979,564,000.
Do you know that by raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quick sand.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before going to space. The reason is that passing wind in a space suit damages them.
The Bats always turn left while exiting a cave.
Paper sizes (A3 / A4 etc.) cannot folded more than 7 times in a day. It is impossible.
The only animal with 4 knee caps in this world is the elephant.
Human beings cannot remember 90% of their dreams.
It is proved that laughing allows you to lose fat.
Only one rock floats in water. It is pumice.
If a gold fish is put in a dark room, it will immediately turn white.

Interesting Facts for everyone

2011-10-26T10:42:00.000-07:00

A Crocodile always grows new teeth to replace old teeth
A lump of pure gold of a match box size can be flattened into a sheet of the size of a tennis court
Camels have three eye lids to protects their eyes from blowing sand
Human teeth are as hard as rocks
Human thigh bones are as hard as concrete
Nearly 10000 birds die every year by smashing into windows
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God

List of top 10 countries by Life Expectancy

2011-10-26T10:06:00.000-07:00

Do you know who lives longer? is it Indians, Americans, or Japanese people? Here is a list of the top 10 countries based on life expectancy of their people.

Japan : Japan tops the list with life expectancy as given below. Males --> 79 years Females --> 86.1 years. Over all life expectancy --> 82.6 years
Hong Kong : Males --> 79.4 years Females --> 85.1 years. Over all --> 82.2 years
Ice Land : Males --> 80.2 years and Females --> 83.3 years. Overall --> 81.8 years
Switzerland : Males --> 79 years. Females --> 84.2 years. Overall --> 81.7 years
Australia : Males --> 78.9 years. Females --> 83.6 years. Overall --> 81.2 years
Spain: Males --> 77.7 years. Females --> 84.2 years. Overall --> 80.9 years
Sweden : Males --> 78.7 years. Females --> 83.0 years. Overall --. 80.9 years
Israel : Males --> 78.5 years Females --> 82.8 years. Overall --> 80.7 years
Macau : Males --> 78.5 years Females --> 82.8 years. Overall --> 80.7 years
France: Males --> 77.1 years Females --> 84.1 years. Overall --> 80.7 years

Happy Diwali to everyone

2011-10-25T18:24:00.000-07:00

There are many festivals in India and each one has its own significance but Diwali festival is a special one out of all the festivals. This festival is also called as the Festival of lights and also called as Deepavali in some parts of India. The word Deepavali means row of lamps in Sanskrit.

Many different mythological events are affiliated with the Diwali fesival. In North India this festival is celebrated on return of Lord Rama after 14 years of exile after killing Ravana. In South India Diwali is celebrated on account of Lord Krishna killing the demon Narakasura.

The Deepavali festival is normally celebrated for 5 days. The first day is known as Dhanteras followed by Naraka Chaturdashi, Lakshmi Puja ( the Diwali day), Govardhana Puja and finally the Bhai Dooj.

In a similar way to other festivals, Diwali festival is also an occasion to purchase new clothes, sweets, flowers and precious jewelry etc. In addition to all these, fire crackers are also purchased on Diwali in huge quantity. The diyas ( lamps) are decorated and lighted in the evening times from today for one month. Entire family and friends burst fire crackers together on Diwali. There is no religious differences for this festival and every one is welcome to join the celebration as Diwali is not just a festival but a belief to remove the evil from this world.

I wish every one a Happy and prosperous Diwali festival.

Interesting Animal Facts

2011-10-25T08:17:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the interesting facts about animals.

The dogs does not have sense of time.
All the dogs are identical in anatomy. They have 321 bones and 42 teeth.
A Hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4-feet tall child inside.
The butterfly taste with its feet.
The eye of an ostrich is larger than its brain.
The speed of a cat can be around 20 kilometers per hour.
The Star Fish does not have brain.
Elephants are the only animals which cannot jump.
The Shark always should swim, otherwise it will sink.
The poison from a stone fish can kill human in just 2 hours

Some funny facts to know

2011-10-25T08:05:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the funny and interesting facts for every one to know.

The cat fish has more than 25000 taste buds.
The tentacles of a giant Arctic Jelly Fish can reach a length of around 35 meters in length.
It takes 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
A car traveling at a speed of 100 miles per hours would take more than 30 million years to reach the nearest star.
The most poisonous fish in the world is the stone fish, which lives off the coast of Australia.
In most of the advertisements related to watches, the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 hrs.
The life span of a dragonfly is only 24 hours.
The tigers have striped skin and not striped fur.
Canada is an Indian word which means "Big village".

Amazing Facts about Stars

2011-10-24T17:01:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the interesting and amazing facts about the stars.

There are more stars in this universe than all of the grains of sand on earth.
The stars can be seen from the bottom of a well even in day light.
The Sun is a star, and is made of 70% Hydrogen, 28% helium and 2% metals. The diameter of Sun is 1,390,000 Kilo meters.
The distance between Earth and Sun is about 1,50,000,000 Kilo meters but it is not constant.
The Stars with strong gravity try to become smaller and smaller and finally turn into black holes.
The stars come in different colors. The hot stars give blue light and the cool stars give red light.
All the stars in the Milky Way galaxy revolve around the center of this galaxy once every 200 million years.
There are nearly 250 billion stars in our galaxy and it is believed that there are 100 billion galaxies in this universe.
A Comet's tail always points away from the sun.
A galaxy of a typical size, with about 100 billion suns produces less energy than a single Quasar.
A Pulsar is a small star made up of neutrons so densely packed together that if one pulsar of a size of a silver dollar landed on earth, would weight approximately 100 million tons.
The Star 'Alpha Herculis' is 25 times larger than the circumference described by earth's revolution around the sun.

Funny, iInteresting and unbelievable facts

2011-10-20T10:02:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the most interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not believe.

The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
Rain was never recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile
A 75 years old person will have slept above 23 years
The wing span of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The number of chickens on earth is almost equal to the number of humans on this earth
One type of humming bird weighs less than a penny
The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;192
Slugs have four noses
Sharks can live up to 100 years
Mosquitoes are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards
About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday
The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency
Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.

Funny Spider Facts for children

2011-10-16T04:29:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the interesting and strange facts about Spiders.

There are more than 70,000 types of spiders in this world.
The largest spider was the Magarachne which had a diameter of 50 cm. The fossil of this spider was found in Argentina.
The skleton of a spider is located on outside of its body.
Spiders have 8 legs and 8 eyes.
Spiders are found in every continent except Antarctica.
An abnormal fear of spiders is called ‘arachnophobia’.
Giant Huntsman spiders have leg-spans of around 30cm (12 in).

Funny Lizard facts for kids

2011-10-16T04:03:00.000-07:00

Please find some of the interesting facts about lizards in this article which are very useful for kids.

There are about 5,000 species of lizards in this world.
Lizards smell with their tongues like snakes.
The largest lizard till now is the Komodo Dragon which can reach upto 10 feet in length. Komodo dragons are very patient hunters. They bite their prey and wait for days for the prey to die.
The tails of some lizards gets separated from their body when the lizard is caught. The tail that is left behind wriggles, confusing the other animal. This defense gives the lizard some time to escape. Another tail will grow again which will be shorter and different in color.
Some lizards do not have legs. They look like snakes.
Some lizards can squirt blood 2 to 4 feet out of their eyes in order to protect themselves.
some lizards live upto 30 years. The record till now is 33 years 11 months.
The chameleon can move its eyes independently so that it can look in two different directions at the same time,
The chameleon eats insects.
Some chameleons have the ability to change the colors according to the surrounding atmosphere.
Lizards shed their skins when they outgrow it. Lizards never stop growing.

Amazing Lion Facts for Children

2011-10-16T03:37:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the interesting and amazing facts about lions useful for children. You can learn about behavior of lion, their speed and where they are found etc.

Lions are the second largest cat species in the world.
The weight of a male lion on average is about 180 Kg.
The average weight of a female lion is around 130 Kg.
A lion can reach speeds upto 81 kilometers per hour.
The roar of a lion can be heard at a distance of 8 kilometers.
Most of the lions live in southern and eastern Africa.
It is easy to recognize male lion with the mane.
Lion live for around 12 years.
Female lions hunt better than male lions.
Lions take rest for around 20 hours a day.

Strange people in this world

2011-10-15T19:27:00.000-07:00

There are some strange persons on earth. These are real people with rare appearance. Here is a list of the strange persons which I searched and collected over internet and reproducing here.

Octoman: This is about a person named Rudy Santos who lives in Bacolad city, in Philippines. He is treated as Octoman. He has three legs and four arms. One of his legs is missing below the knee. His twin also has a head consisting of an ear and a small patch of hairy scalp attached at his sternum.Rudy Santos is 55 years old man with this rare medical phenomenon known as a parasitic twin. Medical experts are examining Rudy Santos to find out how his twin is formed within him and what are the organs of his twin existing - whether there is a spine, and other organs etc.? They are also trying to see if surgery is possible for Rudy at this late age. Let us hope the surgery would be possible and he would be a normal man soon.
Lizardman : This is about Mr. Erik Spraque who was born on 12th June, 1972 in Texas. He is known as Lizardman because of his appearance. He has sharpened teeth, full body tattoo of green scales, bifurcated tongue and also green inked lips. He has transformed himself with body modifications. There are rumors that he is now trying to have a tail transplant. The Lizardman makes his living as a freak by performing before audience all over the world. He has performed many slide show acts like fire eating, breathing, sword swallowing etc. The Lizardman is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Albany before begining his body transformations. He holds a bachelor degree in Philosophy. He lives in Austin, Texas along with his wife Meghan and their pets. The Lizardman also has a blog. You can visit the Lizardman's blog.
Wold Kids: Suprata Nat Sasuphan is a 11 year old girl from Thailand.. She behaves like all other girls and enjoys eating ice cream, swimming, and going to school. But she is one in a billion in other ways. She is born with thick 5 cm. long animal like fur covering her head and parts of her body. Nat was born with congenital hypertrichosis which is also known as "werewolf syndrome". Suprata Nat has thick hair growing over her face, ears, arms, legs and back. All the laser treatments failed to stop her hair growth. Her family is desperately trying for a treatment to her to give her a normal life. But it seems there is no easy options. Another 11 year old Prithviraj Patil in India also suffering from uncontrollable hair growth is undergrowing painful laser treatment but his hair keeps growing back again on his face and body. Prithviraj is from the Sangli district near Mumbai is a healthy, sporty and popular student at school. Even though lot of hair grows on his head and body there is no itch or rash and no bad smell on his body. The reasons for this condition is not know till now. Now both the children are having their hopes on Professor Angela Christiano, and her research in genetic science for help in finding a cure for their children.
Tree man:This story is about 32 year old Dede Kosawa who is also known as Tree man. He is one of the extraordinary people in this world. He lives in a remote village in Indonesia with two children. Dede is a fisherman has special skin condition. He has root like structures growing from his body. The branches that grow upto 5 cm. per year and which protrude from his hands and feet. He is locally known as treeman and his condition surprised local doctors for 20 years. Dr. Gaspari who works at the department in university of Maryland School of Medicine, USA often visits Dede and identifies his condition and suggests some treatment.

Interesting Snake facts for Children

2011-10-15T18:15:00.000-07:00

Here is some interesting and fun facts about snakes useful for children. You can learn about snake skin, snake charming, snake anatomy etc. Children should read this article and enjoy the variety of information about snakes.

Snakes are carnivores. that means they eat meat.
Do you know that snakes can not bite the food, they just swallow the food
The jaws of snakes are flexible enough to eat their enemy which is bigger than snake's head.
The snakes do not have eyelids
You can see snakes everywhere except Antarctica.
Snakes do not have external ears but have internal ears
The snakes used in snake charming performances respond to the movement and not the sound.
It is assumed that there are more than 3000 different species of snakes
The skin of snake is smooth and dry. The snakes shed their skin several times in a year in a process that lasts for few days.
Some species of snakes use venom (Poison) to kill their prey.
Some sea snakes breath through their skin.
Anacondas are large non-venomous snakes found South America which can grow to a length of 16 feet.
The Python Reticulates can grow upto a length of 28 feet.

Funny Dog Facts for children

2011-10-15T17:37:00.000-07:00

Here is an interesting information about dogs. We all know that dogs are man's best friends. Dogs are wonderful pet animals which help us in all ways. Here are some of the interesting and variety information about Dogs.

The dogs perform very important and useful tasks for us like hunting, farm work and security and also assisting the blind people.
There are around 400 million dogs in the world.
The dogs were chosen as pets more than 15000 years ago.
Hundreds of breeds of dogs are existing like Bull Dog, German Shepherd, Collie, St. Bernard, Grey Hound, Bloodhound, Labrador, Great Dane, Boxer etc.
The most popular family pet dog in the world is Labrador. They also assist police.
Dogs have excellent hearing power than humans. They can hear sounds at a distances of four times than humans can hear.
Dogs have excellent sense of smell.
A dog can live upto the age of 10 to 14 years.
Here is a small video of two dogs waiting in a restaurant for being served. http://youtu.be/EVwlMVYqMu4

Ten cool facts about Space and Universe

2011-10-15T09:06:00.000-07:00

Very little about outer space is know till now. But there are some extra ordinary amazing facts about the outer space which everyone should know. Here is a list of top 10 amazing facts about outer space.

If any two pieces of metals touch each other in space, they become permanently attached : It is true that when two metal pieces will form into one piece when they touch in space or vacuum. This happens without any welding work. This process is called as Cold Welding. Here is an article about cold welding in Wikipedia.
If Saturn is put in water, it will float : The density of Saturn is very very low such that it will float if it is put in a giant glass of water. The density of Saturn is 0.687 g/cm³ while the density of water is 0.998 g/cm³.
We are constantly moving in space at the rate of 530 Kms per second : The Milky Way is out Galaxy. It is spinning at a rate of 225 kilometers per second. In addition to the spin, our Galaxy is travelling through at a rate of 305 Km per second. So we are travelling a total of 530 kilometers per second. So in one minute, you will be 19,000 kilometers from the place where you were.
The moon is moving away from earth : Our natural satellite, the moon is drifting away from us at a rate of 3.8 cm per year. So one day the moon will be very far away from earth.
The light that we see now is 30,000 years old : The light that is hitting earth right now was created more than 30,000 years ago. This light started in the core of Sun 30,000 years ago. It has spent most of the time passing through the dense atoms of the Sun and took only 8 minutes to reach earth from the surface of Sun. The temperature at the core of the sun is 13,600,000 kelvins.
Sun loses about a billion kilograms per second due to solar winds : The solar winds are charged particles that are ejected from the surface of Sun due to its high temperature. In this process Sun loses about a billion kilo grams per second.
The Big Dipper is not a constellation but it is an asterism : The Big Dipper or the Sapthrashi mandal as it is traditionally called in India is not a constellation as considered by many people. It is only an asterism. An asterism is a pattern of stars in the sky which is not one of the official 88 constellations. An asterism may consist of stars from different constellations.
Uranus was originally called George's Star : Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781. At that time he was given the honor of naming the planet. He has chosen to name it as Georgium Sidus ( George's Star) after the King George III.
Our planet Earth has at least four moons : Even though it is not actually true, it is very close. One Asteroid was discovered by Duncan in 1986. This asteroid rotates in elliptical orbit around the sun with a period of revolution exactly equal to that of Earth. For this reason, the asteroid and earth seems to be following each other. The asteroid was named as Cruithne. Because of its unusual relationship with earth, it was treated as second moon of earth. After its discovery, three more asteroids were discovered.
The Path of the moon's orbit around the earth will fit inside the sun : The path of moon's rotation around earth would easily fit inside the sun.

Heart attack facts

2011-09-10T17:02:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the facts related to heart attack.

More than 12.5 millions of estimated 32 million heart attacks worldwide are fatal.
14 millions of Americans have a history of heart attack
About 50% of the deaths occur within one hour of a heart attack - outside a hospital
Sudden death is more common among women with heart attack
52 people in USA die due to heart attack every minute. That makes 4,59,840 heart attack deaths in a year in USA
50% of the people with heart attack wait for more than 2 hours before getting any help
39% of women die within one year after a heart attack compared to 25% of men
The risk of another heart attack after first stroke is estimated to be 35% in women and 18% in men.
Women take 2 to 4 hours longer than men to respond to symptoms of heart attack.
Chewing an un coated Aspirin right away, at the first sign of chest discomfort can reduce the amount of damage to the heart muscle during a heart attack.
Eating fish once in a week can reduce the chances of a heart attack by 52%
Heart attack risk can be reduced by changing the life styles - e.g quitting smoking, obesity, reduce alcohol intake, reduce stress, and increase physical activity.
High blood pressure is called as "silent killer". High blood pressure can lead to heart stroke, heart attack and heart failure and kidney failure.
Watching the world cup increases the risk of heart attack.
South Asians are prone to heart attacks at a much younger age compared to other people
Studies indicate that most common time for a heart attack to occur is Monday morning. Saturday morning ranks the next.

Mobile Phone Safety Facts

2011-09-10T16:44:00.000-07:00

We all know that Mobile Phone has become an essential gadget for every one of us now a days. But there are lot of controversies about using a Mobile Phone. Nearly 80% of the world population have mobile phones. There is an evidence about the harm of Electromagnetic radiations from mobile phones. So there is a need to take certain precautions to reduce the risk of electromagnetic radiation effect. The first advice is to use the mobile phone as minimum as possible because even a two-minute call from a mobile phone alters the natural electrical activity of the brain for one hour. Here are some of the tips to reduce the risk and to be safe from the effects of mobile phone.

Don't keep the mobile phone near to your head while sleeping. Either switch it off or keep it at least 6 feet away from your head.
Keep the mobile set at least 2 to 7 inches away from your head while talking or you can use loudspeaker mode. It reduces the effect of electromagnetic radiation on the brain.
If it is necessary to keep mobile phone in your pocket, keep the keypad towards you so that the antenna faces away from you.
Try to avoid usage of mobile phone in metal containers like elevators, air planes, trains and vehicles as it increases the electromagnetic radiations.
Avoid using wired headsets. Blue tooth head sets are better as they emit 1/100th of the Electromagnetic radiations of normal phone.
Never allow children below 15 years to use mobile phones. This may cause brain tumors for the children.
Always keep the mobile phone away from new born babies as their brain gets affected by the electromagnetic radiations and increases the risk of cancer.

Some interesting facts about Human Brain

2011-08-30T19:09:00.000-07:00

The average brain of a human has about 100 billion nerve cells.
Nerve impulses to and from brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
The human brain can hold upto 1000 tera bytes of information.
The brain is only 2% of the body but consumes the maximum oxygen compared to other organs.
The brain is much more active during the night than the day.
The brain itself cannot feel pain. Even though the brain is the pain center when you cut your finger, the brain does not have pain receptors.

Interesting Facts about Blue Whale

2011-08-30T18:58:00.000-07:00

Here are some interesting facts about Blue Whale.

A blue whale can grow upto 110 meet. This is equivalent to two city buses and longer than a basket ball court.
Blue whales can weigh upto 200 tonnes. This weight is equivalent to about 15 school buses.
The size of the heart of blue whale weights around 800 Kg. The size of the heart of blue whale is equal to the size of a mini cooper.
The heartbeat of a blue whale can be heard from a distance of 2 miles away and a human can easily crawl through its major arteries.
The tongue of a blue whale weighs as much as an elephant. Nearly 100 people can fit in a blue whale's mouth.
A blue whale can produce sound louder than a jet engine and can communicate other whales upto 1000 miles away.
The spray from a blue whale's blowhole is almost as tall as a three-story building ( 30 feet).
The blue whale can live upto 80 or 90 years.

Some cool but true facts

2011-08-30T18:20:00.000-07:00

Here are some cool but true facts.

The elephants walk on their tip toes.
Most of the dust in our houses is the skin cells.
6009 is the next year which looks the same upside down and right side up since 1961.
The Astronaut Neil Armstrong left his space shoes on the moon.
It is impossible to see a rain bow at noon.
People complain about UFO sightings when Venus is closest to Earth.
The core of Earth is about the size of planet Mars.
Iceland has earth quakes as well as ice quakes.
some Dinosaurs had about 1000 teeth.
An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Sea stars do not have brains.

Some interesting facts about China

2011-08-30T18:09:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the interesting facts about China.

China is the 4th largest country in the world after Russia, Canada and the US. China has an area of 3,719,275 square miles.
One in every five people in the world is Chinese. China population is four times that of USA.
China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.
The toilet paper was invented in China in late 1300s. But it was only for the Emperor.
Paper, Compass, Gun powder and Printing were invented by Chinese.
Table tennis is the most popular game in China.
White, rather than black, is the Chinese color for mourning and funerals.
Ice cream was invented by Chinese.
200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.
More than 700 million Chinese people drink polluted water.
By the year 2025, it is expected that China would build Ten New York sized cities.
14 countries share a border with China.
China is the world's largest producer of Pork.
China has more English speakers compared to United States.

Some amazing facts you never knew

2011-08-02T16:35:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the best amazing and interesting facts that you might have never heard of. Please read them here.

US congress has passed a law in the year 1996, which states that all school going children in Florida must be taught to walk on their eye balls, in order to avoid alligator attacks.
Do you know that the African Elephant can squeeze its body through a hole of the size of a pea. This is due to its modifiable structure.
Peasants in Eastern Europe celebrate the new year by smearing horse manure on themselves and slapping each other with rubber gloves.
Do you know that a Golden Labrador Retriever contains more poison than a spitting cobra. But the only reason they are not dangerous to us is because they cannot open jaws wide enough to bite.
Do you know that it is illegal to urinate in Gibraltar if you are under the age of 18 years.
Do you know that the Alaskan bear is the only mammal which is 16 meters high, and has horns. It has a frontal pouch full of human skulls and it can grow moustache 3 meters long.
Armadillos cause leprosy if they look at you for more then 10 seconds.
We do not take ants seriously. Do you know that Ants can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Do you know that British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, once accidentally trapped himself in a refrigerator for 3 weeks. To prevent public panic, the cabinet ministers ordered a moving cardboard cut-out of the Prime Minister to make public speeches via radio control.
It is a fact that Microsoft was producing cricket bats before they moved to recliner chairs
It is a fact that stealing pencil is a crime in some British towns. Those who are caught are punished by being thrown in a metal trashcan and a group of children are then encouraged to beat the sides of the bin with cricket bats.

About Flying Snakes

2011-07-04T10:23:00.000-07:00

Do you know that some snakes can fly? There are a group of snakes which are called flying snakes. Most of these flying snakes are 3 to 4 feet long. These flying snakes are found in South east and South Asia. These flying snakes cannot fly upwards. These snakes can fly or glide dowards from a height. These snakes are harmless. Normally these snakes fly from tree to tree or tree to ground. It is possible that some times these flying snakes can land on people. But it never happened till now.

Some amazing but true facts

2011-06-23T16:06:00.000-07:00

Here are some amazing but true facts.

A mouse is so small compared to an elephant that an elephant does not even know that there is a mouse close to it
The elephant is the largest animal on the land but it is much much smaller than the blue whale
A rat can live longer than a camel without water
The polar bear can eat 86 penguins in a single sitting
It is possible to get blood from a stone, but if it contains at least 17% bauxite
King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe with him
The human saliva has a boiling point which is 3 times of the regular water
You should never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, because it can blow out your eye balls
When a dead sparrow is immersed in a liquid, it will make a sound like a crying baby
The world's smallest pig, which was owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, memorized the multiplication table upto 12
111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The bone is 5 times stronger than steel
Bamboo can grow upto 3 feet in 24 hours
The longest officially recognized name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has 85 letters. This place is the name of a hill which is 1000 feet high and is close to Porangahau, New Zealand
250 people have fallen of the leaning tower of pisa till now
When a glass breaks, the cracks travel at a speed of 3000 miles per hour
Alexander Graham Bell who invented telephone, never telephone his wife or mother because they were deaf
The index finger of the Statue of Liberty is 8 feet and 1 inch long
The bananas can grow pointing upwards

Amazing and strange laws in the world

2011-05-18T09:45:00.000-07:00

In earlier days, the word of King was considered as a law. But today the laws are formed after discussions and public opinions and surveys. Here are some strange laws followed in different parts of the world.

Singapore maintains cleanliness and hygiene. Chewing and sale of bubble gum in Singapore is completely banned. People will be punished if they fail to flush the toilets.
Driving after drinking alcohol is a sin in many parts of the world. In San Salvador, drunk drivers are punished with death sentence.
It is illegal to set up a mouse trap in California if you do not have a hunting license.
It is illegal for a single, widowed or divorced woman to parachute on sunday afternoon in Florida.
In Mohave county, Arizona, there is a strange punishment. If any person is caught stealing a soap, he will have to wash himself with the same soap until it is completely used up as a punishment.
The penalty for jumping off a building is death in New York.
It is illegal to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool in California.
You do not see any electronic games in Greece, as they are banned there.
It is illegal for a man above 80 years to become a pilot in turkey.

Funny facts for kids about animals

2011-05-18T09:30:00.000-07:00

Here are some interesting and funny facts for children.

Do you know that cows and horses sleep while they are standing.
Giant arctic jelly fish have tentacles which can reach over 36 meters length.
A snake can see through its eye lids even if it is sleeping.
A female mosquito only bites humans, and the male mosquito does not bite humans.
A blue whale can produce the loudest sound. This sound is 188 decibels and can be heard over a distance of 800 kilo meters.
The horn of a rhinoceros is made of compacted hair, and it is not a bone or any other substance.
Do you know that the Star Fish does not have brain.
A Shrimp's heart is in its head.
Kangaroo cannot walk backwards.
The pupil of an octopus is rectangular and not circular.
80% of human brain is nothing but water.
Do you know that a cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.

Interesting facts about Cheetah

2011-05-18T09:19:00.000-07:00

The cheetah is the fastest land animal in the world. Cheetah can run at speeds of 70 miles per hour. The cheetah is the most primitive of the cat family and it has been in evolution from 18 million years ago. The life span of a cheetah is between 10 to 15 years. Here are some interesting facts about cheetah.

The female cheetah catches live prey for their cubs to use as hunting practice.
The cheetah was trained by man for hunting before 3000 BC.
From standstill position, a cheetah can reach its top speed within 3 seconds.
A cheetah does not need to drink water, because it gets the moisture from the bodies of its prey.
Cheetahs are the only cats, which can turn in mid air while sprinting to follow their prey.

Interesting facts about the Internet

2011-05-17T19:20:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the interesting facts about the Internet.

Tim Berners Lee coined the word "World Wide Web" in the year 1990. Many people believe that he is the person who started internet.
The internet is growing at a very fast rate. It took more than 38 years for the radio to reach 50 million users, and it took 13 years for TV to reach the same number of users, and it took only 5 years for Internet to reach 50 million users.
Only 13% of the world population are internet users as on December,2004. Roughly 35% of internet users are English, 65% are non-English and 14% are Chinese. The highest percentage of 70% internet users are from North America continent. 70% of people of North America are internet users.
There are nearly 8 billion pages in internet now. Nearly 815 million surfers are there in the internet and it is growing. 67% of the users are using email and 45% are doing research and 41% are interested in getting information about products, checking news, weather etc.
35% of internet users are from Asia.
3 people out of 100 in Africa surf the internet. 10 people out of 100 surf internet in Asia. 38 people out of 100 surf the internet in Europe. 70 out of 100 in North America surf the Internet. 53 out of 100 surf internet in Australia.
Nearly 1 billion users are surfing internet every month.
About 18 countries in this world still do not have internet connection till now.

How to improve Alexa Ranking in less time

2011-05-17T03:16:00.001-07:00

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Interesting facts about Camels

2011-04-27T17:01:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the interesting facts about camels.

Camels are upto 7 feet tall measured upto the shoulder and weigh around 750 Kg.
The world camel population is about 19 millions.
A camel can drink up to 100 liters of water in just 10 minutes.
The weight of the hump of a camel can be upto 40 Kg.
Camel can run up to 60 Km/hour for a shorter duration and can run 40 Km/hour for a longer time.
Camels can go without water for weeks and for months without food.
A Camel is known as Ship of the desert.
A male camel is called a bull, a female camel is called as cow and a baby camel is called a calf.
Camel's ears are very small but their hearing power is very strong.
A camel can eat thorny twigs without hurting its mouth.
Camels can drink upto 40 gallons of water in one go.
The color of the camel's coat can vary from beige to darn brown. They shed their heavy winter coat every year.
Camels do not store water in their humps, but they store fat in their humps.
Camel has a leathery pad on its foot which prevents it from sinking in the sand. Camel has two toes on each foot.
Camel can carry about 1000 pounds.
Camel has bushy eye brows to protect from sun.
Baby camels are born without a hump.

Amazing Shoe Facts

2011-04-27T16:24:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the amazing and interesting facts about shoes.

Until the year 1818, there was no distinction that left and right shoe. People were wearing either shoe on either leg with equal discomfort! The shoes were identical all over the world until 1818. The left- and right-footed shoes were first made in Philadelphia.
Wooden shoes mounted on thin blocks of 3 to 4 inches high were worn for centuries in Japan. Shoes were selected traditionally with an ear for the sound made by the wooden blocks when walking.
Shoes were indispensable like wedding rings of today in Anglo-Saxon ceremonies. Instead of exchanging wedding rings, the bride passed her shoes to the groom and the groom would tap her on the head with a shoe.
Your feet can swell upto one full shoe size when hot.
The heels on shoes were always colored red in Europe during 16th and 17th centuries.
In Europe, there was no difference between women's shoes and men's shoes until 18th century.
The upper class people in Europe were wearing shoes of six inch high heels during 17th century. Two servants were needed to hold up the person wearing the high heels.
The first lady's boot was designed for Queen Victoria in 1840.
Heels were invented in the Middle East to help lift the foot from the burning sand

Amazing Honey Bee Facts

2011-04-16T23:58:00.000-07:00

The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by human beings. The honey bee is a social insect that survives as a member of a community and not alone.

We can see three different types of honey bees in any honey bee nest. The first one is the queen (female), the drone male) and the worker ( female). Each type of honey bee has its own function to do. The queen is the mother of all the types of honey bees. The job of queen is to lay eggs and produce bees. A queen honey bee can produce around 1,500 eggs per day. Here are some of the interesting facts about honey bees.

Honey bees have 6 legs, 2 compound eyes made of thousands of tiny lenses, 3 simple eyes on top of the head and 2 pairs of wings. They have a nectar pouch and a stomach.
A group of honey bees in a hive will travel about 90,000 miles to collect 1 Kg. of honey. This distance is equal to three orbits around the earth.
A honey bee needs one ounce of honey to fuel its flight around the world.
A single honey bee hive has around 45,000 to 50,000 bees.
Honey bees visit around 20 lakhs of flowers to make honey of one pound.
The temperature inside the bee hive is around 93.5 degrees fahreinheit.
Honey bee flies at a speed of around 20 to 26 Kilometers per hour.
The honey bees communicate with each other by dancing.
Honey bees are not aggressive by nature, they sting only when their hive is disturbed by others.
The worker bee does all the work in the hive and live only for 6 to 8 weeks. The queen bee lives for around 4 to 5 years
Male honey bees do not have stinger, they do not have any work.
Only the worker bee stings and they sting only when they feel that their hive is being disturbed. Once they sting, they die immediately. The queen bee also has a stinger, but it does not come out of the hive to sting or defend the hive.

Some useful facts for all

2011-03-20T16:43:00.000-07:00

Here are some useful and interesting facts.

The largest animal that ever lived on this earth is still living - the Blue Whale.
If earth were reduced to the size of a basket ball, the moon would be the size of tennis ball and they would be 25 feet apart.
The world consumes 2 liters of oil per day per person.
Of all the people who lived in history and who reached age of 65 years till now, half of them are living right now.
If the earth life was compressed to one year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
The population of middle east tripled over the last 30 years.
70% of an adult body is made up of water.
The first known transfusion of blood was performed in the year 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man.
7% of human body is made up of blood.

One stop shop for Restaurant and Kitchen equipment - Tigerchef.com

2011-03-11T14:36:00.000-08:00

Tigerchef.com is one of the leading online shop for restaurant and kitchen equipment.   Tigerchef.com has been in this business for more than 30 years.   This company has a number of happy clients in the food service industry. Tigerchef is not only an online restaurant supplies company but they are also experts in the kitchen equipment industry. The staff of Tigerchef are very knowledgeable and will be helpful from planning stage through to the purchase stage of restaurant equipment.

TigerChef's 30 years of experience makes them one of the most reputable restaurant supply companies online and are the best in providing excellent customer service.    Most of the restaurant supply products that they offer are given 50% to 75% discount from the retail price with no minimum purchase.   Tigerchef has all the equipment that you need to run your kitchen efficiently.   Tigerchef has all the types of food preparation equipments ranging from refrigeration to microwave ovens, blenders, juicers, grinders, mixers, and a lot more of food preparation restaurant equipment.   You can see a list of their products in their website which is only a fraction of their 2,00,000 product inventory.

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Some interesting facts about Reptiles

2011-02-14T08:34:00.000-08:00

I hope all of you know about Reptiles. Reptiles are the most important and diverse group in animal kingdom. We find reptiles as fascinating because of their different type of behavior and physical attributes. Let us see some interesting facts about reptiles.

We can see more than 8,000 species of reptiles on our planet and these reptiles live in every continent except Antarctica because it is very cold there.
The reptiles are one of the longest lived species on earth. We can see tortoises which lived more than 150 years. The Alligators can live up to more than 70 years. Ball Pythons can live up to nearly 40 years.
Many of the snakes in this world are not poisonous. About 500 species of snakes are poisonous but only 30 to 40 are only considered as harmful to human beings. So less than 2% of all the snakes are harmful to humans.
Do you know that more Americans die because of bee stings than because of snake bites.
Many of the reptiles do not tolerate cold temperature. But the Blanding's turtle is found some times swimming under the ice in the Great Lakes region in USA.
Do you know that the skulls of snakes are made of small bones which are inter connected in a flexible fashion. Where as human skull is a single solid piece. So the snakes can expand their jaws and heads in order to eat prey which are larger than their heads.
The snakes shed their skin in relation to their growth rate. You can see a young snake shed more often because they grow fastest during the first two years of their life where as a old snake will shed its skin less often because its growth rate is less.
The King Cobra is the largest poisonous snake in the world It can grow upto more than 18 feet.
Most of the snakes lay eggs. But almost one-fifth of all the snakes give birth to young ones instead of eggs. Rattle snakes are examples that give birth to young ones.

Interesting and amazing Medical Facts about our Body

2011-01-09T09:16:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the amazing medical facts of our body.

The red blood cell lives for 120 days on average
There are 2.5 trillion red blood cells in our body at any time. About two and half millions of new ones are to be produced every second by bone marrow.
Our heart beats about 100000 times per day
The human heart continues to beat even if it is taken out of our body or cut into pieces.
25 million cells are produced each second in our body.
Nerve impulses travel at a speed of 400 Km/Hr.
A red blood cell can travel completely through your body in just 20 seconds.
We inhale about two million liters of air every day through our lungs. Our lungs are large enough to cover a tennis court.
100 billion red blood cells are generated every day in our body.
Our body contains 70% water.
In one square inch of our hand, we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve ending, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
Humans gradually start sinking in size from the age of 30 years.
The life span of a taste bud is only 10 days.
It is impossible to sneeze with eyes open.
The largest artery in our body is the Aorta. It is almost the diameter of a garden hose.
The capillaries, on the other hand are so small that it takes ten capillaries to equal the thickness of human hair.
The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood through out our life time.
Babies start dreaming even before they are born.
The human body can function without a brain.
A fetus acquires the fingerprints at the age of three months.
The average human head weighs about 10 pounds and the average human brain weights 3 pounds.
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, including the heart.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
Every month you grow a brand new outer layer of skin!
The length of your foot is same as your forearm between your wrist and the elbow.
Our brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
The length of human blood vessel so large that it circles the globe 2 and 1/2 times.
80 to 100 hairs fall from our head every day.
As we grow older, the brain loses one gram per year.
The heart muscles stop functioning only when we die.
The total surface area of our brain is 25000 square cms.
There are 12,00,000 optical fibers in the human eye.
A drop of blood contains 280 million cells.
Every one is color blind at birth.
Liver is the only organ in our body, which regenerates itself completely even after it is removed completely.
An average scalp has 100000 hair on it.
The maximum length of hair can be from 70 to 90 cms.
The life span of hair is 2 to 7 years.
The human skeleton renews every 3 months.
The food gets into the stomach even we stand on our head.

Some Funny and Interesting Facts

2011-01-08T15:18:00.000-08:00

Here is a list of some of the funny and interesting facts.

If you chew the chewing gum while cutting onions, the tears will stop.
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only female mosquitoes bite us.
Do you know that it snowed in the Sahara Desert in February,1979.
Canadians are allowed to send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on the stamps.
The grapes will explode if you put them in the microwave oven.
Ice cream is a Chinese food.
There are about 1,00,000 bacteria is one liter of drinking water.
A portion of the water that you drink has already been drunk by some one else, may be several times over
Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
Onions help reduce cholesteol if you eat them after a fatty meal.
The human body weighs about 40 times more than its brain.

Facts about Solar Energy

2010-12-28T08:10:00.000-08:00

Solar energy is becoming popular in recent times. People started building various devices and equipments which work with solar energy The main reasons for using solar energy are as follow.
1. Solar energy is freely available in abundance in this universe.
2. Solar energy never gets exhausted unlike other sources of energy
3. Solar energy is available at each and every place in this world

Here are some of the interesting facts about Solar Energy.

A solar powered air craft from USA flew 4060 Km. in the year 1990 without no other fuel except solar energy. This was the world record.
More sun light falls on this earth in one hour than what is used by the entire world population in one year
The Solar Energy is better for environment compared to traditional forms of energy
It is possible to cook food using solar energy
A home solar system typically contains solar panels, an inverter, a battery, a charge controller and wiring support structure.
A 1-kilowatt home solar system will prevent approximately 170 lbs. of coal from being burned, 300 lbs of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere and 105 gallons of water from being consumed each month!
Solar panels come in different colors.
Solar energy does not pollute the air nor does it release carbon di oxide into atmosphere.

Strange and interesting facts

2010-12-19T06:43:00.000-08:00

There are only two animals that can see behind itself without turning their head. These two animals are the rabbit and the parrot.
If you ate too many carrots, you will turn orange.
Each teeth of an elephant can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
The weight of the tongue of a blue whale is more than the weight of an elephant
When a glass breaks, the cracks move at a speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour
The longest officially recognized name of a place is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which has 85 letters. It is the name for a hill which is 1000 feet high ( 305 meters) and located close to Porangahau, in New Zealand.
The Sharks can live up to 100 years
Bamboo can grow up to 3 feet in 24 hours
Bone is 5 times stronger than steel
The size of our eyes is same as at the time of birth, but our nose and ears always grow and never stop growing till death
The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet and one inch long
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
The heaviest human brain recorded till now is 2.3 Kgs
Indians have been eating mangoes for 3,000 years. But the western world came to know about it only 300 years ago!
OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
A blue whale eats 3 tonnes of food every day, at the same time it can live without food for 6 months
Humming birds can fly backwards also

Amazing Human Body Facts

2010-12-10T16:27:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the interesting about human body.

A human eye blinks over 10,000,000 times a year!
An average human heart beats 1,03,689 times in 24 hours.
The human blood flows 16,80,000 miles in 24 hours.
Human nail grows 0.00007 inches in every 24 hours.
Human lungs respire 23,000 times in 24 hours.
You should never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eye balls.
Sneezing stops heart beat for 1 second and then continues.
Do you know that an average human hair grows 0.43561 milli meters in 24 hours.
An average human takes around 1.4 liters of water in a day.
An average human takes 1.5 Kg. of food in 24 hours
An average human breathes 438 cubic feet of air in 24 hours
Do you know that an average human speaks 5000 words in 24 hours
Do you know that an average human moves 25 times during sleep in a day
Like finger prints, every one's tongue print is different
10% of the world population is left handed
Do you know that the fastest human being runs only about 30 kilo meters per hour
An average human laughs 15 times a day
Do you know that finger nails grow 4 times faster than toe nails in human beings
Do you know that the shape of back bone is important to have sufficient breathing.

Amazing Facts about Trees

2010-12-05T17:00:00.000-08:00

Here are some amazing and interesting facts about trees.

The trees receive about 90% of their nutrition from atmosphere and 10% only from the soil.
The tree lowers the temperature of surrounding atmosphere by evaporating water from its leaves.
One of the tallest tree is General Sherman which is a giant red wood of California. It is about 275 feet or 84 meters tall with a girth of 8 meters.
Trees absorb carbon di oxide and release oxygen which is required by us for living.
Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings.
Do you know that trees grow from top and not from bottom as normally believed. A branch's location on a tree will only move up the trunk a few inches in 1000 years.
The presence of trees in urban neighborhoods has been linked to less crime.
One acre of trees can remove 2.6 tons of carbon di oxide each year
The leaves of trees help us to trap and remove tiny particles of dust which otherwise would damage human lungs.

Amazing Facts about Fish

2010-11-20T19:23:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the interesting facts about Fish.

The Stone Fish is the most poisonous fish in the world. This fish lives in the coast of Australia.
A Slug fish has 4 noses. An Octopus has 3 hears.
A Gold fish can live upto 40 years of age.
The fish that can live out of water for long time is the Lung Fish. The Lung Fish can live for at least 4 years even if it is out of water.
The fish that does not have a brain is the Star Fish. But the Star Fish has eight eyes, one at the end of each leg.
A jelly fish is 90% water only.
A Star Fish can have upto 16 arms

Amazing Snake Facts for all

2010-11-20T10:45:00.000-08:00

We all know that snakes are one of the interesting creatures on this earth. Snakes are the reptiles which can arouse either interest in them or fear about them. Even though most of the snakes are not poisonous and do not do any harm to us, many of us are afraid and filled with terror when ever we see a snake nearby us. There are nearly 3000 species of snakes in this world and only 575 of them are poisonous. You can see different kind of snakes from Python which can swallow big animals like deer to small snakes which are few inches in length.

Some of the snakes even climb trees, while some snakes live in under ground and some live in water and lakes. Here are some of the fascinating facts about snakes.

Snakes vary in different sizes, the anaconda can grow up to 38 feet long, where as brahminy blind snake is just 2 inches long which is the smallest snake in the world.
One interesting facts about snakes is that they need to shed their skin regularly. As they grow they shed their skin, a process known as molting. The snakes shed their skin by rubbing their head against something rough and hard, like a piece of wood or a rock.
Snakes have more than 200 teeth. Snakes do not use these teeth to chew as they point backwards, but bite and grip their prey using these teeth.
One of the interesting fact about snakes is that Snakes are very shy of human beings and snakes never attack human beings unless they feel threatened.
The black necked cobra, spits its venom into the eyes of its victim to cause blindness.
Snakes can go without food for several days. In facts some snakes live for even six months without food.
One interesting fact is that there are no snakes in New Zealand.
The snake poison contains ninety percent protein.
The sea snakes are the most poisonous in the world.
The Black Mamba is the fastest snake in the world. It can each speeds upto 12 miles per hour.
The snakes smell with their tongues.
Snakes do not have eye lids.
Snakes are completely deaf. They know about others by only vibrations.
King cobra is the only snake which build nests to lay eggs
Snakes are the most effective natural control on rodent population

Amazing Science Facts

2010-11-20T04:10:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the scientific facts of interest for all.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe which is about 75%.
The number of stars in a normal galaxy are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000
Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass.
The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 462 degrees celcius.
Diamonds are the hardest substances known to us.
The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
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.
The blood flows down in one leg and up in other leg.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
A piece of paper can be folded in half not more than 7 times what ever may be the its size or thickness.
The energy used by our brain is 0.1 calories per minute normally, and it can go up to 1.5 during activities like puzzle solving.

Amazing Kangaroo Facts

2010-11-19T16:45:00.000-08:00

The Kangaroos are naive of Australia. These animals are regarded as strange animals. Kangaroo has head like a deer and can stand up right like man and hops like a frog. Female Kangaroos have a pouch called as a marsupium in which the children ( called as joeys) complete post natal development. The Kangaroos are the only animals which use hopping as means for movement. A red kangaroo's hopping speed is about 20-25 Km/h, but speeds upto 70 Km/h can be attained. Here are some of the interesting facts about Kangaroos.

A new born Kangaroo weighs only 0.03 ounces and is so small that it can fit in a tea spoon.
A Kangaroo can jump upto a distance of 45 feet!
A Kangaroo uses less energy if it jumps faster. That means the faster the kangaroo hop, the less energy they use.
A group of Kangaroos is called as a mob.
The average life expectancy of kangaroo is about 4 to 6 years but some kangaroos lived upto 23 years.
A young kangaroo is called as joey.
A male kangaroo is called as buck where as a female one is called as doe or a flier.
Kangaroo always moves forward and never moves backward.
Kangaroo have excellent eye sight but only when the object is moving.
Some species of Knagaroos live in trees
Kangaroo can live many weeks without water
There are more knagaroos in Australia than humans

Do you know these facts

2010-11-17T14:52:00.000-08:00

Here are some interesting facts that every one should know.

Did you know that 'Sailor', 'Dead Leaf', 'Paper Kite', 'Blue Striped Crow', 'Julia' and 'Great Egg Fly' are all names of BUTTERFLIES'
Did you know that the original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
Did you know that Frogs live in all continents except Antarctica.
Did you know that no two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Male zebra is called as stallions. Enemies of Zebras include hyenas, wild dogs and lions.
Did you know that the Krakatoa, which is a volcano caused the loudest explosion, is in Indonesia. It erupted on Aug. 27th, 1883 and its explosion was heard nearly 4800 km. away.
Did you know that lightning strikes about 6000 times per minute on Earth
Did you know that a chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
Did you know that a zebra is white with black stripes.
Did you know that a cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
Did you know that dolphins sleep with one eye open
The loudest sound produced by an animal is the whistle produced by Blue Whale which is 180 decibels.
The female lion does more than 90% of hunting while male lion likes to take rest.
A jelly fish is 95% water.
A girafee can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
Do you know that Ants do not sleep at all

Amazing Facts about India

2010-11-17T08:57:00.000-08:00

India is the world's largest, oldest and continuous civilization.
India never invaded any country in the last 10000 years of history
Number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta invented zero
World's first university was established at Takshasila in India in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied here.
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.
Chess game was invented in India
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC
India is the largest English speaking nation in the world
India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.
India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA ( 1.5%)
The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev in India
The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh.
Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
The largest employer in the world is Indian Railways employing 1 million people
India has the most post offices in the world
Until 1896, India was the only source of Diamonds in the World
Algebra, Trignometry and Calculus were originated in India
There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.

Most interesting facts

2010-11-11T03:11:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the most interesting and unusual facts that every one should know.

The only English word that ends with letters 'mt' is 'Dreamt'
The only number that has its letters in alphabetical order is 'Forty'. The only number whose letters are in reverse alphabetical order is 'One'
The first song which was performed in outer space is "Happy Birthday" which is sung by Apollo II astronauts on March,8 1969.
The number "One Thousand" contains the letter A, and none of the words from one to nine hundreds ninety nine has A.
The sugar contained in 1 Kg. of lemon is more than the sugar in 1 Kg. of Straw berries.
The total length of telephone wire in USA is 1,525,000,000 miles.
98% of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
Do you know that the months that begin with sunday always have a "Friday the 13th."
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The only planet that is not named after a god is "Earth"
25% of the bones in your body are in your feet.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
Most of the dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
A cockroach can live for several weeks even its head is cut off
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete

Some Interesting Facts

2009-07-18T03:30:00.000-07:00

* On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

* The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.

* The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

* Polar bears are left handed.

* Babies are born without kneecaps, they appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.

* There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

* The biggest tyre manufacturer in the world (by number) is .....Lego!

* The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

* I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

* Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

* The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.

*Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

*The doorbell was invented in 1831.

* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

*Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

*Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

*If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

*The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.

*In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!

*Most people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.

Online Rental Site -- RentLocalStuff.com

2009-03-08T18:45:00.000-07:00

RentLocalStuff.com was Founded in 2008 by Doug E. Shumway.

This is a very good site where individuals and business people can advertise their rental items to local customers. If an individual or business has something For Rent, it can be advertised here.

A person or business wishing to advertise about their rentals has to be a member of this site. There are two types of membership in this website. 1) Individual Account and 2)Corporate Account. The fee details for each type of account in this site is as follow:

1. Individual Account : $6.95 per month and $19.95 per quarter
2. Corporate Account : $19.95 per month and $57.99 per quarter

This is a very small amount compared to other rental sites. A new member can join this site here.

Anybody can view the advertisement and contact the members without paying any fee. Potential customers are able to contact member by e-mail to arrange the rental.

Members can post items by region, then by category. Items can be advertised with a picture and description provided by the member. One of the advertisement in NewYork can be seen here. There are different categories of items that can be advertised at this site. A Number of categories are available, for Example: Apartments, Automobiles, Construction equipment, Employment, Motor cycles, Motor homes, Vacation Rentals, Horses, Computers, Farm Equipments etc. There are still more categories available. We can even suggest a new category if it is not available at the site.

This website does not allow members to post content that is defamatory, abusive, harassing, insulting or threatning. Nor do they agree to submit content which is vulgar, or violent or pornographic content.

I suggest this site to be the best site for either advertising about rentals to local customers and also useful for customers to search for their required rental items.

Amusing and Interesting Facts

2008-06-07T06:47:00.000-07:00

Some amazing facts useful to ISC members are given below. Hope everyone likes them.

* Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

* A tree in metropolitan area will survive for approximately eight years.

* A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

* According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until the 1730's, India was the only source for diamonds in the world.

* An acre of trees can remove about 13 tons of dust and gases every year from the surrounding environment.

* An estimated 690 million people live in Africa.

* An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.

* Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, at 979 meters. This waterfall is sixteen times the height of Niagara Falls.

* Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world.

* Corals take a long time to grow. Some corals only grow one centimeter in one year.

* Davao City, located at the Southern state of Philippines, is the largest city in the world in terms of area.

* Despite being over 27 times smaller, Norway's total coastline is longer than the USA's.

* Devon, England has about 33,000 miles of hedgerows, more hedgerows than any other country.

* Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate.

* Even though the rose does not bear any fruit, the rose hips have more Vitamin C than most vegetables and fruits.

* Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpaste.

* Finland has 187,888 lakes and 179,584 islands.

* Finland is also known as "the land of of the thousand lakes," because of the over 188,000 lakes found in this country.

* Florida has twice as many lightning injuries and deaths than any other state.

* In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet.

* In 1998, approximately 1.6 billion tree seedlings were planted in the United States. This amounts to about five trees per American.

* In Albania, nodding your head means "no" and shaking your head means "yes."

* In France, the Big Dipper is called the "casserole."
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* In a day, a mature oak tree can draw approximately 50 gallons of water.

* In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.

* In approximately 18 months, the papaya tree can grow to be 20 feet tall.

* In some parts of the Atacama Desert it has never rained.
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* In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.

* In the United States, about 33% of land is covered by forests.

* In the dry valleys region of Antarctica, it has not rained in 2 million years according to scientists

Shark Facts

2008-04-13T18:23:00.001-07:00

Sharks are fish. However, they do not have bones like other fish. Their skeleton is made of cartilage. This is the same bendable material that is in your ears! They also do not have a swim bladder, the air filled balloon-like organ that keeps most fish upright. Sharks have gill slits but no gill-cover, which is common to most bony fish. Because they have no swim bladder to keep them buoyant, sharks sink when not swimming. Shark's bodies are heavier than water and most sharks are constantly on the move. By moving forward with their mouths open, sharks move water across their gills for breathing. The larger species produce live young that are fully formed, miniature versions of their parents. Mother sharks offer no food or protection for their young. Young sharks do have a fighting chance, though, as they are born with a full set of teeth and the ability to swim.. The list of amazing and funny facts about different kind of sharks are given below:

* The Whalefish Shark is the largest fish in the ocean. It can reach up to 50 feet and weigh about 30 tons. The whalefish eats plankton. It swims in warm waters near the equator. It filters meals as it swims with its mouth open. It is not threat to humans
* Just as humans rule the land, sharks rule the sea! Many people fear sharks, because they hear stories about sharks killing and eating humans. Actually, most sharks are not dangerous!
* Sharks never get cancer! Their cartilage is used in being studied with the hope of developing anti-cancer drugs.
* The dwarf shark is as small as your hand, while the whale shark can be as large as a school bus!
* A shark may grow and use over 20,000 teeth in its lifetime!
* Sharks never run out of teeth. If one is lost, another spins forward from the rows and rows of backup teeth.
* Sharks even eat other sharks. For example, a tiger shark might eat a bull shark, a bull shark might eat a blacktip shark and a blacktip shark might eat a dogfish shark!
* The whale shark is up to 46 feet (14 m), weighing up to 15 tons. The average size is 25 feet (7.6 m) long It is the largest fish in the world. Females are larger than males (like most sharks).
* It has been estimated that whale sharks may live up to 100 - 150 years.
* A shark's hunger can be satisfied with one good meal. The meal can last a long time because a shark uses little energy to swim. Some sharks hold food in their stomachs without it being digested. If they eat a big meal, it can last three or more months!
* A shark's hunger can be satisfied with one good meal. The meal can last a long time because a shark uses little energy to swim. Some sharks hold food in their stomachs without it being digested. If they eat a big meal, it can last three or more months!
* Sharks have existed for over 350 million years. They evolved over 100 million years before the dinosaurs did. This was long before people evolved.

Some more Amazing Facts

2008-04-06T21:27:00.000-07:00

* Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!
* Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
* Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
* The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
* To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
* Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
* Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
* It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
* Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
* Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
* Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
* Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
* Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
* At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
* There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
* Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.
* Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
* The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

100 Best Amazing facts

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1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.

2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.

3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.

4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.

5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.

6. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.

7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.

8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.

9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off.

10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.

12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.

13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.

14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.

15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.

16. Eskimoes have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.

17. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.

18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.

19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.

20. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.

21. The longest English word without a vowel is twyndyllyngs which means "twins".

22. 1 x 8 + 1 = 9; 12 x 8 + 2 = 98; 123 x 8 + 3 = 987; 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876; 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765; 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654; 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543; 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432; 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

23. The word "dreamt" is the only common word in the English language that ends in "mt".

24. Albert Einstein never wore any socks.

25. The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime.

26. In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.

27. Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backwards.

28. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

29. Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before they starve to death.

30. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

31. The lighter was invented before the match.

32. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.

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

34. Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.

35. The first Internet domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.

36. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six phones were sold in the first month.

37. Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.

38. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5 million.

39. In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.

40. In Canada, the most productive day of the working week is Tuesday.

41. In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest colour to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.

42. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

43. On average a business document is copied 19 times.

44. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.

45. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday." They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.

46. All babies are colour-blind when they are born.

47. Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.

48. Each nostril of a human being registers smells in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril.

49. Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

50. May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.

51. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

52. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.

53. Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had.

54. Rolling Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year-old model Mandy Smith in 1988. At the same time Wyman's son was engaged to Mandy Smith's mother. If his son had married Smith's mother, Wyman would have been the step grandfather to his own wife.

55. There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.

56. There are about 6,800 languages in the world.

57. There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

58. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

59. The coconut is the largest seed in the world.

60. There is cyanide in apple pips.

61. If you were to take 1 lb. of spiders web and stretch it out it would circle the whole way around the world!

62. If every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at the same time...it would knock the earth off its axis!

63. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

64. The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.

65. The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells.

66. The symbols + (addition) and – (subtraction) came into general use in 1489.

67. If you save one penny and double it every successive day, (day two you have 2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, and so on), by the end of 30 days you’ll have $5,368,708! (or £’s or whatever currency).

68. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.

69. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

70. The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five miles long.

71. Due to precipitation, for a few weeks, K2 is taller than Mt. Everest.

72. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

73. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.

74. The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.

75. A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds that a person can hear. If a person can just hear a noise that is coming from 10 feet away, a dog could hear that same noise from 100 feet away.

76. If a sole (a type of fish) lays upon a chessboard it can change the colouring of its body to match the pattern of the chess board. The sole takes about 4 minutes to make the change.

77. Of all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed to the deaths of more people than any other animal.

78. In the courts of the Roman Empire, instead of swearing an oath on a bible, men swore to the truth on their statements while holding their genitals. Hence the word 'testify', from 'testicles'.

79. The first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and Silicate - hence its brand name, Persil.

80. If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans. Only 1 would own a computer.

81. All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.

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

83. Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States.

84. Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood.

85. It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago.

86. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

87. An octopus has 3 hearts.

88. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

89. The hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.

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

91. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in 9 different ways; Read this: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

92. The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it.

93. A left-handed person finds it easier to open a jar than a right-handed person because they can supply a stronger anticlockwise turning force than a right-handed person. However a right-handed person will find it easier to tighten the jar up afterwards.

94. The orbit of the Moon about the Earth would fit easily inside the Sun.

95. A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.

96. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the keyboard.

97. Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west than to the east.

98. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

99. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

100. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (euro, pound).

Amazing Animal Senses

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Animals have developed amazing adaptations to their environments. Many different types of energy & senses exist in the environment, some of which humans cannot detect. Here are some examples of how some animals sense the outside world.

Ants

* Can detect small movement through 5 cm of earth.
* Can see polarized light.

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.

Bees

* Can see light between wavelengths 300 nm & 650 nm.
* Have taste receptors on their jaws, forelimbs and antennae.
* Worker honey bees have a ring of iron oxide in their abdomens that may be used to detect magnetic fields. They may use this ability to detect changes in the earth's magnetic field and use it for navigation.
* Can see polarized light.

Butterfly

* Has taste receptors on its feet.
* The butterfly has hairs on its wings to detect changes in air pressure.
* Using vision, the butterfly Colias can distinguish two points separated by as little as 30 microns.

Cat

* Has hearing range between 100 and 60,000 Hz.
* Olfactory membrane about 14 sq. cm. For comparison, humans have an olfactory membrane of about 4 sq. cm.

Chameleon

* The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.

Cockroach

* Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

Crab

* Has hairs on claws and other parts of the body to detect water current and vibration.
* Many crabs have their eyes on the end of stalks.

Cricket

* Can hear using their legs; sound waves vibrate a thin membrane on the cricket's front legs.

Dog

* Has olfactory membrane up to 150 sq. cm.
* Can hear sound as high as 40,000 Hz.

Dolphin

* Like bats, dolphins use echolocation for movement and locating objects.
* Can hear frequencies up to at least 100,000 Hz.

Dragonfly

* Eye contains 30,000 lenses.

Earthworm

* Entire body covered with chemoreceptors ( taste receptors ).

Elephant

* Has hearing range between 1 and 20,000 Hz. The very low frequency sounds are in the "infrasound" range. Humans cannot hear sounds in the infrasound range.

Falcon

* Can see a 10 cm. object from a distance of 1.5 km.

Fish

* Have a "lateral line" system consisting of sense organs ("neuromasts") in canals along the head and trunk. These receptors are used to detect changes in water pressure and may be used to locate prey and aid movement.
* Some fish can see into the infrared wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Fish ( Deep sea )

* Only have rods in the retina: 25 million rods/sq. mm. Perhaps they need this high density of photoreceptors to detect the dim biolumninescence that exists in the ocean depths.

Fish ("Four-eyed Fish" Anableps microlepis)

* Can see in air and water simultaneously. Each eye is divided by flaps, so there is one opening in the air and one in the water.

Fly

* Eye has a flicker fusion rate of 300/sec. Humans have a flicker fusion rate of only 60/sec in bright light and 24/sec in dim light. The flicker fusion rate is the frequency with which the "flicker" of an image cannot be distinguished as an individual event. Like the frame of a movie...if you slowed it down, you would see individual frames. Speed it up and you see a constantly moving image.
* Blowflies taste with 3,000 sensory hairs on their feet.

Frog

* Has an eardrum (tympanic membrane) on the outside of the body behind the eye.

Hawk

* Normal vision for people is 20/20. A hawk's vision is equivalent to 20/5. This means that the hawk can see from 20 feet what most people can see from 5 feet. (Scientific American, April 2001, page 24)

Mice

* Can hear frequencies between 1,000 and 100,000 Hz. By comparison, we humans can hear frequencies between 20 and 20,000 Hz.

Mosquito

* Attracted to host by human body odor ( especially the foot odor), carbon dioxide, body heat and body humidity.

Octopus

* Retina contains 20 million photoreceptors.
* The eye has a flicker fusion frequency of 70/sec in bright light.
* The pupil of the eye is rectangular.

Penguin

* Has a flat cornea that allows for clear vision underwater. Penguins can also see into the ultraviolet range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Pig

* Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.

Pigeon

* With eyes mounted laterally on their heads, pigeons can view 340 degrees...everywhere except in back of their heads.
* Can detect sounds as low as 0.1 Hz.

Rabbit

* Tongue contains 17,000 taste buds.

Rat

* Has hearing range between 1,000 and 90,000 Hz.

Seahorse

* Each eye can move independently.

Scorpion

* Can detect air moving at only 0.072 km/hr with special hairs on its pincers.
* Can have as many as 12 eyes.

Shark

* Has specialized electrosensing receptors with thresholds as low as 0.005 uV/cm. These receptors may be used to locate prey. The dogfish can detect a flounder that is buried under the sand and emitting 4 uAmp of current.
* Some sharks can detect fish extracts as concentrations lower than one part in 10 billion.
* Some sharks sense light directly through the skull by the pineal body.

Snakes

* 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.
* 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.
* Snakes have no moveable eyelids. Instead, they have a clear, scale-like membrane covering the eye.

Spider

* Many spiders have eight eyes.

Did u Know - Unbelievable Amazing Facts

2008-04-03T16:14:00.000-07:00

1. Did you know the largest fish ever caught was the Whale Shark? It was 59ft long.
These fish can weigh up to 15 tons.

2. Did you know fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it?

3. A parrotfish makes its own sleeping bag to sleep in. It uses mucous (like spit)
to make a see-through bag all around it's body to protect it from attack by other
creatures in the ocean.

4. The pelican uses the funny looking pouch under its lower beak for catching fish.
It does this by swooshing into the water and scooping up as many fish as
possible.

5. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as
big as a car, and it's tongue is as long as an elephant.

6. Did you know pearls are found in oysters? The largest pearl ever found was 620
carats.

7. The heaviest fish ever caught was the OCEAN SUNFISH. It weighed 4,928 lbs.

8. The Blue Whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.

9. here are two kinds of elephants: the African that is taller and has larger ears
and the Indian that is small and has smaller ears.

10. Did you know there are two kinds of camels? One is the Arabian that lives in
Western Asia and Northern Africa. It has one hump. And the second kind is called
Bactrian which has two humps and lives in Mongolia and Chinese Turkistan.

11. The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.

12. The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal - the
dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.

13. The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White It can fly up to 95 miles
per hour.

14. Did you know fishes talk to each other? Some of them communicate by making noises
in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders to make
sounds

15. The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering
shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert

Funny Facts about IT and Internet

2007-12-02T04:18:00.000-08:00

1. The Afghan capital Kabul has a cyber cafe?
2. Accordingly to Google Zeitgeist the top search in India June 2007 is the phrase reliance data card?
3. Google offers its employees free lunch?
4. BBC has 43 different translations of its website?
5. Google's employees get free haircuts?
6. Google receives more than 1000 resumes a day?
7. About 47 million laptops where shipped worldwide 2006?
8. Over 2.7 billion searches are made on Google search engine each month?
9. 1 of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online?
10. If myspace was a country it would be the 11th largest?
11. Google can be queried in 36 languages (2007)?
12. Google uses over 10,000 networked computers to crawl the web?
13. Google has 2007 surpassed Microsoft as the world's most-visited site?
14. Google have won 2007 most powerful brand by a British research company?
15. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute?
16. The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the worlds population?
17. Google staff are known as Googlers?
18. The founders of Google didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface, thats one of the main reason why the home page is so bare?
19. The name "Google" comes from a spelling mistake, the founders intendent to write "Googol"?
20. Google launched their search site in 1998?
21. The Google function "I feel lucky" is nearly never used, well compared to the high number of users?
22. Google comes from the word googol, which is 1 followed by a hundred zeros?
23. Wikipedia has a page devoted to toilet roll holders? Read more
24. Atari sold 400000 VCS consoles in 1979?
25. The Atari 2600 only has 128 bytes of RAM?
26. In Sweden the @ is called "snabel-a" wich means a "trunk with an a"?
27. The floppy disk was patents in 1946 by Alan Shugart?
28. If you type in failure in google, and select "I'm feeling lucky", you will be redirected to the White House web page?
29. Yahoo stands for Yet Another 'Hierarchical Organizational Oracle'?
30. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page?
31. The oldest surviving computer in the world is called CSIRAC and is located in Melbourne?
32. The word maps is often in the top 10 search words submitted to search engines?
33. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com?
34. Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13?
35. Google receives about 200 million search queries each day. More than half of which come from outside the United States. During the heviest traffic more than 2,000 search queries are answered each second?
36. More than 80% of home pages on the Web are in English. German has only 4.5% and Japanese 3.1%?
37. The percentage of email messages in English is estimates to vary between 60% and 85%?
38. The words "electronic mail" was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976?
39. Sweden has the most affordable broadband internet access in Europe?
40. The highest amount of money paid for a domain name is for business.com, $7.5 million?
41. The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutters on backwards?
42. Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear assault"?
43. Every single possible 3 character.com domain has been registered?
44. Internet advertising is the fastest growing advertising medium?
45. Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer?
46. All domain names in Slovakia are free?
47. 88% of websites have no discernible traffic?
48. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month?
49. 28% of IBM employees are Indians?
50. Each day an average American depends on about 250 computers?
51. Microsoft is the biggest developer of Mac software outside Apple?
52. The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes?
53. Maps are often among the top words submitted to Internet search engines?
54. The most popular non-HTML format files return from Google is PDF-format?
55. Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste is the owner of over 200,000 domain names?
56. The top searchwords in Google where September 19, 2005 "hurricane rita"?
57. Only 10% of all the pages on the Internet make it to the search engines?
58. In 1982 Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year"?
59. Microsoft writes the code for autopilot systems in all major airplanes?
60. Internet is one of the fastest growing forms of advertising?
61. In computer language, wysiwyg is an acronym for "what you see is what you get"?
62. About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated?
63. In the early days of computers, black and white monitors were thought sufficient to satisfy all future data processing needs?

About bermuda triangle

2007-06-27T16:03:00.000-07:00

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region of the Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels have disappeared in what are said to be circumstances that fall beyond the boundaries of human error or acts of nature. Some of these disappearances have been attributed to the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings by popular culture. [1] Although a substantial documentation exists showing numerous incidents to have been inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, several others remain unexplained.

The triangle area

The boundaries of the Triangle vary with the author; some stating its shape is akin to a trapezium covering the Straits of Florida, the Bahamas, and the entire Caribbean island area east to the Azores; others add to it the Gulf of Mexico. The more familiar, triangular boundary in most written works has as its points Miami, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

The area is one of the most heavily-sailed shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas and Europe, as well as the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Carribean, and South America from points north.

The Gulf Stream ocean current flows through the Triangle after leaving the Gulf of Mexico; its current of five to six knots may have played a part in a number of disappearances. Sudden storms can and do appear, and in the summer to late fall the occasional hurricane strikes the area. The combination of heavy maritime traffic and tempestuous weather makes it inevitable that vessels could founder in storms and be lost without a trace — especially before improved telecommunications, radar, and satellite technology arrived late in the 20th century.

amazing Facts - June 2007

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1. The total temperature of world has reduced by 0.5 degree celcius when The volcano "Pinatubo" in philippines was active in 1991 and because of the smoke generated by that.

2. The total number of teeth that grow in a Shark Fish is 20,000 in its life time. What ever may be its age, when a tooth falls, a new tooth comes in its mouth.

Amazing Facts -- April 2007

2007-04-07T17:36:00.000-07:00

1. A new policy has been introduced in Washington to reduce the crime rate. As per that policy, the person who wants to do robbery or a crime has to inform the police in advance about the crime. Otherwise if he is caught after the crime, the police will treat it as additinal crime.

2. In Alabama state in America, if someone knowingly or unknowingly throw salt on rail tracks, he will be hanged.

3. The traffic police in South Korea should compulsory inform his higher official about the bribe that he has taken.

4. If you wear undergarments (especially underwears) while going out of your house in thailand, then you have to pay fine.

5. Unmarried girls should not fly by parachute on sundays in Florida.

6. The punishment for drunken drivers in San Salvedor is --- Shoot and kill him.

7. But in Urugway it is different, the drunken driver will be given one chance. if he drinks again, then he will be put in jail.

8. In Malaysia the situation for drunken drivers is different. The driver will be put in jail alongwith his wife also.

9. If any woman in Michigan wants to cut her hair, then she has to compulsory take her husband's permission.

10. Encyclopaedia Britannica -- has been banned in Texas. The reason is that it explains how to make beer in the house.

11. In most of the countries Helmet is compulsory while driving Bikes. But in Texas it is compulsory for the cyclists to wear the helmet.

12. Do u know that in Los angels, 2 children should not be put in bath tub at the same time for bathing.

13. Do u know that in Los Angels, the husbands can beat their wives with leather belts, but the belt width should not be more than 2 inches.

14. Do u know that in Chicago, nobody should eat anything at a place where fire accident occurs.

15. In virgenia, if smell of onions comes from the mouth of the school children, the parents have to pay the fine to school.