Some interesting facts about Reptiles

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

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

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

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.
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Strange and interesting facts

• 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

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

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.