Funny Lizard facts for kids

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.

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Amazing Lion Facts for Children

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

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

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

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

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

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.