Stock Market

Showing posts with label Some amazing but true facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Some amazing but true facts. Show all posts

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Some amazing but true facts

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