More General Food Facts

1. lettuce is the only vegetable or fruit which is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh.
2. lobster was so common in Maine in the 18th Century that it was used as fertiliser.
3. margarine was first called Butterine in England when it was introduced.
4. mayonnaise will kill lice and also condition your hair.
5. Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
6. milk from reindeer has more fat than cow milk.
7. milk is the new diet drink since low-fat, high-calcium dairy foods may burn off fat since extra calcium increases metabolism.
8. nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
9. olive oil has lots of anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory activity to fight rheumatoid arthritis.
10. olive oil is an oil extracted from the fruit of the olive tree.
11. olive oil is the only vegetable oil that can be created simply by pressing the raw material.
12. orange does not rhyme with any other word.
13. organ meats were known as garbage in the 16th Century, the term then used for the innards of an animal.
14. peanuts are legumes and not a tree nut.
15. peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
16. pear is a fruit that ripens from the inside out.
17. Pepsi-Cola was invented by Caleb Bradham in 1898. Originally called "Brad's Drink," the beverage was first marketed as a digestive aid and energy booster. It was renamed Pepsi-Cola because of its pepsin and kola nut content.
18. percentage alcohol in a bottle of liquor is estimated by dividing the proof by two.
19. pineapple is the international symbol of hospitality.
20. pizza originated in the early 1700's in Naples, Italy.
21. pizza toppings of squid are the most popular variety in Japan.
22. Popsicle were invented by an 11 year old, Frank Epperson when he left his soda water drink with a stirring stick overnight on his porch.
23. pound cake was so named because of its original proportions of 1 lb (500g) each of butter, sugar, and flour.
24. puffed grain were invented by Alexander Anderson in 1902. Unlike popcorn, a type of corn that naturally pops or puffs up with heat, puffed cereal or snacks are formed by exploding whole grain kernels under high pressure and steam.
25. raisin in a glass of champagne will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
26. refried beans aren't really what they seem. Although their name seems like a reasonable translation of Spanish frijoles refritos, the fact is that these beans aren't fried twice. In Spanish, refritos literally means "well-fried," not "re-fried."
27. rice paper does not contain one grain of rice - its made from either Rice straw, Bamboo, Hemp, Mulberry leaves, Wingceltis or Gampi.
28. sandwiches are named after John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), for whom beef was placed between 2 sliced pieces of bread so that he could stay at the gambling table without interruptions for meals.
29. shredded wheat was the first breakfast cereal to ever be produced.
30. sliced bread was introduced by Otto Frederick Rohwedder who invented the bread slicer, which he started working on in 1912. At first, Rohwedder came up with the idea of a device that held the slices together with hat pins (not a success). In 1928, he designed a machine 1.52m long by 0.90m high that sliced and wrapped the bread in waxed paper to prevent the sliced bread from going stale. On July 7, 1928, the first loaves of sliced bread were made by the near bankrupt baker Frank Bench.
31. soup has its origin as a word from 'sop' or 'sup', meaning the slice of bread on which the broth was poured.
32. soy flour and soya flour are richer in calcium and iron than wheat flour, gluten-free and high in protein. Soy flour is ground from raw soybeans; soya flour from lightly toasted soybeans.
33. spilling salt is considered good luck in Japan.
34. strawberries are the only fruit which has its seeds on its outer skin.
35. swiss cheese ferments with bacteria generating gas which bubbles through the cheese leaving holes; cheese-makers call them "eyes."
36. tea strengthens bones because isoflavonoid chemicals in tea may have a weak estrogenic effect, reducing bone deterioration and osteoporosis risk.
37. ten gallon hats only hold about 6 pints or 2.8 Litres.
38. toasters for bread using electricity were invented by Crompton and Company, Leeds, England in 1893; the first automatic pop-up electric toaster was designed in 1919 by Charles Strite.
39. Tomatoes were considered poisonous.
40. Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.
41. traditional italian food is an anagram of radiation, toil, fat and oil.
42. TV dinners were introduced in 1954 by Omaha-based C.A. Swanson and Sons featuring roast turkey with stuffing and gravy, sweet potatoes and peas, selling for 98 cents.
43. Vegemite is an Australian icon which was developed in 1922 by Dr. Cyril Callister. He took used brewer's yeast and blended the yeast extract with ingredients like celery, onion, salt, and a few secret ingredients to make this paste rich in B vitamins; it was developed for the Fred Walker Company which is now Kraft Foods.
44. white chocolate is not a true chocolate because it contains no chocolate liquor, instead its made of sugar, cocoa butter, milk solids, lecithin and vanilla.
45. white shelled eggs are produced by hens with white feathers and earlobes while brown eggs are produced by hens with red feathers and earlobes; the colour has no relationship to the nutritional quality or taste of the eggs.
46. Wrigley's gum was the first product to have a bar code.
47. yelling for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days produces enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

General Food Facts

1. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
2. Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
3. The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
4. The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
5. The no. 1 food ordered by women in restraunts is french fries.
6. coffee originated from the Arabic word “qahwah”.
7. almonds are a member of the peach family.
8. americans eat approximately 10kg of tomatoes yearly, over half of which is in the form of catsup and tomato sauce.
9. apple is made of 25% air, that is why they float.
10. apples, onions, and potatoes all have the same taste? Try the test: Pinch your nose and take a bite out of each.
11. avocado has the highest protein and oil content of all fruits, but most of this is the healthier unsaturated type.
12. beer drunk with dinner works better than drinking red wine, gin or sparkling mineral water in controlling homocysteine, a blood factor that promotes heart disease by boosting blood levels of vitamin B6.
13. beer is a popular ingredient in batter for deep fried foods since the protein in beer provides browning and produces a light, crisp, dry batter when cooked.
14. beer of 375mL has fewer calories than two slices of bread and contains no fat.
15. birds eat half their own body weight in food each day! So, why do people say that a poor eater "eats like a bird"?
16. black-eyed peas are really beans.
17. blenders were invented by Stephen Poplawski when in 1922 he became the first person to put a spinning blade at the bottom of a small electric appliance to make Horlick's malted milk shakes.
18. bubbles in Guiness beer sink to the bottom.
19. butter and margarine are similar in calories, the difference is that butter is higher in saturated fats, while margarine generally has more unsaturated fats.
20. butterflies taste with their feet.
21. cabbage is 91% water.
22. capers are the unopened green flower buds of a wild and cultivated bush which is related to the cabbage family.
23. capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.
24. carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17th Century to orange with newer varieties.
25. celery requires more calories to eat and digest than it contains.
26. cereal as a word is derived from the name of the Roman goddess Ceres, protector of crops.
27. cherries are a member of the rose family.
28. chewing gum may keep you slim by boosting the metabolic rate by about 20%.
29. chewing gum stimulates signals in the learning center of the brain and thus help save memory as you age.
30. chicken is one of the few things that we eat before it's born and after it's dead.
31. chili heat is measured in Scoville units, named after the pharmacist Thomas Scoville.
32. chocolate bloom occurs when the cocoa butter has separated causing it to rise to the surface of the chocolate and is a result of the chocolate being stored in too humid or too warm a temperature.
33. chocolate is a particularly good source of magnesium, potassium and calcium. It also has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. On the down side it contains caffeine and has a high fat level.
34. chocolate may have its romantic effect due to the effects on the brain of a naturally occurring substance called phenylethylamine which enhances endorphin levels, increase libido and act a natural antidepressant.
35. coca-cola was originally green.
36. corn always has an even number of ears.
37. corn makes up about 8% of the weight in a box of corn flakes.
38. cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
39. doughnuts were orginally made of raised dough with a nut in the centre.
40. eggplants are actually fruits, and classified botanically as berries.
41. fish consumption may be more than brain food but also help protect your eyes from age-related macular degeneration, a potential cause of blindness.
42. flamingos owe their pink or reddish colour to the rich sources of carotenoid pigments in the algae and small crustaceans that the birds eat.
43. fortune cookies are not Chinese, they were invented in Los Angeles around 1920.
44. gelato comes from the Italian word gelare which means to freeze; it is made from cow milk and its rich taste comes from being denser (30% air whereas ice cream is around 50%).
45. Gerber's top selling baby food in Japan is sardine dish.
46. hamburgers were invented in 1900 by Louis Lassen. He ground beef, broiled it, and served it between two pieces of toast.
47. himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
48. humble pie comes from the food "umble pie", a pie consisting of the innards of deer, which very poor people in Medieval England ate.
49. Kopi Luwa from Indonesia is the world's costliest coffee, at US$350 a kilgram, thanks to a unique taste and aroma enhanced by the digestive system of droppings of palm civets, nocturnal tree-climbing creatures about the size of a large house cat, which eats ripe robusta coffee cherries for treats. The coffee beans, which are found inside of the cherries, remain intact after passing through the animal. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.
50. lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

Human Body Facts(part 2)

1. The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
2. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
3. The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
4. The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat
5. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
6. Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
7. It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
8. The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
9. The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
10. Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
11. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
12. When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
13. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
14. Children grow faster in the springtime.
15. It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.
16. Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.
17. Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.
18. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long i.e. eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, gum.
19. If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
20. The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.
21. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
22. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
23. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
24. The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails.
25. The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
26. The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
27. Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
28. Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.
29. After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.
30. Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
31. The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).
32. A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.
33. The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).
    15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
    
34. The pancreas produces Insulin.
35. The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.
36. The human body is comprised of 80% water.
37. The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
38. Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
39. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
40. You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.
41. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
42. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
43. There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.
44. The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.
45. Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.
46. During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
47. Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.

Human Body Facts(part 1)

1. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
2. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
3. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
4. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
5. Every person has a unique tongue print.
6. 98.6% DNAs of a monkey are exactly same as those of human beings.
7. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
8. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
9. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
10. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
11. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
12. It takes 17 muscles to smile but 43 to frown.
13. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
14. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
15. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
16. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
17. Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
18. Did you ever notice that your fingernails grow faster than toenails?
19. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
20. 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!
21. In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.
22. Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.
23. In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
24. The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same.
25. The world's first test-tube twins were born in June 1981.
26. In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
27. Most people blink about 25 times a minute.
28. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of :blood vessels. : :Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 :miles per hour.
29. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
30. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for :your heart.
31. You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
32. Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
33. The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
34. Every person has a unique tongue print.
35. The average human's heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime. The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.
36. You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss. (Nice way to reduce calories.)
37. The average human body contains enough:- Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
38. Among the first known "dentists" of the world were the Etruscans. In 700 BC they carved false teeth from the teeth of various mammals and produced partial bridgework good enough to eat with.
39. Ophthalmic surgery was one of the most advanced areas of medicine in the ancient world. Detailed descriptions of delicate cataract surgery with sophisticated needle syringes is contained in the medical writings of Celsus (A.D.14-37)
40. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
41. If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from :the microorganisms on your body. According to the World Health Organization, there are :approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
42. Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life. :
43. When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk's calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.
44. Only humans and horses have hymens.
45. The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
46. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
47. One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together.
48. Human body has a whole pharmacy within us. It can create any drug inside us.
49. Between 200 and 400 million sperm are present in a single ejaculation.
50. Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly - we ,make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin every month. We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!

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10. Lightweight
Fact: If you put Saturn in water it would float
The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float. The actual density of Saturn is 0.687 g/cm3 while the density of water is 0.998 g/cm3. At the equator Saturn has a radius of 60,268 ± 4 km – which means you would need an extremely large glass of water to test this out.

9. Constantly Moving
Fact: We are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second
Our Galaxy – the Milky Way is spinning at a rate of 225 kilometers per second. In addition, the galaxy is travelling through space at the rate of 305 kilometers per second. This means that we are traveling at a total speed of 530 kilometers (330 miles) per second. That means that in one minute you are about 19 thousand kilometers away from where you were. Scientists do not all agree on the speed with which the Milky Way is travelling – estimates range from 130 – 1,000 km/s. It should be said that Einstein’s theory of relativity, the velocity of any object through space is not meaningful.

8. Farewell old friend!
Fact: The moon is drifting away from Earth
Every year the moon moves about 3.8cm further away from the Earth. This is caused by tidal effects. Consequently, the earth is slowing in rotation by about 0.002 seconds per day per century. Scientists do not know how the moon was created, but the generally accepted theory suggests that a large Mars sized object hit the earth causing the Moon to splinter off.

7. Ancient Light
Fact: The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old
The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago – it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun! The temperature at the core of the sun is 13,600,000 kelvins. All of the energy produced by fusion in the core must travel through many successive layers to the solar photosphere before it escapes into space as sunlight or kinetic energy of particles.

6. Solar Diet
Fact: The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds
Solar winds are charged particles that are ejected from the upper surface of the sun due to the high temperature of the corona and the high kinetic energy particles gain through a process that is not well understood at this time. Also, did you know that 1 pinhead of the sun’s energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers? [Sourced from Planet Science]
Just paying the bills…

5. The Big Dipper is not a constellation
Fact: The Big Dipper is not a constellation, it is an asterism
Many people consider the big dipper to be a constellation but, in fact, it is an asterism. An asterism is a pattern of stars in the sky which is not one of the official 88 constellations; they are also composed of stars which are not physically related to each other and can be vast distances apart. An asterism can be composed of stars from one or more constellations – in the case of the Big Dipper, it is composed entirely of the seven brightest stars in the Ursa Major (Great Bear) constellation.

4. George’s Star
Fact: Uranus was originally called George’s Star
When Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, he was given the honor of naming it. He chose to name it Georgium Sidus (George’s Star) after his new patron, King George III (Mad King George). This is what he said:
In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were given to the Planets, as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method and call it Juno, Pallas, Apollo or Minerva, for a name to our new heavenly body. The first consideration of any particular event, or remarkable incident, seems to be its chronology: if in any future age it should be asked, when this last-found Planet was discovered? It would be a very satisfactory answer to say, ‘In the reign of King George the Third.’
Uranus was also the first planet to be discovered with the use of a telescope.

3. Extra Moons
Fact: Earth has at least 4 moons
Okay – that is not actually true – but it is very close. In 1986, Duncan Waldron discovered a asteroid (5km across) that is in an elliptic orbit around the sun with a period of revolution virtually identical to that of Earth. For this reason the planetoid and earth appear to be following each other. The periodic planetoid is named Cruithne (pronounced krin-yə) after an ancient group of Scottish people (also known as the Picts). Because of its unusual relationship with Earth, it is sometimes referred to as Earth’s second moon. Cruithne, is fainter than Pluto and would require at least a 12.5 inch reflecting telescope to attempt to be seen. Since its discovery, at least three other similar asteroids have been discovered. These types of objects are also found in similar relationships to other planets in our Solar System. In the image above (courtesy of Paul Wiegert), the earth is the blue circle with a cross in it, and Cruithne’s orbit is shown in yellow.

2. Sunspot Music
Fact: Sunspot activity may be the primary reason for the beautiful sound of Stradivarius violins
Antonio Stradivari is considered to be the greatest violin maker ever. He lived in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Scientists have been unable to work out what it is about his violins that makes them so incredible, but they do know that the timber used to make them is a very important contributing factor. From the 1500s to 1800s, the earth underwent a little ice age mostly due to increased volcanic activity and decreased solar activity (this is called the Maunder Minimum). As a result of this cooling, the types of trees that Stradivari used for his violins were particularly hard (due to slow growth). Hard timber is especially good when making violins. It is very probable that had Stradivari lived in a different age, his violins would not be prized as they are today. This picture above is made of three overlapping photos. It shows the rings in the spruce tree used to make the most famous Stradivarius violin, the “Messiah.” The first row of numbers gives the width of each ring in millimeters (one mm is about the thickness of a fingernail). The bottom row gives the years in which each ring grew.

1. Cold Welding
Fact: If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together
This may sound unbelievable, but it is true. Two pieces of metal without any coating on them will form in to one piece in the vacuum of space. This doesn’t happen on earth because the atmosphere puts a layer of oxidized material between the surfaces. This might seem like it would be a big problem on the space station but as most tools used there have come from earth, they are already coated with material. In fact, the only evidence of this seen so far has been in experiments designed to provoke the reaction. This process is called cold welding.

fAcTs AbOuT aNiMaL
1. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
2. Dolphins sleep with there one eye open.
3. AN elephant can be pregnant for 2 years.
4. INDIA has 50 million monkeys.
5.THE rat can go longer without water than camel.
6. zebras cant see colour orange.
7.Scallop has 35 blue eyes.
8.The swan is the only bird with penis.
9. THE poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 poeple.
10. BY some unknown mean, an inguna can ends it own life.
11.The monkeys have two brains one is to control body and the other to control to his tail.
12. The gorilla weights atleast three or four times as much as human brains,but the human brain is atleast 10 times larger than gorilla.

UNIVERSAL FACTS
1.TWO OF EVERY THREE PEOPLE PREFER TO SLEEP ON THEIR SIDES.
2.7-YEAR OLD HAVE THE HIGHEST ABILITY TO SEE GHOST.
3. MORE PEOPLE USES BLUE TOOTHBRUSHES THAN RED ONES.
4.THE AVERAGE HUMAN BEING HAS 1,OO,OOO HAIRS ON THE SCALP.

Knowledgeable Factzzz....

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mAjOr FaCtS

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

An elephant has 40000 muscles in its trunk.

A giant panda spends atleast 16 hours everyday eating.

In every 3 minutes a person dies AND in every 2 n half minutes a child is born globally….

The older we are the less tears are produced……….

If we take out all veins of our body it will cover up to a distance of 1 revolution around the earth. Its true!!!!

After spending hours working at a computer display if we look at a blank piece of white paper it will appear pink.

"Asthma" and "Isthmi" are the only six letter words that begin and ends with a vowel and have no other vowels in between.

On average every chocalate bar contains at least three insect legs and its true!!!

FaCtS aBoUt OuR bOdY

The slowest growing nail is thumb nail

50% bacteria in mouth lives in toung.

Your brain has 80% water.

People who ride on roller coaster have higher chances of having blood clot in brain.

Your one foot size is bigger than another foot.

THE hardest part in your body is enamel.

THE composition of water in body is 90% where as blood only 10%.

Your immune system only compress the disease it dosn't kill it completely.

Only 10% people in world can twist there toung.

HOT water freezes faster than cold water.

Nobody can keep their eyes wide open while sneezing

NAILS and hairs contaion dead cells.

The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together.

Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly - we ,make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin every month. We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.

When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk's calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.

Every two thousand frowns :creates one wrinkle.

The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year. :

The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

The average human's heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime. The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.

You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!

In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.

In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.

Next to bone marrow hair is the fastest growing tissue.

On an average man spends 5 months of his life in shaving.

FaCtS aBoUt OuR hIsToRy

The world's first VCR made in 1956 was the size of a piano.

In the song 'Jingle Bells',the horse's name is Bobtail.

In 1429 :Not even 1 year old, Henry VI becomes King of England.

oThEr FaCtS

The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same.

The world's first test-tube twins were born in June 1981.

Among the first known "dentists" of the world were the Etruscans. In 700 BC they carved false teeth from the teeth of various mammals and produced partial bridgework good enough to eat with.

Only humans and horses have hymens.

The largest dog in the world is the TRISH WOLFHOUND.

AMAZING and MIND BLOWING FACTS(part 2)

91. 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica

92. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert

93. Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter

94. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300 degrees.

95. Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.

96. Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.

97. Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.

98. Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour! Neptune has 8 moons.

99. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.

100. Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the United States have a least one radio. Most families have several radios.

101. Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching, baseball games, plays, advertisements- these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they reach your radio and your ears.

102. At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is weak and can't travel very far, so it's sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are then sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the signal, and the radio's amplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the places the announcer's voice travels

103. Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you want your antenna to "catch."

104. Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. It's scientific name is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one time, mountain lions were very common!

105. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar.

106. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!

107. Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time! That's equivalent to 40 quarter-pounder hamburgers!

108. Queen ants can live to be 30 years old

109. Dragonflies can flap their wings 28 times per second and they can fly up to 60 miles per hour

110. As fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster... they can flap their wings 435 times per second

111. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

112. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

113. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day

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

115. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

116. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

117. Women blink nearly twice as much as men

118. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible

119. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.


120. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

121. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

122. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

123. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

124. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

125. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

126. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

127. Slugs have 4 noses.

128. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

129. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end

130. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.

131. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

132. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot

133. After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.

134. Penguins are not found in the North Pole

135. A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

136. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound

137. Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf

138. Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

139. Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks

140. Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

141. 259200 people die every day.

142. 11% of the world is left-handed

143. 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day

144. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!


145. The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That's bigger than your hand!

146. A full-grown male mountain lion may be 9 feet long, including his tail!

147. There are two kinds of radio stations: AM and FM. That's why there are two dials on your radio. AM is used mostly for stations that specialize in talking, such as Christian stations that have Bible stories and sermons; sports stations that broadcast live baseball and football games; and stations that specialize in news programs and "talk shows," where listeners call the station and discuss various topics. FM is used mostly for stations that specialize in music.


148. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil

149. The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.

150. The worst industrial disaster in India, occurred in 1984 in Bhopal the capital of Madhya Pradesh. A deadly chemical, methly isocyanate leaked out of the Union Carbide factory killing more than 2500 and leaving thousands sick. In fact the effects of this gas tragedy is being felt even today.


151. Mars is nicknamed the "Red Planet," because it looks reddish in the night sky. Mars has 2 moons.

152. Venus is nicknamed the "Jewel of the Sky." Because of the greenhouse effect, it is hotter than Mercury, even though it's not as close to the sun. Venus does not have a moon but it does have clouds of sulfuric acid! If you're gonna visit Venus, pack your gas mask!

153. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world, fight in a harmless battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.

AMAZING and MIND BLOWING FACTS(part 1)

1. Turtles have no teeth.

2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.

3. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.

4. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they're crying.

5. Helium is a colourless, odourless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.

6. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.

7. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.

8. Camels can spit.

9. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).

10. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.

11. Dinosaurs didn’t eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.

12. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).

13. A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc

14. Sharks are immune to disease i.e they do not suffer from any Disease.

15. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.

16. Paris, France has more dogs than people.

17. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.

18. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.

19. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.

20. There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.

21. A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.

22. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years

23. The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey

24. The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus

25. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.

26. Chess was invented in India.

27. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

28. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices.

29. India has the most post offices in the world

30. 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH

31. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.

32. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world

33. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

34. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

35. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

36. Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

37. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

38. The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along

39. The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.

40. A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).

41. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'

42. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

43. Ants don't sleep.

44. Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.

45. Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time

46. A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time

47. Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".

48. Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.

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

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

51. Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.

52. Pig’s Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.

53. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.

54. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their
hair.

55. Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons

56. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

57. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere

58. Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy

59. The average woman uses about her height in lipstick
every five years.

60. The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25,

61. AD 336 in Rome.

62. A Cockroach will live nine days without its
head, before it starves to death.

63. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't

64. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can
65. About 10% of the world's population is left-handed

66. Dolphins sleep with one eye open

67. 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.

68. Many spiders have eight eyes.

69. 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.

70. Birds don't sweat

71. The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft

72. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts

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

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

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

76. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

77. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

78. Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue -- more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue

79. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess with them

80. An elephant can smell water three miles away

81. If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds

82. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man

83. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history

84. The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).

85. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

86. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

87. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.

88. The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

89. Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint

90. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.