Amazing Facts About Our Lives
- The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
When it comes to versatility, perhaps the tongue is the strongest
muscle. Its combination of elasticity and forcefulness gives us the ability
to speak, eat, and kiss – all things very desirable on a first date. However
dextetous it may be though, its power does not match that of muscles such as
the soleus.
- The word "lethologica" describes the state of
not being able to remember the word you want.
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Lethologica is “the inability to remember the right word.” This is the word you can use when you know you’re looking for your left something-or-other that goes on your foot but id, not a sock, it’s a (shoe?).
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from
the blowing desert sand.
Camels have not one, not two, but three eyelids. Called a nictitating membrane, the
transparent lid helps keep out sand and dust; it can even improve vision, like
a contact lens. Many animals, include dogs, cats, sharks, and some birds and
amphibians, also have third eyelids.
· TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made
using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
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Appropriately enough,
the 10-letter word typewriter is one
of the longest words that can be spelled using just the top row of letters on a
qwerty keyboard; some of the others include peppertree, perpetuity, proprietor,
repertoire and typewrote.
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You can't kill yourself
by holding your breath.
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Breathing is a brain stem function. It continues even if you’re unconscious. Hold your breath long enough and you’ll pass out unconscious – brain stem ignores your will to die and takes overdoing its job of keeping you alive.
- Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.
Indian currency notes are made up of pulp containing cotton, balsam with special dyes and blended with the textile fibers to make the currency notes that should be that should resilient, durable, with quality to resist from wear and tear and not be faked easily.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
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The mucusprotects the gastric mucosa from autodigestion by e.g. pepsin and from
erosion by acids and other caustic materials that are ingested. Bicarbonate
ions, secreted by the surface epithelial cells. The bicarbonate ions act to
neutralize harsh acids.
- The dot over the letter "i" is called tittle.
A tittle or superscript dot is
a small distinguishing mark, such as a diacritic in the form of a dot on a lowercase i or j. The tittle is an integral part of the glyph
of I and j, but diacritic dots can
appear over other letters in various languages.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why!
A duck’s quack certainly echoes around our
reverberation chamber, so a duck’s an echo, you usually make a very loud noise
to make sure the reflection can be heard. But a duck quacks too quietly, so the
reflection is too quiet to hear.
- Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine,
which affects their heart and nervous system.
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The toxic component of chocolate is theobromine.
Humans easily metabolize theobromine, but dogs process it much more slowly,
allowing it to build up to toxic levels in their system. A large dog can
consume more chocolate than a small dog before suffering ill effects.
- The heart of a blue whale can
weigh as much as a car.
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Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever existed. Learn why they're larger than any land animal and why they were hunted for years. A blue whale's tongue alone can weigh as much as an elephant—its heart as much as an automobile. Earth's largest animal, the blue whale can eat some 4 to 8 tons of krill per day.
- On a clear night, the human eye can see between 2000 to 3000 stars in the sky.
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There are only about 5,000 stars visible
to the naked, average, human eye, MinutePhysics points out. And, because the
Earth itself gets in the way, you can only see about half of those from where
you stand.
- Do you know the similarity between human body and a
banana? You will be amazed to know that 60% of human DNA is same as in
banana.
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About 60 percent of our genes have a recognizable counterpart in the banana genome! "Of those 60 percent, the proteins encoded by them are roughly 40 percent identical when we compare the amino acid sequence of the human protein to its equivalent in the banana.
- The human body has enough iron in it to make 3 inches
long nail.
A human body has enough iron in it to make a nail
3 in. (7.5 cm) long.A
human body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 in. (7.5 cm)
long. Most of this iron is in the blood.
- Chameleon can whip their long tounges out faster than
our eyes can follow, moving 26 times the length of their own body in a
second.
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On average, a chameleon's tongue is
roughly twice the length of its body. In humans, that would be a tongue about
10 to 12 feet (about 3 to 4 meters) long. To test his hypothesis
- One of the smallest dinosaurs that lived during the
Jurassic was hardly larger than a pet cat!
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The smallest dinosaurs were just slightly larger than a chicken; Compsognathus ("pretty jaw") was 1 m (3 ft) long and probably weighed about 2.5 kg (about 6.5 lb). These three dinosaur types all lived during the Jurassic Period. Mussaurus ("mouse lizard") was claimed as the smallest dinosaur, but it is now known to be the hatchling of a dinosaur type that was much larger than Compsognathus when fully grown. If birds are advanced dinosaurs, then the smallest dinosaur would be the hummingbird!
- Antarctica is the only continent where butterflies have not been found.
Antarctica is the only
continent on which no Lepidoptera
have been found. There are about 24,000 species of butterflies
- Caterpillars have 4000 muscles - humans only have
650.
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When you think of muscles you probably have a picture in
your mind of some muscular people who
are pleasing to the eye. Did you know that you have over 650 muscles in your body?
That sounds like a lot but a caterpillar has, even more,
around 4000 muscles! Without muscles, we would
never be able to move.
- Chickens are not the only bird who bob their head while walking! Cranes and pigeons do it too!
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Because of their long, thin
necks, chickens can easily move their heads independently
from their bodies. And
because chickens and other birds can't move their eyes within
the eye socket, and have to move their whole head in order to
change their field of
vision, it appears that their head is
"bobbing"
- An adult toad eats at least 1000 bugs every day.
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Unlike most toads, who wait for prey
to come along and pounce on it, American toads can shoot out
their sticky tongues to catch prey. They also may use their front legs in order
to eat larger food. They grasp their food and push it into
their mouths. One American toad can eat up to 1,000 insects every day.
- A
newborn kangaroo is small enough to fit in a teaspoon.
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Newborn marsupials are extremely small and undeveloped when they are born. They crawl into the pouch where the nipples are. Then they grow to a larger size that can eventually leave the pouch but still returning to suckle.
Baby kangaroo
CHEMISTRY FACTS
- Hydrogen is the first element on the periodic table. It has an atomic number of 1. It is highly flammable and is the most common element in our universe.
- Liquid nitrogen boils at 77 kelvin(196 °C, 321 °F).
- Around 1% of the sun's mass is oxygen.
- Helium is lighter than the air around us so it floats,
that's why it is perfect for the balloons you get at parties.
- Carbon comes in a number of different
forms(allotropes), these include diamond, graphite, and impure forms such
as coal.
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