Friday, July 2, 2010

General Knowledge

Amazing Facts about Animals.


A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
The lung fish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.
An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
The fingerprints of Koala Bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
A frog can’t empty its stomach by vomiting.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.
The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
Some lions mates over 50 times a day.
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.
The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why.
There’s a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
A male baboon can kill a leopard

Amazing facts on Human Body


Every person has a unique tongue print

The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap

People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain

Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself

Human birth control pill work on gorillas.

The right lung takes in more air than the left.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

People with blue eyes see better in dark.

Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment

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