1. Ants never sleep!
2. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
3 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother; because they were both deaf.
4 An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
5. “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
6. Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage
and the bone hardens, between the ages of 2-6 years.
7.Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
8. Butterflies taste with their feet.
9.A “jiffy”, is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
10. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
11. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
12. Minus 40° Celsius, is exactly the same as minus 40° Fahrenheit.
13. No word in the English language, rhymes with month - orange - silver -or- purple.
14. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump"
15. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
16. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
17. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
18.The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”
uses every letter in the English language.
19. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
20. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
21. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
22. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
23. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
24. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
25. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
26. The dot over the letter “i” is called a 'Tittle'.
Interesting Facts about Human Body
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1.) Eyes:
You Blink about 20000 times a day.
2.) Hair:
Hair grows about .5 mm (.02 in) a day.
3.) Mouth:
You will produce 37,800 l of saliva in your life.
4.) Cells:
There are 50 trillion cells in your body and 3 billion of them die every minute.
5.) Nerves:
Your body has about 13000000000000 nerve calls, transmitting message at speed of 290 km/h.
6.) Brain power:
You lose 100000 brain cells every day! The main thing is that you have 100 billion altogether.
If surface area of your brain could be ironed out it would measure 2090 sq.cm.
7.) Heartbeats:
Your heart pumps 13640 L of blood around your body in a day.
An average heartbeat rate per minutes of our body is 70 beats and this will adds more than 100000 beats a day.
8.) Urine :
You will pass 400 to 2000 ml of urine every day, depending on your age, your size and outside conditions,
especially temperature.
9.) Chemicals:
There is enough carbon in your body to fill 900 pencils, enough Fat to make 75 candles,
enough phosphorous to make 220 match heads and enough iron to make a 7.5 cm nail.
10.) Can you overdose on vitamins?
Overdosing on some vitamins can have serious side effects.
Vitamin A: Doses of more than 3752 mg can lead to liver damage, hair losses and headaches.
Vitamin B6: Doses of more than 400mg can cause numbness in the mouth.
Vitamin C: Stomach ache can be caused due to high doses of Vitamin C.
Vitamin D: Daily doses of 600 mg can interfere with the functioning of muscles.
Niacin: Doses of upto 2000 mg are prescribe to help lower cholesterol but this could cause jaundice and liver damage.
11.) Tea Or Coffee?
The two main constituents of tea are “caffeine and tannin”. A tea bag contains about 40 mg of caffeine and brewed tea about 30 mg. Tea also contains useful fluorides, volatile oils and Vitamin B.
“Caffeine” is the main constituent of coffee. A cup of brewed coffee contains about 80 mg of caffeine and instant coffee about 60 mg. Medical studies show that heavy caffeine use (more than 500 mg/day) may cause harmful physiological effects.
A cup of tea or coffee (without sugar and milk) contains about 16 KJ of energy.
12.) Fingers:
Our fingers are so sensitive that they can detect a vibration with a movement of 0.02 cm. Our “finger nails”
grow at the rate of about 0.05 mm in a week and hair about 3 mm in a week
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