"Some amazing Facts",Series-4

• A persons heart rests between beats, over an average lifetime, this amounts to approximately 20 years that the heart is still - i,e in pause state.

• Feathers of the bird Bluejay appear blue, but are actually not. It is just an illusion that they appear blue.

• The 26 letters of the alphabet can make 403,290,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations.

• Camels have 3 eyelids and 2 rows of eye lashes to help them work in deserts.

• Napolean used a bottle of perfume every day while being in the battle field carrying it in his boot.

• Ellen Stafford of Canada, published her first novel at the age of 80 years.

• Camel hair brushes are not made out of camel's hair. They were inbed by a man by the name camel.

• Todd Bark a farmer in Waterloo, makes his earning selling dirt to major league stadiums around the US.

• Nick West of Somerset, England has a collection of over 4,000 empty beer cans from 90 different countries.

• Robert.J.Urban of Manville,N.J. has spent the last years calculating the square root of over 1,11,000 numbers to 11 decimal places and all without using a calculator.

• Scientist and inventor Danny Hills built a 9 feet high clock that will track the moon's position, the rising and setting times of the sun and moon for the next 1000 years.

• Author Sylvester Hassel wrote history of a church in just one sentence that contained 3153 words, 360 commas and 86 semicolons.

• Blackboard chalk is not made from chalk, but made out of plaster of paris, which is not usually made in Paris.

• Monica Ballinari of Milan runs a business from her home in which she prays for those who are too busy to do it themselves.

• Truman Meredith of Henderson, Ky. cannot read but managed to copy the entire bible by hand.

• Penguins are smart swimmers, everaging between 4 to 6 miles per hour.

• There are 20,000 species of fish.

• Most fish don't have eyelids except for sharks.

• Wings of butterflies are transparent.

• About a ton of ore is required to extract 2 pounds of Uranium.

• Cigarette smoking accounts for 30 % of all cancer deaths.

• A cow has no upper front teeth.

• Butterflies don't have mouths that allow them to bite or chew. They have a long straw like structure called a Proboscis, which they use to think nector and juices.

• English language has the most words than any other language with 4,55,000 active and 7,00,000 dead words.

• Boston University professor Bill Anthony declared April 3rd to be "National Workplace Napping" (Sleeping) Day". He believed that having a nap during working hours actually leads to increased productivity.

• The average family of four washes one ton of laundry every year.

• A woman in Netherland found $11,600 on the street and gave it to the police, later on she won $41,900 in the Dutch lottery.

• Jelly fish has no hearts, brains or eyes.

• A giant eyeball of the size of a baseball was found floating on sea water. It belonged to an Octopus weighing 500 pounds.

• There are 700 members of Club known as " Minnesota Sit & Sit Club", each member is required to do atleast one foolish thing every month.

• Some of the Russian snow scenes in the movie " Doctor Zhivago " were actually filmed in Spain using white marbel that had been grounded to fine dust.

• In New York city there is a company called "Doggie Style Limosine Service" that caters only to dogs for their transportation.

• Clarence Brodus of Edison, N.J., age 83 has worked at the Ford Auto plant and made cars for 66 years but has never owned a Ford car himself.

• kathryn Wade of Lancaster,Ohio who was born on a leap day, Feb 29th, 1968 and has only celebrated eight birthdays, gave birth to a baby girl on another leap day, Feb 29th 2000.

• A 7200 sq. feet sign made from 1,650,633 beer caps was created in Toronto, Canada to mark the launch of the web-site WWW.beer.com

• In ancient China, Lychee fruit was so valuable that people paid their taxes with them.

• Chimpanzee is the only animal that can recognize itself when it looks into the mirror.

• In Needless, California, every year a toad (frog) race takes place.

• You need 7 different watches or adjust the time 7 times if you travel the world of Russia.It takes a week to cross Russia and there are 7 different time zones.

• A London - England Newspaper in 1657 advertised that drinking coffee would cure a headache.

• When a forest fire breaks out, millions of pyrophilic beetles (a type of ants) race to the area in order to mate.

• Pyrophilic beetles (a type of ants) can detect fire tempratures of 425-1150 degrees celcius.

• An Adult Education college in Austria once offered courses for men. It taught them ironing, sorting laundry and survival training in the kitchen.

• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

• The largest insects that ever lived on the earth were giant dragonflies with wing spans of over 3 feet.

• Recycling all our home's waste newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 850 pounds a year.

• Every sunday,the United States wastes nearly 90% of the recyclable newspapers. This wastes about 500,000 trees.

• Every year Americans throw out 24 million tons of grass clippings, leaves, and other yard wastes.

• One tree can filter upto 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.

• Only 1% of the world's water supply is usable. 97% is contained in the oceans and 2 % is found frozen in the polar caps.

• The easiest way to tell if an animal is a cornivore or a vegetarian is by looking at the eyes! Hunting animals have eyes located in the front of their heads, (dogs, tigers, owls) so they can focus in on the prey that they are stalking.

• Many fishes are named after animals including - bird, buffalo, cat, cow, dog, elephant, frog, goat, horse, eagle, leopard, lizard, parrot, porcupine, rabbit, sheep, pig, squirrel, hog, tiger, wolf, scorpion, zebra, robin.

• The additional line of sharks i.e. lateral line, pit organs, and lorenzini are senses that have been discovered over the past 10 to 20 years. These play important role in how shark functions when swimming around.

• Sushruta, the father of surgery 2600 years ago with his health scientists conducted complicated surgeries like Cesareans, contracts,artificial legs, fractures, urinary stones, and even plastic surgery and brain surgery.

• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if one front leg in the air , the person died as a result of wounds received in battle and if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

• African Bantu women take in only 350 mg of calcium per day compared to the R.D.A of 1200 mg. They bear nine children during their lifetime and breast feed them for two years. They never have calcium deficiency, seldom break a bone.

• Penguins can stretch their mouths, throats, and stomachs to swallow their prey whole. Penguins are known to walk in lines.

• Osteoporosis is most common in those countries where diary products are consumed in the largest quantities- the USA, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

• The city with the most Rolls Royce's cars per capita is Hong Kong.

• S.O.S doesn't stand for "Save ou ship" or "Save our souls". It was chosen in 1908 during Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and send in emergencies.

• The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS) it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "May Day" and means, "Help Me".

• The microwave oven was invented after a researcher walked besides a radar tube and a chocolate bar in his pocket got melted.

• Seoul,the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.

• Walt Disney, the creater of famous cartoon characters and Disney World has wooden teeth.

• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

• The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".

• In most advertisements of wristwatches, the time displayed on a watch is 10 hours & 10 minutes because then the arms frame the brand on the watch.

• According to Einstein's special Theory of Relativity, it is pissible to go slower than light and also faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light.

• Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988 g/cc but hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6 g/cc.

• The Staurn V Moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.

• In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

• The beginning of the original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights is "Alladin was a little chinese boy."

• Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.