Big babies

The African elephant has the longest pregnancy of any mammal. She caries her baby for average of 660 days. When the baby is born it weighs 90-120 kg. A baby blue whale is even bigger. It weights 2000 kg and is 7m long. It puts on weight at the astonishing rate of 90 kg per day.

The Most intelligent species on the planet

 

The list of most intelligent mammals is based on research by Edward O. Wilson,professor at Harvard. He defined intelligence on the basis of how fast and how well an animal can learn a wide range of tasks.

1. Human
2. Chimpanzee
3. Gorilla
4. Orangutang
5. Baboon
6. Gibbon
7. Monkey
8. Small toothed whale
9. Dolphin
10. Elephant
11. Pig

Dolphin only sleep with half of their brain

Dolphins sleep with only one half of their brains at a time, allowing them to stay constantly alert to danger for at least fifteen days in a row, a new study has found. Mammal foundation found that dolphins can use echolocation with near perfect accuracy continuously up to 15 days identifying targets and monitoring their environment.

Deadly plants on the planet

Potatoes are safe to eat when cooked, but the stems and the leaves of the plant contain poison called solanine.

Ricin is extracted from the seeds of the castor oil plant and is more poisonous than cyanide or snakes venom.

Opium is extracted from juice of poppy and contains morphine. Small quantity is used legally as pain-relieving medicines and illegally as drugs. Both can easily cause death.

The death cap is a highly poisonous mushroom. It is responsible for almost 90 percent of deaths from eating fungi. The poison causes serving diarrhoea and vomiting.

Curare is extracted from bark of certain trees is used by south American tribes to tip their poison arrows when they go hunting.

Deadly nightshade is also known as belladonna. It contains poison called atropine. Less than a milligram could kill a child.

Nicotine is a yellow oily liquid found in tobacco . About 50 milligrams of nicotine would kill an adult within a minute.

Strychnine comes from the koochla tree, which grows in may mar and India. It is one of the most deadly poison known.

World's First Earthquake detector

Chinese astronomer Chang Heng(AD 78-139) invented an earthquake detector made of vase adorned with dragons heads and surrounded by metal frogs. In each of the dragons jaw was carefully balanced a ball. When the first tremors of an earthquake made the device vibrate the Baal fell into the dragons mouth making notice that warns the people from coming danger.


Note- The picture is taken from the internet.

Facts

longest river - Nile(6,695 km)

greatest waterfall - boyoma(Stanley)

greatest river- Amazon(SA)

Highest waterfall - Angel falls(total drop-979*)

Greatest Lake - Superior(Canada/USA){area- 82414 sq km}

Longest glaciers - Lambert-fisher(length- 515 km)

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Facts about United States Of America

•  Today, 66 percent of all Americans are considered to be overweight.
• The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds of food each year.
•  Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
•  The average U.S. citizen drinks the equivalent of more than 600 sodas each year.
•  The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California.  But no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.
• One out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.
•  In the United States as a whole, one out of every four children is on food stamps.
•  More people have been diagnosed with mental disorders in the United States than in any other nation on earth.

Facts about McDonald's

1. McDonald's sells more than 75 hamburgers every second.
2. McDonald's feeds 68 million people per day, that's about 1 percent of the world's population.
3. McDonald's' $27 billion in revenue makes it the 90th-largest economy in the world.
4. The $8.7 billion in revenue from franchise stores alone, makes McDonald's richer than Mongolia.
5. McDonald's' daily customer traffic (62 million) is more than the population of Great Britain.
6. McDonald's hires around 1 million workers in the US every year.
7. McDonald's has 761,000 employees worldwide, that's more than the population of Luxembourg.

 

Worlds coldest and hottest places

The hottest place in the world where people live is Djibouti in the Republic of Djibouti, Africa. The average temperature is 30 degree Celsius next hottest are Timbuktu in Mali and triunelevi in India both 29.3 degree Celsius . The coldest place where people live is Norilsk, Russia with an avg temperature of minus 10 degree Celsius. Next coldest is Yakutsk in Russia at minus 10.1 degree Celsius.

Worlds largest standing rock

Uluru

The rock formerly known as ayers rock. Northern Territory, Australia is believed to be the worlds largest free-standing rock. It is made of sandstone and measuring 335 m long and 2 km wide. It was originally called after South Australia premier Sir Henry Ayers, but it is now known by local Aborigines, to whom it is sacred.



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Our earth is not safe

About 500 meteoroids reach eath every year. Many fall in the sea and in unpopulated areas and are never seen. The hoba meteorite, the largest in the world , found in Namibia in 1920. It measures 2.73*2.43 m and is 82 per cent iron and 16 percent nickel. It weights more than 60 tonne. Second largest is the Tent , found in greenland in 1894 and now known by its original Eskimo name, Ahnighito. This meteoroid weights about 57.3 tonnes and is on display in new York museum of natural history.



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It happens only in India

The captured is a pic of a auto rickshaw, a means of daily transport in most of the parts in India, due to the increasing population of India , there is a shortage of resources. As a result these auto rickshaw drivers in the manner to earn more profit risking the life of there innocent children.

Facts about India

• India is about 1/3 the size of the United States, yet it is the second most populous country in the world, with a population of 1,166,079,217. India is the seventh largest country in the world, at 1.27 million square miles.
• India is the largest democracy in the world.
• The Kumbh Mela (or Grand Pitcher Festival) is a huge Hindu religious festival that takes place in India every 12 years. In 2001, 60 million people attended, breaking the record for the world’s biggest gathering. 
• It is illegal to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India.
• India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.
• India has one of the world’s highest rates of abortion.
• More than a million Indians are millionaires, yet most Indians live on less than two dollars a day. An estimated 35% of India’s population lives below the poverty line.

Drugs. Are u addicted?

• Alcohol kills 6.5 times more youth than all other illicit drugs combined. 
• More than 60% of teens said that drugs were sold, used, or kept at their school.  
• Crystal meth has become the most dangerous drug problem of small town America. Kids between 12 and 14 that live in smaller towns are 104% more likely to use meth than those who live in larger cities.
• About 64% of teens (12-17) who have abused pain relievers say they got them from friends or relatives, often without their knowledge.  
• By the 8th grade, 52% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes, and 20% have used marijuana.
• Teenagers whose parents talk to them regularly about the dangers of drugs are 42% less likely to use drugs than those whose parents don't, yet only a quarter of teens report having these conversations.

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Even your thoughts are not safe

the given image describes the working of braingate

the sensor which is applied on persons brain

Brain gate, A professor at brown university has invented a machine which reads thought of your mind.

This machine can read your mind, a chip having 100 electrodes is applied over the brain then it transmits the signals to the machine it decodes the signals of the neurons and tells that what going on in your mind

Note: The images used are taken from internet.

Facts you will never know

 

• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
• A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
• A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
• A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
• A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
• A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

Honeypot Ant

Honeypot ants, also called honey ants or repletes, are ants which are gorged with food by workers, to the point that their abdomens swell enormously, a condition called plerergate.When food is scarce, the honeypot ants regurgitate their stored nectar to feed their nest mates. According to Wikipedia, ‘in certain places, they are eaten by people as sweets and are considered a delicacy.’

Facts about light

 

1. The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second – that is equal to 186, 287.49 miles per second).
2.  It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
3.  Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
4. Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
5. The light bulb was invented in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison.
6. Red, green and blue are the primary colours of light. Mixing them in various ways will make all other colours, including white.

Funny Facts

1. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
2. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
3. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years.
4. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
5. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
6. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
7. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.