20 unsolved mysteries in the world...!

 1. The mighty Incan Empire of South America

The mighty Incan Empire of South America flourished between 1200 and 1535 AD. They developed drainage systems and canals to expand their crops, and built stone cities atop steep mountains — such as Machu Picchu (above) — without ever inventing the wheel. Despite their vast achievements, the Incan Empire with its 40,000 manned army was no match for 180 Spanish conquistadors armed with advanced weapons and smallpox.

2. Ancient Pyramids in Giza, Egypt

Khafre (l.) and Khufu (r.) are two of the three ancient Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. Khufu is the biggest, consisting of more than 2 million stones with some weighing 9 tons. The Pyramids, built as elaborate tombs for divine kings, date back to 2,550 BC. Modern Egyptologists believe that the Pyramids are made from stones dragged from quarries and, despite ancient Greek testimony, were built predominantly by skilled craftsmen rather than slave labor.

3. The Mayan Temple

According to the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, made famous by the ancient Mayan people, December 2012 marks the ending of the current baktun cycle. This little bit of information has many archeologists spooked. Some believe the Mayans were warning of a coming apocalypse, while others insist it’s simply a mathematical misconception.

4. The Legend of El Dorado

The Legend of El Dorado originates from the Muisca, who lived in the modern country of Colombia from 1000 to 1538 AD. In a ritual ceremony for their goddess, the tribal chief would cover himself in gold dust and jump into a lake as an offering. This spawned the legend of a lost golden city, which led Spanish conquistadors on a wild goose chase to nowhere.

5. Easter Island

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is remotely located 2,000 miles off the coast of Tahiti. The original settlers of the island were Polynesians who migrated to the far-off land between 400 and 600 BC. They built many shrines and statues, called moai, from stones quarried throughout the island including a volcano site. Researchers still question exactly how the large stones were moved.

6. The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle — located in the Atlantic between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico — is a thief, stealing planes and boats right out of existence. The area got its name after Sgt. Howell Thompson (l.), along with 27 Navy airmen, vanished from the devilish spot during a routine flight in 1945. Rumors persist on a supernatural explanation, but many specialists blame hurricanes, a heavy Gulf Stream and human error.

7. The Nazca Lines

The Nazca Lines cover more than 190 square miles in the southern deserts of Peru. The mysterious shapes etched into the land rival football fields and predate the Incan Empire. The ‘Las Manos’ figure (above) is 2,000 years old. Little is know about why the Nazca people constructed such vast pieces of sand art, some believe they are extraterrestrial in nature, while others claim they may have carried and pointed to sources of water.

8. Aliens

Area 51, located on Groom Lake in southern Nevada (c.), was founded in 1955 by the U.S. Air Force to develop and test new aircrafts – such as the U-2 Spy Plane, A-12 Blackbird and F-117 Stealth Fighter. The secretive nature of the military base, combined with its classified aircraft research, helped conspiracy theorists imagine an installation filled with time-travel experimentation, UFO coverups and alien autopsies.

9. Sphinx of Giza, Egypt

Another Egyptian wonder, the Sphinx of Giza has the body of a lion and the head of a Pharaoh, believed by most to be that of king Khafre. It was carved from soft limestone, and has been slowly falling apart over the years. A popular theory of the missing nose claims Napoleon’s soldiers shot it off with a cannon in 1798, but early sketches discovered of the Sphinx without a nose predate Napoleon’s rampage.

10. The Loch Ness Monster

According to Scottish folklore, a mystical creature called a water horse lures small children to a watery grave by tricking them to ride on its sticky back. The Loch Ness Monster became an English wonder in 1933, after witness accounts made newspaper headlines. No hard evidence of the creature has ever been recorded with several pictures, including the one above, being proven as hoaxes.

11. The Fountain of Youth

Don Juan Ponce de Leon completed Spain’s claim on America in 1509, and soon after was made governor of Puerto Rico. Six years later, following Indian rumors, he traveled north to the island of Bimini in search of the Fountain of Youth. Bimini turned out to be the peninsula of Florida, and the fountain remained hidden until July 2006, when famed magician David Copperfield claimed the waters on his $50 million Exumas Island (c.) had healing properties.

12. Chupacabra

Phylis Canion holds the head of what she is calling a Chupacabra at her home in Cuero, Tex. The strange-looking animal, first reported in Puerto Rico in 1995, apparently has a taste for chicken and goat blood. Although many pictures like the above might prove its existence, biologists assure none such creature exists.

13. The Ark of the Covenant

The Ark of the Covenant is described in the Bible as a wooden casket, gold plated, made for carrying the tablets of the Ten Commandments. The casket was carried throughout the desert and remained in the Israelite Temple until its destruction by the hand of the Babylonian Empire. Its whereabouts are still unknown, but Hollywood made its own version for ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’

14. The Stonehenge

The Stonehenge landscape of Salisbury Plain, England, has become a tourist hotspot. But before foreigners with windbreakers and cameras showed up, the area may have been a burial ground and ceremonial den dating back 5,000 years.

15. The Iron Pillar of Delhi

The Iron Pillar of Delhi is a 1,600-year-old, 22 feet high pillar located in the Qutb complex in India. The pillar, made from 98% wrought iron, has been astounding scientists by its ability to resist corrosion after all these years.

16. Stone Spheres in Costa Rica

Discovered in the early 1940s in Costa Rica during excavations by the United Fruit Company, these perfectly formed stone spheres date from 600 AD to the 16th century. Their makers and purpose still unconfirmed, many believe them to be some religious effigy made to worship the sun.

17. Mothman

A humanoid with insect wings and crimson eyes, known as the Mothman, terrorized Point Pleasant, W.Va., during the late 1960s. No solid evidence exists of the creature, except for a handful of witness reports documented in paranormal-journalist John A Keel’s ‘Mothman Prophecies’.

18. Jersey Devil

According to legend, 250 years ago a Jersey woman by the name of Mrs. Leeds cried out in despair during her 13th pregnancy, ‘Let it be the Devil!’ After childbirth, the baby was revealed to be a kangaroo-like creature with wings, and flew away to cause all sorts of Jersey Devil mischief. Today the Jersey Devil can be seen getting fans riled up during local hockey games.

19. The Tunguska Explosion of Russia

The Tunguska Explosion in Russia occurred around 7:14 a.m. on June 30, 1908. To this date, the exact cause of the explosion – which leveled 80 million trees over 830 square miles – remains a heated debate. Most believe it to be caused by a meteoroid fragment, others insist either a black hole or UFO origin.

20. The Lost City of Atlantis

The Lost City of Atlantis was introduced to the West 2,400 years ago by Plato, who claimed it to be the island home of an advanced society. Legend says it was sunk by an earthquake, with later interpretations as an underwater kingdom protected by mermaids. Its whereabouts still a mystery, recent underwater evidence suggests it was once apart of a larger landmass in Cyprus off the Mediterranean (c.), but the only true Atlantis exists in the Bahamas as a grand casino and resort hotel.

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Lost city of Atlantis, found after the 'Tsunami'..!

A US-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain.

"This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters.

"It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a University of Hartford, Connecticut, professor who lead an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis.
To solve the age-old mystery, the team used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site just north of Cadiz, Spain. There, buried in the vast marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, they believe that they pinpointed the ancient, multi-ringed dominion known as Atlantis.

The team of archeologists and geologists in 2009 and 2010 used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to survey the site.

Freund's discovery in central Spain of a strange series of "memorial cities," built in Atlantis' image by its refugees after the city's likely destruction by a tsunami, gave researchers added proof and confidence


Atlantis residents who did not perish in the tsunami fled inland and built new cities there,
 The team's findings will be unveiled on Sunday in "Finding Atlantis," a new National Geographic Channel special.

While it is hard to know with certainty that the site in Spain in Atlantis, the "twist" of finding the memorial cities makes him confident Atlantis was buried in the mud flats on Spain's southern coast.

Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis some 2,600 years ago, describing it as "an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Hercules," as the Straits of Gibraltar were known in antiquity. Using Plato's detailed account of Atlantis as a map, searches have focused on the Mediterranean and Atlantic as the best possible sites for the city.
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Supermoon may cause extreme disaster on March 19th..!

The world could be in for a bumpy ride next week when the moon will make its closest approach to Earth in almost 20 years, say experts.

According to them, the astronomical event - "extreme supermoon" - may trigger earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other disasters.

An "extreme supermoon" occurs when the Earth's natural satellite reaches its absolute closest point. On March 19, the moon will be only 221,556 miles away - the first extreme super - moon in nearly 20 years

Previous supermoons - or "lunar perigees" - happened in 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005. Each year had extreme weather events.

however... A moon can't cause a geological event like an earthquake, but it will cause a difference to the tide. If that combines with certain weather conditions, then that could cause a few problems for coastal areas.

Life has been detected on 3 meteors..We're not alone!

Life has been detected on three meteorites in the form of tiny fossilized bacteria by a NASA scientist.

Neighbors? (Picture courtesy: dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)

Findings have also shown that these bacteria don't belong to our planet. The research has opened doors for several speculations, including that the very base of existence of life on earth may have begun elsewhere in the solar system. However, a confirmation on the same is awaited. 

Astrobiologist, Richard Hoover, based at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, has spent his years in the study of microscopic life-forms that can survive extreme environments such as glaciers, permafrost and geysers. His observations state that microfossils similar to cyanobacteria – blue-green algae (pond scum) have been traced on the unearthed corners of the meteorites. In a report published in Reuters, Hoover stated that typical of earthly bacteria, these too had lots of carbon and zero nitrogen  in them. Nitrogen in these, however, is suspected to have turned into gaseous form over the years of its existence.

However, the relic of we having neighbors in the universe isn't an exclusive one. In 1996, life on Mars was indicated after NASA presented a 4-billion year old meteorite that was found in Antarctica.

It now remains to be researched further to really know if we’re alone, or not!

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Mind blowing Facts...Whoa !

1. Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching, baseball games, plays, advertisements- these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they reach your radio and your ears.

2. At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is weak and can't travel very far, so it's sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are
then sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the signal, and the radio's
amplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up the vibrations and your brain translates them into
the voice of the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the places the announcer's voice travels
3. Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you want your antenna to "catch."

4. Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. It's scientific name is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one time, mountain lions were very common!
5. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar.
6. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!
7. Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time! That's equivalent to 40 quarter-pounder hamburgers!

Queen ants

8. Queen ants can live to be 30 years old
9. Dragonflies can flap their wings 28 times per second and they can fly up to 60 miles per hour
10. As fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster... they can flap their wings 435 times per second
11. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
12. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
13. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
14. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

15. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
16. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men
18. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible
19. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it.
20. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
21. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
22. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

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23. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
24. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
25. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

Queen Elizabeth I

26. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

Grey Slug

27. Slugs have 4 noses.
28. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
29. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
30. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
31. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

Abraham Lincoln's mother hanks

32. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot
33. After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
34. Penguins are not found in the North Pole
35. A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
36. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound
37. Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf
38. Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.
39. Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks
40. Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
41. 259200 people die every day.
42. 11% of the world is left-handed
43. 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day
44. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

Beetle

45. The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That's bigger than your hand!
46. A full-grown male mountain lion may be 9 feet long, including his tail!
47. There are two kinds of radio stations: AM and FM. That's why there are two dials on your radio. AM is used mostly for stations that specialize in talking, such as Christian stations that have Bible stories and sermons; sports stations that broadcast live baseball and football games; and stations that specialize
in news programs and "talk shows," where listeners call the station and discuss various topics. FM is used mostly for stations that specialize in music.
48. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil
49. The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.

50. The worst industrial disaster in India, occurred in 1984 in Bhopal the capital of Madhya Pradesh. A deadly chemical, methly isocyanate leaked out of the Union Carbide factory killing more than 2500 and leaving thousands sick. In fact the effects of this gas tragedy is being felt even today.
51. Mars is nicknamed the "Red Planet," because it looks reddish in the night sky. Mars has 2 moons.

venus

52. Venus is nicknamed the "Jewel of the Sky." Because of the greenhouse effect, it is hotter than Mercury, even though it's not as close to the sun. Venus does not have a moon but it does have clouds of sulfuric acid! If you're gonna visit Venus, pack your gas mask!
53. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world, fight in a harmless battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes
are thrown in the streets.

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Tablets VS Netbooks...

TABLETS:

Appearance: Are sleek slim and light to carry.  They do not have a physical keyboard.  All of them have a good touch screen with glossy or matte finish.  Keep a cleaning cloth handy, as these are serious fingerprint attractors.

Locked and loaded: When it comes to fire power(processing power) at the moment they are not as powerful as net-books.  But soon they will be better.  Shortly 2 GHz processors and higher RAM will be available to these shiny machines.  Mid to high end ones are 3G ready too.

Operate me: 95 percent of the tablets run on Android OS. Rest use Windows CE or iOS.  For basic stuff and light gaming these are nice, but when it comes to multi-tasking these suffer a little.  Hopefully the new OS upgrades will solve this issue.  Microsoft is also  coming with a tablet OS.

Battery juice:  we have seen mixed results here . while most last for 6-8 hours, there are some that last just 4 hours.

Expansion:  The upgrading options even less than the netbooks. You can just expand the memory by inserting an SD card.

Pocket damages:  Some of the entry-level ones are available for half the price of netbooks. However the high-end cool ones, are double the price of the netbooks.

NETBOOKS: 

Appearence: We are quite used to the laptops, which is why most netbooks dont intrigue mush. Some of them tried to, like the Vaio P or X series, but the X-factor soon vanishes. However you do get superb display screens, many USB ports, Ethernet and video ports. And they do cme with a physical keyboard for ease of typing.

Locked and loades:  These machines are quicker than the tablets. They fetch fast 1.6 GHz processors capable enough to handle many open windows at the same time. Can run HD movies as well.

Operating me: All of them are windows based. These are reliable and have an excellent coustomer support. You have an OS problem? Microsoft will solve it..

Battery juice:  All the new generation netbooks can atleast last for 7 or higher hours. Barring a few that live for 4-5hours.

Expansion:  Only the hard drive and RAM can be upgraded. Rest cannot.

Pricing:  Entry-level netbooks linger around 15k mark, which is double the prise of entry level tablets. On the other side one can get a fully loaded laptop for 21-24 thousand rupees, while tablets 32-38 thousand rupees.

Mind blowing Facts...OMG.!

1. Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.
2. Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
3. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.

 

Intelligent People

4. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
5. Earth weighs 5,972,000,000, 000,000,000, 000 tons
6. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
7. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere
8. Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy
9. The average woman uses about her height in lipstick
every five years.
10. The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25,AD 336 in Rome.

11. Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching, baseball games, plays,
advertisements- these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they reach your radio and your ears.
12. A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
13. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't
14. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can
15. About 10% of the world's population is left-handed
16. Dolphins sleep with one eye open

17. Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the
snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.
18. Many spiders have eight eyes.
19. The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two
pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.
20. Birds don't sweat
21. The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft

Flamingo

22. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts
23. The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz
24. The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

creosote bushes

25. The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert
26. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
27. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
28. Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue -- more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
29. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess with them
30. An elephant can smell water three miles away
31. If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds
32. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
33. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history

Robert Pershing Wadlow

34. The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).
35. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
36. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
37. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.
38. The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their
shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
39. Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint

40. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.
41. 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica
42. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert
43. Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter
44. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but
at night it gets down to -300 degrees.

45. Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on
Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.
46. Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it would
float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.
47. Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.

Neptune

 48. Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour! Neptune has 8 moons.
49. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of
rock and ice.
50. Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the United States have a least one radio. Most families have several radios.

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World Famous unsolved Misteries.....!

Bermuda Triangle- Is it a Reality?
Is there a Second Life..?
Is the Earth Shrinking.?
The Secret of Tutankhamen's Mummy.
The Secret of Mayas.
The Mysterious Iron Pillar.
Atlantis: Paradise Lost..?
Black Hole of syberia.
Which was the First city of the world?
Teotihuacan,The place where gods lived.

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Mind blowing Facts....!

1. Turtles have no teeth.
2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.
3. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.
4. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they're
crying.

helium balloon lights

5. Helium is a colourless, odourless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.
6. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things
will rise to the top.
7. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things
will rise to the top.
8. Camels can spit.
9. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
10. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
11. Dinosaurs didn't eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.
12. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
13. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel
nail, Glass pieces, etc
14. Sharks are immune to disease i.e they do not suffer from any Disease.

15. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.
16. Paris, France has more dogs than people.
17. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.
18. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
 

19. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.
20. There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.
21. A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.
22. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years
23. The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey
24. The name `India' is derived from the River Indus

25. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
26. Chess was invented in India.
27. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
28. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented
virtues and the snakes indicated vices.
29. India has the most post offices in the world
30. 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH
31. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.

 32. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
33. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
34. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
35. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
36. Twenty-Four- Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

37. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
38. The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along
39. The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.
40. A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
41. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'

42. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
43. Ants don't sleep.

44. Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.
45. Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time
46. A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time

47. Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".
48. Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.
49. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.
50. Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom. 

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