1. Sham S Misri
Butterflies taste with
their feet.
2.
Ostriches lay the
biggest eggs of any bird. One of their eggs could support your weight if you
stood on it. The contents of an ostrich egg are equivalent to 24 chicken eggs!
3.
Secret message: Take a
potato and cut it into half. Using the cut end, write a message on the bath
room mirror. Let the message be-‘You are owner of a treasure.’ The message is
invisible. But when someone takes a shower next, the message will show up on
the mirror because of the steam!
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the
world's nuclear weapons combined.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every
year.
- On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
- Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived
immigrants.
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for
dating are already married.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing. SCARY!
- A dentist invented the electric chair.
- All polar bears are left-handed.
- In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- The world’s largest flightless bird is the ostrich. An ostrich
egg is equal in volume to two dozen chicken eggs.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- Crocodiles attack big animals that come to pond to drink water
etc. When a crocodile attacks a Zebra for prey, the Zebra attacks the eye
of the crocodile. The result is that the crocodile leaves the zebra
without attacking him.
- There is a tradition that in Ethiopia women force the men to
slash them on their naked body. More number of slash marks on the women’s
gives her more respect in the society.
- Human body has 63,000
Billion cells
- Human body is composed of large number of chemical elements. Of
the 109 natural occurring chemical elements human’s body has 78 of them
with at least two atoms of each element per cell. The human body has on an
average 63000 billion cell. Twenty-eight of these elements are essential
i.e. which have been found to have some function in the metabolism
processes in human body. These 28 elements are classified as Major,
Secondary and Trace elements. Major elelments like carbon, Hydrogen,
oxygen and Nitrogen constitute 95% by weight of human body, whose organic
compounds serve as a main source of energy. Among the remaining 5% of the
7 secondary elements like
Calcium,Magnesium,Sulpohur,Phosphorus,Potassium,Sodium and Chlorine
constitute 70-80% of the human body by weight. While the rest 17 elements
are known as trace elements which are required in very small amounts(ppm).
In human body these mineral elements have a function of providing
strength, rigidity and stability to skeletal system and have catalytic
function and are component of body fluid.
- That is lot of DNA: It would take about 9.5 years to read out
aloud ,without stopping, all the DNA information present in one person.The
instructions in the DNA are called genes.
- Winston Churchill
35.
Winston Churchill
confesses in his autobiography that when the mathematics question paper was
placed before him during matriculation exam, he could not make the head or tail
of it and kept gazing at the window thinking what to write without realizing
that the nib of his fountain pen which inadvertently rested on the answer sheet
had ended up leaving a big ugly ink spot on the paper.
36.
33. Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein failed the entrance test for admission to
college. Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein was a great scientist who created the theory of
relativity. He won a Nobel Prize in physics. He did not speak until he was
three years old. He was the worst behaved kid in the class. As an adult,
he scribbled down his ideas and hid them in a desk drawer when his
supervisors passed.
- His idea? Everything is full of energy.
- His conclusion! E=mc square.
41.
34. Rabindra Nath
Tagore Nobel Laureate never performed well in his academic grades. Tagore never
took an examination in his life.
42.
35. Say Cheese,
President Washington. George Washington did not smile very much, because by the
time he was 5, he had lost all his teeth. He had dentures made out of wood,
ivory and even of cow’s teeth.
- 36. Don’t be afraid of failures
- There was a man
- Born in a log cabin (carpenter house)
- . Whose mother died when he was 7?
- . Who could get formal education in an ordinary
school only for 1 year?
- . Who failed in business at age 21?
- . Who was defeated in legislative elections
when 22?
- . Failed again in business when 24.
- . Lost the girl friend at the age 26.
- . Had nervous break down at age 27.
- . Lost congressional elections at 34.
- . Lost senatorial elections at 45.
- . Failed to become vice-president at 47.
56. . Lost senatorial election at 49.
- But struggled & struggled, with courage,
- To become ultimately the
President of United States at age 52.
- This man was ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the
16TH President of America! !
- 37. Someone once said:
- What goes around comes
around.
- Work like you don't
need the money.
- Love like you've never
been hurt.
- Dance like nobody's
watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
- 38. Soach Kral-
- An illiterate Kashmiri sofi poet. His father was also a poet
but his work has not been well documented. Soach Kral lived at Pulwama.
His poems are in the form of a dialogue.
- 39. Guru Nanak-
- Guru Nanak was the son of a Pathwari. He was given the job of a
storekeeper in a ration shop. One day while distributing ration he counted
one, two three---- and at thirteen (Tera) he did not stop but was saying
tera, tera and while saying this he
- Finished his store. Guru Nanak was suspended from the job.
- 40. the earliest symbol in human history is the zigzag, which
was used by Neanderthals around 40,000 B.C.
- 41. The average snowflake is made up of 180 Billion molecules
of water and falls at a speed of 5 kilometers per hour.
- 38. A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days, but a year is only 225
Earth days. Venus spins on its axis very slowly, but orbits the sun more
quickly than the Earth.
- 39. You can jump higher on the moon. The moon’s gravity is much
weaker than Earth’s. That means you could weigh about a sixth of your
earth weight there. If you weigh 18 Kgs on earth you would weigh only 3
Kgs on moon.
- 40. After a tree dies all the carbon dioxide it absorbed when
alive is released back into the atmosphere. The same amount of carbon
dioxide is released whether the tree burns or not.
- 41. Aphids are born pregnant and can give birth just 10 days
after they are born themselves.
- 42. Eels lay their eggs in oceans. The baby eels then move to
freshwater rivers. A female eel can lay up to four million eggs in a year.
- 43. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly straight up,
down, and backwards.
- 44. Ants never sleep.
- 45. Crocodiles that live in salt water cry. They do it to get
rid of excess salt in their bodies, not because they are sad.
- 46. The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.
Its heart alone weighs 700 Kgs
(1500 lbs).
- 47. A bee’s buzz is made by its wings, which flap 250 times a
second.
- 48. A blue whale’s whistle can be heard more than 100 Km (62
miles) away under water.
- 49. Whales and dolphins put half their brains to sleep at a
time so that they don’t drown.
- Whales use earths magnetic poles to navigate. Earth’s magnetic
field is produced by electric currents generated by metals found naturally
in earths outer core. The point where the magnetic field lines leave
earth’s surface pointing straight up is called magnetic south pole; the point where the magnetic
field lines point straight down is the Magnetic North Pole.
- 50. A dog can make about 100 different facial expressions, most
of them involving its ears.
- 51. Cow have four stomachs, which they use to process grass and
vegetation.
- 52. Human body sheds tens of thousands of skin flakes every
minute. Over a life time a body loses 20 Kgs of skin flakes.
- 53. The human heart beats about 100,000 times and pumps 2000
gallons of blood through 100,000 miles of
organic tubing …in one day.
- 54. In a resting position, a healthy person inhales and exhales
about 16 times a minute.
- 53. Human brain loses 100,000 brain cells every day.
- 54. Your brain weighs about 2 % of your total body weight, but
uses 20 % of your blood supply. From the age of 20, the brain loses 1 gram
a year as brain cells die and are not replaced.
- 55. Eyes stay the same size from age eight (8), but noses and
ears never stop growing.
- 56. Human skin cell fall off at a rate of 40,000 per minute. Dead
human skin cells make up about 70% of household dust.
- 57. There are 100 trillion cells in human body. A billion of
them die every 20 seconds.
- 58. The largest human cell is the female ovum (egg). The
smallest is the male sperm.
- 59. Everyone has a unique tongue print.
- 60. We make one liter of saliva in our mouths every day.
- 61. Tiny bacteria form 3 % of the body weight.
- 62. Blood travels 19,000 Kms everyday. That is half way around
the world.
- 63. After the age of 60 you would lose about half your taste
buds.
- 64. The stomach continually produces new layers of mucous to
protect the lining and stop the stomach from digesting itself.
- 65. There are about 1000 trillion bacteria in our body.
- There are more muscles in a caterpillar than there are in a
human body.
- 66. The average person eats 30 tonnes of food in a life time-
that’s the weight of 80 horses.
- 67. The average human head has 100,000 hairs growing on it. A
fingernail would grow 28 metres long if never cut. The middle nail grows
fastest, the thumb slowest.
- 68. A cough releases air at a speed up to 100km/h.
- 69. A single sneeze might contain 100,000 viruses.
- 70. Standing upright burns about 140 calories in an hour.
- 71. In an average lifetime, you will walk the equivalent of
five times around the equator.
- 72. In your lifetime you will drink nearly 70,000 litres of
water.
- 73. In your lifetime a human passes 45,000 litres of urine.
- 74. A jiffy is a unit of time equal to 1/100 of a second.
- 75. When gas condenses into a liquid it takes nearly 1300 times
lesser space.
- 76. The first ever e-mail was sent by American Ray Tomlinson in
1971. The message was sent from one computer to another right next to it.
- 77. English scientist Sir Isaac Newton’s dog Diamond knocked
over a candle and started a fire that destroyed 20 years’ worth of his
work.
78.
Sea water freezes at
minus 2 degrees centigrade because the salt in it lowers iits freezing point.
- The city of Troy is modern Turkey. Carthegians were from North
Africa present day Tunisia. Babylonia is modern day Iraq. The early
writing system called cuneiform was developed in Mesopotamia (part of
modern day Iraq), around 3100 BC.
- King Pepi II became 2nd king of Egypt in 2275 BC at the age of six.
He ruled for 94 years until his death aged 100.
- The world’s busiest airport is Atlanta in the USA. More than 88
million people pass through its door every year.
- A black hole is a place in space that forms when a really huge
star collapses. Everything around the black hole is sucked into it. The
force of gravity in a black hole is so strong that nothing can escape from
it-not even light. Black holes turn a person into spaghetti, which means
that the gravity would stretch a person until it is pulled apart.
- A barn owl can see fifty times better than a human in the dark.
- Owls can turn their heads 280 degrees.
- Owls in cold places have feathers all over their feet to keep
warm.
- 86. In the Carboniferous coal forests (354 to 290 million
years ago) there lived dragon flies as large as
parrots, Centipedes as big as crocodiles and scorpions the size of
cats.
- 87. Owls have two toes pointing to the front and two toes
pointing to the back. This helps them catch their prey.
- Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. Jupiter is
so big, that if it were a hollow ball, more than 1000 planets, the size of earth could easily fit inside
it. Jupiter is 400 million miles from the sun.
89. It takes 78 muscles to pedal a bike and only 12 to smile.
- The Fireworks were invented more than2000 years ago in china.
Originally, fireworks were used to scare people and wild animals. In 1200,
the firework industry developed rapidly, which helped Chinese military
frighten their enemies. Marco Polo took fireworks to Europe, and Europeans
were just entranced by the gunpowder. Afterwards, Italian fireworks makers
became interested in the development of fireworks. They learned to mix
other chemicals and powdered metals to produce gold or silver explosions
instead of just white and yellow.
90. Charles Chaplin looks alike
- Charles Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike
contest in Mount Carlo, Monaco. He was placed third.
- While visiting London, Chaplin, then the most famous man in the
world, received 73,000 letters in two days.
- Trivia: Chaplin’s trademark Tramp costume was inspired by the
poverty of his early years. When his English mother first saw him wearing
this, she cried, “Charlie, I have to get a new suit!”
- About One gallons of sea water gives one cup of salt.
- Tsunamies are large
rapidly moving walls of water.
- Pascal
said:"if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, it would have changed the
face of the world". It doesn't only mean that she had legendary big
nose, she was also very ambitious.
- Butane is a gas found in oil wells. Butane is very unusual. It
boils at the temperature at which water freezes i.e 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is hard to believe that something could boil at such a low temperature.
When liquid boils it changes into a gas. The temperature in oil wells is
generally above 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Butane can be changed into liquid by condensation. To condense
Butane temperature should be
below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Like Clockwork: Lowri Dearsley from Manchester, England,
thought it was a timely coincidence when her second daughter, Evie was
born at 7:43 PM in December 2007 because her eldest daughter , Ella, had
arrived at 7:43AM in October 2005.
- Then in January 2011, baby Harrison entered the world-at 7:43
AM. To mark the million to one chance, Lowri and her partner, Matt, both
had 7:43 tattooed on their arms. (Source-Ripley’s Believe it or not!
Special edition, 2013, Page 139; Published by Scholastic Inc. email:
publishing @ripleys.com
137.
Brave heart: An Italian surgeon completed an operation to
remove a brain tumour even though he himself developed a heart problem
requiring emergency surgery partway through the procedure. Claudio Vitale
refused to abandon his patient and finished the surgery before getting
treatment himself.
- (Source-Ripley’s Believe it or not! Special edition, 2013, Page
135; Published by Scholastic Inc. email: publishing @ripleys.com )
- 97.Unlucky 13: A 13 year old boy was struck by lightening on
Friday 13th at 13:13 in the afternoon. The boy, who was attending an air
show in eastern England , only suffered minor burns and has since made a full
recovery. (Source-Ripley’s Believe it or not! Special edition, 2013, Page
135; Published by Scholastic Inc. email: publishing @ripleys.com )
- 98.Back from Dead: Relatives of a Brazilian bricklayer got the shock of their lives
when the man turned up at his own funeral. Ademir Jorge Gonclaves had been
mistakenly identified as the victim of a car crash. (Source-Ripley’s
Believe it or not! Special edition, 2013, Page 135; Published by
Scholastic Inc. email: publishing @ripleys.com)
- 99. Kick start: Surgeons were operating on three day old Sam
Esquibel to operate and remove what they thought was a small brain tumor
when a tiny foot popped out of his head. It is thought to have been rare
case of fetus in fetu, where a baby starts to grow inside the body of its
twin. (Source-Ripley’s Believe it or not! Special edition, 2013, Page 135;
Published by Scholastic Inc. email: publishing @ripleys.com)
- 100. A human head is said to remain conscious for a short time
after decapitation. People executed by guillotine during the French
revolution were asked to blink afterward and continued to do so for up to
30 seconds.
- (Source-Ripley’s Believe it or not! Special edition, 2013, Page
135; Published by Scholastic Inc. email: publishing @ripleys.com)
- 101. Cockroaches can live without their heads for more than a
week. They eventually die of starvation and dehydration. (Source-Ripley’s
Believe it or not! Special edition, 2013, Page 135; Published by
Scholastic Inc. email: publishing @ripleys.com)
- 102. There are about half a million people over 100 years old
in the world, but only one in two billion will reach the age of 116.
(Source-Ripley’s Believe it or not! Special edition, 2013, Page 135;
Published by Scholastic Inc. email: publishing @ripleys.com)
- 103. Although more people are afraid of spiders than of dying,
you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous
spider. (Source-Ripley’s Believe it or not! Special edition, 2013, Page
135; Published by Scholastic Inc. email: publishing @ripleys.com)
- 104. When a beekeeper from the Spanish Pyrenees dies, his bees
are all splashed with a drop of black ink. (Source-Ripley’s Believe it or
not! Special edition, 2013, Page 135; Published by Scholastic Inc. email:
publishing @ripleys.com)
- 105. Interesting facts:
149.
Pee and Poop
1.
Birds do not pee at
all. Their pee mixes with their poop, sometimes turning it white.
2.
Ancient Romans brushed
their teeth with pee and also used it as mouth wash. They thought pee kept
teeth firm in their sockets and white.
3.
Average pee time for
girls is 80 seconds; and for boys it is 45 seconds.
4.
When bears hibernate
during the winter, they never get up to go pee in the forests. Their body
simply reuses the fluids. That is what I call "Holding it".
- It is said that Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)was a famous astronomer
from Denmark who was very polite. It was customary not to get up from the
dinner table to pee until the meal was finished.Some people believe that
Tycho "held it" too long at the dinner table one night, and his bladder burst.
Pee is poisonous, and Tycho died of pee poisoning days later.
- Inside our body there are very strong muscles. They keep the
digested food moving along.The muscles squeeze in a wave like motion so
that poop is always moving through the system.All along the journey of
food the digestive system has taken vitamins and water from the food, what
is left over is what scientists call "poop." About 1/3 of food
one eats becomes poop.About 1/4 of the poop
- can be bacteria! It eats at the poop as it goes through the
intestines, and the bacteria leaves behind chemicals that make poop stink.
The more bacteria in the poop, the more it stinks. Some 'bile' from the
gall bladder helps break down fats which gives the poop a nice brownish
-green colour, and the body is ready for a very special poop delivery.
Sometimes the body fails to deliver the poop. What is wrong? The special delivery may never arrive if
there is not enough water in the body system. If the body id dehydrated,
the poop will dry out and slow down in the guts. Some people call it a
plugged drain, a logjam, or clogged plumbing.It si like dry plaster is
inside thed body; it will move slowly, and when it comes out, it will be
hard and painful. If the poop does not come out, try to jumping up and
down, eating some prunes and drrinking a lot of water to break up that
plaster.
- If the food you ate is not agreeing with you, something
weird happens;Your body tries to
get it out of you as soon as possible! Instead of water being taken 'from'
the poop, water is 'added' to it to make it run through your guts fast,
like water through a pipe.When it comes out the other end , we call it
DIARRHEA!
- Poop has several names, like, night soil, voodoo butter, bowel
movement,hazardous material,doody, doo-doo,caca, Lincoln logs, number two,
answering nature's call,unhitching a load, dropping kids off at the pool.
- Historical poop removal! Scottish were the first people who
could go to the bathroom indoors. The earliest plumbing systems ever found
are in Scotland. They are 10,000 years old, and yes they still smell a
bit.
- Modern poop removal! When astronautsnd bust a grumpy into the outer space ,
the poop is dried and brought back
to Earth for scientific analysis. The astronauts have to store it
carefully ; they would not want to see a dried log floating around in zero
gravity.
- Vultures enjoy eating rotting meat, but they worry about
standing upon a dead animal and getting their feet infected. To solve the
problem, they poop on their own feet before perching on a corpse.
Apparently vulture poop can kill even the toughest germs!
- Even more disgusting item! Eating your own poop is pretty
nasty, but some animals do it; this is called 'coprophagy.' Beaver have a
fairly high fiber diet, and they have
to digest their food twice.Here is how it works. The beaver eats
its food (tree bark) and digests it. The beaver then poops it out. It
looks like a gelatin /oatmeal mix. What next? The beaver then eats its
poop and digests it a second time. When it comes out second time, it looks
like a sawdust. Sawdust!
- In historical times, getting rid of sewage was not always done
very well, as this 600-year old poem shows us;
- In days of old, when knights were bold
- And toilets had not been invented,
- They laid their load by the side of the road
- And went away contented.
Interesting
Facts:
1.
China uses 45 billion
chopsticks per year. Twenty five (25) million trees are chopped down to make
the sticks!
2.
The Chinese first
discovered tea. Actually it was Chinese Emperor who first tasted the brew in
2737 B.C. when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
3.
There are more than
10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
4.
An atomic clock is
accurate to within one second in 1.7 million years.
5.
Neil Armstrong stepped
on the moon with his left foot first.
6.
To make one kilo of
honey, bees have to visit four million flowers, travelling a distance equal to
four times around the earth.
7.
If a tree gives 100
Kgs of leaf, it requires one kilogram of chemical fertilizer.
8.
Eskimos use
refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
9.
From 1940 to 1990
Austin's population grew at an average rate of 40 percent per decade, from
87,930 to 472,020. By 2000 the population was 656,562.
10. The Gazelle and the Llama never drink water.
11. A very thirsty camel can drink 135 liters of water in only 13 minutes.
12. Sea stars have no brains.
13. If you unwound some large spiders webs, the silk would stretch for
nearly 480 kml.
14. If you eat too many carrots, your skin can turn orange
15. Strange but true! Termites produce more methane than all the cows in
the entire world.
16. Elephants have wind! Did you know that a single elephant ‘farts’
enough methane everyday to run a small gas stove for 8 hours![Ref; So you
really want to learn science independent school examinations
board-W.R.Pickering, book-2, page 216]
WHAT=?
What are
Wave Snakes?
A Wave snakes are long red tubes that
help convert the motion of waves into electricity and form part of a commercial
wave power station. It was developed by a British company and took 10 years to
create. Currently, the pilot wave-power project has been launched off the coast
of a Portuguese town called Agucadoura, and aims to power 1,000 families homes
in its initial phase.
What is
summer ploughing?
Ploughing one month in advance i.e. in
the month of May for kharif crops is known as summer ploughing...
Ploughing one month in advance i.e. in
the month of May for kharif crops is known as summer ploughing. There are the
three usual harvests known as the kharif or autumn (June-September), the rabi
or spring (October-March) and zaid or extra harvest (March-June). Summer
ploughing helps to kill weeds, hibernating insects and diseasecausing organisms
by exposing them to the summer heat. Summer ploughing of groundnut is always
advantageous.
What is God
Particle?
God Particle is the nick name given to
Higgs boson particle believed to impart mass to an atom, and eventually to all
matter in the universe.
What is
Einstein’s Rule of 72?
Albert Einstein said compound interest
is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time, not E=mc2.
The compound interest and financial
success Rule of 72 is the most important and simple rule of financial success.
It takes two minutes and costs nothing to learn the Rule of 72. Gain financial
success faster when you command the power of compound interest.
Compound interest is powerful financial
success tools. Financial experts use the Rule of 72 to command compound
interest and gain financial success. Some financial service providers use
compound interest to enslave you and compound their own financial success. They
don't want you to know the compound interest and financial success Rule of 72.
Einstein's "RULE of 72"
provides us with an easy formula to figure how long it takes to DOUBLE YOUR
MONEY! As a rule of thumb, at 10% interest money will double every 7.2 years.
It doesn't matter if the investment can be a stock, a bond, a CD, and any other
way of getting a return on your money. You don’t need a calculator and you can
use this method to quickly calculate in your head how long it will take to
double your money. All you need to do is dividing 72 by the annual rate of
return. The result would be approximately the number of years required for your
investment to double in size.
EXAMPLE:
If you have Rs.10, 000 in a savings
account at a bank, earning you 3.0%, divide 3.0% into 72. It will take 24.0
years to double your money.
Einstein once said, "If people
understood the Rule of 72 they would never put their money in banks!”
If you have Rs.10, 000 invested in a
mutual fund that returns 10% divide 10% into 72. Your money will double in 7.2
years. A much better return!
Doubling your money is a VERY important
part of wealth accumulation. If your money is in the bank at 4%, how many
doubles do you have left in your lifetime?
If you are 35 years old, with money
earning a measly 4% in a bank and doubling only every 18 years, you only have
ONE DOUBLE by age 60. If you figure that inflation averages 3% you're just
above breaking even, and if you figure the income taxes you paid on the 4%
growth, you are loosing money.
If you're 35 and your money is growing
at 12%, you will have SIX DOUBLES by age 60!
If you're 50 and your money is growing
at 12%, you have 1.6 DOUBLES LEFT by age 60!
What does this mean? It means you need
to start investing your money as soon as you can. Today is a good time to
begin.
What is
Munchausen Syndrome?
Munchausen syndrome is a type of
factitious disorder, or mental illness, in which a person repeatedly acts as if
he or she has a physical or mental disorder. It is also known as hospital
addiction, and refers to those
professional patients , who wander from hospital to hospital feigning
acute medical illness and giving false information about their medical
background only to gain medical attention.
Where would you find pink snow?
When the gas nitrogen freezes, it looks
like pink snow! There is frozen nitrogen at Neptune’s north and south poles.
What is an ampere?
An ampere is a unit of measurement of
electric current. One ampere is equivalent to a current of about six million
million million electrons per second, (6,000,000,000,000,000,000).
BYZANTINE EMPIRE- The Eastern Roman
empire is called Byzantine empire and the Persia the Persian Empire.
Shedding tears actually speeds up the
healing process:
[Trivia: According to researchers at
Russia's Academy of Medical Sciences, shedding tears actually speeds up the
healing process. Rats (with skin wounds) that were given eye irritants to
induce crying healed more quickly and formed scar tissue up to twelve days
sooner than those in a control group. Rats which had had their tear glands
removed actually had their wounds reopen. (Healing chemicals are thought to be
secreted through tear glands and carried through the bloodstream.)]
