10.28.07
Did you know?
The world’s largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 – 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg).
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 – 2.25 inches (3.8 – 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.
An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.
Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.
A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.
The Atlantic Giant Squid’s eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.
The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.
The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.
The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).
The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass.
Boron nitride (BN) is the second hardest substance known to man.
The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree remain viable for 300 to 400 years.
The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn’t get the prisms apart.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
A car traveling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.
It is energy-efficient to turn off a fluorescent light only if it will not be used again within an hour or more. This is because of the high voltage needed to turn it on, and the shortened life this high voltage causes.
The Earth’s equatorial circumference (40,075 km) is greater than its polar circumference (40,008 km).
Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.
From Aarti Aiyer
P Y Sidhaye said,
January 12, 2008 at 12:26 am
Do you know that a Puneite is having a unique world record in cricket being the first and only deaf & dumb by birth cricketer in the world from India amongst 110 crores of Indian population.This is a historical & rarest of the rare case in the world.
For further details contact us at 9850173297.
Thanks,
Smt PY Sidhaye
Pune
Nishikant M Gupte said,
March 30, 2009 at 1:56 pm
I was in the same school ie Bhave High School, Deccan Gymkhana in which Baba Sidhaye studied. I knew he was partly deaf but not fully. He used to talk with us so was not a dumb that time. I knew his brother also who was a medical practitioner.
Warm regards
Nishikant