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Did You know - The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12
miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is
going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.
A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour
(46 miles per hour) - that's really fast! The
fastest human beings runs only about 30
kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).
a cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs
like a cat (meow).
A Zipper joins two pieces of material
together.A zipper is used everywhere, on
clothing, pencil cases, boots and suitcases,
wallets, and a zillion other things. Everyone
thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who
invented the zipper but it was really Elias
Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the
sewing machine that he didn't get around to
selling his zipper invention which he called
a "clothing closure".
Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite,
Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly
are all names of BUTTERFLIES
The original name for the butterfly was
'flutterby'!
(Picture of a grizzly bear)
Bears whose brown fur is tipped with
(frog)
The largest frog in the world is called Goliath
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lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears
. The smallest species of bears is called sun
or Malayan bears. Male bears are called
boars. Bears are native to the continents of
North America, Asia, Europe, and South
America. Alaskan brown bears, world's
largest meat-eating animals that live on
land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds
(771 kilograms)
frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in
or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents
except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of
animals called amphibians.
There are more than 50 different kinds of
kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of
Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a
mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.
No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.
Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and
lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras
usually travel in herds.
How do reindeers survive in the extreme
cold? Most animals don’t eat moss. It’s hard
to digest, and it has little nutritional value.
But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why?
The moss contains a special chemical that
helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm.
When the reindeer make their yearly
journey across the icy Arctic region, the
chemical keeps them from freezing—much
as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up
in winter
Some scientists believe that the earth
began billions of years ago as a huge ball of
swirling dust and gases. If you dig in your
backyard, don’t worry about running into
the earth’s core. You’d have to dig a hole
4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
-A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
-A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
-A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
-About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
-A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
-A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands
and feet
-A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
-A zebra is white with black stripes.
- Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning,
and whistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds
of porpoises and dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using "echolocation".
The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.
- The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well,
though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.
-A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it
weighs as much as 150 tons.
The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea
pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a
penny.
-- How the wind blows. As the sun warms the earth’s surface, the atmosphere warms too.
Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm.
Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less
than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. This
movement of air is what makes the wind blow.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
--Why do we might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one? .
Dark colors absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. When light
shines on your dark jacket, the jacket fabric absorbs light energy. The absorbed light
energy causes electrons in the atoms of the jacket to vibrate. This activity releases heat
energy, which makes the jacket—and you—warmer. That's why we like to wear more dark
colors in winter and more light colors in summer.
-While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.
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-At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any
animal.
--A flute made of bone is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It’s a flute
carved from a bird’s wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with
other flutes at an ancient burial site in China.
- The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed
was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago
-- Glue dates back to prehistoric times. Artists once mixed colorings with raw eggs, dried
blood, and plant juices to make sticky paints for cave murals. Later, ancient Egyptians and
other people learned to make stronger glues by boiling animal bones and hides. Today
companies make glues using synthetic substances.
-A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of
extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
-A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as
antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
-A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with
another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and
instinctive.
-The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!
- The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to
rest. !!
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
- At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
-You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
- Of all the words in the English language, the word ' set ' has the most definitions!
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!-
- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
-More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
- "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
- No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
- All polar bears are left handed.
-Ants don't sleep.
The word "racecar", "kayak", and "radar" are the same
whether they are read left to right or right to left.
"a man a plan a canal panama"
spelled backwards is still
"a man a plan a canal panama"
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Did you know the largest fish ever caught was the Whale Shark? It was 59ft long. These
fish can weigh up to 15 tons.
Did you know fishes cannot live in the
Dead Sea because the water has too
much salt in it?
A parrotfish makes its own sleeping bag to sleep in. It uses
mucous (like spit) to make a see-through bag all around it's
body to protect it from attack by other creatures in the ocean.
The blue whale is the largest
animal on earth. The heart of a
blue whale is as big as a car,
and it's tongue is as long as an
elephant.
The heaviest fish
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OCEAN SUNFISH. It
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The pelican uses the funny looking pouch under its lower
beak for catching fish. It does this by swooshing into the
water and scooping up as many fish as possible.
Did you know pearls are found in oysters? The largest
pearl ever found was 620 carats.
The swordtail is the
fastest swimmer of all
the fish
-Most animals don't eat moss. It's hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with
lots of moss, because the moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm.
When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from
freezing-much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter.
A Cloud forest hosts huge numbers of plants and animals; the cloud forests of
Monteverde, Costa Rica, host over 425 bird species and more varieties of insects than
anyone knows.
The Human Body
your body is made up of trillions of cells? Different parts of your body are made of
different kinds of cells.
...your brain is like a computer, and controls your entire body?
...your heart beats about 70 times a minute, and each time it beats, it pumps about about a
cupful of blood?
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...an adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces and beats over 100,000 times a day?
...there are 206 bones in your skeleton?
...about half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet?
...everyone has thirty-two teeth?
...your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight?
...if you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds?
...about 70 percent of your body weight is water?
...physics includes the study of light, magnets, electricity, forms of energy, sound,
mechanics (studying the action of forces on matter)?
...objects and people move and obey three basic laws of motion: inertia, mass and force,
action and reaction?
...inertia, the first law of motion, states that objects that are at rest tend to stay at rest
unless acted upon by some outside force? A ball will not move unless someone kicks it.
...the second law of motion deals with the mass (the amount of matter in an object) and
force (the action on an object)? A ball does not speed up or slow down all by itself
because it takes a force to move it or slow it down. How the ball moves depends upon the
the object that is used to move it, the force used to move it, and the direction of the force.
...the third law of motion, action and reaction, states that for every action their is an equal
or opposite reaction? A person on a skateboard pushes back to accelerate, and his push
back on the ground sends him forward on his skateboard.
...Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion more than 300 years ago?
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the
parrot.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they
travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without
cutting themselves.
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that
rotates clockwise.
Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru
(Speak no evil).
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias.
Sanskrit is the mother of all higher languages. Sanskrit is the most precise and therefore
suitable language for the computer software - a report in Forbes magazine.
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely
pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
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