DO YOU KNOW
Do you know how much insects a bat can eat in one night? The answer is a bat can eat 3,000 insects in one night & can eat up to a half million insects every night! Bats can eat almost their full body weight in insects.
A four-year child used to ask over four hundred questions a day & a mother Mothers asked nearly 300 questions a day because mothers are the most quizzed people and could asked more questions every hour than a primary school teacher.
Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope. Neptune has 14 known moons & the largest is Triton & the planet's other 13 moons are irregularly shaped. Triton is unique because it is the only large moon in the solar system to circle its planet in a direction opposite to its planet's rotation.
It is said that a mosquito has 47 teeth but actually mosquitoes do not have teeth! A mosquito’s proboscis has 47 sharp edges on its tip. Unlike human teeth, these sharp edges are not used to chew foods but to help it cut through skin and even protective layers of clothing & can make us feel pain the moment a mosquito bites us.
90% of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere & some of the most densely and highly populated countries like India falls in the Northern Hemisphere.
Jupiter and Saturn have diamond rain & have over 1,000 tons of diamonds are being created every year on Saturn through rain. These planets have extremely hot core & the diamonds cannot stay in solid form as they melt when they come closer to the planet's surface, where temperatures exceed 8,000 Kelvin (13,940°F) & get transformed into some other materials.
The food we eat at 30,000 feet doesn’t taste like it does on the ground because we take leave of our sweet and salty senses but Sour, bitter and spicy flavors remain with us & are almost unaffected. That is why Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease by 20 to 50 percent during flights.
Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime, completely replacing their outer skin every month. The average adult human has two to nine pounds of bacteria in his or her body.
Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.
Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but excite turned them down.
The total weight of all the ants on Earth is greater than total weight of all the humans on the planet.
Facebook engineers originally wanted to call the "Like" button the "Awesome" button.
If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, Blue Gene, can manage only .002% of that.
Seahorses are monogamous life mates and travel in pairs, holding each other’s tails.
"Rain of fish" is an annual weather event in which hundreds of fish rain from the sky onto the Honduran city of Yoro.
The longest interval between the birth of twins is 87 days.
The average hummingbird's heart rate is more than 1,200 beats per minute
The Dancing Plague of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Germany, where people danced without rest for a month straight
A Blue Whale's heart is the size of a VW Beetle and large enough that you could swim through it's arteries
You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago
Do you know Leaf drop is a form of self-protection?
What is vaccine? An antigenic preparation injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies & procure immunity from one or several diseases. Do you know who was the founder of vaccine. Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology in the West in 1796, after he inoculated a 13-year-old-boy with vaccinia virus (cowpox), and demonstrated immunity to smallpox. It is also said that Buddhist monks drank snake venom to confer immunity to snake bite & variolation (smearing of a skin tear with cowpox to confer immunity to smallpox) was practiced in 17th century China.
