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Mind Blowing Facts Around the world are listed below:-
yeah ! I have collected some sort of mind blowing ,amazing , fantastic and super facts for general knowledge that you must read it ,cause I guess you haven’t read it anywhere.This collection of facts will help you to know some unknown things happening around around you.
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.
5. Helium is a colorless, odorless, 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 fifth 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 frog?s 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.‘Navigation’ is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
30.India has the most post offices in the world.
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.Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.
51.Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
52.Pig’s Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
53.The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
54.Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
55.Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
56.Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
57.A duck’s quack doesn’t echo anywhere.
58.The average woman uses about her height in lipstick every five years.
59.The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, AD 336 in Rome.
60.A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.
61.A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
62.A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
63.About 10% of the world’s population is left-handed.
64.The busiest shopping center of London is Oxford Street.
65.The residence of the Queen in London is Buckingham Palace.
66.Adolf Hitler was born in Austria.
67.The country whose National Anthem has only music but no words is Bahrain.
68.The largest cinema in the world is the Fox theatre, Detroit, USA.
69.The country where there are no Cinema theatres is Saudi Arabia.
70.The world’s tallest office building is the Sears Tower, Chicago.