Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Interesting Facts

Interesting Facts which I know and shared to the Japanese Kids

1 TO 100 – There is no English letter 'A'

If a statue of a person on a horse has:

Both front legs in the air - the person died in battle

One front leg in the air - the person died as a result of wounds

A paper piece can't be folded more than 7 times.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!

Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Butterflies taste using their feet. 

Starfish don’t have brain.

Elephants are the only animal that can’t jump.

Ants don't sleep.

A dolphin's hearing is so accurate that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away.

Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.

No two zebras have the same markings.

According to experts, whale songs rhyme.

The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.

The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.

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.

India invented the Number System. Aryabhatta invented zero.

Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.

Did you know fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it?

The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.

If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities.

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