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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