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During your life time your brain may store upto 100 million bits of information.
Our left lung is smaller than our right lung to make room for the heart.
Femur is the longest bone in our body, it is at our thigh whereas stirrup is the smallest bone in our body, it is in our ears.
The smallest plant in the world is Duckweed Wolffice Arrhiza , which has leaves less than 1mm in diameter. And the biggest plant is the Giant Segwoa tree called General Sherman in California. It is 83m tall and the diameter of its trunk is 24m.
An octopus has three hearts.
The mammal with the longest lifespan (apart from humans) is the elephant which can live over 70 years. An tortoise an live over 200 years.
Heart of a mouse beats 500 times in a minute.
The Bible has been printed in more than 300 languages and is the most printed book in the world.
An elephant can drink 50 gallons of water in a day.
There are more than 10000 varieties of tomato.
There are more than 40000 varieties of rice.
An apple, potato, and onion have the same taste; the difference in flavour is caused by their smell.
The goldfish is the most common pet in the world.
Bats are the only mammal that can fly.
Kangaroo can leap up to 9m in one bound. – Longest jumper.
The puma can leap straight up to 6m from standing. –Highest jumper.
Slowest moving mammal is Sloth of South Africa.
A pig’s skin is very sensitive and can sunburn easily.
There are more than 100 breeds of dogs but they all belong to the same species and therefore can interbreed.
With no winds and no rains the footprints made by the astronauts will remain on the moon forever.
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
All polar bears are left handed.
Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongues.
A cockroach can live 9 days without its head. It only dies because it cannot eat.
A ducks quack has no echo and nobody knows why.
Mosquitoes have 33 teeth.
Thomas Alva Edison the inventor of electric bulb eas afraid of dark.
It is impossible to suck your elbow.
Try it yourself.
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