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New Facts

Posted by on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, In : Facts 

  • Tiny Lizard called Brookesia mirca was found in Madagascar
  • Scientists found the Extinct Monkey, the Miller’s Grizzled Langur in Indonesia
  • Indian Black Eagle was Spotted after 90 Years in the Aravali Biodiversity Park
  • Asian Honeybees shake their Abdomen to Guard the Entrance to their Hive
  • The Ozone hole found by the scientists reached its maximum annual size on 14 September 2011, becoming the fifth largest on record
  • The Sunderbans forest plays an important ecological role by ab...

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Largest and Farthest Reservoir of Water

Posted by on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, In : Facts 

Two teams of astronomers discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.The water in the reservoir is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean. The water surrounds a huge feeding black hole, called a quasar more than 12 billion light years away.


A quasar is powered by an enormous black hole that consumes a surrounding disk of gas and dust. Astronomers studied a quasar called APM 08279+5255. This quasar harbors a black hole 20...


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DID YOU KNOW?

Posted by on Monday, April 2, 2012, In : Facts 
  • The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
  • There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) in blood vessels in every human.
  • Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.
  • Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.
  • Only humans sleep on their backs.
  • The human brain is 80% water.
  • Everyone's tongue print is different.
  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears ...

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Interesting facts

Posted by on Friday, November 18, 2011, In : Facts 

The word 'rhythm' is the longest word without a vowel
A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open
You can't tickle yourself
French fries are originally from Belgium
March 14 is 'save a spider day'
Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent
Apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee
Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light.
Giraffes can't swim.


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