Wednesday, August 28, 2013

INTERESTING THINGS-9


The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.

The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!

The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.

The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.

The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.

The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.

The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

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

The right lung takes in more air than the left.

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!

The only food that cockroaches wont eat are Cucumbers!

The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.