Amazing Facts - Part 7

1. Otters sleep holding hands.
2. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
3. The mimic octopus can not only change colours but can also mimic shapes of other animals.
4. A traffic jam lasted for more than 10 days , with cars moving only 0.6 miles a day.
5. All the clocks in the movie ' Pulp Fiction' are stuck at 4:20.

6. In Russia , beer was considered to be a soft drink, and not alcohol, before 2011.
7. Two-thirds of people on Earth have never seen snow.
8. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
9. There are more vacant houses than homeless people in US.
10. The average American around 600 sodas in a year.

Amazing Facts - Part 6

1.Your mind "rewrites" monotonous speech of boring people to make it sound more interesting.
2.Phobias may be memory passed down through generations in DNA,according to a new research.
3.There are more than 400 distinct phobias as recognized by psychologists.
4.Your favourite song is probably your favourite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life.
5.Phobophobia is the fear of having phobia.

6.The types of music you listen to affect the way you perceive the world.
7.Good liars are good at detecting other people's lies.
8.Spending money on others yield more happiness than spending on yourself.
9.Your mind can sense someone staring at you even when asleep.
10.By 2020,depression will be one of the leading cause of death and disability.

Amazing Facts - Part 5

1. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
2. Ever wondered why people say 'God Bless You' when you sneeze? It is beacause when you sneeze , your heart stops for a milisecond.
3. Rats and horses can't vomit.
4. Love listening songs via headphones? Well, in an hour of wearing headphones, you tend to have 700 times more bacteria in your ear.
5. Hot water is heavier than cold water.

6. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
7. Squirrels ca live for about 9 years.
8. Gorillas sleep for about 14 hours in a day.
9. Each person has a unique tongue print , just like fingerprints.
10. Ketchup was sold as a medicine in the 1830's.

Amazing Facts - Part 4

1.As per scientists, dieting could force your brain to eat itself....So beware girls.. :p
2.Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.
3.Your brain keeps developing until your late 40s.
4.Lack of oxygen in the brain for 5 to 10 minutes result in the permanent brain damage.
5.The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

6.The brain is much more active at the night, than during the day.
7.The brain itself cannot feel the pain, as there no pain receptors in the  brain.
8.The brain operates on the same amount of power as the 10-watt light bulb.
9.Brain is the most energy consuming part.
10.Brain can predict future.

The Monster Snake

Believe it or not .... But years after the extinction of Dinosaurs ,in the jungles of Columbia there lived a species of snakes whose characterstics make it unbelievable. The name of the snake is Titanoboa , meaning Titanic Boa. It had a huge size of 48 feet and the weight was 2500 pounds. Amazed? Aren't you?

Its huge size can be attributed to the warm climated it was present in. The presence of warmer climate meant presence of more and more prey which were bigger than the others that lived in cooler climates. It's diameter was similar to that of a man's waist. It was able to defeat any animal that he hunted. It was able to survive due to heavy rainfall in the area , rich vegetation and prey.

The river from which this snake took its prey had huge turtles, crocodiles which were a dozen feet long and 7 feet long lungfish.

Amazing Facts - Part 4

1. Penguins will give a pebble to the partner in order to propose.
2. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
3. A strawberry is not a berry , but a banana is.
4. India has not invaded any country in the last 100000 years.
5. In Korea, people eat an octopus alive.

6. A condition known as "Truman Syndrome" makes the patient believe that he/she is living in a reality show on T.V. .
7. 80% of the 'pain healing pills' all around the world are used by the people of U.S.
8. A 'moment' was actually a unit of time in the medieval period . There were 40 moments in an hour.
9. 54% people from around the world suffer from Nomophobia (Click to know more..).
10. In China, people use more Internet on phones than on P.C.

Amazing Facts - Part 3

1. Google is actually the comon name for a number with million zeroes.
2. Switching letters is called sponerism. For example , saying jag of Flapan, instead of falg of Japan.
3. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called 'aglets'.
4. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
5. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the  brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).

6. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
7. There are 1,792 steps to the top of Eiffel Tower.
8. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
9. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
10. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

Amazing Facts - Part 2

1. Public phones are outdated due to cellular phones so the phone booths were converted to Aquariums in Osaka, Japan.
2. Britain's smallest bird weighs the same as a teaspoonful of sugar.
3. You actually can't see Great Wall of China from space.
4. Drink tons of apple juice before you go to bed. A chemical compound in the juice will help you to have vivid awesome dreams.
5. Killer whales (orcas) are actually dolphins.
6. 2 % of Earth's people have red hair.
7. When a tiger roars, it can be heard 2 miles away.

8. There is a TITANIC II currently being built and it's scheduled to set sail in 2016.
9. You can press 'K' to pause your YouTube video.
10. Four year old kids ask around 400 questions in a day. 

Amazing Facts - Part 1

1.The strangers in your dreams are actually people that you have seen in real life.
2.You can teach yourself to control your dreams..by a method called "lucid dreaming," which means that you're aware of the fact that you're dreaming.
3.When you dream,your body is paralyzed.
4.12% of people dream in black and white.
5.Once Charlie Chaplin entered a contest for “Charlie Chaplin look-alikes” and he came in third.

6.54 million people alive right now will be dead within 12 months.
7.You replace every particle in your body every seven years.
   You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.
8.A tree is the opposite of your lungs. Physically and functionally.
9.Goats have rectangular pupils.
10.You’re not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.