Friday, January 28, 2011

Nature - Facts

The Portuguese Man-of-War, a jellyfish like creature, has tentacles that may be more than 30m (about 100 ft) long.

The skin of poison dart frogs contains a dangerous toxin.

Electric eels are capable of emitting a discharge of 600 volts.

The Pitohui, a bird from New Guinea, has poisonous skin and feathers.

Puffer fish can be poisonous to eat if not prepared properly.


The bark of the Willow tree was the original source for making aspirin.

Fresh water weighs approximately 8.4 pounds per gallon.

Man is the only animal that sleeps on its back.

Mosquitos are responsible for the most human deaths due to the many diseases they carry.

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

Cows don't have upper front teeth.

A pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of rocks.




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Amazing Facts - About Nature

An ocean wave can rose up to maximum height of 21m and it was recorded back in 2004 in the island of Maui. 516m ocean wave was recorded at the head of Lituya Bay, Alaska in 1958.

A single cocoon can produce 1,000 ft silk and to make a silk-made tie 100 cocoons are used.

Muscles is a human body are 650 in total.

Corks that are used to seal-off the mouth of champagne or wine bottles are made by oak tree and one large oak tree can produce 100,000 soft corks.

Stars in the galaxies are 2.5 trillion and blood vessels in human body are 250 trillion.

1,300 degree Fahrenheit is a very high temperature and it can easily melt the steel off. A person named David Barry walked 165ft in length on burning coal,in 1998,which was having temperature mentioned above.

Formula One Racing car races at average speed of 170 miles per hour and a golf ball when gets hits from front strike has the same speed.

On the top layer of moon when the gravity is too low, there is no atmosphere and when someone utters something, the words wont reach the next person's ear.

A volcano was recorded to burst out at the speed of 250 miles per hour in 1980 known as St. Helen which was faster than Japanese bullet train.

A commercial plane can fly at the altitude of maximum 35,000ft and a bird can fly at the altitude of 37,000ft.

Scotch Whisky is a very famous whisky. Its odor is made up by using more than 300 chemical substances.

Crocodile can live as long as 100 years and it can have 2,500 pounds of weight.

Workers in coal mines get tattooed when coal ash enters their body and if they try to remove it, there can be explosion because laser and black gunpowder are not friend at all.

Heart is the best pumping machine. It pumps enough blood within a year to fill up a Olympic Game standard swimming pool.

A single mummy took 70 days to make and it is found in a research that Egyptians made total of 70 millions of them.

To clean its ears from the dirt a giraffe uses its tongue.

Lightning is a very powerful source of energy and a single lightning can light up the bulb for 3 months.

Eyes blinking is a complicated process and a human eye blinks 4.2 million times in a year.

Around 90% of people will be able to see International Space Station from earth with their naked eye when it will be completed.

Explosive weighing one pound can produce up to 2,200 megawatts of energy.



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HISTORICAL FACTS

The George Washington Bridge, linking New York to New Jersey, opened on October 24, 1931.

The first successful oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859.

On September 2, 1192, Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lion Hearted signed an
agreement ending the third Crusade.

Mexico declared its independence from Spain on August 23, 1821.

In April 1919, England enacted a 48 hour work week with minimum wages.

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On October 1874 Joseph Glidden received a patent for barbed wire. There were many lawsuits over the patent, and Glidden won every one of them. Eventually more than two thousand variations of barbed wire were developed.

The Hundred Years War actually lasted for 116 years.

On October 30, 1941 the American destroyer Reuben James sank after being torpedoed by a German U-Boat. This was almost two months before the United States entered World War II.

Harvard University was founded in 1636.

In January 1942 Pan American airlines made the first around-the-world commercial flight.

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Roald Amundsen and Umberto Nobile became the first men to cross the North Pole in an airship on May 12, 1926.

In 1877 on December 6th, Thomas Edison made the first sound recording on his phonograph machine.

In December of 1657, the Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine to be payed by anyone celebrating Christmas.

On August 15,1620 the Mayflower set sail from Southampton, England with 120 Pilgrims.

Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state on August 21,1959 .




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