1) A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
2) Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through air.
3) Light bulbs convert only 5% energy into light, rest is converted into heat.
4) Xerox machine works on the principle of static electricity.
5) Our eyes are incredibly sensitive to very slight Colour difference. We can distinguish more than 10,000,000 various shades.
6) Your tongue prints are as unique as your fingerprints.
7) A child till 6-7 months can breathe and swallow at the same time, while adults cannot.
8) The right lung takes more air than left lung.
9) There are more than 600 muscles in the human body.
10) Except for fire, human hair is almost impossible to destroy.
11) The human body has 70,000 miles of blood vessels.
12) Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
13) One fourth of the 206 bones in the human body are located in the feet.
14) The human brain is insensitive to pain. The suffering of a headache comes not from the organ itself, but from the nerves and muscles lining it.
15) The nose and ear of a person grow throughout his or her life-time.
16) About 1 to 5 liters of saliva is secreted in the mouth of an average person every day.
17) The shin bone is the strongest of all bones in a body and can carry 1800 kgs.
18) Our one foot is bigger than the other.
19) An egg floats in water which has sugar dissolved in it.
20) One cannot sneeze and keep one's eyes open at the same time.
21) Milk is heavier than cream.
22) Man can live without water for 6 days.
23) Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
24) Microwave oven works on principle of inter molecular friction.
25) Keeping the engine tuned and the carburetor adjusted contribute to reduction in pollution.
26) The optimum speed for minimum fuel consumption is 45 - 55 km/hr.
27) In one sq.cm. silicon chip about 1 million electronic components are squeezed.
28) A woman's heartbeats are faster than a man.
29) It takes 100kg of rain water to produce a single kg. of food from the earth.
30) Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as any other colour.
31) The bite of a leech is painless due to its own anesthesia.
32) The only domestic animal not mentioned in the bible is the cat.
33) Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal while mongoose hunts during the day.
34) The country of Costa Rica does not have an army.
35) George Washington was deathly afraid of being buried alive. After he died, he wanted to be laid out for three days just to make sure he was dead.
36) The world?s shortest war was between Britain and Zanibar 40 min.
37) With 800 movies per year, India?s film industry overshadows Hollywood.
38) Indian Railways is the largest railway network in the world under single management.
39) India has the third largest army in the world, nearly 1.5 million strong.
40) India is the world?s premier center for diamond cutting and polishing. Nine out of every 10 stones sold in the world pass through India.
41) Other than US and Japan, India is the only country to have built a super computer indigenously.
42) During your lifetime you will eat about 50 tones of food and drink 50,000 liters of liquid.
43) There are more roundworms than any other kind of animal. Scientists believe that there are at least 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them.
44) The energy from one liter of petrol will drive a car about 16 km. If you use the same amount of energy on a bicycle you could cycle over 500km.
45) If planes could fly through space, we could fly right across the solar system. But it would take a very long time. The solar system is so huge that even Concorde which flies faster than sound would take 500 years to fly right across.
46) The only continent without reptiles or snakes is antartica.
47) Octopoi and squids have three hearts.
48) 18 Official languages promoted by government of India: Hindi,Marathi,Telgu,Tamil,Urdu,Sindhi,Kashmiri,Manipuri,Nepali,Bengali,Assami,Punjabi,Gujrati,Malyalam,Odissi,Sanskrit,Gurmukhi and Kannada.
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