MIND BLOWING FACTS (part –II) > 32. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world> 33. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.> 34. A snail can sleep for 3 years.> 35. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start> 36. Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.> 37. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.> 38. The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along> 39. The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson.It was called the Rocket. > 40. A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).> 41. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'> 42. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.> 43. Ants don't sleep.> 44. Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.> 45. Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time> 46. A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time> 47. Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using > its "nose-leaf". > 48. Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation. > 49. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time. > 50. ****roach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom. > 51. Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses. > 52. Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds. > 53. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.> 54. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.> 55. Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons> 56. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.> 57. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere> 58. Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy> 59. The average woman uses about her height in lipstickevery five years.> 60. The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, > 61. AD 336 in Rome.> 62. A ****roach will live nine days without itshead, before it starves to death.> 63. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.Compiled By Sabita Das
