Amazing Facts


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Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.
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Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
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Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
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Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
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Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
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Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
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Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
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We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
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When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
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We have over 600 muscles.
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We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
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We are about 70 percent water.
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We make one litre of saliva a day.
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Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
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In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
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We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.
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Onions have no flavor. They just have smell
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No less than 15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide every day.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day
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One burns more calories sleeping than by watching TV.
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Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
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The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. You can detect the noise over 800 kilometres away.
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Human’s eyes have the capability of detecting an astonishing 10 million colors.
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There are more pyramids in Peru than in Egypt.
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Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour.
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Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky.
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A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of raw potatoes.
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Frogs use their eyes to help them eat their food.
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The length of your thumb and nose is same.
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The shrimp's heart is in its head.
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You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.
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The country with highest divorce rate in the world is United States.
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Cats are capable to hear ultrasound.e.
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The most popular pets in the United States are cats.
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Natural pearls melt in vinegar.
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An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.
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There is no butter in buttermilk.
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Ants never sleep and that’s a fact.
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The human brain is 80% water and 20% grey material.
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While peeling onions, you can chew gums to reduce your tears.
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One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet.
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Bone is five times stronger than steel.
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There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
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Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
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It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
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Sharks can live up to 100 years.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
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The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
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40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
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The world's first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
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Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.
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The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
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ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
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Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
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KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
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An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
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OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees. 
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 The oldest existing newspaper in India is Bombay Samachar.
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A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. 
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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Pearls melt in vinegar. 
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. 
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The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. 
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A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
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A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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A snail can sleep for three years.
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Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
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Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
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Cat's urine glows under a black light.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
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I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
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If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Starfish haven't got brains.
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.
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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

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