Showing posts with label weird facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weird facts. Show all posts
Monday, September 15, 2014
weird facts about Ecuador
Mount Cotopaxi in Ecuador is on the equator, usually the hottest area on earth – but it has a glacier! The mountain is so high that the glacier stays frozen.
one weird fact about koala
The fingerprints of koala bears are almost indistinguishable from those of humans.
Monday, September 30, 2013
improtant 7 weird facts about eyes
fact 1 : On a clear, moonless night the human eye can detect a match being struck 50 miles away.
fact 2 : The human eye can detect 10 million different shades of colour.
fact 3 : All blue-eyed people are mutants. The first ones appeared as recently as 5,000 years ago.
fact 4 : An octopus can ooze through an opening
no bigger than its own eyeball.
fact 5 : Beavers have transparent eyelids so theycan see underwater with their eyes shut.
fact 6 : If all the time our eyes are shut when blinking is added together, we spend 1.2 years of our waking lives in pitch darkness.
fact 7 : The trap-jaw ant has the fastest bite in the world: its jaws close 2,300 times faster than a blink of an eye.
fact 8 : Scallops have up to 100 eyes.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
weird facts about Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, 231.4 million years ago, and were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for 135 million years.
here is two weird facts about Dinosaurs :-
1- The smallest known dinosaur was about four inches tall and weighed less than a chihuahua.
2- The amount of water on Earth is constant, and continually recycled over time: some of the water you drink will have passed through a dinosaur.
here is two weird facts about Dinosaurs :-
1- The smallest known dinosaur was about four inches tall and weighed less than a chihuahua.
2- The amount of water on Earth is constant, and continually recycled over time: some of the water you drink will have passed through a dinosaur.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Top 17 weird facts about death
1- The Nazis made it illegal on pain of death for apes to give the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute.
2- Emissions from car exhausts are responsible for more deaths every year than road accidents.
3- After his wife’s death, a heart-broken Benjamin Disraeli found that she’d kept all the hair from the haircuts she’d given him in 33 years of marriage.
4- Prisoners waiting to be executed on Death Row in America are given a physical beforehand, to ensure they are fit enough to die.
5- In his last week on Earth, Troy Davis, who was executed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2011, was put on ‘death watch’ to stop him taking his own life.
6- The Death House at the State Prison in Huntsville, Texas, offers wheelchair access.
7- Kali is the Hindu goddess of death, violence, sexuality and motherly love.
8- In 2007, a Bosnian called Amir Vehabovic faked his own death to see how many people would go to his funeral. Only his mother turned up.
9- Deathwatch beetles attract mates by repeatedly banging their heads on the floor.
10- In 1568, the Catholic Church condemned the entire population of the Netherlands to death for heresy.
11- Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator responsible for the deaths of 21% of his country’s people,
was a former geography teacher.
12- The sloth is the only animal named after one of the Seven Deadly Sins. During the rainy season, its metabolism slows down so much that it can starve to death on a full stomach.
13- In 1811, crimes punishable by death in Britain included sheep stealing, impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner, ‘strong evidence of malice’ in children aged 7–14, living with gypsies for a month and stealing cheese.
14- The Czech general Jan Zizka ordered his skin to be turned into a war drum after his death. It was beaten at times of national emergency, such as the outbreak of the Thirty Years War in 1618.
15- The NHS has halved superbug deaths and saved 10,000 lives in the last four years simply by getting doctors and nurses to wash their hands.
16- Areas of the Moon include the Ocean of Storms, the Marsh of Decay and the Lake of Death.
17- The playwright Tennessee Williams (1911–83) choked to death on a bottle cap.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Top 5 weird facts about chimpanzees
Here is the top 5 weird facts about chimpanzees :-
1-Collectively speaking, humans have spent longer playing World of Warcraft than they have existed as a species separate from chimpanzees (5.93 million years).
2-Humans have the same number of hair follicles as chimpanzees.
3-More chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos are eaten by people every year than there are in all the zoos in the world.
4-A 2011 study by Nobel Economics laureate Daniel Kahneman of 25 top Wall Street traders found that they were no more consistently successful than a chimpanzee tossing a coin.
5-A female chimpanzee in a fit of passion has the strength of six men.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Top 8 weird facts about cats
Here is the most top 8 weird facts about cats , enjoy :-
1-Every year, 4 million cats are eaten in Asia.
2-There is no known scientific way of predicting earthquakes. The most reliable method is to count the number of missing cats in the local paper: if it trebles, an earthquake is imminent.
3-In the 1950s, to allow babies of students at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to enter the premises, they were re-defined as cats.
4-A dog has the same ecological footprint as two Toyota Landcruisers; a cat the same environmental effect as a Volkswagen Golf; two hamsters the same as a plasma TV.
5-In 2011, Chinese billionaire Long Liyuan was murdered at a business lunch by means of poison in his slow-boiled cat-meat casserole.
6-Cat originally meant ‘dog’. The word comes from the Latin catulus, a small dog or puppy.
8-Almost any domestic cat can run faster than Usain Bolt.
1-Every year, 4 million cats are eaten in Asia.
2-There is no known scientific way of predicting earthquakes. The most reliable method is to count the number of missing cats in the local paper: if it trebles, an earthquake is imminent.
3-In the 1950s, to allow babies of students at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to enter the premises, they were re-defined as cats.
4-A dog has the same ecological footprint as two Toyota Landcruisers; a cat the same environmental effect as a Volkswagen Golf; two hamsters the same as a plasma TV.
5-In 2011, Chinese billionaire Long Liyuan was murdered at a business lunch by means of poison in his slow-boiled cat-meat casserole.
6-Cat originally meant ‘dog’. The word comes from the Latin catulus, a small dog or puppy.
8-Almost any domestic cat can run faster than Usain Bolt.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Top 9 weird facts about bacteria
Here is the most weird facts about bacteria , enjoy :-
1 - After two weeks of wear a pair of jeans will have grown a 1,000-strong colony of bacteria on the front, 1,500–2,500 on the back and 10,000 on the crotch.
2 - The strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
3 - The average lavatory seat is much cleaner than the average toothbrush. Your teeth are home to 10,000 million bacteria per square centimeter.
4 - The pleasant smell of earth after rain is caused by bacteria in the soil and is called petrichor – from Greek petros, ‘stone’ and ichor, ‘the fluid that flows through the veins of the gods’.
5 - Bacteria and amoebas are far more different from each other than amoeba are from people.
6 - Christopher Columbus suffered from arthritis in his wrist as a result of a bacterial infection caught from a parrot.
7 - Bacteria are about as different from viruses as metronomes are from giraffes.
8 - Most antibiotics are made from bacteria.
9 - Bacteria can get viruses.
Top 5 weird facts about ants
1 - The 10,000 trillion ants in the world weigh about the same as all the human beings.
2 - Harvard University has the largest ant collection in the world.
3 - The scaly anteater, the banded anteater and the spiny anteater are not anteaters even though they all eat ants and are called anteaters.
4 - The trap-jaw ant has the fastest bite in the world: its jaws close 2,300 times faster than a blink of an eye.
5 - Ants nod to each other as they pass.
2 - Harvard University has the largest ant collection in the world.
3 - The scaly anteater, the banded anteater and the spiny anteater are not anteaters even though they all eat ants and are called anteaters.
4 - The trap-jaw ant has the fastest bite in the world: its jaws close 2,300 times faster than a blink of an eye.
5 - Ants nod to each other as they pass.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The most 10 shocking facts about human body
1-In ancient times, Indian doctors used live ants to ‘stitch’ wounds together. The doctor would hold the edges together and get the ant to bite through the skin.The ant’s head would then be snapped off leaving its jaws as the ‘stitch’!
2-Your brain receives about 100 million pieces of information at any one moment from your eyes, nose, ears, skin and receptors inside your body.
3-Eating asparagus produces a chemical that makes urine smell strongly, although not everyone can smell it. Lucky them!
4-A sneeze travels at 161 kilometers (100 miles) per hour.
5-A body left unburied in a tropical climate will be reduced to a skeleton in two weeks by the action of insects.
6-People can be born with ears growing from their necks or chests.
7-There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the whole world!
8-More people are allergic to cows’ milk than to any other food or drink.
9-Rubbing yourself with a garlic clove is supposed to keep mosquitoes away... and vampires... and probably
other people, too!
10-People are taller in the morning than in the evening. During the day, the weight of your body compresses your spine as you walk around, then when you are asleep it expands again.
Monday, September 16, 2013
five weird facts about food - part three
Here is the most five weird facts about food :-
American Problem That is Spreading to Other Countries,” News & Notes, Against the Grain
Nutrition, July 31, 2008, www.againstthegrainnutrition.com Audrey Ensminger, Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (CRC Press, 1994).
FACT number two : Corn is in almost everything we consume. It is the primary food for the
chicken, pigs, and cows we eat; the source of corn oils found in many snack foods, margarines, and baked goods; used to make high-fructose corn syrup, the most prevalent, cheapest and, some believe,
most hazardous of all sweeteners; and the source of numerous food additives. As a result, corn is found in things that come out of our bodies, too. Like the one you’re working on right now. Melissa Diane Smith, “Corn Fed and Fat: The American Problem That is Spreading to Other Countries,” News & Notes, Against the Grain Nutrition, July 31, 2008, www.againstthegrainnutrition.com. Audrey Ensminger, Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (CRC Press, 1994).
FACT number three : Beef cattle evolved to survive on grass but are regularly fed corn, which has disastrous effects on their digestive systems, requiring a constant regimen of antibiotics to keep them healthy. The antibiotics are clearly working; cows digest things just fine. About every two to three minutes, in fact.
Michael Pollan, “When a Crop Becomes King,” New York Times, July 19, 2002, www.michaelpollan.com. Danielle Nierenberg and Lisa Mastny, Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry (World watch Institute, 2005), 25.
FACT number four : Many environmentalists believe salmon farms could have a catastrophic effect on the world’s wild salmon populations. Concentrations of solid-waste and nitrogens from farmed pens can poison marine life, and many researchers fear that salmon farm escapees could soon overrun and decimate wild stocks. As of 1999, a million salmon had escaped from arms in Puget Sound and British Columbia
alone. Although farmers use dogfish to track the escapees, most ultimately find their way to freedom. Fish that are caught are returned to the farms, where they face intense grilling over an open flame for 8–
10 minutes. David F. Arnold and William (FRW) Cronan, The Fishermen’s Frontier: People and Salmon in
Southeast Alaska (University of Washington Press, 2008), 187.
FACT number five : Peanut allergies afflict an estimated 4 million Americans, and can be life threatening. Almost half of annual emergency room visits and two thirds of deaths due to anaphylaxis are the result of peanut allergies. On the bright side, if you’re a peanut allergy sufferer, you won’t have to worry about all those bug fragments and rat hair in peanut butter. “Of Mice And Peanuts: A New Mouse Model For Peanut Allergy,” Science News, Science Daily, Jan. 14, 2009, www.sciencedaily.com. Kalidas Shetty and others, Food Biotechnology, 2nd
ed. (CRC Press, 2006), 970.
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five weird facts about food - part two
Here is more weird facts about food that will shocking your mind :-
Applications, 3rd ed. (Academic Press, 2008), 335. John Smith, “Grapes: MOG,” Oakstone Winery,
www.oakstone-winery.com.
FACT number two : In 2001, the Ontario, Canada wine region was hit by an infestation of ladybugs, which infiltrated many area wineries. When agitated, ladybugs secrete a strong, foul liquid containing pyrazine, a flavor similar to rancid peanuts—and one that was perceptible in numerous wines
of that vintage. Rancid Pinot Noir and Bugjolais, for example.Thor Iverson, “Ladybug Marmalade,” Stuff Boston, January 12, 2009, www.stuffboston.com.
“Ladybug, Ladybug, Get Outta My Wine,” Canadian Broadcasting Centre News, January 28, 2003, www.cbc.ca.
FACT number three : Molds are tiny organisms with thread-like roots that burrow deep into the foods where they grow. While some molds are safe, like those used to make certain kinds of cheeses—Roquefort, Gorgonzola, Brie—most molds are unsafe for consumption, as they can contain listeria, brucella, salmonella and E. coli. Mold is also used to make Frumunda, a briny, piquant cheese from the Nether
regions of Crackoslovokia. Katherine Zeratsky, “Moldy cheese: Is it unsafe to eat?” Nutrition and Healthy Eating, Expert Answers, Mayo Clinic, www.mayoclinic.com.
FACT number four : Bacteria multiply between temperatures of 40° and 140°F, so be careful when
reheating food in slow-cookers or chafing dishes. This is good news for those who like fast-food
drive-through—the French fries there are usually around 34°F. Katherine Zeratsky, “Food Poisoning: How long can you safely keep leftovers?” Nutrition and Healthy Eating, Expert Answers, Mayo Clinic,
www.mayoclinic.com.
FACT number five : Parasitic round worms such as Anisakis simplex, frequently found in fish, can lead to anisakiasis in humans, a condition marked by severe abdominal and gastric pain, nausea, vomiting and abdominal distention, which can last for months. I think my wife’s been cooking with those.
R. Wootten and D. C. Cann, “Round Worms in Fish,” Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations, Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, Torry Research Station, www.fao.org.
Sari Edelstein and others, Food and Nutrition at Risk in America: Food Insecurity, Biotechnology,
Food Safety, and Bioterrorism (Jones & Bartlett, 2008), 28.
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five weird facts about food - part one
Here is the most 5 weird and interesting facts about food :-
FACT number two : One in five office coffee mugs contains fecal bacteria and E. coli, which can cause diarrhea, food poisoning, and infections. Not surprising, since most office coffee tastes like shit. Related fact: Three of five office coffee mugs feature sayings that are meant to be funny but aren’t, like “Bean me up, Scotty” and “No coffee, no workee.” Stephanie Muller, “Stay Healthy with Tips from a Germ Freak,” Health Communications Quarterly, October 19, 2005, www.usjt.com. “Dr. Germ,” Information for News Media, University of Arizona College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, February 17, 2005, www.cals.arizona.edu.
FACT number three : Vegetarians beware: many low-fat and non fat yogurts and sweets contain gelatin, which is made from animal tendons, ligaments, and bones. You’d think the crunching would give it away. It must be drowned out by the sound of all those vegetarians patting themselves on the back for being vegetarians. Ayami Chin, “Gross Facts You May Have Never Wanted to Know,” Associated Content, May 24, 2007, www.associatedcontent.com. Ernest R. Vieira and Louis J. Ronsivalli, Elementary Food Science, 4th ed. (Springer, 1999), 237. Audrey Ensminger, Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (CRC Press, 1994), 1057.
FACT number four : Fining is a process used by most wineries to remove particles and impurities from wine. Typical fining agents include is in glass (a collagen from sturgeon bladders), gelatin, and ox blood. Whatever impurities are removed by fining, are they worse than fish urine, animal bones and ox blood? Thor Iverson, “Ladybug Marmalade,” Stuff Boston, January 12, 2009, www.stuffboston.com. Emile Peynaud, Knowing and Making Wine, trans. Alan Spencer, 2nd ed. (Wiley-IEEE, 1984), 291–294.
FACT number five : Even when grapes are harvested by hand, some insects wind up in the pickers’ baskets. Workers simply don’t have time to inspect every grape individually as they work. Consider it fiber. We all need fiber. Thor Iverson, “Ladybug Marmalade,” Stuff Boston, January 12, 2009, www.stuffboston.com. G. L. Creasy, G. I. Creasey, and Leroy L. Creasy, Grapes (CABI, 2009), 180.
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