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  • Q: animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.
  • Q: If you shake a can of mixed nuts the larger nuts will rise to the top.
  • Q: A group of Jellyfish is called a smack.
  • Q: whos number is 800-955-7070, I keep getting calls from them?
  • Q: What are 3 interesting facts about india?
  • Q: What are 3 interesting facts about spain?
  • Q: What are 3 interesting facts about mars?
  • Q: What are 3 interesting facts about germany?
  • Q: What are 3 interesting facts about china?
  • Q: What are 3 interesting facts about australia?
  • Q: What are 3 interesting facts about france?
  • Q: The optimal depth of the water in a bird bath is 2 and 1 half inches.
  • Q: Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state.
  • Q: 180 million nos. of Valentine’s Day cards exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.
  • Q: 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
  • Q: 3,467 Nos. of confectionery nut stores in the United States, they are among the best sources of sweets for Valentine’s Day.
  • Q: 4% people drink cold drink daily.
  • Q: 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
  • Q: 60% North Indians are pure vegetarian and in whole India 36%.
  • Q: 8.7 million of United State residents who were born in Asia.
  • Q: 90% of the Vitamin C present in Brussel Sprouts are lost in cooking.
  • Q: A ‘geep’ is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a goat.
  • Q: A Boeing 747’s wing span is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.(the Wright brother’s invented the airplane).
  • Q: A camel’s hump is not used for water storage, but camels can go for long periods of time without water. They drink large amounts of water up to 20 gallons at a time. This water is stored in the animal’s bloodstream.
  • Q: A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
  • Q: A normal person laughs five times in a day.
  • Q: About 40% Proportion of all Valentine card purchases which parents account for.
  • Q: According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
  • Q: African Greys enter into a lifelong monogamous bond when sexually mature. Like macaws, they pick their mates carefully!
  • Q: After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
  • Q: Alfred Southwick developed the idea of using electric current and Professionally he was a Dentist (MDS, DDS).
  • Q: Alginates, derived from the cell walls of brown algae, are used in beer, frozen desserts, pickles, adhesives, boiler compounds, ceramics, explosives, paper and toys.
  • Q: All domestic canaries available today originated from the Island Canary, Serinus canaria.
  • Q: All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
  • Q: An average human Lose 85.60, body temperature in a day.
  • Q: An average human move 25.4 times during sleep in a day.
  • Q: An average human produce 1.43 pints sweat in a day.
  • Q: An average human speak 4,800 words in 24 hours.
  • Q: An average human’s breathe 438 cubic feet AIR in 24 hours.
  • Q: An average human’s take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids) in 24 hours.
  • Q: An average human’s take of 3.25 pounds FOOD in a day.
  • Q: Bananas grow pointing upwards.
  • Q: Bill Clinton considered repealing the Twenty Second Constitutional Amendment, which limits presidents to two elected terms, in the event of a terrorist attack.
  • Q: Bird Feeding: Do not feed avocado as it is toxic to birds!
  • Q: Bone is five times stronger than steel.
  • Q: Brahmi script were the edicts of Ashoka inscribed.
  • Q: Buddha delivered his first sermon at Sarnath.
  • Q: Butterflies are the second largest group of pollinators, next to bees.
  • Q: By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
  • Q: By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
  • Q: Canaries were classified for by their shape and the geographic areas in which they were developed while others are named and classified for their plumage, song, or color. Different countries became known for the classification they bred, for example, the Germans bred for song while the English and French bred for coloration.
  • Q: Canaries were introduced to Spain in 1478 when the Spaniards conquered the Canary Islands.
  • Q: CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
  • Q: Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
  • Q: Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Greek mythology, guarded the gates to the underworld.
  • Q: Chocolate can be killed dogs. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
  • Q: Clinton’s Presidential Library, the largest in the United State, is located in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • Q: Cockatoos are one of the most long-lived parrots.
  • Q: Cotton, rags and paper take 6 months to break down.
  • Q: Debris flows are like mud avalanches that can move at speeds in excess of 100 mph (160 kph).
  • Q: Dolphins are of the aquatic mammal family Delphinidae. It is estimated there are between 30 to 40 species of dolphins.
  • Q: Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (TUS) [the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras] built the Raudat Tahera in Mumbai (India) over the qabr mubarak of his father. The mausoleum is the only one of its kind to have the entire Quran inscribed on its walls.
  • Q: Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (TUS) [the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras] memorized the Quran at the age of 21 and built the Mahad uz Zahra, Surat (India) the first of its kind in the world for the study of the Quran.
  • Q: Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (TUS)’s [the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras] voice at the age of 98 is so clear that a computer analysis in Germany interpreted it to be the voice of a 40 year old.
  • Q: Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
  • Q: During the 2,475,576,000 seconds of the average length life, averagely we speak 123,205,750 words, have sex 4,239 times, shed 121 pints of tears.
  • Q: ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
  • Q: Father’s Day was first observed in Spokane, Washington, in 1910. Sonora Louise Smart Dodd,of Washington, first proposed the idea of a “father’s day” in 1909.
  • Q: First Stock Exchange of America was in Philadelphia and it was established in 1791.
  • Q: For over 100 years, until the 16th century, the Spaniards maintained control of Canaries, selling only males to other European countries. Then, due to a shipping accident, a large cargo of canaries escaped and flew to the Island of Elba. They soon were sold all over Europe.
  • Q: Giraffes can not swim.
  • Q: Girls however are slightly more likely than boys to use home computers for e-mail, word processing and completing school assignments than playing games.
  • Q: Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are!
  • Q: Google, with a brand value of $86 billion, is the world’s most powerful brand.
  • Q: Half of the world’s refugees and displaced people are women and girls. As refugees, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence while in flight, in refugee camps and during resettlement.
  • Q: Harvester larvae are carnivorous. They feed on aphids not plants.
  • Q: Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
  • Q: Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
  • Q: Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
  • Q: If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
  • Q: If you ate too many carrots, you’d turn orange.
  • Q: If you could throw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall.
  • Q: If you go blind in one eye, you’ll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
  • Q: In 2004, Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren won a grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the Russian National Orchestra’s “Peter and the Wolf/Wolf Tracks.”
  • Q: In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
  • Q: In a lifetime the marrow creates about half a tonne of red corpuscles.
  • Q: In Britain 70% mothers go for work.
  • Q: In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
  • Q: In the year 1935 the United States Congress announced the first Sunday of August as the National Friendship Day. It was initially declared a holiday in honor of friends.
  • Q: India’s first television center was set up at Delhi.
  • Q: Indians have been biting into juicy mangoes for 3,000 years. But the western world came to know about it only 300 years ago!
  • Q: Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
  • Q: It can easily learn about any cat’s present state of mind by observing the posture of his tail.
  • Q: It is said that Hatchetfish will break the surface of the water and “fly” after their prey using their large pectoral fins as “wings”.
  • Q: It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
  • Q: It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
  • Q: Kandla port has a free trade zone.
  • Q: KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
  • Q: Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine 6 to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
  • Q: Like a bat, dolphins use echolocation to navigate and hunt, bouncing high-pitched sounds off of objects, and listening for the echoes.

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