Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Know More

  • Turtles can live for more than 100 years.
  • An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.
  • The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.
  • The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.
  • If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.
  • A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
  • Ocean waves can travel as fast as a JET Plane.
  • A butterfly warms up its body up to 81 degrees Fahrenheit before flying.
  • An average human being drinks 16,000 tons of water in a lifetime.
  • The star fish is actually not a fish, its an animal. ( phylum : Echinodermate )
  • Male mosquitoes do not bite, so blame the females next time.
  • A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
  • The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo Dragon, which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer. It was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car.

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