General Knowledge

• The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
• Cheetah’s can accelerate from 0 to 70km//h i 3 seconds
• A newborn kangaroo is small enough to fit into a teaspoon.
• Cows can smell odors six miles away.
• From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.
• Cats can hear ultrasound.
• An alligator may go through 2000 to 3000 teeth in a lifetime.
• The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
• Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards
• Healthy nails grow about 2cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
• The moon is 27% the size of the earth.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof.
• The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 ‘lead’ pencils.
• Helicoprion was a relative of the shark that lived 270 million years ago. It was approximately 7.5m long and had chainsaw-like teeth.
• In Japan, the Hiroshima Peace Flame has been burned continuously since it was lit in 1964, and will remain lit until all nuclear bombs on the planet are destroyed and the planet is free from the threat of nuclear annihilation.
• In Russia, there is a monument to honor laboratory mice that have lost their lives furthering scientific research.
• The small dot over the letters “i” and “j” is called a tittle.
• Elephants are the only land animal that can’t jump.
• Only humans sleep on their backs.
• Cat urine, in particular, glows very brightly under ultraviolet light. Urine glows under a black light primarily because it contains the element phosphorus.
• A leech can drink up to eight time its weight in blood at one sitting.
• A whale can swim for 3 months without eating.
• J.B Dunlop was first to put air into tires.
• Bananas go through a process called ‘negative geotropism.’ Istead of growig towards the ground, they start growing towards the sun.The fruits grows against gravity, which gives the banana its familiarcurved shapwe.
• Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
• The maximum number of solar eclipses(partial annular, or total) is 5 per year.
• Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings.
• There are more insects in a single square mile of fertile soil than there are people on the entire earth.
• Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
• Hummingbirds can’t walk.
• On average, our bodies constantly resist an atmospheric pressure of about 1 kilogram per square inch.
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their half.
• Seventy percent of house dust is made up of dead skin flakes.
• Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use finger prints.
• A hummingbirds heart beats 1,260 times per minute.
• Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.
• Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.
•  Ants stretch when they wake up.They also appear to yawn in a very human maner before taking up the tasks of the day.
• Dogs and cats,like humans, are either right or left handed.
• I a fight between a polar bear and lion, the polar bear would win.
• Natal teeth are teeth that are present when the infant is born. About one in every 2,000 newborn infants have natal teeth.These are not the same as neonatal teeth that erupt in the infant’s mouth during the first month of life.Natal teeth are often loose because the root is not completely developed.
• In seahorses, it’s the male who gives birth to the young.
• -40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
• In japan they drink tea with almost every meal.
• The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.
• Indian housewives hold 11% of the world’s gold. That is more than the reserves of the U.S., IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
• Goldfish can see infrared radiation that is invisible to us.
• 63 earths can fit inside Uranus.
• Elephants can hear one another’s trumpeting calls upto 5 miles (8 kilometers ) away
• Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.
• You have taste receptors in the stomach intestines, pancreas, lungs, anus, testicles and the brain.
• A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
• Diabetic people have sweet urine.
• In panama, there a valley where trees have square trunks.
• There are completely black chickens that have black plumage, black legs and nails, black tongue, black meat and bones, and even black organs.
• When you eat too much your hearing becomes less sharp.
• Bhutan is the only country in the world that bans the sales of tobacco.
• Tortoises drink water through their noses.
• The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
• Greenland sharks, which can live at least 300 years, are the longest-lived vertebrates on earth.
• The albatross drinks sea water.It has a special desalinization apparatus that strains out and excretes all excess salt.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• China has the largest number of sheep in the world.
• By the time a person feels thirsty his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.
• The only part of the human body that cannot develop cancer is the lens of the eye.