INTERESTING FACTS

 

1. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
2. Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light.
3. Uranus is the only planet that has 27 moons.
4. There are 6.8 billion people on the planet and 4 billion of them use a mobile phone. Only 3.5 billion of them use a toothbrush.
5. A group of owls is called a parliament.
6. You can't snore and dream at same time.
7. HP, Google, Microsoft and Apple have just one thing in common, other than the fact that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
8. There are no penguins in the Artic. Penguins are only found south of the equator. The two species of penguins living in the Antarctica are well suited to the cold. Their feathers form windproof, waterproof coats which are so warm that sometimes the penguins can get too hot. Then they ruffle their feathers and hold out their flippers to cool down.
9. A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers. In Arabic language, the word 'Banan' means finger.
10. We all know that the number 0 was invented by Indians. But there are many more contributions by Indians in the world of mathematics. The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean  Theorem in the 6th century Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the romans used were 106 whereas Indian sused numbers as big as 10^53 with specific names as early as 5000 BC during the vedic period, it is believed. Even today, the largest used number is Terra: 10^12.
11. The box jellyfish has one of the most deadly poisons. It can kill a Human in 30 seconds.
12. The bell of one giant jellyfish measures 2.29 m across. Its tentacles were over 36 m long.
13. Halley's comet is named after the British scientist Edmund Halley (1656-1742). Halley's comet last came in sight in 1986. It's next visit will be in 2062.
14. Halley's comet was seen in about 8 BC, so some say it was the Bible's star of Bethlehem.
15. The moon's diameter is 3,476..!!

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