AMAZING AND INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SCIENCE

ü  Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

ü  Chewing gum or eating sugar cubes while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

ü  Aluminum cans take 500 years to break down.

ü  After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

ü  During the day, the cartilage discs in the spine are squeezed like sponges by gravity while you stand or sit. But at night, when you lie down to sleep, the pressure is relieved and the discs swell again. For the same reason, astronauts can be temporarily 50mm (2in) taller after a long spaceflight.

ü  Ice is a mineral and is formally described as such in Dana's System of Mineralogy.

ü  Laika (dog) became the world's first space traveler. Russian scientists sent the small animal aloft in an artificial earth satellite in 1957.

ü  The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.

ü  There are roughly 4,000 known minerals, although only about 200 are of major importance.

ü  When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed.

ü  Sound travels faster in liquids than in gases because molecules are more tightly packed. In fresh water, sound waves travel at 1,482 meters per second (about 3,315 mph). That's well over 4 times faster than in air.

ü  Approximately 50-100 new minerals are described each year.

ü  A common old wives tale is that fish grow to the size of the aquarium. Actually they will continue to grow as long as they have a quality environment. To find out, a group of researchers kept several trout in a 3 inch diameter tube. Clean water was constantly circulated through the tube. The trout eventually grew to fill the tube completely!

ü  Mineral elements taken from Earth provide the colors. Strontium yields deep reds, copper produces blue, sodium yields yellow, and iron filings and charcoal pieces produce gold sparks. Bright flashes and loud bangs come from aluminum powder.

ü  40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.

ü  Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man.

ü  Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.

ü  Sound waves travel the slowest through gases, faster through liquids, and fastest through solids. Temperature also affects the speed of sound.

ü  Sound travels through air at 331 meters per second (about 740 mph). But, at 20ºC, room temperature, sound travels at 343 meters per second (767 mph).

ü  The speed of an aircraft is measured by Anemometer

ü  The waste products are expelled as urine at the rate of about 1.4 litres (2.5 pints) a day.

ü  The adult sperm whale will regularly dive to depths of up to 1200 feet in search of their favorite food the Giant Squid. The pressure at this depth is about 500 lbs per square inch. Scientists still do not know how they can withstand the pressure.

ü  Lightning does not always create thunder. In April 1885, five lightning bolts struck the Washington Monument during a thunderstorm, yet no thunder was heard.

ü  Organic materials take 6 months to break down.

ü  A light-sensitive compound used in photography is Silver bromide.

ü  The remains of diatoms, algae with hard shells, are used in making pet litter, cosmetics, pool filters and tooth polish.

ü  Proteins are made of Amino acids.

ü  Depending upon the amount of salt in the water, sea water freezes at about 28 degrees F.

ü  Talc is the softest of minerals. It is commonly used to make talcum powder.

ü  Milk in its natural form has a certain amount of sugar. This sugar is called Lactose.

AMAZING AND INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WATER

1              Air is not completely clean, the food we eat may have insignificant amounts of toxic, the products that we use on our skin and hair are also toxic. Water removes the dangerous toxins that are added into our body.

2              Water cushions our body joints.

3              Water acts as a transport for oxygen and nutrition throughout the cells in the body.

4              Water helps regulate body temperature.

5              Water helps prevent blood pressure from dropping to critical levels.

6              Water helps to defend against blood clots.

7              Water encourages bowel movement.

8              Water helps the normal kidney function from getting impaired.

9              Water keeps us from getting excessively dry skin.

10           Water lowers incidence of urinary tract infections.

11           Water also helps us from experiencing reoccurring headaches.

12           Water also helps alleviate fevers.

13           Hydrotherapy is the therapeutic use of hot / cold water externally to problems.

14           Hot water stimulates the immune system.

15           Hot water is also used to increase the body's flow. Imagine coming home from a hard day's work and soaking yourself in a bathtub for an hour. When you get up, your body will feel more relaxed and stressed than before. Professional athletes will usually take a steam bath or relax in a whirlpool after a rigorous training session.

16           Cold water reduces inflammation. Ice pack reduces swelling.

17           A cold water sitz bath is used to treat constipation, irregular vaginal discharge, hemorrhoids.

18           Spa treatments using alternating hot and cold water improve upper respiratory problems, congestion, foot infections, and headaches.

AMAZING AND INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HISTORY

ü  The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.

ü  The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.

ü  A 1960 Chilean earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recent times, which occurred off the coast, had a magnitude of 9.6 and broke a fault more than 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) long.

ü  In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.

ü  The fastest 'regular' wind that's widely agreed upon was 231 mph (372 kph), recorded at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, on April 12, 1934.

ü  The first commercial transatlantic telephone call was between New York City and London and occurred on January 7, 1927.

ü  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.

ü  RT Pointing (Australian Cricketer) is the Youngest Centurions in the World Cup Cricket history, he was 21 years & 76 days old when he made the record in 1995-96 against West Indies at Jaipur (India).

ü  Black-eyed peas brought to the West Indies from West Africa by slaves, by earliest records in 1674.

ü  Norway has won the most medals (263) at the Winter Games & United States has won more medals (2,189) at the Summer Games than any other country.

ü  "The Boston Tea Party" took place in 1773, that was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company on ships in Boston Harbor.

ü  The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

ü  The first mass-produced toothbrush was made by William Addis of Clerkenwald, England, around 1780.

ü  The Olympic Hymn, played when the Olympic Flag is raised, was composed by Spyros Samaras and the words added by Kostis Palamas. The Olympic Hymn was first played at the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens but wasn't declared the official hymn by the IOC until 1957.

ü  On October 2002, Bill Clinton was given an honorary induction into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame, becoming the first white person in the hall.

ü  The ancient Egyptians were the first to tame the cat (in about 3000 BC), and used them to control pests.

ü  The last Olympic gold medals that were made entirely out of gold were awarded in 1912.

ü  An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 workers built the Pyramids at Giza over a period of 80 years.

ü  The first Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France in 1924.

ü  President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, supported the idea of a national Father's Day. Then in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day. President Richard Nixon signed the law which finally made it permanent in 1972.

ü  India (413-5) beat Bermuda (156) on March 19, 2007, its Highest Margins of Victory by 257 runs in World Cup Cricket History.

ü  The earliest cockroach fossils are about 280 million years old.

ü  The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when the games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus).

ü  Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean.

ü  The Olympic flame first appeared in the modern Olympics at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. The flame itself represents a number of things, including purity and the endeavor for perfection.

ü  Up until 1994 the Olympics were held every four years. Since then, the Winter and Summer games have alternated every two years.

ü  In 1921, Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, borrowed a Latin phrase from his friend, Father Henri Didon, for the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger").

ü  Pierre de Coubertin wrote an oath for the athletes to recite at each Olympic Games. During the opening ceremonies, one athlete recites the oath on behalf of all the athletes.

ü  In 1894, a French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, proposed a revival of the ancient tradition, and thus the modern-day Olympic Summer Games were born.

ü  In 1876, Sir Henery Wickham transported 70 000 Rubber tree seeds from Brazil to Kew Gardens in London.

ü  Since 1945, India has been a member of the United Nations.

ü  The Olympic oath was first taken during the 1920 Olympic Games by Belgian fencer Victor Boin.

ü  The India Red Cross Society was established in the year 1920.

ü  The first opening ceremonies were held during the 1908 Olympic Games in London. The first Olympics covered by U.S. television was the 1960 Summer Games in Rome by CBS.

ü  Host Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Olympic Summer Games in 1896.

ü  The textile industry became mechanised in the 18th century. First pioneered with silk at Lombe's Mill in Derby in 1721.

ü  One of our favorite mice is Mickey Mouse who has delighted us since the late 1920's.

AMAZING AND INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT EARTH

ü  About 400 billion gallons water is used worldwide each day.

ü  The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.

ü  From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet's water.

ü  Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.

ü  Asia Continent is covered 30% of the total earth land area, but represent 60% of the world's population.

ü  The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed.

ü  The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.

ü  Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.

ü  Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground.

ü  Louisiana loses about 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of land each year to coastal erosion, hurricanes, other natural and human causes and a thing called subsidence, which means sinking.

ü  A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.

ü  The word "Arctic" comes from the ancient Greek Arktikos, or "country of the great bear." Though the Greeks had no knowledge of the polar bear, they named the region after the constellation Ursus Major, the Great Bear, found in the Northern Sky.

ü  The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.

ü  Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).

ü  About 540 volcanoes on land are known. No one knows how many undersea volcanoes have erupted through history.

ü  The deepest depth in the ocean is 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or 11 kilometers) at the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean well south of Japan near the Mariana Islands.

ü  In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA.

ü  Average 100 lightning strikes occur worldwide every second.

ü  The deepest hole ever made by humans is in Kola Peninsula in Russia, was completed in 1989, creating a hole 12,262 meters (7.6 miles) deep.

ü  Each winter there are about 1 septillion (1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 or a trillion trillion) snow crystals that drop from the sky.

ü  Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. That axis is what causes our seasons.

ü  Each Wonder (in 7 wonders) has its own intrigue. Historian agree that the Pyramids stood the test of time, the Lighthouse is the only Wonder that has a practical secular use, and the Temple of Artemis was the most beautiful of all Wonders.

ü  Groundwater comprises a 30 times greater volume than all freshwater lakes, and more than 3,000 times what's in the world's streams and rivers at any given time.

ü  Earth's atmosphere is actually about 80 percent nitrogen. Most of the rest is oxygen, with tiny amounts of other stuff thrown in.

ü  The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall (979 meters / 3212 ft.), three times the size of the Eiffel Tower.

ü  The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.

ü  The Arctic stays black and fiercely cold for months on end. In the High Arctic, the sun sets in October and does not rise again until late February.

ü  The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest known animal ever to have lived on sea or land. Individuals can reach more than 110 feet and weigh nearly 200 tons, more than the weight of 50 adult elephants.

ü  The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death because its pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby.

ü  The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).

ü  The gravity on Mars is 38% of that found on Earth. So a 100 pounds person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

ü  The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).

ü  Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food.

ü  The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

ü  One-tenth of the Earth's surface is always under the cover of ice. And almost 90 per cent of that ice is to be found in the continent of Antarctica.

ü  Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest continent on Earth.

ü  The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.

ü  The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

ü  Monaco is the Highest Density Country of the world, 16,205 people per square k.m. live in Monaco.

ü  Earth's oceans are an average of 2 Miles deep

ü  American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times.

ü  Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

ü  The age of the earth is Loudly proclaimed by the scientific establishment of evolution believers and the mass media as being around 4.6 billion years old.

ü  The Earth is the densest major body in the solar system.

ü  The people who live on Tristan da Cunha are over 2,000km (about 1,300 miles) from their nearest neighbours on the island of St. Helena. That's nearly as far as Moscow is from London.

ü  The temperature of Earth increases about 36 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) for every kilometer (about 0.62 miles) you go down.

ü  The water that falls on a single acre of land during one inch of rainfall, it would weigh 113 tons that is 226,000 pounds.

ü  Life began in the seas 3.1 billion to 3.4 billion years ago. Land dwellers appeared 400 million years ago, a relatively recent point in the geologic time line.

ü  The Peregrine Falcon around 200mph (320 km/h) is the fastest bird on the planet, the top speed recorded is 242.3mph (390 km/h).

ü  The flower with the world's largest bloom is the Rafflesia arnoldii. This rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. It can grow to be 3 feet across and weigh up to 15 pounds.

ü  About 70% of the world's fresh water is stored as glacial ice.

ü  Blue whales are found throughout the world's oceans, the lifespan is estimated to be 80 years & population is between 1300 & 2000 only, its dangerously low.

ü  The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is about 3,963 miles (6,378 kilometers).

ü  The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.

ü  A 1960 Chilean earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recent times, which occurred off the coast, had a magnitude of 9.6 and broke a fault more than 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) long.

ü  There is no land at all at the North Pole, only ice on top of sea. The Arctic Ocean has about 12 million sq km of floating ice and has the coldest winter temperature of -34 degrees centigrade.

ü  Total fertility rate of the world is 2.59 children born/woman. Niger is 7.46 (highest), India is 2.73, US is 2.09 & Hong Kong is 0.95 only (Lowest).

ü  About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea.

ü  Continents are typically defined as landmasses made of low-density rock that essentially floats on the molten material below. Greenland fits this description.

ü  Baikal Lake in Russian Fed. is the deepest lake (5315 ft) in the world.

ü  Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.

ü  The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.

ü  El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 - the hottest ever measured.

ü  The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.

ü  The world's windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica with winds regularly exceeding 150 miles per hour.

ü  The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.

ü  Earth is the only planet on which water can exist in liquid form on the surface.

ü  At least 1,000 million grams, or roughly 1,000 tons of material (dust) enters the atmosphere every year and makes its way to Earths surface.

ü  Lake Baikal is about 20 million years old and contains 20 percent of Earth's fresh liquid water.

ü  Laika (dog) became the world's first space traveler. Russian scientists sent the small animal aloft in an artificial earth satellite in 1957.

ü  Total fertility rate of the world is 2.59 children born/woman.

ü  The Pacific Ocean has an average depth of 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers).

ü  Nearly 70 percent of the Earth's fresh-water supply is locked up in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland. The remaining fresh-water supply exists in the atmosphere, streams, lakes, or groundwater and accounts for a mere 1 percent of the Earth's total.

ü  The lowest dry point on earth is the Dead Sea in the Middle East is about 1300 feet (400 meters) below sea level.

ü  The origin of the word "volcano" is derives from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

ü  There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.

ü  Chile (Africa) is the driest place on Earth, gets just 0.03 inches (0.76 millimeters) of rain per year.

ü  Tibet is the highest country in the world. Its average height above sea level is 4500 meters.

ü  The Largest Ocean of the World is the Pacific Ocean (155,557,000 sq km), It covers nearly one-third of the Earth's surface.

ü  In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.

ü  The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.

ü  The EARTH has over 1,200,000 species of animals, 300,000 species of plants & 100,000 other species.

ü  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!

ü  Of the more than 600 million school-age children in the developing world, 120 million primary school-age children are not in school, 53 percent are girls.

ü  Mars days are 24 hours and 37 minutes long, compared to 23 hours, 56 minutes on Earth.

ü  About one-third surface of the Earth's land is desert.

ü  The warmest sea in the world is the Red Sea, where temperatures range from 68 degrees to 87.8 degrees F depending upon which part you measure.

ü  Shanghai, China is the largest city by population (13.3 million) in the world.

ü  The temperature of Earth near the center, its thought to be at least 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit (3,870 Celsius).

ü  The World's largest hot desert is the Sahara in North Africa, at over 9,000,000 km, it is almost as large as the United States.

ü  Earth is referred to as the BLUE PLANET. Because from space, the oceans combined with our atmosphere make our planet look blue.

ü  The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.

ü  Coniferous forest belt supplies most of the world's requirement of newsprint.

ü  Mars has two satellites, Phobos and Deimos. The Earth has only one natural satellite, but it's the Moon.

ü  The Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf are connected by the Hormuz Strait.

ü  The eruption of Tambora volcano is the world's deadliest Volcano in Indonesia in 1815 is estimated to have killed 90,000 people.

ü  Luxembourg is the richest country of the world, the gross national product (GNP) of Luxembourg is $45,360.

ü  Some of the oldest mountains in the world are the Highlands in Scotland . They are estimated to be about 400 million years old.

ü  The saltiest sea in the world is the Red Sea with 41 parts of salt per 1,000 parts of water.

ü  The total water supply of the world is 326 million cubic miles (1 cubic mile of water equals more than 1 trillion gallons).

ü  Birth Rate of Hong Kong is the lowest (7.29/1000) & Niger is highest (50.73/1000).

ü  The Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia is the largest cave in the world is 2300 feet (701 meters) long, 1300 feet (400 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.

ü  Caspian Sea, Asia-Europe is the major lake (371,000 sq km) in the world.

ü  The White Sea, in Russia, has the lowest temperature, only -2 degrees centigrade.

ü  The Sahara Desert in northern Africa is more than 23 times the size of southern California's Mojave Desert.

ü  The Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii is the largest volcanoon on Earth. It rises more than 50,000 feet (9.5 miles or 15.2 kilometers) above its base, which sits under the surface of the sea.

ü  Australia, (7,617.930 sq km) is widely considered part of a continental landmass, not officially an island. But without doubt it is the largest island on the planet, and when combined with Oceania, the smallest continent on Earth.

ü  Northern Mariana Islands is only the country where death rate (2.29/1000) is lowest in the world.

ü  The Nile River in Africa is the longest river (6,825 kilometers) of the earth.

ü  The dormant volcano Mauna Kea (on the Big Island of Hawaii) could be considered the tallest mountain in the world. If you measure it from its base in the Hawaiian Trough (3,300 fathoms deep) to its summit of 13,796 feet, it reaches a height of 33,476 feet.

ü  The top three countries have the greatest number of historically active volcanoes are Indonesia, Japan, and the United States in descending order of activity.

ü  Mount Everest 8850 meter (29035 ft) Nepal/China is the tallest mountain.

ü  United Arab Emirates is only the country where death rate 2.11/1000 (deaths/1,000 population) is lowest (2009 est.) in the world.

ü  Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.

ü  Scientists estimate that more than three-quarters of Earth's surface is of volcanic origin, that is, rocks either erupted by volcanoes or molten rock.

ü  English is the second most spoken language (Native speakers 512 million) & the first is Chinese Mandarin (more then 1 billion speakers).

ü  Most earthquakes are triggered less than 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the surface of the Earth.

ü  Water-meal or Wolffia globosa is the smallest flower in the world, its contains some 38 species of the smallest and simplest flowering plants.

ü  The red planet "Mars" takes 687 Earth-days to go around the Sun, compared to 365 days for Earth.

ü  The coldest seas are found near the poles such as the Greenland, Barents, Beaufort, Kara, Laptev & East Siberian Seas found near the north pole & Weddell & Ross Seas found in the south poles. The Baltic Sea is also considered one of the coldest seas.

ü  The Antarctic Ice Sheet holds nearly 90 percent of the world's ice and 70 percent of its fresh water. If the entire ice sheet were to melt, sea level would rise by nearly 220 feet.

ü  The fastest 'regular' wind that's widely agreed upon was 231 mph (372 kph), recorded at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, on April 12, 1934.

ü  The world's largest island is Greenland, it covers 840,000 square miles (2,176,000 square kilometers).

ü  In January and February, the average temperature in the high Arctic is -29 F.

ü  Lloro, Colombia is the wettest place on Earth, averages 523.6 inches of rainfall a year, or more than 40 feet (13 meters). That's about 10 times more than fairly wet major cities in Europe or the United States.

ü  The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean, covers 64 million square miles (165 million square kilometers). It is more than two times the size of the Atlantic.

ü  Lake Mead is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States. Formed by water impounded by Hoover Dam, it extends 110 mi (180 km) behind the dam, holding approximately 28.5 million acre feet (35 km³) of water.