Saturday, July 9, 2011
Is it? - Part III
I. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
II. 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.)
III. A normal person laughs five times in a day.
IV. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
V. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
VI. The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.
VII. An average human move 25.4 times during sleep in a day.
VIII. The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
IX. The world's first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
X. KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
XI. The 73% of people who buy Valentine's Day flowers are men, while only 27 percent are women.
XII. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
XIII. Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
XIV. The most beautiful and incredible gift of love is the monument Taj Mahal in India. Built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan as a memorial to his wife it stands as the emblem of the eternal love story. Work on the Taj Mahal began in 1634 and continued for almost 22 years and required the labor of 20,000 workers from all over India and Central Asia.
XV. The Jules Undersea Lodge is an underwater hotel in Key Largo, Florida and is the only such hotel in the United States. It is 30 feet (9 m) deep on the ocean floor and guests have to scuba dive to get to their rooms.
XVI. The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).
XVII. The polar bear's compact ears and small tail also help prevent heat loss.
XVIII. An average human speak 4,800 words in 24 hours.
XIX. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
XX. 60% North Indians are pure vegetarian & in whole India 36%.
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