Interesting Facts, did u know Options

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Socrates became famous for asking questions about almost everything !!

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.

The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.

Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !!

It is impossible to lick your elbow. ( We know you gonna try this !!! )

A snail can sleep for 3 years. ( wow, lucky chap eh ? )

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say no evil ).

55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. hello, zzzzz zzzz

Chocolate kills dogs! . A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

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----------- SOME IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT BATS -----------

1. There are nearly 1,000 species of bats in the world. However, bats are
basically tropical animals and only about 40 kinds of bats live in North
America.

2. Mexican free-tailed bats can fly 10,000 feet high

3. Townsend’s-big eared bats can pluck insects from foliage.

4. Hibernating little brown bats can stop breathing for almost an hour
during hibernation to reduce their energy needs.

5. Fishing bats have an echolocation system so sophisticated they can
detect a minnow’s fin as fine as a human hair.

6. The Honduran white bat, a colorful snow-white bat with yellow nose and
ears, cuts large leaves to make “tents” to protect its small colonies
from drenching jungle rains.



7. The hippo is the third biggest land animals, slightly smaller but
heavier than a white rhino - the elephant is the biggest. But no animal has
killed more people than the hippo. In spite of its huge size - 3 metres
(12 feet) in length, 1,5 metres (five feet) tall, with a mouth measuring a
half metre (two feet) across - the hippopotamus can outrun a human. The
bellowing of a bull hippo measures an ear-splitting 115 decibels, sounding
like the roar of a lion.

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