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5 - Interesting to know -
Do You Know
The Most Versatile
Animal
Dog is the only
animal which is found in as many shapes, colors and sizes.
Fish Does Not Close
Its Eyes While Sleeping
Fish is the
only animal which never closes its eyes while sleeping. Why because
it has no eyelids.
The Softest and the
Hardest Mineral
The softest mineral is the Talcum (which is used to make talcum powder);
and the hardest mineral is the Diamond.
The Highest Tides
They are in
Burntcoast Head, Minas Basin, part of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia,
Canada. Tides can range up to 38.4 feet (11.7 meters or about three
stories) high. The Bay is funnel shaped. Its bottom slopes upward
continuously from the ocean inlet This results in "tidal bore",
a wave-like phenomenon. Bores in Fundy can travel up the feeder rivers at
the speed of 8 mph and be more than 3 feet high.
The Highest,
Driest, and Coldest Continent
Antarctica.
World's Only
Equatorial Glacier
Mount Cotopaxi,
in Ecuador, South America. It supports the only glacier on the equator.
The Largest
Mountain Chain on the Earth
It is the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which splits nearly the entire Atlantic Ocean
spreading from north to south. Iceland is one place where this submarine
mountain chain rises above the sea surface.
How the Ice Was Introduced
in India?
The first ice arrived in Calcutta was from New England, USA in 1833.
Frederick Tudor of Boston discovered that it would remain frozen if
covered in sawdust. So Tudor organized the cutting and storing the ice
blocks during the New England winter and transported them all over the
world
Do you know where was
located ancient India's Prime Meridian?
Ancient India's Prime Meridian was located at Ujjayinee, Vikramaaditya's
capital town.
Do you know what is
Paakistaan's time in relation to Indian time?
Before independence, Paakistaan was the part of India that is why from
Assam to Sindh only one Indian Standard Time (IST) was used, but as it got
separated from India on 14th August 1947, Paakistaan introduced 5h zonal
time wef Oct 1, 1951.
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