Facts

Grace Bedell was the young GIRL who wrote to Abraham Lincoln,the US President asking him to grow a beard.

Louis Braille was a French BOY who invented a system of reading for the blind.

The fall of an apple from a tree first suggested the law of gravitation to a young BOY of 16 named Isaac Newton.

Samantha Smith was the GIRL who wrote to the leader of the USSR asking him to stop the nuclear arms race.

Lord Alfred Tennyson, a great poet wrote a 6000 words long epic poem when he was 12 years old.

Costliest Bridge : The Verrazano - Narrows Bridge over New York Bay was completed in 1964 at a cost of $304,00,000.

Most Famous : Old London Bridge, which spams the Thames river in England is the Most famous bridge.

Heaviest Load Carrying : Hell Gate Bridge over the East river in New York City. Built in 1927 for Traffic, it can hold up to 2400 pounds per foot, or a 10,000 ton spread.

Highest : The Royal Bridge was built 1053 ft above the Arkansas river in central  Colorado.

Longest : The lake Ponchartrain No.2 in New Orleans, Louisiana, was completed in 1969 and is 23.87 miles long.

Tallest : The Golden Gate Bridge over San Francisco, California is the tallest bridge in the world. The towers of this bridge extend 745ft above water.

Bees communicate through a dance called Waggle Dance

The African Goliath Beetle is the heaviest of all insects .It grows as long as 12cms and weighs upto 110gms.

The Parasitic Wasp is the lightest of all insects. It is less than 0.2mm long and weighs just 0.006gms.

Sailfish are the fastest swimmers.They can reach a speed of 109km/h.

All fishes do not lay eggs.The Saifin Molly keep their eggs within their body.It gives birth to as many as 200 live young.

Humming birds flap their wings upto 70 times every sec.They can also fly backwards.

It can take about 31688 days to count 1 trillion

The air in your sneeze travels at 60 - 100 miles per hour

Dogs can hear sounds that Humans can't

300 million cells die in the body/min. These dead cells are replaced immediately

Except for the sperm and the ova(26 chromosomes), every cell in our body contains 46 chromosomes

The skin we actually touch is dead

An average human head is covered by about 100,000 STRANDS of hair

Each ordinary hair has a life span of about 3 years

Eyelashes have a lifespan of about 150 days

Body smell is as distinctive and individual as a fingerprint, and is unique to family groups

Police dogs cannot differentiate the body smells of identical twins, even if they live in different towns, have different jobs and eat dissimilar foods

A dog's nose is over a MILLION times more sensitive than the human nose

An adult has an average of 9000 taste buds, but a baby has MANY MORE

Taste buds are lost with age

The Coccyx is the only bone in the body without a function

Our facial expression is possible because of the 30 muscles that are attached to the bones of the skull

The stomach can be totally removed without unduly affecting the digestion process

Our meal takes about 4-6 hrs to enter the small intestine, another 5 hrs to enter the large intestine and an additional 6-12 hrs to complete the journey out of the body

Teeth which easily get decayed during our life, resist decay after our death

The teeth are the hardest part of the human body

350 million sperms are deposited around the cervix, yet,  less than100 will reach the female egg

50% of the sperms carry some sort of abnormality. The cervix amazingly recognizes and rejects them and successfully prevents them to access the fertile egg

Human beings are neither totally male nor female. Each male and female carry some level of male and female hormone contents respectively

Longest recorded flight of a hen is 13 seconds

UNCOPYRIGHTABLE is the only 15 letter word without repetition of any letter

Astronauts can't cry in space due to less gravity

The Romans (3000 years ago) had an average lifespan of 30 years

The Sun is 333000 larger than the Earth

The USA once issued a 5cent bill

1 Queen termite can produce 1 Million children

More than 50000 earthquakes are recorded every year

Wrigley's chewing gum was the first item that made use of the bar code

Once upon a time it was against the law to slam car doors in Switzerland

One Quarter bones of the total bones in the body are in the feet

Lightning strikes 6000 times/min on the earth

World's termites beat humans 10/1 in weight

Life span of a dragon fly is 24 hrs

Only mammal that can't jump  is an Elephant

The Oldest Chewing gum 9000 years old

Group of geese on the ground is gaggle

Group of geese in the air is skeins

In case of dogs Nose prints are as unique as fingerprints for humans

The Only fish that can blink with both eyes is a Shark

Humans are born with 350 bones but only 206 bones are left after adulthood. The extra bones don't get lost, instead they fuse together to accord with our needs

1/100th of a sec is known as a JIFFY. The next time you say you can do a work in a jiffy, be sure you mean it

1 recycled bottle saves enough power which equals watching TV for 3 hrs

In a year an average person's heart beats 4,00,00,000 times

Giraffes tongue is 21 inch in length, enough to clean its ears

 In Taiwan a company makes plate with Wheat so that you can chew your plate while you eat

Except the windmills in Ireland, all the others rotate clockwise