Saturday 1 December 2012

Do You know(1)



Ø   The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour
Ø     A comet’s tail always points away from the sun.
Ø     A group of officers is called a mess.
Ø     The first baseball caps were made of straw.
Ø     Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
Ø     Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch  rocket .
Ø     Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow.
Ø     Honeybees never sleep.
Ø     Spiders have transparent blood.
Ø     Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
Ø     Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
Ø     Hippo milk is pink.
Ø     Cats cannot taste sweet things.
Ø     A giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
Ø     Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.
Ø     It is possible to see a rainbow at night.
Ø     The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7feet tall.
Ø     Europe is the only continent without a desert.
Ø     Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
Ø     A rat can fall from a five story building without injury
Ø     Tug of war was an Olympic event between 1900 and1920
Ø     Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
Ø     Termites work 24 hours per day and they do not sleep.
Ø     Black whales are born white.
Ø     Apple seeds are poisonous.
Ø     A dragonfly has a lifespan of  24 hours.
Ø     A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.
Ø     Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
Ø     The octopus does not have a blind spot.
Ø     41% of the moon is not visible from earth at anytime.
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