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Astonishing Facts!
FABULOUS & ASTONISHING FACTS OF NATURE & CREATION
1) LONGEST ENGLISH WORD: Praetertranssubstantiationalistically --> has 37 letters.
2) BOOK WITHOUT LETTER 'e':
GADFY,written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a single word with ' e ' in it
3) WORD WITHOUT VOWEL:
RHYTHM
4) BRAIN: Organ of body which has no sensation when cut .
5) CROCODILE: Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating .
6) No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS: 10, They are
B Bee
C Sea
z Zee
I Eye
Q Queue
R Are
S Yes
T Tea
U You
Y Why
FASCINATING ANIMALS, BIRDS, TREES :
1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fiercest DINOSAUR was TRYNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DIMETRODON was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
15) An oyster can change its sex a number of times during its life.
16) It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
17) A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell.
WHAT ARE THEY :
1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say 'DADDY'
2) What goes up & never comes down:AGE
3) Patches over patches but no stitches:CABBAGE
4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you: FUTURE
5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves:ROAD
6) You can never wet it:SHADOW
7) What belongs to to You, but used by your friends more often you do:YOUR NAME.
IN 24 HOURS AVERAGE HUMAN:
1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD
Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times
1) LONGEST ENGLISH WORD: Praetertranssubstantiationalistically --> has 37 letters.
2) BOOK WITHOUT LETTER 'e':
GADFY,written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a single word with ' e ' in it
3) WORD WITHOUT VOWEL:
RHYTHM
4) BRAIN: Organ of body which has no sensation when cut .
5) CROCODILE: Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating .
6) No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS: 10, They are
B Bee
C Sea
z Zee
I Eye
Q Queue
R Are
S Yes
T Tea
U You
Y Why
FASCINATING ANIMALS, BIRDS, TREES :
1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fiercest DINOSAUR was TRYNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DIMETRODON was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
15) An oyster can change its sex a number of times during its life.
16) It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
17) A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell.
WHAT ARE THEY :
1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say 'DADDY'
2) What goes up & never comes down:AGE
3) Patches over patches but no stitches:CABBAGE
4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you: FUTURE
5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves:ROAD
6) You can never wet it:SHADOW
7) What belongs to to You, but used by your friends more often you do:YOUR NAME.
IN 24 HOURS AVERAGE HUMAN:
1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD
Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times
Kofi Annan's Astonishing Facts!
By BARBARA CROSSETTE
Every year, the United Nations Human Development Report looks for a new way to measure the
lives of people. Putting aside faceless statistics like per capita gross domestic product or export-import figures, the report burrows into the facts about what children eat, who goes to school,
whether there is clean water to drink, how women share in the economy or who doesn't get
vaccinations against diseases that go on killing even though they are preventable. This year, the
report takes its first look at what people have -- from simple toilets to family cars -- and what
proportion of the world's goods and services are consumed, comparatively, by the rich and by the
poor. The pie is huge -- the world's consumption bill is $24 trillion a year -- but some servings
are very small indeed.
THE HAVES The richest fifth of the world's people consumes 86 percent of all goods and
services while the poorest fifth consumes just 1.3 percent. Indeed, the richest fifth consumes 45
percent of all meat and fish, 58 percent of all energy used and 84 percent of all paper, has 74
percent of all telephone lines and owns 87 percent of all vehicles.
NATURAL RESOURCES Since 1970, the world's forests have declined from 4.4 square miles
per 1,000 people to 2.8 square miles per 1,000 people. In addition, a quarter of the world's fish
stocks have been depleted or are in danger of being depleted and another 44 percent are being
fished at their biological limit.
THE GANGES The Ganges River symbolizes purification to Hindus, who believe drinking or
bathing in its waters will lead to salvation. But 29 cities, 70 towns and countless villages deposit
about 345 million gallons of raw sewage a day directly into the river. Factories add 70 million
gallons of industrial waste and farmers are responsible for another 6 million tons of chemical
fertilizer and 9,000 tons of pesticides.
THE ULTRA RICH The three richest people in the world have assets that exceed the combined
gross domestic product of the 48 least developed countries.
AFRICA The average African household today consumes 20 percent less than it did 25 years
ago.
THE SUPER RICH The world's 225 richest individuals, of whom 60 are Americans with total
assets of $311 billion, have a combined wealth of over $1 trillion -- equal to the annual income
of the poorest 47 percent of the entire world's population.
COSMETICS AND EDUCATION Americans spend $8 billion a year on cosmetics -- $2 billion
more than the estimated annual total needed to provide basic education for everyone in the
world.
THE HAVE NOTS Of the 4.4 billion people in developing countries,nearly three-fifths lack access to safe sewers, a third have no access to clean water, a quarter do not have adequate
housing and a fifth have no access to modern health services of any kind.
MEAT Americans each consume an average of 260 pounds of meat a year. In Bangladesh, the
average is six and a half pounds.
THE FUTURE By 2050, 8 billion of the world's projected 9.5 billion people -- up from about 6
billion today -- will be living in developing countries.
SMOKE Of the estimated 2.7 million annual deaths from air pollution, 2.2 million are from
indoor pollution -- including smoke from dung and wood burned as fuel which is more harmful
than tobacco smoke. 80 percent of the victims are rural poor in developing countries.
WRISTWATCHES AND RADIOS Two thirds of India's 90 million lowest-income households
live below the poverty line -- but more than 50 percent of these impoverished people own
wristwatches, 41 percent own bicycles, 31 percent own radios and 13 percent own fans.
TELEPHONE LINES Sweden and the United States have 681 and 626 telephone lines per 1,000
people, respectively. Afghanistan, Cambodia, Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
have only one line per 1,000 people.
ICE CREAM AND WATER Europeans spend $11 billion a year on ice cream -- $2 billion more
than the estimated annual total needed to provide clean water and safe sewers for the world's
population.
LANDMINES More than 110 million active landmines are scattered in 68 countries, with an
equal number stockpiled around the world. Every month more than 2,000 people are killed or
maimed by mine explosions.
PET FOOD AND HEALTH Americans and Europeans spend $17 billion a year on pet food -- $4
billion more than the estimated annual additional total needed to provide basic health and
nutrition for everyone in the world. $
40 BILLION A YEAR It is estimated that the additional cost of achieving and maintaining
universal access to basic education for all, basic health care for all, reproductive health care for
all women, adequate food for all and clean water and safe sewers for all is roughly $40 billion a
year -- or less than 4 percent of the combined wealth of the 225 richest people in the world.
By BARBARA CROSSETTE
Every year, the United Nations Human Development Report looks for a new way to measure the
lives of people. Putting aside faceless statistics like per capita gross domestic product or export-import figures, the report burrows into the facts about what children eat, who goes to school,
whether there is clean water to drink, how women share in the economy or who doesn't get
vaccinations against diseases that go on killing even though they are preventable. This year, the
report takes its first look at what people have -- from simple toilets to family cars -- and what
proportion of the world's goods and services are consumed, comparatively, by the rich and by the
poor. The pie is huge -- the world's consumption bill is $24 trillion a year -- but some servings
are very small indeed.
THE HAVES The richest fifth of the world's people consumes 86 percent of all goods and
services while the poorest fifth consumes just 1.3 percent. Indeed, the richest fifth consumes 45
percent of all meat and fish, 58 percent of all energy used and 84 percent of all paper, has 74
percent of all telephone lines and owns 87 percent of all vehicles.
NATURAL RESOURCES Since 1970, the world's forests have declined from 4.4 square miles
per 1,000 people to 2.8 square miles per 1,000 people. In addition, a quarter of the world's fish
stocks have been depleted or are in danger of being depleted and another 44 percent are being
fished at their biological limit.
THE GANGES The Ganges River symbolizes purification to Hindus, who believe drinking or
bathing in its waters will lead to salvation. But 29 cities, 70 towns and countless villages deposit
about 345 million gallons of raw sewage a day directly into the river. Factories add 70 million
gallons of industrial waste and farmers are responsible for another 6 million tons of chemical
fertilizer and 9,000 tons of pesticides.
THE ULTRA RICH The three richest people in the world have assets that exceed the combined
gross domestic product of the 48 least developed countries.
AFRICA The average African household today consumes 20 percent less than it did 25 years
ago.
THE SUPER RICH The world's 225 richest individuals, of whom 60 are Americans with total
assets of $311 billion, have a combined wealth of over $1 trillion -- equal to the annual income
of the poorest 47 percent of the entire world's population.
COSMETICS AND EDUCATION Americans spend $8 billion a year on cosmetics -- $2 billion
more than the estimated annual total needed to provide basic education for everyone in the
world.
THE HAVE NOTS Of the 4.4 billion people in developing countries,nearly three-fifths lack access to safe sewers, a third have no access to clean water, a quarter do not have adequate
housing and a fifth have no access to modern health services of any kind.
MEAT Americans each consume an average of 260 pounds of meat a year. In Bangladesh, the
average is six and a half pounds.
THE FUTURE By 2050, 8 billion of the world's projected 9.5 billion people -- up from about 6
billion today -- will be living in developing countries.
SMOKE Of the estimated 2.7 million annual deaths from air pollution, 2.2 million are from
indoor pollution -- including smoke from dung and wood burned as fuel which is more harmful
than tobacco smoke. 80 percent of the victims are rural poor in developing countries.
WRISTWATCHES AND RADIOS Two thirds of India's 90 million lowest-income households
live below the poverty line -- but more than 50 percent of these impoverished people own
wristwatches, 41 percent own bicycles, 31 percent own radios and 13 percent own fans.
TELEPHONE LINES Sweden and the United States have 681 and 626 telephone lines per 1,000
people, respectively. Afghanistan, Cambodia, Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
have only one line per 1,000 people.
ICE CREAM AND WATER Europeans spend $11 billion a year on ice cream -- $2 billion more
than the estimated annual total needed to provide clean water and safe sewers for the world's
population.
LANDMINES More than 110 million active landmines are scattered in 68 countries, with an
equal number stockpiled around the world. Every month more than 2,000 people are killed or
maimed by mine explosions.
PET FOOD AND HEALTH Americans and Europeans spend $17 billion a year on pet food -- $4
billion more than the estimated annual additional total needed to provide basic health and
nutrition for everyone in the world. $
40 BILLION A YEAR It is estimated that the additional cost of achieving and maintaining
universal access to basic education for all, basic health care for all, reproductive health care for
all women, adequate food for all and clean water and safe sewers for all is roughly $40 billion a
year -- or less than 4 percent of the combined wealth of the 225 richest people in the world.
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