• Fog is made up of water droplets between one and 10 microns across; mist droplets are less than one micron. One micron equals about 1/200^th of the thickness of a strand of hair.
• Cats do not have the ability to taste sweet things.
• Lightening bolts generates temperatures five times hotter than the 6,000 degrees Celsius found at the surface of the sun.
• Jupiter is the largest planet, and it has the shortest day. Although Jupiter has a circumference almost 11 times that of Earth, it makes one turn in nine and 55 minutes.
• A giant Pacific octopus can fit its entire body through an opening no bigger than the size of its beak.
• The pyramids in Egypt contain enough stone and mortar to construct a wall 10 feet high and 5 feet wide running from New York City to Los Angeles.
• Human nails and hair do not grow after death. They are simply the last part of the body to disintegrate.
• Loud music pushes people to drink more.
• Obese workers are not lazier, says study.
• Licking your wounds may help them heal faster.
• Diets affect males, females in different ways.
• The average adult stands 0.4 inch (1 cm) taller in the morning than in the evening, because the cartilage in the spine compresses during the day.
• Family history can't predict Breast Cancer risk in women.
• Too much meat may increase the risk of Thrombosis (blood clotting).
• Bone's mineral density may determine breast cancer.
• The owl parrot can't fly, and builds its nest under tree roots.
• Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground.
• The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
• The colors in a hummingbird's feather are created by tiny platelets, called interference colors, and are much like the shimmering colors seen in a soap bubble or in a drop of oil.
• The height of the 984-foot-tall Eiffel Tower varies, depending on the temperature, by as much as six inches.
• The flower of the Calla lily is eight feet high and 12 feet wide and is grown in Sumantra.
• The bite of a leech is painless due to an anaesthetic present in the leech's hooks.
• A dog's nose has over 220 million scent receiving cells, which is why it can smell and sniff things out from a kilometer afar.
• Footprints of astronauts who landed on moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
• The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal, the dolphin, can swim up to 35 miles per hour.
• Moths are not really attracted to light, they fly towards the blackest point which is behind the light.
• Lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write 50,000 words in English with just one pencil.
• Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidently blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
• While many people believe that a camel's hump is used for water storage, it is actually made up of fat. The hump of a well-rested, well-fed camel can weigh up to 80 pounds (approximately 36 kgs).

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