A couple of Amazing Facts

These are some of the amazing facts I collected over the time, and to avoid copying I made them into sentences in a bit different way. But facts are facts, which cannot be changed. I hope many of you will enjoy these.

• Did you know how many muscles have to work together at the same time for a faint smile? The answer is 17. Amazing!!
• Isn't it amazing to know that a liver cell is specialized enough to perform more than 500 operations at a time?
• Do you know our heart connects the 100 trillion cells in the human body one by one?
• Did you ever think human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water? But that is the truth. I never knew this.
• Can you guess how many strands of hair a human being loses on an average a day? Ans: 40 to 100 strands of hair.
• Have you ever thought that a fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip? Really amazing!
• Will it surprise you to know that our heart beats approximately 100,000 times a day?
• I think many of us know that water makes up about 70 percent of the human body.
• Isn't it surprising to know that there are 5 liters of blood in the body of a human weighing 60 kilograms?
• Another surprising fact - the human kidneys filter about 140 liters of blood every day through one million small filtering units.
• Some studies suggest women need up to an hour's extra sleep a night compared to men, and not getting it may be one reason women are much more susceptible to depression than men.
• Do you know the lifespan of a red blood cell? 120 days.

• Do you know people with blue eyes see better in the dark?
• I'm sure everyone knows the importance of mother's milk for infants. Immune system elements that the baby needs, such as antibodies or defense cells, are given to the baby ready-made in the mother's milk.
• Have you tried to sneeze with your eyes open? I don't think you can. It is impossible to sneeze with our eyes open.

• Another astonishing fact is Crocodiles are blind in the water, but they are very keen of sight in the air.
• Can you guess an African elephant's gestation period? 22 months. A short-nosed bandicoot gestates for just 12 days.
• Isn't it amazing to know that a newborn kangaroo's length at birth is one inch?
  Can you guess how many glasses of milk a cow gives in her lifetime? Don't be shocked to know the quantity - nearly 200000 glass of milk!
• Any guess about the weight of an elephant's teeth? about 9 pounds!
• Do you know which is the animal that cannot jump? The answer is very simple - Elephant!
• Which animal is left handed? The answer is polar bears.
• A rat is so small when compared to a camel. Still, a rat can live longer without water than a camel.
• Which breed of dogs bite humans more? The answer is German Shepherds.

• Hummingbird - The smallest bird in the world is Hummingbird. It weighs just 1 oz. Another feature of this smallest bird is this is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward. They cannot walk.
• Which is the largest bird egg in the world today? The answer is Ostrich. These eggs have a length of 6 to 8 inches and take about 40 minutes to hard-boil.
• Which is the only bird that can rotate its head to 270 degrees? The answer is Owl.
• Egg - Do you know an uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not spin, but a hard-boiled egg will.
  
• Kiwi - Do you know some astonishing facts about the bird Kiwi, the national bird of New Zealand?
  Kiwis can't fly, they are almost blind and live in a hole in the ground. Kiwi lays only one egg each year. They hunt by sense of smell. Despite all these, they have survived for more than 70 million years!
  
• Duck - A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why.

Some truths are beyond our imagination.

• How do dolphins sleep? They sleep with one eye open.
• Do you know a female mackerel fish lays about 500,000 eggs at one time?.Astonishing!! But that is the fact.
• Which is the largest animal on earth? The blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and it's tongue is as long as an elephant.
• Which are the animals that can see the infrared and ultraviolet light? The answer is goldfish.
  
• Fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it.
• Can you guess how many teeth a whale shark has, and how big they are? You will be amazed to know that it has over 4,000 teeth and each tooth is only 3mm long.
• Do you know Crocodiles are blind in the water? Though they are blind in the water they are very keen of sight in the air.