A Rainbow can only occure when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon!

Bats are only flying mammals that hang upside down when they rest.When a female bat gives birth to a baby, she also hangs upside down. So how does she prevent her newborn from falling? The female bat has a strong, flexible membrane attached to her tails that she uses to catch the newborn baby. Plants watered with warm water grow larger & more quickly than plants watered with cold water. All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of thier feet is made up of all fat & no bone. The amount of energy that is emitted by the sun in 1 second is more than amount of energy that has been used by human beings in the last 10 years. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting. Dogs who have been so easily traines to respond to commands, to recognise people and even distinguish between musical sounds, have been found to be colour blind. This was discovered when test animals were shown different coloured cards and they were given food after only one of these colours. The same procedure was repeated again and again. Then only the food card was shown. Since the dogs didn't salivate, or produce saliva in the mouth and indication that they knew food was coming, scientists concluded that dogs cannot distinguish between colours. However, in a similar experiment using music tones before food, they did salivate, indicating their ability to respond to varying sounds.

Cats were put to similar test and were found to be colour blind also. Monkeys and Apes have been put through many tests and the results have shown that the can tell colours apart. Bull got its name from the old Andlo-Saxon word 'belan' which means to 'roar' or 'bellow'. Snails sleep a lot. In addition to several months of winter hibernation, they crawl into their shells to get out of the hot sun, which dries them, or heavy rain which water-logs them. Desert snails may even doze for 3 to 4 years. Some insects, after their head is severed, may live for as much as a year. They react automatically to light, temperature, humidity, chemicals and other stimuli. Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. There are more than 50,000 earth-quakes through out the world every year. Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th". The next one in 2008 is June. There is actually a town in Texas called "Ding Dong" and it is located in Bell Country. It seems that two of its early settlers. Zulis Bell and Bert Bell, opened a store and hired an artist to make a sign for it. They instructed him to paint two bells on it with their names and woords "Ding Dong" coming out of the bell. Over time, a community grew around the store and it took on the name "Ding Dong". Look at the number 4 on a clock face that uses Roman numerals. The standard and correct way to write the Roman numeral four is "IV" but the traditional way to show it on a

clock is "IIII". Legend has it that such a clock was made for a British King. When he show the clock he misinformedly corrected the clock maker who re-did the clock face to show a "IIII" instead of "IV". Thus, not risking ofending the King, other clock makers followed suit. Now, it is the traditional way to make clocks. Elvis Presley was the famous American singer, musician and actor who is often known simply as Elvis or "The King of Rock N' Roll". It is said that his favourite sandwich was a fried peanutbutter-banana-toast sandwich. Six year olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Aduls only laugh 15 to 100 timesa a day. The moon moves about 2 inches away from the earth each year. The world's longest railway is the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is located in Russia. It is 5,777 miles(9,297 kilometers) long and runs from Moscow to Vladivostok. In 1973, Swedish Confectionery Salesman Ronald Ohisson was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate. During the 19th century, tomato ketchup was sold as a medicine. A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !. A Zipper joins two pieces of material together.A zipper is used everywhere, on clothing, pencil cases, boots and suitcases, wallets, and a zillion other things. Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure". Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallest species of bears

is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms) There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys. How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? Most animals dont eat moss. Its hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why? The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezingmuch as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases. If you dig in your backyard, dont worry about running into the earths core. Youd have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep! A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast! The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour). a cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow). Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'! No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds. The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. n 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. There is a city called Rome on every continent. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." Coca-Cola would be green if colouring werent added to it. On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. Earth is the only planet not named after a god. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi. The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa. The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant. Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile *****es. Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch. # Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra. The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball. # Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed. Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound. SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below. Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers. The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball. Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed. Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound. Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam. The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich. You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite. Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays. The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver. he sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them. A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White. The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard. The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe. Because printed materials are being replaced by CDROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation. Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water. Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy. Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

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To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra

even out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.[

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey./CENTER]

The weasel, a small, reddish brown mammal, turns white in frigid, cold climates.

The Ellora caves are 25 kilometers north of Aurangabad and were carved over a period of 350 years, from the 6th century onwards. They included Buddhist, Hindu and Jain monuments. Cave No.16, known as Kailasa Temple, was carved from top to bottom out of a single rock.

Most kangaroos can only move both back legs together and not one at a time.

About one-tenth of the earths surface is permanently covered with ice.

Why they say we should never swallow chewing gum? Well, the fact is that our stomach doesnt digest gum at all. Since its made out of soluble fiber, chewing gum passes right through us. So gum comes out with the rest of your waste, usually a day or two after you eat it. Although you should not swallow chewing gum, it is not considered harmful.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry. The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun. The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers. It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped

in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives. Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards. The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12. Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut. Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos. In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal. When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby. If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian. Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today. Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months. When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."
>>> Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries. >>> The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982. >>> Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).

>>> The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians. >>> Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was - Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days. >>> The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh 6000 over years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'. >>> Although modern images & descriptions of India often show poverty, India was one of the richest countries till the time of British in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered America by mistake. >>> The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education. >>> India has the most post offices in the world !

>>> The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people !. >>> The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level. >>> The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. Later through time, the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births. >>> India is.......the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10, 000 years old). >>> Chess was invented in India. >>> Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India. >>> The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India. >>> The name `India is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu. >>> The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus. >>> The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero. :~ The weasel, a small, reddish brown mammal, turns white in frigid, cold climates. :~ The Ellora caves are 25 kilometers north of Aurangabad and were carved over a period of 350 years, from the 6th century onwards. They included Buddhist, Hindu and Jain monuments.

:~ Cave No.16, known as Kailasa Temple, was carved from top to bottom out of a single rock.

:~: Most kangaroos can only move both back legs together and not one at a time. :~: About one-tenth of the earths surface is permanently covered with ice. :~: Why they say we should never swallow chewing gum? Well, the fact is that our stomach doesnt digest gum at all. Since its made out of soluble fiber, chewing gum passes right through us. So gum comes out with the rest of your waste, usually a day or two after you eat it. Although you should not swallow chewing gum, it is not considered harmful. :~: There are over 9,00,000 cars on Mumbais roads. Expert says that 1,00,000 new cars will be added every year. :~: Cows spend 6 hours a day eating and 8 hours chewing cud. People first domesticated cows about 5,000 years ago. A cows age can be found by counting the rings on its horns.

:~: People once believed that hippos sweat blood. The belief arose from the fact that the hippos skin secrets a sticky pink fluid that protects them from sunburn. Did you know that a hippos yawn is not a sign of sleepiness or boredom, but actually a gesture of threat? :~: In Russia, there is still a popular belief that if a black cat crosses a persons path in the street, that person should either choose a different direction in order to walk around the cats path or cross it holding a button in his/her fingers. It could be the button on that persons jacket, pants, shirt. :~: Video-Games began to make their first appearance as early as the 1960s with an electronic version of table tennis.