UNBELIEVABLE UNKNOWNS!

• Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite!
• It’s impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time!
• The only animal that sleeps on its back is man!
• Girls tend to sleep more soundly than boys!
• There is more sugar in a kilo of lemons than in a kilo of strawberries!
• The world’s tallest mountain, even higher than Mt. Everest is Mauna Koa an underwater mountain which rises 33,476 feet and has its peak on the island of Hawaii!
• Mosquitoes prefer to bite blondes!
• An owl cannot see in total darkness!
• A zebra has white stripes not black ones!
• The nerve system in the human brain has a greater number of possible connections than there would be in a unilateral telephone exchange that provided one line to every person living on earth!
• When a piece of glass cracks, the cracks move at a speed of over 4,800 kms per hour!
• We die more quickly from lack of sleep than from lack of food!
• Ships travel faster in clod water than in warm water!
• The average light bulb can last for about 750 to 1000 hrs!
• A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes!
• The letter most used in the English language is the letter ‘E’ and ‘Q’ is used the least!
• When you were only a fertilized egg- you were about the size of the head of a pin!
• The size of a newly born kangaroo is 2.5 cm!
• A scientist, who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21gm!
• Eighty percent of the animals on earth are insects!
• Our nerves transmit messages at up to 300ft per second!
• If you had fifteen books on a shelf and you arranged them in every possible combination and made one change every minute, it would take you 24, 87,996 years to do them all!
• People who have never married are seven and a half times more likely to be hospitalized in a psychiatric facility than those who are married!
• When a piece of glass cracks, the cracks move at a speed of over 4,800 kms per hour!

BY,

MADHAV PATHAK

II SEM

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION.