Useful Facts

• About 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water and in infants water accounts for approximately 80 percent of body weight.
• The fastest bird is peregrine falcon it can fly with speed of 168-217 miles per hour.
• Chewing gum while cutting onions help a person from stop producing tears. 
• The longest record of chicken flight is thirteen seconds. 
• By the time a person feels thirsty, his/her body has lost about over 1 percent of total water amount in body.
• Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
• The Earth moves through space at a speed of 66,700 miles/hour. 
• Water leads to overall greater health by flushing out wastes and bacteria that can cause disease
• The maximum depth of ocean is 6.9 miles
• To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
• Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
• The smallest cat is the Singapuras and weighs only 4 pounds.
• Asia is the largest continent of 44,579,000 sq km area and Australia is the smallest one with 8,112,000 sq km area.
• There are 10 countries in the world that are known by separate English names. . 
• The world has only 3% fresh water.
• Russia is the largest country having 6,592,846 sq miles area.
• Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
• Giraffes can go without water longer than camel.
• India is the largest milk producing country by volume in world.
• Almonds are member of rose flower family (Rosaceae family).
• For a butterfly to fly, it must have a body temperature of no less than 30 degrees Celsius.
• Some sharks lose over 30,000 teeth in their lifetime.
• The eye of an ostrich is larger than it’s brain.