100 Most Amazing Facts

Hi people, How are you? Are you bored and want to read something interesting? Yes, today I bring you the 100 most amazing facts which I personally compiled. I have included some facts which you may not have known, so check it out.

1. The opposite sides of a dice always add up to seven.
2. The original name of butterfly was ‘flutterby’.
3. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
4. A flute made of bones is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world.
5. The largest frog in the world is called ‘Goliath frog'.
6. A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
7. ‘Sailor’, ‘Dead leaf’, ‘Paper kite’, ‘Blue stripped crow’, ‘Julia’, ‘Great Egg Fly’ are all names of butterflies.
8.  A cow gives nearly 2, 00,000 glasses of milk in her life time.
9. Finger nails grow nearly four times faster than toe nails.
10. “Go” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
11. The words racecar, kayak and radar are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
12. The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighting less than a penny.
13. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
14. A house fly lives only 2 weeks.
15. Pea crabs are the smallest crabs in the world.
16. The world’s smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means "tiny dog in the sky".
17. The fastest swimmer is sailfish and the slowest is seahorse.
18. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
19. Ants never sleep.
20. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
21. Sharks are immune to all kinds of known disease.
22. Mud skipper is a fish which respire through air and can survive on land.
23. “A man a plan a panama”, spelled from right to left is still “A man a plan a panama”.
24. In 4 hours, if one drinks more than 100 cups of coffee, he may die instantly.
25. All polar bears are left handed.
26. The ‘Lynx’ is the highest jumping cat.
27. There are 701 species of pure breeded dogs.
28. New Zealand is the place of 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
29. Bear can cry just like a human.
30. Camel can walk very long in a desert without taking rest.
31. Golden eagle (only 46 cm long) can see it’s pray from a distance of 3.2 km.
32. Viper is a snake that has long poisonous teeth in its mouth.
33. Bat is also called as “Flying Fox”.
34. Giraffe has its tongue but it cannot speak.
35. Horse is the animal with the largest eye-ball.
36. Dove is the bird regarded as the sign of love, even it’s the laziest among birds family.
37. Anaconda is a non-poisonous snake weighting 200 pounds.
38. Swift is the fastest flying bird.
39. The biggest creature i.e. blue whale eats 3 tons of food per day.
40. Python is the longest snake but its main problem is that it is non-poisonous like anaconda.
41. An octopus has 4 hearts.
42. Crow is a bird that lay a single egg in its entire life.
43. Chimpanzee is the only animal that does not cry.
44. Crocodile cries each time after having its food.
45. Elephants can never jump, but can smell water from three miles away.
46. Dolphin is the only fish that sheds its outer skin like snake do.
47. An insect called ‘Ghaukin’ has ear in its leg.
48. The African lungfish can live out of water for four ears.
49. At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs less than a ounce.
50. The pupil of an octopus eyes are rectangular.
51. A cow’s sweat glands are in nose.
52. During the World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
53. A blue whale can live up to 6 months without eating.
54. A shark can sense a drop of blood from miles away.
55. A leech has 32 brains.
56. Male lion can sleep up to 20 hours a day.
57. A shark’s skeleton is made up of cartilage.
58. A largest species of seahorse measures 8 inches.
59. The heart of humming bird beats 1400 times in one minute.
60. A normal man becomes unconscious for 2 minutes a day (24 hrs).
61. The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur.
62. A dragonfly has a lifespan of only 24 hours (a day).
63. A species of earthworm in Australia can grow up to 10 feet in length.
64. Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
65. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet in just one night.
66. A hippopotamus can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
67. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints.
68. Over 10, 000 birds die from smashing in to windows pane.
69. You lose 1, 00, 000 brain cells every day.
70. You blink your eyes about 20, 000 times a day.
71. There are 50 trillions of cell in our body and 3 billion die every minute.
72. A blue whale can be long as three school buses.
73. A black marlin fish lays as many as 226 millions eggs.
74. The baby of a lion and a tiger is called a ‘liger’ and seems to be almost 2 times bigger than its mother when fully grown.
75. A tree called Japanese cedar can live up to 7, 200 years.
76. The world’s tallest tree is called the stratosphere giant and can grow up to 112.32 meter height which is almost 3 times of the height of statue of liberty in New York.
77. A rainbow is created when sunlight passes through the water droplets.
78. The oldest person ever to grace this earth is Jeanne Calment of France. She was born on 21st February, 1875 and died on 4th August, 1997.
79. We cry almost 250, 000, 000 times in our whole life.
80. A bird named sun gem of humming bird family can flap its wings up to 90 times a second.
81. According to a American experiment, in 24 hours more than 60, 000 thinking’s come to human brain.
82. It is easier to laugh than to frown because it takes 14 muscles to smile while 52 muscles to be tensed or frown.
83. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.
84. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.
85. The longest English word without a vowel is twyndyllyngs which means "twins".
86. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.
87. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
88. The Mona Lisa in the painting has no eyebrows.
89. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
90. Octopus is so intelligent that it can even escape from a maze without doing a single mistake.
91. The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is the only planet that rotates clock-wise.
92. Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed.
93. Pumice is the only rock that floats in water due to numerous pores in its surface and various gases enclosed in it.
94. The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
95. It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey.
96. No piece of normal sized piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
97. You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
98. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
99. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
100. A spaceship with the speed of light cannot be created because the mass of an object gets more when it comes at speed, and if it comes in the speed of light its mass will be infinity which is impossible.

So friends, that was a list of my 100 most Amazing Facts. I hope you enjoyed them. Comment down for other suggestions.