Interesting facts

 1. Hot water freezes faster than cold water beacuse evaporation of hot water helps freezing.

2. Giraffe tongue can be 20 inches long.

3. The circulatory system is more than       60,000 miles long.

4. The real name for a hastag is an octothorpe.

5. Bee can fly as high as 8000 metres.

6. The First Car to have installed passenger airbags is 

Oldsmobile Toronado in 1973 by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors automobile manufacturers.

7. The only planet in our solar system to rotate clock wise is venus.

All other planets rotate anti-clock wise.

8.  Do you earth is tilted towards north east by 23.5 degrees.

9. Oppenheimer invented made first Atom Bomb in 1945.

10. In 1857, work first began on the dictionary, though the first edition was not published In until 1884.

11. An ice cube takes up about 9 percent more volume than the water used to make it.

12. A lightning strike can reach a temperature of 30,000 C. or 54,000 F.

13. The moon is very hot (224 degrees Fahrenheit, average) during the day but very cold (-243 degrees average) at night.

14. The human brain takes in 11 million individual pieces of information per second, but is only cognizant of roughly around 40.

15. An average sized cumulus cloud weighs roughly around a million pounds or the same as world's largest passenger jet or the same as 80 elephants.

16. Plants don't have any memory, but they have the ability to recognize their close relatives and upon doing so, they will work alongside each other to grow stronger.

The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.”

The only letters that don’t appear on the periodic table are “J” and “Q.”

One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.

The ten highest mountain summits in the United States are all located in Alaska.

The flashes of colored light you see when you rub your eyes are called “phosphenes.”

At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.

Iceland does not have a railway system.

The largest known prime number has  24,862,048 digits. The new prime number is 2 multiplied by itself 82,589,933 times, minus 1.

Asia is the world’s most populous continent, home to more than 4.6 billion people. The most populous country in Asia is China with a population of 1.4 billion according to the  US Census Bureau as of July 2021. China is also the most populous country in the world.2. More than 2,300 languages ​​are spoken throughout the Asian continent. The most common of these is Mandarin Chinese, spoken by a whopping 51% of the entire population of Asia.  

The Asian elephant is smaller than African elephants, they have smaller ears and one more claw on each foot.

India is the largest mango-producing country in the world with more than 20 million tons of mangoes produced each year. 

Of the top 10 rice-producing countries in the world, nine are in Asia i.e  China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Japan.

The 100 highest mountains in the world are all on the Asian continent, with the highest being Mount Everest in the Himalayas of Nepal. Mount Everest, Nepal. Asia is home to the tallest mountains in the world.

 The most important religion in Asia is Islam with about 1.2 billion followers. In second place is Hinduism with about 900 million followers.

8 Out of the  10 most populous cities in the world, seven are in Asia according to the 2021 World Population Revision. 

The word “Asia” is believed to be derived from the ancient Greek word “Aσία”. While the exact etymology is unknown, many believe the word means “sunrise” or “eastern light. 

 Wild tigers used to live throughout the Asian continent, but today they can only be found in  13 countries on the continent: India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Russia, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.   The Sumatran tiger is found in the jungles of Indonesia. 

The three countries with the highest life expectancy in the world are in Asia i.e Hong Kong, Japan and Macau.

 The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.


 The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros. 

  The oldest living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who turned 192 years old in 2024. He was born in 1832 and has lived on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean since1882.   

Astronaut is a compound word derived from the two Ancient Greek words “Astro,” meaning “star,” and “naut” meaning “sailor.” So astronaut literally means “star sailor.”

A cluster of bananas is called a “hand.” Along that theme, a single banana is called a “finger.”

The Hobbit has been published in two editions. In the first edition, Gollum willingly bet on his ring in the riddle game.

For nearly 60 years, Texas didn’t have an official state flag between 1879 & 1933. During that time, the Lone Star flag was active, but the unofficial flag.

A wildlife technician, Richard Thomas, took the famous tongue-twister “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood” and calculated a rough estimate of what the answer would actually be. It came out to be around 700 pounds.

Red Solo cups are a common souvenir to bring back from the United States. The novelty comes from the cups being used in many party scenes in movies.

Swedish meatballs originated from a recipe King Charles XII brought back from Turkey in the early 1800s.

Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.

   There are times when Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune – one of these timelines was from 1979 to 1999.

  There is a town in Nebraska called Monowi with a population of one. The only resident is a woman who is the Mayor, Bartender, and Librarian.

  The Ethiopian calendar is 7.5 years behind the Gregorian calendar due to the fact that it has 13 months.

  In 1994, the company that had a patent on GIFs tried to charge a fee for using GIFS. The PNG was invented as an alternative, and the company backed down.

   During WWII, a U.S. naval destroyer won a battle against a Japanese submarine by throwing potatoes at them. The Japanese thought they were grenades.

   The Marshal Mathers foundation for at-risk and disadvantaged youth was founded by Eminem.

   A man with severe OCD and a phobia of germs attempted to commit suicide with a gun to his head. Instead of killing him, the bullet eliminated his mental illness without any other damage.

  Since 1955, 50% of the population of Niger is consistently under 16 years old. The total current population is 21,600,000.

   More tornadoes occur in the United Kingdom per square mile than in any other country in the world.

   Owners of personalized license plates in Uganda are facing a tax increase of over 300%, which will raise the tax from $1,498 to $5,992.

   Popularized by Shakespeare’s play, many people think Julius Caesar’s last words were, “And you, Brutus?” In reality, he said, “You too, my child?”

   Times Square was originally called Longacre Square until it was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly built Times Building.

Daniel Craig was an anonymous Storm Trooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Originally, he denied his cameo and claimed he wouldn’t bother being an extra in a movie.

Queen Elizabeth II had a personal net worth of 425 million dollars. That includes the $65 million Sandringham House and $140 million Balmoral Castle.

Although there is currently no drug proven to make someone tell the truth, some countries like Russia, Canada, and India use truth serums

The deepest river in the world is the Congo River. The Congo River has an average depth of 750 feet (229 metres) and a maximum depth of 220 feet (67 metres).

The length of a river depends on how you define the river. For example, if you include all tributaries, the Amazon River is the longest in the world. However, if you only consider the main stem, the Nile River is the longest in the world.