If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
Indians have been biting into juicy mangoes for 3,000 years. But the western world came to know about it only 300 years ago!
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Google, with a brand value of $86 billion, is the world's most powerful brand.
The creosote bush, which grows in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts, has been shown by radiocarbon dating to have lived since the birth of Christ. Some of these plants may endure 10,000 years, scientists say. If only they could talk.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of painted plaster for three years. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for gold-plated metal ones.
The focusing muscles of the eye move about 100,000 times a day. To give the leg muscles the same exercise would involve walking 80km (50 miles) a day.
The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).
Polar bears have more problems with overheating than they do with cold. Even in very cold weather, they quickly overheat when they try to run
POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
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