Amazing facts

{1} India invented the number system. Zero was invented by aryabhatta.      </blockquote>

          

 {2} A  giraffi can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue!

{3} A rat can last longer with out water then a camel can.

{4}  Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

{5} A cat sees about sei times better than a human at night because of tapetum lucidum, a layer or extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

{6} Earth is approx 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons

[7] A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

{8} The word set has more meanings in the dictionary than any other in there.

{9} A butterfly's cocoon contains over 300 meters of silk.

 

{10} Parific ocean contains 46% of the world's water! The Atlantic has 23.9%; the indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7%.

{11} The only country whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A", is Afghanistan.

{12} The only continent which does not have land area below sea level is Antarctica.

{13} At 840,000 square miles, greenland is the largest island in the world. In comparison Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.

{14}The most populated country in the world, China, has only about 200 family names in all.

{15} Did you know that the surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles?

{16}In the last 70 days of his life, Vincent Van Gogh painted a picture a day.

{17} The first person to use the elevator was Louis XV! In 1743 his "flying chair" carried his between the floors of the Versailles palace!