Interesting Facts on India

Interesting Facts on India

1. A floating post office
India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices. A single post office on an average serves a population of 7,175 people. The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011.

The Incredible Human Body

The Incredible Human Body

1. The human body is defined as the entire structure of a human being and comprises a head, neck, trunk (which includes the thorax and abdomen), arms and hands, legs and feet.

2. Every part of the body is composed of various types of cells, the fundamental unit of life. The study of the human body involves both anatomy and physiology.

3. Human anatomy is defined as the primarily scientific study of the morphology of the human body.

Interesting Facts About Fire

Interesting Facts About Fire

1. Ray Bradbury originally titled his book Fahrenheit 451 as “The Fireman”, but he and the editors found the name boring, so they called a local fire station and asked at what temperature book paper burnt at. The firemen put Bradbury on hold, burnt a book, and reported that the temp it burnt at was “Fahrenheit 451”

2. A natural gas vent in Iraq known as The Eternal Fire has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and it has been mentioned by Herodotus, Plutarch, and in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel

3. No one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was destroyed in a fire

20 Interesting Water Facts

20 Interesting Water Facts

1. At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.
2. A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.
3. Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.
4. Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.
5. While the daily recommended amount of water is eight cups per day, not all of this water must be consumed in the liquid form. Nearly every food or drink item provides some water to the body.
6. Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.

20 Amazing Science Facts

  20 Amazing Science Facts

1. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times 

2. At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth

 

3. The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years

 

4. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons

 

5. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs

 

6. Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide