Thursday, January 23, 2014

General Knowledge

1) The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour 
2) A comet’s tail always points away from the sun. 
3) The longest river in the World is the Trans-Canada 
4) A group of officers is called a mess. 
5) The highest mountain in the World is the Everest 
6) The first baseball caps were made of straw. 
7) Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound. 
8) The river Volga flows out into the Capsian sea 
9) Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rocket . 
10) Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow. 
11) Honeybees never sleep. 
12) Spiders have transparent blood. 
13) Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest 
14) Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes. 
15) The principal export of Jamaica is Sugar 
16) The national flower of Italy is Lily 
17) The earlier name of Sri Lanka was Ceylon 
18) The founder of modern Germany is Bismark 
19) New York is popularly known as the city of Skyscrapers 
20) Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue. 
21) Hippo milk is pink. 
22) Cats cannot taste sweet things. 
23) A giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man. 
24) Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water. 
25) It is possible to see a rainbow at night. 
26) The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7 feet tall. 
27) Europe is the only continent without a desert. 
28) Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand. 
29) A rat can fall from a five story building without injury 
30) Tug of war was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920 
31) Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined. 
32) Termites work 24 hours per day and they do not sleep. 
33) Black whales are born white. 
34) Apple seeds are poisonous. 
35) A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 
36) A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body. 
37) Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk. 
38) The octopus does not have a blind spot. 
39) 41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time 
40) The country known as the land of midnight sun is Norway
41) Bamboo can grow up to 3ft in 24 hours.
42) The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
43) The biggest island of the world is Greenland
44) The biggest stadium in the world is the Strahov Stadium
45) The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a Person`s life
46) Elephant teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
47) Golden Temple was founded in 1577
48) The Gurkhas are the original inhabitants of Nepal.
49) The World`s largest diamond producing country is south Africa
50) The largest library in the world is the United States Library of Congress Washington, DC
51) World literacy day is celebrated on 8th September
52) The length of the Suez Canal is162.5 kilometers
53) The World`s oldest known city is Damascus.
54) The country known as the Land of white Elephant is Thailand
55) The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 A.M
56) The bank of America was originally the bank of Italy.
57) The primary producer of newsprint in the world is Canada
58) The largest coffee growing country in the world is Brazil.
59) Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures
60) The country which is the largest producer of rubber in the world is Malaysia.
61) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
62) A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.
63) First cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older
64) Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
65) A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
66) Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
67) Rats can not vomit, that`s way rat poison works.
68) The city which is biggest centre for manufacture of automobiles in the world is Detroit in USA
69) The biggest desert in the world is the Sahara Desert
70) The country known as the Land of Morning Calm is Korea
71) The first Negro to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph Johnson Bunche
72) The first Industrial Revolution took place in England
73) The National flower of china is Narcissus
74) The capital city that stands on the river Danube is Belgrade
75) The country which is the largest producer of tin in the world is Malaysia
76) Tiger Shark fight each other in their Mother womb. The survivor is born
77) Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless
78) Some salamanders can grow up to five feet in length

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