Facts of Nature & Space – 3 111. The lettuce contains phosphorous, lime, potash and vitamins A, B and C, besides iron. 112. The fig contains vitamin B, potash, sodium, lime, phosphorous and magnesium. It serves as a toxic and a laxative. 113. The banana is rich in protein, carbohydrates and vitamin B. 114. The vanilla flavour is obtained from the unripe fruit of a tall fragrant plant called vanilla plan...

Facts of Nature & Space – 2 101. The biggest flower in the world is the ‘raflesia’. Its diameter is about a meter and it weighs about 11 kgs. 102. The orange contains plenty of vitamin C, protein, fat and calcium. 103. The strawberry has more vitamin C than the orange. 104. A tree gets only 10 per cent of its nutrition from the soil. It gets the rest form the...

Facts of Nature & Space – 1 91. Almonds are members of the peach family. 92. A fresh egg will sink in water, but a stale egg won’t. 93. There is a hill in South Australia called Ayers Rock that changes its colour every day and in every season. 94. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water. 95. Fungi and bacteria usually...

Facts on Human Body and Life Part-9 81. The liver filters enough blood in a year to fill up 23 milk trucks. But if it ever stops working, a person will die within 8 to 24 hours. 82. No one knows why, but more men than women are colour blind. 83. There are 206 bones in the human body. 84. Our bones, gram by gram, are stronger than steel. 85. The...

Facts on Human Body and Life Part-8 71. We are the only animals that copulate face to face. 72. The average a person laughs is about 15 times a day. 73. Mumps is an infection that causes painful inflammation and swelling of the salivary glands. It is an infectious disease that may sometimes prove fatal to children. The disease is caused by a virus in the saliva of an infected person....

Facts on Human Body and Life Part-7 61. Intelligent people Indians of the Amazon Valley in South America speak without moving their lips. As a result, the sound comes out of their noses. 62. The bushmen of Africa still communicate without the use of any sounds while hunting- they make signs to indicate, for example, that cattle has been sighted. 63. The first successful blood transfusion took place in a hospital...

Facts on Human Body and Life Part-6 51. It is not known whether a baby can recognize its mother by the sense of smell. But experiments have shown that even in a din, a mother can somehow even in a din, a mother can somehow hear and decipher her own child’s cry. 52. Children to the bushmen tribe living in the Central parts of South Africa can follow the track of...

Facts on Human Body and Life Part-5 41. Humans are the only animals that cry. 42. On an average, a person has about 1,500 dreams in a year. 43. A good sneeze travels up to 160 km per hour. 44. A yawn may be telling you that your body needs more oxygen. 45. Your muscles produce enough heat to boil a litre of water for an hour. 46. Your nose acts...