Monday, June 01, 2015

Interesting Facts..!!


You can save up to 8 gallons of water a day by turning off the tap while you brush your teeth.

In Japan, there's a train that floats above the tracks by magnetism, reaching 500 km/h (311 mph).

The tallest mountain in the solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars at 14 miles - nearly three times taller than Mount Everest.

If we could capture just 0.1% of the ocean's kinetic energy caused by tides, we could satisfy the current global energy demand 5 times over.

Human lungs have a total surface area of 750 square feet, about the same as one side of a tennis court.

The country of Indonesia consists of approximately 17,500 islands.

6 million lives were saved by Bill Gates with vaccines and better healthcare.

NASA has discovered a “water-world” planet 40 light-years away that may contain exotic materials such as “hot ice” and “super-fluid water.”

The Bailey Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains.

In the past 30 years, the price of soda went down 33%, while the price of fruit went up 40%.

Potato chips were invented by chef when a customer complained that his French fries were too thick.

An Egyptian city was discovered underwater in 2013 after being lost for 1,200 years in the Mediterranean Sea.

In China, every citizen older than 11 years old has to plant three to five trees per year.

South Sudan is the newest country on Earth.

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