Intresting facts

1.  On an average, human being breathes 22,000 times and takes in about 16 kilograms of air everyday.

2. Kenya's Masai Mara , one of the world's most famous wildlife Sanctuaries, was recently voted one of the seven wonders of the natural world. However, it is getting seriously therentened by human activities.

3. In 1910, an American scientist found that the outer layer of the rice kernel contains a substance called Thiamin. This is needed by the body to prevent a disease called Beri-Beri . This substance, also called Vitamin B1 , was the first vitamin to be discovered.

4. Only 20% of the world's ancient forests are left.

5. A forest, of the size of a football field, disappears every two seconds.

6.. A child is born, with more than 300 bones. As child grows , some of these bones get fused together.

7. The right lung is the slightly larger than the left .

8. Humans and Giraffes have the same number of bones in their neck, i.e. seven . Giraffe's neck vertebrae are however, much much longer!

9. The smallest bone is our body is the stirrup bone (stapes) in the ear which measures just 1/4 of the centimetre.

10. Human body have over 230 movable and semi-movable joints in our body.

11. The two eyes of a chameleon can move independently. Therefore, it can see in two different directions at the same time.

12. Human tongue has 9000 buds , a pig has 15000 of them while a rabbit has 17000 taste buds.

13. Insects , like house cricket can hear through their legs.