Opportunities Today : August 2005 Issue

Amazing Facts & Figures

 

The tongue of the crocodile cannot stick

Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous are the four words which end with dous.

The only fish that can blink with both eyes is a shark

The Niagara falls froze solid as it was so cold in winter of 1932

Tigers don't have striped fur but striped skin

For each gallon of diesel it burns the cruise liner QE2 moves only six inches

Kneecaps of a body are formed only when they reach the age between 2 to 6 years

Compared to men, women blink nearly twice

The English word that ends in mt is Dreamt

Its not possible to keep your eyes open and sneeze.

An average American spends 6 months in his whole life at red lights

The scissors was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci

When we are born our nose and ears keeps growing but the size of our eyes remains the same.

The longest word typed with the left hand is stewardesses and with the right is lollipop

If rubber bands are refrigerated they last longer

56% of the average typing work is done with the left hand

In every two weeks if the stomach does not produce a new layer of mucus it will digest itself

The words read left to right or right to left in the words racecar kayak and level are the same.

When a chocolate bar melted in the pocket after a researcher walked by a radar tube, he invented the microwave.

The brain of the Ostrich is smaller than its eyes

Vocal sounds of a dog are 10 and that of a cat are over one hundred

In each ear of the cat there are 32 muscles

Life span of a dragonfly is 24 hours

A snail can sleep for three years

Memory span of a goldfish is for three seconds

Answers of the questions from Competitive Exam

1) a; 2) c; 3) d; 4) b; 5) b; 6) a; 7) c; 8) b; 9) d; 10) d; 11) a; 12) d; 13) a; 14) b; 15) a; 

16)
d; 17) b; 18) c; 19) d; 20) b; 21) c; 22) b; 23) a; 24) d; 25) b; 26) a; 27) d; 28) a; 29) b; 30) c; 

31)
a; 32) d; 33) c; 34) d; 35) c; 36) a; 37) d; 38) b; 39) d; 40) c; 41) c; 42) d; 43) b; 44) a; 45) c; 

46)
c; 47) d; 48) c; 49) c; 50) a.


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