The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
According to the Guinness Book of World Records (2008), Leonid Sadnyk is the current tallest man alive in the world. At 8 feet 5.5 inches, this Ukrainian has been growing excessively since he was 12 years old. The growth was determined to be an effect from brain surgery.
Stadnyk replaces the previous holder, Bao Xishun from China. Word of advice, don’t mess with a guy pushing 8 feet tall weighing roughly 440 lbs
Fact or Fiction? Claims have been made by a small mining firm in South Africa that the largest diamond ever has been found. At an estimated 7,000 carats, it would double the size of the previous “largest diamond ever”. Although, the recently found diamond has yet to be officially declared as existing and is a topic of skepticism among diamond experts. It would be more than twice as large as the 3,106 carat Great Star of Africa found in 1905. Time will only tell the validity of this new find.
Did U Know?
Domestic Cats Pilgrims were the first to introduce cats to North America.
Sweat from the pads of their paws. Maine Coon cat is America's only "natural" breed of domestic feline.
Cats have 244 bones in their bodies. Domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
32 muscles in each ear. Heaviest recorded cat was called Himmy and weighed 21.3kg.
Cats are believed to see colors. Must have fat in their diet, because they can't produce it on their own.
Meow is only reserved for humans. Cat pregnancy is about 58-65 days;
100 different vocalization sounds. There are 100 breeds of Cats.
Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion. A purring cat doesn't always mean its happy. Cats also purr if they're in pain.
Cats prefer even numbers to play. A cat can jump 5 times as high as they are tall.
Reptile Chinese Salamander can live up to 50 years old
Reptiles are cold-blooded. 25 species of crocodilians
Most reptiles are carnivores. Dinosaurs were not Reptiles.
130 species of amphibians. The king cobra is the longest venomous snake in the world.
Fish Most of the 50 species or Piranha in South American eat seeds & fruit that fall into the water.
Florida produces and supplies 95 percent of the tropical fish sold in North America. Fish aquariums lower blood pressure in both hypertensive and normal people.
Arowana babies live in their fathers' mouth until they are big enough to be on their own. Well cared for Goldfish can live to be as much as 70 years old.
Climbing Perch can walk on dry land and even climb trees. Discus feed their babies on mucus they excrete from their bodies
Fish age is determined by the growth rings in the ear. First fish keepers were Sumerians, more than 4,500 years ago.
Aquarium fish are the most popular pet in
America. 12 million households owning more than 158,600,000 fish. Students who own fish score the highest on Math and verbal SAT, than non-pet owners.
Fish rest by blanking their minds. There are more than 20,000 species of fish discovered and probably that many not yet discovered.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. Goldfish are the most popular aquarium fish.
Birds There are nearly 900 species today
Kiwi's mate for life, some have been together for 30 years. More than a one thousand species extinct have been identified
Owls can't be heard when they fly. The Kiwi is the smallest member of the family of birds called Ratities.
There are over 9,200 species of birds known. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards
The galah, or rose-breasted, cockatoo is one of the most plentiful in aviculture, The Green-winged Teal is the only species of duck known to scratch in flight.
Cows Cows were domesticated about 5,000 years ago
Cows can see color Cows can detect odors up to 5 miles away
Cows spends 6 hours eating and 8 hours chewing cud each day. Cows can hear lower and higher frequencies better than humans
Pilgrims first brought cows to America. Cows can hear a low noise up to 2 miles away.
A cow has four stomachs. 1611 Cows arrive to America brought by pilgrims but there were 1624 Cows that reach Jamestown.
Horse "Old Billy" an English barge horse, who lived to be 62 years old
There are over 350 different breeds of horses and ponies. A horse's height is measured in hands. One hand =4"
Average life span for a horse is around 20-25 years "OLDEST" pony reliably recorded was named Teddy E. Bear, and lived to be 55 and still going.
longest mane was 18 ft long Horses can communicate how they are feeling by their facial expressions. They use their ears, nostrils, and eyes to show their moods.
Most foals are born at night The Mare decides when & where the herd will go.
Horses cannot vomit Horses were the last primary animal to be domesticated.
Horses cannot breathe through their mouths China has the most horses...over 10,000,000!!!
Antarctic Inhabitants Fish and animals living there live by having a low Hemoglobin.
Animals & Fish there have White Blood. Organs normally Red are White there.
Elephants One year an elephant can drink 15,000 gallons of water.
Elephants have only FOUR teeth Male elephants usually weigh about 16,500 lbs and are about 20 feet long.
They can lose and replace teeth 6 times. Most elephant communication is infrasonic. We can't hear it.
Elephants can live up to 70 years. Tummy growling can be heard 600 feet away.
Gestation 22 months; birth weight about 265 pounds. Suckles for 3-4 years. Elephants can heard each other 5 miles away.
Dogs basenji ( African wolf dog) is the only dog that cannot bark.
Pregnancy is 60 Days. Most modern dog breeds were developed about 100 years ago
Laika was 1st dog in space, Russia 1957 Dogs were first domesticated about 20,000 years ago
Dogs can see color. Dogs are members of the order Carnivora family.
The only dog in the world that cannot bark is the Basenji, an African wolf dog. Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.
The Dalmatian is the only dog that gets gout. Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
.World's oldest dog was 29years, 5 months. Largest dog recorded, Zorba a 343 lb , 8 feet 3 inches long Old English Mastiff
Dogs are responsible for most drug busts. A dog's smell is estimated at 1 million times better than humans.
Heartbeat is 70-120 times per minute. Eight million pets lose their lives in animal shelters each year.
About one family in three owns a dog. Normal body temperature for a dog is 101.2 degrees F.
Average dog has 42 permanent teeth. A Dachshund has 125,000,000, a Fox Terrier 147,000,000 and an Alsation has 220,000,000. Humans have 5,000,000.
Female dogs are more likely to bite. Longest jump was by a Greyhound, 30 feet in 1849.
50,000 year old cave painting in Europe seems to show a doglike animal hunting with men. When Pompeii destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, was finally excavated, searchers found evidence of a dog lying across a child.
Dachshunds were bred to fight badgers in their dens Chihuahua is the oldest breed of dog native to North America.
USA's first dog show Detroit, MI. 1857 World's first dog show took place in Great Britain in 1859.
Wolves Wolves use body language and facial expressions to communicate.
Wolves live in a family pack. A subordinate wolf will cringe towards the leader with tail low and bent legs, ears back and down, in a submissive nature.
Wolves travel and hunt in a group. Wolves communicate and mark their territories by scent.
Within each pack is an elaborate hierarchy. Pups are fed by the adults who disgorge fresh meat from their stomachs, or carry back fresh pieces of meat to the den.
The parent wolves are the leaders of the pack. Alpha male and Alpha female. Wolves were completely wiped out in England by the early 1500s..
Wolves are also very territorial animals. Scotland killed its last wolf in the mid-1700s
At first wolves were hunted for their thick winter fur. By 1900, there were not many wolves left in the western United States.
Today the wolf is classified as an endangered species The wolf is the largest in the wild canine family
The gestation period for the wolf is 63 days Two species of the wolf in North America, the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus ) and the Red Wolf (Canis rufus )
North America there are 10 recognized sub-species of the wolf A wolf can achieve estimated speeds of between 28 and 40 miles per hour for up to 20 minutes
2 types of hair, "Guards and "Undercoat" Canine teeth "interlock" so the wolf can grip and hang on to struggling prey
Wolves breed only once a year; most dogs breed twice . Wolves howl to greet one another
A wolf can consume almost twenty pounds of prey at a feeding All members of a wolf pack take part in caring for the young .
24 subspecies of wolves are recognized in North America. Wolves have no natural predators, except for humans.
In the United States there has never been a documented case where a healthy wild wolf attacked a human, in fact it is very rare when a wolf even comes near a human. Wolves are normally afraid of people, and try to avoid them when ever possible
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At full speed wolves can run at close to 30 mph. In captivity wolves can live to be about 16 years of age, in the wild most don't make it to be 8 years old.
Save the Wolf Petition Click Here The Ethiopian wolf is one of the rarest and most endangered
Whales There are up to 10,000 gallons of water, equal to 256,000 glasses of water, in each feeding mouthful of an adult blue whale.
whales and dolphins do not mate for life. The northern right whale is one of the most endangered of cetaceans, numbering just over an estimated 300 animals
A blue whale calf can swim 22 mph Over 50% of Northern right whales and New England humpback whales have scars from prior fishing gear entanglements
Fin whales are one of the fastest whales, and can hit top speeds of over 35 miles per hour A blue whale calf drinks about 130 gallons of milk per day, and gains up to 200 pounds per day
Humpback whales have the longest migration of any known mammal new species of beaked whale has recently been discovered.
Southern right whales have been seen to raise their flukes in the wind and use them as sails. A 160 ton blue whale is equal in weight to 30 bull elephants, or 1830 adult humans weighing 175 pounds each
Rabbit There are twelve species of rabbits in the United States with the eastern cottontail being the most widely distributed.
A group of rabbits is called a herd. Gestation is about 28 days
A group of rabbits lives in a warren Young trees and saplings are most vulnerable to damage by rabbits
The gestation period of a rabbit is about 31 days A Rabbit's teeth grow during their entire life
There is only one breed of domestic rabbit that changes color. It is the Champagne D'Argent. They are born black and change to a dull silver The maximum speed of a domestic rabbit is about 35 mph
There are over 55 different breeds of rabbits
Llama Llamas are members of the camel (camelid) family
Originated in Central Plains in North America about 10 million years ago. Domesticated from the guanacos of the Andean highlands of Peru 5,000 to 6,000 years ago
Closest cousin is the camel. Weight: 200 to 450 pounds
One of the world's oldest domesticated animal. Average Pregnancy 350 days or 11.5 months.
Estimated 7 million llamas & alpacas in South American today. Usually gives birth during daylight hours.
Estimated 65,000 Llamas in the USA now. Cria (baby Llama) usually stands and nurses within 90 minutes.
Life span: about 15 to 29 years Can carry about 25% of body weight packing. (about 80 lbs)
Llamas have a 3 compartment stomach. Llamas are extremely sociable and need another Llama.
Llamas communicate by humming and body gestures. Llamas usually only spit at other Llamas to establish order.
Average height 5' to 5' 6" ( top of the head) Piercing alarm scream call to signal danger
Sheep People started raising sheep over ten thousand years ago
1 lb of wool can make 10 miles of yarn. Spinning wool into thread began about 5,000 years ago
Sheep prefer running water. Sheep grow two teeth a year until they have eight
Ewes typically give birth to twins. Less than 70,000 Big Horn sheep in the wild today.
Sheep originated from Mouflon. There are 2 groups of sheep. Hair Sheep & Merino Varieties.
80% of Australia's sheep flock is Merino There are more than 300 breeds of sheep.
Domesticated around 9000 BC wild sheep Rarest Sheep Breed Dwarf Blue Sheep. China.
Britain's rarest sheep Castlemilk Moorit
Frog There are about 6 to 14 species of tongueless, aquatic African frogs
Most frogs do in fact have teeth. Frogs can jump up to 20 times their length.
Toads, do not have any teeth. Largest enemy is pollution.
Frogs are one of the 1st signs that the ecosystem is off. Goliath frog of West Africa is the largest frog and can weigh almost as much as a housecat.
Snake Snakes have been found from below sea level to 10,000 +/- feet above sea level.
Some snakes have lived 30+ years in captivity. Approximately 5500 different species of snakes are known.
Snakes can travel 3 - 5 miles an hour. When a snake is growing, it sheds its skin as often as every 4 or 5 weeks.
Female snakes are larger than male snakes. Snakes are nearsighted.
Snakes do not have eyelids. Sea snakes have no gills and must rise to the surface for air.
20 % of the total number of the snake species are poisonous. Snakes have a strong sense of smell.
Fastest snake is 8 mph. Snakes are deaf to airborne sounds.
Turtle Loggerhead sea turtles are non-vocal.
250 species of turtles. The Galapagos tortoise is the largest living species, weighing in some cases, over 570 pounds.
Sea turtles nest on sandy beaches. The carapace or upper shell of the tortoise or turtle is composed of about 50 bones.
The snapping turtle (Macroclemys sp.) has a worm-like, fleshy structure on its tongue, which it wiggles to attract fish. Some species have hinges on either the carapace or the plastron, which allow closure of the shell.
Over 85% of the earth has fewer than 10 species and 44% has none. Turtles cannot protrude their tongues from their mouths.
Snappers can live up to 60 years. The highest diversity of turtles is in the South Eastern United States and in South East Asia.
Ferret Ancient Egyptians over 3000 years ago and were brought to Britain almost 2000 years ago by the Romans.
Ferret males are called Hobs. First Ferrets brought to England 2,000 years ago.
Ferrets are members of the Mustelidae family. Ferrets can catch our colds and flu from humans.
Ferret Females are called Jills. Ancient Egyptians first kept Ferrets 3,000 years ago
Baby Ferrets are called Kitts. Cousins to the Ferret are weasels, stoats, polecats, martens, mink, badgers and a few more.
Ferrets eyesight is not good. 16 hours of sunlight makes Ferrets go into heat.
life span: 5-8 years Ferrets should be played with every day.
Reptiles A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
Smallest, Tallest, Biggest
The size of anything depends on your point of view!
The biggest land animal is African Elephant. It can weigh over 5 tones.
By the side of an elephant, a man looks and feels very small. Yet some animals are so small that a human eye cannot see them. Even among mammals, there are shrews and mice that size less than a human finger and are much smaller than the elephant’s smallest toe. A human being is an enormous creature next to a pygmy shrew, but the largest person in the world is small beside an elephant or a giraffe, which is the tallest mammal, about 6 M (20 ft)
The blue whale is also a mammal, though it lives in the sea. - A land animal as big as a blue whale would be impossible: its bones would not bear its body weight. – If you put an elephant next to a blue whale, it does not look large any more! Yes, the size of anything depends on our point of view
Sleep & You
We need six sleep hours to relax and rejuvenate our brains each night, with an additional one to three hours to repair and restore the body’s cells, say sleep experts. Women need an average of 54 minutes more sleep than men each night, and those who get enough sleep will feel healthier and live longer than men. On average, men make at least 12 full body twists and turns once asleep. They move or twitch more than 70 times a night!
Fact The Species
The Fastest
Fastest animal on Land Cheetah . Reaching speeds of 70 MPH (not long though)
Fastest Land animal long distance Pronghorn or American Antelope at 35 mph for 4 hours or 55 mph at 1/2 hour.
Fastest Bird Hunting Peregrine Falcon dives at speeds over 200 MPH
Fastest Bird Flying Racing Pigeon at about 100 MPH
Fastest Swimming Pinniped California Sea Lion at 25 MPH
Fastest Sea Star Sun Star, Pycnopodia helianthoides 75 cm per minute (0.027 miles per hour)
Fastest Dog Greyhound at 45 MPH
Fastest Fish Cosmopolitan Sailfish at 68 mph
Fastest Bird Non Flight Ostrich can reach speeds of 43 mph
Fastest Insect Runner Cockroach at 3MPH
Fastest Insect: Dragonfly can move at 36 mph
Fastest Mouth (sea) Frogfish. 6 milliseconds to open, swallow and close.
Fastest Swimming Bird Gentoo Penguin can swim underwater up to 22 Mph
Fastest Dolphin Dall's porpoise at 56 MPH
Fastest Whale Killer Whale, Orcinus orca at 56 MPH
Fastest Reptile Spiny-Tailed Iguana at about 21 MPH
Fastest Growing Plant Bamboo can grow at a rate of 3 feet per day.
Fastest Growing Aquatic Plant Caulerpa taxifolia, also known as killer weed grows at 3 inches per day.
Fastest Caterpillar Mother-of-Pearl Moth at 15 inches per second
Fastest Dinosaur Dromiceiomimus. about 37 mph
Largest
Largest Sea Cucumber Members of the genus Stichopus have been measured up to 40 inches long and 8 inches in diameter.
Largest Living Organism Humongous Fungus. Estimated to cover over 2,200 acres and at least 2400 years old. (Oregon) Thanks to Michael Rogers for this fast fact.
Largest Living Organism (second) Grove of Aspen Trees in Utah. Named "Pando". 660 Tons, 200 acres
Largest Insect Egg Malaysian stick insect (Heteropteryx dilitata) at .05 inches.
Largest Invertebrate Architeuthis dux (Giant Squid) Up to 59 foot and over 1 ton (so far)
Largest Gastropod Syrinx aruanus. Australia. In 1979, a 40 pound animal was found with a shell that measured 30.4 inches in length and 39.75 inches in girth.
Largest Clam Giant Clam is 4ft. 6in. across
Largest Sea Urchin Sperosoma giganteum Test diameter of 38 cm (13 inches)
Largest Wave (Ocean) 524m high hit Lituya Bay on July 9, 1958 caused by a 8.3 Earthquake
Largest Octopus Pacific Giant Octopus with an average arm span of 8ft. 2in.
Largest Carnivore Sperm Whale.
Largest Carnivore (Ever) Giganotosaurus carolinii was 40 ft long, and weighed 8 tons. Looked like a T-Rex.
Largest Fish Plankton-Feeding Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) at 41 feet 6 inches long.
Largest Flying Bird Great Bustard which can weigh as much as 32 pounds and are 4 feet long.
Largest North American Animal Buffalo (Bison)
Largest Pigeon Giant Ruck. Up to 4 Lbs
Largest Creature (length) Artic Lion's Mane. (Jellyfish). Bell was 7 feet wide and tentacles over 120 feet long.
Largest Animal Blue Whale averages 110 feet long and a whopping 209 tons
Largest Pantherine Tiger
Largest Land mammal African Bush Elephant reaches 13 feet high and weights 8 tons.
Largest Frog African Goliath Frog is about 11 inches and about the size of a rabbit.
Largest Amphibian Chinese Giant Salamander grows about 6ft.in length weighs 132
Largest Bear Kodiak Bear and weighed 1600lbs.
Largest Snake Reticulated Python averages between 26-32 feet long
Largest Bug Stick Insect averages 15 inches long
Largest Reptile Saltwater Crocodile averages 16 feet long and 1,150 pounds
Largest Lizard Komodo Dragon at 9-10 feet long and up to 300 pounds
Largest Dolphin Killer whale (Orca) at 32 feet long and 21,000 pounds
Largest Shark Great White Shark reaches up to 21 feet and over 2 tons
Largest Shark on record Whale Shark. 59 feet long, captured in Thailand in 1919.
Largest Invertebrate Giant Squid reaches up to at least 60 feet long
Largest Rodent (ever) Phoberomys Pattersoni. Now extinct weighed over 1500 lb !!!.
Largest Rodent (current) Capybaras in South America weighs about 100 lbs.
Largest Sea Star Evasterias echinosomo 96 cm (37.79 inches) in diameter, weight 5 kg (11 pounds), collected in the North Pacific
Largest Turtle Leatherback Turtle
Largest Swan Trumpeter Swan. Wingspan up to 9 feet.
Largest Seaweed Macrocystis pyrifera, a brown algae called the giant kelp. The longest recorded length is 54 metres long! M. pyrifera is the type of kelp that makes up the majority of the giant kelp forests off the California coast.
Largest Sponge Xestospongia muta, the barrel sponge, found in tropical coastal waters. Some individuals in the Caribbean measure 6-8 feet tall, and 6-8 feet across.
Largest Jellyfish Lion's Mane Jellyfish. Their Bells can reach 8 feet across and their tentacles can be more than 200 feet long
Largest Mouth on Land Hippo. They can open their mouth 180 degrees.
Largest Mouth anywhere Bowhead Whale Average up to 60 feet long and 20 foot mouth.
Largest Bird Egg Ostrich
Largest Land Carnivore Polar Bear
Largest Raptor Andean Condor. With a big 11 foot wingspan.
Largest Wingspan (Bird) Wandering Albatross at 11 feet 11 inches
Largest Breed Hybrid Cat Savannah Cat.
Largest Rabbit (domesticated) Flemish Giant. 11-14 Lbs.
Largest Gastropod Tridacna derasa, found on coral reefs in the South Pacific. One was collected on the Great Barrier Reef in 1917 that measured 49 inches by 29 inches, and weighed 579.5 pounds. The shell of a close relative, Tridacna gigas, was found off Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan in 1956 measuring 45.25 inches in length and weighing 734 pounds
Largest Flower Amorphophallus titanum height of 6 feet or more and opens to a diameter of three to four feet.
Largest Tree (USA) Giant Sequoia in California's Sequoia National Park, 2000 to 2100 years old. Measures 275 feet tall and 30 feet across.
Largest Tree (world) Australian Eucalyptus at 435 ft tall
Largest Little Cat 19.
Largest Single Animal Cell African Ostrich egg.
Largest Spider Goliath Bird eater. As large as 11 inches in leg span
Largest Moth Atlas Moth. Wingspan of 12 inches.
Largest Invertebrate The Atlantic Giant Squid. Can weigh as much as 2 metric tons.
Largest Crustacean Giant spider crab Macrocheira kaempferi
Individuals can measure 12-14 inches across the body, with a claw span of 8-9 feet.
Largest Bat Species Giant Fox bat is the largest bat in the world with its wingspan reaching more than six feet.
Largest Bat Colony Bracken Cave in central Texas holds about 20 million individuals.
Largest Appetite Blue Whale. A blue whale eats up to 4 tons of krill everyday.
Largest Community Nest (bird) African Social Weavers. 100 chamber nest. Measured 27 ft long x 6 ft high
Largest Tree Nest (bird) Bald Eagle (Florida). 20 ft deep & 9.5 ft wide. Weighing almost 3 tons.
Largest Bird Nest (Ground) Dusky Scrubfowl. 36 ft wide and 16 ft high. Over 300 tons of forest floor litter
Largest Vine Great Vine at Hampton Court Palace, Greater London at 7 ft 1 in high and 114 ft long.
Largest Weed Giant Hogweed. 12 feet tall with leaves as much as 36 inches long.
Largest Tree Girth (ever) European Chestnut at 190 foot.
Largest Crocodilian Estuarine or Saltwater Crocodile Crocodylus porosus at 23 ft long and larger.
Largest Eye Atlantic Giant Squid at est. diameter of 20 inches.
Largest Insect Egg Malaysian Stick Insect at 0.5 which is about the size of a peanut.
Largest Dinosaur Egg Hypselosaurus priscus had eggs about 12 inches.
Largest Claws (Ever) Therizinosaurus cheloniformis at 36 inches.
Largest Prehistoric Fish Carcharodon megalodon is estimated at 45 foot
Largest Trilobite Fossil trilobite 445 million-year-old specimen measures over 27.5 in in length.
Largest Marine Reserve Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve, Australia. 25,096 square mile.
Largest Freshwater Fish Arapaima gigas (Catfish) in the Amazon River. Up to 15 feet and 440 lbs
Largest Carnivorous Plant Nepenthes, Vines grow as long as 10 meters.
Largest seaweed (world) Brown Algae called kelp. Macrocystis pyrifera called giant kelp. up to 54 meters long
Largest Coral Reef composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands, 161 miles and can seen from outer space.
Tallest
Tallest Horse Breed Shire called Samson. He stood 21.2 and a half hands ( 7 ft 2 inches)
Tallest Dog Irish Wolfhound can reach an average of 7 feet when standing.
Tallest & Biggest Bird Ostrich averages 9 feet tall and weighs 345 pounds
Largest Cow Breed Chianina. Bulls can reach 6 feet high.
Tallest Land Animal Giraffe averages 19 feet tall
Tallest Tree Nest (bird) Marbled Murrelet at up to 148 foot.
Tallest Mammal Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis). 19 feet tall but average 18 feet.
Tallest Dinosaur Sauroposeidon. About 60 Feet Tall.
Tallest & Biggest Bird Ostrich averages 9 feet tall and weighs 345 pounds
Tallest Tree Nest (bird) Marbled Murrelet at up to 148 foot.
Tallest Jumper (land animal) Pumas. 15 feet high. Or 5 times it's own height
Tallest Jumper (body size considered) Flea. They can jump 100 times their own height
Tallest Volcano (world) Hawaii's Mauna Loa, volcano is the world's largest mountain in cubic content with an estimated volume of 9,600 cubic miles and is 13,681 feet high.
Tallest Mountain (world) Mt Everest on the border of Nepal, Tibet, and China is the world's tallest mountain and highest elevation with a peak at 29,035 feet
Thickest
Thickest Ice Antarctica,
Coldest
Coldest Place on Earth Antarctica. During Night.
Coldest Temperatures Recorded Antarctica. -129 degrees F.
Smallest
Smallest Sea Cucumber Rhabdomolgus ruber, North Sea 10 mm (0.39 inches) in length
Smallest Wild Cat Breed Rusty-Spotted cat from Sri Lanka.
Smallest Rabbit (domestic) Netherland Dwarf at only 1 1/2 to 3 lbs.
Smallest Rodent Pygmy Jerboa at only a couple inches.
Smallest Bat Kitti’s hog-nosed bat Craseonycteridae thonglongyai has a wingspan of less than 6 inches.
Smallest Incubation Period (bird) Small Passerines. Only 11 Days
Smallest Crab Pea crabs in the family Pinnotheridae are about .25 inches across the shell
Shortest Marine Fish Schindleria praematurus, 12-19 mm in length, weight 2 mg
Smallest Turtle Speckled Cape Tortoise. Shell length of between six and 9.6.
Smallest Breed Horse Falebella of Argentina. The tallest one stands only 30inches at the shoulder.
Smallest Pony "Little Pumpkin." He stood 14 inches and weighed only 20 lbs!
Smallest Cow Breed Dexter.
Smallest Snake Blind Snake only reaches about 6 inches.
Smallest Wingspan Bee humming Bird only Two in a half inches
Smallest Mammal Bumble-Bee Bat
Smallest Sea Star Leptychaster propinquus 1.83 cm (0.72 inches) total diameter
Smallest Raptor Pygmy Falcons. Only 3 oz.
Smallest Bird Hummingbird is 2.5 inches long and only 0.06 oz
Smallest Dog Breed Chihuahua
Smallest Breed of Cat Singapura
Smallest Amphibian Cuban Frog only 3/8 long
Smallest Soaring Bird Swift
Smallest winged insect Tanzanian parasitic Wasp it has a wingspan of 0.2mm.
Smallest Sea Urchin Echinocyamus scaber Test diameter of 5.5 mm (0.21 inches)
Smallest Pinniped Baikal Seal. Adults are 4 feet 6 inches and 140 pounds
Smallest Fish Dwarfgoby. Mature females reach only 8-10mm
Smallest Crab Pea crabs in the family Pinnotheridae are about .25 inches across the shell
Smallest Egg Clutch Albatrosses. They only lay an egg every 2 years.
Smallest Egg West Indian Vervain Humming Bird. Only 0.39 in in length and 0.0132 oz
Smallest Reptile British Virgin Islands gecko is only 7/10 in long
Smallest Nest (bird) Cuban Bee and Vervain Hummingbirds. 0.78 in wide and 1.2 in deep.
Smallest Brained Dinosaurs Stegosaurus at about 2.5 oz
Longest
Longest Flying Bird Sooty Terns. They can go 3-10 years without landing.
Longest Fish Whale Shark averages 41 1/2 feet long.
Longest Worm Boot Lace Worm. More than 180 feet long. (1864)
Longest Pregnancy 38 Months. Alpine Salamander of Southern Europe.
Longest Incubation (egg) Australian Lyrebird takes 50 days.
Longest Flying (land bird) Common Swift. Can go up to 3 years without landing.
Longest Time Underwater (bird) Emperor Penguin can stay underwater for 18 minutes.
Longest wing span Wondering Albatross . Measuring 10ft. 6in. from wingtip to wingtip
Longest Hibernation Marmots can Hibernate for 9 months a year
Longest Migration (Bird) Artic Tern fly's over 25,000 miles to the southern ocean.
Longest Migration (Mammal) Gray Whale migrates about 12,500 miles per year.
Longest Migration (Insect) Desert Locust travels about 2,800 miles yearly.
Longest lived bird (captivity) Sulfur-Crested Cockatoo at over 80 years old.
Longest Living Animal Giant Tortoise lives up to 177 years
Longest Migration (Land animal) Caribou travels about 3,700 miles yearly. Thanks Ed Pottie for correction Link for Fact Here
Longest Migration (Butterfly) Monarch at about 2,000 miles.
Longest recorded tail feathers Japanese Phoenix. With proper care my grown to 15-20 feet Thanks Micheal Leishman
Longest Tail Feathers Crested Argus Pheasant at 5 feet 7 inches
Longest Snake Reticulated Python. Averages longer than 20 ft 6 in. Record 32 ft 9 1/2 in
Longest Fangs (Snake) Gaboon Viper. The snake was 6 ft long with 2 inch long fangs.
Longest Venomous Snake King Cobra. Averages 12-15 foot long. Record was 18 ft 9 inches.
Longest Tail Dinosaur Diplodocid Diplodocus at 43-45 ft long.
Heaviest Living Organism (world) Pando aka The Trembling Giant in Utah, an Aspen tree. Est at 6,000 tons
Heaviest
Heaviest Horse Breed Clydesdale
Heaviest Dog Breed Mastiff
Heaviest Snake Anaconda was weighed in at 27 feet, 9 inches long and a big 500 pounds
Heaviest Reptile Marine Leather Back Turtle weighing at 700kmg. (0.8 metric tons)
Heaviest Turkey The largest domesticated turkey weighed 81 Lbs.
Heaviest Bear Polar Bear at 2200 something pounds
Heaviest Cat (on record) 46 Lbs.
Heaviest Mollusc (and heaviest invertebrate) The giant squid (Architeuthis sp.)
The largest giant squid ever recorded (Architeuthis princeps) was captured in 1878. One of the tentacle measured 35 feet long. It is estimated that the animal weighed in the neighborhood of 4000 pounds.
Heaviest Fish (bony fish) Ocean Sunfish. Killed in 1908. 10 feet in length, 14 feet between dorsal and anal fins, 4,928 pounds. Struck by a boat.
Heaviest Bug Goliath Beetle. About 4.5 inches and 3.5 oz.
Heaviest Bird Of Prey Andean Condor at about 20-27 lbs.
Heaviest Crustacean American or North Atlantic Lobster at 44 lbs 6 oz.
Heaviest Living Organism (world) Pando aka The Trembling Giant in Utah, an Aspen tree. Est at 6,000 tons
Just Plain ODD
Best Sense Of Humor Shark
1st Poultry Domesticated Jungle Fowl. About 3200 BC
Hardest Shell (nuts) Macadamia Nuts
Fussiest Eater Koala eats only 6 of the 500 species of eucalyptus leaves.
Meanest
Meanest Animal (world) Honey Badger of South Africa
Meanest Freshwater Fish Piranha, black are the meanest.
Oldest
Oldest Pinniped (wild) Ringed Seal at 43 years old.
Oldest Pinniped (captive) Grey Seal. 41-42 years in Sweden 1901-1942
Oldest Horse recorded 62 years old named "Old Billy"
Oldest Living Wild Bird Britain's Royal Albatross, 62 and still going.
Oldest Living Snake Common Boa. Lived 40 years, 3 months,14 days names Popeye.
Rarest Cat Breed (wild) Malabar Large Spotted Civet only about 250 in Asia
Rarest Bird (world) Ivory-Billed woodpecker and Jerdon's Courser
Rarest Sea Turtle Kemp's Ridleys
Oldest Fish Species Chimaera. These fishes evolved 400 million years ago during the Devonian Period
Oldest Pinniped Ringed Seal at 43 years old.
Oldest Living Tree (NEW) Pine Tree in California named Methuselah.Over 4700 years old. Kept secret for it's protection.
Oldest Tree Giant Sequoia in California's Sequoia National Park, 2000 to 2100 years old. Measures 275 feet tall and 30 feet across.
Oldest Dog Breed Saluki. of Egypt dating back to 7000 - 6000 BC
Oldest Cat (on record) Tabby Cat. 34 years old.
Oldest Fish The Common Eel at 88 years.
Oldest Chelonian Madagascar radiated Tortoise lived to at least 188 years.
Oldest Living Organism (world) Pando aka The Trembling Giant in Utah, an Aspen tree. Est. 80,000 years old.
The Most
Most Ferocious Creature (water) Piranha.
Most Venomous Animal Sea Wasp
Most Dangerous Spider Sydney Funnel Web Spider
Most Venomous Spider Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria nigriventer) only 0.006mg will kill a mouse.
Most Complicated song Male Humpback Whale; Each song can last over 30 minutes
Most Snake Venom 1 bite 110 mg. Enough to kill 100 over people. Inland Taipan
Most Shocking Animal Electrical eel can release 650 volts.
Most Legs Millipede has 750
Most Feathers Whistling Swan has about 25,216
Best Hearing Animal Bat.
Most Plentiful Ocean Creature (bottom) Sea Pigs.
Most Taking Bird African Gray Parrot. Can learn over 800 words.
Most Dangerous (water) Sea Wasp or Marine Stinger. 10 tentacles means death.
Most Dangerous Animal Human with Hippo being second
Most Dangerous Anything Common Housefly
Most Dangerous Animal in Canada Moose
Most Dangerous Snakes (USA) Rattlesnakes - Eastern and Western Diamondbacks
Most Dangerous Snakes (Africa) Egyptian Cobras, Saw-Scaled Vipers, and Puff Adders
Most Dangerous Snakes (Asia) Cobra and the Russell's Viper
Most Deadly Snake Inland Taipan
Most Venomous Snake (World) Fierce Snake (Oxyuranus microlepidotus)
Most human deaths (snake) Saw-Scaled or Carpet Viper
Most Deadly Spiders (USA) Brown Recluse and Black Widow
Most Poison Frog Poison Arrow Frog. 2 micrograms of toxin will kill a human.
Most Poisonous Animal Golden Poison Frog
Most Venomous Animal Box Jellyfish.
Most Destructive (Insect) Desert Locust
Most Greediest animal Larva of the Polyphemus.
Most Plentiful Ocean Creature (bottom) Sea Pigs.
Most Massive Tree “General Sherman,” the Giant Sequoia at 275 ft tall and weighs 2000 tons.
Most Poisonous Fish Puffer Fish of the Red Sea and Indo-Pacific region. 0.1 gm can kill you.
Most Dangerous Parasite Malarial parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which are carried by Anopheles mosquitoes, have probably been responsible for half of all human deaths.
Strongest
Strongest Bird Bald Eagle. Can carry as much as 15 lbs in flight.
Strongest Web Spider Silk is stronger than any known fiber equal to it's size
Strongest Animal Rhinoceros Beetles. (Weight moved in relation to body weight.)
Strongest Land Animal (measured in absolute strength) is the elephant- which can lift more than a ton and drag a load of more than 20,000 pounds.” Compliments of Mindy Arbo.
The Deepest
Deepest Sea Cucumber Unidentified specimen taken from the Philippine trench in 1951 at 33,431 ft
Deepest Diving Bird Emperor Penguin can dive 1772 ft underwater.
Deepest Fish Abyssobrotula Galatheae found in Puerto Rican Trench at over 5 miles down.
Deepest Sea Star Eremicaster tenebrarius Collected in 7,630 meters (25,032 feet)
Deepest Place in Ocean Challenger Deep, Marianas Trench. 35,838 feet down (that's over 7 miles)
Deepest Dive (Turtle) Leatherback
Deepest Root wild Fig Tree at Echo Caves, South Africa at 393.7 feet deep.
Deepest Cave (World) "Lamprechtsofen-Vogelshacht" at 5,354 feet deep Salzburg, Austria
Deepest Cave (US) Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico at 1,632 feet and still going.
The Loudest
Loudest insect African Cicada at 107 decibels it is almost as loud as a road drill
Loudest Animal Blue Whale
Loudest Land Animal Howler Monkey
The Best
Best sense of smell (fish) Shark. Detect as little as 1 part blood in 100 million parts of waters.
Best Swimming (bird) Penguins
Best Sense of Hearing (bird) Barn Owl
Best Sense of Smell (bird) Kiwis
The Rarest
Rarest Canine Ethiopian Wolf
Rarest Amphibian Painted Frog, Lives in Israel
Rarest Dog Breed HOUNDS OF CRETE called the Cretan Hounds
Rarest Animal (sea) Baiji Dolphin. Only a few left.
Rarest Animal (Land) Amur Tiger. Only 60-70 Amur tigers left.
Rarest Bird of Prey Californian Condors. Only 61 remain in the wild. Now NONE LEFT IN WILD
Rarest Sheep (learn more) Dwarf Blue Sheep. Weighs 55-97 Lbs. China fewer than 200 left
Rarest Bat (learn more) Seychelles Sheath-Tailed Bat. Weighs .04 oz. Fewer than 50 left.
Rarest Rhinoceros (learn more) Javan Rhinoceros. Weighs 3200 - 4400 lb. Fewer than 60 left.
Rarest Ape Mountain Gorilla.
Rarest Penguin Jackass Penguin
Rarest Buffalo (learn more) Tamaraw. Weighs about 660 lbs. Between 30-200 left.
Rarest Rodent (learn more) Vancouver Island Marmot. Weighs 6.6 - 14.3 lb. Fewer than 100 left.
Rarest Wolf (learn more) Ethiopian Wolf. Weighs 30-42 lbs. Less that 447 left in 2003.
Rarest Rabbit (learn more) Hispid Hare. Only 110 left in 2001.
Rarest 2 nd Rabbit (learn more) Riverine Rabbit. Weighs 4.2 lbs. Fewer than 1000 in 1996.
Rarest Fox Imperiled Foxes. Santa Cruz Islands.
Rarest Bird Crested Ibis. Japan. Only 60 left
Rarest Bear Spectacled Bear. Again, a victim of South American rainforest deforestation.
America's most endangered mammal Black-Footed Ferret
Rarest Crane Red-crowned Crane. Only 8 left. China
Rarest Alligator Chinese Alligator
Rarest Lizard Komodo Dragon. 3,000 left and dropping.
Rarest Monkey Golden Lion Tamarin. Only 150 left. Couth American Rainforest victim.
Rarest Seal Hooded Seal. Almost gone from hunting.
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The Shortest
Shortest Life (Insect) Mayflies. Live as little as one hour.
The Slowest
Slowest Fish Sea Horse at .01 MPH
Slowest Bird Maturity Royal and Wandering Albatrosses take about 6-10 years to mature.
Slowest Flying Bird American Woodcock does about 5 MPH
Slowest Growing Tree White Cedar in Canada
The Highest
Highest Flying Bird Ruppell's Griffon Vulture at about 7 miles up
Highest Frequency Hearing (mammal) Bats. 120-250 kHz
Biggest
Fattest
Fattest Animal (% body fat) Blue Whale Baleanoptera Musculus.
Fattest on record (created) OB mouse developed in a lab to study obesity. 70% body fat.
Fattest record (non-created) A human. Jon in the USA had 80% body fat.
1) Longest English Word:
Praetertranssubstan tiationalistical ly has 37 letters.
2) Book Without Letter "e":
GADFY, written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a single word with 'e' in it
3) Word without Vowel:
Rhythm
Sky
Fry
Cry
4) Human Brain:
Organ of body which has no sensation when cut.
5) Crocodile:
Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating.
6) No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS:
They are
** **B* Bee *
** **C* Sea*
** **G** * Zee*
** ** I* Eye *
** ** Q* Queue*
** ** R* Are *
** ** S* Yes *
** **T* Tea* **
** ** U* You *
** ** Y* Why
Fascinating Animals, Birds, Trees:
1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
What are They :
1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say DADDY': LIPS
2) What goes up & never comes down: AGE
3) Patches over patches but no stitches: CABBAGE
4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you: FUTURE
5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves: ROAD
6) You can never wet it: SHADOW
7) What belongs to You, but used by your friends more often you do: YOUR NAME
In 24 Hours Average Human:
1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.
8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times
Did You Know…
That if shop mannequins were real women, they’d be too thin to menstruate?
There are 3 billion women who don’t look like super-models and only 8 who do.
Marilyn Monroe wore a size 14.
Models 20 years ago weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today they weigh 23% less than the average woman.
7% of 12 th grade males have used steroids in order to become more muscular.
If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
Male action figures (GI Joe, etc.) have greatly increased in muscular size since 1973; If GI Joe were human, he would have larger biceps than any bodybuilder in history.
The average woman weighs 144 lbs. and wears between a 12-14.
One out of 4 college aged women has an eating disorder.
In one U.S. National survey, women feared being fat more than dying.
A survey of formally fat people revealed they would rather be blind or lose a limb than be fat again.
Americans spend more than 40 billion dollars a year on dieting and diet-related products. That’s roughly equivalent to the amount the U.S. Federal Government spends on education each year.
46% of 9-11 year olds are sometimes or very often on diets.
50% of 10 th grade and 12 th grade boys want a more muscular upper body.
It is estimated that 40-50% of American women are trying to lose weight at any point in time.
Underweight males have body images just as negative as overweight women’s body images.
Body critiquing is as much a part of women’s daily routine as brushing their teeth. Why are we so fat-phobic? There is a strong societal taboo and prejudice toward fatness and fat people. Children are beaten up simply for being fat. Fat adults are perceived as lazy and out of control. Fat people are discriminated against in job selection and overlooked for promotions. So now the questions becomes, do we fear fat, or do we fear not being accepted by society?
Learning to ignore a cultural preference for thinness is a long, slow, perhaps lifelong process. To begin the process of change, you must make a choice: Live a life of frustration and disappointment because your body or some body part doesn’t fit the ideal set out by fashion magazines. Or, learn to accept your body as it is and move on.
Oxford is celebrated the world over as a prestigious centre of learning, but here are our top ten astounding facts that you never knew about our illustrious city.
The bell in the tower of Christ Church Cathedral is called the Old Tom which strikes a unique 101 times at 9.05pm every evening. Originally, this was the curfew time for students in the city and the bell rang to signal their return back to college - things have obviously changed but the tradition lives on.
The University of Cambridge was actually founded by Oxford students who were fleeing Oxford following riots that erupted in 1209 between students and townspeople. Violent confrontations between townspeople and students have erupted in Oxford at various times throughout history. On this occasion, trouble began following the murder of a local townswoman by students. Oxford University is the oldest English speaking university in the world, dating back to the end of the 12th century.
The St. Scholastica Day riot of February 10, 1355, is another notorious example of the 'Town and Gown' rivalry. The dispute took place in The Swindlestock Tavern (now the the Abbey Bank on Carfax) between townspeople and two students of Oxford University. Insults grew into armed conflict and local citizens attacked the University which left 63 scholars and many locals dead. The dispute was eventually settled in favour of the university. Every year on St Scholastica's Day from then on, the Mayor of Oxford had to pay a penny to the University for every life lost and attend a Mass for the souls of the dead scholars. The penance continued for 470 years, until the mayor refused to take part in 1825.
On Broad Street in the centre of Oxford, there is a cross built in to a cobbled patch of the main road outside Balliol College marking the location of the site where the protestant Oxford Martyrs (Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley (16 October, 1555), and later Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (21 March 1556)) were burnt at the stake for heresy. When the Catholic Mary I succeeded her brother, the Protestant Edward VI, as Queen of England in 1553, she went about returning England to the Catholic religion. During her reign, she had almost three hundred religious dissenters executed and as a consequence became known as Bloody Mary.
Oxford was once the capital of England during the English Civil War when Charles I held his court here from 1642, following his expulsion from London by the Parliamentarian forces lead by Oliver Cromwell. Oxford itself supported the Parliamentarian cause, but the University was a strong supporter of the king. From 1642 to 1646 King Charles stayed at Christ Church College.
In North Oxford, there are two roads about two miles apart, running parallel to eachother, that connect Woodstock Road and Banbury Road. Confusingly, the nothernmost road in Summertown is called South Parade and the southernmost road is called North Parade. This is because during the English Civil War when Oxford was being beseiged by Oliver Cromwell, North Parade represented the King's Northern Front, while South Parade was Cromwell's Southern Front.
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford was the first museum in the world to open its doors to the public when it officially opened in 1683. It's treasures include the lantern that Guy Fawkes had when he was arrested for his part in the Gunpowder Plot on 5th November 1605. It was given to Oxford University in 1641 by Robert Heywood, son of a Justice of the Peace who had been present at the arrest of Guy Fawkes when the Gunpowder Plot was foiled.
Sir Roger Bannister was the first person in history to break the sub four minute mile barrier at Oxford's Iffley Road sports ground in 1954. He was just 25 years old. He was competing for the British Amateur Athletic Association and completed the race in 3:59.4. Within a month, the Australian runner John Landy had broken Bannister's record, but Bannister had already made history as the first to break the unbreakable record.
Oxford has more published writers per square mile than anywhere else in the world. Best selling authors with links to Oxford include:
Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898 - author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems The Hunting of the Snark and Jabberwocky.
JRR Tolkein, 1892-1973 - author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
CS Lewis, 1898-1963 - author of The Chronicles of Narnia. CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien were close friends and both were Dons at Oxford University. They were also part of the Oxford literary group known as the 'Inklings' who could commonly be found discussing literature in the Eagle and Child and Lamb and Flag pubs on St Giles during their time in Oxford.
Colin Dexter, 1930-Present - introduced the world to the character of Inspector Morse in 1975. A hugely successful television series followed, produced between 1987 and 2001. Dexter himself makes a cameo appearance in almost all Morse episodes.
Philip Pullman, 1946-Present - author of the His Dark Materials trilogy.
Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford is also the home of the world famous OED. The First Edition began publication in 1884 and it currently provides authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words. The most common English nouns found in writing around the world are 'time', 'person' and 'year'.
10. Oxford University has educated 25 British Prime Ministers including:
Sir Robert Peel, (Tory), Christ Church, 1805-1809 - famous for landmark social reforms such as the Factory Act of 1844, which limited working hours for children and women in factories and the repeal of the Corn Laws.
Herbert H Asquith, (Liberal Coalition), Balliol, 1870-1874 - famous for taking Britain into World War One.
Clement Attlee, (Labour), University, 1901-1904 - famous for introducing the British National Health Service, nationalising one fifth of the British economy, and granting independence to India.
Anthony Eden, (Conservative), Christ Church, 1919-1922 - his term as Prime Minister was overshadowed by the Suez Crisis in 1956 and he resigned after little more than 18 months in office.
Margaret Thatcher, (Conservative), Somerville, 1943-1947 - famous for the privatisation of state-owned industries and utilities, reform of the trade unions, lowering taxes, reducing public expenditure and reducing inflation at the cost of a dramatic rise in unemployment. Her popularity increased after the victory in the Falklands War in 1982 but following the introduction of the poll tax and her opposition to closer integration with Europe, she resigned in 1990.
Tony Blair, (Labour) St John's, 1975 - famous for devolution in Wales and Scotland, peace in Northern Ireland, mixed success in attempts to reform public services and the war in Iraq.
These facts are all on average.
- You will live for 79 years
- Spend 2 ½ years on the telephone
- Have 2 children
- Dribble 145 litres of saliva before the age of one
- Crawl 150 km before you're 2
- By 10 years old your heart will beat 368 million beats
- By 21 breathed 3.5 million balloons of air and,
- Be able to distiguish 21 million colors
- Spend $17,022.50 (Canadian) on your wedding
- Only have a 60% chance of staying married to the same person for life.
- Work for eight years
- Talk for 12 years
- Eat for 3 ½ years
- Spend 2 weeks kissing
- Consume 7,300 eggs and, 160 kg of chocolate
- Walk 22,000 km
- Blink 415 million times
- Shed 19 kg of dead skin
- Grow 28 meters of fingernails, 950km of head hari, 2 meters of nasal hair
- Name 2,000 people
- Call 15000 friends
Nobel facts
The following are true facts and verified statistics:
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.
They received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature
1988 - Najib Mahfooz.
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yasser Arafat
Physics:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
The Global Jewish population is aproximately 14,000,000 or about 0.02% of the world population.
They received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 - William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 -! Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
Physics:
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1995 - Martin Perl
The Jews are not demonstrating with their dead on the streets, yelling and chanting and asking for revenge, the Jews are not promoting brain washing the children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims.
The Jews don't highjack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, the Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.
The Jews don't have the economical strength of the Petroleum, nor the possibilities to force the world's media to see "their side" of the question. Perhaps if the world's Muslims could invest more in normal education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems, we could all live in a better world.
THINK ABOUT IT
1. Saturn’s rings are made up of particles of ice, dust and rock. Some particles are as small as grains of sand while others are much larger than skyscrapers.
2. Jupiter is larger than 1,000 Earths.
3. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane-like storm system that was first detected in the early 1600’s.
4. Comet Hale-Bopp is putting out approximately 250 tons of gas and dust per second. This is about 50 times more than most comets produce.
5. The Sun looks 1600 times fainter from Pluto than it does from the Earth.
6. There is a supermassive black hole right in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy that is 4 million times the mass of the Sun.
7. Halley’s Comet appears about every 76 years.
8. The orbits of most asteroids lie partially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
9. Asteroids and comets are believed to be ancient remnants of the formation of our Solar System (More than 4 billion years ago!).
10. Comets are bodies of ice, rock and organic compounds that can be several miles in diameter.
11. The most dangerous asteroids, those capable of causing major regional or global disasters, usually impact the Earth only once every 100,000 years on average.
12. Some large asteroids even have their own moon.
13. Near-Earth asteriods have orbits that cross the Earth’s orbit. These could potentially impact the Earth.
14. There are over 20 million observable meteors per day.
15. Only one or two meteorites per day reach the surface of Earth.
16. The largest found meteorite was found in Hoba, Namibia. It weighed 60 tons.
17. The typical size of a meteor is about one cubic centimeter, which is equivalent to the size of a sugar cube.
18. Each day, Earth accumulate 10 to 100 tons of material.
19. There are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe.
20. The largest galaxies contain nearly 400 billion stars.
21. The risk of a falling meteorite striking a human occurs once every 9,300 years.
22. A piece of a neutron star the size of a pin point would way 1 million tons.
23. Europa, Jupiter’s moon, is completely covered in ice.
24. Light reflecting off the moon takes 1.2822 seconds to reach Earth.
25. There has only been one satellite destroyed by a meteor, it was the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.
26. The International Space Station orbits at 248 miles above the Earth.
27. The Earth orbits the Sun at 66,700mph.
28. Venus spins in the opposite direction compared to the Earth and most other planets. This means that the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East.
29. The Moon is moving away from the Earth at about 34cm per year.
30. The Sun, composed mostly of helium and hydrogen, has a surface temperature of 6000 degrees Celsius.
31. A manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.
32. The nearest known black hole is 1,600 light years (10 quadrillion miles/16 quadrillion kilometers) away.
