10823. Fact

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world

10824. Fact

Over 100 million birds die annually by crashing into glass windows in the United States

10825. Fact

The Montreal Canadians hockey team has won the most Stanley Cups with 24

10826. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Afghanistan : ya

10827. Fact

There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.

10828. Fact

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so that the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its' forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

10829. Fact

The first penny candy to be wrapped in America was the Tootsie Roll in 1896

10830. Fact

Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye

10831. Fact

The first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 was Janet Guthrie in 1977.

10832. Fact

The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.

10833. Body Facts

Prickly heat rash is caused by sweat sticking to the layer of dead skin cells on top of your skin. As the cells can't fall off, the sweat can't escape and makes the live cells underneath swell up.

10834. Body Facts

Most people have mites – very tiny creatures related to spiders – living in their eyelashes, eyebrows, ears and noses.

10835. Body Facts

For a work entitled Self, created in 1991, English sculptor Marc Quinn made a copy of his head, moulded from his own deep-frozen blood. Quinn collected almost 4 litres (8 pints) of his blood over five months, poured it into a mould of his head and froze it.

10836. Body Facts

When a wound gets infected, it oozes yellow pus. Pus is a mixture of dead blood cells, bacteria and other dead cells from your body.

10837. Body Facts

In some parts of Africa and on some Pacific islands, people make patterns of raised scars on their skin as a decoration or to show their bravery. The wounds are made with sharp spikes or thorns from plants and often rubbed with special kinds of earth or leaves to created coloured tattoos.

10838. Body Facts

Pilgrims to the Tirupati temple in India give some of their hair as a sacrifice.The temple employs 600 barbers who work day and night to shave pilgrims, taking 6.5 million gifts of hair a year.The hair is sold to wig-makers and for use as fertilizer.

10839. Body Facts

About 70 millilitres (around 2.5 fluid ounces) of blood are spurted out of your heart with each beat.

10840. Body Facts

The wucheria worm can live in the lymph system and grow up to 12 centimetres (5 inches) long.

10841. Body Facts

In some countries, the umbilical cord – the cord that attaches the unborn baby to its mother – is dried and kept after birth, to use in spells or medicines.

10842. Body Facts

About a third of your faeces is not old food, but bacteria that help you to digest food, and bits of the lining of the inside of your gut.

Bharat Ratna
Bharat Ratna : rajiv gandhi
posthumous, former prime minister
Year : 1991
Region : new delhi.      .. More >>