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1. Norway mempunyai seorang sultan.
2. Manusia yang pertama mengelilingi bulan ialah Yuri Gagarin.
3. Lagu kebangsaan Negara Perancis ialah La Marssillaise.
4. Selat yang memisahkan Pulau Utara dan Selatan New Zealand ialah Selat Cook.
5. Negara yang menjuarai Bola Sepak Piala Dunia 1990 ialah Jerman Barat.
6. Pinocchio adalah hasil karya Carlo Collodi.
7. Pengembara Itali yang tiba di negara China bersama dengan bapa dan bapa saudaranya dan kemudian dilantik menjadi penasihat Maharaja Kublai Khan ialah Marco Polo.
8. Mesopotamia ialah nama lama bagi negara Iraq.
9. Sukan Olimpik mula diperkenalkan kepada dunia pada tahun 1896 dan yang pertama telah diadakan di Athens.
10. Pulau Sentosa ialah Pusat Pelancongan Terkenal di Singapura.
11. Negara yang merupakan pengeluar kayu jati yang terpenting di dunia ialah Myanmar.
12. Bandar yang terbesar dan termaju di dunia ialah New York.
13. Matawang Itali ialah Lira.
14. Khalifah Islam yang pertama ialah Saidina Abu Bakar As-Sidiq

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1. Bahtera padang pasir ialah unta.
2. Oasis ialah sebuah kawasan sesuai untuk pertanian di gurun dan tanaman yang cukup subur di situ ialah pokok kurma
3. Negara pengeluar koko yang terbesar di dunia ialah Brazil.
4. Bahasa Tagalog ialah bahasa rasmi Filipina yang pernah dijajah oleh Sepanyol dan Amerika Syarikat.
5. Pemimpin orang Hun yang berjaya menjatuhkan Empayar Rom ialah Atitila pada tahun 451.
6. Bank dunia Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu terletak di Washington D.C.
7. Burung Kiwi hanya terdapat di New Zealand.
8. Raja pertama yang menggubal undang-undang untuk kegunaan rakyatnya ialah Raja Hammurabi.
9. Perkataan geometri berasal daripada dua patah perkataan Yunani yang bermaksud 'tanah' dan 'matra' yang bermaksud ukur. Seperti yang dapat dilihat daripada asal-usul namanya, geometri pada asalnya adalah berkaitan dengan masalah harian seperti mengukur tanah.
10. Euclid ialah seorang ahli matematik Yunani yang menegaskan bahawa pembinaan geometri dapat dilakukan dengan menggunakan jangka lukis dan alat tepi lurus. Pendirian beliau tercatat dalam buku beliau yang terkenal iaitu 'Elements' pada tahun 300 s.m.
11. Penduduk Gurun Kalahari ialah Orang Bush.
12. Pertubuhan Perjanjian Asia Tenggara atau SEATO yang ditubuhkan pada 09 September 1945. Pakistan merupakan negara yang pernah menjadi anggota pertubuhan tersebut tetapi akhirnya menarik diri pada tahun 1972.
13. Benua Afrika lebih dikenali sebagai 'Benua Gelap'.
14. Volta Alessandries mencipta bateri pada tahun 1799.
15. Planet yang kelima terbesar dalam sistem matahari ialah Bumi.

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1. Negara Jepun terdiri daripada empat buah pulau yang utama iaitu yang terbesar iaitu Pulau Hokkaido.
2. Sukan SEA ke-16 berlangsung di Filipina dan yang ke-15(1989) ialah berlangsung di Kuala Lumpur.
3. Kai Tak ialah Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Hong Kong.
4. Terdapat 88 batang kunci pada piano piawai.
5. Orang Gurkha berasal dari Negara Nepal.
6. Menara Condong Pisa terletak di negara Itali.
7. Presiden Amerika Syarikat yang dibunuh oleh Lee Harvey Oswald ialah John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
8. Pengeluar Kuprum yang terbesar di dunia ialah Negara Chilie.
9. Kepulauan British terdiri daripada empat buah pulau yang utama iaitu England, Scotland, Wales, dan Ireland. Ibu negara Wales ialah Cardiff.
10. Kawasan Prairie di Kanada terkenal dengan tanaman gandum. 11. Di antara negara Belanda, Luxembourg, Belgium dan Sweden, negara yang tidak termasuk dalam negara Benelux ialah Sweden. 12. Puncak Gunung yang tertinggi di Perancis ialh Gunung Blanc.
13. Orang pertama rakyat Malaysia yang telah dilantik menjadi Pegawai Polis Berkuda Diraja Kanada yang pertama memakai serban ialah Baljet Dhillion.
14. Pahlawan Filipina yang teragung yang pernah mengetuai gerakan propaganda menentang Sepanyol. Beliau juga menubuhkan Liga Filipina di Hong Kong dan beliau kemudiannya ditangkap dan dibuang ke Dapitan.
15. Penjaga lembu di Pampas, Argentina ialah dikenali sebagai Gaucho.

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1. Perkataan cartesan berasal daripada nama seorang ahli matematik yang berbangsa Perancis, Rene Descartes (1596-1650). Pada suatu hari ketika beliau sedang sakit dan terbaring di atas katil, dan ternampak labah-labah pada silingnya. Akhirnya beliau bercadang untuk menggunakan dua garis nombor yang berserenjang untuk menentukan kedudukannya.
2. Perkataan lokus berasal daripada perkataan Latin, locus yang bermakna tempat atau kawasan.
3. Orang-orang Mesir pada zaman dahulu telah mengetahui bahawa nisbah lilitan sebarang bulatan kepada diameternya adalah satu pemalar. Pemalar itu dikenali sebagai pi(sebutan pai) dan diwakili oleh huruf greek =.
4. S.K.O.M.K.H.P.K.J.C.D.P.W.B ialah nama singkatan yang terpanjang di dunia iaitu, Syarikat Kerjasama Orang Melayu Kerajaan Hilir Perak Kerana Jimat Cermat Dan Pinjam Meminjam Wang Berhad.
5. Krungthep Mahanakon Bovorn Ratnakosin Mahintharayuttaya Mahadilkop Woparatratchathani Birirom Udomratchanivetmahasatan Amornpiman Aratarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit Adalah Nama Penuh bagi Bangkok.
6. Los Angles (L.A) ialah El Pueblo De Nuestra Senora La Reina De Los Angles De Porciuncula.
7. Pneumonoultramicroscopiksilicovolcanocomiosises pada amnya ialah sakit peparu tetapi ia juga merupakan perkataan yang terpanjang dalam bahasa Inggeris.
8. Haiwan yang paling pemalas di dunia ialah sloth.
9. Ibu Negara Brazil ialah Brasila bukannya Rio De Janeiro seperti yang selalu disebutkan.
10. Tuan Rumah Sukan Komanwel yang ke-16 ialah Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia.

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1. Bunyi yang dikeluarkan apabila anda mematahkan-matahkan sendi tangan, jari atau kaki adalah disebabkan oleh letupan buih di dalam sendi itu.
2. Planet Pluto mengambil masa 248 tahun utk mengelilingi matahari. Setiap 20 tahun ia mengubah orbitnya bagi mengelak dari berlanggar denga planet Neptune.
3. Di Albania, menggelengkan kepala bermaksud 'ya' dan menggangguk bermaksud tidak,
4. Kebanyakkan debu yang berterbangan di dalam rumah datangnya dari sel-sel kulit kita yang mati.
5. Perut akan menghasilkan satu lapisan mucus yang baru setiap 2 minggu untuk melancarkan proses penghadaman.
6. kandungan emas di laut adalah 200 kali ganda lebih banyak berbanding di daratan
7. Jika semua salur darah dalam tubuh manusia dicantumkan ia boleh meliputi jalan raya sepanjang 96,000 Km 10. Jika usus kecil manusia dibelah dan dicantum-cantumkan,ia boleh memenuhi kawasan seluas 9.2 meter persegi.
8. Manusia bernafas kira-kira 23,000 kali dalam tempoh 24 jam.
9. Orang lelaki mudah mendapat buta warna,10 kali ganda berbanding wanita.
10. Setiap langkah ke hadapan, anda terpaksa menggerakkan 54 otot dalam tubuh badan
11. Matahari memiliki tenaga yang cukup utk menerangi bumi bagi tempoh lebih daripada 5 juta tahun lagi.
12. Tekanan jantung manusia semasa mengepam darah adalah cukup kuat sehinggakan setiap pancutan boleh memancutkan darah sejauh 9 meter.
13. Purata setiap manusia manusia memiliki 100,000 helai rambut dan tumbuh lebih cepat pada waktu malam.Sementara itu, hidung pula dikatakan dapat mengenal pasti 10,000 jenis bau yang berbeza-beza.
14. Setiap hari darah beredar sejauh 180,000 Km dalam tubuh manusia.
15. Ikan emas adalah satu-satunya haiwan yang dapat melihat cahaya inframerah dan ultraungu 16. Setiap 1 cm persegi kulit manusia, didapati mengandungi 7 meter pembuluh darah
17. Terdapat banyak spesies labah-labah yang sanggup mengorbankan tangan dan kaki utk dimakan anak-anaknya yang baru menetas. Langkah ini adalah utk mengelakkan anak-anaknya itu daripada memakan sesama sendiri.

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1. Apabila seseorang bercakap, secara purata 300 titisan air liur akan keluar dalam tempoh seminit iaitu kira-kira 2.5 titisan bagi satu perkataan.
2. Dalam secawan kopi terdapat lebih daripada 1,000 jenis bahan kimia.
3. Orang yang menggunakan tangan kanan hidup sembilan tahun lebih lama daripada mereka yang kidal.
4. Secara purata seseorang menghabiskan masa selama 2 tahun bergayut di telefon sepanjang hayatnya.
5. Secara purata, seseorang minum 8,000 gelen air sepanjang hidupnya.
6.Di serata dunia, yo-yo adalah sejenis permainan tetapi di Filipina, ia merupakan senjata merbahaya.
7. Hanya terdapat empat buah negara di dunia bermula dengan abjad D iaitu Denmark, Dominica, Djibouti, dan Republik Dominica.
8. Setiap tahun, Selat Inggeris yang memisahkan England dan Perancis melebar sebanyak 300 milimeter.
9. Nama semua benua bermula dan berakhir dengan abjad yang sama iaitu huruf A.
10. Manusia hanya menggunakan 10% daripada otaknya untuk berfikir; selebihnya untuk aktiviti lain atau mencetuskan pergerakan luar kawal.
11. Ketika bersin, semua organ dalam badan tidak berfungsi termasuk jantung.
12. Kerosakan otak akan berlaku jika suhu badan meningkat melebihi 41 darjah Celcius.
13. Badak air mampu berlari lebih pantas daripada manusia.
14. Tiram boleh mengubah jantinanya beberapa kali sepanjang hayatnya.
15. Dianggarkan 80 peratus haiwan di muka bumi adalah serangga.
16. Ratu anai-anai boleh hidup selama 500 tahun dan menghasilkan 30,000 telur setiap hari. 17. Andai kesemua bungkah air batu- dianggarkan 23 juta kilometer padu - di dunia cair pada satu ketika, kandungan air lautan meningkat 1.7 peratus. Peningkatan yang sedikit ini bagaimanapun menaikkan paras air sehingga 60 meter daripada yang sediada. Jika ini berlaku, sebahagian besar tanah daratan di dunia akan berubah menjadi lautan.
18. Jambatan gantung dekat Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Haneda, Jepun dikatakan paling panjang di dunia. Berukuran 124 meter panjang dan 4 meter lebar, bahagian tengah bersambung untuk memudahkan ia diangkat apabila kapal lalu di bawahnya. Kos pembinaan adalah lebih murah daripada membuat terowong bawah laut.
19. Sungai Huang Ho digelar sebagai Sungai Derita kerana kerap meragut ratusan juta nyawa apabila banjir setiap tahun.
20. Tempat paling sejuk di dunia bukanlah di Kutub Utara atau Kutub Selatan tetapi Verkovank, Siberia dengan suhu serendah 100 darjah di bawah paras beku pernah dicatitkan.
21. Tikus kasturi, mamalia paling kecil didunia makan empat kali lebih berat badannya dalam masa 36 jam.
22. Kanak-kanak menghabiskan lebih banyak masa mempelajari tentang kehidupan melalui media terutamanya tv.
23. Secara purata seorang kanak- kanak menghabiskan kira-kira 28 jam seminggu menonton tv, dua kali ganda lebih banyak daripada masa mereka di sekolah.
24. Bahan buangan (najis) daripada seekor ayam sepanjang hayatnya boleh membekalkan tenaga elektrik yang cukup untuk menyalakan sebiji lampu mentol berkuasa 100 watt selama lima jam.
25. Ayam juga akan menghasilkan telur yang lebih besar jika hari sentiasa siang.
26. Jantina kura-kura boleh dikenalpasti berdasarkan bunyi yang dihasilkan.
27. Kura- kura jantan mengeluarkan bunyi garau sementara betina menghasilkan bunyi yang berdesir.
28. Jika anda menjerit selama lapan tahun, tujuh bulan dan enam hari, anda boleh menghasilkan tenaga yang cukup untuk memanaskan secawan kopi.
29. Pada tahun 1848, Air Terjun Niagara berhenti mengalir apabila bongkah ais menghalang Sungai Niagara daripada mengalir ke arah air terjun ini.
30. Buaya tidak boleh menjelir dan menggerakkan lidahnya kerana organ itu melekat pada lelangit.
31. Batu karang yang terbesar pernah dikeluarkan daripada pesakit ialah seberat 1.36 kg.
32. Ikan haruan dapat mengesan 27,000 jenis bau, sekali gus menjadikannya haiwan yang paling sensitif deria baunya.
33. Kanggaru yang hanya di Australia sebenarnya tidak boleh melompat jika ekornya tidak menyentuh bumi. Ekornya bertindak sebagai topang semasa haiwan itu melompat.
34. Kebanyakan produk yang berada di pasaran masa kini mempunyai `bar code' bagi memudahkan proses pembayaran.
35. Sebenarnya produk pertama yang mempunyai `bar code' adalah `chewing gum' Wrigleys. 36. Semua planet di angkasa bergerak mengelilingi matahari mengikut pusingan jam kecuali Venus yang melawan jam.
37. Jika usus kecil seseorang manusia dileraikan, panjangnya boleh menjangkau sehingga empat atau lima kali ganda ketinggian orang itu.
38. Haiwan yang paling banyak di muka bumi adalah semut. Nisbahnya adalah satu juta bagi setiap orang.
39. Tanduk atau sumbu badak bukan berasal daripada tulang-belulang tetapi terjadi daripada bulu-bulunya yang berkumpul dan mengeras.
40. Anda perlu memanjat sebanyak 1,792 anak tangga untuk tiba ke puncak Menara Eiffel.
Seoul adalah ibu negeri Korea. Dalam bahasa ibundanya, Seoul bermakna `ibu negara'.
41. Jika ikan jerung membuka mulut dalam tempoh masa yang lama, ia akan mati lemas kerana air akan masuk ke dalam mulutnya.
42. Olympus Mons yang terletak di planet Marikh merupakan gunung berapi paling besar dalam sistem solar.
43. Menurut kajian, purata setiap kita mengucapkan 30,000 perkataan sehari dan mengambil masa 3 1/2 jam sehari untuk bercakap.
44. Drama pertama yang dipentaskan adalah karya seniman Mesir pada tahun 3200 Sebelum Masehi- lebih 5,000 tahun lalu.
45. Skrip drama yang dijumpai oleh seorang arkelogi di Luxor pada 1895 ditulis atas tumbuhan papyrus dan masih tersimpan hingga kini.
46. Setengah haiwan dapat meramal bencana, gempa bumi, banjir, ribut taufan, letusan gunung berapi dan sebagainya.
47. Obor-obor misalnya tahu kehadiran taufan 10 atau 15 jam sebelum ianya berlaku dan ini memberi peluang kepadanya untuk menyelam lebih jauh ke dasar laut.
48. Orang Jepun gemar memelihara ikan emas kerana ia dapat mengesan gempa bumi. Ia memberi petanda akan berlaku gempa bumi dengan melompat keluar akuarium beberapa jam sebelum kejadian.
49. Ada tiga jenis manusia di muka bumi ini. Pertama - belajar daripada pengalaman sendiri; mereka ini dikatakan bijak dan berpengalaman. Kedua - mereka belajar daripada pengalaman orang lain; mereka ini dikatakan cerdik dan dapat menikmati kegembiraan dalam hidup. Ketiga - mereka yang tidak belajar daripada pengalaman sendiri mahupun orang lain; mereka inilah yang hanyut dengan kebodohan sendiri.
50. Semasa pemerintahan Kublai Khan, orang-orang Cina menggunakan singa untuk berburu. Mereka melatih singa untuk mengejar dan menangkap haiwan liar termasuk seladang serta beruang. Singa tersebut akan terus berada di samping binatang yang dibunuhnya itu sehingga pemburu sampai.

51. Seni membuat peta telah wujud lebih awal berbanding seni tulisan.
52. Sebelum mengenali huruf, kebanyakan masyarakat termasuk Eskimo, Red Indian dan penduduk Kepulauan Marshall melukis pelan kawasan yang sudah mereka kenali.
53. Peta tertua yang diketahui sekarang ini disimpan di Muzium Semitik, Harvard, Amerika Syarikat. Ia adalah kepingan tanah liat yang dibuat oleh masyarakat Babilonia bertarikh 2500 SM.
54. Untuk kepentingan manusia, haiwan sentiasa dijadikan mangsa ujian dalam uji kaji sains dan perubatan. Kira-kira 30 ribu ekor monyet telah digunakan oleh pakar perubatan dan saintis sepanjang tiga tahun mereka menjalankan usaha mengenalpasti dan menjelaskan pelbagai jenis penyakit polio.
55. Dalam satu pertandingan kerja-kerja seni yang diadakan di Barcelona Acadeny of Arts, para pelajar diberi diberi masa sebulan untuk menyiapkan hasil kerja masing-masing. Pablo Picasso yang ketika itu berusia 15 tahun menyiapkan peperiksaan itu dalam masa sehari sahaja dan dia memenangi tempat pertama, menewaskan peserta-peserta yang lebih dewasa daripadanya.
56. Ia mengambil masa selama 5 bulan untuk memberitahu Ratu Isabella mengenai pengembaraan Columbus dan 2 minggu bagi masyarakat Eropah untuk mengenai tentang pembunuhan Presiden Amerika, Abraham Lincoln. Bagaimanapun, hanya 1.3 saat sahaja diperlukan untuk manusia menerima kata-kata pertama dari angkasawan Neil Amstrong bahawa manusia boleh berjalan di atas permukaan bulan.
57. Orang yang pertama menjejakkan kaki di benua Antartika adalah pelayar Amerika bernama John Davis. Dia melakukannya pada 7 Februari 1821. Namun demikian, dia tidak mendapat sebarang pengiktarafan semasa hayatnya kerana kejayaannya itu cuma diketahui umum pada 1955 apabila buku log kapalnya dijumpai dan diteliti.
58. Dr James Barry, wanita menyamar sebagai lelaki menjadi jeneral dalam tentera Ratu Victoria. Dr Barry menyertai pasukan perubatan tentera, berkhidmat selama 40 tahun sebagai doktor bedah dan juga ketua penyelia kepada beberapa buah hospital. Dalam tempoh itu, dia dikenali sebagai Dr James Barry, seorang lelaki. Jantina sebenar beliau hanya diketahui pada 1865 apabila dia meninggal dunia.
59. Jerung adalah binatang berbahaya, malah sebelum ia ia dilahirkan lagi. Saintis Stewart Springer telah digigit oleh satu embrio jerung pasir semasa beliau sedang memeriksa ibu jerung tersebut yang sedang hamil.
60. Seminit selepas anda membaca ayat ini, 100 orang kan meninggal dunia dan 240 bayi akan lahir. Mengapa? Kerana pertambahan populasi dunia dianggarkan sebanyak 140 orang seminit. 61. Maharaja Keempat Moghul, Jahangir yang memerintah dari 1605 hingga 1627 mempunyai 300 orang isteri, 5,000 gundik, serta 1,000 anak muda untuk "menghiburkannya". Di luar istana Jahangir, dia memelihara 12,000 ekor gajah, 10,000 ekor sapi, 2,000 ekor unta, 3,000 ekor rusa, 4,000 ekor anjing, 100 ekor singa jinak, 500 ekor kerbau dan 10,000 ekor burung merpati.
62. Benua Antartika meliputi kawasan seluas 14 juta km persegi. Jika India dan Cina dicantumkan, keluasan itu masih gagal menandingi kawasan benua beku itu. 90% kawasan itu pula dilitupi ais dengan ketebalan kira-kira 2 km. Manakala keluasan litupan ais pula adalah 30 juta meter persegi. Jika semua ais di Antartika cair, paras laut akan naik mendadak di antara 50 - 60 meter yang akan menenggelamkan sebahagian besar muka bumi.
63. Jutawan Microsoft, Bill Gates serta keluarganya berpindah ke kediaman baru mereka berhampiran Seattle, Amerika. Rumah yang menelan kos US$50 juta itu dilengkapi pelbagai peralatan elektronik canggih. Antaranya penghuni boleh mengawal suhu yang dikehendaki dalam rumah dengan menggunakan sejenis pin khas yang hanya dilekatkan di kocek baju.
64. Senjata biologi menjadi kegemaran di kalangan kuasa besar kerana kosnya yang amat murah. Misalnya mereka hanya perlu membelanjakan US$1 untuk memusnahkan kawasan seluas satu kaki persegi berbanding US$600 menggunakan senjata kimia US$800 senjata nuklear atau US$2,000 dengan senjata konvensional.
65. Senjata biologi telah digunakan sejak permulaan abad ini. Kali pertama digunakan oleh bangsa Rom dengan memasukkan haiwan mati kedalam empangan untuk meracun sumber air musuh.
66. Purata pisang mengandungi 90 kalori, kira-kira 90% keperluan kabohidrat yang diperlukan oleh tubuh badan. Ia juga mempunyai vitamin B dan C serta potasium (kalium) yang dapat menghasilkan tenaga.
67. Paus beluga yang ditemui di Lautan Artik, Kanada boleh bergerak sejauh 700 batu sehari. Haiwan ini hanya perlu menyedut oksijen setiap 20 minit.
68. Sungai Amazon di Amerika Selatan yang merupakan sungai terbesar di dunia, mengandungi dua pertiga daripada kandungan air sungai seluruh dunia.
69. Semut mempunyai otak yang paling besar dalam alam haiwan, jika dibandingkan dengan nisbah saiz badannya.
70. Cacing gergasi Australia- cacing terpanjang di dunia boleh membesar sehingga 2 meter panjang.
71. Wira Greek, Agamemnon yang merupakan pahlawan terbilang empayar tersebut menemui ajalnya bukan dimedan perang tetapi di tangan isterinya sendiri selepas dia kembali dari perang Trojan.
72. Anugerah Oscar mendapat namanya pada 1928 apabila Margaret Harrick, Pengarah Eksekutif Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science USA mendapati bahawa ukiran patung manusia itu mempunyai rupa yang seiras dengan bapa saudaranya, Oscar.
73. Semut berkomunikasi dengan menggosokkan sesungutnya.
74. Bilangan telefon di bandaraya Tokyo, Jepun adalah lebih banyak daripada bilangan telefon yang terdapat di seluruh Afrika.
75. Pen berdakwat diperkenalkan pada tahun 1884 oleh Lewis E.Waterman, seorang agen insurans.
76. Apabila panglima Sepanyol yang menawan Peru, Francisco Pizarro, menculik ketua suku kaum Inca yang bernama Atahualpa pada tahun 1532, beliau meminta bayaran tebusan yang amat "menggerunkan"- sebuah dewan yang dipenuhi emas dan perak bernilai $170 juta!
77. Unta pertama kalinya dibawa ke hemisfera barat pada 1856 oleh David D.Porter, seorang anggota tentera laut US. Sahara, padang pasir terbesar di dunia mempunyai keluasan 5,632,690 kilometer (3.5 juta batu) persegi.
78. Gajah Afrika hamil selama 640 hari.
79. Raja Uganda, King Mutasa, dianggarkan mempunyai isteri seramai 7,000 orang.
80. Tayar numat (berisi udara) diperkenalkan pada 1888 oleh John Boyd Dunlop- seorang pakar bedah veterinar berbangsa Scotland.
81. Mahasiswa Universiti Colorado menamakan gril baru kafeteria di universiti tersebut sebagai `Gril Alfred Parker' sempena tindakan Alfred Parker mempraktiskan kanibalisma dengan memakan daging salah seorang kawannya.
82. Zeuxis, pelukis terkemuka Greek pada abad ke 5 Sebelum Masehi meningal dunia ketika sedang ketawa melihat hasil lukisannya.
83. Ketua Perpustakaan Vatican, Rom (1819-1849), Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti mampu bertutur dalam 50 bahasa dan telah menterjemahkan hasil karya yang ditulis dalam 114 bahasa. 84. Wanita-wanita dari keturunan Pigmy di Lembah Congo, Afrika amat takut jika suami mereka terpikat dengan wanita-wanita lain. Bagi mengelakkan suami digoda oleh wanita lain, setiap isteri bertindak mengawal suami mereka dengan mengukir nama mereka di dahi suami masing-masing. Lantaran itu, sudah pasti suami mereka tidak lagi miang untuk mendekati wanita lain kerana nama isteri mereka sudah terpahat di dahi.
85. Ais krim adalah makanan yang menjadi kegemaran kanak-kanak. Namun begitu, tidak ramai yang mengetahui siapakah yang mula-mula menemui cara-cara membuat ais krim. Sebenarnya orang yang mula-mula menemui cara membuat ais krim ialah seorang lelaki berbangsa Perancis bernama Gerald Tissain dalam tahun 1620. Selepas penemuan tersebut, maka lahirlah pelbagai jenis perasa ais krim yang cukup melazatkan sehingga ke hari ini.
86. KIBBER adalah sebuah perkampungan kecil di kawasan bukit yang berpasir di Himachal Pradesh, India. Ia menjadi sebuah perkampungan tertinggi di dunia. Walaupun Kibber terletak di paras ketinggian 4,205 meter, namun ia menjadi sebuah perkampungan selesa walaupun di musim sejuk kerana kawasan tersebut mempunyai kemudahan asas yang lengkap bagi kegunaan penduduk di situ. Kibber sebuah perkampungan yang tidak boleh dianggap mundur dan daif sebaliknya akan menakjubkan dan menggamit hati setiap pengunjungnya. Walaupun ia berada di puncak gunung di sana tetap terdapat bekalan elektrik, jalan raya untuk kenderaan bermotor, sekolah dan pejabat pos serta klinik.
87. Adalah dianggarkan sebanyak 240 juta dolar dibelanjakan setiap hari untuk perbelanjaan membeli rokok di seluruh dunia. Pada masa sekarang industri rokok mencatatkan jualan tahunan di antara 85 - 100 billion dolar. Jumlah tersebut adalah menyamai satu per empat peruntukan pembelian senjata dunia.
88. Taj Mahal merupakan salah satu binaan yang terkenal di dunia yang dibina semata-mata bagi mengabadikan sebuah cinta yang suci seorang suami terhadap isterinya. Taj Mahal yang terletak di Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India adalah sebuah monumen tinggalan Kerajaan Moghul. Bangunan cantik tersebut diseliputi oleh batu marmar putih berkilauan. Di dalam bangunan tersebutlah bersemadinya permaisuri Maharaja Shah Jehan, Mumtaz Mahal. Shah Jehan amat menyintai isterinya lantas memerintahkan agar Taj Mahal dibina sebagai tanda cinta setianya kepada Mumtaz. Pembinaan Taj Mahal yang mengambil masa sehingga dua puluh tahun itu berjaya disiapkan pada 1653. Pembinaannya juga telah melibatkan ribuan tenaga buruh.
89. Pemimpin negara China yang terkenal dan diagung-agungkan oleh rakyatnya, Deng Xioping sebenarnya mempunyai rahsia tersendiri bagaimana beliau berjaya mengekalkan kesihatan sehingga umurnya menjangkau lebih dari 90 tahun. Xioping menyatakan rahsia tersebut adalah amalannya mandi air sejuk dan bermain terup.
90. Seorang sherpa dari Nepal, Ang Rita telah berjaya mendaki hingga ke puncak gunung tertinggi, Everest untuk kali yang kesepuluh pada 23 Mei 1996. Apa yang menakjubkan ialah kesemua ekspidisi menawan puncak Gunung Everest yang dilakukan oleh Ang semenjak kejayaan pertamanya mendaki gunung tersebut pada 7 Mei 1983 tidak pernah menggunakan bekalan oksigen.
91. Sementara itu, David Breashears dari Massachusetts, USA pula berjaya menjadi pendaki pertama yang sampai ke puncak Gunung Everest pada ketinggian 29,028 kaki dengan membawa peralatan untuk penggambaran yang paling berat.
92. Terowong semulajadi yang terletak di Kaveri di daerah Deewas, Madhya Pradesh, India merupakan terowong yang paling dalam di dunia. Kedalamannya melebihi 1,000 kaki dan lebarnya ialah 100 meter. Lubang besar semulajadi tersebut dianggap sebagai fenomena geologi yang luarbiasa.
93. Beberapa ahli sains di England yang diketuai oleh seorang embriologis di Institut Roslin, Edinburgh, Dr Ian Wilmut telah berjaya menghasilkan klon binatang dewasa yang pertama. Binatang yang berjaya diklon itu ialah seekor bebiri yang dinamakan DOLLY. Kambing tersebut adalah hasil cantuman tetek ibunya. Ini menyebabkan hasil kambing klon itu seiras dengan ibu kambing tersebut.
94. Kea adalah sejenis burung yang hanya boleh ditemui di New Zealand. Ia mempunyai kegemaran yang cukup aneh iaitu gemar memakan lapisan getah yang terdapat pada sekeliling tingkap kereta.
95. Tiga majalah mingguan terkemuka di dunia- Times, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated pernah menampilkan enam pesonaliti yang sama pada muka depannya secara serentak. Mereka ialah Joe Namath, Reggie Jackson, Mary Lou Retton dan OJ Simpson,
96. Anggota Sekretariat Amerika dan pasukan hoki air Amerika Syarikat 1980 yang paling terkenal itu.
97. Seorang wazir agung Parsi, Abdul Kassem Ismael telah memiliki perpustakaan bergerak pada abad ke-10. Buku-bukunya yang berjumlah 117,000 buah terpaksa dibawa oleh 400 ekor unta yang terpaksa bertatih menyeberangi padang pasir ke mana sahaja di pergi.
98. Darah akan memancut apabila kulit seseorang luka, samada ditikam atau ditembak. Keadaan ini berlaku kerana jantung menghasilkan tekanan yang cukup kuat kerana ia berupaya mengepam darah pada kadar 10 meter.
99. Kamera paling awal dicipta memerlukan seseorang beraksi selama lapan jam di depan kamera itu sebelum gambar dapat dirakamkan.
100. Jika anda lemparkan sekeping syiling sebanyak 10,000 kali ke udara, anda akan mendapati gambar bahagian `kepala' sebanyak 4,950 kali berbanding ekor. Keadaan ini berlaku kerana setiap syiling lebih berat di bahagian `kepala'.

101. Masyarakat Mesir purba akan mencukur bulu kening mereka sebagai tanda berkabung setiap kali kucing kesayangan mereka ditemui mati.
102. Semua planet dalam sistem solar dinamakan mengikut mitos Yunani dan Rom kecuali Uranus, yang didasarkan daripada salah satu watak dalam drama Shakespeare.
103. Sebanyak dua jenis ular mendiami Pulau Hawaii, ular laut yang jarang ditemui dan ular buta yang hidup seperti cacing tanah dalam lubang di bumi.
104. Kita akan menjerit serta-merta apabila terkena benda panas atau luka kerana saraf yang membawa maklumat rasa sakit kepada otak bergerak pada kadar kelajuan 120 meter sesaat. 105. Bendera Union Flag hanya dikenali di Britain sahaja. Tetapi nama itu berubah menjadi Union Jack di kalangan negara Komanwel selepas ia dibawa keluar dari negara itu.
106. Kesebelasan pemain bolasepak Bulgaria yang menyertai pertandingan akhir Piala Dunia 1994 di USA berakhir dengan huruf `ov'.
107. Usus manusia menghasilkan satu lapisan lendir (mukus) pada setiap dua minggu. Jika tiada lapisan baru terbentuk, kerana penyakit atau sebagainya, pelbagai asid yang dihasilkan oleh perut akan melukakan lapisan usus.
108. Chimpanzee kelihatan mempunyai lebih banyak rambut daripada manusia. Sebenarnya binatang itu mempunyai bilangan rambut yang sama cuma lebih lebat.
109. Seorang dewasa yang kuat bekerja akan berpeluh sehingga empat gelen sehari. Tapi kebanyakan peluhnya akan tersejat sebelum sempat mereka menyedarinya. Bagaimanapun kuantiti peluh yang terhasil bukan hanya bergantung kepada suhu dan kerja yang dibuat tetapi juga kelembapan cuaca ketika itu.
110. Apabila kelembapan tinggi seperti di negara ini, peluh yang keluar lebih banyak berbanding dengan kawasan yang berkelembapan rendah.
111. Pengeluaran peluh amat penting bagi menyejukkan badan. Tetapi anjing yang tiada kelenjar peluh masih boleh menyejukkan badannya. Haiwan ini akan mencungap-cungap (menjelirkan lidahnya) untuk mengeluarkan haba.
112. Lelaki enam kali lebih mudah dipanah petir daripada wanita.
113. Dianggarkan berjuta-juta pokok di dunia ditanam secara tidak sengaja oleh tupai yang menyembunyikan biji benih kacang dan kemudian terlupa tempat mereka menanamnya.
114. Sebanyak 50,000 perkataan digunakan oleh Ernest Vincent Wright untuk menghasilkan novel GADSBY. Tetapi tiada satu pun perkataan dalam novel itu yang mempunyai huruf 'E'.
115. Huruf yang paling kerap digunakan dalam bahasa Inggeris adalah E manakala Q adalah huruf yang kurang digunakan.
116. Pencungkil gigi adalah objek yang biasanya menjadi punca rakyat Amerika Syarikat mati tercekik.
117. Setiap 45 saat, sebuah rumah dijilat api di U S A.
118. Laut Merah di Asia Barat mendapat namanya daripada warna alga merah di permukaannya.
119. Stesen kuasa atom pertama di dunia telah dibina di Obinsk berhampiran Moscow dan memulakan operasinya dalam tahun 1954.
120. Sudan di Afrika dikelilingi lapan negara iaitu Mesir, Libya, Chad, Republik Afrika Tengah, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya dan Ethopia.
121. Terdapat lebih 50,000 gempa bumi di seluruh dunia setiap tahun.
122. Corak di hidung anjing digunakan sebagai pengenalan seperti cap jari pada manusia.
123. Lembu adalah haiwan yang buta warna; oleh itu ia akan mengejar apa saja yang dikibarkan di depan matanya oleh matador samada kain merah atau kuning.
124. Epal lebih berkesan daripada kafein untuk membuatkan seseorang itu mudah bangun pagi. 125. Menghidu (bukan makan) pisang atau epal hijau boleh membantu mengurangkan berat badan.
126. Purata berat seketul bongkah ais (iceberg) adalah 20,000 tan.
127. Air Terjun Angel di Venezuela (Amerika Selatan) yang tingginya 988.31 meter adalah air terjun tertinggi di dunia dan lapan belas kali lebih tinggi daripada Air Terjun Niagara.
128. Separuh daripada tulang dalam badan manusia terdapat di pergelangan tangan, buku lali, tangan dan kaki.
129. Litar motosikal di Piccola Madonie di Sicily, Italy mempunyai 9,350 selekoh bagi pelumbanya. Otak manusia mempunyai 1,000 juta sel. Setiapnya bersambung kepada sekurang- kurangnya 10 sel berlainan untuk berbagai-bagai fungsi.
130. Semasa tidur, satu perempat daripada tenaga badan pergi ke otak kerana keaktifan 10,000,000,000 sel saraf perlu dipelihara.
131. Berat otak manusia hanya dua peratus daripada berat badan tetapi ia menggunakan 25 peratus oksijen yang disedut semasa berehar atau tidur.
132. Setiap hari jantung manusia mengepam darah seperti melakukan kerja mengangkat satu tan barang ke tingkat lima.
133. Kilat boleh mencampurkan nitrogen dan oksijen dan menghasilkan 100 juta tan makanan tumbuhan (baja) setahun.
134. Orang pertama menggunakan sapu tangan adalah King Richard II dari England (1367 - 1400). Beliau membawa sekeping kain kecil yang digunting untuk menyapu dan membersihkan hidungnya.
135. Gurun Sahara di utara Afrika mendapat namanya daripada 'Sahra' yang bermaksud liar atau terbiar.
136. Manusia akan hidup lima setengah minit lebih lama bagi setiap batang rokok yang tidak dihisap.
137. Sebuah ladang di Byelorussia (Soviet Union) menawarkan bonus sebulan gaji bagi pekerja yang tidak merokok.
138. Pada 1905 seorang lelaki yang hanya dikenali sebagai Forestier telah memanjat 729 anak tangga Menara Eiffel di Perancis dalam masa 3 minit 12 saat untuk sampai ke puncak.
139. Semasa kempen Napoleon di Italy pada 1796-97, pakar perubatannya telah menyediakan ambulans pertama bagi yang sakit dan cedera.
140. Sebanyak 64 otot digunakan untuk memasamkan muka tetapi hanya 18 otot digunakan untuk senyum. Jangan membazirkan tugas otot muka anda.
141. Air liur manusia dikatakan sangat mujarab untuk mengubati luka di kulit atau terbakar.
142. Wanita pertama yang mendapat hak mengundi adalah dari New Zealand.
143. Kulit yang menyaluti seluruh badan manusia dianggarkan berukuran 18.5 meter persegi.
144. Ulat sutera boleh memintal benang sutera sehingga 86,000 kali berat badannya dalam masa 56 hari.
145. Badan akan kehilangan haba sehingga 23 kali lebih lama dalam air berbanding udara dalam suhu yang sama.
146. Kucing tidak boleh merasa rasa manis.
147. Pepatung hanya boleh hidup selama 24 jam sahaja.
148. Matahari adalah 330,330 kali lebih besar daripada bumi.
149. Ngauman singa boleh kedengaran sejauh tiga kilometer.

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A bedbug is a small (about the size of a pencil eraser), flat, reddish-brown bug that can be found in homes all over the world. It hides during the day and comes out during the night to look for blood. A bedbug has a special ingredient in its saliva (spit) that keeps blood from clotting while it's eating.

What a Bedbug Bite Looks and Feels Like
If a person gets bitten by a bedbug, the bite will feel itchy. Bedbug bites look like little red bumps (similar to mosquito bites) and they can sometimes occur in a line on the body.

What You Should Do
If you think you've been bitten by a bedbug, wash the bites with soap and water. Put on some calamine lotion to help with the itching. An adult can find an anti-itch cream at the drugstore for you. Try not to scratch the bites too much because this can make them become infected.

What a Doctor Will Do
If you get an infection from scratching bedbug bites, a doctor will need to prescribe medication to clear up the infection.

How to Avoid Getting Bitten
The best way to avoid getting bitten by bedbugs is to keep your room uncluttered so bedbugs won't have places to hide. Changing your sheets once a week and vacuuming the floor often are also important things to do. If you think you have bedbugs, ask an adult about the best way to get rid of the bugs

Bee, or honeybee, is the word many people use to describe any flying insect that has wings and a stinger. But honeybees are really only one of a group of insects that includes other bees, wasps, and ants.

Bees are fuzzy insects that feed on flowers. There are thousands of different types of bees worldwide, and they can be many different colors. The most familiar kind of bee is the honeybee.

These bees build nests out of wax in old trees and manmade hives (like the ones that beekeepers take care of) and spend a lot of their time collecting nectar and pollen from flowers. Then they turn the nectar into honey for food.

Wasps are closely related to bees, but instead of only feeding on pollen and honey, wasps eat animal food, other insects, or spiders. They are not fuzzy like bees, but seem kind of smooth and shiny, and they have skinnier bodies. There are also thousands of different types of wasps in the world. Two common types of wasps are bald-faced hornets and yellow jackets. Bald-faced hornets are black with white markings, and they build papery nests shaped like footballs in trees and shrubs. Yellow jackets have yellow and black stripes on their bodies and are smaller than hornets and honeybees. They make their nests in the ground or in old tree stumps.

Ants are small insects that can be brown, black, or red. Some have wings and others don't. Some ants can sting, like the fire ant. Fire ants are tiny and reddish-brown and live in nests under the ground.

What a Bee Sting Looks and Feels Like
Honeybees, wasps, hornets, fire ants, and yellow jackets may look different and have different homes, but they all sting when they are upset! If a person is stung by any of these insects, the sting will feel a lot like a shot at the doctor's office.

The site of the sting will feel hot and it may itch. A red bump surrounded by white skin will develop around the sting, except for the sting of the fire ant, which turns into an itchy blister.

Wasps and many bees can sting more than once because they are able to pull out their stinger without injuring themselves. Only honeybees have special hooks on their stinger that keep the stinger in the skin after a person is stung. The stinger gets torn out of the bee's body as it tries to fly away. As a result, the honeybee dies after stinging.

What You Should Do
If you think you have been stung by one of these insects, tell an adult immediately. Some people are allergic to stings from insects. The symptoms of an allergic reaction include hives (red patches on the skin that sting and itch), nausea, dizziness, a tight feeling in the throat, or difficulty breathing. If these symptoms occur, the person needs medical attention right away.

What a Flea Is
A flea is a small (no bigger than the head of a pin) brown bug with a hard shell. Fleas have tiny claws at the ends of their legs to help them attach to people or other warm-blooded animals and drink their blood.

If you have a dog or cat, chances are pretty good that you've seen a flea. Fleas are often found on the coats of these animals. Once the animal comes inside, the fleas can then jump onto people or carpeting.

What a Flea Bite Looks and Feels Like
If a person gets bitten by a flea, the bite will feel itchy. Flea bites usually occur in groups of three or four bites on the body, and they look like tiny red bumps. A lot of kids end up with flea bites when they play with their dogs or cats.

What You Should Do
If you think you've been bitten by a flea, wash the bite with soap and water. Put on some calamine lotion to help with the itching, or an adult can find an anti-itch cream at the drugstore for you. Try not to scratch the bites too much, because this can make the bites become infected.

What a Doctor Will Do
If you get an infection from scratching flea bites, a doctor will need to prescribe medication to clear up the infection.

How to Avoid Getting Bitten
The best way to avoid getting bitten by fleas is to keep the fleas off your pets. Cats and dogs can be bathed in special flea-control shampoo. Your pet can wear a flea collar or take medication once a year which will also help keep fleas away. In addition, a professional exterminator can treat your home or yard with flea-control chemicals to keep the flea population down. Wearing an insect repellent also may help. Ask your parents to apply one that contains 10% to 30% DEET.

What a Louse Is
A louse is a parasite (say: par-uh-site), which means it feeds off of other living things. Lice (the word for more than one louse) are about the size of a sesame seed, and are tan to gray in color.

Lice need to suck a tiny bit of blood to survive, and they sometimes live on people's heads and lay eggs in the hair, on the back of the neck, or behind the ears. It's very easy for a person with lice to give it to another person when they come into close head-to-head contact with each other. Sometimes, lice can be transmitted by friends sharing things that have touched the hair, such as combs, brushes, hats, and headphones. Lice cannot jump or fly, so a person can't catch lice by simply sitting near someone who has lice.

What a Louse Bite Looks and Feels Like
If a person gets lice, it doesn't feel like anything at first. A louse lays tiny, oval eggs called nits. They are yellow, tan, or brown before the lice hatch. After the lice hatch, nits appear clear or white. They look a little like dandruff flakes but they can't be shaken off. The lice mature within 1 to 2 weeks and begin feeding and attaching their tiny claws to the hair shaft. Louse bites look like tiny red spots on the skin, and they are very itchy.

What You Should Do
If your head is very itchy, tell an adult immediately. Getting lice has nothing to do with being dirty, and it's very common among kids who are in school together. It is something that will need to be cleared up as soon as possible.

What a Doctor Will Do
Doctors treat people who have lice by giving them a prescription for a medicated shampoo, cream, or lotion that kills lice, or instructing that they buy one off of the store shelf. An adult will need to use a fine-tooth comb to get rid of the existing nits and follow the instructions for putting the medication in your hair to kill the lice. It's not a good a idea to use a hairdryer to dry a person's hair after using the medication, as some medicines contain flammable ingredients (which means they can catch on fire and burn easily). It may take a few days for the itching to stop and the treatment may need to be repeated in 7 to 10 days to make sure any remaining lice eggs are killed.

All the carpets and furniture in the house should be vacuumed, and bedding, clothing, and stuffed animals should be washed in hot water or placed in airtight bags for at least 10 days to kill the lice and eggs. Brushes, combs, and hair accessories should be soaked in hot water, washed with medicated shampoo, or thrown away.

How to Avoid Getting Bitten
It can be hard to avoid lice completely, especially if you are like most kids and go to school every day. But there are things you can do to protect yourself:
If you know kids with lice, avoid touching them — especially their hair.
Always bring your own pillows, sleeping bags, or sheets to a sleepover.
Finally, do not share brushes, combs, hats, headphones, or hair accessories — like barrettes and headbands, with anyone else.

What a Chigger Is

Chiggers are tiny (most can only be seen with a magnifying glass) and red, and they are a type of mite. Mites aren't insects — they are arachnids and part of the same family as spiders, scorpions, and ticks. Chiggers are found all over the place, including in grassy fields, along lakes and streams, and in forests. There are adult chiggers and baby chiggers (called larvae), but only the baby chiggers bother people and animals.

Chiggers have tiny claws that allow them to attach tightly onto people and animals. Once attached, they are able to pierce the skin and inject their saliva, which contains digestive juices that dissolve skin cells. The chigger then slurps up the dissolved skin cells. To the chigger, this is a tasty meal! Having a chigger do this is very irritating to your skin. After a few days, the chigger will be done feeding and fall off a person's skin, leaving behind a red welt where it had once been.

What a Chigger Bite Looks and Feels Like
If a person gets bitten by a chigger, the bite will be very itchy. A chigger bite will cause a tiny red bump, which will get bigger and itchier as time goes on. The itchy bump can last for days or even a couple of weeks.

What You Should Do
If you think you've been bitten by a chigger, wash the bite with soap and water. Put on some calamine lotion or cool compresses to help with the itching, or an adult can find an anti-itch cream or medicine at the drugstore for you. Try not to scratch the bites too much, because this can make the bites become infected.

What a Doctor Will Do
Because chigger bites are so itchy, many people do get an infection from scratching the bites. If this happens, the doctor will prescribe a medication to help with the itching and a medicine to clear up the infection.

How to Avoid Getting Bitten
The best way to avoid getting bitten by a chigger is to wear an insect repellent. Ask your parents to apply one that contains 10% to 30% DEET.
When it's possible, wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants outside, especially if you'll be hiking or playing in fields.
Once you come in from being in an outdoor area that may have chiggers, take a hot shower and use plenty of soap. Also, be sure to wash your clothes in hot water to kill any chiggers that might be living there.

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1. Bahasa yang paling luas digunakan di dunia ialah Bahasa Mandarin.
2. Manusia dewasa mempunyai 207 batang tulang.
3. Gas yang paling ringan di bumi ialah gas Hidrogen.
4. Cermin mata dicipta pada tahun 1310 oleh seorang rakyat Itali yang bernama Salvinius Armadus.
5. Gunung berapi hidup yang tertinggi di dunia ialah Gunung Cotopaxi.
6. Air Terjun yang tertinggi di dunia ialah Air Terjun Angel.
7. Pengasas pasukan polis yang pertama di dunia ialah Sir Robert Peel.
8. Siput babi termasuk dalam kumpulan 'moluska'.
9. John Fitzgerald Kennedy ialah Presiden Amerika Syarikat yang dibunuh oleh Lee Harvey Oswald.
10. Sebahagian besar matahari terdiri daripada gas hidrogen.
11. Pokok bunga madat atau popi yang digunakan untuk menghasilkan candu, morfin dan heroin dikenali juga sebagai Papaver Somniferum.
12. Selat yang terpanjang di dunia ialah Selat Melaka dan Selat yang paling lebar di dunia ialah Selat Mozambique.
13. Bangunan Taj Mahal di Agra, India dibina oleh Maharaja Mogul iaitu Shah Jehan untuk isteri kesayangannya dan siap pada tahun 1648.
14. Warna bintang yang paling sejuk sekali ialah Merah
15. Landasan Keretapi bawah tanah yang pertama dibina di dunia ialah Landasan Metropolitan, London.

1. Aristotle ialah ahli falsafah Yunani yang pernah menjadi guru kepada penakluk Agung, Iskandar Zulkarnaim.
2. Cahaya dapat mengelilingi bumi sebanyak tujuh kali dalam sesaat.
3. Sungai "Hwang Ho" dikenali sebagai "Nestapa China" kerana sungai itu sering membawa bencana banjir ke lembangannya
4. Permainan snooker berasal dari negara India.
5. Negara Perancis telah menghadiahkan patung kebebasan " Statue Of Liberty " kepada Amerika Syarikat sebagai tanda persahabatan dan kebebasan pada tahun 1884.
6. Floran adalah nama garam galian yang dapat menghalang kerosakan gigi.
7. William Harvey ialah seorang ahli Fizik yang menjumpai sistem pengedaran dadah di dalam badan manusia.
8. Korea Utara dan Korea Selatan telah berperang pada 25 Jun 1950.
9. Sungai Euphrates ialah sebatang sungai yang mengalir melalui Turki, Syria, dan Iraq sebelum masuk ke Telukan Parsi.
10. John Logie Baird telah mencipta Televisyen pada tahun 1876.
11. Sandwich Island ialah nama lama bagi Pulau Hawaii.
12. Pengasas parti Neo Nazi Jerman ialah Adolf Hitler.
13. Raja Thai yang memerintah sekarang ialah dari keturunan Dinasti Chakri.
14. Lanca atau beca merupakan satu jenis alat pengangkutan yang sangat terkenal di Asia Tenggara dan Asia Timur dan dicipta oleh seorang rakyat Jepun yang berketurunan Samurai.
15. Switzerland digelar "Padang Temasya Eropah."

1. Shih Huang Ti ialah maharaja China yang pertama menyatukan kesemua wilayah di negeri China.
2. Tarian ballet dimulakan di negara Itali pada kurun ke 15.
3. Tokong Buddha yang indah Borobudor terletak di Pulau Jawa Indonesia.
4. Puan Indira Gandhi mati dibunuh oleh dua orang pengawal peribadinya yang berbangsa Sikh pada 31 Oktober 1984.
5 . Penisilium ialah sejenis kulat hijau yang boleh digunakan untuk menghsilkan Penisilin.
6. Charles Goodyear telah menemui cara-cara membekukan getah.
7. Sierra Leonne di Afrika Barat juga dikenali sebagai perkuburan orang-orang putih.
8. Mahkamah Antarabangsa terletak di Hague, Belanda.
9. Raja Farouk dari Mesir telah turun dari takhta pada tahun 1952.
10. Empat Buah negara yang terlibat dalam usaha merangkakan usul-usul perlembagaan pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu
(PBB) pada tahun 1944 ialah Great Britain, Russia, Amerika dan China.
11. Klorofil penting kepada tumbuh-tumbuhan kerana ia boleh menyerap cahaya untuk menjalankan proses fotosintesis.
12. Cerita-cerita detektif Sherlock Holmes yang terkenal dikarang oleh Arthur Conan Doyk.
13. Sungai Mekong ialah Sungai Yang Terpanjang di Asia Tenggara.
14. Mesin Jahit dicipta oleh seorang wanita Amerika yang bernama Elias Howe.
15. Alkohol ialah cecair merah yang terdapat sesetengah Alkohol.

1. Willey Post ialah manusia pertama yang mengelilingi dunia dengan kapal terbang.
2. Bunga Anggerik bunga kebangsaan negara Singapura.
3. La PAz, Bolivia ialah bandar yang tertinggi di dunia.
4. Berlian banyak di lombong Kimberly, Afrika Selatan.
5. Anna Harrietty Leonowens ialah wanita Eropah yang pernah menjadi guru kepada Raja Mongkut, negara Thailand.
6. Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu (PBB) ditubuhkan selepas perang dunia kedua dan Setiausaha Agungnya yang pertama ialah Trygre Lie.
7. Lapangan Antarabangsa Leonardo Da Vinci terletak di Rome Itali.
8. Tasik terbesar di garisan Khatulistiwa ialah Tasik Victoria.
9. Nippon Koku ialah nama lama bagi negara Jepun yang bermaksud negara Matahari Terbit.
10. Anak Itik Hodoh, Kisah Puteri Duyung, Baju Baru Maharaja dikarang oleh Hans Christian Andersen iaitu seorang pengarang buku cerita kanak-kanak yang terkemuka di dunia dan berasal dari Denmark.
11. Gunung Klimanjaro ialah Gunung yang tertinggi di Afrika.
12. Hari Komanwel ialah pada 15 Mei setiap tahun.
13. Jangan lakukan sesuatu yang anda tidak Ingin orang lain lakukan kepada Anda adalah kata-kata hikmat yang diucapkan oleh seorang ahli falsafah dunia yang terkenal iaitu Kung Fu Tze.
14. Bahasa Rasmi bagi Sri Lanka ialah Bahasa Sinhala.
15. Matawang Thailand ialah Baht

1. Planet yang terbesar dan terberat dalam sistem matahari ialah Musytari.
2. Sungai yang terpanjang di sunia ialah Sungai Nil.
3. Kitab Suci Agama Islam Ialah Al-Quran.
4. Newt ialah sejenis haiwam Afimbia.
5. Penguasaan British ke atas Hong Kong berakhir pada 30 Jun 1997.
6. Bom atom pertama digugurkan di Hiroshima pada 06 Ogos 1945 dan tiga hari kemudian di Nagasaki.
7. Sukan Olimpik diadakan empat tahun sekali.
8. Indonesia merupakan negara yang terbesar di Asia Tenggara.
9. Taman Tergantung Babylon ialah satu daripada tujuh benda ajaib di dunia terletak di Bandar Baghdad.
10. Rumah Orang Eskimo diperbuat daripada ais batu.
11. Wanita pertama yang menjadi Presiden Perhimpunan Agung Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu ialah Puan Pandit.
12. Grafit yang digunakan pada mata pensel ialah jelmaan daripada arang batu.
13. Bulan ialah sebuah satelit bumi.
14. Thailand dikenali sebagai Negara Gajah Putih.
15. Pengasas Pertubuhan Palang Merah ialah Jean Henri Dunant
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The Brain

The human brain is the most complex and least understood part of the human anatomy. There may be a lot we don’t know, but here are a few interesting facts that we’ve got covered.

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.

The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.

The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica. Or any other encyclopedia for that matter. Scientists have yet to settle on a definitive amount, but the storage capacity of the brain in electronic terms is thought to be between 3 or even 1,000 terabytes. The National Archives of Britain, containing over 900 years of history, only takes up 70 terabytes, making your brain’s memory power pretty darn impressive.

Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream. The brain only makes up about 2% of our body mass, yet consumes more oxygen than any other organ in the body, making it extremely susceptible to damage related to oxygen deprivation. So breathe deep to keep your brain happy and swimming in oxygenated cells.

The brain is much more active at night than during the day. Logically, you would think that all the moving around, complicated calculations and tasks and general interaction we do on a daily basis during our working hours would take a lot more brain power than, say, lying in bed. Turns out, the opposite is true. When you turn off your brain turns on. Scientists don’t yet know why this is but you can thank the hard work of your brain while you sleep for all those pleasant dreams.

Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream. While this may be true, don’t take it as a sign you’re mentally lacking if you can’t recall your dreams. Most of us don’t remember many of our dreams and the average length of most dreams is only 2-3 seconds–barely long enough to register.

Neurons continue to grow throughout human life. For years scientists and doctors thought that brain and neural tissue couldn’t grow or regenerate. While it doesn’t act in the same manner as tissues in many other parts of the body, neurons can and do grow throughout your life, adding a whole new dimension to the study of the brain and the illnesses that affect it.
Information travels at different speeds within different types of neurons. Not all neurons are the same. There are a few different types within the body and transmission along these different kinds can be as slow as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec.

The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center when you cut your finger or burn yourself, the brain itself does not have pain receptors and cannot feel pain. That doesn’t mean your head can’t hurt. The brain is surrounded by loads of tissues, nerves and blood vessels that are plenty receptive to pain and can give you a pounding headache.

80% of the brain is water. Your brain isn’t the firm, gray mass you’ve seen on TV. Living brain tissue is a squishy, pink and jelly-like organ thanks to the loads of blood and high water content of the tissue. So the next time you’re feeling dehydrated get a drink to keep your brain hydrated.

Hair and Nails
While they’re not a living part of your body, most people spend a good amount of time caring for their hair and nails. The next time you’re heading in for a haircut or manicure, think of these facts.

Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. If you’ve ever had a covering of stubble on your face as you’re clocking out at 5 o’clock you’re probably pretty familiar with this. In fact, if the average man never shaved his beard it would grow to over 30 feet during his lifetime, longer than a killer whale.

Every day the average person loses 60-100 strands of hair. Unless you’re already bald, chances are good that you’re shedding pretty heavily on a daily basis. Your hair loss will vary in accordance with the season, pregnancy, illness, diet and age.

Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair. While it might sound strange, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that men’s hair should be coarser than that of women. Hair diameter also varies on average between races, making hair plugs on some men look especially obvious.

One human hair can support 3.5 ounces. That’s about the weight of two full size candy bars, and with hundreds of thousands of hairs on the human head, makes the tale of Rapunzel much more plausible.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. And the nail on the middle finger of your dominant hand will grow the fastest of all. Why is not entirely known, but nail growth is related to the length of the finger, with the longest fingers growing nails the fastest and shortest the slowest.

There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. Humans are not quite the naked apes that we’re made out to be. We have lots of hair, but on most of us it’s not obvious as a majority of the hairs are too fine or light to be seen.

Blondes have more hair. They’re said to have more fun, and they definitely have more hair. Hair color determines how dense the hair on your head is. The average human has 100,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing 20 individual hairs during a person’s lifetime. Blondes average 146,000 follicles while people with black hair tend to have about 110,000 follicles. Those with brown hair fit the average with 100,000 follicles and redheads have the least dense hair, with about 86,000 follicles.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. If you notice that you’re trimming your fingernails much more frequently than your toenails you’re not just imagining it. The nails that get the most exposure and are used most frequently grow the fastest. On average, nails on both the toes and fingers grow about one-tenth of an inch each month.

The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average. While you quite a few hairs each day, your hairs actually have a pretty long life providing they aren’t subject to any trauma. Your hairs will likely get to see several different haircuts, styles, and even possibly decades before they fall out on their own.

You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone. You lose hundreds of hairs a day but you’ll have to lose a lot more before you or anyone else will notice. Half of the hairs on your pretty little head will have to disappear before your impending baldness will become obvious to all those around you.

Human hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from it’s flammability, human hair decays at such a slow rate that it is practically non-disintegrative. If you’ve ever wondered how your how clogs up your pipes so quick consider this: hair cannot be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, or other natural forces and it is resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive chemicals.

Internal Organs

Though we may not give them much thought unless they’re bothering us, our internal organs are what allow us to go on eating, breathing and walking around. Here are some things to consider the next time you hear your stomach growl.

The largest internal organ is the small intestine. Despite being called the smaller of the two intestines, your small intestine is actually four times as long as the average adult is tall. If it weren’t looped back and forth upon itself it wouldn’t fit inside the abdominal cavity.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet. No wonder you can feel your heartbeat so easily. Pumping blood through your body quickly and efficiently takes quite a bit of pressure resulting in the strong contractions of the heart and the thick walls of the ventricles which push blood to the body.

The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. While you certainly shouldn’t test the fortitude of your stomach by eating a razorblade or any other metal object for that matter, the acids that digest the food you eat aren’t to be taken lightly. Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not only good at dissolving the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through many types of metal.

The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. To put that in perspective, the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, making the distance your blood vessels could travel if laid end to end more than two times around the earth.

You get a new stomach lining every three to four days. The mucus-like cells lining the walls of the stomach would soon dissolve due to the strong digestive acids in your stomach if they weren’t constantly replaced. Those with ulcers know how painful it can be when stomach acid takes its toll on the lining of your stomach.

The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court. In order to more efficiently oxygenate the blood, the lungs are filled with thousands of branching bronchi and tiny, grape-like alveoli. These are filled with microscopic capillaries which oxygen and carbon dioxide. The large amount of surface area makes it easier for this exchange to take place, and makes sure you stay properly oxygenated at all times.

Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.The main reason for this is simply that on average women tend to be smaller than men and have less mass to pump blood to. But women’s and men’s hearts can actually act quite differently, especially when experiencing trauma like a heart attack, and many treatments that work for men must be adjusted or changed entirely to work for women.

Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions. You may not think much about your liver except after a long night of drinking, but the liver is one of the body’s hardest working, largest and busiest organs. Some of the functions your liver performs are: production of bile, decomposition of red blood cells, plasma protein synthesis, and detoxification.

The aorta is nearly the diameter of a garden hose. The average adult heart is about the size of two fists, making the size of the aorta quite impressive. The artery needs to be so large as it is the main supplier of rich, oxygenated blood to the rest of the body.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart. For most people, if they were asked to draw a picture of what the lungs look like they would draw both looking roughly the same size. While the lungs are fairly similar in size, the human heart, though located fairly centrally, is tilted slightly to the left making it take up more room on that side of the body and crowding out that poor left lung.

You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive. The human body may appear fragile but it’s possible to survive even with the removal of the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area. You might not feel too great, but the missing organs wouldn’t kill you.

The adrenal glands change size throughout life. The adrenal glands, lying right above the kidneys, are responsible for releasing stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. In the seventh month of a fetus’ development, the glands are roughly the same size as the kidneys. At birth, the glands have shrunk slightly and will continue to do so throughout life. In fact, by the time a person reaches old age, the glands are so small they can hardly be seen.
Bodily Functions

We may not always like to talk about them, but everyone has to deal with bodily functions on a daily basis. These are a few facts about the involuntary and sometimes unpleasant actions of our bodies.

Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph. There’s a good reason why you can’t keep your eyes open when you sneeze–that sneeze is rocketing out of your body at close to 100 mph. This is, of course, a good reason to cover your mouth when you sneeze.

Coughs clock in at about 60 mph. Viruses and colds get spread around the office and the classroom quickly during cold and flu season. With 60 mph coughs spraying germs far and wide, it’s no wonder.

Women blink twice as many times as men do. That’s a lot of blinking every day. The average person, man or woman, blinks about 13 times a minute.

A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. No wonder you have to run to bathroom when you feel the call of the wild. The average bladder holds about 400-800 cc of fluid but most people will feel the urge to go long before that at 250 to 300 cc.

Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water. While we might typically think that urine is the liquid part of human waste products, the truth is that what we consider solid waste is actually mostly water as well. You should be thankful that most waste is fairly water-filled, as drier harder stools are what cause constipation and are much harder and sometimes painful to pass.

Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day. With that kind of sweat-producing power it’s no wonder that your gym shoes have a stench that can peel paint. Additionally, men usually have much more active sweat glands than women.
During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools. Saliva plays an important part in beginning the digestive process and keeping the mouth lubricated, and your mouth produces quite a bit of it on a daily basis.

The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day. Even if you’d like to think you’re too dignified to pass gas, the reality is that almost everyone will at least a few times a day. Digestion causes the body to release gases which can be painful if trapped in the abdomen and not released.

Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. While many people find earwax to be disgusting, it’s actually a very important part of your ear’s defense system. It protects the delicate inner ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt and even insects. It also cleans and lubricates the ear canal.

Sex and Reproduction

As taboo as it may be in some places, sex is an important part of human life as a facet of relationships and the means to reproduce. Here are a few things you might not have known.

On any given day, sexual intercourse takes place 120 million times on earth. Humans are a quickly proliferating species, and with about 4% of the world’s population having sex on any given day, it’s no wonder that birth rates continue to increase in many places all over the world.

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm. While you can’t see skin cells or muscle cells, the ovum is typically large enough to be seen with the naked eye with a diameter of about a millimeter. The sperm cell, on the other hand, is tiny, consisting of little more than nucleus.

The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester are frogs, worms and potted plants. Pregnancy hormones can cause mood swings, cravings and many other unexpected changes. Oddly enough, hormones can often affect the types of dreams women have and their vividness. The most common are these three types, but many women also dream of water, giving birth or even have violent or sexually charged dreams.

Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born. While few babies are born with teeth in place, the teeth that will eventually push through the gums of young children are formed long before the child even leaves the womb. At 9 to 12 weeks the fetus starts to form the teeth buds that will turn into baby teeth.

Babies are always born with blue eyes. The color of your eyes depends on the genes you get from your parents, but at birth most babies appear to have blue eyes. The reason behind this is the pigment melanin. The melanin in a newborn’s eyes often needs time after birth to be fully deposited or to be darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light, later revealing the baby’s true eye color.

Babies are, pound for pound, stronger than an ox. While a baby certainly couldn’t pull a covered wagon at its present size, if the child were the size of an oxen it just might very well be able to. Babies have especially strong and powerful legs for such tiny creatures, so watch out for those kicks.

One out of every 2,000 newborn infants has a tooth when they are born. Nursing mothers may cringe at this fact. Sometimes the tooth is a regular baby tooth that has already erupted and sometimes it is an extra tooth that will fall out before the other set of choppers comes in.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months. When only a small fraction of the way through its development, a fetus will have already developed one of the most unique human traits: fingerprints. At only 6-13 weeks of development, the whorls of what will be fingerprints have already developed. Oddly enough, those fingerprints will not change throughout the person’s life and will be one of the last things to disappear after death.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. All life has to begin somewhere, and even the largest humans spent a short part of their lives as a single celled organism when sperm and egg cells first combine. Shortly afterward, the cells begin rapidly dividing and begin forming the components of a tiny embryo.

Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep. Most people’s bodies and minds are much more active when they’re sleeping than they think. The combination of blood circulation and testosterone production can cause erections during sleep and they’re often a normal and necessary part of REM sleep.

Senses

The primary means by which we interact with the world around us is through our senses. Here are some interesting facts about these five sensory abilities.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp. If you’re heading to a concert or a musical after a big meal you may be doing yourself a disservice. Try eating a smaller meal if you need to keep your hearing pitch perfect.

About one third of the human race has 20-20 vision. Glasses and contact wearers are hardly alone in a world where two thirds of the population have less than perfect vision. The amount of people with perfect vision decreases further as they age.

If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it. In order for foods, or anything else, to have a taste, chemicals from the substance must be dissolved by saliva. If you don’t believe it, try drying off your tongue before tasting something.

Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over life. Studies have shown that women are more able to correctly pinpoint just what a smell is. Women were better able to identify citrus, vanilla, cinnamon and coffee smells. While women are overall better smellers, there is an unfortunate 2% of the population with no sense of smell at all.

Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents. While a bloodhound’s nose may be a million times more sensitive than a human’s, that doesn’t mean that the human sense of smell is useless. Humans can identify a wide variety of scents and many are strongly tied to memories.

Even small noises cause the pupils of the eyes to dilate. It is believed that this is why surgeons, watchmakers and others who perform delicate manual operations are so bothered by uninvited noise. The sound causes their pupils to change focus and blur their vision, making it harder to do their job well.

Everyone has a unique smell, except for identical twins. Newborns are able to recognize the smell of their mothers and many of us can pinpoint the smell of our significant others and those we are close to. Part of that smell is determined by genetics, but it’s also largely do to environment, diet and personal hygiene products that create a unique chemistry for each person.

Aging and Death

From the very young to the very old, aging is a necessary and unavoidable part of life. Learn about the process with these interesting, if somewhat strange facts.

The ashes of a cremated person average about 9 pounds. A big part of what gives the human body weight is the water trapped in our cells. Once cremated, that water and a majority of our tissues are destroyed, leaving little behind.

Nails and hair do not continue to grow after we die. They do appear longer when we die, however, as the skin dehydrates and pulls back from the nail beds and scalp.
By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their taste buds. Perhaps you shouldn’t trust your grandma’s cooking as much as you do. Older individuals tend to lose their ability to taste, and many find that they need much more intense flavoring in order to be able to fully appreciate a dish.

Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing. When babies look up at you with those big eyes, they’re the same size that they’ll be carrying around in their bodies for the rest of their lives. Their ears and nose, however, will grow throughout their lives and research has shown that growth peaks in seven year cycles.

By 60 years of age, 60-percent of men and 40-percent of women will snore. If you’ve ever been kept awake by a snoring loved one you know the sound can be deafening. Normal snores average around 60 decibels, the noise level of normal speech, intense snores can reach more than 80 decibels, the approximate level caused by a jackhammer breaking up concrete.

A baby’s head is one-quarter of it’s total length, but by age 25 will only be one-eighth of its total length. As it turns out, our adorably oversized baby heads won’t change size as drastically as the rest of our body. The legs and torso will lengthen, but the head won’t get much longer.

Disease and Injury

Most of us will get injured or sick at some point in our lives. Here are some facts on how the human body reacts to the stresses and dangers from the outside world.

Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest. Yet another reason to loathe Mondays! A ten year study in Scotland found that 20% more people die of heart attacks on Mondays than any other day of the week. Researchers theorize that it’s a combination of too much fun over the weekend with the stress of going back to work that causes the increase.

Humans can make do longer without food than sleep. While you might feel better prepared to stay up all night partying than to give up eating, that feeling will be relatively short lived.

Provided there is water, the average human could survive a month to two months without food depending on their body fat and other factors. Sleep deprived people, however, start experiencing radical personality and psychological changes after only a few sleepless days. The longest recorded time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 11 days, at the end of which the experimenter was awake, but stumbled over words, hallucinated and frequently forgot what he was doing.

A simple, moderately severe sunburn damages the blood vessels extensively. How extensively? Studies have shown that it can take four to fifteen months for them to return to their normal condition. Consider that the next time you’re feeling too lazy to apply sunscreen before heading outside.

Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress. That high stress job you have could be doing more than just wearing you down each day. It could also be increasing your chances of having a variety of serious medical conditions like depression, high blood pressure and heart disease.

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated. While it might be gross to think about, the blood in the head may be enough to keep someone alive and conscious for a few seconds after the head has been separated from the body, though reports as to the accuracy of this are widely varying.

Muscles and Bones

Muscles and Bones provide the framework for our bodies and allow us to jump, run or just lie on the couch. Here are a few facts to ponder the next time you’re lying around.
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Unless you’re trying to give your face a bit of a workout, smiling is a much easier option for most of us. Anyone who’s ever scowled, squinted or frowned for a long period of time knows how it tires out the face which doesn’t do a thing to improve your mood.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to 206. The reason for this is that many of the bones of children are composed of smaller component bones that are not yet fused like those in the skull. This makes it easier for the baby to pass through the birth canal. The bones harden and fuse as the children grow.

We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. The cartilage between our bones gets compressed by standing, sitting and other daily activities as the day goes on, making us just a little shorter at the end of the day than at the beginning.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. While you may not be able to bench press much with your tongue, it is in fact the strongest muscle in your body in proportion to its size. If you think about it, every time you eat, swallow or talk you use your tongue, ensuring it gets quite a workout throughout the day.

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone. The next time someone suggests you take it on the chin, you might be well advised to take their advice as the jawbone is one of the most durable and hard to break bones in the body.

You use 200 muscles to take one step. Depending on how you divide up muscle groups, just to take a single step you use somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 muscles. That’s a lot of work for the muscles considering most of us take about 10,000 steps a day.

The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself. If you’ve ever chipped a tooth you know just how sadly true this one is. The outer layer of the tooth is enamel which is not a living tissue. Since it’s not alive, it can’t repair itself, leaving your dentist to do the work instead.

It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it. Lazy people out there shouldn’t use this as motivation to not work out, however. It’s relatively easy to build new muscle tissue and get your muscles in shape, so if anything, this fact should be motivation to get off the couch and get moving.

Bone is stronger than some steel. This doesn’t mean your bones can’t break of course, as they are much less dense than steel. Bone has been found to have a tensile strength of 20,000 psi while steel is much higher at 70,000 psi. Steel is much heavier than bone, however, and pound for pound bone is the stronger material.

The feet account for one quarter of all the human body’s bones. You may not give your feet much thought but they are home to more bones than any other part of your body. How many? Of the two hundred or so bones in the body, the feet contain a whopping 52 of them.

Microscopic Level

Much of what takes place in our bodies happens at a level that we simply can’t see with the naked eye. These facts will show you that sometimes that might be for the best.

About 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home. Germaphobes don’t need to worry however, as a majority of these are entirely harmless and some are even helpful in maintaining a healthy body.

Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days. Skin protects your delicate internal organs from the elements and as such, dries and flakes off completely about once a month so that it can maintain its strength. Chances are that last month’s skin is still hanging around your house in the form of the dust on your bookshelf or under the couch.

Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute. While that sounds like a lot, it’s really just a small fraction of the cells that are in the human body. Estimates have placed the total number of cells in the body at 10-50 trillion so you can afford to lose a few hundred million without a hitch.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. You may not think much about losing skin if yours isn’t dry or flaky or peeling from a sunburn, but your skin is constantly renewing itself and shedding dead cells.

Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells. Your body not only needs energy to keep your organs up and running but also to constantly repair and build new cells to form the building blocks of your body itself.

Every tongue print is unique. If you’re planning on committing a crime, don’t think you’ll get away with leaving a tongue print behind. Each tongue is different and yours could be unique enough to finger you as the culprit.

Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long. Anyone who has ever tasted blood knows that it has a slightly metallic taste. This is due to the high levels of iron in the blood. If you were to take all of this iron out of the body, you’d have enough to make a small nail and very severe anemia.

The most common blood type in the world is Type O. Blood banks find it valuable as it can be given to those with both type A and B blood. The rarest blood type, A-H or Bombay blood due to the location of its discovery, has been found in less than hundred people since it was discovered.

Human lips have a reddish color because of the great concentration of tiny capillaries just below the skin. The blood in these capillaries is normally highly oxygenated and therefore quite red. This explains why the lips appear pale when a person is anemic or has lost a great deal of blood. It also explains why the lips turn blue in very cold weather. Cold causes the capillaries to constrict, and the blood loses oxygen and changes to a darker color.

Miscellaneous

Here are a few things you might not have known about all different parts of your anatomy.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream. It isn’t entirely clear to scientists why this is the case, but if you are opposed to having nightmares you might want to keep yourself a little toastier at night.

Tears and mucus contain an enzyme (lysozyme) that breaks down the cell wall of many bacteria.

This is to your advantage, as the mucus that lines your nose and throat, as well as the tears that wet your eyes are helping to prevent bacteria from infecting those areas and making you sick.

Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil. If you’ve seen the Matrix you are aware of the energy potentially generated by the human body. Our bodies expend a large amount of calories keeping us at a steady 98.6 degrees, enough to boil water or even cook pasta.

Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren’t. The chemicals and hormones released when you are afraid could be having unseen effects on your body in the form of earwax. Studies have suggested that fear causes the ears to produce more of the sticky substance, though the reasons are not yet clear.

It is not possible to tickle yourself. Even the most ticklish among us do not have the ability to tickle ourselves. The reason behind this is that your brain predicts the tickle from information it already has, like how your fingers are moving. Because it knows and can feel where the tickle is coming from, your brain doesn’t respond in the same way as it would if someone else was doing the tickling.

The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body. While not exact down to the last millimeter, your armspan is a pretty good estimator of your height.

Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears. In the animal world, humans are the biggest crybabies, being the only animals who cry because they’ve had a bad day, lost a loved one, or just don’t feel good.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. This doesn’t have a genetic basis, but is largely due to the fact that a majority of the machines and tools we use on a daily basis are designed for those who are right handed, making them somewhat dangerous for lefties to use and resulting in thousands of accidents and deaths each year.

Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day. Most men have a much easier time burning fat than women. Women, because of their reproductive role, generally require a higher basic body fat proportion than men, and as a result their bodies don’t get rid of excess fat at the same rate as men.

Koalas and primates are the only animals with unique fingerprints. Humans, apes and koalas are unique in the animal kingdom due to the tiny prints on the fingers of their hands. Studies on primates have suggested that even cloned individuals have unique fingerprints.

The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip has a name. It is called the philtrum. Scientists have yet to figure out what purpose this indentation serves, though the ancient Greeks thought it to be one of the most erogenous places on the body.

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hari kokurikulum...17 june 2009

Lensa ini menunjukkan sebahagian daripada aktiviti ko-kurikulum yang berjalan minggu lepas. Ini merupakan kumpulan pelajar yang menganggotai badan beruniform taekwondo. Pada setiap Rabu, apabila pelajar perlu mengikuti uniform masing-masing,pelajar taekwondo pun tidak terkecuali. Terdapat pelbagai aktiviti yang telah dijalankan seperti mereka logo kumpulan, 'did u know', permainan catur dan scrabble dan gambar di atas ini...penglipur lara moden. Seorang pelajar akan bercerita tentang pengalaman sama ada pahit ataupun manis. Ceritanya berkisarkan jejak-jejak perjalanan mereka dari sekolah rendah sehingga sekarang.

Pelajar taekwondo menjalani latihan pada setiap Isnin. Ianya diajar oleh seorang guru bertauliah iaitu Encik Mustafa. Ahli berdaftar uniform ini ialah seramai 20 orang. Pada bulan Julai akan datang, pelajar akan menjalani ujian pertama untuk memiliki tali pinggang kuning. Bagi pelajar senior, ujian untuk memdapatkan tali pinggang hijau dan merah.

Selamat Maju Jaya.