Some Interesting Facts

Yesterday, I read this article, want to share, please have a look:

A snail can sleep for 3 years. ( wow, lucky chap eh ? )

Electricity doesn’t move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs  covering a meter a second.

The word “listen” contains the same letters as the word “silent”.

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.

The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

‘Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia’ is the fear of long words.

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth’s atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.

“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with
the hands.