Interesting Facts that will blow your mind.

You may have heard the name of Madame Curie, the scientist who is also known as the mother of modern physics. She is known for her research on radioactive substances and the discovery of Polonium and Radium. But you would not know that her interest in the radioactive element led her to her death. Due to exposure to radioactive, she developed a disease called aplastic anemia which took her life. Even radiation damaged her clothes, furniture and books. Even a hundred years after her death, her things are still radioactive and are kept in the lead box and will be kept as such for the next 1500 years

There are some places in the universe where diamonds rain. Saturn and Jupiter are the two planets where a large amount of carbon is present in the atmosphere and when electricity falls on carbon due to changes in the weather, it becomes very hard and become graphite and starts to fall down. Where the atmospheric pressure hardens the graphite until it becomes a diamond. And this is how there is a rain of diamonds.

Some people get upset due to an increase in weight. But you will be surprised to know that there is also a child whose weight increases by 90 kg, rather than 2-4 kg daily. Here I am talking about the baby of the Blue Whale, which gains 90 kg of weight every day in its first year of born. An adult blue whale can weigh up to 1.4 lakh kg.

If you are asked that which is the world's most printed book, then you will probably think of the Bible, Quran, Gita or Harry Potter. But you will be surprised to know that the catalogue of IKEA store selling furniture and home accessories holds the record for the most printed book in the world. It prints 200 million copies every year in about 2 dozen languages.

We all know that one can save one's life by donating blood, but if someone asks that how many people a single person can save by donating his blood in his life, then you may think about 10, 15 or 20 people. But you will be surprised to know that an 81 years old James Harrison is also known as the 'man with the golden arm' from Australia donated blood 1137 times from 1954 to 2018 and saved the lives of 24 lakhs (2.4 million) babies. As a matter of fact, his blood contained a rare type of plasma which is used to make a treatment for Rhesus disease in babies during pregnancy.

We all know that the letter 'A' is one of the most used alphabet in the English language. But when we start writing the numbers in English words like one, two, three then alphabet A is not required in any number from 1 to 999 numbers. The first number in the English word in which the alphabet A is used is the number 'Thousand'.

Just like boys and girls propose to each other by giving them rings, the same thing happens in most species of penguins. Penguins choose only one partner for the whole life and to impress their favourite female penguin, the male penguins give them the smoothest and spherical stones. If the female penguin likes that stone, she keeps it in her nest and soon both start living together. It is same as if they got married after proposing.

All of you would know about the octopus, its 8 hands surprise us. But you will be surprised to know that there are many more interesting things about an octopus. Octopus has 3 hearts and 9 brains. Its blood colour is not red like ours but blue and if one of its hand gets cut, then it grows again. The blue colour of blood comes from hemocyanin, the copper-containing protein that binds oxygen in the octopus.

There is a food item that does not get deteriorate for thousands of years. Yes, here I am talking about Honey. Honey is the only foodstuff that does not get deteriorate even after thousands of years. It is said that the honey found in Pharaoh's tomb in the Egyptian pyramids was still fresh and tasty when tasted by the scientists, there was just needed to warm up a bit.

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