fact for new years eve 2008

Goliath frog is the largest frog in the world.

The oldest skeleton to ever be found in Australia was believed to be 60,000 years old. It was that of an Aboriginal male, traces of ochre (a ceremonial paint used by Aboriginals) were also found.

The biggest ant in India is about an inch.

Planet earth is not round!

Blue ringed octopus (ozzie animal) can kill a person if touched!

Chook is the Ozzie word for chicken, rooster or hen.

The Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first.

fact for 28 dec 2008

Curry powder gets its yellow color from a spice, turmeric.

Brazil has the biggest eucalyptus plantations in the world.

A box jellyfish (oz animal) can kill a person in less than a minute.

fact for 27 dec 2008

The average Australian consumes eight beef cattle and 90 sheep in their lifetime.

Maddona is the number one most popular female solo artist in the world.

fact for 25 dec 2008

Jellyfish kill more people than the great White Shark.

Fiddler Rays, found in Australia, are half shark/ half ray. Their body is of a ray, where as they have a tail of a shark. Because of their shark tails, they can't sting you! Their fiddle like shape gives them their name.

26 dec 2008

India has health laughing clubs where people get together and laugh.

Australian Leafy Sea Dragons can move their eyes id different directions.

The oldest recorded age for a cat is 34 years.

fact for 24 dec 2008

The worlds smallest violin is only 37 millimetres long and is small enough to fit in a box of matches.

The first bathroom is said to have been built in India about 4500 years ago.

When a joey (baby kangaroo) is born it is the size of a bean.

fact for 23 dec 2008

Lonely Planet is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed

fact for 22 dec 2008

India used sugar before any other country.

Australia has the biggest number of wild one humped camels in the world.

There are 370 known species of sharks,

fact for 21 dec 2008

It was an Australian meteorologist who first began to give tropical storms women's names at the end of the 19th century.

Flies jump backwards when they take off.

fact for 20 dec 2008

Calcutta is the only place in the world where you still can travel by riksha pulled by humans.

Australia has more than 1500 species of spiders.

The skin from a shark could be used as sandpaper.

fact for 19 dec 2008

The Great barrier Reef is the largest organic construction on the earth!

Swiss people eat more chocolate than any other person in the world.

fact for 18 dec 2008

A billabong is the Australian term for a stagnant body of backwater attached to a river or a stream.

The longest station name on the Indian Railways is Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta.

The smallest reptile in the world is the Caribbean islands 16-millimeter lizard

fact for 17 dec 2008

The first time South Africa beat Australia in a cricket game was in Adelaide in 1910-1911.

Rats cannot burp.

fact for 16 dec 2008

In India nearly 1200 species of birds can be found.

In Australia light bulbs are called globes.

The age of a fish can be determined by reading rings on bones in the fish's head.

fact for 15 dec 2008

QANTAS stands for Queensland and Northern Territories Airline Service.

The green sea turtle does not have a green shell.

fact for 14 dec 2008

There are over 1500 software companies in Bangalore, India.

Australia use to have stamps that actually look like gems.

Hawaii got snow at top of Mauna Loa mountains during winter.

fact for 12 dec 2008

India buys more gold than any other country.

In Australia a banana bender means that a person comes from Queensland!

The Arabic word for mosque is Jami.

fact for 13 dec 2008

Ayers Rock means meeting place in the Aboriginal language.

All known mammals have tounges.

fact for 11 dec 2008

The biggest pure-gold nugget was found in Australia in 1869 and weighed 156 pounds.

Fire Ants can kill a sensitive person.

facts for 10 dec 2008

There where no plastic bags in India before 1985.

There are 6000 species of flies in Australia.

Cats spend about 70% of a day sleeping.

fact for 9 dec 2008

There are 2 types of Seadragons found in Australian Waters- The Weedy (Common) Seadragon and the Leafy Seadragon .Sea dragons are not sea horses. Sea dragons are found in Australian waters and belong to the same family as sea horses but differ in 3 main ways - looks, they have "appendages" from their body which look like ether weeds or leafs (hence the two types) , they have no pouch for rearing the young , their tail does not coil up or grab things. Seadragons swim by the same method as seahorses, that is by the rapid movement of their ventral and dorsal fins (on their neck and back)


Dinosaurs survived for nearly 150 million years, which is 75 times longer than humans have now lived on Earth.

fact for 8th dec 2008

The worlds largest Jarrah Tree is located in Armadale, WA, Australia.

The only country in the world that has a Bill of Rights for Cows is India.

In 1894 the first big Coke sign was found on the side of a building located in Cartersville, Georgia, and still exists today .

fact for 7 dec 2008

Australia has long been known as the lucky country. This is not surprising when you learn it is the world's largest iron ore exporter and largest producer of bauxite and alumina. Australia also has the world's largest deposits of silver, zinc, zircon and easily extracted uranium (over 40% of world resources). It also has about 10 percent of the world's gold resources.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

fact for 6 dec 2008

Cheroot, a variety of cigar actually gets its name from a Tamil word. In olden days, tobacco was rolled up on leaves or a piece of paper and smoke which was originally called “Surruttu”. Surruttu means “Rolled up”.

Native Cats are a type of small furry animal that lives in the forests of Australia and Tasmania.

Santa Claus stands for Saint Nicholas. Santa's image originally came from a Coca Cola advertisement of St.Nicholas ! The red suit was from Coca Colas colour. Later the image became that Santa or St. Nicholas gave toys just to good kids on christmas day. But what a fact, that the jolly man who celebrates Birth of Christ, originally came from Coca Cola! Now one question remains, is he real?

fact for 5 dec 2008

The Numbat's (australian animal)scientific name, myrmecobiusfasciatus, means "striped feeder-on-ants.

The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark .

fact for 4 dec 2008

Australia has around 2.5 million cows.

Malayalam(indian language) is the only spoken language in the world whose name when spelt in English is a palindrome.

The deepest mine in the world is the East Rand mine, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 metres .

fact for 3 dec 2008

The Australian furseal is a superb swimmer, and can dive to approax 150 metres searching for fish and squid, and is highly gregarious. (fond of company)

America still issues 1 cent coins.

fact for 2 dec 2008

The word Pariah comes from the name of a drummer community called ‘Paraiyan’ in the backward parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The word Paraiyan comes from the word ‘Parai’ meaning drum. ‘Paraiyan’ also means to say. In olden days important messages were sent through a man with a drum. The drum was to attract attention so he could deliver the message to the public. Hence drumming and communication came to be associated together.

Yabbies, are a type of inland freshwater crayfish found in Australia. They are a crustacean Scientific name is "Cherax destructor" .

Some snails live on branches in trees

fact for 1 dec 2008

Bogong is an Australian Aboriginal name for Moth and the Bogong Moths scientific name is "Agrotis infusa".

Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

fact for 30th nov 2008

Arabic numerals are not Arabic; they were invented in India.

The koala's nickname is a Native Bear. The koala is a mammal. They are warm-blooded. The koala's young is called a cub. The koala's young are born alive. Koalas drink milk from the mother. The koala breaths oxygen from air. The koala might look cuddly but the koala has very sharp teeth and very sharp claws. The koalas have white on the underside and gray on the rest of its body.

Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system .

fact for 29th nov 2008

Over 2 million koalas were killed between 1908 and 1927.

The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail .

fact for 28 nov 2008

The koala's scientific name is Phasclarctos cinereus.

Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations.

fact for 27 nov 2008

Everyone has heard of the Golden Temple at Amritsar. Did you know that the word Amritsar comes from the Sanskrit Amŗita-sarovar which means the “Lake of Nectar”?

The Ancient Greek women made a type of cheek blush by painting their cheeks with herbal pastes which was made out of crushed berries and seeds.

The Sydney Funnelweb spider has killed people in less than two hours.

fact for 26 nov 2008

Australian Dawn Fraser is the only athlete to ever win gold in the same event at three consecutive Olympics.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

fact for 25 nov 2008

Bhaarat, the official name of India, has an interesting meaning in Sanskrit, “bha” means knowledge or light, and “rat” is a verb for ‘doing’. Bhāarat is thus ‘the one in search of enlighntenment or knowledge.’

Australians may refer to fools, idiots and hopeless cases as Drongos. Drongo was a 1920's racehorse that showed promise but never won anything in 37 races.


The average person laughs 13 times a day.

fact for 24 nov 2008

The first documented sighting of Australia by Europeans was by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon aboard the "Dufkyen" in March 1606 .

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

fact for 23 nov 2008

The dancer during the performance of an Indian dance form ‘ kuchipudi’ dances on a brass plate, adjusting the rhythm of the tabla (drum) with the clamour of the plate being beaten by her/his foot. The dancer also balances a small pot of water on her head as she dances.

In 1851 the colony of Victoria was created by separating from the colony of New South Wales.

9pin bowling was made up in Germany during the Medieval ages.

fact for 22 nov 2008

In March 1803 Australia's first newspaper the "Sydney Gazzette and New South Wales Advertiser" was published by ex-convict George Howe.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

fact for 21 nov 2008

The word “avatar”, recently added to the Oxford dictionary, means incarnation and originates in the 10 incarnations of Lord Vishnu, the Hindu Deity.

Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira was born in 1902 and went on to become one of Australia's most notable artists with his watercolour landscapes.


The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

fact for 20 november 2008

Australian meteorologist Clement Wragge who worked with the Queensland Government Meteorology Department from 1887 - 1903 was the first to start naming cyclones.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

fact for 19 nov 2008

The largest state in Australia, Western Australia, is about the same size as Western Europe but only has a population of approx. 2 million people.

The word ‘Khakhi’ originates from an Indian word for mud. During the 19th century, British soldiers in India noticed that when their white service uniforms became stained by a type of mud there was a tan, camouflage effect. The term was takenfrom the natives word for that particular mud.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. ( thankfully !!)

fact for 18 nov 2008

The first Prime Minister of Australia was Sir Edmund Barton from 1 January 1901 - 24 September 1903.



Did you know the Chinese used silk to make their paper?

fact for 17 nov 2008

One village called Mattur in Shimoga district of Karnataka, India still uses Sanskrit as the primary spoken tongue!

Walter Burley Griffin won the competition to design Australia's capital city - Canberra, in 1912.

A shark can grow and use over 20,000 teeth in a lifetime!

fact for 16 nov 2008

The stretch of water between the northern tip of Australia and New Guinea was named after Spanish sailor Luis Vaez de Torres who sailed through the strait in 1606.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Male zebras are called stallions.

fact for 15 nov 2008

The republic of India was once referred to as ‘Aryavarta’. Aryavarta means the Land of Aryas, Arya (in Sanskrit) meaning noble.

Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent.


On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

fact for 14 nov 2008

The Great Barrier Reef (australia) can be seen from space!

Car making is now the largest manufacturing industry in the world.

fact for 13 nov 2008

Bengali is the highest spoken Indian language in the world.

The Royal National Park outside of Sydney was made in 1879.

Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.

fact for 12 nov 2008

In 1988 the world's first plastic (polymer) banknote was released by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew.Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

fact for 11 nov 2008

1650 is the approximate number of dialects( a dialect is a form of language spoken by a group of people) in India.

In 2006 champion swimmer Australian Ian Thorpe retired from professional swimming at the age of 24 years. During his swimming career Ian set 13 individual long-course world records, won 11 world titles, and won 5 gold, 3 silver, and 1 bronze medals at two olympic games.


The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and it's tongue is as long as an elephant.

fact for 10th nov 2008

The Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth the second on 20th October 1973. It has over 1 million tiles on the roof .

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.

fact for 9th 2008 nov

Did you know that the word mongoose comes from India? The name is an alteration of the Marathi name ‘Mangus’ for the mammal. The plural form is mongooses and not mongeese.

Australia is approximately 32 times the size of the UK and equally as large as the USA excluding Alaska.

The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White. It can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

fact for 8th nov 2008

The western swamp turtle is Australia's smallest turtle.

The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.

fact for 7 nov 2008

Do you know that the word Serpent comes from Sanskrit( the original indian language)? The word Serpent comes from the Sanskrit word “Sarpam” meaning snake or more arguably any creature that hisses or stings.

The Nullarbor Plain extends for 2,000km across the southern parts of South Australia and Western Australia and includes the longest section of straight railway track in the world (478km).

The Blue Whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.

fact for 6 nov 2008

Mainland Australia's most easterly point is Cape Byron (Byron Bay) in New South Wales, the most westerly point is Steep Point (Shark Bay) in Western Australia.

Did you know it was the Chinese who made the first wheelbarrow?

fact for 5 nov 2008

About 35% of Australia is desert.

The material to build the Taj Mahal was brought in from various parts of India by a fleet of 1000 elephants.

It was the Romans who made the first popsicle. They took some ice and added flavour to it and then licked it. What a great idea! Yummy !

4 nov 2008 fact

The Melbourne Cup horse race was first run in 1861 and won by a horse named "Archer". The race is held on the first Tuesday in November.

Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper (or zip)but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure".

fact for 3 nov 2008

Approximately 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year.

Of the six states in Australia the smallest state is Tasmania (the island state) .

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

fact for 2 nov 2008

Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria, Australia, held the 1956 Olympic Games.


The first metal bicycle was called the High-Wheel or Penny Farthing. People had a hard time keeping their balance on this type of bicycle.

fact for nov 1 2008

The Taj Mahal is one of the wonders of the world.

Fraser Island, located just off the south coast of Queensland is the largest sand island in the world.

The first kind of pencil was a bunch of graphite sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick.

fact for 31 oct 2008

Australia has 700 species of wattles ( a type of flower).

Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

Australia's, and possibly the world's first full length feature film "The Story of the Kelly Gang" was shown in Melbourne in 1906 - it ran for about an hour.

India also celebrates the birthday of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former President and Vice-President , as “Teachers’ Day”.Born on September 5, 1888, at Tiruttani, Radhakrishnan grew to become the most famous Indian teacher of all times. In his honour, this day is celebrated as Teacher’s Day.

China has more english speakers than the USA.

29 oct 2008

The largest star on the Australian Flag is known as the Federation Star and has seven points - one for each of the six states and one for all the territories. The six states being Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia. There are two mainland territories - Australian Capital Territory, and Northern Territory.

Most lipstick contains fish scales .

fact for 28 oct 2008

India has the only maneater tigers in the world in Sundarban in Bengal India. Sundarban is aproximately 100 km from Calcutta.


The most medals Australia has ever won at an Olympic Games was in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, a total of 58 medals.

For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America .

fact for 27 oct 2008

The giant Australian cuttlefish is one of the largest of it's kind, it can grow to almost a metre in length including tentacles (60cm cuttlebone or mantle length) and weigh up to 5kg.

The clown fish has the ability to change its sex. If a breeding female dies, the male fish will change its sex and mate with another male .

fact for 26 oct 2008

The bilby, an Australian animal , lives in a burrow and has a pouch that faces backwards so as to not fill with dirt whilst digging.

The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.

Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.

fact for 25 oct 2008

The emu is the largest bird after the ostrich in the world. It can grow to a height of about 180cm (6 feet) and reach speeds of 50km/h when running - it cannot fly.

On average, a beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.

fact for 24 oct 2008

India is the largest producer and consumer(consume means to use up ) of tea in the world,accounting for more than 30% of global production and 25% of consumption.

A baby echidna, an Australian animal, is called a "puggle" and an echidna can live for about 50 years.

Orcas (killer whales), when traveling in groups, breathe in unison.

fact for 23 oct 2008

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened in 1932. It is the world's largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge. The height to the top of the arch is 134 metres above sea level.

Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas.

fact for 22 oct 2008

There are about 45 different kinds of kangaroo and some can travel at speeds as fast as 65 km per hour.

With 800 movies per year, India's film industry overshadows Hollywood.

n 1893, the first mosque in the United States was built .

fact for 21 oct 2008

New South Wales, with 6.8 million people has the largest population of any of Australia's states. Victoria, with 5 million people is next most populous.

Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide .

fact for 20 oct 2008

The founder and creator of Hotmail, the world's best-known web-based email program, Sabeer Bhatia, is Indian.

Melbourne - once was nicnamed "Bearbrass". It was supposedly a version of its Aboriginal name. In the early 19th century, it was also known as Bareport, Bareheep, Barehurp and Bareberp.

A pig always sleeps on its right side.

fact for 19 oct 2008

While Australia does not have an active volcano on its mainland, it does own one. Heard Island, south of Perth, is a territory owned by Australia. This island has an awesome beauty - lava spilling volcano capped with snow and ice!

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

fact for 18 oct 2008

Milkha Singh was the first Indian athlete to reach Olympic finals. Milkha Singh reached the finals of 400 m at the 1960 Rome Olympics. He finished fourth in the finals and clocked a timing of 45.6 seconds. Mlkha Singh missed the bronze medal by just a difference of 0.1 second.

The name Kylie comes from the Aborigine for Boomerang.

70% of dust of house dust is dead skin cells.

fact for 17 october

When a specimen of a platypus was first sent to England, the recipients believed the Australians had played a joke by sticking a duck's bill on a large rat's body.

Lemons have more sugar than oranges.

fact for 16 oct 2008

Nawang Gombu is the first man to climb Mount Everest twice. He reached the summit of Everest with the American expedition in 1963 and with the Indian expedition in 1965.

Susie Maroney is the Australian swimmer who swam the longest ever distance without stopping. She swam from Cuba to Florida.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

fact for 15 oct 2008

Koalas are nocturnal, they spend at least 16-18 hours a day sleeping.

Apples, not cafeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the moring.

fact for 14 oct 2008

The largest religious building in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century.

Melbourne was formerly called Batmania, after one of its founders John Batman.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

fact for 13 oct 2008

Dutch explorers arrived in Australia before James Cook claimed it for England and named it New Holland.

You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.

fact for 12 oct 2008

Australia is the lowest continent in the world, with an average height of just 330m above sea level.

The statue of Gomateshwara at Sravanbelagola in Karnataka is the tallest statue in India. The statue is 17m (55 ft) high and is visible from a distance of 30km.


Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

fact for 11 oct 2008

Eucalyptus was first used as a medicine by Aborigines, to treat coughs, fevers and asthma.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

fact for 10 oct 2008

Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.

The name `India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

fact for 9 oct 2008

A resident of Sydney is called Sydneysiders.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise .

fact for 8 oct 2008

Over 90% of the world's opals are mined in Australia.

There are 3.22 million Indians in USA(1.5% of the population) yet, 38% of doctors in USA are Indians, 12% of scientists in USA are Indians.

You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.

fact for 7 oct 2008

The oldest newspaper in Australia is the Sydney Morning Herald, published in 1831.

A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon .

fact for 6 oct 2008

The first official world surfing championships were held in Sydney in 1964.

The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed of India, who measured 1 feet, 10 inches .

Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

fact for 5 oct 2008

In April 1984, Australia’s national anthem, God Save the Queen was replaced by Advance Australia Fair.In the same year Australia adopted green and gold as its national colors.

A rat can go longer without water than a camel.

fact for 4 october 2008

Each Aborigine(the original people who first came to Australia) tribe has their own Totem. It can be a plant,rock or any bird/animal. This symbol never changes and is supposed to be chosen by the tribes ancestors.

Varanasi,India, also known as Benares, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

fact for 3 oct 2008

The Golden Wattle is the national flower of Australia. It has bright,broad green leaves and fluffy ,yellow, sweet smelling flowers.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

fact for 2 oct 2008

13% of the world's population follow Hinduism .(3rd largest amount;First is christianity ,33%, and second is Islam,20%)

The frill lizard is the reptile emblem of Australia.


A jellyfish is 95% water.

fact for 1 october 2008

Australia, founded by convicts. The homicide (murders,crimes,etc)rate is in Australia is 1.8 per 100,000 of population. The United States was founded by religious zealots. It's homicide rate is 6.3 per 100,000. Almost 400% greater than Australia.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

fact for 30 sept 2008

Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.

Australia has a total coastline of 36,735 kilometers.

A rat can go longer without water than a camel.

fact for 29 sept 2008

About 30% of the population of Australia was born overseas .

It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound .

fact for 28 sept 2008

Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal, wool, alumina, diamonds, sheep, lead and mineral sands.

Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipments were used.

The only bird that can fly backwards is the Hummingbird.

fact for 27 sept 2008

Tasmania boasts of having the cleanest air in the world.

Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eyes .

fact for 26 sept 2008

The first postage stamps of Asia, the "Scinde Dawk", were issued in India in 1852 .

Australia has the largest cattle station in the world, which measures around 30,028 sq km.

Polar bears are left-handed.

fact for 25 sept 2008

Sydney’s Opera House was designed in 1957 by Jorn Utzon, a Danish architect. Its roof weighs more than 161,000 tons.


A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

fact for 24 sept 2008

Buland Darwaza is the highest gateway in India. Buland Darwaza is 53.63m high and 35 m wide. It has 42 steps leading to it.

The longest stretch of railways in the world, measuring 478.4 kilometers in length, is situated in Western Australia, between the towns of Ooldia and Nurina.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.

fact for 23 sept 2008

Sydney Tower is 324.8m above sea level at its centre point, making it the highest building in the entire southern hemisphere.

The only insect that can turn it's head is a praying mantis.

fact for 22 sept 2008

The oldest synagogue (jewish temple) in India is the Paradesi Synagogue , built in 1568, Cochin, India.

The largest meteorite crater(A bowl-like shaped pit created by an asteroid or meteorite colliding with the Earth) in the world, Wolf Creek, is situated in Western Australia. It is 61m deep.

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

21 sept 2008

The Great Barrier Reef is the longest( a strip of rock or coral near the surface of the water ) coral reef in the world at over 2010 kilometres.

A gold fish's memory span is three seconds .

fact for 20 sept 2008

The oldest European church was built in Cochin , India. It was called St. Francis Church and was built in 1503.

Australia's most famous animals are unique to Australia only.When many people think of wildlife in Australia, they think of such animals as koala bears and kangaroos. Because Australia is an island and not connected to any other land, it has developed its own wildlife. The kangaroo, koala bear, emu, and kookaburra are only few of the animals that are only found in the wild in
Australia.

Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.

fact for 19 sept 2008

The second largest population of Greeks in the world lives in Melbourne,Australia ,second only to Athens.

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

fact for 18 sept 2008

There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.

There is no place in Australia that has a distance of more than 1000 km from the sea.

Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

fact for 17 september 2008

2.3 percent of Australia's GDP(Value of all goods and services produced in a country in one year) is from agriculture.

The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts .

fact for 16 Sept 2008

The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi, India built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage .An average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday .

There are actually four types of Boomerang - the "hook", the "hunter", "the club", "the V". All were used for hunting . Only one of the four will return when thrown - The Hunter.

The elephant is the only mammal that is unable to jump.

fact for 15 sept 2008

Australians love to gamble. Australians spend more money on gambling than any other country in the world. And although they make up less than one percent of the total population of the world, Australia has over twenty percent of the world's poker( A device that is designed for the playing of a game of chance, or a game that is partly chance and partly skill and a device that pays out money )machines.

Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have 10 .

fact for 14 sept 2008

Kohinoor, the jewel in the crown of the British monarch(The word monarch comes from the Greek , meaning "one ruler," which referred to an absolute ruler), is from India.

Australia can claim itself as a country, continent, and island. While it is the smallest continent in the world, it is also the largest island in the world. In addition, Australia is the only country in the world that makes up an entire continent.

Most hamsters blink one eye at a time.

fact for 13 sept 2008

Australia was first inhabited over 40,000 years ago by Aboriginal people. These tribes of Aborigines in the states and across the country spoke over 200 languages and dialects. However, more than half of these dialects are now extinct, as over ninety percent of the original Aborigines were killed when the British settled the continent, mostly as a result of diseases the Europeans brought over.There were originally over 200 languages in Australia.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

fact for 12 sept 2008

Presently, Australia claims to have a 100% literacy rate, one of the highest in the world. Perhaps this is why they read more newspapers than any country in the world.

India was the richest country on earth until after the coming of the British in the17th century. Christopher Columbus was attracted India's wealth. British, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and other "adventurers" were racing against each other to start trading buisnesses in India. It was known as the true land of milk and honey.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

fact for 11 sept 2008

Australia is famous for its sheep. The population of Australia is more sheep than people; in fact, there are roughly ten sheep in Australia for every person. As a result, Australia is the largest exporter in the world of lamb meat and wool.

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

fact for september 10 2008

Australia exports the largest part (18 percent) of its agricultural products(wheat, barley,oats, etc) to Japan.

The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus;the Persian invaders converted it into Hindu.

Alligators cannot move backwards

fact for 9 sept 2008

The salt water crocodile, found in Australia, is the worlds biggest crocodile.Males can occasionally grow to lengths of over 6 metres (20 feet).

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down

Fact for 8 sept 2008

Jagdish Bosh, from India was the pioneer (someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art ) of wireless communication (cell phones, portable phones).

Australia is the driest continent and is the second largest desert area in the world.(the first is the sahara)

A newborn hedgehog starts to get it's spines within 24 hours of it's birth.

fact for 7 sept 2008

Aborigines, the original people of Australia, now only make up 1.5 % of the population. There are no Tasmanian full blooded aboriginals left. They were also different in appearance from the mainland aborigines.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

fact for 6 sept 2008

Sydney is the largest city of Australia with over 4 million people, while the capital Canberra has around 300,000.

India exports software to 90 countries.

The art of mapmaking is older than the art of writing.

fact for 5 sept 2008

Cathedral Cave,Wellington, Australia has one of the largest stalagmites in the world. It is 15m tall .

A skunk can be detected over a mile away by a human.

fact for 4 sept 2008

India's national anthem, which is Jan Gan Man was written by Rabindranath Tagore .



Mt Augustus , found in australia is the biggest rock in the world.

Sharks can not get any diseases.

fact for 3 sept 2008

An Akubra is a special Australian hat with a broad rim; farmers and other outdoor workers wear an Akubra for protection against burning by the sun.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

fact of the day - 2 september 2008

Australia has 826 native birds including the laughing kookaburra, rainbow lorrikeet and the emu.

Amarnath Cave in Jammu & Kashmir is the largest cave in India.

The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.

incredible india

Amarnath Cave in Jammu & Kashmir is the largest cave in India.

India invented chess.

India never invaded any country in the past 10,000 years.

Bhaskacharya rightly corrected the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun before the astronomer Smart.

Ayurveda was the first form of medicine.

the solar system

the solar system was actually created bya nebula; a swirling amount of hot rocks and comets.when the nebula broke down it formed a pizza like circle with the biggest chunks of rock( planets) circling a red star (sun). it was named the solar system. it is known that in years to come the sun will explode and burn all the planets leaving a crushed mass of black.