AMAZING FACTS

- A Cat can runs about 20 kilometers per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.

- A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast! The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).

- The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

- A nail takes around 6 months to grow from base to the tip.

- Turtles can life for more than 100 years.

- An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.

- The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.

- If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.

- A giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.

- Ocean wave can travel as fast as a JET plane.

- The first drawing of a helicopter are nearly 500 years old.

- A butterfly warms up its body upto 81° fahrenheit before flying.

- A whale can swim for 3 months without eating.

- A human being drinks 16,000 tons of water in his lifetime.

- We blinks 25 times a minute.

- To melt 1 pound of fat you will need to walk 34 miles.

- The starfish is not a fish, its an animal (phylum: Echinodermate)

- Male mosquito does not bite, so blame the females next time.

- A person will die from the total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation

- The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.

- Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.

- The small intestine is 7-8 meters long, making it the largest organ inside the human body. The large intestine is only 1-1.5 meters long!

- The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo dragon which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car.

- The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.