Monday, August 31, 2009

INTERESTING FACTS

v About one-tenth of the Earth’s surface is permanently covered with ice.
v Baby elephants can drink over 80 liters of water a day
v A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
v A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50 kms into the sky.
v The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon. It measures three and half miles in diameter.
v It takes 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

- Collected by: E.PRASHANTHI. VIII-A

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