Unique Facts

1- Inside the vents of active volcanoes bacteria live in conditions equivalent to a vat of hydrochloric acid. They’re not fussy about their homes! 2- Mount Fuji, the volcano that towers over the Japanese capital Tokyo, last erupted in 1707.The earthquakes and tsunami that followed killed 30,000 people and the rice fields were left barren for 100 years. 3- The lava (molten rock) that erupts out of a volcano can be as hot as 1,200 degrees Celsius (2,200 degrees Fahrenheit) and the power of a large eruption can equal that of a million nuclear bombs. 4- There is a super volcano underneath Yellowstone Park, USA that last erupted 640,000 years ago. If it erupted now, ash would be thrown over the whole of the USA and the entire world’s climate would change – perhaps enough to wipe out humans completely. 5- When the volcano Krakatau erupted in Indonesia in 1883, it made the loudest noise in recorded history – it could be heard hundreds of miles away and the sound waves ...

1- In ancient times, Indian doctors used live ants to ‘stitch’ wounds together. The doctor would hold the edges together and get the ant to bite through the skin.The ant’s head would then be snapped off leaving its jaws as the ‘stitch’! 2- Some horseshoe bats in India share their burrows with porcupines. 3- The coconut crab lives on land and will drown if submerged in water. It grows to about 1 metre (39 inches) across and lives on islands around the Indian Ocean. 4- Meghalaya in India has 1,187 millimetres (467 inches) of rain a year, making it the rainiest place in the world. 5- In 2001 a geologist in India found fossilized raindrops! The imprint was found in ancient rocks, proving that it rained on earth 1.6 billion years ago. 6- 180 million years ago, India was an island off the coast of Australia. The Earth’s land masses slowly move around, at up to 10 centimetres (4 inches) a year. 7- The largest mountain ranges on Earth are under the sea! They f...

1- Woolly bats in West Africa live in spider webs. 2- An African elephant kept in the New York Zoo had tusks that were 3.49 and 3.35 metres (11 feet 5 inches and 10 feet 11 inches) long! 3- The giant African land snail can grow to 39 centimetres (15 inches) and weigh 900 grams (2 pounds). 4- A mushroom from Africa, called the Lady in the Veil, grows faster than any other organism in the world. It grows up to 20 centimetres (8 inches) in only 20 minutes, and can be heard cracking as it grows! 5- The South African quiver tree cuts its own branches off to preserve water. Clever tree! 6- The Vredefort crater in South Africa was created 2 billion years ago by an asteroid or comet striking Earth. It’s big enough to fit 270,000 tennis courts inside! 7- Lake Nyos in Cameroon,Africa, belches out deadly carbon dioxide. Its poisonous burps killed 1,800 people in one night in August 1986. No one really knows where the gas comes from.

some interesting facts about china 1- More people die in floods than in other types of natural disasters.The Yellow River flood in China in 1931 killed between one and four million people, and is the deadliest known natural disaster. 2- In 2007, scientists used the internet to link-up telescopes based in China, Europe and Australia to create a single telescope spanning half the Earth. 3- The heaviest building ever to have been relocated while still intact is the Fu Gang Building in the Guangxi Province of China. It weighs 15,140 tonnes (33 million pounds) and is 34 meters (111 feet) tall. It was moved a total of 35 meters (115 feet) in 11 days.

1- Recycling one plastic bottle saves enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours. 2- Recycling ten drinks cans takes the same amount of energy as making one new one. 3- Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes. 4- Recycling just one tin can save enough energy to power a television for 3 hours! 5- If you throw an aluminium can into a recycling bin, it can be recycled and ready to use again in just six weeks. 6- Recycling 1 tonne (2,205 pounds) of paper saves 17 trees from being cut down.

1- Percy Spencer (USA) invented the microwave oven in 1945, using new technology developed for military defence during the Second World War. 2- Radar was first used to detect enemy aircraft during the Second World War. 3- The first programmable computer, Colossus, was built in England during the Second World War to crack coded enemy messages.All 14 Colossus computers were destroyed after the war and the British government denied they had ever existed. 4- A chemical found in asparagus attracts fish. During the First World War,American soldiers were issued with asparagus so that if they were stranded near water they could eat the asparagus, urinate in the water and catch some fish to eat! 5- In the First World War, soldiers used the super-absorbent sphagnum moss to bandage their wounds. It can soak up four times as much blood as cotton bandages, but was a disgusting colour, like dried pus!