Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Quote of the day

 "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
   

Buddha

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Saturday, 23 February 2013

TIGER FUN FACTS


 1. You can hear a tiger roar over a mile away!

2 A tiger can eat 100 pounds of meat a night! Compare that to 400 hamburgers! They need a lot of food because they go days between meals. 

3. Tigers mark their territories by spraying bushes and trees with a special mixture of urine and scent gland secretions. They also leave scratch marks on trees. 

4. A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.

5. Tigers can see in the dark six times better than humans can. They can also see in color.

6. No one knows exactly why tigers are striped, but scientists think that the stripes act as camouflage, and help tigers hide from their prey. The Sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies, and the Siberian tiger has the fewest stripes. Tiger stripes are like human fingerprints; no two tigers have the same pattern of stripes.

7. Tigers have been known to reach speeds up to 65 kph (40 mph).

8. Tigers that breed with lions give birth to hybrids known as tigons and ligers.

9. Many subspecies of the tiger are either endangered or already extinct. Humans are the primary cause of this through hunting and the destruction of habitats.

10. Rare white tigers carry a gene that is only present in around 1 in every 10000 tigers.

Monday, 18 February 2013

SPACE FUN FACTS

                                 
                                                  
1.Despite its serene appearance when viewed from Earth, the energy produced from the Sun is so strong that every second its core releases the equivalent of 100 billion nuclear bombs.








 2.The next time you’re cloud watching, ponder this: by studying the skies, you are essentially staring into history. Why? The light you presently enjoy travels from distant stars and galaxies takes hundreds, thousands and sometimes millions of years to reach us.









 3. In 2004, astronomers discovered a star made entirely of diamonds. The crystallized white dwarf measures over 2,400 miles across and is composed of 10 billion trillion trillion carats. Unfortunately for treasure hunters, though, it is also 50 light years from Earth.








 4.If you consider yourself “vertically challenged,” you should consider becoming an astronaut. The path toward realizing said career is a long one, but since the lack of gravity in space allows for the elongation of the spine, you would grow two inches while floating in the Milky Way.