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1. worker ants talk to each other by rubbing their antennae.

2. whenever a lizard is threatened by an enemy,it drops of its tail which can grow later.

3.plants were the first living beings on earth.The first plants appeared around 3 billion years ago and grew in or near water.

4.a new born baby has 350 bones. As the baby grows bones fuse together to make fewer but bigger bones.An adult has 206 bones

5.The old name of china was "cathay"

6.The worlds first stamp was issued in england in 1840 . it was called " black penny"

7.Early man probably started fire by rubbing two stones together.

8.before the potters wheel was invented,it was difficult to make round pots.people made pots by shaping lumps of clay

9.The first computer,HEC-2M was installed in India in 1995.The First indegenous computer,ISI JU was developed in India by Jadavpur University and Indian Statistical Institute Of Calcutta in 1964.India's First Super Computer cray-mp14 was installed on march 25,1989.

10.The Salt Dissolved In sea water makes it easier for objects to float in sea rather in lakes.

11.One Of The Worst type of Pollution of water is an oil spill.The Harmful effects of an oil spill can be seen years after the actual spillage.

12.Venus And Uranus are the only planets that rotate clockwise on their axises,all other rotate anticlockwise This Means that on venus and uranus sun rises in the west and sets in east

13.Gravity is the force of attraction exwrted by any object.Earth being a large body has a powerful gravitational pull.This is because of burning of iron and nickel in core of earth

14.Jantar Mantar In Delhi and Jaipur are two places where we can see sundial.

15.People during olden times also used water clocks as the water dropped out of it the level went down from one mark to the next.

16.People also used candle to tell time.They marked each hour on wax and the candle burnt slowly down from one hour mark to the next.

17.a palindrome is one which reads the same backwards and foreward.The years 1991 and 2002 were palindromes.

18.The ancient game chess originated from India.

19.South Korea is the first asian country which reached world cup football quarter finals in the year 2002 held in south korea.

20.we blink our eyes at least 1800 times every hour.

21.Uttar Pradesh is the most populated state in India,sikkim is the least populated.

22.parsis worship in a fire temple.Zoroastrians go to a synagogue.

23.The Akhand Path is a continous reading of the guru granth sahib from begining to end without stopping.

24.There are 76 different species of whales.

25.There are more than 2 million different kinds of animals on this earth.

26.The Great Wall of china was built in 3rd century BC to keep away raiders of mongolia.It is 20 to 30 feet high and 15 to 25 feet wide at the top. with watch towers every hundred metres.

27.Nepal is the only country with a triangular flag.

28.Tallest animal on land the girraffe can grow up to 5.5 meters (18 feets)
Fastest animal cheetah can run up to 105 kmph (65 mph)
Largest animal blue whale can grow upto 30 meters (100 feets)

29.A chameleon can look backwards with one eye and forward with other at same time.It can change its colour according to its surrounding which is called camouflage.

30.whenever worker ants find food,they leave a trail of smell for other ants to follow.Bees also have a unique way of communicating they do a kind of dance.

31.a camel can go without water and food for upto 10 - 15 days.it has bags along the walls of its stomach,where it stores water. It also has an hump on its bag where it can store up to 45 kgs of fat.