World's largest rodent,Largest hailstone,St. Bernard....

1. The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
2. The largest hailstone weighed over 1kg fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
3. Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
4. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
5. The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
6. Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan Malamute, the Bull Terrier, and the Toy Poodle.
7. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
8. Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
9. The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. It is an Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig; it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
10. The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers. 

Barbarossa,Mohammad Ali,Henry Cavendish....

1. Henry Cavendish measured the strength of electricity used in his experiments by shocking himself.
2. Soto and Rinzai are the two main branches of Zen Buddhism.
3. In 1974, Anders Svedlund of Sweden first rowed across Pacific Ocean, in 118 days.
4. It takes 5 seconds for a healthy heart to pump a gallon of blood if a normal person is running for a bus.
5. E.E Cummings, Walt Disney, Ernest Hemingway and Somerset Maugham were all ambulance Drivers in World War I.
6. The World War II German Invasion of Russia was code named Barbarossa.
7. The cockroach is also known as "Croton Bug"in New York,USA.
8. In 1967, Mohammad Ali was stripped of his world heavyweight title and barred from professional boxing because he refused to drafted into the US army.
9. British General Charles Gordon helped to abolish slavery in China and Sudan.
10. Until 1975 mules were part of the British Army.

GRE Reasoning : Analogy 4

1. Lotus is related to Cuticle in the same way Fish is related to Scales.
2. Boat is related to Oar in the same way as chain is related to Pedal.
3. Ostrich is related to Antelope in the same way as Egret is related to Buffalo.
4. Green Revolution is related to Plants in the same way as Silver Revolution is related to Animals.
5. Anthropology is related to Man in the same way as Anthology is related to Poems.
6. Auger is related to Carpenter in the same way as Awl is related to Cobbler.(synonyms)
7. Scrupulous is related to Principles in the same way as Ethical is related to Morals.
8. Coherent is related to Consistent in the same way as Irate is related to Angry.(synonyms)
9. Wince is related to Pain in the same way as Prostration is related to submissiveness.
10. Tapeworm is related Taeniasis in the same way as Plasmodium is related to Malaria.

Drawbacks of Security equipment

1. According to security equipment specialists, security systems that utilize motion detectors won't function properly if walls and floors are too hot. When an infrared beam is used in a motion detector, it will pick up a person's body temperature of 98.6 degrees compared to the cooler walls and floor.
2. If the room is too hot, the motion detector won't register a change in the radiated heat of that person's body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home's safety might be compromised if you turn your air conditioning off or set the thermostat too high while on summer vacation.

Shortest street in England,Norwegian parliament..

1. Meerschaum is the name of a pipe made from a natural block of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. The process of development from a caterpillar to a butterfly is called Metamorphosis.
3. The hippopotamus produces its own sun-tan lotion.
4. The leader of a flock of sheep is called bellwether.
5. Violin is the instrument which can play the highest note.
6. Chinook is a warm wind which blows in the western states of North America.
7. Somnambulists do sleep walk.
8. Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of the Norwegian parliament.
9. 1813-1814 was the last time river Thames in London froze sufficiently hard for people to walk across it.
10. Queen Charlotte Street in Windsor, Berks is the shortest street in England.It is 51' 10'' long.

UNIDO, Average human Hair and Heart Beat....

1. UNIDO is United Nations Industrial Development Organisation,situated at Vienna in Austria.
2. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. 
3. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
4. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
5. In 24 hours, An average human heart beats 1,03,689 times.
6. An average human Hair grows 0.01715 inches in 24 hours.
7. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
8. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
9. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
10. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

1949 ENIAC computer,Anders Celsius

1. A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
2. An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb.
3. At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
4. Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at that time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this was the closest perigee of the Moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. In places where the weather was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous.
5. The first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter, happened in 1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth).

Dr. Eugene Shoemaker,European Space Agency's Olympus..

1. The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
2. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
3. The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
4. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
5. Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
6. At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
7. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
8. Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.

Ships of the desert, 27% of all food production ends up in garbage cans

1. In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.
2. According to a study by the Economic Research Service, 27% of all food production in Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1.2 billion people are underfed - the same number of people who are overweight.
3. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
   If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
   If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
4. Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will not have a hump.
5. The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.

Largest Cinema, Largest Airport

1. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
2. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
3. Abraham Lincoln is credited to abolish the curse of slavery in America.
4. Fox theatre,Detroit, (USA) is the largest cinema in the world.
5. King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia is the largest airport in the world.
6. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
7. The State of Florida is bigger than England.
8. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
9. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
10. Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.

National flower of USA ,Motto of FBI..

1. Germany produces the greatest number of varieties of sausage, with over 2000 varieties.
2. Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity is the motto of FBI.
3. Planet Uranus was Discovered by William Herschel in 1781.
4. One and half million estimated man-hours of labour did the construction of Stonehenge take.
5. The Adriatic Sea separates Yugoslavia from Italy.
6. Corpses nowadays deteriorate less quickly than they used to because of the preservatives in food that was eaten while alive.
7. It takes 56 days for a new hair take to show up in the follicle of a hair plucked out with tweezers.
8. Malt is obtained when barley is soaked in water , allowed to sprout and dried in a kiln.
9. The official name of Statue of Liberty is ' Liberty Enlightening The World'.
10. There is no national flower of USA because Congress never having been able to agree on one.

Largest fortress,First hairsprings for watches..

1. Wind becomes hurricane at 73 miles per hour(1 mph= 1.6 km/h).
2. The word Hong Kong means Fragrant Habour.
3. In Meteorology the Torro scale measures Tornadoes.
4. Europe's largest fortress is Kremlin in Moscow.
5. The Sun is 330,000 times larger than the Earth.(accept within 10 per cent)
6. The patron saint of France is St Denis.
7. If the air is supersaturated it would have more than 100 % humidity.
8. Britain's first PM was Robert Walpole.
9. The first hairsprings for watches were made from Pig's hair.
10. In the nineteenth century China used bamboo as money.