Amazing Facts About Plants!

1. Bananas contain a natural chemical which makes people to feel happy.
2. Brazil is named after a tree !
3. The Amazon rainforest produces half the world’s oxygen supply.
4. Cricket bats are made of a tree called Willow tree.
5. Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings !
6. Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant ! 
7. Apple is 25% air, that is reason it floats on water !
8. Peaches, Pears, apricots, quinces, strawberries, and apples are members of the rose family !
9. Apple,potatoes and onions have the same taste, to test this eat them with you nose closed !
10. The tears during cutting an onion are caused by sulphuric acid present in them !
11. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall !
12. Strawberry is the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside.The average strawberry has 200 seeds !
13. Leaving skin on potatoes while cooking is healthier as all the vitamins are in the skin !
14. Around 2000 different types of plants are used by humans to make food !
15. Small pockets of air inside cranberries cause them to bounce and float in water !
16. Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day !
17. A sunflower looks like one large flower, but each head is composed of hundreds of tiny flowers called florets, which ripen to become the seeds !
18. Cabbage has 91% water content !
19. Banana is an Arabic word for fingers !
20. The California redwood  are the tallest and largest living organism in the world !
21. There are more than 300,000 identified plant species and the list is growing all the time.
22. Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree  ! 
23. Carrots were originally purple in colour !
24. During the 1600s, tulips were so valuable in Holland that their bulbs were worth more than gold. The craze was called tulip mania and caused the crash of the Dutch economy !
25. The baobab tree found in Africa can store 1,000 to 120,000 litres of water in its swollen trunk !
26. Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years old !
27. Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant !
28. At over 2000 kilometres long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth ! 
29. The first product to have a barcode was a gum !

Amazing Facts About Oxygen

1. Oxygen is the third most abundant chemical element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium.
2.   Its chemical symbol is O. atomic no.is 8.
3.  Oxygen is an essential factor for burning up the body’s toxins & respiration.
4.  At standard temperature and pressure two atoms of the element bind to form di-oxygen, a colourless, odourless, tasteless diatomic gas with the formula O2.
5. Oxygen constitutes 49.2% of the Earth's crust by mass and is the major component of the world's oceans (88.8% by mass).
6. Ordinary oxygen makes up approximately 21 percent of our Earth’s atmosphere (air).
7.  About 0.9% of the Sun's mass is oxygen.
8. Humans inhale more than 6 billion tones of oxygen each year.
9. Earth is unusual among the planets of the Solar System in having such a high concentration of oxygen gas in its atmosphere: Mars (with 0.1% O2 by volume) and Venus have far lower concentrations.
10. About 2/3 of the human body contains oxygen or cells with oxygen on them.
11. Ozone (O3) or trioxygen,  is an allotropic form of oxygen that is more reactive than ordinary oxygen.
12. Oxygen dissolves in water. Aquatic organisms (non-mammalian) depend on dissolved oxygen for their survival.
13. Oxygen doesn't burn, but supports combustion.
14. Lack of oxygen in the brain for 5 to 10 minutes results in permanent brain damage.
15. Oxygen is essential for combustion. Liquid oxygen, combined with liquid Hydrogen, makes an excellent rocket fuel.

Amazing facts About India!

1. India never invaded any country in last 10000 years of history.
2. India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
3. India exports software to more than 90 countries.
4. India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer.
5. India has the second largest pool of Scientist and Engineers in the World.
6. India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
7. There are over a million Indian millionaires.
8. Surgeries were done in India over 2,600 years ago by Sushruta. He also developed Ayurveda and made records of several complicated surgeries and operations.
9. India has the world’s largest movie industry.
10. India has the world’s third largest road network at 1.9 million miles.
11. India invented the Number System. The Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
12. BHASKARACHARYA calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun in 5th century, hundreds of years before the (others) to be 365.258756484 days.
13. The value of "pi" was first calculated by Budhayana and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
14.  Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
15. Veterinary science was developed in India. SHALIHOTRA is considered the founder of Veterinary.