Ama ing Facts
Compiled by - Aneek Nag, Grade VI
Animals
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All cats are born with blue eyes.
A tiger’s roar can be heard over a mile away.
Cats communicate using 16 known ‘Cat words’.
The world’s termites outweigh the world’s
humans.
Lady bugs squirt smelly liquid from their knees
when they get scared.
Some dinosaurs had 1,000 teeth.
Ways to be polite around the globe.
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Leave food on your plate in Egypt.
Avoid snapping your fingers in Belgium.
Keep your napkin at meals in Hungary
Stick the tip of your index finger in your ear
and kiss it to show that you have enjoyed your
food in Portugal.
Arrive 15 minutes late to parties in India.
Weird but TRUE.
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An 11-year-old invented Popsicles.
If you spent a dollar a second, it would take you
32 years to spend a billion dollars.
It is so cold in Siberia that your breath can turn
in to ice in midair.
The town of Monowi, Nebraska has a
population of one.
Some cars run on used French fry oil.
A broken toilet sank the German submarine
U-120
75% of all volcanoes are under water.
If you heat a diamond to 1405 degrees
Fahrenheit, it will turn into vapor.
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Because of strong winds in Hawaii, waterfalls
some times go up instead of down.
Days are longer than years in Mercury.
90% of snow is air.
The Hawaiian language consists of only 12
letters - A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P and W.
A cockroach can live up to 9 days without its
head.
Your Hair grows faster in warm air.
If you eat too many carrots your skin can turn
orange.
You can’t move your body when you dream.
60,000 miles of blood vessels run through your
body.
In Greece nodding your head means ‘no’ and
side-to-side means ‘nothing’.
There are 43,674 more injuries with toilets than
sharks.
There are 293 ways to make a change for a
dollar.
Russia is only two and a half miles away from
Alaska.
The biggest snowflake ever recorded was 15
inches wide.
Every minute, about 600 bolts of lighting strike
the earth.
The tallest snowman ever built was higher than
a ten-story building.
On New Year’s Day, the people of Scotland
open their front doors to let the old year out
and the New Year in.
Most Americans eat about 1,500 peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches before graduating from
high school.
Mona Lisa had no eyebrows.
A 13-year-old designed Alaska’s flag 
Answer of puzzle Counting Triangles:
There are thirty five Triangles. If your count did not match then try again.
Tips: Don’t miss to count the overlapping bigger triangles as well as the smaller triangles.
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