Durga Devi Sharma

B.sc 2nd yea r

Fact file

¶ The first seismograph was made in china

.The earthquake made the balls from the

pot fall into the mouths of the frogs

below.

¶ The moon always shows just one side of it

to the earth. The moon pulls does. So we

would find it very difficult to walk on

moon. Unless we are weighed down, we

would float.

¶ Evaporating sea water is the oldest

method of obtaining salt. Sun's heat

evaporates the water & salt is left behind.

The salt thus obtained is further purified

to make it edible.

¶ In a microwave oven, water particles in

the food are made to move very fast .heat

produced due to the friction between

Wonderful human body facts

-A man has over 10000 million neurons in his brain. This is more than the number of stars in the Andromeda galaxy.

-The human brain can store 100 trillion bits of information compared to one trillion of a computer.

-When a pin pricks our skin the nerves transmit the message to the central neuraxis and back to the effected part at the speed of more than 3 x 10⁶mph.

-In a year, a person heart beats 40000000 times.

-If all the blood vessels in the human body were laid end to end, they would stretch more than 15000 kms.

-The red blood cells are produced at the rate of 3 million per second by the bone marrow.

-A men's sense of smell is at least 2000 times more sensitive than his sense of taste. His tongue can detect only five basic tastes while his nose can distinguish more than100000 different smells.

-The liver, body's second largest organ has been estimated to have about 500 functions. 80% of the liver can be respected without altering its function.

Compiled by Sunita Subedi

B.Sc. Third Year Physics

Tortoise of turtle

All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises.

You know it is a tortoise if it

·        lives on land

·        eats only planets

·        has a large, hard, domelike shell

·        is hidden-necked.

Do Hindu's Believe the World will End ?

Modern science can explain how the universe was created from the few millionth of a second onward, before that time scientific theories break down. So far,we have no explanation  for the origin of the universe.

Flatworm, which evolved 550 million years ago, where the first animal to have a brain.


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