Facts About Komodo Dragon - strangefacts

• Unlike the other different types of lizards, Komodo dragons maintain a single mate throughout their lifetime

• Komodo can run at about 11 miles an hour

• It is the only lizard that hunts and kills prey larger than its body and bigger than what it can swallow whole

• To avoid being eaten by larger Komodo dragons, youngsters often roll in their own feces so that they give out a foul smell that the adult Komodos avoid

• Komodo dragons can live to be 50 years old

• The Komodo dragon is the world's heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more

• Although, babies can be born only through mating of a male and a female, there are instances when babies were born from a single Komodo without mating between individuals of different gender

• Though named as dragons, Komodo dragons are lizards. They are the heaviest lizards on Earth that can weigh upto 150 pounds and can grow as long as 3 meters

• These are natives of the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang. Komodo dragon habitat is characteristically hot and dry. The environment in which they thrive is acknowledged to be one of the toughest in the world

• Komodo dragons have a large, flat head, a rounded snout and a long, muscular tail. They move on four strong but bowed legs
  

Facts About Chocolate - strangefacts

• First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning

• For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier

• In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the BritishThe Dalai Lama has a weakness for chocolate chip cookies

• Approximately 71% of American chocolate eaters prefer to eat milk chocolate

• Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all

• In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made of nothing but chocolate

• Adolf Hitler loved chocolate cake very much

• In the 1960 movie "Psycho" by Alfred Hitchcock, chocolate syrup was used to show the blood in the shower scene

• Singer Chaka Khan came out with a line of chocolates called "Chakalates."

• The last thing Elvis Presley ate before he died was four scoops of ice cream and 6 chocolate chip cookies

Dolphins Intelligence facts - strangefacts

• Dolphins locate objects by using sound. They bounce high pitched sounds off of objects to sense where they are. This is called "echolocation" and it is the way that bats 'see' as well

• Dolphins have sophisticated hearing and navigate and hunt by using sound

• Like whales a Dolphin has a blow hole at the top of its head and must come up to breathe. So a Dolphin normally stays about 10-15 feet from the surface so it can come up to breathe often. However, a Dolphin can dive to over 500 feet if they want to

• Dolphins have a complicated system of communication using clicks and sound. They coordinate their hunting and social group using sound

• A dolphin sleeps with half of its brain shut down and one eye closed

• They have been playing and communicating with people from ancient times and still do

• Dolphins use sonar, because their eyes are on the sides of their bodies. They can't see ahead

Facts About Hydrogen - strangefacts

• The Sun is made out of 92% hydrogen, 7% helium and the rest is other low number gasses

• The odor of farts comes from small amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans in the mixture 

• Joseph Priestley not only discovered oxygen, but he also discovered ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first person to isolate chlorine

• Most people know what pH means, but few people know that it stands for pondus hydrogenii which means potential hydrogen and that each unit is a phidron

• Hydrogen is the lightest, simplest and most commonly found chemical element in the Universe, making up around 75% of its elemental mass

The pink Glowish layer in space is composed of Hydrogen

• Hydrogen is found in large amounts in giant gas planets and stars, it plays a key role in powering stars through fusion reactions

• The chemical symbol of hydrogen is H. It is an element with atomic number 1, this means that 1 proton is found in the nucleus of hydroge

• Hydrogen is commonly used in the petroleum and the chemical industries and is also widely used for many physics and engineering applications such as welding or as coolant

• Hydrogen gas is extremely flammable. It is used as a fuel by the space shuttle main engine and was associated with the famous explosion of the Hindenburg airship
• Hydrogen compounds commonly are called hydrides
  

Facts About Volcanoes - strangefacts

• The biggest volcano in the world is the Mauna Loa, in Hawaii. It rises off of the seafloor to 13,000 feet above sea level or about 29,000 feet above the seafloor

• Most volcanoes are 10,000 to 100,000 years old

• There are at least 1,500 active volcanoes around the world

• Indonesia has the most volcanoes about more then 200 alive

• Common volcanic gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen sulfide

• Volcanic eruptions can send ash high into the air, over 30km (17 miles) above the Earth’s surface

• The lower 48 states in the U.S. have about 40 volcanoes

• Scientists has estimated the ocean contains 10,000 volcanoes

• The oldest volcano is the Etna at 350,000 years old

• About 500 million people live close to active volcanoes
  

Facts About Oxygen - strangefacts

• The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily

• The grass and trees along the U.S. interstate highway system release enough oxygen to support 22 million people

• The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air

• Oxygen-poor blood (shown in blue) flows from the body into the right atrium

• If you are locked in a sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before your brain starves from oxygen deprivation

• Joseph Priestley not only discovered oxygen, but he also discovered ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first person to isolate chlorine

• Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen in your body

• It is thought that a yawn works to send more oxygen to the brain, therefore working to cool it down and wake it up

• The brain can live for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen, and then it begins to die. No oxygen for 5 to 10 minutes will result in permanent brain damage

• Ted A. Batchelor, a professional stuntman endured a full-body burn without oxygen supplies for 2 min 38 sec on an island at Ledges Quarry Park, Nelson, Ohio, USA, on July 17, 2004

• Oxygen is a very reactive element that easily forms compounds such as oxides
  

Facts About Tobacco - strangefacts

• 5% of the $40,700,000,000 received by states from the lawsuit against the tobacco companies has actually been spent on fighting smoking

• One out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their livelihood

• The first American advertisement for tobacco was published in 1789. It showed a picture of an Indian smoking a long clay pipe

• A study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers. Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses

• Mother Bernardina Matthews established a Carmelite convent near Port Tobacco, Maryland, the first community of Roman Catholic nuns in the Thirteen Colonies

• Tobacco kills one person every ten seconds

• Approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute

• About 15 billion cigarettes are sold each day

• About 5 trillion cigarettes are produced and used on an annual basis