Do You Know ?

A normal healthy man emits around 300 - 500 millions sperm into the vagina during intercourse. It may take up to ten hours to travel a sperm to reach an egg. Egg is also on constant travel once it is out from the ovary.   Around hundred sperm finds egg but interestingly, only one sperm out of millions enters into an egg and then forms a new life.

Tough competition, long before a life begins.

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84% of the crops grown for human consumption need bees or other insects to pollinate them to increase their yields and quality. Some also say it in different way that bee’s extinction can be the extinction of human life. This may be the reason some schools in UK encourage school children  to keep a beehives at home.

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Do you know yaning makes our body  more alert. It fights with sleepiness we feel as when we yaning our body gets more oxygen which makes us fresh.

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According to the food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, every year around the globe, 1.3 billion tonnes of food is lost or wasted. Food loss and waste amount to a major squandering of resources, including water, land, energy, labor and capital and needlessly produce greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to global warming.

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Do you know why our hair raise when we are frightened ? it's because it makes the other get scared when they look at us. During the wild time when we did not used to trim our body hair it helped us from the wild creature who got scared seeing us in big form, oh that is after we got hair raising experience.

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Do you know the wings of bumble bee is too small to carry its big body weight, yet it flies because it does know about this inbuilt mistake in its body.

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Do you know the wings of butterfly are not designed for long haul; yet butterfly migrates 5000 miles every year.

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Integrating ducks into rice farming has shown to increase yield by 20% with about 50% higher net return. The same cultivation area can be used for not only rice production but also subsidiary products like meat and eggs. At the same time, rice-duck farming reduces labor inputs through control of weeds and insects by ducks.

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There are over 1,000 varieties of banana. The most common one is the sweet and seedless Cavendish banana.

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You must be knowing curd is made of milk. But do you know, you we can't get curd from camel’s milk.

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Avocado is the only fruit on earth which has protein in it. That is why it is regarded one of the best alternative of protein to those who are vegetarian.  You also must be knowing just because you are hungry you can't eat more than half kg of avocado like we can eat mango or banana. Its because of high protein in it.  It is believed that it cures cancer.

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Durian is national fruit of Malaysia. It has so strong scent [to those who do not like it, it smells] that it's been prohibited to carry during air travel. Some also call it royal fruit, because it's not easy to cut it, if you want to  have it.

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Have you heard about the dog year ? Research reveals that a dog year equals six human years. Like if you have a dog that is ten year old this means that dog is about sixty years old. However, there is no unanimous thought with this six human years for each years of a dog.  So, do not be surprised if you read in another book or article one dog year equals nine human years. This huge age difference is the reason, it's helpful to give a puppy to your child. As they seem to grow together but a dog has a lot to teach your child while growing together. You must be knowing the best thing a dog can teach your child is to be responsible.

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Do you know the content of the five hot spices are different in India and China. Not all of them contains the same so you can make your own list of hot spices to put in meat or beans soup. 

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The first thing that develops in our body - when we are still inside the mother's womb, growing to be human one day - is our heart. It starts beating around third week of pregnancy. In an average our heart beats about 3 billion times given that the lifespan of a person is 75 years.

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