1) The most powerful telescope in the world is situated on mount Semirodriki, in Russia. It weighs 840 tons, is 79 m long and can detect the flickering of a candle flame 24,000km away.

2) The musk deer can be seen in its natural habitat in the Kedarnath musk deer sanctuary in utter Pradesh. The male musk deer has a pod in the abdomen near the navel under the skin. This musk has a strong smell. So it is used for making perfumes. To get this pod, people kill the deer in great numbers. Because of this, the number of musk deer on the earth is lessening.

3) Rats can live with out water longer than any other animal, even longer than camels.

4) If the intestines in our body were not coiled, we would have had to be nearly 33 feet tall, now you know why they are coiled inside our body!

5) You sometimes have goose pimples when you cold. Next time you have them. Look at your skin. You will see that these make each hair stand on end. This traps air to keep in your body heat.

6) The human kidney consists of over one million tiny tubes, which if stretched would reach almost 80km.

7) The silkworm eats 86,000 times its own weight in 56 days.

8) The most harmful substances to human teeth are fudge and chocolate which are most likely to cause tooth decay.

9) The brainiest creature in the world is the silkworm month. It has 11 brains!

10) The red sponge is the only animal that can be broke up into thousands of tiny pieces. It joins it self up again and continues living.

11) The slowest flowering plant is a Bolivian herb called `Puyu raimondii’ which takes 150 years to flowers. This means one plant might never flower in your whole life.

12) Although Saudi Arabia covers an area of 2,149,690sq km, it is the country that has the least number of rivers-none!