.......................................INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SUNFLOWER

The scientific name of sunflowers is Helianthus, Helia for sun and Anthus for flower.


Sunflowers are a great choice for planting to attract birds to your yard.


Sunflowers are one of the fastest growing plants. They can grow 8 to 12 feet tall in rich soil within six months.


Do you know what country grew the tallest sunflower? The Netherlands (25' 5.5" tall) grown in 1986 by M. Heijmf.


It require only 90 to 100 days from planting to maturity.


The former Soviet Union grows the most sunflowers. The sunflower is the national flower of Russia.


The sunflower is native to North America and was used by the Indians for food and oil. Some farmers use it to feed their livestock.


We use sunflower seeds to make oil, bird seed and for snacking. They have lots of calcium and 11 other important minerals. They do have 50% fat, BUT it is mostly polyunsaturated linoleic acid.


Wild sunflower is highly branched with small heads and small seeds, in contrast to the single-stem and large seed head of domesticated sunflower.


Sunflower heads consist of 1,000 to 2,000 individual flowers joined together by a receptacle base. The large petals around the edge of a sunflower head are individual ray flowers which do not develop into seed.



A well-known sunflower characteristic is that the flowering heads track the sun's movement, a phenomenon known as heliotropism.


The daily orientation of the flower to the sun is a direct result of differential growth of the stem. A plant-growth regulator, or auxin, accumulates on the shaded side of a plant when conditions of unequal light prevail. Because of this accumulation, the darker side grows faster than the sunlit side. Thus, the stem bends toward the sun.


Sunflower seeds are rich in oil, which they store as a source of energy and food. Sunflower seeds are crushed to give us oil. We can use sunflower oil for cooking.


Sunflower plants can be from 3 to 18 feet tall.


One sunflower can have up to 2000 seeds.


There are more than sixty different kinds of sunflowers in the U.S.


Sunflowers originally came from the U.S.


There are two kinds of sunflower seeds- black and stripe


Oil is made from black seeds.


Snacks are made from striped seeds


Sunflower seeds are also used to feed birds.


Sunflowers are the state flower for Kansas.


There is only one flower on each sunflower stem.


Sunflowers are very beautiful flowers and are used for decoration.Sunflower plants can be from 3 to 18 feet tall. One sunflower can have up to 2000 seeds.


Sunflowers are also an important crop. There are more than sixty different kinds of sunflowers growing in the United States, Europe, Japan and Russia. Sunflowers originally came from the United States.


There are two kinds of sunflower seeds. Oil is made from black seeds and snacks are made from striped seeds. Sunflower seeds are also used to feed birds.

..........................................INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT DIABETES

November 14 - World Diabetes Day.


India now has 35 million Diabetics.


Dibetes has no cure.


Major cause of diabetic death is Heart Attack.


6th Leading cause of death in US: 19% of all deaths in the U.S. for people aged 25 years and older


20.8 million people in US (7% of population) have diabetes


14.6 million diagnosed


6.2 million people remain undiagnosed


1.5 million people aged 20 years or older are diagnosed each year


10.5% of men and 8.8% of women have diabetes


Recent information indicates diabetes growing at 6% per year


Diabetes is a serious disease. It can lead to serious complications such as heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, and lower limb amputations. People with diabetes can take steps to manage it and lower their risk for complications. Make healthy food choices, be physically active, and stay at a healthy weight. Good diabetes care includes managing the ABCs of diabetes--as measured by the A1C test, blood pressure, and cholesterol--to help avoid having a heart attack, stroke, or other problems.


The only way to know for sure what your levels are is to check your blood glucose. The absence of symptoms of high blood glucose is an unreliable guide for judging glucose control, since symptoms may not occur until blood glucose reaches high levels. Diabetes is often called a "silent disease" because it can cause serious complications even before you have symptoms. Set your blood glucose targets with your diabetes care team. Ask your health care team to show you how to self-monitor your blood glucose. Keep a record of your results, and share them with your team. Also, know your A1C goal and keep a record of your test results, which reflect your average blood glucose levels over the past three months. It is the best way to know how well your blood glucose is controlled overall.


Small amounts of foods that contain sugar can be part of a healthy meal plan. If you choose to eat sweet foods, just have a small amount at the end of a healthy meal, not every day, or have a piece of fruit rather than a sugary snack.



A healthy meal plan for people with diabetes is a healthy meal plan for everyone. Eat foods that are high in fiber and low in saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, salt (sodium), and added sugars. Healthy foods include a colorful mix of fruits and vegetables, fish, lean meats, chicken or turkey without the skin, dry peas or beans, whole grains, and low-fat or skim milk and cheese. Ask your health care team for a healthy meal plan.


Physical activity is safe--and essential--for people with diabetes. Talk to your health care team about ways to safely increase your daily physical activity. Being physically active can help people with diabetes improve their blood glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure, and weight. It also helps improve strength, flexibility, and balance. Start by setting small goals until you reach at least 30 to 60 minutes of physical activity on most days of the week. Brisk walking is a good way to move more


Insulin, was discovered by Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best in 1921 at the University of Toronto.


In 1924, a 14 year old boy Leonard Thompson was the first human with diabetes to receive insulin.


Eli Lilly was the first company to make insulin available commercially.


Almost 1 in 17 people worldwide are diabetic. More than 1800 cases of diabetes are diagnosed everyday.

Vitamin D reduces the risk of diabetes.


Research on insulin inhalers is going on which will make treatment of diabetes simple and pain-free.

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Interesting Facts About Snails


Snails' bodies produce a thick slime. Because of this slime, they can crawl across the edge of a razor and not get hurt.


Some snails have been known to live up to 15 years.


Snails are hermaphrodites which means that they have both male and female reproductive organs.



Snails usually travel in irregular paths, often traveling in a circle.


Snails reply mainly on their sense of touch and smell when finding food because they have very poor eyesight.


Snails cannot hear.


Snails can retract one or both of their tentacles at a time.


Because of the suction created by their slime, a snail can crawl upside down.


Snails are nocturnal animals which means they are more active at night.


Garden Snails mainly eat garden plants and vegetables, but they will also eat decaying plants and soil.



The fastest snails are the speckled garden snails which can move up to 55 yards per hour compared 23 inches per hour of most other land snails.


Garden snails hibernate during the winter and live on their stored fat.


Garden snails breathe with lungs.


Garden snails evolved from sea snails about 600 million years ago.


The garden snail is cooked and eaten as a delicacy called escargot


May 24th is National Escargot Day


World's largest snail is the Australian trumpet (Syrinx aruanus), a sea species from the shores of northern and western Australia which can grow up to 77.2 cm (30 inches) in shell length, while the flesh


weighs up to 18 kg (40lbs).


The longest snail is Parenteroxenos doglieli, a parasite in the body cavity of the sea cucumber.


Cymbium proboscidalis, from the shores of West Africa, grows up to 7-8 kg (15-17 pounds) and the body is so large that the shell remains like a beanie. Brought on ground, the snail's weight decreases to a quarter. Locals make from this snail a dish called tibuden, adding rice and fish. Some sea rabbits (which are sea snails lacking a shell) can be 30 cm (1 ft) long and weigh 6.5 kg (14 pounds).


The largest snail you could see in your garden is the Giant African Snail or Tiger Snail (Achatina achatina), which can be 30 cm (1 ft) long. Giant Apple Snail (Pomacea maculata) is the largest freshwater snail, with a shell 15 cm (0.5 ft) and weighing 600 g (1.5 pounds).


Garden snails have up to 14,175 teeth! They are all located on their tongue (radula).


The snails Littoraria irrorata on the eastern shores of US farm! They bite the stems of sea grass to weaken them, and then they fertilize the place with their feces. This way they favor the development of a fungus on which they feed.


French researchers discovered that the digestive secretions of the garden snail are effective against stomach ulcer. 10 mg of this powder led to a decrease by 42 % of the human stomach acidity. The product was also effective against chronic bronchitis.


The snail slime was found by American researchers to be an excellent scaring factor. Snail slime is also used in some beauty products...


Most ground snails are peaceful veggies (well, not exactly all), but the marine species can be top predators of the sea. They are armed with a harpoon like weapon (named toxoglossan radula, snails modified "tongue") injecting a deadly venom into their victims.


This way, they can catch in a fraction of a second fish "for dinner". Some of these venoms are the most potent on the planet, like in the case of the predatory marine snail Conus magus, from coral reefs. They can grow up to 23 cm in length and eat from marine worms, small fish, mollusks (clams and other marine snails, including other cone snails.


Its poison has a greater power than morphine, but it acts in an entirely different way. Some cone snails can kill a human being with their venom.


The snail venom impairs a particular type known as N-type calcium channels, crucial in determining some kinds of pain sensations. A pharmaceutical company has developed synthetic chemicals that also inhibit N-type calcium channels, decreasing pain. These new drugs could be employed to shut off persistent acute pain where other painkillers have not succeeded, or are not recommended, like in the case of patients with cancer or other very severe conditions.


In some areas, like New Guinea, the shells of sea snails were used for long as currency!


Some sea snail produce sulfuric acid which they use for dissolving the shells of the clams on which they feed... No need the mentions this is the most potent acid of all.


Because of their moist skin, common snails are most active in damp weather and at night.


Common snails have pale grey moist skin. At the front end are four tentacles, the shorter two are for feeling and the longer pair are eye stalks. The shell of these snails is light brown with darker brown bands following the spiral of the shell. The shell colouration varies in its intensity from pale yellow to almost black.


They are common and widespread in Britain and Europe.


Common snails live in varied habitats. They are often found in gardens, parks, forests and dunes.


They are herbivores and feed on decaying vegetation, algae, fungi, lichens and plant leaves. As a part of their herbivorous diet they often feed on garden plants and are considered by some to be pests. Common snails have a symbiotic bacteria in their crop that enables them to digest cellulose - they have been known to feed on damp paper and cardboard.


Because of their moist skin, common snails are most active in damp weather and at night. When conditions become too dry, the snail will retreat into its shell and seal the entrance with a parchment-like barrier known as an epiphragm. Snails can often be found in this state under rocks in gardens or on a wall in a sheltered corner. When sealed away like this the snail goes into a state of suspended animation and can survive for several months without water.


Common snails feed by scraping a ribbon-like tongue covered in horny teeth called a radula, over their food. This allows them to scrape algae and lichen from the surface of rocks and walls. You can sometimes see the trails they leave behind as they eat their way through the algae on a damp wall.


Common snails, like all land snails, are hermaphrodites. This means that they possess both male and female reproductive organs. Despite this they still need to find another snail to mate with. When two snails meet during the breeding season (late spring or early summer), mating is initiated by one snail piercing the skin of the other snail with a calcified 'love dart'. The exact purpose of the 'love dart' is not fully understood but it seems to stimulate the other snail into exchanging small packets of sperm. After mating is complete the snails will produce eggs internally, which are fertilised by the sperm that has been exchanged.


Up to about a month after mating the snail lays about a hundred small white eggs in a nest underground in damp soil. If the conditions remain suitable for the eggs, snails will begin to hatch after about 14 days. Newly hatched snails have a small fragile shell and it takes two years for them to reach maturity.


Garden snails evolved from sea snails about 600 million years ago.


The largest land snail ever found was 15 inches long and weighed 2 pounds!


Snails' bodies produce a thick slime. Because of this slime, they can crawl across the edge of a razor and not get hurt.


The largest land snail ever found was 15 inches long and weighed 2 pounds!

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jab bhi kaam aaya mera PARVARIGAAR kaam aaya

Interesting Facts About Snails


Snails' bodies produce a thick slime. Because of this slime, they can crawl across the edge of a razor and not get hurt.


Some snails have been known to live up to 15 years.


Snails are hermaphrodites which means that they have both male and female reproductive organs.



Snails usually travel in irregular paths, often traveling in a circle.


Snails reply mainly on their sense of touch and smell when finding food because they have very poor eyesight.


Snails cannot hear.


Snails can retract one or both of their tentacles at a time.


Because of the suction created by their slime, a snail can crawl upside down.


Snails are nocturnal animals which means they are more active at night.


Garden Snails mainly eat garden plants and vegetables, but they will also eat decaying plants and soil.



The fastest snails are the speckled garden snails which can move up to 55 yards per hour compared 23 inches per hour of most other land snails.


Garden snails hibernate during the winter and live on their stored fat.


Garden snails breathe with lungs.


Garden snails evolved from sea snails about 600 million years ago.


The garden snail is cooked and eaten as a delicacy called escargot


May 24th is National Escargot Day


World's largest snail is the Australian trumpet (Syrinx aruanus), a sea species from the shores of northern and western Australia which can grow up to 77.2 cm (30 inches) in shell length, while the flesh


weighs up to 18 kg (40lbs).


The longest snail is Parenteroxenos doglieli, a parasite in the body cavity of the sea cucumber.


Cymbium proboscidalis, from the shores of West Africa, grows up to 7-8 kg (15-17 pounds) and the body is so large that the shell remains like a beanie. Brought on ground, the snail's weight decreases to a quarter. Locals make from this snail a dish called tibuden, adding rice and fish. Some sea rabbits (which are sea snails lacking a shell) can be 30 cm (1 ft) long and weigh 6.5 kg (14 pounds).


The largest snail you could see in your garden is the Giant African Snail or Tiger Snail (Achatina achatina), which can be 30 cm (1 ft) long. Giant Apple Snail (Pomacea maculata) is the largest freshwater snail, with a shell 15 cm (0.5 ft) and weighing 600 g (1.5 pounds).


Garden snails have up to 14,175 teeth! They are all located on their tongue (radula).


The snails Littoraria irrorata on the eastern shores of US farm! They bite the stems of sea grass to weaken them, and then they fertilize the place with their feces. This way they favor the development of a fungus on which they feed.


French researchers discovered that the digestive secretions of the garden snail are effective against stomach ulcer. 10 mg of this powder led to a decrease by 42 % of the human stomach acidity. The product was also effective against chronic bronchitis.


The snail slime was found by American researchers to be an excellent scaring factor. Snail slime is also used in some beauty products...


Most ground snails are peaceful veggies (well, not exactly all), but the marine species can be top predators of the sea. They are armed with a harpoon like weapon (named toxoglossan radula, snails modified "tongue") injecting a deadly venom into their victims.


This way, they can catch in a fraction of a second fish "for dinner". Some of these venoms are the most potent on the planet, like in the case of the predatory marine snail Conus magus, from coral reefs. They can grow up to 23 cm in length and eat from marine worms, small fish, mollusks (clams and other marine snails, including other cone snails.


Its poison has a greater power than morphine, but it acts in an entirely different way. Some cone snails can kill a human being with their venom.


The snail venom impairs a particular type known as N-type calcium channels, crucial in determining some kinds of pain sensations. A pharmaceutical company has developed synthetic chemicals that also inhibit N-type calcium channels, decreasing pain. These new drugs could be employed to shut off persistent acute pain where other painkillers have not succeeded, or are not recommended, like in the case of patients with cancer or other very severe conditions.


In some areas, like New Guinea, the shells of sea snails were used for long as currency!


Some sea snail produce sulfuric acid which they use for dissolving the shells of the clams on which they feed... No need the mentions this is the most potent acid of all.


Because of their moist skin, common snails are most active in damp weather and at night.


Common snails have pale grey moist skin. At the front end are four tentacles, the shorter two are for feeling and the longer pair are eye stalks. The shell of these snails is light brown with darker brown bands following the spiral of the shell. The shell colouration varies in its intensity from pale yellow to almost black.


They are common and widespread in Britain and Europe.


Common snails live in varied habitats. They are often found in gardens, parks, forests and dunes.


They are herbivores and feed on decaying vegetation, algae, fungi, lichens and plant leaves. As a part of their herbivorous diet they often feed on garden plants and are considered by some to be pests. Common snails have a symbiotic bacteria in their crop that enables them to digest cellulose - they have been known to feed on damp paper and cardboard.


Because of their moist skin, common snails are most active in damp weather and at night. When conditions become too dry, the snail will retreat into its shell and seal the entrance with a parchment-like barrier known as an epiphragm. Snails can often be found in this state under rocks in gardens or on a wall in a sheltered corner. When sealed away like this the snail goes into a state of suspended animation and can survive for several months without water.


Common snails feed by scraping a ribbon-like tongue covered in horny teeth called a radula, over their food. This allows them to scrape algae and lichen from the surface of rocks and walls. You can sometimes see the trails they leave behind as they eat their way through the algae on a damp wall.


Common snails, like all land snails, are hermaphrodites. This means that they possess both male and female reproductive organs. Despite this they still need to find another snail to mate with. When two snails meet during the breeding season (late spring or early summer), mating is initiated by one snail piercing the skin of the other snail with a calcified 'love dart'. The exact purpose of the 'love dart' is not fully understood but it seems to stimulate the other snail into exchanging small packets of sperm. After mating is complete the snails will produce eggs internally, which are fertilised by the sperm that has been exchanged.


Up to about a month after mating the snail lays about a hundred small white eggs in a nest underground in damp soil. If the conditions remain suitable for the eggs, snails will begin to hatch after about 14 days. Newly hatched snails have a small fragile shell and it takes two years for them to reach maturity.


Garden snails evolved from sea snails about 600 million years ago.


The largest land snail ever found was 15 inches long and weighed 2 pounds!


Snails' bodies produce a thick slime. Because of this slime, they can crawl across the edge of a razor and not get hurt.


The largest land snail ever found was 15 inches long and weighed 2 pounds!

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jab bhi kaam aaya mera PARVARIGAAR kaam aaya

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your rightside. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on yourleft side

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when ahuman body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

The Mercedes-Benz motto is `Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning `the best or nothing'

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Mouth Facts

1) In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch.

2) People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose.

3) While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.

4) It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.

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Saqib Riaz(TIPO KHAN)

The Human Body

...your body is made up of trillions of cells? Different parts of your body are made of different kinds of cells.

...your brain is like a computer, and controls your entire body?

...your heart beats about 70 times a minute, and each time it beats, it pumps about about a cupful of blood?

...an adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces and beats over 100,000 times a day?

...there are 206 bones in your skeleton?

...about half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet?

...everyone has thirty-two teeth?

...your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight?

...if you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds?

...about 70 percent of your body weight is water?

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Defeat is not when you fall down, it is when you refuse to get up. So keep getting up when you have a fall.

Hair Facts

On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving.

On average, a hair strand's life span is five and a half years.

On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs.

Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body.

In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times.

Humans have about the same number of hair follicles as a chimpanzee has.

Hair will fall out faster on a person that is on a crash diet.

The average human head weighs about eight pounds.

The reason why some people get a cowlick is because the growth of their hair is in a spiral pattern, which causes the hair to either stand straight up, or goes to a certain angle.

The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour.

The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head.

The loss of eyelashes is referred to as madarosis.

The longest human beard on record is 17.5 feet, held by Hans N. Langseth who was born in Norway in 1846.

The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair.

The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

Hair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratin.

Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds.

The first hair dryer was a vacuum cleaner that was used for drying hair.

A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.

Everyday approximately 35 meters of hair fiber is produced on the scalp of an adult.

Brylcreem, which was created in 1929, was the first man's hair product.

Ancient Egyptians used to think having facial hair was an indication of personal neglect.

A survey done by Clairol 10 years ago came up with 46% of men stating that it was okay to color their hair. Now 66% of men admit to coloring their hair.

A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days.
The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

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Always do what you are afraid to do
Saqib Riaz(TIPO KHAN)

Tongue Facts

Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue.

There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue.

Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.

85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.

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Saqib Riaz(TIPO KHAN)

Thunder and Lightning Facts

A typical flash of folk lightning lasts for about 0.2 seconds.

At any particular time, there are approximately 1,800 thunderstorms occurring in the Earth's atmosphere.

Fog Facts

The tiny droplets of water that make up fog are so small that it would take seven thousand million of them to make a single tablespoonful of water.

The fogs, which are more common in winter, occasionally cause havoc with air travel by lingering into the early afternoon.

In Australia, Canberra wins the title of the 'foggiest' capital city with an average of 47 fogs each year.

Sea fogs persist for more than 120 days a year on the Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Canada.

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Saqib Riaz(TIPO KHAN)