Facts about GoldFish

Fact about GoldFish

1- Goldfish don’t have a stomach.
2- A group of goldfish is known as “troubling”.
3- Goldfish can recognize different human voices.
4- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
5- It is said that the goldfish is the most popular pet in the world, even more popular than cats or dogs.
6- Goldfish Can't Close Their Eyes - This makes sleeping a little different for them. Instead of closing their eyes and falling into a deep sleep, they sleep with their eyes open usually at the bottom of the water.
7- Goldfish can live for about 10 years but there have been many specimens that have lived for as long as 25 years.The world's oldest recorded goldfish was 43 years old. Which is just amazing for almost any pet really, and he did very well considering he was won at a town fair. His name was Tish, and he died in 1999 in North Yorkshire, UK.
8- Goldfish come in different colors such as gold, pink and bronze. They possess the sub-colors such as calico and metallic.
9- Goldfish should never be kept in small bowls. They need a spacious environment with high oxygen levels.
10- Goldfish can recognize different human faces.
11- Goldfish are omnivorous. Their diet includes plankton, insects, detritus, larvae, worms, lettuce, plants, peas, tiny mammals, small birds, amphibians and reptiles.

Interesting Facts about Snakes

Fact about Reptiles

1- There are over 3000 kinds of snake in the world.
2- Snakes have poor eyesight, and so have heat censors that can pick up vibrations.
3- One species of fer-DE-lance, a deadly viper, has been recorded swallowing prey that was 1.6 times its own body weight.
4- Snakes hear through their jaws.
5- Snakes rely on the heat of the sun to control their body temperature.  
6- Black Mamba is the world most poisonous snake.
7-Black Mamba could kill 100 people with a single bite.
8- Snakes can sleep for three years without eating.
9- Spitting cobras actually spray their venom from their fangs, with quick muscular contractions that can send their toxin up to three meters away. Worse still, they'll be aiming at your eyes when they do it.
10- The paradise tree-snake of South-east Asia can 'fly' through the air by flattening its body into an s-shaped ribbon.

Snake

11- Many snakes are only too happy to gobble each other up. Some, such as the ravenous California King-snake, like nothing more than to feast upon others of their own species.
12- The venom of a cobra could kill an elephant.
13- The swiftest snake on land is the Black Mamba, a notorious African monster that can reach speeds of up to 12 miles per hour. And they're amongst the most deadly too.
14- Baby snakes are often more dangerous than their parents. While adults carefully ration out their venom, a baby snake lacks such self-control and will unleash a much higher dose of venom in its bite.
15- A dead rattlesnake can still bite if you get too close. The snake's heat sensors remain active until rigor mortise is complete, a day or more later. Placing a warm object, such as your hand, near the snake's mouth will still cause it to have a go!

Interesting Facts about Frog

Fact about Frog

1- Frogs belong to the Order Anura, the largest of the three groups of amphibians.
2- Did you know that a group of frogs is called an ‘army’?
(A group of toads is called a ‘knot’.) 
3- Frogs don’t drink water they absorb it through their skin.
4- The biggest frog in the world unusually has a human name. Dubbed Keith Baxter, he lives under a slab in Yeovil, Somerset. 

5- Frog bones form a ring when the frog is hibernating, just like trees do. Scientists can use these rings to figure out the age of a frog. 
6- The frog's tongue grows from the front of its mouth, which makes it easier to catch flies.
7- The smallest frogs in the world are less than half-an-inch long.
8- The eyes and nose of a frog are on top of its head so it can breathe and see when most of its body is under the water.
9- A frog can change the color of its skin depending on its surroundings.
10- Frogs cannot live in the sea or any salt water.
11- How long can Frogs and Toads live? Depends on the type. Bullfrogs can live 30 years! African clawed can live 15 years.
12- Frogs take between 12 to 16 weeks to go from a tadpole to their full grown state.

Interesting Facts about HummingBirds

Fact about Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are birds that comprise the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds in the world. Most species are measured in  7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) range. However, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5-cm Bee Hummingbird.

They can rapidly flapping their wings 12–90 times per second in the air (depending on the species). These are only birds which can also fly backwards. Their English name derives from the characteristic hum made by their rapid wing beats. They can fly at speeds exceeding 15 m/s (54 km/h, 34 mi/h).

Interesting Facts about Flying Snake

Fact about Flying Snake

Chrysopelea, or more commonly known as the flying snake, is a genus that belongs to the family Colubridae. Flying snakes are thin and weightless though they are considered harmless because their toxicity is not dangerous to humans.
They are found in Southeast Asia, the Melanesian islands and India. They hunt during the day and eat lizards,  frogs,  birds and bats. 

Interesting Facts about African Pygmy Mouse

Fact about Mouse

The African Pygmy Mouse, (Mus minutoides) is possibly the smallest mammals in the world. It belongs to the enormous superfamily name's Muroidea,  Which includes about 1000 different species.
If we look into their sex, it is totally different from other animals. African Pygmy Mice reach breeding age at about 6 to 8 weeks.Pregnancy lasts for around 20 days and the little of about 3 young is born blind and hairless.Their eyes open after 2 weeks, and wearing is complete after 4 weeks. Their life is about 2 Years, although some specimens live 4 years in capacity. If we look into their volume, the adults are between 30 and 80 mm (1.2 and 3.1 in) long, with a 20 to 40 mm (0.79 to 1.6 in) tail, and weight from 3 to 12 g (0.11 to 0.42 oz).

World Smallest Monkey

Facts About Monkey

The Pygmy Marmoset or Dwarf Monkey is a New World monkey live in the Forrest of western Brazil, Southeastern Colombia, Eastern Ecuador, Eastern Peru and North-en Bolivia. It is one of the smallest primates, and the smallest true monkey having body length ranging from 14 to 16 centimeters (5.5 to 6.3 in) (excluding the 15-to-20-centimeter (5.9 to 7.9 in) tail). Males weigh around 140 grams (4.9 oz), and females only 120 grams (4.2 oz).

Pygmy marmosets live 11-12 years in the Forrest, but in zoo, they live into their twenties. Marmosets often live in groups in adult pairs, ranging from 2-3 members. Young marmosets typically remain in the group until after 2 birth cycles.

Facebook Financially Make Money

Facebook

Facebook's user base is constantly growing and now it reaches more than 300 million active FaceBook users. With 50 million mobile users FaceBook wants you to stay connected to your friends and family where ever you go. The interesting fact is that FaceBook just recently started making profits (in 2009).
Enormous expenses and growing databases pushed FaceBook inventors to re-invent their advertising market. 2009 was the great year for FaceBook even this being the year of greatest recession since 1930's. We as users hope that FaceBook will continue working on privacy issues and never share our individual information with companies and government agencies. Shhhhh, soon we can expect voice chat directly from FaceBook.

Facts about Facebook Security

Facebook Security

One of the major points that Facebook scored over all of the other social networking sites, at least initially, was its stringent privacy settings that gave you a sense of security and safety regarding the contents of your profile on Facebook.
However, with the advent of Twitter and other such sites, Facebook might be in a mood to keep up with the growth of its competitors - and this might be why now Facebook content is easily accessible to strangers and gone are the days when you had a sense of privacy that only you and your exclusive friends shared on the network.

Interesting Facts about Cockroach

Fact about Cockroach

Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria. The name cockroach comes from the Spanish word cucaracha, chafer, beetle, from cuca "kind of caterpillar." The scientific name derives from the Latinized Greek name for the insect.
There are about 4,500 species of cockroach, of which 30 species are associated with human habitations and about four species are well known as pests.
Among the best-known pest species are the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, which is about 30 millimeters (1.2 in) long, the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, about 15 millimeters (0.59 in) long, the Asian cockroach, Blattella asahinai, also about 15 millimeters (0.59 in) in length, and the Oriental cockroach, Blatta oriental's, about 25 millimeters (0.98 in). Tropical cockroaches are often much bigger, and extinct cockroach relatives and 'roachoids' such as the Carboniferous Archimylacris and the Permian Apthoroblattina were not as large as the biggest modern species. They usually live alone only coming together to mate.  
The more interesting fact about Cockroaches is that they can live 9 days without their heads before they starve to death.  
Cockroaches have a high tolerance to radiation and are the most likely creature to survive a nuclear war. 
The cockroach is the fastest animal on six legs - covering 1 meter in a second.

 

Top 10 Mosques of the world (Al-Masjid al-Ḥaram) - 1st

Al-Masjid al-Ḥarām

Al-Masjid al-Ḥarām is the largest mosque in the world. Located in the city of Mecca, it surrounds the Kaaba, the place which Muslims worldwide turn towards while offering daily prayers and is Islam's holiest place. The mosque is also known as the Grand Mosque. The current structure covers an area of 356,800 square metres (88.2 acres) including the outdoor and indoor praying spaces and can accommodate up to four million Muslim worshipers during the Hajj period, one of the largest annual gatherings of people in the world.
 

Location                      Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Established                638

Branch/tradition    Sunni Islam (Hanbali)

Administration          Saudi Arabian government

Leader Ship                Imam(s)

                                        Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais

                                        Saud Al-Shuraim

Capacity                     900,000 (increased to 4,000,000 during Hajj period)

Minaret                       9

Minaret height         89 meters (292 ft)

Top 10 Mosques of the world (Al-Masjid al-Nabawi)- 2nd

Al-Masjid AL-Nabawi

Al-Masjid AL-Nabawi often called the Prophet's Mosque, is a mosque situated in the city of Medina. As the final resting place of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, it is considered the second holiest site in Islam by Muslims (the first being the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca) and is one of the largest mosques in the world. The mosque is under the control of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. One of the most notable features of the site is the Green Dome over the center of the mosque, where the tomb of Muhammad is located. It is not exactly known when the green dome was constructed but manuscripts dating to the early 12th century describe the dome. It is known as the Dome of the Prophet or the Green Dome. Subsequent Islamic rulers greatly expanded and decorated it. Early Muslim leaders Abu Bakr and Umar are buried in an adjacent area in the mosque.

The site was originally Muhammad's house; he settled there after his Hijra (emigration) to Medina, later building a mosque on the grounds. He himself shared in the heavy work of construction. The original mosque was an open-air building. The basic plan of the building has been adopted in the building of other mosques throughout the world.

The mosque also served as a community center, a court, and a religious school. There was a raised platform for the people who taught the Qur'an. It was also the first place in the Arabian Peninsula provided with electrical lights on 1909.

Location                     Saudi Arabia Medina, Saudi Arabia

Established               c. 622

Branch/tradition   Sunni Islam (Hanbali)

Administration       Saudi Arabian government

Leadership               Imam(s):

                                      Ali ibn Abdurrahman al-Hudhaifi

Style                           Classical and contemporary Islamic; Ottoman; Mamluk revivalist

Capacity                   600,000 (increased to 1,000,000 during the hajj period)

Minaret(s)               10

Minaret height      105 meters (344 ft)

Top 10 Mosques of the world- 3rd (Istiqlal Mosque)

Istiqlal Mosque

Istiqlal Mosque, or Masjid Istiqlal, (Independence Mosque) in Jakarta, Indonesia is the largest mosque in Southeast Asia in terms of capacity to accommodate people and building structure. This national mosque of Indonesia was built to commemorate Indonesian independence, as nation's gratitude for Islam's blessings the independence of Indonesia. Therefore the national mosque of Indonesia was named "Istiqlal", an Arabic word for "Independence".

Location                      Jakarta, Indonesia

Established                1978

Branch/tradition     Sunni Islam

Ownership                  Indonesian government

Architect(s)               Frederich Silaban

Style                             International

Capacity                     120,000

Dome(s)                      2

Dome dia.                  45m

Minaret(s)                 1

Minaret height        90m

Materials                   Marble

Construction cost  Rp 7 billion (US$ 12 million)

Top 10 Mosques of the world- 4th ( Hassan II mosque)

Hassan II Mosque

Hassan II Mosque is a religious buildings in Casablanca, Morocco, the largest mosque in the country and the fifth largest mosque in the world after the Masjid AL-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca and the Al-Masjid AL-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina.  

It was designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau and built by Bouygues. It stands on a promontory looking out to the Atlantic, which can be seen through a gigantic glass floor with room for 25,000 worshipers. A further 80,000 can be accommodated in the mosque's adjoining grounds for a total of 105,000 worshipers present at any given time at the Hassan II mosque. Its minaret is the world's tallest at 210 m (689 ft).

Location                            Morocco Casablanca, Morocco

Affiliation                         Islam

Region                               Greater Casablanca

Prefecture                       Casablanca-Anfa

Ecclesiastical or            Mosque  

organizational status   

Architectural type       Mosque

Completed                       1993

Capacity                           105,000 (25,000 indoors, additional 80,000 on Mosque's grounds)

Dome(s)                            1

Minaret(s)                       1

Minaret height              210 m (689 ft)

Top 10 Mosques of the world- 5th (Faisal Mosque)

Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is the largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and one of the largest mosques in the world. It was the largest mosque in the world from 1986 until 1993, when it was overtaken in size by the completion of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. 

Faisal Mosque

Subsequent expansions of the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca and the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, Saudi Arabia during the 1990s relegated Faisal Mosque to fourth place in terms of size.  

Faisal Mosque is conceived as the National Mosque of Pakistan. It has a covered area of 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft). It can accommodate 10,000 worshipers in its main prayer hall,24,000 in its porticoes, 40,000 in its courtyard,and another 200,000 in its adjoining grounds. Although its covered main prayer hall is smaller than that of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca (the world's third largest mosque), Faisal Mosque has the third largest capacity of accommodating worshipers in its adjoining grounds after the Masjid AL-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, the Al-Masjid AL-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina. Each of the Mosque's four minarets are 80 m (260 ft) high (the tallest minarets in South Asia) and measure 10 x 10 m in circumference.

The Faisal Mosque is named after the late King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, who supported and financed the project.

Brief information of this mosque is as follows:

Location                        Islamabad, Pakistan

Established                  1986

Branch/tradition       Sunni Islam

                                         (Open to all , but Imamate reserved for either Shafi or Hanbali)

Architect(s)                Vedat Dalokay

Style                               Contemporary Islamic

Capacity                       74,000 within the main areas, approx. 200,000 in adjoining grounds

Covered area              5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft)

Minaret(s)                    4

Minaret height            90 meters (295 ft)

Construction cost      120 million USD

Top 10 Mosques of the world (Badshahi Mosque)- 6th

Badshahi Mosque or the 'King's Mosque' in Lahore, commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and completed in 1673, is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world.

Badshahi Mosque

 Epitomizing the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era, it is Lahore most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction. Capable of accommodating 5,000 worshipers in its main prayer hall and a further 95,000 in its courtyard and porticoes, it remained the largest mosque in the world from 1673 to 1986 (a period of 313 years), when overtaken in size by the completion of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Today, it remains the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world after the Masjid AL-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, the Al-Masjid AL-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca and the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.

To appreciate its large size, the four minarets of the Badshahi Mosque is 13.9 ft (4.2 m) taller than those of the Taj Mahal and the main platform of the Taj Mahal can fit inside the 278,784 sq ft (25,899.9 m2) courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque, which is the largest mosque courtyard in the world.

In 1993, the Government of Pakistan recommended the inclusion of the Badshahi Mosque as a World Heritage Site in UNESCO's World Heritage List, where it has been included in Pakistan's Tentative List for possible nomination to the World Heritage List by UNESCO.

Location                         Pakistan Lahore, Pakistan

Affiliation                      Sunni Islam

Province                        Punjab

District                           Lahore

Year consecrated      1671

Ecclesiastical or         Mosque  

organizational status    

Leadership                   Aurangzeb

Architectural type    Mosque

Architectural style   Islamic, Mughal

Completed                   1673

Capacity                       100,000

Dome(s)                        3

Minaret(s)                   8 (4 major, 4 minor)

Minaret height           176 ft 4 in (53.75 m)