You might think that the fastest animal is the cheetah, for it can sprint for short distances at speeds up to 96 km/h (60 mph). But if we include the birds in our quest for the fastest animal, the record goes to the spine-tailed swift. This creatures is the fastest of all living animals. It has been recorded flying at …

The world’s first reality show is Allen Funt’s Candid Camera, which debuted in American television in 1948. It’s considered a reality show for it involved unscripted situations involving unsuspecting people responding to pranks, which are caught on camera. It was based on a 1947-radio show called Candid Microphone.

‘Great God! this is an awful place,’ wrote the British explorer Captain Scott at the South Pole on January 17,1912. The average temperature at the South Pole is 500 C (580F) and the low temperatures in Antarctica are made worse by blizzards high winds that whip up powdery snow and reduce visibility to zero. The coldest weather ever recorded was …

In terms of sheer bulk, the blue whale must take the prize. Every time it takes a mouthful of shrimp-like krill, it swallows literally thousands upon thousands of individuals. When full, the blue whale’s stomach can hold as much as 2.5 tones of krill. At the other end of the scale, the pygmy shrew – just about the world’s smallest …

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Volga River, is the Europe’s longest river, which flows 2,290 miles (3,688 km) through Russia from Valdai Hills to the Caspian Sea. Boats use it to transport goods across the country.

This enormous mound in northern Australia houses a termite colony. It is made of chewed up vegetable pulp mixed with earth and cemented together to form a hard protective home for the termites. Inside they live within a maze of air conditioned tunnels for they are able to regulate the temperature and humidity inside the mound. Termites are social insects. …

रादौर के गावं धौलरा में स्थित प्राचीन भगवान बलभद्र के मंदिर के प्रति हरियाणा ही नहीं बल्कि अन्य पड़ोसी राज्यों के लोगो की भी गहरी आस्था है। इस मंदिर की मान्यता है की निसंतान लोग अगर यहां सच्चे दिल से मन्नत मांगते हैं तो उन्हें संतान प्राप्ति होती है। मंदिर के इतिहास के बारे में एक श्रद्धालु ने बताया की …

वास्तु अनुसार कैसा होना चाहिए बच्चों का कमरा और उनका स्डडी रूम / अध्ययन कक्ष / पढाई का कमरा कहां और कैसा होना चाहिए ताकी उनका मन पढ़ाई में लगा रहे और वे सभी अच्छे नंबरों से पास हो जाएं अध्ययन कक्ष हो सके तो भवन के पश्चिम या ईशान कोण में ही बनाना चाहिए पर भवन के नैत्रत्य व …

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