A bee taps 2 million flowers and flies 50,000 miles (80,000 kms) to make one pound (454 gm) of honey – travelling more than twice around the world to gather it. The basis of calculation is done after taking many facts for granted and the proof is often lost in the mists of time. C R Ribbands (1949) determined that …

Normally there are twenty two. They are all flat and irregularly shaped and they form the face and protect the delicate brain. The brain case is called the cranium, the back of the head is called the occipital plate and the front part between the eyebrow and where the hair line begins is the forehead.

About 200, including the small ones in the wrist, ankles and the lower end of the spine.

The Giraffe is easily the tallest of the mammals at 18 feet. Apart from its legs and neck another long feature of the giraffe is its tongue. When fully extended to pluck a distant leaf or twig, the Giraffe’s tongue is 17 inches long. The Giraffe feeds on the foliage of acacia trees on the savannahs of South Africa, and …

Lean meat, without fat, remains in the stomach for two to three hours, and for about two hours in the intestine. Meat is digested fairly quickly. On the other hand, food, such as French beans and lettuce, are worked on for more than eight hours, and then expelled almost entirely.

The average lifespan of people varies from country to country. If you live in a developed country, then you can expect to live longer. For example, Australians live, on average, 76 years, West Germans and North Americans 75 years and Britains 74 years. In poorly developed countries, where many people do not have enough to eat, suffer many diseases and …

The earth has 360 imaginary lines called longitudes or meridians running vertically between the poles. Each of these longitudes is called a degree. The 0 degree longitude passing through Greenwich, near London, is considered as standard and the time of all other time zones are calculated accordingly. The time difference between each longitude (each degree) is 4 minutes. So if …

As stars are very far away, their temperature cannot be measured directly. Fortunately, the light coming from stars can be analyzed through several scientific instruments. Although all stars appear white, they have different colours when carefully viewed. The variations are a result of their temperature – cold stars appear red, and hot ones blue or white. The colour of a …

The mass of a heavenly body can be measured by knowing the orbital period (time it takes to complete one orbit around the other body), the distance between two bodies and gravitational constant. The orbital time is inversely proportionate to the square root of the sum of the masses of two bodies and directly proportion distance raised to power three …

As astronomical data is not sufficient to calculate tides, predictions are also based on actual tidal measurements in many areas, over an extended period. A network of tide stations is equipped to take the following measurements every six minutes: tide levels, wind speed and direction, water current speeds, directions, air and water temperatures and barometric pressure. Stations that provide these …