Trivia : General Facts

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Trivia are facts that can be amusing although they are mostly knowledge that we can do without. Here, we have compiled some of them.

Trivia retrieved for Biology (31 found)

Fingerprint development on foetuses (fetuses) starts around the third month of gestation.
 
The little lump of flesh in front of the ear canal and right next to the temple is called tragus.
 
Individuals suffering from rare genetic defects namely, Naegeli syndrome and dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis have no fingerprints.
 
There are up to fifteen feet or four and a half metres of blood vessels in every square inch of human skin.
 
Every person possesses a unique tongue print.
 
A sneeze can travel at speeds of 100 miles per hour.
 
In seahorse reproduction, it is the male that becomes pregnant. A male seahorse has a brood pouch where the female will deposit the eggs.
 
Fly larvae help to heal wounds faster because they eat the dead skin cells and bacteria in the process called Maggot Debridement Therapy.
A camel’s hump does not actually store water. It stores fat.
One can tell the temperature by listening to the chirping of a cricket. The frequency of chirping varies according to the air temperature. For the temperature in Fahrenheit, count the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds and add 40 to it. For Celcius, count the number of chirps in 8 seconds and then add 5 to it.
 
An eyelash lives around 150 days before it falls out and a new one begins to grow.
 
Around 150 litres of blood flow through your kidneys in one day.
One blinks their eyes approximately 20,000 times a day.
 
The human heart beats approximately 100,000 times a day.
Placed end to end, all blood vessels in the human body would measure around 60,000 miles or 99,000 kilometers.
 
Alligators lack sex-determined chromosomes so temperature determines their gender (between 30-33oC or 86-91.4oF). They give birth to females in slightly colder temperatures and to males in slightly warmer temperatures.
The right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body. The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body.
 
Whales and dolphins obtain most of the water they need from their food.
 
Your thumb and nose are similar in length. For some people they are remarkably the same.
The hairy frog or horror frog with the scientific name Trichobatrachus robustus breaks its own bones to make a claw for a fight.
A kangaroo rat can survive without drinking water throughout its entire life.
Most individuals have harmless microscopic mites living in their eyebrows.
 
The lizard tuatara possesses a third eye for ultraviolet light known as parietal eye, which is only visible in hatchlings and disappears after a few months.
The water animal Hydra appears not to age or die of old age because of its regenerative ability.
Termite queens can live 25 to 50 years while worker and soldier termites only live a year or two.
 
The first living organism whose parent is a computer is the synthetic biological cell called Synthia.
 
Humans share 50% of DNA with some plants like bananas and animals like chicken, chimpanzee and fruit fly.
Fingernails grow about three to four times faster than toenails.
 
A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch.
 
The smallest organ in the body is the pineal gland, a pea-shaped gland in the brain.
 
Most fish do sleep. While most fish do not have eyelids, they do have a regular period of reduced activity and metabolism. Some hover close to the bottom barely moving.

Published on: 13 Feb 2019 2124.
Last updated: 13 Feb 2019 2124.