Do you know?

1. A humming bird weighs less than a penny.
2. April 22nd is world’s earth day promoting reuse, reduce and recycle way of life.
3. Mangroves thrive in salty water, unlike other trees for which salt is a deadly poison. Mangroves pump salt out of their roots and store it in leaves that they are about to shed. As a result they can drink sea water with no apparent ill-effects.
4. An avalanche can carry as much as a million tonnes of snow, sending ahead of it a shock wave of air that blasts almost everything on its path. Anyone trapped inside is likely to be crushed or suffocated to death.
5. A medical species of anise (saunf) grows profusely on the island of java & Sumatra and is used to treat snake-bite and its efficacy is proven to be 100%.
6. Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used to make money.
   Portugese jellyfish tentacles have been known to grow mile in length, catching anything in its path by stinging its prey.