Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice either coz their stomach can t handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them

The official scientific definition of one second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of radiation that occurs between two Caesium-133 atoms in a ground hyper-fine state

Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released This is also why walls are often sweaty after a fire

Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called ‘photolysis ’ For sunlight breaks down the compounds in the laundry that cause odour such as perspiration and body oils

According to Newton s Law of Motion when a car going 60 miles per hour in one direction gets hit by a mosquito going one mile per hour in the opposite direction the car will slow down one-millionth of a mile per hou

According to Newton s Law of Motion when a car going 60 miles per hour in one direction gets hit by a mosquito going one mile per hour in the opposite direction the car will slow down one-millionth of a mile per hou

Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery Over 2600 years ago Sushrata his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract artificial limbs cesareans fractures urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries

Using one of the world s largest radio telescopes British scientists have analyzed an interstellar gas cloud(known as G34 3 some 10 000 light-years away) and calculated that it contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of bee

Migrating geese fly in a V pattern to conserve energy When flying the bird s wings churn the air and leave an air current behind By flying in a V pattern each goose is positioned to get a lift from the air current left by the bird in front of him V ery cleve

A can of diet coke will float in water while a can of regular coke will sink It s because that if an object displaces more than its weight in liquid it floats; otherwise it sinks So the regular Coke can sinks as it is more dense than water due to sugar content in it

The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them When you light the candle you are also lighting the magnesium When someone tries to blow out the flame the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and in just a split second (or two or three) relights the wick

Gravity is weaker in North America than it is in Europe East Asia Australia and North Africa This is because Earth is not a perfect sphere and its interior mass is not evenly distributed There are slight variations of gravitational pull depending on where on Earth s surface you are In fact you can now check to see which points on the Earth s surface have the strongest and weakest gravitational pulls with a gravity map available at BBC com