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Facts about The Work of the Honeybee..

1. The honeybee is not born knowing how to make honey; the younger bees are taught by the more experienced ones.

2. A honeybee visits between 50 and 100 flowers during one collection flight from the hive.

3. In order to produce 1 pound of honey, 2 million flowers must be visited.

4. A hive of bees must fly 55,000 miles to produce a pound of honey.

5. One bee colony can produce 60 to 100 pounds of honey per year.

6. An average worker bee makes only about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

7. At the peak of the honey-gathering season, a strong, healthy hive will have a population of approximately 50,000 bees.

8. It would take approximately 1 ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.

9. Honey is the primary food source for the bee. The reason honeybees are so busy collecting nectar from flowers and blossoms is to make sufficient food stores for their colony over the winter months. The nectar is converted to honey by the honeybee and stored in the wax honeycomb.

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IN 24 HOURS AVERAGE HUMAN:

1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.

2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.

3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.

4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches

5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches

6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)

7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.

8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.

9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.

10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.

11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.

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FASCINATING ANIMALS, BIRDS, TREES :

1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tounge.

2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.

3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.

4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.

5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.

6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TRYNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.

7) DIMETRODON was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.

8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.

9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.

10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.

11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.

12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.

13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.

14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

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Let us see some of the longest things..

So what was the longest whale in the world..

Type:        Blue whale
Length:     33.6 Meters [110 Feet 3 Inches]
Weight:     About 100 Tons

The longest waterfall in the world..

Angel Falls, Venezuela. The falls named after Jimmy Angel who first spotted the falls in 1933.

Location: Guayana Highlands, Venezuela

Height: 2,937 Feet

Note: Angel Falls are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.

The longest train in the world..

The longest train ever was a freight train:

Length:               7.353 KM
No. of cars:          682
No. of engines:     8 diesel/electric
Company:            BHP Iron Ore
Location:             Port Hedland, Australia
Length of trip:     275 KM - 171 Miles
Date of trip:        June 21 2001

The world's longest tree..

In the Redwood National Park in Northern California resides a coast redwood tree named the Hyperion tree that has grown into the record books for being the world's longest, or tallest, tree with a total height of 115.55 meters or 379.1 feet.

the longest ship in the world..

The longest of ships are oil tankers, of which the Jahre Viking is the king.

Length:     1,503 Feet
Width:       226 Feet
Tonnage: 565,000 Tons
Country:    Norway

The longest snake in the world..

The worlds longest snake was a Reticulated Python, found in Indonesia in 1912.

Length: 32 feet 9 1/2 inches

The longest river in the world..

River: The Nile.

Length: 6,695 KM

Which of our planets has the longest orbit?

Neptune, as of August 24 2006 (Pluto lost it status as a planet.)

Neptune travels about 28,263,000,000 kilometers to complete 1 orbit of the sun. A year on Neptune is 164.79 Earth years long.

Just for reference, the orbit of the Earth is 924,375,700 kilometers.

What was the world's longest eclipse?

To start, there are two types of eclipses, a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse, and we'll shed some light of both.

A solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the Earth and the Sun.

The longest a total solar eclipse can last, theoretically, is 7 minutes and 31 seconds and the longest recorded solar eclipse we could find lasted 7 minutes and 8 seconds in 1955.

If you're around on July 16 2186 you'll have the opportunity to experience an all but perfect solar eclipse lasting 7 minutes and 29 seconds.

A lunar eclipse is an eclipse of the moon and occurs when the Earth passes between the moon and the Sun.

The longest recorded lunar eclipse occurred on May 31 318 lasting 1 hour 47minutes and 14 seconds.

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