Ritual & Happines

1. The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
2. A snail can sleep for three years.
3. The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene.
4. Slugs have four noses.
5. Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
6. A rhinoceros' horn is made of hair.v
7. It is possible to hypnotize a frog by placing it on its back and gently stroking its stomach.
8. It takes a sloth two weeks to digest its food.
9. Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
10. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.
11. Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
12. Giraffes have no vocal chords.
13. Kangaroos can't fart.
14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
15. Around 50 percent of orangutans have fractured bones, due to falling out of trees on a regular basis.
16. Frogs cannot vomit. If one absolutely has to, then it will vomit its entire stomach.

1.Although mathematicians have used zero since at least the 8th century, the word ‘zero’ was first recorded in English only in 1604.
2.The real name of actor Zero Mostel (1915-1977) was Samuel Joel Mostel.
3.His nickname ‘Zero’ came from his parents telling him he would never amount to anything.
4.When Anders Celsius introduced the scale of temperatures named after him in 1742, zero was the boiling point of water and 100 its freezing point.
5.Bell peppers are rated zero on the Scoville scale of chilli pepper hotness.
6.The earliest record of the phrase ‘zero tolerance’ was in the New York Times in 1972.
7.In 1985, French astronaut Patrick Baudry announced his discovery that: 'In zero gravity you can put your trousers on two legs at a time.'
8.In 1963 it was confirmed by a spider called Arabella that spiders can spin webs in zero gravity.
9.The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale,” (Arthur C Clarke).
10.India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta