Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
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.
The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The father of medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
The human eye can detect 10,000,000 different colors.
Smiling releases natural pain killing hormones, endorphins and serotonin, making us feel good.
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 beer.
Astronomers suggest that approximately 10 billion earth-like planets may exist in our galaxy.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.