Every auspicious occasion begins with breaking of coconut.
Coconut is often offered as a whole or broken in two halves.
It signifies the breaking of ego and surrender to divine.
Breaking the coconut believed to dispel negative energy.
Water inside coconut is considered holy water.
Coconut is said to represent 3 supreme gods, Brahma Vishnu Shiva.
Coconut is considered a sacred offering to all the Gods in Hinduism.
Eyes of all animals have retina.
Retina is a thin layer at the back of the eye that absorbs light and changes into signals so that brain can understand.
Behind cat's eye is a mirror called " tapetum lucidum ". Light passes through retina, hits the tapetum lucidum.
This light reflects back through retina.
The glow in cat's eye is the light bouncing back from tapetum lucidum.
Cats are not the only animals with this ability. All night hunting animals have this.
Cows, sheep, goat and horses have it too probably for spotting predators at night.
Squirrels, pigs, most of the primates including humans don't have this as they are active during daytime.
Interestingly most dogs have this feature. But is missing in dogs with blue eyes and domesticated breeds !!!!
These sre the most educated countries ----
1. Canada
2. Ireland
3. Japan
4. South Korea
5. United Kingdom
6. Luxembourg
7. Australia
8. Sweden
9. United States of America
10. Israel
All over the world, red colour traffic signal indicates the vehicles to STOP and green colour indicates GO.
But in Japan, GO signal is slightly blue rather than usual bright green !!!
The main cause of Japan's so called blue traffic light is based on the language.
Japanese language did not have a clear distinction between the colours green and blue.
Japanese call green vegetables as blue vegetables !!!
The Japanese traffic lights have slightly blue colour in them. They are still called BLUE !!!
World's largest desert is cold Antarctic desert.
Smallest desert is Carcross desert in Canada.
Hottest desert Death valley USA
Coldest desert is Antarctica.
Most colourful desert Thar, India
Surprising facts
1. Thar is the most densely populated desert.
2. Geologically Thar desert is relatively young.
3. Thar receives annual rainfall from Indian monsoon !!!
4. This region was once under the sea.
5. It is home to great Indian bustard, one of the heaviest bird in the world.
