* The world's largest recorded gathering of people till date was at a Hindu religious festival in India in 1989; it was attended by about 15 million people!
* Sharks, in their 400 million years on earth have shown an extraordinary ability to resist cancer and other diseases. This has raised hopes among medical researchers that the ocean's most feared predator might turn out to be the cancer patient's best friend; investigators continue to study the immune system of sharks to see if it can provide the answer to stop the spread of cancer in humans!
* Yuri Gagarin survived the first manned space flight but was killed in a plane crash seven years later!
* The first animal in space was the soviet dog, Laika, in November, 1957; it died on the flight!
* The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in california; it is 84 meters tall and measures 29 meters round the trunk!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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