"Survivor" - the fun TV show facts

"Survivor" - the fun TV show facts

Survivor John Smith   22:15

Check out our amazing world of fun facts about "Survivor" - the fun TV show via questions and answers, about youngest winner, longest challenge, funny pictures about contestants. Let's see

1. How long did "Survivor" longest challange last?

It is about 11 hours and 55 minutes - the final immunity challenge in Survivor: Paula, where they had to hang from buoys in the water.

2. Who is the youngest winner of the "Survivor"?

Judson John "Fabio" Birza (born June 12, 1989), is an American male model, best known as the winner of Survivor: Nicaragua. At age 21 at the time of the game, he is currently the youngest person to win the show

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3. Season 29 featured ten couples with existing relationships (one couple had to drop out before filming commenced). The tribes were divided along "relationship lines"; each couple was sent to a different tribe. Did each couple get to spend anytime together before being divided into tribes?

Yes, each couple spent a night together before being assigned to a tribe in this TV show.

4. Each couple was marooned separately on the island for one night before assembling at Heroes Arena for team assignation. For the single night they were given only a flint to assist them. As such "Survivor" series 29 was only the second time the series had exceeded 39 days. Who was considered "one of the girls"?

Nadiya said this for the sheer fact that he was gay, though he wasn't exactly thrilled with being labelled this way. 

5. Do you remember the least successful survivors? Can you name the first male contestant voted out of the game?

The first survivor ever to be voted out of the game was Sonja Christopher, she is also the first ever female contestant to be voted out. The first male contestant to be voted out was B.B. Andersen, who was voted out second in "Survivor: Borneo". Peter Harkey from "Survivor: Marquesas" (season 4) was the first male contestant to be voted out first.

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Overview about tortoise

Overview about tortoise

turtle John Smith   21:21

Here is overview information about tortoise that will blow your mind

Tortoises are magnificent creatures even when they are tiny little things and contrary to what most people think, when a tortoise wants to put a spurt on, they can move pretty fast. Many a pet tortoise has been left for a few minutes in a back garden and managed to scuttle off into the distance before their owners realise it!

There are about 40 types of tortoise including the:

• Aldabran Tortoise
• Galapagos Tortoise
• Mediterranean Tortoise
• Redfood Tortoise
• Yellowfoot Tortoise
• Russian Tortoise
• Hingeback Tortoise
• Desert Tortoise
• Star Tortoise
• Spurred Tortoise
• Leopard Tortoise
• Burmese Mountain Tortoise
• Common long-neck Tortoise
• Murray River short-neck Tortoise
• Krefft’s Tortoise
• Western Swamp Tortoise
• Macquarie Tortoise

The largest tortoises are the giant Galapagos, which lives in the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, and the Aldabran, which lives in the Aldabra Islands off the coast of east Africa. The Galapagos Tortoise can grow to about 1.5 metres (4.9 feet). The Aldabran can weigh up to 300 kgs (660 lbs).

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Habitat

Most species of tortoise live on land, but some live in fresh water. They live in many different types of environments from deserts and semi-arid areas to lakes, lagoons and swamps and tropical forests.

Tortoises are found in the wild in many countries including:

• Desert Tortoise – California US
• Redfoot and Yellowfoot Tortoise – South America
• Hingeback, Leopard and Spurred Tortoise – Africa
• Star Tortoise – India
• Burmese Mountain Tortoise – Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
• Spider Tortoise – Madagascar
• Common long-neck - Australia

Tortoises are also kept as pets in many countries. In Australia the Macquarie, Murray River short-neck and Common long-neck are popular.

Diet

In the wild, most tortoises browse for food – moving around a large area, eating small amounts of food as they go. Some tortoises are herbivores, and eat only plants. Others are omnivores, meaning they will eat anything available including plants, fruit, live prey and carrion.

Tortoises need calcium to build their bones in the same way that humans do. Those that live in warmer climates bask in the sun. The rays produce vitamins in the tortoise’s body, which work with the plants they eat to produce calcium. Colder climate tortoises get less sunshine, so they eat more protein and foods that contain calcium.

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Whether or not elephants can run?

Whether or not elephants can run?

run John Smith   21:01

Keep reading  to find out some elephants for kids about whether or not elephants can run

A charging elephant might not look like it's merely walking, but that's exactly what it may be doing. Surprisingly, scientists don't agree on whether elephants run in the traditional sense. Now a new study splits the difference, suggesting that a rushing elephant may be walking and running at the same time.

Elephants break all the rules of animal movement. Most four-legged vertebrates change their stride when they move at high speeds so that all four feet leave the ground at once. Elephants take faster and longer steps, but they never take all four feet off the ground. That helps them spread out their massive weight as much as possible, says Norman Heglund, a biomechanics expert at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. But then, are they really running?

That's been a tough question to answer. It turns out there's a lot more involved in running than just taking one's feet off the ground. The legs also flex in particular ways that change an animal's center of gravity and the force it exerts on the ground. Scientists can measure these changes in humans and other animals by making them walk across force sensing plates. But just try doing that with a 4000-kilogram elephant.

The closest researchers have come is high-speed video of rushing elephants analyzed by a team of researchers in 2003. John Hutchinson, a biologist of the University of London's Royal Veterinary College, and colleagues concluded from the footage that, when elephants move at high speeds, their back legs bend slightly, like a runner springing from step to step. But scientists wanted to see more quantitative data.

So in the new study, Heglund and colleagues engineered a heavy-duty force-sensing plate that could withstand being trampled by a charging elephant. They shipped sixteen of the plates, along with computers and video cameras to the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang Province. There, they constructed a 2 meter by 8 meter track from the plates and filmed 34 elephants, each guided by a mounted trainer, as they traversed the track at a range of speeds.
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Despite their size, elephants step lightly, the team reports today in The Journal of Experimental Biology. A human runner exerts peak forces of 3 times his or her body weight when running, while elephants exert at most 1.4 times their body weight. They also don't move their center of gravity much: Even at an 18 kilometer-per-hour charge, an elephant's center of mass moves up and down by about a centimeter, a smaller vertical movement than human runners make.

As to whether elephants actually run, the answer seems to be, well, sort of. While Hutchinson's team saw that an elephants' front legs walked while the back legs trotted, Heglund's team's measurements indicated the opposite: When stepping with a forelimb, the elephants' center of mass lowered slightly as the force on the ground increased, indicating a spring-like mechanism typical of a dog or a human's run. Meanwhile, even at high speeds, the elephants' back legs seemed to stay rigid, which is typical of a walk. "They don't really run in the classical sense," Heglund says. "They can't quite kick it into second gear, so they're stuck halfway in between" a walk and a run.

But that may not be the final answer, warns Hutchinson, who studied the same group of elephants alongside Heglund's team. He says that the elephants' feet likely touched more than one plate at once, making it hard to separate what individual limbs were doing. Still, he says, the research is important because it quantifies the forces with which elephants hit the ground. "It's nice to have the numbers."

If nothing else, the study illustrates that, when it comes to running in animals, "it's not one size fits all," says Daniel Schmitt, an expert in primate locomotion at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. "That speaks to how evolution works."

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Interesting Facts About Elephants

Interesting Facts About Elephants

news John Smith   03:28

If you’re looking for the most interesting elephant facts, you’re at the right place. Here are list of amazing facts about them

• An elephant is one of the few four legged animals, which cannot run or jump.
• At birth, the baby elephants are blind and they depend on their trunk and their mothers to help them.
• Females can mate and have babies until they are around 50 years old, and they tend to give birth every 2.5 to 4 years.
• Elephants feed around 16 hours a day and they consume around 300 to 600 pounds of vegetation every day.
• Male elephants go through bouts of aggression, which last for short periods.  Hence, female elephants are kept at the zoos and used in the circus, as they are gentler in nature.
• Elephants are social animals and they are often seen touching and caressing one another and playing around with the trunks.
• An elephants tusk grows up to around 10 feet and weighs around 200 pounds.
• Elephants cool themselves by fanning their ears. This cool down the blood in their ears, which completely cools them off.
• Despite the size of elephant ears the quality of hearing is poor! The body at the back of an elephant ear is surprisingly soft, and called the knuckle, this area is used by trainers to steer and give commands to the elephant. The ears on an African elephant are flapped to help keep the animal cool
• Elephants are herbivores, they eat varying types of vegetation including grass, leaves, fruits, and bark
• Elephants have a walking speed of approximately 4 mph. A surprising fact is that they are able to swim for long distances!
• Elephants can spend up to 16 hours a day eating; on average they can eat approximately 495 pounds of food each day - that's a lot of leaves
• A female elephant has the longest gestation period (pregnancy) than any other land mammal on earth; 22 months. When a calf is born it weighs approximately 100kg, it will be raised in a strong family group led by one matriarchal older female. Baby elephants are often depicted holding onto the tails of their elders
• A male calf is raised by a female herd until it reaches the age of 12-15, when it leaves to joins the males or live alone. It will be reunited with females annually in order to mate
• A fully grown adult male African Elephants can reach 10 - 13 feet high and weigh about 15,400 pounds. In comparison, a fully grown male Indian Elephant is unlikely to grow beyond 10 feet, it will weigh approximately 11,000 pounds
• Elephant tusks are made of ivory and are actually enormouslyenlarged teeth (incisors). They start to grow between 6–12 months of age to replace the milk teeth, they grow approximately 17cm a year
• Not all elephants have tusks; generally both male and female African elephants have tusks that are of similar size. Only the males in the Asian species have large tusks, if the females have them they are much smaller. It is quite common for Sri Lankan male elephants to have no tusk at all. Tusks are also known as ivory

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Facts you didn't know about elephant trunk

Facts you didn't know about elephant trunk

news John Smith   22:36

Here are seven facts you didn't know about elephant facts and their trunk: 

An elephant's trunk is the most conspicuous part of its body, but gaze upon an elephant skeleton and you'd never realize that such an appendage existed, as there are no bones to mark its presence. A fusion of the nose and upper lip, the trunk is an elephant's most versatile tool, used for breathing, smelling, touching, grasping, and producing sound. It's probably the most amazing body part in the animal kingdom!

1. Elephant trunks can lift up to 770 pounds! That's right, an elephant can hoist Ulambayaryn Byambajav, a 340-lb world champion sumo wrestler, like he was a bag of peanuts.

2. Elephants are the only animals that can snorkel without aid. By holding the tips of their trunks above the water's surface, elephants can traverse rivers totally submerged. They simply walk across the riverbed.

3. Elephant Trunks actually have "fingers." African elephants have two while Asian elephants only have one. That's why the former is able to grasp objects by pinching the opposing tips of the trunk while the latter must wrap its trunk round objects like a boa constrictor.

4. The elephant's trunk contains over 40,000 muscles, divided into as many as 150,000 individual units! Compare that to the human body, which contains a paltry 639 muscles, and you start to get an idea how intricate the appendage is.

5. Thanks to its trunk, an elephant sports a sense of smell up to four times as sensitive as a bloodhound's. It's been reported that an elephant can smell water several miles away! Key to this ability are millions of receptor cells housed in the animal's upper nasal cavity.

6. Humans have a body part similar to a trunk, and that's the tongue. (The nose, of course, is also analogous.) Both the tongue and the trunk are muscular hydrostats -- body parts composed almost exclusively of muscle tissue that utilize water pressure to move. These body parts have muscles oriented in many varied directions, which grant acrobatic maneuverability.

7. Elephant trunks are stunted at birth, then rapidly elongate over the course of a few days. Calves (elephant babies) aren't at all adept at using these complex appendages at first, so they often tread on their own trunks. Luckily for human children, they don't have to worry about tripping over their noses, only their feet.
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How many Bengal tiger facts did you know?

How many Bengal tiger facts did you know?

tiger John Smith   02:25

Some of the most rare and wonderful animal facts from all over the world. Keep reading to find out some facts about Bengal tiger facts!

The Bengal tiger (also known as the Royal Bengal tiger) is a subspecies of tiger, found across theIndian subcontinent. The Bengal tiger is the national animal of Bangladesh and is considered to be the second largest tiger in the world.

1. The Bengal tiger is the most numerous species oftiger in Asia and is found in dense forests and mangrove swamps and jungles throughout India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, although the Bengal tiger'srange today is much smaller than it once was.
2. The Bengal tiger is considered to be the second largest species of tiger, although recent reports suggest that the Bengal tiger is on average, larger than the Siberiantiger. The Bengal tiger has a yellow or light orange coat, with black or dark brown stripes and a white belly.
3. Bengal tigers are defined by three distinct mitochondrial nucleotide sites and 12 unique microsatellite alleles. The pattern of genetic variation in the Bengal tiger corresponds to the premise that they arrived in India approximately 12,000 years ago. This is consistent with the lack of tiger fossils from the Indian subcontinent prior to the late Pleistocene and the absence of tigers from Sri Lanka, which was separated from the subcontinent by rising sea levels in the early Holocene.
4. The Bengal tiger is a dominant and carnivorous predator, hunting its prey by stalking it until the Bengal tiger has the opportunity to catch it off guard. Bengaltigers primarily hunt larger mammals including deer, wild boar, cattle and goats.
5. Due to the size and power of the Bengal tiger, it has no natural predators in its native environment. Humans that hunt the Bengal tiger and habitat loss are the only threats to the Bengal tiger.
6. After a gestation period of 3 to 4 months, the female Bengal tiger gives birth to up to 5 cubs. Newborn Bengal tiger cubs weigh about 1 kg (2 lb) and are blind and helpless. The mother feeds them milk for about 2 months and then the Bengaltiger cubs are introduced to meat. Bengal tiger cubs depend on their mother for the first 18 months and then they start hunting on their own.
7. Today, due to habitat loss caused by deforestation, and hunting by humanpoachers, the Bengal tiger is considered to be an endangered species. Despite being the most common of all the tiger species, there are thought to be around 2,000 Bengal tigers left in the wild.

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the incredible science facts about the world

the incredible science facts about the world

science facts John Smith   01:37

Impress your friends with these incredible science facts about the world around us.

1) There Are 8 Times As Many Atoms In A Teaspoonful Of Water As There Are Teaspoonfuls Of Water In The Atlantic Ocean.

2) If The Sun Were The Size Of A Beach Ball Then Jupiter Would Be The Size Of A Golf Ball And The Earth Would Be As Small As A Pea.

3) In 1251, Henry III Was Given A Polar Bear By The King Of Norway. He Kept It In The Tower Of London, On A Long Chain So That It Could Swim In The Thames.

4) Until The 1960′S, The Only Reliable Pregnancy Test Was To Inject A Woman’s Urine Into A Female African Clawed Frog. If The Woman Was Pregnant, The Frog Would Ovulate Within 12 Hours.

5) About 65 Billion Neutrinos Will Pass Through Your Fingernail In A Second

6) If All The LEGO Bricks Ever Manufactured Were Clipped On Top Of One Another, They Would Make A Tower Ten Times As High As The Distance To The Moon.

7) Light Would Take .13 Seconds To Travel Around The Earth.

8) If You Drilled A Tunnel Straight Through The Earth And Jumped In, It Would Take You Exactly 42 Minutes And 12 Seconds To Get To The Other Side.

9) A Medium-Sized Cumulus Cloud Weighs About The Same As 80 Elephants.

10) A Single Bolt Of Lightning Contains Enough Energy To Cook 100,000 Pieces Of Toast.

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20 Everyday Life Facts

20 Everyday Life Facts

truth John Smith   03:55

Here are some amazing facts of everyday life:

1.A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. 

2.A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate. 

3.A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person. 

4.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. 

5.A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 

6.A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. 

7.A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can. 

8.A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 

9.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 

10.A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee. 

11.A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 

12.A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove. 

13.A whale’s penis is called a dork. 

14.America once issued a 5-cent bill. 

15.An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. 

16.An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. 

17.Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 

18.Ben and Jerry’s send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the 1tuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. 

19.Dolphins sleep with one eye open. 

20.Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.