FASCINATING FACTS...

* The Weight of the tongue of the blue whale is equal to the total body weight of the elephant

* Apart from humans, the only land animal that cries is the elephant.

* A hippopotamus can run faster than a man..

* There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

* Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's came into view again...

* The average woman's brain weighs around 4 oz lighter than a man's. The brain of a Neanderthal man was bigger than both..

There is enough telephone cable under New York to reach Venus.

* A lizard discovered inside a block of a ice buried 33 ft below ground level in Siberia, was found to be alive.

* The three astronauts who spent twelve weeks in space on the Skylab mission had grown two inches taller by the time they returned to Earth..