Kenya Bitter Truth

1. Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe after Hydrogen and Helium. 2. Oxygen forms in the hearts of stars, with the fusion of a carbon-12 nucleus and a helium-4 nucleus (also known as an alpha particle). 3. In fact on earth, oxygen is the most common element, making up about 47% of the earth’s mass. 4. Oxygen is absolutely essential to human life, it is found in the air we breathe and the water we drink (H20). Humans inhale more than 6 billion tons of oxygen each year. 5. Cyanobacteria, which are organisms that “breathe” using photosynthesis, take in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen, just like modern plants. Cyanobacteria were likely responsible for the first oxygen on Earth, an event known as the Great Oxidation Event some 2.4 billion years ago. 6. When oxygen first developed on Earth 2.4 billion years ago , it is believed that it wiped out nearly 99% of all life in simple forms mostly anaerobic organisms and paved the way for life as we know it today. The simples...

1. You see with your brain, not your eyes. Eyes function like a camera, capturing light and sending data back to the brain for it to form image. 2. In a normal life span your eyes will see almost 24 million images of the world around you. 3. Amazing fact is that although our nose and ears keep growing throughout our lives, our eyes remain the same size from birth. 4. All babies are color blind at birth. 5. A newborn baby will cry, but not produce any tears. Babies do not produce tears until they are around six weeks old. 6. Amazingly cornea has no blood supply. It takes in oxygen directly from air. 7. Our eyes have small blind spots where the optic nerve passes through the retina, and our brains use the information from the other eye to fill this gap. 8. Amazing fact is that while reading as you focus on each word , your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second . 9. Every second retina performs 10 billion computer like calculations. 10. We blink our eyes once every six second i.e. ...

1. Amazingly it is the only natural substance found in all three physical states – Solid , liquid and Gas at the temperatures that naturally occur on Earth. 2. Water is made up of two elements, hydrogen and oxygen. Its chemical formula is H2O. 3. Water expands by about 9 % as it freezes. 4. Water is the only substance on earth that is lighter as a solid than a liquid. 5. Only 1% of the world’s water is drinkable. 6. Amazing fact is that of all the water on the earth humans can use only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes. 7. Amazing fact that over the course of a century, the average water molecule will spend 1 week in the atmosphere , 2 weeks in lakes and rivers , 20 months as ice and 98 years in the ocean. 8. Water has a very high melting and boiling point compared to other similar molecules. 9. Amazing thing is that if water was not a liquid at most of the temperatures we see on Earth, Life w...

1. Amazingly if all 600 muscles in your body pulled in one direction, you could lift 25 tons! 2. Underwater swimming is the only time you should ever hold your breath while exercising. 3. If you are not doing regular exercise, by the time you are 65 you may experience as much as an 80% decrease in your muscle strength. 4. If you’re always in a bad mood, then exercise. Regular exercise can enhance mood and overall well-being. 5. Depressed people can alleviate their symptoms by as much as 47 percent with regular aerobic exercise. 6. Six percent more men than women exercise regularly. 7. Exercising in the morning will make you more energized for the rest of the day. 8. When it comes to cancer, those who work out 15 minutes daily are 10 percent less likely to die of it than those who don’t exercise at all. Every additional 15 minutes of daily exercise reduces the all-cause mortality risk by another 4 percent and the cancer mortality risk by another 1 percent. 9. Not only does exercise reli...

1. Blood makes up around 7% of the weight of a human body. 2. Blood is about 45 % cells & 55 % plasma. 3. Plasma is 90 % water and human blood is 83% water. 4. Amazingly a Newborn baby has just about 1 cup of blood in his body. 5. Red blood cells develop in bone marrow and have life span of 120 days. 6. Amazing fact is that a drop of blood contains about 250 million cells. 7. Amazing thing is that the capillaries are so small that it would take ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair. 8. In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12,000 miles , amazingly that’s four times the width of North America. 9. Amazing fact is that there are 60,000 miles ( 100000 km) of blood vessels in the human body enough to circle the earth 2.5 times which has 25000 miles ( 40000 km) circumference. 10. The fact is that all the blood in our body passes 400 times through each kidney per day. 11. Red Blood Cells are the only cells in the body that amazingly doesn’t have a nucleus. 12....

Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression. He was scared to carry knives because he was afraid he’d kill himself. Bees don’t always die when they sting. Amazingly they die when they sting a human or other animal with similarly thick skin, but can sting other insects just fine. In 1971, Saddam Hussein imported 100,000 tons of grain treated with fungicidal mercury. The grains were intended for planting, but the Iraqis, unable to understand the English and Spanish warnings or the “skull and crossbones” image, baked it into bread. Hundreds of Iraqis died as a result. In the film ‘Thank You for Smoking’, amazingly none of the characters are ever seen smoking. While millions of North Koreans starve, the nation’s rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown daily from China to Pyongyang on North Korea’s national airline. Glucose (sugar) has an opposite “handed” isomer L-glucose, that tastes identical and isn’t metabolized as sugar, also safe for diabetics. Amazingly L- ...

1. Amazing fact is that Sun is 99.86 % mass in the solar system. 2. All other planets with moons, comets , asteroids etc just make up just 0.14 % most of which is in Jupiter. 3. Amazingly in spite of Sun being average sized star , 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun. 4. If you consider sun’s surface , about 109 planet Earths would fit on the surface. 5. Sun as a star is classified as G2 dwarf. 6. The largest known star UY Scuti is 5 billion times the size of the Sun and it takes 2.2 hours to cross its diameter at the speed of light. 7. Sun’s composition is about 75 percent hydrogen, 23 percent helium, and 2 percent heavier elements. 8. The sun has a diameter that is more than 100 times that of Earth. 9. The sun is the closest star to Earth and is 149.60 million kilometers (92.96 million miles) away. 10. The sun is orbited by nine major planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto which is no longer an official planet. 11. All planets orbit t...

1. The acronym “NASA” stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was established in 1958 by President Eisenhower one year after the Soviets launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. It has been a pioneer and leader in the field of space missions in the world. 2. Around 19,000 employees work at NASA headquarters in Washington and in it’s 10 command centers around the United States. Additional 40,000 contractors work for the space agency. 3. The most well-known bases are the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida where space shuttles are prepared and launched, and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas where shuttle mission control and International Space Station operators are located. 4. Area code for Kennedy Space Center in Florida and its surrounding areas is 321, given for its pronunciation resembling the countdown before liftoff. 5. NASA designs its robotic missions to comets, Mars and other planets in the solar system at the Jet Pr...