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Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers .Compiled andposted by R. Gopala krishnan, on 24-04-2024 Q1 What are some amazing facts aboutwolves? A1 Kevin Mitnick, MSc in Computer Science& Information Technology, University of California, Berkeley (Graduated2003)Feb 12 The wolfnever eats corpses, neither animals, nor people. It spendsits whole life with a partner, it does not mate with its mother or sister, Itis a monogamous animal. If a partnerdies, the wolf remains alone. It knowsits young ones well. It is theonly animal that helps their parents after deep old age and brings them food. When youkill a wolf, it looks you in the eye until its soul gives out. It is 25%smarter than the smartest dog, and it is the only animal that doesn't obeytraining, they say... Q2 What are some of the most mind-blowingfacts? A2 Devi Prasad,Studied at St. Xavier'sHigh School, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar (Graduated 2019)Updated 6y About 90% of Chinese teenagers and adultssuffer from Myopia. The LargeHadron Collider was turned off in 2009 due to a piece of bread dropped in it bya bird. The placewhere Hitler killed himself is now a playground. “Cacao”plants are expected to disappear before 2050 due to global warming.(Cacaoplants are used to make cocoa powder). There's astrip club in Ontario, Canada that doubles as a Church on Sundays. Riding aroller coaster can help patients to expel their kidney “stones”. The U.SEmbassy in Kathmandu has guidelines on what to do if a Yeti is found. VladimirPutin’s grandfather worked as “chef” for Stalin and Lenin. Camels gavehumans the common cold. The word “Hundred”derives from “Hundra” in Old Norse, which originally meant 120. There are more than 40 airports in Antartica. Thebrightest things in the universe are “Quasars”, which can be 429 trillion timesbrighter than our sun. Tokyo is thecity with the most millionaires in the world but London has the mostmulti-millionaires and New York the most billionaires. Mars has nomagnetic field. MoreAfricans have access to cell phone service than piped water and electricity. Onlydeceased people can appear on U.S. currency. Q3 What are some INTERESTING information about British Collector named Rous Peter who was appointed as Collectorof Madurai from 1812 to 1828. A3 Chauhan Babu Nath, Apr 17 *Afterretirement, Peter refused to go back to England. He stayed in Madurai. His lastwish was that he should beburied withhis eyes facing Goddess Meenakshi. His wish was fulfilled and he was buried withhis face towards the temple. Every Yearone British family from England visit the temple to take Darshan of MotherGoddess Meenakshi . There is amost interesting story. Connected between British collector and Meenakshi Amman. BritishCollector named Rous Peter was appointed as Collector of Madurai from 1812 to1828. Though aChristian by faith, he respected all faiths including Hinduism and also honoredlocal practices. CollectorPeter was the temple administrator of the Meenakshi Amman Temple and conductedall his duties with sincerity and honesty and respected the religioussentiments of all people. CollectorRous Peter respected and treated people of all faiths equally and this noble traitearned him the popular nickname *‘Peter Pandian'* *GoddessMeenakshi Amman Temple* was situated between Collector Peter's residence andoffice. Everyday heused to go to the office by his horse and while crossing the temple, he gotdown from his horse, removed the hat and his shoes and crossed the whole pathon his foot. Through this small gesture he expressed his reverence to theGoddess!* One daythere was a heavy downpour in Madurai city and River Vaigai was in spate. Collectorwas sleeping in his residence and was suddenly disturbed and woken up by thesound of anklets and he left his bed to find out from where the sound had came. He saw asmall girl wearing pattuvastrams (silk garments) and precious ornaments andaddressing him as *'Petercome this way'.* And he cameout to follow her and was running behind the little girl to find out who shewas! As he came out of the house and was running, he was shocked as he turnedto see behind him, his residence (whole bungalow) being washed away by the floodwaters of River Vaigai! He turned tofollow the girl but she disappeared into thin air! He saw that the girl ranwithout any shoes and was wearing anklets.* He beleivedthat his devotion for Mother *Goddess Meenakshi* had saved his life. Later, hewished to give a gift to Lord Meenakshi Amman & consulted the priest oftemple and ordered for *a pair of golden shoes for Goddess Meenakshi Amman*. It is thusthat the pair of Paadhukams consisting of *412 rubies, *72 emeralds,*and *80diamonds* were made and donated to the temple. His name wassculpted as "Peter" on sole of the shoes. Till thisday the pair of Paadhukams are known as *'Peter Paadhukam'* Every yearat the time of 'Chaitra Festival', utsava moorthy of Goddess Meenakshi Amman isdecorated with the Padukams. He alsowished that after his death he should be buried in a position that enabled hiseyes to face the temple. It is interesting to note that Rous Peter’s grave ispositioned the way he wished while the pther graves faces the other way. This is theincidence that had happened 200 years back. Every year descendant of Raus Peterfamily visits the temple. (Source: WhatsApp forward) Q4 Would you tell me a good joke? A4 Not First Introvert, Sun So oncethere were three friends- Santa, Banta and Pappu. They went to picnic and kepteverything with them, the tents, water bottle, samosas, etc but they forgot tobring cold drink. They decidedwhoever would loose the game of stone paper scissor, that person would go andbring the cold drink. Pappu lost. But herefuses and says that he knows that if he will go then they will eat thesamosas without him, to which Santa and Banta promises that they wouldn't. FinallyPappu decides to go. Santa and Banta wait for him but he doesn't arrive back.One hour gets passed, two hours passes, 1 day passes, 2 day passes. Finally onthe evening of third day they decide to head back and as soon as Santa decidesto eat Samosa out of hunger, Pappu jumps out of bushes and says- “I knew youwould it without me, that's why I never went". acts abouthuman evolution Profilephoto for Zaigham Qadeer Q5 What are some amazing facts abouthumans? A5 Qadeer, BS in Biochemistry, PMAS AridAgriculture University Rawalpindi Updated 2y Hmm, let metell you some cool facts about human evolution. White skin is younger than agriculture revolution The whitecolor of European human skin is less than 10,000 years old. Today we know that8500 years ago, most of humans in Europe still had black skin. They lackedversions of two genes—SLC24A5 and SLC45A2—that lead to depigmentation and,therefore, pale skin in Europeans today. So, we can say that white skin isyounger than agriculture revolution.[1] Blue eyes are older than white skin Yes, youread that right, the blue eyes in humans are older than white skin color.Researchers extracted hunter gatherer dubbed La Brana 1 DNA, unearthed from thenorth-west of Spain. They came to know that, this person had black skin yetblue eyes. [2] Lactose tolerance is of same age as of white skin White skinevolved round about 8–10 thousand years ago and at the same time humans evolvedlactose tolerance. At this period of time a great famine hit turkey and neighboringarea which let thousands to die, the rest tried to stay alive for years whiledrinking milk. Normally human adults lose lactose tolerance but due to thisselection pressure they turned their genes back on. [3] Still morethan 60% of human population is lactose intolerant. Humans didn't domesticated cats According tothe prehistoric DNA of wild and domesticated cats we came to know that there isno much difference in between them. This gives us hint that we did notdomesticated cats rather they domesticated themselves .[4] We are losing wisdom teeth Toady morethan 22% of population do not have wisdom teeth. Why? Because they didn't hadany function in our body so selection process had threw them away. We have beenreducing our denatl size since astralopiths and it's been ~2 million yearssince we have been doing this. [5] My note- References told are not added. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/668854410.2072599.1713965170819%40mail.yahoo.com.
