You probably are aware of some of these facts .But some folks are not. Yet these striking pieces of information should make us realize that in a world as vast as ours, there is no end to learning.

Did you know that?

The Beetle is Your “Landlord”

One out of every four species of animals on planet earth is a beetle. Scientists have discovered up to 1.75 million species. If we compare this number to the various 4,000 mammals and 9,000 bird species, we see that we actually are living in a planet dominated by beetles.

According to the National Geographic, there are 30,000 thousand species of scarab beetles alone, 1,500 of it in North America.

Other numerous species identified include the long-horned beetle, the rove beetle, the weevil, the ground beetle, the leaf beetle, the darkling beetle and the metallic wood-boring beetle.

The Ladybird Beetle

Cloud Far Outweigh Elephants

A cumulus cloud contains about 550 tons of water, an equivalent of 100 elephants. A large storm cloud may contain water weighing up to 200,000 thousand elephants. Meteorologist Peggy Lemone approximates the weight of a hurricane to be about 40 million elephants.

This means that the devastation a hurricane would cause is like the trampling of forty million elephants.

Ironically, there is not even that number of elephants in the world.

Clouds Elephant

You Have More Than Five Senses

It is a general belief that humans have five senses; sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. Scientifically, the senses have been proved to be more than five.

For instance, functions which were hitherto lumped together with sense of touch are now recognized as individual senses.

According to “Awake”, some of them are pain receptors which respond to and differentiate between mechanical, thermal and chemical stimuli.

Some register when a person has an itch. Others are pressure sensors, one for surface pressure, and the other for deep pressure.

There are internal senses that signal internal pain, hunger, tiredness, urge to go to the toilet or even to breathe.

We all have more than five senses.

Slavery Still Exists

Slavery has been aborted .Slave ships no longer carry slaves from Africa to Europe and America. This is the new millennium; we are in an unprecedented era of civilization. Awareness of human rights is at its peak.

Yet, the act of slavery still persists. It has only taken another form. Anti-Slavery International, a human rights organization, estimates that up to 200 million people are still victims of slavery.

Apart from the fact that the modern day slaves work in inhuman conditions, they do not get paid for their labour. And they are usually starved, given just enough food to keep them alive.

Children and women are usually the victims. A lot of under-aged children in Asia and Africa are used as manual labourers in factories and farms, pushed to work beyond their strength, driven like animals.

Also a lot of young girls from Africa and Asia are exported to Europe and America where they are used as prostitutes and threatened with death or police arrests if they dare to escape.

The chains of Slavery must be totally broken.

Humans and Rats Are Competing For Food

For every human baby born, there are 10,000 rats given birth to. Also with 360,000 human babies fed everyday, 3,600,000 baby rats also demand to be fed .These are the findings of the research conducted by the Australian Commonwealth and Industrial Organization (CSIRO).

Taking Indonesia with a population of 200 million people as an example, it was gathered that about 60 percent of them eat rice as a staple food. But rats eat up to 15 percent of the annual rice crop yield.

Says Dr Grant Singleton of CSIRO, “That means that the rats are eating enough rice to feed more than 20 million Indonesians for a whole. .

Man and Rat are in the race for this.