Did you know that hummingbirds cant run ?

While their wings are incredibly mobile and the bird can even fly backwards. The legs are so stunted that a few leaps are only going out with some difficulty.
The rest of the hummingbird’s life seems incredibly accelerated. His heart beats up to 1000 times a minute, at the same time he breathes 250 times.

  Stunted legs, which can’t walk nor run.

In relation to its body size, it is one of the fastest creatures on earth. It moves in the second 400 times as far as it is large. A person would have to run 2500 km / h fast. In order to cover its incredible energy needs, the hummingbird must constantly eat – otherwise he would starve within a few hours.

Do you know which the largest „living thing“ on earth is ?

What we commonly call a mushroom is only the fruit body of a so-called mycelium growing in the ground. The mycelium of a Hallimasch mushroom in Oregon in the USA has a size of nearly 900 hectares, which corresponds to over 1000 football fields. The fungus is several thousand years old and weighs over 600 tons. Therefore it is the largest living creature on earth.

  Part of the Hallimasch in Oregon, USA.

Hallimasch or armillaria are masses of growing fungi, which are raw poisonous, boiled but liked to be eaten. If you do not find any during the day, you should perhaps try it once in the night. The mycelium and the full-grown wood glow in the dark clearly visible.

  Entry to the Armillaria National Park in Oregon.

Ensuing the data of the Oregon armillaria mushroom.
Area: 880 ha = 8.8 km2 (4 times the size of Monaco (c. 202 ha))
Estimated weight: 600 tons
Age: 2400 years
Average height: 1 m
Diameter: 5 km

  The Oregon armillaria from the air.

To get a picture of the true size of the mushroom, one compared the size of the Oregon fungus with the city of Monaco.

  Four times the size of Monaco.

The largest mushroom in Europe and thus the largest living environment in Europe lives in Switzerland. The living specimen of the dark Hallimasch mushroom is more than 1000 years old and extends about 500m wide and 800m long. This corresponds approximately to an area of ​​35 hectares.

Did you know that all the ants in the world have the same weight as all humans together ?

As everyone can imagine, the number of ants is unequally higher. About one million ants are equal to a human. An average ants weigh not even a tenth of a gram. They have enormous powers. Some species can bear a hundredfold of their own weight. Their states are comparable to those of humans, both in the number of individuals and in their extension.

         Bull ants in Australia, some kind of big, aggressive and dangerous buggers. Click on pics and see their fangs.

Colonies with a diameter of thousands of kilometers have already been found. In addition to humans, ants are the only living creatures that carry livestock and agriculture. Their social structure, however, is drastically different from ours. Workers, soldiers, and the queen are always female, males are only needed to fertilize the queen. Some species live asexually, they clone themselves, there are no males.

Did you know that a full grown human body consists of 100 trillion cells ?

For those who can not imagine anything under this figure: they are a hundred thousand billions. Hi Germans: Don’t get confused – in American English „eine Milliarde is the same as one billion“ .

  One human cell !! Click on pic to supersize.

If all these cells were to be threaded on a bead chain, it would be 4 million kilometers long. For this you have to hurry, because if you only need one second for each threading the chain would be finished only after three million years. The human body forms in each hour about 1 million new cells.

  Be honest ! Did you know that ???

Horrible but true: the body also houses 100 trillion bacteria. However, most of them are necessary for our survival. For example our intestinal bacteria.

Did you know that the first Swiss wrist watch was a lady’s watch ?

The first portable watches were built around 1500 and were designed exclusively for men. At the beginning of the twentieth century clock movements could be reduced to fit the wrist. This was widely regarded as „womanish,“ men continued to carry the pocket watch on the chain. Crazy, how old wrist watches could have looked like, right ?

Time machine 3026 Steam Punk Assemblage by Urbandon. Could look like the oldest known (survived) wrist watch in the world. Made around 1700 !!  Just an experimental model. Usable wristwatches came up much later.

   Verne Voyage Watch Dual Time Zone Japan Steam Punk Tokyo.

The first „modern“ wristwatch was made for a woman, Countess Koscowicz of Hungary, by Swiss watch manufacturer Patek Philippe, in 1868. Although it was the first timekeeping device to be designed specifically for use on the wrist, it was intended primarily as a piece of decorative jewellery.

The Patek Philippe No. 27’368 is it. A six line, gilt, cylinder escapement encased in a rectangular gold bracelet with a hinged, hunter-style cover – although it’s not clear who originally commissioned it from Antoine Norbert de Patek and Jean Adrien Philippe.