Here are some interesting facts about our body The stomach takes 20 minutes to tell the brain that it is full and that one should stop eating. One uses 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle,which is located in the jaw. Our brain sends messages at the rate of 375kmph Our heart beats about 100,000 times/day. A nose can remember 50,000 scents. Woman blink twice as much as men. The liver is the only major organ in the human body that can regenerate itself if part of it is removed. Babies are born without knee cap.They don't appear till they are 2-6 years of age. It is impossible to sneeze with our eyes open.
Kurwa chauth is an interesting festival,celebrated in North India. The fast is kept by all the married ladies. It usually falls in the month of october or November. It is exactly on the tenth day after Dussera. Keeping a whole day fast,without eating and drinking anything is the main feature.It is believed that by keeping this fast the husbands would be bestowed with a long and healthy lives. There are many stories related to the fast. Not only fasting,the woman dress up in thier best. Mehndi is applied on both hands. Basically it is dressing up like a bride, with colourful bangles,sindhur and jewellery etc. The fast starts at the break of the dawn. And a special array of sweets and things are eaten before the fast begins and that is called sargi. Sargi is generally given by the mother- in -law which consists of fruits,sweets like vermiceli kheer,nuts etc. and the accessories for styling. Its is only before dusk that the la...