INTERESTING FACTS

Interesting facts about stars

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We belong to a galaxy( cluster of stars) namely milky waywhich is merry-go-round shape.

All stars arebasically fire balls which is made of gases that produce both light andheat.This is because of the nuclear energy. The same energy which is used toproduce electricity.

The star is born fromdust and hydrogen. Which spins andbecome the hot glowing prostar( beginning stage of star) . Then the prostarstarts growing nad it glows for millions of year and becomes a red gaint. Thenit begins to die.

Iron is produced dueto heat inside the star and it acts like a sponge and soaks up the star’senergy which causes the huge explosion called as supernova.

Did you know : Our sunis the youngest star. The next star nearest to our earth other than sun isproxima centauri which is 1.3 billion KM away from earth.

Did you know : Stillour peoples make drawings by connecting the stars at the night. And manyastronauts follow this specific shaped star clusters for directionidentification.:

Interesting Facts about Gravity

2011-12-23T09:34:00.000-06:00

For a long time you cant keep your arms raised up. Aftersometime it begins to hurt. This is because of the gravitational pull of theearth. This is also sad to be invisiblemagnet

Even Sun and moon havegravity. Every bodies in the universe has gravity . Only they are distinguishedby there amount of gravity

Did you know? : The moon revolves around the earth. This isbecause of gravity of the earth and tides occurs in sea which is because ofmoons gravity pull on earth

Example : The ballpoint pen cant be used upwards to writebecause of gravity which pulls the ink to the other side of the nib

Interesting facts about astronomy

2011-11-13T10:32:00.001-06:00

There are peoples who look up the sky every time and analyzeit even at nights. These peoples are called as astronomers. This study ofastronomy is called as astronauts.

These astronomers study the space looking for stars,planets, comets etc

And some of them keep watching the space faraway usingtelescope which is available in both handy size and also in the size of bus,and some of them being laboratories, analyze the rocks (meteorites) and sample whichthey have brought from moon and other planets.

Some of them do this as a hobby and they are called asarmature astronomers

Did you know: “it will take 5 hours for a beam of light toreach the farthest planet Pluto “and imagine you all know the speed of light ?..its 299 792 458 m / s..!!!!!!!!

The word astronomy is derived from geek (Which means star orarrangements)

Interesting Facts about Anna Hazare

2011-09-09T02:23:00.000-05:00

He is an Ex-Army man who fought for India in indo-pakistan was in 1965
He took up and build a village name Ralegaon Siddhi in Maharastra . You can think that lot of them do it. But this village is not at all dependent on the government. They have their own basic needs to live
He is awarded the one of the biggest award of India padma bushan fo r his social activities
He is leading the team to destroy corruption in INDIA
You know what will happen if we bring back the black money to India

India will be the Richest country in the world
Our due in world bank can be closed 70 times
India will have the strongest military and defensive force in the world
About 2000 hospitals with free medicine can be opened
Electricity will be free

Click here to support him

Interesting Facts about Google MAPS ( Street View )

2011-06-03T05:30:00.001-05:00

We have surfed the maps through out the world to find the locations in google maps. Google have now introduced the

"street view in google maps"

. This was a awesome service which google have given to this world

The interesting this is that how they made this street view. They use to fix cameras in 360 degree angle on a car, bycycle etc and drive it through out the citites and locations to implement the street view. Some of this is show in the pictures below.

We know that Google is the only office which every person loves to work. Because its like a home being at goggle office. Google provides 20% of the working time for their employees to do their own project. For which they found orkut, goggle video etc and a lot. In this street view employees took their own bicycles for street view with 360 cameras attached.

They have been now trying to implement this views into the worlds famous museums and other indoor places. This is really a mind blowing works of google Engineers. Click on the below image to see the post in google website.

Interesting Facts about Tsunami( Japan Disaster)

2011-03-21T22:27:00.000-05:00

It was a bad day for land of rising sun. It was detected earlier so most of the peoples where given alert.

We sit back and see these things in our channel thinking we are safe at home . But is it true that we think so?

But this is not new to japan peoples. They face earth quake once in 7 years. Japan is between Eurasia , pacific and Philippines. There are lot of possibilities for earth quake in japan

But this kind of huge disaster have already been faced by Japanese in 1923. there was a earth quakecalled kando which madethe biggest disaster in japan before 1326 years which was in japan history. But it was only 7.9 ricter but now they have faced 8.9.

DiD you know that?........Interesting Facts

2011-01-09T09:27:00.000-06:00

1. Vijay Malaya one of india’s corepathi have won the bid of Mahatma Gandhi belongings in united states and donated them back to India… sweet isn’t it…………?

2. There are 1011 multi millionaires in the world. In which only 14 are women.

3. During the last recession some of the corporate companies switched of their air conditions for cost cutting…oops….. sounds bad right?

4. Then if someone gets heart attack tell them to cough repeatly this will relieve them

5. At last they have found a car that runs in water(details will be in next post)

6. Gajendra thaba a man from Nepal get the place in guiness world record for worlds shortest man. He Is just 67 cms in height . In 2010 oct he celebrated his 18 th birth day

7. Americas white house is changed to pink color because for the world breast cancer day is coming which have pink color code. This was an idea for Mrs Obama.

8. Ratan TATA have donted 200 cores rupees for hardward business school in which he studied.

Amazing Facts about animals

2010-06-12T00:48:00.000-05:00

1 . Do you know that the average sleeping hours of gorillas is 14 hours a day !!!!!!!!!!

2. It take 2 weeks to digest its food for sloth

3. In a group of lions , 90% of hunting is done by female lions

4. Dick-billed platypus can store 600 worms in its cheek pouches

5. Did you know that sharks and rays are only animals that do not get cancer coz they don't have bones.

Interesting facts about PIXAR Animation Studios

2010-05-06T04:33:00.002-05:00

Pixar animation studios was individually started in 1956 before that they were in colaboration with disney.

Their first movie was in black and white in a way of scribbling ,

Pixar was developed by a 11 old men so it they were called as “ 11 old men team”.

First 2d animated movie was made by PIXAR.

First movie with sounds by PIXAR and Disney was SNOW WHITE in 1937.

Interesting Facts about Apple Products

2010-05-06T02:46:00.001-05:00

Gifting: If you need to surprise your loved ones with gift, apple products would be a best one because now you can engrave anything in your Apple products like ipod, ipod shuffle, Mac laptops etc. You can engrave cute sayings, birthday wishes, Fun words on apple products and gift them.

Here is some sample of engraving.

Nike + ipod : Apple and nike have introduced and sensor kit , which can be placed in your nike shoes and that sensor kit will be sending signals to your Apple devices form which you can find how fast you are runiing and how far you are running

Apple products at gym : Those sensors can be compatible with machines in gym and can calculate your work outs, and your calories loss.

Something about ipod nano :

If your ipod nano gets hanged dont worry there is trick to restart .." Press the center button and menu key at the same time for 10 seconds.. then your ipod nano get automaticalty restarted ".

weird fact, but interesting !

2010-03-31T00:14:00.002-05:00

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Interesting Calendar ( Amazing Videos)

2010-03-26T01:06:00.003-05:00

This is an interesting Calendar. Every day leaf falls automatically.

Interesting facts from the Forbes rich list

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* There are 1,011 billionaires around the world in 2010, up from 793 last year. Of those 89 are women, up from 72 in 2009.

* There were 611 billionaires who increased their wealth in the past year. The fortunes of 62 fell, while 77 stayed even.

* There are 403 billionaires in the United States with a net worth of $1.3 trillion; this is up from 359 in 2009 and a value of $1.1 trillion.

* There are 248 billionaires in Europe with a net worth of $1 trillion, up from 196 billionaires last year with a fortune of $665 billion.

* In the Asia-Pacific region there are 234 billionaires worth $729 billion, compared with 130 billionaires in 2009 valued at $357 billion.

* The Middle East and Africa have 65 billionaires with a fortune of $181 billion, up from 58 last year worth $156 billion.

* The Americas (excluding the United States) accounts for 61 billionaires with a net worth of $304 billion, compared with 50 billionaires last year valued at $175 billion.

* There are 97 billionaires making their debut in 2010.

* Thirty people have dropped off the list from last year, another 13 died, and 164 returned to the billionaire ranking.

Interesting facts about Coffee

2010-03-25T02:53:00.002-05:00

hey interesting thing is that coffee is originaly a fruit and its a cherry too.

this coffee is from two types of beans...

1. Robusta which is not grown in high altitudes and flavor of this beans are some what low in quality.

2. Arabica which is grown in high altitudes and these beans produce best in taste and quality.

A coffee tree gives only 1 pound of roasted coffee every year.

Beethoven, who was a coffee lover, was so particular about his coffee that he always counted 60 beans for each cup when he prepared his coffee.

Decaffeinated coffee sales are at their highest in January of each year, partially due to New Year’s resolutions.

The number of coffee drinkers who prefer theirs “black” grew to 39 percent of total coffee drinkers in 2005 from 32 percent in 2004.

Use of sugars and artificial sweeteners among coffee drinkers is down to 34 percent in 2005 from 37 percent in 2004.

Interesting Facts about Environment

2010-03-04T05:38:00.001-06:00

Peoples in america uses 5 crores tons papers anually which is equal to 850 crores of trees.

Every day fourty thousand children dies because of disease caused by environment disorder.

United states peolpes uses more plastics in their day to day life. it has been estimated that if those peoples in united states of america have used 2 plastic bags lesser than normal use we would have saved 250 crores of plastic bags

lots of land is destroyed for maintiain cattle in america. So beefs price is really low in america.

3000 crores profit is made by drugs(medi) generated from tropical forest

Madagaskar have thousands of plants species which grws in madagaskar only.

Interesting facts about burj khalifa ( burj tower)

2010-02-25T06:19:00.001-06:00

This burj khalifa is the higest man made building structure build by emaar

groups...

And now it has been holding the below guiness records of the world

highest i.e tallest building in the world

highest i.e free-standing structure in the world

leads in the number of stories in the world

leads in # of floors

logestest distance traveling lift(elevator)

tallest service elevator

highest observation deck

other important features of burj khalifa are:

there are nine hundered home(residence) inside

there are thirty seven floor for corporates

armani hotel occupies one hundered sixty rooms for guest

armani provides 144 private homes inside

Some of burj buildings design features

This design was the insipiration of the flower "HYMENOCALLIS" which is shown
below

The following five research was made for the building

Architecture test

- for the doing Y shaped structure which is perfect for best
aero dynamic for tall building.

wind tunnel testing

- more than fourty wind tunnel ttesting was made for burj

floor plan

- lots of reasearch and studies were made to allocate floors for

armani hotel, stories, corporates, residence, deck, parking and more...

interior

- was made by a chicago company called Skidmore and the team leader

was award winning man for design Nada Andric.

artwork

- more than thousands of art works were made inside burj dubai

Interesting facts about april 1(april fools day)

2010-02-15T01:11:00.001-06:00

The origin of this aprirl fool day ( all fool day) is when a king changed the new year date from april 1 to january 1..but still some of the people was celebrating the new year on april 1.

in this day every will have fun of making everyone as fools

this is a day to enjoy with kidding other

another important fact is that google make some fake announcements on every april fool day

Interesting facts about italy

2010-02-14T22:59:00.001-06:00

One of the worlds beautiful city ROME is in italy

Lots of architecture are there in italy. Some of its follows

Worlds fav food stuff pizza was found in italy

In italy tewenty percentage of the populations are above sixty five years old.

da vinci was born in Italy

The worlds most famous racing cars such as ferrari , lamborghini is produced in italy

Interesting Facts about Highway passing through a building in japan

2009-11-24T22:49:00.001-06:00

Highway passing through a building in japan.

interesting facts about wall-e ( Pixar animation studios)

2009-11-12T04:00:00.001-06:00

full form of wall-e is "Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth class"

binoculars were the inspiration for wall-e s eye

there are thousand parts in wall-e

5 modelers and 5 shading artists more than a month to create those parts in wall-e

2 thousand 400 sound files were created for wall-e

niagara falls sound were used for wind

car being crushed is the sound for wall-e compacting noise

Interesting facts about Global warming

2009-10-22T00:13:00.001-05:00

Earth is above freezing temp only coz of vapouring effect in the atmosphere

Most of global warming is due to vapours of water, CO2, oxides of nirtroius , CF2Cl2 , and these all comes form AC machine which we use in our residense

CF2Cl2 sould be reduced atleast within in 20 years form now ie 2009 to lower the global waring

Residential, Industry, Transportation, Commercial, Agriculture makes most of global warming

second cause of global waring is CH4, with comes form farms

ice and snow will not allow sunlight to enter so that they can reduce global warming

Interesting facts about Robots

2009-10-21T23:50:00.001-05:00

Now a days every work is done by robots...if we concentrate and see that robots done the work which man is doing. for example hand of human is related to cranes, or some kind of lifting robots, and leg is related to

some moving robots say wheels or some robots having legs.

So other interesting facts about robots are...the robots while designing should be done in following 5 rules in which 4 and 5 are newly added. so guys keep in mind while designing the robots..so that robots should not destroy human..here is the laws

Law of robots

1. Robot should not hurt human being in any cases
2. Robot should obey humans, but not as said in law 1
3. Robot should think itself, but follow first two laws
4. Robots must procreate , but follow first 3 laws
5. Robots must have sixth sense, ie it should know that

im a robot

Interesting facts about Cristiano Ronaldo

2009-09-29T03:16:00.001-05:00

He was Born on 1985/02/05

His Full name is Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro

His birth place is Funchal, Madeira, Portuga

His Height is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

His position in play isRight/Left Winger, Forward

He has nickname that is Ronaldo, CR7, Ronnie, Rocket Ronaldo

Wife / girlfriend:Carolina Patrocinio

He lives in Manchester, Cheschire.

he is highest salaried teenager in uk

he was called and appointed for european athletics football in the year 2004

he was signed by sporting port metropolis united in aug 03 for an amount of 12240000 pounds

he also came in suzuki advertiseent

he has Ferrari 435

his t-shirt is number 17 for portugal matches

Interesting facts about websites

2009-09-09T23:14:00.001-05:00

hOw popular websites looked when they launched

1. google.com - launched in 1996

2. facebook.com - launched in 2004

3. myspace.com - launched in 2003

4. yahoo.com - launched in 1994

5. youtube.com - launched in 2005

6. wikipedia.org - launched in 2001

7. msn.com - launched in 1995

8. apple.com - launched in 1987 (screenshot from 1996)

9. drudgereport.com - launched in 1997

10. amazon.com - launched in 1995

11. twitter.com - launched in 2006

12. whitehouse.gov - launched in 1994

13. craigslist.org - launched in 1995

14. nytimes.com - launched in 1995

15. news.bbc.co.uk - launched in 1997

16. dell.com - launched in 1996

17. friendsreunited.com - launched in 2000

18. telegraph.co.uk - launched in 1994

19. blogger.com - launched in 1999

20. flickr.com - launched in 2004

interesting facts about internet ( Happy birthday internet)

2009-09-03T23:26:00.001-05:00

The 'Internet' turned 40 today. It may sound strange, but today it is quite impossible to think of world without the 'World Wide Web'.
On Sept 2, 1969, around about 20 people gathered in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles and two bulky computers were used to pass test data through a 15-foot gray cable. That was the beginning of the Internet. Now, 40 years later, we take a look at the Internet timeline.
Key milestones in the development and growth of the Internet

1969

: On September 2, two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, exchange meaningless data in first test of Arpanet, an experimental military network. The first connection between two sites UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California takes place on October 29, though the network crashes after the first two letters of the word "logon." UC Santa Barbara and University of Utah later join.
1970: Arpanet gets first East Coast node, at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Mass.

1972:

Ray Tomlinson brings e-mail to the network, choosing "at" symbol as way to specify e-mail addresses belonging to other systems.

1973:

Arpanet gets first international nodes, in England and Norway.

1974:

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop communications technique called TCP, allowing multiple networks to understand one another, creating a true Internet. Concept later splits into TCP/IP before formal adoption on January 1, 1983.

1983:

Domain name system is proposed. Creation of suffixes such as ".com," ''.gov" and ".edu" comes a year later.
1988: One of the first Internet worms, Morris, cripples thousands of computers.

1989:

Quantum Computer Services, now AOL, introduces America Online service for Macintosh and Apple II computers, beginning an expansion that would connect nearly 27 million Americans online by 2002.

1990:

Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web while developing ways to control computers remotely at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

1993:

Marc Andreessen and colleagues at University of Illinois create Mosaic, the first Web browser to combine graphics and text on a single page, opening the Web to the world with software that is easy to use.

1994:

Andreessen and others on the Mosaic team form a company to develop the first commercial Web browser, Netscape, piquing the interest of Microsoft Corp. and other developers who would tap the Web's commerce potential. Two immigration lawyers introduce the world to spam, advertising their green card lottery services.

1995:

Amazon.com Inc. opens its virtual doors.
1996: Passage of US law curbing pornography online. Although key provisions are later struck down as unconstitutional, one that remains protects online services from liability for their users' conduct, allowing information and misinformation to thrive.

1998:

Google Inc. forms out of a project that began in Stanford dorm rooms. US government delegates oversight of domain name policies to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. Justice Department and 20 states sue Microsoft, accusing the maker of the ubiquitous Windows operating system of abusing its market power to thwart competition from Netscape and others.

1999:

Napster popularizes music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry. World Internet population surpasses 250 million.

2000:

The dot-com boom of the 1990s becomes a bust as technology companies slide. Amazon.com, eBay and other sites are crippled in one of the first widespread uses of the denial-of-service attack, which floods a site with so much bogus traffic that legitimate users cannot visit.

2002:

World Internet population surpasses 500 million.

2006:

World Internet population surpasses 1 billion.

2008:

World Internet population surpasses 1.5 billion. China's Internet population reaches 250 million, surpassing the United States as the world's largest. Netscape's developers pull the plug on the pioneer browser, though an offshoot, Firefox, remains strong. Major airlines intensify deployment of Internet service on flights.

interesting facts and pictures of car manufacturers Headquarters

2009-09-01T23:56:00.001-05:00

Audi Headquarters - Ingolstadt, Germany

BMW Headquarters - Munich, Germany

DaimlerChrysler-Mercedes Headquarters - Stuttgart, Germany

Ford Headquarters - Dearborn, Detroit, Michigan

Ford Manufacturing Plant - Dearborn, Detroit, Michigan

GM (General Motors) Headquarters - Detroit, Michigan, USA

Skoda Plant - Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Toyota Headquarters - Toyota City, Aichi, Japan

Wolkswagen Plant - Wolfsburg, Germany

Arrangement of Cars in Wolkswagen Golf

interesting facts and true facts of september 11 attack ( sept 9/11 )

2009-08-31T23:56:00.001-05:00

The names of the four terrorist are Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah.Atta was the leader selected by bin laden

During the Summer and Fall of 2000, Bin Laden and other senior al-Qaeda leaders began selecting the "muscle" hijackers. With Hamzi and al-Mihdhar already selected, thirteen additional hijackers were selected. They were all from Saudi Arabia, except for Fayez Banihammad who was from the United Arab Emirates. They were all between age 20 and 28, most were unemployed with no more than a high school education, and were unmarried.

Ziad Jarrah one of the terrorist in september 11 attack wrote a letter to his girlfriend and sent it to her on September 10. He wrote "I have done what I had to do" and "You should be very proud, it is an honor, and you will see the result, and everyone will be happy" as well as "Hold on to what you have until we meet each other again." The letter was returned
to the U.S., as Jarrah made an error in writing the address.

About three weeks prior to the attacks, the targets were assigned to four teams. The United States Capitol was called "The Faculty of Law". The Pentagon was dubbed "The Faculty of Fine Arts". Atta codenamed the World Trade Center "The Faculty of Town Planning".

A conspirator named Abu Abdul Rahman sent a "love message" on an Internet chat room to his "German girlfriend", who was really Ramzi Binalshibh. The message said, "The first semester commences in three weeks. Two high schools and two universities ... This summer will surely be hot ...19 [the eventual number of hijackers] certificates for private education and four
exams [the number of planes used]. Regards to the professor. Goodbye."

interesting facts about FIFA

2009-08-20T02:15:00.001-05:00

First Goal
The first World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930. Many believed American Bart McGee scored the first goal in the World Cup,

against Belgium in the 40th minute. But a dispute erupted and FIFA, soccer's governing body, determined the first goal was

scored by Frenchman Lucien Laurent in the 19th minute against Mexico on July 13, 1930.

First Red Card
The red and yellow card system was not introduced until the 1970 World Cup. The first player to receive a red card was

Chile's Carlos Caszely in 1974 in a match against West Germany in the 67th minute.

Youngest Player
The youngest player to play in a World Cup match was Northern Ireland's Norman Whiteside against Yugoslavia in 1982. He was

17 years, 41 days old.

Largest Attendance
The highest attendance for one match was in the 1950 final. The official attendance was 199,854 for the match between Brazil

and Uruguay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Top Scoring Team
Hungary scored 27 goals in the 1954 World Cup. Hungary made the finals that year but lost to West Germany 3-2.
Most Consecutive First-Round Eliminations
Scotland holds the record with eight: 1954, 1958, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1998.

FIFA-Fédération Internationale de Football Association

interesting facts about cricket

2009-08-20T02:11:00.001-05:00

# A match between Barbados and British Guyana in 1946 saw an over with 14 balls in which there were no wides or no balls ! The 8 ball over was in force and the extra six deliveries were due to umpiring miscounting !!!

# SUNIL GAVASKAR was so ill tempered that his parents had to take him to a psychiatrist to check up if there was something wrong with him.

# In a test match in Faisalabad in 1997-98 ,Mushtaq Ahmed was bowling to Pat Symcox.Symcox missed the ball,which went on to knock the middle stump.However,the heat had fused together the bails and they did not fall.Symcox went on to make 81,his second highest test score..!!

# SHAHID AFRIDI used a bat borrowed from Waqar Younis to score the fastest century in a One-Day International.!!

# FOUR STUMPS !!!! -- An experimental game was played at Lords in 1963 to look at the effects of adjusting two features of cricket : the size of the wickets and the LBW rule,in order to create a wicket of width 11 inches rather than 9 inches,four stumps were used in that trial match..

# The only law of Cricket that has not had any changes or modifications,is the length of the pitch..

# Which style of play is known as 'MANKAD'? -- The running out of a non-striking batsman who leaves his crease before the bowler has released the ball is calle 'MANKAD, It is named after VINOO MANKAD , an Indian bowler,who used this method controversially,in a test match.

# It was a county match in 1946.After two overs had been bowled,Len Hutton,who was fielding at slips asked the umpires to check the length of the pitch.The check discovered that the pitch was 24 yards lng instead of 22! Then the match was restarted on a correct pitch.

# Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to be dismissed (run out) by using the television replays by the third umpire, Jonty Rhodes was the fielder. Next day,in the same test match,Jonty Rhodes was given run out by the umpire.This time the fielder was none other than Sachin Tendulkar.!!

# During a County match in 1986,a batsman hit the ball and ran three runs but dropped the bat in the process. The bowler picked up the bat. When the ball was returned from the boundary,the bowler stopped it with the bat ! For fielding the ball with any other substance than the person , the penalty is 5 runs. So the batsman got eight runs in that ball.!!

# Which cricketer faced the first ball in One-Day Cricket??Geoff.Boycott was the one who faced the first ball in One-Day cricket. Graham Mc-Kenzie was the bowler.

# In a World Cup Match in 1975, Gavaskar batted throughout the 60 overs & scored only 36 runs . India lost to England by a huge margin of 203 runs.

# In the first ever Test in 1877, Australia beat England by 45 runs. 100 yrs later,in the Centenary Test ,the result was exactly the same.!!

ICC International cricket council

interesting facts about valentines day

2009-08-19T23:46:00.000-05:00

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1.It is known that the kind of bird a girl watches on Valentine's Day predicts her future

husband. For instance:

--a poor man if she sees a sparrow

--remain spinster if she sees a Owl

--a happy man if she sees a Bluebird

--a a priest or clergyman if she sees a Blackbird

--a an argumentative man if she sees a Crossbill

2.cut an apple into half...the number od seeds is the number of children you will get.

3.to start with a kiss on valentines day is said to be lucky

4.On Valentine's Day, the first guy's name you read in the paper or hear on the TV or radio

will be the name of the man you will marry.

5.If you see a squirrel on Valentine's Day, you will marry a cheapskate who will hoard allyour money.

6.If you see a goldfinch on Valentine's Day, you will marry a millionaire.

7.If you see a robin on Valentine's Day, you will marry a crime fighter - maybe they mean Batman!

8.If you see a flock of doves on Valentine's Day, you will have a happy, peaceful marriage.

9.If you find a glove on the road on Valentine's Day, your future beloved will have the other missing glove.

interesting facts about petronas towers ( Malaysia )

2009-08-18T00:07:00.002-05:00

1.There will be a skybridge connecting two towers which is 170 metres above the ground.

2.The length of the bridge is 58.4 metres longs and its weight is 750 tons..

3.Entrance is free and closed on monday...

4.only limited tickets are given per day , means nearly 800 tickets.

5.Only 10 minutes visit is allowed

6.This tower has 32,000 windows

7.cost of the building is $ 1.2 billion

8.islamic architectured deometric principles are used to construct to symbolize strength and grace.

9.buildings are 'only' 378m tall without pinnacle

10. 100 acres are used by KLCC development for the towers

11.20-hectare KLCC Park, 6,000 capacity Surau, District Cooling Centres to provide air conditioning,

12.The whole complex was built on a former horse-racing track;

13.93,000 square feet shopping centre

14.also contains art gallery, an 840-seat concert hall, and an underground parking lot;the main occupant of the buildings is Petronas, the national oil-company;

15.completed in 1998, opened on 28th august 1999.

interesting facts about dreams

2009-08-13T23:41:00.001-05:00

1.person who became blind after his/her birth can see images in their dreams. persons who are born blind do not see images..In dreams they can sense sound, smell, touch ans emotion...dreams will make virtually all physical situations to make it happen than in imagination

2.after 5 minutes of waking , 50% of your dream is forgotten, within 10 minutes ,90% is gone

3.all human dreams ...men and womwen have different dreams and physical reactions...men dreams more about other men, womem dreams about both.

4. Recurring Dreams
While the content of most dreams is dreamt only once, many people experience recurring dreams—that is, the same dream narrative is experienced over different occasions of sleep. Up to 70% of females and 65% of males report recurrent dreams.

5. Body Paralysis
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night’s sleep.

6.During REM sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain in order to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the physical body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens.

7. Not Everybody Dreams in Color
A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today, only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.

8.Dream interpretations dates back to 3000-4000 B.C. were they were documented in clay tablets.It is said that people in primal societies were unable to distinguish between the dream world and reality. They not only saw the dream world as an extension of reality, but the dream realm was a more powerful world.

9.Daydream

Studies show that we all have the tendency to daydream an average of 70-120 minutes a day. Day dreaming is classified as a level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness. It occurs during our waking hours when we let our imagination carry us away. As our minds begin to wander and our level of awareness decreases, we lose ourselves in our imagined scenario and fantasy. Click here for a more in depth look at daydreams.

10.Nightmare

A nightmare is a disturbing dream that causes the dreamer to wake up feeling anxious and frightened. Nightmares may be a response to real life trauma and situations. These type of nightmares fall under a special category called Post-traumatic stress nightmare (PSN). Nightmares may also occur because we have ignored or refused to accept a particular life situation. Research shows that most people who have regular nightmares have had a family history of psychiatric problems, bad drug experiences, people who have contemplated suicide, and/or rocky relationships. Nightmares are an indication of a fear that needs to be acknowledged and confronted. It is a way for our subconscious to make up take notice. "Pay attention!"

interesting facts and prevention of swine flu

2009-08-12T23:38:00.001-05:00

Prevention of Swine Flue using Household Products
1. Inhale Clove Oil (Lavang) For 1 Second.
2. Chew 1 Clove In a Day
3. Eat Raw Garlic (Lasun), Onion, Ginger (Aale) (1 to 5gm)
4. Drink Hot Milk With 2gm of Turmeric
5. Consume Plenty Of Vit C Fruits-Lemon/ Avala)

One of the preventive measures against Swine Flu
Use “Nilgiri Oil” (Eucalyptus oil) drops on handkerchiefs and masks as one
of the preventive measures against Swine Flu (NIV) National Institute of
Virology.
Please share this valuable information with your friends.
Not just Tulasi, Vitamin C rich substances are known to boost immunity. So
taking hot Lemon or Amla (Indian Gooseberry) powder mixed with hot water
would be very helpful.
Indian herbs
Tulsi can help keep swine flu away: Ayurvedic experts
Lucknow, May 27: Wonder herb Tulsi can not only keep the dreaded swine flu
at bay but also help in fast recovery of an afflicted person, Ayurvedic
practitioners claim.
"The anti-flu property of Tulsi has been discovered by medical experts
across the world quite recently. Tulsi improves the body's overall defence
mechanism including its ability to fight viral diseases. It was
successfully used in combating Japanese Encephalitis and the same theory
applies to swine flu," Dr U K Tiwari, a herbal medicine practitioner says.

Apart from acting as a preventive medicine in case of swine flu, Tulsi can
help the patient recover faster.

"Even when a person has already contracted swine flu, Tulsi can help in
speeding up the recovery process and also help in strengthening the immune
system of the body," he claims.

Dr Bhupesh Patel, a lecturer at Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar is
also of the view that Tulsi can play an important role in controlling swine
flu.

"Tulsi can control swine flu and it should be taken in fresh form. Juice or
paste of at least 20-25 medium sized leaves should be consumed twice a day
on an empty stomach."

This increases the resistance of the body and, thereby, reduces the chances
of inviting swine flu.

interesting brain analysis

2009-07-23T04:15:00.001-05:00

Women - Multiple process
Women's brains designed to concentrate multiple task at a time.
Women can Watch a TV and Talk over phone and cook the new recipe.

Men - Single Process
Men's brain designed to concentrate only one work at a time.. Men cannot
watch a TV and talking in phone same time. He stops the TV while Talking.
He can either watch TV or talk over phone or cook.

LANGUAGE.
Women can easily learn many languages. Her brain set up. But cannot find
the solutions to problems Men cannot easily learn languages; he can
easily solve the problems.
3 year old gal has three times higher vocabulary than 3 year old boy.

ANALYTICAL SKILL
Men's brain has lot of space for handling the analytical process. So easily he can analyze and find the solution for a process. He can design (blue print) a map of a building easily. If a complex map is viewed by women, she cannot understand it. She cannot understand the details of the map easily.
For her it is dump of lines in a paper.

CAR DRIVING.
While driving a car, men's analytical spaces are used in his brain.. He can drive a car fast. If he see an object at long distance, immediately his brain classifies the object (bus or van or car) direction and speed of the object and driving accordingly. Where as women take a long time to recognize the object direction/ speed. His single process mind stops the audio in the car (if any), then concentrating only on the driving. You can often watch, while men driving the car fast, the women sit next to him will shout, "GO SLOW" , "CARE FULL", "AAHHH", "OHH GOD.." .etc..

LIE
Many times, when men lie to women face to face, they got caught easily. Her super natural brain observes the facial expression 70%, and the body
language 20% and the words comes from mouth 10%. So he is easily caught while lying. Men's brain does not have this. Women easily lie to men face to face. So guys, while lying to your girls, use phone, or letter or close all the lights or cover your/her face with blanket.. Don't lie face to face.

PROBLEM.
End of day, if men have lot of problems, his brain clearly classifies the problems and put into individual rooms of brain, the problems in individual
room of brain and finding the solution one by one. You can see many guys looking on the sky's for a long times. If you disturb him, he gets irritated.
End of Day, if women have lot of problems, her brain cannot classify the problems. she wants someone to hear that. After telling everything to a
person she goes happily to bed. She does not worry about the problem solved or not.

WANTS
Men want status, success, solutions, big process... etc Women want relationship, friends, family...etc. ..

UNHAPPY
If women unhappy with their relations, she cannot concentrate on work. If men unhappy with their work, he cannot concentrate on the relations.

MAP
Men can easily locate the place in a complex map. His analytical brain does this. While watching a cricket match in a stadium with full of crowd, men
can leave his seat to T shop and keeps everything in his mind and comes back to his seat without problems. He uses his analytical skills space of
brain. Women can't do this. They often lost their way to their seat.

SPEECH
Women use indirect languages in speech. Priya asked Vijay, "vijay do you like to have a cup of coffee?" This means, Priya really want a cup of coffee. In the morning..... .."Darling, do you think, will it be good to have an Omlette for breakfast"Men use direct language. "Priya, I want to have a cup of coffee, Pls stop the car when you see a coffee shop". In the morning...." Darling, Can you please prepare an omelet for breakfast".

HANDLING EMOTION
Women talk a lot without thinking, if they are in emotion. Men act a lot without thinking. That's why many of prisoners are men all over the world ;).

interesting facts about friendship day

2009-07-22T03:31:00.001-05:00

Origin:

There is not much literature or history on Friendship Day. However, there are numerous folktales, biblical stories and several instance in mythological legends that shows that friends and friendship have been valued since the beginning of civilized world. For one of the bible verses states,

"Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends."

In the year 1935 the United States Congress announced the first Sunday of August as the National Friendship Day. It was initially declared a holiday in honor of friends. From then on, world joins together to celebrate Friendship Day with much enthusiasm and fervor.

Friendship Day in India

Friendship Day has been commercialized to a great extent in India. However, it is mainly limited to the to the youngsters as they are particularly marked in schools and colleges. Children make Friendship Day Cards or other special gifts to thank their friends for their on this occasion. Exchange of Friendship bracelets is one of the most prominent feature of Friendship Day celebrations. Sending SMS and Friendship Day e-cards is another popular way of greeting friends too.

A week before the festival, gift marketers run an extensive campaign to lure people to buy cards and gifts for their friends. Restaurateurs offer special discounts on holding bashes on this day. However, such a campaigning has gained much criticism They feel commercialization has marred the refined idea behind observing Friendship Day by making it a formal business to be followed. Some people however feel that advertising campaign has helped to generate awareness about Friendship Day festival dedicated especially to their ever loving friends.

What ever may be the controversy or the thinking, just remember that the day is especially for the one who walked in your life when the rest of the world opted to walk out. So enjoy your day with great fun and cherish the moment for the years to come.

Friendship is one relation that has survived on earth since its existence. Even when there was no understanding of a lawful marital relationship, the feeling of companionship always existed. This feeling of companionship is actually the feeling of friendship. It is not merely a relationship rather a unique blend of affection, trustworthiness, care, respect, and loads of fun. In present time, when people do not get enough time from work, the importance of friendship is being understood. This is the reason why people decided a special day to reciprocate this special relationship on a special day in a special way. To know more about Friendship's Day history, read on this article.

The tradition of celebrating Friendship Day has been prevalent since a very long time. However, you may not find much written literature about the history and origin of Friendship Day as for a long time no formal date was assigned top this occasion. Humans have been friends ever since civilization came into existence. As a social animal, a human being needs companionship and friendship. Thus one can say that friendship has existed even in pre-historic times. So, the celebration of an occasion specially meant for friendship is really special.

In the year 1935 the United States Congress announced the first Sunday of August as the National Friendship Day. From then on it has caught up with the rest of the world and today everyone celebrates Friendship's Day with much enthusiasm and joy. A special day dedicated just for friends is something that everyone looks forward to. The beautiful idea of honoring one of the most pious relations of all, i.e. Friendship, is appreciated by people all over the world. It has assumed the proportion of being celebrated as a festival. Friends all over the world pay tribute to their chums by giving those gifts and other tributes. The best way to celebrate this beautiful day is by spending the entire day with your special pals.

Though till last few decades, this celebration was popular with people of western countries. It is only with the phase of globalization that people in the other parts of the world came to know about this wonderful celebration. This occasion has been commercially much promoted and now, even the smallest suburban area of a third world country is aware of this occasion. The celebrations are also more or less the same everywhere. People go out with friends and celebrate this occasion by having a gala time together. Exchange of gifts, flowers and cards are popular trends of this occasion. It is estimated that this is one of the most commercially benefiting occasions for the gift and card galleries as millions of gifts, cards and chocolates are bought on this occasion throughout the world. Once started as a small event, this occasion has become as grand as a festival.

interesting facts about South Carolina Peanut Party

2009-07-21T23:16:00.001-05:00

Located about 20 miles south of Columbia in Pelion, South Carolina, this annual event offers good ole country fun, usually including a craft show, concessions and souvenirs, a parade, book sale, entertainment, Cooking Contest, amusement rides, lots of peanuts and more
.

interesting facts about independence day of india

2009-07-21T23:12:00.001-05:00

With the decision by Britain to withdraw from the Indian subcontinent, the Congress Party and Muslim League agreed in June 1947 to a partition of India along religious lines. Under the provisions of the Indian Independence Act, India and Pakistan were established as independent dominions with predominantly Hindu areas allocated to India and predominantly Muslim areas to Pakistan.

After India's independence on August 15, 1947, India received most of the subcontinent's 562 widely scattered polities, or princely states, as well as the majority of the British provinces, and parts of three of the remaining provinces. Muslim Pakistan received the remainder. Pakistan consisted of a western wing, with the approximate boundaries of modern Pakistan, and an eastern wing, with the boundaries of present-day Bangladesh.

The division of the subcontinent caused tremendous dislocation of populations; inter-communal violence cost more than 1,000,000 lives. Some 3.5 million Hindus and Sikhs moved from Pakistan into India, andabout 5 million Muslims migrated from India to Pakistan. In Punjab, where the Sikh community was cut in half, a period of terrible bloodshed followed. Overall, the demographic shift caused an initial bitterness between the two countries that was further intensified by each country's accession of a portion of the princely states.

Adding to the tensions, the issue of the polities Kashmir, Hyderabad, and the small and fragmented state of Junagadh (in present-day Gujarat), remained unsettled at independence. Later, the Muslim ruler of Hindu-majority Junagadh agreed to join to Pakistan, but a movement by his people, followed by Indian military action and a plebiscite (people's vote of self-determination), brought the state into India.

The nizam of Hyderabad, also a Muslim ruler of a Hindu-majority populace, tried to maneuver to gain independence for his very large and populous state, which was, however, surrounded by India.

After more than a year of fruitless negotiations, India sent its army in a police action in September 1948, and Hyderabad became part of India.

The Hindu ruler of Kashmir, whose subjects were 85 percent Muslim, decided to join India. Pakistan, however, questioned his right to do so, and a war broke out between India and Pakistan. A cease-fire was arranged in 1949, with the cease-fire line creating a de facto partition of the region.

The central and eastern areas of the state came under Indian administration as Jammu and Kashmir state, while the northwestern quarter came under Pakistani control as Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas. Although a UN peacekeeping force was sent in to enforce the cease-fire, the dispute was not resolved.This deadlock has intensified suspicion and antagonism between the two countries.

In 1971, Pakistan was itself subdivided when its eastern section broke away and formed Bangladesh. Border disputes continue to embitter Pakistani-Indian relations, as Pakistan has produced a series of autocratic military rulers, while India maintained a parliamentary democracy.

Solar eclipse 2009 in america -- Interesting facts about Solar eclipse 2009 july 22

2009-07-21T22:58:00.001-05:00

The solar eclipse of July 22, 2009, is the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting at most 6 minutes, 39 seconds. It has caused tourist interest in eastern China, Nepal and India.

The eclipse is part of saros series 136, like the record-setting solar eclipse of July 11, 1991. The next event from this series will be on August 2, 2027.[ The exceptional duration is a result of the moon being near perigee, with the apparent diameter of the moon 8% larger than the sun (magnitude 1.080) and the Earth being near aphelion where the sun appears slightly smaller.

This will be the second in the series of three eclipses in a month, with the lunar eclipse on July 7 and the lunar eclipse on August 6.

Visibilty

It will be visible from a narrow corridor through northern Maldives, northern Pakistan and northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati.

Totality will be visible in many large cities, including Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Varanasi, Patna, Dinajpur, Siliguri, Tawang, Guwahati, Chengdu, Nanchong, Chongqing, Yichang, Jingzhou, Wuhan, Huanggang, Hefei, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Huzhou, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Ningbo and Shanghai, as well as over the Three Gorges Dam. According to some experts, Taregana in Bihar is the "best" place to view the event.

A partial eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including most of Southeast Asia (all of India and China) and north-eastern Oceania.

Duration

This solar eclipse will be the longest total solar eclipse that will occur in the 21st century, and will not be surpassed in duration until June 13, 2132. Totality will last for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with the maximum eclipse occurring in the ocean at 02:35:21 UTC about 100 km south of the Bonin Islands, southeast of Japan. The uninhabited North Iwo Jima island is the landmass with totality time closest to maximum, while the closest inhabited point is Akusekijima, where the eclipse will last 6 minutes and 26 seconds.

interesting facts about boys

2009-07-21T03:05:00.001-05:00

When a GUY is quiet and is
alone,
He's is thinking how good you're, Miss
you!!!

When a GUY is lying on his bed,
He is thinking deeply why he loves you.
When a GUY looks at you in your eyes,
He wants to tell you how much he loves
you and
how important you're.
When a GUY answers "I'm Fine" after
a while,
He is not and feels hurts.

When a GUY keep asking you the same
question,
He is wondering why you are lying.

When a GUY hugs you while sleeping,
He is wishing that you belong to him
forever.

When a GUY calls you everyday,
He Miss's You and wants your attention.
When a GUY wants to see you everyday,
He cares for you and wants to know how
are you
today.

When a GUY sms's u everyday,
He wants you to know he is fine.

When a GUY says I love you,
He really means it.
When a GUY says that he can't live
without you,
He has made up his mind that you are his
future
wife.

When a GUY says "I Miss You",
He wants to see you immeditely

interesting facts about uk (United knigdom)

2009-07-20T04:02:00.001-05:00

Background facts and figures are always useful to get a feeling for a place, here are a few eclectic odds and ends about England and the rest of the UK:

The United Kingdom (UK) is an island nation in north-western Europe, composed of the countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (also known as Ulster). To the south it's bordered by the English Channel; to the east by the North Sea; to the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

Full Name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Geographic Coordinates: 54 00 N, 2 00 W
Flag: The Union Flag (Union Jack)
Type of Government: Constitutional monarchy
Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II
Capital City: London (population: 6,770,400) is the capital of the UK and of England. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland. Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland. Cardiff is the capital of Wales.
Main Cities: London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff
Highest mountain: Ben Nevis in Scotland, at 1,343m (4,406 ft)
Longest river: The Severn, 322 km long, which rises in central Wales and flows through Shrewsbury, Worcester and Gloucester in England to the Bristol Channel.
Largest lake:Lough Neagh 396sq.km (153 sq miles)
Deepest Lake:Loch Morar in the Highlands of Scotland, 310 m (1,017 ft) deep
Highest waterfall: Eas a'Chual Aluinn, from Glas Bheinn, also in the Highlands of Scotland, with a drop of 200 m (660 ft)
Deepest cave: Ogof Ffynnon Ddu, Powys, Wales, 308 m (1,010 ft) deep
Most northerly point on the British mainland: Dunnet Head, north-east Scotland
Most southerly point on the British mainland: Lizard Point, Cornwall
Most easterly town in England: Lowestoft, Suffolk
Climate:
Temperate, normally not going much below zero even in the depths of winter, and never much above 25 degrees centigrade in summer. Most of the time it is between 10 and 20 degrees centigrade during the day.
Annual mean temperature: London 9.7C
Annual mean rainfall: London 753mm

Land
Total land area (sq.km) 244,110 sq km (94,251 sq miles) Just under half the size of France
Coast Line: 12,429 km
Length: Just under 1,000 km (600 miles) from North to South
Width: About 480 Km from east to west
Agricultural land: 76% (farming)
Forests: 11%
Other land use: 13%
Natural Resources: coal, petroleum, natural gas, tin, limestone, iron ore, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, lead, silica, arable land.
People
Nationality: Briton(s), British.
Major languages: English, Welsh, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic.
Main Religion: Church of England, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh
Major ethnic groups: Anglo-Saxons, Scots, Welsh, Irish, West Indians, Pakistanis, Indians
Total population 60,975,000 (2007)
Annual population growth rate: 0.29%. (2004 est.)
Average age: 39 years
Population density per sq.km 245
Population by region:
- Scotland 5,119,000
- England 49,753,000
- Wales 2,937,000
- N. Ireland 1,692,000
Top 5 populous cities:
- London 7,285,000
- Birmingham 1,018,000
- Leeds 725,000
- Glasgow 611,000
- Sheffield 529,000

Everyday Life
Average area of home (sq. m): 97.6
Percentage of homes owned: 68%
Life expectancy: men 76.9, women 81.3
Passenger cars: 24 million
Consumer durables owned (% of households, 2006)
- Mobile Phones 80%
- Satellite/cable TV 71%
- Video Recorder 82%
- DVD players 83%
- Home computers 67%
- Internet Connection 59%
- Cars 76%
- Central Heating 95%
- Washing Machine 96%
- Microwave 91%
Average household weekly income: £642
Household expenditure (% of weekly household budget, 2006: £455.90)
- Transport 13.6%
- Recreation and Culture 12.8%
- Housing, fuel and power 10.4%
- Food and non-alcoholic drinks 10.3%
- Restaurants and hotels 8.3%
- Miscellaneous goods and services 7.9%
- Household goods and services 6.6%
- Clothing and footwear 5.1%
- Communication 2.6%
- Alcoholic drinks, tobacco and narcotics 2.4%
- Education 1.6%
- Health 1.3%

interesing facts about USA ((united states of america)

2009-07-20T03:59:00.001-05:00

Ghandi's ashes can be found in the Lake Shrine near Los Angeles.

Juneau, Alaska covers 3,000 square miles. Larger than any other US city.

Martin Luther King, jr., was first named Michael. His father later changed it.

Amelia Earhart designed clothes.

Degas once lived in New Orleans.

The first person to become president who was born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter.

Arlington National Cemetery was once Gen. Robert E. Lee's plantation.

The S in Harry S. Truman stands for nothing. It's just S.

The London Bridge was transplanted to Lake Havasu, Arizona, in 1968.

The Missouri River is longer than the Mississippi.

American Indians were not US citizens until 1924.

Interesting facts about gaming

2009-07-20T03:55:00.001-05:00

US computer and video game software sales grew six percent in 2006 to $7.4 billion – almost tripling industry software sales since 1996.
Sixty-nine percent of American heads of households play computer and video games.
The average game player is 33 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.
The average age of the most frequent game buyer is 40 years old. In 2006, 93 percent of computer game buyers and 83 percent of console game buyers were over the age of 18.
Eighty-five percent of all games sold in 2005 were rated "E" for Everyone, "T" for Teen, or "E10+" for Everyone 10+. For more information on ratings, please see www.esrb.org.
Eighty-seven percent of game players under the age of 18 report that they get their parents’ permission when renting or buying games, and 89 percent say their parents are present when they buy games.

Thirty-five percent of American parents say they play computer and video games. Further, 80 percent of gamer parents say they play video games with their kids. Sixty-six percent feel that playing games has brought their families closer together.
Thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (30%) than boys age 17 or younger (23%).
In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
Forty-four percent of game players say they play games online one or more hours per week.

interesting facts about watch--Eco Watch

2009-07-17T07:44:00.001-05:00

Technological revolution has gifted as many gadgets which have totally changed the ways of living. Previously it was the regular wall clocks, alarms and wrist watches that used to work on batteries, later there are more sophisticated versions which worked on Solar power and finally the latest mantra being chanted all around the world is eco-friendly living !!

Bedol (what's next) company has come up with the most innovative design of a clock, which was never introduced before. Yes , it is 'Eco Watch' which strangely works on water that is mixed with a splash of lime juice.

No batteries and chemicals and no more winding it to work every morning or waiting for the solar cells to get charged up. Add water and watch it working for 6 to eight weeks non-stop and the best part about it is that the time is lost while changing water as it has an inbuilt memory chip.

interesting facts about girls

2009-07-16T04:40:00.002-05:00

Observation:

Guys never notice differences in their friend's appearance unless the difference is too obvious (like a very poor haircut that leaves the scalp like a partially mowed lawn). But with girls, it's not the case... Try walking to your friend who is a girl (the phrase girl friend avoided for obvious reasons) with a small stain on your shirt which is usually unnoticeable. Chances are that you would get caught within the first couple of minutes.

Care:

Guys try their best to be caring but come on... they are not designed for that! Girls often tend to care more than what you want them to and often that makes them question every 10-15 seconds about your wellness. If you are down with fever and you let your best friend who is a girl (quite funny to type) know, chances are that you'll end up answering the phone at least 20 times that day!

Childishness:

Almost everyone has some childishness in him/her. The famous quote "There is no point growing up if you cannot be a child at times" is an illustration of that fact. However, the proportion of girls I've observed to be childish is much higher than what I observed in guys!

Talking:

Even the most silent girl is highly talkative within her group. With guys a reserved guy is a reserved guy wherever he is but with girls, a reserved girl acts differently when she is with her friends and when she is in a larger gang.

Possessiveness:

I might be generalizing a bit too much here. But many girls are possessive about their friends and belongings! At least that is my observation.

Gossip:

A girl who stays at home knows much more than a guy who is hanging out most of the day!

Independently dependent:

Girls seem to depend on someone way too much either emotionally or personally but at the same time they easily switch preferences. Someone who was inevitable a couple of years back becomes a good friend today and a good contact tomorrow. At any point, a person who shows a lot of interest on her is always considered the best by a girl! Again, may be I'm generalizing... But that's something I observed out of my experiences.

Emotional handicap:

With the brain being locked in an emotional trap, girls usually end up taking decisions purely out of their heart which in most cases will not be correct. Ironically, even after realizing that they made a mistake, it is next to impossible for them to correct that.

Hypocrisy when it comes to guys:

Girls enjoy guys falling for them but many do not want to reveal that. A beautiful girl almost always confirms that the guys around her are interested in her through unnoticeable gestures. Guys however strong just start shaking at the sight of a beautiful girl staring at them and get caught. But a girl never reveals anything more than a smile at the corner of her lips... Gets hard for the guys to assess her pulse

interesting facts about valcanoes (Volcanic )

2009-07-16T00:08:00.001-05:00

1. There are three major kinds of volcanoes
Although volcanoes are all made from hot magma reaching the surface of the Earth and erupting, there are different kinds. Shield volcanoes have lava flows with low viscosity that flow dozens of kilometers; this makes them very wide with smoothly sloping flanks. Stratovolcanoes are made up of different kinds of lava, and eruptions of ash and rock and grow to enormous heights. Cinder cone volcanoes are usually smaller, and come from short-lived eruptions that only make a cone about 400 meters high.

Volcanic

2. Volcanoes erupt because of magma escaping from beneath the Earth's crust
About 30 km beneath your feet is the Earth's mantle. It's a region of superhot rock that extends down to the Earth's core. This region is so hot that molten rock can squeeze out and form giant bubbles of liquid rock called magma chambers. This magma is lighter than the surrounding rock, so it rises up, finding cracks and weakness in the Earth's crust. When it finally reaches the surface, it erupts out of the ground as lava, ash, volcanic gasses and rock. It's called magma when it's under the ground, and lava when it erupts onto the surface.

3. Volcanoes can be active, dormant or extinct
An active volcano is one that has had an eruption in historical times (in the last few thousand years). A dormant volcano is one that has erupted in historical times and has the potential to erupt again, it just hasn't erupted recently. An extinct volcano is one that scientists think probably won't erupt again.

4. Volcanoes can grow quickly
Although some volcanoes can take thousands of years to form, others can grow overnight. For example, the cinder cone volcano Paricutin appeared in a Mexican cornfield on February 20, 1943. Within a week it was 5 stories tall, and by the end of a year it had grown to more than 336 meters tall. It ended its grown in 1952, at a height of 424 meters. By geology standards, that's pretty quick.

5. There are 20 volcanoes erupting right now
Somewhere, around the world, there are 20 active volcanoes erupting as you're reading this. Between 50-70 volcanoes erupted last year, and 160 went off in the last decade. Geologists estimate that 1,300 erupted in the last 10,000 years. Three quarters of all eruptions happen underneath the ocean, and most are actively erupting and no geologist knows about it at all. One of the reasons is that volcanoes occur at the mid ocean ridges, where the ocean's plates are spreading apart. If you add the underwater volcanoes, you get an estimate that there are a total of about 6,000 volcanoes that have erupted in the last 10,000 years.

6. Volcanoes are dangerous
But then you knew that. Some of the most deadly volcanoes include Krakatoa, which erupted in 1883, releasing a tsunami that killed 36,000 people. When Vesuvius exploded in AD 79, it buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing 16,000 people. Mount Pelee, on the island of Martinique destroyed a town with 30,000 people in 1902. The most dangerous aspect of volcanoes are the deadly pyroclastic flows that blast down the side of a volcano during an eruption. These contain ash, rock and water moving hundreds of kilometers an hour, and hotter than 1,000 degrees C.

7. Supervolcanoes are really dangerous
Geologists measure volcano eruptions using the Volcano Explosivity Index, which measures the amount of material released. A "small" eruption like Mount St. Helens was a 5 out of 8, releasing a cubic kilometer of material. The largest explosion was on record was Toba, thought to have erupted 73,000 years ago. It released more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of material, and created a caldera 100 km long and 30 kilometers wide. The explosion plunged the world into a world wide ice age. Toba was considered an 8 on the VEI.

8. The tallest volcano in the Solar System isn't on Earth
That's right, the tallest volcano in the Solar System isn't on Earth at all, but on Mars. Olympus Mons, on Mars, is a giant shield volcano that rises to an elevation of 27 km, and it measures 550 km across. Scientists think that Olympus Mons was able to get so large because there aren't any plate tectonics on Mars. A single hotspot was able to bubble away for billions of years, building the volcano up bigger and bigger.

9. The tallest and biggest volcanoes on Earth are side by side
The tallest volcano on Earth is Hawaii's Mauna Kea, with an elevation of 4,207 meters. It's only a little bigger than the largest volcano on Earth, Mauna Loa with an elevation of only 4,169 meters. Both are shield volcanoes that rise up from the bottom of the ocean. If you could measure Mauna Kea from the base of the ocean to its peak, you'd get a true height of 10,203 meters (and that's bigger than Mount Everest).

10. The most distant point from the center of the Earth is a volcano
You might think that the peak of Mount Everest is the most distant point from the center of the Earth, but that's not true. Instead, it's the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador. That's because the Earth's is spinning in space and is flattened out. Points at the equator are further from the center of the Earth than the poles. And Chimborazo is very close to the Earth's equator.

interesting facts about Michael Jackson

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His crown may have slipped somewhat in recent years, but there's still a lot of love for Jackson around the world.

Skin diseases, child molestation charges, baby dangling and cosmetic surgery aside, there's a lot to celebrate about the man nicknamed Wacko Jacko.

So here's a few facts, stats and figures about Jackson that may have passed you by:

1. Jackson's Billie Jean was the first video by a black artist to air on MTV.

2. Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem South Carolina on My Mind, recorded by Hank Martin and Buzz Arledge.

3. Jackson's waxwork features in five Madame Tussauds museums across the world. Only Elvis Presley and Madonna have more Tussaud figures - they have six each.

4. Jackson's total lifetime earnings from royalties, solo recordings and music videos, revenue from concerts and endorsements have been estimated at $500 million (#271 million).

5. Jackson has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for radio play, located at 1541 Vine Street, and one for recording at 6927 Hollywood Boulevard.

6. Jackson received a Presidential Humanitarian Award from Ronald Reagan in 1984 for his support of charities helping people overcome alcohol and drug abuse.

7. Michael Jackson is the seventh of nine children.

8. Jackson fought fellow 50 year old Madonna on MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch - he lost.

9. Three of Jackson's albums - Bad, Dangerous and Thriller - are among the bestsellers of all time.

10. Thriller remains the biggest-selling album since records began.

11. Jackson has sold more than 300 million records worldwide.

12. Jackson wears his trademark black armband to remind fans of the suffering of children around the world.

13. Jackson's favourite superhero is Morph from the X-Men.

14.Jackson picked up his iconic moonwalk moves, which he debuted at the Motown 25th Anniversary show in 1983, from streetdancers he spotted performing outside a hotel.

15. MC Hammer once challenged Jackson to a dance-off. He was told to Beat It. Jackson reportedly responded, "I've seen your videos and every single dance move you use, you got off of me."

16. Little Richard wanted Jackson to play him in a biopic.

17. Bubbles the chimp and Ben the rat are two of Jackson's most famous pets, but he also befriended a ram called Mr Tibbs, a python called Crusher and Louie the llama.

18. An obsessed French Jackson superfan committed suicide in 1984 after his mother refused to allow him to undergo surgery to look like the star.

19. In 1984, a U.S. library accused Jackson of owing it over $1 million in overdue book fines. Officials said they would scrap the fines if he returned the books autographed.

20. Jackson dedicated his 1997 Blood On The Dancefloor album to Sir Elton John.

21. Jackson is a vegetarian.

22. Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Jackson 5 on May 6, 1997. He was inducted as a solo artist on March 19, 2001.

23. Jackson once dated Brooke Shields and Tatum O'Neal.

24. Jackson has several media nicknames. They include The Gloved One, Wacko Jacko, Jacko, The King of Pop, and MJ. Close friends call him Smelly!

25. Jackson's music video for Thriller was voted the greatest music video of all time in a recent Channel 4 (UK) poll.

26. Jackson won an MTV Movie Award for Best Movie Song in 1994 for his song Will You Be There from the movie Free Willy.

27. The Scream music video Jackson made with sister Janet is the most expensive promo ever made, costing more than $7 million (#3.8 million).

28. Jackson's double album HIStory is the biggest selling double album ever released in the U.S.

29. Jackson's Blood on the Dance Floor is the biggest selling re-mix album of all time.

30. Jackson really is a King in West Africa - he was given a royal title by villagers in Gabon, Ivory Coast in 1992.

31. Jackson's pre-concert ritual includes drinking Ricola candy dissolved in hot water. He claims the beverage helps to keep his throat and his singing voice clear.

32. Jackson owns the patent for a stage shoe device that allows performers to lean forward and appear to defy gravity.

33. Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana in 1958. The town is planning a tribute museum to the pop superstar.

34. Movie star Macauley Culkin is godfather to Jackson's two eldest children, Paris and Prince Michael.

35. Culkin helped Jackson design the amusement park at his Neverland Valley Ranch home in California.

36. Lisa Marie Presley's former brother-in-law and his wife were the witnesses at her Dominican Republic wedding to Jackson in 1994.

37. Jackson shares the record for the most Grammy Awards won in one year with Carlos Santana and Norah Jones - they each won eight.

38. Jackson co-wrote charity anthem We Are The World with Lionel Richie.

39. Jackson is godfather to Nicole Richie, Bee Gees star Barry Gibb's son Michael, and Oliver star Mark Lester's kids.

40. Jackson and brother Tito were best men at Liza Minnelli and David Gest's wedding.

41. Jackson's performance during the 1993 SuperBowl half-time show drew the largest TV audience in American history.

42. The directors of Jackson's videos have included Martin Scorsese, John Singleton and John Landis.

43. In 1999 Jackson paid $1.5 (#810,000) for the 1939 Best Picture Oscar, which was presented to producer David O. Selznick for Gone With The Wind.

44. Jackson appeared on a postage stamp in the Virgin Islands in the mid-1980s after locals voted him the superstar they'd most like to honour.

45. An extensive 1997 survey declared Jackson was the Most Famous Person in the World.

46. Jackson helped plan neighbour Gregory Peck's funeral.

47. Jackson once described close friend Elizabeth Taylor as "a warm cuddly blanket that I love to snuggle up to and cover myself with.”

48. Jackson provided a voiceover on The Simpsons - but it remained a secret for 12 years. He voiced a character in a mental institution in the Stark Raving Dad episode, which aired in 1991, but, because of a contractual problem, Jackson had to be credited as John Jay Smith. His contribution to the classic cartoon series remained a rumour among fans until The Simpsons creator Matt Groening confirmed it really was Jackson when the episode was released on DVD in 2003.

49. Jackson shares the same birthday as U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who turns 72 today. Other celebrities who share Jackson's birthday include moviemakers Sir Richard Attenborough and William Friedkin, and actresses Rebecca DeMornay and Carla Gugino.

50. Jackson's comeback plans have been scuppered by a new online poll - 71 per cent of 59,000 people voting on website PopEater.com answered `Not a chance' to the question 'Can the King of Pop make a comeback?'

Michael's grandmother suggested his name to his mother.

Michael is the seventh of nine children, and the fifth son of 6 boys.

Joseph Jackson (Michael's father) performed with a group called 'The Falcons'.

Michael's mother Katherine played the clarinet, piano, and guitar when she was younger.

Gladys Knight discovered The Jackson Five.

Michael gave his first public appearance at the age of 5 singing 'Climb Every Mountain'.

The Jackson 5's first paying gig was at a place called Mr. Lucky's. They were paid US$ 1 each for their performance.

When Michael was younger, he enjoyed hiding spiders in his sister LaToya's bed.

Tatum O'Neal was Michael's first date.

Michael is very ticklish.

Michael's nickname is "Smelly"

Michael subscribes to Disney Adventure.

Michael favorite Disneyland ride is 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.

'Come Together' is one of Michael's favorite Beatles song.

Michael's drawing of Mickey Mouse is included in a book called 'The Art of Mickey Mouse'.

On November 20, 1984, Michael received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

In 1987, Michael embarked upon his first solo tour for his BAD LP.

When touring, Michael loses about 10 pounds of water weight during his performances.

To help keep his voice clear, Michael would normally put 2 Ricola drops in a cup of hot water and drink this.

In 1992, Michael was crowned 'King Sani' in a West African village in Gabon, Ivory Coast.

interesting facts about space

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* Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
* Mercury, Venus, earth and Mars are called the inner planets as they are closest to the sun!
* December 21st 1968, was the first time that humans truly left Earth, when Apollo 8 became the first manned space vehicle to leave Earth orbit and to orbit the Moon.
* Olympus Mons, a volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in solar system. It is 370 miles (595 km) across and rises 15 miles (24 km).
* We know more about space than we do about our deep oceans!
* The space age began on the 4th October 1957.
* If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
* The one and only satellite that Britain has launched was called Black Arrow.
* The odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.
* The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.
* Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.
* Astronaut Neil Armstrong (the first man on the moon) first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
* "Moon" was Buzz Aldrin's (second man on the moon) mother's maiden name.
* The first conventional use for rockets was rocket mail and catching whales and deer.
* The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from September 12-20, 1992.
* The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days. The reason for the differences is the calendar system that was in use during the milleniums.
* If you shouted in space even if someone was right next to you they wouldn't be able to hear you.
* Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.
* The first man-made satellite in space was called sputnik.
* Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
* Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
* The first woman in space was a Russian called Valentina Tereshkova.
* One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth.

interesting facts about plants

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# An African bugleweed synthesises in its tissues a substance similar to the hormone that controls the development of caterpillars. If a caterpillar is persuaded, experimentally, to ingest that substance, then when it turns into a butterfly it will develop two heads and die. -David Attenborough, The Private Life of Plants, p70

# 84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water. Source of this fact and the next fourteen.

# A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.

# A pineapple is a berry.

# Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking (so if you ever get shot with a poison arrow, do not go to a doctor, look in your kitchen cabinet.

# Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.

# Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.

# In the Netherlands, in 1634, a collector paid 1,000 pounds of cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, 12 sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes for a single bulb of the Viceroy tulip.

# No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.
# Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

# Peanuts are beans.

# Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America.

# The California redwood - coast redwood and giant sequoia - are the tallest and largest living organism in the world.

# The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.

# The oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old.

# The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots.

# Asparagus is a member of the lily family, which also includes onions, leeks, and garlic. Source of this fact and the next three.

# The bright orange color of carrots tell you they are an excellent source of Vitamin A which is important for good eyesight, especially at night. Vitamin A helps your body fight infection, and keeps your skin and hair healthy.

# Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot.

# One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop.

interesting facts about birds

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* The oldest bird was known as an Archaeopteryx and lived about 150 million years ago. It was the size of a raven, was covered with feathers, and had wings.
* The most yolks ever found in a single chicken's egg is nine.
* An ostrich egg needs to be boiled for 2 hours to get a hard-boiled egg.
* The Royal Albatross' eggs take 79 days to hatch.
* The egg of the hummingbird is the world's smallest bird's egg; the egg of the ostrich, the world's largest.
* The now-extinct elephant bird of Madagascar laid an egg that weighed 27 pounds.
* Precocial birds like chickens, ostriches, ducks, and seagulls hatch ready to move around. They come from eggs with bigger yolks than altricial birds like owls, woodpeckers, and most small songbirds that need a lot of care from parents in order to survive.
* Air sacs may make up 1/5 of the body volume of a bird.
* A bird's normal body temperature is usually 7-8 degrees hotter than a human's. Up to three-quarters of the air a bird breathes is used just for cooling down since they are unable to sweat.
* A bird's heart beats 400 times per minute while resting and up to 1000 beats per minute while flying.
* The world's only wingless bird is the kiwi of New Zealand.
* Migrating ducks and geese often fly in V-shape formations. Each bird flies in the upwash of its neighbor's beating wings and this extra bit of supporting wind increases lift, thereby saving energy.
* Pigeons can reach speeds up to 100 mph.
* Swifts, doves, falcons, and sandpipers can approach 200 mph.
* Penguins, ostriches, and dodo birds are all birds that do not fly.
* Hummingbirds eat about every ten minutes, slurping down twice their body weight in nectar every day.
* The homing pigeon, Cher Ami, lost an eye and a leg while carrying a message in World War I. Cher Ami won the Distinguished Service Cross. Its leg was replaced with a wooden leg.
* The only known poisonous bird in the world is the hooded pitohui of Papua, New Guinea. The poison is found in its skin and feathers.
* The American turkey vulture helps human engineers detect cracked or broken underground fuel pipes. The leaking fuel smells like vulture food (they eat carrion), and the clustered birds show repair people where the lines need fixing.

Interesting facts about science

2009-06-22T09:13:00.001-05:00

1 – The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).

2 – It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

3 – 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

4 – The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

5 – Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

6 – When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.

7 – Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

8 – Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

9 – In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

10 – If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

11 – Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

12 – The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

13 – The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

14 – Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

15 – When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

16 – If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

17 – Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

18 – The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

19 – One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

20 – DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

21 – The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

22 – The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

23 – The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

24 – Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

25 – Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

26 – The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

27 – Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.

28 – An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

29 – ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.

30 – The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

31 – In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

32 – Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.

33 – There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

34 – An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

35 – On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

36 – The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

37 – A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

38 – Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

39 – At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

40 – The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

41 – Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

42 – More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

43 – The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

44 – It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

45 – Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.

46 – The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.

47 – Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

48 – Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

49 – Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.

50 – A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

Interesting facts about computer

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(1). An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.

(2). Seagate introduced the first hdd for pcs in 1979.It held 5 M.B of data.

(3). If u opened up the case of the original Macintosh, u will find 47 signatures
one for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.

(4). The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital
equipment corporation.

(5). Did u know Apple & Sun came very close to a merger in 1996.

(6). The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all
the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.

(7). Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.

interesting facts about animals

2009-06-22T09:08:00.001-05:00

# Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.
# Cows can have regional accents
# A domestic cat can frighten a black bear to climb a tree.
# Bonobos are the only non human primates that engage in oral sex, tongue kissing, and face-to-face genital sex.
# In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win.
# US Secret Service sniffer dogs are put up in five-star hotels during overseas presidential visits.
# Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
#Bulls are color blind.
#A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
# Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
# The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
# Emus can't walk backwards.
# A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
# A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
# A group of owls is called a parliament.
# A group of ravens is called a murder.
# A group of bears is called a sleuth.
# Twelve or more cows is called a flink.
# A baby oyster is called a spat.
# Some fleas have split penises like a Y shape
# An elephant can be pregnant for up to 2 years
# Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
# The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
# A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
# A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
# More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
# Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
# Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
# India has 50 million monkeys.
# By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
# Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
# Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
# The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
# A squid has 10 tentacles.
# A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
# When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.
# The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
# The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.
# A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
# A swan is the only bird with a penis
# The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
# The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
# Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
# The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
# Zebras can't see the color orange.
# There are more insects in ten square feet of a rain forest than there are people in Manhattan.
# It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
# The smartest dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie. Dumbest: Afgan hound.
# A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

Interesting Facts about india

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The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.

The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.

The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.

Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software. ( a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987 ).

Chess was invented in India.

Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.

The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

The first six Mogul Emperor's of India ruled in an unbroken succession from father to son for two hundred years, from 1526 to 1707.

The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola

India is.......the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10, 000 years old).

The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. Later through time, the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.

The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh.
Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.

India has the most post offices in the world !

The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people !.

The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The father of medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.

Although modern images & descriptions of India often show poverty, India was one of the richest countries till the time of British in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered America by mistake.

The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh 6000 over years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.

Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was - Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days.

The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).

Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. ( Source . Gemological Institute of America )

The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.

Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries.

Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

Countries that are Least Affected by Recession

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This world map shows a list of countries that are considered least affected by the global economic crisis.

Australia takes the top spot followed by China with India and Singapore in equal third place. Qatar is the only gulf nation that figures in this "relatively" recession-proof list.

The data is based on the results of a business confidence survey that was done on international business people of 24 nations to identify which countries they believe are surviving the crisis the best.

The countries perceived to be surviving the economic crisis the best, as voted by international businesspeople are:

Interesting facts about obama

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1.) He won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Recording. It was for the audio version of his book Dreams From My Father.

2.) He and his wife bought a house in Chicago in 2005. Back then it cost $1.65 million. The house has 4 fireplaces.

3.) He doesn’t like ice-cream. He worked in Baskin-Robbins as a teenager. That’s where his distaste for ice-cream comes from.

4.) He loves playing Scrabble. He never commented on how good he is, though.

5.) He is bi-racial. He was born to a Kenyan father and a white American mother. In his book Dreams From My Father he writes that he barely noticed the racial difference between his mum and dad in his young age.

6.) He experimented with drugs. Back in his early years he tried marijuana and cocaine. According to his own words he is not proud of it and considers it a mistake as a young man.

7.) He smokes but wants to quit. After all, there is a non-smoking policy in the White House.

8.) He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but went to live in Indonesia with his mum when the parents divorced. There he was introduced to dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper.

9.) According to his wife Michelle he is very romantic. He is not a door opener but he remembers every anniversary and brings her flowers all the time.

10.) Every night when he is at home he reads the Harry Potter books to his oldest daughter Malia.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CAR LOGO ...EVOLUTION

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Interesting Facts About Vehicles

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When airplanes were still a novel invention, seat belts for pilots were installed only after the consequence of their absence was observed to be fatal - several pilots fell to their deaths while flying upside down.

Interesting Facts About Vehicles

Interesting!No automobile made after 1924 should be designated as antique.

Facts is that If you drive a VW into water, with one person it floats; two people it sinks.

Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back.

A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below

Interesting Facts is that !The new 787 Boeing was revealed on July 8th, 07.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Interesting ! Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.

Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.

A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

Interesting Facts About Time

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Earth is gradually slowing down. Every few years, an extra second is added to make up for lost time.

Interesting !
Millions of years ago, a day on Earth will have been 20 hours long. It is believed that, in millions of years time, a day on Earth will be 27 hours long.

The length of time it takes for Earth to orbit the Sun is 365 and a quarter days. To make up this extra quarter which isn't counted at the end of a year, we have an extra day every four years on 29th February.
This year, 2008, is a Leap Year. The next Leap Year will be in 2012.

Facts is that A day on Mars is about half an hour longer than a day on Earth.

There is no time at the north/south pole as all time zones fall in to one place making it impossible to define the time !!!

Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day

First of All.

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The first beer cans were produced in 1935.

The Chinese made the first wheelbarrow

The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.

The first pick-up truck in the world was made by Gottlieb Daimler in 1886. Gottlieb produced the world's
first motorcycle in 1885.

The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals. People walked it along.

The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.

The firt commercial text message was sent 1992.

The first Bowie knife was forged at Washington, Arkansas.

The first European to visit the Mississippi River was DeSoto.

In 1893, Chicago hired its first police woman. Her name was Marie Owens. While the city was progressive
in its hiring practices, Chicago's female police officers were not allowed to wear uniforms until 1956.

The first wooden shoe comes from the Netherlands. The Netherlands have many seas so people wanted a shoe that kept their feet dry while working outside. The shoes were called klompen and they had been cut of one single piece of wood. Today the klompen are the favorite souvenir for people who visit the Netherlands.

The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days.

The first dictionary of American English was published on April 14th, 1828, by Noah Webster.

The first paperback book was printed - by Penguin Publishing in 1935.
In France - Captain Sarret made the first parachute jump from an airplane in 1918.

The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".

The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States was a Baptist preacher, in 1789.

The first ballpoint pens were made in 1945 and sold for $12.

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

The first Wimbledon Tennis Competition took place in 1877 solely as an amateur competition. Men's singles was the only event that took place. There were 22 competitors and the championship was won by Spencer Gore.

The first issue of People Magazine, in 1974, cost 35 cents and featured actress Mia Farrow on the cover.

The 1st personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale in 1977.

The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fd and Wilma Flintstone.

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

The egg came first.

The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."All

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.

America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.

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Interesting Facts About Technology

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A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10-9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory.

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5megabytes.

90% of our technology, upon which we base so much of our modern lifestyle, was created within the last 150 years.

Interesting ! Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.

Interesting isnt it ?

Strange Interesting Facts

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Between the months of May-July it rains fish in Honduras.

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

In 1995 a Japanese trawler sank because a Russian cargo plane dropped a living cow from 30,000 feet.
Streets in Japan do not have names.

Interesting ! The only cause of death is birth.

Some schizophrenic people will have periods of time when they drink too much water. No one knows why this happens.

Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.

After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

Brazil last won the world cup in 1994. Before that they won it in 1970. Add 1970 and 1994, it equals 3964.
Germany last won in 1990. Before that they won in 1974. Add 1990 and 1974, it equals 3964. Argentina last won the world cup in 1986. Before that they won it in 1978. Add 1978 and 1986, it equals 3964. So going by this logic, The winner of the 2002 world cup is the same as the 3964 - 2002 = 1962 world cup.
The 1962 world cup was won by Brazil. It was really Brazil who won!!!

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved wrong by the TV show "Mythbusters")

Interesting facts!

If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

Interesting Facts About Sports

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The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.

The only openly gay baseball player died at age 42.

Interesting !

Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.

Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.

Interesting right?

Interesting Facts About Physics

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A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers.

The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees.

Interesting fact is that Photons have zero mass.

The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Physics is great with interesting facts right?

Interesting Facts About Names

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Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer (more commonly known as Satan) are the only 3 angels to be named in the bible.

The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.

Interesting Facts

Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England- -1961.

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni- frid.)

Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

The most popular boat name requested is "Obsession".

The Canary Islands were not named after a bird called the canary. They were named after a breed of dogs!

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

The name of the legendary Lady Godiva's horse is Aethenoth.

Abe Silverstein, who headed NASA's Space Flight Development Program, proposed the name Apollo for the space exploration programs in the 1960's. He chose that legendary Greek name because the virile Apollo was a god who rode through the skies in a magnificent golden chariot. The precedent of naming manned spacecraft for mythological gods had been set earlier with Project Mercury, also named by Silverstein.

Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and the crossroads.

The name "cappuccino" was given to the drink, because the froth peaks resembled the hoods of Capuchin Monks.

Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of butterflies.

Interesting Facts

The name for insect poop is frass.

It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.

The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written first and the individual name written second.

Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.

Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

Interesting facts About Music

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The first CD pressed in the United States for commercial release was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

Interesting facts About Music

At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the union only lasted seventeen months. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother, Mandy.

Shock Rocker, Alice Cooper was once elected Homecoming Queen for the University Of Houston.

Chuck Berry holds a degree in cosmetology.

Interesting Facts

Petula Clark's hit, "This Is My Song" was written by movie actor Charlie Chaplin.

Roy Orbison's trademark look came about when he misplaced his regular glasses and had to rely on a pair of prescription sun-glasses( Music ). His management liked the mysterious look it gave him and soon, they were the only ones he wore.

The piano player on Art Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" is Larry Knechtel of the group "Bread".

At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life," an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his old English sheepdog "Martha".

Jimi Hendrix was thrown out of high school for holding the hand of a white girl in class.

Even though he has recorded some of the most memorable rock and roll classics, the only gold record that Chuck Berry ever received was for "My Ding-a-ling".

Interesting Facts

The original Eagles, Glen Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon first met when they were members of Linda Ronstadt's backup band.

'Billie Jean' by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

When Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" finally fell off of Billboard's Hot 200 Album list in October 1988, it had set a record of 741 weeks on the chart.

Interesting Facts About Movies

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On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.

In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."

The longest film ever released was "****" by Andy Warhol in 1967, which lasted 25 hours. After its utter failure, it was withdrawn and re-released in a 90-minute form as "The Loves of Ondine."

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

Interesting Facts

The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.

Interesting Facts

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

Interesting Facts About Money

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The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

$644 million was mislaid by the accounting firm Arthur Andersen during their 1999 audit of NASA.

Some people consider the $1 bill unlucky because there are so many 13's on it: 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even an olive branch with 13 leaves on it.

Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.

The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

Interesting Facts is that More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

Interesting Facts is that America once issued a 5-cent bill.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Interesting Mistakes Facts

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On July 28th, 1945, a US Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.

Interesting Facts is that Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0. Myth Busters on the Discovery Channel proved this wrong.

2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.

Interesting Facts is that Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.

Interesting Facts About Mathematics or Maths

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Interesting Facts is that What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.

When PI is rounded to the third decimal place contains the number 42.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Interesing Facts About Laws

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During the eighteenth century, laws had to be brought in to curb the seemingly insatiable appetite for gin amongst the poor. Their annual intake was as much as five million gallons.

In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways.

Interesting Facts is that By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

Interesting Facts is that It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.

It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

Interesting Facts About Inventions

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Before invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the temperature by dipping their thumb, to find whether appropriate for adding Yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the phrase " The Rule of the Thumb".

Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912.

Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.

Interesting Facts is that The Sumerians invented writing.

The Sumerians, who lived in the Middle East, invented the wheel in about 3450 BC.

Karl Benz invented the first gas powered car. The car had only three wheels. The first car with four wheels was made in France in 1901 by Panhard et LeVassor.

JOSEPH RECHENDORFER was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes.

Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.

Interesting Facts is that India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laserbprinters,all were invented by women.

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

The first rocket was invented by the Chinese in the 13th century.

False eyelashes were invented by the American film director D.W. Griffith while he was making his 1916 epic, "Intolerance". Griffith wanted actress Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed her cheeks, to make her eyes shine larger than life. A wigmaker wove human hair through fine gauze, which was then gummed to Owen's eyelids. "Intolerance" was critically acclaimed but flopped financially, leaving Griffith with huge debts that he might have been able to settle easily - had he only thought to patent the eyelashes.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.

Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.

Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure".

Interesting Facts is that The oiuja board was invented by Isaac and William Fuld, and was patented July 1, 1892.

The hamburger was invented in 1900 by Louis Lassen. He ground beef, broiled it, and served it between two pieces of toast.

In 2003, scientists managed to create a material dense enough to stop light mid-way through it, allowing them to observe static light.

The Can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the can.

Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite.

Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

Interesting Facts In the past...

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Historians have called beer the national drink of ancient Egypt. The pharoahs appointed a "royal chief beer inspector" to protect its quality.

About 4000 years ago, it was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calender was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know to day as the "Honey moon".

Interesting Facts is that In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.

In 1647 the English Parliament abolished Christmas.

Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.

The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies.

Because they had no proper rubbish disposal system, the streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish.

Interesting Facts is that Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.

The Chinese used silk to make their paper.

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

Human skulls had been used as drinking cups for hundreds of years. The muscles and flesh were scraped away, the bottom was hacked off and then they were suitable to hold any beverage.

Interesting Facts is that According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Egyptian men never became bald. The reason for this, Herodotus claimed, was that as children Egyptian males had their heads shaved, and their scalps were continually exposed to the health-giving rays of the sun.

Limelight was how we lit the stage before electricity was invented. Basically, illumination was produced by heating blocks of lime until they glowed.

The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.

The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an onion with beer foam as a way of warding off death.

The pharaohs of ancient Egypt wore garments made with thin threads of beaten gold. Some fabrics had up to 500 gold threads per one inch of cloth.

More than 5,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered how to make silk from silkworm cocoons. For about 3,000 years, the Chinese kept this discovery a secret. Because poor people could not afford real silk, they tried to make other cloth look silky. Women would beat on cotton with sticks to soften the fibers. Then they rubbed it against a big stone to make it shiny. The shiny cotton was called "chintz." Because chintz was a cheaper copy of silk, calling something "chintzy" means it is cheap and not of good quality.

The Aztec Indians of Mexico believed turquoise would protect them from physical harm, and so warriors used these green and blue stones to decorate their battle shields.

Doors in London in the eighteenth century had up to ten keyholes to confuse burglars.

The British aristocracy suffered its greatest disaster on October 14th 1066 when 50% of its membership was killed at the Battle of Hastings.

For a very brief time in 1964, it seemed that the biggest challenger to the Beatles' phenomenon was the Dave Clark Five.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

Florida was a loyal British colony during the American Revolution.

Black death came to Europe when Mongols threw corpses into a city occupied by Italians that they wanted to get rid of.

Pennsylvania used to be part of Connecticut.

In Queen Victoria's time it was a crime to be a male homosexual. It was not a crime for women because Queen Victoria said "women would never do such a thing".

From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal. After the war, the winners received "real" replacement statues.

The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King.

Over the years though, it slanted into the X.

In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.

Interesting Facts is that Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, an hour hand.

In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.

In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.

The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.

When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."

Interesting Facts is that The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.

Interesting Facts about Human Body

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The human body contains 60,000 miles of blood vessels.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.

The brain of an average adult male weighs 1,375 gm (55 oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev weighed 2021 gm (81 oz), Bismark's weighed 1807 gm (72 oz), while that of French statesman Gambetta was only 1294 gm (51 oz). Einstein's brain was of average size.

Interesting Facts is that Your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight.

About half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet.

An adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces and beats over 100,000 times a day.

Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop.

Your eye will focus on about 50 things per second.

The body has 93,000 miles of nerves in it.

Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.

Interesting Facts is that You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.

In an average lifetime, a person produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.

The human brain is about 85% water.

The human skin weights 6 lbs.

Cholesterol is used to make sex hormones.

Interesting Facts is that When you fart in a pool, it creates a chemical reaction.

Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.

At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.

A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.

There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.

The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Interesting Facts is that One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Interesting Facts is that Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.

Interesting Facts about Food

2008-10-08T23:08:00.001-05:00

A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.

1 apple ads 5 minutes to a person's life.

Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.

The first ring donuts were produced in 1847 by a 15 year old baker's apprentice, Hanson Gregory, who knocked the soggy center out of a fried doughnut.

Coca-cola (or any other cola soda) is good for cleaning the poles on car batteries.
Twinkies have a shelf life of 100 years.

There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.

Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.

You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.

Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.

Interesting Facts is that The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.

America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.

The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Interesting Facts is that The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Interesting Facts is that Bubble gum contains rubber.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Interesting Facts about Drinks

2008-10-08T23:06:00.001-05:00

Beer is one of the least calorific drinks per 100ml. It is the volume in which it is drunk and over time that will add up.

Interesting Facts is that Beer contains no fat and no cholesterol.

Beer is a source of B vitamins and minerals, such as potassium and magnesium, which are good for nerve production, help you concentrate, increase blood circulation and stimulate metabolism.

Interesting Facts is that Drinking a bottle of beer a day helps to reduce the chance of kidney stones by 40%.
Until the middle of the 15th century the majority of brewing was done in the home.

Interesting facts about Countries

2008-10-08T23:03:00.001-05:00

Canada has no president. Canada's govenment is a Parliamentary democracy (federal constitutional monarchy) whose Monarch is Queen Elizabeth II. Canada has a Prime Minister.

The smallest country is Nauru with 21,2 square km.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at themto mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From where we get "mind your own P's and Q's".

China banned the pigtail in 1911 as it was seen as a symbol of feudalism.
In Britain 70% mothers go to work.

Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).

California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

In India the number of motorized vehicles have increased from 0.2 million in 1947 to 36.3 million in 1997.

India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

Singapore is one of two cities in the world with a tropical rainforest.

Burma is the only country where the cars are right hand-driven and driven on the right side of the road.

Laos is the most bombed country in the world.

Norway is the world's third largest oil exporter.

Interesting Facts is that The Mini Moke used to be the official transport for the police in Macau.

England's first great industry was wool. Its export had become the nation's largest source of income by the late Middle Ages.

The Republic of San Marino is the world's smallest republic (24 sq. miles) and possibly the oldest state in Europe (founded 4th century AD, according to tradition.)

In Eastern Africa you can buy banana beer. This beer is brewed from bananas.
Colorado is one of only two states in the United States in which ALL the water the state has FLOWS OUT of the state; NONE Flows in! (the other is Hawaii).

In England up until the 1950s attempted suicide was a capital offense.

Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.

Interesting Facts is that Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.

The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.

Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.

Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.

The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.

Interesting Facts is that France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.

Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.

New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any other country.

Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA

The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.

Interesting Facts is that In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags.

Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that
this was the day of the changeover.

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.

There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

Interersting Facts About Blood Donation

2008-10-08T23:01:00.001-05:00

Person above 18 years of age and over 50 Kgs. in weight can donate blood once in three months.

Interesting Facts is that A normal adult has five to six liters of blood in his/her body of which only 300 ml is used during blood donation.

This blood is replaced by your body within 24 to 48 hours!

No special diet, rest or medicine is required after blood donation.

The donor should not have taken any medicine in the last 48 hours.

The donor should not have contacted jaundice in the previous three years.

Interesting Facts is that Every donor is given a medical checkup prior to donation to see if he/she is medically fit and doesn't suffer

from anemia, high blood pressure etc.,

The donor cannot contract AIDS or any other disease by donating blood.
Make Blood donation a habit . There are many persons

including females who has donated blood more than 10 -20 times in their life

Interesting Facts is that Start with your B'day or from just today. Your little contribution can save someone's life.

Interesting Facts About Pregnancy

2008-10-07T05:23:00.001-05:00

Pregnancy thrills as well as frightens women. It is worthwhile to have a look at some of the crucial facts about this particular stage in a woman's life.

Facts

In medical jargon, pregnancy represents the nourishing of one or more embryos inside the bodies of female mammals. In human beings, it usually takes about 9 months for an embryo to develop fully into a baby.

What Are Trimester Periods:
For the sake of simplicity, the pregnancy period is divided into three trimesters. In the first trimester, the likelihood of miscarriage, which means the natural death of the embryo, is very high. In the second trimester, one can follow the progress made by the embryo in a right direction. During the third and the third trimester, the Fetus learns how to survive and also gets ready to face the external world.

How Does A Woman Get Pregnant:
Pregnancy is the result of fertilization or the union of the female egg (oocyte) with the male sperm. This merger of the two takes place when a male ejaculates, releases the sperms inside a female through sexual intercourse. Though conception begins right since implantation of the fertilized egg in the uterine lining, for the sake of convenience, the first day of the last menstrual cycle is used to determine the due date or delivery date of baby. Following the implantation, human chorionic gonadotropinhormone is released. This activates the corpus luteum in the ovary to shoot up the level of progesterone. As a result, the body undergoes changes and symptoms of pregnancy become visible.

What Is A Due Date:

Interesting Facts is that The date when the pregnant woman is expected to deliver her baby is known as due date. According to the Merck Medical Manual, human pregnancy lasts for 266 days, i.e, 38 weeks. However, if one counts from the first day of the last menstrual cycle, it comes to 40 weeks. But these are average figures. The real duration of the Gestation period depends on various factors. For example, the first pregnancy period is usually longer than the subsequent ones.

What Is A Premature Baby:
A baby born before 37 weeks of pregnancy, is considered a premature baby. And if the baby is born after 43 weeks, it is called the post-mature baby. About 90 per cent of babies are born within a couple of weeks after the due date. Only 10 per cent of babies are born exactly on the due date.

Interesting Facts is that The pregnant woman's body experiences a number of changes during pregnancy. These changes also have an emotional and psychological impact on her.

INTERESTING HEALTH FACTS

2008-10-07T05:16:00.001-05:00

Below are interesting health facts that have been discussed in past issues of Smart Life News. Our readers remain on the cutting edge of health because we bring them research that is often left out of the standard "medical news" or ignored by the medical / pharmaceutical industry.

Ordinary B-vitamins can enhance human mental performance and even increase "happiness"

Interesting Facts is that There are safe pharmaceuticals referred to as smart drugs that can improve memory, enhance learning, increase focus, treat neurodegenerative diseases, and slow aging - with virtually no side effects

A simple test withheld by doctors could reveal why many people have symptoms of hypothyroidism, even though standard tests have shown "normal" blood thyroid hormone levels

"Food allergies" are sky high in patients with "undiagnosable" neurological problems

Interesting Facts is that Just this year, mercury toxicity was implicated as a cause of Alzheimer's Disease? Now, what exactly were those dental fillings made out of again

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A mineral found in the diet and present in many multi-vitamin supplements is a potential risk factor for Parkinson's Disease

An inexpensive supplemental hormone, common in the average, healthy human, can help prevent cancer, fight obesity, slow down aging, and enhance brain function?

Taking iron pills for anemia can be very dangerous

Sex drive is positively correlated with longevity in males

Interesting Facts is that Female sex drive responds to a common over-the-counter supplement

Hangovers, skin wrinkles and organ damage from alcohol toxicity can be prevented with a few simple nutritional supplements

80% of mental retardation associated with Down's Syndrome can be prevented

The dose-response curve for melatonin, is larger than almost all other nutrients, so you have to get the dose, timing and form right for melatonin to work properly

3 out of 10 US school kids have nutritional deficiencies that impair IQ and that juvenile delinquency is associated with nutritional deficiencies

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Secondary nutritional deficiencies may be as common as primary ones

Throughout the world, it is becoming increasingly harder to obtain dietary supplements like high dose Vitamin C without a prescription from a doctor

Top Most Firing IT Companies in India!

2008-10-03T03:13:00.001-05:00

1) IBM --- Right now this is the most firing company for IT professionals. In the last 6 months, this company has fired nearly 20% of their employees because of BG check and performance issues. This is the most insecure company from an IT professional's point of view. They don't have any strategic plans at HR policies regarding employee security. No appraisals (maximum 10%).

2) TCS --- Previously its an government IT Company . Now a days TCS also becoming firing IT company. Recently they fired on 500 people.( the people below 2 years of experience) and TCS lost so many projects recently( especially British Telecom Projects).

3) Accenture --- This is second top most firing company. The firing rate is around 5%. This depends upon outsourced projects; they have a unique system where Accenture development centers around the world bid for a project coming into the company. Currently Philippines centre is taking the cake and the Indian centers are in a firing mode.

4) WIPRO --- Firing people with very frequent back ground checks and firing them with out even experience letters and relieving letters (will mention as terminated from services)but will promise the employees that they will retain them. After the project is over they will fire away. Will threaten of criminal cases against such employees if they oppose the move and has also filed against some.

6) Intel --- Recently joined the league. Running in heavy losses, hence firing 3000 employees in the Bangalore center in a phased out manner.

7) CTS --- Has a steady firing policy (checking the Educational background and previous employment and also employee performance in work). In a Recent HCL walk-in, around 50% attendees were from this company. Sadly the I-pods have not helped them.

CSC --- Excellent package but fires folks in Background check and those on bench regularly. Recently fired 400+ employees from its subsidiary Covansys.

9) Satyam --- Currently stopped firing. The Attrition rate is very high. No firing from 2005 until now when 1000 employees were fired in Hyderabad.

10) Patni ---- They fired so many employees that currently they are facing understaffing and deficiency with number of employees. Very high attrition rate.

11) Keane India ---- This USA based company is always involved in firing employees. Although they proudly say that they don't have hire and fire policy. Recently they fired Java and as400 professionals after which most of the employees have started to pack their bags. Employees change this company within 1 year.

So take care before accepting offers from these companies.

Secure IT companies in India

1) Microsoft --- Has projects till 2050.

2) EDS --- Most secure company in India. Not laid off any of its employees even during 2001. Has lots of projects in Defense and financial areas

3) HP --- Dream Company. In-house and outsourced projects

4) Infosys --- Dream Job. On a way to achieve the status of a secured, stable Govt. company.

5) AOL, Google and Yahoo - Best companies to work with, great job satisfaction as well as great salary and work environment. Rarely fires an employee. As they are internet based companies' they offer lots of opportunities to grow.

6) HCL -- A good company to be in. Called as a "retirement company."

7) HSBC--- This is the most secure company. It has never fired any employee, even when they know that the employee is showing fake experience.

Aricent--- a communication based software company, has never fired any employee and gives great perks & incentives, lot of projects in kitty. Minimal level of attrition.

9) KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited ---- This is the most secure company not known to many. It has presently acquired CG Smith, Bangalore and has lots of projects in pipe line. Acquisitions plans will continue.

Note: The readers can rely or not upon their own risk.

Infosys Firing, IT Companies firing - An interesting observation in 2009

2008-10-03T03:05:00.001-05:00

There has been a buzz in the IT industry about the firings in the top Indian IT Companies. I had an interesting observation to share with you.
Try the following search term in google.

tcs firing
wipro firing
satyam firing
infosys firing

As you can see from the last snapshot by searching Infosys firing in google, you can see a red circle in the snapshot, here google says Did you mean “Infosys Hiring”. ( From Google Help page - Google’s spell checking software automatically checks whether your query uses the most common spelling of a given word. If it thinks you’re likely to generate better results with an alternative spelling, it will ask “Did you mean: (more common spelling)?”. Click the suggested spelling to launch a Google search for that).

It has got very significant meaning that Infosys has never been a hire and fire company, and it is a great achievement for a company and it is not a true news that infy firing

Well infy is not in mood to fire;

And going completely against the tide is Infosys, which is actually planning to hire 25,000 people this year and is also contemplating recruiting about 1,000 more in China over the next two to three years. Infact insosys have lot of project and infy hyderabad is recruiting people like anything; check today times ascent also. Infy hyderabad is all to set its New campus at Uppal hyderabad.
Lets hope that the current situation of firing employees in top companies goes away fast.

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A Few Interesting Health Care Facts And Figures

2008-09-30T01:10:00.002-05:00

Almost two trillion dollars wasted on health care every year...

The United States spends, on average, 1.7 trillion dollars annually on its health care system. Apparently, that staggering amount of money can’t buy our nation a ranking within the top twenty listing of western countries providing basic health care services to their citizens.

50 million Americans don’t have access to a Primary Care Provider...

Forty-two million adults and eight million children couldn’t get in to see a Medical Doctor for basic health care services today if they stood at the front door of a medical practice, bleeding or crippled, and banged on the door! This is America I’m talking about.

Doctors are turning more and more patients away daily...

In a recent survey, thirty percent of AMA Doctors indicated that they are seriously considering dropping all Medicare patients or not accepting any further Medicare beneficiaries. The same sentiments are being echoed concerning Medicaid patients.

You could be next to be dropped from your Doctor’s patient load...

If you do have a Primary Care Doctor, there’s nothing to stop your Physician from dropping you as a patient at any time. With the rising cost of patient care, many traditional Providers are beginning to restrict their practices to just private and commercial insurance carriers and to a small percentage of Medicare, Medicaid and cash-paying patients who’ve been with a given Provider for some time. Are you really so sure that you won’t be the next patient to be dropped from your traditional Primary Care Doctor’s practice?

Many of our Traditional and Alternative Medicine Practitioners are not being honest with us...

Many traditional Medical Doctors take nutritional supplements but don’t recommend them to their patients. Believe it or not, quite a few Alternative Medicine Practitioners, who openly denounce traditional medicine to their patients, will occasionally pay a visit to a traditional Doctor’s office about their health issues. This kind of dishonesty needs to stop. Both modalities of health care services delivery – traditional and alternative medicine – have a place in our nation’s health care system. The sooner both camps realize that and start respecting one another, the quicker America can go about the business of cleaning up it’s health care mess.

My purpose here is to give you a brief sampling of the utter nonsense going on daily in the field of health care services availability and delivery.

Are you Angry, Disturbed or Flabbergasted? I certainly hope so. Because until every one of us gets disgusted enough to fix this health care mess, we’ll all be hearing sad and embarrassing stories like these for a long time to come.

10 Interesting Health and Safety Facts

2008-09-30T01:09:00.002-05:00

1. About 3.9 million employees are disabled at work in any given year.
2. One work related injury occurs every 8 seconds.
3. Accidental overdose of iron pills is the leading cause of poisoning deaths among children.
4. Fire kills more Americans each year than ALL other natural disasters combined.
5. Nature requires over 5 years to get rid of a cigarette butt.
6. The energy needed to make 1 new aluminum can makes 20 recycled ones.
7. About 8 out of every 10 adults will have a back injury in their lives.
8. On average about 400 people die from excess heat (heat stroke) each year.
9. Occupational skin diseases costs $1 billion annually in worker comp costs claims.
10. Of the 42,000 traffic fatalities in recent years, 41% were alcohol related.

FACTS ABOUT RAMADAN

2008-09-26T00:57:00.001-05:00

In Islam, fasting is a religious ritual that involves abstaining from all food, drink, sexual activity, and certain other specified activities from dawn until sunset.

Fasting during the Month of Ramadan

This communal religious obligation is one of the five pillars of Islam. It

derives its importance from the saying of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) that Islam stands on five (pillars) : To witness that there is no god but God (Allah) and that Muhammad (pbuh) is His Prophet, to perform the required prayers, to pay the zakat (poor-due), to fast the month of Ramadan, and to perform the pilgrimage (Hajj) to Makkah.

Who Must Fast Fasting is obligatory upon every adult Muslim who is sane, is able to perform it and is not travelling. If he cannot meet any one of these conditions, he is excused from the fast without any penalty.

Those who embrace Islam are not required to make up the fasts that they missed while they were non-Muslims.

Those who are insane, retarded, or somehow mentally impaired so that they do not (or cannot) function like normal people do not have to fast. They are not penalized in any way. The same is true for those who are very elderly and feel that they are unable to fast.

Invalids, such as very elderly people or people suffering from incurable

Illnesses, are not required to fast. However, they must compensate for this by

feeding one needy person for every day of fasting that they miss.

Those who fall ill unexpectedly and feel that their condition would worsen if they observed the fast are excused. After they recover, they must make up the fast by fasting the number of days that they missed.

Pregnant and nursing mothers do not have to fast if they feel that it would cause them undue and unnecessary hardship or that it might harm the unborn child or the nursing infant. After this period of danger has passed, they must fast the number of days that they missed.

Women who are having their menstrual period or experiencing bleeding due to recent child birth are not required to fast. They must make up the days that they have missed when their period or bleeding has stopped.

FUN FACTS ABOUT LOVE

2008-09-24T22:47:00.001-05:00

FUN FACTS ABOUT LOVE

-Love is one of a human being's strongest needs, surpassed only by food and groin-kicking filthy hippies.

-Love is like an unquenchable thirst, though it can be temporarily sated with fluids other than water.

-The easiest way to tell if someone loves you is to tell them they have a nice ass. If they file a sexual harrassment suit, it's love.

-No, I'm NOT a lawyer. Why do you ask?

-The best way to show someone you love them is by buying them expensive gifts. The poor are simply unworthy of love.

-Michael Moore is, technically, poor.

-Love is full of strange, confusing contradictions, and at times makes no sense whatsoever, yet it should not be confused with the UN, since love rarely involves oil-related scandals.

-Despite what you may have been taught in school, love is more than just a few cigars and a stained blue dress

-Love means never having to say you're sorry, mostly because when you screw up, you will need to make a MUCH longer speech than that.

-For best results, include bended-knee grovelling and a lot of diamonds.

-I *told* you love wasn't for the poor.

-The French are reputed to be experts in love, mostly because it's something they can surrender to.

-You never know when love will strike, which makes it similar to terrorists. If you see love, shoot it, just to be safe.

-Some people will need Viagra for this.

-Some types of love are actually unhealthy. For example, if your love involves handcuffs, ostrich feathers, or spankings, it's fine.

-Love is a many-splendored thing, much like the diamond necklace you'll be buying when you screw up.

-Again - not for the poor.

-Money can't buy happiness, but it CAN buy love. Although I've found that the healthy kind usually costs a little extra.

-Love was originally invented by Microsoft, thus explaining its chronic instability.

-In a fight between love and Aquaman, love would conquer all, and Aquaman would confess his secret longing for King Neptune.

-Long-lasting love can be achieved by filling out the on-line registration form and only using fully licensed

versions. In the long run, pirated love will only bring misery, despite requiring fewer diamonds initially.

-For more information on the ins and outs of love (which only SOUNDS dirty) see the Love Notes category at Bad Example. Those with delicate sensibilities are urged to think twice before choosing to view the comments.

FACTS ABOUT ROMANCE IN OFFICE

2008-09-24T22:43:00.001-05:00

When it comes to dating, office romances are a hot subject. Some work out great, some create bigger office problems, and some are banned by company regulations. Here are some fun and interesting facts about office romance:

» The author of the book "The Office Romance" estimates that approximately 8 million people enter into a relationship with a coworker every year.

» A seven year study by a Swedish researcher, Yvonne Aberg, found that coed work environments are dangerous to marriages. Studying 37,000 employees worldwide, the research showed that the divorce rate of couples who work in a coed environment is 70% higher than the divorce rate of couples who work in a same-sex environment. The study also found a "contagious" effect when it comes to divorce. There was a 43% increase of the chance of a married person getting a divorce if 1/3rd of his or her coworkers had recently gotten a divorce.

» More future spouses will meet at work than neighborhood settings, social settings, or school according to a study from the Bureu of National Affairs in the late 1980s.

» Working close to those of the opposite gender affects the potential of an office romance because those you work close with are the ones you share life's information (and confidences with). Over 90% of reported office romances start in the same building versus adjoining offices.

FUN FACTS ABOUT KISSING (DATING)

2008-09-24T22:36:00.001-05:00

Kissing is a common and sometimes intimate activity for couples. Yet kissing has also been studiedin-depth, creating some fun and interesting facts. For example, did you know:

» Twice as many people turn their heads to the right when kissing than to the left, according to a visual study by German psychologist Onur Güntürkün of Ruhr-Universität-Bochum. He casually (and discreetly) studied kissing couples in the public and counted them as part of his research as long as they had lip contact, were positioned face to face, and weren't holding any objects. 124 couples qualified in his visual study. As babies (in and out the womb), the majority of humans favor turning their head to the right and most are right handed. This was one of the influencial observations that lead to the study.

» Philematology is the scientific name for "kissing".

» Research indicates that there is a much better chance of you catching a cold from shaking hands with someone who has a cold than kissing them.

» There is a huge debate on how many calories are burned, if any, from kissing. Estimates range from an average of one calorie per kiss to 90 calories for a passionate 30-minute kiss. When Snapple put out its Snapple Facts, under the bottle cover, one fact claimed that a one-minute kiss burns 26 calories.

FACTS ABOUT LAS VEGAS WEDDINGS

2008-09-24T22:33:00.001-05:00

LAS VEGAS WEDDINGS

Known as the "Wedding Capitol of the World," Las Vegas is full of some fun and interesting facts. For example, did you know:

» On one day out of the year the Clark County (Las Vegas) Marriage License Bureau is open for a full 24 hours. That day is... February 14.

» There are approximately 120,000 marriages that take place in Las Vegas every year. That averages out to about 328 weddings a day.

» Next to Valentine's Day the busiest day for weddings in Las Vegas is New Year's Eve.

» Las Vegas is home to several drive-thru wedding chapels where you can get married without ever leaving your car! In the entire country of Canada, there is one drive-thru wedding chapel.

The Top 10 Interesting Facts About Dating

2008-09-24T22:26:00.001-05:00

"The Top 10 Interesting Facts About Dating," by Susan Dunn, Coach and David M. Buss author of The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating is a professor of psychology at the Univ. of Michigan. He and his colleagues interviewed over 10,000 people of all ages from 37 cultures worldwide, and his book is full of interesting facts. Here are a few.

1. The divorce rate among couples where the woman makes more than the man is 50% higher than among couples in which the husband earns more.

2. There are 25,000 to 35,000 polygynous marriages in the U.S.,mostly in western states.

The more polygynous the mating system the greater the differences between the sexes in terms of mortality.

Polygynous mating selects for males who take risks. Risk-taking traits lead to successful mating at the expense of a long life, i.e., the biggest buck wins the mating-fight, but will have more trouble feeding himself in a lean winter.

3. The #1 cause of divorce worldwide is infidelity.

4. The #2 cause of divorce worldwide is infertility.

5. The #3 cause of divorce worldwide is unkindness.

This can take the form of emotional and/or physical abuse,and may be the result of infidelity and infertility, or it can be a personality characteristic that is stable over time, involving lack of consideration for others, cruelty,selfishness, and irresponsibility.

6. Worldwide, wives who are less than 20 years old are morethan twice as likely as women who are more than 20 to be killed by a husband in a jealous age, regardless of the age of the husband.

7. 33% of women who have extramarital affairs consider their marriages to be happy, while 56% of men do.

8. Worldwide, women prefer to marry men who are older than they are and vice versa.

In Finland, Sweden and Norway the man is 1-2 years older. In Nigeria, 6.5 years older. In Zambia, 7.5 years older. In the US, men in their 30s prefer a woman 5 years younger; in their 50s, a woman 10-20 years younger. In the US, on average in the first marriage, the man is 3 years older; in the second marriage 5 years older; in the third marriage, 8 years older.

9. For the lifetime, men on average would like to have 18 sex partners, and women, 4 or 5.

10. Remarriage after death or divorce? In the US, 76% of women aged 14-19 remarry; 56% of women aged 30-39; 32% of women aged 40-49; and 12% of women aged 50-75.

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Christmas Trivia and Fun Facts

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There's no other holiday like Christmas. Many of us celebrate the holidays without knowing how our traditions got started or what they signify. Christmas is much more fun when you know some facts behind the holiday

Most of these facts are very interesting and reminds us that there is quite a bit of history behind our family customs. Try using the trivia to make your own Christmas quiz for holiday parties and add a unique touch with personal favorites.

Christmas Holiday Trivia

The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of Christ's Mass.

The first president to decorate the white house Christmas tree in the United States was Franklin Pierce.

Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.

The first Christmas cards were vintage and invented in 1843, the Victorian Era.

"It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than any other holiday movie.

"Rudolph" was actually created by Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's for a holiday promotion. The rest is History.

"The Nutcracker" is the most famous Christmas ballet.

"Jingle Bells" was first written for Thanksgiving and then became one of the most popular Christmas songs.

If you received all of the gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", you would receive 364 presents.

The poinsettia plant was brought into the United States from Mexico by Joel Poinsett in the early 1800's.

Holly berries are poisonous.

Contrary to common belief, poinsettia plants are non-toxic.

In 1843, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens in just six weeks.

The first state to recognize the Christmas holiday officially was Alabama

Christmas became a national holiday in America on June, 26, 1870.

coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.

An angel told Mary she was going to have a baby.

Clearing up a common misconception, in Greek, X means Christ. That is where the word "X-Mas" comes from. Not because someone took the "Christ" out of Christmas.

Traditionally, Christmas trees are taken down after Epiphany.

More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.

In Mexico, wearing red underwear on New Year's Eve is said to bring new love in the upcoming year.

FACTS ABOUT CHRISTMAS

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In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning, it is believed to be a harbinger of good luck! There once lived a woman so poor, says a Ukrainian folk tale, that she could not afford Christmas decorations for her family. One Christmas morning, she awoke to find that spiders had trimmed her children’s tree with their webs. When the morning sun shone on them, the webs turned to silver and gold. An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees.

At Christmas, it is traditional to exchange kisses beneath the mistletoe tree. In ancient Scandinavia, mistletoe was associated with peace and friendship. That may account for the custom of "kissing beneath the mistletoe".

'Klaxon' is a name that does not belong to one of Santa’s reindeer. A klaxon is actually a powerful electric horn. Its name comes from a German word meaning "shriek".

In many households, part of the fun of eating Christmas pudding is finding a trinket that predicts your fortune for the coming year. For instance, finding a coin means you will become wealthy. A ring means you will get married; while a button predicts bachelorhood. The idea of hiding something in the pudding comes from the tradition in the Middle Ages of hiding a bean in a cake that was served on Twelfth Night. Whoever found the bean became "king" for the rest of the night.

Frumenty was a spiced porridge, enjoyed by both rich and poor. It was a forerunner of modern Christmas puddings. It is linked in legend to the Celtic god Dagda, who stirred a porridge made up of all the good things of the earth.

In Greek legend, malicious creatures called Kallikantzaroi sometimes play troublesome pranks at Christmas time. In order to get rid of them, salt or an old shoe is burnt. The pungent burning stench drives off, or at least helps discourage, the Kallikantzaroi. Other techniques include hanging a pig’s jawbone by the door and keeping a large fire so they can’t sneak down the chimney.

The poinsettia is a traditional Christmas flower. In Mexico (its original birthplace), the poinsettia is known as the "Flower of the Holy Night".

Louis Prang, a Bavarian-born lithographer who came to the USA from Germany in the 19th century, popularized the sending of printed Christmas cards. He invented a way of reproducing color oil paintings, the "chromolithograph technique", and created a card with the message "Merry Christmas" as a way of showing it off.

The "Urn of Fate" is part of the Christmas celebrations in many Italian households. The Urn of Fate is brought out on Christmas Eve. It holds a wrapped present for everyone. The mother tries her luck first, then the others in turn. If you get a present with your name on it, you keep it; otherwise, you put it back and try
again.

In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat. It is usually made of straw. Scandinavian Christmas festivities feature a variety of straw decorations in the form of stars, angels, hearts and other shapes, as well as the Julbukk.

INFORMATIVE FACTS

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Why Is a Book of Maps Called an Atlas?

Atlas was a Greek god who supposedly held up the earth on his shoulders.The Greeks usually represented him supporting two huge pillars that held up the earth, and these pillars rested in the sea we call the Atlantic Ocean, named after Atlas.In later centuries, the figure of Atlas holding up the earth was often used at the front of a book of maps. So, a book of maps became known as an atlas!

Where Is There a Country Without Women?

Athos is a 40-mile-long piece of land jutting out from Greece into the Aegean Sea. But Athos is really not part of Greece.It's ruled by a group of monks who represent the 20 monasteries in Athos. Since 1045, the monks have orbidden women to set foot on their land!It isn't only human women who are not permitted in thos, but females of all animal species. Only recently have exceptions been made — in the case of hens
and female cats!

What Is the Most Valuable Book Ever Printed?

In 1455, a German named Johann Gutenberg became the first person to print a book on a printing press with movable letters.He printed 200 copies of the Bible. Of these, only 21 complete copies exist today.And one of them was sold at auction in 1978 for $2,400,000, making it the most expensive book ever printed

Where Are Two Different Alphabets Used in the Same Country?

The most common language in the nation of Yugoslavia is called Serbo-Croatian. But people in Yugoslavia use two different alphabets to write the same language. One alphabet is the Roman, the one we use; the other is called the Cyrillic, and is the same alphabet as the one used in Russia.During the 9th century, a missionary named Cyril taught Christianity to Slavic people in Eastern Europe. But these people had no written language. So, in order to teach them to read the Bible, Cyril invented an alphabet based on the Greek alphabet.

Who Invented Potato Chips?

According to a story that may or may not be true, the first potato chips were 'invented around 1865 by a chef in Saratoga, New York.The chef made a batch of thin-sliced potatoes for the diners at a guest house, but one of the guests kept sending the potatoes back and asking for thinner slices. So the chef cut a potato into the thinnest slices he could, dropped them into oil, and produced America's first potato chips!The first factory in America built solely to produce potato chips opened in Albany, New York, in 1925.

Why Do We Put Chlorine in Swimming Pools?

Chlorine is a deadly poison in its pure form, yet we eat it all the time! How can that be?Chlorine is an element, just like iron or oxygen, but it never occurs in nature by itself. It's most commonly found mixed with the element sodium in a compound called sodium chloride — which is the chemical name for ordinary
table salt! So when we eat chlorine, we eat it mixed with sodium, and in that form chlorine is harmless.

Can a Boat Sail Across the United States?

By following the rivers of the United States that empty into the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico, a boat can travel as far west as the Rocky Mountains, but no farther.An imaginary line — called the Continental Divide — runs through the Rockies. All rivers on the east side of the Divide flow toward the Atlantic, toward
the Gulf, or toward the Great Lakes. But all the rivers on the west side of the Divide flow toward the Pacific Ocean. So there's no way for a boat to travel across America.

Could a Penny Dropped off a Skyscraper Really Kill Someone?

In physics, the momentum, or force, that a moving object can deliver to something it strikes depends on the size of the moving object, its mass, and the speed at which it is moving (its velocity)When we drop a penny from a very high building, its velocity keeps increasing until the penny hits the ground. And even an object
as light as a penny, if dropped from a high enough place, can strike the ground with greater force than a heavy object falling a short distance.So this falling penny, if it hits a person in the right place, can be deadly indeed!

When Was Croquet Popular?

Croquet is a game played outdoors on a lawn.Players use mallets to drive small wooden or rubber balls through hoops, called wickets, that are set in the ground. The winning player or team is the first to drive their balls through the wickets in a certain order.Croquet was first played in France, where it was called paille-maille. In the 17th century, it reached England, where it became known as pall mall. The Pall Mall, a famous street in London, is named after a croquet court that once occupied the site.

Interesting Facts about Vegetable | What Is the Most Common Vegetable in the World?

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The vegetables that are grown in the largest quantities around the world are the tomato and the potato. But the most widely used vegetable is the onion!The onion appears in more dishes and in more countries than any other vegetable. In some places, the onion is used to flavor dishes, while in other countries it's eaten by itself as a vegetable.The ancient Egyptians ate onions both ways, for the onion was the most common vegetable in Egypt 5,000 years ago. During the Middle Ages, the onion and a relative of the onion, the leek, were the only common vegetables in Europe.

Frequent jet lag can damage memory

2008-09-23T00:12:00.004-05:00

Jet lag is not simply annoying; in repeated doses it can be dangerous to your brain's health. People who

often cross many time zones can experience brain damage and memory problems. This probably results

from the stress hormones released during jet lag that are known to damage the temporal lobe and

memory. You probably don't need to worry because, unless you work for an airline, few people fly across

multiple time zones more often than every two weeks. Shift workers are more likely to be at risk. Like

repeated jet travel, frequent drastic changes in working hours are likely to cause stress on the body and

brain.

TRUE FACTS

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Why you can't hear phone conversations in a noisy room

Talking on your mobile phone in a noisy place can be difficult. Your mobile makes the brain's task harder by feeding sounds from the room you're in through its circuitry and mixing them with the sound it gets from the other phone. This makes it a harder problem for your brain to solve because your friend's transmitted voice and the room noise are tinny and mixed together in one source. Cover the mouthpiece when you're trying to hear you caller and you'll stop the mixing.

Shoot-'em-up video games can help you to multitask

Sustained multitasking increases your ability to pay attention to many things at the same time. A significant source of practice is playing action video games where the aim is to shoot as many enemies as possible before they shoot you. These games make you distribute attention across the screen, and quickly detect and react to events. Playing Tetris (an early puzzle-based video game) doesn't have the same effect,
perhaps because you have to concentrate on only one object at a time, rather than multitask. Does this mean that you should encourage your kids to play shoot-'em-up action games? We wouldn't go out of our way to expose kids to violent images, but at least you can take heart that video game-playing has positive effects.

The brain has a joke centre

Humour is hard to define, but we know it when we see it. One theory suggests that humour consists of a surprise - we don't end up where we thought we were going - followed by a reinterpretation of what came earlier to make it fit the new perspective. To make it a joke instead of a logic puzzle, the result needs to be a coherent story that isn't strictly sensible in everyday terms. Some patients with damage to the frontal lobe of their brain, particularly on the right side, don't get jokes at all. Typically, this is because they have trouble with the reinterpretation stage of the process. For instance, given a joke with a choice of punchlines, they can't tell which one is funny.

There's a reason you remember those annoying songs

Having a song or, more often, part of a song stuck in your head is incredibly frustrating. But sequence recall has a special and useful place in our memories. We constantly have to remember sequences, from the movements involved in signing our name or making coffee in the morning, to the names of the exits that come before the motorway turn-off we take to drive home every day. he ability to recall these sequences makes many aspects of everyday life possible. As you think about a snippet of song or speech, your brain may repeat a sequence that strengthens the connections associated with that phrase. In turn, this increases the likelihood that you will recall it, which leads to more reinforcement. You could break this unending cycle of repeated recall and reinforcement - which may be necessary for the normal strengthening and cementing of memories - by introducing other sequences. Thinking of another song may allow a competing memory to crowd out the first one: find another infectious song and hope that the cure doesn't become more annoying than the original problem.

Sunlight makes you sneeze

Many people sneeze when they look into bright light. Why would we have such a reflex and how does it work? The basic function of a sneeze is fairly obvious: it expels substances or objects that are irritating your airways. The sneezing centre is located in the brainstem, in a region called the lateral medulla; damage to this site means that we lose the ability to sneeze. Sneezing usually is triggered by news of an irritant that is sent through brain pathways and into the lateral medulla. This information gets to the brain from the nose through several nerves, including the trigeminal nerve, which carries a wide variety of signals from the face into the brainstem. It's a really crowded nerve, which might explain why bright light could induce a sneeze. A bright light, which would normally be expected to trigger pupil contraction, might also spill over to neighbouring sites, such as nerve fibres or
neurons that carry nose-tickling sensations. Bright light isn't the only unexpected sensation that is known to trigger sneezes; orgasm can also trigger
sneezes in men. Fundamentally, a crossed-wire phenomenon, like the photic sneeze reflex, is possible because the circuitry of the brainstem is a jumbled, crowded mess.

You can't tickle yourself

When doctors examine a ticklish patient, they place his or her hand over theirs to prevent the tickling sensation. Why does this work? Because no matter how ticklish you may be, you can't tickle yourself. This is because your brain keeps your senses focused on what's happening in the world; important signals aren't drowned out in the endless buzz of sensations caused by your actions. For instance, we are unaware of the feel of a chair and the texture of our socks, yet we immediately notice a tap on our shoulder. To accomplish this goal, some brain region must be able to generate a signal that distinguishes our touch from someone else's. The cerebellum, or “little brain”, may be the answer. It is about 1/8 of our total brain size - a little smaller than our fist - and weighs about 4oz (113g). It is also the best candidate that scientists have for the part of the brain that predicts the sensory consequences of our own actions. The cerebellum is in an ideal location for distinguishing expected from unexpected sensations. If a prediction matches the actual sensory information, then the brain knows that it's safe to ignore the
sensation because it's not important. If reality does not match the prediction, then something surprising has happened - and you might need to pay attention.

Yawns wake up the brain

Although we associate yawning with sleepiness and boredom, its function appears to be to wake us up. awning expands our pharynx and larynx, allowing large amounts of air to pass into our lungs; oxygen then enters our blood, making us more alert. Many vertebrates do it, including all mammals and perhaps birds. also has been observed in human foetuses after just 12 weeks of gestation. In non human primates, it is
associated with tense situations and potential threats. Think of yawns as your body's attempt to reach full alertness in situations that require it. They are
contagious, as anyone who has attempted to teach a roomful of bored students knows. No one is sure why, though it might be advantageous to allow individuals quickly to transmit to one another a need for increased arousal. They are not contagious in non primate mammals, but the ability to recognise a yawn may be fairly general: dogs yawn in response to stressful situations and are thought to use yawning to calm
others. You can even sometimes calm your dog by yawning.

Altitude makes the brain see strange visions

Many religions involve special visions that occurred at great heights. For example, Moses encountered a voice emanating from a burning bush on Mount Sinai and Muhammad was visited by an angel on Mount Hira. Commonly reported spiritual experiences include feeling and hearing a presence, seeing a figure, seeing lights (sometimes emanating from a person) and being afraid. Similar phenomena are reported by mountain climbers, a group generally not thought to be very mystical.
Could it be something about the mountains? Acute mountain sickness occurs above altitudes of 8,000ft (2,400m). Many of the effects are attributable to the reduced supply of oxygen to the brain. At 8,000ft or higher, some mountaineers report perceiving unseen companions, seeing light emanating from
themselves or others, seeing a second body like their own, and suddenly feeling emotions such as fear. Oxygen deprivation is likely to interfere with brain regions active in visual and face processing, and in
emotional events.

Interesting facts about human brain | Your brain uses less power than your refrigerator light

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The brain uses 12 watts of power. Over the course of a day, your brain uses the amount of energy

contained in two large bananas. Curiously, even though the brain is very efficient, it's an energy hog. It is

only 3 per cent of the body's weight, but consumes 1/6 (17 per cent) of the body's total energy. Most of its

energy costs go into maintenance; the added cost of thinking hard is barely noticeable.

Film Facts | Interesting Facts about Films

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35mm film travels at 90 feet per minute, 24 frames (still pictures) per second (fps)
or, if you prefer, 1.5 ft per second
Each foot of film consists of 16 frames
Just over 1.022 miles of film is projected per hour

This means that 1440 frames are shown every minute, or 86400 frames per hour

The period of time required to move one frame away from the aperture, and bring the next frame in is
1/96 second

During this period of movement the light from the arc is cut off by use of a revolving shutter
If the light was not cut of during this movement then you would observe streaking (ghosting) on the screen caused
by the pull down movement being projected

The film is then stationary, and the light is allowed to shine through the film, and project onto
the screen

During this stationary time the light is again cut off for another 1/96th second by a second blade
on the shutter

This uprates the flicker from 24 to 48 times a second (hertz)

The reason that the light is cut off twice is that if it was only cut 24 times per second there
would be noticeable flicker on the screen

By cutting it off 48 times this flicker is not noticed, except on very, very bright scenes

This is why the shutter is often called 'The Flicker Shutter'

The film frame is actually only projected onto the screen for 1/32nd of a second

16mm sound film runs at 24 fps, a speed of 36feet per minute, or 40 frames per foot

To find running time of 16mm film divide the film length in feet by 36
This will give the minutes as a whole number and a decimal
Make a note of the whole number, and multiply the decimal by 60 to get seconds
Add this total to the whole number

For example
The running time for 374ft of 16mm
374 divide by 36 = 10.388
0.388 X 60 = 2328
Running time = 10mins 23secs

Interesting Facts About Ebay Website

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Millions of items are traded each day on Ebay.com and some 1.3 million people make all or part of their living selling on eBay.

But wait, there're lot more interesting details about eBay traffic and storage infrastructure as was revealed by Paul Strong of Ebay to Chris Preimesberger of eWEEK. Some highlights:

1. eBay maintains four copies of most of its databases.

2. It takes 30 minutes to build the ebay.com site - in the last 2.5 years, there have been 2 million builds.

3. On an average, eBay.com runs into issues for about 50 seconds per day.

4. The site averages more than 1 billion page views per day.

5. Users trade about $1,700 worth of goods on the site every second.

6. The site currently has about 600 million listings and about 204 million registered users.

7. The world's time zones provide a kind of natural load-balancer. When there's surge in traffic from US, that's generally when Europe [the second-largest region using eBay] is asleep - and vice versa.

8. eBay engineers have to add about 10 terabytes of new storage every week to cover new transactions.

Top 10 Interesting Abandoned Places

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10 Bodie, California

Founded in 1876, Bodie is the authentic American ghost town. It started life as a small mining settlement, though found even more fortune from nearby mines that attracted thousands. By 1880 Bodie boasted a population of almost 10,000 - such was the boom. At its peak, 65 saloons lined the town’s main street, and there was even a Chinatown with several hundred Chinese residents.

Dwindling resources proved fatal however, and although greatly reduced in prominence, Bodie held a permanent residency through most of the 20th century. Even after a fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932. Bodie is now unpopulated. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 it became Bodie State Historic Park as the few residents left moved on.

Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town and interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Bodie is open all year, but the long road that leads to it is usually closed in the winter due to heavy snowfall, so the most comfortable time to visit is during the summer months.

9 San Zhi, Taiwan

More of a modern choice this time. Below is an abandoned City in the North of Taiwan. In the area of ‘San Zhi’, this futuristic pod village was initially built as a luxury vacation retreat for the rich. However, after numerous fatal accidents during construction, production was halted. A combination of lack of money and lack of willingness meant that work was stopped permanently, and the alien like structures remain as if in remembrance of those lost. Indeed, rumors in the surrounding area suggest that the City is now haunted by the ghosts of those who died.

After this the whole thing received the cover-up treatment. And the Government, who commissioned the site in the first place was keen to distance itself from the bizarre happenings. Thanks to this, there are no named architects. The project may never be restarted thanks to the growing legend, and there would be no value in re-developing the area for other purpose. Maybe simply because destroying homes of lonely spirits is a bad thing to do.

8 Varosha, Cyprus

Varosha is in the Turkish occupied city of Famagusta in Cyprus. It was previously a modern tourist area, and flowered into one of the most luxurious holiday destinations. In the year of 1974 however, the Turkish invaded Cyprus and tore up the island. Citizens fled, expecting to be able to return to their homes within days. The Turkish military wrapped it in barbed wire and now controls it completely. Allowing nobody to enter to this day, aside from themselves and UN personnel. The buildings are slowly falling apart. Though on the positive side, rare sea turtles have begun nesting on the deserted beaches.

The Annan Plan had provided for the return of Varosha to Greek Cypriot control, but after the rejection of the proposal by Greek Cypriot voters this hand-over to Greek-Cypriots has not materialized. That is not the end of the story, as the Governments are working together to plan a complete revival of Varosha to its former beauty. Currently, three concept hotel complexes have been designed by Laxia Inc. And by 2010, the de facto “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” will apparently open Varosha to tourism once again.

7 Gunkanjima, Japan

Hashima Island (端島; meaning Border Island) is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture of Japan about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. It is also known as “Gunkan-jima” or Battleship Island thanks to its high sea walls. It began in 1890 when a company called Mitsubishi bought the island and began a project to retrieve coal from the bottom of the sea. This attracted much attention, and in 1916 they were forced to build Japan’s first large concrete building on the island. A block of apartments that would both accommodate the seas of workers and protect them from hurricanes.

In 1959, population had swelled, and boasted a density of 835 people per hectare for the whole island (1,391 per hectare for the residential district) - one of the highest population densities ever recorded worldwide. As petroleum replaced coal in Japan in the 1960’s, coal mines began shutting down all over the country, and Hashima’s mines were no exception. In 1974 Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine, and today it is empty and bare, with travel currently prohibited. The island was the location for the 2003 film ‘Battle Royale II’ and inspired the final level of popular Asian videogame ‘Killer7′.

6 Balestrino, Italy

Balestrino is quite a strange case in that it was extremely difficult to find any decent information on it. At least on the abandonment itself. No one is quite sure when the town was established, though records date back to before the eleventh century - when Balestrino was owned by the Benedictine abbey of San Pietro dei Monti. As you can see from the pictures, the upper part of the town consists of a Castle (of Marquis) and the lower part a parish church (of Sant’Andrea). Records of population go back to around 1860, when around 800-850 people lived there. Mainly famers who took advantage of the landscape to farm olive trees.

In the late nineteenth century, the North-West coast of Italy was struck by numerous earhquakes. One of these in 1887 (magnitude 6.7) destroyed some villages in the area of Savona, and although no official records show Balestrino was affected it coincides with much repair work and a dip in population. Finally in 1953 the town was abandoned due to ‘geological instablility’, and the remaining inhabitants (around 400) were moved to safer ground to the west. The derelict part of Balestrino that has stood untouched and inaccessible for fifty plus years is currently undergoing planning for redevelopment. Today around 500 people remain in the town’s newer area which is a good kilometer down the road.

5 Katoli World, Taiwan

I thought I would break out of the abandoned residential mould and look at something inspired by Miyazaki’s Oscar winning ‘Spirited Away’. Those who have seen it will know that the family stumbles across an old theme park at the start of the movie, one that was built in the eighties but has since lost popularity and been abandoned. Well this is a usual occurence in Asia, one can find many amusement parks that have been left to rust. Here is just one of them, though one that was forced to close for something other than financial loss.

Katoli World is situated in the Dakeng Scenic area just outside of Taichung, Taiwan. Opened in the mid eighties, it enjoyed moderate success as one of the few theme parks on the island of Taiwan to host a rollercoaster (two). The park was closed after a massive earthquake on September 21st, 1999. Thousands of people were killed during the quake but nobody inside the park as it struck after opening hours. Large areas of the park were destroyed and it was forced to close. A place once vivid with young laughter is now slowly turning to rust.

4 Centralia, Pennsylvania

Johnathan Faust opened Bull’s Head Tavern in Centralia in 1841, and Centralia was incorporated as a borough in 1866. The anthracite coal industry was the principal employer in the community until the 1960s, when most of the companies went out of business. An exposed vein of coal ignited in 1962 thanks to weekly garbage burning, and as a result a huge underground coal fire commenced. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and it continued to burn throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Adverse health effects were reported by several people due to the carbon monoxide produced.

In 1979, locals became aware of the scale of the problem when a gas station reported a fuel temperature of 172 degrees Fahrenheit (77.8°C). This provoked widespread attention, boosted in 1981 when a 12-year-old almost plunged to his death as a 4 foot wide, 150 foot deep sinkhole suddenly opened beneath his feet. In 1984, $42 million was spent on relocation, with most residents moving to the nearby Mount Carmel and Ashland. In 1992, Pennsylvania condemned all houses within the borough, meaning that of the 1,000+ residents in 1981 - only a handful now remain - mainly priests. The fire still rages on, and according to experts could do so for another 250 years.

3 Yashima, Japan

Yashima is an imposing plateau to the northeast of Takamatsu, the second largest city on Shikoku - which is one of Japan’s major islands. This plateau stretches out to sea, and can be seen in the fifth photo below. It is the site of a famous battle that took place on 22nd March 1185 during the Genpei War. The top of Yashima hosts the Yashima Temple, which is a well-known Shikoku pilgrimage. This is about the only thing that does draw crowds to this strangely neglected geographical anomaly, but it wasn’t always so.

During an upsurge in mid-eighties’ Japanese economy, the people of Takamatsu decided that the plateau was an excellent place to encourage tourism, so took to pouring money into developing this sacred land. Six hotels were built, along with many parks and trails - even an aquarium. Though somewhere along the line people realized that Yashima plateau wasn’t so such an attractive opportunity, especially with views of the nearby rock quarry. Visitor numbers then dropped as millions of Yen were lost on inflated real-estate deals. All the hotels and shops were forced to shut down, as was the cable car that at one point transported many to Yashima’s heights.

2 Pripyat, Ukraine

Pripyat is an abandoned city in the Zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. The city population had been around 50,000 - and had been home to most of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers. Then the Chernobyl disaster struck in 1986 and the place was abandoned due to threat of radiation. Afterwards Pripyat acted like a museum for a long time, perfectly showing a slice of Soviet life. However at some time at the beginning of the 21st century the place was looted heavily, nothing was left behind - even toilet seats were stolen.

The city will not be safe for human habitation for several years to come, and even then it will be a long time before people consider it healthy to develop once again. Before the power plant was built, concerns were voiced at its planned closeness to the city of Kiev. They had planned to build it only 25 km away, placing the capital at risk from pollution amongst other things. However after a long debate they decided to build Chernobyl along with Pripyat 100 km away from Kiev. A choice that would in the end prove to be a wise one.

1 Craco, Italy

Craco is located in the Region of Basilicata and the Province of Matera. About 25 miles inland from the Gulf of Taranto at the instep of the “boot” of Italy. This medieval town is typical of those in the area, built up with long undulating hills all around that allow for the farming of wheat and other crops. Craco can be dated back to 1060 when the land was in the ownership of Archbishop Arnaldo, Bishop of Tricarico. This long-standing relationshop with the Church had much influence over the inhabitants throughout the ages.

In 1891, the population of Craco stood at well over 2,000 people. Though there had been many problems, with poor agricultural conditions creating desperate times. Between 1892 and 1922 over 1,300 people moved from the town to North America. Poor farming was added to by earthquakes, landslides, and War - all of which contributed to this mass migration. Between 1959 and 1972 Craco was plagued by these landslides and quakes. In 1963 the remaining 1,800 inhabitants were transferred to a nearby valley called Craco Peschiera, and the original Craco remains in a state of crumbling decay to this day.